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Friday, April 18th, 2008
12:36 pm	How rare is the baby croc? "I started doing the fishing dailies about 4 days after 2.4 patched on two toons. So far on both, I got the fishing tracker book and the booze recipe. Individually I got a shadow pearl once and jaggal pearl 2X once. Think I got motes two or 3 times, but not in the last 5 days. The highest level of ""junk"" I got was the Gold Wedding Band. Nice 15g bonus. Has anyone tried auctioning one of those. Alla median price looks good but don't know if people are actually buying these. If I win another, I'll try the AH. Would be nice to get Chuck for my toon Chuk. Nice naming synergy. Would prefer to get a fishing line or hat first. Or the gem or 2 ring (but not holding breath on those). I too am hooked on this daily. wow powerlevel Closest thing to a lotto ticket in game. Minimal time required (assumes you already put in the time to get high enough skill to run this daily) for potentially huge profit/reward/cool items. I always pause and wait a second to open the bag after turn in. wow level Actually get excited in anticipation. Can't say that any other thing in game elicits that same feeling (except maybe a raid boss, but that takes a longer time investment). " "just wondering if you think ganking (i roll horde on Barthilas) is getting out of control. eve isk i mean, i do expect to be spanked from time to time being on a pvp server, and it would be nice some fairer fights occaisonally. Admittedly i have been questing my lowbie in one of the worst areas (hillsbrad), but you would think that a high level would have something more interesting to do than roam around lowbie areas pwning everything in sight. i dont go out of my way to gank (i have geared 70 toons on the server as well), i will go head to head with someone around the same level if the chance permitts, if i die, so be it, if i win, i dont try to corpse camp. wow gold nothing worse having to do a spirit res over the other side of the map due to some idiot camping you for no reason. all this said, i guess ebay toons are excused because they have no idea about the game. i just think that it is out of control, and any level of decency that was left in the game is being vaccumned out of the pvp world. Hasn't seemed too bad for me lately, and I've even been slacking a ton on my typical gank-avoidance strategies: by letting myself get below 40% health frequently (troll rogue, so I like popping a good juicy berserk fairly often) and recklessly forsaking all stamina in favor of the highest DPS gear I can find. wow powerleveling Granted this was only the last ~8 levels of my rogue that I've played recently, but still - I was an easy open kill for anyone with the inclination but not very many people went after me. The main thing to realize is that if you constantly spawn and feed the guy kills, you're entertaining him. He will continue to kill you as long as you entertain him. RELATED LINKS: http://naicygong12.iza.ne.jp http://annasu.blogdiario.com/ http://annasu.blog4.petitmall.jp/ http://d.hatena.ne.jp/annasu/ http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/sunny http://blog.goo.ne.jp/teresa_2008/ (2 Comments |Comment on this)
12:34 pm	A lot of noob Questions "I`m a big fan of Final Fantasy, and have been playing the Final Fantasy 11 mmorpg for the better part of 4 years now. I decided to take a break from it for a bit and give WoW a try. I skimmed through the wiki site but it just made me more confused. I have no experience when it comes to WoW lore and know nothing about the game or the warcraft universe. I want to apologize in advance for some of the noob questions I`m about to ask. From what I read, certain races can only play certain job classes; so does 1 race play a job better than another race which can play the same job. Are races appearance only or do they each hold different stats in health, magic, etc. Warrior and Paladins are both tanks and damage dealers right. If so, which(excluding player skill), is the better tank class, and which is the better damage class of the 2. Are they both heavily wanted by other people to be in their party. Which weapon types can a warrior and paladin use. Which weapons can a rogue class use. Do warrior and paladin share the same equipment. Can rogue's wear heavy armor. wow lvl In Final Fantasy 11, different jobs excelled at using different weapons. Does the same hold true here. If a warrior can use an axe and sword, does he have the same attack rating with both, or would he be better using one over the other. wow power leveling Sorry if this is confusing, but I`m used to FF11 where each job had a different combat rating with each weapon and thus, had different attack ratings. Do weapons and armor have wear & tear. meaning you have to keep fixing them after a certain period of time. Ever quest platinum Are you able to change job classes when you want, or do you have to create another character if you want to try a different job(keeping the same race, but wanting to try another job out). Is there another informational website that I can visit other then the wiki page that will help me understand things better. Sorry again for the noob questions. wow europe If anything I asked was too confusing to understand, I`ll try and reword them. Like I said before, all I know is FF11 so I`m not too sure how to word things here. " "I am a student attending the University of Texas at El Paso, majoring in Sociology and Gender Studies.I am preparing a short project for a Gender Studies course that looks at representations of gender in popular culture. gold in wow I am working along with two other students in presenting a topic on what place video games have in the discourse of gender. My contribution is specifically looking at gender dynamics in MMORPG type games, specifically World of Warcraft. As a previous player I have noticed, just by simple observation, some interesting phenomena in regards to gender and avatar selection, and the sociology of interaction in WoW. RELATED LINKS: http://emily5656.mindsay.com/ http://wowhunter.canalblog.com/ http://sunny1213.createblog.com/blog/ http://emma1215.blogspot.com/ http://emma1215.blog.sohu.com/ http://fionla.buzznet.com/user/journal/ (1 Comment |Comment on this)
12:32 pm	Why trading accounts is a bad idea "Well, personally I had never been enticed to trade accounts. I love my toons and I love the satisfaction of knowing that every single thing achieved on them is my own. That and it is against the agreements you agree to when you install the game and most importantly it compromises the account's security. This final reason is exactly why a Guildie lost his account yesterday. Long story short. Guildie A traded his warrior for a rogue. After a while he then decided to trade that rogue for a warlock. After a little while longer he decided to trade that warlock to Guildie B for Guildie B's Pally. Guildie A and B are both great people to play with and both know their classes really well despite not having played the toons all the way from 1-70. Anyway yesterday, the Lock account, which now belongs to Guildie B, was hacked by the person who originally traded the Lock for the Rogue from Guildie A. We assume the hacker retrieved the password by using the secret question which apparently can't be changed. Anyway when the hacker came online with the lock, he was vigorously questioned by the guild and it turns out that he hacked the lock because someone hacked his rogue and he assumes that it was the person he originally traded the lock to which I am pretty certain it isn't. Anyway, it is a fine mess, which I am guessing will end up with the lock account being cancelled by Blizzard. This simply makes it perfectly clear why this practice isn't allowed by Blizzard. wow lvl Personally, I hope for Guildie B that he gets his account back and I hope they all learn from this. Rusttle, no clue why you were rated down, but I rated you back up as what you said was absoloutley true. There is no way to secure a foregn account. level wow There is no way for you to retrieve it if the original owner decides they want it back. So what, right. You could just log back into your own, right. cheap world of warcraft gold Well, what if they sold/DEd all of your equipment and then deleted the account. You may get the char back, but Blizz rarely refunds stuff you didn't actually have at the time of deletion. Or worse, they could have been banned and took their own account back because of that. wow gold So, in conclusion, take the short time it takes an experienced player to hit 70. It is satisfying, honest and safe. It's a crazy and unfortunate situation but before I go all empathetic, I'm going to call you on a minor oversight that for whatever reason is a harsh pet peeve of mine. The pally turned warlock did not get hacked. wow gold Hacking implies a level of innocence on the part of the victim...like they did everything right and someone with a significant amount of technical expertise screwed them over. As you've acknowledged, your friends got stupid with account security and sadly, at least one of them has paid the price. Call me old-school, but labeling it a ""hack"" any time someone uses a front-end feature to do something sneaky with an account is passe and takes attention away from the solution. Your friends handed over the keys to Troy and were subsequently ass-raped without a Trojan. There are always going to be people naive enough to think that the security warnings are meant for everyone but them and surrendering the information that keeps their account safe couldn't possibly bite them in the ass later. Then they get bit on the ass. Then they cry, ""hack!"" and everyone who knows better cries, ""stupid!"" and before you know it all you've got left are a bunch of people with sore asses crying at one another. " . RELATED LINKS: http://community.mytypes.com/wowgold01/weblog http://www.yourblogs.net/wowgoldmonster/ http://wowgoldmonster.blogstream.com/ http://ppcwow.busythumbs.com/ http://jessica1122-larysworldofwarcraftstory.blogspot.com http://geocities.com/albrecht_juergen/blog.html (Comment on this)
12:18 pm	AV Honor "Just finished a pre-work game of AV. We won, downing Van while Allies were starting on Drek. Yet they got more bonus honor than we did. (426 for us to something like 460.) I think they had one of their Dun Baldar towers still up while all of ours were down. Does this sound right, that a losing side in AV can come out with more bonus honor. Or was I just too bleary-eyed to read the scoreboard straight. So basically towers > generals. I can see circumstances in which you'd rather rush Van/Drek but seems ideal to pick up as many towers as possible and then rush general. Which is funny because in my battlegroup the game has become a sprint to the generals, sometimes ignoring towers. well in your situation, had you waited on a tower alliance would have killed Drek before you could kill Vann, and you would probably have had less honor. So sounds like you did the best you could. and thats not a bad amount of honor anyway. It really depends on how you define a ""win"" in AV. If you define a ""win"" as the most honor gained, then you lost. When farming honor, I'll take these kinds of ""wins"" everytime. If you define a ""win"" as killing the general before the other team does, then you won. wow powerleveling When trying to finish a BG daily, you need these kinds of ""wins"" to complete the quest. On a related note regarding AV honor...Don't forget to free the wing commanders. That is a potential 60 points of honor IF all 3 make it back to their bases. power level A lot of players only focus on the towers, captains, and generals while completely ignoring the commanders. For granted, you get no points if they get killed by the opposing team but most people will ignore an elite mob and let him/her go on its way. These little points here and there will start to add up over time. Thanks for replies, btw. wow gold kaufen To report from my battlegroup -- post 2.4 AV has, as I mentioned above, become all sprints to the generals. Very little strategy or teamwork that I saw while grinding this weekend, alas. I only came aboard in 2.3 and I'm already nostalgic for those 45-minute turtles where we wound down the reinforcements counter in massive battles inside frostwolf keep. wow power leveling (I can only imagine what it was like pre-2.3.) But in terms of efficiency, I can't argue. Even in the rare times we've gotten slaughtered we seem to get 200+ bonus honor for 15 minutes of work. And some games end with 500+ in 11 minutes. gold wow It's certainly made the grind to S1 a lot faster than I anticipated." "The only time you should get issues is during elemental stage when people arent targeting aran personally, big juicy raid warnings should solve that. if they have that and still move call them out on it by name, once people get singled out as the one that moved they should take extra care. RELATED LINKS: http://wowgoldmonter.vox.com/ http://wowgoldhunter.blogsome.com/ http://wowgoldhunter.sosblog.com http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wowgoldmaster http://wowgoldmaster.blackeyedpeas.com/ http://wowgoldmaster.iblog.com/ (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, March 28th, 2008
5:06 pm	Officers' Quarters: The road to mediocrity "I've come to discover that instance run-throughs are a breeding ground for mediocrity. These players who get their hands held through low levels have no concept of class play or the dynamic of teamwork, and once they get to Outland instances where run-throughs aren't as easily done, their mediocrity shows full and clear. wow eu [. .] Now every time lower level members ask me to run them through instances, I often make up some excuses that I can't go, or if I have an alt that is in their level range, I would use that instead and try to create a normal group for them in hope they would learn something. wow euro However, whenever I did this, some other high level members would offer their help to run us through, therefore defeating the purpose of what I was trying to do. I have not spoken out about this issue to the guild. One, because I am not part of the leadership structure, and two, because I know one of the biggest pet peeve people have in this game is when somebody tells them what to do or how to play. wow power leveling Plus, there's a fact that people doesn't like it when you tell them they suck. I have no intention of leaving the guild, but I am now in the guild for social purposes only and doing other things with outsiders. Is there a way to soften the blow and tells them that instance run-throughs (or any other hand-holding events) are a bad idea, especially for people leveling up their first toon ever. wow powerleveling Being helpful is good, but being too helpful is not good. Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Sincerely, " .   RELATED LINKS: http://wowgoldmonter.vox.com/ http://360.yahoo.com/olivercxz1104 http://blog.goo.ne.jp/teresa_2008/ http://d.hatena.ne.jp/teresa1213/#edit_in_place http://emma1215.blogspot.com/ http://jessica112.eblogs.com/index.php (Comment on this)
5:05 pm	Officers' Quarters: The road to mediocrity "Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. We've all come across those mediocre players. They are the hunters that can DPS but don't know how to trap a mob; the shamans that never break crowd control but windfury their way to the top of the aggro list every single pull; the warriors who excel at single-target tanking but can't hold more than one mob at a time. wow eu Where do these players come from, and how do they stay so mediocre after 70 levels. The author of this week's e-mail thinks he has the answer: The road to mediocrity is built by your own guild. Scott, I enjoy your Officers' Quarters articles on WoWInsider.com, so maybe you can tackle this subject for me in your next piece: I am now a casual player (played since beta and used to be hardcore) and I'm in this nice and friendly social guild. I'm not an officer, nor do I have the desire to be one. wow euro I just want to log on and do whatever I feel like with my limited play time. This guild puts no pressure on me and I appreciate that. The guild leaders' philosophy is to be helpful to one another – helping on whatever is needed by other members. wow power leveling Guild members get rank up by how much they help others. This was a noble idea . wow powerleveling but there's a huge caveat. One of the things that lower level members often ask higher members for help on is to run them through instances. However, there's a very bad side effect to this: mediocrity. "   RELATED LINKS: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wowgoldmaster http://www.wowgoldhunter.blogspot.com http://geocities.com/albrecht_juergen/blog.html http://jessica1122-larysworldofwarcraftstory.blogspot.com http://wowgoldhunter.wordpress.com/ http://wowgoldmonster.spaces.live.com/default.aspx (Comment on this)
5:02 pm	"The etiquette of instance loot " You will be given the option to need, greed, or pass an item. In most cases you should only pick ""need"" if the item that dropped is appropriate to your class and better than your current gear. wow eu If you need a piece of gear, click on the die icon in the pop-up window. Conventions on greeding and passing vary among groups. In many cases players who do not need an item and would only sell it to a vendor select greed by clicking on the pile of coins. wow euro If someone in your party states that they need an item, it is genial to click the X to pass it. If everyone opts to pass an item, you may be told to ""roll"" on it. Type /roll to generate a random number between one and one hundred. wow power leveling Whoever has the highest roll is entitled to pick up the item. If there is an enchanter in the group, they may pick up the item and disenchant it. In most cases the enchanter does not keep the shard provided by the disenchant ability. wow powerleveling Everyone rolls and whoever is highest is given the enchanting created from the disenchant. This practice also varies from group to group. As a courtesy if I win a roll, I ask the enchanter to keep the shard. wow power level Instances are important for loot and leveling, but they also help you to learn important aspects of how to play your class. Next time I will address the roles you will be expected to play in an instance. EDIT: Spelling corrections for great justice. Thanks for the comments! <3 Amanda " . RELATED LINKS: http://ponyma.ilcannocchiale.it/ http://savannahnow.com/node/461500 http://sunny1213.proboards89.com/index.cgi http://teresa.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/507228/allcmt/ http://teresa.miyachan.cc/e20909.html http://teresa.naganoblog.jp/e91393.html (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
10:40 am	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To Buy My Mount "When hitting 60, it seems the only thing I could think of is getting my faster mount, At about level 50, I figured it was going to be around 600 Gold so I started saving. I would be at about 700G, buy some gear, food and things off the AH, but always kept my gold around 550+. wow eu So the day comes, I ding 60, YES time for my mount, Zone home, Fly to SW and make the run to the trainer. All the while broadcasting in guild chat that I had finally hit 60, I’m getting my mount. The trainer and I happen to be friends, she works for someone I’ve done some quest for and my rep helped also, so my total for training and the horse come to 595G, yes! I have 598G, I buy my mount and I’m happily on my way, riding around, faster than light (well faster than my other mount I named Light). Once I get tired of riding around, I figure what’s next, I’m 60!! oh yeah, skill training, I visit the rogue trainer and I guess he’s not really my friend, because for some reason he will not train me… What. Skill Training cost gold. wow euro I had totally forgotten, you get so use to just going up, clicking on all the training and not thinking that it’s taking your gold as you train. Fine, I’ll sell stuff on AH, go to the bank, pull out a ton of junk that’s been sitting in there.. I’m sure you see where this is going.. What. wow power leveling Gold to sell stuff on AH.. HELP!!! After many many laughs at the noob on Guild chat, a fellow guildie loaned me 100G to help me along.. I felt sooo stupid! (specially after writing about how can 70’s not have gold)It hasn’t taken long to remake that 100g but I may wait another week to repay him, I want to get a nice nest egg set before giving it back (which he said I didn’t have to but I will, even if it just goes in the guild bank). I guess this could be counted as Noobie Example Read more here"Last night I didn’t have alot of time to play but started into Outlands for some questing when I get another tell from my GM asking me about my rep with different factions in Outlands. After which we spent the next hour kissing up to many a furry creature in the forest. I’m learning more and more just how important Rep in this game is, not really for progression in the game but for weapons and armor you can’t beat it. wow powerleveling The mysterious part of Rep is that some quest you can only get while friendly, but once you hit honored, that quest is gone. By finding the correct quest while you have the correct rep standing can give you that extra 800-1200 rep points you may need down the line. Last night by playing the Rep game, back and forth, partialy completing parts of quest, turning others in at the correct time, I was able to get the [Hardened Stone Shard] which is one kick butt dagger. The last couple days have made me rething all the faction turn in quest, instead of selling all the turnins on AH, I may start to see how they can help me in the long run. Repairs in an Instance Noob Question, from Me, When in an instance and you die a couple times, just how do you repair. wow power level I had no idea, Sunday afternoon I’m in an instance with some of the guild mates and when you’re doing AQ20 with 10 people and not everyone is 70, and you have a noob like me, bad things start to happen. I probably died 3 times before anyone else so my armor was starting to turn red, I was wondering what I could do, but there weren’t any NPC close, so I shrugged it off and still played but kept my distance, yeah range shots with a rogue just aren’t as fun.. Suddenly we have 2 wipes in a row and I hear one of the guildies say over Vent, “hey is there an NPC close to repair. ”, With my armor at ZERO! I listened! A reply comes back, no but I have a couple repair bots in my bag.. What. What is a repair bot. I guess at level 300 you can get a recipe to build a [Repair Bot] but many engineers didn’t create them because they were so expensive. Now after patch 2.3 the price has come down and you create 5 instead of one. As an engineer at level 250, this is one of the things I will make sure I always have created and in my bag once I hit that level. This bot could make or break an instance. Not only does it repair but you can also sell items to it and buy many NPC items including the highest ranking shot and arrows. With this bot you could easily become someones best friend. " . RELATED LINKS: http://savannahnow.com/node/461500 http://ponyma.ilcannocchiale.it/ http://teresa.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/507228/allcmt/ http://naicygong12.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/510152/ http://www.fiql.com/blogs/naicygong http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=528159&view=public (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
11:54 am	Alliance First Aid Guide "Alliance Guide Minimum materials needed 150 x Linen Cloth 125 x Wool Cloth 140 x Silk Cloth 90 x Mageweave Cloth 70 x Runecloth. Go to First Aid trainer get First Aid. wow eu Make Linen Bandages from 1 to 40. Go to First Aid Trainer and learn Heavy Linen Bandages. Make Heavy Linen Bandages from 41 to 50. Go to First Aid trainer get Journeyman First Aid. Make Heavy Linen Bandages from 51 to 80. Go to First Aid trainer and learn Wool Bandages and Anti-Venom. Make Wool Bandages from 81 to 115. Go to First Aid trainer and learn Heavy Wool Bandage. Make Heavy Wool Bandages from 116 to 125. Go buy Expert First Aid book from Deneb Walker in Stromgarde Keep, Arathi Highlands. Buy the two books listed below whilst your here A lot of people seeem to have trouble finding this NPC, so I've posted directions below Make Heavy Wool Bandages from 126 to 150. Go to First Aid Trainer and learn Silk Bandage. wow euro Make Silk Bandages from 151 to 180. Go buy Manual: Heavy Silk bandage from Deneb Walker in Stromgarde Keep, Arathi Highlands. Make Heavy Silk Bandages from 181 to 210. Go buy Manual: Mageweave bandage from Deneb Walker in Stromgarde Keep, Arathi Highlands. Make Mageweave Bandages from 211 to 225. " "MAKE SURE YOU ARE LEVEL 35 BEFORE DOING NEXT STEP Now speak to Nissa Firestone in Ironforge. She will send you to Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in Theramore, Dustwallow Marsh. The good Doctor will give you a quest called “Triage”. You can go straight to Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen, without first speaking to Nissa Firestone Before you go to Theramore, make sure you have at least 75 x Mageweave and 70 x Runecloth as this will save you coming back to see the Doctor. Triage: He will have you triage 15 patients in a certain order before 6 die. You will be in a room with 6 cots. Stand in the middle so you can see all 6 cots. wow power leveling You might need to change the camera angle and zoom out to see them all. Use (""V"") to show all the patients status on screen. You will have special triage bandages (add them to your action bar/hot key) which should be applied to Critically injured, then Badly injured, and then injured. Critical patients will often die before you finish bandaging them, so let them die unless you can start right after they spawn. Once you started treating a patient, finish treating that patient, before moving on to another patient. You should select your next patient before your are finished with the first one, then all you have to do is hit you hot key to start the next one. You MUST use the special bandages you are given or you WILL FAIL. Make Mageweave Bandages from 226 to 240. Speak to Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in Theramore, Dustwallow Marsh to learn Heavy Mageweave Bandages. Make Heavy Mageweave Bandages from 241 to 260. Speak to Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in Theramore, Dustwallow Marsh to learn Runecloth Bandages. Make Runecloth Bandages from 261 to 290. wow powerleveling Speak to Doctor Gustaf VanHowzen in Theramore, Dustwallow Marsh to learn Heavy Runecloth Bandages. Make Heavy Runecloth Bandages from 291 to 300. You can now work on getting honored with Argent Dawn and then buy Powerful Anti-Venom from the quartermaster, which cures level 60 poisons. If your having trouble getting Runecloth because your only level 35ish, then just continue to make Heavy Mageweave Bandages all the way to 300. wow power level I'm not sure how much extra Mageweave you'll need for that, but I'm guessing its going to be about 140-150 extra " . RELATED LINKS: http://geocities.com/albrecht_juergen/blog.html http://360.yahoo.com/olivercxz1104 http://wowgoldmonster.edublogs.org/ http://jessica112.eblogs.com/index.php http://emma1215.blogspot.com/ http://wowgoldhunter.blogsome.com/ (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
1:54 pm	"fiction:Teppodama the killer "Teppodama, child of tragedy. ================== Tepp was used to being in the very back of the crowd. So when the schoolchildren excluded her, it didn't really bother her. wow honor To be honest, she didn't feel as though she were being excluded. She was fairly confident that she could be included whenever she wanted. The other children would welcome her attempts to be social, as they were often put off by her frequent attempts to distant herself from them. In truth she didn't do this out of any particular dislike for the other children. She just knew she was different. Shellene said Tepp did what she did because she thought she was better than the rest of them, but that wasn't it. She just knew that she was different, not superior different... different different. The story they were being told by the young woman assigned to them for this school day wasn't interesting in the least. guild wars gold Tepp had already figured out what the problem was that was going to be asked, and had plotted out a few solutions. Of course no one ever asked her for the answer, since she didn't talk. That didn't mean that she was dumb, like most assumed though. It is easy for people, and children especially, to view those who don't speak as dumb. Tepp could write, and enjoyed reading. She had no difficulty analyzing any schoolwork problems, and was rarely stumped by the tricky questions her teachers posited her. cheap wow gold Since she did well, they left her mostly alone. A few tried to make friends with her, by bringing her sweets or the like. Tepp always returned them before class, and the teachers always looked surprised to see the things lying on their desk. After a while they would grow distant again, and leave her space. She liked space. People eventually became afraid of her, though she wasn't sure why. wow level up She had no reason to harm anyone, she just wanted to be left alone. Tepp was lagging behind again, and moved forward suddenly and quickly, skirting a few cobblestones here and there and displaying a remarkable dexterity as she skipped over the red stones, which always burned her feet at noon. It was then that she noticed the shape clinging to the side of the doorway. Tepp had always wondered how places in the city could appear so dark in broad daylight. The shadows that the objects in the city cast left darkness scattered about, and it was in one of those pools of darkness that Tepp had seen, NO, sensed, movement. She paused curiously, and peered into the shadows. " . (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
12:22 pm	Why we play(ed) WoW 5 "WoW is the first MMO I have ever played and I have only been playing games of this type for a couple of years. A long time friend of my husband's had been playing for a month and got us playing this past summer. cheap wow gold We've since made some other friends and it has been very nice to get to know people and play with them. For me, WoW has been something that brightens my day every time I play. buy cheap wow gold Sometimes I get frustrated or annoyed by something but that pales in comparison to all the positive things I get from playing. I love creating new characters and trying out the different classes (although I cut down on the alts so I could level my priest to 70, my first 70 :D ) I like questing, exploring, playing the AH, crafting....I even (oddly) like cooking and fishing! (which is funny to me because I don't enjoy either of those things in real life....) There are many things I still would like to accomplish for my characters, but my primary goals are simply to enjoy playing the game. I am not a ""uber"" player. sell wow gold but I am reasonably competent and always trying to learn. Without sharing personal details (that would be inappropriate) I am not a well person. really cheap wow gold Sometimes I am not well enough to sit at the computer, but usually I can fit in a few hours of game play....which transports me to a place where I can be healthy and strong (well, as strong as a priest gets, lol) . where I can aid my friends and defeat my foes. A place where I can make a difference to a friend's playing experience by making their time spent at WoW just a little better. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fast wow gold A place where my husband and I can have quality time together doing something we both enjoy...we don't have that many hobbies that we both enjoy. " . (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
12:17 pm	"Public Test Realm Patch General "Quests * New Daily Dungeon quests for both the heroic and non-heroic five-person Magister's Terrace dungeon at the Sunwell. * Dungeon and Group Quest Experience: The amount of experience awarded for dungeon and 5-person group quests in Outland has been increased in almost all cases. * The number of elite Shadowsworn Drakonid patrollers on the Ata'mal Terrace has been cut in half. buy cheap wow gold buy cheap wow gold Most of the remainder have had their patrol paths lengthened. * Increased the slots on Old Blanchy's Feed Pouch to 8. * The Thunderspike no longer sparkles for Alliance characters, nor does it show up on the mini-map when Find Treasure is in use. * ""Zapper Fuel"" is now flagged as a Sunken Temple dungeon quest. buy wow gold Dungeons and Raids * All 25-player raid bosses have had their cash drops increased! * All 25- player raid bosses that drop set tokens will now drop an additional token! * Players will no longer require an attunement quest to enter Hyjal. * Players will no longer require an attunement quest to enter the Black Temple. * Players who have completed the attunement quests for Black Temple and Hyjal will be granted the title of “Hand of A’dal”. cheap wow gold * You may now fight Prince Kael’thas and Lady Vashj without first killing all the other bosses in their respective dungeons. * The Unstable Cloud and Frost Breath spells are now treated properly as a movement impairing spells. * Non-corporeal Undead and Mechanical creatures are now susceptible to bleed effects. fast wow gold * Elemental creatures are no longer explicitly immune to poison and disease effects. buy wow gold Elementals with nature school immunities will still be immune to nature-based poisons, however. * Gems obtained through Heroic difficulty instances are no longer Unique-equipped. guild wars gold * Loot dropped by Doomlord Kazzak and Doomwalker has been changed to Bind on Equip. cheap wow gold In addition, the cash dropped by these bosses has been significantly increased. * Scale of the Sands reputation will now be awarded in Hyjal at a much higher rate. * Caverns of Time: Heroic Black Morass o Rift Keepers and Rift Lords now have reduced hit points. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fast wow gold * Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal o The Vials of Eternity quest is no longer necessary for entry to Hyjal. guild wars gold This quest is still required for faction rings. o Azgalor's Rain of Fire now affects a smaller area. * Caverns of Time: Old Hillsbrad o The Human Illusion effect will now always be removed properly when a player leaves the instance. * Hellfire Citadel: Magtheridon’s Lair o Many gameplay elements of the encounters in Magtheridon’s Lair have been changed to decrease their overall complexity and difficulty. * Tempest Keep: Kael’thas o The Vapor Clouds in the Kael'thas encounter are significantly easier to see. * Tempest Keep: The Mechanar o The Mechanar: It is no longer possible to gain an additional Badge of Justice by bringing Cache of the Legion keys obtained in other copies of the instance. * Tempest Keep: The Eye o Void Reaver is now immune to Vindication again. " . (Comment on this)
Monday, March 10th, 2008
2:09 pm	Keli'dan the Breaker "When you get to Keli'dans room you are greeted by 5 warlocks that are casting the pentagram around him.10GB MP3 PLAYER. You must kill them before the fight with Keli'dan begins.wow eu. They can each cast short range shadow bolts that hit for roughly 1000 damage. They can also put a debuff on you that increases all shadow damage by 1000.4GB MP3 PLAYER. The strategy in this phase is to keep the debuff removed from players as quickly as possible.achat wow gold. If you can crowd control a few of them it will make your job easier as well. The goal is to go into the second phase will all the debuffs removed and as much mana and health as possible. Keli'dan himself is not to difficult once you learn to deal with his abilities, which are: AOE Fire Blast - Every so often in the fight Keli'dan will yell ""Closer! Come Closer! And Burn!"" and then send out 3 AOE fire blasts that hit for about 2k damage each.best mp3 player. While doing this he is also immune to damage. Shadow Bolt - He can hit everyone in his front arc with shadow bolts. As soon as he rushes forward the tank should pick him up and everyone else gives him a few seconds to gain control and turn him away from the group. You can then hit him from the rear until he does his AOE call. At that point everyone including the tank needs to clear out at least 20 yards. As soon as the third AOE blast is done the tank moves in and reestablishes control, and every one else can start DPS again. Rinse and repeat until done. conclution Even with a few wipes while learning the instance it should take less than 90 minutes to complete the Blood Furnace. Later runs should get this down to less than an hour. As with the Hellfire Ramparts most players really like the instance because of its speed and accessibility. While not quite as fast as the Hellfire Ramparts it doesn't feel dragged out, and many players prefer it to the Ramparts due to the variety in it. Again the loot is excellent and will make many players come back over and over again. Most of the MOBs in the Burning Crusade instances hit a lot harder than anything in 5 mans and in some cases even the old 20 man raids. There is a reason that stamina is on a lot of the new loot and that the numbers are so high. Health can drop insanely fast now when you are being hit by more than a single MOB. Several tanks were shocked at the damage being taken on many occasions. Several of the items are almost must haves for specific classes if you want to progress on to the Slave Pens and Underbog in Zangarmarsh. " . (Comment on this)
Friday, March 7th, 2008
10:35 am	section 2 Ravagers have a little more armor than cats, but lower health.achat mp3 player. They only eat meat and raw meat, and can learn Bite, cower, Growl, Dash, and Gore.wow powerlevel. Gore is a great skill only used by boars and ravagers.wow po. Unfortunately, for Horde players, a ravager can be a real challenge to tame before level 62 especially on PVP servers.wow power leveling. The other problem with gore is that there are no known mobs from which to learn gore 5 or 6.lord of the rings online gold. So you're stuck with Gore 4 until you get to blasted lands at level 48. Also Gore 3 is only learned from the named mob Bellygrub in Redridge Mountains; and he can be a load to handle at level 24.lotro gold. Overall, gore is the best offensive pet skill to have, but for horde characters, you might not want to consider a ravager until you get to outlands.MP3 PLAYER 4GB. Even for alliance, for 20-40 levels, your main pet attack skill is going to be way off the pace.runescape gold. Boosting stamina through pet training is also more expensive as far as training points than boosting armor. So we normally give pets with more stamina a better score than pets with higher armor stats. All of that being said - it could be argued that ravagers have the ability to deal more damage than any other pet in the game. If you can be a little patient and wait for one until outlands, you might consider one if you go Beast Master. To save focus and use the really wicked DPS skill, gore, teach this guy Gore, Growl and Dash. Gore is instant cast with no cooldown, so if he gets a few double damage hits in a row, it can really be a killer. We're not sure if giving up prowl is worth the added dps and extra points spent on stamina, but on PVE servers it may be a winner. Gavin Garrett is one of those nerdy World of Warcraft players who forsakes a normal life in favor of a life within a virtual game. When he returns to the "real world", he posts really great World of Warcraft tips and tricks on his blog, . (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
11:16 am	Darkness Within Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder As police detective Howard E.10GB MP3 PLAYER. Loreid, players are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.wow eu. At the top of your list of suspects is Loath Nolder, a highly respected private investigator who mysteriously abandoned his last case for reasons unknown. Rumor had it that he ventured to several exotic places around the world.4GB MP3 PLAYER. It remains a great mystery as to why Loath Nolder disappeared so suddenly, resurfacing five years later and resuming his investigations just as abruptly as he had left them.achat wow gold. Why does this venerated P.I. now sit on the other side of the law.best mp3 player. This seemingly routine investigation takes a dramatic twist as strange and terrifying happenings begin to plague your psyche. You experience lucid horrifying dreams and are tormented by paranormal happenings. Why do days pass instead of hours when you sleep. What’s real and what’s not. As you pursue fugitive murder suspect Loath Nolder, you must face dire truths hidden deep within a haunting darkness and the recesses of your mind. FEATURES: • Built-in Hint System with 3 Difficulty Levels – Players can choose to play in Standard, Detective, or Senior Detective modes. • Unique Inventory System – Utilizing the ‘thinking screen’ allows players to collect and examine items, and thoughts. Clues can also be researched, combined or used. • Dynamic Puzzles and Features – Traditional adventure game puzzles are complimented by deciphering dreams and underlining excerpts in documents to garner critical clues. • Enhanced Gameplay Experience – The proprietary game engine enables compelling special effects and stunning visuals in a panoramic first person game environment. • Eerie Gameplay Atmosphere – An immersive experience is created by a fascinating story, chilling real-time cut scenes, and haunting music. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS . (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
6:26 pm	GoDaddy invades WoW Armory In one of the most bizarre things I've seen happen to the World of Warcraft in my three years playing, the WoW Armory site today is pointing to a generic GoDaddy.com domain parking page.runescape gold. The screenshot above was taken at 1:08 p.m.runescape money. CST on March 2nd, 2008. WoW Insider has received numerous reports of this.sell wow gold. It seems to be a DNS related issue.Warhammer online gold. The domain name wowarmory.com expires today, and it appears as if a registrant has grabbed the wowarmory.com domain name as soon as it expired. DNS entries for blizzard.com and worldofwarcraft.com point to cerf.net, while the DNS servers for wowarmory.com are currently pointing to domaincontrol.com.or wow. While some of you might be seeing wowarmory.com work correctly, others are not. The ISPs of people who are seeing it work have not had their DNS records updated yet, however within the next 48 hours they will see wowarmoy.com go down as well; unless Blizzard fixes this before then (I am sure they are already aware, or becoming aware of it). Stay tuned to WoW Insider for the latest on this story. Thanks to Matthew Rossi and his wife for contributing to the technical sleuthing in this post. Updated 2:34 p.m. EST: You can access the armory using a sub-domain of worldofwarcraft.com by going to http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/. (Comment on this)
11:17 am	Kara before Heroics reply My guild is a small one comprising nothing but rl friends and f-of-f's.buy cheap wow gold. We have Kara on farm and are farming it for a while before we seriously head for ZA ( we wiped at Nalorakk on first real try, so I think we should be ZA ready soon).buy wow gold. We will almost certainly never see 25-man content and I'm fine with that. More 10s and maybe a 15 might be nice though.cheap wow gold. Anyway we have some new members only just reached 70, or getting there soon.fast wow gold. I know they're excited about Kara and heroics. They have no idea what Kara or heroics are like, but they can sense they're somewhat exciting.guild wars gold. Problem is, they are getting plenty of free guild runs through normal instances.lord of the rings online gold. Runs from players seriously overgeared for normal instances, and so experienced with heroics that they're generally not much of a challenge anymore either. This is worrying to me. All they did was level to 70 by grinding and questing, and we all know you don't even need to roll your face across the keyboard to get there, you just slump over it will do. All of them need to l2p. That day my guild were running Kara leaving the newbies behind, and I missed Kara having logged on late. They wanted to doa run, and I was very happy to help them with a normal SV run. But NOT on my prot pally who can pretty much pull the whole instance in one go. S0 I took my severely undergeared, badly prot-specced warrior to tank. And I hadn't even used this war for anything other than dailies for 6 months. For the first time ever, these enwbies got to do a proper run instead of having free blues handed to them for simply being on follow and pretending to do whatever their class is supposed to do. Disaster on some trash pulls - sheeper not experienced enough to keep sheep sheeped, hunter getting into all sorts of trouble with trap, healer standing right in the middle of fray to heal. Basically everything done wrong because they never had to do it properly. Coordinationa nd awareness. Non-existent. Multiple wipes on lightning boss - no one watching clouds, or at the very least their own health bar in order to move away quick. Steamrigger - not watching for adds. Kalithresh - don't remember how many attempts before they finally manged to start killing tanks before the chanelling was done. Absolutely none of these I will take into Kara or heroics. Not that we will wipe, we can comfortably carry a couple through at any one time. Simply because they will never learn to play their class, and thereby actually enjoy playing their class because they're good at it. Hasn't come to that yet, but if any of them are invited to Kara at their current level of skill and gear, I will speak out. Especially since we have healer friends with dps alts who have been bringing their healers simply because they're needed when they'd rather bring their dps classes. To bring a newbie dps who does not know his or her class over their heads is not something I will be strongly against. PS It's not just their class they need to learn, only from doing proper 5mans will they learn about other classes at all, and that's just as important. I am sure there are many of us who don't play every class, but know a fair bit abuot every class from experience. Yeah, in my case, I think every new totally fresh 70 should be running plenty of normal instances first.. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
10:49 am	Blog:Activision Blizzard….WTF! "Right now, you NEED to take advantage of mining."So much news going on around Blizzard this month.wow honor. Mining is required right now for mad loot.I know I am no where near the first or last blogger to blog about this merger between Activision and Blizzard.aion gold. Your other profession is up to you, but as far as money makers, enchanting/tailoring/herbalism is good. Copper ore will probably sell 2-5g per stack.I really had to take some time to get my head around this merger. Of course, everyone is like it’s no big deal…nothing will change.zubehoer mp3 player. You can either farm and sell the raw ore, or craft the bars.I really don’t believe that at all because nothing can’t stay the same forever and anytime you put two companies together changes are going to happen.wow lvl service. The bars tend to sell for more money, but with jewelcrafting, they can prospect the raw ore into gems. Blacksmiths need around 500 thorium bars to reach 300.The good, the bad, and the ugly will happen from this.runescape money. Thorium veins are rare and often hard to get to.I might be overreacting a little bit which I hope I am. A rich thorium node contains between 2-6 pieces of thorium, plus you will also have a chance at an arcane crystal.When I first read the news I got a sinking feeling in my stomach, you know that feeling that happens right before you are in a car accident…yeah, that kind of feeling. I’ve been playing (addicted) to Blizzard games since the good old Warcraft 2 days and haven’t stopped since. After farming, I can usually get around 1 stack a night (after working for about 2 hours, with some distractions).Some say that’s good, others say that’s bad but that’s for a different post. It's not unusual for thorium going around 30-35g a stack. Tailoring is just a good way to make money off of bags. I just feel like the end of a great era of Blizzard is coming, who knows. I'm not too sure how the market is doing these days, but Runecloth bags are still a good money maker.I just don’t see this merger as good…what do you think. I would imagine Netherweave bags sell for a decent amount of coinage. comments: Yeah, Blizzard games have always had their own “flavor”… The question is, is this like Pepsi buying 7up, where the flavors say distinct and different, or is this like Mercedes buying Chrysler, and the Chryslers start to look more like Mercedes. Herbalism, just picking roots to sell to alchemists... My bet is that there are one or two people who hold the gold-dust for Blizzard. still a decent way of making some quick dough." .Maybe we don’t know who those two people are or maybe we do, but it’s really their heroic influence that has made these games great. If that person or if those people don’t exist or get shoved aside or eaten up. Oh man, I’m really getting worked up about this. I’m going to have a cup of water and do my deep-breathing exercies. " . (Comment on this)
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