Murloc Mud Fight! I bet two coppers the little one wins!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Owl's Random Dungeon of the Day
Today I got a nice change. For the last few days now I kept getting Stonecore as my daily dungeon. I was starting to wonder if the word random was deleted from the dungeon finder or something. But today I got a different one, and as with all the other dungeons in WoW, it made me moan when I saw the artwork of the loading screen. This time, it was Grim Batol. The entire run took us about an hour and a half, and I was glad it wasn't much longer than that because I was on a tight timeline. I miss the days of quick and easy Lich King dungeons where it was easy to tank and easy to nuke. I quit healing a while ago, and it was long before they changed the talent trees and made the tree of life form a spell rather than a shapeshift. If it's one other thing I miss about the WotLK days, it's doing the twist. :)
So, an hour and a half. After the first bit where we fly around on red dragons torching enemies from on high, we notice that the healer is decidedly afk, so we boot him. Whoever initiated the kick had written in a reason, "Sexual harassment", which wasn't true of course, but it made me laugh and confirm the kick. We got another healer, and pretty soon we were on our way. A while later we finish and I got a new staff, though I had no need for it. The one I had was almost it's equal, though I'd lose two stats to two other stats, and I decided to keep the one I already had.
It wasn't until then, when I'm back in lovely old Stormwind, talking to the repair vendor and selling gray items, that I was looking over my two sets of gear, going between dps boomkin and bear tank weapons, when I realized something.
I tanked Grim Batol with my tanking gear.... only my helmet had been in my bags, and I was wearing the Chef's Hat all along. Then I remembered why... I had made two stacks of fortune cookies before I qued for the random heroic.
I just had to wonder would it really have made any difference with or without my helm? Huh... Well, anyway, I got my valor points of the day on my druid, even though the helm made me look more like the Swedish Chef...
So, an hour and a half. After the first bit where we fly around on red dragons torching enemies from on high, we notice that the healer is decidedly afk, so we boot him. Whoever initiated the kick had written in a reason, "Sexual harassment", which wasn't true of course, but it made me laugh and confirm the kick. We got another healer, and pretty soon we were on our way. A while later we finish and I got a new staff, though I had no need for it. The one I had was almost it's equal, though I'd lose two stats to two other stats, and I decided to keep the one I already had.
It wasn't until then, when I'm back in lovely old Stormwind, talking to the repair vendor and selling gray items, that I was looking over my two sets of gear, going between dps boomkin and bear tank weapons, when I realized something.
I tanked Grim Batol with my tanking gear.... only my helmet had been in my bags, and I was wearing the Chef's Hat all along. Then I remembered why... I had made two stacks of fortune cookies before I qued for the random heroic.
I just had to wonder would it really have made any difference with or without my helm? Huh... Well, anyway, I got my valor points of the day on my druid, even though the helm made me look more like the Swedish Chef...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Owl's Screenshot Of The Day!
Okay, that does it. I am fed up with seeing other screenshots get selected while mine gets lost in cyberspace. This time I'll post the screenshots, and then Blizzard can comment on it if they wish. Let's see how it works.
Today's shot, "Don't you move, this is a stickup!"
Today's shot, "Don't you move, this is a stickup!"
Meet Neyteri
Well, it happened at last. The blue or green skinned trolls finally can be druids, so $25 later, Sagethyme, my old neglected tauren transformed into a female troll. I figured since I was about halfway through leveling, might as well pay for the change instead of starting all over again.
And then Neyteri happens to have heirlooms, courtesy of Owlaf and all those emblems she had collected from the days of Wrath of the Lich King. Neyteri has two trinket heirlooms, plus two shoulders and chest pieces (one for pvp and one for pve, EACH), plus two weapons, and the caster heirloom cape that I got from my guild. I'm considering getting another cape that has agility and stamina so it can be primarily used for kitty form (or rogues for that matter should I make one).
Anyway, back to Neyteri, I was pretty lucky to get that name. It's the name of the female Na'vi, one of the main characters from the movie "Avatar" and I thought it would be perfect for my troll. Trolls are tribal, living in dense jungles and worshiping spirits and deities and practicing rituals. "Stay away from da voodoo," they say, yet I think they do practice a little of it. Long ago I helped a troll (quest giver, npc) who wanted me to get some items of import, and he put them in his cauldron and gave the mixture to three captive night elves that he had around him. Instantly they all died and he cackled maniacally at them. The night elves themselves became wisps and flew out of the cave. Well, at least they were free, but I bet their method of dying was a painful one.
Now Trolls do hate all other species, and why that is I have no idea. Yet some Trolls had gone into hiding for a long time and now have returned to help the rest in the times of the Cataclysm. Neyteri is one of those. Having felt exiled from the rest of the tribe, Neyteri used to be a priest (well not really of course, Blizzard won't do class changes) and she wondered through the jungles, lost and alone and without purpose. But then one night the animal spirits came to her and told her to journey to the north where she would find those who were in need of her aid, and they would show her the ways of the spirits. With the promise of getting in touch with nature and working with the animal spirits, Neyteri journeyed to the north until she reached Moonglade. By the time she had arrived she passed out from hunger and exhaustion, and the druids found her and saved her. After being nursed back to health, Neyteri began to see the animal spirits and she learned how to shapeshift with the aid of the druids instruction.Once she was trained in the druidic ways, Neyteri set out on her own once again, this time dashing across the plains the through the forests as a cheetah. In times of hunger she shifted to a bear form or cat form to hunt her prey. She ended up spending much of her time in cat form, familiarizing herself with her new senses and powers.
In the end, she returned to the Echo Isles and helped the Horde retake the isles for the Trolls of the Darkspear tribe, of whom she used to belong, and once again is a part of. Nowadays she aids in the healing of the land from the return of Deathwing and brings honor to the Horde by fighting against the Alliance in the forests of Ashenvale.
... Not bad huh?<.< Oh yes. Yawn! C'mon, I wasn't that boring!
Anyway, that's Neyteri for ya. I love the artwork for their cat forms, making them look more like tigers than panthers, and with the tusks coming out of their mouths, they seem pretty close to saber-toothed tigers, only their tusks grow upward instead of down. Guess it helps if they jerk their head upwards while standing right infront of a human, maybe they use their tusks that way to make a man lose his... well, you know...
So yeah. Tauren druid forms have horns and Troll druid forms have tusks... Night Elven Druids have... no horns or tusks... and Worgen have collars.... Hmmm.
End Game - what do I do you ask?
When I first hit level 80 during Wrath of the Lich King, I didn't really know what was going to happen. A friend of mine who enjoyed bear tanking on one of his toons invited me to group right after I dinged, and then we went flying from one instance to the other. Back then, there was no dungeon finder, so we had to go the instance in question and enter the portal, and when we were done we had to actually fly all over Northrend till we got to the next one. So in this form of instance hopping, we started at Utgard, went up through the troll ruins and dwarven-like instances, all the way across the continent to finish up at the Nexus. It was a very interesting experience for me. Being a kitty druid at the time, My friend told me to just stay back and relax. But as the first dungeon we went into wore on, I saw that my friend was not only tanking, but the others were helping. Players we either helping to smash the mobs into pieces or were attacking from afar with spells or ranged weapons. A healer was keeping the tank, and the tank himself was making sure nobody else got hurt. Well, shoot! I thought to myself, if all I have to do is attack and never fear dying, OKAY THEN! and I jumped into the fray.
Would you believe that the first day of heroics, not one dungeon dropped ANY leather items for my poor druid?
I have to admit, sometimes it's kind of hard. I usually never look on the internet to see what gear drops and where and whether it would be good for my role. Sure, I have atlasloot, but I rarely use it. As a result most people were geared for the Argent Crusade Tournament by the time I was able to understand and do Naxaramas. I learned to dance and learned the difference between positive and negative charges. Most of the time it was fun, but I was probably kidding myself. I didn't really start getting into the real endgame stuff until Icecrown raiding came along, when it was possible to kill the Lich King. Finally I got to kill him... after the Cataclysm came out. Only when he became a pushover did I get to kill him. Only when the rewards became obsolete did I win.
Must I always? Maybe so. I am a casual player, which means I only rarely go into any raids, but then they are the most difficult at the moment, and when I do go in, I am probably one of the numerous who's never been in there and has no idea what happens. I don't spend a night raiding and winning loot, I spent hours wiping and crying over repair bills. But then again I do get experience. What I started doing in the later days of wrath, and what I might start doing again, is asking to tag along with an experienced raid. In this way, since they probably already have the best gear, the odds of me getting loot that nobody needs will have increased. Plus they'd know the fights to a T and would be able to coach me on what to do. Thus I'd learn, and then I'd get to tackle the more difficult things in the end game sense and actually come out on top.
You might wonder why call it end game? The game never ends really. Heck, it's going on right now with millions of players online at this very moment. End game is in reference to the content that is available at the current highest level. Some of it is very challenging, some is easy, and some is downright annoying as hell and damn-near impossible. But then when you do all these things and accomplish everything, what else is there to do?
That's when Blizzard will raise the bar. Patch 4.1 will be released someday, and with it comes new dungeons, new gear, new mounts, and new changes to make the game more interesting. On that day, I'll que for a heroic troll instance, I might not even que for it as a random, and I'll gladly learn the ropes and hope for the epic drops with ya. And maybe when I get them, then the level 85 raids will be a little less punishing.
See you then!
Till then, I'm gonna keep up my archaeology and hope I get the ilevel 359 staff. Chao!
Would you believe that the first day of heroics, not one dungeon dropped ANY leather items for my poor druid?
I have to admit, sometimes it's kind of hard. I usually never look on the internet to see what gear drops and where and whether it would be good for my role. Sure, I have atlasloot, but I rarely use it. As a result most people were geared for the Argent Crusade Tournament by the time I was able to understand and do Naxaramas. I learned to dance and learned the difference between positive and negative charges. Most of the time it was fun, but I was probably kidding myself. I didn't really start getting into the real endgame stuff until Icecrown raiding came along, when it was possible to kill the Lich King. Finally I got to kill him... after the Cataclysm came out. Only when he became a pushover did I get to kill him. Only when the rewards became obsolete did I win.
Must I always? Maybe so. I am a casual player, which means I only rarely go into any raids, but then they are the most difficult at the moment, and when I do go in, I am probably one of the numerous who's never been in there and has no idea what happens. I don't spend a night raiding and winning loot, I spent hours wiping and crying over repair bills. But then again I do get experience. What I started doing in the later days of wrath, and what I might start doing again, is asking to tag along with an experienced raid. In this way, since they probably already have the best gear, the odds of me getting loot that nobody needs will have increased. Plus they'd know the fights to a T and would be able to coach me on what to do. Thus I'd learn, and then I'd get to tackle the more difficult things in the end game sense and actually come out on top.
You might wonder why call it end game? The game never ends really. Heck, it's going on right now with millions of players online at this very moment. End game is in reference to the content that is available at the current highest level. Some of it is very challenging, some is easy, and some is downright annoying as hell and damn-near impossible. But then when you do all these things and accomplish everything, what else is there to do?
That's when Blizzard will raise the bar. Patch 4.1 will be released someday, and with it comes new dungeons, new gear, new mounts, and new changes to make the game more interesting. On that day, I'll que for a heroic troll instance, I might not even que for it as a random, and I'll gladly learn the ropes and hope for the epic drops with ya. And maybe when I get them, then the level 85 raids will be a little less punishing.
See you then!
Till then, I'm gonna keep up my archaeology and hope I get the ilevel 359 staff. Chao!
Mojo Farming, while we still can!!
Well, it seems that nothing is going to stop Blizzard from remaking raids into dungeons, which almost sounds like they're shrinking the number of instances available, yet with the promise of new mounts as rare drops or rewards (beat all four bosses in X time to get the bear mount to drop) and maybe even new pets to drop, well, yeah, I can't wait.
I have to admit I tried farming weekly for the raptor and tiger mounts to drop, but for a druid, rare mounts are hard to come by. Even though I now have reached my goal of 100 mounts, now at 102, I can't help but envy the folks who get those rares, like Baron Rivendare's horse, or the Raven Lord, or even the mounts that are now no-longer obtainable. The latter feels a bit unfair on one level, and the least I can do is stare and moan and drool. I could also /cry, but there's no sense in that. They're old and out of date.
Even Mojo looks a little funny when you glance at him up close, even with the newer and cooler graphics, Mojo doesn't seem to have any eyes. Or no wait, there they are, look there's a little black dot there, that must be it... Hmm. I wonder if Blizzard can change the way that looks.
They can also put in a change for how the frog works. If you /kiss Mojo, and only Mojo, then you turn into a frog yourself! The only glitch I see is that when you're in frog form and you jump, the frog appears to be standing still. There is no animation for when you jump in frog form. I think the same glitch applies when a Shaman puts a hex on you and turns you into a frog for a bit.
Still, it's the thought that counts! In my quest to obtain as many pets as possible, of which I now have well over 100, I managed to spend an entire day farming for this one. Yeah, there were Argent Tournament quests to be done at the time, heroic dungeons to farm, but this was a must. My thought was you never know when this particular pet will be gone, and I was right. Or am I...?
The fact is I have no idea if these new dungeon revisions Blizzard is up too will keep Mojo in the picture. As of 3-29-10, the patch containing the release of these new dungeons has not come out, so you can still farm him to your hearts desire. As I've said it took me a whole day to farm it, and later I brought a friend in and gave her step by step rules and instructions in how to go about farming it.
The first damn stick that dropped gave her the frog.
The basic idea is that when you're in Zul'Aman, you have to loot an Amani Hex Stick, use it on the forest frogs in the area, and be very lucky. The stick is consumed on use, so if it doesn't work the first time, you need to find another stick.
Another useful tip is to have a surefire way to lose aggro. Mages can use your invisibility, and night elves have shadowmeld. I can only assume that rogues could use vanish, been a while since I played a rogue and I don't have one anymore, sorry. Hunters I know can use Feign Death. As for the other classes, I don't know, but what you do is that you find one of the two patrols that are walking around in the instance, you kill one, but leave the partner alive. When you drop the agro, the patrol will reset. The best part is even if you kill one, when the mob rests, the one you killed will respawn. This results in your being able to farm the Hex Sticks to your hearts content. The drop rate seems to be about 1/4 kills, perhaps, but the proc of Mojo coming from a Forest Frog is even lower.
Once you get your stick and drop aggro, you use it on a Forest Frog, but bear in mind that the chances of actually getting Mojo is very slim. 99% of the time you'll get an NPC who'll most likely thank you in their own ways. Some will drop a little box you can loot for an item to help you, others will offer you their own services like food and water, reagents, and even repairs! After a few seconds (or a minute if it's a vendor) they'll bid you farewell, goodluck, and all that jazz, and walk away. Truth to tell, they walk up to the very front of the instance in a large room where they will walk about and cheer at you should you pass them by. And the vendors will be there too, so you can repair or restock on out outlands stuff. :P
But if you're very, VERY lucky, you'll get Mojo. I've farmed him recently on my hunter and mage so they could have it, and one time I got an NPC who dropped a box and walked off, and the box turned out to have another hex stick! I was pleasantly surprised with that one, so the boxes themselves have a chance of rewarding you a second stick. But if you do get Mojo, what will happen is that he'll jump into your pocket (actually your bags if you have space I assume) and then the emote will let you and everyone around you know that "Mojo leaps into *player*'s pocket!" When that happens to you, GRATS!
Now it isn't just the fact that Mojo is a little blue speckled frog that makes him the most unique pet to obtain. It's the nifty little perk where if you /kiss the pet, you turn into a frog. Best of all, little pink hearts float up from Mojo and he follows you around. He even whispers a private message that nobody else can read, such as, "I thought you'd never ask!" or, "Your lily pad or mine?" The little flirt. You can /kiss Mojo even if it's not yours, so if you see a player with Mojo out, you can take the opportunity and kiss him and turn into a frog for a few seconds. Bear in mind however that you cannot cancel the effect, and you cannot attack while you are a frog, much like the hex that Shamans can do only it's not dispellable. But it lasts only a few seconds, enough to make you laugh as you see yourself change and read Mojo's whispers.
Well, there you have it! A rare and hard to obtain pet, and info on how to get it. I'll include the link to Mojo from Wowpedia so you can look him up and read the other sayings he'll whisper, and if you're interested you can click the other links on that page to learn about the instance he's farmed from (the level 70 raid in Ghostlands for the time being - soon to be level 85 heroic dungeon!). Best get a move on, because If Blizzard does alter this instance in any way, odds are Mojo might become extinct, or a million times harder to get. Imagine being in a group and a hex stick drops, only one out of 100 chances, and everyone rolls greed except for one player who rolls need. Beware of Ninjas when the change comes!
I've included images of when you /kiss Mojo below. Hope you liked this blog and I hope you'll get your Mojo soon! =)
I have to admit I tried farming weekly for the raptor and tiger mounts to drop, but for a druid, rare mounts are hard to come by. Even though I now have reached my goal of 100 mounts, now at 102, I can't help but envy the folks who get those rares, like Baron Rivendare's horse, or the Raven Lord, or even the mounts that are now no-longer obtainable. The latter feels a bit unfair on one level, and the least I can do is stare and moan and drool. I could also /cry, but there's no sense in that. They're old and out of date.
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| Mojo, the rare blue frog companion from Zul'Aman |
Even Mojo looks a little funny when you glance at him up close, even with the newer and cooler graphics, Mojo doesn't seem to have any eyes. Or no wait, there they are, look there's a little black dot there, that must be it... Hmm. I wonder if Blizzard can change the way that looks.
They can also put in a change for how the frog works. If you /kiss Mojo, and only Mojo, then you turn into a frog yourself! The only glitch I see is that when you're in frog form and you jump, the frog appears to be standing still. There is no animation for when you jump in frog form. I think the same glitch applies when a Shaman puts a hex on you and turns you into a frog for a bit.
Still, it's the thought that counts! In my quest to obtain as many pets as possible, of which I now have well over 100, I managed to spend an entire day farming for this one. Yeah, there were Argent Tournament quests to be done at the time, heroic dungeons to farm, but this was a must. My thought was you never know when this particular pet will be gone, and I was right. Or am I...?
The fact is I have no idea if these new dungeon revisions Blizzard is up too will keep Mojo in the picture. As of 3-29-10, the patch containing the release of these new dungeons has not come out, so you can still farm him to your hearts desire. As I've said it took me a whole day to farm it, and later I brought a friend in and gave her step by step rules and instructions in how to go about farming it.
The first damn stick that dropped gave her the frog.
The basic idea is that when you're in Zul'Aman, you have to loot an Amani Hex Stick, use it on the forest frogs in the area, and be very lucky. The stick is consumed on use, so if it doesn't work the first time, you need to find another stick.
Another useful tip is to have a surefire way to lose aggro. Mages can use your invisibility, and night elves have shadowmeld. I can only assume that rogues could use vanish, been a while since I played a rogue and I don't have one anymore, sorry. Hunters I know can use Feign Death. As for the other classes, I don't know, but what you do is that you find one of the two patrols that are walking around in the instance, you kill one, but leave the partner alive. When you drop the agro, the patrol will reset. The best part is even if you kill one, when the mob rests, the one you killed will respawn. This results in your being able to farm the Hex Sticks to your hearts content. The drop rate seems to be about 1/4 kills, perhaps, but the proc of Mojo coming from a Forest Frog is even lower.
Once you get your stick and drop aggro, you use it on a Forest Frog, but bear in mind that the chances of actually getting Mojo is very slim. 99% of the time you'll get an NPC who'll most likely thank you in their own ways. Some will drop a little box you can loot for an item to help you, others will offer you their own services like food and water, reagents, and even repairs! After a few seconds (or a minute if it's a vendor) they'll bid you farewell, goodluck, and all that jazz, and walk away. Truth to tell, they walk up to the very front of the instance in a large room where they will walk about and cheer at you should you pass them by. And the vendors will be there too, so you can repair or restock on out outlands stuff. :P
But if you're very, VERY lucky, you'll get Mojo. I've farmed him recently on my hunter and mage so they could have it, and one time I got an NPC who dropped a box and walked off, and the box turned out to have another hex stick! I was pleasantly surprised with that one, so the boxes themselves have a chance of rewarding you a second stick. But if you do get Mojo, what will happen is that he'll jump into your pocket (actually your bags if you have space I assume) and then the emote will let you and everyone around you know that "Mojo leaps into *player*'s pocket!" When that happens to you, GRATS!
Now it isn't just the fact that Mojo is a little blue speckled frog that makes him the most unique pet to obtain. It's the nifty little perk where if you /kiss the pet, you turn into a frog. Best of all, little pink hearts float up from Mojo and he follows you around. He even whispers a private message that nobody else can read, such as, "I thought you'd never ask!" or, "Your lily pad or mine?" The little flirt. You can /kiss Mojo even if it's not yours, so if you see a player with Mojo out, you can take the opportunity and kiss him and turn into a frog for a few seconds. Bear in mind however that you cannot cancel the effect, and you cannot attack while you are a frog, much like the hex that Shamans can do only it's not dispellable. But it lasts only a few seconds, enough to make you laugh as you see yourself change and read Mojo's whispers.
Well, there you have it! A rare and hard to obtain pet, and info on how to get it. I'll include the link to Mojo from Wowpedia so you can look him up and read the other sayings he'll whisper, and if you're interested you can click the other links on that page to learn about the instance he's farmed from (the level 70 raid in Ghostlands for the time being - soon to be level 85 heroic dungeon!). Best get a move on, because If Blizzard does alter this instance in any way, odds are Mojo might become extinct, or a million times harder to get. Imagine being in a group and a hex stick drops, only one out of 100 chances, and everyone rolls greed except for one player who rolls need. Beware of Ninjas when the change comes!
I've included images of when you /kiss Mojo below. Hope you liked this blog and I hope you'll get your Mojo soon! =)
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| /Kiss with Mojo as your target, and a poof of smoke later, you're Kermit! |
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| "Now that's what I call Froggy Style!" |
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Owlaf Vs Anzu
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| A picture I made and sent in to Blizzard a while ago. I don't think they ever published it or anything, but oh well. |
Shadowfang Keep - "Bullet Time"
So there I was. It had to have been almost 2 hours, but it was probably less than that. I was tanking a heroic random which landed us smack dab in Shadowfang Keep. Back before the cataclysm, the instance was home to the archmage Arugal and his Worgen, but he was defeated by a group of heroes (players). Now it's home to scourge remnants as well as the renegade nobleman Vincent Godfrey, who has issues. That's the simplest explanation. Basically, Vincent betrayed the Gilneans when he found out that the leader was afflicted with the worgen curse that had affected most, if not all, of the inhabitants of Gilneas. Vincent is prejudiced against those who have been cursed, and players find that out when they play a worgen and see how eager he is to "put this one down."
Long story short, Vincent realizes at one point that his ruler, Greymane, is cursed as well, so he kidnaps Greymane and holds him for ransom in the hopes of saving Gilneas if he handed him over to the Forsaken. Idiot. When Greymane is saved, Vincent jumps off a cliff to commit suicide, preferring to die rather than having a worgen as his king.
Unfortunately, death is not quite so permanent in World of Warcraft. Turns out that when a player dies, we can resurrect and keep playing the game, which makes death nonexistent. If an NPC dies, then they either stay dead for any time frame between ten seconds to 24 hours, or they become undead for some reason. In Vincent's case, he was brought back to life by the Forsaken, who are undead, and they made him undead too. Once returned to "life" he started attacking the Gilneans and trying to make a ceasefire between them and the Forsaken. One thing led to another, and he tried to kill the leader of the Forsaken. Now wanted by the Horde and the Alliance alike, Vincent Godfrey made a run for it, and decided to hide himself in Shadowfang Keep. Dude. That place is a death trap. I wouldn't live in there if you paid me... but then Vincent is undead, so I guess the place suits him well.
Now last night I had gone in there as a random, and we died about a dozen times. Most of it was mistakes made by one or the other. The healer kept running out of mana easily, and my health not as high as I wished it to be even with buffs. Would you imagine taking 6 minutes to kill Lord Walden, the guy who uses poisons in his fight? I swear, you move when he casts the green one and you stay the heck still when he casts the red one. Red light, Green Light, stop, go. Simple. Yet the second time we attempted it... only the healer and I lived through it. Occasionally I popped out of bear form to throw an innervate on the healer to give her more mana and to put Thorns onto myself (though admittedly I don't know if it did much good). The dps consisted of a hunter, a mage, and a warrior. The hunter came via releasing and running back, so he actually died three times. I wound up finishing off the boss, and the idiot doesn't drop the loot I needed. RATS! Six minutes for nuthin! COME ON!
At last we get to the final boss. We managed to take him out in one attempt, though I died doing it because I think I went out of range of the healer. The mage, hunter, and paladin healer stood on top of the stairs while the warrior attacked with me on the bottom. At one point some adds appeared and went up the stairs to whack on the healer, so I had to dart up there and swipe the crap outta them.
Now when I died, the boss died a split second later, so no other casualties as far as I could remember. And all of a sudden, I got an achievement. Whether everyone got it or not I can't remember. All I know is I accepted the rez and looked at my achievements list. Turned out the achievement was this:
""Bullet Time" Defeat 12 Bloodthirsty Ghouls with Pistol Barrage and then defeat Lord Godfrey in Shadowfang Keep on heroic difficulty.""
The thing was I wasn't even trying for an achievement at the time. All I wanted to do was get my valor points and go to sleep! So when I got the achievement, I thought to myself, "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat!? When did that happen!?"
All in all, it wasn't too bad of a run. I got myself two new pieces of gear for my tanking set, one from the auction house and one from the justice point vendor. And thanks to the Chaos Orb that our leatherworking hunter got, I was able to get the epic chest piece for my boomkin set. =)
Now I just need a few gems and enchantments. *sigh*
Long story short, Vincent realizes at one point that his ruler, Greymane, is cursed as well, so he kidnaps Greymane and holds him for ransom in the hopes of saving Gilneas if he handed him over to the Forsaken. Idiot. When Greymane is saved, Vincent jumps off a cliff to commit suicide, preferring to die rather than having a worgen as his king.
Unfortunately, death is not quite so permanent in World of Warcraft. Turns out that when a player dies, we can resurrect and keep playing the game, which makes death nonexistent. If an NPC dies, then they either stay dead for any time frame between ten seconds to 24 hours, or they become undead for some reason. In Vincent's case, he was brought back to life by the Forsaken, who are undead, and they made him undead too. Once returned to "life" he started attacking the Gilneans and trying to make a ceasefire between them and the Forsaken. One thing led to another, and he tried to kill the leader of the Forsaken. Now wanted by the Horde and the Alliance alike, Vincent Godfrey made a run for it, and decided to hide himself in Shadowfang Keep. Dude. That place is a death trap. I wouldn't live in there if you paid me... but then Vincent is undead, so I guess the place suits him well.
Now last night I had gone in there as a random, and we died about a dozen times. Most of it was mistakes made by one or the other. The healer kept running out of mana easily, and my health not as high as I wished it to be even with buffs. Would you imagine taking 6 minutes to kill Lord Walden, the guy who uses poisons in his fight? I swear, you move when he casts the green one and you stay the heck still when he casts the red one. Red light, Green Light, stop, go. Simple. Yet the second time we attempted it... only the healer and I lived through it. Occasionally I popped out of bear form to throw an innervate on the healer to give her more mana and to put Thorns onto myself (though admittedly I don't know if it did much good). The dps consisted of a hunter, a mage, and a warrior. The hunter came via releasing and running back, so he actually died three times. I wound up finishing off the boss, and the idiot doesn't drop the loot I needed. RATS! Six minutes for nuthin! COME ON!
At last we get to the final boss. We managed to take him out in one attempt, though I died doing it because I think I went out of range of the healer. The mage, hunter, and paladin healer stood on top of the stairs while the warrior attacked with me on the bottom. At one point some adds appeared and went up the stairs to whack on the healer, so I had to dart up there and swipe the crap outta them.
Now when I died, the boss died a split second later, so no other casualties as far as I could remember. And all of a sudden, I got an achievement. Whether everyone got it or not I can't remember. All I know is I accepted the rez and looked at my achievements list. Turned out the achievement was this:
""Bullet Time" Defeat 12 Bloodthirsty Ghouls with Pistol Barrage and then defeat Lord Godfrey in Shadowfang Keep on heroic difficulty.""
The thing was I wasn't even trying for an achievement at the time. All I wanted to do was get my valor points and go to sleep! So when I got the achievement, I thought to myself, "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat!? When did that happen!?"
All in all, it wasn't too bad of a run. I got myself two new pieces of gear for my tanking set, one from the auction house and one from the justice point vendor. And thanks to the Chaos Orb that our leatherworking hunter got, I was able to get the epic chest piece for my boomkin set. =)
Now I just need a few gems and enchantments. *sigh*
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Owlaf's version of Lady Gaga's Poker Face
A little video I cam up with earlier today. When I first heard of what the female worgen's dance would be, I decided to look up the original song. After hearing it and seeing the music video, I felt like making one of my own in WoW. Hope everyone likes it. =)
-OWL
-OWL
Friday, March 4, 2011
Finding Ragefire Chasm (Video)
I made this video after Cataclysm came out. Flying mounts and flying was allowed in the whole world of Azeroth, and a friend of mine in my guild wanted to head into the enemy city and complete a low level dungeon inside. At one point I got lost, but I found it after orienting myself. I'm piloting a two-seater rocket and my friend is riding behind me. After we were done, I topped recording and went in and edited the video and posted to you-tube. I plan on making more videos in the future. ENJOY!
Archaeology = More Nonsense Items to Fill My Bags...
Since Deathwing emerged from Deepholme, which is in essence the center of the world of Azeroth (a place Jules Verne would be proud of), various elemental changes on the surface of Azeroth have revealed long hidden clues to the ancient history of the world, prompting a new job for various explorers and adventurers alike, though it's boring in comparison to Tomb Raider. I mean, Lara Croft drops down into a temple, fights off hundred of statues that came to life as well as evil folks who are after stuff for money or world domination, and nicks just one artifact and that's all she does.
Now for WoW players, like me, it's an entirely different story. Sure, Lara travels all over the world, but she picks up one or two items and that's it. We get to travel from one place to the other and pick up many various pieces of artifacts each from a different race like the Elves, Trolls, Dwarves, and so on. Not only that but we fly everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE! Meaning you can start here, then go there, head off to that place, go back to there, then here again, back to that place, then next to that place, there, and here, off to the other continent because you're bored with the first one, up, down, back and forth, in and out, left and right, all around, helter skelter, topsey turvey (if in outlands), and just plain going around in circles.
Lara Croft knows of only one destination at a time, "Pack for Venice." We look at our maps carefully and go, "Okay, first the fossil digs in Swamp of Sorrows, then down into Blasted lands for more fossils, and then if Troll dig sites don't turn up in Stranglethorn Vale then I can head north into the badlands and dig up some dwarven fragments. OKAY!" and then halfway through, "Oh crap, more troll stuff in STV... oh wait, there's an Elven site in Duskwood, better grab that!" You go everywhere.
And we go through all that for a bunch of gray items, which is trash that you can just sell to a vendor and be done with it, although some are pretty good! The Elven artifact Silver Scroll Case goes for 100 gold at a vendor, so that's nice. Lara goes out and gets just one item and that is the whole movie, about two hours of adventure to watch. We don't just watch, we experience what it's really like. We go out and travel extensively and dig and dig and dig and dig and dig and dig... We get junk 99% of the time, but occasionally we do come across something special, which is where the plot thickens if it were a movie. Then it's a race to finish the project and see what it can do!
Owlaf has gathered quite a few rares, in fact she found 17 so far (out of 26), and get this, I keep almost all of them on me! Seriously, at odd moments I'll use my Arrival of the Naaru or my Chalice of the Mountain Kings. I'll use my Highborne Soul Mirror or my Wisp Amulet, Bones of Transformation, Arrival of the Naaru, or my Priest and Druid Statue Set. I'll let my fossilized raptor pet come out, or get on my fossil raptor mount and ride it around while in a dungeon. Or get out my Clockwork Gnome and fool people into thinking it's Jeeves. I threw out my Hearthstone and kept my new one, The Inkeepers Daughter, which occasionally has a female dwarf that nobody can click on follow me and giggle, much to my annoyance in which case I bring out the raptor pet again! Pendant of the Scarab Storm is cool, but has a long cooldown so I don't use it as often, and I managed to get an epic ring for myself, which is about the only epic that Ican wear and actually use for the time being (Ring of the Boy Emperor). As for the Queen Azshara's Dressing Gown, the Headdress of the First Shaman, and the Nifflevar Bearded Axe, they're in my bank toon's vault gathering dust. Yesterday I got Blessing of the Old God, which turns me into a giant insect-type creature... I can't wait to sneak up on somebody and use it while I'm near them.
So yeah, most of the items I just named are the rares I have managed to find through the archaeology profession. I must have spent days farming for them, and now I look at Indiana Jones and Lara Croft and think to myself, "Yeah, you guys got it easy! YOU KNOW THAT!!! By the way there's a snake on your shoulder, Indy. :P"
I'm going to keep farming in Outlands or Northrend till I get the Yogg-Saron Puzzle Box and The Last Relic of Argus. Then I might stick to the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor in the hopes of getting an epic staff from either the Dwarves or the Tol'vir. In the meanwhile, if you see me turn into a Wisp, or a Naga, or if you see dwarven swordswomen dancing and clapping, or you hear some windchimes clinking in the breeze, you'll know that I was near... and if it wasn't me, then it was someone else who enjoys going in circles around the world for toys and trinkets.
Meanwhile, I pray every day that they'll come up with larger bags for my inventory, because my bags are full to burst!!!
Now for WoW players, like me, it's an entirely different story. Sure, Lara travels all over the world, but she picks up one or two items and that's it. We get to travel from one place to the other and pick up many various pieces of artifacts each from a different race like the Elves, Trolls, Dwarves, and so on. Not only that but we fly everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE! Meaning you can start here, then go there, head off to that place, go back to there, then here again, back to that place, then next to that place, there, and here, off to the other continent because you're bored with the first one, up, down, back and forth, in and out, left and right, all around, helter skelter, topsey turvey (if in outlands), and just plain going around in circles.
Lara Croft knows of only one destination at a time, "Pack for Venice." We look at our maps carefully and go, "Okay, first the fossil digs in Swamp of Sorrows, then down into Blasted lands for more fossils, and then if Troll dig sites don't turn up in Stranglethorn Vale then I can head north into the badlands and dig up some dwarven fragments. OKAY!" and then halfway through, "Oh crap, more troll stuff in STV... oh wait, there's an Elven site in Duskwood, better grab that!" You go everywhere.
And we go through all that for a bunch of gray items, which is trash that you can just sell to a vendor and be done with it, although some are pretty good! The Elven artifact Silver Scroll Case goes for 100 gold at a vendor, so that's nice. Lara goes out and gets just one item and that is the whole movie, about two hours of adventure to watch. We don't just watch, we experience what it's really like. We go out and travel extensively and dig and dig and dig and dig and dig and dig... We get junk 99% of the time, but occasionally we do come across something special, which is where the plot thickens if it were a movie. Then it's a race to finish the project and see what it can do!
Owlaf has gathered quite a few rares, in fact she found 17 so far (out of 26), and get this, I keep almost all of them on me! Seriously, at odd moments I'll use my Arrival of the Naaru or my Chalice of the Mountain Kings. I'll use my Highborne Soul Mirror or my Wisp Amulet, Bones of Transformation, Arrival of the Naaru, or my Priest and Druid Statue Set. I'll let my fossilized raptor pet come out, or get on my fossil raptor mount and ride it around while in a dungeon. Or get out my Clockwork Gnome and fool people into thinking it's Jeeves. I threw out my Hearthstone and kept my new one, The Inkeepers Daughter, which occasionally has a female dwarf that nobody can click on follow me and giggle, much to my annoyance in which case I bring out the raptor pet again! Pendant of the Scarab Storm is cool, but has a long cooldown so I don't use it as often, and I managed to get an epic ring for myself, which is about the only epic that Ican wear and actually use for the time being (Ring of the Boy Emperor). As for the Queen Azshara's Dressing Gown, the Headdress of the First Shaman, and the Nifflevar Bearded Axe, they're in my bank toon's vault gathering dust. Yesterday I got Blessing of the Old God, which turns me into a giant insect-type creature... I can't wait to sneak up on somebody and use it while I'm near them.
So yeah, most of the items I just named are the rares I have managed to find through the archaeology profession. I must have spent days farming for them, and now I look at Indiana Jones and Lara Croft and think to myself, "Yeah, you guys got it easy! YOU KNOW THAT!!! By the way there's a snake on your shoulder, Indy. :P"
I'm going to keep farming in Outlands or Northrend till I get the Yogg-Saron Puzzle Box and The Last Relic of Argus. Then I might stick to the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor in the hopes of getting an epic staff from either the Dwarves or the Tol'vir. In the meanwhile, if you see me turn into a Wisp, or a Naga, or if you see dwarven swordswomen dancing and clapping, or you hear some windchimes clinking in the breeze, you'll know that I was near... and if it wasn't me, then it was someone else who enjoys going in circles around the world for toys and trinkets.
Meanwhile, I pray every day that they'll come up with larger bags for my inventory, because my bags are full to burst!!!
Owlaf the Druid
Meet Owlaf. She is kind of my avatar. She is, as of March 4th 2011, a level 85 Druid who specializes is Balance with some off-tanking as a Feral Druid on the side. In a sense I tend to dive right into the vast world of Azeroth every time I log on to play World of Warcraft, and I'm more into the lore of the game than PVP. Actually I rarely PVP, if ever.
In the past, Owlaf, nicknamed Owl, has been known to be obsessive compulsive. When patch 3.2.0 was coming out, "Call of the Crusade" http://www.wowpedia.org/Patch_3.2.0, Owl was merely level 20 when she heard about it. At the time I was playing hunters for the most part, and being an idiot while doing so, but then we're all idiots when we first start playing. After finding out that a patch was coming out, I go to read the notes about it. At the time, mount training was a bit on the expensive side, and when I found out that flying would be learned almost right away for entering the Outlands, one of the few places available to fly in at the time, I decided it would be cool to level my Night Elf Druid and be able to fly as a bird.
Just to backtrack a little here, at the time, Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion released for World of Warcraft, was out. The Burning Crusade was it's predecessor, and it introduced a new area called the Outlands, and with it, the ability to fly. Wryverns and Griffons bore their masters into the air, carrying players anywhere they wished to go, making travel much easier than ever before, and at the time it was only available in Outland. The Wrath of the Lich King came out, and a new continent was available to fly in, at least as soon as you purchased the cold weather flying ability so you could soar to all places in Northrend. From the Burning Crusade onward, you could fly in these two places, but not in the Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor, the two original continents of the core game.
At the time, you had to learn flying at level 70, by which time you were no longer playing in Outlands, but instead heading off to Northrend, where you couldn't fly until reaching level 77, and the level cap was 80. So there I was at level 20 on my druid, and I heard that you could get flying at level 60 instead of 70, which meant you can fly WHILE you leveled in Outlands, which made buying the flying training much more worthwhile. So I decided to power-level my druid so I could fly at level 60, and I wanted my druid to be at that level by the time the patch came out so I would be ready for it.
Now you might wonder why I chose to play my druid up instead of my hunters? Well, for one thing I thought it would be cooler if I could turn into my hunter pet and pounce, slash, and bite my foes instead of just standing back and shooting arrows. Plus, the idea of turning into a bird and flying around as one instead of sitting on the back of a half eagle half lion was not quite me. If I had the choice I'd have ridden on the dragons! (clearly at the time I had not heard of Culling of Stratholme.) Another perk about this, specifically with the Night Elves, is the ability to exit combat with Shadowmeld, which renders you invisible to your enemies as long as you stand still, and once the enemies back off, I can shift into flight form, which is instantly cast, and just fly away. If I was a hunter, it would take me 1.5 seconds to climb onto my mount, just long enough for enemies to start attacking! As a Night Elf druid, POOF and I'm gone!
So upon learning about the earlier learning of the riding skill, as well as it's cost reduction, I decided to level up to 60, and I decided to do it without buying any mount training at all. Saving my gold... good idea.
Owl hit level 40... she could have gotten training at level 30 to ride on a mount, but instead she ran around as a cheetah. She went slightly slower than everyone else who rode on horses or wolves, but she didn't care. She ran all out on all fours all the way to 50.... then as level 60 loomed ever closer, I started wondering when is that patch coming out?! So I decided to take a break and level my reputations instead. One person told me not to rep grind until I was level 80, but I ignored that advice. Pretty soon, I was Ambassador to the Alliance, and I was level 62, and the patch still hadn't come out.
63....64....68... at level 68 I was able to train in flight form at last, which meant that I had given up waiting for the patch to come out. Yep. After leveling from 20-68 running around in cheetah form, I finally decided to break down and buy the mounts, riding training, and my flight form.
Two days later, the patch came out. All riding level requirements were reduced, costs for training reduced...
Yeah... If I had only waited a few more days I'd have saved a lot of gold... You betcha I was madder than hell!
If you've ever farmed for something for hours on end, then helped a friend farm it and they get it in one kill whereas you had to kill 1000 things to get yours, of yeah, then you know how I feel from time to time. I guess you can say as a payback for that I decided to go for the 100 mount achievement. Yeah, I can fly simply by shapeshifting into a raven, but sometimes I enjoy riding on the backs of dragons, or griffons, or skeleton raptors, or tigers, or rams, or horses, even a rocket or a mammoth. Yeah, I have 102 mounts as we speak. Current patch is 4.0.6... Owl is about 2 years old now and she's come a very, very long way since power-leveling to become my first level 80 toon. She is now my main. I swear her personality is similar to mine in many ways, and one way is that I tend to show off a bit. So if you see me on the Feathermoon server, drop me a line and ask to kiss Mojo. ;-)
In the past, Owlaf, nicknamed Owl, has been known to be obsessive compulsive. When patch 3.2.0 was coming out, "Call of the Crusade" http://www.wowpedia.org/Patch_3.2.0, Owl was merely level 20 when she heard about it. At the time I was playing hunters for the most part, and being an idiot while doing so, but then we're all idiots when we first start playing. After finding out that a patch was coming out, I go to read the notes about it. At the time, mount training was a bit on the expensive side, and when I found out that flying would be learned almost right away for entering the Outlands, one of the few places available to fly in at the time, I decided it would be cool to level my Night Elf Druid and be able to fly as a bird.
Just to backtrack a little here, at the time, Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion released for World of Warcraft, was out. The Burning Crusade was it's predecessor, and it introduced a new area called the Outlands, and with it, the ability to fly. Wryverns and Griffons bore their masters into the air, carrying players anywhere they wished to go, making travel much easier than ever before, and at the time it was only available in Outland. The Wrath of the Lich King came out, and a new continent was available to fly in, at least as soon as you purchased the cold weather flying ability so you could soar to all places in Northrend. From the Burning Crusade onward, you could fly in these two places, but not in the Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor, the two original continents of the core game.
At the time, you had to learn flying at level 70, by which time you were no longer playing in Outlands, but instead heading off to Northrend, where you couldn't fly until reaching level 77, and the level cap was 80. So there I was at level 20 on my druid, and I heard that you could get flying at level 60 instead of 70, which meant you can fly WHILE you leveled in Outlands, which made buying the flying training much more worthwhile. So I decided to power-level my druid so I could fly at level 60, and I wanted my druid to be at that level by the time the patch came out so I would be ready for it.
Now you might wonder why I chose to play my druid up instead of my hunters? Well, for one thing I thought it would be cooler if I could turn into my hunter pet and pounce, slash, and bite my foes instead of just standing back and shooting arrows. Plus, the idea of turning into a bird and flying around as one instead of sitting on the back of a half eagle half lion was not quite me. If I had the choice I'd have ridden on the dragons! (clearly at the time I had not heard of Culling of Stratholme.) Another perk about this, specifically with the Night Elves, is the ability to exit combat with Shadowmeld, which renders you invisible to your enemies as long as you stand still, and once the enemies back off, I can shift into flight form, which is instantly cast, and just fly away. If I was a hunter, it would take me 1.5 seconds to climb onto my mount, just long enough for enemies to start attacking! As a Night Elf druid, POOF and I'm gone!
So upon learning about the earlier learning of the riding skill, as well as it's cost reduction, I decided to level up to 60, and I decided to do it without buying any mount training at all. Saving my gold... good idea.
Owl hit level 40... she could have gotten training at level 30 to ride on a mount, but instead she ran around as a cheetah. She went slightly slower than everyone else who rode on horses or wolves, but she didn't care. She ran all out on all fours all the way to 50.... then as level 60 loomed ever closer, I started wondering when is that patch coming out?! So I decided to take a break and level my reputations instead. One person told me not to rep grind until I was level 80, but I ignored that advice. Pretty soon, I was Ambassador to the Alliance, and I was level 62, and the patch still hadn't come out.
63....64....68... at level 68 I was able to train in flight form at last, which meant that I had given up waiting for the patch to come out. Yep. After leveling from 20-68 running around in cheetah form, I finally decided to break down and buy the mounts, riding training, and my flight form.
Two days later, the patch came out. All riding level requirements were reduced, costs for training reduced...
Yeah... If I had only waited a few more days I'd have saved a lot of gold... You betcha I was madder than hell!
If you've ever farmed for something for hours on end, then helped a friend farm it and they get it in one kill whereas you had to kill 1000 things to get yours, of yeah, then you know how I feel from time to time. I guess you can say as a payback for that I decided to go for the 100 mount achievement. Yeah, I can fly simply by shapeshifting into a raven, but sometimes I enjoy riding on the backs of dragons, or griffons, or skeleton raptors, or tigers, or rams, or horses, even a rocket or a mammoth. Yeah, I have 102 mounts as we speak. Current patch is 4.0.6... Owl is about 2 years old now and she's come a very, very long way since power-leveling to become my first level 80 toon. She is now my main. I swear her personality is similar to mine in many ways, and one way is that I tend to show off a bit. So if you see me on the Feathermoon server, drop me a line and ask to kiss Mojo. ;-)
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