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Cataclysm…Late Edition
Jaedia of Jaedia’s Menagerie had the BA:ST for last week: What are your initial thoughts about the Cataclysm expansion? It’s a topic you can take anywhere you’d like. What’s your favourite new zone? What do you think of the instances? Any screenshots you’d like to share? Anything you’re excited to get started on? So, for those that don’t know, I’ve had some trouble getting into the game to play the past few weeks. The Elephant and I had our Collector’s Editions sent to my parent’s house since we’d be on vacation there when Cataclysm released. My computer crashed before we left, so I got a new laptop while we were…
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Blighter’s Dream
This week, Zahia from One More Alt posed the BA Shared Topic over at the forums: If you were a developer being asked to design a boss for Cataclysm, what boss would you create? Would it be a vicious warrior, a crazy shaman, a cheating rogue, an overpowered mage, or a mix of all of these? What would his more letal skill be? What type of lair would he have? Obviously I’m a tad behind on getting to this topic, but my computer crashed. Anyway! The topic at hand! I’ve always been interested in Druids (and Dragons, but that’s another story for another day). I find the Warcraft lore for Druids…
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Cataclysm: Five Man Entrances
I’m working on the BA:ST, I swear. It’s just going to be late, because my last (and most important) final is Monday. But! In the meantime, I thought I’d share a video that’s going to become very important come Tuesday. In Cataclysm, if you don’t know where the dungeon entrance is (read: have discovered it with the whole “Discovered [Dungeon Name] Entrance.“), you can’t queue for it. I’ve been a fan of Totalbiscuit only for a short time, but he has some great information, and his podcast is one of my favorites. Well, in Beta, he made a pretty nifty video about how to get to your dungeon entrances. So…
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Update II: Pre-Cata Plans
Or, “What we got done before The Shattering changed Achievements” Just a quick little check off list to the Elephant’s and my original list, and first update on the list. What We Checked Off: Both weapon achievements: Knuckle Sandwhich and Four Types. They’re now feats of strength. All of the critter achievements. There’s now a new one… which I am diligently making a list for. Maybe I’ll even post the list when I’m done with it. The book achievement. Though, with the little exploration we’ve done, it looks like most books are generally in the same vicinity as they were before the Shattering. Loremaster of both Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor.…
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Shade of the Elm, the Kingslayers
About twenty wipes over three hours. That’s what Saturday night looked like. Aggravating for some (lots of wiping always is), and exciting for others. We almost had him. The valks just kept killing us. We called it a night at our normal time. We started early on Sunday, in case we were going to have a repeat of Saturday. All of us stoked. Somehow knowing it was going to be the night. And it was the night! After about six months of Shade of the Elm grinding out ICC, we down Arthas for the first time. Vent was a riot. It was exhilarating. The title finally felt official, even though the…
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Pretty Much Finished
It’s been a busy weekend with my Blogs, updating layouts, getting posts set up for my other one, and trying to (finally) finish the layout for this so that I can submit it to the Chopping Block over at BA. Eep! The damn peons fell asleep so I have to do all of this on my own. The last bit on my list is as follows: Make a Twitter for the Blog Link the Twitter, hah Shots of my toons Contact page Blogroll! Figure out how the heck to put in that little blogger share bar link thingie (help is much appreciated!) I figured it out, thanks to a post over…
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Chestnut the Kingslayer
I still can’t wrap my head around it. Nope, I can’t. After being a hardcore raider and finally getting burnt out, and then moving to a server to just enjoy the game and all its aspects (read: Achievements!!!!), I never thought I’d get it. Nope. Not me. Sure, I’ve been raid leading an ICC10 Saturday/Sunday with the guild, and the weekly, and some older stuff like AQ40, and helping to heal the second ICC10 Tuesday/Thursday group for the guild… but I never thought I’d get it. We’ve seen Arthas as a guild. Yup, casual little ol’ Shade of the Elm has gotten their paws on Arthas. We just had two…
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Guild Raids!
Our guild has been on a roll as of late with Wrath raiding achievements. (We’re not just all about older content, though it’s our current focus with ICC10 and attempts at RS10…because it’s all changing and going away so soon!!) We hit up Naxx a few times the past two months to try to burn out a lot of those achievements. And we did. We’ve gotten guildies any and all of the following (on 10 man of course): Momma Said Knock You Out, Arachnophobia, Spore Loser, Make Quick Werk of Him, Just Can’t Get Enough, and all of the achievements for the various quarters. We’ve even downed Sapph (with a…
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WTB [Battered Hilt]
I’ve been lusting after the Battered Hilt on my main. Literally searching the auction house for great deals for hours at a time. I’d done the research. The best weapon I could get (sans Battered Hilt) up through the first six bosses of ICC10? The polearm in Heroic Halls of Reflection. I got it. I did. I ground that thing out like there was no tomorrow. And then it just got stagnant. There’s no upgrades that drop, and it was one of the bigger upgrades I needed. I was stuck. So I started lusting after the Battered Hilt. Besides the fact that it’s such an awesome quest line and the…
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Update: Pre-Cata Plans
Last time I went on and on (almost ad-nauseam) about what the Elephant and I wanted to complete before Cataclysm rolls around. As it draws closer, we’ve been able to check off some of the items on our list so far. Glory of the HeroWe wanted to grab our Red Proto-Drakes before Blizzard (possibly) took away the drake from the achievements. They’ve taken away some of the raiding drakes, so we got worried–especially with no word on whether the drake is going away or not. So we wanted to be safe rather than sorry. And, I am proud to say, we earned that sucker! The last one we needed was…
