• Achievements,  Goals,  WoW

    Plans Pre-Cataclysm

    The Elephant and I have been running older raids with the guild to work toward some achievements. Most recently, we finished up Blackwing Lair (and before that, Molten Core). Tomorrow, we’re doing Karazhan. Last night, while working on the quest line to get the Karazhan key (so we can get our guild inside) we got tons of achievements, including: The Arcatraz, The Botanica, The Mechanar, The Steamvault, and Shadow Labyrinth (along with grinding out the related reps for our various reputation achievements). That got us thinking. What changes are coming in Cataclysm? What achievements do we need/want to finish before then? Well, we came up with a list! Master of…

  • Achievements,  Mounts,  WoW

    Ahhh, what fun!

    The Elephant and I have been in a total WoW kick. Grinding through to 80 as fast as our little druid behinds can carry us, and grabbing achievement after achievement on the way. So far, we’ve finished all the quests in Howling Fjord, are almost done with Dragonblight, and have hit so many dungeons, we’ve blues coming out our ears. The most fun, however, were two things in particular. And well, since a picture is worth a thousand words, I have a few of them! Yep, much before level 80, too. We were still 73 at the time. Come to think of it, we got it almost a week ago.…

  • WoW

    Macro Heaven

    I’m one of those WoW players that totally forgets about trinkets and other on-use abilities (e.g.: Bloodfury). After finally thinking about how I wanted to boost my Shaman’s DPS (at level 69…), I figured it out: bind the trinkets to spells I use all the time! I know, I know. “Why didn’t you think of this before?! DUH!” Moving along. I’ve been browsing Big Bear Butt for tanking macros for my new Druid, and found a very simple one over at his specs and rotations page that I’ve been using for binding my Barkskin to my Swipe for whenever it’s up. Anyway. I decided to modify the macro for the…