Shy at WoW

Woah, pretty!

2012-01-20T10:33:00.000+01:00

This is absolutely gorgeous...has of course nothing to do with the fact that I play a priest (cough)

Newly added Fanart, submitted by Rui Zhang (linxz)

Get rid of the gear check

2012-01-17T20:36:00.002+01:00

I was reading a topic in the forums (oh my god!) yes, I was bored, so what!?

This topic was all about how this dude got vote kicked in the most brutal way, and how he thought that vote kick should be removed.

His main reasoning was that people should not be allowed to vote kick for under performing players.

I disagree...well of course. Way too many people who are disgustingly rude in LFR, and who come in just to spoil the fun for others.

So here's my idea to make this better.

Get rid of the item level check, and put in a performance check instead.

Based on performance levels set by Blizzard you earn the right to loot. And if your performance was bad you don't get loot-locked to the boss and get to try again later. (this would also work perfectly for DCed players btw)

LFR is meant to learn the fights, but a lot of these people aren't learning or willing to learn. They come in and ride along for the loot. That should be finished. Give them second chances, but don't give them the reward until they've earned it.

Better yet, they have to prove through certain content that they can handle the raid. Have them go into a solo dungeon (NPCs for the rest of the group) and if they do not make it until the end because they screwed up too heavily they are not allowed to queue for LFR.

They should learn, not get kicked without reasoning, explanation, or whatever. These people can be valuable raiders for your core raid later on. That is...if they're willing to put the time in.

Right now they're walking off with loot that was earned for them by others who do know what to do.

Just a random thought...

Pretty Pictures

2012-01-10T08:49:00.001+01:00

I was told that I should share more often the pics I find online.

Well here you go. A pretty picture from a priest.

I got it from the site http://bestwowspecs.com which is a horribad site and is infested with commercials and probably all sorts of stuff you don't want to know about, but it did have some pretty pictures.

I liked the one for the rogue a lot as well :)

2012-01-05T15:49:00.001+01:00

Template is a work in process still, but much better than the standard notebook!

War of the Ancients - Titans Tribute Teaser

2012-01-05T12:04:00.000+01:00

Funny...we were talking about a scenario like this on vent the other day. But then in game...wonder what that would bring. Looking forward to the full film.

Working on getting a new template still btw...but I've been a bit lazy. Watching other people's work instead of creating stuff myself. Add to that the raidfinder and well..you get nothing. Enjoy the video at least :)

Argel template broken!

2011-12-23T13:21:00.000+01:00

So I just noticed that for some reason my template got broken. I'm working on fixing it in some way, apologies in the mean time >_<

EDIT: Of course there was no way that I could find the old template back so ....well, new template. It'll have to do.

Kick more noob!

2011-10-28T10:57:00.001+02:00

Frustration on.

I just came out of a dungeon that I stepped into on my own as a tank, so I would not have to wait for a queue and hey they bag would be nice too.

But this group suuuuuucked. First healer DCed, second left in the middle of the fight, and the third healer left when we finally reached the last boss.

Granted, the dps was shite, and on top of that they blamed the healer for getting killed by the spirits, but I wanted my bag. But for one small moment I didn't think and figured that I would invite a guildie to help this group finish the instance.

Never thought about the fact that Blizzard policy is to punish for the fact that you invite a friend. No bag.

I think there is something seriously wrong with a system that rewards for kicking players, and punishes the fact that you find a friend to finish what was a trialing run already anyways.

You hear me Blizz? Wrong...it is wrong to motivate people to skip their guildies in favour of a bag. It shouldn't matter how many pug slots there are in the group, if there is at least 1 pug slot that bag should be rewarded.

And the fact that my guildie who stepped in to help finish didn't even get the valor points because for him it wasn't random is completely dumb too. Yeah, right, better off doing this on your own and ignore friends and guildies, because that is what Blizzard rewards.

Gaaaah....dumbdumbdumb

Kay, frustration out.

All the Ninja Raiders

2011-10-10T12:20:00.002+02:00

Kay, so first watch this:

Well, listen is more like it...the video is not much special. I love this one, very catchy song...QQ QQ QQ QQ...

Now watch the one below the cut, and imagine the dude in hunter gear...

Warning, this image will burn itself into your retina and every time you hear the song you will see....oh well...on your own risk!

Wrought

2011-09-30T16:19:00.001+02:00

I was working on the most boring task evah at work so to keep myself happy I was playing youtube videos and wow machinima.

Loved this one, figured I would share :)

Healing is

2011-09-22T12:17:00.000+02:00

I haven't written much for a while now. Part of that is because I didn't feel much like writing and summer was here, but part is also because I felt that I just didn't have anything much to say.

Instead I just waited, cause there were promises out there that once the gear would improve, the mana situation would improve and well..healing would be more fun again.

It hasn't, and I've been trying to find out why that is..and I think I may have figured it out...
Back in school I was one of those students who learned though understanding a situation or a subject. The world is quite a logical place most of the time (luckily), and by knowing the basics of what I was getting myself into I generally managed to improvise myself through tests and exams.

I was also one of those people who got into trouble when I would have to sit down and actually learn stuff by heart. Not because I couldn't do that, but because I had, and still have, a great dislike for it. I speak 4 languages, but I learned those in practice by speaking them, not by sitting down and learning lists of words by heart.

World of Warcraft healing has gone from logical and reactive thinking to learning things by heart.

Where in ICC I could go into a fight knowing only the bare basics and improvising the rest, trusting on my knowledge of the priest and knowing that I knew how to apply my spells to any situation that would come up. In Cata you have to know beforehand what is happening. And this for the entire fight.

So while I can still go in and learn the fight while doing, I can no longer fully succeed while doing so. And I don't like this learning things by heart. To be fully successful I need to know when to use my specials, when to fall back on less mana intensive heals, when I catch a break to run my hymn of hope, etc. I need to know from beginning to end how the fight goes, and I need to learn it by heart.

So while I was thinking it would be the mana issues that would bug me the most, it really is the fact that I'm still a slug when it comes to reactivity. I still feel like the slowest role possible.

Funny enough they tried to get 'whack a mole' (though I never thought it was that) out of the game for healers, but seem to think it's a good thing for dps and tanks. Retribution is more whack a mole than healing has ever been. And I've been reading about tanks needing more buttons to press so they have stuff to do. Meanwhile my priest still feels like a beached whale, while I try to pre-actively think about everything cause otherwise my slowpoke spells won't arrive in time.

The other part that bugs me enormously is that I am no longer the savior. I cannot save people any longer, when they set their feet down wrong during a fight, they die. No more buying them time by healing them more. No, stand in the wrong spot and you die, death, game over. I have no influence over that, except for the rare time I can get a guardian spirit off.

So not only has the game gone from reacting to having to know beforehand, you also have to know 95% of the time. No leniency for human error, no crap lets not do that again, no learning on the run. Nope, people making mistakes generally means start over from the beginning. And it's harsher for 10s than for 25s, since losing a person has a much larger impact there.

I guess I can just count myself lucky that my school wasn't this strict or I would still be there trying to pass my exams.

What's disheartening to me is that I read everywhere that people are happy with the changes, and the designers themselves say that this new healing model is generally considered a success.

I feel like a sluggish beached whale, that should have a memory like an elephant, and it's considered successful...huh. Guess I have to live with being the minority, or find another role to enjoy.

The verdict on that one is still in the air...

In the meantime I'll have to look into writing on other topics I guess, maybe something on raiding next time.

Innervate nerfed for feral and balance due to healer mana

2011-06-17T12:23:00.000+02:00

"We cut back on the power of Innervates from Feral and Balance druids because we felt they were contributing to too much healer mana."

The above was quoted directly from Ghostcrawler himself as he explains why certain balancing changes are being made in the upcoming Firelands patch.

It's stuff like this that makes me wonder if Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street has ever attempted to heal 10man heroics...
Funny enough I was talking to the moonkin/resto druid for my own 10man the other day about mana restoration. Innervate from a moonkin gives 20% of the moonkin's mana pool when cast on someone else.

This moonkin is not at all badly geared, full 359, so where she should be for 10man heroics. However, the mana I was getting from her innervate totals about 30K mana. On my 150K mana pool this is not at all enormous, and if she plans it well she can perhaps use it twice during a fight on me.

The fact that healers are scrambling so much for mana in 10man heroics that they feel like they absolutely need the boomkin innervate to survive the fight tells me not that the innervate contributes too much to the healer's mana. It tells me that the mana situation of healers is so dire that the choice has to be made to let a dps or a healer run oom.

If the healer could take care of themselves don't the designer's feel that they would?

So they nerve emergency options..but I haven't seen buffs to compensate for this. So in the end it just became another tiny step more difficult to heal.

Funny enough I was talking with this same person about the difference between 10s and 25s and she indicated that the 25s she had healed in were mostly composed of 'lalala' healing. 2 of the 7 healers died and that was the point she felt she actually had to start healing somewhat more properly, yet still not to the level of healing 10man heroics.

And then I see blue messages like this one and I get this small knot in my stomach that says: 'Oh my god, I hope they also kept 10man heroics in mind when they made this change...'

Thank you, Oestrus!

2011-04-17T17:22:00.000+02:00

I wanted to say thanks to Oestrus. He has checked my priest spec, glyphs, logs, etc. And while I haven't followed all of the pointers, his advice did make me take a long hard look at my spec and glyphs and take a second look at choices that I had made at some points.

Our raid finally got the Nef kill, after 130 or so wipes and it took a lot of adjusting and a lot of fiddling with things. I'm still hoping for upgrades, but hey...soon.

Anyways, thanks again Oestrus :)

Priest Frustration

2011-04-10T08:33:00.000+02:00

So I just stepped out of my own raid purely out of frustration with my class. We had someone sitting and that person needed stuff from the next boss anyways so it wasn't the worst move, but when I feel like screaming at the fact that my class is so frustrating...

We were working on heroic Halfus and worked with 3 tanks, 3 healers. Now you need to know that we normally 2 heal just about everything, but for heroic Halfus that wasn't an option of course. So our druid moonkin/heals switched into her resto offspec....and outhealed me. And why? Because I am out of mana.

So I check my overhealing, I had the least overhealing of all 3 healers. I'm pretty damn sure I press the right buttons, I'm geared out for regen already because I generally have mana issues, but this...I just felt so powerless.

When I check logs I have less active time, less healing, and all because I cannot spare the mana to keep healing like other classes can seem to. I've gone over my spec, gone over my glyphs, my spell usage...and now I am lost on what to do better. On what to improve.

I am at a loss on where to squeeze my character for more mana, and while I could slide my stats somewhat towards throughput it won't help my healing much.

To be frank, it's not the first time that my priest frustrates me this badly. I've actually been at the point where I had announced that I would quit healing completely. Good thing I didn't cause then we would've had only one main spec healer in the raid...but blergh.

We've been at Nef for weeks now, and when I get into a mood like this it completely feels as if I'm the one holding back the raid from progressing. My raid is good about not taking damage when they can avoid it, and while I know I'm good, I'm lacking somewhere. I just wish I could put my finger it.

I must have missed something, somewhere, but I don't know where to look anymore.

Any and all help welcome btw...

Wazzup?

2011-03-02T16:04:00.000+01:00

So, it's been a while again since I posted. I think it may have to do with the fact that I'm getting busier in real life again, and bored with the game. Yes, there, I said it. I'm a bit bored with the game.

I'm currently working on getting my pallie leveled, but it's already the 4th character that I run through the same content within 3 months time. I have started looking at other hobbies a bit as well, bit less gaming, but more creativity perhaps?

I used to do a lot of written RP and I admit it, I miss it. So I went over to the community that I used to post a lot at and started poking for a wherewolf game. If you have no idea what a wherewolf game is, go here. And hey, maybe you might like the idea and sign up for one too.

In other news, my guild forums seem to explode with Rift posts lately, maybe I should have a closer look at it. The word on the street is that it is much like WoW Vanilla though and I'm not sure if I'm up for that. I mean I may be bored with Cata, but to go back to Vanilla...hrm.

Anyways, I will be updating the site with some easter stuff soonish, valentine was fun, but it will be back next year. And with that...laters!

Happy Valentine's Day!

2011-02-14T15:29:00.000+01:00

This morning there was a gorgeous bouquet of red flowers on my table, and underneath it stood a little package. Inside it I found a new pandora bead. This one:

It's my second charm where part of the money paid for them goes to a good cause. This one is for the fund of Asthma, and the previous one Thror got me went to the association that trains guide dogs for blind people.

So yes, my valentine's day started well. How about yours?

Everybody is Responsible

2011-02-12T17:41:00.000+01:00

Heroics are getting easier and last week I've already had two dps in the group who were doing stupid stuff. Standing in just about everything, or absent-mindedly breaking CC. When asked I got the replies that they were not paying attention, or watching television.

And you know what?

THOSE PEOPLE ARE SELFISH IDIOTS!

If everybody does their job the heroic is fun for everyone in there. Stuff is CCed in our group, not because I cannot heal through it, but because it makes everything go a lot smoother. I don't have to drink as often, and I don't have to stress out over healing. The healer, the tank, the dps all have a much more relaxed time if everybody carries their weight and simply does their job.

If one person starts slacking off, the healer has to pull more tricks and has to drink more often. The tank has to be a lot more vigilant on where threat lies, and the dps themselves risk to get a close-up of the floor.

And you know what?

If you end up in my group and you start screwing up because you're not paying attention, or because you're watching television, or doing other stuff you should not be doing....expect to be kicked. I generally bring a guild tank and a guild dps so we're with three of us, and you will get kicked.

Don't be that idiot and you'll probably have the smoothest run you've had all week, with chain pulls, at least 1 dps above 16K and a healer and tank who have now been working together for almost 4 years.

Goodbye Righteous Orbs

2011-02-07T15:29:00.000+01:00

I've been horribly behind in my reader (even though I don't even read that many blogs anymore), but when I finally caught up yesterday I read that Tam and Chas from Righteous Orbs have decided to stop blogging.

I read it yesterday, and yesterday it made me sad. I read it again with more attention today, and it still makes me sad. I think Righteous Orbs was a gem amongst the wow blogs. And not even because what was written there was always stuff I agreed with, but simply because I really, really enjoyed reading it. I've followed this blog since it Tam was still standing in the back with his sissy robes, and I will miss it, but I understand and respect the decision. Good luck Tam and Chas!

In the words of Bilbo Baggins (or close at least) "And they lived happily ever after... to the end of their days."

Honeymoon? Oy, shouldn't I at least get some time to think?!

2011-01-21T17:42:00.000+01:00

I was browsing through the blogs that I follow, and Larissa wrote a post about how she felt that the blogging community is experiencing a wave of people burning down the Cataclysm expansion. I read the entire article, and I think I caught it right after posting since there were no comments yet.

I did start writing a comment and then realized it had become so long that it would fit better in a post of my own. So here goes.

My thoughts on Cata so far.

I have levelled a nightelf mage to 62. So yes, I have gone through the new levelling process, of course not entirely since there are several zones that I didn't do, but I think it gave a good idea about the current style.

I thought it was a lot of fun, the flow felt nice, but it was definitely a solo experience. No groups needed, no dungeons needed. And even if you do dungeons...well who needs a tank. Or a healer for that matter, just blast your way through them, or at least most of them.

I have levelled two characters to 85, and am working on my hunter who has just dinged 83. On my main, priest, I did all the 80-85 quests that I could find even.

Again, a lot of fun, great story lines, but very much a solo experience. Some quests do eventually lead to dungeons, but there is no absolute need to do them and you can level easily without them. I did not at all get the boardwalk feeling as much as some have described, I mainly enjoyed how I was actually fully pulled into the story for a change.

My negative is that I would indeed like to see some group quests, and would actually love the difficulty tuned up a tiny bit for some special quests. Mind you, in general I thought it felt well tuned.

On my main I have run every Cata dungeon on heroic mode, and have probably run all of them at least five times. I like them. I keep wishing for scaling difficulty, because my gear is already making them much easier. B

My negative here is that I absolutely hated having to spend 2-3 hours in a dungeon. No, I don't spend that time there anymore now, but it's quite taxing to do so, and I did not experience that as a lot of fun especially.

And oh...I am still affraid of pugs, but if you go in a guild group things are a lot of fun.

We have also started raiding again. We have killed 4 bosses and I am LOVING it! I do find the healing quite frustrating at times, but once I got my head around the whole thing of the healer not being the saviour anymore, but just doing their job, it did get better.

The one thing I feel I cannot really comment on is PVP. I tried a BG once to see if I could learn more about healing, and discovered that it simply sucks as a healer since you get chopped down faster than you can get a heal off almost >_<

The changes to my class? I still hate mana management. I wish they would come up with a way to make healing more challenging without mana management. I just really don't like that I either have to chose not to heal, or well...I cannot heal at all. Which is still what I think that mana management basically comes down to.

I am very much looking forward to trying out Disc once the next patch goes live, and seeing if my favourite spec is a valid raiding spec again, since currently holy just crushes disc in raids. And while I have come to like my circle of shiny healing numbers, I still muscle memory towards my penance button.

Overall? I think that the raiding is brilliant, but solo content is lacking sorely at 85. My priest has nothing left to do but dailies (I hate dailies) and the daily obligatory random heroic for valor points. Sure, I can go fishing for guild achievement or farming herbs for raid flasks. Not really too exciting.

So...I level alts. I do hope that more will come soon though, since I am on my third alt and lets face it...80 to 85 just doesn't take that long!

Must frustrating thing in the game at the moment: Archaeology having upgrades pre-raid. Should never have been put in like this, I see various guildies digging themselves to boredom and annoyance for hours on end because there are no other ways to get upgrades for them except for raiding.

Most amusing thing in the game right now: The economy. I have been seeing glyphs go from 100G one day to 10S the next. Tradeskill gear goes for gigantic amounts, and I am just in awe how much gold there is amongst players. What does worry me a little is that gold sellers have become increasingly active since stuff is hard to get, so they probably get more business again. (more gold sellers = more hackers = more disappointed people)

End verdict? So far I still like Wrath better than I do Cata, but my 10man did really, really well in that expansion..so maybe I'm a bit biased ;)

Quick Guide to Halfus Wyrmbreaker

2011-01-18T17:43:00.000+01:00

We've been raiding a few weeks again already, and I have to say. It's not going too bad! My 10man has so far killed Halfus, Valiona and Theralion, Magmaw, and Omnotron....and we have made a couple of decent attempts at Ascendant Council; which I am confident we will kill upcoming weekend.

So I figured that I would share some tactics.

However, since there is quite some guides out there already I figured I would take a different approach. This will be more of a reminder guide, and a quick overview. Not so much a full-blown step by step fight guide.

Halfus Wyrmbreaker 10man

Composition: 2 tanks, 3 healers, 5 dps (yes, I know some say it can be done with 2 healers, but you shouldn't need 6 dps so why risk it?)

Halfus has 5 dragon type pets, and the proto behemoth. He will chose 3 each week to assist him, and the behemoth is always active.

Drakes in order of importance to free and kill:

Storm Rider – Shadownova on Halfus. Releasing the Storm Rider reduces the cast time of Shadow Nova and makes it possible to interrupt it.

Whelps – Killing the whelps significantly reduces Halfus’ damage and increases his damage taken.

Nether Scion – Halfus gains 100% attack speed when this drake is active. Releasing the Nether Scion will reduce Halfus’ attack speed, hit chance, and damage by 25%.

Time Warden – When released it roots player periodically, including the fireballs from Halfus’ protodrake. Causes fireballs to move much more slowly.

Slate Dragon – When Slate is active Halfus will put a mortal strike debuff on your tank reducing healing taken by 5% each time he hits a target. This ability stacks. When Slate is released it stuns Halfus periodically for 12 seconds.

Unless you have the top 3 to deal with you can free the most important two from this list and then ignore the third while you kill Halfus. If you do have Storm Rider, Whelps and Nether you will have to free all three.

At 30% he will start doing a pulse that will stun the entire raid. Each pullse will come ticks of 3. Make sure to interrupt shadownova still if Storm Rider was one of your dragons.

Happy Year Exchange!

2010-12-31T12:55:00.000+01:00

I hope everybody will enter 2011 in the best possibe way, and may the new year be good to you all!

Also, if you do intend to set off some fireworks....

"If it goes wrong, you can always try with your other hand next year!"

Please be careful with yourself and those around you (and send a thought to all those poor pets)!

Wowzers - statcounter through the roof!

2010-12-30T08:43:00.000+01:00

With the post about where you can find the dungeon locations in Cataclysm my blog took a quantum leap in number of readers. In just a few days I had 180.000 people come to my blog to check out where the dungeon entrances were, and currently my little blog has had a total of 307.770 views (yes I am looking at the stats page now, so much fun those things).

With another post about the faction vendors in Cata I managed to keep some people interested and even got a link mention at WoWinsider in the priest column (thanks Dawn!). So instead of having about 300 visitors per day I now seem to have about 4000 visitors per day.

I feel like I have to adjust my writing to this somehow and have to perform to a higher standard. Then again this should still be my little corner and I should just write what I feel like writing since that's the stuff that will probably come out best. Over time I have gone from trying to post on a schedule, to posting when I actually feel like I have something to say. For me this works, so I think I'll just keep that going.

I would like to thank all the people who visited my little corner in the blogosphere and a special thanks to those who left comments. It is great to see the numbers, it is even greater to read the appreciation that people have for what I've been doing.

Tthe information is out there, somewhere

I am currently working on a guide to the Volcanic Stone Drake (the one you get for all the heroic achievements), and I hope to be able to post something about that soon.

So while I got no mentions on some of the high end blogs like A High Latency Life did (grats River!), I do seem to have taken a little leap into acknowledgement and boy does it feel good.

And oh...to the commenter who asked whether I was male or female...wouldn't it just be fun if I let you all guess for a little bit longer?

Mounts in Cataclysm

2010-12-28T15:22:00.001+01:00

If you're a mount collector like I am, you'll be all excited about the new mounts that can be gotten in Cata. I've been researching on how to get all these mounts and I figured I would put it all neatly together so that whoever's looking won't have to do the research again.

Abyssal Seahorse
The easiest to get new mount. This mount is given to you fairly at the start of the Vashj'ir quests to move around easier through the sea. I think it's actually quite a pretty mount, though the movement (it moves its bum from left to right) is a bit odd.

This mount is given to you as a reward for the quest The Abyssal Ride.

Camels

The Tan and Brown camels are purchasable once you reach exalted Ramkahen faction.

The grey camel is different.

From the comments on wowhead:

Scattered around Uldum are small click-able camel statues called "Mysterious Camel Figurine". If you click on one you will get teleported to the Steam Pools, which, if you havent gone exploring yet, are located on a plateau in the south eastern part of Feralas. Once you swim out of the water you will see lots of docile, but kill-able (wont fight back) camels that don't drop anything. You will also see Dormus.

You will get a debuff that is called "Dormus rage" which says bad things will happen in 20 mins if you don't kill Dormus.

Hes got about 250khp and was super super easy to kill as a heroic geared 85 MM hunter. I kept heals rolling on my pet but i never saw my pets hp move. Just move out of the things he spits at you.

Dormus has a chance to drop the Reins of the Grey Riding Camel, but as of this post the drop rate is unclear.

As soon as I find one of these Mysterious Camel Figurines I will try to make a screenshot and update this post with it.

Dark Phoenix

This mount is rewarded to the guild for Guild Glory of the Cataclysm Raider. which requires that your guild kills all the raid bosses currently in the game. It will be a while before we see any of these mounts around, unless you're on the same server as guilds like Paragon of course.

To get guild credits for a raid or dungeon at least 80% of your group/raid has to be from the same guild. So 4/5 - 8/10 - 20/25.

Drake of the South Wind

This mount is an extremely rare drop from Al'Akir. Raid boss in Throne of the Tides raid.

Drake of the North Wind

This drops from Altarius, Dragonkin boss in Vortex Pinnacle. The droprate is comparable to the other rare mounts, like rivendare's charger.

Drake of the East Wind

This drake is a reward for Glory of the Cataclysm Raider. Unlike for the Dark Phoenix, these achievements do not have to be completed while in a guild group.

Drake of the West Wind

This drake can be gotten from the Tol Barad dailies, for 150 Commendations. Tol Barad is like a mix between Wintergrasp and the Argent Tournament.

Fossilized Raptor

This mount can be found with Archaeology. An extremely rare find, but rather funky to look at.

Goblin Trike & Goblin Turbo-Trike

Gobline mounts and unfortunately only available to horde, but I guess they would give an arm and a leg to have a class with Running Wild.

Available in a slow and a superspeed version like all factions mounts, and in a variety of colours.

Golden King & Kor'Kron Annihilator

These are the mounts that are rewarded to your guild as a reward to reaching guild level 25. Your guild gains levels through questing, dungeons, raiding, pvp....basically through playing the game.

Upon reaching level 25 these mounts will become available at the guild reward vendor (or through the guild page). The mount costs 1500 gold.

When riding these mounts the banner will show your guild tabard design.

Mottled Drake

This drake can be gotten through a loot card. Can also be traded in game, aaaand I will likely never see it.

It is however tradeable in game so you might be able to find it for auction if, like me, you don't do trading cards.

If you do, good luck and I hope you find it!

Phosphorescent Stone Drake

I've seen this one fly around in Stormwind already and it's a fairly pretty drake.

This drake is a drop of the rare spawn Aeonaxx in Deepholm. Not as ridiculously rare as the Timelost, but this will probably be fairly heavily farmed.

It is adviced to bring at least a good 5man group to bring down this boss.

Sandstone Drake

The one I am currently working on. This is not just a mount, this will transform your character into the mount, and someone else can mount you. It can be gotten through alchemy but it requires quite a bit of effort.

- 11K worth of vendor items which can only be gotten if you have exalted Ramkahen
- A total of 24 flasks of 3 different types
- 12 truegold bars

And then of course you need 525 alchemy and archaeology above 450, since the recipe itself can only be found in Canopic Jar's which are with Tol'Vir artefacts. Unfortunately the Jars can also contain mummified brains (my first one did) so when you do finally manage to get this drake made you may congratulate yourself on the hard work done.

Afterwards the vial of the sands is sellable on the AH, so if you're not an alchemist you can still get this mount. Expect to pay quite a lot though, on my server they currently go for 80K.

Spectral Steed & Spectral Wolf

These mounts can be gotten through the Tol Barad dailies. The Alliance gets to ride the horse, and the horde the wolf.

The mounts cost 165 Tol Barad Commendations and require exalted reputation with Baradin Wardens or Hellscream's Reach.

Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank

I think this is the best looking bug mount so far, but you do have to work hard for it....or be incredibly lucky.

This mount can be gotten through archaeology from Tol'Vir artefacts. Tol'Vir artefacts come in one clump with Kalimdor digsites and I've read reports about having dug up 300 or more common artefacts before they got this one.

Once you do have this mount it is definitely worth showing off though!

Vitreous Stone Drake

One of the prettier stone drakes I think. It's a rare drop of Slabhide in Stonecore dungeon.

Volcanic Stone Drake

This mount is rewarded when you complete the Glory of the Cataclysm Hero achievement.

I have plans to do a full guide to get this drake, like I did for the red proto drake in Wrath. But it's a long achievement and the list is quite a bit longer than it was in Wrath. I've seen them around already, and I can say they look gorgeous. Keep an eye out for the full guide, hopefully coming soon.

Paladin Mounts

Lastly I wanted to point out that the Dranei and the Tauren have gotten their own pally mounts now. The Dranei get a golden elekk and the tauren a golden kodo...I do wonder when the golden rams for dwarves will come though.

Holy Word Macro into Clique

2010-12-25T11:28:00.000+01:00

I've been having the hardest time evah to get the holy words to work properly with clique. Either it tells me that the spell is not learned, or it will only heal my actualy target, and not on mouseover.

I googled and found a blog I had never been to before.

Murloc Parliament.

This post made my day, finally I can actually use clique properly with this spell.

So first off a big THANK YOU to Zelmaru of Murloc Parliament, and second an explanation of how to make it work with clique.

Go to your spellbook.
Click on the clique tab
Go to the 'Bind Other' button at the bottom
Chose 'Run custom macro' from the menu
Copy/Paste the following into the macro box:
/tar [@mouseover,exists]
/click ActionButton4 LeftButton
/targetlasttarget
Set it to a keybind with the 'Set Binding' button like you normally do in clique
Make sure that the original spell 'Holy Word: Chastise' is on your action bars at the button that you specified in the macro (in my example I have it on button 4 of the main action bar)
Enjoy!

Once again, thank you soooo much Zelmaru, this has been an annoyance for a while now, and I cannot get my head around too many keybinds, hence using clique and keybinds, but this one was just bugging the hell out of me.

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-25T10:28:00.000+01:00

Hyperbole and a Half

2010-12-23T12:30:00.004+01:00

There's a new one, go here!