Thrill of the Hunt

LFG!.. LFG!!!!

2010-03-22T13:35:00.001-04:00

Let me first start with this - "LFG tool is @#$%ing awesome!"...." WTF? this LFG tool is a piece of sh!t!!"..

Ok now that those are out of the way, it's time for me to rant and rave about this tool.

Pros:

queue into a group from where you are!
earn badges just for pugging.
earn a pug pet after grouping with 100 random people.
chance at some gear if your not in purples yet.
return to the area you were in when you joined the group.
meet new people.
chance at getting different achievments

Cons:

If your DPS queues can take awhile!
get grouped with people who are annoying, think they are the best in WoW, know's how to play class to well and will criticize you every chance they get.
1 wipe and people will bail (not all the time)
epics suck, not good unless your in blues or able to get ICC 5 man.
some people are not that friendly
still no real challenge (unless you get a bad group)

So as you can see the LFG tool has it's good and bad points. What would be nice is a 10/25 man raid queue.

AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-03-19T11:28:00.000-04:00

Holy update Batman!

I need a massive update to everything on this blog..... WOW.. not to be confused with WoW!

How long has it been?????

2010-03-19T11:24:00.000-04:00

Wow it has been a year and a half since I last posted on this blog. I doubt anyone reads this, but I will start posting again as I have returned to WoW from a much need "burned out" break. I have been playing again for a few months getting back into the swing of things, shakin the old rust and dust off my armor. I see not much has changed, except the new ICC 5mans and raids.
I have actually been raiding as of late. My guild has been tackling ToC 25man and ICC 25man will be happening soon as well.
My DPS is horrible right now. I think I am at 3.5ish right now and was either last or very close to last. I guess I need to re-evaluate my gear and figure out a way to get better gear. It's kind of funny how gear can be so easy, yet so hard to get. Hey that was an Oxymoron... who you calling a moron?!?
Let me explain!. Sure you can get tier gear from vendors now just by collecting badges. Which trust me I have been buying, however its tough to get those badges unless your running 10 mans. I know.. you can do the LFG tool and get into a 5 man and at the very least get 5 badges a run, but I am having a few issues with that which will be discussed in a post of it's own! I do run those as much as I can, but as of lately it's taking a long time in the queue as a DPS'r to get into a group. I have waited an hour to get into a group before. Ah well /grip over!
So anywho... Another way for gear is...is....is...wait for it..."PROFESSIONS!" That's true, however I went the route of Miner/Engineer. Which allows me to create an epic gun that is not used anymore!, a parachute for my cloak (the +23agi is nice), rockets for my hands, and some trinkets. The main bonus for Engineering is being able to create ammo, which came in handy last night. I went into ToC 25man and used over 3k in bullets, which i was able to make more on the fly...
So as you can see my options are limited profession wise since most items are BOP. What would be nice is if the LFG tool would include 10man raids.
Well thats all for now... On to the next post.. I have a lot of catching up to do..

Less then a week for LK!!

2008-11-08T16:46:00.004-05:00

So less then a week a way from Lich King and what have I accomplished?

Nothing absolutely nothing!

I keep trying for Baron's mount and get nothing, and it has consumed my time, which means my gorilla is still level 67...

I haven't made any real gold.

I haven't made any attempts on instances.

Although I did manage to get my hordie Shaman to almost 40.. half a level left.

I have decided to finish off the triple XP for the Refer a Friend. I only have 3 weeks left to use up that buff. I have seen 1-60 in 22 hours with this buff, so I may be able to get 2 toons to 60 before it expires. This will also allow time for Northrend to filter people out so it won't be so crowded.

I do have my zebra mount thought..

/cheer

OVERHAUL NEEDED!!!!

2008-11-06T19:24:00.002-05:00

I think it's time for a massive overhaul to what I normally talk about. I am now going to write about all aspects of WoW, not just hunter stuff.

I think this has been long over due.

First thing's first, I will be writing a whole lot more then I was before, I am going to be more open to my writing styles as well.

More subjects on what I write about as well. I want to really reach out to more then just the usual 3 people that pop on to see if I actually updated anything.
(so really who won the pool on me posting next?)

I am going to make this blog one of which people will want to read everyday. There are alot of blogs that I read daily, and alot of websites that I read as well.

I will also be bringing readers updates as I found them out.
You know it is actually sad and selfish of me, to play beta and not really post much on it.
I do apologize for that.

So in closing I will be changing and moving some stuff around to make this a more open blog, where people will actually like to stop by and say hi and/or post some comments on some stuff.

/cheers for now and I hope you all look forward to the new look of things.

aaahhhh no time for me!!!!!

2008-10-23T20:52:00.004-04:00

Date is really 11/1

Man has it been awhile since I posted something last. It has been a crazy month, with the wife and kids and new job... haven't really had time to do much.. but I was able to sneak away..

/sneak

^see^

I have been dabbing ( is that even a word?) in WoW and beta.. I did finally clean out my bank... Holy moth balls Batman..!! I did manage to make about 1k + for everything in the AH.. so not a bad nights work.

My mage is now tattered in a new spike look, I like it.. Fear the Green Spikes of Wrath!!!!

Blizz did higher the drop rate of Baron's mount so I am off to get that.. now instead of 1 out of 5000 its now 1 out of 100.. I better get it now.

/Marks Blizz with a bounty for their heads...

IF I DON'T GET IT THEN THAT WILL HAPPEN!!!

THINGS TO DO/DONE BEFORE WRATH!

So in lou of Wrath coming out in a few weeks, I have been working on getting a horde shaman ready for outlands, hes level 37 atm.

Killed the new boss in Kara, lost roll for the axe, but did get the bat pet, not really a good equivalent but meh at least I didn't leave empty handed.

My corehound is level 70 and gorilla is 67.

Still working on getting Baron's mount. ( he's so stingy, sharing is caring you bastard.)

Conquered Mount Hyjal and got a neck piece that was it. nothing more nothing less, why because my rolls don't go past 20.

Still tweaking addon's.. I hate patches for this reason..

Still working on getting 25 quests done and not turned in until wrath comes out, instant xp, why not.

determining if Northrend will be tackled right when I get Xpac or wait and do quests in outlands for a little bit, it's still XP and I don't have to worry about Northrend crashing because of player overload.

This week I am tackling (with my guild of course) TK. Will I get anything? most likely not, I still will roll under 20.. WTB new /roll dice.

That's about it for now.

/cheers to all.

Wrath update review

2008-09-13T11:28:00.004-04:00

Ok so I got to visit Northrend for awhile and really get to take in everything, it was really amazing and to have two starting areas to choose from was nice, I advise stormwind harbor to get to Northrend, less people in that zone..

One long boat wait and trip later I get to my destination, the Borean Tundra.

What a great and open place. You start off getting a few quests to get to know the town that you arrive in.

I suggest while you are there to visit all the profession trainers and work on leveling your first aid and skills,

/poke

Poke?

"It's your subconscious, are you forgetting something?"

"no!? why? what am I forgetting?"

"Don't you feel lighter?"

"Yeah, actually I do feel lighter.. why is that?"

"You really don't know why?"

"nope!" My bags are still full, my ammo patch is still full, "oh god! please tell me my gear/clothes

are still on or am I living the running around Iron Forge naked dream?" gear still there /sigh, my wallet is ... is... is!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! I'm missing GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!.....

"No your not."

"YES I AM!"

"No you really are not."

"Then where is it? huh Mr. Smartypants?!"

"What did you do when you arrived off the boat?"

"I got more stable slots and train my skills."

"OK and how much did that cost you?"

"I wasn't paying attention, a few gold right?"

"nope.... 200g for stables, 50g for GrandMaster profession and about 7G for each new item creation."

" let's see that's 200g + (50g*2) ....

/carry the 2 ..."

"Hey Boy Genius you just spent 400G in a matter of 5 mins..'

"Gadzooks!!! I just spent 400Gin a matter of 5mins..!!!"

"I just said that, Captain Obvious!"

" no need to get rude.. "

"Tough love...you need to learn somehow!"

"whatever!!!!"

so yeah be prepared to spend a fortune when you get there.... Thank god I never leveled my fishing and cooking or else I would be broke.... ouch.

After realizing I just spent alot of money, I decide to do some quests, which yield you about 4-6g a quest.. each mob also drops up to 30s so you will make your money back in no time. I got to meet the new Tuskarr group which look kinda cool...

They had me bullying some Nord'smen and stealing from them as well... well no it's more like stop them from getting bullied by the Nord'smen...

One thing I do realize is I never trained any new spells ... oops...

I do want to say that I do like the new aspect of viper, I was generating 174 mana a shot and multishot would yield triple that amount... I was not even close to running out of mana.... It was a nice change of pace....

The kill command takes some getting used to... Also pets still don't hold aggro as well as they should be..

There are still a few bugs that need to be worked out...

I will keep posting more tomorrow.. and with alot more detail.. I will also post some screenshots of some cool places and creatures, also some UI screenshots..

/cheers

Where has Sev been? That's right Northrend!

2008-09-13T10:30:00.003-04:00

Yes I have been playing Wrath Beta for a little while getting the feel of all the new stuff.

So lets go over my checklist.

1.) get beta... Check

2.) download wrath and the 50Kgb of patches. Check

3.) wait for 3 days for character transfers. Check

4.) create a DeathKnight to pass the time. Check

5.) play the death night for a full level. Check

6.) finally sign onto Sev for Northrend. Check

7.) first thing check out new tabs (and get used to no mods).. Check

8.) Tame a corehound (reference above picture...so cute..) Check

9.) Play with new pet talent spec..(very nice).. Check

10.) attempt to kill some level 70 trash( forgetting that you need to respec refunded talents).Check <----(Idiot)

11.) get to Northrend.. Check

12.) experience uber lag...Check

13.) Stable Corehound ( named him MeatBall), and tame a rhino... Check

14.) Stable rhino since he is way to slow... ( great tank though) Check

15.) do few Northrend quests from both starting zones.. Check

16.) go to stormwind and get haircut..( 7g for a haircut, can we say RIPOFF*cough) (oh yeah an dwarves don't get Mohawks.... but gnomes do.. come on Blizz Dwarf and Mohawk is like PB and J).... Check

17.) Check out AH for enchants and Glyphs... ( and both are so pretty on the AH....) Check

18.) Realize I had mail since first logged in and it is a [Chilly the Penguin]

19.) Hearth to Shat and Fly to Zangramarsh to tame a Wasp ( very cool pet for Arena against rogues... why you ask well lets just say ...... [Sting] .. Yeah happy rogue hunting..lol Check

And finally
20.) logoff with a feeling of relief that Wrath will be really F'in Cool.. Check

/logoff
/sleep with a smile
/ get woken up by wife asking why I'm smiling in my sleep" It better not be from that Stupid game!"
/r "it was about you!! ( getting mad about me thinking about the game) see I didn't lie,just didn't tell here the whole truth....
/evil grin and sleep.

WarHammer review against WoW.

2008-08-28T18:54:00.007-04:00

VS.

So I got a chance to try the Warhammer beta and Daddy likes..., but is it strong enough to pull me from Warcraft?

The player creation is about on par with WoW, no major change, not like Conan, which has an amazing player creation, but we are not talking about Conan ( which sucks after level 40 oh and also if you don't have a UBER PC then good luck getting past 1FPS..... ) ok back to my subject before my review becomes a triple threat match.

So WH (WarHammer) has 2 sides good and bad A.K.A Order and Destruction. I read that order and destruction will have completely different classes from each other...Which got me intrigued( might make for some great PVP and PVE on both sides). They were right about the classes being different for both sides...( yeah different as in class names and spell names, but still has the same style of spells and animations) big difference huh??? yeah its like Coke vs Pepsi, no matter how you look at it its a cola.

Anyhow, I created a Human Bright Wizard first, which I gave a cool Mohawk, oh yeah before I continue I have to tell you that every race has different classes so a dwarf and human can't have the same class, getting back to my dude. I started out doing simple quests but my starting health was 400hp. Not bad. I started with 2 spells and that's about it.

I quested and killed to gain XP and level up. The kinda cool, but kinda annoying thing is that every level you get to train a spell and also there is only one trainer for everyone so no more looking for your trainer. after leveling and running around I ended up in whats known as a "Public Quest" which is in a specific area and anyone in that one spot can participate in this quest. It's 3 phases, which consist of waves of enemies for phase 1, waves of elites for the the second phase, and finally a boss for the third phase. After the boss is down a chest appears and an auto roll appears on the screen and shows your spot on the roll list, which looks like a train schedule at a train station. Who ever starts the quest from the beginning and finishes thourgh the end and also does the most DPS gets a bonus to their roll and everyone will get some kind of roll bonus that ranges anywhere from 25-400 extra on their 1 to 1000 roll. The top 3 rollers get the loot.

So there I am level 10 and decide to try RvR combat( same as battlegrounds only you can join from your map anywhere you are anytime you want) Its cool cause there is 3 battle scenarios per zone. The one I got into was much like AB with capturing areas and defending it for resources, but it felt like WoW and the Order got pwned ( however you spell that).

After the PVP action I was back to questing and finally died in the PVE zone and low and behold I respawned in the nearest town to where I was murdered brutally, that's tight no ghost running body finding fun so please hold your /crying back. However when you respawn you have a 10 minute debuff, which reduces your stamina by 10% and stacks up to 3 times, but there is hope, in most of the towns there is a healer that can remove the debuff.

The graphics for the environment in WH is alot more real looking then WoW and the characters are a little more realistic in WH but I still like the WoW character models a little better. The sound is pretty much the same, WH has a few better options for certain things like the Public Quest, but WoW has its own features that are better like more spells/attacks larger zones and better quests.

So over all if I have to give WarHammer a rating out of 10 I give it: 8.5

Is WarHammer a WoW killer? no, not by a long shot, I think that it is more like a healthy alternative if you either don't feel like playing or hate WoW or to keep from burning yourself out on WoW.

So I recommend you check it out, I will be playing WarHammer and WoW so I really won't get tired of either.

Wrath opening cinematics

2008-08-21T10:34:00.003-04:00

Blizzard has released the Wrath of the Lich King opening cinematics, and I was actually disappointed in it. It was nice at the start, but ended to quickly. I have always loved the cinematics for WoW and BC due to the battles being shown between Horde and Alliance. It was always nice to watch your classes battle it out on "the big screen", but WotLK only shows him, his army, his dragon, and of course his sword. That's it? yep that's it.

I think that Blizzard went a little short with this. I did enjoy the movie don't get me wrong, however I was left with this saying running through my mind "that's it? wheres the rest? maybe I had a broken linked page. Let me try another one.... wow I guess that was it. hmm, doesn't show much or tell me much."

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/intro.xml <-- Link to the movie if you have not seen it.

What are your thoughts on this?

2008-08-20T02:07:00.003-04:00

So We finally get our spirit vanity pet .. and we rock it all night long and we are going to continue to rock it for a long while. Why? Well, because its the best non combat pet we have.

Yep that's me in the picture,
that's me in the the spot light ,
wining some battle grounds,
I didn't think we can do it,
oh no I've killed to much..... REM SEV remix..I know it was cheesy but at least it was funny I hope.
/laugh.. I SAID /LAUGH! errr rrrr
/target you
/petattack
Ha! now who's laughing..

So getting back to my non combat pet, Alliance won AB.. YES! You read correctly Alliance won A"B" ..
Oh we totally owned the horde on this one, which believe me I was very impressed with our team.
We took stables, lumber mill, and mines right off the bat. WE had 3 people stationary and the mines, 2 people at the stables, and 2 at the lumber mill, which leaves us 8 mobile people which worked out well. I was part of the 8. Any time there was an incoming to one of our resources, someone would call out and 4 of us would rush in to save the node. Now we still had 4 people that were still mobile and would defend if the horde tried to take 2 of our nodes at any givin time. So yes we kept 3 nodes up at all times.
I have to /bow to the healers in our groups, they did a fantastic job with the heals and cleanses also the mages, druids for decursing. We really worked like this was a raid group and tried to keep the raid members alive and it worked like a charm.
I was pumped and it was 2am.. try to get some sleep after a victory like that was next to impossible.
I did make second for kills which wasn't to shabby.

So I say great job Alliance ( I was actually proud to say that I was Alliance after that BG)

/bow

/cheers

How many will try Warhammer?

2008-08-19T10:42:00.002-04:00

So how many people will try Warhammer online?

I will be trying it out, no I am not going to switch from WoW to Warhammer, however it will be more for those days when I log into WoW and want to play something and I just don't know what to do on WoW, well now I can do Warhammer.

If Warhammer bombs out, then no Warhammer for me and I continue to do the Burnout of WoW like always.

From the looks of screenshots and videos, this may be a decent contender for WoW.

Good and Evil ( Order and Destruction) will not have the same classes to pit against each other, so this will make to some good battles. There are similar classes to WoW, but they still have unique differences. WH ( WarHammer) will be more PVP ( Player vs. Player) based which is usually fun. I hope that this doesn't bomb like Conan. Conan was such a good game at the start then they went to hell with having to group up like FF, The blood and guts and adult situations were great, but then you had the issue of needing a super computer to play. Hopefully WH will be a little different. Most of the game is simliar to WoW and LotR so hopefully they have taken the best of both worlds and combined them..

If anyone wants info on Warhammer please let me now and I can go into massive detail about the game and it's aspects.

Decisions .... /ponder

2008-08-15T10:36:00.004-04:00

Ok so I started to really anylize my gear and damage output and realized I need a medium overhaul on my gear. I have epics except my chest which for some reason won't drop and I can only pvp for so long before I want to commit PC suicide ( horde win all but AV).

My gloves could be upgraded ( [Crystalhide Handwraps] )

My chest will need it( [Breastplate of Rapid Striking] )

I could use some enchants and this will boost my RAP about 200+ also Crit to around 29 -30%, but is it worth the hastle of either farming the mats or the money? Wrath is just around the corner ( well a few months anyway) or so Blizz says, and you know they are gonna have green items that are gonna be better then your epics, so again I ask is it worth the effort. What will I get with this boost?

Alliance won't win BG's because I boosted my stats.

I am currently ranked 1 or 2 on DPS for my guild so no boost there, plus we aren't hardcore ( still farting around in kara farming and just really starting SSC and TK).

Grind harder ( yeah there is a goal I want..lol)

To point and laugh that my stats are superior to others.( I think it would be much more effect with me on Baron's mount and pointing and laughing at people on there regular mounts).

So what do I get out of this? an empty wallet or maybe the exact opposite... farming for mats means alot of silver drops and gear for selling drops.. hrmm could make my money for epic flyer, however I still may have to buy some expensive mats ( economy sucks) and there goes my flyer money.. damn I thought I stumbled onto something.

bah! If Wrath was delayed a year then I can see doing all this, but with it being so close why bother....??

Macros.

2008-08-15T09:29:00.003-04:00

Bah!! I wanted to pin up my macros I use, but game is home and I'm working. kinda. I can't remember a few small details which could really mess the whole macro up so I won't attempt to try to remember it.
It basically will do this order:

hunters mark

pet attack

mend pet

aimed shot(allows a few seconds for pet aggro to build)

arcane shot

serpent sting( yes I like serpent sting- it does DOTS, if its there why not use it?)

multishot ( if the situation permits it: mobs that have other mobs to close or sheep's= bad hunter for using multishot *spray botttle*)

I then go to my auto shot steady shot( kill command) macro... which now I am going to have to change when Wrath comes out since Kill Command got a Nerf Bomb./errrr

I will post the Macro tonight. I find it useful in raiding, not to mention that auto shot does shoot in the middle of the first macro a few times as well.

Baron needs a time out for not sharing ( horse)

2008-08-15T02:42:00.005-04:00

Still no horse from baron ( you stingy bastard. yeah I'm talking to you Baron.... my Mother what??.. oh you want to talk about my mother!!! That's it you and me in the parking lot after School!!! and bring your horse!!!!!!!!!)

So I still can't make it in the 45 min time run, I'm always within 10seconds. (Crits just never happen at the end), My brother wants to give me a hand with his rogue to try to beat the 45 min run, which incidentally we have never ever down( when in the 55-60 level range 2-3 years ago.) Of course we own it with 25 minutes to spare. First time for the both of us ever to have done this in the time limit. Yes its the first time we got to meet the prisoner too. But still no mount!!!, of course my brother tagging along is for a price. I have to run is 55 druid through here on Sunday.. That should be interesting.

to Alt or not to Alt that is the question. isn't it? I think it is.. /hrmmm

2008-08-14T12:32:00.004-04:00

So I am kinda having a WoW dilemma. I log in now and stare at my character selection screen and don't know what to do.. I have my hunter of course ( he is my pride .. they just grow up way to fast /tear), my mage (who is my joy) lol.. and then my alts... all of them.. way to many of them... urghh..

well when I log in I just stare and don't know what to do and trying to decide is having a massive argument with myself ( doesn't end well.. violence is never the answer and it hurts../crazy off.)
I can long into my hunter or mage as I still don't have an epic flyer.. ( <--- Broke loser) . I hate grinding 80% of the time and the days I do feel like grinding It's to late in the evening/morning and I start to drift at the desk... ( you all know what I mean.. you close your eyes to blink - very long blink- and your looking at the spirit healer). "oh oh I know, do some dailies." this is something I did for a week straight and became bored of it, but I still go on and do them once in a while. so all my money goes to alts and pots for raiding and such. urgh alts word.

So here is my other issue. I have quite a few alts. they are listed below:

Alliance
50-nelf druid
46- dwarf warrior
44- gnome lock
36- dran( how ever you spell it) priest
26- dran( refer to above) shaman
14- gnome rogue

Horde
30- cow shaman
21- belf rogue
19- belf lock
12- troll hunter
and the rest under 10.

so now the question is who do I pick to play.
I want to level my druid up, but I am at that boring area and playing solo makes that area even more boring.

I could work on the other 2 in the 40's, but i just went through hell (STV) to get to 50 with my druid and doing it again may cause me to become comatose.

well what about your horde.. good question..
again all toons are at the boring spot and I just can't get myself to continue on with them.... although I do want a horde to level 70 I just can't take the barrens chat..lol

So now what do I do??

How do you all do it? log in everyday and either play your main farming or alting it up, how do you choose???

/help?..

Other Wow Blogs /blogsites or non wow.

2008-08-14T12:28:00.001-04:00

I would like to update my list of great wow blogs or even non blogs, Please if you have or know of great wow blogs or non wow blogs please post the link so I can read and post links on the menu side.

Again

/cheers

Sitemeter

2008-08-14T11:58:00.001-04:00

I just added a site meter for my purposes to see how many people stop by. For those of you that do please say hi and such and if you have a blog or a website post it and I will link it to my main page.

Cheers to all.

:)

I wonder???

2008-08-14T10:57:00.002-04:00

I wonder if anyone actually reads my blog ( besides me of course). If so Is there anything I can work on or write about to increase readers? I like to write about all kinds of ideas and such, but If no one reads should I still continue to write on this blog? BRK had a good point on his site about blogging even if no one reads it (http://www.bigredkitty.net/2008/08/07/almost-everything-including/ ) I can agree with that and will still write my thoughts and feelings about stuff. If you Read this, let me know what you think over all, I am curious.

Thanks

Sev

Wrath pets.. hrrmmm

2008-08-14T10:22:00.004-04:00

So which pets will I tame? Will I keep my current pets? I will have 2 extra slots.. Exotic pets?...

Since taming a low level pet will bring them up to just 5 levels below your level, the time for a stable over haul has come.. Now which pets?

I will be taming a White bear. Now that they will get some kind of charge or dash capability.

I will be taming the Ghost saber, always wanted that one just because.

I will be taming the Chimera(exotic), they may be able to do some heafty damage.

Those are the 3 definete ones so far.

Ones I may possibly tame:

Armored Boar ( looks sweet)

White gorilla ( again, also have a charge or dash ability)

New wolf or the demon hound that is featured in http://maniasarcania.com/

Looks very cool----------------->

Eagle looks cool too..

Not sure yet on the the last 2 slots.. of course all the exotics have not yet be implemented.

Over the past week

2008-08-14T10:13:00.003-04:00

Over the past week I have been hunting Baron for his mount, I have been able to solo the whole event and kill baron in one shot, however the best time frame I have is 5seconds past the 45 minute run, which incidentally I feel that will increase the mount drop slightly and every little bit helps. I have been running through and have to clear a path to each boss which is semi time consuming, but I can do it with almost 20 minutes left on the time limit. Ramstein's group of stitches is what is slowing me down. There is just to many of them and takes up so much time.

Getting back to the Baron killing, even though he is only a level 62 elite (green), he can still kick some serious booty. He has gotten the best of me every now and then. I have gotten every item from Baron multiple times except the mount and epic sword ( which I can care less about the sword).

I will have my mount before Wrath comes out. Oh yes I will.........

/evil laugh

Bad last 2 nights soloing Strat for the biggest prize...

2008-08-07T12:31:00.004-04:00

Yes a beautiful mount if your alliance, it's one that I have been craving since i first laid eyes on it. Have I ever seen it? Yes it has dropped once in a group a long....long....long... did I mention long?... time ago. It was a sad day when we rolled I went first with a 99 and the first thought was "OMG!! I Got The Biggest Prize of Them All.. HA In All Your Faces!!!!" then the last roll popped on the screen -100-... what? This can't be!!! No!! I will not accept that.. It is not possible... (well it is.. but it's like a 1 in 1millionth of a chance).. I demand a fight to the death!!!!.. , but instead I was a good sport about it and said grats to the pally that got this epic beauty.
/bows head and walks away into the night air never to return to Strat again...
/disappear

Until now.. That's right sometimes I forget that I'm 70 and wearing and carrying some purple goodies. So it is time to return to claim what is rightfully mine!!

Night 1:

I go in with no pots just a few band aids and my pet kitty(Bullet). I fly all the way to eastern Plaguelands, summon epic ram ( better if it was undead ram), ride all the way to the side gate of Strat, just to realize one major factor......I Never Got The Key To The City...... "Son of a "bleep" all those times I passed on greens with out even looking at what it was finally caught up to me..
Let me tell ya... that was a huge mood killer, but it was now or never so I decided to at least get my key, so I went to the main entrance ( known as the live side) and fought my way to the dead side.( no ... no piccolo drop for me).. Oh look its Magistrate Barthilas right at the entrance to the dead side.. One key to the city in 10 minutes.. not bad. Maybe this night will be our night...
I haven't been here is almost 2 years... forgot about the patrolling gargoyles.. ooohhhhh I hate those, they make it hard to dodge all mobs to the boss.. after a few deaths.. now I have a pattern, until I ran into the the trap door with the rats.. yep forgot about those little buggers too. They don't activate hunter traps.. yeah another death run back. I fought my way to Ramstein and put him 6 feet further then before and waited for those 5 death guards.. and waited... and wai... oh poop.. a vast undead armory all low levels beat the snot out of me and my pet...

/ hangs head in shame... will try again later..

Night 2.

Lets try my Owl and use screech to keep all mobs on it.. He did okay, still had some deaths because I kept forgetting to turn off aspect of the cheetah.. so it was a dazed run.. , but I was ready for everything and made it all the way to baron with 3 minutes left. I accidentally left the aggressive pet button on and the fight started to soon, and off I went.. I fought hard and got him to 3% and then my pet dies..... then Baron goes up to 24% and I die....

/hangs head again in shame.. I know I can do better.
Tonight I will and will continue to farm for my Horse..

until then may Baron rest in peace, cause I coming and pain is right behind me...

:)

vanity pets and mounts

2008-07-23T12:46:00.002-04:00

Quick quote from Blizzard on vanity pets and mounts.. bag space??huh??!!

Quote from: Nethaera
"We’re pleased to announce a convenient upgrade to the way that mounts and vanity pets are handled in Wrath of the Lich King.Players will be able to “learn” a mount or non-combat pet much like learning a spell, recipe, or new ability, and these creatures will then show up on a new Pet tab within the Character Info section of the interface. Players will be able to access and preview their learned mounts and vanity pets through this tab.Once learned, the pet icon or mount icon will no longer appear in bag spaces or bank spaces. This inventory space will be made available once again for other adventuring needs. Pets can still be set to hotkeys by dragging them to the hotkey bar, much like any other spell or ability. "

Not bad.. I still want an extra bag slot to take my quiver/ammo pouch slot.., but at least they are trying.. right?? I hope..??..

OK sorry for the delay but its Hunter update time. :)

2008-07-23T09:09:00.004-04:00

Ok it has been a while since I posted anything and that is simply because I just became to busy and took a semi break from WoW. I have returned to playing again, however I will not be raiding all that much as I have started to burn out, hence the break.

Now for the WotLK updates for Hunters.

1st thing is the biggest update of all Pet talents and specs, let me just say "HOLY F#$#* this is #%$#ing great!" I did start to drool( just a little, easy cleanup).

There will be 3 talent trees, I am not total sure if each talent tree is beast specific or its just open 3 talent trees that you choose for any beast/pet.

Cunning
Ferocity
Tenacity

Wow those sound good right, but wait there's more. I have to give credit where credit is due and this huge update comes from MMO-Champion.com. I will set up links to each pet talent tree, also it has been updated that yes these trees are pet specific, but still cool. Also as a side note check out MMO-Champion.com for other updates if you don't visit them regularly.

Cunning link:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=808

Ferocity link:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=809

Tenacity link:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=810

Good stuff huh.. See and you laughed when I drooled... who's drooling now huh.....???? Wait Bears can learn Dash.. uh-oh looks like Daddy is getting a bear when the xpac comes out.. Cats can learn charge... him keep currant kitty or get a new kitty ..perhaps the Ghost saber... hmm choices are many..

Also a quote from our boys and girls in blue (blizzard).

Quote from: Wryxian

"The developers are currently working on the exotic pet talent. Exotic pets are exactly that, exotic and not the average run of the mill pet. But whether this name will stick or not, is uncertain at this point. But these will be a range of new pets with unique abilities, that only those with the talent will be able to tame and train. Where do you get them, well, we've not got news on that right now -- perhaps somewhere, exotic! ;-)

These pets are different from normal pets, but they're not necessarily more "uber" than others. However they will have access to unique abilities not available to the normal pets that every Hunter can train. A Hunter with this talent will get extra power, but from the talent's associated additional pet talent points and not necessarily from the exotic pet. "

Nice huh. Now for some Beta patch notes

All pet families now have one unique ability. New abilities have been added for families such as bears and sporebats.
Aspects now no longer cost mana.
Avoidance, Dash / Dive and Cobra Reflexes are now pet talents instead of pet skills.
Bite now has no cooldown, does the same damage and costs the same Focus as Claw, so works as a Focus dump.
Clever Traps (Survival) has been renamed "Trap Mastery."
Concussive Barrage (Marksmanship) - Can now proc from Volley attacks.
Deterrence (Survival) - Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, and now also increases your chance to resist spells by 60%. Now has a new spell effect.
Every hunter pet can learn Growl, Cower and either Bite or Claw (never both).
Hunter pets can now learn talents in one of three trees depending on family. Pets gain talent points starting at level 20 and earn an extra talent point every 4 levels.
If a hunter tames a pet that is more than five levels beneath than the hunter's level, then the pet jumps to five levels beneath than the hunter's level.
Improved Feign Death (Survival): Now also reduces damage taken during Feign Death by 15/30%.
Loyalty, Training Points and the hunter Beast Training button no longer exist. Hunter pets can now learn all skills at their level. They will get new ranks automatically as they gain levels.
Master Tactician (Survival) - Chance to proc increased to 10%, up from 6%.
Monster Slaying (Survival) and Humanoid Slaying (Survival) has been combined into "Improved Tracking".
New Talent - Improved Tracking (Survival) - Increases all damage done to targets that are being tracked 1/2/3/4/5%.
Steady Shot now uses ammo. In result, its bonus damage has been slightly reduced. Players can notice a damage increase based upon what ammo they use.
Surefooted (Survival) now reduces the duration of movement impairing effects by 10/20/30% (instead of resist % chance).
Trap Mastery (Survival) has been removed.

Well I hope all you hunters are getting excited ( not that way you sicko freak) like I am.

Battlegrounds! You Lose!

2008-06-18T09:52:00.002-04:00

Why does the horde own most of the battlegrounds? At least on most of the servers I play on they do.

Alliance players will win at the 19 twink level most of the time in WSG, which I kind of find irritating. Some level 70 alliance players will actually complain about losing in BG's all the time, yet they have lvl 19 twinks, go figure. Instead of focusing on their lvl70 toon with gear, they level a 19 toon and gear the smack out of it, which I don't have a problem with level 19 twinks, I have a problem with the person that plays the twink also complains about their lvl 70 toon always losing.

So why do we lose most of the time?
Answer is simple, lack of team work and the attitudes that go with it.

Alliance never really communicate and get a battle plan ready during the 1 minute wait period, nor do buffs even get distributed. It's always a 1 man show, who can kill the most and hope we somehow manage to win at doing so. Also the only communication that goes out is "help" and "you suck" type of /BG chat.

Yeah that's a wining combo...
/sarcasm off

If you ever watch the horde, 90% of them are always grouped with at least 1 to 2 other hordies, the ones that run solo always die. Alliance will try to solo things in a group, odd I know. Let me break this down abit.

Horde: has a plan of attack and defence before the match starts. They have groups set up and will stick with those groups. They buff each other even in mid battle they will buff and heal. They travel in groups. They have very good communication across the /BG chat channel.

Alliance: everyone just wants the marks and honor with as little team work as possible. most of them travel alone. Buffs, yeah once in a blue moon before the battle starts. Heals, Ha forget it. Sometimes they will start as a group and most of the time that group disbands after the first real horde attack. Alterec Valley is the only time the alliance will group and that is because they really have no choice in the matter. Communication across /BG chat is usually someone flaming someone or the entire group. No plans of attack or defence goes out unless its AB and no one ever follows it.

Listen no one likes a hero, when a team effort is needed, and I am pretty darn sure that BG's consist of more then 1 person per team.

Oh yeah also I hear this alot; "but the horde are all deck out in PVP gear"
well that's because they play like a team and win 80% (being generous to the alliance with that number) of the time.

Listen to win a BG takes skill, communication, and above all TEAMWORK!!!! play like your in a raid/pug run. Yes gear helps but if your group has the skills and teamwork they can cut the horde at the throat- take the healers out- and then 5 people focus on the 1 or 2 geared out horde and destroy him/her. Hit them where it hurts. Maybe do the objective of the BG with teamwork.

Some winning Strats for BG's:

WSG:
1.) Get a 7 man offence and go straight for the flag, leave 3 on D just to defend the flag long enough for your team to get their flag.
2.) Try to separate the horde up so they are not in such strong groups, play decoy cat and mouse with them.
3.) Don't guard the flag carrier per say, Guard the possible attack routes to the flag carrier, objective is to stop the horde from reaching the flag carrier not stop them from beating the flag carrier first, let that be a last resort , if the flag drops- its over. So get them before they can even get with in attacking distance of the flag carrier.

AB:
1.) Have 3 teams of 5 people go out and capture some nodes, if you start to die do not run back if most of your party is dead because it will be horde verses 1 or 2 alliance on a chain Resurrection( 5 allies go in 2 die leaving 3, by the time the 2 get back the 3 have died and there still remains 4 horde which will whoop on you, the other 3 come back to a 5 man horde and die and so starts the chain.)
2.) travel in 2 groups of 7 and just stop the horde from taking nodes, when you stop them you take the node back you will always have 3 nodes going.( you have 2 nodes, you go to stop the horde from getting a node and take that node over, now you have 3 nodes. the horde take one of your nodes, but little do they know you are taking one of theirs.)
3.) All 15 allies travel from node to node and just take that node, no point in defending it because by the time the horde take it back you will have 2 more nodes captured.

AV:
1.) 40 man raid style kill the general.
10 stay and defend, 30 go out and kill each mini boss. the 10 staying behind can slow the horde down very well on going right for the general. this will give the alliance plenty of time to take out each mini boss and then all 30 can destroy the horde general.
2.) If you skip the mini boss's then all 30 should go in attack the general and not stand around and wait for someone to attack, I don't know how many times I have witnessed the alliance all standing at the entrance for the horde general, but no one goes and starts the battle until it is to late. This BG is very aggressive.

Eye of the Storm:
1.) again maintain groups, keep 1 group posted at the flag and 2 other groups defending the 2 captured nodes.
2.) one large group go node hunting and run in a square taking nodes as fast as they can, no need to defend. Small group try to either defend or take the flag.
3.) confuse the horde and stay in one large group. try to capture the nodes but when doing so travel to each node across the flag path and either grab or defend it.

I hope these helpful tips will help in your battles against the horde.

oh yeah, yes I am leveling some horde toons and have played the BG from the horde side and yes we win most of the time.

Signatures...

2008-06-06T12:23:00.003-04:00

Why won't my signatures update with realtime stats??. I guess I will be looking for a new signature generator ...

errr!!
bah
forget it...

WebSite or Blog

2008-06-06T12:19:00.004-04:00

What determines a website or a blog? BRK went from a blog site to his very own site, but still has a blog format and feel, with more options of course. So site or Blog??? Let's ask BRK himself.

BRK???

Do you want to be listed as a site or a blog? what is your reasoning behind the one you pick?

Thanks for your attention with this matter at hand.

Sev

Quick Mojo Killers

2008-06-06T10:41:00.007-04:00

It's time for something new, a segment I like to call Mojo Killers. This is everything that I want to complain about or boast about, but mostly complain about stuff.

Mana- why is it that 8 of of 10 times people always go "oom" during a boss fight? I know!!!! me.. pick me.... Its because mana driven DPS has spells that cost outrageous amounts of mana, yes I know use mana pots, mages can evocate, warlocks can life tap, priests can..can.. well shadow priests can us a vampiric touch, shamans can use a mana totem, and pallies can use ... use.. err umm... mana pots every 2 min.. so what happens when all your ways of getting mana is on cool down or is just not enough.. ( mana totem).. Yep you guessed it, wand or melee. At least Hunters get to still shoot from their ranged weapon and can crit for 1200 to 1500 white damage and no mana needed. OH SWEET CRIT my wand just crit for 400.. back to 215 damage... way to go you DPS'rs you are burning the last 10% of the boss to obliteration. Now why did we wipe at 8% left... oh yeah mana regains suck that's why.. every class except holy/disc and pallies have a mana regen spell/totem, but lets face it they suck.. Mages can evocate every 8 mins.. woohoo, Locks can commit virtual suicide to try to exchange life for mana, and totems are pretty much worthless for mana regen unless equipped with a shadow priest as well..

Warlocks can give healthstones out and even a healthstone well.. "sharing is caring"
Mages horde their mana stones and give food and water out.. but how does that help me in the middle of a boss fight... I suppose i can eat and drink after the fight..
Lock -"hey mage, can I get one of those manastones you can make?"
mage-"sure let me poof one up....poof!. here.."
Lock-"why is it stuck to your hand? "
mage-"i dont know"
Lock-" at least I share my health stone, ...... stingy mages!!! the only thing your good for is sheeping... bah bah bah."
Lock-" LF1M non stingy DPS'r none mages"

Hunter pets vs. warlock pets.
Warlock get to carry all of their pets with them. Hunters get 1 pet at a time.
Warlocks get pets for certain things( such as: tanks, mana eaters, stamina buffs, charmers/dps), hunters get pets for DPS.
Warlocks can sacrifice pets for the greater good of survivability. Hunters need to keep pets alive.
Warlocks pets never go hungry. Hunter pets need constant food.
Warlocks gets up to 6 pets. Hunters get 3 pets..
Warlocks can buy pet spells, Hunters have to tame, train, and release pet ....
Warlock pets will always level with the Warlock. Hunters pets only level if they get XP, and that is one pet at a time.
Warlock pets are better!!!! Hunters get gimped in the pet area, However Hunters do get to choose their pets....
Oh yeah Warlocks get to call any of their pets in mid battle. Hunters have to rez pet if it dies and the pet gets very emotional.

Why is it Hunters only get 3 stable slots...??? I like 5 different pets...
What is the use of dismissing a pet ..... really there is no use for it anymore..
If I dismiss a pet I should be able to call upon another pet from my stable slot.
Why does my pet get hungry in mid battle.. IF he gets hungry in mid battle then I should be able to feed him in mid battle.
Once a pet goes into combat, happiness level should be locked in for that entire battle.
Hunters should get buff spells for their pets for certain situations, such as: armor/health buff for tanking, Focus buff like Int buff, Strength or Agi buff for DPS. Pet aspect buffs would be nice.
Hunters should get a talent spec for scare beast cast time to be reduced... other classes can instant fear, why can't we???
Hunters should get specific "chance to" DPS buff ammo, such as: fire arrows/bullets that does either fire damage or small DOT's, ice arrows/bullets that will slow or freeze a target maybe even slow attack speed or cast speed, Shadow arrows/bullets that do shadow damage or DOTs.
Viper Stings will drain the enemies mana, why not give us some mana back for doing so, a mana exchange DOT.

Why isn't there any banks in the smaller towns? Its a pain to be at Kara entrance and realize you forgot your buff pots in the bank, now you have to go run over to Stormwind or if you Horde well good luck getting to the closet bank 800 miles away ... see you in 30 minutes.

5 bag slots is definitely enough, but using those slots for ammo, shards, or professions is just wrong. Hunters lose a bag slot right from the start, and then like me, I also have my mining bag and also lost a bank slot to my engineering bag. I think item specific bags slots should unlocked once trained in that profession and should only be used for that specific bag for that slot. Classes like hunters and locks should get ammo slots and shard slots.

FIX the WOW economy please!!!!!!..... 30g for a level 22 green eagle item is down right horrible. That's your mount money there.

Fix the questing system that require you to cross continent travel so that it will give more xp then standard quests that require you to stay in that zone. Why would I want to go to EPL to talk to someone that gives me a crate to deliver to Silithus, then that person in Silithus will tell me to deliver it to someone in Booty Bay, who will then tell me to go back to EPL to collect my reward.. so I travel back to collect my reward and I get 4k xp and a plate head piece... But I can't wear Plate!!!!!! and why did I get more XP for killing and collecting bone fragments from those mobs that are 30 feet away and finished it in 5 min??? Sell the Plate item.. but its soulbound,...... Yes my soul wants to hold onto something that I can't use... that's it he's fired... LF 1 new soul.

/rant over

okay I'm good now, breathing calmly.

Agility vs. RAP upgrades.

2008-06-03T10:49:00.004-04:00

When a hunter reaches 70 and gets that epic melee weapon(s) they have 2 choices for it ( enchanting wise),
1:[Enchant 2H Weapon: Savagery]
or
2:[Enchant 2H Weapon: Major Agility]

Which to choose?
/hmmm
/think

Lets break this down and figure out which one is better and why? Shall we? To bad! it's my blog and I can type what I want!! Hey! don't you threaten me with the home button!! Hey what are you doing? NO! Please put the mouse down and step back slowly..........

For this break down I am going to use this default weapon:[Vengeful Gladiator's Waraxe]
Stats:

Vengeful Gladiator's Waraxe
Binds when picked up
Two-Hand
Axe
321 - 483 Damage
Speed 3.00(134.0 damage per second)+
62 StaminaDurability
120 / 120
Classes: Hunter
Requires Level 70
Equip: Improves hit rating by 15 (0.95% @ L70).
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 46 (2.08% @ L70).
Equip: Improves your resilience rating by 33 (0.84% @ L70).
Equip: Increases attack power by 92.
Equip: Your attacks ignore 98 of your opponent's armor.

wow those are some nice stats....

And this Default Ranged Weapon:[Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle]
Stats:

Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle
Binds when picked up
Ranged
Gun
149 - 278 Damage
Speed 2.70
(79.1 damage per second)
+15 Agility
Durability90 / 90
Requires Level 70
Equip: Increases attack power by 32.

Nice Gun and looks hot too! Now of course the stats for the axe don't really matter for my statistics since its all about ranged weapons for hunters, however the axe is what you need to enchant so it made it in by a loophole.. darn lawyers.

So you think you may want to boost the AP on it by 70 using the Savagery enchant, but what will the end result be for you? DPS wise of course.
Let's assume you have: 1400 RAP
24% Crit Chance
Simple numbers. NO buffs, speed boosts yet just plain white DPS.

Now for the formulas:
First you want to get the minimum damage:

Minimum Range = (((Minimum damage + Scope damage bonus) / Weapon Speed) + (Ranged Attack Power / 14) + Ammo DPS bonus) * Weapon Speed

Then you want the maximum:

Maximum Range = (((Maximum damage + Scope damage bonus) / Weapon Speed) + (Ranged Attack Power / 14) + Ammo DPS bonus) * Weapon Speed

so those are the formulas to determine total minimums and maximum white damage.
Now I will plug in our range weapons numbers..remember no ammo pouch or bonus ammo DPS or scope for our calculations.

Minimum Range = (((149+ 0) /2.70 ) + (1400/ 14) + 0) * 2.70 = 418.9 ( 55.18) (100) (418.9)

Maximum Range = (((278+ 0) / 2.70) + (1400/ 14) + 0) * 2.70 = 547.83

DPS formula:DPS = ((Minimum Range + Maximum Range) / 2) / Attack Speed

so now we plug our information in:

DPS = ((418.9+ 547.83) / 2) / 2.70 = 179 DPS

Now you have a base of 179DPS.!!!!

Now we put the savagery enchant on our axe and the DPS changes to:

Minimum Range = (((149+ 0) /2.70 ) + (1470/ 14) + 0) * 2.70 = 432.4

Maximum Range = (((278+ 0) / 2.70) + (1470/ 14) + 0) * 2.70 = 561.33

so now we have our min and max white damage.
But what about our over all DPS.
Well Billie and Susie I think I can help there too!
/superhero pose

DPS formula:
DPS = ((Minimum Range + Maximum Range) / 2) / Attack Speed

so now we plug our information in:

DPS = ((432.4+ 561.33) / 2) / 2.70 = 184 DPS

Remember no talents involved (yet).
The end result for white DPS with no buffs, talents, or scopes is:

without: 179DPs
with Savagery Enchant: 184DPS

giving you a whopping 5 DPS... ooo aaaahhh.....

So now its the Agility formulas time:
First the basic agility stats conversions......for level 70's

1 Agility = 1 Attack Power
14 Ranged Attack Power = 1 DPS
1 Agility = 0.552 Critical Strike Rating
22.08 Critical Strike Rating = +1% Critical Hit
40 Agility = +1% Critical Hit

35 agility enchant to your main hand weapon.
Gives you:
35 RAP
2.4DPS
19.32 Crit strike rating
.90% Crit chance

just by looking at this your DPS will be better from Savagery Enchant, however lets look deeper into your Favorite Doc's eyes. ( quit staring its not polite.):
You travel to Doc. BOOM and want to test out your DPS.

You fire 100 shots with your DPS being 179 ( previous calculation)
100 * 179 = 17900 Damage average no crit 100 shots fired all hit.
now you can add 5 damage per shot from your savagery enchant:
100*5=500+17900=18400 total damage

now with the agility enchant:
100*179=17900 damage
2.4 damage to your total from the 35 agility enchant :
2.4*100+17900=18140 damage

the difference of 18400-18140= 260 total damage

Now lets look at crit being added.
base crit during no enchant shot rotation will be lets say 24% ( its just a random number for this)
A critical strike is usually double to almost double your normal damage shot.
So we fire off 100 shots and 24 critically hit(hypothetically).
(66(normal shots) *179) + (24*(179*2) = 20406 Damage

Nice increase of 2506 damage.
Now with savagery and crit

(66*184)+(24*(184*2) = 20976

a difference of 570 damage.

now the same formula with the agility enchant except 1 extra crit from the crit boost.

(65*181.4) + (25*(181.4*2) = 20789 total damage

again the savagery finishes first.
But the big factors in choosing which one is yes savagery has better over all damage with sustained constant white damage, but Agility will give you a better chance to crit and more often. Personally I would like to crit more since most hunters will use a steady auto macro and hopefully the steady shot crits for even more damage. Also if multishot or arcane shot crit that is a nice boost as well in damage. I will go into more formulas with shot rotation and other things at a later date, however in closing this is hypothetical base numbers, however the formula is a real formula for wow, so enjoy it.

If anyone needs any formulas for anything please let me know.

Raid/Party Organization

2008-05-30T12:47:00.002-04:00

One topic I would like to discuss is "organization"!

Lets face it, with a raid not being organized, it will be a guaranteed wipe. If no one knows what they are supposed to be doing then its a giant jumble of mess and aggravation.
If people don't know their role and they have to be told every time before the fight, then something is seriously wrong.

So what's the game plan you ask? Well I am glad you asked and if you didn't ask then, well, read anyway. /stick tongue out

Rules to organizing a raid/party:

1.) The person that is running the raid should know every ones role ahead of time, so if you plan on leading the run, take a minute and study each class and what they can bring to the table.
2.) After everyone signs up for the run, start setting up an organizational tree that shows everyone who's grouped with who. Please put some thought into this and not just throw people int a group. ( For instance, put a shadow priest or a shaman with mana totem into a group with mana driven DPS, so they can replenish some mana during a fight. We all know that if your mana driven DPS runs out of mana you will get pew pew instead of BANG! BANG!.)
3.) Know who can do what buffs. ( when signing up to a raid, please post what your buffs are so the leader can determine who buffs who.)
4.) Assign the buffers to group buffies. ( mage A will buff groups 1 and 2 with AB, mage B will do groups 3 and 4. Pally A will give might to the raid, Pally B will give kings, Pally C will give Wisdom, Pally A will also give Salv to those requesting it, please /w pally A for salv. Priest A will do fort to groups 1 and 2, Priest B to 3 and 4. and so on...... I think you get my point. /point)
5.) Create a Battle rez list for your Druids on which Druid goes first and in the event that druid 1 dies , druid 2 will step up to spot 1. The battle rez list should be who in order of raid importance to be battle rez'd first; i.e.- priest B or Tank A,. And don't get mad if your importance on the list is towards the bottom that just means there is enough of that raid spec ( ranged DPS) that a battle rez won't be needed.
6.) Make sure your whole raid is mana'd up after every fight before pulling the next wave, again refer to rule 2.
7.) In the event you die be happy with 30 minute buffs, no need to waste time and mana getting your 1 hour buffs set off for 1 to 2 people, use your judgement on this one.
8.) Know the boss fights ahead of time, Its a pain to repeat a long fight over and over again, when the tank or raid leader refers to a part of the fight and if you read up on this fight you will know exactly what he or she is talking about and not having to ask them to repeat this over and over again, you may end up confusing the Leader on this. Most groups will use TeamSpeak or some form of to talk out the strategy, if need be, have dedicated raid leaders such as tank, ranged, melee, and healer leaders. Go to a different channel of TS and have that specific leader go over the raid role and where to position your self for which phase and what to do and what not to do, less confusion as to your role of the raid.
9.) Designate standard break times. ( once we clear the first 10 sets of trash we will take a 5 min bio or smoke break or what ever, before the boss fight take a 5 min break again and do a ready check after and then explain the fight ( I don't know how many times people will AFK to do something and miss the whole strategy to the boss fight and then either screw up or ask for the whole thing to be explained again.) Its understandable that you may need to AFK for a min to do something, just make sure you announce it and make sure the raid leader responds to you needing to AFK.
10.) Please have enough pots and bandages for the fight. ( Hunters have enough pet food- yes I was guilty of this one before./shame) Priests and healers are mana driven and the more they can save on mana by you bandaging the longer the Tank will live......... that's right I went there.. bandage yourself you lazy bum.
11.) This is a good rule or lazy rule to have too: I like to call this "The Lazy Card". Everyone gets one card to use in a run, when they die they can call out in raid chat or TS their Lazy Card and will be rez'd and not have to run back. This can be used for quick AFK's or if you really don't want to run back to your corpse, but remember only One per run per person.

Using these rules as guidelines may just make your runs even smoother and faster, and faster means more baddies downed in one night, which also means more purple shiny goodness...

/bow
/ty

I will be here all night and remember to repeat this saying " I am someone special" sorry couldn't resist....lol

Lurker is sleeping with the fishes..??!!

2008-05-29T09:51:00.004-04:00

So my guild, including me, finally made lurker fish stick over this past weekend.
/cheer
We went in to SSC on the intent of Lurker practice and low and behold we downed him with almost everyone being alive at the end.
We cleared all trash through SSC to Lurker, yes we skipped hydross, we get to lurker and fished him out of the water. That over grown cat fish bugged out half way through the first attempt, I bet he realizes we came on the intent of seafood dinner and was not prepared.lol. So we started again to fish him out, this time there was no escape from us. We timed everything perfectly, we had enough on the DPS side, tank side, and healer side. We had 1 healer per isle, one healer for tanks on the guardians, and 2 dedicated healers on the MT for Lurker. We also had 1 CC per isle with 1 backup CC (hunters), 3 dps'rs per isle.
We would start lurker with full DPS, when he spouted 1 person would call it out to "dive" and all would jump in to the water that were ranged DPS and continue to DPS from under water while getting heals from our assigned healers. The melee DPS'rs would run from the spout in a circle while still hitting lurker.
Now spawns the adds. Our mages would sheep the ambusher on the right and the hunters would mark the left one for attack, DPS one then DPS the sheep, all while the tanks would pick up the guardians. Once the ambushers were down we all focused on the guardians. This worked out well.
We enjoyed fish that night.
/eat
/cheers to guild
/drink and be merry.

What we found in Lurkers stomach during the fillet:
[Mallet of the Tides]
[Velvet Boots of the Guardian]
[Ancestral Ring of Conquest]

and of course badges.

How to make money from level 1- 40.

2008-04-30T09:50:00.002-04:00

So either your new to WoW or are doing a reroll on another server or faction and want to or need to make some money, but how you ask? Well I'm glad you asked. My gold making tips for the lowbie's or alts can make you some serious cash and all it will cost you is $19.95 plus S & H for my guides and cd's just send my toon 1000g and we will waive the $19.95 and if you don't like it well to bad!!!!..

j/k

Seriously though I could use the gold. lol.
Well you go threw the cut scene and start off in a beginner area with 0 copper. I'm sure mostly everyone knows this and if you don't you must be new so I say to you "welcome to your demise". After your first set of quests that get you to level 5 you still have little to no money due to spell buying. Now you have 2 choices here, you can either run to the next area for the next set of quest or stay and grind for some loot and at least make it to 6 for some more newbie spells. Alot of people are in a rush and will just venture to the next area and have only the starter bag unless they got lucky and had a 6 slot bag drop. I prefer to stay and grind it out for loot and at least a bag drop if not 2. I usually hit the first main town with my starter bag and two 6 slot bags and some nice silver in my pocket.
At this small town I would pick up my quests and head right to the city, which is usually close by, and venture straight to the AH. I look up all the items that come from a gathering skill or 2 and find out which one has the best sell value. Now you can't look at the 300+skill rating items because of 2 reasons:
1.) your not in the outlands yet, and even if you do get ported will never last there, oh yeah and the fact that you profession skills are based on a level cap.
2.) you are only going to start out with level 1 skill for that profession.

So usually with a level 1 skill you can only gather a few mats so, which will they be? well no one really uses the skins from a low level beast, so that is not the best money maker, Herbs from low level areas don't sell for much either, although the outland herbs sell quite nicely, then there is ore from mining, Bingo this is the one gathering skill you want to make money on.
One stack of copper ore generally sells for 1gold to 1.5 gold. Not bad, huh? So at level 6 you go and train for mining, don't forget to buy your pick axe to mine the ore.
So you go and do your quests, while also mining along the way- this is where the extra bags come in handy. You ding 7 then you ding 8 and low and behold you have 4-6 stacks, if not more, of copper ore in your bags. You run to the AH and post all stacks of ore for 1.5 gold. Now you return to your questing and mining, "you've got mail", you rush over to the mailbox and low and behold you sold all your stacks of ore. You are now a level 8 or 9 with 6-10 gold and have 6+ stacks of copper ore to sell again.
I would have my mount money and then some by level 20.
Now my suggestion for future purposes of your toon is to also create a "mule toon"( a level 1 alt that is in the major city by the bank, to send other mats to. stock them up with some decent bag space too.) Pick up herbing for your second profession and send all the herbs to your mule. So once you get to the outlands you can drop mining and pick up alchemy and use all those herbs you sent to your mule, way back when. Now you can make pots that sell for alot along with herbs that sell as well.

Congrats you will have your mount by level 40 with no problem and even your epic ground mount too.
Of course you can by pass this if you roll a Lock or Pally, but you still need to make money some how.

Magisters's terrace or Magister's terror

2008-04-29T09:52:00.003-04:00

So I get to venture into Magister's Terror last night, that's right I said terror....
My party goes in thinking that this will be an easy hour and half to get heroic keyed.. we are in epics and this is just a regular 5 man run..
[insert foot into mouth....NOW]
yeah wow this is actually a very hard instance... we were fine with the trash mobs, the first boss gave us a little trouble but nothing we couldn't handle.
It's the second boss that was the killer, arrest him hes a murderer.. arrest him ... come on... please arrest him.... guess not...
FINE!!! /stomps feet and walks away..

So maybe we had an off night or the gods weren't smiling down on us..or I didn't have enough coffee, but let me tell ya, 40g in repairs and me becoming a shishkabob was not a whole lot of laughing style of fun involved, although I think we became very creative with trying out our own strats too... We followed all the strats that are on the web and still could only get him to 1% and then dirt naps for us all...

We started out with the tank rushing in and then we would start DPS.. our rogue would pick up the first spark, and then my hunter and another hunter then our pets, once we attack a spark, that person would stop DPS until an arcane debuff would were off, but the problem is the debuff cause 300 damage a tick and would almost kill that person. If you don't pick up the spark, it will start to AOE us causing 2-3k in damage.. which we managed to make it threw the sparks however, when Vex reaches 20% health he will do a massive AOE that was hitting me for 4k a tick and hit me 3 times and I was down for the count and so was the rest of my party... Now this AOE was hitting me from across the room( yeah I tried to be slick and run out of range, but apparently it has a very long distance reach).

So in closing don't take this run as a cake walk. It is very tough with this boss in the mix.

Gold farming is irritating

2008-04-28T15:54:00.003-04:00

I am getting really annoyed with trying to farm gold for my epic mounts. Yes "mounts" I need 2, one for each toon.

No matter how hard I try I get bored after a while and lose interest in the farming of gold.
I will be fine for about a week, then of course the raids come into play and why would I not want to go?.... hrmmm..??? Of course I am going to go. I get that chance at epic loot, badges, and above all fun.... so yeah no more bored of farming, until the reality kicks in that I still need some gold and at this point I just want to say forget it, I can live without the epic ride.... yeah right who am I kidding..

So yeah Gold is great to have but crappy to obtain.
How do some of you guys make some decent money farming???
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Pets after 2.4..

2008-04-25T08:50:00.002-04:00

I would like to discuss something, this something is a very big something for hunters. This something is "GROWL" for your pets.
Ever since patch 2.4 was released I have noticed our pets being gimped. What is happening is, the aggro has dropped to an all time low for pets and as a result they can't sustain aggro.
My hunter will pull aggro off of his pet in the 3rd shot, so now I have to play run and gun with the mobs, or add feign death in my shot rotation.
Originally only the boar was supposed to be hit/nerfed for its high threat gen. The boar would open with charge, growl, gore, and then attack, which would generate 4k in threat. It was almost impossible to pull aggro off of a boar. Blizz said this was a bug.. yeah a bug that has been in the game for most of its life, but suddenly they decide to fix this "issue", Which I highly doubt a hunter would really complain about that so called bug.
That being said, when they gimped the boar, all the pets got gimped and will cast growl after they attack first, which at that point if you open up your shoot rotation, your first shoot will hit right before growl can execute causing your aggro to be very close to the pets aggro and with in the next few shots you have just successfully pulled aggro off your pet. If they could make intimidation have a 20 sec cool down then no problems since this causes a good amount of threat, however this would only work out for a BM specced hunter, so that would not be too fair to the other specs.
What mind boggles me is that Blizz is aware of the pet/growl issue and is waiting for the next patch to fix this, however that doesn't help hunters now, so why not fix this as soon as possible and get the fix out instead of waiting for other bugs for everyone's class to be fixed and do a bigger patch and give us a wait time. I can understand that it needs testing, but this is a serious hunter issue its not like it is an issue with serpent sting or viper sting, which hunters can live with out for a short period. If there was a bug with prot warriors taunt ability not generating the proper threat, that would be fixed asap. so why not ours. I have had to have my pet play OT in instances before and now I can't because of aggro threat issues.
So in the end, I have released my boar since his threat is permanently gimped and picked up a Ravager named "Fugly". So now I say good bye to you "baconbits" you had your glory days in the hot sun.
/wave's goodbye
* walks down the sunset hills watching as his boar stand there with a confused look on his face wondering if he did something wrong,.. No it was not you old friend, it was the higher powers that be..

Mouse overs work!!!!!!!!!

2008-04-24T11:25:00.001-04:00

[WolfSlayer Sniper Rifle]

See post below..

/sweet!

I have had alot of gear change since the last time I posted

2008-04-24T10:34:00.007-04:00

So I have had alot of gear change since the lst time I posted here, 4 months ago to be exact. I haven't posted in a while because of RL stuff and WoW stuff, and quite frankly I need something to talk about for my return, which will be alot.

Now I am going to use my lazy card on this topic and not post everything I have gotten, just click on my signature up top and view the armory or click here:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Hyjal&n=Severoth

Now I have had some nice changes to my gear and the one I love the most is my wolfslayer sniper rifle:
[WolfSlayer Sniper Rifle]

/grin
/evil grin
once I figure out how to get links to work with the hover effect this will be alot better looking and I can list items.

I have also updated my mage somewhat. I am still working on getting his kara gear.. I Know what your thinking..."Still?"

and yes still... If my mage could wear pally or druid/rogue gear I would have triple full epic gear, but alas mage cloth does not drop well for me..
/sniffle

A LONG AWAITED RETURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-04-24T10:19:00.003-04:00

Ok So I have finally returned to writing up my blog.. I have alot of catching up to do in so little time. Time to catch everyone up with stuff, if anyone will still read this....

Happy Holidays to all!!!!!!

2007-12-25T09:38:00.001-05:00

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday... Good Hunting to all and all a good loot..

SEV

????? WTF!!!!!!?????

2007-12-24T14:05:00.000-05:00

Now I'm not one to expose something like this, but as you can see I had to do it.

I don't know whether to:

/point and laugh

/cry in shame for this person to do this to a hunter

/clap and grats them for a job of hard work and determination to get to 70 without firing one single shot from a ranged weapon.

BRK??

2007-12-24T14:02:00.000-05:00

This is just a quick note to everyone that stops by here. This may be old news , but just in case for all you BRK fans, such as my self, He is no longer apart of the blogspot site. He has upgraded himself to his own .net site.

www.bigredkitty.net

Grats to you sir!

/cheer
/clap

Arena's - Bring the Pain.

2007-11-29T17:04:00.000-05:00

PVP- Player vs. Player.

or as I like to say Pain vs. Punishment.

You are either gonna be in pain or deal punishment.

So you have a 2vs2, 3vs3, or 5vs5 team already or maybe you have them all, Which you are either winning, losing, or somewhere in the middle. Well lets face this fact; no team can go undefeated, so you will lose some. You will win at least 1, which is better then none.

In order to win there are a few factors that have to be in play.

1.) Team makeup: make sure you have your team with members that work well and of a variety of classes. This does better your odds, but don't get me wrong if you have a team of all same classes you can still win and sometimes can crush the other team. Lets say you have 3 rogues vs 1 shadow priest, 1 BM hunter, and 1 druid, now the 3 rogues if played right can beat this other team, however you may get owned. Those 3 rogues can sap the hunter if the hunter doesn't shoot a flare or have his traps ready, another can sap the priest and now its a find the stealth druid game. or sap the hunter and unleash an arsenal of DPS on the priest burning them down real quick, especially with a stun lock rogue keeping the priest stunned. now you have 2 let and can vanish and do the same trick until all are dead. Now lets say that hunter popped his flare and the rogue happens to be right there and a mark is placed above their head, now the hunter will use his Bestial Wrath and burn the rogue down with ranged and pet DPS , which at this point the druid should be clawing or healing. The priest should be inside the flare standing on either a frost or snake trap to protect themselves and keep the heals and dots going, one could even mind control a rogue and have some fun. They do this until everyone is dead. So you see it can be anyone's game, but if prepared and geared just right you too can own anyone for 25 low payments of 1000g... just kidding, its humor people...laugh...!!!!

2.)Gear: There are alot of people that may disagree with this however I feel that gear has a huge degree and factor for arena matches. If you take skilled combatants and give them middle of the line gear, nothing big and fancy, but does have decent stats and you pin them against someone with less pvp experience , but has the epic gear with alot more AP/Crit/Stam/Mana what do you think is gonna happen 8 out of 10 times? The group with the better gear makeup is gonna win because they need less effort to kill the other team based on stats, IE: If someone has say a rogue with 7k hp, Crit chance of 20%, and a dodge rate of 15% and they go against a rogue with 10k hp, Crit chance of 28%, and a dodge rate of 23% and this better geared out rogue has about half the experience of pvping they are still gonna win do to having better stats, its gonna take the better geared rogue less hits since he crits more and has to take down 7k of hp. Now if you factor in the rest of the team, then the team with better gear will win 9 out of 10 times and that one time they do lose, it is because they were actually out played/skilled by another team. It doesn't matter how skilled you are, 90% of the time it matters how long will it take to kill someone. Best example I can give is: take a boss from regular 5 man instance like Murmur, who is tough to kill normally but most groups can kill him on the first shot, now you face Murmur in Heroics and now hes alot harder to take down and it will take a few trys for most groups. That is what gear does in pvp, it makes it that much harder and more effort needed to kill someone or a whole group. Its all about skill and time now.

and finally

3.) Which order do you kill first?? "what we can't just go balls to the wall and kill everything?" Listen no one likes a hero if its a group effort. It takes time and planning and when it comes to arena you plan during the 60 seconds before the fight starts " I can't type that fast for planning!"" get on voice chat and do it right because the other team is calling everything out and readiness= KILLS". This plan should consist of the arena layout and which way to start,"the gates open I go left and you go right and we draw them to the middle and pin them back to back with no where to go." You also want to plan the possibility of which classes you are going to fight, If they have a priest kill that first " Burn them down as fast as possible." things like that. Okay the gates open, now what? Follow the plan of action. I usually will have the group go for the lock since they can cc and dot, it becomes hard for our healer(s) to keep everyone at full health if dots are constantly antagonizing us like a younger sibling leaching off your frustration and "stop touching me" " Its mine and I want it, MOMMY!". Plus they have annoying pets. Next is the clothie healer if they have one and if its a pally well I would not waste my time since its going to be Bang, Bang, Bang, they bubble heal to full and back to bang oh wait I'm already dead cause I just wasted that much time and effort for a full heal and my death to come along. If no clothie priest then i go for the mage, take out their fire power first, then go for any leather to mail healers then leather to plate melee. Always go for the fastest kill first and factor in healing and annoying dots................. If you can gimp the team of their healer then you will burn them down that much faster and that = win.

And also remember your bags are off limits in arena so don't expect a pot to save you and don't think you can beat the system and take an elixir before hand cause that buff goes bye-bye when you zone into the arena match.

Now the good thing is you will be pinned against players with equal rating so if you suck in the beginning, Don't worry about it, you will go down in rating until you start facing teams with equal skill and then you will taste the sweet victory, unless a team that is geared out loses on purpose to get the lower rating, just to wipe the floor with your carcasses.

/dead fist shaking. won't do much, but its worth a try.

I hope this is helpful in some way.

Level 19 mage Blue pill or the Red pill

2007-11-27T00:57:00.000-05:00

Level 19 mage and battlegrounds or just pvp in general.

Well you will have 10 talent points to spend.. and no I'm not going to ask you to choose the red pill or blue pill or maybe I should as this is a similar type of deal.

Blue pill= Frost

Red pill= Fire

so do you choose red or blue? Take the Blue pill and you go on living your life in a cold and cruel world or take the Red pill and open up the gates of a fiery hot hell?

Okay so I think we can all agree that the first step is to choose fire or frost.

Frost allows you to slow your enemies movement by 40% for 5 sec. This allows you to rip a tank apart by keeping him at a distance. I will talk about kiting first then talents.

Open up on anyone that is melee by either choosing Frostbolt rank 3 or rank 1. "Rank1?" Yep rank 1 is good when you have been spotted and only have that 1.5 secs to cast, you still will slow them down. Then you can open up your raw power of the elements on them. Rank 3 should be used like a sniper shot when the enemy does not see you.

So you cast your Frostbolt and the enemy is slown by 40% to catch you, you want to cast a fire bolt at this time to hit them hard. As they draw almost within melee range you cast fireblast rank 2 and then frostnova, this will allow you to move fast to a further location only to cast again frostbolt rank 1 as you have limited time before your frostnova breaks and they are charging at you with the look of death upon their face. Boom it hits right as the trap breaks and they are again moving at 40% speed. Again Firebolt and then fire blast.. they should be dead by now, but if not you should be able to arcane explosion them once or twice to deal the final blow. Also a quick side not, you may want to cast Flamestrike right before you open up you can of whoop arse, this will allow you to pop a rogue out of stealth fast enough for either another teammate to pick them up or to frost nova them and start you cycles of of elemental death upon them.

So if you go frost i would say spend:

5-improved frost bolt- casting time reduced making that rank 1 alot faster to cast and keep someone in a slowd state for a while.

3-frost bite- 15% chance to freeze target in place for 5 secs.why not have a free mini frost nova snare them.

2- improved forst nova- reduced cool down on a snare is always good to have .

Fire is the same spell cast as before but points wise:

5-improved Firebolt. will help in over all cast time to get that extra frostbolt off to keep them slown down.

Now the other 5 points are your choice on personal preference.

5-impact. this will give you a 15% chance to stun the target with a firespell, which in return you can get another one to two spells off on them.

you can take:

2-Flame throwing, the extra distance is nice to pick off enemies that are not aware of your position and are nearing the end of their combat.(ninja kill??)

3-Improved fire blast. Having an instant attack with a shorter cooldown is great. It can save your Butt if you are down low on health and so is the enemy and you are able to get that last instant cast out and boom hes dead and your alive.

So those are the choices for points and how to get a good cast sequence going to kit someone.

Now the idea is to stay a little bit in the back so the enemy focuses on your other teammates, since you are a squishy you may just become a taurens dental floss or butt floss.

Polymorph when you and a teammate or just you have 1 to many enemies on you. This will ease the pain for the tank/melee'rs.

One last thing is remember you are a squishy and will be the target of choice for them since you die quick and you are considered a variable in this equation of battle. Now if the variable gets removed you will get the same results over and over again(without the variable) losing the BG.

Don't be upset if you do die alot and fast, You will have more kills overall so be proud of that.

Also the more stamina you have, the longer it takes to kill you.

I hope I covered everything for a level 19 pvp mage.

Comments, Questions, Concerns, or just general topics of discussion?.

2007-11-26T10:01:00.000-05:00

So I see that I have been getting alot of visits to my blog here and not to many comments or questions or anything of that matter. Please email me or post and questions or comments, even concerns or topics. I can answer alot of questions regarding anything from formulas of hunters and mages to pet questions or even quest questions... I will always respond and if I don't know the answer I will track it down.

I would like to get alot topics to discuss and questions or comments to respond to as this Blog would substantially grow.

Well hopefully I will starting getting some of the above mentioned..(sorry to long to type out again and no I don't want to cut and paste it either..)

Pet leveling?

2007-11-26T09:27:00.000-05:00

Ok so I read a blue post that states that in patch 2.3.2 that pet leveling speed has been increased, another blue post says that pet leveling has been substantially increased. So 2 posts with slightly different wording that can make a huge difference between the 2.

Now this can mean either your pet will level in accordance to the XP increase for the levels of 20-30 and 30-60 or it means that the leveling is increased for hunters of much higher leveling wanting to tame that special pet that would normally be torture to level up by 40 levels to match you.. Which is it?? hmm?? answer me!!!!

Well I hope it is the second one more over the first one, but at least the up and coming hunters will be great full that they are not passing their pets on levels by a huge amount of xp/levels.

I still feel that when a hunter tames a pet that is much lower in level then him/her, that the level should automatically increase to 6 levels below the hunter. This way all the hunters out there that are level 70 can get that Armored Boar or the Ghost Saber or which ever special pet you want and this would solve alot the the hunter complaints about not having tamable boars/bears in the outlands.
"but Sev I worked really hard to get my ghost saber to 70 from 19. I don't think that's fair to us who worked that hard to level it to 70."
Well I see your point on that, that is alot of hard work for you. The way I see it is now you won't have to work as hard next time. I do applaud you on that kind of effort and determination, But life is about changes and adapting, so adapt to this and I bet you'd like it and would forget about that hard work you did, because now you have a new special pet to love and nurture..

Im back to posting everyday.. /cheer

2007-11-26T08:41:00.000-05:00

Well I will be posting everyday again. I had gotten really busy with work and family stuff that I didn't have alot of time to post or to even think(duh!!/drool) for the past few weeks.

So what should I talk about first?? hrmmmmm

oh oh I know lets talk about the new changes to hunters so far..

So did Blizz buff or nerf us? What are your thoughts on this?

I feel that I got a buff overall. I can aim shot to reduce the healing received for that target, not to forget the overall damage that shot does as well. This is great when it comes to getting a trash mob down that can heal or is getting healed. This is one of the best tools for arena and BG, my team is now starting to win alot more since this. I hit up the aimed shot and boom heals at 50% and then just burn them with everything I got. Yes of course we try to take out the healers first, but those darn pesky druids in stealth form tend to hide and only come out to heal. "Come on be stupid and run into my flare area.." /set plate of food down in the middle which is actually a snake trap in disguise.

Arcane shot= your buff being ripped from your hands like I just stole a lollipop from a kid. That's right cry for that lollipop.... Oh wait you can't cause ghosts can't eat lollipops...

All traps that damage now are now increased by 10% of your RAP. Not to shabby, Hey something is better then nothing you ungrateful little piece of... err I mean look at the glass not being half empty or half full but look at it as the glass needing to be smaller.

Here are the actual 2.3 patch notes.. copied over except I had to put in bullets

2007-11-12T10:55:00.000-05:00

Zul'Aman
Zul'Aman is a 10-player, level 70 outdoor instance located in the Ghostlands. Players will beable to confront six new bosses including the Forest Troll Warlord Zul'jin.
Guild Banks Introduced
The Guild Bank is a shared repository for an entire guild and will be accessible through Guild Vault objects near existing banks. The Guild Bank will allow players with the appropriate permissions to store items and money for use by the rest of the guild. Permissions to withdraw and deposit money and items are controlled by the guild leader through the guild controls menu. The Guild Bank is divided up into separate tabs so that the guild leader may restrict access or group items into distinct categories.
Up to 6 purchasable tabs each containing 98 item slots
Permissions to view/deposit/withdraw per tab
You may use your Guild Bank withdraw limits to pay for item repairs (now enabled on all merchants)
Transaction logs of the last 25 actions within each tab, as well as money activity.
Dustwallow Marsh
Dustwallow Marsh has seen many improvements with the addition of over 50 new quests and a new neutral goblin town called Mudsprocket located in the southern part of the zone. There is also a small quest hub featuring a crashed goblin zeppelin, to the east of Tabetha's hut.
Leveling Improvements
Many leveling improvements have been made for the old world.
The amount of experience needed to gain a level has been decreased between levels 20 and 60. In addition, the amount of experience granted by quests has been increased between levels 30 and 60.
Level 1-60 dungeon quests have had their experience and faction rewards increased.
Many elite creatures and quests in the level 1-60 experience have been changed to accommodate solo play.
General: Zul'Aman is a 10-player, level 70 outdoor instance located in the Ghostlands. Players will be able to confront six new bosses including the Forest Troll Warlord Zul'jin.
Guild Banks have been introduced. The Guild Bank will allow players with the appropriate permissions to store items and money for use by the rest of the guild.
Experience: The amount of experience needed to gain a level has been decreased between levels 20 and 60. In addition, the amount of experience granted by quests has been increased between levels 30 and 60.
All items have had their bonuses to Weapon Skill Rating converted to a new stat called Weapon Expertise Rating. Each point of Weapon Expertise reduces the chance for your attacks to be dodged or parried by .25%.
Healing reduction effects will now affect all health drain spells and abilities (e.g. Mortal Strike will reduce health gained from Drain Life).
Healing: Almost all items and enchantments that provide bonus healing now also provide a smaller number (approximately 1/3) of bonus spell damage. There are a few items and enchantments where this was not possible, such as random-stat items and Zul'Gurub enchantments, but this is now the case on virtually all other items.
On Kill Effects: Items and abilities that trigger on killing an enemy will no longer trigger on using an ability that kills your pet.
Silence and Interrupt effects now have diminishing returns when used on PvP targets.
Weapon Skill: All items and abilities that granted weapon skill have been changed. In most cases, they were converted to expertise or expertise rating. Ranged attacks do not benefit from expertise, so ranged weapon skill has generally been replaced by critical strike bonuses or hit bonuses. In a few cases, talents have been changed to other effects to avoid granting players excessive amounts of expertise.
A new flight path has been added to the Rebel Camp in northern Stranglethorn Vale.
Flying units can see ground units and vice versa at any altitude.
Players no longer gain the moving AOE radius bonus if they are jumping.
Client spell cast requests are now sent to the server even if your player is already casting another spell. This eliminates the need for /stopcasting in macros to compensate for latency.
Vendor Discounts: All vendors with an associate faction now give discounts at all levels above neutral.
Friendly: 5% discount
Honored: 10% discount
Revered: 15% discount
Exalted: 20% discount
Quest givers who have available daily quests will have a blue exclamation point instead of a yellow one.
Pets will try to get behind their targets when engaging in melee combat.
You can now obtain a tiny Sporebat pet with exalted Sporeggar faction.
An Azure Whelp pet now drops from the blue dragonkin in Azshara.
If you are seated and try to use abilities that require you to be standing, you will stand up and use them. This can be disabled with: /console autoStand 0 .
Racial Abilities
Dwarf: Gun Specialization now increases chance to critically hit with Guns by 1% rather than increasing weapon skill.
Gnome: Escape Artist cooldown increased to 1 min, 45 sec.
Humans: Mace Skill now increases the critical strike chance with maces and two-handed maces by 1%.
Humans: Sword Skill now increases the critical strike chance with swords and two-handed swords by 1%.
Orcs: Axe Skill now increases the critical strike chance with axes and two-handed axes by 1%.
Troll: Bow and Thrown Specialization now increases chance to critically hit with those weapons by 1% rather than increasing weapon skill.
PvP
Arenas
The top ranked team of each battlegroup for each format will receive a new unique title for the end of Season 2 called "Merciless Gladiator".
Battlegrounds
Daily quests have been added targeting a random battleground for that day. Look for Alliance Brigadier Generals and Horde Warbringers near your faction's battlemasters in all major capitals.
Dropping the Flag in a battleground will now result in a debuff that will not allow you to pick up the flag again for 3 seconds.
Druids who are shapeshifted when they receive the Restoration buff from battlegrounds will now correctly regenerate mana.
Players will now be able to cast spells for free in the Battleground before it begins.
Players will now be able to cast spells for free for a few seconds after being resurrected by a Spirit Guide in the Battleground.
Alterac Valley
Additional Warmasters no longer report for duty upon destroying an enemy tower. However, destroying an enemy tower still eliminates the associated opposing Warmaster.
All Warmasters are linked to each other and their respective Generals and can no longer be pulled individually.
Honor from capturing towers has been increased.
All Commanders and Lieutenants have left Alterac Valley in search for other battle opportunities.
Players will no longer be sent to their starting tunnels on death unless that team controls no graveyards in the battleground.
Many NPCs in Stormpike and Frostwolf holds are no longer elite
Bonus Honor in Alterac Valley is now only awarded during the battle for destroying enemy towers and slaying the enemy Captain. Upon conclusion of the battle, bonus honor is also awarded for intact towers, a surviving Captain, and for victory in the battle. The total bonus honor awarded should be similar to the previous total.
The Horde and Alliance now have a limited number of reinforcements available in the battle for Alterac Valley. The number of reinforcements available is reduced upon player death, loss of towers, and death of Captain Galvangar or Balinda Stonehearth. In addition, all available reinforcements are lost upon the death of General Drek'Thar or Vanndar Stormpike. If a team is reduced to zero reinforcements, the opposing team wins the battle. Towers and Graveyards in Alterac Valley are now captured in 4 minutes (down from 5).
Eye of the Storm
The points awarded from capturing the flag in Eye of the Storm is now increase based on the number of bases the capturing team owns.
Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, Eye of the Storm
Additional bonus honor is now awarded upon conclusion of the battle.
Druids
Barkskin: It is no longer possible to cast this spell while Cycloned.
Challenging Roar: The chance for this ability to land successfully on its targets is now increased by hit rating.
Cure Poison and Abolish Poison are now usable in Tree of Life Form.
Cure Poison, Abolish Poison and Remove Curse range increased to 40 yards.
Entangling Roots: It is no longer possible for multiple Druids to have Entangling Roots on the same target. In addition, it will now always be removed correctly if multiple Druids overwrite each other's Entangling Roots.
Entangling Roots: This ability will no longer be overwritten when the new Entangling Roots would do less damage.
Feral Attack Power: Items that granted bonus attack power in Cat, Bear, Dire Bear, and Moonkin forms have been re-evaluated. In almost all cases, the attack power on the item has been increased. This change corrects an issue where feral weapon damage was not keeping up with other classes in its rate of increase.
Feral Charge: It is now possible for the interrupt and root effects from this ability to be resisted separately.
Force of Nature: This ability will no longer automatically break stealth on victims in its casting area. Nearby stealthed characters may still be attacked if they are too close to the summoned Treants.
Growl: The chance for this ability to land successfully on its target is now increased by hit rating.
Heart of the Wild: This talent no longer provides 4/8/12/16/20% bonus Strength in Cat Form. Instead it provides 2/4/6/8/10% bonus attack power.
Hibernate: This spell will now always be removed correctly if multiple Druids overwrite each other's Hibernate.
Intensity (Restoration) increased to 10/20/30% mana regeneration.
Natural Perfection (Restoration) - Now also grants the Natural Perfection effect after being critically hit, reducing all damage taken by 1/3/5% for 8 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times.
Natural Perfection: This talent can now trigger while the Druid is sitting.
Primal Fury: This talent will now be learned correctly even if purchased while the Druid is dead.
Rebirth cooldown reduced to 20 minutes, from 30 minutes.
Remove Curse is now usable in Moonkin Form.
Shapeshifting Spells: Some of these spells were causing additional unintended threat. That additional unintended threat has been removed.
Soothe Animal: This spell now properly consumes Nature's Swiftness.
Tranquility now gains additional benefit from spell damage and healing bonuses.
Tree of Life: It is no longer possible to have the bonus healing aura from this ability while not actually in Tree of Life Form.
If you are in a shapeshift form and try to use an ability that may only be used in caster form, you will leave the form and use that ability. This means that you can shift from one form to another in one action. If you don’t have mana to shift form, you will get an error message and remain in your current form. This can be disabled with /console autoUnshift 0
Hunters
Aimed Shot (Marksmanship) now reduces healing done to that target by 50% for 10 seconds.
Arcane Shot (Ranks 6 and above) now dispel 1 Magic effect in addition to their normal damage.
Explosive Trap: The initial damage dealt by this trap is now also increased by 10% of your ranged attack power.
Expose Weakness: The triggered effect from this talent will no longer use up charges of Misdirection.
Immolation Trap: The total damage dealt by this trap is now also increased by 10% of your ranged attack power.
Misdirection: This spell will now always be removed correctly if multiple Hunters overwrite each other's Misdirection.
Misdirection: If a Hunter attempts to use this ability on a target which already has an active Misdirection, the spell will fail to apply due to a more powerful spell already being in effect. This will not trigger the cooldown or cost any mana.
Readiness: This talent now finishes the cooldown on Kill Command.
Serpent Sting, Immolation Trap and Explosive Trap all gain additional damage based on ranged attack power.
Serpent Sting: The total damage dealt by this sting is now also increased by 10% of your ranged attack power.
Steady Shot: Tooltip clarified to indicate base weapon damage is used in the damage calculation.
Trueshot Aura (Marksmanship) no longer costs mana to cast and will last until cancelled.
Wyvern Sting (Survival) is now instant cast and has a maximum duration of 10 seconds in PvP.
Wyvern Sting: This ability will no longer be overwritten by lower ranks of Wyvern Sting.
Mages
Arcane Intellect and Arcane Brilliance mana costs reduced.
Arcane Meditation (Arcane) increased to 10/20/30% mana regeneration.
Arcane Missiles: Players will no longer get strange error messages when casting this spell at evading targets. The spell will simply fail.
Detect Magic removed. All players may now see their target's beneficial effects at all times.
Evocation now regenerates 15% of total mana every 2 seconds rather than increase Spirit based regeneration.
Fire Ward and Frost Ward now gain additional benefit from spell damage bonuses. Base absorb values of ranks 5 and 6 have been reduced.
Hypothermia duration increased to 45 sec.
Ice Barrier now gains additional benefit from spell damage bonuses. Base absorb values of ranks 5 and 6 have been reduced.
Ignite: This talent is no lingered triggered by damage dealt by Molten Armor.
Improved Fireball: The reduction in damage coefficient caused by this talent has been removed.
Improved Frostbolt: The reduction in damage coefficient caused by this talent has been removed.
Polymorph: It is no longer possible to polymorph a player and have that player remain mounted. In addition, it will now always be removed correctly if multiple Mages overwrite each other's Polymorph.
Portal Spells: Portal spells to capital cities can no longer be cast in battlegrounds.
Remove Curse range increased to 40 yards.
Righteous Defense: The chance for this ability to land successfully on its targets is now increased by hit rating.
(NEW SPELL) Ritual of Refreshment available on trainers at level 70.
Spellsteal: It is no longer possible via this spell to get two Forbearance debuffs at the same time.
Paladins
Blessing of Light: Lower ranks of Flash of Light and Holy Light are now properly penalized when used with this Blessing.
Cleanse and Purify range increased to 40 yards.
Crusader Strike (Retribution) cooldown reduced from 10 to 6 seconds.
Divine Favor: When this ability is cast immediately after a critical heal, it will no longer be removed incorrectly.
Exorcism mana cost reduced.
Fanaticism (Retribution) now also reduces threat caused by all actions by 6/12/18/24/30%.
Hammer of Wrath mana cost reduced.
Holy Wrath mana cost reduced.
Improved Seal of the Crusader (Retribution) benefits folded into the base spell. This talent now gives the benefits of the Sanctified Crusader talent instead.
Judgement of Light: The combat log will now show the health gained from rank 5 of this ability as Judgement of Light instead of Seal of Light.
Judgement of Wisdom: It is no longer possible for the mana energize effect to trigger off of reapplication of the Judgement of Wisdom.
Paladin seals no longer have a low chance to be dispelled if you have 3 points in Sanctified Seals.
Precision (Protection) now increases spell hit chance as well.
Pursuit of Justice (Retribution) is now 3 ranks and increases movement speed by 5/10/15% and also reduces the chance you'll be hit by spells by 1/2/3%.
Sanctified Crusader (Retribution) renamed Sanctified Seals, which now increases your chance to critically hit with all spells and melee attacks by 1/2/3% and reduces the chance your Seals will be dispelled by 33/66/100%.
Seal of Vengeance: The bonus damage this ability dealt when the debuff is fully stacked on the target was incorrectly too low. It is now increased.
Spiritual Attunement: This ability will now gain mana properly from Vampiric Embrace heals.
Vengeance (Retribution) duration increased from 15 to 30 seconds.
Vindication (Retribution) frequency and duration increased and now reduces all attributes by 5/10/15%, not just Strength and Agility.
Weapon Expertise (Protection) renamed Combat Expertise, now increases expertise by 1/2/3/4/5 and total Stamina by 2/4/6/8/10%.
Priests
Blessed Recovery: This talent can now trigger while the Priest is sitting.
Blessed Resilience: This talent can now trigger while the Priest is sitting.
Chastise (NEW) is now available to Dwarf and Draenei priests at level 20. Chastise causes Holy damage and incapacitates the target for 2 seconds.
Circle of Healing: The base amount of healing from this spell has been reduced along with increasing the bonus it receives from bonus healing effects. Characters with more than 1338 healing will see their Circle of Healing heal for more than previous patches. Characters with less than 1338 healing will see their Circle of Healing heal for less.
Cure Disease and Abolish Disease range increased to 40 yards.
Divine Spirit: It is no longer possible for a target to simultaneously have Divine Spirit rank 5 and Prayer of Spirit Rank 1 icons showing at the same time.
Elune's Grace (Night Elf) effect changed to reduce chance to be hit by melee and ranged attacks by 20% for 15 seconds. There is now only 1 rank of the spell.
Fear Ward is now available to all priests at level 20. Duration reduced to 3 minutes, cooldown increased to 3 minutes.
Fixed a bug where the global cooldown was triggered when shifting out of Shadowform.
Focused Will (NEW Discipline Talent) - After taking a critical hit you gain the Focused Will effect, reducing all damage taken by 1/3/5% and increasing healing effects on you by 4/7/10% for 8 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times.
Holy Fire: The tooltip on rank 4 has been adjusted.
Inner Focus will now properly affect Lightwell Rank 4
Inner Focus: This effect is now properly consumed by casting Mind Soothe.
Meditation (Discipline) increased to 10/20/30% mana regeneration.
Mind Soothe: This spell will now consume Inner Focus.
Mind Vision: Now consumes the Inner Focus buff when cast.
Pain Suppression (Discipline Talent) is now usable on friendly targets, instantly reduces the target's threat by 5%, reduces damage taken by 40% and its cooldown has been reduced to 2 minutes.
Prayer of Healing, Circle of Healing and Holy Nova (healing effect) now gain additional benefit from spell damage and healing bonuses.
Prayer of Mending: This ability will no longer be overwritten when the new Prayer of Mending would do less healing.
Power Word: Fortitude, Divine Spirit, Prayer of Fortitude and Prayer of Spirit mana costs reduced.
Power Word: Shield now gains additional benefit from spell damage and healing bonuses. Base absorb values of ranks 10, 11 and 12 have been reduced.
Shackle Undead: This spell will now always be removed correctly if multiple Priests overwrite each other's Shackle Undead.
Shadow Word: Death: Resilience no longer reduces the backlash damage from this spell.
Starshards (Night Elf) is no longer channeled, costs 0 mana, is now a Magic effect, lasts 15 seconds, causes damage every 3 seconds and has a 30 second cooldown.
Starshards: The damage per tick of this ability no longer changes during the duration of the effect.
If you are in Shadowform and try to use an ability that my not be used in Shadowform, you will leave Shadowform and use that ability. This can be disabled with /console autoUnshift 0
Silent resolve: This talent now benefits the triggered buffs from Blessed Resilience, Blessed Recovery, and Martyrdom.
Rogues
All poisons will now enchant the weapon for 1 hour, increased from 30 minutes.
Blade Flurry: This ability now works correctly in all cases with shielded targets.
Blind is now a physical (no longer a poison) attack. Reagent requirement removed. Now shares the same diminish category as Cyclone and is now diminished in PvE as well as PvP.
Cheat Death (Subtlety) chance to trigger increased to 33/66/100% and now also causes the rogue to take 90% less damage for 3 seconds when the effect triggers. This effect cannot occur more than once per minute.
Cold Blood: Fixed an issue where this buff was sometimes getting removed when an attack missed.
Dirty Deeds now also increases special ability damage against enemies below 35% health.
Dirty Deeds: This talent will no longer interfere with getting the bonus damage from the Druid ability Mangle on Rupture and Garrote.
Fleet Footed (Assassination) now increases movement speed by 8/15%.
Hemorrhage: This ability now does 125% of weapon damage.
Kick: Interrupting a channeled spell with this ability will now always properly prevent casting spells from the same spell school for 5 sec.
Precision: This talent now also applies to ranged weapons.
Remorseless Attacks: This talent can no longer be triggered by the death of a rogue's target dummy or other pet.
Riposte is now subject to diminishing returns in PvP.
Rogue's Deadly Throw missile speed increased significantly and snare duration increased slightly.
Ruthlessness now only affects melee finishing moves. It no longer works with Deadly Throw.
Sap: Multiple Saps placed by multiple Rogues will now be handled correctly in all cases.
Shadowstep (Subtlety) can now be used at any time, not only while stealthed. Now increases the damage and reduces the threat caused by the next damaging ability. Cooldown increased to 30 seconds. Range changed to 25 yards.
If you are in Stealth and try to use an ability that may not be used while stealthed, you will leave stealth and use that ability. This can be disabled with /console autoUnshift 0
Shaman
Chain Heal: The tooltips on ranks 1-3 have been adjusted.
Chain Lightning cast time reduced to 2.0 (from 2.5), mana costs reduced, benefit from spell damage reduced appropriately.
Cure Poison and Cure Disease range increased to 40 yards.
Earth Shield: This spell will now always be removed correctly if multiple Shaman overwrite each other's Earth Shield.
Earth Shield: This ability will no longer be overwritten when the new Earth Shield would do less healing.
Earth Shock: Interrupting a channeled spell with this spell will now always properly prevent casting spells from the same spell school for 2 sec.
Elemental Focus (Elemental) now reduces the mana cost of the next 2 damage spells by 40%.
Elemental Mastery: It is no longer possible to get two consecutive guaranteed critical strikes from using this ability.
Eye of the Storm: This talent can now trigger while the Shaman is sitting.
Frost Shock is no longer subject to diminishing returns.
Grounding Totem: This totem is now destroyed upon redirecting any spell to itself.
Lightning Bolt cast time reduced to 2.5 (from 3.0 where applicable), mana costs reduced, benefit from spell damage reduced appropriately.
Lightning Mastery (Elemental) cast time reduction reduced to .1/.2/.3/.4/.5 seconds.
Lightning Overload (Elemental) now has a 4/8/12/16/20% chance to occur and the additional spell causes half damage and no additional threat.
Mana Spring Totem effect increased.
Mental Quickness (Enhancement) now also increases spell damage and healing equal to 10/20/30% of your attack power.
Two-Handed Axes and Two-Handed Maces are now trainable by all Shaman at the appropriate weapon masters. The Enhancement talent has been replaced by Shamanistic Focus.
Shamanistic Focus (New Enhancement Talent): After landing a melee critical strike, you enter a Focused state. The Focused state reduces the mana cost of your next Shock spell by 60%.
Shamanistic Rage (Enhancement) now also reduces all damage taken by 30% for the duration.
Spirit Weapons (Enhancement) threat reduction increased to 30% from 15%.
Rockbiter Weapon: For ranks 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 the increased damage resulting from this enchantment has been reduced slightly to match the intended numbers given in the tooltip. Ranks 1, 2, 3, and 9 are unchanged.
Water Shield: This spell no longer costs any mana to cast and its duration has been shortened. At the end of its duration, it now grants mana for any remaining globes. In addition, the mana granted per globe has been substantially increased.
Windfury Weapon: This enchantment can no longer be triggered while you are disarmed.
Warlock
Banish can no longer be cast on targets tapped by other players or groups.
Conflagrate: The Immolate debuff will now always be removed correctly when this spell is cast.
Drain Life and Siphon Life now reduce the amount healed when the warlock is affected by healing reducing effects (e.g. Mortal Strike, Wounding Poison).
Hellfire: This spell will no longer cause enemy spells to increase casting time or reduce channel time. It will also no longer prevent flag captures in Battlegrounds.
Nether Protection (Destruction) now has a new, more distinct visual effect.
Ritual of Souls now takes significantly less time to cast and complete.
Seed of Corruption detonation will now obey line of sight.
Shadow Embrace: This talent's effect can no longer trigger other effects.
Shadow Ward: This spell now gains additional benefit from spell damage bonuses. Base absorb value of rank 4 has been reduced.
Soul Siphon (Affliction) now increases damage by 2/4% and no longer affects Drain Mana.
Soul Siphon (Affliction): If a Warlock already has a particular spell cast on a target, reapplying before its duration ends will no longer grant an additional bonus.
Unstable Affliction: The silence from this ability is now subject to diminishing returns.
Warrior
Blood Craze: This talent can now trigger while the Warrior is sitting.
Challenging Shout: The chance for this ability to land successfully on its targets is now increased by hit rating.
Charge will work more often when targets are up against unpathable areas like walls and poles.
Defiance (Protection) now also grants 2/4/6 weapon expertise.
Devastate (Protection) now combines the effects of Sunder Armor into its effect. It is also now affected by all talents and items that affect Sunder Armor.
Disarm is now subject to diminishing returns in PvP.
Enrage: This talent can now trigger while the Warrior is sitting.
Improved Berserker Stance (Fury) now also reduces all threat caused while in Berserker Stance by 2/4/6/8/10%
Improved Intercept and Weapon Mastery have swapped locations in the talent trees.
Intervene will no longer place you in combat.
Hamstring now has a 10 second duration when used on PvP targets.
Mace Specialization (Arms) now has a reduced chance to occur but generates 7 rage instead of 6.
Pummel: Interrupting a channeled spell with this ability will now always properly prevent casting spells from the same spell school for 4 sec.
Shield Bash: Interrupting a channeled spell with this ability will now always properly prevent casting spells from the same spell school for 6 sec.
Shield Slam (Protection) now always tries to dispel one Magic effect on the target.
Sweeping Strikes and Deathwish have swapped locations in the talent trees.
Sweeping Strikes (Fury) now lasts 10 seconds and affects your next 10 swings.
Sweeping Strikes: This ability now works correctly in all cases with shielded targets.
Tactical Mastery: This talent also now grants greatly increased threat from Mortal Strike and Bloodthirst when in Defensive Stance.
Taunt: The chance for this ability to land successfully on its target is now increased by hit rating.
Weapon Mastery (Arms) now reduces duration of Disarm effects against you by 25/50% rather than giving you a 50% chance to avoid or full immunity to Disarm effects.
Whirlwind: This ability now strikes with both weapons when a Warrior is dual-wielding.
Professions
All primary profession trainers outside of capitals (Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring) have been changed to train up to Artisan level (skill level 300) in their respective professions.
The capital cities now possess Artisan level trainers for the primary professions they support, and are surrounded by their newly-dubbed Apprentices where applicable. Please visit your local Master trainer when you wish to train.
You can now control-click on a recipe to see how the item that is made by that recipe will look on you in the dressing room.
Alchemy
Added a sound for when a cauldron is created.
Added a new potion to alchemy trainers: Mad Alchemist's Potion. This new potion requires Alchemy to consume.
Blacksmithing
A new world drop recipe for an Adamantite Weapon Chain has been added. This new weapon chain both reduces disarm duration and increases parry rating.
Sharpening Stones and Weightstones now last 1 hour.
Cooking
Daily cooking quests are now available from The Rokk in Shattrath City! In addition to gold, you can receive random cooking reagents and new recipes as a reward for completing these quests.
Reduced the maximum skill obtainable from recipes between 200 and 300. This does not include Outland recipes.
Enchanting:
Duration of wizard and mana oils created by enchanters has been increased.
The Surefooted enchantment now requires Fel Iron Rod (was Runed Eternium Rod).
Added a new enchant shield recipe to trainers that increases resilience.
Engineering:
Cogspinner Gearcutter in Ironforge and Sovik in Orgrimmar now sell the schematic for the Steam Tonk Controller in a limited supply.
Engineers can now create incredible new flying machines! Find Niobe Whizzlespark in Shadowmoon Valley to learn these fantastic new plans.
Engineering potion injectors no longer require engineering skill to use.
Jumper Cables XL is no longer a trinket.
Materials required to create the Steam Tonk Controller have been reduced. To reflect the reduced requirements, the maximum skill gain has also been reduced somewhat.
Plans for a new Field Repair Bot are rumored to belong to a select few Gan'arg Analyzers in Blade's Edge Mountains.
Plans for a new arrow making device can be found from Sunfury Archers.
The plans for adamantite shells now create an Adamantite Shell Machine. The machine creates 200 high quality bullets at a time, with 5 charges per item.
The Crashin' Thrashin' Robot is now Bind on Use rather than Bind on Acquire so non-engineers can use them as well.
The materials required for the Field Repair Bot 74A have been simplified.
Fishing:
Players can now track fishing nodes. This ability is learned from a journal sometimes found in crates obtained through fishing.
New fish can now be caught in Zul'Aman and Deadwind Pass. Recipes for preparing these new fish are obtained through the daily cooking quests.
Fishing difficulty reduced for some areas in Nagrand.
You can now fish in Ironforge again.
Herbalism
Picking herbs will no longer cause effects on items to trigger.
Fel Blossoms are now unbound, but have an additional requirement of 275 herbalism to use.
Jewelcrafting:
A new skyfire meta gem recipe can be obtained from the Coilskar Siren of Shadowmoon Valley. This new meta gem increases critical strike rating and critical strike damage with spells.
Leatherworking:
Stylin' hats no longer require Zhevra leather.
Greatly increased the radius of the Drums of Battle, Drums of Restoration, Drums of Speed, and Drums of War.
Increased the range at which you can gain leatherworking skill from crafting drums.
Removed the casting time from the Drums of Battle, Drums of Restoration, Drums of Speed, and Drums of War.
Slightly increased the radius of Drums of Panic.
Reduced the casting time of Drums of Panic and added a global cooldown equal to the casting time.
Reduced the faction required to obtain Drums of Battle and Drums of Panic.
Drums of Speed and Drums of Restoration are no longer world drop recipes, and can now be obtained from the Mag'har and Kurenai faction vendors with revered standing.
Drums can now be used while shapeshifted.
A new recipe is available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers to create glove reinforcements, providing a substantial armor bonus. Reinforcements are a permanent enchantment and cannot be placed with other permanent enchantments.
New recipes are available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers to make 20 slot quivers and ammo pouches.
New recipes are available from the Honor Hold, Thrallmar, and Lower City quartermasters to create 24 slot quivers and ammo pouches.
A new recipe is available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers to make a 20 slot bag to hold leatherworking supplies.
The ogres in the barrier hills are rumored to have a pattern for a 24 slot bag to hold leatherworking supplies.
Mining
Mining will no longer cause effects on items to trigger.
Items
All old world dungeon bosses have had their loot revisited. Players will now find that the loot dropped inside instances will be of Superior (blue) quality.
Arena Relics: New relics have been added to support all talent trees for relic users. In addition, most of the arena-system relics have been renamed so there is a more consistent naming convention.
Arakkoa Feather: This item can now be sold to a vendor.
Ashtongue Talisman of Lethality: This item will no longer trigger when the victim of your finishing move is immune to that attack.
Ashtongue Talisman of Vision: The mana granted by this trinket has been increased.
Ashtongue Talisman of Vision: This item will no longer receive multiple chances to trigger per cast of Stormstrike.
Ashtongue Talisman of Zeal: The damage over time affect from judgments has been adjusted so that it will work properly. It now has a shorter duration, and is not refreshed by melee attacks.
Ashtongue Talisman of Zeal: The damage over time effect from this trinket is no longer refreshed by autoattacks and does not charge mana.
Atiesh: This item can no longer open portals in battlegrounds.
Band of the Eternal Restorer: As this item now provides some bonus spell damage, spell damage effects can trigger it. In addition, healing over time effects can now trigger it when they could not before.
Band of Eternity will now make the correct sound when moved in a player's inventory.
Black Bow of the Betrayer: The triggered effect from this item will no longer use up charges of Misdirection. In addition, the triggered effect will no longer break crowd control effects.
Bloodsea Brigand's Vest will now make the correct sound when moved in a player's inventory.
Boundless Agony can now be disenchanted.
Cataclysm Raiment: The bonuses on this set have been adjusted.
Cooldown removed from Noggenfogger Elixirs. The shrink effect will no longer stack with other shrink effects.
Cowl of Benevolence will now make the correct sound when moved in a player's inventory.
Crystalforge Raiment: The bonuses on this set have been adjusted.
Darkmoon Card: Vengeance: This item will no longer trigger from environmental damage.
Dropped items that were rings/trinkets/one handed weapons that were previously unique are now unique-equipped. That means that you can have more than one of those items, but you can only have a single one of them equipped.
Enriched Terocone Juice: This item now properly provides mana regeneration no matter how it is used.
Essence of Death now drops from level 57-60 non-elite undead in the Eastern Plaguelands.
Eye of the Dead: As this item now provides some bonus spell damage, spell damage effects can now consume its charges.
Felsteel Chests: The loot from these chests has been improved.
The Felsworn Gas Mask will now work when you put it on while mounted.
Free Action Potion: The buff from this potion can no longer be dispelled or taken via Spellsteal.
Gladiator's armor pieces of like nature from various seasons will now all meet the requirements for their shared set bonus. This means if you are using 2 pieces of Season 1 gear and 2 pieces of Season 2 gear of the same design you will now have your 4 piece set bonus.
Gladiator's Chain Gauntlets: The bonus damage on these gloves has been increased from 4% to 5%.
Grand Marshal's Dragonhide Helm: The intellect on this item was increased slightly to match the equivalent Horde-only item.
Hallowed Wands: These items no longer work on Druids who are shapeshifted.
Hallowed Wands: These wands no longer function in the Old Hillsbrad Caverns of Time event.
Hallow’s End Pumpkin Treats: The larger and oranger buff no longer causes Battle Elixirs to be removed and can stack with them.
Hand of Antu'sul: The effect that triggers from this item will no longer cause a cooldown on Warrior's Thunderclap ability.
Libram of Saints Departed: This relic now functions properly again.
Lightfathom Scepter will now make the correct sound when moved in a player's inventory.
Lightning Capacitor: This item now has a 2.5 second cooldown on acquiring Electrical Charges.
Lockboxes will now display the numerical lockpicking skill required to open them.
Low Level Cloth Items: All agility and strength on low-level cloth items has been replaced with other stats, usually bonus spell damage, but also sometimes other stats beneficial to mana users.
Merciless Gladiator's Chain Gauntlets: The bonus damage on these gloves has been increased from 4% to 5%.
Mr. Pinchy: This item no longer destroys itself when its charges run out. This resolves some bugs that occurred when its final charge was used.
Mystical Skyfire Diamond: A cooldown has been added to this item's effect, but the chance for it to trigger has been increased.
Noggenfogger Elixir: Consuming this potion now has a shared 3 second cooldown with other types of non-combat potions.
Ogri'la Faction Vendor: This vendor now sells potions useable anywhere for a large number of Apexis Shards.
Ogri’la Reputation Rewards: All epic and superior quality items are now disenchantable.
Overseer Disguise: It is no longer possible via use of this item to be on a mount while in Moonkin Form or Tree of Life Form.
Pendant of the Violet Eye: This trinket will no longer fire multiple times from a single casting of some Paladin spells.
PvP Trinkets: Insignia of the Alliance, Insignia of the Horde, Medallion of the Alliance, and Medallion of the Horde now clear the debuff from Judgement of Justice.
Shadowmoon Grunts will no longer drop Black Temple quality loot.
Shiffar's Nexus Horn: Many spells and abilities can now trigger this item that were unable to before.
Skyshatter Raiment: The four piece bonus is now being applied correctly and the two piece bonus will affect the correct spells.
Tidefury Raiment: The additional mana granted to Water Shield by this set has been increased.
Tome of Fiery Redemption: This item no longer can be triggered by casting blessings.
Totem of the Thunderhead: The additional mana granted to Water Shield by this totem has been increased.
Unstable Flask of the Sorcerer: This flask will now provide the bonus to healing specified in its tooltip.
Vambraces of Ending will now make the correct sound when moved in a player's inventory.
Dungeons and Raids
Players that complete the attunement quests for Tempest Keep and Coilfang Resevoir may now choose to display a new title, "'character name' Champion of the Naaru."
The Requirement for Heroic Keys has been lowered to Honored.
Elite mobs outside of pre-Burning Crusade dungeons have been changed to non-elite.
The level ranges of pre-Burning Crusade dungeons have been adjusted to a narrower range.
Meeting stone level requirements, the Looking for Group system, and quests have been adjusted to match the new dungeon level ranges.
Auchenai Crypts
Wandering Ghosts are now neutral to players
Summoned Ghosts now take longer to summon in.
Auchindoun: Sethekk Halls
Mobs inside Sethekk Halls will now continue to award Lower City reputation into Exalted.
The Shadow Labyrinth Key can now be looted from the Talon King's Coffer next to Talon King Ikiss in the Sethekk Halls.
Auchindoun: Shadow Labyrinth
Blackheart the Inciter: This stun associated with this creature’s charge ability will now properly be considered a stun for talents, abilities, and items that interact with stuns.
Black Temple
High Nethermancer Zerevor's Blizzard and Flamestrike will now last their full duration.
Caverns of Time: Battle of Mount Hyjal
Increased the reputation awarded for killing Archimonde in Hyjal Summit.
Hellfire Citadel: Hellfire Ramparts
The Reinforced Fel Iron Chest can now only be looted by players who are present during some portion of a successful attempt of the Vazruden and Nazan encounter. In addition, on Heroic difficulty the chest now contains a Badge of Justice for each player present.
Hellfire Citadel: Magtheridon's Lair
Mind Exhaustion is not applied until Magtheridon is successfully banished.
Karazhan
The number of creatures that must be killed in the Karazhan Servants Quarters area before a miniboss spawns has been reduced.
Phase hounds in Karazhan will now phase out less frequently.
Coldmist Widows no longer wipe threat when casting Poison Bolt volley.
Karazhan Chess Event: The Dust Covered Chest can now only be looted by players who are nearby when the event is completed successfully. In addition, the chest now contains 2 Badges of Justice for each player present.
Wrath of the Titans will no longer cause Shackle Undead to break.
Tempest Keep
The Blood Elves that patrol the Tempest Bridge no longer patrol directly into Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider's chamber.
The use of Ice Block, Divine Shield, Cloak of Shadows, and other similar spells and abilities will no longer prematurely detonate High Astromancer Solarian’s Wrath of the Astromancer spell.
Kael'thas
All four advisors have had their health reduced by 10%.
All of the summoned weapons have had their health reduced by 10%.
Al'ar
The ability "Meteor" has been renamed to "Dive Bomb".
Mechanar
Nethermancer Sepethrea's Frost Attack now reduces movement speed by 25% rather than 50%.
The Mechanar: The Cache of the Legion can now only be looted by players who are present during some portion of a successful attempt of the Gatewatcher Gyro-Kill and Gatewatcher Iron-Hand encounters. In addition, on Heroic difficulty Gatewatcher Gyro-Kill and Gatewatcher Iron-Hand no longer drop Badges of Justice. Instead, the Cache of the Legion contains a Badge of Justice for each player present.
Quests
New random Daily Dungeon quests have been added for both the heroic and non-heroic five-person Outland dungeons, as well as for the 5-person Caverns of Time instances. Each day both a single heroic and a single non-heroic dungeon are randomly targeted by these quests. The Consortium quest givers can be located in Shattrath's Lower City
Quest givers who have available daily quests will have a blue exclamation point instead of a yellow one.
Aether rays can now be wrangled earlier.
Dustwallow Marsh
Many new quests have been added to the zone.
The Steamwheedle Cartel have just completed building the new town of Mudsprocket in south west Dustwallow Marsh.
Level 1-60 dungeon quests have had their experience and faction rewards increased.
Many elite creatures and quests in the level 1-60 experience have been changed to accommodate solo play.
Nutral, the flight master in Shattrath City, now has a quest for characters who are level 70 and do not yet have a riding skill of 225. The quest will direct a character to visit the appropriate riding instructor in Shadowmoon Valley so that the player will know where they can purchase the skill necessary to use a flying mount.
The icon for the Charged Crystal Focus has been changed.
The range of the Battery Recharging Blaster used in the quest, "Recharging the Batteries" has been increased.
The Repolarized Magneto Sphere now only functions within the Blade's Edge Mountains.
Upon completion of the Ghostlands quest, "A Little Dash of Seasoning", if a character still has the Apothecary's Poison; it will be removed from their inventory.
User Interface
The Auction House UI has been much improved. The useless categories have been removed (Plate-Cloak for instance) and a number of additional sub categories have been added. In addition, many items have had their category changed so that they make more sense.
The Auction house time periods have been changed. Now items can be put up for sale for 12, 24, or 48 hours. The option to put up items for 8 hours has been removed.
Sorting of auction house searches has been simplified so you can only sort by one column, and automatic sub-sorts have been created for those columns to be as useful as possible. In addition, sorting is now done on the server so as you page thru results, items will appear to be sorted across the entire results instead of just the page you’re looking at.
The Battle Map has been renamed to the Zone Map and can be turned on for any zone rather than just PvP objective zones. There is now a drop down in the world map screen that allows you to choose when the zone map should display.
Items that have cooldowns will now display the base cooldown time in the item tooltip.
All players now have a tracking bubble on their minimap. From that menu you can select a specific type of vendor or npc to look for or you can select a specific tracking type if your character has tracking. Yes this means that hunters can take all of those tracking buttons off of their action bars.
Game objects that you can interact with will now sparkle and display their name over the object to make them more obvious.
Questgiving objects will now display an exclamation point above them when they have a quest for you. Quest completion objects will display a question mark.
Items with Metagems in them will now display the gems required to activate the metagem and whether those requirements have been met on the item tooltip.
When you take damage and have a full screen UI up, the edges of the screen will flash red so you know you are under attack.
Inspect distance has been increased to 30 yards.
When you inspect another player, you can now see their talent choices as well as their equipment.
There are now options for displaying health and mana values on your health/mana bars for you/your party/your target and to display that information either as percentages or as numbers.
When you are possessing a target (Priest Mind Control, Eyes of the Beast, using a Steam Tonk, etc), you now get their action bar as your primary action bar rather than having a mini action bar above your normal action bar.
The Mind Control and Possession action bar has been revamped.
You can now send up to 12 items in a single mail message.
When you have an outgoing mail open, you can right-click on items to attach them to that outgoing mail.
When you have a trade window open, you can right-click an item to move it to the trade window.
When you have unopened mail, you can mouse over the recent mail icon and get the name of the people who most recently sent you the mail.
When you speak with an NPC with a single function (Banker, Flight Master, Etc) and who has no other gossip options or quests you will go straight to their functional pane rather than to the gossip pane. Most importantly this means that clicking on a flight master will bring up the flight path map directly rather than the gossip pane with the option to bring up the flight path map.
Quests that are much below your level will now have the tag (Low Level) in the gossip pane attached to the quest. This will make it easier to tell which quest to accept when a quest giver has both low and high level quests.
You can now set the loot threshold (/threshold) with a word as well as the loot threshold number for an instance- /threshold Epic- also sets the party loot threshold to Epic items or better quality /threshold Rare-sets the party loot threshold to Rare items or better quality
Corpses that belong to someone in your party, but that you cannot loot will say in the corpse mouseover who has loot rights on that corpse. This will help skinners who want to know who to talk to in order to skin their corpse, as well as master looters when special loot drops on a normal monster. Everyone will then see that there is a monster that the master looter has loot rights on.
When an item drops that you cannot loot due to uniqueness or other factor, you will get a chat message letting you know what the item was that you passed rolling on.
If a player is looting a corpse and there are one or more items on it that player cannot loot, the player will still be able to see those items (although not able to loot them). This only is for green or better quality items. The cases this should affect are for the profession recipes that only a player of that profession can loot or when master looter is on and there is a threshold or better item on the corpse.
The raid panes that have been pulled out into the gamefield should save their option settings between sessions now.
When raid bosses send an important message to the center of your screen it will be larger and have an effect that makes it more noticeable.
The raid warning command now appears in a larger font in the center screen and grows and shrinks slightly when it appears to make it more noticeable.
NPC's with level appropriate quests will now always appear on your minimap as yellow exclamation points. NPC's that have quests that you have completed will now display as yellow question marks instead of yellow dots. In addition flight masters that you have not yet gotten the flight point for will display on the minimap as a green exclamation point.
Npc's will display an icon on mouseover that gives a more specific indicator of their function rather than just a gossip bubble. Questgivers will now show an exclamation mark as their in game mouseover. Innkeepers will show a hearthstone as their in game mouseover and so on.
When an Addon attempts to perform an action that is prohibited in combat, you will get a chat message "Interface action failed because of an AddOn". This only occurs once per login.
Many interface elements now display players in their class color so you can easily recognize what class a player is. Interface elements affected by this are LFG, Guild, and Who.
You can now pull the list of players in a channel out of the Chat Channel windows and into the gamefield by clicking and dragging the channel name onto the gamefield. This list will show all the players in the channel sorted by voice chat status.
Voice chat will now display the nameplate for who is talking when you are in a custom channel. Currently it only displays the nameplate when you are in a party/raid.
When multiple people are talking in a voice chat session, it will show the names of up to four people who are talking at the same time.
The value of the TargetNearestDistance setting is validated at load time.
If a non-standard refresh rate is selected in the video options, it will now be saved.
The Spell Detail slider setting has been reset to the default setting. Prior to 2.3 the default for all systems was the maximum setting which was not appropriate for all hardware.
Many On Use items now display the cooldown in the item tooltip.
The tooltip for Block on the character sheet now displays the amount of damage reduced by a successful block.
New macro commands: /targetlastenemy, /targetlastfriend
New macro command to target by entire name: /targetexact
If you get a message "Interface action failed because of an AddOn", this means that an AddOn interfered with the Blizzard UI in some way. To diagnose this, enter the following into chat "/console taintLog 1" and restart the game and try to reproduce it. If you reproduce it, you can quit the game and search through the file Logs\taint.log for the word "blocked" and mail the log to the author of the AddOn listed there. Once you have done this you can turn off logging by entering the following into chat "/console taintLog 0”
For more details on UI macro and scripting changes, see the UI & Macro forum.
World Environment
Creature AI has been changed to no longer prioritize attacking unfeared targets over feared targets.
Gas clouds in Nagrand now produce motes of air.
Gas clouds in Zangarmarsh now produce motes of water instead of motes of life.
The gas clouds in Netherstorm are now always visible. Abilities on goggles that previously allowed the player to detect these invisible gas clouds will now show all gas clouds on their minimap instead. This will stack with other tracking types.
Stranglethorn Vale
Saltscale Tide-Lords no longer have frost nova
The fear on Mosh'ogg Lords is reduced
Lowered the fireball damage of Defias Pillagers
Increased the cooldowns on the heals of Kurzen Medicine Men
The standard Disarm ability that many creatures use now has a duration of 5 seconds instead of 6 seconds.
Sonic Burst now silences for 6 seconds instead of 10.
Bug Fixes
An issue with spawn rates in Forge Camp: Terror and Forge Camp: Wrath has been fixed.
Fixed the position of one of the Box of Mushrooms objects at Ango'rosh Stronghold for the quest, "Stealing Back the Mushrooms".
Fixed the position of a mineral node in the Blade's Edge Mountains so that it is no longer floating in the air.
Fixed a problem with the directions in the quest, "The Ultimate Bloodsport".
Fixed a bug in the pet sheet stamina mouseover tooltip that showed an incorrect health increase value.
Fixed an issue with aura stacking and debuff cooldowns when reapplying a debuff after being charmed.
Reverse cooldowns are correctly refreshed when a buff is reapplied by another player.

You had a Bad Day!!!

2007-11-09T09:11:00.001-05:00

So last night the guild and I went to take down curator and Aran. Well we started of well sending mobs to the trash compactor, everyone just owning everything. Got some books for the fight and so on and so on and so on....... We finally made our way to curator. Curator used us as a mop and cleaned his giant hallway up very nicely. That hallway sparkled with shine from our dead carcases. Five or six wipes later we were having some serious doubts that we can take him down. We usually can one shot him and for some reason we were having a lot of trouble. No real reason behind it just something went horribly wrong for us like our luck. Finally we own him, we brought the pain like no other and we sent him 6ft under and I managed to get a POM Pyro off when he was evocating for 22k in damage, Yep gave him a nice tattoo of Maisson's face on him. Of course AP stuff dropped, which is good for our 2 rogues that were with us. Oh yeah of course we had to clear trash twice to get to Curator( repops) .
We then proceeded to fight our way to Aran. Dropping trash left and right. We are now looking at Aran's door. Hmmm should we knock? Nah we used Swat tactics and broke the door in and began to give him a whoopin that made Illiadan scream in pain. That's right people we one shotted Aran and with a quick vengeance too. Maybe if the Curator played a little nicer we wouldn't have had to take it out on Aran. Oh look more AP gear dropped, Grats to our rogues again.
So a Bad night turned into a vengeful night, which in return turned to a good night for our Rogues.
But the most important thing to remember is that we had fun(except running to our corpses).

ZA equals serious gear check!!!!!

2007-11-06T08:00:00.000-05:00

So last night my guild decides to take a stab at ZA on the PTR. Wow this is gonna be one hard fight. the trash mobs hit very hard. We went in with 2 CC's 2 tanks 2 rogues 3 healers 1 shaman. We wiped enough times to be clean for a month. The opening trash mobs we a surprise with how many came after us and took us back for a minute and then we destroyed them. Then we get to "meat" those new armored bears, Wow, they hurt, but they can be CC'd. I'd say half the trash is immune to CC'n. The good news is the grave yard is right to the right of the instance so no long runs back. Once you get to the boss he has 4 waves of trash mobs that seperate him from you, but good news I just saved a bunch of gold on my mount insurance by switching to gnomico, really the news is you can eat drink and be merry between each set. Then after a few wipes we get to the boss(Gear Check time).
we may need slightly better gear. We managed to get the bear boss down to mid 40%. This boss also does a swipe that damages a total of anywhere between 10000-15000 damage but it does midicate so if you have 2 tanks they can split the damage from that. Keep that in mind. You will need minimum of 2 tanks better if you had 1 or 2 off tanks as well for the trash mobs.
There is a village right below that has quests and a hidden repair npc so look for that if you need to repair. Also since this instance is an outdoor one you can mount inside which is nice to quickly return to battle if you die and may save your team.

2.3 stuff

2007-10-29T19:20:00.000-04:00

Well mmo-champion.com has whole bunch of updates for 2.3. Like a new bear mount and gear from ZA. New season 3 items and so on. Theres alot of cool stuff going on with 2.3 and alot of class are getting buffed and a few nerf's going on as well. But over all a good patch.

I am going to kara again this week to try to get some more purples.

My hunter did get 2 keyfrags so far and the beastlord mantle. /points to all hunters that have crappy gear "HA!"

/flex oh ouch finger cramp....

Hunters Getting Nice BUFFS in 2.3

2007-10-22T10:51:00.000-04:00

So 2.3 is soon to be out and Blizzard is redoing quite a bit of buffs to most classes. Hunters get some nice ones. Say bye-bye to most of the dead zone it went from 8 yards to now 4 yards,(thats right no more scared hunters being afraid to shot you at point blank range)/evil laugh...hmm maybe I should have rolled a horde, seeing as how I'm a little evil. Let me list them:

Trueshot Aura (Marksmanship) no longer costs mana to cast and will last until cancelled.
20 and 24 slot ammo pouches and quivers will be added.
Serpent Sting, Immolation Trap and Explosive Trap gain additional damage based on ranged attack power.
Wyvern Sting will be instant cast.
Arcane Shot(ranks 6+) will dispel 1 magic effect in addition to the normal damage.
Aimed shot now reduces all healing done on the target by 50% for 10 seconds, in addition to the regularly increased damage.

and for my MAGES out there:
New Spell: Ritual of Refreshment. Creates an object that dispenses stacks of Manabiscuits, which restore 7500 health and 7200 mana over 30 seconds.
Detect Magic removed. All players may now see their target's beneficial effects at all times
Frost Ward and Fire Ward now gain additional benefit from +spell damage
Frost Ward and Fire Ward ranks 5 and 6 have had their base absorb lowered to compensate
Arcane Meditation will be increased to 10/20/30%.
Ice Barrier will receive additional benefit from +spell and +frost damage.
Ice Barrier Ranks 5 and 6 base absorb reduced to compensate.
Evocation will be changed to restore 15% mana every 2 seconds for 8 seconds.
The penalty which reduces spell damage coefficient when having the talents "Improved Fireball" or "Improved Frostbolt" will be removed.

So mages get to become the muffin man for everyone..lol
When you cast the refreshment spell its just like the Warlock spell for the soulwell, everyone has to click on the green and black floaty thing that looks like a rip in the space time continum.

I will post more about everyclass later tonight and also on some weapons and skins along with the new mounts and a possible tamable bear from the new ZA instance..

Thats right 70 finally

2007-10-17T20:16:00.000-04:00

So I finally hit 70, yay now I get to sit at the big people table.
So now what am I gonna do?
Well I could get my professions up, mining and engineering. I could ground out some rep. I could do some PVP in BG or arena.
Hmm what to do? what to do?
/ponders
Well I'm gonna tell you what I am doing, I am doing all of the above. I spend a few hours mining(255 finally), yes once my mining is up to 375 then I will finish up engineering, I then spend an hour grinding rep and then an hour doing PVP.

"But Sev what about getting gear and running instances?"

I'm glad you asked that question. I will post out for doing some runs and I need SL to get Sonic Spear and my key frag, but lets face it getting a run together for SL or any lower instance is hard so I just do the other until I can get in.

/continue grinding and mining

Hot like Fire

2007-10-11T19:06:00.001-04:00

I got some new pants after we downed the big bad wolf.. Ha more like pup..

Sev is back to where he belongs

2007-10-11T18:12:00.000-04:00

Well Thanks to all of Blizzard's recovery team for getting Sev back to Hyjal with all his equipment and gold..

I have since been catching up and busy at work so I have to put the blog to the side, however I am back to write more stuff..

Sev is now 68 almost 69 and halfway done getting his Kara key.

Hack the Planet!!!

2007-10-03T14:13:00.000-04:00

Yes I have been a victem a second time of a hacker...
/sniff
/teardrop

So the same thing has happened and in the same fashion. However this time we were able to change passwords before any character deletion.. I did lose 2700g total.. but I can grind that back.. They did manage to transfer Sev to another realm. So now its under investigation and hopefully will be moved back to hyjal. I still have all my gear..
/phew

What saved my account was actually these WoW signatures I have up top. I noticed that Maisson suddenly became a frost mage.. so now i have to get some gold to respec.. bastards. So these signatures are well worth it.
I believe this may have been from an addon recently dl'd because of the new patch.. so everyone be careful.
I must have some bad luck...
and they say lightning never strikes twice.. LIARS..
lol

To Raid or not to Raid

2007-10-02T13:13:00.000-04:00

Lets chat about raiding for a minute. What to do in a raid? What is most important in a raid? How do you handle certain situations? What is your goal in a raid? These are all viable questions that can help determine the outcome of any "run".
Everyone has a role in a raid, whether it's DPS, Tanking, Healing, or something in between. Now to figure out what you are going to do is simple and it's determined by class. Lets face it we all know a priest can't tank. Lets talk about roles real quick. Warriors are tanks by design, Mages-Hunters-Rogues-Warlocks are pure dps and CC, Priests are healers, and then there is the hybrid classes, which are Druid's-Pally's-shamans. A druid can do any of the 3 main categories just by switching their form, a pally can tank-OT-heal, and Shamans can do DPS and Heal. So now that you know your class roll there are a few small things to consider as far as spec goes. Talent points can determine what type of Subclass you are, such as protection tank or arms/fury tank or druids can go either feral, resto, or balanced which would mean feral-dps/tank, resto-healer, and balanced-caster. I would suggest maybe trying each spec out at 70,which may cost some gold, but you will achieve a better sense of understanding for your class roll and may make the game a little more fun.
So now you know your class roll in a raid. /cheer
The best thing before entering the instance is to do a check as far as your roll in the run, ie a pally can heal but be OT at certain situations, and it is very important to know ahead of time and not finding out after a wipe.
*Que a black and white 1950's film strip for school
DPS-"what happened? Why did we wipe?"
Tank-"well the pally was supposed to pick up OT when we got one to many mobs."
Pally-"I thought I was healing... you never said anything about OT'ing....."
Tank-"Golly gee-wiz I just assumed you knew that"

See now if they had talked about rolls in the beginning everyone would have been on the same page. Now that doesn't mean every group or raid does this, but it has happened once in a while. Also make sure everyone int he group knows which target symbol is theirs, this could cause a wipe if people get confused on which one is for them.

Also before a run, make sure you are repaired and have empty bag slots available (everyone is guilty of that one), but it does help the party out alot. Perhaps the lead in group can flash a message across the screen that said repair and restock before you make it here.
Determine the loot rules ahead of time so there is no downtime in trying to figure out who gets what. Always have pots and bandages in stock.

So now the rest is up to skill and luck and you should down the run in no time at all.

Another big thing I noticed and am guilty of is the damage meter. As a DPS'r I strive to be number 1 on that list and would stop at nothing to get there including pulling from the tank, which could cause a wipe as well. This is not good. Now I turn of damage meter and just play by skill and need for the run, which I tend now to live a little longer. People that want to top the DM list tend to lose sight or focus on the group itself and may cause a wipe or not, but is that a risk you want to take?? personally I would rather play my roll to the fullest and focus on the boss/mob at hand and get the purple at the end instead of balls to the wall DPS and someone die early.
These pointers may help in future situations or they may not, that is up to you. By no means am I telling anyone how to play, you play the way you want to and strive for what you want and don't let anyone stop you, it's your game that you pay/play. Just have fun.

Sweet 67

2007-10-01T08:32:00.000-04:00

Sweet I dinged again. So now I am up to 67 and working hard to get to 68.
/pats back

So now alot of people always said that don't waste your money on gear every level, which I can agree with somewhat. The only problem with that is when you level you gain some stats, but you also lose your crit chance, be it ranged, melee, or spell. So now if you do that for 5 levels you will lose 1-2%, which is alot. Everybody loves a good crit sometimes. So now I say make yourself an AH allowance for your levels, such as levels 10-20=2g, 20-30=5g, and so on. Now when you hit level 60 you may need to spend alot to get your epic mount, which I suggest doing, it makes moving(running away) through outlands a whole lot easier. Now so for the first few levels you will get great gear quest rewards, but it starts to die down when you get higher up until you hit the final 2 areas of the outlands. So you finally get your epic mount,(/cheer) now you have to save up for your flying mount when you hit 70 which is 1kg. That is alot of money....
/go to shat bank
/ask for a loan app
"what kind of bank is this???No loans??? that's it I'm switching banks!!.."

Well good news, you make alot of money from drops and quest turn ins. So now you have to learn to budget your WoW checkbook. I personally started at 60 with 60silver after purchasing my epic ram I now have 1200g. I give myself up to 50g allowance when I go train. So if I see something(s) on the AH that will boost my stats, I get it as long as it is under 50g. This way I don't lose my crit stats to much and I will gain more in other areas as well. Well at least I have enough for my flying mount right when i hit 70 and will still have plenty of gold left over, which will help me get my engineering up( thats right flying mounts being hand built, I wonder maybe it will be snoopy's dog house?) I heard that it will be a mechanical dragon. Oh can't forget about the mailbot, so now we can drop a mailbox in a run that we can send ourselves stuff we collected or retrieve pots and supplies so we don't have to go in with our bags really full. (/teardrop)
So in final make sure you make smart buying decisions and not impulse shopping, spend when needed and you will see the gold pouring in..

Patch 2.2 and 2.3

2007-09-28T10:23:00.000-04:00

Well we got patched up and so far I don't see a real change. Hunters Kill command was supposed to not charge mana when your pet is on passive, but I still get charged mana. So maybe it's just me, is anyone else having this issue?.

Great now I gotta re due my UI's and addons since the patch I got all these errors. I did get some new ones that are really cool, like perl is nice. Some other addons just needed a simple off then on fix so try that before dumping everything, which is what I did, oops, I did atleast remember to back up my old folder so I was able to restore it.

Now for patch 2.3 there are rumors going around about Hunters being able to tame a fel reaver. I don't know if this is true as I'm trying to do the research on this, but according to BRK he confirms this is true or he has one big sense of humor(thats right i saw the /crosses fingers in white, ya little sneak...highlight page ftw). I haven't found anything else out yet and of course I don't have my hunter in the ptr to do a beastlore to it. If it was true, that would rock. If you want to read more on what BRK had to say click this www.bigredkitty.blogspot.com .
Mages will be getting a nice raid buff for water/food. They will be getting a refreshment well, which is like the warlock HS well or Priests healing well, where all you have to do is click on the well and BOOM food and water in your bags.. sweet deal.

Engineers get to make flying mounts.....sweet.. need to bring my skill up fast.

I will post more about what I find tonight, it's kinda tough at work since we are firewalled from sites..I wonder if I put up an icewall if that will cancel out the firewall.../hmmm no I'm not that stupid, there's no such thing in network terms of an icewall..

Did you hear that sound?? It sounded like a DING!

2007-09-25T09:02:00.001-04:00

Yup, I hit 66 last night and with that comes Kill Command (/claps excitedly). So now I have 4 more levels to go. This is a long haul. I do have enough money for my Birdie mount at least already, yes I still have extra money for training. I will be farming heavily with this toon to get a birdie for my mage.

My poor mage. Its hard to make good money on him ( I think he has bad ju-ju, but don't tell him. Oh shoot I think he heard me with his gnomish satellite ears.)

/console maisson

I did manage to solo a few elites last night with my kitty( named Bullet) who has loyalty level 5. Still troopin..... He does rip through mobs like they have catnip inside of them. It has been tough though to not pull aggro from him. BaconBits does hold aggro well but takes longer to burn the mob down. Now I gotta weigh out; faster burn to better aggro control.

/think

/debate

Its time for this Weeks TOP10

2007-09-24T10:55:00.000-04:00

Okay, it's that time again, the time no one has been waiting for....

It's the TOP10 again.

This week is Top 10 slash commands would could do in RL if you could.

10.) /rasp

well most people already do this..

9.) /slap

nothing like wanting to slap someone for irritating you..

8.) /sleep

I wish I could sleep on command..

7.) /gquit

I wish this would work at work..

6.) /roll

lets see who goes to lunch first.

5.) /charge

I would love a great battle cry and be able to say it at some random old person... that can't drive.. not that all old people need it just some..

4.) /dance

this is for all the people out there with no rhythm you know who you are..

3.) /cry

this one is for all the guys that watch chickflics with their lady friends that need to show a little emotion for their lady friends.. be sensitive it helps..

2.) /kick

good if a date goes bad. If you got one of those drunk friends that ruins everything.

and the number one slash command is....

1.) /AFK

nothing like clocking in at work and /afk till 5pm and then its clock out...

Did Kara Saturday night and what was our prize?

2007-09-24T08:36:00.000-04:00

My guild went to Kara Saturday night and I tagged along with Maisson. We did well on the trash mobs had a death here and there. Our healers did a fabulous job with the heals, Our tanks did marvelous in holding agrro, and our DPS'ers did a fantastic job (myself included) in opening a can O'Whoop-arse.

The chess event went with us dominating the game. It went well and fast(Checkmate). That's right Bobby Fischer I am calling you out!!!! That should make a boring pay-per-view event. I think I would rather watch synchronized gum chewing then that. Some purples did dropped *crossing fingers*(even though a gnome only has 3 fingers and a thumb so that was tough) and *please please* nothing for the mage. Grats go to the purple receivers on that one. Very nice stuff dropped for ya.

Next was Aran.*shudders* this guy was a small pain. We wiped the first 2 times to get our strategy down. Actually we did the first for strategy, second was just bad luck. On the second attempt we make it to the elements and Aran decides to give it to us like no tomorrow, he dropped his flame and blizzard at the the same time so it was an onslaught. Well Aran payback is a biatch, and we threw everything we had at him and BOOM! he went down like a ton of bricks. When those elementals popped we had our lock banish one and then the hunter would mark one and myself and the hunter would burn them down. Easy as pie ( although I'm trying to figure out how pie is easy..oh yeah that pie in American pie was a little easy and gave it up right away, no date or nothing...). Now its time to loot, and...and...and... Grats to our healers good healing gear dropped there..

Now it was Maidens turn. We dumped her like a sac'0 potato's( Sorry Maiden it's just not working out.. no please don't cry... really it's not you it's us.) that's right one and done on her.

and no mage gear again, but Grats to the others who got the purples..

Grats go out to our raid group. You ALL DID GREAT. Grats to all the looters as well.

Next time hopefully a mage item will drop. I'm sending Blizz a bribe and see if that works..

/cheer

3 Cheers to Amicus and our raiding groups for a job well done.

Ding! Ding! Ding! and in this corner a new lvl65!!!

2007-09-22T08:58:00.000-04:00

So last night I finally hit 65.. sweet!!

/pats back

So now I got my kitty tamed. I will still use my boar to solo to 70, but the kitty will come out to play for instances...

I did get a new BoomBoom Stick. It dropped when I hit 64 in Nagrand.

The GunBlade..

Which increases my AP by 36.

So I lost .46% crit chance to gain a total of 126AP with the new boomboom and a new axe and some gear, I think that was a fair trade off....

Well I guess its more kill,kill,kill to get to 66 and get killcommand....mmmm procs mmmmm....

It's Critastic

2007-09-21T10:59:00.000-04:00

Lets talk about Crit percentage.

So you have a 20% chance to crit with all the gear you have on. So what does that do for me?
Does it mean

A.) Out of 100 attacks/spells/shots 20 of them will crit.
B.) 20% of everything thrown at the mob will crit.
C.) 20% chance that one attack/spell/shot will crit.
D.) who needs crit when you can heal.

The answer is C.

Lets break that down as simple as possible.

Now lets picture a giant lottery machine with 100 balls in it labeled 1-100(wow that was hard).
1-20 crits 21-100 no crits.
Or 100 cards 20 being labeled Y and 80 labeled N Y=crit N=nocrit

Now you take a shot;
the lottery machine starts and poof first ball says 77
no crit
you take a shot;
you point to a card, it flips over and N shows
no crit... sorry you lose

next shot ;
ball says 32 which equals no crit nada nothing zippo zilch.. Bet you feel good now.
card says n which is no crit this time.. thanks for playing you loser.. wow harsh card..

3rd shot;
ball say 15...... DING DING DING CRIT.
card say Y... '' '' '' '' yes I got lazy and didn't want to type that again..even though I just spent more time typing this..SSHHH who asked you anyways..

Now every time you take a shot the balls get dumped back into the machine and the cards get flipped over and rearranged ( try to cheat by remembering the cards.. I'm on to you.. You are being watched)

so crits are based on 1 shot and if that shot crits. More or less /roll and if the number lands right you crit if it doesn't then no dice. Unless you got loaded dice /rolls you hack cheat and what ever else you are.../rasp.......

so inclosing best way to describe crit chance is;

every time you take a swing/fire off a shot/cast a spell your toon does a secret /roll you can't see and if the number is 80 or higher (this is all based on 20% ie if you have 15% chance to crit then if the number is higher then 85 ) you crit hence why sometimes you can have 4 crits in a row and then have 30 regular shots. It's all luck of the /roll.

Hope that helps! and I hope thats not wrong and I just fed you a line of bullterds.

Let's talk about the past..

2007-09-21T08:40:00.000-04:00

Okay now to find the delorian..

*scuffles around*

ah-ha I found the keys. So lets take a trip down memory lane.

/starts car

/sets the time and date

*flames left on the ground from tires*

and we are back almost a year ago, the day my account got hacked.

*Que's creepy music*

So I was at work one crappy day, when I get a phone call from my brother.

*ring*

Whats up?

"dude you playin right now"

No?! I am at work

"well unless you just turned into a "Chinese farmer" your playin."

Huh?

"it shows Maisson as online and when I whispered you I get the response of "sorry I no spek englis good" "

well that's no me......

...At that point I was really P/O'd, I felt like someone was robbing me all I could do was watch.

/takes a deep breath

okay time to get this back to me.

*lights a match, burns a wick going across the ground*

*Que's MI theme*

okay bro sign in as me to boot this @sshat.

"dude it's not working, your password has been changed"

/curse every word I could think of, including ones in other languages and ones that should now be legal words.

okay keep talking to him.. keep him online..

/calls mom

*explains everything to mom*

okay mom get online lets have blizz reset my password.

blah blah blah time goes by .. and we get it reset.

/calls brother from shoephone.

Okay I got the new password..

"yeah that worked on online and wow ummm... uhhh..."

what? whats going on???????????

*sweat beads dripping down forehead*

"all your alts including Sev are gone. All that is left is Maisson. Looks like he still has all his gear on him."

okay log on and see what is left of him.

"oh wow dude this sucks, all your bags are empty and you have 15g left"

WHAT!!!!!!!!!????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/curse every word again and then some.

well that's 2.5k in gold gone and all my spare gear and trinkets.

so we got a ticket sent in to blizz.

/play the waiting game.. wish it was the dating game...err scratch that one... I would have one angry wife if that happened and I'd rather take my chance trying to wake a hibernating grizzly bear then cross the wife's aggro line..* shudders*

finally a ticket comes back and blizz wants an email of the toons that were deleted and also made it appoint to say that they can't guarantee I get my toons or gear/items back.

5 weeks goes by and finally I log in and poof there's my alts again.. and they are naked..you know blizz you could have atleast clothed them...sicko's....

Of course they give me gear that is 5-6 levels lower then me and some gear was AAHHHH whale gear... no gold back of course..

So some where out there, out where this hacker needs a swift kick in the throat and some fingers broken... wow I still get a little upset about this.. heh

So that's the day I lost my alts.. and all my stuff...

/end story

/tissue

maybe I need a knew hobby...I hear drinking is a good one.

"Take me drunk, I'm home fociffer..hic...

Sweet I got linked

2007-09-20T15:44:00.000-04:00

So many thanks needs to go out to BRK http://www.bigredkitty.blogspot.com/ for linking my blog on his page today. I have received a lot of hits because of that so now I will work a whole lot harder to get info posted. I will post on WoW general things, Class specific, and of course my TOP10 lists will be updated once a week.

This is a new Blog so please check back regularly for updates. I will have it crammed with oodles of noodles,,,,mmmm cheap lunch,,,,,,, err a lot of info to boot.

On another note Maisson(my mage) will be hitting Kara a lot harder then he was before so I will post some videos and info on what happens and some strats that work for us will be posted as well. So far we have a few bosses on farm status.

The chain trap video will be up hopefully tonight I have to edit a few things and trying to get a good song or music involved.

Many thanks again to BRK and everyone that has popped over here to have a quick view.

/bow

Sweet I get a kitty finally... /cheers

2007-09-19T10:20:00.000-04:00

Well I am half way to 65 and for some reason I thought the next cat family in the 60's was a level 67 but low and behold I forgot about the lynx's in Bladesedge so tonight I am off to get the kitty boom boom.

No he will not replace my boar, this kitty will be mostly for instances and pvp. maybe some low level grinding greenies.. now I will have to go find cats to get the right ranks of claw and dash.. I have my work cut out for me..

Also with me being half way to 65 I will be getting a birdie too. So while I tame to train for the cat skills I will have to train for bird skills too.

This is The bird of my choice and I know the pictures are fuzzy but I don't have access to good picture since I am denied at work..lol

In case this is too fuzzy to make out she is known as Trachela, which can be found in the bone waste of Terokkar Forest. Well that would make my stable full. Great now I have to stock up on some meat and fish since that is what all 3 eat so I always will have the right food on me.

Great *sarcastically* now I get to fish and go from level 1 to 375.. That should be fun *shudders* better order a pizza and have a 12 pack ready for that one..

My pet and why he rocks!!!

2007-09-19T10:06:00.001-04:00

So why does my boar (BaconBits) rock?

Well 2 main reasons he does;

1. He looks cool with his undead features.

2. The most important feature would be his initial aggro gain.

I use KTM especially being a hunter to make sure I don't pull off my pet and have to play a melee hunter or play kite the mob game. With his charge ability and gore ability he generates massive aggro on the opening attack. He charges in to get anywhere from 3500 to 4500 initial aggro threat which makes aimed shot so nice when it crits since the mob can't be removed from him by anyone. By the time a mage can cast a pyro which may crit higher then 5k, BaconBits will have 8k threat in the next 6 seconds.. even if the mage POM Pyros the growl will keep the mob at his undead snout and his gore will crush them.

This makes BaconBits an excellent choice for solo grinding. However in instances its a little tougher to manage his threat. Its great to charge and off tank a second mob while tank gets first or to pick up the caster killing mob before it reaches the casters, but if I send him on the main tanks target he pulls the aggro right off the tank which saves a tank a huge repair bill..lol.. , but the healers forget to heal BaconBits thinking that the tank still has the aggro.

Well none the less BaconBits rocks and much love to him for making my repair bills only happening every 5-6 levels...

/clap

Chain Trapping

2007-09-18T13:09:00.000-04:00

I am currently working on a video about chain trapping and timing so keep your eyes open and if need be light a flare incase of rogues..

Top 10 again "You may be a WoW addict if"

2007-09-18T08:51:00.000-04:00

You may be addicted to WoW if,

10. You see road kill and you think about looting it.
hmm dead deer on the side of the road, I wonder if it has an epic shotgun within its stomach.

9. You dream of WoW 4 out of the 7 nights a week.
ZZZZZ...ZZZZZZ...crit 5k ZZZZZ....ZZZZZ.."OOM"......ZZZZZ

8. When you finish a pep talk or meeting and the words following are "FOR KHAZ MODAN"
alright people we need to get the report done by 5pm today.. lets get out there and hustle people "FOR KHAZ MODAN"...
Huh? What did you just say? Did anyone understand that?

7. Following number 8. someone actually knows what it is and responds back in the same manner.
"FOR KHAZ MODAN" ...
Huh? What did you just say? Did anyone understand that?
I did "FOR KHAZ MODAN"
okay you people are all crazy or speaking a weird piglatin....

6. Your keyboard has the letters W S A D and the Space bar have the letters worn off of it and permanent finger burns on them.
"mind If I check my email on your PC? "
"sure go ahead"
"okay wheres the "A" key and the "S" key... I think your keyboard is broken"

5.When you use the word "aggro" pertaining to someone getting mad.
You gonna be on tonight to do that run?
I can't ... wife aggro
Ah good luck with that.

4. When you have the bumper sticker on your car that says
"my other ride is an epic"

3. When you schedule your life around WoW.
mom can't you have your 50th birthday tomorrow I have a Kara run today..

We are gonna be late to you r grandfathers funeral.
I'm at Prince right now.. Gramps is not going to go anywhere.

Hey you coming to the game tomorrow night?
oh um yeah about that I had something come up.. sorry I can't make it.

2. Writing blogs or checking (while at work) anything on wow that you are allowed to look at.
"access denied. you have insufficient privileges to view this website"
okay lets try next site...

Can someone cut and past the updates, I'm at work and can't view them.

And the number 1 addict is,
1. You call out of work to play wow or when you only have 15 minutes to spare you log on to check the AH or mail.
Sorry I can't come to work today I am very sick.. (of course when you call out for wow you get very descriptive about your sickness)

your gonna be late to work if you don't leave right now..
Hang on I just need to check something real quick.
/log on
/check AH
/buy epic pattern
Sweet.
30 min later...
Your late for our quarterly meeting..
oh yeah about that. see what had happened was .....
/vanish

My Top 10 WoW Irritations

2007-09-17T13:34:00.000-04:00

This is a top 10 list for things that irritate me while I'm playing WoW.

10. When my traps/cc breaks early screwing up my timing or DPS.
trap/cc breaks = possible raid wipe

9. When I buy or choose the wrong item from quest rewards, vendors, or the AH.
/open bags, WTF??!! "?"of the whale

8. Repops
omw back, entering now.. d@mn..... omw back again stupid repops

7. World server going down in mid raid/epic looting.
yes sweet my first epic piece..... disconnected??? world server down??!!! finally logged back in wheres my loot?????? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6. Trying to look at someones hot equipped gear..notice "trying"
wow that looks nice.hmmmmm... I wonder what it is and if I can use it let me just take a quick peek at it..
/inspect
highlight weapon... hey where are you going??? I didn't get to get a look at the weapon... come back here!!! please?? oh come on stop moving....... finally
/inspect
highlight weapon ..and your moving again.. is this a mod to mess with ppl like me ???

5. Chuck Norris for more then 5 minutes in open chat...
the real reason you can't find waldo is because of Chuck Norris..

4. Random group invite messages
Ghhjkklooo has invited you to group...WTF? /who Ghhjkklooo .... Ghhjkklooo lvl 1 human warrior

3. Getting spam in whisper for gold and power leveling
/w from Poollkkiin " now offering gold and powerleveling at reduced costs.blah blah..." /reported

2. Ninja Looters
finally yes an epic shield... /need
you roll need 90.. nice need roll
mage rolls need 99
WTF?? Oh come on.. you piece of shhhh. steps away from key board.

finally one mob left then i get to loot my chest.
/attack..
wait who are you?? hey that's my chest.. Stop!!! no!!!

And Finally the number 1 thing that irritates me most
1. Duels
lvl 70 duelgod has challenged you a level 30 mage to a duel..
/decline
lvl 70 duelgod has challenged you a level 30 mage to a duel..
/decline okay you can stop now
lvl 70 duelgod has challenged you a level 30 mage to a duel..
/decline
/rasp
/hearth
/file harassment charge paperwork

Why Blog when noone will read it......

2007-09-17T10:14:00.000-04:00

So why blog??...Hmmmm
/think
Well I read alot of blogs and figure why not talk about everything and nothing. To get things off my chest, rant, and rave about subjects, people, and just general things. To offer advice on wow topics or general topics.

Let me just say a few blogs that I read inspired me to create my own in hopes of someone may actually read this and even if no one does at least it will get my thoughts out into the open.

Well let me start by introducing myself.
/wave
I go by the the 2 aliases Severoth( hunter) and Maisson(mage) on WoW(hyjal server).

/background on my toons
I started playing wow 2 years ago despite the fact that I always said I would never pay a monthly fee for a game. I got started by a co-worker who was always playing mmo's. I watched him reading forums and websites and started to ask what they were for and he told me about some of the mmo's he was playing. WoW interested me alot, but I still said I would never pay to play( "never say never") . He kept telling me how great it was and blah blah blah.. Finally I started to read the forums and read the websites and curiosity kicked in( good thing I'm not a cat or I'd be not typing this since I'd be dead) . Finally he convinced me to try his 10 day trial period card. So he gave me the discs and home I went.
I installed the game set up my account and boom I was at the create a player screen. Now I had been studying the different classes and races before I got logged in so I had a clue as to what I wanted to start with. After much debate with myself I decided to start a dwarf hunter. I went through the create screen and Severoth was born into Azeroth.
The first time I logged in I saw the opening video I was impressed that the video ended with my toon standing there like it was geared towards me. I start to learn how to quest and kill and by the end of the first night I reached level 6 and thought this game is pretty cool(kewl), but still not convinced to pay a monthly fee for it. I logged in the next night and made it to level 10 and of course finally got my pet and felt a real sense of accomplishment, this was my first mmo, I tamed a bear for my first pet, name was bear since I didn't know you could change your pets name.

I logged off for the night and went to sleep, and wouldn't you know it, I had a dream about WoW( and the addiction starts). I start to think about playing when I was at work which drove me to reading the forums all the time, of course this furthering my addiction. I played 5 nights a week for about 4-5 hours per night. I leveled at a slow to moderate pace since I was still a noob. I hate to admit this but I reached level 40 and never knew that I could hit the pet attack button to send out my pet to get initial aggro(melee huntard FTW) so that entire time I was struggling alot and getting fed up with dying, I did know atleast about talent points I can spend just not where to put them so it was a like a toddler eating spaghetti.
So I shelved my hunter and rerolled a mage.
Months later my mage hits 60, wow I finally did it I made it to 60.. now what? I ran instances, farmed, and crafted until the ever so nice TBC comes and now its off to the outands. Now I can get to 70, and again my hunter staying at 40.. So I hit 70 in a few weeks and started the instance, farm, and blah blah routine again. I was on top of the DPS list all the time and, somehow managed to pull aggro off every tank in my guild and pug runs. I was dubbed the "Aggrowhore". I started to get bored of doing the runs as of course I never had gotten a purple item from a run ever.. So every night it was log in, Boom Boom Boom, roll/bid, lose the roll/bid every time, pay a repair bill, log out.. I always seemed to end up with whale gear( go figure on that one) in my bags of course not on me.
/eww
I rerolled alot of alts and liked each playing style and still had the thought of my hunter in the back of my mind and tired to convince my self that the aggravation was not worth it and finally after much debate and alt playing i decided to read up on hunters..OMG you can have your pet attack first.
/lightbulb
So that's how come I always saw their pet charging out for the first attack.
/equip noob dunce cap
I always seem to have thought that it was a spell or something to that effect the hunter received from a quest or something and I never asked any hunters cause I didn't want to sound like a noob(very foolish to not ask and spend all that time doing other things...<----I'm with stupid) . All of a sudden my hunter was a it, I finally can play him to what he is supposed to be. I studied pets and and forums like no tomorrow to better myself and them came across a blog that seemed to make everything about a hunter make sense( http://www.bigredkitty.blogspot.com/ ).
Now I play like a true hunter(BM of course) and have been loving every minute of it. I only need to repair every 5 or 6 levels and got him to level 64 and still truckin to 70.
so a big /ty to BRK and his blog.
/clap
/bow