Pallies Represent!

On my trip to Cabramatta last week as a means to get away from WoW, I happen to cross the following store:



So it turns out that a secret society of BE paladins have been planning their redemption against the Scourge right in the heart of Cabramatta. Maybe the captial 'Y' is a metaphoric "why" as in; "why the hell is a secret paladin HQ at bloody Cabra?" either way, I have found it, and have taken a photo as proof that paladins are much loved, even in Cabramatta. Shaman's in Parra? I don't think so.

For the Horde!!!

Level 80 Ret Pally

So far.. it's been OK. Hitting the level cap and changing gears from s2 PVP gear to Blue PVP gear crafted within my Blacksmith profession; this transition has its ups and downs.

The ups? I look like a badass. The Savage Saronite set looked like it was made purely for the Warrior / Death Knight class in terms of stats; boasting of strength, stamina and crit. rating goodness. What it lacks? Mana. From just over 8k of mana, I now have 5.6k - roughly. Crit rating has gone down from above 30% to 25% - roughly. But, I look cool.

Hit rating, a necessity these days as I tend to miss quite a bit, specifically with skills such as Judgements and my Crusader Strikes - my main sources of damange. Yesterday a prot Pally tried to gank, and my first 2 hits (Judgment of Wisdom and Crusader Strike) both missed. Not happy Jan. This resulted in me investing in some Hit rating gems. I now have 60 hit rating with my current quest reward blue 2 hander axe, without it, I would have 32 hit rating. It's a start.

Farming. Ganked or be ganked, there is no such thing as peace in Icecrown, so get your gank on. I am talking about mining, a Druid failed to gank me, which just outlines how stupid Alliance are. Ha! I was impressed how he fought to the death though.

Epic Flying. Great necessity. Speeds up quests, increases your chance to take ores, and, with crusader aura = I am the quickest.

So far, almost all good Blizzard, hoping that Pallies get to have the ability to ress a dead corpse and bless it with holy light to fight by the Pally's side (just like a DK's undead pet).

Wrath's worrisome waiting woes... (Why we weather WoW's wankiness)

The queues are long, had to wait two hours on Sunday as I joined the login queue behind person number 1478. Nothing like being pelted with paintballs all morning then logging into WoW and having nothing but an icy skeletal dragon flying around in a 25 second animation loop for 2 hours.

So another 1000 person long queue loggin' in today. What to do in the meantime?
Post some stupid WoW screenshots on your blog about "Games"? Okay.

That's my Shaman fighting Frieza in his goat form.


That's my Shaman looking high.


That's my Shaman, Vince's Warrior and Fletch's Paladin, and the Warrior farted and is all "What?".

The end.

Damn queues.

Guild Name Appreciation

It's good to see our Guild name getting some wraps when around the lands of WoW:



Finally, people are starting to recognise our 1337ness, thanks for the appreciation Maplestory.

Lucky Se7en!

So we got into fighting the good fight last night (pwning alli) and while I didn't rack up spectacular numbers I did manage to reach a neat milestone during the gankspree.
Super lucky good times 777 superrr!!!
It's a sign, since we didn't check on our Honor total often, and when we did I had that jackpot number.

FOR THE LLOYD!!!!

EDIT: Hmm, and I just noticed that my honor stuff for the day before was a neat triangle of three 6's. Oooooo.

Miranda Kerr Knighties (Get it?)

Yo! Presenting... the most fricken awesome Guild in the whole damn world anywhere ever created ever! Times infinity plus one! The Miranda Kerr Knighties!

Hell yeah. Recognize.
And I couldn't find a pic of Miranda Kerr in an actual nightie but this is close enough:

Why did we name our guild Miranda Kerr Knighties? Refer to the above photo. Yeah. Pwnd. Good night.

Whatever, Trevor

Well it's a sinch beating a RESTO shaman in pvp. Any Enhancement talents I have is just to help me not die as quick and run when I have to. It's so I can keep you guys alive in Arena. If a resto can kill you, and I pretty much only have regular melee damage (none of this crit proc stuff I used to enjoy...) and a couple spells for damage, then that's just bad luck buddy. If you beat a Resto shaman 1v1... well Restos can't do damage to you anyway so big woop. Especially to plate wearers. Not to mention we got no CC, or ways to get out of CC. When Resto goes OOM, that spells doom (for the Resto). Just saying.

Anyway, so we duel again, me and my Paladin friend, while the server has 1 minute before it restarts. Just for fun.

I won based on principle.

Anyway, later, we fought Ruul The Darkener, a lvl 71 Elite mofo that rides a lvl 70(something) elite dragon mofo. A reccommended 4 man quest to take this mofo down. My Pally pal and I take him on with just our balls of goddamn steel. And we kick his ass pwnagely. Sure, Pally pal used his Lay on Hands and I had to resurrect myself near the end right before we killed him, but after that all that was left was his stupid dragon that stood no chance against us.

We were so Epic that a trio of Alliance players (who always gank ya when they travel in groups) just watched us in awe as we pwned the Elite. Yeah. We're pretty goddamn great. The best.

The Best

Don't want to brag but I'm gonna: I am the best. Well, when it comes to dueling my friends at least.

I recently respecced to a Retribution / Protection build (0/27/34) and found it to kill ALOT faster than my old Holy / Prot build.

Needed to get used to the build, being noob at it costed me 2 losses to my Arms spec warrior friend. Then I got it figured out: turns out I NEED to bubble then heal since I no longer have the talents to heal while being hit, and interruptions are just annoying. I also learnt to keep my HP higher than its halfway point when dealing with Arms spec warriors.

So after these learning these tactics I ended up pwning him hardcore - he no longer wanted to duel after my 2 wins in a row.

Now for my shaman friend (resto / enhancement spec). I knew from the start that killing him would be hard. All that healing, and all that mana. I pretty much used the same tactics that I used on my warrior friend at first: bubble heal, stun then damage, judge when available. Failed.

I found that he healed too much and still had sufficient mana to last the duel, he even put out his damn fire elemental pet just to make sure the job was done, and I was done.. farr.

Then I learned from that I need to stun the f*ck out of him when he's about to heal. Obviously he's instant heal skill is excusable from this strategy - I can afford for him to do that at least.

So this is what I did: as soon as the battle started I mana tapped to get Arcane Torrent (BE racial skill that silences target for 2 seconds and gives back some mana on player) usable. Then as soon as I saw him heal BAM used Hammer of Justice. The second time he would heal I would use Repentance, then judge for extra holy damage. I should note that my Hammer of Jusitce only has a 35sec cooldown, due to my gears and talent point usage in the Prot tree. I then used Arcane torrent on his third heal. Like I said before, I can afford for him to use his instant heal once, just as long as I interrupt all other time consuming heals he tries to cast.

I ended up using Avenging Wrath at the end - just to make sure the job was done - p.s. I didn'theal during the duel, but could have if really needed it.

BE Paladin ftw!.

Avenging Wrath.

Look what happens when I trigger the level 70 Paladin skill: Avenging Wrath:





Sexy? Indeed. By the way, triggering this moves increases all damage I do by 30%. Sweet? I know. My dude don't need Red Bull.

Another WoW post....

Yes, another one. But about what? What should I be posting about?

Seems like this "games" section is just a front so we can spam the shet out of this with WoW posts. I mean, how many games have we talked about in this blog? Super Smash Bros Brawl? I've played like 2 hours worth of that game max LOL.

WoW is just such a big game its taking up too much room. When Kev and I are at "work" expect one of our browsers to be dedicated to either WoW Armory, Thottbot, WoWHead - the list could go on...

And while we WoW research at work, Vince WoWs all day at home - levelling like his life is going to end tomorrow - almost 68 now.

So until Blizzard's servers get f*cked and their back-up tapes burnt in a horrific accident - we will always play WoW...

Up yours Blizzard.

70 - and it doesn't end there

I was thinking, when I hit 70, I will be more free from this game as I have done it - I have reached the highest point in the game and everyone will acknoledge me for my achievement....

WRONG.

I've started to build up my profession skills and polish up my armour that I currently have on. That being said a lot of gold has been used to purchase: new blue item armour, materials to increase profession ranking, constant flight around the WoW, and repairing armour.

Professions? My character is a Blacksmith artist, and a hardout miner. My mining skill is now maxed and now currently trying to level my BS rank, which sits on 291/300 at the moment. Farming is not cool - although it does have its advantages:

- Farming in Un-Goro crater provides noob alliance levels ranging from 48-65. Each time I go around the area looking for thoriums, if ever I run accross an alli - they are dead within 2-4 hits. I give them no mercy and will keep ganking them as long as I can see them polluting my screen. DIE ALL ALLIANCE.

- not only do I get thoriums from this area, I also receive gold, truesilver and some gems and what not from mining - all of which are rare in the WoW.

- farming for 2 rounds (going around the place twice) gives me almost 60 thorium ores, which takes half an hour for each round. Not too bad I guess.

I maxed out my First Aid skill though - so now I can make the fattest bandages to even have an effect on healing fat ass Taurens.

PVP. I want to PVP. Waiting for my friends to also hit 70 (currently level 65 and 60) so we can start a new arena team. Names for this team have been concluded to the following:

1) Miranda Kerrians
2) The Three Tenors
3) Samurai Pizza Cats
4) vince rox (lamest name ever)
5) Biker Mice from Mars

.. the list kind of went on with cartoon shows that based their storylines on a group of 3 characters - we wanted to be TMNT but for obvious reasons chose not to. I'm leaning towards the Miranda Kerrians because she is hot.

Item purchases. Lately I have been buying blue armours / weaps / items for my character. I know it's kind of pointless but I'd rather die with somewhat good gear than get pwned with green gear in pvp - at least my character can perform better. However once my friends are 70 we are planning on instancing for a bit to get better purple ranked items - waiting is no fun, so I'm stuck on farming bloody thoriums for the time being.

p.s. I wish I can still scab honor points from the noob alliance I gank - no fair that you don't get honor depending on how low lvl the alli you gank are... an alli is an alli and should give me honor points regardless - unless the noob is like level 10 or something - then I can expect to get nothing.

68

2 more levels to go then I can finally start PVPing to collect epic gear. This constant buying of gear from the Auction House is draining my money - I need to start farming again.

My recent buy was a new 2 hand mace: The Oathkeeper.



To my surprise this weapon did not cost much - less than 30 gold to be exact, offers enough strength / stamina / intellect - I especially need the int. since my armour is based strongly on strength and stamina only.

I also got outbidded on blue item wrist plates that also provided heavily with strength and stamina points - fockers.

Trying to level up my first aid skill as a means to save more mana (reduce amounts of time I have to heal). I am finding my holy / prot spec much more efficient in terms of mana usage when I am equipped with my sword and shield, only problem is I kill at a slow rate, usually defeating mobs after 30+ seconds. I don't mind - I hardly waste any money on mana pots.

My friends are finally catching up, both of them reaching levels 48 (troll shaman) and 52 (tauren warrior). Funny when they duel as both can win over the other - although in the warrior's case, being 4 levels higher - getting beaten by the shaman is an epic fail.

Sunset

I'll give this to WoW, it really is a World. The environments are impressively diverse and detailed, coupled with how it changes dynamically with the time of day it's pretty cool. It really gives the feel of an epic world of such and such. Sometimes I gotta stop and appreciate the art direction and all those hard working people that obviously love their work. And I just wanted to post this vaguely cool screen cap I made:



Still noob tho. Gah.

Super Smash Bros Brawl

Finally got it thanks to my loving girlfriend. Played it for the first time the day I got it with my girl and sis.

First impressions? Felt and looked almost like SSBM really, only differences is the new maps, items, and obviously characters. I chose the Pokemon Trainer first up. Squirtle owns hardcore. Can't say the same about Charizard and Ivysaur. Charizard seems slow and fat, I liked how he can fly a certain height though but that was about it. Oh and he looks cool. Ivysaur on the other hand - completely useless I found, always changed out when he was chosen towards the end as he was just shithouse.

My second selection I was Zelda / Shiek. A character I was much more familiar with from the previous Smash Bros game. It got to a point where my sis and gf teamed up on me - and I still won lol. Some differences with Shiek (I don't use Zelda much or at all due to her slowness). Shiek is much quicker, and moves are more smooth. Thats all I can say for now as I have only played the game once, and WoW and my car are taking over my life at the moment.

I tried the one player mode: Subspace Emissary. I think Nintendo aims to use every available player for this adventure. As you start off with Mario and then Kirby from memory (I played the game almost 2 weeks ago) - It didn't really get my attention due to other already said distractions in my life.

Overall, I still need to play the game more in order to get a more pleasing review - think of this as the top layer of an onion's review of the game. I'm sure the deeper I get into SSBB the better it will get; I haven't even tried online play yet - something I am looking forward to.

And Sonic is still locked - I read that apparently you have to finish Subspace Emissary first to get him - nice one Nintendo you wankers!



Wanting to play Sonic already!

66

Upgrade on pally skills + new mount + new bought equips + mana pots = just 100 gold.

25% worth of exp. so far on this level. Nagrad quests seem to be endless and the mobs are getting a bit difficult - at this rate I'll be bankrup in no time - might have start to farm mining ores which will lead to more levelling down time!

I hate you WoW.

The Truth be Told

This just in:

Thought everyone would like to know.

An Epic worth almost 500 Gold

Yes I did stay up at 2am last night waiting for my friend to help me with my Epic Mount quest, which consisted of the following:

1) a Quest where you gather materials from certain instances, as well as buying them from the Auction House. Costed me around 100 gold. A further 150 gold for payment to continue on with the epic mount quest.

2) a Quest to kill 15 undead creatures around the Eastern Plaguelands and destroying 3 wagon shaped machines in the same area. No costs involved.

3) a Solo-able instance to obtain some Purifying water found South East of the Eastern Plaguelands map. Did this by myself with ease as a level 65 Holy / Prot spec.

4) Another gathering materials quest which costed me alot more this time... almost 250 gold.

5) Another instance quest which luckily again, was only found to be towards the beginning of the instance location. This is where my friend helped me - could have solo'ed.

So that being spent I spent a total of 500 gold for this damn mount - but it glows! I also recieved a Blood Knight tabard to recognise my leetness.

Oh, and yes, now I am broke, very sleepy, and wanting to go home to sleep.



Yeahhh boy!!