I'm glad to report that on February 9th, 2012 myself and 9 friends from Exhumed successfully slaughtered Deathwing and therefore saved the citizens of Azeroth from their impending doom. But seriously, I was honoured to be part of the guild's first kill and as much as my ego would like to think they couldn't have done it without me they most definitely could have although I'm glad they did let me tag along despite my lowly trialist rank in the guild.
Since the announcement of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria at BlizzCon 2011, we’ve been hard at work on all of the new game features, environments, dungeons, and other content that awaits adventurers. Today, we’re inviting members of the press worldwide to get an updated sneak peek and some hands-on time with the latest version of World of Warcraft’s fourth expansion at an event taking place March 13 - 15.
If you want to know more about what lies hidden within the mists of Pandaria, wait for the season’s end….
The above announcements of no Blizzcon 2012 and the press event are hardly breaking news, and as I was 99.9999999% not going anyway I really didn't care much at the time. But then I after listening to debates on podcasts and reading some blogs I got thinking of what this could mean for the future of the World of Warcraft.
A few weeks back I made a tough decision, I love the guys and girls at Saturday Knight Fever, they rock they really do. But sometimes you have to be selfish and after a lot of soul searching and attempts to prevent it happening I decided that I had to leave them behind. The options were limited, I love WoW for 2 reasons, the friendships I have built and the challenge of raiding and losing 50% of the reason I play simply means I don't enjoy playing the game and that meant leaving WoW or leaving SKF. Having tried out SWTOR and not feeling that it was along term WoW beater yet I decided to change guilds.
Cataclysm at launch had 3 raids in Tier 11, Blackwing Descent had 6 bosses, Bastion of Twilight had 4 and Throne of the Four Winds 2 bosses all had solid content that was hard enough for organised raiding groups and well formed pugs, but go in under-geared and without strategy and you didn't get far. We had variety, we had a change of scenery if we chose to do so. We even had the loot pinata in Baradin Hold. best of all we had the promise that we would get more smaller raids in more frequent patches. 4.1 would give us the Abyssal Maw, 4.2 Firelands and 4.3 Dragon Soul.
I've been struggling with my passion for raids for a while now. A lot of this was because my new job meant I couldn't raid as much as I wanted to and that didn't help me feeling detached from the latter half of the Firelands content. This was because my friends in Saturday Knight Fever weren't raiding at the cutting edge and as Firelands was great content and I was happy with that as we were progressing through at our pace.
2 weeks into 2012 and it is high time I set myself some goals for coming year. I already have at least 1 character of each class at max level, each profession maxed out and gear levels are high enough on all characters on my home server to enter the raid finder so the goals for the coming year are going to be no push overs.
A bit of a cheat this post as I'm simply reproducing one of my static pages I have just updated, but I think this topic actually deserves special attention.
Power Auras Classic is one of my favourite add ons as it replaces many addons that I used in the past as it allows me to create visual and ausio alerts that I design and position for procs like "clear casting", trinket procs, buffs/debuffs, cooldowns and even equipped items (I have been known to go into battle with my Chef's Hat equipped!
Its been a hard few weeks in the world of raiding, seeing posts from fellow priests like Derevka and Malevica posting guides on healing heroic Dragon Soul bosses fills me with a little bit of envy as my guild are currently struggling with the holiday boss and a few interlopers who have deserted WoW for a month until their free SW:TOR month ends, keeping us at 4/8 on normal modes. But that is the price I am willing to pay for being in a small social guild with friends and having fun rather than having WoW feeling like work.
That said if you're needing a new home for 2012 and can tank, heal or DPS a bit, can raid 2 to 3 times a week (10 man raids) and are willing to join me on Shadowsong EU visit the Saturday Knight Fever website and post an application.more »
As many of you may have noticed there is a new MMO on the block and like a few of you I have decided to try out Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Now my playtime in SWTOR has been short and I've only got up to level 11 and I haven't yet got my advanced class and am missing a lot of skills/abilities but I thought I'd share my experience with you and compare it to the WoW experience to see how both games could be enhanced by a transfer of ideas.
Christmas is the season for giving and today I have decided to give a little to my beloved guildies in return for a little bit of effort on their part.
Their task is simple reply to a post on our guild forums before the Lunar Festival starts on January 21st 2012, their reward will be a Mekgineer's Chopper. So if you'e a Saturday Knight Fever member, or would like to join us on Shadowsong EU and win this little beastie please visit the our forums.more »
At long last I have finally been able to complete my Tier 1 set for transmogrification. It was something I started work on when I heard about Transmogging back in August and being the proud owner of Benediction gained during Vanilla Molten Core days I have chosen this as one of the sets I'll use for my healing gear. Although I must admit I have cheated a bit because Garr still refuses to drop my Circlet of Prophecy so I have used the Crown of the Hallowed which is identical and is a quest reward from a priest class quest, Twilight Scheming, in Blackrock Depths.
The only sad thing for me right now is the fact that there are so few staves in the game for a healer that I can't actually show off my Benediction lollipop while in combat. Although I will admit I do equip it while in Stormwind and not in combat in the open world (I have even been known to heal 5 mans with it). So currently I'm disguising my mace with a Aurastone Hammer simply because it dropped from Garr this week and is a "period" accessory to match my outfit and if anyone out there can suggest a mace that matches/compliments the old Prohecy set I'll be eternally grateful.
Anyway, for those that may be interested on obtaining the Vestments of Prophecy here is a brief how to guide:
All 8 pieces drop in Molten Core so get yourself attuned to Molten Core, its easily soloable for anyone past level 65, even us Holy Priests.
Once attuned grab a friend to form a raid group with so you can enter Molten Core. They don't need to join you inside but if they want to it just makes it faster and more fun! If you can't find a friend get yourself a free trial account and level a character to level 10 (you can't join a raid pre-level 10), open up WoW 2 times and form a raid group with your trial account (if you have a low spec PC I would recommend disabling all addons on the trial account and also running the window at the smallest setting possible and keeping it minimized).
Now you're inside work your way around avoiding as much trash as possible and kill the bosses. The set has 8 pieces but the wrists and leg oieces aren't visible so unless you're a compulsive completionist you only need six pieces and the waist is a BoE which drops from trash so you may be lucky and find that on the auction house. The items you need are:
If you're unfamiliar with Molten Core don't panic it will just take a bit longer to find your way through there, its a maze so be warned! But to assist you on your travels I have included a map, free of charge,because you're worth it :)
I'll be honest, I was very skeptical of the newly introduced Looking For Raid (LFR) tool before it was launched. and had immediately tagged it Looking For Retard because of the dumbed down version of fights that was promised (threatend?) by Blizzard. 2 weeks on I've now actually experienced the LFR version of Dragon Soul, and now feel a bit more qualified to offer some real feedback on it.
Interested in joining me at Exhumed on Shadowsong EU?
Exhumed is a guild for the time challenged mature player. We're focused on raiding and PVP progression but won't penalise you if you put real life before the game.
We are currently recruiting for PVPers, healers for our 2nd raid team and social members.
By day I'm an IT Server analyst for a major telecoms compnay in the UK and I've been playing World of Warcraft since November 2005 when a pair of colleagues bullied me into playing! I have evolved into a raider (summer 2006), an auction house wheeler dealer (2007), a guild officer (2007), an altoholic (2008), a raid leader (2008), a Warcraft blogger (2010) and a PVPer (2012)
My main has, and always will be Evlyxx, a priest and I love to heal. I started as Holy in vanilla, dabbled with the shadow side during the middle part of Burning Crusade, before returning to Holy but I have been mostly Discipline since mid-Wrath.
No BlizzCon in 2012.
