Holyssa

*points* Pretty bunny lady! But yea, a DKP wipe is a good thing, if not creating an entirely new table for Ulduar alone. - It's all new. And there's probably a TON of it. Fourteen bosses in what's supposeably WoW's toughest nut to crack yet will make for lots of DKP number munching. - It discourages hoarding. If the first boss drops a super awesome ranged weapon shaped like a shark with a laser-cannon strapped to it's face, many ranged folks stuck in the hole pit crater black hole will be crying seeing it go to one of the melee that have everything they need from prior content. Puppies and candy canes! Oh, the name Pink Speckled Dust should still be our new title. Karrock's T-rex will be our mascot.

I dunno. When I heard it'd be entirely vehicle-based, this is what I imagined the tank's thoughts to be:

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/3p1/ulduar.xml Spoilers galore, including info on how the "Hard Mode" stuff works. Oodles of lore too. The US page can't be far behind. ...oh, can you spot the pun somewhere in this article? Here's a hint:

It puts the DKP in the pit or else it gets the volcano again!

Formula: Enchant Weapon - Potency I'm looking for a kind enchanter who can apply this to a 1H weapon (I have all the mats). I've asked a few people in the guild already, but this is a rare sucker that very few seem to possess, and is a world drop from Outland. "Why not just get Greater/Superior Potency, noobwaffle?" Because Potency is +20 Strength. This (for a tanking paladin or warrior) provides block value (more aggro from shield abilities & extra mitigation), increased white damage, and roughly 40 spellpower with the right talents. Other Potency spells are but a flat spell power boost and don't offer the mitigation bonus this does.

Seems like good rules to me, and I wholeheartedly agree on skipping the Sunday night for the time being. We easily proved last night that we can plow through the current content in just under two nights, and Sundays can give folks breathing room to do other things until the big U finally opens to the public.

That kill shot would make the perfect "Where's Waldo?" puzzle. Great job folks, even if we did win by the skin of our teeth. I luv one-shots ...oh, one last thing: "Malygos yells: I've fallen, and I can't get up!"

Dual Talent Spec Q&A: I underlined some key bits...some very good info besides the usual "STFU and wait for the test realm". Oh my. As if Darkmoon cards didn't make Scribes popular as it is, this is gonna be the icing on the cake. Sucks that you gotta go into town still, but eh...can't have EVERYTHING at the palm of your hands (unless you multibox and magically summon the "Lexicon"). Very good news for BM Hunters too that are afraid of losing their massive epeen animal exotic-pet. I hope they can get the kinks out for lower level players, cause seeing everyone simply go DPS and fly by 1-70 is just...blah.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...62341&sid=1 I dunno if anyone is bats enough to repeat this, but a voidwalker tanked Sarth+3 (10-man) for the first 50% of the fight. Details inside. This made me chuckle, because the raid's star player happened to be some quiet blue creature from the dark beyond

Still want that Violet Proto-Drake? Well, another seasonal event is here, which means Blizzard has work for you to do. Blargh! Have a bowl of copy-pasta, and use this list o'stuff to tackle this holiday's tasks. Click the blue text for Wowhead linkage. Some of this stuff does require Northrend dungeon hopping: Heartmender Use the Unbestowed Friendship Bracelets on 20 players affected by the Heartbroken debuff. You can find the bracelets inside the Gift of Adorations you get when you offer a Love Token to a guard in capital cities. Nation of Adoration Get a Gift of Adoration from each capital city. Tokens are bought from Innkeepers during the event. Giving a token to a guard will affect you with the Adored debuff and will reward you with a Gift of Adorations. This won't work all the time, you can also get the Heartbroken debuff and in this case you just won't get anything. You can cancel the Heartbroken debuff with a Unbestowed Friendship Bracelets ... Which is the whole point of the achievement! Just make other players happy! (Holy's Note: A GIFT of Adoration comes from named NPCs, like Craven Dok in Orgrimmar's Drag. PLEDGES come from guards, and only if you lack the Adored debuff. To save travel time, you can do this Achievement by speaking to NPCs of different factions while in the same city. For example: Bounty Hunter Kolark in Orgrimmar will give you credit for Thunder Bluff and the occasional Freshly Picked Flower for his city's gift set, allowing you to still run about Orgrimmar to finish up other sets. Flirt with Disaster Drink enough alcohol to be completely smashed, buy a Perfume Bottle from the closest Innkeeper selling it, and use your Bouquet of Red Roses or Bouquet of Ebon Roses on either Sraaz (IF pie selling gnome) or Jeremiah Payson (the roach-selling dude in UC) depending on your faction. Nearest and Dearest Buy some Perfume or Cologne along with a few Love Tokens and complete the Dangerous Love questline depending on your faction. They're simple delivery quests and you shouldn't have any problem with that. Sweet Tooth Eat a Buttermilk Delight, Dark Desire, Sweet Surprise and a Very Berry Cream. All these items are found in the Box of Chocolate contained in Gifts of Adorations and Pledge of Adoration. If you plan to do the other achievements this one won't be a problem as you'll have plenty of them available. My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose Obtain a Bouquet of Red Roses or Bouquet of Ebon Roses. (Holy's Note: You only need one of these flowers, thank god) *The Bouquet of Red Roses is gone for good. Blizzard confirms this very retarded change: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...amp;pageNo=3#47 *The Bouquet of Ebon Roses is found on Maiden of Grief (Halls of Stone), Prince Keleseth (Utgarde Keep,) and Prince Taldaram (Ahn'kahet). (Holy's Note: Just farm Keleseth on Normal, reset, and try again for your friends. Be careful not to hit the 5-reset per-hour dungeon lockout!) Shafted! Use Silver Shafted Arrow on 10 players, once again you can find this item in the Gifts of Adorations and Pledge of Adoration and it should be pretty easy to have enough of them to complete the achievement. If you really need more arrows you can also complete the Alliance Gift Collection/Horde Gift Collection and complete the quest to get 5 extra arrows but it's going to waste a LOT of your time. Lonely? Join someone for a picnic in Dalaran! This will require a Romantic Picnic Basket, this is a rare drop from Gifts of Adorations and Pledges of Adoration. If you're not lucky with drop rates, you can still find someone with the basket and share a picnic with him/her to complete your achievement. The Rocket's Pink Glare Shoot off 10 Love Rockets in 20 seconds or less. This is another easy achievement, you can find the rockets in Gifts of Adorations and Pledges of Adoration. Fistful of Love Use a Handful of Rose Petals or your Bouquet of Red Roses / Bouquet of Ebon Roses on each of the race/class combination. Handful of Petals are found in Gifts of Adorations and Pledges of Adoration. (Holy's Note: The ebon bouquet is bugged and is not giving credit for this when used on specific targets. If you have a red bouquet from last year however, it seems to work okay...) Be Mine! Use the Bag of Candies found in Gifts of Adorations and Pledges of Adoration to create each of the hearts listed. I Pitied the Fool Obtain a Love Fool from a Gifts of Adorations or Pledges of Adoration and use it in the specified locations. Once the Love Fool is on the ground just target it and do a /pity emote. (Holy's Note: You don't have to own your own Fool doll. Just /pity a friend's and you should get credit. Locations for the lazy: -Naxxramas (Zone in, can't do this by the summoning stone) -Wintergrasp (not sure if you need to be in the fort or general area. Both should work fine though.) -CoT: Old Stratholme -Arathi Basin Blacksmith -Gurubashi Arena (STV)) ....oh, you only have until February 16th to do all this stuff.

By Eyonix: *E.T. voice* Ouuuuuuuuuch.

Aww man, who's gonna do the Motivational Arnold Yell now?! Please don't suggest Orcala do it. >.> In all seriousness, thanks for all you've done to help Bar, even with all the bullcrap & responsibility that comes with being raid lead, we've done darn good for ourselves. Get RL sorted out, and keep on face-planting wherever you may raid.

Happy Birthday Xeno! *kicks the forum for disabling smileys*

*COUGH*Arena*COUGH*. A lot of paladin, shaman & priest QQing probably resulted from this, yet I'm surprised it hasn't been done long ago, much like the warrior rage-conservation changes (supposeably) coming in 3.1. I'm even more surprised they dented Mutilate's damage, although it's hard to tell if it's a loss or gain with SnD and HfB's modifications. I don't know much about Arena numbers these days, but if it has anything to do with rogues in too many top teams, this doesn't come as a surprise. Rather than improve the survival of the other classes, they point the finger at a class that's already on the Endangered Wildlife list next to Warlocks Hm...upon looking at the mage changes, perhaps the will go the way of the dodo bird? Then again, it's a term I have not heard for some time. It's been ages since I met one face-to-face in PvP. /shrug

Totally out of the blue, as if it jumped you from behind out of some dark corner, right? I figure I'd post this in case any Crushers ask "zomg, what did teh patch do?!" http://a.wirebrain.de/wow/ so far has the only patch mirrors, but I'm sure WoWwiki will have em up too in a bit. Non-dispellable Seals...with half-hour durations...someone pinch me. Very nice PvE mana saver, although I'll probably wind up refreshing them every few seconds anyways out of habit >.< And WTF @ the Curse of Tongues/spell slowing nerfs.

BLARGHLFLAGHCK!!! Due to Blizzard's technology displaying steaming amounts of fail (again), Classic Crap Friday's AQ40 trip will be delayed till next Friday, February 13th. /angrytableflip

My, Eyonix has been a busy little beaver whelp. Three posts over the past day or so have given a peak at what's to come with the big Ulduar patch in terms of class changes. Some of them look sexcellent. I combined all 3 posts into one big one. Oh, bear in mind - these may or may not make it into the final patch build when it hits in the next millennium or so. Upon reading the paladin changes, all I gotta say is... Baseline Kings? Exorcism being useful? Shield of the Righteousness actually behaving like a real shield bash? I think I need to lay down. Hm...if I am reading right, Hunters only have to buy 1 bullet/arrow type and never have to refill again? Baseline Spirit for priests is nice, but I can't help but wonder if it's due to all the mana-regen changes coming up.

Dammit, my tanking capability has decreased by 5%....Orcala, I need a sammich! *tiredly tries to roll face across the keyboard*

(vºДº)> Give up being...AFK?! Who are you? What happened to the woman I love?!

Happy Birthday!! To celebrate, here's a LOLCat

A-freakin'-men. You can't even brush by the official site without hearing the U word and the mass of the elitist maggots trying to discourage folks from even going near the place, when Blizzard hasn't said much besides "stop QQing, we promised it'd be super-duper hard!". And even then, I have my doubts on it's difficulty with the pace that people are getting geared up at. This drives me bats. If people are bored, why are they even raiding? I come to these runs week after week to hang with my guildies, experience epic lulz, point & laugh at epic fails, get wasted off of Tizzy's bunnies, and just have an overall good time, not whimper about the action. The drama only falls on deaf ears. Yea, it's the same ol' content each week, but how is it any different than the past? It's all part of playing a game with no ending, folks. Get used to it, and make the most of it with the folks you play with I say. The problem is only going to slowly resurface when Ulduar (dammit, I said it) hits anyway. *hurls squeaky toy at Orcala* But mama, I swore I saw a monkey in our raid last week! It had a big pink bubble that was this huge! +==O_o==+

Not sure if you had these activated prior to reformatting, but make sure you reinstall AdBlockPlus and NoScript (which may take some configuring) if you use Firefox. Orcala recently found a few devils on her system, and while she says she didn't click on anything dangerous, all it takes is one ad or banner with malicious script to ruin anyone's day.

The general idea behind these runs is to tackle the leftover rep grinds and the boss achievements quickly and efficiently for folks who are sick of seeing the unfinished grinds collect dust, not so much for gearing up. I'll welcome more folks easily to boost the raid's numbers, but it's much better if they gain a few levels over the instance's norm (ie - L65+ for the old 40-man stuff) to avoid slowdown via low-level deaths (ever see how fast a L60 T2 tank dies to Princess Huhuran's barf-o-rama volley?), lack of boss knowledge, or loot problems. And yes - I'd like to do Hyjal/BT because not everyone got to see Illidan or Archie, although I can't say when that will be. Friday we blew through MC/BWL/ZG with a mere 11-12 people, but the L70 stuff still requires just above that to perform decently without struggling. For now I'll be sticking to the old 40-man stuff until more people become interested. Oh, this Friday will be AQ40. Make bag room for all those bug mounts!

http://us.blizzard.com/blizzcast/archive/episode7.xml Really long read. Or if you prefer the in-a-nutshell version (from WorldOfRaids.com): * Blizzard viewed Wrath of the Lich King as a "Coming Home" expansion after testing the boundaries with The Burning Crusade. * Northrend was actually one of the first areas prototyped during World of Warcraft's original development, and that area eventually became a part of the Northrend you see now. * Death Knight was not the only hero class Blizzard speced out for the expansion. They also came up with ideas for Necromancer (caster dps) and Rune Master classes (more of a melee, monk-type class). Death Knight fit with the theme though, so they went with that. * There are around 140 people working on World of Warcraft's development. About 10 of those work specifically on the game's lore and quests, including Lead World Designer -- Alex Afrasiabi. * Major lesson from TBC: Don’t dump the entire server into Hellfire Peninsula the second the expansion ships. * Phasing is pretty much entirely intended as a story telling technique, and will likely be used more in the future. * Wrath Gate, its quest chain, and the cinematic ends "Chapter 1" of Wrath of the Lich King. Chapters 2 and 3 will be introduced in future patches. * Wrath of the Lich King isn't the "end of the road" as Arthas is but one villain in a pool of many. * Sargeras and Deathwing were used as examples of future villains, as they're both "still out there." * Blizzard is using Varian Wrynn to bring back the clash between the Horde and the Alliance. Characters like Garosh Hellscream will also contribute to this. * Yog-Saron could potentially be directly tied to the Scourge and Lich King, as well as the current plight with the five Dragonflights. * Yog-Saron's story will not end in Northrend. (They seem to be building him up as the next major villain) * It's unlikely we'll ever seen Medivh introduced through new story elements, as he's been "played out," Metzen feels. * Medivh aside, Metzen really likes the story of the Order of Tirisfal and the Guardian concept, so this could be explored more in the future. * The next "Guardian" may not come from the human species. * The Order of the Ebon Blade's origin really took off with the Ashbringer comic series. * The Order of the Ebon Blade and its leaders may play a larger role post-Lich King, once Arthas is defeated. Hmm...I cannot help but wonder who/what will be waiting for us at the end of Ulduar if they got more in store for Yog-Saron. Can't wait to see what these two new "chapters" will tell in the future. Wrath Gate was cool, but it's hard to shake off the cliffhanger feeling you get as soon as the chain is over