Why? Because I knew what I'd want to blog about, and I just didn't want to deal with the annoyance. I'm going to have to rant and get all worked up again. About what? Valentine's Day. More specifically, candy hearts.
See, I missed my "Love Fool" title by one achievement, and I missed that one achievement by one tiny little part. I was one candy heart short. ONE. I had seven of them going into the last day of the event. I logged in every hour hoping to get a candy bag. Finally, at 4 am, I got one...and out of all 10 hearts, nope, did not get the one I needed! Noooo!
I did get the achievement on two alts. Bleh. Oh, and I got over a dozen picnic baskets and seven lovely black dresses. But candy bags? Dippy got three or four, and the alts didn't fare any better (they just got lucky on the candy draw). I've heard other people had the same experience. It was a really crappy drop.
Also, it's an achievement. Doesn't that imply that I go out and, well, achieve something? The candy heart thing was more or less pulling numbers out of a hat and hoping to get lucky. That doesn't seem like an achievement....
Oh well...the child's week stuff looks like a pain in the ass. I'm sure I'll be ranting about it, too. All that PVP stuff...oh joy.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Goodbye Lunar Festival, Hello Valentine's Day
So I failed in my quest to find all the elders of the dungeon...I ended up with all but five of them. Oh well, next year will be much easier.
As everyone knows, we've moved on to the Festival of Love now. The instance part here is much easier than the Lunar Festival. All you have to do is get a bouquet of roses from certain bosses, much like the Santa hat achievement, for My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose. The easiest boss is Prince Keleseth in UK, but you can also do Maiden of Grief in HoS or Prince Taldaram in Old Kingdom. I hopped into a PuG for Keleseth last night, and all five of us had our bouquets in a little over an hour.
Other annoying parts: getting all of the candy hearts, finding the right class/race combinations to shower with rose petals, and pitying the love fool in Naxx (you can do it right inside the instance portal, but you've got to be in a raid group). All in all, however, this event looks to be much easier than the Lunar Festival since it doesn't require running all over the world.
As everyone knows, we've moved on to the Festival of Love now. The instance part here is much easier than the Lunar Festival. All you have to do is get a bouquet of roses from certain bosses, much like the Santa hat achievement, for My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose. The easiest boss is Prince Keleseth in UK, but you can also do Maiden of Grief in HoS or Prince Taldaram in Old Kingdom. I hopped into a PuG for Keleseth last night, and all five of us had our bouquets in a little over an hour.
Other annoying parts: getting all of the candy hearts, finding the right class/race combinations to shower with rose petals, and pitying the love fool in Naxx (you can do it right inside the instance portal, but you've got to be in a raid group). All in all, however, this event looks to be much easier than the Lunar Festival since it doesn't require running all over the world.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Easiest rep ever?
I'm now honored with the Thorium Brotherhood, and I have to say, it was the easiest rep ever!
Getting from neutral to friendly simply takes turn-ins of a piece of coal, two incendasaur scales, and either ten heavy leathers, four iron bars, or four kingsblood. You'll need 220 scales, 110 coal, and 1100 leathers, 440 iron bars, or 440 kingsblood, or any combination thereof. I did a combination of iron bars and heavy leather. With heavy leather selling on Sisters of Elune for 4-5 gold a stack, I had no problem buying up enough to suppliment the iron bars I had on hand. All in all, I believe you need about 120 turn-ins to get from neutral to friendly. Not bad.
The next step, friendly to honored, is even easier and cheaper! On Sisters, the dark iron residue goes for less than 2 gold for a stack of 100! All you need is 960 residues to hit honored. For less than 15 gold, I gained a whole level of rep! Seriously, the most difficult task at this point was turning in the items. Thankfully, there's this cool macro:
/script SelectGossipAvailableQuest(1)
/script CompleteQuest()
/script GetQuestReward()
Create this macro and then assign it to a hot key. Right click the dude (Master Smith Burninate), then smash your assigned macro key three times. Now do it again. And again. And again. And again....I suggest watching a movie while you do this. Seriously, it's going to take some time. You've got to do it 240 times.
Congratulations, you're now honored with the Thorium Brotherhood!
Getting to exalted...well, that's going to be a bit more difficult. Seems like, unless you run Molten Core often (and who does that nowadays?), you only have two options: turn in dark iron ore and Blood of the Mountain, a gem that rarely appears in dark iron nodes. Ten ores = 75 rep, while the gem = 500 rep. Sigh...it's 33,000 points from honored to exaulted, so that's 440 turn-ins, or 4,400 dark iron ores. Thankfully, blacksmiths can also grab some quests in Gadgetzan from Derotain Mudsipper. He's got 7 quests that yield a total of 2850 rep. You can have all that for 135 bars of thorium. Not bad. Oh, and you get 7 new blacksmitthing plans, too! Do these quests and you'll only need 4,020 dark iron ores! Wooo!
So it's off to mine thorium and dark iron...unless the price is right. Then I'll be buying rep by the truck-load! If all goes well, I'll soon be one faction closer to having the 40 faction grind completed, which means I'll be Dippy the Exalted!
Getting from neutral to friendly simply takes turn-ins of a piece of coal, two incendasaur scales, and either ten heavy leathers, four iron bars, or four kingsblood. You'll need 220 scales, 110 coal, and 1100 leathers, 440 iron bars, or 440 kingsblood, or any combination thereof. I did a combination of iron bars and heavy leather. With heavy leather selling on Sisters of Elune for 4-5 gold a stack, I had no problem buying up enough to suppliment the iron bars I had on hand. All in all, I believe you need about 120 turn-ins to get from neutral to friendly. Not bad.
The next step, friendly to honored, is even easier and cheaper! On Sisters, the dark iron residue goes for less than 2 gold for a stack of 100! All you need is 960 residues to hit honored. For less than 15 gold, I gained a whole level of rep! Seriously, the most difficult task at this point was turning in the items. Thankfully, there's this cool macro:
/script SelectGossipAvailableQuest(1)
/script CompleteQuest()
/script GetQuestReward()
Create this macro and then assign it to a hot key. Right click the dude (Master Smith Burninate), then smash your assigned macro key three times. Now do it again. And again. And again. And again....I suggest watching a movie while you do this. Seriously, it's going to take some time. You've got to do it 240 times.
Congratulations, you're now honored with the Thorium Brotherhood!
Getting to exalted...well, that's going to be a bit more difficult. Seems like, unless you run Molten Core often (and who does that nowadays?), you only have two options: turn in dark iron ore and Blood of the Mountain, a gem that rarely appears in dark iron nodes. Ten ores = 75 rep, while the gem = 500 rep. Sigh...it's 33,000 points from honored to exaulted, so that's 440 turn-ins, or 4,400 dark iron ores. Thankfully, blacksmiths can also grab some quests in Gadgetzan from Derotain Mudsipper. He's got 7 quests that yield a total of 2850 rep. You can have all that for 135 bars of thorium. Not bad. Oh, and you get 7 new blacksmitthing plans, too! Do these quests and you'll only need 4,020 dark iron ores! Wooo!
So it's off to mine thorium and dark iron...unless the price is right. Then I'll be buying rep by the truck-load! If all goes well, I'll soon be one faction closer to having the 40 faction grind completed, which means I'll be Dippy the Exalted!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Minions, Minions!
We love our minions. Well, most of the time. But all too often, I see warlocks running around with their Voidwalker when they really should be using one of their other pets. Granted, I usually use one minion about 90% of the time (my Felguard), but there are times when he's not the best. Here are my thoughts on minion use.
The Imp - My little Kupkin only comes out in instances these days, and even then, that's usually only when the tank can't keep threat off me or we really need the stanima bump. I also use him in situations where my Felguard tends to get eaten by a special ability. There are a few bosses that require you to hide behind pillars and such, and convincing your minion to do that can be a little difficult! Taking the imp, phase shifting him, and telling him to stay put can be easier.
The Voidwalker - He's great for soloing until you get the Felguard. Other than that, he's not what you want to see in instances. In fact, many groups will tell you to put him away if you haven't already done so. That's because he's mainly designed for tanking, and your group should already have a tank. His DPS isn't good enough to warrant keeping him out when you could use the imp or succubus.
The Succubus - She's all sexy and kinky, but honestly, I very rarely pull out my succubus. She seems to get shredded in only a few hits. The only time I use her is when I'm asked to help with the crowd control. Her seduce ability can help handle humanoids, but that's all it works on. Some warlocks like to sacrifice her for the 15% shadow damage increase, and that's certainly not a bad idea in some areas.
The Felhunter - My little felpuppy has limited use in PvE, but in PvP, he can be a warlock's best friend. He can lock casters out of a spell class for a certain amount of time, stun them, remove magical buffs/debuffs, and provide a 10% reduction in damage from spells (his master demonologist effect). If you're fighting a lot of casters in PvE, he can be handy, too, but Voidy/Felguard are usually more effective there. I pull him out for battlegrounds, though, and watch him eat mages for lunch!
The Felguard - The Felguard is my minion of choice for PvE. He tanks fairly well (although Voidy seems to be able to take more abuse), has good DPS, and has a couple of nice abilities. His dash attack stuns the enemy for a few seconds, and cleave does damage to multiple enemies at once. In PvP, dash can be useful, especially since it can interrupt casting.
I honestly don't have much to say about our two other minions, the Infernal and the Doomguard. I haven't used either that much. With the recent changes to the Infernal (the ability to summon it indoors and the instant-enslavement) may make it something of a last resort if an instance encounter is going badly.
The Imp - My little Kupkin only comes out in instances these days, and even then, that's usually only when the tank can't keep threat off me or we really need the stanima bump. I also use him in situations where my Felguard tends to get eaten by a special ability. There are a few bosses that require you to hide behind pillars and such, and convincing your minion to do that can be a little difficult! Taking the imp, phase shifting him, and telling him to stay put can be easier.
The Voidwalker - He's great for soloing until you get the Felguard. Other than that, he's not what you want to see in instances. In fact, many groups will tell you to put him away if you haven't already done so. That's because he's mainly designed for tanking, and your group should already have a tank. His DPS isn't good enough to warrant keeping him out when you could use the imp or succubus.
The Succubus - She's all sexy and kinky, but honestly, I very rarely pull out my succubus. She seems to get shredded in only a few hits. The only time I use her is when I'm asked to help with the crowd control. Her seduce ability can help handle humanoids, but that's all it works on. Some warlocks like to sacrifice her for the 15% shadow damage increase, and that's certainly not a bad idea in some areas.
The Felhunter - My little felpuppy has limited use in PvE, but in PvP, he can be a warlock's best friend. He can lock casters out of a spell class for a certain amount of time, stun them, remove magical buffs/debuffs, and provide a 10% reduction in damage from spells (his master demonologist effect). If you're fighting a lot of casters in PvE, he can be handy, too, but Voidy/Felguard are usually more effective there. I pull him out for battlegrounds, though, and watch him eat mages for lunch!
The Felguard - The Felguard is my minion of choice for PvE. He tanks fairly well (although Voidy seems to be able to take more abuse), has good DPS, and has a couple of nice abilities. His dash attack stuns the enemy for a few seconds, and cleave does damage to multiple enemies at once. In PvP, dash can be useful, especially since it can interrupt casting.
I honestly don't have much to say about our two other minions, the Infernal and the Doomguard. I haven't used either that much. With the recent changes to the Infernal (the ability to summon it indoors and the instant-enslavement) may make it something of a last resort if an instance encounter is going badly.
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