Saturday, October 31, 2009

Hallow’s End Euripedes

Welcome. I am Euripedes the troll mage. ...mon.Mages are inferior to warlocks. I have accepted my fate over the years and to help my brother and sister mages I write stuff to figure out how to be as good as warlocks. …mon.Some mages just cannot handle it. …mon.Chill man. That is made up for by Northrend having the city, Dalaran. I can now look down all the peons below. …mon.Beyond all that I am most proud of sharing my green poop. …mon.
... mon.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Halloween with The Guild

<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=ddf6390f-44b9-4eb7-a872-cf22a5bcd3bd" target="_new" title="Season 3 - Bonus Episode: Halloween!">Video: Season 3 - Bonus Episode: Halloween!</a>

Happy Halloween from The Guild.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Race Changes Live

The link to the Blizzard FAQ is found here.

The service to change your race is $25 and is now live.

Personally if I had any inclination to do this I would also see the race and class combination that are coming out in Cataclysm. Your one true wish may just be to have a gnome priest.

My First Transfer

Molybdenum is now on Mal'Ganis. *fiddles with link on blog side bar to update information.* I was hesitant to transfer but something changed my mind… gold.

A few weeks ago a group of my Farstriders raiders not only left server but faction changed to Horde on Mal’ganis. At the time this happened I was distracted by RL things. So though I was sad they left, the less raiding was good for me. Figured I would worry about it when I got the chance. My chance is now...

They transferred. Friends have transferred before and went unnoticed by me. But these group of people are who I instanced with on a regular basis... multiple times a week regular basis.

My guild is now a few shy of a 25 man. So 25 progression will not be happening for a while.

Then the question of Husband and I transferring came up. Husband thought about it for 2 seconds and said “No”.

It was not the transferring servers that was holding him back but the switch to Horde. I am 99% sure if they did not switch to Horde but to only another sever we would have transferred with them.

Me? Hydra was first a Horde warlock. For those have read me a long time know, Hydra the Undead lock was leveled to around 4. I was told I was on the wrong faction. Under protest of the change, because my girlfriend wanted that long legs of the female Alliance, I rolled Gnome.

I could work with being Horde.

Deciding NOT to transfer our main toons has changed what we do in the game a lot. I was instancing or raiding 4-5 times a week. Now it is down to 1-2.

Husband and I have to decide what we want out of the game. He has chosen the reputation grind for The Insane. I have to make new friends.

Hydra now signs up for Tuesdays raids, which I may or may not get called in. I don’t mind being set out since I need no gear from those raids. I sign up if needed for class balance.

I have a set "PuG" 10 man TOC. If you have read me long enough you know I don’t really PuG. All the people in this group I have run with for a long while. We can clear the place in an hour or so. Most are alts or raiders that missed their main raids earlier in the week.

I need to figure out a raiding outlet for Hydra. If I could get at least one more set night I would be satisfied in that regard.

I have reminded guild that I have a decently geared Bear that is a good purple kitteh too. So maybe I can get a chance to tank something official soon.

I have also leveled Aurum a 29 warlock on Windrunner. *fiddles with side bar again* Aurum is now at the point of receiving runs for gear. A friend transferred a toon to Windrunner so he was a good minion and transferred a few thousand gold and enchants for me.

Renewed attention is being put on Moly.

One of the guys was transferring another toon. Then it hit me … he could be a good minion and transfer gold and goods for me too!!!

So we cut a deal.

Moly would get a realm transfer. On some conditions…
1) He would transfer 12,000 gold from Hydra to Moly. (FYI 20K is the max for level 80 for character transfer.)
2) He would transfer goods I wished to sell for more gold, Arctic Furs, Eternal Fires, and few enchanting mats.
3) He would do run troughs focused on Holiday events to get wait-for-me-at-level-80-epics, like the Headless Horseman Rings.

My part of the deal was I would level in a timely manner. That is no small promise. It has taken me two years to get Moly to level 72.

Some are not so excited about this transfer. I promise to take that into consideration too. (Notice how I was trying to completely change the subject.)That was everything that went into the decision for me to move Moly. But mainly it was the gold. Granted I already had 2,800 gold on Moly. But instant self fundage is better.

Side note… even with all the gold transferred off server the last two weeks, Hydra is still at over 60K gold.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Moly To Northrend! Now

I leveled to 70 in Outland.

Did I go to Northrend then? Nope. It was the Isle of Quel’Danas.

Without a lot of time to dedicate to leveling, I did have the 30 minutes to do the dozen dailies on the Isle. It was very adventagous since the first run of the quest I was able to replace my quest bow with Valanos' Longbow.I took some time to talk to some Horde friends about Northrend. Stop highly recommended to me to take the zeppelin outside of Undercity to Vengeance Landing.

I was taunted with the thoughts of plague spreading and mass murder. *cough*

Howling Fjord has been a test bed for the Royal Apothecary Society since landing in Northrend. The tasks to be done there were vile and interesting. This gave a lot of depth to the quests I knew to come in Dragonblight.

Plus there are not spiders on the road out of town to eat your face. Amazingly this is a huge plus.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Moly To Northrend! Eventually

Moly hit level 70 in Shadowmoon Valley.I didn’t go out to Northrend to quest at level 68. I was half way though Hellfire, was ganked by a rogue (One shouldn’t go AFK … on a PvP realm … on the road… on the path to Zangermarsh.) and then heard that Patch 3.2 would change flying to be level 60. So I stayed where I could fly.

Once I had flying I swooped through quests in Hellfire, Nagrand, and Shadowmoon Valley.

In the middle of all that I went to Northrend to train my professions. Might as well continue to get a few skill ups as I am mining and skinning through Outland.

This stalled my leveling.

I didn’t know how to get to Northrend.

I recalled something about something and POOF you were in Northrend. There had to be a way to get there without a mage or a warlock. There are warriors, druids, other hunters, and even pallies getting there.

There was nothing to direct me there. No quest or letter in my mail. I ran from city to city for about 30 minutes trying to remember where everyone was coming and going.

There was no way I was going to “/2 How do I get to Northrend?” can you imagine the … vile dripping sticky response. Not something I wanted to participate in. (At least not in that moment. For some things you need to wait till the mood strikes.)

What did I do? For all things I start at wowwiki.com.

That got me onto the zeppelin outside Orgrimmar … swing a right. I don’t remember seeing THAT there before. *shrug* Only excuse I have is it has been a really long time since I have spent time outside Orgrimmar.

*Hydra whispers into Moly’s ear*

FINE… Brewfest… but who could see farther then your own hand during those days. Weeks. Wait what were we talking about? NORTHREND. K.

The zeppelin outside Org takes you to Warsong Hold.The sheer massiveness of the “outpost” was shocking. All the levels and the solid build of the constructions. This will be a place to make a stand! (I had that Wrath of the Lich King fresh feeling. Has it really been a year already?)

So I picked up my training. I poked around all the corners. I made a nuisance of my self to the guards. They got tired of my insistent questions they stopped talking to me.

Where was the skinning trainer?


Apparently not in Warsong Hold.

I ran my level 68 elf butt out of the hold, through the spiders, across the lands to Taunka'le Village. Many a pet sacrifices (thanks Baby.) All of that to get me there in some resemblance of one piece (54% durability per the screenshot. I am quite sure it was a straight line running into mobs issue). I could now level my skinning.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Hallow's End Achievement Issue

There is an apparent candy bucket rationing to those who get Northrend candy buckets first. So leave Nothrend for last until you get an update from this forum post.
We are currently experiencing an issue with the Hallow's End candy buckets that is affecting the Trick or Treat Achievements for this event. Certain candy buckets in Northrend, once looted, are preventing characters from looting some of the Candy Buckets required for the Trick or Treats of Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Outlands. The current way to work around this is to get the candy buckets from Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, and Outland before doing any in Northrend.

Note, doing the Achievements first will prevent some of the Northrend Candy Buckets from being inter-actable.

We are actively working on a resolution for this and will provide more information when it is available.

Update: At this time please do not submit an in-game ticket on this issue, doing so will not result in a faster resolution as we are still working on the issue and will provide more information when it is available. Thank you.
If the buckets are reset... are you going in for another round?