tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29410041651691510552012-02-16T07:41:37.696-08:00world of warcraft news siteHnoreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2941004165169151055.post-36198232586929287602008-08-28T09:07:00.000-07:002008-08-28T09:07:00.518-07:00

My “cliff notes” on Onyxia Attunement were such a hit I couldn’t resist posting the same for Karazhan. Just like with Onyxia, I can’t take any credit for this, although I may add my own observations as I go through the process. This is just a straight copy and paste from wowwiki (which has been real slow lately - anyone else having that problem?) Here’s a link to the full post with a condensed

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I went on a run through The Shadow Labyrinth, or Shadow Labs, last night. I had just got on and was looking for something to do. A guild member was looking for dps help and I was looking to get my kitty some combat experience, so it was a fit. The group came together pretty quickly and we were on our way. This time around, we had a solid group. 2 Pallies, 1 Warrior, 1 Mage and me in feral cat

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I was getting ready to start writing a 4 part feral talent build for PvE. In the midst of poking around on wowhead looking at more info for my “Enchants by Slot” series, I noticed there are enchantements for Rings. Okay, call me a n00b, but I never realized this. Intriqued, I shelved the talent research and forged on into the land of ring enchanting. Well, once I went through the research

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(Amanna says - this is Cybeline’s first post, and an interesting one at that. Please give her a warm welcome via comments). I’ve been to Karazhan before but always as the Tree of Life to fill a main healer spot. It was enjoyable to take Tree form out for a spin and to test out the deep resto talent form — I’ve always had a deep balance spec — but I could barely contain my excitement when the

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I got to go on my first Shattered Halls run last night. I was excited to go - I’d heard it was a good instance and I had a couple quests for completion inside. It was also predominantly a guild run, so I was among friends. I was a little nervous though, as I had also heard that SH was a tough instance, and I was main tank. I’m happy to say the run went well. We finished just under 2 hours, so

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With all the posts on the 2.1 patch, I had yet to see one with a linked mention of the Druid Epic Flight form. Being the curious sort, and armed with a dangerous case of spring fever, I took a few minutes to google the topic. I didn’t spend a lot of time going through the results, I was really just looking for a simple walkthrough to get an idea of what will be involved in this. Here’s a link

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Let me count the ways: They don’t know you and aren’t in your guild, so if it takes them 20 minutes to get ready they don’t really care.“Sorry gtg“.They usually seem more interested in screwing around than getting through the instance.One word - NINJA.Every once in a while someone will just go dark for 5 minutes or so, do nothing, then come alive again. No apologies, no explanations. WTF??!!??

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Hey, do you guys read or subscribe to WoW Insider? I do, although since I check it at work there’s a lot of fluff I delete through. Don’t get me wrong - they do a great job with lots of content to appeal to the varied readership I’m sure they have. I just tend to be attracted more to the in-depth article vs. the short breakfast topics and shots around Azeroth. So it dawned on me yesterday when

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Want a Badge of Tenacity but just not sure where to start? Figured out you need to complete something called the “Shartuul Event” but keep getting killed. Amanna (via Slipslappy) to the rescue! I’m never sure if you all read the comments to my posts, or simply the posts themselves. But embedded deep within the comments to my last post, Slip gave us some links to very useful guides to

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Big Butt Bear Blogger recently posted an overview of basic approach strategies, I think mostly for cat. I can’t seem to find the exact post (if anyone can send me the link, I’ll update here), but it got a lot of good comments. Nothing ground-breaking in the post, just good common sense advice and explanations, which is always welcome. Well that post reminded me of one I did a while back on our

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First 20 pointsFor all of you lower level Druids out there (if there still are any), I’m starting a 4 part series on building a feral druid from the ground up. My pre-BC post “How to Build a Druid” still gets quite a few hits and it really needs replaced. In fact, the talent build link in it doesn’t even work since BC came out and all the talent calculators got updated. That’s just embarassing

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I knew I wasn’t going to be playing much over the holiday. Between visiting my wife’s family on T-Day, cooking dinner for my family on Saturday, taking turkeys down and putting Santas up there just wasn’t going to be much playing. Besides - holidays are for spending time with your spouse and family, not spending hours up in the PC room playing WoW. That being said, I did get one extended play

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Strap in kids, this is feeling like a long post… I’ve had a week or so to reflect on the recent paid post on this blog. While the comments were not as plentiful as I had anticipated, they reflected current player feelings on the issue pretty well. The great thing about human interaction, even including a blog, is that hearing other people’s direct thoughts and responses help develop and advance

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As reported by Of Teeth and Claws recently, Emmerald’s oft-quoted ranked list of feral druid gear has been updated for patch 2.3 gear. Of Teeth and Claws, along with Big Bear Butt Blogger, have become my two favorite blogs as of late. Both have a great mix of technical analysis, insightful comments and a dash of humor. Just please Karthis, for the love of Elune and all that is holy, deliver us

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Tobold poses an intriguing proposition: should all alts be able to start at a higher level when the new expansion comes out? His reasoning goes that given the announcement that Death Knights will start at a “higher level”, generally reported to be somewhere in the range of 60 give-or-take, why should a player then have to level existing alts, or new alts, through 70 levels to also take part in

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Interested? I’m assuming I’m not the only one out there who needs more money. I’ve long since wanted to write a series on how to effectively use Auctioneer to make money; living the high life of buying low and selling high. Trouble is, I never really felt like I had a good handle on how best to use Auctioneer effectively. I just couldn’t get my furry little head wrapped around the ins and out

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Yes, a bit bored today. Can you tell? I honestly haven’t been trying to read much about WotLK. Despite reports of “Blizzard working hard” and pools to guess when this year the release date will be - we all know it will be a while before it comes out. I certainly don’t mean to sound negative about that. As a long time Blizzard fan (Starcraft, Diablo I and II) I applaud their “quality over

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Sorry Hordies - Alliance FTW!!! This guide is nothing more than the Alliance portion of the very comprehensive WoWwiki guide I referenced when I started levelling my fishing skill. I had really neglected cooking also, so levelling them both at once had a lot of appeal. What I will do in this guide is to use the Alliance portion as a base, and add my observations as I’ve gone through the

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Well, attack power is fairly easy to break down. For my previous post, I relied mainly on two wowwiki.com pages: Attack Power and Damage per Second (DPS). (Note: if you’re a stats junkie be aware I don’t think wowwiki has been updated much since The Burning Crusade. Everyone’s probably having too much fun…) I’m not going to go over the DPS page, you can check it out on your own if you wnat.

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Hey, it happens. All of a sudden you’re without a guild. I’ve been playing this game close to two years and I’m on my third guild. No drama, no guild meltdown, just life. My first guild had a couple officers leave due to personal issues, which resulted in several sub-segments of the guild forming their own new guilds. My second guild saw several of it’s officers leave to start a more

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With the release of The Burning Crusade, we began to see “socketed” items. Items may have one or more sockets, into which you can place different color gems. Each socket has a color, and while you can place any color gem into any socket, matching all the sockets with gems of the same color enables a “socket bonus”. There are also Meta gem sockets. Meta gems generally add a greater bonus, but

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Enchantments are probably the first thing we think of when we’re ready to start augmenting our effectiveness past pure gear. There are different types of enchantments though, offering benefits beyond those that your guild Enchanter can offer. While Enchanter enchantments tend to be the best you can get, don’t overlook the many other ways to “buff up”. Also note that since I am using stats-based

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Spell Hit and Spell Penetration -- what's the difference? On the surface, they both seem to decrease the chance for your spells to be resisted. So what makes them different?The fact that they do the same thing (more or less) in different ways.Let's take a look at Spell Hit (SH) first. The more SH you have, the less your spells are likely to be resisted. Unfortunately, this is capped at 99% (

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As anyone who’s actually reading this probably knows, one of the upcoming changes in patch 2.3 is that heroic keys will require Honored reputation rather than Revered. This change has been on my mind a bit, mostly because I’ve heard friends and guildmates express varying opinions on it. Some people think it’s a great change, and some people are going, “OMG why do they have any rep requirement at

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Do you group with a rogue regularly?Do you have rage generation problems when grouping with one?I am sure at some point you did, especially when the rouge your grouped with is stunlocking your target. Usually stunning the mob to death (happens alot on high dps groups) .... leaving you with no rage to attack the 2nd target and generate initial threat.Doom over at his blog has written a good guide

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