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During Hallow’s End I found this funny bug. You can find an Underbelly Elixir in the Dalaran Underbelly (Sewers). One of its possible Effects is turning you into a Tuskarr.
You need to get a Weighted Jack-o‘-Lantern on your head and then drink a Underbelly Elixir. Apparently the WoW Client does not know what to display then and puts a cube on your head! It looks like this:
So now Hallow’s End is over and we farmed Healess Horseman’s Mount nearly every day in a fixed group with alts and friends. We farmed it about 10 days with 20-40 kills each and the the Scarlet Monastery Graveyard looked like this:
There were like 30-40 Sinsiter Squaslings and Hallowed Helms, lots of Helms, Swords and Brooms but not a single „The Horseman’s Reins“. Got to love RNG!
On Tuesday evening I decided to try to see how I could do in Molten Core on my Paladin. While some bosses seem to not be a real threat, Gehennas and Golemagg turned out to be somewhat tricky. It took me 3 hours to clear the whole place and a fair share of deaths to get the proper strategies for each boss, but in the end I managed ot get everything down.
To make the run perfect I got the achievement and the Eye of Sulfuras in the first run – I am such a lucky guy!
The past weeks I haven’t been very actively updating since the heroic modes of Call of the Crusade became available. Basically we farm Ulduar 10/25, VoA 10/25, ToC 10/25 normal on Alt and Main Characters.
The bright side of it all that we get, including the Heroic Daily, 79 Emblem of Triumph per reset and most of us have the T9 4 piece bonus now and we can hopefully get Anub’arak on 25 (heroic) soon.
Pirate Day has started so you might like to visit Booty Bay and talk to Captain Demeza next to the Horde Flight Point on top of the Booty BayBank for „The Captain’s Booty“ which is required for „What a long, strange Trip it’s been!„. You’ll get a 12 hour Buff to look like a pirate!
Also tonight the Brewfest will start. There are lots of Achievements and dailies to do, especially to farm the mount in BRD. If you want to do me a special service do a /spit on Ipfelkofer Ironkeg at the Ironforge Brewfest, trust me he deserves it!
If you want a full sumamry of dailies and things to do at the Brewfest you might like to check out WoWhead. In any case don’t forget to move your alts to BRD to farm Coren Direbrew over and over for his mount! I’ll give more information tonight, when we started. Last Year’s farming looked like this:
Not that I am particularly eloquent, but I have no words to express my disappointment with the newly announced race and class combinations for the coming expansion Cataclysm for World of Warcraft.
I was so looking forward to play Worgen Shaman, could already see that menacing Worgen, wielding fierce weapons in his claws, blood smeared over his mail armor, spreading slobber all around while baring his fangs ready to tear the enemy’s throat out – ROOOOAAARR!!!!11!!!.
It would fit so perfect … but now we get lol Priestlol Worgen and Roguelol Worgen … I personally find that they do not fit the class at all. And we have enough races that can do those already. ZzzzzzZ. Now I can dust in the Horde Orc Shammy I prepared to Faction Change into Worgen once it would become available – Awwwww!
The same goes for Goblins, I saw them already in plate gear, casting holy spells, casting hammer of justice. Instead they become the 4th shaman race for the Horde. With all their attraction towards technical devices and gadgets I just don’t buy them as shamans.
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I am sure you are equally excited about the coming news form Blizzcon. Fortunately there are some free feeds with some sort of coverage! Thanks for sharing them!
First one is from Justin.tv fastman1000
Second one is from Justin.tv Kaiba12
mentalanime.com on UStream.tv
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mentalanime.com
bconstream on UStream.tv
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bconstream
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wyle
Looking through recent search queries I noticed some visitors that were lead here, but probably did not find what they were looking for.
Since 3.2 Earth Shock does no longer interrupt spellcasting. Instead it reduces Melee Attack Speed by 10%. Interrupts are now done by Wind Shear, which is off Global Cooldown. It is 1 buton more to use, but overall the better solution.
Since Wind Shear is off the global cooldown you can still use a macro like the one below to fake the old function:
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast Wind Shear /cast Earth Shock
You can also change it to Frost Shock for example for PvP.
Sometimes Vehicles in WoW bug and you can’t exit them, or some fancy addon prevents the action bar change. Here is a way to get around that:
/run if CanExitVehicle() then VehicleExit() end;
If you haven’t changed the default key bind „NumPad5“ to leave a vehicle then that might be an option for you aswell.
current best Enhancement Shaman enchant for Off Hand is Berserking. Unless you mean Weapon imbues, then it would be Flame Tongue.
The best way to do this is most likely to enable „Auto Dismount in Flight“ in the Interface -> Options -> Control section. Then you can hit the stealth button and it will auto dismount you. If you really want a macro for that then:
/dismount [mounted] /cast Stealth
If you want to add some mounts to the macro then this should work, too
#showtooltip /use [flyable, nomounted] Blue Wind Rider /use [noflyable, nomounted] Armored Brown Bear /dismount [mounted] /use stealth
I would personally add the [nostealth] condition so I could mash it without becoming visible again:
#showtooltip /use [flyable, nomounted, nostealth] Blue Wind Rider /use [noflyable, nomounted, nostealth] Armored Brown Bear /dismount [mounted] /use stealth
I hope that helped. You are free to add comments below.
Boubouile at www.mmo-champion.com, put his speculations about the possible upcoming Cataclysm Expansion into a new post.
Basically he is claiming that the new Races for Alliance and Horde are going to be Worgen and Goblins. Also he says that additionally new available class combinations are:
This made me think, since stuff like Undead Hunter or Tauren Priest doesn’t really make sense to me. I noticed that Blizzard has been trying to even out numbers of mounts available for each faction, etc for quite some time.
So my speculation is what if you list up sum up current classes and add the ones listed above. Not like I am really sure about any of this, but it would not surprise me, especially since teh classes would fit quite well, too.
With the changes above Horde will have 2 druid races (Tauren,Troll), while Alliance has onlyNight Elves.
Alliance: Night Elf = 1
Horde: Tauren + Troll Druid = 2
Worgen would make perfect sense, as they are shapeshifters by nature and it would even out the numbers.
Alliance: Night Elves, Dwarves, Draenei + Human Hunter = 4
Horde: Orcs, Tauren, Trolls, Blood Elves + Undead Hunter = 5
Alliance is missing 1 race and it would make perfect sense, too.
Alliance: Gnomes, Humans = 2
Horde: Orcs, Undead, Blood Elves = 3
Alliance is missing 1 race and Duskwood already has some of those.
Alliance: Draenei + Dwarf Shaman = 2
Horde: Orcs, Tauren, Trolls = 3
Shamans are tied up with nature, so this would make some sense – and some wishfull thinking, because that would make me reroll for sure.
Alliance: Humans, Dwarves, Draenei = 3
Horde: Blood Elves + Tauren Paladin = 2
Alliance: Humans, Gnomes, Draenei + Night Elf Mage + Dwarf Mage = 5
Undead, Trolls, Blood Elves + Orc Mage = 4
Alliance: Humans, Dwarves, Night Elves, Draenei + Gnome Priest = 5
Horde: Undead, Trolls, Blood Elves 3 + Tauren Priest = 4
Alliance: Night Elves, Dwarves, Draenei, Humans, Dwarves = 5
Goblin: Undead, Trolls, Orcs, Tauren + Blood Elf Warrior = 5
This just as specualtion, since all races have warrior as class
Policy with Death Knights is „available to all races“ and I guess it wil stay that way.
Keep in mind that this is all speculation and just my personal thoughts about the listed changes on mmo-champion.com. I have left out rogues, because it would not make sense for either of these races and because their number is balanced.
Feel free to leave your thoughts below.
Quite surprisingly Blizzard lifted the faction restriction for PvP Realms. Prior 3.2 it was not possible to create a character of the opposing faction on the same PvP Realm. At first people wondered if it was a 3.2 glitch, but apparently the change was done in preparation to the coming faction change.
Here is a little summary about the faction change:
We wanted to give everyone a very early heads-up that, in response to player requests, we’re developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change their faction from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance. There’s still much work to do and many details to iron out, but the basic idea is that players will be able to use the service to transform an existing character into a roughly equivalent character of the opposing faction on the same realm. Players who ended up creating and leveling up characters on the opposite factions from their friends have been asking for this type of functionality for some time, and we’re pleased to be getting closer to being able to deliver it.
As with all of the features and services we offer, we intend to incorporate the faction-change service in a way that won’t disrupt the gameplay experience on the realms, and there will be some rules involved with when and how the service can be used. The number of variables involved increases the complexity of implementing this service, but we plan to take the time needed to ensure that it lives up to expectations before officially rolling it out. We’ll go into much more detail on all of this here at www.wow-europe.com as development progresses. In the meantime, we wanted to let you know that because this type of functionality requires extensive internal testing well in advance of release, you may be seeing bits and pieces of the service in the test builds we use for the public test realms moving forward.
Updated: 01/07/09: Due to the many questions that have come up with the announcement of this new service, we wanted to take the time to answer the ones we can at this point in time.
Q. Will we be able to switch between the races on our own faction?
A.. No. Players will only be able to switch to a race of the opposite faction.
Q. Will I be able to choose the race on the opposite faction that I want to change to?
A.. Yes, but you will only be able to switch to a race that has your class type available to it. So if you play a human paladin, you’d only be able to change to a blood elf paladin.
Q.How much will it cost?
A.. We do not have further information on this at this point in time.
Q.Will I be able to switch back to my original faction but a different race?
A.. No. You will only be able to switch back to your originally chosen race.
Q.. How will the switch between reputation, gear, mounts, etc be handled?
A.. We’ll have more details for you at a later point in time, though we plan to keep these as close to a reflection of the other faction as much as possible.
Q.How often can you change your faction?
A..We do not have any information to share on this at this point in time, however we will have restrictions on the frequency by which players can change their faction.
Q. How will this affect the balance of Horde and Alliance on the realms?
A.. We are taking great care in how we implement this new service in order to maintain balance between the factions on the realms but do not have any further details to share.
We can only wonder what comes next. Personally I am expecting some change to cross faction mail. It just makes no sense that I have all these nice heirloom items on my main when I cannot use them on my chars on the same realm, just because I thought I might like to try out the other faction. Blizzards previous standing about the matter needs to be changed though 🙂
Personally I welcome the change, somehow … I have created my Horde Orc Shaman and am going to draw the money out of my enemies pockets into mine.
What can be more satisfying than getting some whispers from the guy that camped your low level alt, until you turned the table and gave him some retribution.
He will be quite upset – which is already by itself worth it – and you will be able to report his insults to the game masters who do not have much tolerance with rude people.
Browsing through recent search queries on this website I noticed the query „best totems to use“.
I’d say PvE as enhancement shaman the most commonly used combination is
Strength of Earth Totem is still stronger than Horn of Winter, unless there is a lot of moving involved or the need for Tremor Totem, it should always be up.
As Enhancement Shaman the Windfury Totem should be the primary choice in the Air category.
The Healing Stream Totem is the most commonly used Water Totem. Its heal might not be a lot but it helps to easen out consistent damage.
At first glance the Magma Totem seems to be an AoE Totem but it also provides best single target DPS.
Of course there are a million situations when you should use different Totems.
The most commonly used alternative to the Healing Stream Totem is the Cleansing Totem. The benefit from having diseases and poison cleansed on all group members is a huge advantage over other classes.
Here is my „priority“ list:
Strength of Earth Totem, Tremor Totem, Earthbind Totem, Stoneskin Totem
Grace of Air, Grounding Totem, Nature Resistance Totem, Wrath of Air Totem
Healing Stream, Cleansing Totem, Fire Resistance Totem, Mana Stream
Magma Totem, Flame Tongue Totem, Searing Totem, Fire Elemental Totem, Frost Resistance Totem
Stoneskin, Wrath of Air, Mana Stream are typical Healer Totems, thus I placed them low on priority.
Hope that helps as a quick explanation.
Myrddin