Schlagwort: blizzard

Borked Guild on Ravencrest has started to raid Karazhan and nothing is stopping us. There is the usual learning to play new encounters but also as usual Borked progresses with the world best guilds and killed King Maulgar. It was a great thing to see everybody at 70 so fast and then immediately focused on getting the attunements done. See pictures and the story of the encounter at the Borked Homepage.

Along with 2 Shamans I am far behind though. As i stated before I really do not want to play the night elf Slant anymore and thus it was a burden to level him to 67.

So I started a new Rogue, Slanty which is a human and approaching the 50's at the moment. I plan to get Blacksmithing with him to get the Hammersmith Maces and then to totally focus on Haste to maximize effects from Combat Potency.

The constant leveling keeps me from posting at the moment, but in a short time I should be back with the full news you are used from this website. Feel free to leave comments.

For those that have no Beta Key I have frapsed about 25 Minutes of Gameplay. I have used a resolution of 640×512 so you can actually read the ingame descritptions and icons.

Don’t expect something too fancy, its nothing special, just a fight versus some Monsters, some ganking and a long ride through Zangamarsh, Nagrand, Terokkar Forest and Shattrath City. I like the new Zones, especially Zangamarsh is very nice with its huge giant mushrooms and the blueish glow.

Download the video here.

I used the xvid and lame mp3 codec to compress the file. You can always use the Video Lan Client to watch movies without needing to install any libraries, VLC has them built in.

I did a qick check this morning if Slant has already been transferred and was excited to find him online. I did scan through his items fast and made some screenshots for you in my brandnew Burning Crusade item gallery.

The first thing I noticed, was a change in the Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight, the one you get at exalted with Brood of Nozdormu. It has been changed to 18 Agility + 13 Stamina & 24 Attack Power.

I quickly gave Slant the new talents but have not been able to test anything, yet. Here are the Skills I use atm.

I hope to be able to tell you more at the weekend.

As first step You should start the download of the client, which took roughly 4 hours for the 2,7 GB. After that you need to upgrade Your existing account for Burning Crusade and start one of the 4 possible character copies or either create a premade character.

After more than 24 hours, my main char is still not copied and the function to create a premade Character is not working. Well I decided to look at the life of a Draenei Shaman. At first I wanted to start a real mean looking mean Draenei but the the faces of the female Dranei looked quite cute so I chose one of them.

Istarted the Game with a clean Interface and it looked quite nice. There was no lag at all and everything was moving smoothly on my old machine. The plain interface look, does not show NPC Names, the Scrolling Combat text is not shown, no instant Quest text but it looks quite neat and clean that way.

Well I started the first quests, some kill quests, gathering Quests and a heal wounded Draenei quest, infuse Moonkin and pickup spare parts fromt he Spaceship. Nothing real unusual.

The area seemed well designed and everything was easy to find for me. There were quite a few of other new Draenei but Alliance-like noone talked 😉

In comparison with the regular client the character screenhas been changed. You can now chose which Information is visible on which side. Base Stats, Melee Stats, Ranged Stats, Spell Stats.

The female Draenei has an eastern europe accent when talking, sounded quite nice and reminded me of someone 🙂

Since our Naxxramas Raid was about to start I did not have the possibility to check things out further. My first impression was that the Expansion looks pretty neat and clean.

In order to take part in last years’s World of Warcraft Beta I bought a Pre-Order via Ebay. When the release of the came was about to begin I realized that this would leave me 1 day behind with leveling and I would have had to compete with the thousand’s of other players for mobs.

So I talked to my personal Gameshop and they agreed to give me a WoW Final 1 day before release, so I would be able to start the first second the servers went up. It was very important to me, since Slant and Myrddin are popular enough to be taken quickly.

However I never reactivated the first preorder I bought via Ebay until I started to work in Velizy for a company we all know 😉 I did not want them to know my real Account and activated the pre-order Account.

Just last week I sent this mail:

To: WoWAccountReviewEU@blizzard.com
Subject: XXXXXXXX, Char XXXXXX EU2A

Hello,

I am the owner of Accont XXXXX, XXXXXXX. I will never ever reactivate the Account again and ask You to delete it and its Chars.
I have not found an option to do this in the Account Management and thus I am contacting You directly. I got this Account when working in France, but since I am back in Germany now I have no longer any use for it, and also do not want anymore unwanted mails from Blizzard that are referring to this Account.

Thanks.

And today I got for my Beta-Key for this Account 😉 So I guess I will be posting new content first hand soon 🙂

Thanks guys for a very nice Naxxramas clear. For the second day of this weeks Naxxramas reset we had only Gothik, 4 Horsemen, Loatheb, Saphhiron and Kel’Thuzad left. After getting the 4 Horsemen down and another Seal of the Damned, we killed Loatheb, Sapphiron, Kel’Thuzad at one go.

Finally we got our first Kingsfall which is anothe big improvement for the raid’s dps. We got Kingsfall, Gressil – Dawn of Ruin and the Hungering Cold. Its about time we get some phats for our casters.

All in all I am a bit dissappointed in the maces perfomance on Loatheb. I was way down on the damage meter, but I missed 2 Spore buffs. On the other bosses it was not so bad, especiallly in the Kel’Thuzad encounter I did decently compared to the other Rogues also not directly on Kel’Thuzad.

Often I do not get battleshout, Hunter aura and am still lacking 150 attack power to catch up to the other Rogues. This is a difference of roughly 500 Attack Power alltogether. Well we will see the next weeks, how it will turn out.

Thanks for a nice Naxxramas farming this week.

Slant

I have found an interesting article (here) that takes a closer look at the Arena System that will be introduced in Burning Crusade.

Its apparently based on the „ELO Chess system“ and the author tries to elaborate what this means.

After all the hard work over the last weeks Borked finally killed Kel’Thuzad. I am so glad that this has finally been achieved and hope the tension from the last weeks will stop. Finally some days off!!