Tier 11

I'm still going on about WoW. My nail is getting better thou :)

Anyway, mmo-champion released the tier 11 preview recently, so I figured why not share them with you (female ones).

Hunter

Druid

Warlock

Paladin

Mage

Death Knight

Priest

Shaman

Rogue

Warrior

Okeey, there you have them arranged like on the talent trees I believe. Honestly I like some of them but I feel they don't really match except from the colour scheme, well atleast not priest and hunter. They look like awesome underwater folks while the rest looks ready to take on Deathwing and all other miseries. And ugh with the huge buckles! I've had enough aesthetic problems with the Titan-Forged Waistguard of Triumph. And why does warlock have four colours? Hmm..

I absolutely adore the druid set! I think I'm going to be a green hunter, and white druid. How about you? Read more

Patch 4.0.1

So the new patch, mana turned to focus, tree of life form is gone, mastery points.. I don't know where to begin. I can start out by saying I'm more positively surprised then expected. I had anxiety problems just thinking about the changes on both the hunter and druid.. I shouldn't have although WoW is starting to feel like a different game.

Hunter
Lets start with the hunter, considering this is a hunter blog and all. Volley is gone, and the only problem I've experienced thus far is the damn roaches in Stratholme. They're melees of course and they don't trigger traps. YIEK! Never going in there without an AoE pet again.
For AoE'ing in groups, this is what I do: Trap Launcher , Explosive Trap , Multi-Shot
And as survival, you can use talents on getting serpent sting spread with your multi-shot. Cool right? Now, multi-shot does require 40 focus (bleh). So you will only get two out there in a row. I've got SS glyphed so I regen 2 more focus on dazed targets which helps a little. Concussive Shot is free :)

Over to Mastery Points, I'm now up to 10% (you'll find the reforge (nightelf ò.Ó) in the hut where you find the Enchanting trainer. It's probably trackable. Speaing of tracking, you can now track as much as you want at once. Anyway, increasing my mastery points from 8 to 10% actually made a lot of difference in my dps. I had a lot of hit to take from.
" Increases all elemental damage you deal by 8%. Each point of Mastery increases elemental damage by an additional 1%." for survival hunters.

Resto Druid, healing was a piece of pie compared to what I thought it would be. As you probably know they're replacing the old tree form and here's the new design for Cata:

Borrowed from MMO-Champion

Pretty? NO!! Luckily they're adding a minor glyph so you can be a treant instead of this huge.. Taunka tree mushroom.
Anyway, the now castable tree form is actually alright. I thought I would really miss being a tree 24/7 but I'll survive this. Instant regrowths and all that is worth it.

Mages are overpowered and will be nerfed. But I love it now! I don't have much more to say on that subject as I'm only lvl 69.

Warlocks have some new abilities and it seems awesome, and no more hassle with soul shards. I need more time to try it out.

Paladin? Ugh. Seems cool with the new bonus system but I haven't tried it yet.

That's all I have to say today about my experience with Cataclysm preparations. I'll spend the coming week exploring a bit more (hunter pets etc), and maybe find me a bunker to hide in from the earthquakes. lol

I have to add one thing. For those that didn't get a 310% mount before this patch, have to pay 5000g if they want it. Which is insane.. 3000g or something would do, imo. Oh well, I have a 310% mount, so I got it for free. Yay! Read more

Cataclysm 7th December

As most of you know Blizzard have confirmed the release of Cataclysm the 7th of December. To me this means two months of Zul Gurub farming since it will no longer be a raid instance.

December 7, 2010, the lands of Azeroth will be torn asunder as World of Warcraft®: Cataclysm™ hits shelves at retail locations throughout the world.


You’ve toppled the undead armies of the Lich King and brought Arthas to his knees. Now Deathwing the Destroyer has broken free from his ancient prison in the Elemental Plane of Earth and unleashed his rage upon Azeroth. As the Horde and Alliance race to confront this new threat, the mortal races will witness seismic shifts in power, the kindling of a war of the elements, and the emergence of unlikely heroes who will rise up to protect their scarred and broken world from utter devastation.

Goblin in Embrace of The Viper set.

I actually have no idea what my feelings are about Cataclysm. Like always I see both positive and negative things. As for gameplay it looks like Blizzard finally is tuning up the dungeon difficulties again, but this means more wiping and more whining from PMS'ing 12yo. If you haven't heard the nice sentences like:
FFS
NOOOOUBB
WTF!!!
LEARn TO PLAY!!IDIOT

You will definitely see them in Cataclysm. Good thing here is that you won't go far without learning to work together as a group. Which you are. A group. So hopefully some people will give up (is that rude?) playing dungeons until they improve their gameplay.
It might sound that I think I'm the best or something now, but ofc I'm not. I'm just saying, moving from a purple circle on the floor or hiding behind rocks isn't that hard. You just need to focus. And if you can't kite, you better learn it now. I recommend checking out http://www.cynicalbrit.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/user/totalhalibut?blend=1&ob=4 if you haven't.

My plans for Cataclysm isn't all that big, but I'm going to focus on the new profession archaeology. And dear lord.. The voices of NPC's  in general are horrible. You'd think Blizzard could afford something better. Read more

Zalazane's fall and inspired mani

As some of you know, tomorrow for EU players (already live on US) they are launching the Zalazane's fall event during maintenance. This is a piece of lore for what's happening in the Cataclysm expansion, and if you participate you will get a feast of strength achievement. Yay!
Echo isles will be the new starting area for trolls after Zalazane's fall. And as the looks of it, it's going to be the best area to start in for totally new players. You know this guy well if you're a horde.

So because of the awesome poster they've made, I decided to make a mani based on it. Had some troubles with Vol'jin's eyes but what the ick. I loved doing this one because of all the sponging and no fear of going outside the lines :)

Borrowed from mmo-champion

Freehand and sponge techniques

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Moan over hunters in Cata

I know it's almost/very pathetic depending on who you are, but I'm almost in sorrow now. They're removing volley in Cataclysm..

I quote from MMO:

"Volley removed from the game (And of course when I don't report a missing skill because I think it's a bug, it's actually gone for real)
It's gone. We want to make Multi-Shot the spell hunters use for AE.

Channeling a spell that makes arrows fall out of the sky doesn't feel like a hunter ability and doesn't even really match the name of the spell.

Only class with a minimal range and now without volley only class without an aoe /shakes head
You realize "only class" claims are viewed as a success by the developers. The classes are too similar as it is. (Source)

Most seem to think they simply removed it and that we will be using multishot instead.
Yep. Volley was edging out Mult-Shot, even though we think the latter is the more interesting ability. Volley felt too much like a magic spell and not something a hunter was doing with her bow or gun. (Source)"

What I think is pretty obvious. Fine, explosive traps do a decent damage for AoE, but it will never compare to my 2k per mob volley.. Aaaaah I'm so annoyed. They better reduce the cooldown on multi shot.

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Ysera

I have to do it again. Take a look at the cataclysm design of Ysera. Looks good for a drake right?


Borrowed from MMO champion

But hold on.. Doesn't that look like Sylvanas? Like Arthas threw her into a tree and poured some purple paint on her.

Borrowed from google

When night elf formed drakes starts to dress like undead elf queens, I can't help wonder what Blizz is thinking. Nice horns thou. Read more

Lady Sinestra

Borrowed picture from mmo-champion

She looks like Spyro meets Kil'jaeden with a touch of Ragnaros. Hoho maybe I'm just weird, she still looks cool thou. Read more

Beta invites

If you don't follow mmo-champion like a slave (*cough* I do!). I figured I had to share the fact that Blizzard have started to send out Cataclysm invites to the ones they pick out. All you have to do is make sure you have activated the beta profile settings, and update your mail like a crazy person.

This is the first batch of invites, and I think they're done sending them out soon. But they will keep sharing invites in the weeks before the release. I have my hopes up!


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Cataclysm, zones

If you haven't bothered to look through all the screenshot previews, here's the official zone changes preview:


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Cataclysm screenshots

UPDATE 7th May: Manymanymany screenshots of the new areas on mmo-champion!

Amagad amagad. Have you seen the Catalcysm screenshots? If you haven't, you better go to the official WoW website and bookmark it. They're updating with new pics now and then. Or just hang around on mmo-champion, that's probably the best.

Here's the pic that caught my eye, it's supposed to be blasted lands (!):



You know, there where all the dessert and the dark portal is? Here's a now art pic from wowwiki:

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Hunter, cataclysm preview!

Read it here: http://www.mmo-champion.com/news-2/cataclysm-class-preview-hunter/

I'm so excited! Especially over Cobra Shot and more pet slots. It's nice to see BM's getting a little boost again.
And Camouflage, aaah.. There is new hope of surviving.


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BlizzCon 2009

So, I've been following BlizzCon this weekend, and they've shared a lot about the next WoW expansion Cataclysm. What I find fascinating is some of the changes, lets take Hunter e.g. No more Mana! I was like.. OMG! Finally! But then they say Focus instead.. Hm.. Rogue focus is 10 oc, and the hunter will be 6 oc, but 12 while using Steady Shot. I'm not sure. I really have the hang of using my viper and mana pots, but now I need to think about focus. (they better make some good thistle tea!) Not quite what I signed up for, so we'll see if I'm sticking 100% to hunter after the expansion.

Goblins, I think these will rule in PvP. Their race abilities are kind of awesome imo. They have the ability to shoot forward, like the hunters disengage just the other way. And some sort of rocket damage, bleh, don't remember exactly. And a bankbot, available every 30min. Think I'm gonna make a Goblin Warlock. Wonder if I could transfer my undead.. Then I will also transfer my Tauren druid to male troll druid! Ah, how I loooove male trolls. Anywho. Speaking of Warlock (and Mage), NO MORE SPIRIT!

You might think Goblin abilities is imba compared to some of the good old race abilities, but they said something about boosting those as well. My impression is that they're trying to make everything more equal, and hella easier. Sigh. I hope this doesn't mean even more 10 year old children start to play.

All in all, I'm extremely happy they make the gear a lot more class to class spesific, making agility AP +2 (only for hunters, rogues, druids and shamans). I mean.. Aren't you sick of paladins/warriors/DK's that need on your fucking Mail?? And not to forget the typically, and I quote: "uuh, I need for Offspecc, noob. I need Attack power just as much as you do" *logs off*. After the expansion they can officially be cald ninjas, all of those fuckers. Go find yourself some strength instead.

And the costume contest. Wth.. Okey, 1st and 2nd place were actually the best costumes. But did you see 3rd? Haha, looks like he had taken a swim in some cardboard and stuffed a lamp in there. And what's the deal with females aaaalways doing succubus? It's starting to get so freaking old now. Since there's like 5 of them every year (random number), it looks more desperate for attention, then an actual costume contest.

That's all i have about that for now. I will probably write more as the second day of BlizzCon is tonight. Ozzy concert baby!! Read more