Black Priest – Cloth

Say hello to my Black Priest outfit. Straight from the depths of god knows where as I just really, really wanted to wear those pants. The staff I believe is an artifact appearance version but there are plenty of dark staves and staffs that can be used in place of it if it’s one that …

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Pale Gold Slutmog – Mail

Seeing as one of my favourite mog hunting websites seems to have died a death and how actual transmogging seems to also have died in favour of showing off that end-game set. I decided to lay out the mogs I have for my characters. I have a fair few ‘sets’ for my chars to wear …

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Chromie Scenario and its link to BfA?

We were left feeling deflated if not a little bit richer after the Chromie scenario. A tantalising glimpse at being level 112 and also a story line that delved into what is going on with Chromie. Legion had been an expansion that gave us plenty of hidden things, from pets, cosmetic items to future happenings. …

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My stable – Tales from the Zoo

Us ‘Arrow throwers’ get a new page of stable slots with BfA which is nice, there are a ton of new pets to tame but we can effectively only have space for a small percentage of them. We should have more slots than they currently give us, especially since they have introduced new pet families …

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Move Anything -BfA Fix!

All the hard work for this is due to Bluespacecow MPV-Technical Support on the American forums!    If like me, you hate where the default bits and bobs are located in your UI you might use Bartender and possibly another add-on called Move Anything. I have been shamed by my clusterfuck of a screen when […]

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Legion is over – What are your best parts?

I found a post linked on the forums where players were discussing their best bits from this expansion. Legion had been around for a while and although I have to say I haven’t played much due to a pesky Law degree getting in the way, I do still have some memories of bits that are […]

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Legion is almost over - What are your best parts?

I found a post linked on the forums where players were discussing their best bits from this expansion.

Legion had been around for a while and although I have to say I haven't played much due to a pesky Law degree getting in the way, I do still have some memories of bits that are going to be eternally funny or memorable. Most of these might only be things that have happened to me but I'm sure that everyone can remember something similar to it happening to them...

5. LFR Bosses - Kil'jaeden, Coven Kin'garoth and Fallen Avatar.

Ok, so let me explain. There were quite a lot of funny memories from LFR this expansion, but the last two raids were definitely the dogs-bollocks when it came to fuckups and sheer anxiety over if we were going to die.

Kil'Jaeden:

 This one split those who had done it on normal and above from those who had well, not. Raiders asking before the pull who was going to be in the soak rotation only to discover that this was eezee mode.
The biggest issue was when you make the copies of yourself. People 'got big' and ran away despite almost the entire raid telling them not to, people were trying to grip them in before they exploded and created their copy. Alas more often than not we had images all over the platform, shooting everything in sight. The shadow phase was interesting, especially when we had one hunter and all the pressure was on them to click on Illidan, which again, more often than not didn't happen. So we were all running around like headless chickens trying to find him while also trying to not die...
Generally, it wasn't a hard fight, especially on LFR but people just didn't do what they needed to/read the chat to see the instructions/read the dungeon journal... It was hilarious and agonisingly painful all at the same time, like all good LFR's should be.

Coven:


Already the 'pug killer' raid it was a disaster in LFR. People were rage quitting left right and centre as people just hadn't got a clue what was going on. Now, I'm not going to pretend that I remembered the names of all the different add things that were brought in. I had to rely on DBM to give me the little icons to work out what part of the hokey-cokey I should have been doing. The funny part was watching half of the raid going to the place they should be (eg, the edge for the fire ones) and watching another group in the centre. The pleading for them to get out of the middle grew to a crescendo but like frightened sheep, they just didn't move and they got a first hand experience of what happens when you cross the streams...

Kin'garoth:

Ruiner. One noise that strikes fear into my heart especially as a healer was the DBM klaxon that went off when that thing was about to cast, and praying that you started running in the right direction if it was over your head. People died by the thousands (exaggeration) dropping where they stood as they either didn't move because moar dps! even though a dead dps does fuck all or were afk and thought that they could read Buzzfeed while everyone else did all the hard work. I am happy to report that I life gripped a total of zero people out of that as fuck 'em.

Fallen Avatar: 

The first phase was always quite funny when the green shit came drifting out and the ones who were geared for it could just soak it while there were those who thought they could just do what the bigger bois were doing and then they died. The real fun happened when we went down and hit the platform. People would tank it in stupid places and we would end up with a whole quater of the platform going in the first strike, leading to the entire raid perching on one solitary piece while tanks and any DH who felt they would sacrifice themselves for the greater good went out into the Fel to try and bide us some time. I lost count on the amount of times we ended up with no platform and begging the dps to try and kill it before we all died. Those times were often accompanied by the yelling of some clever clogs, telling everyone to use a health potion while were were drowning in the green stuff...

4. Khadgar Dadgar

His dialogue was gold this expansion. From dropping all his coins all over the Broken Shore to forcing you to gather a zillion shards, only to actually need a handful. Lets not forget his baseball practice at Azurewing Repose.

"Maybe make then touch?"  - Tears of Elune questline.
<Khadgar pats you on the head> "Good job."

Essentially, Legion has been this so far...

3. Jewel of Hellfire use in dungeons

This bad boy finally had its use in a dungeon I was running with a group of friends. We had a 15 key (it was some time ago mind you) and we were woefully undergeared. It was literally a piss around to see how far we could get before we were totally destroyed. The dungeon we had the key for was Court of Stars and we had a kill count of about 150~ and we had got the asshat that summons in all the imps. We kept dying and then pulling mobs as we were trying to get back to the boss only to die again. We were resigned to it just being a complete failure of a dungeon but the hilarity of it kept us going. They started invading the res point which I found to be a prime time to use this toy and spawn next to my freshly ressed team mates as a demon goat. They shat themselves and there were strangled screams over discord. It was so worth it.

2. Nomi

Jesus take the wheel. The panda is back, baby and if anyone tells you that his appearance and shenanigans in Dalaran wasn't funny they are wrong.

The complaints about his 'burnt food' made us all give Gordon Ramsey a run for his money. But truth be told, we didn't really need him to cook much for us, just turn out some average shite so we could collect the other recipes he managed to produce. Lets face it, he tried the basic recipe, fucked it up but worked out how to improve it and get it right and then gave the new recipe to us. He wasn't all bad, no matter what nasty things we said about him. The fact that our combined hatred of the fluffy bear was so great that they decided to do a stress test with him as the raid boss just proved how attached we had got to him. (The chat is pretty funny too.)

1. Illidan

Illidan is bae. His return was nothing short of epic.



From the moment that he is busted out of his giant green prison you knew that shit was about to go down. Follow him into the Abyss? Hell yeah! Things only got better as you witnessed his visions from his past. The final showdown after defeating Kil'jaeden and seeing Illidan bringing the fight to us with the chilling 'sometimes the hand of fate must be forced' reminded us that we were still not as prepared as we should have been. And who can deny that the sound of his hooves as he berated Velen was the new soundtrack to badassery?

My favorite bit? Aside from playing as him during the raid on the Black Temple, it was when he destroyed that fucking windchime Xera when she tried to turn him into a Night Elf version of Lothraxion....

 

Snuggles, how I miss thee

I was chatting to a guildy about the new changes to the Hunter pets coming up. I’ve had a look at the changes to them (Spirit Beasts are now Tenacity etc…) and we were talking abut how things used to be with talent trees, thinking about how you could have three BM Hunters and they […]

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Hunter talents – RIP my friends, wtf Wowhead and what you should be using apparently…

I was having a squidge through Wowhead to have a look at the butchery that was imminent upon my favoured class. The thing that really hit me was that the talent ‘tree’ was getting a overhaul. Currently we have this: Now, there are some talents on there I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole and […]

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Newly qualified Field Medic

Yesterday was my last day panic farming for the title 'Field Medic'.

I first wondered what the hell the title was when I saw someone running through Dalaran with the title on and thought that it would look good for my priest. I had a quick scour over Wowhead and discovered that it was First Aid related and with the news that First Aid was going as a secondary profession and all the achievements with it, I started having palpitations that I was going to miss out on it.

I had completed the first 7 (or so) for the previous achievement 'Is there a medic in the zone?' and I remember these quest things dropping for me the last time I was levelling in the Broken Isles. My First Aid was up to 795 anyway on my hunter so I knew that if I was going to actually max it out as I had done for all other expacs, I needed to find one more for sure.

So, I read up on where to get it to drop and set off on a killing spree. The first stop was the Murlocs by the water near the Court of Farondis area. I commenced mass genocide and pilfered their corpses to see if they had picked up one of the letters of help that these random exploreres etc had sent off.
I was doing that shit for and hour and nothing. The baby Murlocs were screaming at me as I butchered their parents, the big dude on the hill was getting angry with me as I ran past him without a care in the world, spraying arrows out in front of me.  There had to be somewhere better.

That turned out to be on the Watchers Isle place. There was a whole bunch of Murlocs there that were bigger and badder. They were throwing their spears at me, hitting me in the face with their shields and shooting water bolts at me. As they were taller than their cousins out by the Court I figured that they would have deeper pockets to enable them to stuff a note or two in there. They didn't disappoint but not before after I had pulled a pack of five and then had another pack run into the back of me. Grr (my bear) couldn't keep up, Hati spent her time staring at corpses like some sort of sniffer dog that had found something. That something usually was a bit of cloth and some silver. I've never used my self heal more frequently. The reckless abandon that I had used with the little Murlocs was once again my method of choice here, and despite the best efforts of my character telling me that being pelted with spears was starting to sting a bit, I carried on.

It finally dropped after my third lap of murder. One that I didn't already have and the second to last one I needed in this zone. Going off to complete it I came back. Killing more of them as I circled around their home time and time again. Nothing.
A guild mate came and helped out, still nothing. We changed areas, back to the smaller Murlocs. The last sodding note I needed dropped for him, then another two dropped, still nothing! I was starting to get desperate and sent a ticket off the the GM's asking if it was correct that not everyone in a party could loot it (yes it is).

Two hours down, only one collected. I had 8 done and not long left to find the others.

The following day, I went over to the island in Val'shara where there are a lot of Murlocs and also the lobster dudes. There was a Boomkin there starfalling the fuck out of everything. I snuck around and killed a section near a Murloc housing estate and hoped for the best. Shit all. I'd now spent another hour doing this... I moved over to the imps that were attacking the bears. They were too spread out for my liking and kept jumping around. I had Raidwiper out at this point and both he and Hati developed a fixation with dead imps and were no help to me half the time.

I had a look through the groups and found a large assortment of ones set up for 'Field Medic - <insert zone here>' most were full. Eventually one appeared for the zone and location I was at.
Players in these came and went, to the point where suddenly I was leader and having to deal with the popups asking if I wanted to accept so-and-so and change it to a raid. Mostly the players were silent but some were lamenting the fact they had a zillion drops of the ones that they didn't need.

In Val'shara there was a Mage that had been doing the achievement for three days and felt a bit dizzy.

In Highmountain there was a Warrior who complained that they had been grinding the same mobs for hours and still hadn't had the drop they needed. And then they got it.

In Stormheim there was a DK who was waiting for one solitary drop so he could complete the achievement, caps lock was used to announce the drop to the party when it happened.

I had the benefit of two Monk tanks in groups I was in, until they got what they needed and fucked off, leaving the rest of us wandering around not sure how we were going to pull everything.
We had one out by the Kobolds behind Skyreach in Highmountain. Pulling all the grave robbing bastards towards us so we could cleave them down. On the odd occasion they went to do a quest we used a ranged like the ox statue, getting them to pull everything towards us so the Warrior of the group could spin-to-win. It was good training for when he abandoned us for real.
My next one I encountered was in Stormheim. The first group I was in had situated themselves in the hole where all the rock-carving dudes were. There was a Pally Tank who was trying to pull everything centrally but a Ret Pally was charging around killing everything where it spawned resulting in a clusterfuck of bodies everywhere. After dealing with this for just over an hour (and slowly dying inside due to the abysmal drop rate from these dudes) people eventually left and new ones joined. We lost the Pally Tank and then a DK.... Once the Ret Pally fucked off to do a quest we were able to start gathering up the mobs to make it easier to loot and kill. It was working wonderfully, then they came back and completely fucked up the system... I quit the group as my head was about to explode and I wasn't sure if I could restrain myself from saying anything about their wanker ways lack of being a team player. There was a good twenty minute wait, where I was watching to see the number in the group drop to four so I could get in there. One showed up with two people in there, bingo. It was a Monk Tank. Yeeeeeeeeeeeessssss!

It was with the Monk in Stormheim that I managed to get the last bit I needed. I had spent 9-10 hours solid grinding mobs. I made 22k in just looting them for their coin and vendor loot. I got an 840 ring for level 101 which went straight up on the AH. I also developed hysteria that I would never finish it before it got taken away and also managed to convince myself when waiting for that last drop that I would never get that one and I'd miss the achievement due to it.

The sheer amount of Field Medic groups on custom group finder is still astronomical. The panic to get this done has well and truly set in. Thankfully, I'm done and now my Priest is a fully qualified Field Medic.

 

 

 

I done fucked up...

So it was brought to my attention that a rather humorous forum thread had popped up.

This was a place where people were sharing their noob moments from when they first started playing.

There were some classics to which you could say "same" and there were ones where you just said "eh?". However, it kinda got me thinking, I still have those moments even now due to my observational skills being somewhat lacking at times.

In the spirit of things, I thought I would share my noob moments, some I may have mentioned before, some are new!

Questing

Ok, so I tried a free account and was going around Elwynn Forest and Westfall et al doing my stuff when I hit level 20. I carried on questing and handing stuff in because I didn't realise that the xp wouldn't be awarded to you. So I got lots of shiny gear and money but I'd progressed out of zones quest wise but not actual level wise. I'd handicapped myself meaning I had to tackle things I wasn't ready for to try and get to new quests that I hadn't done... still fuck that dire wolf in Duskwood...

I thought that you had to complete every single quest in every single zone. I completed Eastern Kingdoms and then moved on to Outland. I was LVL 70 and still in Terrokar Forest after completing everything in Hellfire Peninsula when someone whispered me and asked me why I wasn't in Northrend...

Pet

I picked a hunter as it said good for solo levelling. I named my wolf (I started as human) Raider. I saw training dummies in Stormwind and one of them was titled "Raiders training dummy", I thought it was for my pet... I didn't even know what dungeons were, let alone raids...

Dungeons

It was only at LVL 83 that I found out that dungeons can be done by anyone and not end game content that the max level players did...

Didn't realise that you can only run out of the hands on the second boss in Neltharions Lair by avoiding the actual hand. I thought you just needed to get out of the animation and could do that by running through the hands...

Gear

Had no clue what my stats were, I just knew that I wore leather and then mail... that intellect tho...

Didn't know about white/green/blue/purple gear. If it did more damage than what I had currently I equipped it/bought it, regardless of colour...

I once had a bow break on me during running away from the Lich King in a dungeon. After that I kept any bow I got and arranged them from best to worst in my bag so I would always have a back up... I ended up with about 8 back ups for my back up... and when I had to finally release my collection into my void storage as I just didn't have room anymore to keep them all it made me panic.

Spells

In MoP I was SV/BM spec depending on the fight but in WoD I was just a Marksman Hunter. I was into Marksman big time, even though I had promised myself that I wouldn't ever play it again after levelling up to 85 by questing with it (and not really knowing what I was doing). During alt raids, I just brought my hunter and played a different spec, namely BM as I missed having RaidWiper with me. I had completely forgotten what any of the spells did and due to getting a new UI I was missing half of them off my bars but didn't realise. Yeah, Kill Command wasn't a thing for me until it got pointed out. (I main BM now and have no Idea how to play MM!)

Storyline

So this one I have touched on before in another post but my biggest weakness is I just don't finish questlines and therefore don't get the full story. After levelling to 84 by just questing alone I was done, done, done with the bloody things. In WoD I got to the level appropriate for moving on and then I did, dumping any quests that were left over. I had hit 100, and went straight into dungeons and the raids, never looking back until it was time to try and finish everything off to get Pathfinder for flying. I was working my way round and got to Nagrand, picking up the quests I had previously abandoned, when I got to the all important moment where you find out what happens at the end via a cinematic. It seemed like I was about 4 millennia behind everyone else as I announced in guild chat 'Thrall killed Garrosh???!?" Everyone else knew and I had been blisfully unaware but quietly wondering to myself what we were going to do about Garrosh. Have I learnt my lesson? No. I still don't do them all unless forced to by gated content and that is coupled with the fact that i pick them up and don't read them properly. Long story short, I have no clue what we have been doing in Legion really apart from fighting green guys and making friends with shiny goats.