Archive for May, 2007
05.31.07
Posted in Musings at 12:14 pm by Nibuca
I caught myself wondering why I would run old-world instances. The loot is nice.. but I can’t imagine running a level 60 instance over and over again for a particular drop.. especially when I’ve been assured that 1 day in the outlands will replace all my old-world items.
So far I’ve run the old-world instances for two reasons:
- To complete quests (better exp)
- Specific (non-armor/non-weapon) loot wanted ([Mark of the Chosen])
I don’t see any reasons beyond these two.
Instances I doubt I’ll ever do:
- Molten Core (40 man)
- Blackwing Lair (40 man)
- Naxxramas (40 man)
- Onyxia’s Lair(40 man)
- Zul’Gurub(20 man)
- Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj (20 man)
- Temple of Ahn’Qiraj (20 man)
Unless we take on one of the 40 mans with a bunch of level 70’s I doubt I’ll ever do a 40 man raid. The 20 mans are a possibility.. especially Zul’Gurub… I’d love to get the [Swift Zulian Tiger] but still.. 20 people is a bit hard to manage. Idaknow.. seems like a lot of content going to waste.
I wonder if we’ll see the same thing when the level cap is moved to 80.
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Posted in Tatia at 10:08 am by Nibuca
BRD “Jailbreak” was fun. We cleared out the appropriate hallways and then turned in the preliminary quests. Then you -slowly- follow Marshal what’s-his-name around while he gather’s his armor, frees his friends and has you help him exact revenge on his enemies.
The group was Tatia (57 Pally), Sibiy (66 Hunter), Zinnea (60 Priest) and Chulong (68 Rogue). While clearing before the turn in Sibiy declared that he was bored and set about aggroing additional groups of mobs. YEAH! Tatia actually got to tank a bit. At one point I looked around and realized she’d just killed 8 Bloodhounds (they were arranged in a lovely half circle around her).
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05.30.07
Posted in Tatia at 11:21 am by Nibuca
Ok, so it turns out Blazerunner is a pushover when you zap him regularly (or have an uber-spiff healer watching your back).
It looks like if he has his big blue-ish “you can’t hit me” aura up, he can knock you back. When he does his knock back he gets right in your face. This make it really really hard to see if his aura is up. Add to that, if he knocks you back and the knock back puts you up on a rock in the back of the cave, then he will start evading. If he evades for too long (like 3 or more seconds) he heals himself. All the while he’s whaling on you and knocking you back into the cave wall.
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05.29.07
Posted in Tatia at 6:24 pm by Nibuca
I’m horribly intrigued by fully developed big empty spaces.. like this cave in Starfall.. someday something might happen here.. until then.. it’s just big.. and empty. Weird.
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Posted in Tatia at 1:58 pm by Nibuca
Last night I wandered off to Winterspring to work on a couple quests (and to get 56). I’m working on the “Are we there Yeti?” quest line. A goblin sends you out to get 10 yeti hides (only drop from Ice Thistle Yeti, ~40% drop rate) and then two pristine yeti horns (only drop for matriarch and patriarch yeti, abysmally tiny drop rate 
). I dinged while whaling on two patriarchs and a random added Ice Thistle Yeti. (BTW: the new “Blessing of Freedom” animation is much cooler than the doughnut of freedom we had before).
After you give the horns to the quest-giver goblin she crafts a mechanical yeti and then instructs you to show it to three of her friends (who are of course in all corners of the continent). Anyway. I just had to laugh when I “showed” the yeti to her first friend.. who took fright and ran all around Everlook trying to escape from the little bitty yeti.
Maybe I just have a cruel streak.
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Posted in Tatia at 11:27 am by Nibuca
Whose bright idea was it to force me to use some daft little wand in place of my shield? I mean really? And what kind of freaking reject of an elemental spends all his time blasting me with fireballs instead of hitting my ever-so-wonderful, endowed-with-shield-spikes shield? BAH!
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05.24.07
Posted in Tatia at 9:28 pm by Nibuca
Enough with the instances already.
Tatia fluttered back to Un’Goro Crater. Immediately I was reminded that I wanted to finish Linken’s quest line to get his boomerang.
I found a fantastic walk-thru here: http://russizm.blogspot.com/2006/05/its-secret-to-no-one_31.html
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Posted in Tatia at 11:26 am by Nibuca
Dinged 55 while in BRD. Not so much experience there.. but tons of upgrades. I got a new shield, new legs, new cloak and new gloves. Tatia is looking downright sexy. Must add screenshot.
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05.23.07
Posted in Tatia at 10:02 am by Nibuca
Settling into 2.1. Couldn’t get on until late last night so didn’t spend very much time with it.
I started the night in Darnassus and spent a while popping into and out of the game while fiddling with addons. Most everything is now working. The only big loss so far is MoveAnything! and KTM. Really hoping those come back soon.
Then I ran off to Exodar to respec. Happy new Tatia deep deeeep into the Protection tree.
Current spec: 0/45/0
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05.21.07
Posted in Musings at 4:21 pm by Nibuca
Will it zap CC’d mobs?
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