Mystic Chicanery

I know I’m a late comer to Mists of Pandaria and everyone else probably already knows this.. but here’s the things that I learned that were not obvious.

Getting home
From Pandaria there is a portal back to your faction home (Stormwind and .. Orgrimmar I assume but I don’t play horde so MMV) in the MoP starting area in the Jade Forest. There are also portals in the back of your faction’s hub in the Vale of the Eternal Blossom to all of your main cities. Getting -back- to Pandaria you should use the portal which is near where you find the portals that were used for Cataclysm. On Alliance side that’s up around the lake on the back of Stormwind.
Continue reading There ought to be a manual…

The end (of leveling professions) is coming!! Or at least that’s what Godmother on Alt: ernative believes. Looking at the evidence I think it’s a fair guess. It maybe that only Blacksmithing is going in 5.2.. but I don’t doubt that the other crafting professions will follow.

So I asked myself: Self, what would it mean if you didn’t need to keep all those things (cloth, rocks, plants) to level up your professions on hand?
And self replied: Well gee, I could free up a lot of bank space.
To which I replied: Indeed. In fact.. if I were smart I’d unload all that crap now while the markets are high and most of the population of WoW is unaware of the revamps waiting in the wings. Indeed.
To which self replied: Wait. What if you’re wrong?
To which I replied: Meh then in the future, when I decide to level another profession I’ll have to re-gather all the materials. But in the meantime I’ll make bank. I’m willing to take the risk.

So it is with this little internal dialog that I decided that all my toons were having an “Everything must go” sale and emptying all the banks.
Continue reading Everything-must-go sale

Computer’s still dead. Nothing on TV. Tracking company has helpfully told me that the new replacement fan is in the mail somewhere.. but gives no estimate on delivery date. So we wait.

In the meantime I stumbled on this:
Cynwise’s Warcraft Manual: The Decline and Fall of Warlocks in Cataclysm

It’s a great read. I’d [...]

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