Fickle Friday: What’s Your Lucky Do?

Lok’tar Friends!

Today’s Fickle Friday is brought to you by the letter ‘N’ and the numbers ‘9’ and ‘0’, in the hopes that the information contained herein will entice Nim to level to 90. He’s fallen in love with pet battles and tilling and his desire to actually level has been usurped by ‘Casual Fun, the Usurper,’ and we’re not sure what we can do to bring him back. Eventually, I suppose he’ll get his battle pets up high enough and be forced to head into zones where he’ll get experience for killing things. But maybe, just maybe, we can find a luckydo that will, well, act as a cattle prod.

So as I mentioned in my last post, I’ve hit 90 and have been finishing up the various questing zones that I hadn’t completed prior to hitting 90. The main goal here was to try to get a few upgrades from questing and ensure that the iLvl on my gear was as high as it’s going to get. Throughout the course of questing through Pandaria, we meet many new races that we’ve never seen before in game, and one of my favorites is the Grummles. As you quest through the Kun-Lai Summit, you will get to know the Grummles better as they ask for your assistance with their trading. While doing so, you will find out what a luckydo is, and, occasionally, you will be asked, ‘What’s your luckdoo?’

Something that I really noticed while out questing during Pandaria was that there are a ton of fun little vanity items that you will be given as quest rewards, and I wanted to talk about them today. While I call them vanity items, that’s really only for a lack of a better description, they are mostly just items that take up an inventory slot, but they provide some sort of fun effect, and most are on a short cooldown timer. While some are an on use effect for a trinket, they aren’t all trinkets. I think that with the introduction of the Grummles and their new vernacular, I think calling these items luckydos is a nice little way to identify them separately from other items in the game.

On Kor, I already had a few luckydos in his bags from previous game content. He carries around an Iron Boot Flask so that if he feels like being a runic iron dwarf for a while, he can. If he’s not in the mood to play the dwarf, he can always show his Darkspear Pride and fight as a troll warrior in a pretty sweet looking armor set. Just in case there’s a party going on, Kor’s always carrying his Brewfest Pony Keg to ensure that nobody’s mug goes dry. I have also appropriated a Mini Mana Bomb so that I can relive the glory that was Theramore’s destruction whenever I choose. There are probably some other luckydos available from old content, but that’s all that Kor has, at least had, until Pandaria.

Punting is a required skill in Warcraft. You never know when a Gnome is going to materialize and need to be punted. But while Blizz has yet to allow us the proper animations to actually punt Gnomes, they have given us something almost as epic, the Puntable Marmot. The marmot is a luckydo that you place on the ground and then click on, after which your character will diligently punt it quite a ways. If you’re fast enough, you can run to the location and give it a second punt for good measure, but it generally doesn’t last much longer than that. If you’re friend also has one of these cute little kick the baby toys, you can stand opposite each other and kick them back and forth to each other. Good times all around.

Up next is a notable & tote-able, incredible & inedible, elusive and all inclusive, the lightweight pocketmate, the floor bowl with a top hole, the luckydo that could be used by a bear for a forest poo, Shushen’s Spittoon! This is something that you’ll want to bring with you into every pub, bar, alehouse and brewery that you visit since you’ll never know when there will be an ungulate in the room that may have a desire to spit (we all know they do). You could have them just do it in a little pool in a corner, but without a puntable gnome to clean it up, you’ll wind up with a mess, that’s for sure. Just grab the handy-dandy gift from a pandy and go to town. And, just in case you have that one friend like ours, the portable spittoon can also be used as a drool cup for any old mans in your party. WARNING: The portable spittoon is not responsible for spillage caused by excessive spitting, brewfest inebriation, fel reaver patrolling, traitorous Forsaken betrayals or earth-shattering black dragon cataclysms.

Onwards, next we have The Golden Banana, which is avail from a quest here. If you’re a hunter whose tamed a monkey, or someone who happened to have a tiny primate companion who has suddenly grown to epic proportions, the golden banana is the perfect distraction for them, since it’s kinda like Mjolnir. Only the chosen may carry it or pick it up. To be perfectly honest, I haven’t really figured out what the golden banana is for, although I have a sneaking suspicion that it is a reference to another video game franchise. I haven’t tried it yet, but perhaps it’s a distraction for all the rampaging hozen that run amok.

The introduction of training dummies to the game has done wonders for theorycrafters wanting to test their rotations or damage per second. While the training dummies don’t necessarily provide a complete boss battle simulation (i.e. they don’t hit back, or drop sticky stuff on the floor you don’t want to stand in) they have allowed players to test things that they could only test before during raids. The other major drawback to the training dummies is that they’re rooted in place and only available in certain places. But fear not, for there is now another option! Both theorycrafters and those who hate their vegetables can now rejoice at the Turnip Punching Bag, which is a luckdoo that you can place on the ground and test your abilities, and you can do it anywhere! Always wanted to go train at the top of mountain in Stormpeaks where there isn’t a soul around to disturb you? Ever wanted to stand in front of Angrathar, the Wrathgate and listen to the wails of the common people while you smash/melt faces? Have a desire to annoy all those market barrens in the Orgrimmar / Stormwind auction houses with the constant sounds of combat? Now is your chance!

The Turnip Paint Gun is another luckdoo and this one I think is a reference to a certain song by a certain band of rotating boulders. I haven’t actually tried this one on anyone yet, but from what I gather, it turns a friendly target orange for six seconds.

So while questing out in Kun-Lai, I found that there are way too many people in this game who have way too many golds. It’s like that Timberlake movie, In Time. I feel like I’m the guy from the ghetto and the rest of those people are from Grenwich. You know who I’m talking about, all those people who have the Grand Expedition Yak mount already. Well, if like me, you’re from the time-ghetto, I’ve got just the luckydo for you. Ruther’s Harness can you make you feel like part of the group by allowing you to call upon a yak of your own. Unfortunately, you can’t ride him, pet him, touch him, shove him or even keep him.

If you’ve been playing warcraft for any kind of duration, odds are that you have a BFF in the game. Again, we have just the luckydo for you! The B.F.F. Necklace is a drop from an elite in a cave in Towlong Steppes called Huggalon the Heart Watcher. Apparently this is a nice little dual reference to something that was obvious and I got and a reference that was less so and I totally missed until it was pointed out. In the back of Wintergrasp, there are a bunch of bosses, Archavon the Stone Watcher, Emalon the Storm Watcher, Toravon the Ice Watcher and Koralon the Flame Watcher. These four represent the earth, air, water and fire, or the four elements. Huggalon was called the Heart Watcher to link him to the other four (the obvious reference) but when all five are taken together, with the fifth reference being to Heart, makes a Captain Planet and the Planeteers reference (the one I didn’t get). Anyways, Huggalon was not soloable by my level 90 prot warrior (apparently he wanted to hug me and squeeze me and name me George just a little bit too much) and there were several times where I was near death and had to pull a group of the weak mobs to kill and activate my Victory Rush ability just to stay alive. Luckily for me, there was a Night Elf priest who had been questing in the cave at the same time as me, and we had been helping each other out, taking turn pulling groups but burning them down together. He helped me kill the elite and so he was the first to get the on use effect for the BFF luckydo, the friend’s forever buff.

Up next is a little reward you get as you’re helping the Grummles out in Kun-Lai. I’m not really certain as to what the point is, other than for show, but the Silversage Incense will allow you to summon an incense stick for one minute. I suppose if you’re into RP’ing ceremonies, the incense stick provides some extra options. Unfortunately, due to bag space limitations, this is one that I had put in the bank, but who knows, maybe someday it will get to serve a greater (or evil) purpose.

Now, if you missed out on getting the Brewfest Pony Keg or Brewfest Keg Pony, you can rest easy, or if you just want a little variety in your brews, you can always offer Jin Warmkeg’s Brew to your friends, who will surely appreciate the delight that is Pandaran brewing.

If you’re out questing solo, or just hanging around your capital city while all your friends are off adventuring without you, there’s always Lao Chin’s Las Mug, which is a mug of ale that you can drink, and wonderfully fills itself back up ten minutes later. This little luckydo could wreak havoc upon the NPC economy of the game, putting all servers out of work. If you’re mug fills itself after ten minutes, why would you ever need wait staff again?

If getting your characters drunk in game really isn’t your thing, and you prefer a more spiritual approach to the world (of warcraft), or if you’re just fed up with the Motes of Harmony, then perhaps the Totem of Harmony is for you. Please note: The totem of harmony does not produce, reproduce, create, procreate, or otherwise generate any offspring in the form of Motes of Harmony.

World of Warcraft has been around for quite some time now, and every now and again, you’re going to get sick of looking at your friends’ ugly mugs. I mean let’s face it (har-har), you’re friends are just not as pretty as you. I know for a fact that I could say the same about all of my friends, “I’m Prettier Than This Man.” Well, when you’ve had about enough of them, you can always opt for Ken-Ken’s Mask, which will surely be a delightful change over whatever they walk around with all the time.

The final luckydo that I wanted to cover just happens to be my new favorite of the expansion. It’s called the Hozen Idol. Now, the X-Men are probably some of the most well known comic book heroes, and while I would never claim that one group of comic heroes was better than another group of comic book heroes, we all know that certain people have certain favorites. Unfortunately, as there are no adamantium skeleton in the game *yet*, we’ll have to settle for another really cool and really awesome mutant power: the ability to kill things with giant laser beams from your eyes! Yes, that’s right, the Hozen Idol allows you to shoot laser beams out of freakin your eyes and kill freakin critters! I haven’t double checked this yet, but I really hope this form of critter killing counts towards the guild achievement Critter Kill Squad, because that will be the most fun I’ve ever had killing 50,000 critters in wow.

I have to say that I was blown away by the sheer number of luckydos that Blizzard decided to throw into the game, and for the record yet, I really haven’t done more than two or three quests in the Dread Wastes yet, so who knows there could be more (as well as more like Huggalon too).. For a collector, or a pack rat, it’s a nightmare, since each one takes up a bag slot. There is a quest reward for one of the Kun-Lai Summit Grummle quests that rewards a 32 slot bag, and Kor’s Grummlepack is almost completely filled up with his luckydos. On the scale of collector v. pack rat, I think I’m bi-polar and could be placed at both extremes simultaneously. I don’t use all of my luckdoos all the time, but I like to have the option to use them when it would be fun or appropriate (or inappropriate). I mean, walking into the Shado Pan Monastery and punting a marmot at Taran Zhu’s head prior to attacking him will only serve to piss him off, but it’s irresistibly fun. When standing before Xin the Weaponmaster and setting out the spittoon so that Kor can alleviate the excessive rage-froth build up during the fight is always a sensible precaution. When you head to the Stormstout Brewery, you can always suggest that during the brewing process that the recipe could use More Golden Banana. If you’re in the Jade Temple and things are just a little too green for your liking, you can always spray a friend and get a nice green and orange complimentary color scheme going on.

These are my luckydos and what I use them for. Have you found any luckydos that I’ve missed? (I know archaeology has a bunch that my brother showed me). What is your favorite and why? What do you use them for? In the end, what’s your lucky do? Anyways, good hunting and remember,

Stay Hordecore,

– Kor

Fickle Friday: List Edition

Lok’tar friends,

Yes I know our Friday post is a day late this week, but I blame our self appointed editor and chef (who cuts a mean carrot). He’s had this post for about four or five days and instead makes me post it from an igloo. Anyways…

So I’be been bombing around Azshara with my lowbie Goblin warrior this past week having a blast. My play time has been sporadic and very limited due to work, but I’ve still managed to start a new guild (new server requires new shenanigans guild, for the shenanigans require their own home… Guild is Skullreaver on Winterhoof Horde if anyone’s interested).

Anyways, I know all you Cata players are saying that Azshara was so two years ago, and you’d be right, but this is my first run through of the retuned zone, so for me, it’s all new. But the real topic of today’s post is a list. Two years ago, right before I stopped playing for good, I posted a few lists that were sort of reminiscing about my playtime in WoW up until the end of Wrath. Since I didn’t really play Cata, I can’t do the exact same, but I have played other MMOs so I decided to make today’s list all about “Things WoW Does Wrong”. Now before you get the wrong idea, let me start by saying that wow does a lot of things right. It’s those things that have kept the game going for so long. But there are some things that WoW just doesn’t do right. (By the way, this list is brought to you by the number 6 and the letter PH, because there a lot of sixes who just don’t get enough recognition and there is a lot of PHail out there).

6. FFS Enough With The Rediculous One Off Mini-Games

This is a trend that started in BC with bombing runs, but was taken to a whole new level in Wrath with the real instigator being vehicle combat. There were a few quests using vehicles that prepped players for later usage of them in pvp and raids. Fine. I didn’t love it, but I didn’t hate it either. The jousting is another example.for Cata, I have only done a few of the new zones so far, but there are two types of minigames that are terrible, irrelevant and downright annoying. I’m talking about the archmage questline in Azshara that has you bounding up a mountain a la super mario, and the stupid Hippogryph flapping in Mount Hyjal. Holy Hanna Blizzard. Enough is Enough. Pick a mechanic that is fun and works and stick with it. Wasting time to learn a new mechanic (that often sucks moar with lag) for a single quest (and failies, you figure it out) is terrible game design. If you’re gonna make us learn a new minivans mechanic, make it fun and doable.

5. Expansions do NOT require you to change the way your entire skill / talent / spell / random mechanic system works.

I really hope you’re done doing this to us. Adding a few tiers of abilities was great for the first three expansions. Albeit by the time Wrath hit, there were a lot to learn and there were a lot of spells that needed reworking. I get that. I still hate the way it was done, but whatever, you’re the ones with millions of customers, not me. Still, I was hoping that for the next few expansions we could build on the NEW talent system you developed, And start to develop intricate builds, strange hybrids and wicked cool twists. So what if there were junk talents, that was never something I cared much about. Having to relearn two specs on all eight of the different classes I have at endgame? That sucks. But oh wait, we’re gonna do that all over again, and now, you can just play whackamole with your talents cause they don’t really matter. That’s shitty. That’s like seeing your best friend sleeping with his mouth open and deciding to drop a deuce in it. It might seem cool at the time, but it’s kinda offside.

4. Crafting Isn’t Interesting, More Like Set It and Go Do Your Laundry

Seriously, Star Wars did a really great job with their crafting. I don’t know that it will work for wow, but what I do know is that having to level first aid on my umpteenth character is getting ridiculous. Seriously, I get a bunch of linen cloth, hit craft all and have time to go watch an episode of Big Bang Theory. The crafting system in game is really a testament to what existed in the MMO space when WoW was in development. Things are different now and it’s time for an update. I mean really, if you can sunder the whole world, the least you can do is find a homeless bum for me to hire who can make bandages for me. I mean when was the last time they were in a city? There are always people begging for golds. Why can’t we make them do it?

3. Hearthstones suck.

I’m sorry, but I got spoiled while playing TOR. Their system worked so that once you discovered a hearth location, you could hearty there any time, provided it wasn’t cooldown. The Hearthstone system could really use an overhaul and it would get rid of the need for portals, teleports, etc. c’mon Blizz, this would make everyone’s lives less annoying.

2. Moar RP Love! (But not the Deep Run Tram kind)

Seriously, I love to RP, even if I only do it casually. But this is one aspect of the game that always takes a back seat to mechanics and content. It’s sad, considering that WoW is an amazing RPG, except for the fact that the majority of the RP has to be played driven. The Transmog thing (which I haven’t tried yet) is a step in the right direction, but I suspect that it made the cut only because people are vain. Give my character the ability to select a last name, or a place to call home (aka housing), to name that one special weapon you have (I call her Vera, she is my most favorite gun) or some cool thing you’ve thought of but I haven’t yet. Your stories can be so wonderful, and they are made all the better when I can Roleplay my characters through them.

1. Class Legendary Quests & Weapons (or Armor)

I know this may sound far fetched, but I really want to see Class Legendary quest lines, for all Classes, that are amazing in their story telling and then at the end allow you to chose the type of weapon/armor piece that you want (sword, axe, dagger, etc) and a special effect (three for each class, allowing you to tailor it to your spec) and then to name the weapon/armor yourself. Invariably some d-bag will call it ‘yomama’ or something as equally unimaginative, but it would give people a chance to really pick the weapon that best suited their character. My orc warrior would take an 2H axe, my dwarf paladin a 2H mace, my blood elf Mage would take a a kick ass robe, while my Forsaken Rogue would get a fist weapon, and my Tauren Warrior would get the biggest baddest mofo shoulders you could dream of.

At the launch of an expansion is the worst possible time to ask for something to be added to that expansion. So I’m not asking that. What I am asking for is consideration for the expansion after Mists. Think about it. In the meantime,

Stay Hordecore,

Kor

Ten Things I’ve Learned About WoW

Lok’tar friends.

So today I thought I’d drop another quick list.  This was cobbled together a few weeks ago, but its made up of things that I learned as I played through wow.  Gear is like Cocaine. For some people, cocaine is a helluva drug, to quote the Chappelle show, and gear can be the same way. Some people do it for fun, but more often than not, gear, as cocaine, turns people into whores.

Us versus them. People who’ve only played one side of the game tend to buy into the idea that the factions are actually different. There are two views on this, though. The first is that the other faction is dirty and evil and filled with arse-chapeaus, which is generally spouted by those who’ve had bad experiences in pvp, where the other faction has acted like jerks a bit. The other group is those that have just had enough with the jerks on their own faction and feel their faction is filled with idiots while the other faction can work together and is superior and therefore must be better. Once you’ve played both sides, you’ll realize that the idiots are like the curse of flesh, their everywhere and affect everyone. That being said, both sides has its diamond’s in the rough.

There are two types of inexperienced players: newbs and noobs. While both words technically mean the same thing, there is a slight distinction. Newbs are players that are legitimately new to the game and just don’t have the years of experience that everyone else does. In time they will get that experience and stop being newbs. The second group, noobs, are the idiots and arse-chapeaus and morons. They are the players that either know better, should know better or just don’t care. They grief and cause grief to those people they are playing with. They may know how to play their class, but don’t bother to learn fights, or they may know fights but don’t bother to learn their class. These kind are everywhere.

Ignore and Report Spam are your friends. The ignore function is that friend that you’ve had around since grade school who you’ve fought with from time to time but always came back to in the end. The Report Spam button is your best friend in the whole world, the one that you’d do anything for all the time no matter what, except for maybe out and out betrayal, but you get the idea. Your ignore list is only so big. I reserve it for the repeat offenders. If I know there are a few uber-idiots that are always in trade chat, they make this list and almost never get taken off. In my experience there is always one or two on every server I’ve played on, and I can still remember the names of most of them. The report spam function is really for reporting spam, but it also has the function of ignoring the individual as well. I’m pretty sure it’s only a temporary ignore, but I’m not sure. The great thing about this is, if you want to overuse it, as I do, you can and it keeps idiots from annoying you, whether it’s with offensive language, rude behavior, or actual spamming.

Guildies can be fleeting but friendships are forever. I’ve been in several guilds since I joined wow and have made several friends that I consider best friends. We don’t always talk every day, but we stay in touch and enjoy playing the game with each other. When I’ve left the game, they’ve always been the reason I’ve come back. When I’ve left the guilds they are in and gone out in search of raiding or other nonsense, I’ve always gone back to whatever guild they are in, because they are who I want to spend my gaming time with.

Internet Dragons are cool. Because real dragons don’t exist, and dragons are cool, thus internet dragons are cool.

Class wars. Each class has a widely accepted nemesis, or at least each player who pvp’s with a class, generally finds there is at least one other class that can just get under their skin. It’s just the nature of trying to provide balance to the game in the only way they can: A beats B, who beats C, who beats D, who beats C, who beats A, who beats F, who beats B… etc. I’m sure someone somewhere has done a class comparison chart like this somewhere, although I’ve never seen one. Either way, these rivalries can be good for the game and you tend to find this out the more you play each class. For example, mages and warlocks have this eternal hatred of each other. Personally, I’ve found that there is a private rivalry between me (as a warrior) and every alliance hunter in existence. I’m not sure if I posted about this back in the day when I was levelling through BGs, but hunters always tried to kite me, and I always tried to catch them. The really good hunters tended to win more against me than I did them, while I tended to win more against the really bad hunters. The more hunters tried to kite me, the more I tried to prove that I could get in close and kill them. The more I tried to get in close and kill them, the more they tried to kite me. I love vicious circles, they’re so much better than tame ones.

Everyone has been fooled, no one was prepared and the billions upon billions of deaths were merely a setback; I for one welcome our future swine overlords. Everyone knows that Boars are the biggest, baddest and most dangerous threat that there is, or ever has been in the World (of Warcraft). Consider this: Everywhere you go, the boars are there. All the quest givers everywhere pay you to kill them, but no matter how many you kill they always come back in equal or greater numbers. It is only a matter of time before they revolt against this oppression. It is only a matter of time before they all rise up at once, overwhelming everyone, everywhere. In the end, we will all be rolling in the mud bowing to our new swine overlords.

Bloggers make the world go round. I’m not trying to toot my own horn here, what I do mean to say is that there are several influential bloggers out there that have been consistently correct, funny, up to date and verbose in this wonderful community and if it wasn’t for their inspiration, many of us wouldn’t stay as interested as we do, or we may have suffered severe withdrawal pains from not having wow stuff to read while at work. A special thanks to some of those who’ve been inspirations to me, thank you all for the inspiration and entertainment.

Cake really pisses Pie off.  If you’re talking to Pie, don’t mention cake.

So that’s what I’ve learned, everything else is just fluff, so keep on keeping on and,

Stay Hordecore.

– Fikkle

I’m just sayin…

Fikkle’s Citizenship Status

Here at 4theHorde we like to keep you all up to date on teh many changes we have going on. So here’s a rundown of the most recent changes. Gnomageddon has deleted his gnomes and started a tauren Warrior. He looks good in a side of beef. Nimrock’s Healer tree has now began tanking heroics for a tank set. That’s going well. Pie’s Hunter is running a fulltime BM spec. My Priest was reformed into a troll… and finally Fikkle has the most changes of all. Kor is now a gnome warrior, not an orc warrior, his shaman is now on the alliance side waiting on the dwarfs to get their act together and start doing shaman stuffs, and finally Fikkle is working toward American Citizenship. If that doesn’t work out, he’s moving down south with Gnome. So, have a great day all, and I’ll keep you aprised of the changes as they occur. Also, the Grammer Hammer can Eat this post up, I’m okay with it.

4theAlliance,
~Sy

This is too Much

Wow. I’ve run around saying “I’m a Night Elf Mohawk!” as much as the next guy ever since the over the top wow commercial featuring Mr. T. But wow, this is just ugly. I never want to be a night elf mohawk again…

Man is that ugly…

~Sy

And the Winner is…

First of all, let me say thank you to everyone that came by my site adn entered my contest! If you came by my site, didn’t bother to say hi or anything, even enter the contest, well, you guys are cool too. (Unless you didn’t enter because you thought my art work was crap…then I’ll hunt you down like the little gnomes you smell like. Yeah, we know you were here, we have good noses…) Anyway, the traffic increase here and at World of Sylus was amazing. No sales of toon picks yes, but I’m assuming that’s because you all want to know if you won the free toon drawing first. (that’s what I’m telling myself to keep from crying at night. )

We had many great comments, and many more people pimp my art work via twitter, blogs, and even facebook. Thank you all for the kind words(even if they were to get in my good graces to win the artwork) I still love you! So, here’s how I picked the winner. I wrote down all of the people that pimped my stuffs on the internets. (Twitter posts with links, facebook posts with links, blog posts, etc) After I had all of your names on little pieces of paper,(Gnome, you had your name in there like 6 times I think, YOU ANIMAL!) the lovely LadyGil drew one random name out of the bucket. (it was this candy thing for Halloween, scary!) Now, I know who that name is, heck I want to tell you who that name is, but I think I better not just yet. Let me spend a little bit more time rambling on and on about how awesome this contest was, how cool my artwork is, and how amazing you all were for entering and visiting the site.

Is that enough rambling? If not I can do some more, seriously. I can ramble for hours and hours without slowing down. Okay, I”m boring myself. The name drawn out of the hat, against all odds(seriously, how the crap was Gnome not drawn, he was in there so many times!) the winner of one custom toon drawing is none other than DotComLarry. Yes folks, DOTCOMLARRY. Good Ol’ Dot threw out a tweet during the second day of the contest I believe and came back here telling me to check it out. I did, and thank you for the kind words Larry! I’ll be contacting you via twitter to get your info on what toon you want, the screenshot, and where to send it too.

As soon as I’m done with this fine piece of artwork, I’ll post it out here on the interwebs for all to see. Now, I wasn’t going to do this, but Gnome, send me a direct message on twitter. I’m giving you a second place prize. I feel you earned it. I mean seriously, I got so much face time on Gomeageddon’s blog I was beginning to feel like I was a co-author or something, sheesh. It kind of creeped me out a bit, seriously, the view from down there is scary!

Well guys, thanks for the great contest and traffic. Keep stopping by, and remember if you want to purchase a custom piece of world of warcraft art for you or a loved one, check out my etsy shop, or leave me a comment at world of Sylus.

~Uncle Sy

Blog Reader Super-pro Tip

Blog reader Super-pro tip. Don’t read FORBEARANCE at work unless you want to randomly giggle for half an hour while your co-workers rustle up a nice white jacket for you to wear.

So I’d never heard about FORBEARANCE until I read Gnomeaggedon‘s post yesterday about the return of the Megs! She’s guest posting for Jong at FORBEARANCE from time to time. And boy was this a blog match made in heaven… Seriously, go read and be ready to giggle uncontrollably. And welcome back Megs, we missed you!

 

Stay Hordecore

Fikkle

Re-Hordifying

Re-Hordifying. Yes, it’s a word.
A word according To The International Dictionary of Sylus. Created by the brilliant minds at Sylus, for Sylus.

Now, it’s time for a brief grammer and contextual usage lesson kids. Everyone pull out your International Dictionary of Sylus…It’s in your desks. I’ll give you another minute…Everyone ready? Okay. Turn to page 4,256, about half way up the page…right between ready-set-FEIGN DEATH!, and Reasonifying.

You, in the back row, could you read the definition of Re-Hordifying to the class?  Yes you, the Lady in the pigtales, from California, what’s your name….it’s been a while sinse you’ve been in class, Yes, that’s it, Gamedame! Go Ahead, we’re listening…

“Re-Hordifying –verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -fied, -fying.-to make or become reeducated and reacclamated to the ways of the Horde. “

Okay, thank you, now for the synonyms. How about you, the one in the Parka. Yes you, all the way up in Canada-land. Fikkle. Go ahead.

“Synonyms: Anti-Alliancing, Dwarf-shunning, Dranei-dropping, Nelf-Nerfing, Human-hating, Gnome-punter.”

Thank you, both of you, you have earned an extra credit point for the day. Now, lets have a brief discussion on the subject of Re-Hordifying. Over the past few weeks, a month or so at most, I’ve been destroying hordlings in the battlegrounds as a dwarf hunter. I’ve been doing very well in teh battlegrounds, but I blame that on all of the lowbies hitting the BG’s due to the whole XP thing. I’m not complaining in the slightest. It’s been a blast, and I will still play over there and level that hunter to see the content and get a toon to 80 on the dirty side(AKA Alliance).

I have however started playing on my horde toons again as well. Gozz 1.0, my main, is back at doing the argent tournament quests and doing his wintersgrasp quests at least one per week. I’m even taking the time to log in Sylus and Abadon, Rogue and DK, both at 80, to hit wintersgrasp weekly as well. You’re probably wondering to yourself, why now? why them? Well, sit back class, and let me educate you.

Hey, you with the pencil up your nose, Pie(Click the link, you know you want too) is it? stop that, it’s gross. Where was I? Oh yes, Re-Hordifying. In the process of deciding to level a toon on the dirty side to 80, I transferred all of my hunter and rogue heirloom gear to Winterhoof to play with Crits. This left my hordies H-gearless(heirloom gear). H-gearless is also found in The International Dictionary of Sylus as well. Page 739 if you are interested. Now, I’m wanting to level a Hordecore Orc Hunter(don’t tell Roz, or maybe a troll…they have bow bonuses…). Can I have a troll in an Orc’s skin costume?

Anyway, so I’ve been figuring up the easiest way to get all of the needed gear for my low level hunter. Here are my options. I can do wintersgrasp on my rogue and DK every week. If my figures are correct, I can have the needed stone keepers shards on each toon to get my two heartseeker daggers in two weeks. There, melee weapons, check. Now, I’m running Gozz through WG weekly as well, earning him 30-50 per week, depending on how hard I hit it, and he’s got 70ish now, so in three weeks give or take, I can have the shoulders. (I want the pvp ones for sure)

This leaves his ranged weapon and chest piece. I have a few options for the ranged weapon, so lets look at the chest piece. Really, with my time input at current(which is relatively low compared to my time input as of six months ago) it would be safe to assume I won’t be running a ton of heroics. Yes, I could run HTOC in thirty minutes every day, netting me three marks of conquest per day(not to mention a few extra champions seals). I would need 40 to get the heirloom chestpiece this way. I have roughly 10. So, theoretically, if I ran HTOC every day, I could have it in 10 days or so. I don’t run it everyday, and if I put effort into trying, I would probably only run it once every other day or so. Therefore, this route would take me 2-3 weeks to earn enough marks of conquest to trade them in one at a time(fix this Blizz!) into the marks of heroism. Then purchasing the pve heirloom chestpiece. My other option is to save up 60 champions seals and purchase it from the argent tournament. I currently have 26 seals after running my dailies today. Now, I can earn 10 seals per day, with the occasional extra seal being looted from the bag they give out. That’s six days of dailies, which can be a bit time consuming considering I don’t play a ton anymore(school, work, NEW BABY, and family see to that).

Now, yes, I have 26 already, I could have that puppy in a few days. There in lies my next predicament. I want to get the ranged weapon from the argent tournament. It’s 90 argent tournament champions seals, and in my opinion easier to get than saving the 350 shards for the wintersgrasp ranged weapon(Also, it’s a gun wg, I like the zing of an arrow to the pow of a gun). So, add this to the equation, and that means I need 130 total champions seals. Subtract out the 26 I already have, and I’m looking at 10.4 days. Just short of two weeks. Two weeks, in which chances are my new baby girl will be born. You see the predicament here. Life will be upside down. My other option, gather a group of friends(Nim on heals, Fik, Pie, Roz, Jaarka…wait, Grubbs, Sliggy, or any combination of the listed above, and tank on my DK Abadon. If we hit a chain of heroics on say, a Sunday afternoon(tomorrow) I could get the heirloom chest piece relatively quickly. I think he has a few marks, less than ten. If each heroic instance drops an estimated 4 marks of conquest per run, we’ll say assuming I have 5(I know it’s more than 0, but less than 10, so 5 average), that would be 9 runs. Assuming 45 minutes per run, allowing a quick 5-10 minutes in between to repair/reammo/release bladders, we’re looking at roughly 8 hours total. Oi… I guess that’s out!

With all of these variables, class, how long is it going to take Gozz 1.0,Sy, and Aba to gather all of the heirloom gear for a lowbie BG Horde Hunter?

You sleeping in the back row…Slig, wake him up, yes you Nimrock. Answer the question please…

“uh, what is the square root of four-million-three-hundred-twenty-one-thousand-seven-hundred-fifty-six to the third power of the infinite subset of i…”

I don’t even know what that means, but you are obviously smarter than me, and can do math in your sleep that I could never do with years of training, therefore I’m going to assume you meant roughly three weeks.

Yes, with just three weeks of work, I think I can be ready to give all of my lowbie heirloom gear to a tricked out horde orc(or troll) hunter and start tearing up the battlegrounds. This is a good thing, seeing as I have no idea what name to use, and seeing as I also am not sure what toon to get rid of( I have ten toons on DB…) I’ve got time to ponder this predicament. Now, should I factor in name time? oooooo, this could lead into a naming contest….I’ll save that for another post.

Anyway, class lets review, the definition of Re-Hordifying is what? You, in the back, the one with the injured butterfly wearing a sling, yes, you Rozjin.

“Um, it’s you returning to your Horde ways?”

Close enough, close enough.
~Uncle Sy

Thank You Jinx

About six months back, right after the world of warcraft gaming mouse became available, I picked one up. It was great. I used the snot out of that thing. I loved the visuals of it, and the gameplay functionality was really good. I had so many different button combo’s plugged into that thing.It was  Amazing. Then I severed the cord. Long story, I may write about some time, but I still need time to heal… What Really sweetened the deal was the Jinx buy one get one free  coupon that came with it. I stuck it way in a wow book(Day of the Dragon I think), and used it as a bookmark, thinking, I’d get around to using it soon. The other day however, I realized it was September first. wait…something rang a bell about that date…. I got out my book, and found the coupon. CRAP, I HAD MISSED THE EXPIRATION DATE BY ONE STINKING DAY!!!!!

I figured, what the heck, lets go see if the code is still good. I logged onto Jinx.com and picked out two t-shirts. The new Epic Hunter shirt, and just the plain ol’ for the horde shirt. went to the checkout box, plugged in the coupon code…and wala, buy one get one free…. I thought for a minute, I wonder if I could get a few hoodies, so I removed the t-shirts from the cart, and added the black world of warcraft hoodie, and the navy blue +20 Frost Resistance. WOOT! BUY ONE GET ONE! So I proceeded to checkout, paid for the items, and then within two business days, I’m now the proud owner of two new hoodies! Too bad it’s 85 degrees outside. Totally not hoodie weather yet, but just wait, October is around the corner!!!

Nothing says Dork like my wardrobe,
~Uncle Sy