But why is the Pie Gone?

The Rum...why is it gone?

The Pie is not gone. The Pie has been incognito for a while. I am going to break a few of the Nim’s rule’s of blogging in this post.

First, how is everyone? Good…Good. Second, I’ve been good. Working on a few projects, some of you may enjoy said projects. I am currently reading through the WoW lore books. I am, at the time of this post, just finished The Last Guardian. I have finished the War of the Ancients Trilogy and The Rise of the Horde. In fact, if you would like a copy of The Rise of the Horde, I have an extra I don’t want to ship back to Amazon. My mistake is your lore gain. Enter by the comments of this post. This contest, as it were, is open to all residents of the US and possibly Canada (sorry, it’s just not worth 20 dollars shipping to ship a 8 dollar book) that can receive a book…oh and it’s written in English, so if you would rather read it in French…you are not able to enter this contest. /glances at Fikkle.

With my recent delve into the books, which, by the way, I am thoroughly enjoying, I have another RP centric post going up on For the Pie, since for the most part we keep our RP stuff on our own blogs, unless perhaps it includes all of us. My other post in the works is a list of the X number of things I would change if I were in charge of the World….of Warcraft. A sneak peek: Fixing AV so it isn’t a race to see who can get to the other keep as quick as possible and Dragon mounts.

Oh quick note here, Pie is actually no longer. Horde, girl, Belf. Still pally though. Piepal has become Makari, a Draenei male pally on Winterhoof.

Some of you may know that I’ve been leveling in the BG’s with Fik’s warrior Kor. I started with my rogue Tombreaver, and then decided while we were eating lots of alliance babies together, we might be stronger with a healer type. So, I switched to my druid. I could never find a comfort zone with the bear/owl/tree type, so I went to my priest. In the upper levels of a bracket, we were unstoppable. In fact, I helped Kor get his Ironman achievement by being awesome. Okay, so I left him to go kill a nelf hunter, but he was fine. After a while, I decided that I wanted to try Shadow. OMG! At the upper ends again, shadow is unbelievable. Heck at 65-66 against even 68’s I am a terror to deal with. One on one, I usually win. Against a mob of dirty Alliance scum…not so much. The problem with Shadow is, Hit. I have quite a bit, due to talents and the WG heirloom staff, but against the level 68-70 mobs in AV, I miss a lot. A. Lot. Bosses are even worse. Don’t tell Fik this, but after he logged for the night, I made 66 and then switched back to Disc. If he stays with his pocket healer, or actually drags me with him, he will again become unstoppable. Last night Grubs had her 60 holy pally on there doing some amazing healing. The three of us just roflstomped several attempts to take the mine from us. Protip to the alliance nubs: Kill the healers. That shadow priest you charged, then got charged by the nasty Arms warrior, will kill you if you don’t kill or interrupt their healer.

Halkale continues to do his job as Champion seal gatherer. Soon, I’ll have enough to get 2 of the melee DPS maces for my shaman. Dual wielding those will make my shaman quite nasty I think.

The only issue in my mind with leveling through the BGs is it’s a money sink. You don’t get a lot of gold coming in from quest rewards, so as you level you send your toon gold to buy spells and upgrades etc.

Don’t forget to put your name in the hat for the book in the comments, if interested.

My Orc Knuckles Bring All the Gnomes to the Yard

Lok’tar friends! If you don’t read Armageddon’s Coming, start.  Since you won’t have a clue what I’m talking about if you don’t, go read this.  I’ll wait.  Seriously, I’m a lot funnier with context.  Done?  So ya, my Orc knuckles bring all the gnomes to the yard….

Then I slice them in two with my Bloodied Arcanite Reaper!

Okay, a bit lame, I know, but I’m chuckling.  And this here is my blog (and a few others as well) so I’ll say what I want!

To get to a bit of a point, I’ve been doing a ton of pvp lately.  I’ve been transient twinking, to be specific.  Kor, my Orc warrior has almost exclusively levelled in the BGs since level 17.  This is him at level 68 (today):

There have been a few quests here and there and a couple instance runs to help him get to 65 before the end of brewfest (thanks guildies!), but mostly I’ve been pvp’ing to level, much like Gnomer has been doing with Squidly.  Unfortunately, Squidly and Kor are not likely to ever meet in the battlegrounds since we play on different battlegroups, but we’ve both been enjoying pvp a lot lately (at least I assume he has since he’s been posting about it constantly, and I’ve been reading his posts like crazy).

I have an ultimate goal for Kor.  I want to be able to legitimately call him Conqueror Kor.  Our guild technically has a Conqueror rank, but its no in-game title and doesn’t mean anything in comparison with that grind.  Since Kor was only started about a month or two ago, he never had the opportunity to get the title back when you could turn marks in for rep (weren’t those the days?), so he has a long slog ahead of him to get exalted with the three factions required.  Currently, he’s about half way through friendly with the Warsong Outriders, half way through Honored with the Defilers and he’s already exalted with the Frostwolf Clan as of a few days ago. 

Right now, Kor is sitting at level 68 and he’s been a blast for me to play.  So much so, that I’m once again planning on switching my main. 

Anyways, for anyone interested in what my experiences (as opposed to xp) have been like in the BGs, I thought I would post a few screenshots to give you an idea of what its been like.  In general, this is some BG info:

For each of the individual BGs, here’s some win/loss rates for me:

In case those are hard to read, the battles played to wins for each are: WSG: 121 played / 89 wins.  AB :143 played / 100 wins.  AV: 68 played / 43 wins.

Since I’ve been in the BGs quite a bit, I’ve also racked up a few achievements over the levels.  Looking at the meta achievements, here’s my progress in those three battlegrounds:

As far as those three go, WSG has only three achievements outstanding for the Master of Warsong Gulch meta.  Save The Day, which I haven’t quite managed yet; 100 victories, which I’m getting closer to; and exalted with Warsong Outriders, which I’m still a long ways off from.  In AB, I’ve got four outstanding and in AV I’ve got five left.  I’m pretty proud that I’ve managed to get some of them, like Ironman, which took a while, but they’re kinda in the backseat.

In the meantime, I’m in the Alliance Base Eating Your Babies!!!1! /rawr

 

Hey, he kinda looks like a baby.  GET IN MY BELLY!

Stay Hordecore!

– Fikkle

Too Many Hunters!

Yes, I am addicted to hunters. How addicted am I you ask? Too Many Anna’s(with all her Anna’s)  got nothin on the amount of Hunters I have! Well, let me give you the run down on all of my hunters. My main lvl 80 toon, Gozz=hunter. I have a level 19 twink on earthenring and coilfang. I have a level 20 hunter I started and want to eventually level on coilfang, I have a 33ish BG dorf hunter I write about on the other blog(no link, you should know about it by now!)(Okay..one more link…), and two other lower dorf hunters I’ve played around with when servers are down…

Enter my newest hunter to grace the world…of warcraft. Rozjin!

Now, Gozjin isn’t just any ol’ troll. He’s related to someone you all might  know…name sound at all familiar? Yes, Gozjin would be Rozjin’s little ol’ cousin! Now, in honor of his cousin, he made the run from the Den to Razorhill to pick up his heirloom items, bags, gold, and fun stuff from the mailbox, NAKED! COMPLETELY NAKED!

Now, in my previous post I was walking through some pretty complicated math with the class, and I had some rough figures for how long I thought it would take me to get all of the heirloom items I would need to have everything. I like everything. Everything suits my  playstyle of “outgear-outlive-outlast.” I mean come on, if you can’t BE better then them, at least have better gear! Even out the playing field a little bit! Now, I’m no slouch at playing a hunter. I can say I have been around the block a bit with the hunters. My main Gozz alone has over 76 days logged play time… sad, I  know.

I wanted to go ahead and get my baby hunter Gozjin to level 10, so I could do his pet quest( I’ve fallen in love with the crab for PVP) and get him some purchased gear that I won’t have heirloom items for. Gozjin must have been confused a little in the begining, because he called up ol’ Kovari(bank alt) and had him send down ANY heirloom gear he could wear. Kovari shot him what he had…which was something, I mean heck, +10% lvling exp for chest and shoulders doesn’t come along all the time, am I right? So, for a few levels Gozjin thought he was a druid… He just couldn’t figure out how to turn into a bear…

It was a confusing time for him. Then I hit a time warp. On Thursday I was able to play a good chunk of the day on my main hunter, Gozz. I did 8 heroics in one day…WOW. To be honest, my brain was fried, but hey, I got sooo many emblems. By the end of the day, after a weeks worth of wintergrasp( I got rid of the S for ya fikkle!) quests on three lvl 80 toons, I was able to get the hunter shoulders, the ancient bone bow, the hunter chest, a dagger(with +15 agi chant) the heirloom haste trinket, and his pvp trinket. WOW.  Now Gozjin is tricked out and ready to dominate.

But wait folks… He’s level ten going into WSG…he’s going to get eaten alive…and you would be right. So I went in, got my butt handed to me a few times, and got frustrated. So I left battlegrounds, went to Org, leveled my engineering up to 150, got my second rank of goggles, some explosives, a scope for the bow, and went out and leveled up my herbalism to 75(working towards 150+) and maxed out my first aid. I’m using heavy runecloth…COME ON 2000 over 8 seconds? TWO TICKS AND I’M FULL FROM ZERO! I logged over to my leatherworker, the Illustrious rogue, Sylus(my internet namesake) and crafted up the deviate and dark leather items I would be using towards the end of the teens bracket, and spent way to much on the auction house, looked up one of my favorite enchatners and added a ton of agility and stamina to my gear, and I had a good set of “Transient Twink” gear ready.

I’d love to take credit for that phrase(Transient Twink), in fact, I have a spot for it in The International Dictionary of Sylus, if Fikkle wants it in there!(pg 4356) Fikkle coined this term to describe having a battleground character that doesn’t stop at the normal twink levels, but rather uses his superiority via heirloom gear, and suplaments it with a few key purchased items and enchants as they level up into new brackets all the way through to end game PVP.

I went back into the battlegrounds at level 12. MAN O MAN, it made a HUGE difference. During one momentous WSG match, I had some serious hate coming my way from a lvl 10 paladin, a level 12 druid, and a 16 priest. they would charge in after me everytime, and I’d set them down one at a time. It wasn’t until they all three decided, “hey, lets work together, and we can take this troll chump down” that they actually did( it took one of them dying, and running ALL THE WAY BACK TO MY FLAGROOM)… lifebloom+bandages(Heavy Runeclothx2 on that fight(yes it was that long))+ healing pot= me stayin alive, ah, ah, ah, ah, STAYIN ALLLIIIIIIAAHHHHHIIIHIIIIIVEEEEEEE….

Sorry, back to Earth. I’m now level 13, destroying battlegrounds, a defensive MACHINE (returning flags already at 40, working on 100!) and I got the stuff to make you stop in yo tracks! PVP Crab PINFORTHEWIN, concusion shot+2 points in improved concussion shot, big bronze bombs to stop you in your tracks and take off 100+ health a shot. You aren’t going anywhere!!! 

Now, I’ll be updating you all on Gozjins progress as he goes through the levels, but just know, one day soon(okay, not too soon) you’ll be seeing Ol’ Gozjin at level 60, rocking warlord gear, for real. I WILL OWN THAT BOW!

Now, I hope Rozzy isn’t to upset with me, after all, I did totally bogart her name, and make this troll(bow bonuses or he’d be an orc) her cousin…I hope she’s okay with that, but eitehr way, Gozjin will make a name for himself, after all, Roz is all Alliance now…boo hoo. I’m still Hordecore baby!(accept for the worgen…and that dwarf hunter in the pvp…they’re cool) So keep an eye out, I’m comin for ya you dirty nelfs!

~Uncle Sylus

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

How to be Super-Pro

If, like me, you play WoW in between work, school, reading for work, reading for school, reading for pleasure, laundry, cold cut trio subs, sleeping and Super Contra, then you may not have the benefit of vast amounts of time to learn all the nifty tricks of the warrior way. I’d like to help. Here I present what I hope to be the beginning of a series of quick tips for becoming a warrior of legend.

 Brewmaster Nimrock’s Sure-fire Method for Looking Super-Pro in an instance.

This is a little something I use to bring a pinch of class into a normally boring heroic instance run. I also use this method to impress PuG’s I happen to be tanking for. After all, what’s all the Effective Health in the world going to do for you if you can’t pull in style?

1. Find a group of trash that contains at least one caster. When in doubt pick the mob that is wearing a dress and carrying a staff.
2. To be most impressive, try to find the group with a caster that is as far away from the melee as you can.
3. Target that mob and mark it as first kill, say you use skull.
4. Pick another mob, at random, and mark it as second kill, say you use X.
5. Be a warrior, level 80 and have Juggernaut, Heroic Throw and Gag Order.
6. Prepare for the pull.
7. Target skull, hit heroic throw, target X, charge, thunderclap.
8. If you have done it correctly, an enormous weapon will fly at the caster, stunning him and locking out his spells. Immediately after you will rush in the opposite direction leaving an afterburner jet trail in your wake. Lightning will burst from your feet, all melee mobs will attack you, and the caster, unable to bring spells to bear, will limp over to hit you with his nancy staff.

Enjoy the benefits of this flashy trick. If you happen to be a member of the lesser tanking classes, I’m sorry but I can’t help you.

Random Email Chain of the Day:Character Lineup

Pie Writes:

Since Sy and Nim and Roz have become “dirty alliance scum” a lot…and left Fikkle and I to our own devices (which usually involve pwning noobs in bgs) and Jaarka is busy being a school bum.  Oh and Slig and Grubs are cheating on WOW with some “other” game….

I thought I would let you all know my proposed Cataclysm lineup.

For the Horde:
Halke — Orc Hunter with Red Drake (the bestest flying mount of all time(TM) )
Naciasto — Tauren Druid (some drood is black with grey main cat (cat is 4 fite) and black and grey bear (bare is 4 tank)  also sumtimes is owl.
Forpaj — soon to be Tauren Priest because sometimes Cow is for heals and for lots bubbles (oh and the current Forpaj can haz prayer of Fort..rawr)
Tombreaver — Undead Rogue because Lady S needs her some good Deathstalkers

I currently have a Orc lock, and two placeholder characters on Dawnbringer, I may go Goblin Mage and then I’ll probably roll an orc warrior, or switch my current Tauren Warrior to an Orc.  One of my new characters will be a Tauren paladin.  I actually got in the entire NPC conversation in TB the other day, so I am really stoked about them.  Depending on what I do with my orc shaman (see below) may be a goblin shaman in the mix.

Dirty Alliance Scum:
Piepal — Soon to be Draenei Paladin because face it male Draenei look awesome in plate.  Also, I can bring +hit for joo
Xorak — currently orc shaman will become Dwarf Shaman when it opens…dwarf + shaman…nuff said.  Or may stay with the orc shaman and roll new dwarf.
Peperic — Dwarf Hunter like Halk, can never change, plus Dwarf plus bear for tankage…
Unamed Worgen Druid — Drood and not night elf, this is all win and you know it.
Bratwurst — Human DK — Because nothing says rep grind is easier than a human…

I am probably going to go with a gnome lock and mage and I really think I am going Worgen Rogue because that stealth animation is all win.

I am almost at the point where my bank alt will be just that, a bank alt.  Nothing more than a level 1 character etc.  Too long have my bank alts ended up being something I want to play and then wham, the end up stuck in a city.

What do you all think of my lineup?  Feel free to include your own lineup or not, no pressure.

LinzieBug AKA Grubs Writes:

like it!!! Tauren priest is all win in my book (well tauren anything really!)

I’ve actually been thinking of deleting everyone except Oz and Grubs, getting all the others gold, mats and stuff in 1 place and starting over when the xpan hit. I can’t make up my mind though…I’d be really sad for sure.

Uncle Sy Writes:

FYI, I was Horde-Core all morning(servers were back up before 10 central time?) I got the bronze drake(bringing mount total to 70), pwned the black knight, and once again lost the roll for the brewfest ram…oh, and destroyed H-An (the daily) in the process. I was in a pwn things mood, and got into an amazing pug of people I had pugged with before, I logged in and they were like, hey guy, long time no see, now come pwn stuff. Then I ate lunch, watched two episodes of Sanctuary on netflix, did some homework, then battlegrounds till work. Now I work. Tonight, put together shelves with manly powertools, then battlegrounds!

Uncle Sy follows up with this one:

Okay, lineup time.
Gozz 1.0-80 Orc Hunter on DB, 70 mounts, working on 100.
Gozz 2.0-28 Dwarf Hunter on WH, Hunters are all win, and he is tearing up the BG’s
Sylus-80 Undead Rogue on DB, stabbing is for fun.
Abadon- 80 Belf(will be an orc) Death Ka-nig-it(Montey Python spelling, sound it out) on DB.
Kohen-72 Belf(barf)priest on DB, if I decide to keep playing him, he will be a cow.
Boldrid-69 Dranei pally on WH, he brought all the heirloom gear over, his purpose os fulfilled.
Impios-53 Undead lock on DB, if I ever play him, he will be an orc evetually.
Gozra-55 Orc Shammaness on DB, she’s like 55, so I may get her to outlands and tear on.
Kovari-40ish Troll Slave, I mean banker, yeah, banker on DB
Redux- 29 Rogue twink(without gear atm…I stole the rogue gear to go to WH…I’m replacing it, sheesh!)
Bg-12 Cow Druid with heirloom gear, may keep, may try a /shudder….troll druid.
 
NEW CATACLYSM TOONS!!!
Cow Priest, replacing Kohen.
Cow Pally, replacing Errebus who went to the WH side.
Worgen Beast Mastery Hunter
Worgen Assassination Rogue
Worgen Affliction Warlock
Worgen Unholy Death Knight
Worgen Frost Mage
Worgen Holy Paladin
Worgen Feral Druid
Worgen Holy Priest
Worgen Enhancement Shamman
Worgen Protection Warrior
Worgen marksman Hunter
Worgen Combat Rogue
Worgen Destruction Warlock
Worgen Blood Death Knight
Worgen Fire Mage
Worgen Retribution Paladin
Worgen Balance Druid
Worgen Unholy Priest
Worgen Elemental Shamman
Worgen Arms Warrior
Worgen Survival Hunter
Worgen Subtlty Rogue
Worgen Demonology Warlock
Worgen Frost Death Knight
Worgen Arcane Mage
Worgen Protection Paladin
Worgen Resto Druid
Worgen Disc Priest
Worgen Resto Shamman
Worgen Fury Warrior
Worgen Bard
Worgen Banker
Worgen War Priest
Worgen Berserker
Worgen Fighter
Worgen Shadow Dancer
Worgen Thief
Worgen Monk
Worgen Center Fielder
Worgen Plumber
Worgen Professional Bull Rider
Worgen Wide Reciever
Worgen Tight End
Worgen Center
Worgen Warchief
Worgen PSU graduate
Worgen Baby
Worgen Teenageer
Worgen Mother
Worgen Boss
Worgen Employees
Worgen Telemarketer
Worgen Rock Band
Worgen Guitar Hero
Worgen Dance Partner
Worgen General
Worgen Canadian Air Force Captian
Worgen Zoo employee
Worgen Student
Worgen Sam Jack(wait, we already have him)
Worgen Pie
Worgen Brother
Worgen Sister-in-law
Worgen Reeses Peanut Butter Lovers Peanut Butter Cup
Worgen Soap Opera Star
Worgen Used Car Salesman
Worgen Mechanic
Worgen Barista
Worgen Bartender
Worgen Space Fighter
Worgen Zergling
Worgen Marine
Worgen Terren
Worgen whatever else I can think of! Yeah, I’m a bit osessed with the worgen, and there is no way to tell how many of these puppies I’ll have…get it, see what I did there? puppies, worgen?!? FUNNY! Slap your knees!

Rozjin Writes:

Sy … you are paying for my hernia that I got from laughing so hard. Seriously dude, you crack me up sooo much.
 
Lineup? Oh geez.
 
DB
Rozjin, 80 troll mage, he ain’t going nowhere, Fiak needs his pew pew partner
Junahu, 80 tauren hunter, being as she was my first toon and has the most achievements/mounts/pets .. she’s the collector/achievement whore
will anything else get leveled? I dunno. The alts are:
DItzul, 76 troll DK
Galor, 27 belf paladin (no, he’s not turning tauren)
Zerbrez, 24 troll priest
Cruljin, 23 troll warrior
then there are the twinks
Maldrice, 18 undead rogue
Kubrez, 16 troll hunter
and a bank alt, Zalazku, 8 troll shaman
I have one slot left, which will be a goblin something or other to see the starting zone, and then be a troll druid
 
WH
Karius, 77 (or will be in two bars) human mage – if I had to name which toon is my main, it would be him
Katia, 70 draenei DK – ya know, I won’t ever reroll her because she has the Flame Warden title, but … a race change isn’t out of the question
Sanbec, 48 human warrior
Ragle, 41 human priest
Kaladis, 16 nelf druid, he’s really cute
Kyrandre, 16 draenei paladin, may become a bank alt
Kerick, 9 (I think) human paladin, because Kyrandre just isn’t my type
hmm…I missed someone. I know I have 9 slots filled.
Oh, Kardios, 7 nelf hunter, I just want to be able to hear a nelf die every time I FD. Maybe I’ll delete him and transfer Valleris over.
And Keodd, 2 human rogue, teh banker for now.
My worgen I think will be a warlock. Picture a human, who turns into a worgen, who turns into a demon at the bottom of the demonology tree. Yeah. Awesome!

Fikkle Finally chimes in:

you’re such a noob…. I am so not counting that… did you hit your character limit or will you need to pay blizz another 15 greenbacks a month?

Sy’s one liner follow up:

I’d have to pay up I think!

Roz follows up with this:

Hm I think I noobed it up and only replied to Sy instead of the list.

 

(I think they’ll all see it now! Shenanigans have been made public knowledge!!!)

~Uncle Sy

Things I Take for Granted

/WALL OF TEXT ON

I’ve always been a huge fan of Player Versus Player Combat, or PVP. I’ve tried it out on several different classes, Hunter(PEW PEW), Rogue(GRAB MY FLAG AND I’LL STAB YOU), Priest(KILL ME NOW!), Paladin(YOU CANNOT KILL ME, BUT I CAN NOT KILL YOU!), Warlock(DOT DOT DEAD), and Death Knight( I HAVE THE POWER).  I’ve loved every minute of it.

I adore warsong gulch now after the recent timer addition. It makes for some fast and furious games. Even if it goes the entire 25 minutes, it’s still a rush to see who can cap the flag first so if it ends in a tie you get the win. I love it!

Arathi Basin has long been a one of my favorite battle grounds. The idea that with a decent group you can grab three nodes, stick five guys on each node and wait them out is strategically genius(even if most of the time everyone is playing roadkill…you know who you are).

Alteric Valley was always my battleground of choice. I love the idea of the epicness that is forty people working together(or in many cases against each other) to perform a common goal of total annihilation of the opposing faction is just,well, for lack of a better word, LEGENDARY!

Eye of the Storm was good in its day, but with the new changes to the amount of resources needed it’s better. The two newer battlegrounds offer up something different, and in many cases, me for example, are still under played.

World PVP has always been my PVP of choice for my rogue in particular. The idea of sneaking up on some unsuspecting flagged player and destroying them with your superior speed, maneuverability, and ability to keep them stunned for what seems like an eternity is just plain SICK. The PVP quests in Grizzly Hills are my favorite in the zone, if not dailies I’ve ever done on ol’ Sylus(the Rogue). Old World PVP objectives need to be done away with in most cases. I’ve done some of the Silithis pvp, the Eastern Plaguelands, Terrokar Forest, and Zangarmarsh tower taking, and meh. I never see anyone anymore, and the bonuses they offer are okay, but not THAT good. I mean let’s be honest, 5% extra damage isn’t that OP when you are already bringing full sets of Heirloom gear to the table in the case of most alts these days. World PVP ist still on top for me. It’s such a rush.

Now, You may be looking back over my rant and wondering:
“What the crap is he talking about, what about this is he taking for granted?”

What I’m talking about is I’ve done all of these things. I’ve had thousands of PVP honor kills between all of my toons, twinks, and mains, but all of them have come as Hordies. One of the main things, besides the Horde lore, keeping me coming back to the Horde as my “main toons” is pvp. I’ve loved killing Gnomes, Nelfs, Humans, Dwarfs, and Dranei. It’s been a blast! I love nothing more than laying out a Nelf hunter with a few carefully timed stabs in the back. Human Paladins have been my arch nemesis. Holy ones are worse!!! I love killing alliance. There, I said it. It’s so much fun.

Now, as many of you know, I’ve put my Horde toons on the back burner for a bit. They are going nowhere, and will always be my “mains.” I’m just taking advantage of the situation we are currently in to level a few alliance toons in preparation for the Worgen onslaught that will be brought down on Azeroth. In doing so, I’ve transferred over my Blood elf Paladin(I never liked Belfs much anyway) and now he resides of Winterhoof with the boys and girls in Crits and Giggles. He’s almost 70, and basically holds the gold for my leveling hunter. I love hunters. Dwarfs are awesome as well(I’ll trade dwarfs and Worgen for Belfs and Trolls, sorry Roz).

Now, as I’m leveling my hunter in all our heirloom gear(dagger x2, XP gains from Chest and shoulders, and the Amazing looking Bone Bow) I’ve been wondering about all the talk of XP gains in battlegrounds. This works well for me, for one, I want to do PVP, I love PVP. I also am leveling so fast, It would be tougher for me to go back and get reputation with other factions to get their sweet mounts.(I am talking about you Nelfs and your sweet cat mounts) So, PVP mounts look promising to me! I started out doing battlegrounds in WSG, but with a twist. See, this is what I mean by things I take for granted. look at this map:

If you look at WSG for a minute, you notice a few things. Horde start in the south, Alliance in the north. The first time I came barreling out of my tunnel it blew my mind that I was running North on my minimap instead of south…it’s a simple thing really, but can mess with you at first. Trust me. If just for a second you feel like a noob for realizing that you’ve been in this battleground thousands of times, and now it suddenly feels different.

Arathi Basin was the same for me. After getting into my mid 20’s I decided it was time to start hunting in AB. I barrel out of my gate on the ol’ Ram and head for where the Farm flag should be, just to the left of the farm…wait, I get there, this fence houses a graveyard…wait, CRAP, Alliance doesn’t rush for the farm first, we rush for the stables, and crap, I’m headed South this time instead of North….. UNNERVING!!!! It’s a simple thing I know, the direction you run on your minimap, but it’s huge when you have preconceived ideas of how things are suppose to go! With WSG at least the layout of the flagroom and tunnel area are the same! This is a switch of a few more things in my opinion. It was also wierd to see we gained a node before they did(yes, I’m implying that Stables is closer to the starting point than the Farm. You (Blizzard) fix things when they are in our favor(AV) why not when they are in the favor of the alliance?!?)

In Conclusion, I rattle on and rant about things way to much. PVP has been a blast for me, and will continue to be. I love pvp, but it is definitely taking some getting use to as one fo the evil races. (Yes, alliance you are the evil ones. )

For the Horde,
~Uncle Sy

Sticks and Stones

Sticks and Stones may break my bones… and axes and maces and swords, etc.  But I’ll let a GM deal with you.  Oh, and a little thing called the internets.

Gous from the Blood Furnace server, level 33 Troll Priest… Congratulations, you have my vote for Asshat of the year.  Have fun dealing with Blizzard.

Brewfest is Here!

Lok’tar friends.  Brewfest is here and there is a new pet this year. Check out the Pint-Sized Pink Elekk!

Just a few quick notes for anyone who is going to do Brewfest:

1. If you wanna toss a mug and hit the mechanical dude, BE DRUNK OR YOU WILL MISS.

EDIT: Okay, he appears to just be bugged, if you’re still having trouble hitting him, run up close to him and toss it.

2.  Pink Elekks are not in Tirisfal Glades. They are in the Ruins of Lordaeron (and Mulgore and Eversong Woods).

3.  When Ram-Riding (in Durotar) for the daily run, there are four apple things for the Rams.  If you run past each, you NEVER HAVE TO SLOW DOWN! That’s right, if you hit all four (and if you get good, only three are needed), you can run at the fastest speed and not slow down.

4. In order to do the daily ram-riding and beer delivering quest, you need to talk to the quest giver after doing the initial quest and click the text box to do it again.

5. Dark Iron Dwarves attack every 30 minutes.

6. You need to be drunk to see the Wild Wolpertinkers and Pink Elekks (the ones for the quests).

7. No Brew’ing and Mounting!

Have Fun!

 

– Fikkle

May the Horde be with you

Horde Pets, and the Toons that Love Em!

I debated about where to put this post. I don’t want the hardcore Hordies to hate on me over this, but it could have easily been put elsewhere for fear of alliance hate! In the end, It was more of a tale of the Horde, a side of beef, and a petthat is only available through a Horde quest. This was the natural place to put it, right? …right?

Lets start at the beginning shall we? In anticipation of the alliance getting by far their coolest race, the Worgen, I have been playing a few alliance toons. This has a few benefits. One, I can get some heirloom gear on my alliance server, and two, I can get a feel for the alliance.

As many of you know, I’m a hunter. I love the hunter class. I love where it has been, where it is currently, and where it is going.( Can you say good bye mana!?!?) It was natural for me to want to level a hunter again. I’m a fan of dwarfs, in fact I’ve often said if I could trade the blood elfs for the dwarfs the Horde would be perfect! (I’d also trade the trolls for gnomes, but if I said that out loud Rozjin would mow me down with a fireball!)  Back to the hunter story.

I switched my paladin over to the alliance, and he brought with him a full set of hunter and rogue heirloom items. This has made leveling the dwarf to this point cake, or pie, depending on your viewpoint! Once I was able to get a pet at level ten I found all of the “normal” pets lack luster. I missed my white lion, Echeyekee. I can’t get said white lion though on the alliance side…. it takes a hordie to blow the horn to summon him, and what hordie would stand around and let me tame it while they end up failing the quest… NONE! That’s right, I wouldn’t do it for any dirty alliance when I’m playing on my horde toons, I wouldn’t expect them to do it for me!

Now I’m still in this predicament. I want that cat, but have no way of getting it on my dwarf hunter…then I have a brilliant idea. I should level a horde toon, summon the lion, and exit out really quickly, log in the dwarf, who will be on site, and tame the beast…BRILLIANT!!! Seriously, I only have to get to level ten to pick up the quest that starts the line. The creatures might be a bit tough, but heck, if I go with a hunter, and a tankie pet, no worries.

This is where the side of beef (Lets not give this toon a name, I want no attachments) comes in. Nimrock was going to level a tauren shaman with my tauren hunter until we can get the quest. He was going to summon it for me. Beautiful. Well, the best laid plans fall apart sometimes. Nim and my play schedule have been very much not lining up, and I had a free morning. I plowed through to the barrens, picked up the quest line and threw myself at the mercy of level 13 plainstriders, level 14-15 zevras, and level 15-16 savannah prowlers. Not to mention the roving raptors and hyenas in the area! By the time I was able to pick up the quest I was rolling at level 12. It was tough, I can’t say I didn’t go unscathed. I died a few times, but it was totally worth it.

I parked my side of beef in the inn and logged over the dwarf. Mind you, I did all of this without knowing for sure I could even pull this off. Would the white lion despawn when I logged  out?  Is it even tamable by alliance toons? I had no clue, but if I could pull it off, totally worth it. I began the long run from Ironforge to Minithil Harbor. From there I took the boat to Duskwallow Marsh east of the Barrens and bolted for the barrens! I was afraid for my life, and only died once running through an area with mobs in the mid thirties! It was quite the adrenaline rush. Heading north I bypassed Camp T and the Crossroads heading onward to my destination, a pile of bones in the northern part of the barrens.

Parking myself on the hill next to the pile of bones I sat down for the logout. twenty seconds later I’m bringing the side of beef back into the game to summon the majestic white lion. After the loading screen I was grateful to see a level 19 warrior clearing out the cats. He summons his lion, brings her down, and goes along his merry way with the hide. The path is clear, no bad guys to speak of, so I blow the horn and exit the game.

CRAP I have an authenticator, it takes me a good thirty seconds to get back into the game with the dwarf. The lion is still there, and so I begin the twenty-second stare down. Working my spell over on the white lion as he chews on my kneecap is always nerve wracking, especially when it’s a rare or hard to get pet. twenty seconds later I am now the proud owner of a brand new, white and shinny lion.

I stone back to Ironforge, log the side of beef back on, and stone him back to the inn. I promptly log him out of the game, presumably never to bring him back into the game again. I sat back in my chair a bit saddened by what I was about to do. In fact, what I had already started to do. There in front of my avatar sat the delete box. All I had to do was hit the enter button. I had already typed out the obligatory delete command in the prompt. Instead I hit the cancel button. The side of beef has a name. He has a story, and it’s like pulling teeth getting me to delete a character I’ve interacted with for any amount of time, even if he was just here to help out a dirty dwarf.

For the Horde,
~Sylus