Quote:I really hope the lore is good I'm really hoping for this with a lot of the new class/race combos. Some of them, like the Troll Druid and the NE Mage, have the potential for interesting storylines. Hopefully some of the remaking of Azeroth includes weaving in some of the new combos in quests, NPCs, etc. For some reason, when I read Troll Druid in the title, the first thing I thought about was forum trolls... but I can't remember the last time we had one in the druid forums...-NO. You will NOT break the $& shackle! - Jilea that monster in the mirror, he just might be you. - Grover Last thing I need to se...

I've all but abandoned questing for the time being and opted to do some grinding in the journey from level 33-40 (unless someone can recommend a really good place for questing at level 33... Desolace just isn't doing it for me). More to the point, my poor little pig is in trouble. I tamed Bellygrub in Redridge Mountains for Gore 4 and Charge 3. With those two new abilities, I think Piggles has all the innate boar abilities he could possibly have for his level, but he's just not holding hate like he used to. I was in STV fighting Venture Co. Geologists (level 34-35); decent currency drops, silk, and a couple of greens to go with the exp. Piggles was losing hate all the time. I got attacked by one of those mechanized things you find anywhere the Venture Co. is; it was level 37 and my standard procedure for unintended aggro is to put my pig on it and get to firing range. No luck. Two arrows and an Arcane Shot later and the buzzsaw beastie had turned on me. I dual wield axes for ok damage, but it's nowhere near on par with bow, and it ultimately cuts into profit from my adventures in armor repairs if I pull hate to much. The final failure came when I was meandering around STV and came across a level 40 non-elite Humanoid (Samantha humanoid walking up the path). Level 33 w/pet vs. level 40 is a stretch, I know. I decided to give it a shot and the fight was going very...

I'm currently in the market to retrain my cat for more of a survivable position as a non-tank DPS; since pet tanking is rather silly for anything but emergencies with the 70+ Elites. What i'm concerned about is surviving indirect attacks, so I can either keep him in there longer to pound out the DPS, or survive long enough to be pulled back for a Mend Pet full heal. I know Avoidance Rank 2 is a necessity, and I have that already, but i'm wondering specifically about what types of magic a pet would encounter the most, and how high a level the pet needs to actually be in them to be able to get good returns for the investment? For example: Rank 5 Fire Resistance gives ...

Imbibers rejoice at the arrival of the World of Warcraft Brewfest! The annual event will run from September 20th-October 4th. Grab the details below:Celebrated by both the Horde and the Alliance, the Brewfest is a time to enjoy the fruits of the harvest: pretzels, cheese, and brew! The competing breweries Thunderbrew, Barleybrew, and the Ogres, all come together outside of all the major cities in a bid to outdo each other with their special ales, meads, and beers. Brave adventurers are invited to sit back, take a pull, and sample the finest wares these brew...

Chk this out, might help... maintankadin.failsafedesignomviewtop.php?p=289016 even though urush is off the table, the balae it provides in respt to blk and somewhat dodge should still be a goal...see the link for more details Link might also help you with other items you may not have thought of, sh as rotation and talents, e...On the surfe your gear seemed fine for starting, but didn't really have time to review talents, blk seemed a little lowompare to dodge and parry. But the other ers mentioned relevant points, alot does depend on the healer, how mh xp they have as a healer and howlose they meet their pre-naxheros goals. And I do feel you on your issues, and its always ne to see someone wishing to improve like this. Link to this 0 Messages skped by filter settings, 5 displayed.Thread Index New Subjt Reply to this 4 Replies (Seah Forums) For...

y UtokJoined: 07 Dec 2002Posts: 2What is wrong with ORPG's? With all of the recent talk about current and future games I decided to make a quick list of some of the current ORPG design problems. I will not go into greater detail at this time, since readers that are familiar with my opinions on game design know that I can write very long posts. However, feel free to ask for clarifications or make additions. 1. Adventures in real time: In paper RPG's days can seem like minutes and minutes can seem like days. Unfortunately, in an ORPG everyone must be on the same timescale. 2. Groundhog Day: The world never changes. Everyday features the same monsters in the same places that are most...

A recovering WoWaholic recounts his descent into depression and game addiction in a new blog.C Gibson explains that WoW Survivor is intended to offer a supportive place for those who found the MMO world a bit too compelling.In an introductory post, Gibson candidly discusses his own experience:I was going to school full time in NYC and working. Because of an issue with my family, I became depressed. I stopped going to class, quit a good job for a lamer one... and reinstalled WoW. Instead of dealing with my issues, I ignored them by grinding reputation for a mount while my wife was at work... I was on the verge of losing the pers...

Just as the new Onyxia encounter has reminded us, WoW has now been with us for five years. I was preparing the posts and patch information for 3.2.2, and I couldn't help but wax melancholy (as I am wont to do) about my time in WoW. Five years makes for a lot of memories. It's not unusual to get married after a five year relationship—and yet here we are spending all of that time with a video game. I even took some time to go back and look through how the World of Warcraft Official Site looked back in the day—does this look familiar to anyone? Dwarf mages, old fashioned troll and human models.../sigh. Those were the days. So in honor of WoW's 5th anniversary, I've been asking the staff about their oldest and fondest memories of WoW. I've included a number of them here, after the break. Come and see! [quote Malgayne]Back when I started, it was right before the Zul'Gurub patch, back when I used to /bow and /salute level 60s who walked by just because I was so impressed with them for being level 60. I remember meeting a troll rogue named Axethrower while I was still in the Valley of Trials—he was handing out (Item #2589) to the lowbies. He gave me some, and I was in awe. He wasn't even 60 yet, but man...he had a raptor—and he was deigning to come and spend time with us lowbies! I even joined his guild (The Sythegore Arm) for a while...it was my first guild. God bless you Axethrower, wherever you are.[quote Skosiris]My first character back in 2004 was an Alliance one, so what follows all happened during my early days as a Human. The first time I ran Deadmines is definitely one of my fondest memories. I was really into it and remember being willing to spend as long as was needed to go through it. It felt so epic and challenging. I didn't care about drops, I didn't care about my spec, I was just having a really good time. Other memorable challenges: Princess, Morgan the Collector (+ his 2 friends), and Hogger in Elwynn Forest. Entering Westfall at level 10-11 and finding those scarecrow dudes really tough. [quote Miyari]You want to see my earliest WoW memory? http://nordrassil.org/bloodhoof.jpg That's my earliest WoW memory.[quote mystadio]I always loved questing in those low level zones...Durotar, The Barrens. They were the first place I started learning how the play the game, and the place where I had the most fun. Does anyone know, where is Mankrik's wife?[quote Noxychu]My first memory of WoW was in TBC (I know, I'm a latecomer!). I remember thinking how graceful and fluid the Draenei were, especially in comparison to the human female characters...although I admit that the thing that actually convinced me to start pl...

Let's Do the Time Warp Again!Last time, the Mage They Call Jayne(z) bore witness to quite possibly the most awesome event ever in the whole entire world. Of Warcraft. Though some might consider it a bit unfair that the Horde gets this awesome-possum nifty-socks in-game cutscene, you guys had Onyxia and Bolvar Fordragon since launch-so think of this as sweet payback. From what my guildies had told me, after hitting level 66 I had some new options available to me. Some new quests, and a particularly cool new instance to run. I'd run through Hellfire Citadel and the Slave Pens quite a bit, and couldn't find any Auchindoun groups... but this one was popular. This one was cool. So, I packed my Travelers' Backpacks and decided it was time to go back to Azeroth!After spending a bit of time looking for a good group, I took a portal to Thunder Bluff and started flying down to Tanaris. Oh, Tanaris. Good times, good times.By the way, there's been a subtle theme thus far in the entry. Can you guess what it is?If you guessed "Time," you're wrong! It was actually "Italics," you silly nubcakes! That's right-I was headed to the Caverns of Slightly Slanted Letters!Oh. Maybe it was Time after all. Sorry, my bad.Yep, that's right! It's time for us to travel! Through, um... time! With the Caverns of... er, Time!I think I could have said that better. Oh well, no turning back-I shall press on.While the Thrall-in-Outland event was undoubtedly the coolest thing I've seen yet in the Burning Crusade (and remains so), the Caverns of Time come very, very close. The Bronze Dragonflight is just cool overall. It seems that they've also been the most involved with the story thus far in WoW. I mean, we've killed Onyxia and Neffy, and there is that whole OMG-Lady-Prestor-is-Onyxia story, but other than that (and the Dark Iron/Blackrock War) the Black Flight has had minimal story impact. The Green Flight... well, there's Eranikus and the four corrupted Dragons, as well as the Nightmare in the Emerald Dream, but that really hasn't reached full bore yet. Other than Azuregos, there's no real representation of the Blue Flight in-game, and the Red Flight is almost totally missing except for Vaelastrasz (poor Vael...). Meanwhile, the Bronze Flight had the whole Ahn'Qiraj thing-granted, it was kinda all four of the flights who contributed, but the Brood of Nozdormu was the only one in the present day keeping watch over the Scarab Walls. They also give you EPIX, which is more than any of the other flights ever did. So, yeah. Bronze Dragonflight is cool. Forgive my "Yay Lore!" rambling, por favor. Er, I suppose I might as well preface this with a SPOILER WARNING. Last time, it was just the Thrall Event that was spoiler-riffic, but this entire article... well, there are some people who might want to experience it for themselves. SPOILER ALERT: THE FOLLOWING SEGMENT CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS AND HIGH LEVELS OF "TOTALLY AWESOME" THAT MAY BE UNHEALTHY FOR THE ELDERLY, SMALL CHILDREN, AND CANADIANS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!Arriving in Tanaris, I take a brief nostalgic sojourn through Gadgetzan, but sadly find no Alliance to gank. In general, Azeroth is pretty dead, though there are some Blood Elves and Draenei getting high in level (including a pair of 58+ Blood Elf Paladins that must be absolutely insane to have leveled so quickly). I make my way to the Caverns of Time, and feel, to be honest, pretty damn excited. Ever since I was a little nublet caster questing in Tanaris and saw this "Caverns of Time" place, I've always really wanted to go inside. And now I can-without any ghost-run exploiting or anything.Pretty damn cool.The three drakes that fly back and forth seem to be gone, though I find them over on the side (so people can, for whatever reason, finish the Horde Onyxia key quest chain). Anachronos, Mr. It-is-not-my-time himself, is also on the side of the path, no longer standing watch in front of the entrance. The entrance itself is open, and there's a bronze Drake flying just inside, and speaking with him causes me to become Neutral with the "Keepers of Time" faction. That's right, the Bronze Flight is so awesome that they get two factions in-game!He asks me if I want to be transported to the Master's Lair. This isn't the first time I've been to the Caverns of Time since they opened the door (though there weren't any working instances then)... there are some interesting things on the way, including a Tavern of Time (oh, Blizzard...), and several vendors including a male Orc who speaks with a female Orc voice.Yeah, that was kinda weird. But it's a long run, so I accept the quest-and am whisked away by another bronze drake and flown to the central chamber, where the Timeless One keeps watch over the past, present, and future.I can't target him, so you know he's serious business.There are two Blood Elf children standing nearby, named Andormu and Nozari. I talk to them and they give me a quest to follow a Custodian of Time (in the form of a Blood Elf female) around, and listen to her explain what the deal is. This, I can do. The Custodian takes me around the giant chamber, explaining to me Blizzard's concept of time in Azeroth, and how it's always changing and stuff. The Bronze Flight keeps close watch on the streams of time, making sure nobody messes around with anything (because if you read Ray Bradbury, watch The Simpsons, or have seen "The Butterfly Effect," you know that messing with the past = bad). Unless the flow of time continues as it should, the present would cease to exist as we know it. Vendors would sell epics! Trainers would pay us to respec! Drakkisath would realize "Hey, why am I following this stupid little Hunter when there are nine other squishies killing my bodyguards"! Unfortunately, it seems as though there's a mysteeeeerious group of dragons known as the "Infinite Dragonflight" that seeks to do exactly that. There are three known timeways under assault by the Infinites. They seek to change the events of the Battle of Hyjal in one timeway (though this is not yet open), and wish to prevent Medivh from ever opening the Dark Portal in a second. The third timeway in danger leads to Hillsbrad, seven years in the past. Thrall, seven years ago, was not a Warchief. He was not a Shaman. He was a slave gladiator under the control of Blackmoore, a corrupt human officer who raised the young orc and trained him in tactics, combat, and leadership-he was also the head of all the Internment Camps throughout Azeroth, and intended to install Thrall as the puppet leader of a new Horde which he would then use to conquer his foes. The daughter of his secretary was a girl named Taretha, who thought of Thrall as a surrogate brother-and he thought of her as a sister. In the real timeline, Taretha Foxton set a diversion that allowed Thrall to escape from his jailors at Durnholde Keep. However, the Infinite Dragonflight, seeking to change history, has kidnapped Taretha. If she can't set off the diversion, Thrall can't escape and fulfill his destiny... and boom, there goes the present.The Bronze Dragonflight is doing what they can, but it falls squarely on the shoulders of some plucky adventurers to make sure that existence doesn't get wiped out. Taretha can't set a diversion, so we're going to have to do it in her place! I kinda like existing, so this seems like a pretty smart thing to do. Also, there are nifty rewards. Mr. Peabody and Sherman had their Wayback Machine. The Doctor has the TARDIS. Bill & Ted have their phon...

It's just a game. Or is it?That's a question that has been churning in my mind over the last few days. I have looked at it from I think every angle, trying to perceive its hidden substance, a deeper meaning, or even an obvious answer.Why do I, a thirty-seven year old man, play a computer game like World of Warcraft? What blatant justification could there possibly be for anyone to sit for hours in front of a computer screen and immerse themselves into a fantasy world of RP and, at least for a time, forget about his RL? I can give you one such answer: Bruce Galloway.Bruce Galloway is my friend, and he passed away last week. He is one of the best examples I can name of the type of man you get when RP meets RL. He was firmly grounded in both, a fact that helped us become very good friends over a short seven months of gaming together. There were many other factors, of course, but it was our shared ability to RP together in game and talk to each other in RL that drew us in close. I wasn't aware of it as it was happening, and we never took the chance to speak fully about it, much to my sorrow, but I think we both knew what was. We were just two grown men brought together by a common interest, and found out we had so much more to share and learn from each other. It's just a game. Or is it?Bruce roleplayed a red headed female blood elf Shadow Priest named Milliway, and was one of the first RP contacts I met way back when our guild was still only a couple of weeks old. We grouped but a few times during those early days in and around The Ghostlands, but I well remember he was always in character. When our guild acquired a Ventrilo server, he was right in there with the rest of us, unabashed to be found out he was a male playing a female character. It was then that we fell in with a few other players / characters with whom we all felt right with, and our group grew in size and strength. One of those characters was another Priest, this one of the Holy class, an...

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