Elkagorasa the Casual

Reading through my various blogs that I frequent, I happen upon the Shared Topic concept a few times. Intrigued by this idea, I thought I'd participate this time. The idea that Pieces proposes: If you had the chance to start all over again in WoW, but your char is already level 80, or level 1 depending on if you like to level or not :>. What class would you pick? What race? What faction? Why would you pick that class/race/faction? And most of all what would you plan to do with it? Raid, PvP or just hang out in Dalaran? Class/Race/Faction - Class - Considering I've really enjoyed PVP as of late, I'd like to play a more durable character, but at the same time, the variety of a warlock is fun. Faction: Horde - I have always loved the misfit feel of the horde.The Alliance has always seemed goody-two-shoes to me; maybe it is just stereotyping from my friends. Race: Undead - There's something about this race that is intriguing. It's the unfortunate, plagued...

It's a non-supported, could-get-you-banned, cosmetic only, so only you see it patch. The cool thing, is it give you GREEN FIRE. Aphroditi has figured out how to turn your fire green in-game and on most of your key icons. I don't think I am going to apply this patch, simply as I've recently gone back to Affliction and immolate isn't even on the top-10 keys any longer.

Shopping the other day and saw this battle axe. I am guessing that this vendor does not realize that warlocks cannot equip axes. Against our nature (I guess). I was saddened when I first learned that they were going to let Orc's run with Axe's, but then well not Warlocks (still). Of course, that doesn't stop any RL warlocks from equipping this weapon. While it may not have epic DPS, it may help ward off alliance NPCs equipping a Nerf maurader two handed sword.

The Call to Auction podcast is having a contest at 730PM Eastern on 3/28 (this weekend). First person to successfully open a trade window with Faeghelis will get the 20k gold. You must be lvl 3 or lower, must be tagged pvp. OK, so if you were going to attempt this contest, what race, class combo would you try? Rogue for stealth, druid for stam? Would you send BOA PVP gear to this toon? I guess the bigger question, is the US $25 for a server transfer, worth 20,000 WOW Gold to you? Of course, unless you are already on Onyxia-US.

Ok, to be honest, I am not sure if it's a patch problem, or simply me messing with my key bindings in bartender4. Lately when I am in a really intense PVP fight, I am spamming Shift+MouseWheelUp (Shadowflame), MWDown (Fear) and Alt+MWD (howl of terror). It seems about 10% of the time, I get the PVP Info screen popping up and twice yesterday, I get a dreaded button bar flip. Bar 1 and Bar 2 flip places. No longer is shadowbolt on key 1, but my healy potions. The only way I've figured to get my key order back is to logout and log-backin; a simple ReloadUI is not fixing it. Going to have to research if this is a bug, or assigning too many things to the shift/alt mouse wheel.

This weekend was a really, really quiet guild weekend online. None of my usual suspects logged on, and I was able to log-on earlier than typical (9PM local). So, this gave me a ton of time to PVP (after my daily pug of course). I have come to the conclusion that PVP is basically raiding for the casual player. You get to do something with a large group of people. It often takes a coordinated effort to complete the task and if you're not, you'll die. When you complete that task, you will get some sort of reward, typically honor , which can be used to get gear upgrades. This weekend, I played with a new PVP talent build. I was looking to decrease my Fear cast time and increase my stamina. What I came up with is this ( 56/15/0 ). Looking back at the build, I think I am going to take the 2 points out of Improved Curse of Agony and push them over to a pet, considering this build ( 53/15/0 ) but need to decide on how to spend my last 3 points (Dark Pact + Improved Felhunter or Imp...

I was just reading through the 3.3.3 patch notes posted here and noticed a few items that I haven't seen mentioned before. No more farming mounts - The Holiday Bosses and Battleground queues will be converted into a model similar to the RDF. Randomly get one of the BG, you win you get big spoils.  Goodbye PVP Daily .- Get equivalent to the PVP daily if you win ( 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency and 25 Arena points ). Second time, get honor equivalent to 15 HK. Raids of 5 people per side . I can't imagine the length of time to complete Isle of Conquest or Strand of Ancients when all 5 people are completely spread apart. Maybe it will contain five 5-man groups? hCOS will have a skip functionality, like TOC, to allow you to skip the jibber-jab said at the beginning (assuming your party has completed it at least once). Yipee, ran Culling last night and had to wait the 4 minutes from start to finish just "Arthas Roleplay". A second fishin...