Elkagorasa the Casual

for HolyCow I was looking at the Cataclysm Glyphs . With 9 total glyph 'slots', we're going to definitely get some breathing room. No longer forced to sell our Souls only to get a flying kilrogg . I don't know about you, but weren't you giddy with exhaustion that your demon enslaved FASTER. (He only lasts 1 MINUTE, every milisecond counts!) Seriously, having these 6 options and only get mediocre low-level glyphs, was, well sort of an insult. 35 glyph options and we all knew EXACTLY which ones you absolutely had to have. ~3 Minute preview of (a mage) New Glyph UI! Coming soon, we'll get 34 glyph options (7 Minor, 14 Major and 13 Prime). Most of the Prime glyphs are existing Major (3.3) glyphs, so you'll need to move them around from your major slots to the Primes. Prime glyphs aren't going to be exciting in a 'change up your rotation' style. We want primes to be unambiguous dps (etc.) increases so we figured they might as well be ea...

Last night, we had a freshly minted 80 join the guild. This death knight reached max level by, (gasp) questing. The first emblem he acquired was last night after an invite to the weekly raid ( Satharion ), #1 thing to do when your ICC raid failed to go. Unfortunately, due to his leveling via questing, he was almost totally in quest greens. GearScore listed him at 1400 .  He died promptly with the first fire wave. First step, get some badges, emblems, er, points.    PVP points - As I mentioned for Children's Week , doing the random battleground, and Wintergrasp regularly will get you a good start. PVP gear is often 'cheaper' (if you win regularly) and easier to obtain. Heck, for straight "GearScore", I will often equip some PVP pieces just because they have such nice +SP. If you do WG early enough in the week, you can also (typically) get into a VOA run to obtain class specific gear and 2 frost badges. Emblems of Triumph and Frost - Start running regular d...

New Orgrimmar as viewed through Old As the rumored November 2nd release date looms, I have started thinking about my Day 1 in the new world. With any new release, the starting zones are going to be overloaded with all those people who are coming back, and seeing the areas for the first time. They are going to be flooding these zones, and if you remember Dalaran being laggy, imagine now Old World content being extra laggy (-2fps!!) So, my intent for day 1, will include those Shared Topic items , plus the following: Wake up in Orgrimmar . Everything Horde will be based in Orgrimmar. The level 80 quest hub starts right outside. The Flight trainer is there. The Reforging dude is right there. Like the leveling days, I'll probably park in the Inn. From the Inn, head up towards the Drag. Buy Azerothian Navigation - Take the new elevator right outside the Drag and run across the plateau and give her some gold. (200g exalted with Orgrimmar). Possibly another 4000g if you want a mas...

Over the weekend, I was working on soloing the Steamvault . I was doing great, got two bosses down, finally found the keys to open up the third. When I mentioned what I was doing to a guildie, he suggested waiting until after Cataclysm drops. His reasoning is the Cataclysm Guild Perks. One of the items they state as a way to get Guild rep is by doing dungeons and raids with ~80% guild attendance. For example: Participating in a qualifying Guild Raid Boss Kills (Raid must be composed of 7/10 or 20/25 guild members) So, if this is correct, we could attack all the old world, BC and wrath dungeons and get the achievements (for completion and in Wrath, the specifics) and get a glut of guild rep. Would be nice... I am hung up on the word "Qualifying".. On the otherhand, I am still NOT even friendly with my beta guild and I've gotten 1.5 levels on Elk. No dungeons, no raids or PVP though, maybe that's why?..

Update: The date is slipping. According to Wow.com , the date was originally posted as November 23rd. This is just Amazon stating that the software was likely released to manufacturing. I guess, we'll see it, when we see it. Ok, again, I am basing my info on a pre-order date of my Amazon Cataclysm done back in April. I just got a confirmation letter from Amazon with an estimated ship date of November 29th. Hello from Amazon.com. We now have delivery date(s) for the order you placed on April 15 2010 (Order# ): "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm" Estimated arrival date: November 29 2010 Of course, this information could still be speculation and actually be closer to the 11/2/2010 date from MMO-Champion.

The last few months, I've been listening to TNB in my car to/from work. One of their "Final" questions, is to ask, "What one thing would you ask for from Blizzard?" When I started playing Warcraft, back in the day, one of the biggest perks for chosing a Warlock is the "Free" mount. Nope, I didn't need to pay some trainer and buy a mount, I earned it via an epic quest line (and a fair amount of gold). Then Blizzard, announced with BC, that we'd be allowed to FLY! Yes, fly around our world, no longer need to use the taxi system to get from one area to the next. On the tip of every warlock's (and pally's) tongue was, what will the mount look like? Unfortunately, Blizzard never implemented one. Nope. Sounding too much like my parents, or myself now, " maybe someday " (aka never ). Sorry for the bad news, but unfortunately there are no current plans for giving class flying mounts to Paladins and Warlocks. But do not give...

After our guild (achievement) run of ZG last night, it got me wondering about other Pre-Wrath dungeons and Raids. A year ago, Elk solo'd Hellfire Ramparts , but I haven't tried anything since then. In the last year, Elk went from i200 gear to mostly i251, learned more about stacking hit, enchanting correctly and some PVP experience. I'd love to finish off more of these other dungeons to get the Classic Raider and BC Raider achievements. My first problem is getting lost in these dungeons. What have you successfully soloed? What armor class? How many times did you die doing so? Here's the entire list, if you need some reminders... Dungeons: Blackrock Depths (48-60) Dire Maul (54-61) Strathholme (56-61) Lots of CC required. Easily pull all skeletons in room. Scholomance (56-61) Hellfire Ramparts (60-62) Normal Mode -  Successfully completed June 2009 The Blood Furnace (61-63) The Shattered Halls (70-72) The Slave Pens (62-64) The Underbog ...