Patch 3.3

Wow dude, I am a slacker. I haven't posted here in like...a month! Shame on me! :(

Anyway, yes! Arthas is coming back! And he's pissed! He's going to make people pay for all the disrespect he's been getting over the past months. According to certain rumors, Patch 3.3 is coming out next Tuesday! Hurray!

The long awaited and anticipated raid into Icecrown Citadel is finally becoming available to players of World of Warcraft. I can honestly say I think this might be the biggest WoW patch ever, and not surprising. People have been waiting to take on the Lich King since we all saw the ending of WC3: The Frozen Throne. We all saw Arthas climb that spire, merge with Ner'zhul, and become the Lich King and, since WoW was already announced at the time, people were likely thinking "When are we going to take on this guy in World of Warcraft!"

That fight is finally coming up :) A pity I will likely not see it any time soon, but I'll content myself with Frozen Halls for a while and maybe I'll get lucky with raid pugs later on. At least I hope so...

But anyway, the question is... "Are you ready for Icecrown?"

The answer for me, not quite. At least not in regards with my two mains, Dakore the orc shaman and Dathaniel the tauren deathknight. Almost though.

Dakore:
Just one more set of dailies to get Exalted Champion status with Silvermoon, which will be the last exalted rep and Champion status for the Horde I need to get. He also has the badges needed to buy his T9 shoulders. So he's just about ready.

Dathaniel:
Not so ready, but I think he will be by Patch Day.
1. He needs six more Triumph Badges to get his T9 shoulders. I already finished the Heroic Daily today too. So, I will need to do the heroic daily every day Saturday, Sunday, and Monday in order to get the badges I need.

2. Also want to get Exalted Champion status on all Horde cities for Dathaniel. All I have left for that is Undercity and Silvermoon, and I'm already a Champion for Undercity. I just need Exalted status with them. Right now I'm going through the starting quests for undead in order to build up my rep and will be done soon. I'll do the same for Silvermoon as well. Plus I have enough writs in order to get any rep I need after, so I'm not worried about that.

3. Dathaniel needs to finish the quests in Icecrown Citadel, including the Mathius Lehner questline and such. Almost done with those as well.

4. Finally and not quite as important as all the others for Dathaniel and Dakore, max out my cooking so I can walk into Frozen Halls with full stacks of fish feasts on both characters. :)

I'm not worried about achieving all these goals. It'll mean a lot of WoW time over the weekend, but that's okay because the last few have been busy and stressful, so I am looking forward to a good WoW weekend.

T10 - Thoughts

I know this is premature because the shaman set has yet to be revealed, but here are my thoughts on Tier 10 Armor sets as they sit right now.

Death Knight, not bad overall, it has the right design for me to think of DK's at least, though I do wish they had more elaborate shoulder designs. The helm, not pictured, is pretty cool as well.

Druid, this design screams Feral Druid all over. It says that I'm moments away from turning into a bear and eating your face. This doesn't surprise me though considering the love that feral has recieved all through Wrath of the Lich King. Overall, I have to say good design though.

Hunter, meh, nothing special. It's cool with the golden glowy eyes effect, but the design adds to the arguement that Blizzard isn't trying that hard to come up with new designs for their armor anymore.

Mage, Fail with a capitol F. Seriously. C'mon, Blizz! It's bad enough that your armor designs are getting less and less impressive as time goes by, but now you're trying to make mages look like bad wannabe warlocks? For shame.

Paladin, Fail again, but at least with paladins I'm not surprised. The only paladin design I've ever been impressed with is is Tier 1 and everything after has fallen short of even mediocre in my opinion. Kind of like the class itself. Now you're doing the same thing that you're doing with mages. Everything below the neck makes paladin look like they're trying to immitate elemental shamans. The helm itself? Rididculous. Heavy gorget without face protection? Please.

Priest, not bad, but not great either. It has a design that looks like a priest at least, so it gets points for that, but it still falls short with what they did with previous sets I think.

Rogue, this set is win. I love the design that makes them look like ghast mobs, with that one eye in the middle of the face, and the noose around the neck. The armor itself isn't bad either. I'll say that being ganked by rogues wearing this won't exactly be enjoyable. At least it'll be quick.

Shaman, not out yet. I'm both anticipating and dreading what they're going to do. T9 was kind of a let-down so I'm hoping they come up with something good here.

Warlock, so far the most win of any of the sets yet revealed, and I really mean that. Not only does it look like a warlock set, but it also says "I'm a vicious cult leader dude and I'm going to royally fuck you up if I catch you." I'm going to have to start leveling my lock again.

Warrior, I dig the big curvy horn look of the helm. It speaks loudly of the term "Warlord". However, the pig face shoulders I find to be kind of blah. Not saying they're boaring, because they're not. Blizzard actually made an interesting design for warriors, just not one that I'm interested in.

Pure Win :)

I discovered this while listening to The Instance.

ARRRRGGGHHH!!!

That same old question now returns. You think you made a decision, but then you listen to a kick ass heavy medal song and it gets you thinking, maybe this other choice would be more bad ass.

Goblin Mage vs. Goblin Lock.

Which would be more badass?

Nelf Mage, Holy Cow

There's an awful lot of debate and anxiety over this issue, mostly made up by a bunch of QQ'ers who think they know more about the lore than Blizzard does. I doubt this will set the record straight, but I'll make an attempt anyway.

Night Elf Mage. Make sense? Yes.
Night elves were perhaps among the first and greatest mages before the War of Ancients; Azshara and her High Borne were probably the greatest ever. They had the Well of Eternity, and even though it's gone it still has an impact on the world ten thousand years later. Night elves got the ball rolling as far as mages go. After the War of Ancients the druids decided to ban arcane magic use, which they were pretty adament about. They exiled the rogue highborne who would later become High Elves, they stuck Illidan under a tree for 10K years. All of that though was an effort to keep the Burning Legion from entering the world again.

Well that threat has kind of been dealt with, at least for the time being. The Burning Legion came close to invading the world again, but they got beat back, and now they're licking their wounds. During Cataclysm, other threats are going to be presented to Azeroth: Deathwing, Azshara, the return of certain Elemental Lords like Ragnaros, and, of course, the remaining Old Gods. None of which really give a shit if you use arcane magic or not.

In comes the few remaining high borne elves who've been living in Dire Maul all these years, who still use arcane magic, offering to help. Malfurion is not stupid and knows that any edge can help with the current threats, so he sees the inclusion of mages back into Night Elf society as a logical decision.

There you go! Lore for Night Elf mages!

As for Tauren Paladin, yes I do agree that there is no history to support them embracing the light but there's nothing saying that they can't be paladins either. Personally I believe that the tauren are the most benevolant race on Azeroth, even more so than the draenei, who have a smudge of judgementalism about them. Because of that, Holy Cows do make sense as far as I'm concerned.

I hope that helps.

Shrink the Bucket List

Recently removed today, Explore all of the World of Warcraft.


Which got me a nice new title.

Also removed from the list today...


Another title! Hurray!

And finallly...



Three new titles today.
Dakore the Explorer
Dakore the Seeker
Dakore the Loremaster

:)

Chills and Thrills

Courtesy of Nihilum!



Thanks guys for sharing this! :)