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I discovered this while listening to The Instance.

Icecrown Realestate

I reflect back to a time not so long ago, when a group of adventurers loyal to the Horde and to each other, who crawled up from the muck with each other, first set foot in the rank halls of the floating necropolis, Naxxaramus. Upon first inspection we saw that it was a real fixer upper if we had any notion of moving in, and people agreed with me on this for certain! There were spiders running rampant, walking abominations and things most unpleasant were romping across the floors and making much noise, but not nearly as much as the rambunctious crowd of Death Knights who seriously had no concept of manners! And to top all of that off was the horrid smell caused by entire hallways overgrowing with fungus and slime and all kinds of creepy crawly not niceness!



The current landlord and his pet frostwyrm were NOT taking care of business, and the people of Voodoo Reborn decided it was time for a change. We ousted that pesky lich and his stupid dragon without prejudice and made Naxxaramus a place where a rabbit could frolick freely in the throne room of Kel'Thuzad.

Lately some of us have been keeping an eye on the highly luxurious and world famous condominium site known only as Ulduar...or at least it used to be world famous. Now it's world infamous due to one very slimy and very unpleasent resident who thinks he owns the place. This...Yogg-saron character is famous for making those who try to stay in the condos of Ulduar completely bat-shit mad. Maybe that explains what happened to Jack Nicholson in "The Shining". Whichever, Yogg-saron certainly needs to go, and we're the ones to do it and make a formerly respectable Northrend getaway into a place even a rabbit could frolick freely.

Very recently however a new location for Northrend has been opened, a place that shall forever be known to the citizens of Azeroth: Icecrown Citadel. Now, you would have to be a complete idiot who has not crawled out of the tents of Durotar for the last six years to not know who the Lich King is, or who Arthas Menethil is. The guy takes an A for infamy. Kill his father, burn down his home nation, turn his people into undead, and then head north, become a king, and set up the newest in Northrend luxury resorts.

On maintaining said resort... Well...just look!



Lots of Frost, Blood, and Unholy stuff? Does that sound like a place like anyone would like to live? Seriously, the only people who would find this remotely welcoming are those Knights of the Ebon Blade jokers who already live in places like this. I suppose we really could not have expected much from an asshole like the Lich King?

Will we ever be able reclaim Icecrown Citadel and make it into something that's actually manageable? Who knows? It may be beyond saving or we might have to set it aside for a future project.

Eventually though, Icecrown Citadel, just like the other places before it, will be made into a safe haven for bunnies, and they will roam freely and without fear on The Frozen Throne.

*sigh* Patch Day

Patch day makes Baby Thrall angrier than anything Blackmoore ever did, including the killing of what's-her-name.

Patch day makes Dak want to zap alliance faces with lightning and Waltz want to burn down entire forests.

Patch day punches Chuck Norris in the nads and forces him to ask for seconds.

Patch day could end a marriage.

Patch day could very well make Deathwing think twice about coming out of Deepholm.

Patch day could make Varian Wrynn and Garrosh Hellscream think of peace and tea parties.

Those Old World Blues

Frickin' hell I hate Azshara. The zone I mean, not the NPC, though I'm sure the zone is appropriately named after a total bitch night elf. This place has got to be one of the most convoluted zones ever made for WoW. Not quite as bad as old Everquest's Butcher Block Mountains and other various mountain zones back then, but still a pain in the ass. Funny thing is that Azshara is set to become the new level 10 to 20 zone for Goblins, possibly for orcs and trolls too at least since Barrens will be getting deep fried.

Ah well, best to get done with the crappy stuff early on, yes?

I still had to go into Azshara to find Azuregos the blue dragon. Many people would recognize him as world raid boss of Vanilla WoW. I find him to be a very interesting and amusing character, excentric even for a dragon. The conversation to get the "Draconic Ledger" questline going was hilarious.

But...come on Blizz, you guys got to get a grip on some of your scripts. Thankfully this is a really old questline and you might have learned a few things since then, but... An orc or any other race other than dwarves saying "By Bronzebeard's...er, Beard" to Azuregos. Just what they hell is that all about?

Anyway, that led to some odd experiences. I'll just say that I hope I never have to see Dak dressed in the guise of a gnome with a red turban and a curly mustache again. Ever.

*Screenshot pending of that* 0_o

Sand and Bugs, Part 3: Where's the Sense of it All?!?

Here we have a map of the Old Azeroth zone of Silithus, which has been my home of Sand and Bugs for the past four days. That's all that's really there though: sand and bugs and a big gate into Ahn'Qiraj. In vanilla WoW before Burning Crusade, this zone along with Eastern Plaguelands and Winterspring were the highest level areas in the game. In my opinion this place was the most dangerous area in the game, with three huge silithid hives that were previously filled with lvl 60 elite bugs. In between each is a bunch of worms, spiders, scorpions, and other nasty crap, including various camps of Twilight Hammer cultists. It's not a pleasent place to spend a vacation.

Today, with everyone being level 80 and all the bugs in the three hives no longer elite, this zone is a pushover, and I can pretty much storm through it without much effort, just a lot of time and risiliance to boredom.

That's not what I came here to say though. Rather, if you spend time in Silithus you come to realize that it's a very peculiar place. In the map above, you can see the three main hives of Silithus (the patches of pink): Hive'Ashi in the north, Hive'Zora in the west, and Hive'Regal in the south-east corner. Each of these hives has a town or encampment nestled up against it, with the main town of the area, Cenarion Hold, up against Hive'Ashi, an alliance base against Hive'Zora, and a horde camp watching over Hive'Regal. Now after spending a lot of time in both Hive'Zora and Hive'Regal over the last couple days, I can see why the Cenarion Circle decided to put the Alliance and Horde bases where they currently are.

One might think they're in the idea that Horde are making better warriors so they strategically placed them next to the larger and more dangerous silithid nest! I would agree with this, but I don't think that's the only reason. I personally think that the Cenarion Circle also realized ahead of time that the Alliance really doesn't make a great deal of sense so they put them in charge of a silithid nest they would be well suited to.

You see, both Hive'Zora and Hive'Regal have a particlar type of "worker bug", called Tunnelers in Zora, Burrowers in Regal. These bugs look largely the same, a cross between an aphid and a ladybug, the only difference is their colors depending on what hive their in. In both cases though they're pretty much the same: worker caste insect much like you would find in ant colonies.

In Hive'Regal, there are a few of these workers topside hanging out in a few of the boney spires that make up a silithid nest, a sensible place for a worker doing work. Others can be found down in their tunnels, at dead ends. That makes the most sense, yes? They're burrowers! They should be burrowing! Duh! O_o

Well, you would think so, but I guess Hive'Zora has a pretty different way of doing things. Instead of down in the tunnels digging tunnels as tunnelers should, you'll find the tunnelers wandering aimlessly outside and down the halls not tunneling, being in places where patrolling tank and warrior bugs should be, or maybe he's just being lazy. I'm reminded of the Marijuana Spider and his hammock...

It can be clearly said that Hive'Zora does not make a great deal of sense, so the Alliance got stuck watching over them. Because putting the senseless in charge of those who make no sense only makes perfect sense, am I right?

Best Idea Ever

In Cataclysm, engineers should get a new recipe called "Portable Fire Hydrant". Placed on a specific location much like a totem, its effect would be to cause a five second stun to any canine mob in the area.

This does include Worgen players. ;)

Mind Job

When you see it, you'll shit a brick.



For those of you who don't get it, Waltz is my undead warlock alt who is on the same account as Dakore. You just got to love the things that can happen on Tuesday Maintenance, especially on days like 9/1/09 which might have been the heaviest cluster that Blizzard has ever done on a maintenance day. This first of all first kind of gives new meaning to that. ;)

Naxxramus: Almost Ours!!!

Last night, in typical voodoo fashion, a squad of bunny rabbits hopped into the halls of Naxxramus and proceeded to make their merry way through the military quarter. Just as one most famous and daring rabbit had once decimated and beheaded half of King Arthur's knights, we once again proved that long, fluffy ears are a knight's greatest nightmare by destroying the Four Horsemen and the rest of Kel'Thuzad's death knight forces.

All that was left were two very powerful enemies, waiting for us at the frozen heart of the necropolis. And met that challenge we did.

The great frost wyrm, Sapphiron, proved a great challenge for us. His icy might was great indeed, and he sent us back to the graveyards and laughed in our faces on more than one occasion, which was expected since this was the first time we have ever faced him as a guild. But his joy was soon cut short and we brought the great wyrm down in a clattering heap. Voodoo Reborn, on its first time every facing against Sapphiron, emerged victorious.

Sadly, it was not meant to be against Kel'Thuzad, and after a few tries it was he who had the last laugh. But for our first time against him we did awesomely by getting him down to a third of his health. That's fantastic, boys and girls, especially since most of us have never seen either Sapph or Kel'Thuzad before last night. It really does prove that Voodoo Reborn, even though we are not a hard core raiding guild, is filled with people who are every bit as awesome as anyone you would find in those other guilds. It makes me proud that I'm a part of VR.

Kel'Thuzad might have lived and sent us packing last night, but he's scared. I mean, he's literally freaking the f*** out right now, because he knows we're coming back for him, and when we do it will mark the end of Kel'Thuzad.

Lok'tar Ogar, Voodoo Reborn!

This....

...happened almost two months ago, during the Lunar Festival, but I HAD to post about it.

Imagine three players in the same guild: an orc hunter, a blood elf death knight, and a tauren death knight. The orc has Aspect of the Pack up, an ability which grants all members of a party an extra 30% running speed. Both death knights have Unholy Presence active which grants them an extra 15% percent running speed, and they stack. All together it grants the whole party an extra 60% increase in movement speed.

Now both Death Knights (only one needed to do it) casts Path of Frost, which gives all part members the ability to run on water whether they are mounted or not.

In this case, all three are mounted on the Orc Hunter's brand new Taveler's Tundra Mammoth, a three person epic ground mount. So now, on top of the 100% increased movement rate, you have an extra 60% speed on top of that and the ability to run on water. Needless to say, we did not have to take the boat to Darnassus during the Lunar Festival! Plunging through an enemy city to get special coins from elders for an achievement? Hella fun!

This was one of the most epic days I had in WoW for a long time. We owe it to Zooka and his mammoth.

Dude, if you're reading this by chance, get your fucking ass back to Voodoo Reborn where you belong, you bastard! >_<