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WoWInsider - the rebirth
The WoW community was sad to hear of AOL's decision to cut off Joystiq, which included WoWInsider. WoWInsider which helped launch my blog when Anne Stickney featured a couple of my posts. Many people...
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Raiding - Heroic BRF trash is a boss on its own!
We had decided to try heroic BRF since people were thinking it would be better gear wise if we did heroic rather than normal. There were pros and cons - we would learn the fights better on normal, but...
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Raiding - Gruul down!
It was decided that we do Gruul again on Thursday night - we didn't seem so far off, and we made a few tweaks to make it a bit better.The first thing we noticed that was different was trash drops. We...
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Oh? People STILL think girls don't raid?
I was asked by someone I chat to regularly, who is the raid leader of another guild, if I could come help him heal some normal Blackrock Foundry. I said I would love to help, but I had stuff on...
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Mataoka's #28daysofWoWlove - First week
Mataoka of Sugar and Blood wanted to celebrate her favourite month with screenshots showing what we love about Azeroth.I'm a bit behind so I shall do them in groups of 7, just to keep up the...
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Achievement: They Really Love Me!
Luxy had organised a time on Sunday to do this achievement, which requires everyone to have a Manufactured Love Prism (bought for 40 Love tokens from the vendors). Basically you have to have 50 stacks...
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Raiding - And That makes three!
Our raiding week didn't start off well but after killing Gruul on Thursday, I was feeling better about raiding. Sunday was a bit of a kerfuffle as we juggled what were going to do, but it turned out...
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Advantages to Ashran being stupid at the moment - achievement hunting
Ashran has been a bit stupid lately. Or maybe I should say Horde has been stupid lately.Ever since they changed the battle so that it's half an hour between battles, it's as if people have decided to...
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Raiding - Working on Flamebender
The good thing about last week was that it set out a plan for us for this week and by 1030pm last night we were at the same point as we were last Monday. It was good, and everyone was feeling happy...
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Raiding - Extinguishing that Flamebender
So we came back to work on Flamebender on Thursday night feeling much more confident about it. We knew the mechanics, we knew what to do (for the most part), and we had gotten it to 30% the previous...
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More Hunger Games and Coliseum thoughts
We do cop a lot of abuse when we go into Coliseum as a group, especially if we are the last ones standing. And of course if we die, then we are jeered at for being a lousy team. Luxy said to me that...
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Mataoka's #28daysofWoWlove - Second week
The other thing I love doing in Azeroth is visiting people in game... Navispam! These 7 are my favourite Navispam pics - not chosen because they were any particular people but just because the...
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Navispam - Ambushing Pushme
I've said before how much I love Pushme's little one page cheat sheets to raiding. When Hwired linked them I was thrilled to be able to read them again. I wanted to thank Pushme in person because...
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Raiding - The Fat Controller is down!
Operator Thogar - otherwise known as the "Train boss" - was our plan for the night. Hwired had actually put three bosses up as possibilities but I only watched this one and it was a pretty cool...
View ArticlePatch 6.1 - Meh or hell yeah?
I didn't realise that patch was so close, as in next week! Official release date is February 24 and I am excited about some of the changes. Stick me on the hell yeah end of the stick.The Grumpy Elf...
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Pet battles - what can breathe life into them again?
Balkoth said something in reply to my post the other day which got me thinking....I had like 200 pets prior to MoP and was fairly proud of it...then they added another 300+ and I just thought "screw...
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Raiding - Thoughts on Kromog
I didn't really like Kromog on Normal when we did it on Sunday, even though we killed it. Though the fight itself was rather interesting, it seemed to be a lot of healing. And I mean A LOT.When we...
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Better value for your garrison resource at your Trading Post
I never had a lumber mill so I used my trading post to get Garrison resources by handing in ore or herbs. Now that I have capped Garrison resources I trade my Garrison resources to the vendor for...
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So, I didn't know 6.1 was doing THIS to my garrison
I did not realise that Patch 6.1 would change what I said yesterday about trading post traders! Today I have Tai'tasi at my Trading Post and the cost of everything has gone down by 80%!They used to be...
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Hwired actually transmogged!
The other week Hwired said he actually did a transmog and I complimented him on it. "Hey, someone's been in Dragon Soul!" I said. It looked quite good, I thought. I teased him that he was getting...
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