Author: Ethic

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– Ethic

[World of Warcraft] Some things just do not make sense when put together. For instance, what the heck is up with this cross promotion?

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy presents the World of Warcraft Wanted Poster Contest. Prizes are from Apple. That’s just really odd. Don’t you think?

– Ethic

[World of Warcraft] Word was running rampant through the streets, the plague was here! People were falling dead everywhere and nobody could stop it. Finally, a live event from Blizzard. What a treat!

Oh wait, never mind:

Beginning at 4:00 AM PDT on 9/17 we will be issuing rolling restarts to all realms to apply a hotfix. We expect this to resolve several issues:

Hakkar’s spell Corrupted Blood can no longer exist outside of Zul’Gurub

Turns out Hunter pets would get infected in ZG and they would dismiss them only to resummon in town. Personally, I think this was cool.

Bah.

Update: It appears that the hotfix remedy concocted to combat the recent Azerothian outbreak has not yielded desired results. At this time, our medical staff is continuing to develop an effective cure. We look forward to ensuring the health and vitality of the citizens of Azeroth in the near future.

– Ethic

[World of Waitcraft] After my failed attempt at EQ2 last night I figured some WoW would be in order so I logged on in.

Authenticating… and nothing.

SSDD.

– Ethic

[World of Warcraft] Sending a special tip out to the person that invited me to join their guild last night.

Don’t just invite random people to your guild without even talking to them. That move alone guarantees I won’t join your guild.

That is all.

– Ethic

[World of Warcraft] My undead warlock hit level 18 last night. I learned a few new tricks during this level, as well as gaining an interesting new skill.

The new skill is called “Create Soulstone”. What this does is it creates a soulstone out of a soulshard. The soulstone, when applied to someone, can be used by that person to self-resurrect. Now my understanding is that you can only make one every 30 minutes and they only last 30 minutes so it’s not like I can go around handing them out to people. But, the nice thing is that I can use it myself.

If you are not sure what a soulshard is, I’ll sum it up for you. Basically, a warlock casts a special spell on a monster just before it dies. If successful, you will capture the monster’s soul in a soulshard. Warlocks use these for various things, like summoning demons and people (or creating soulstones now).

I also learned a few new tricks (new to me anyway). I started using my voidwalker demon for pulling. I would send him in to gain aggro, and recall him. When the monster attacking him wandered into range for my attacks I would tell the voidwalker to start attacking again, and I would attack as well. Worked pretty well as the monsters kept their distance from me.

Another trick I learned was really nice for me. One of the things I hate is when a monster starts to run away when it gets low on health (not all monsters do this). Warlocks have curses they can cast on monsters. You can only have one curse on at a time. Normally, I use the “Curse of Agony” which is a damage-over-time curse. I noticed one of the other curses, “Curse of Recklessness”, has a side-feature of keeping monsters from fleeing. So, I started casting CoR at the end of the battle, just before the time when a monster might run. It was a great to not have to worry about a monster running away and pulling in more bad guys.

All and all an enjoyable evening.

– Ethic

[World of Warcraft] Since I last left you, I have been playing my warlock and having a good time. I’m up to level 17 now and swinging a mean sword while carrying around a bright glowing orange globe maraca-thingy. I summon a voidwalker (a blue bully from hell) who does a lot of the hard work for me.

Actually, most of the damage comes from my damage-over-time spells and some extreme burnination. My sword is mostly for looks and for the bonuses it gives me. I realized tonight that I have 8 talent points to spend so I put 5 into improved corruption to make that spell nice and fast casting. Not sure what to do with the other 3 points yet.

It feels downright evil to play a warlock with all the demon summoning and such. I’m not real happy about a few things, like soulshards not stacking and the fact that I lose my demon whenever I hearthstone or fly. Kind of sucks to have to waste a soulstone every time I want to take a wyvern somewhere.

Sooner or later I’ll be able to summon a succubus, which from the few times I have been around them will be annoying. I really hope they don’t still crack their whips and moan all the damn time. My wife will think I’m watching some sort of bondage porn video (not that there is anything wrong with that).

– Ethic