Category: World of Warcraft

[World of Warcraft] Last week, my friend who is cursed with a crappy computer got a gift certificate to Fry’s Electronics. Not being able to buy anything useful with the $40 certificate and having a computer not able to handle any newer games, my friend went with an old favorite: Warcraft 3. He got the battlechest which includes both the original and the expansion.

I remember when the game first came out. My friends and I were in the awkward stage where we were just starting college and desperately needed ways to blow off stress on weekends, but too young to go to bars or clubs. We made a local cyber cafe our hangout of choice and we played a lot of CounterStrike and Warcraft 3 (later tower defense). I look back at those times with found memories because after that everyone kind of went their seperate ways. Well, this past week, it was just like old times again as my friend called everyone up and we played some Warcraft 3.

Continue reading The Original World of Warcraft (or Why I Hate Battle.net)

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Some of those pet murlocs that are available only by going to BlizzCon (or buying one for $150 from someone who did on Ebay) are turning up in game now. I’ve always been a sucker for non-combat pets. At one point I think I owned every pet you could get from a vendor. Need for space in my bank and item slots forced me to sell most of them although I have a few and my collector’s edition zergling still around. I wish I could have the murloc as well. If I had know there would be such huge demand for them on Ebay I would have just bought a couple of BlizzCon tickets and have been able to go and make some money at the same time.

Continue reading Meet Murky

[World of Warcraft] This is one of those nights that normally causes me to cancel. I had about an hour to play. I logged in and got slapped in the face with a 20 minute queue. Well crap.

After waiting, I get in and Tarren Mill is in the middle of a huge battle which is causing heavy lag. It also happens to be my main quest area for my level 24 warlock.

I manage to get out of the main fighting area and do my quest. On the way back, the server locks up and I cannot log out. I’m also stuck in the classic “looting” pose.

Alt+F4 is the only way out. And of course I cannot log back in now. No matter, even if I did there would be a queue again.

Good night.

– Ethic

[World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade] As lufia22 posted earlier, Blizzard has announced the name of the upcoming WoW expansion. The Burning Crusade refers to The Burning Legion from Warcraft 3. Basically they are the “phantom menace” of the Warcraft universe. They are responsible for the fall of the High elves (pre-Warcraft games), the corruption of the Orcs (Warcraft 1 & 2), and the rise of the Undead Scourge (Warcraft 3).

Continue reading So much for my dreams of being an ogre…

[World of Warcraft] Just wanted to share some of my recent holiday happenings.

I was turned into a cat. I was turned into a snake (kind of dark, sorry). I noticed the Trolls are having mask problems. You can see from the side shot that all is not right there.

That is all.

-Ethic

[World of Warcraft] Decoration’s for Warcraft’s version of Halloween, Hallow’s End, have gone up. Like last year’s Winter Veil Festival, this is more decorative than anything else. Pumpkin head’s aren’t attacking like they did in City of Heroes, but there are several decoration and a few special items to be found. There are also 3 quests. One is similar to the Children’s Day quest where you must go collect items from the different capitals. In the other two quests, the Horde must vandalize Southshore and the Alliance must clean up the mess. They are somewhat controversial on the official WoW message board as they are extremely difficult for the Horde (especially on a PvP server) and impossible for the Alliance unless the Horde complete their quest. Here are some of the sights of Hallow’s End:

We’ll start with the Alliance. I’m a Horde player mainly, but I do have Alliance alts to do my bidding as well. Below is a picture of Stormwind, the human capital.

Continue reading Hallow’s End Picture Tour

[World of Warcraft] A good friend of mine offered to take my level 20 Undead Warlock through Shadowfang Keep in hopes of getting one of the good drops at the end. The final guy drops one of a selected few choice things and several of them would be good for me.

We worked our way through the keep (ok, he worked our way through) and we made it to the end with no problems thanks to the fact that we have done this about 8 times total together. The drop was a really nice belt that I’ll be able to use in a few levels. I also leveled to 21 during the run. We plan to go back and hope for the robes. I’ll probably hit 22 in that process as well.

The Imp in phase-shift is nice for things like this. The stamina buff gives me an additional 100 hit points and he is safe from attack so we don’t have to worry about aggro issues. I kept myself soulstoned just in case I got killed and would thus be able to rez on the spot.

Really, the whole run was good for me. I improved several armor pieces, a few of them were blue items including two rings. Nice!

I must say, even though I’ve only done two instances, Shadowfang Keep is my favorite. I guess that doesn’t say much but a few level 60 players I know say it is one of their favorites too.

On another note, the same guild that sent me a blind invite a while back has done so again. Same way. Even if you didn’t have a stupid guild name, I would not join you because of the way you invite random strangers to the guild. I would, however, be willing to join a fun guild that isn’t into hard core raiding and such all the time. If you know of a good, fun, laid-back Horde guild on Hellscream, let me know.

– 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