Pffft Details

In a previous post I mentioned one of the battleground changes coming with the newest patch.... the whole if you die more than 50 times thing. Darkn pointed out that the opposing faction will no longer get honor for killing you not that you will no longer get honor.

Wrath of the Lich King

It seems more and more details of the expansion are being released so I've added the link to WoW's official Wrath of the Lich King page under fun links to keep an eye out for new information. Besides, the graphics are purty!

Remember the Sunwell!

Finally some sense to the madness those blood elves shout! With the release of patch 2.4 there will be a new 5 and 25 man instances located on an island called Sunwell Isle. Maybe someday I'll find out why those Draenei NPC's want me to buy them a car.

The WoW insider has a link to the map of Sunwell Isle.

The patch has the usual nerfs and tweaks but it will add some new recipes that I look forward to. Interestingly, they seemed to have focused on the interface this time around. It looks like Blizzard has taken some hints from some popular addons.

You can make notes on friends to help you remember who they are... I had been hoping for that for a while now. I always mark someone on my friend's list when they have done something nice for me but I never remember what. There is another change related to friends that baffles me. Apparently if someone is on your friends list and they are near, their names glow a different color. No, not a different color on your friends list, but a different color over their heads! Do you really look someone in the face and wonder if they are your friend? "Oh yes, your name is in blue, you're my friend, I'll give you a few gold then." It seems like the colors would be more useful on your friends list. Then you can decide if you want to jump out from behind something and scare them or something. But I don't question the minds of the genious. I think it would be more fun to put sticky notes on their foreheads.

Tradeskill windows have some search options which hopefully will help locate things easier, especially if you don't remember the name but you remember the stats.

They also are making the combat log easier to read and giving you the ability to filter.

This one saddens me... "If a player dies 50 times or more in a battleground, they will no longer be worth honor for the remainder of that battle." How am I ever supposed to get honor? *cry* I took Ivoree with Grnpeace into the battlegrounds for the first time since she was in her 20's. I think I liked battleground more than Grnpeace at the time but back then there wasn't exactly any point to doing them unless you just wanted to wack on someone after a hard day at work. Needless to say I died a few times when I jumped into a mob of horde before I knew what spells I planned to cast.

You can read the full 2.4 patch notes here

Mystery no More

Ok, so I was in Un Goro with Saph about the time the expansion came out so I was outta there and to the outlands in no time. I never completed this quest.

Apparently if you continue the quest you can get:

Crystal Force = 10 green and 10 blue power crystals
Increases Spirit by 30 for 30 minutes

Crystal Charge = 10 red and 10 yellow power crystals
383 to 517 fire damage to targets within 3 yards

Crystal Spire = 10 blue and 10 yellow power crystals
Forms a crystal shield around the user and inflicts 12 damage to anyone that hits the user. Lasts 10 minutes

Crystal Ward = 10 red and 10 green power crystals
Increases armor by 200 for 30 minutes

Crystal Yield = 10 red and 10 blue power crystals
decreases your target's armor by 200 for 2 minutes.

Is it worth it, or is it an addiction? The jury is still out.

The Mystery of the Crystals

So I finally dinged my huntard, Ivoree, 70 yesterday. She was my main from another server that I transferred to play with Ashaman and Reggie and one of my first characters.

After the ding I worked on a sliver of rep I had left to get an alchemy recipe.

Once I got the rep and the recipe, I logged onto Saphyre to gather some ore... because now of course Ivoree needs some gold for her flying mount. When I logged on, I realized that she was still in Un Goro. Grnpeace and Ivoree were there getting the key to Scholo forged. We hadn't done that quest yet. Ivoree had to do Scholo to get the amulet that would allow her to see the dead vendor that sold another alchemy recipe. We didn't have any thorium with us so I had logged into Saph to bring some to Grnpeace. So I decided to run around there to see if there was any ore to gather there at the moment. Seeing the crystals had reminded me of some guildies that used the crystals as some sort of buff. So I gathered those I saw thinking I would find out later whether or not they were worth keeping. They seem to have mysterious powers if level 70's were "going through them like candy." I tried to talk to the dwarf in the cave and took and completed the crystal quest, just to get another. I'll have to see if this will lead to the quest that seems to create an obsession with these crystals.

To be continued...

On a personal note, I ventured into my attic today to see what all was up there. I need to take some things up there to get ready to lay some flooring in the bedrooms so I went up there to organize first. At least I accomplished something for the day, though it's still a work in progress.

Welcome! LFG

One of my favorite things to do with the guild website was search the internet for the latest WoW happenings. I see no reason not to continue doing so. I hope you all enjoy it!