WoW

[BobChuck]

You don’t have a JC? When you said you were working on capping it, I thought you actually had one. I don’t think I’d drop tailoring. The cloak enchant it provides is supposed to be really nice for casters.

I have a JC. My priest. Skill is 240-something, almost done with the money-sink aspect of the profession. Problem is, she is level 36. She's on my other server, and running enchanting as her other profession, so I can dispose of junk leveling stuff and the various greens I find.

I enjoy the priest play-style quite a lot; shadow is near enough to warlock, which is nice (I do not like my warlock, orc males look very odd),and a renew-focused holy spec is surprisingly fun.

Engineering on the paladin would be nice for dedicated farming, but not all that useful - ret and prot pallies both have way too many buttons to push already, and it's not like I need the AoE.

I suppose what I *need* to do is come up with some sort of long term plan; unfortunately, now is a terrible time for me to be doing that. I am in the process of buying a house and moving. (if you want the address, shoot me a PM - it is a very nice house, with lots of large rooms, and a dedicated gaming room.)

[kenada]

You don’t have a JC? When you said you were working on capping it, I thought you actually had one. I don’t think I’d drop tailoring. The cloak enchant it provides is supposed to be really nice for casters.

I have a JC. My priest. Skill is 240-something, almost done with the money-sink aspect of the profession. Problem is, she is level 36. She's on my other server, and running enchanting as her other profession, so I can dispose of junk leveling stuff and the various greens I find.

Ah, yeah. Not being at least 65 means no high-level JC. It’s not really worth the money sink to level professions while you’re leveling anyway.

I suppose what I *need* to do is come up with some sort of long term plan; unfortunately, now is a terrible time for me to be doing that. I am in the process of buying a house and moving. (if you want the address, shoot me a PM - it is a very nice house, with lots of large rooms, and a dedicated gaming room.)

Then don’t worry about the gold. 14k is more than enough to cover your costs. You just won’t be able to buy everyone you know a mechanohog.

[kenada]

Real life murlocs found.

[kenada]

It looks like there will be a major overhaul of talent trees in Cataclysm. In addition to being reduced back to 31-points deep (like in classic), players will choose a specialization and not be allowed to spend points outside of that tree until they have spent 31 points in their primary one.

[BobChuck]

They are also halving the number of talent points you get, and removing the need to visit the trainer for most things.

So at, say, level 16, a mage might receive a talent point, then at level 17 he'd get Blizzard.

[kenada]

Apparently the Maelstrom was not epic enough, and the latest build pushes the epicosity to new levels.

[kenada]

[BobChuck]

grats.

have you beaten starcraft 2 yet?

[kenada]

Not yet. I don’t really have time to play except maybe on the weekends. I still have a lot of prep to do for my game to be ready to run on 8/28.

[kenada]

And it looks like pre-expansion malaise is kicking in. Well, that’s what they are blaming the lackluster performance in recent raids on, and why they’re canceling tonight’s raid. Of course, it couldn’t having anything to do with the fact that our raids are run like a bureaucracy that doesn’t want to do any work, and we frequently wipe to content that we’ve beaten because the RLs don’t bother to tell anyone their roles in the fight. One of our members, who was a RL in a top-100 guild in Classic, tried to point this out, and got chewed out for that. Transparency and openness indeed.

[kenada]

"Death will rise from the tide!" Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain once warned -- and at BlizzCon 2010, the band's dire musical prophecy will finally come to pass. Everyone who attends this year's BlizzCon or purchases the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket will receive an exclusive set of murlocalyptic in-game items for World of Warcraft and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. World of Warcraft players will be joined by Deathy, a murloc companion decked out as Deathwing and doing his best to strike fear into the hearts of Azeroth's crustacean population. You'll also be able to display your tidal pride in StarCraft II with a Murloc Marine character portrait and a pair of deep-sea decals to emblazon on your units, each with a different terran, protoss, and zerg design.

BlizzCon 2010 takes place on October 22 and 23 at the Anaheim Convention Center. For further details or to order the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket, visit http://www.BlizzCon.com.

[BobChuck]

a.... a dragon murloc?

My brain just exploded.

[kenada]

I ordered the feed before they even announced anything, so I’m rather happy that there are bonus items for both WoW and SCII.

[kenada]

The Echo Isles and Gnomeregan events went live today. The Zalazane’s Fall one was meh.

[kenada]

4.0.1 goes live today. Cataclysm comes out in a few months on 12/7/2010.