Just for fun, after last night’s group frustration, and after farming a primal water or two out of lack of anything else to do (gotta work on that robe), I poked at Be Imba, which usually has nothing but disdain for me.
Well, not much has changed, but… well, there’s been a shift in the gear-o-meter, you might say.
It’s good to know I must be doing something right!
Something is seriously wrong when it’s easier to get two levels on two low-level alts than it is to find groups for
1) Slaag, Son of Gruul,
2) Maggoc, Son of Gruul, and
3) Grulloc, Son of Gruul.
Not to mention that groups for Botanica, Mechanar, and Blood Furnace (the three instances I happen to need to run) were completely in absentia. I didn’t even dare try to find a group for Divination: Gorefiend’s Armor.
Why does Feathermoon even have a Looking For Group channel, when apparently no one can find what they need on it?
Big ups to Bellwether of 4Haelz for doing a series on reason to get into raiding before Wrath. I’d been thinking of looking into joining a guild, and really still am, but let’s face it - I’ve never even been into Karazhan, the odds of me finding a guild that’d take me seem low… they really do.
In case you managed to miss it too: part 1 (why now is the best time to join), part 2 (finding a guild), part 3 (getting noticed by, and joining, said guild), and part 4 (pros and cons). There’s evidently a part 5 upcoming, but it’s been delayed by Bellwether’s move. It’s just a summation, anyhow - the meat of the commentary is in those 4 posts.
Anyone from Feathermoon got any insights? Any Horde guilds recruiting for as low as Kara? Please, let me know!
Maybe it’s due to the fact that I don’t play a lot of the classes that have gotten glyphs, or maybe it’s because warlock glyphs seem astoundingly lame, but inscription just feels … well, incredibly underwhelming. With other elements in the beta, Blizzard seems content to make it overly powerful then scale it back; with inscription, Blizzard almost seems too cautious for their own good.
I’ll put the rest behind a cut for those of you trying to avoid any and all Wrath info.
All in all, I got quite a bit done this weekend… in-game, anyway.
Friday I did a little farming with Queklain, starting with netherweb spider silk. I managed to find a good place to hunt down Primal Water, a primary ingredient of the Shadow’s Embrace set. While I have had a set of Frozen Shadoweave Shoulders for some time now, last night I added Frozen Shadoweave Boots as well. Now I just need to push tailoring from 366 to 375, create the robe, gem out the boots, enchant the boots, gem out the robe, and enchant the robe. Phew! It feels like I’ve been working on this thing forever.
Played the AH a little bit, made a couple hundred gold. Also sold off some Spellcloth, and had a decent world drop while farming those primal waters. Actually momentarily considered using it myself, until I remembered I’d be replacing it anyway.
Ran heroic Ramps. This was actually my first heroic! No luck on the drop I wanted, though.
Saturday, I took the Wonder Twins (as Vandersloot has nicknamed Eladhon & Xajek) along with Van’s paladin Zaxx and our friend Cochlaeus, and the four of us (five if you count Leatherneck) blew through Shadowfang Keep. It was overall pretty effortless, other than the fact that we wiped the first time on Arugal because - of course - he werewolf’d Zaxx, who - along with Arugal’s Void Bolts - made short work of us. The next time, I used a Freezing Trap on the steps right behind Zaxx, and proceeded to put arrows into Arugal (and Mind Flays and Mind Blasts) from across the room. That worked out much better, as Werewolf Zaxx got stopped in his tracks and Arugal quickly ate a face full of DPS. Win!
And, finally, I started the Ritual of Doom quests, The Prison’s Bindings and The Prison’s Casing. Had a small giggle when I accepted the second quest and Daio the Decrepit, the clearly warlock-y human hanging out in the Blasted Lands, told me “Light bless you” when I accepted the second quest.
That’s really all. – Oh, and I ran a couple AVs with Vandersloot, as well as our friends Mishkar and Barna of Warsong Aces. It went pretty well, though as usual I added little to the AV (except, for a few minutes, tanking the Alliance onslaught with my face); however, I am now halfway to a Frostwolf Howler, so I guess that’s something to work on in my off-time.
We’re going to form the most gimped arena team ever! It’ll be great! Phat epix, here we come!
I only have one thing to say about the new round of Warlock glyphs in the beta:
There’s been a lot of discussion about the Recruit-a-Friend program, most of it discussing how it’s a Bad Thing with a capital BT - some people have even called it a game-killer, which strikes me as a bit of hyperbole… but I digress. There’s even a few amusing cautionary tales about it floating around out there, such as running into level 59 ret pallies wearing level 26 pants. Still, the allure of the program is hard to deny, especially when it lets you do things like this:
I’m one of those people. I recruited myself. Eladhon and Xajek receive the 300% xp bonus when grouped together (granted, in a level or two, so would Eladhon and Galehorn), and I can attest to the fact that it is freaking amazing. Here’s the guidelines I set out for myself so that I wouldn’t be that complete gimp when I get to Outland.
Well, first and foremost, it’s a terrible hammer.
In all seriousness, though, it’s a blog. One person, Queklain (H, Feathermoon-US) who decided to finally start blogging about World of Warcraft. I used to blog about FFXI too, before I quit playing it. I have a few alts, because I have altitis: Galehorn, my shaman, and the 300% XP Twins, Eladhon (with faithful crocolisk companion Leatherneck) and Xajek. I dualbox those two, because I’m abusing the recruit-a-friend program to get them leveled quickly, but they are the only ones I dualbox, and I’m not particularly good at it. It’s pretty easy to overlap two DPS characters, at least (and yes, a shadow priest counts as DPS, in my book).
Feathermoon is an RP server, true, but the closest I’ve gotten to RP was the time Eladhon got an in-game mail from the brother of a gay troll (with 20 flowers attached). As they say on trade, there is no RP on Feathermoon.
None of my alts belong to a guild yet. I have a few friends in Warsong Aces, and a couple more in Adepts of Ouroboros, but I remain guildless as of the time I write this. I want to raid but I’m not at that level yet. Back on Korialstrasz I used to be GM of Legion of Zod; that position is now held by Volcana.
You can also find me on Wowhead, frequently commenting on WoW Insider, on Blog Azeroth as StoppableForce, on my collection on Warcraft Pets (small pets are the one thing I collect besides tabards), and a few other places.
As for the name: The Stoppable Force drops for me so often that I used to joke about making a guild named after it.
The shared topic on Blog Azeroth, since I’m late to the party, is ”what is your character’s theme song?” For at least one of my toons, this wasn’t too hard to figure out. Queklain’s:
Queklain: Voltaire - “When You’re Evil”
The others took a little thought.