Monkey Business
Check out my new trinket! [Super Simian Sphere]
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This trinket dropped on a Naxx10 run last Saturday! If you look it up on WowHead then you’ll see that it seems to drop from any WOTLK instance.
I actually lost the /roll on the item but I payed the winner 1000g for it, not bad considering that character was an alt.
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Additional Instances Cannot Be launched
Still have troubles with zoning into an instance? Check out the post below for updates!
The limit on active instances was originally implemented as an interim solution to ensure that all active instances perform smoothly. Within the last few weeks, we have configured and optimized our infrastructure to better handle the instance load, and many players are no longer experiencing issues with instance creation. However, to incorporate these upgrades across every realm is not a minor undertaking; it requires fairly complex coordination with third party affiliates who actually host the hardware we utilize.
This reconfiguration is already complete on more than 40% of the North American realms,the optimized realms are listed below, and the situation has noticeably improved on these realms. We are continuing to work towards the implementation of this reconfiguration for all realms, which we expect will resolve the instance creation issue for all players. We expect the optimization for all realms to be fully completed within the coming weeks, and would like to assure everyone that every effort is being made to ensure that this is completed as soon as possible.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=19377447673&sid=1
Blizzcon ‘09 Part Two & Ozzy
Blizzcon 2009 is coming to an end tonight — the closing ceremonies is on as I post this.
Ozzy Concert at Blizzcon 2009
There was some great info released this year, especially about WoW: Cataclysm. I did watch some of the others panels today relating to Starcraft II and Diablo III. I’ll probably buy Starcraft II when it’s released, maybe I’ll win a beta key for it.
BlizzCon 2009: Props team
The concert was crazy!
Ozzy Concert at Blizzcon 2009
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Blizzcon ’09 Part One
There are over 20,000 people attending Blizzcon 2009 including millions? online too.
- Blizzcon 2009 -Dance Contest
I am not attending Blizzcon this year sadly but I’ve been watching it all day thanks to the online-stream service! For only $40 you get access to 18+ hours of live Blizzcon plus the Grunty murloc marine pet. Today was the first day of two for Blizzcon and I definitively do not regret buying the online-stream.
There were a lot of cool costumes for the contest and the dance contest is still in progress as I post this. Some were great but there others just didn’t ‘have it’.
As everyone knows from MMO-Champion or WoWInsider (or in-game Trade Chat), the next expansion is official now: Cataclysm.
During the Class Discussions panel, the Warlock change for Soul Shards was mentioned. MMO-Champion has a good post on it already:
- Soul Shards are no longer in your bags. The goal is to make them fun, not a hassle.
- Soul Shards will be integrated to the user interface. (Just like Death Knight runes)
- You get three shards per fight, they will regen very quickly out of combat.
- It will be possible to get more for long fights or mistakes through Drain Soul.
- Soul Burn (New Spell) : Cost 1 Shard, 30 sec cooldown, off the GCD. Empowers your next spell, many (not all spells) behave differently when empowered.
- They are only used in combat, summons or demons won’t use your shards.
- Blizzcon 2009 – Warlock Soul Shard System
Ironbound Proto-Drake
Because the Rusted Proto-Drake was sooo last week.
I’m very happy that [Disarmed] did not bug out on us. And now I’m riding this baby (as seen above).
What now… Zero-Light Yogg Saron of course!
Almost there… feeling Disarmed
Many tonight rejoice in my guild <Bad Mojo>.
Tonight is the night that we’ve conquered [One Light in the Darkness (25 player)], the last achievement many needed to complete there meta for the wonderful proto-drake.
We took out Iron Dwarf, Medium Rare after killing Yogg with One light because many, like me, still needed that achievement.
Now the only achievement I need is the silly [Disarmed] one off of Kologarn to complete my meta.
First ilvl245 Item
Only thing new achievement wise is [Crazy Cat Lady (25 player)] but we cleared Ulduar 25 tonight up to Yogg/Algalon tonight. So we’ll have a full night Sunday for Yogg, can’t wait to get him down.
We had the 1 Light encounter at 2% when he enraged last week, so we were close. Aside from that, I need Kologarn and Iron Dwarf achievements to complete my meta.
Uriahworld the Exalted - 8/13/09 (No Pet Out)
The new chest piece I’m wearing is the [Flowing Vestments of Ascent] (ilvl245) from 25man Normal Trial of the Crusader. I still keep my 4/5 set bonus from T8 because I was wearing all 5 prior to this new loot from Icehowl.
In other news, I went ahead and bought the remaining Netherwing Drake mounts that I was missing (5 total for 1000g). I’m sitting at 78/100 Mounts for [Mountain o' Mounts].
Steelbreaker & Yogg 25man
We’ve been working on Yogg-One Light these last two raid nights this week.
We had him down to 2% Monday night when he enraged on us (and basically one-shot everyone). But it was past offical raid-end so we activated the other 3 keepers and wiped-out Yogg since the reset was tomorrow. We do not plan to use the new extend raid-lockout feature becasue that would shut-out Algalon for another week (you only have one hour to defeat him per lockout).
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The real excitement of last night was the first hour because it was the first time I had seen the Algalon encounter (in-game). I have yet to fight him in 10man but I feel I was prepared for 25man; The fight is simple just like many players will tell you and how guides/videos will point out. It’s all in the execution, not much of a learning curve at all.
I do think that doing the Assembly of Iron with Steelbreaker last is a very ‘on-edge’ fight. I am glad we did it though, just the positioning keeps your attention but it’s not too bad once you have the strat down. We did Steelbreaker Sunday night, prior to our Yogg tries.
Freya & Vezax Hard-Mode (25man)
Freya 3 Elder
Tonight we conquered Freya with 3 Elders up along with General Vezax on hard-mode (Saronite Animus)!
That’s two nice progression pushes in one night so it was a great feeling to get those out of the way. We’ll be doing Yogg-One Light Sunday or Monday so I’m looking forward to that.
Check us out on Guildox at: http://www.guildox.com/go/g.asp?n=Bad+Mojo&r=Garona-US
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- [I Love the Smell of Saronite in the Morning (25 player)] -
