Pity some fools

Mr.Z be telling you, there are some who do not believe in the legendary Night Elf Mohawks. I pity the fools. You can go pity them fools as well. According to WowHead you can find the Night Elf Mohawks at several locations around the world. Find them near you. They should make an achievement out of this. Beats having everyone out hunting rogues damnit... Oh, and for pony!, that's a pretty useful item actually. It's a silly achievement, but the result is as above. Your squire gets a mount, "and" gains the ability to provide you with a mailbox / bank box / vendor every four hours. It's a lot like Jeeves and Moll-E combined into one item. (And with a longer cooldown) Total cost is 150x Champion's seal, a bit pricey, but worth it. (A lot like the upcoming goblin minion-racial thing) Mr.Z has also been out hunting for a baby phoenix this weekend. With success! Achievement Unlocked It's all about meta gaming. But, seriously, why on earth would anyone do this? Sick freak that he is, over 10.000 Achievement points. Some Taiwanese who has probably never in his wow career seen the daylight. 10850 Points. Go beat that, I dare you. Here's me with my puny 7600. Or, 7610 actually, after wtfkilling that lonely priest in the field of strife. No idea how she actually managed to get on a mount during combat, but whatever. Tier 10 + patch 3.3 In case you're wondering when the next major content patch will arrive, well, ETA is about one month. Perhaps three weeks, perhaps four. MMOC already has a bunch of pictures up of the new Tier-10 artwork. You may want to check out if you hadn't already. And Finally MMOC has a few interesting videos and screenshots of the upcoming Cataclysm expansion. Sadly both the worgen and goblin females remain elusive for now. But you can get a nice impression of the new character selection screen at least. As well as the worgen and goblin starting zones. Some are rather blurry, though certainly interesting.

It's hunting season.

Rogue hunting season sadly... As if we weren't already getting targetted enough with other events. I be da regular target dis week mon! Pilgrim's Bounty So, basically everyone will be aiming to get this event done with as fast as possible this week. Most of them can be done on the first day. And you'll have to complete turkey lurkey on the second day. This week's event offers you five daily quests, each which can give you one piece of clothing or a turkey shooter. I'd recommend getting a hat + robe and three shooters the first day, then five shooters the next day. * She Says Potato * We're Out of Cranberry Chutney Again? * Easy As Pie * Can't Get Enough Turkey * Don't Forget The Stuffing! So, to make your life easier, here's a list of all the ingredients you should buy to be get the quests done without any surprises: Daily total ingredients for the daily quests: * Cranberries * 20 * Honey * 100 * Pumpkin * 20 * Herbs * 60 * Potatoes * 20 * Simple Flour * 20 * Mild Spices * 20 * Turkey * 20 Extra ingredients for the other quests (once only): * Cranberries * 5 * Honey * 25 * Pumpkin * 5 * Herbs * 15 * Potatoes * 5 * Simple Flour * 5 * Mild Spices * 5 * Turkey * 5 Not so easy Cooking is easy. And the recipes above will get you from 1 - 300 without too much effort and only a good load of coppers. The sharing achievement and food fight won't give you much of a headache either. Turkey time is soloable if you're level 80 as well. If not, it shouldn't be too hard to find one or two friends to sort that one out. The Turkinator however. Oh My Gawsh! It seems almost mandatory for Blizzard to add at least one absolute pain in the ass achievement every time. If people QQ enough it'll probably be nerfed later. But DAMN this one is seriously going to give a lot of people a severe headache and case of high blood pressure. to complete it, you have to kill not 10, not 20, not 30,, but 40 turkeys within a time of 30 seconds of each other. That means "at most" about 19 minutes, sure, but more likely you're looking at having to do that within 5-10 minutes. In an over crowded zone, during rush hour, along with dozens of other players, while there's a very very limited number of turkeys spawning. In Tirisfal and Goldshire. The maps will be updated on WowHead soon enough, and they do spawn all over the zone, but even so. 40 ?! That's crazy talk. It only takes one other player to kill that one you're after and you'll fail it guaranteed. Your best shot is doing this "very" early in the morning or "very" late at night. It's certainly doable, but I highly recommend you bring along a hunter friend with Beast Tracking. Or even cook yourself some Tracker Snacks. Also, use this macro, it'll help you a LOT as it'll target the turkey closest to you and automatically put you in attack mode: /cleartarget /tar wild turkey /startattack External Link You can view MMOC for a guide with videos as well.

Screenshot day!

As said last week, I'm getting a few chars up to cooking speed. All four of them are now at 385. Had plenty (and then some) meat still in the bank. Only had to fish a stack or few of Whitescales to get to the 300 mark. Bloody things weren't being sold on the AH, so... A couple more pictures today, had a look through my screenshot folder, which is always good fun. I asked a few weeks ago where a certain screen was taken, well here's proof of that location. And he's totally got his cookie don't worry. Also, I ran into a minor issue when cleaning up some quests in EPL (was there for fish), and eventually got poked by a GM to post it on the official forums. He totally gave a cookie! - Insert something here about a GM role playing rant - Later on, we were doing Trial of the Grand Crusader (25-ToC) and wiping on anub like most people are. When suddenly, after a wipe I ran into this disturbing sight: Yeah, it's the naked players in a raid bug. Quite odd.. Never seen it before, but heard others having it plenty of times. Someone should make a wow comic of that sometime... Let me know if someone does. As a closing sight, a tip. Do not, under any circumstances, distract your healers while they're healing.

Cook me this

Two more weeks until pilgrim's bounty starts. Are you prepared yet? And, in the theme of all good things, be sure to get this one for the fun of it. For myself (and oh hey, there's a list of all alts n such) I started working on getting all those alts up to par for cooking. In my case, that means I'm currently working on the lower three to get on par with the fourth, and then to get all four of those up to 385. In short, I need lots and lots of meat and fish! * level Name cur Max Needs * 80: Zurgat 450 450 x * 80: Belzur 385 450 Great feasts * 70: Elrath 385 450 Great feasts * 70: Targash 385 450 Great feasts * 70: Neruhe 385 450 Great feasts * 71: Arthul 285 300 raw whitescale salmon / darkclaw lobster / large raw mightfish * 80: Tikasar 125 225 raw sagefish * 72: Geshrat 114 150 boar ribs / crawler meat / raw sagefish * 20: Nefaria 130 225 boar ribs / crawler meat / raw sagefish Guess I'll be leveling my fishing skill, or looking for cheap stacks of fish on the AH. Though cooking skill has at least some use, I've only raised fishing on one character. Blizzard really should add "something" to that profession to make it worth raising imo. It was worth a try Random "where did you get that mount" whisper #236 After a while it gets old, really. Actually, it got old after the first 3-4, but after a dozen and some you start making up stuff on where to get it. Some fall for it, some don't. Today, I figured I'd try out the ole engineering. * [19:31:53][W From] [Himagain]: were did you found your mount? * [19:32:08][W To] [Himagain]: [Practice Lock] * [19:32:18][W To] [Himagain]: wanna buy some? * [19:32:19][W From] [Himagain]: cool * [19:32:31][W From] [80:Himagain]: there in you found your mount? * [19:32:37][W To] [80:Himagain]: Yep, totally. * [19:32:40][W To] [80:Himagain]: Get em all the time really. * [19:32:46][W From] [80:Himagain]: owmuch? * [19:33:02][W To] [80:Himagain]: 10g per box? * [19:33:06][W From] [80:Himagain]: no Also Interesting You might like this Elona Shooter. At first glance it's "yet another" one of those side shooter, defend the whatever last stand till your mouse breaks games. But, this one's got a bit more depth than the usual muck among those. Just, give it a try I guess. If you don't like it, too bad :P I've spent a good few hours on getting a bunch of those trophies so far. Don't bother trying to get ragnarock until you've reached level 50 or whatever, and at the least have a chalice ready. Oh, and aim for the head. Gives bonus damage. Poll end The previous question: Are you sick of badges yet? * Yes.. ugh.. - 29 (63%) * No, gimme more! - 17 (36%) Closed up, and opening a new question: * Did you check out the Icecrown Citadel Spoilers yet? And Finally In three days we should get the onyxia whelpling in the mail for the WoW 5th anniversary. It's also the last day you can log in normally, after that you'll need to merge with your battle.net account to be able to play WoW.

Halloween no more

And Halloween is over. Hope you got your achievements by now. Glad I did mine last year ugh. All but one that is. Though I suspect I'm not alone in that. It's just ten points anyhow, and not needed for the meta achievement. See MMOC for a bit more details. It's really a small "event" if you can call it that. Speaking of ten points, this sunday and monday you can get Dead Man's Party. It's quick, dead easy (haha couldn't resist that pun...) and there's a vendor that sells you an extra Cooking recipe. Personally I'm on 164/169, and in no more than two weeks time there's the Pilgrim's feast event starting that should allow everyone to get another five. * Cranberry Chutney * Candied Sweet Potatoe * Pumpkin Pie * Slow-Roasted Turkey * Spice Bread Stuffing If you're only a few recipes away from Chef de Cuisine, those few might get you there. (Also, you get a cookie if you can guess where that screenshot was taken) Remember the Sunwell? Sheesh what's up with the silly puns today? The sunwell, I'm sure some of you readers have been there during the time that it was actually "hard" still, and not just a place to go to pick up an achievement. Back in that time it was rather controversial as it had a unique buff added by blizzard. Namely Sunwell Radiance, yeah that's a nasty buff. And, all bosses in there had it. Actually, not just bosses but every single mob in that damn instance had it. Blizzard's excuse at the time was something like "we've given you too much evasion, so this allows us to make bosses hit less hard". Something along those lines anyway. But it sort of made druids - who's main defence was dodge, rather redundant. Other tanks could drop dodge and start stacking parry and block, but druids, well, couldn't. Lots of unhappy players, but most still managed and got a good way into the instance before WotLK suddenly made the instance redundant. That's the way of endgame instances sadly. Blizzard makes them useless before you've really had a chance to do them proper. TAQ and Naxx back in Pre-TBC had the same issue. Anyway, I digress. The point being, that exact same damn buff is going to be active in Icecrown Citadel(aka ICC). Of course It'll be named differently, but it's the exact same buff. -20% dodge on all players, and mobs get an extra +5% chance to hit you. Basically it's like this. Players have gotten too much evasion, so instead of making bosses hit 2x as hard and potentially one or two shot any tank, they're killing your dodge so that bosses can hit you more often. This means they don't need to buff the boss' damage output too much, and they don't need to nerf our gear or evasion ratings either. (Like they've done to rogue agility etc) The reason to that was this - rogue tanks! One must miss those days *sniff* It'll remain to be seen whether this makes druids cry again. Patch 3.3, I don't know about you, but it's looking rather interesting so far. Hopefully we'll get a chance to complete it this time, yet, Cataclysm is getting closer, and THAT is also looking rather good. Oh the dilemma...