I'm Praying For Tidal Waves

Warning, this video contains language not suitable for young ears or the work place.

This song listed above has more or less been my theme song for the past 24-48 hours, and for good reason.

Today we saw Armageddon in Azeroth.

Zul'Gurub is now empty, Booty Bay is cloaked in seaweed, Menethil is mostly underwater, and Stormwind has had a make-over. There's new animals to tame, new adventures to be had, and new area's to explore. It's a whole new world, haunted now by a giant molten dragon.

I have yet to see Deathwing myself, but there has been sightings of him already. The newly redesigned areas are gorgeously done as far as I can tell (low settings ftl), and there's certainly many new touches added to Stormwind. I reeeeally cannot wait to be able to fly around Azeroth and explore everything properly.

In the world of Hunters, there's a handful of new tamable pets now available. Apparently Deathwing's wrath has brought many critters out of hiding. As you can see from the image above I now have a fox! Her name is Erin. Pretty neat pet in my opinion.

Today also unlocked several new class/race combinations. Pictured above is my new baby Troll Druid, Trançe. I'm not sure at this moment whether or not I'll ever get her to 85, but it would be kind of fun to have a kitty with a mohawk to raid on once in a while.

Thanks to my old pal lag I have yet to properly explore everything. So far though Deathwing's influence on the world as we knew it has my approval. Perhaps more to come soon on a few of the in game changes and my take on them ; )

Goodbye, Hello

Well, today was my last venture into Zul'Gurub on my Shaman, assuming that the shattering happens on Tuesday that is. I have to say that I'm pretty disappointed and just a bit crushed that I no longer have any more opportunities to try to get the tiger and raptor that I've been seeking for well over two years now. Ah well I suppose...

Farewell Zul'Gurub, you've been fun while you lasted!!

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Today certainly was not all bad though. No, not even by a long shot. After waiting for the past week, and multitudes of hours logged camping one spot, Arcturis finally spawned!

There was only another Hunter in the area was a Hordie, and thanks to my macro (which was set up wrong, you can see it spamming me the fact that YOURNAME isn't playing) and twitchy fingers, I managed to tag and tame this guy within seconds of NPC Scan screaming.

His name is Cammy, and he's a badass.

Now I'm in hot pursuit of Skoll and Gondria. I have a slight lead on Skoll at least, but Gondria is still a mystery as to when she's going to spawn. Hopefully I can get these guys soon so I can move on to the Basin to nab a few other rares : P

I guess I'm off to seek Skoll for a bit now. Perhaps more later!

To the Rant Mobile!

To be quite honest, during this latest internet visit I've been having some pretty serious RNG hate. Once again it is time for Brewfest, which certainly excites the collector in me. This is the third year now that I've experienced this holiday, and let's just say that despite the newly implemented holiday boss system (which has a huge thumbs up from me, no lie there), I'm feeling the QQ frustration. Thus far, while running five characters daily, five days in a row now, I have only had one mount drop. That's it. Of course it was the ram and it dropped for my hunter -_- It's incredibly heart breaking to hear of friends who got two or three mounts in one night (on their mains plus various alts), to be in group while someone opens their bags and receives the achievement, and to see that someone opened their bag to receive not one, but two of the weapons. I've been hearing of people getting the direbrew remote x3 on one character, while I have yet to see that in one of my bags (lovely item for alts, thankfully I have this item on my shaman already). I suppose I just feel the stress a bit more knowing that my online time is limited, and that any day now I'll have to go back home again.

To add to my RNG frustrations, ZG is continuing to hold out on both mounts. With the ever looming approach of Cataclysm, this has been stressing me out. I've been farming this place on and off for over two years now, and to have it taken away empty handed is just...harsh. Aside from the mount woes, I'll honestly miss farming the place. I've always loved the jungley atmosphere of STV and ZG, and beating up bosses in a solo fashion as a squishy shaman has just been a very happy thing for me. Zen-like if you will.

Further RNG hate has been coming from our little Disgusting Oozeling friend. I've been farming him on and off for a good while now, over various toons. I wish I would have kept some type of tally for this bugger. I'm now getting to the point now where getting bags no longer has that heart-a-flutter effect, more or less knowing that the bag in question is more than likely just filled with some silver and a plant. I had a small leap of hope today, seeing as though not one, but two bags dropped off of one ooze mob, but alas, nothing but junk...

To top it all off, the Arcane Loops of Anger, which I have been farming for for quite some time now on my priest, finally dropped today!....only to have it snatched by the horrible healer we had. If only I was able to raid to be able to gnab a 251 neck piece out of ICC, then this ordeal wouldn't have been so heartbreaking.

So yes, this is my RNG QQ for the month. I suppose this is the karma backlash for the one good weekened I had where I obtained the Karazhan mount, the baby raptor from ZG, and DFO on my warlock. All my good luck has been spent until half way through Cataclysm. *Hangs head*

/end QQ. Now that I feel a bit better, back to farming ^_^