Elkagorasa the Casual

Found this on WoW Insider. Only got one question.. Does the eye on the belt blink??  

Elkagorasa want's to go camping. He wants the option to setup in some off the beaten path and visit there on a regular basis. There's a tent, a basic campfire and accessibility to some location uniquely his own. He want's to be able to simply invoke some command and go back to this location at will. Why? For one, Elk is only 1 batch of stormchops away from Chef Elk . This recipe only drops from the cooking daily out in Shattrath ; a portal and long flight into town. Shattrath were the cooking daily has you flying all over the continent. If he could simply plop down in front of Rokk , it would be lovely. Speaking of cooking dailies, I just recently found that there are cooking dailies, with related achievements in all of the various Horde cities, " Let's Do Lunch! ". Elk has completed the those in Orgrimmar, but now if he wants those achievements, will need to start regular trips to Thunder Bluff and Undercity. Ugh! (where are those portals??) Next, E...

My guild  has a really hard time completing the guild dungeon challenges each week. Typically we only get 1 or 2 of the seven completed. In fact, it took until last night for us to get the Challenging achievement for 50 guild challenges completed. (Not bad, considering we're already level 23 , that's a lot of questing). Thanks to Coren and Brewfest, we completed 7 guild dungeon runs last night in less than 1 hour (guild tank, heals and 1 DPS). So, if your guild is like mine, at least try to max out your potential with this event. Brewfest ends October 5th. You can potentially do this 3 more times (now until Monday night, next week & night of Tuesday 4th). That's 300k guild XP * 21 dungeons. To get to level 24, we need a total around ~ 53 million XP . That's basically a free 6 million guild XP while you grind for trinkets (and the occasional mount).

Over at Icy Vein's they've done an excellent job with a new 2011 Brewfest achievement guide, even down to a mini-map of the various vendors in both Horde and Alliance zones. I am happy to see that they put out a new 2011 edition of the mug . I'll probably be pugging Coren tonight until I see that dagger drop!

I played Affliction from Vanilla through Wrath. In a pug, someone griped that I wasn't doing enough DPS. Basically telling me to " Stop letting that DOT ramp up, BLAST IT!!" Soon after, I picked up my second spec and started playing Destruction. Destruction was great, until raiding Magmaw. Then I didn't have enough AOE damage to kill the worms. Along comes Demonology. I have pretty much played demo until recently. The other night, I pug a troll dungeon with guildies and we land another warlock , he's also running Demo. So, for kicks, I flipped back to Destro. He's new to the spec, so let him have fun. Along the way, he asks if he can make a comment. Sure , I am thinking, I am a blogger, this could mean a post! He had some good points. Take points out of Demonic Aegis and feed into Empowered Imp. Put points into Dark Arts, etc.. Looking at my talents, they made sense. What was wowpopular , wasn't any longer. Yesterday, I grabbed the 1/7/33 spec and a...

The worst kind of DPS killer. Latency We had to call the raid last night because of lousy DPS on even the easiest BH bosses. Here's the culprit.4 second latency.The raid went something like this: Raid  leader announces we're all ready. "Let's go!" DBM pops up for bosses special ability. I am still standing at the feast waiting for everyone to move. All the sudden, the last 4 seconds of fighting zip by in half a second. Bosses special ability is triggering.  I run to join the fight, but aren't in location.  I cast my dots, then the game pauses. Tank is running in place again.  We're dead and I am now asked to release from my dead body.  3 attempts at the boss and I called it. It was not going to happen. After about an hour of diagnosis, I was able to fix my problem. wiring cabinet Here's a basic idea of what I am working with: Coming into a wiring cabinet I have my Comcast router, feeding into a D-Link router. (each room in house ...

UnderCT has posted a great article on Pillar Humping. Using this technique to maintain no-los with the enemy will help improve your arena performance. I use a variant of this in Eye of the Storm. My disc priest loves to sit in the little BE hut and maintain heals on who ever is outside guarding the flag. Go check it out. Great read..

Background : I started this post back in June (2011) to fill a lull while I was on a vacation. I had the bright idea of going to various areas and posting short videos of load screens to capture the music. Fraps was a flop. I didn't have time to get the video settings correct to work, so it all had a green tint. Now Blizzard has announced they are posting all the music on iTunes.. Blizzard Audio is happy to present  Taverns of Azeroth .  Is your Brewfest party plans coming up short? Are you lacking in the entertainment portion of your festivities and just don't know what to do? Blizzard Audio is happy to present you with 50 wonderful minutes of pub crawling music. Ramp up your party with band from the Bad Juju Bar and Grill , then swing on over to the Pig and Whistle . But that's not all. For the one low price, you can also bring in the Bloodsail pirates, the Taurens from Thunderbrew and the Salty Sailor . Order now! Operators are standing by. And for those of...

Based on my comment on KeS , I had a light bulb moment. Can we transmogrify our weapons (in 4.3)? I thought I read we could. With Brewfest we'll be able to get the new i365 dagger . It's an agility weapon sure.. but if I could transmodify my, say, Incineratus , with this model? " You put Power-torrent on a wine bottle ? " Or how about the old, plank with a nail model from Vash'jir? Instead of looking scary and menacing, you could look more hoodlum. Personally, nothing better as a  PVP brain basher than a board with a spike! Just an idle thought. What WHITE weapon might you transmortify your epic Firelands weapon into, if you had the chance?

One of the easy achievements I still have to complete is " Drown your sorrows ". Basically you are to drink each of the various beverages introduced with Cataclysm. I wanted a quick break down of where I can get each of these items. This WowHead comment sums it up for Alliance, here's my Horde breakdown. Batamsi in the Troll District will vendor: Fresh Water Highland Spring Water and Sparkling Oasis Water From the Orgrimmar Cata recipe vendor ( Shazdar ) Starfire Espresso for 3 chef's awards. To make it also requires cocoa beans from this same vendor.  Highland Spirits is available for 3 chef's awards. (materials sold by Batamsi) South Island Iced Tea is available for 5 chef's awards. Lizzy Lemons sells the fruit, Batamsi sells (refreshing spring) water.  From cooking trainer,  Arugi : Darkbrew Lager is a trainable recipe. Required materials can be purchased from Sarah Brady in Dalaran's underbelly. Or the barmaids in Shattrath....

I want to share with you an audio-book that I am currently about half way listening to. This is a really fun and entertaining story that combines both magic and steam-punk.  Top it off, the voice acting is excellent. (The author, Alex, does all the male voices and his wife, Renee', does all the female voices.). Reading through the News page, and following links to JC Hutchins site, I learned that Alex also composed and performed all the musical score for the story. (Now, even more impressed.) From the About page: Jonathan Andrews, Initiate in the Seekers of the Arcane Unknown, joined the society two years ago with the hopes of protecting the secrets of magic from the greedy world beyond. However, a ravening shadow appears with a hunger for Seekers and Jonathan finds himself out of his depth. When Jonathan’s friend is attacked and the young initiate is assailed with apocalyptic visions of the future, he must find a way to uncover the past and stop the beast before ...

My guild starts raiding at 9:30PM local time and typically runs until midnight.Somewhere around the way, we take a 5-10 minute bio/snack break. No alcohol, coffee or soda for me. For my snack options, I have some basic criteria. Easy to grab in a hurry. I tried making toast and popcorn once and that took too long to prepare. I was the last one back from break and people were tapping toes.  Desert-ish.  No, I don't want to be eating seasoned meat or garlic fries at 11PM, I want something sweet or maybe salty and sweet. (Yeah, kettle corn is great, but I only really enjoy the kind from the craft fairs, not the microwave kind.) Clean. While I love a good, messy cinnamon roll or bowl of cereal sometimes, I don't want to damage the hardware. The current rig is all I have and don't want to text a gulidie-friend saying the keyboard is broke because of my bowl of frosted flakes spilled .  My favorites: option reason: These chewy granola bars are primarily peanut a...

After the raid last night, I decided to fly around the mountain and finally finish off the Leeeeroy achievement. This video was very helpful, since I've never ran this content before. Only difference  from this video, was now you can fly inside of the mountain, so I just flew up to the balcony for the entrance. After completeing the achievement for the title, I went through and killed the final boss to get the UBRS achievement . Just need LBRS, to complete the Classic Dungeonmaster achievement. Tried to run COT:Hyjal also, but needed a raid group and I had dropped.

StringTheory posted a topic on BA that I thought I should discuss: While there are some quests that specifically call for grouping, most don't... but do you group anyway? How many of you pick up a friend or guildie to quest with and how many grind the lonely roads alone? Warlocks are solitary by nature. We're brooding, we're loners, we despise awkward social situations, we'd rather set you aflame than to talk to you. When out in the world, we tend to stick to those that follow us, not want to talk to us. "what you talking to me?" /dismiss While out questing, typically late at night, I avoid the crowds. I have my minions to do my work for me. I can call on body guards for short term work. If they can't handle it, I don't want it. Problim? No problem. Troll dungeons? Yeah, those trolls stink, let them rot in there. Have I tried being social? Sure, I tried. Two years ago when Wrath dropped, a couple guildies took some time off work and pla...