Elkagorasa the Casual

Everyday this week and last, I've checked the email account associated with my Real-ID. Checked the Junk mail folder just in case gmail got a little over anxious. Nothing. Checked in on Battle.Net (that's where I learned about it last time.), nothing. With Cata, I had put my name in the Beta hat not expecting anything. This year, Blizz has set an expectation when they created the Annual Pass option. Did you forget us? Will I be playing Panda beta before Diablo 3? Ha! Last night this dropped in my mailbox... I am in!

I don't know about you, but I am really looking forward to some of the new Minion abilities. A felpuppy who can spell steal. A succubus that mesmerizes with rainbows. Sure, warlocks maybe on the decline  in Cata, but maybe MOP will be their expansion.   As with any beta, Beta is beta, and may not become live.

Guildie just texted me. He's received his Beta invite and is downloading the files at this moment. Poneria has posted a nice screenie of various MoP Warlock glyphs. I am absolutely loving the Glyph of Felsteed which will allow my warlock mounts run across water (like DK Path of Frost). Curious about the Glyph of Shadowbolt splitting into 3 smaller attacks. Does that mean we'll have another frontal AOE type of attack? or maybe machine-gun like the Mage Arcane Barrage ? Will Glyph of Felguard (use weapon out of your backpack) use the weapon's special abilities? Well my felguard now spawn pumpkin men when using the HH sabre ? There's something to say about Poneria's theory about Lock Tanking. Glyph of Demon Hunting makes Soulshatter a taunt when in demon form. Glyph of Healthstone returns 100% of your health (instead of roughly 45% ?)

As of recently, my dungeon queue time wait activity has been fishing. I pop over to Twilight Highlands  and start fishing up the Deepsea Sagefish . These lovely fish are now appearing (since about January) in pools along the ocean front. In about 15 minutes time, I can tend to fish up about 20-30 fish. Benefits?  Food - Severed Sagefish Head (+90 Int) or  Delicious Sagefish Tail (+90 Spirit).  The raw fish are selling individually for about 5g. Free 100g for each stack of 20 fish. Guild Achieves. Yeah, OOT is a level 25 guild, but we still don't have either " That's a lot of bait " or " Time to open a restaurant ". Guild, Go Fish. We're currently 1100 recipes from the cooking achieve and 4000 fish caught in pools. I don't know about you, but the Seafood Magnifique has got to be the craziest raid food I've seen (so far). Why would I want to eat something from a basket with a crab in it (which BTW comes from a recipe that doesn't...

I've been saddened lately to see that Shefki has given up maintaining TBag . I am guessing, like a lot of people, he is on hiatus until MoP comes out (this Summer?). This has left me to maintaining my bags and bank by hand (/GASP!). It's dreadful, things everywere, herbals mixed with PVP gear, and gems stuck under that piece of gingerbread cookie I am still hanging on to. Happily, I have found ArkInventory . This is also an all-in-one bag solution, but with some interesting quirks. First off, it combines nicely all of my bags into a single source. I can sort each of them based on various criteria so that items are quick and easy to find. Once it is configured it is a very nice looking interface with even more thematic options available. Finish it off, it contains a few nice features that TBag still doesn't have. Starting view First time you fire up ArkInventory, you will be presented with the default profile view. It's currently sorted into a single bag, and th...

Last night I ran the LFR raid. I accepted the request with my felpuppy out. Dropped into the second to last boss, slime boss. Lots of trash, Felguard's happy place. Sadly he was having long term issues with summoning disorientation. I resummoned him 4 times, with shards, without, in combat, out of combat. Nothing would bring him out of his funk. Back to felpuppy, and lousy DPS.

MMO Melting Pot has a great way to get yourself one of those nifty mounts. Cheeper than the pretty pony, and definitely not going to have hundreds of them showing up on day one. I'd personally love to get one for this lock , but not about to go spamming my friends.

Sitting here today, looking at all the news releases coming out on Mists of Panderan, I start to wonder if Blizzard really could have picked a different race to come out in the next expansion. OK, sure, it has Panderan in the title, so really, would there be any other option?? Aside from that, as I skim down the story line in the game so far, is there a distinct class/race combination that screams out to be played? The Azeroth lore is fairly rich with strong classes, but most are already played, or simply variants of what is already there. This got me thinking... what about the centaurs ? I mean, there's a whole quest chain in Desolace where we befriend one of two local tribes. We work on getting their trust so that we can move on to the next area. If I remember correctly, all horde picked the tribe closest to the stronghold there so they didn't get attacked running to/from the base. BUT, that's besides the point. Think about the benefits. Melee friendly clas...

Ok, I had older pictures, but evidently deleted them to free up some precious hard drive space between builds.  Back in December 2007, Elk was just old enough to run the warlock quest chain to get the Dreadsteed .  Elkagorasa, December 2007 - Excited to get new mount! Looking to make a St. Patrick's Day theme'd banner, I looked all over for something to kill. Dwarves in Twilight Highland were my first choice, but they kept getting too close and with a 10minute cooldown, I wasn't about to try for a third time. Settled for an Easter  Elfin Bunny. Elkagorasa March 2012 - New Banner  - Killing Critters with Kindness