Elkagorasa the Casual

Awesome artwork commissioned by Mr Robot for upcoming expansion. Destruction warlock artifact weapon I commissioned from Chewiebaka on deviantart. @elkagorasa pic.twitter.com/gBNWC7HXKK — Mr. Robot (@AskMrRobot) May 16, 2016

Let me explain Late last year, my daughter asked for one of the "stress relieving" coloring books. They were all the rage locally, sold everywhere including the grocery store. (Retailers, take note, if you sell coloring BOOKS, this is a great up-sell opportunity to also sell coloring PENS/MARKERS/PENCILS!!) I had fun coloring in her book, so decided to get one for myself. Sadly over the holidays, I could not find markers anywhere until late-January and didn't want to commandeer her glorious 100 color gel pen set.. With that, I finally purchased my own ZenDoodle Calming Swirls coloring book. Lots of intricate little dots, swirls, swooshes and patterns to color in. So far, I've colored about half of one page. It was then, that I realized that my color-blindness could be making this awesome pattern rather bland or ugly? "Oh that looks 'nice'" One side effect of having a giant box of markers and paper on my desk is that I started doodling. &q

This is my first day in Draenor via screen shots. My server is Malfurion-US (CST or GMT-6) I live in California (PST GMT-8)  9am I log-on to the server and start questing. Immediately feel the urgency of the game. Leveling going great. The flow of the starting area, the cut-scenes, it's a lot of fun. Feels like the Jones series in Uldum of Wrath.   I reach the first boss (this might not be him), and have to laugh as the names flash across the screen. It reminds me of the silly splash screens that Borderlands is famous for, like...  9:38am, I find my first profession, herbalism, book. Opening this book, teaches me several of the basics. Nice way to learn the next level of a profession, by doing it.  After one such plant picking, I am attacked by a flower buddy. He's a little loot monster for the plant. Killing him nets 8x of the same plant. Very nice!  Then the lag starts. I spot little things like this peon who's sleep walking. He proc

Old character model and new character model?

As a off and on reader of this comic strip, I really got a chuckle out of this issue. click image to redirect to site.

Here's what happened last expansion. I never saw several of the fights because I can't manage to randomly get into a brand new LFR " Downfall " group. 

WoWJuJu just posted a screenshot from the WoD alpha. It looks like we'll be able to loot the dead bodies of the other players we kill. Now, this has the potential of being awesome.  I can imagine a whole series of items that could be ' gathered ' from Alliance players when they're killed, but I don't think Blizzard will take it far enough.. "Zone specific" items makes me think it will simply be 'quest rewards' sort of like how you can get insignias or  ' supplies ' from killing players/mobs in Alterac Valley. Here's my suggested items: Faction specific pets, mounts and recipes. If I kill an Alliance player, let me rip (or actually copy) a page from their cookbook and learn something new.  Random item from their backpack. Maybe I'd get a drop from the last Horde you killed, a pet you just captured, or a piece of your PVE raid set. Or maybe just a juicy apple.  How about a portion of your gold? 50% of it transfered to my

Maybe it's time to bring out this old PVP set and give Elk a new haircut!

Something funny on the forums: So that explains why they are rested in Inns. Maybe like in Wreck-it-Ralph, Elk actually seeks counciling for his warlockery ways.

"We used everyone's demonic gateways  to minimize our threat. Using the gates  almost every 15 seconds for the buff." A friend shared this album with me. It is series of 12 screen captures from a 25 man raid team downing all 6 of the bosses from the Heart of Fear . The cool part, they are all warlocks ! I think this is pretty awesome that 25 clothies are able to take down current raid content with only our pets. Despite Blizzard saying that we won't be tanks, this shouldn't be possible if true. We should be squashed the first time the boss looks at us.. What made that run doable was the using of multiple voidlords tanking the bosses, and by tanking I mean taking a few hits and dying (+ of course all our survival and self healing abilities). Because locks can easily manage their aggro (through gateways and soulshatter), you could infinitely rotate pets tanking with no issue. ( source ) Just to make our intent clear, the Glyp

WoW Insider linked to some classic screenshots from Warcraft. Orgimmar has changed a lot over the years, but I don't remember this view of town. The land bridge was never in the town that I visited. That was the bank, and had the one mailbox in town was right near there. I don't know about you, but I keep finding myself trying to move around the view.

And creatures rise Dark butterflies They aim for you Is it true? Do you want this? Their poisonous kiss.... by InsaneSmile

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.

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

Today I decided to try my first run at the Look for Raid finder. I click on the button, queue up. Walk away from my desk "13 minutes: 1 DPS, 0 Healer 0 Tank". I come back 5 minutes later, and I see I am now in a raid. Ok, let's get in there... Followed by in 1 minute. I finally zone in, and they've just killed Hagara the Stormbinder . Woot! I win! But since I wasn't there, no loot.. :( Now, does this mean someone zoned out in the middle of the fight of the last boss?

As I mentioned, a co-worker/friend was down in Burbank during Blizzcon. While there he hit the showroom floor and grabbed a few picks from Blizzcon. Some pics from the Panda starting area, Diablo III and the showroom floor.

The 4.3 PTR was up last night, so I spent about 15 minutes looking around.  Funny because you can run a pre-made (ungemmed, unenchanted) in fully decked out tier (balespider) gear. No more Troll only option. 150 for all Heroics. Does have separate option for Bastion series. Queueing up for a raid could be interesting... shadow bolt. no, I didn't see any other spell changes for locks.

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

It appears that even Undead females have lines to get into the restroom.

Over at Disciplinary Action , they've gone through all of the various classes and displayed their best characteristics as a stained glass window. (Edit) Nicely done, so that half the windows are alliance and half are Horde. The warlock, is Goblin.. :) (Guess I needed to look closer at each one). (Also a great resource if your alt is a disc priest.)