Sixth challenge

There is a new challenge going around, or it might not be that new, but I haven’t participated in it before so it’s my first time. I first read about it on The Daily Frostwolf and wondered what it was and hoping that someone would tag me soon, and that’s what Cymre of Bubbles of Mischief did!

This is how it goes:

1. Go into your image folder
2. Open the sixth sub-folder and choose the sixth image.
3. Publish the image! (and a few words wouldn’t hurt, though I dare say I couln’t stop a blogger from adding a few words of their own).
4. Challenge six new bloggers.
5. Link to them.

I’ve taken so many screenshots through these years I’ve been playing and I haven’t really organized them that well but if I do as about this is the one I get.

This was taken in end of Wrath of the Lich King, back when I was a tauren, in Crystalsong Forest. I was taking screenshots of myself casting Starfall for a guy on MMO-Champion who was going to make me a forum signature. This is just one of the many screenshots I took that day and I’m not sure which one he used, but the signature turned out really good.

And I’m challenging:

• Saga
• ShammyLove
• Kamalia
• MiniMorvel
• Jamin
• Bulidar

Through Your Interface – Day 10: Your WoW Crew

Your WoW Crew

Who are the people you hang out with day in and day out? Do you only hang out with your raid mates? Do you have a small, tight knit group of friends that you hang out with? Or are you a strange longer who just hangs out with your pets?

My WoW crew has to be my raid mates, those 24 others who meet up at 18:30 every Thursday, Sunday and Tuesday to progress and kill new bosses. Some are new people who I barely know, others I’ve known for years. It’s not easy to take a good screenshot of the raid cause they don’t wanna stand still, but at least I tried.

When I’m not raiding I hang out with a few my guildies, we usually do battlegrounds, Looking For Raid and heroics.

Secrets of Darkmoon Island

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cave, Darkmoon Faire, Ghost, secret

There is something mystical and mysterious about the Darkmoon Faire and their island. An island located somewhere in the Great Sea, people say it’s not far from Tol Barad, but none really knows. The island has a dark forest with fog, cliffs and jagged rocks, shipwrecks and hidden caves. And in the middle of all this you’ll find the Darkmoon Faire with all their shows and games.

Most people just go there to do their quests, play the deathmatch, maybe fish up the pet or buy a mount. They don’t really take anymore time to have a good look around, explore everything. But I do. There is so much to see, down to every little detail of the design or what’s in that forest, behind that tree or on that small island. Or what is that glittery green smoke!?

Ghosts.. There are 7 ghosts around the island and they all have a short story to tell about who they are, what happened or why they still are there.

Sithera Wellspun

I was supposed to get firewood for the campsite…I have such a hard time gathering firewood…I thought I saw something in the bushes nearby… Then I guess I blacked out.When I woke up, I couldn’t find my way back to the campsite…

Franklin Jenner

The war against the orcs, there seems to be no respite. So many have died at my hands. I just wanted to escape those horrors. I was promised I would never have to encounter the horrors of war at the faire. 

Kupp Coincare

Most of my debt was repaid… I think… Silas was able to repay most of my debt as long as I worked at the faire.I didn’t think anyone would mind if I didn’t stay to help run the faire.My debt was almost repaid. No one was going to miss those last gold coins…

Arlon Surehoof

I am to keep a close watch over the camp.I don’t know how long I’ve been watching over the camp…These woods are dangerous. A lesson I learned the hard way.Even death will not keep me from my duty to watch over the camp…

Martha Weller

 

The faire is my family. I would never leave my family. I could never leave an injured friend alone… So many people to tend to…

 

Brendon Paulson

For most of my life the faire has been my home.My life before the faire was hard. I never missed it, or my family. I joined the faire as a child. I joined the faire to escape my family. I ran away from my home in Strom after my father tried to kill me. I remember telling Silas, “I never want to see my family again.

Zazla

I barely survived the shipwreck… The faire kept me from an execution. It saved my life. Silas kept me safe from my previous captors… I saw my captors die horrible deaths. And I laughed.

I remember back in Burning Crusade when I heard of some NPCs only being visible when you’re dead, so I tried that so many times but found nothing, I never thought they’d add something like that again but I love that they did. Things like this are what makes this game so fun to play.

There is also an NPC in between the trees west of the faire.

Rona Greenteeth

Oh, a visitor. I don’t get many visitors out here. Hungry? I’ve cooked MANY delightful things, my dear. No, no, not the fish. Those are for when I can’t catch anything tastier, sweetling.

She talks very friendly but looks scary with that bloody cleaver and green teeth. If you’re hungry, she has plenty of food to sell.. But the way she laughs when she tells you what the food is made of should make you suspicious and less hungry..

You might wanna run as fast as you can back to the faire before she catches you and put you into one of the cages that are hanging in a tree where you’ll wait for her to turn you into delicious food..

If you enjoy swimming I’d recommend you to check out the hidden cave beneath a shipwreck off the east coast of the island. It’s an empty cave but there is something strange about it, some of the stalagmites got faces on them..

Adding a gallery with different screenshots taken around the island and at the Darkmoon Faire.

Secrets of Nagrand

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Nagrand, secret

After listening to two of the latest episodes of Warcraft Less Traveled I got inspired to gather all Nagrand secrets in one post.

The Sword in the Stone

North west in Nagrand at the border to Zangarmarsh there is a stone with a sword in it. This is a reference to the novel The Sword in the Stone about King Arthur and how the one who can pull out the sword will become the king of England.

This sword in the stone makes me think of The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time where Link has to pull the Master Sword out from it’s pedestal in the Temple of Time.

Challe’s Home For Little Tykes

This orphanage is located in the Nagrand mountains above the Laughing Skull Ruins. There are four NPCs here, Challe a level 70 troll and three children where two of them are running around and one is standing in the corner of the sandbox. But there are also many babies of different races.

There is something weird about this place. I wonder why she has all those babies and the children, where did she find them and why doesn’t she give them to the orphanage in Shattrath where I’m sure they would have it a lot better. Cause I’m not sure she really cares about these children as there can be found explosives in the sandbox and why is there rotten meat in the doghouse? What about those cages behind the house, whose bones are in there? And why are those small baby taurens hanging there and spinning around? Wish I could save them all, especially those taurens, cutest thing I’ve ever seen.

Snakes On a Plane

There is a crashed plane near the Nesingwary Safari camp in Nagrand with some snakes on. A reference to the movie Snakes On a Plane.

Isaac Newton

On an island floating above Skysong Lake there is a skeleton with an axe in the skull and a shield by his side. He’s sitting up against an apple tree and many apples are lying on the ground. People say that all the floating islands defying gravity was too much for him.

Other unknown secrets or fun objects

Stonehenge

Animal skeleton

Skeleton on a tomb

Please let me know if you know about a secret I’ve forgotten and I will add it and give you credit.

Nerd badges

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Geek, Nerd

This week’s shared topic on Blog Azeroth comes from Akabeko of Red Cow Rise who asks

How do you express your geekery? Do you own obvious paraphernalia like a Horde-symbol bumper sticker, in-joke tshirts like the dps/ups pun, or less obviously related items like a gift from a guildie? Rather than physical indicators, do you mix nerd lingo into your everyday speech or talk/post about geekdom in non-nerd spaces? How do you advertise your nerd tendencies? Does it help you to attract new nerd friends?

You will be considered a geek, nerd, gamer or whatever if you wear like a WoW shirt, badges on your bag or similar things. Some people I know are ashamed of being gamers and don’t want others to know. I’m not like that. I would wear it proudly. But I don’t own any WoW things, not yet, cause I would if I had the money for it and I’ve been looking at some shirts from Jinx for a long time so I might buy them soon. I do have some Nintendo posters, of Zelda, Banjo-Kazooie, Mario etc which I got from Club Nintendo when I was like 10 years old. I also got some Mario and Peach from Mario Kart keychains and small GameBoy keychains. Will add pictures when I get home.

I think it’s a good thing to be proud of what you are, show what you’re interested in and I admire people who do it. Like Lufitoom with her moonkin tattoo and Restokin with her moonkin hoodie made by Ginny. Wish I could have that! Other things I would want is one of those small models of my character or maybe just a moonkin, and a moonkin plushie, some badges and patches for my favorite bag. There are some other geeky stuff I’ve been wanting for a long time, Think Geek has plenty I could spend my money on.

All this can be a good way to attract new friends cause often only those who actually play the game or whatever who recognize it and then you got something to talk about. I did draw a Horde symbol on my bag when I was bored in class a few years back and some people at school asked me if I played, so it works. None of my real life friends from my hometown plays WoW so I rarely have any in real life to talk about it with, but when I was at the Wrath of the Lich King midnight release there was this long queue and everyone talked about their characters, where they played and what. It felt weird to talk about it, but also good to know there are so many other WoW players in my city.

Sometimes I post about WoW or other games on Facebook, and with my friends I forget about them not being gamers or geeks in any way and say stuff they don’t really get like AFK, epic and pwned.

I am and will always be a geek.

Ash vs Dragon Soul: Two new bosses

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Dragon Soul, Hagara, Warlord Zon'ozz

This last reset has been really good for us in Ash as we got two new bosses down, Warlord Zon’ozz and Hagara the Stormbinder.

We started working on Warlord Zon’ozz 25 heroic on January 12, think we had around 70 tries on him before we got him down on January 22.

It took us a while cause we tried different tactics, groups on the adds, how and when to bounce the Void and healing in shadow phases. It went pretty good when we found the tactic that worked for us. We had some really good tries before we got the perfect one where we killed him. But we’ve still only killed him once, so I wonder how fast we’ll get him down next raid.

As moonkin on this I started on boss with popping almost everything, pre-pot, Berserking, Treants, Starfall, pre-placed Mushrooms, Starfires for Solar, DoTs etc to get out as much damage as possible before 7 bounches and shadow phase. Then I had to go out and stack with my group on a mark where we killed 2 Flails of Go’rath and 3 Eyes of Go’rath. I always use Barkskin in the shadow phase to help healers and I give my Innervate to a healer as I don’t really need it.

After shadow phase we got back to stacking on boss and bouncing the Void, but we took a lot of damage so I had to use my Tranquillity after every 1st shadow phase to help out healers. Besides for that it’s phase one over again, then another shadow phase where it’s exactly the same. But when the boss got close to 10% we got into shadow phase and just nuked the boss. Easy and fun boss when you got the right tactic and everyone knows what to do and when.

After the Warlord Zon’ozz kill on Sunday we called the raid and went to read up and watch videos of Hagara the Stormbinder to prepare for the Tuesday raid. It looked very easy, so even though we were without our main raid leaders and GM the first half of tries, we managed to organize the groups for the lightning phase and how to handle ice phase. It was almost too simple as you in lightning phase just need 4 groups where people line up to link the lightning. In ice phase we had all the ranged and healers in the bubble, healing and dpsing, melee outside dpsing.  The only other things you have to look out for are the iceblocks which we stacked up and AoE’ed down and the ice lance debuffs which you don’t want to get too many of.

This was actually a fun fight cause it’s more than just dps this and that, you actually have to use your eyes and check that you’re standing on the right spot, and watch out for falling ice and the ice going around the platform. It’s also a fairly easy fight as moonkin as there is not that much movement, but there is target switching. First I placed Mushrooms on the boss, pre-potted and Berserking, popped Mushrooms, DoTs, Wrath to Lunar Eclipse, Starfall, Starsurge, Starfires etc till boss went into the next phase. In lightning we first stacked close to the add for healing while dpsing it down, when it was around 30% we went out to our spots to link the lightning, used Barkskin. In ice phase we stacked in the middle and DoTs up on all targets and dpsed them down. There is a lot to do for the healers, so I gave them my Innervate, used Barkskin and helped out with Tranquillity.

I had heard that this fight was easy but I had no idea it was that easy as we got her down on our 10th try.

Good job, everyone! Thanks to Kulagi for frapsing the kills!

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