01 Sunday Jan 2012
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 96,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.
03 Saturday Dec 2011
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If I can be honest I wasn’t exactly that excited about transmogrification when they announced it and it was the same with the armor dye which was an April’s fool earlier this year. I didn’t really like the idea of being able to decide what we want our gear to look like cause then what’s the point of making new designs if we’re not gonna use them, if everyone are just going to change them? People thought maybe this is their chance to look different from others of the same class, but I thought more people would look the same cause most people will choose the same old tier, weapons etc, and I wasn’t wrong. I’ve seen so many Judgement and Lightbringer paladins and other classes looking the same, Bulwark’s of Azzinoth, Sword Breaker’s Bulwark and plenty of other items I don’t know the names of. Of course people choose what they got and what they like, but if you change your gear cause you want to look different and unique you have to try harder to come up with something none else has.
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to transmogrify my gear at all cause I’m almost always in moonkin form or Tarecgosa’s visage, so who cares what my gear looks like? I didn’t have much gear to choose from anyway, just some tiers from Wrath of the Lich King and a few parts of Cenarion and Stormrage tier. But I decided to try it and transmogrified my gear into the Conqueror’s Nightsong set which is tier 8 from Ulduar cause I always liked that set. It felt good with a change, as my tier 12 was bright purple and this is pale pink, and I don’t really like the tier 13.
A good friend and guildie told me yesterday that you can buy the old PvP gear from a vendor in Area 52 in Netherstorm, I thought that only was for those with old PvP titles which I don’t have, but I always wished I had some of those old PvP sets on my current druid which was created after the Burning Crusade, so now I can get them. Cause I have to transmogrify my PvP gear, which is grey and ugly, into something more colorful, more druid-ish looking. Maybe the Vengeful Gladiator set which I think is one of the best looking druid PvP sets.
But I also got a bit disappointed when I heard about the vendors selling the old gear for everyone to get, cause I saved all my old gear on my warrior which I played back then, even the Gladiator set which I haven’t seen anyone wear since that season back in the Burning Crusade, except for myself that is wearing it for fun with the Gladiator weapons and Amani Mask of Death aka “murloc head” which was “my look” before I started raiding. I’m missing the Gladiator head so I might buy it now to have all 5 parts.
It was more fun to transmogrify my warrior as he had plenty of gear to choose from, but of course I chose the Onslaught tier 6 which is my favorite warrior tier and it’s special to me cause I actually wanted to start raiding after I saw a male tauren warrior in Orgrimmar with that gear so it was my goal to get that gear and I did. My warrior’s equipped gear wasn’t exactly good, with an item level around 350 and a mix of random epics from Zandalari, BoEs and even some ugly blue shoulders, so it felt great to get rid of that horrible look and see my warrior as I want him to be with the look I’ve always loved. I remember when I changed main to druid and stopped playing my warrior, he wore the tier 6 even at level 80 cause that’s how I wanted to remember him. I do miss playing my warrior and I regret I haven’t spent much time gearing him up, so I did something about it yesterday.
I spent the whole day doing the new heroic dungeons for gear, with randoms which I hate. I lost so many items to people who needed for off spec, lol spec, vendor, just to annoy me or whatever. It made me sad, angry and annoyed. I haven’t gotten all the gear I needed yet, still missing the trinkets and weapons, but at least the gear is much better now with an item level around 372 and I’m able to join Looking For Raid for a chance to get some better gear. It feels good to be back on my warrior sometimes and see him up to date with gear, but my skills are still a bit rusty as I haven’t kept myself 100% up to date on changes and rotation, but I hope practice makes perfect, as they say.
09 Sunday Oct 2011
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It was in 2008 I started doing Zul Aman 10 man timed runs with the guild I was in back then. We weren’t one of the best guilds on the server but we did manage to get the Amani War Bear a few times. I never got it cause it, and couldn’t afford a boost by some of the top guilds.
I know this new version has been out for long and most of you have it already on several characters, I just haven’t cared enough to farm it, just thought I’ll get it when I get it, and that was now. I have done a few runs and rolled on it but always lost, this time I actually won the roll against three others.
I still wish I had the old version from the Burning Crusade cause I like the colors much better, not a big fan of this weird dirty pink color, but it’s still a bear and I like bears. But the dream mount is the Big Battle Bear from the trading cards, oh I want that bear so much! But can’t afford to buy the card and haven’t seen the mount in-game for a while, but maybe one day.. Hopefully.
31 Wednesday Aug 2011
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Saga from Spellbound made a post some weeks ago about real ID heroics, you can read it here. It was about us bloggers from EU starting a real ID heroics group and do some heroics together. Many of us has only communicated through blog posts and Twitter, so I thought it was a really good idea to get together, do heroics and maybe get to know each other better.
So we managed to make a group, all on alts I think, but we did pretty good, or what? 
No wipes!
Hope we can do it again soon, it was really fun!
So if you’re interested in joining write a reply on Saga’s post here.
21 Thursday Jul 2011
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Today it’s 1 year since I started this blog and made my first post here.
I had gotten into the Cataclysm alpha and had been testing for a while, and as it went into beta stage I had so many screenshots and videos I wanted to share and I wanted to write about Cataclysm. That’s why I started this blog.
My first post was this, just a bunch of screenshots from Cataclysm, and they weren’t that good or many actually, my best Cataclysm screenshots are here.
The first month, July 2010, I had 843 views. It went up a bit every month before I in October got almost 20.000 views and in December over 24.000. And this year I’ve had 132,158 views.
I had no idea it would go that well as I’m new to blogging and there are so many much better bloggers out there, and I always try to just write about what I enjoy and find interesting and it’s mostly random stuff like what I do in-game not anything very smart or super interesting. But I’m happy some people actually visits, I’m almost jumping up and down in joy every time I get a comment or get high viewing numbers. Like this week WoW Insider linked to my Whispering Forest post, first time that has happened so it made me really happy.
13 Wednesday Jul 2011
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It’s summer so it has to be ok with a small break, or what? Just because I haven’t blogged doesn’t mean I haven’t played WoW. I’ve actually just been too busy with WoW and real life stuff. But I’ll give a small update on what’s been going on in WoW.
Before the Firelands patch there wasn’t much left to do than wait, or of course we tried to clear the rest of the content on heroic, but we didn’t get down any of the final bosses on heroic.
But the Firelands patch has been out now for two weeks and we’ve already got 6/7 bosses on 25 man normal which I think it pretty good for a casual 3 day raiding team. We’re now working on Ragnaros, so he’ll be going down this week I hope and we’ll be ready for heroic next week.
My favorite boss is Alysrazor cause I get to fly and it’s pretty awesome, and funny as moonkin. My least favorite boss is Majordomo cause that fight is so long and too easy to cause a wipe if one player does a mistake.
I’ve also been busy with the new daily quests and some achievements. I like the new daily quests in Hyjal and loved the questline about Thrall.
Also been doing some battlegrounds and been trying to get together a good rated battleground group with my guild, but not that easy when people give up after a few losses… Might try again, cause I really wanna do rated battlegrounds.
