The other day I decided to buy a HDMI cable and hook the new rigs up to my TV:

And playing WoW on it occured to me when I realised I have a wireless keyboard and mouse and a kickass sofa. Yup.

On the beta server right now, and for the first time ever playing with a consistent 150ms ping on a US server. It’s not amazing by any standard but sure as hell beats ~500ms pings back in KL!

Haven’t had much play time but I love the new redesign of classic zones. Almost got my troll butt lost in Orgrimmar, and a little sad that there will be no more /yell lockpick top of bank as it’s now been upgraded to a two-storey behemoth of a bank. Guess the Goblins and the Orcs have been making some decent coin!

Summary of Cataclysm Features
New Playable Races – Worgen & Goblin
Level Cap Increased to 85
Classic Zones Remade
New High-Level Zones
New End Game Raid Content
New Race and Class Combinations
Flying Mounts in Azeroth

Looking forward to checking out the new zones soon + levelling. Have had a few quests bug out on me but so far nothing major – Alliance are being civil on my PvP server thus far!

PS – Rolling a Worgen Rogue next!

Something I’ve always wanted (just for cool-factor): A Tauren Priest!

Looks like this is incoming in the Cataclysm expansion, if this (Blizzard-posted) race-class combo matrix is anything to go by.

Also, Worgen for the Alliance ? damn!

Promised myself I’d keep this blog only WoW related; but the last nine months or so I’ve been mainly console gaming. This has a lot to do with my new job, although I did work on the Australian WotLK guide that was out early this year.

Might be back with the new expansion – if I get a new rig. Looking very likely at the moment, fingers crossed ;)

In the meantime happy adventuring!

Fazhira

First things first ? I like Northrend!

Took about 20 days of casual play to hit level 80 following the wow-pro.com guide. I had more than enough rested xp to get through to 80 (breaking every day or two or three) which made it a lot less painful. What I enjoyed was seeing all the new zones and the new dungeon/raid structures.

First impressions ? Blizzard has raised the bar with new format quests, dailies and boss fights. I had a lot of fun doing a lot of the quests while levelling, although I only went through the first five zones (Howling Fjord, Bread Tundra, Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills, Zul’Drak) and did zero dungeons before I hit 80. No issues with solo questing at all. T5/6 gear in BC took me to 80 quite easily (and sadly I still have a few pieces I have yet to replace with 80 blues) and some of the group quests were easily soloable.

At the moment I’m specced for my weapons rather than looking for weapons to go with my spec. Have gone combat fist/sword; the new rogue talents are very versatile however like most I find DPS to be sub-par even with ‘entry’ level 4pc T7.10 gear.

My first raid as a fresh 80 in a 10 man Naxx I did embarassingly less DPS than the MT (granted, the rest of the raid are Champions of the Frozen Wastes and I’d just only picked up the game, but still..). Thanks for babysitting me :)

Have promised (myself) to not spend too much time playing thus have only casually glanced at the spreadsheets and read up on expertise/hit capping for LK. More later.

IRL stuff caught up with me and I’ve been away from the game for a couple of months. Am now in Sydney indefinitely, which means better ping and weather :) I have a job working in an office that puts out a whole bunch of gaming mags which is awesome.

Looking forward to the WOTLK expansion, which will be in a couple of weeks, and I probably will be back. However, last I checked, WDK has fallen apart at the seams with a bunch of core guys leaving for other servers, selling their accounts and just quitting for other games. I doubt I will be raiding ever again.

Fun while it lasted :)

Apologies for lack of updates. I will probably not be updating for a while after this.

Guild had some issues with numbers and old raiders leaving the game after some months of intense raiding. Some server transfers, real life friends etc came over from other servers and we’ve been running some lower instances to help gear them up. Things are near back to normal now but progression has been halted quite severely since and we’ve had some more people leave due to a few reasons. I can’t really see us doing RoS attempts anytime soon.

Unfortunately also my interest in the game is slowly deteriorating. Probably because we’ve been raiding so much before… so there isn’t too much to blog about.

On the bright side, Shard of Contempt dropped tonight.. :)

Yes it’s been ages, no I still don’t PvP ;)

I do, however – and predictably – blog on Tuesdays. Am excited about the new 5-man instance, not so much the 25-man yet as we’re yet again short on numbers for raid and have temporarily ‘paused’ raiding until our AFK members turn up again. Rather disappointing for many of our raiders who regularly show up, especially those in the US as we raid on Oceanic time on a US server.. hopefully the situation improves soon as we’ve been making solid progress thus far up to ROS.

Am rather disappointed that instances up to BT no longer require attunement, but it had to happen sooner or later. Enough said.

Not much being changed for rogues, so no QQs atm, until I find a reason to :)

Until then, time to redownload all my mods again…urgh.