Welcome to the Evening Special where this Evening, it really is special. We all know about the new barber shops in Wrath, and now we have pictures from the Wrath Beta of all the new hairstyles… including the legendary Night Elf Mohawke!
Male pictures can be found at Big Bear Butt, and the female ones at Resto4Life.
~ { Josh }
Tonight I have a some pictures of Northrend’s green quest rewards. If I’m honest with you, I’m not a great fan. They look too Zul’Aman like, especially the staves. Great if you’re horde, not that good if you’re an Ally. However, here are the images (after the break). Source: WoWInsider.
Welcome to Raid Talk, a genre of posts specifically about raiding… funnily enough.
I’m going talk about what I feel to be something.. really tough. How does one get from his/her blue and green quest rewards to getting ready for his/her’s first raid? Unless you feel like grinding hours in PvP or running dungeons and then onto heroics everyday or havn’t maxed your tailoring, it’s kinda tough.
For me, I half followed a nifty little guide written by the wowhead community which showed some easy pieces of gear to get from easy heroics and the good old Auction House. Over at WoWInsider they have some great guides for getting Kara ready, unfortunatly they seemed to have missed out Holy Paladins but I guess they have a lot to do. [Link].
My Paladin is in a guild called Thanatos, a cool guild who are currently running SSC. Anyway, I am currently leveling a Warlock, level 61 almost 62 at this time. He joined the alt guild ‘Little Thanatos’ and I asked wether he would be allowed into Thanatos and raid with them as soon as he hit 70. (Get easy gear). After all, I have a main with good gear who attends most raids. It would be almost like a favour. Locuna (the lock) was, ultimately rejected until he gets Kara ready gear. Fortunately for me, Im a clothie and will be making myself the frozen shadoweave set, (although looking at the mats needed I may pass!) but it dawned on me, damn that was kinda harsh, imagine if I didn’t have a geared char in the first place!
Now, you may be wondering how I got my Paladin into a guild? Friends. My real life mate was in Hellfire Heroes. They gracefully accepted me into their warm, protecting arms and took me through Karazhan with a mere +600 bonus heal. I geared quickly, needing something off pretty much every boss. Thanatos seem to be a little more strict on this, which sucks, but is understandable.
Now, enough about me, this post is supposed to be helping you. Depending on your class/spec, I would read up on the WoWInsider guides, and see what they can help you with. Then, I’d possibly grind some BG’s/Arena to get some epics, start running Slave Pens/Underbog heroic and get some decent blues. Then head over to the AH and grab anything that’s better than what you already have. Maybe use your profession to craft some items for you.
Then, try and get into an intermediate raiding guild, not some crappy guild that has 8 members that run Kara every month. You want to be in a guild that has lots of well geared members, run Kara regularly and is organised enough to find you a spot in a raid group with the better geared chars, that way, you won’t be needed as much. (Don’t take that the wrong way!)
Good luck on gearing your char, and please post any comments on your suggestions!
Today I was talking to a friend who plays a rogue, saying he was getting bored of WoW. I can see where he was coming from, end game content does get a bit repetitive. Here a few tips of mine for things to do when you get bored!
That’s about it, and when you’ve done it all, log off and go out and see your mates. When you’re ready, come back and you’ll be good to go raiding.
I know I’ve just posted a forum one, but I just came across another post that talks about scary moments in WoW. To be honest, I don’t really think WoW is a scary game. The graphics are sorta cartoony and after all, it’s just a computer game.
I’ve heard of people who actually screamed out loud when they saw the Goldshire children, of people being chased by monsters in Duskwood and Dinosaurs in Un’Goro Crater.
If you ask me, I think these people need to get a grip… WoW isn’t scary at all.
Stitched Horror :O
Yesterday whilst looking in the forums I found a rarther lengthy post by a Gnome named Blarx asking Blizzard to end the stupid grind. It’s mostly about BG’s and arena. I quote: “…it just forces us to numb our brains and take the beat.”
Personally, I don’t see the point in posts like these. Blizzard obviously isn’t going to change the game because of an essay about how it sucks. Although he speaks the truth, he obviously isn’t going to get anywhere.
The little Gnome Blarx then goes onto the fact that we pay money to do this: “Not like you make money forcing us to spend time in the game that no one enjoys…” “Even if you do make money from it, is it worth it? Why not put all focus on making the game as enjoyable and fun as possible, the way it should be.”
This is a valid point, but would we all pay our monthly fees if we didn’t enjoy the game? I don’t think so. His second point is good I guess, they should focus on more end game content rather than focusing on mid level stuff that we skip past maybe?
However, the second reply simply says: “And then there is pve”. A whole discussion sparks off about that but then Blarrx fires in saying that his post was aimed towards PvP only… “I could make a whole new thread for PVE if you like but this”.
Well Blarx, thanks, but no thanks.
Welcome to my first post in my ‘Early Bird’ category. These posts will be my first thoughts of the day, when I wake up.
Now, I know there’s been a lot about Patch 2.4.3 on WoW Insider and I guess everywhere else too, but I think it’s gonna be faaantastic! Mounts at 30, meaning our alts won’t have to hoof the Stranglethorn grind and the new bags from Haris Pilton (which if I’m honest I won’t be buying any).
Warlocks seemed to get some love with the Curse of Shadows being taken away but basically being added to Curse of Elements.
Apart from that, there aren’t a lot of changes but getting my Rogue’s mount in a levels time I don’t care!
Welcome to my first post of ‘Observing The World’. It should be called ‘Observing The World… of Warcraft’ like they do in South Park #147 “Make Love, Not Warcraft” but it was too big! Observing The World will be about what goes on in Azeroth and The Outlands, observing quietly and people pass by doing their day to day tasks… In that respect, this post shouldn’t be under the ‘Observing The World’ category, but I wanted to start it off and I couldn’t think where it would go.
If you have read my first post (which since this one is at the top, you probably won’t have done), you will know that I have a 70 Holy Paladin that goes by the name of Xrystal. Well, let’s play a game of Where’s Wally? – Xrystal style. You guessed it – Where’s Xrystal?
He’s in the header, when I created this blog I was looking through screenies for my header and found this nice one of High King Maulgar, not looking his best to say the least. Xrystal make’s a guest appearence, you can see him at the right left, red cloak and a blue shield. Don’t be alarmed, my gear has been updated since then, but yeah.. that’s me.
As said before, future ‘Observing The World’s will be different, but hey, it’s a start!
~ Josh
Don't you just wanna cast Holy Shock on him?
Welcome to my first post in the ‘Evening Special’. The Evening Special will usually be my final post of the day, concluding blogging. So, expect anything!
I was thinking of what I could write for this evening’s post, unsuccessful, I put it off and went to WoW where there was an argument going on between two Gnomes, accusing the other of spamming their guild recruitment macro. Anyway, it just dawned on me, why do Paladins have to pay gold to buff others?
When I go and raid, I make sure I have at least 200 Symbol of Kings to buff people in the ‘greater’ way. I mean, how embarrasing would it be to have to ask another Paladin to give you some because you ran out? It happened to me once actually.. the only other Paladin in the group only happened to be the Guild Leader.. and hey, he only had to announce it in TeamSpeak but you know if he felt he had to then whatever…
So I make sure I buy at least 200. A stack of 20 costs 30s, so 10×30 gives a grand total of 3g. Doesn’t sound much, but you need them for instances and even BG’s too. So it adds up. Also don’t forget that to cast Divine Intervention (Which actually sacrifices ourselves!) you need a Symbol of Divinity. (I’m not trying to promote Wowhead here, I just love that site).
So, we know that to cast these amazing spells it costs a small amount of our hard earned gold. But what do we get from it? A better chance at downing a boss maybe, but if your guild practically farms Karazhan, do people even need the buffs? Well… I suppose. As a matter of fact, I was actually going to name this blog ‘buffmachine.wordpress.com’, but i thought ‘healdin.wordpress.com’ sounded cooler and sounded more to do with WoW.
That concludes my first Evening Special, sorry if it turned out to be a bit of a QQ session but I was just showing all the other poor, helpless pallys out there that they are not alone!
Peace out -
Josh.
Just to let you know, this isn’t a cheesy post that is automatically written for you when you create a new blog like the title may lead you to believe.
I’m Josh, I’m 14 (well, 15 this month) and I play WoW. Basically, as the URL and the blog title may suggest I am in fact a Draenei Holy Paladin playing all of his characters on Darkmoon Faire EU.
I would say I’m a hardcore player. Some would disagree for sure, I’ve only ever stepped into Zul’Aman once, only have two pieces of tier 4 and have no where near a full PvP set either. (Also, I’m not the best in the Arena…) However, do you really need to be raiding Sunwell, have full tier 6 and five 70’s to be hardcore? I don’t think so.
I started playing WoW in January, I have my 70 Paladin, a 58 Warlock and I’m currently working on a Rogue who is level 28 and idleing in Ironforge as I write this. My Paladin is reasonably well geared (I like to think so), he only has a chest (which will be replaced with an Ecclesiastical Cuirass in 14 badges time) and braces that need replacing until he’s in full epics. Anyway, I’m going off topic, I’d say I’m harcore because I spend most of my spare time (I got loads of it) playing WoW and I know a lot about the game and I like to talk about it, the reason for creating this blog!
To conclude my first post, I’d like to say thank you for taking time to look at my blog, I hope you check back soon and please drop me a comment, even to just let me know someone out there is reading this!
Josh.
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