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Going Down?
Written by Qwait.

So you want this big mama achievement ?

Here you go:

  1. Go to Shatt
  2. Go to Scryer Tier
  3. When the elevator is at the top jump off over the left side.
  4. Land at the end of the slope to the left of the bridge
  5. Achievement Earned
  6. Look at your hp
  7. Wonder how you lived

As an Aldor you can also do this, you will not aggro the guards.

Death Wish Striving to be the best
Written by Qwait.

Death Wish is a hardcore guild who strives to be among the best in the world. Through intelligent direction, skillful execution, and unwavering dedication, we expect to conquer the latest and most challenging end-game content and soar above the competition.

From The Death Wish Forums

Well they have got most of that…

While trying to do the fishing contest one Sunday in October, I was fishing a pool when one of the Death Wish members mounted up and jumped in front of the pools. Very sportsmanlike. Ataxus even tried to buy the win because they felt they couldn’t win purely based on luck.

They tend to have a holier than thou attitude with everything they do, claim to be the best at everything — though, they are consistently beat by VANQUISH in terms of server firsts. In their defense, the reason they didn’t down Kael’thas Sunstrider after Magister’s Terrace was added was due to the Time Zone. Evidently Death Wish members did not receive the 2.4.0 update as early as VANQUISH due to the time zone issues.

Now there’s a unique excuse.

Ksirlaminim QQs after running Bottom Scanner
Written by cd34.

Leveling Inscription required a ton of herbs. It was only through laziness and a little farming that I was able to level Inscription quickly. When we leveled HerbSkinner and Qwaitxseven, we dumped all of the herbs over to IBJammin and put them in the bank. Over the summer, I let my membership lapse and in the week before it ended, I made as many herb bags as I could and put them in the bank rather than sort through and list the herbs on the Auction House. As it turned out, this was a good thing.

To level inscription, I only needed to farm herbs in Arathi Basin (massive PVP battles for herbs) which was quite humorous. I never thought I’d see the day that people would kill opposing faction members for Kingsblood or Wild Steelbloom.

However, inscription was quite profitable, though, it probably would have been more profitable to sell the herbs I had stashed in the bank than it was to level inscription, but, due to two lucky discoveries, I received the mage minor Glyph of Slow Fall on the first day, and Glyph of Levitate on the third day. During the day, another player named Demonwarlock would constantly undercut me, bringing the price of the Glyph of slow fall from about 35g to a low of 9g yesterday. Once he sold out, the price came back up into the 25g range at which point Demonwarlock started undercutting again. I moved over to Glyphs of Levitate which I could price around 35g and they sell somewhat quickly, though, not as quickly as the Glyph of Slow Fall did.

While I was pulling out more Auctions and seeing which glyphs would sell (the paladin minor glyph didn’t sell well), I received this tell:

When I saw the name, I realized that I had seen it in BeanCounter and noticed that he had purchased all of my Glyphs to mark them up and resell them.

/lol

— It gets better. Received this email later on in the day.

I didn’t start the price war and honestly, for the few herbs it takes to make the Glyph of Slow Fall, 65g for it just seems like taking advantage of people. Maybe its rare, yes, first one discovered probably made some good cash, but, a stack of Mageroyal will make 3-4 Glyphs resulting 150g-250g pretty quickly. However, the market will dictate the prices. At 65g, you got a few buyers. At 35g, I couldn’t keep them in stock, selling 20 of them almost as quickly as I could put them on the auction house. At that point, another person started putting them up for 1g under my price. The next batch I put up would go 1g below that until the prices got into the 9g-10g range. Who got hurt here? The free market didn’t support 65g — it supported 35g and certainly supported 20g. Buying out my inventory to resell it at twice the price and thinking I wouldn’t continue to list them since they were selling is just ridiculous. If I didn’t run Auctioneer, I would have never known who purchased my auctions because I just shift-click and open all mail when it is received.

Price fixing is inefficient. Collusion only results in a temporary remedy, and in this case, benefits only one person — the one that overpaid for his herbs expecting to turn a huge profit. If I had to guess, 35g puts him at marginal profitability, but, not a loss. As each day passes, and more people gain these minor recipes, downward pressure on the prices will continue as they will become more common.

Sorry about your profit margins, but, I don’t believe the market will support 35g as sales have slowed down considerably today even at 15g. Your letter was eloquent and well written, but, unconvincing.

And the saga continues.

Translation: I’m taking my toys and going home and I’m going to undercut all of you. At 15g, they weren’t really selling that quickly anymore. The market had dried up substantially since the first day, and, he’ll get a number of expired auctions and will have to relist a few times.

30’s in Warsong Gulch’s 20-29 bracket
Written by cd34.

While its no real secret to getting a 30 in a 20-29 bracket game, the coordination to have joined the queue, purchased mounts and have a game pop slow enough would be considerable. I missed getting a screenshot of the Elephant mounts as they dropped down from graveyard.

Even though they were 30s, they really didn’t have much of a gear or skill advantage over us as I don’t believe they were able to hit their trainers before the queue popped.

Fun nonetheless — and they lost 3-1.

Dalaran Crater
Written by cd34.

Wrath of the Lich King is on its way where Dalaran is lifted from the ground. The crater left behind is quite impressive. On Patch Tuesday, one of the first things I did was venture around. You can actually safely descend into the crater and get out.

Brokeback Mountain meets World of Warcraft
Written by cd34.

While doing the Exploration Achievements, I ran across this NPC.

It’s Happy Hour Somewhere
Written by cd34.

Go to a Major City, look for the Bartender in the Inn:

* Refreshing Spring Water
* Melon Juice
* Moonberry Juice
* Sweet Nectar
* Ice Cold Milk
* Morning Glory Dew
* Skin of Dwarven Stout
* Jug of Bourbon
* Flask of Port
* Flagon of Mead
* Bottle of Pinot Noir

Shattrath – Scryer or Aldor, inside the Inn is a Food and Drink Vendor

* Filtered Draenic Water
* Purified Draenic Water

Coffee Vendor near the Battlemasters

* Black Coffee

Boots, Boom Master Mixologist, Area 52

* Cherry Grog
* Don Carlos Tequilla

Ogri’la, Blades Edge

* Bash Ale
* Dos Ogris

Zangarmarsh

* Cenarion Spirits

Keepers of Time, Durnholde Keep

* Sparkling Southshore Cider
* Southshore Stout
* Rumsey Rum Black Label
* Stouthammer Light
* Cheap Beer

Should you have problems getting some of these, mages can conjure many different types of water which do count. Southshore Stout is Soulbound.

The above list contains 24 relatively easy to obtain drinks around the world to get this quick achievement.

‘I Am Legend’ comes to Cho’gall
Written by cd34.

Patch Tuesday, the biggest MMORPG patch in history came on Oct 14th. While it was not without its glitches, world crashes, server rollbacks, etc, it did provide quite a bit of humor and frustration as people tried out Inscription, herb prices went absolutely crazy and the servers lagged quite a bit over the last two days. But, all was not lost. Overall they had some minor problems — I cannot believe noone on the PTR tried to use a flying mount (I’m sure they did, the bug never got identified or fixed, but, was reported prior to release).

Most of the day yesterday was absolutely crazy. Arathi Highlands became a very dangerous area for those questing that got in the way of the 70s that were farming the herbs for inscription. At one point, the alliance had a 15 man force preventing people from entering the Hinterlands from either the flight path or the entrance to get the coveted Ghost Mushrooms and Sungrass, both of which are used in inscription. Ghost Mushrooms hit a peak of 7g each on our server, and, they were selling quite rapidly.

However, on the 14th during one of the many crashes I took a few screenshots of Orgrimmar that reminded me of the movie ‘I Am Legend’.

All in all, it went smoother than I expected. I knew Tuesday would be bad and Wednesday was much better. So far today, short of a few interface/UI issues and addon’s that had to be disabled, gameplay seems about the same.

Shaman Twink
Written by cd34.

While I spent quite a bit of time building my Shaman Twink and came very close to the dreaded ding to 30, I did find a few mistakes made along the way.

There are some rather rare boss drops that would have been nice to have based on things I learned about playing a Shaman after finishing. Before twinking, I should have played the class a bit more to learn how my playstyle would be affected by certain choices. While it is difficult to learn that prior to making a twink, I am not unhappy with my build or gear set, but, I think there are a few places I could have made a few improvements.

ItemRack has events which I have not gotten to work exactly as I wanted. The common twinking idea for a Horde Shaman which has the ability to get two BC Enchantable weapons is to get a non-BC mace with spell damage and put Mighty Intellect on that — +22 intellect from an enchanter with Thorium Brotherhood Rep. When your mana pool is drained below where that +22 boosted you, you switch to your weapon with spellsurge. Immediately after it procs, you switch to Skullbreaker with +81 heals (or, +40 spelldamage after 3.0.2’s patch). At 25% mana, you switch to a weapon enchanted with Mighty Spirit — +22 from that Thorium Brotherhood Enchanter and equip your shield with +9 spirit on it.

I’ve still not gotten weapon swaps to work in ItemRack the way I want, and, I usually run with axe and shield rather than swapping to my 2H Corpsemaker for fighting clothies. I farmed Thermaplug’s Left Arm, but, from what I read, you want Corpsemaker so that every swing has a chance to proc Crusader. While Bleeding Crescent is nice (Rogues hate getting hit with that bleed because they cannot vanish), I think I would have changed my itemization slightly. I do have my FC set that maximizes HP and Armor and sacrifices a little mana/healing, but, it has kept me alive through 3 rogues trying to beat me down while a hunter took them out one by one.

Ghost Wolf form is incredibly nice – I’ve not used my rocket boots more than once or twice running through the tun to catch up with someone. I found that if I am auto-running, and stop/start immediately outside the building, I can switch to ghost wolf right at the building edge rather than waiting on the server to detect that I am not in the building.

I did create a utility Shammy — and I am able to do what is necessary and I believe the games I have played in, I have contributed enough that we win more often than we lose and with a little coordination, we dominate. Since playing my Shammy, I have seen more 5 caps than I have ever seen when playing my rogue. Many of the WSG games are <20 minutes with a 3-0 or 3-1 score. While I don't have the room to get any more drops without considerable effort, I think I am going to leave my gear set where it is and shuffle an enchant or two while I work through itemrack and learn a little more about the playstyle. 1000 kills really doesn't give you as much skill as you would think. Even though I have Insignia of the Horde, if I've dropped the right totem, about the only class I need it for are mages. Early on when I was probably 20 AB tokens into it, a priest from another realm asked what spec I was, and I told her hybrid. She then said, well, it isn't working -- and I said, why do you say that? She told me that she out DPSed and out Healed me. At which point I said, but, we never lost the one node I was defending solo did we? With my armor and mana and hit points, I can take an incredible beating and call out for help which makes me a great solo defender. With Ghost Wolf I can respond quickly to any node and dps or heal and keep people off the flag for quite a bit of time. While I enjoyed my rogue, my Shaman has surpassed my rogue in terms of fun. I will sometimes grab the flag in WSG, or will run alongside the FC and run interference, or, do my job to slow the EFC until reinforcements arrive. My rogue just couldn't get there fast enough to do that even with swiftness potions, rocket boots, sprint, etc. When I would run D, if they got past the gy or far enough down the tunnel, I couldn't catch them. With my shammy, I can run out gy, ghost wolf over to them and catch them midfield. I'll enjoy playing my Shaman for quite some time. Shaman Twink guide.

Qwaitxfive’s Backstab was dodged by Zargan
Written by Qwait.

The Offical tooltip: Players cannot dodge, parry, or block attacks that come from behind them.

Riddle me this:

Zargan’s Armory


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