6.02 and other things that have happened......

So 6.02 is live, and like most of you, I bet it took less than an hour to finish the new quest line.

That really is my only beef with the 6.02 patch. They hyped up the new blasted lands stuff too much for what we got. Lets take a look at the major changes and I will spread some light on what I think.

Toy Box!

I love this. It freed up about have of my bank. Once I went through all my toons (I have 6 90's including Karlsson) I discovered I had about 30 toys in all. So I got the 25 Toy achievement (which I will link below).

Pre-made Groups

This is another feature I REALLY love. Finding raid groups to run Normal or Heroic SoO is A LOT easier than spamming Trade Chat or going to OpenRaid.us . It took me a bit over 20mins to find a Normal SoO raid group that had a Thok or later lockout to make running to Garry quick and easy. I plan on using this feature to run through BWL to finish my Pally transmog hopefully this weekend.

Reagent Bank

Another bag space saving feature (and who doesn't like saving bag space). The best part of this is the ability to craft out of this tab. No longer do you have to make sure your mats are in your bag for creating you precious items be it armour, weapons, bandages, cogs, etc.... The "Deposit All Reagents" button is a nice quick way to get them out of you bags quickly. Also when you do this for the first time, it WILL pull reagents out of you main bank tab into the reagents one.

Garry Heirloom Buff

I love getting items on a 100% drop, and the Garry Loom buff is the best way to get it. Now this does change the way his Heirlooms drop. Before the patch a loom 100% dropped, but 1 person int he raid got it and it was always something they could use. This buff (which is on till WoD goes live) is 100% drop for EVERYONE in the raid, but the loom is specifically for your Spec. Last night I got a Normal Garry kill (finally) and got Hellscream's Bow. I will be trying on the other toons as well to get that normal Garry kill to get more looms. Also the 100% drop rate is only for the FIRST time. After that looms will drop but you might not get one.

So aside from the update character models (which are long over due), and the temp lvl 90 UBRS, thats pretty much it for the patch.

Recent Achievements:

Toying Around

The Iron Invasion

Canadian Thanksgiving + 4 Days till 6.0 = Grind a lot of VP and JP

Hello and good afternoon folks,

As you can see there was NO updates this weekend and yesterday as it was Thanksgiving Weekend up here in the Great White North (it did not snow though). So like a lot of Americans in November we did turkey, beer and football. But in the break from those, I of course WoW'd.

6.02 went live today so in anticipation of that I spent my weekend in WoW grinding VP and JP for the gold conversion today and got all of the Heirlooms from the JP vendor I was missing and then maxed it up again. I also did an insane amount of Archaeology while in the queues.

I unfortunately wasn't able to finish CM Mode Dungeons or Normal Garry, so no transmog set or Garry mount for me *sadface*

Did get a BUNCH of Archaeology achievements, as well as a couple others this weekend also.

25,000 Valor Points (now a Legacy Achievement)
Temple of Kotmogu All-Star
The Boy Who Would be King
Collector: Mogu Coins
Collector: Ancient Sap Feeders
Collector: Iron Amulets
Collector: Banners Of The Mantid Empire
Diggerest

Mount-Du-Jour: Turbo-Charged Flying Machine

Ahh the Turbo-Charged Flying Machine. Oh How I love the....except the fact that I cannot use you on this toon cause I am and Alchemist and NOT an Engineer.


Mount: Turbo-Charged Flying Machine
Type: Flying
Location: Learn to make this as part of your engineering training

IT'S ALIVE!!!! 6.02 is LIVE in North America

Thursday: I did nothing.....no seriously I didn't even log in....but I still have blog

So yes, I didn't even log into WoW last night. I had an after work function in which I bowled terribly but got excellently drunk.

So now your saying, well why even have a blog post today besides the Mount-Du-Jour. Well that answer is simple. Blizzard officially announced 6.0.2 Pre-Patch Day!!!!

YAY!! So I am very excited for this, mind you most of knew it would be this day. I am not even sure why Blizzard tries to surprise us anymore lol.

What do we have to look forward to on pre-patch day? Well that answer is A LOT. Let's take a looky-loo.

First off the Blasted Lands for lack of a better term have been Blasted by the Iron Horde. The Dark Portal is now a lovely shade of red and no longer green-ish. But as we all know Red is BAD.

The zone is now phased for lvl 90 (yes phased like Theramore) and the Iron Horde is EVERYWHERE, Nethergarde and Okril'lon have fallen (what about Surwich?) and it is up to us to stop them before they run amok.

There are several quest hubs and you'll be doing a lot of killing. Let's not getting into that. This is a preview post, not a guide.

Also available for a limited time is the newly revamped Upper BlackRock Spire. Blizzard has made a lvl 90 version of the upcoming lvl 100 version of this dungeon. Make your way through and reep the the rewards that are granted to you. The dungeon it self will be dropping ilvl 550 Blue items, to help gear up those boosted characters.

Also being implemented on Tuesday is the new character models (Dwarves have some badass beards coming), the Toy Box, some other UI improvements and last but not least the STAT SQUISH!

Having played the Beta for WoD I can safely say, I LOVE THE STAT SQUISH. I think this will be great for the game, and help maybe bring some people back into the WoW fold.

-Karlsson

PS: No weekend posts as it is a long weekend up here in Canada

Mount-Du-Jour: Winterspring Frostsaber/Venomhide Ravasaur

The Winterspring Frostsaber is a TIME consuming mount to get. It starts with a quest on top of a plateau in the WinterSpring zone, and then is a series of dailies you need to do for the better part of a month. There is a Horde version of this as well in Un'Goro Crater that gives you Venomhide Ravasaur. Like yesterdays mounts, once you complete one of these on one faction, you automatically have the other factions version when you play that faction.

Mount: Winterspring Frostsaber
Type: Ground
Location: Rivern Frostwing <Wintersaber Trainer> Winterspring

Mount: Venomhide Ravasaur
Type: Ground
Location: Mor'vek <Ravasaur Trainer. Un'Goro Crater

Wednesday, Killin stuff and Netherwing grind.....

So another just uneventful night. Trying hard to get into Challenge Mode Dungeons and a Normal Garry.....people are just dicks sometimes and refuse to take people based on there class because of their history with terrible people who can't play the class. I really dislike that term "huntards"

Anyways, on to my night. First I decided I should fly over to Domination Point and kill the last 2 Elite rares I needed. I did of course and got I'm In Your Base, Killin Your Dudes. This is an extremely easy achievement to get when you have a high ilvl and the cloak. I was also nice and helped a guy kill the Warlord inside the base so he could continue the quest for his cloak. I'm such a nice person.

So then I just pretty much continued the Netherwing Rep grind in Shadowmoon Valley, and did my Darkmoon Faire dailies.

Also for those that are looking to get Challenge Mode Dungeons done. I have started an Event over at OpenRaid.us, you can sign up for it here. I am still looking for Heals and a Tank.