It's been awhile....

So here I am, 3 months deep into Warlords and without any posts about it. I must apologize to the probably 5 people reading this as real life and well WoD have gotten in the way.

Let's bring you sorta up to speed.

I hit 100 very quickly. When the expansion hit, I like everyone else had a hard time getting in, but once I was in I was on the move. I spent the first weekend GRINDING and hit 100 in 2 days. This was when the actual fun began. I then took a week to properly lvl my Garrison up to lvl 3 (not including Pet Menagerie or Fishing Shack yet), and started Heroic's to get ready got the Highmaul Raid.

When the Highmaul Raid began I was already well into the Abrogator Stone's part of the Legendary Ring quest and have about 14 of the 125 required from my herb garden and mine and some follower missions. I am now well completed that and onto the Blackrock Foundry one's even though it also is not open. So I am finding my way into as many Normal and Heroic Highmaul runs as possible that can get past The Butcher or Brakenspore. But that seems to be HARD for people to get mechanics. Not everything can be a tank and spank.

I also have 2 more of my alt's up to 100 with the beginning 640 ring for the Legendary quest, working on the next part. I am also working on my Blood DK and have him up to 96 so far.

I won't list my achievements this post as well I have gotten a TON of new ones from WoD and a couple MoP ones as well for archaeology.

New stuff,

So back to the new stuff going on.

Like I said I am lvling a DK, and am waiting on Blackrock Foundry, but when I am not updating follower missions and such I am testing out PTR stuff and I am liking what I am seeing. Let's get into 6.1 shall we.

1) Heirloom Collections and Vendors

So they have the new Heirloom tab ready to go and I am loving what I am seeing. It works about the same as the toys's tab. You open your tab, you double click on the Heirloom you are looking for and it makes a copy in your bag. No more mailing heirlooms around.

Heirlooms as now are upgradable (except Garry Looms). All Heirloom's when first purchased start at lvl 1 as usual and got to lvl 60. You can then buy your first upgrade token to upgrade it to lvl 85 and then another to upgrade it to lvl 100. Once you have upgraded it in your tab it is that lvl in your tab and will not change for each toon.

The upgrade tokens can be bought at the new Heirloom vendors in EACH major City (SW, IF, DARR, EXO, OGR, UC, SM and TB.) They tokens on the PTR appear to cost 800g each. Loom's themselves seem to be priced between 500-800g also. These could just be PTR test prices. Final in-game prices won't show up till 6.1 goes live.

2) Flying

Not much is changing in the way of flying, except for 1 detail. You will no be able to buy Pandaria flying at lvl 85 instead of 90.

3) New follower ilvl max.

Right now you can only lvl your followers up a a 655 ilvl. This will increase to 670 when Blackrock opens, as to accommodate the higher dungeon requirements. *NOTE* This is being tested in the PTR but will happen in-game before 6.1 actually is released as Blackrock opens before 6.1 is go-live

4) Flight path improvement

So they are clearing up some the the unnecessary FP paths that make flying take WAY Too long and also on the PTR right now have an option for you to click the next landing point if it has multiple points and you may have picked the wrong place. Whether this stays in live to too be seen.

5) Garrison changes

Lots of Garrison related updates, couple of quick ones that are big, building Rush Orders. These are available at a lvl 3 building which will allow you to instantly finish 5 work orders. Whether these are limited to 1 a day  or week use is still up int he air. Also added is Scouting Missive's which are dailies to get more Apexis Crystals and Garrison resources.


Anyways, that was a much bigger update than I was aiming for. But if I am going to dive right back into this now that I have some time, why not go BIG!.

Keep up the grinding and see you in game.
-Karlsson

PS, yes I will be updating my avatar at the top as I look badass now in my new max lvl gear.

Hallows Eve Drops are BS

So of course everyone knows that Hallows Eve is upon us in WoW. I have run the Headless Horseman 18 times now (3 days x 6 lvl 90s) and have not got the Horseman's Reins drop yet. Now normally I would just go meh and carry on. HOWEVER when I ran it the first time the other 4 members of my group got it. Yep 4/5 people in the group got the mount an I was not one of them. Then the very next day 3/5 people again an again not me. This is bullshit Blizzard. I want my mount!!

When did Ordos get hard....

That is the question I pose to people today......

Last night I did and entire World Boss run, started at Galleon, then Sha, Oon, Nalak. Then once the group disbanded I went to get my Ordos kill for this week. He was HARD again. Not since I finally got my cloak has he been hard. Our group wiped twice, which has never happened. I am not sure Blizzard did a good enough squish on him.

Also let's talk about the stat squish a bit more.

I was talking with a co-worker (he plays horde *spit*) and we have both found the Timeless Isle (besides Ordos) got easier. Killing the snakes I used to get hit pretty hard from the 'Huge Fang' but now it barely touches me. I take down elite birds in two shots, and most elite Yaungol's in 3 or less. While yes this will make grinding to Exalted with Shao-Hao easier. It seems like it's not even worth the try now.

The weekend is upon us.....

Well another weekend is upon us and well it is Hallow's Eve in Azeroth starting tomorrow. I have all the achievements for this event done as of last year, however they have added a TON of new stuff for this year. So I will be doing mostly Hallow's Eve stuff, mount farming etc. But what I am REALLY looking forward to finding in the new stuff is the Lich King Costume. Yes they have added a wand that will turn you into Arthas. As soon as I get this I will be Arthas until I can't be anymore. Even though I am a hunter.

That's it for today, reminder there is no blog updates on the weekend and I will post all of this weekends WoW happenings on Monday.

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