I just noticed another indication Wrath of the Litch King is approaching. In the picture below have a look at the colour behind the logo. Where it used to be a complete green glow it is now half green half blue.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
A Tinge of Blue
Oceanic Realm Forums
If you haven't visited the World of Warcraft official page or forums today you might not know that we have our own forum. You can find them here.
According to Bornakk
"This forum is here to provide a friendly and focused environment for Oceanic players to discuss all aspects of World of Warcraft with one another."However I suspect that they will be mostly filled with two things, people complaining that Oceanic Realms are treated worse than US ones and people who think it's cool to attempt to belittle Oceanic Realms.
One point that was brought us was whether we would get a CM or at the very least a MVP who would be responsible for/represent the Oceanic Realms. Perhaps thats something to watch out for. On a separate note this could be a sign that Blizzard are starting to take us more seriously as customers. Read Full Article
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
"Certainly, one can understand why many people would prefer existence in a Virtual World (VW) to existence in the "real world." Unlike Earth, in VWs there is real equality of opportunity, as everybody is born penniless and with the same minimal effectiveness. In a VW, people choose their own abilities, gender, and skin tone instead of having them imposed by accidents of birth. Those who cannot run on Earth can run in a VW. On Earth, reputation sticks to a person; in VWs, an avatar with a bad reputation can be replaced by one who is clean."
Quote from Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier by Edward Castronova Read Full Article
Friday, July 4, 2008
WotLK Beta Opt-In
Did you know you can opt in to participate in the Wrath of the Litch King Beta? All you have to do is visit the official World of Warcraft website and go to the Beta opt-in page. From this pool a random selection of people will be chosen to participate, so even if you haven’t opted-in yet you still have time. Good luck everyone!
I have chosen to opt-in and would be ecstatic if I get to participate. I have no intention of playing through to beta end game but an opportunity to check out the world and see the new abilities first hand is just too good to pass up.
If you do opt-in be VERY careful of any emails you receive confirming your acceptance. There will lots of fake emails going around saying you are successful with links to key loggers and dodgy sites this is called Phishing. If you get such an email check the Blizzard forums and big news sites such as Wow Insider to confirm that Beta invites have gone out. Also carefully read the email, look for spelling and grammar mistakes, strange links, incorrect graphics and other errors that you would NOT get in an official email. There are some excellent websites for more information on this such as APWG and the Microsoft info site.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Midsummer Thankyou
A very short post to say thank you to everyone who helped out Alassiel and Me during the Midsummer Fire Festival. My thank you will take the forum of a haiku
Heroes join to fight
The Frost Lord is defeated
Still no mini pet
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Championing – Some changes to reputation in WotLK
A decent amount of information about Wrath of the Litch King has come out of the Worldwide Invitational held last weekend. Thanks to Wow Insider I just found out some details on another measure to make life simpler in Northrend. Everyone has at some stage in playing World of Warcraft had to grind reputation with a specific faction. This may be for an item or recipe, at the moment I am trying to Squiggle reputation with Sporeggar so in 2.4.3 he can make 28 slot herb bags.
By using/wearing a specific item (probably a tabard) from your chosen faction you will gain some reputation from them when completing tasks for another faction. For example I could wear a tabard for the ‘red’ faction while clearing a dungeon associated to the ‘yellow’ faction and get some ‘red’ faction reputation along with the ‘yellow’ faction reputation you would normally get.
Hopefully this will make people more willing to participate in a wide variety of different areas and instances; shifting focus to drops as opposed to faction alignment. It is unlikely this will be implemented retrospectively so Azeroth and Burning Crusade reputation will have to be gained with the current method.
Sorry I couldn't think of a good picture to use in this article and I am on my lunch break at work so I can't screen shot one.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
First Week of Season 4
The forth and probably last arena season as level 70s is now almost a week in and last night Triptych made is debut. We were concerned that with everyone’s ratings reset to 1500 we would be fighting teams well above us in terms of gear and ability. However it turned out to be one of the most successful and enjoyable evenings of arena play we had participated in. Our rating hit a record 1524 at one stage and when we finished for this week was sitting on a respectable 1518. Sure we only won just over half our matches but we were working very well as a team, and are building a good set of strategies.
Our first goal is to reach a rating of 1600 so we can all get some season four pants, it’s not going to be easy but it is achievable. Over our 17 games last night our losses were almost all to teams which will climb the rating ladder very quickly. Hopefully the next few weeks will see more accurate match ups and all the team’s ratings get sorted out. In the mean time I must get back to some battlegrounds and continue to improve Squiggle’s gear.
*EDIT: It turns out leggings only require a rating of 1550, the robe requires 1600.
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