Warcraft – Waiting for a patch

I’ve been playing this game for a long time.  I’ve created many characters.  It’s gotten to the point that I now have 6 level 100 toons.  It goes without saying that I’ve become a little bored with the game.

So now, I’m waiting for the new release that comes out in August – Legion.  It’s the Burning Legion again, and instead of going through a portal to get to a new planet, we now have to go to an island between Northern and the Eastern Kingdoms.

From what I’ve seen, the new release looks good, I just hope it lives up to its expectations.

More next time…

Amp

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Legendary Ring – Complete!

Finally, after way too many weeks, I finally got my legendary ring and completed the quests.  This quest chain was almost as bad as working towards the legendary cloak (which is sadly useless now!!).

Now that I’ve completed it on Amp, I don’t know what else I should be working on Amp … I think it’s time to maybe start working on my other toons for a bit.

I need more time in my day!

Amp.

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I hit 16,000 Achievement points! It’s a miracle!

Well, maybe not a miracle, but I finally hit 16,000 achievement points … it only took many years of slowly grinding through the achievements.  Sadly, that’s 16,000 out of 25,825, which means I have a LONG way to go.

I rarely do PVP, and I only have 36% of those achievements.  Maybe one day.

In other grand news, I finally finished most of the early raids.  I just need the Lich King on Normal mode, hoping to get that soon.  I also need the Dragon Soul on Heroic and then all the raids before Pandaria will be complete.

Now its off to get the Halloween Holiday new stuff!!

Amp

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Chugging along with Achievements!

I finally got the Treasures achievement.  200 Treasures found, and yet that isn’t all of them and there isn’t an achievement for the rest!  Do I continue getting hunting for treasures?

I’m leading towards continuing since you get free resources, gold, and gear to vendor for gold.  Sometimes a nice toy drops or something fun, but thats quite rare.

Onwards to hunt!

Amp

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Wowhead.com & Flash Based advertising.

I like WoWHead.com, I really do.  I have found it to be a very useful site that has such an amazing depth of knowledge about everything World of Warcraft.

Unfortunately, it’s been destroyed by advertising.  In ZAM’s (the parent company) quest to increase revenue of the site, they’ve increased the amount of ads on a page as well as intrusive sound ads.   These ads are horrible.

They ads slow down the browser.  They crash the browser.  They truly are the worst of the worst.  Yet, ZAM has made no effort to change them or switch over to HTML5 ads.  Large corporate sites such as these should not be using these ads.

Please, Wowhead, use better ads, be nice to your site visitors!!  If not, someone else will just do it better and people will move on.  It happens all the time.

Thanks@

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Achievements !!!

It’s been quite awhile since I’ve had a chance to post on here.  Life and work in general have just been busy, and I haven’t had as much time to play as I would like.

I have been spending a lot of time getting achievements that I have wanted for awhile.  These range from the new ones in Tanaan Jungle and Draenor Area, to old ones from Burning Crusade or later.

I was really happy that I got Tons of Toys, which was so nice, unfortunately, it just means that I need to get the next one …. The Toy Master !!! Finding another 50 toys is going to be quite a challenge.

I’ve gotten many others which you can check out on my Armory Page.  The one area where I am really suffering with is PVP Achievements.    I’m only at 36%, which is really kind of sad 🙁  I’ll just add it to my long list of things to do in WoW.

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Making progress!

Today I made some progress!!  Slowly but surely I will be flying soon in Draenor!  Hopefully before the next patch comes out!

I got the following two achievements today:

The nice feature of the Master of Apexis is I get my first monument in my Garrison, so I’m quite happy about that!  The second, Master Treasure Hunter gets me one step closer to flying in Draenor..  I already have Explore Draenor and Loremaster of Draenor, which means all I need for the meta-achievements Draenor Pathfinder is Securing Draenor and Tanaan Diplomat.

I am three Apexis Dailies away from completing Securing Draenor.  However, I think I have quite awhile to get Tanaan Diplomat.  I’m almost Revered with Hand of the Prophet and Order of the Awakened, but I still have awhile to go for the Saberstalkers.

I’ve also been working on the Legendary quest, and I’m up to the part where I need to get the three tablets.  Since I still don’t have enough to make one tablet, I foresee working on this for just a bit longer.

As the title of this post said, Making progress! Slowly, but surely, making progress!

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Pet Battles

I like the pet battles feature in World of Warcraft.  There’s actually some strategy involved, especially when your doing the PVP part.  I’ve been spending some time lately trying to level my pets, and while it’s slow going (since I have so many), it’s at least fun!

You can view my pets here: http://www.warcraftpets.com/collection/Amphyx/

Warcraft Pets it a great resource and tool for anyone that collects pets.  The have more information on pets then you would think possible.

A nice feature is their rankings which show you where you are in relation to other people on your server as well as other people on all the servers.  However, it’s key to understand that not everyone that collects pets will be registered on this site, so take the rankings with a grain of salt, if you know what I mean 🙂

Leave a comment if you want and let me know what you think of the Pet Battle feature!

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Spammers – Really?

It’s amazing!  No sooner do I open this website to let people register, then the flood gates start with spammer ID’s. I don’t get it!  Don’t these people have anything better to do?  It’s not like I’m going to approve them and let them post spam, but it’s such a waste of time!

There really should be a way to track them down and throw their sorry asses into jail.

Nuff said about that rant!!!

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Blackhand’s Crucible

This “raid” is simple.  What’s frustrating is that you can wait up to 30 minutes to get into the raid and there is only one boss, Blackhand, himself.

The mechanics are simple, as a DPS.  Just keep moving, avoid the fire on the ground and the circles of pain he throws out throughout the fight.  He does a push back, which as long as your not near an edge, shouldn’t be an issue.  Overall, the fight is simple and relatively quick.

Check out the detailed information on this NPC at Wowhead:  http://www.wowhead.com/npc=77325/blackhand

Finally, with this being the final boss fight in the Blackrock Foundry raid, I was really expecting more.  For a single boss raid, there should’ve been more to it, more fight, or something.  The only cool part was dropping through the floor twice during each phase of the fight.

Again, not impressed with this raid.

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