October 21, 2011 in Misc
We’re moving the blog to the main domain of Gotwarcraft.
All of the posts already here will remain in place, but all new posts will be made over there. Commenting on this blog is closed.
To start off, here’s a post on the next expansion, Mists of Pandoria
October 3, 2011 in Misc
Everyone in the World of Warcraft needs more gold. Well, that’s pretty obvious. Buying gold is only for those wishing to risk their accounts. It’s not illegal, but it IS against Blizzard’s Terms of Service. Bliz will take action as it sees fit.
Now, we’ve posted plenty of info with our gold guide and our 1k speed run, but there’s always room for more. We’re putting up a gold tips page on Facebook. Eventually we’ll have a lot of useful gold gathering info there, but as of this moment it’s just getting started.
If you have a Facebook account, and you “like” the page, then you’ll receive updates on your own FB news feed. You’ll also be able to comment on the gold page and add your own tips, if you’re so inclined.
Pretty soon we’ll be offering a free gold guide to anyone who’s liked the page.
So if you want to check it out, go here.
Thanks
May 31, 2011 in Cataclysm, Humor, Misc
So you can now waste money on purchase another mount from the blizzard store. It looks like a lion with it’s head on fire… kinda.
Update: It also has a beard so I guess it’s not all bad.
Looks like one of the ugliest mounts yet to me, so I bet we’ll be seeing them all over Orgrimmar and Stormwind soon enough.
click “read more” for more pictures.
May 27, 2011 in Misc
If you are interested in an opportunity to meet and chat with game developers, artists, executives, and other Blizz people you will want to keep an eye on the ticket page:
http://us.blizzard.com/store/blizzcon-tickets.xml
Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 28 at 10 a.m. PT
Only 200 are available, so good luck!
As for the price… If you have to ask, you probably can’t afford it.
Go to http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2852976 for more info.
October 14, 2008 in Misc
So…the new patch is out. Hopefully you are all downloading it or finished downloading already.
I just got home, but I’ve already got about 900mb downloaded, so just a bit more to go. The servers are still not back up though :-/ hopefully that will be fixed soon and we can all start messing with our new talents and abilities. I’m betting all the herbs are going to be really expensive for awhile now while everyone gets inscription skilled up.
Duel wielding two-handed swords will be great. Well I’ll probably be using a two hander in my main hand only, but it still looks cool to have two.
It’s more than likely that at any one time in your gaming experience, whether it be on world of World of Warcraft or other such MMORPG and thus inevitably level based games, you’ve likely wished eveything could just be a little bit easier, I personally am no stranger to the sentiment.
Still, back when I brought my first characters to 60, and eventually 70, there were no leveling aids beyond “grind this, grind that,” and even those sources could be more than a little vague, leveling was simply one massive exercise in mental exertion to maintain zombie-like activities of pressing 1, 2, 3, repeat.
Perhaps some of these difficulties were solved when Blizzard lowered the experience required to level, enough so that I managed to force myself to bring yet another paladin up to 70 in record time, a blood elf for some horde side PvP heal-botting.
Still, I can’t bring myself to say that the whole leveling game was ‘fun’, much more that it took less time, but throughout the time I did spend leveling, strenuous effort was expended on not going mad whilst completing the “slay 10 killer bunnies”quest for the umpteenth time.
Overall, at least in my opinion, leveling is hell, which is why I was surprised to find something so intriguing, at least as far as guides go, that I manage to bring myself to starting yet another new character – A warlock in fact, something of which I possess none of horde side. The guide in question? something called Zygor’s automated leveling guides.
Now, automated you ask? as in it does all the work for you? Well obviously that would be breaking numerous rules, rather, the guide presents quite possibly the furthest one can bring step-by-step leveling detail without actually coming over to your house and mashing the keys for you.
Here you can see the menu fully opened, and this basically sums up all the detail required. Each step when selected has further detail, giving more information as to where the NPC in question might be, what monsters to kill, etc. But all in all this guide set-up comes the closest to doing everything for you that I can imagine possible, at least without violating more than a few rules.
Here you can see my newly created blood elf Warlock, yes I have a suspicious number of blood elves – after playing a tauren for more than a few years I’ve come to appreciate a smaller character-model for PvP. Another similarity is the Japanese name, this is because I am in-fact studying japanese in the fanatastic WoW-killer MMORPG known as Real-life, at least when not slavering away at grinding or writing something up for the site, but I digress.
Level’s came fast and easy, the guides intuitively easy to access and follow interface turned what was once a concious yet zombie-like interaction between my hands and the keyboard into the mere flashing by of levels, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. all blended into one continuous game of “catch the arrow” followed by madly clicking anything with a golden exclamation then repeating step one
Before I even realized it, I was level 10, a brand spanking new talent point at my disposal, and somehow located within the center of the dead scar. Whether the lack of memory about my doings for the previous hour or so was the effect of mindlessly following an arrow for extended durations of time, or the result of my mind instinctively defending itself against the infernal machinations of the leveling grind, I may never know. Either way, the guide had definitely proved that it was working thus so far, and quite well at that.
This is of course just the start, but as far as first impressions go, the guides pretty much proved itself as the be-all-end-all of leveling guides, at least until someone invents a robot capable of replacing me at the keyboard, but I have a feeling that’s a bit far off from completion.
Check back every couple days, I’ll update my experiences with the guide on the way to 70 soon – Also, now that you’ve read the review and if you’re interested in checking this guide out, click here for Zygor’s 1-70 Alliance & Horde Leveling Guides.
May 31, 2008 in Misc
Have you ever heard of the MMORPG gaming phenomenon known as Multi-Boxing? Probably, but if not, I’ll explain it anyway. Multi-boxing is a not-so-commonly utilized technique whereby a given player with large amounts of disposable income, or at least a willingness to give up eating for a few months, can buy multiple accounts for any given MMORPG, endeavoring to use his advantage in numbers to boost what is technically a solo-experience.
By possessing multiple accounts this player can then run with a dedicated heal-bot for his warrior, or perhaps a shaman for the windfury totem as his rogue whirlwinds through the opposition, either way it’s definitely a benefit, but only to those capable of effectively controlling and monitoring both characters at once.
Many players find themselves able to run two accounts at the same time, at least skill wise, but most prefer to run with only one, as to avoid spending overly large sums of cash on a game, or perhaps because they find it detracts from the fun of the game.
Either way, for quite some time I’ve been running two account, sometimes in tandem, other times to check the auction house and earn cash (in-game that is) while leveling up a new alt or doing battlegrounds. However, I couldn’t help but become acutely interested at the tales of players running not two, nor even three, but five accounts at once.
Imagine an entire team of characters at your fingertips! the possibilities are endless, and so I set out to research this subject myself, and now being in the possession of five accounts, I’ll post how I managed to make it work, and how you might as well.
Notice how all are gnomes, this allowed for ease of teaming right from the start, another thing is that I decided to make them all warlocks, a ranged caster class being supremely easier to configure as opposed to melee, and by making them the same class, macro creation and control was again far easier than if I played with a mixture of mages, warlocks, and priests – Although I will try this at some point.
Through some configuration I was able to, as you can obviously see in this picture, connect all five WoW clients into the same keystrokes, having the other four clients mimic the button presses of my primary character, being Zarsalesem in this case. Although I am using one recently upgraded and juiced up PC for this process, other Multi-boxers have utilized multiple PC’s to run everywhere from 5 to 25 characters at once, however I don’t think I’m ready for that step just yet.
Here you get a view from one of the other WoW clients, my minion characters utilize Targeting and Assist macro’s to cast all their spells, making certain that they follow my lead as opposed to randomly assaulting nearby wild-life as they did in my first test. Also you’ll note that all four minion characters are on follow, this is done so that I can use the mouse keys run function to move without triggering the minion clients to do so as well, using WASD would result in all the characters running off in random directions, not very condusive to my purposes.
Finally, the combat strategy. The slight difficulties of five-boxing were that I had to lead all four other minion clients around on a /follow leash, and since spell-casting requires you to face the target, I was sometimes in situations where the other clients were unable to target a monster, got stuck on various rocks, tree’s, etc. and various other such difficulties.
All things considered, the five-boxing was certainly a fun experience, making a level grind I’ve been through all too many times once more an intriguing challenge. Perhaps I’ll update this specific subject at some time soon, either way, this should show you in a fairly simple manner just how it all works.
I’ll list of the requirements one last time, Five WoW accounts (Or however many you plan to run,) a copy of either Keyclone, Synergy, Autohotkey, or any keystroke copying program that suits your needs, and finally a computer, or computers, that can run all the clients smoothly, lag is a very bad thing when running five characters at once.
February 14, 2008 in Misc
If you haven’t celebrated Valentine’s Day in WoW yet there is still time. Love Is In The Air runs from Feb 11 to Feb 15. Go to the nearest innkeeper who has hearts floating above his or her head and purchase a bottle of cologne, a bottle of perfume, and a few stacks of Love Tokens.
Put on either the perfume or the cologne. and wander around one of the bigger cities for the most fun. Once you are wearing either perfume or cologne you will see hearts appear over the heads of NPCs that you can give love tokens to. The perfume or cologne effect lasts about one hour. If you are wearing perfume, you should talk to male NPCs and if you have cologne on you should talk to female NPCs.
When you open a dialogue window with one of these NPCs one of the options will be to give one of your love tokens to them. The first one you approach will adore you for one hour and give you a nice gift. From then on NPCs will just give you a gift.
Right click on the gifts in your bag and you will see various gifts depending on where you are and if you are Horde or Alliance. Each city has a different set of quest items obtainable through the Gift/Pledge of Friendships.
Visit the official site to find out all of the details: Love Is In The Air in WoW.
February 14, 2008 in Misc
Everyone loves the special dances the characters do when you type /dance. Each character race has its own special dance and it is different for the males and females.
Have you ever wondered where Blizzard got the inspiration for those dances? Here’s a video that shows you some of the more popular dances performed by the original dancers with the character dancing next to them.
Our favorite is the male blood elf; that dance came from the movie Napoleon Dynamite. The human male gets to dance to Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta, and the night elf male dances like Michael Jackson (whatever else is going on with him, Jackson really can dance.)
It seems like the male characters have all the good moves. The female characters have boring dances. The human female got stuck with the macarena, the night elf female has to flap her hands behind her back, and the female dwarves do Riverdance. Oh, well.
Here’s the video. Enjoy!
