Nowhere Left

Well it’s time of the year again, the valentines are filled out & perfume/cologne is abused.

This year is different though! The in-game world event for Love is in the Air received a major face-lift this year. We have a completely different system for the [Love Token] and the needed achievement items / vanity items. Many sites like WoW.com and MMO-Champ have laid out the details but it’s a good change to this holiday. You can now guarantee grabbing a Peddlefeet!

I’m actually not to worried about getting it complete on my alts with this nerf/change.

Here is a screenshot of the some of new content/quests:

Anyways, I made a short video clip of the new Love Boats that are available in various capital cities:

Update 1/26/09: Professor Putricide also is down!

The first gated content in Icecrown Citadel has opened up & I’m looking forward to it!

We had some good tries with Professor Putricide this first week but the 10 attempts were not enough to kill him off. We did take down Rotface & Festergut with relative ease though. I wish Blizzard would stray away from the limited attempts scenario for raid bosses but they have improved from Anub’arak.

Many guilds, even the ‘high-end’ ones really did not approve of such achievements as [A Tribute to Insanity]. Keeping achievements away from ‘how many attempts are remaining’ is what happened with Putricide. You can kill him with 10 attempts left or 1 attempt left, it has no negative ramifications (aside from repair bills).

I can live with limited attempts for bosses in ICC but the achievement-based bit that we saw in patch 3.2, with the Crusaders’ Coliseum, was really depressing at times.

Wishing Everyone a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Wanted to start out a new year, 2010 with a resolution to keep up with this website!

This World Event marks the last that my main character was lacking! Aside from a few achievements (that are not a necessity for)  I have all the World Metas completed on  Uriahworld!

As always, the two 80 alts need to follow through next and they did.

It’s time to Claim Your Mohawk Grenades, Fool!

My new guild’s progress is stepping up with many heroic kills in ToGC last week!

The Blizzard Store now has a few new additions to it, including what you see below!

Within an hour of there release, the Pandaren Monk & Lil’ K.T. were mine at the cost of $20.

This new move by Blizzard is dubbed ‘microtransactions’, which is basically the exchange of in-game items by means of direct purchase online (via the Blizzard Store). WoW Insider has a nice write-up on microtransactions if you’re interested in more info.

One of the nice things about this service is that it can be used for not just raising more money Activision Blizzard’s favor, but also for other organizations.  The current example is that, “For every Pandaren Monk that finds its way to a player’s side between now and the end of the year (December 31), we’ll donate 50 percent of the $10 purchasing price to the Make-a-Wish Foundation in an effort to brew up a little hope, strength, and joy in a child’s life.“

Blizzard Store

Halloween is officially over in Azeroth today, it’s been replaced by Day of the Dead!

This is a new event for players and it’s only celebrated f or two days, so be sure to go and get your easy 10pt. achievement [Dead Man's Party]!

It’s as simple as go to any graveyard and /dance with Catrina there.  I was online at 1am server when the holiday was activated so I took all my level 80s out to get there achievement quick before retiring for the night.

You can also pickup the temporary (2-day) pet Macabre Marionette by buying an item to see Ghosts and giving the quest giver ghost a [Bread of the Dead]. The pattern can be bought from the other npc (Chapman) found at the graveyard, bring Simple Flour & Ice Cold Milk if you plan to cook your own.

On the Hallow’s End side of things, the Horseman’s mount still eludes me another year.  But I did trick or treat my way into the last 5 masks I needed for [A Mask for All Occasions]. I have some friends who have still not completed this achievement unfortunately.

Both of my 80 alts, Mazer & Coldarra, have the Hallowed title since I covered the meta achievement on both of them over the two week course.

This puts them at having 3 of 8 World Events completed since they both have [The Flame Warden] & [Brewmaster] from earlier this year. I’ll continue to work on my alts world event achievements as we go into to 2010 because my main character has completed them all.

If you have switched over to Battle.net for WoW already then you should have received Mr. Chilly!

Mr. Chilly Mail!

Everyone must switch to Battle.net by November 11th so you might as well take 5 minutes out of your day and merge.  I waited until the BattleBot promotion was out and then merged a few months ago.

After a month of waiting, I finally received my code for Grunty via email!

I applied my code and received my [The Marine Marine] achievement on all characters after I logged them in and looted the egg!

It’s funny to think that people would buy the Grunty code from the Blizzcon ‘09 goodie bag (from Ebay) for almost $100.  If they were patient then all folks had to do was buy the $40 stream service and save a load of money.  The current ‘email’ codes seem to be going for $20-30 on Ebay.