Posted on September 28th, 2009 by admin
Well I grabbed my own video of the new Feed Pet animation, but it turns out that Lougara on YouTube did it much better, so that’s their video you can watch above. Yes, as hunters everywhere have noticed, Blizzard has added a brand new animation to the feeding of a hunter pet — you can actually see your hunter toss a piece of grub to the pet, who then catches it and noms away.
It would be cool to see it go a little further — maybe have the pet claw and chew away at it for a moment — but then again with so many different types of pets out there, it’s probably tough for Blizzard to make them all look good. Still, it’s a nice little touch for immersion, and it has the added bonus of showing other players when you’re tossing food to your pet as well. Of course, with Bloodthirsty as a pet talent or the Glyph of Mend Pet going, you may not even need to feed your pet any more, but if you do, that’s what you’ll see.
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Posted on September 24th, 2009 by admin
The painting? Oh, yes, the painting. Well, I’ve always wanted to redecorate the old houseboat, and after I successfully sued Disney for copyright infringement when the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out, I finally had enough gold to do it. So I commissioned this from some local Kalu’ak artists. I think the mangled flesh sets the perfect romantic atmosphere. More wine, my dear? Are you leaving already? Well, I guess it’s just you and me again tonight, Steak Whale. (Thanks to Cuco of <Little Known Secret> on Blackwater Raiders for the screenshot!)
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Posted on September 21st, 2009 by admin
It’s no secret that I have Horde and Alliance Warriors at 80. I took a long break from the Horde to raid aggressively on my Alliance Warrior as part of my endless waffling over Horde vs. Alliance. Lately, however, the rumors about Cataclysm and what’s going to happen to Horde leadership have, paradoxically perhaps, made me suit up again as the Tauren and play the Horde side again. (I’m weird that way.) One of the results of that is to remind me that there’s a big difference between a Ulduar/TotC 25 geared prot warrior and one barely in Naxx 10 gear.
I have been chain running TotC 5/Heroic as much as possible to try and catch up and frankly, wow, the difference in every aspect of play is astonishing. You forget just how much of a difference it all makes, until you suddenly find yourself effectively back in time on a character with the stats you used to have when things were hard. Going from a 35k health pool to a 27k one (up to 30 now, thanks to TotC) was a huge wake up call that made me adjust my pulling strategies, use of my cooldowns, and even how I go about
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Posted on September 14th, 2009 by admin
Matt Rossi and 248 of you (as of last night around ten) might hate things in the game, and that’s cool. There’s some things that I hate, too.
But you know what? I’m a lover, not a fighter. Why hate when you can love, after all?
There are a few things I love in the game. I love the satisfaction when an alt dings to 60, 70, or 80. There’s always great new skills to be learned and new challenges to face. Nothing is more addicting to an MMO addict than reaching those benchmarks.
I love the feeling at the end of the raid when you’ve downed an impossible boss, giving everything you and 24 other people had to make it happen. My buddy Jacob and I have often reminisced that we haven’t had that feeling for a long time – not really since Kael’Thas, Illidan, or any of the Sunwell bosses — but it was so damn good when it did happen that I’ll take those memories with me into the next decade of game playing.
Along those same lines, the arena battle where you end with just a few dozen points of health left and everyone else lies dead before your
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Posted on September 11th, 2009 by admin
Out of all of the things we’ve broken down and discussed on this site, I don’t think we’ve ever really dug into this one: what’s your character’s shirt of choice? The shirt slot on your character screen is really the last customization-only slot we’ve got left, ever since the tabards were allotted to earning reputation. So today’s discussion topic is: what shirt do you have in there?
Unfortunately, the Shirt of Uber is only a PTR item, so no one is wearing it on the live realms, or else obviously that’s what we’d all be wearing. The Epic Purple Shirt is probably a favorite since earlier this year, if you’ve been lucky enough to get the TCG code. I’d bet the Swashbuckler’s Shirts are popular, and the Red Linen Shirt has always been one of my favorites. I’m sure the Tuxedo Shirt has its share of fans as well.
So what are you wearing underneath that armor? It’d be cool if Blizzard actually beefed up our choices there a bit — maybe they could put stripes on the sleeve to show rank, or have some special
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Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by admin
Mom! Where’s my favorite tabard? I want to wear it for screenshot day at school. What do you mean, it was in the rotting clothes pile? No, I didn’t wear this yesterday. I wore my Knights of the Ebon Blade tabard yesterday. It does not smell! I smell! God! When I hit level 18 I am so getting out of this zone. I’m gonna move to Undercity with my band and we’ll stay up all day and not cut our hair. You’ll be sorry you bothered me about my gear then.
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