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Warcraft: A Movie Review  OR Another reason to IGNORE CRITICS So for awhile I've been reading review about the new "Warcraft" and I've yet to read a professional critics review that didn't loath the movie. I read how the story was impossible to follow, how the characters were shallow, and the only thing that was any good was the special effects. Well, I guess the critics had to get something right, the special effects were amazing. As for the the story being hard to follow, anybody that payed any attention to what was happening in the dialog new exactly what was happening. Everything was made perfectly clear, from names of characters to the names of the locations they were in. As for the characters, I actually liked them all, well except for those I was supposed to hate, but still, you get the point. It didn't matter if you've been playing in the Warcraft world from the beginning, just started, or have no clue about any of it, if you like fant...

Last night with the super amazing find a raid tool I defeated Deathwing, after the cheers and dancing around and the grim realization that this is the only way I'm ever going to be able to beat him him, I've decided to start yet another alt.  This time a human Priest, I thought the spirit bonus would help out. I wont be using any Boa's, since I've decided to boycott them. So after a little bit of play I've come to the first set of great decisions.  Professions and Talent tree. the choices are for you that don't know: Shadow: Strictly Dps  Holy: Healing, lots and lots of healing. Discipline: Usually what people call Disc. This class can heal and dps, but while Holy is all about healing damage that has been done, Disc is more about preventing the damage from ever being done.  So what do you think would be a good set of choices?

WoW ends up banning in some cases entire guilds! Why you ask? After the recent patch some guilds were found to have used an exploit that allowed them to farm the latest tier of gear from the raids threw the aid finder tool. Rather than doing the right thing and letting Blizzard know what was going on they decided to just run with. Many of these people woke to find an email from Blizzard with a short term ban on their accounts and all the gear the ill gotten gear gone. This is going to have. A major effect on the latest guild rankings. Now what did we learn from this class? Cheaters never prosper, at least not on an mmo. Do you think Blizzard did the right thing? Of course let me know what you think, the world wants to know.

So the great week of patches has come and gone with both ups and downs. The first WoW came out with the long awaited 4.3 patch. The patch included transmogrification, void storage, a raid finder, 3 new 5-man dungeons, new raid content including the defeat of Deathwing, and last but not least The Darkmoon Faire. The new 5-mans I thought were a blast and I've enjoyed them a lot more than the Zul dungeons. I haven't had a chance to use the raid finder or run the new raids because of my lack of gear but should be able to by the end of the week, not that I'm very good at the entire world of raiding but oh well, right. As for the Darkmoon Faire I've had a lot of fun running around playing all the little mini games. It's also a great place to level everything every profession you can think of. There have been some problems however. I made a warlock for giggles and can't delete him, it tells me that he has a heirloom or important item on him even though his mailbox, i...

So like an idiot the patch was released and I danced a jig of glee and made my way to the Darkmoon Faire, at least that was the plan. I'm glad to say I'm not the only one that flew around Thunder Bluff looking for the port in, a lot of others were right behind me. Darkmoon Faire that was released in 4.3 will not be opened until December 4 , at least that's what the calender says. If you have any other info please let me know and I'll change what I said. Also I recently opened a little shop online, you should take a peek at by clicking here .

That's right the time we've all been waiting for the mystical, magical, 4.3 patch will be launching tomorrow, I dance a jig of glee. On a completely separate note I've made a store online showing off some of my art work and the best way to tell the world is threw my blog! Here's a Link take your time and check it out. You'll have the time WoW is going to be down for awhile with the patch coming out.

I started to play WoW just before Burning Crusade was release, just to give a point of reference. I recently decided to start another alt, I get the craving every couple of months. This time I made an Orc warlock. I've only ever had a little experience with locks back in the day.  I quickly wound up at level 10 even with no boa's, I bought my skills and went back to questing but had this feeling that something was missing. Eventually it all came to me.  Everything so far was just given to me. Flashback a couple expansions. In order to pick up the next summon, their was a quest. Yup a person had a story, his story included me completing a task for him and what would he do? Grant me the knowledge for this summon.  The whole experience made me feel more apart of the world around me and most of all, I had fun. Everything is now handed to us now. Where their used to be quests for  new spells and gear now it's just handed to us. Where we used to have to go find quests ...

That's right the new WoW commercial is here for our enjoyment. When they got Mr. T to come out with his commercial the people cheered, so who could be next? Who could top Mr. T, oh that's right you know you were thinking it, CHUCK NORRIS! If you want to check out the commercial here's a link to the youtube page with it. Wow commercial link   So now that we've had a commercial with Chuck Norris, who do you want to see next? As always I look forward to your comments, that is if somebody left one I'm sure I would like it.

So everybody is on the edge of their seat waiting for patch 4.3 to finally get released but it's still not here. I was really thought it would be here by now but hey I can't be right all the time. So by now you've run those pesky raids and TB is just a memory, what's left to do? Here's a list of things I've been up to. Finishing those extra professions. Fishing, first aid, archeology, cooking are all things that I was always planning on doing at some point and just never got around to it. Mount and Pet collecting. Their are tons of pet and mounts to collect all over the world.  Most of them take mind numbing amount of time and will having you beating your head against the keyboard to get but it's all worth it when that stranger comes up to you says " you must be crazy to go fishing for that long for a turtle." Gathering old raid gear. Since we are getting that transmogrification, now's the time to pick up all that super slick gear from days...

On November 6th the Steam service relised that the hacking the happened didn't just effect their forums but may have gotten into the actual steam client. Steam released this post: Message from Gabe to Steam Community Announcement - Valve Yesterday, on November 10, 2011, the following message was sent to all users via a Steam message. Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users: Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums. We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was...

A lot of people have recently been commenting about how WoW has been looking a little empty lately, and for a good reason too. Close to 2 million people have left the game. Is this a sign of the death of WoW?  After all those people left before the major content patch of 4.3 and after Blizzcons announcement of the next expansion pack Mists of Pandaria. Do people really hate pandas that much?   I personally don't think so. I really don't think all the people that have left will stay gone. I've always found it amazing how many people "quit" and a month later they are waiting for a FL run. Another reason people could be leaving is because they are tired of paying a monthly fee. WoW now has a lot of competition, not by content standards,WoW still rules the roost, but by the simple fact that their are so many free to play games now.  DC Universe , Lord of the Rings are two big examples that recently have gone free, and companies like Nexon , Perfect World , and GPo...

DC Universe online went free on the November 1st...kinda. The game didn't really run that day at all, but on the second day, well it didn't really run that day much either. The same with the third  or the fourth. OK so the game has been less than stable since it's free release, but we now know why. In a recent press release DC told us that the population has grown over 1000%! Holy jelly donuts Batman, I'm no longer annoyed with the long wait times to long in, the over crowded areas and the simple fact that a lot of the time you can't even long in. After all who would have expected that much growth in such a short time. They are actively patching and the game has become more stable and the servers are up more than they were, so with any luck they'll have their problems worked out soon. It also shows something else. The game is good! Super customizable characters, fun dungeons, not to mention the fact that you get to not only meet but fight along your favorite...

Custom Search Tanks use shields! OK not all tanks use shields, druids and death knights don't and they can still tank just fine. However the idea of paladin or a warrior tanking without a shield is the same as thinking your a druid that can tank as a feral cat. Yes at low level dungeons it doesn't really matter. You can run the low level content without being the right spec or wearing the right gear, but as your progress threw the game it actually does matter. If you aren't going to gear right at the beginning who's to say you will by the end. How many times have you been in a ZA or ZG dungeon only have a tank that doesn't know what they're doing? Just the other day I was in a group with a paladin tank that was wearing  mail armor, a 2h weapon and with a holy spec and didn't understand why everybody left the group. If you don't want the shield and you really want to tank, be a druid or a ...

Custom Search With the coming patch a new raid finder is going to be opened to the people. Yet all to often people don't understand the pug or their rolls in a dungeon. I hope to share my knowledge about the pug. Threw our time in any mmo we end up pugging eventually. The pug or pickup group puts our faith in a group in people you probably don't know, to beat that dungeon, raid, or quest that takes more than one person.  The group for example in WoW will consist of a tank, heals, and three dps. The tank ,  in my opinion has the hardest job. They usually are the unoffical leader of the group. Charging into combat first, getting groups of enemies attention and holding the attention can get very challenging especially if you haven't been in the dungeon or raid before, or your dps companions are pulling more aggro than they can handle. The heals can also be a frustrating job. They are usually the guy in ...