Had a run at Magister’s Terrace last night with my new guild.  We only got through the first two bosses though.  A late start, combined with my ventrilo client not connecting to their server, along with new content led to only getting the first two bosses down and stopping at midnight.
First impression though is it’s […]

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I just read this article on WoW Insider.  In it, Matthew talks about the challenges of playing well into the night - where sleep deprived Priests fake disconnects, and instances that should be quick, clean walkthroughs become extended corpse runs.  While Matthew’s experience was surely frustrating, it came at just the right time for me.
As you […]

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Yes, switched to herbalism from mining.  Laughed a lot at the comments left on my previous post; especially ladyjess who said “When I had herbalism, I saw mining nodes everywhere. So I changed…hardly found any, but there were herb nodes everywhere! So I’m back to herbs…it’s just temptation by blizz to makes us farm more […]

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Man that was nice having a full week off.  Even better I only had to take 4 vacation days to get 5 and two full weekends!  (Kids - you’ll appreciate that comment in a few years).
 Nothing crazy to report on the WoW front - I had few extended play sessions.  I did do a lot […]

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The Master’s Key.  Attuned for Karazhan.  Finally!
This is one of the reasons I’ve been playing an alt the last week or so.  This, and the fact that I don’t have a ton of free time now that it’s full-scale summer.  After close to a month of asking, pleading, begging, and almost-pugging, I still couldn’t get […]

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Let me count the ways:

They don’t know you and aren’t in your guild, so if it takes them 20 minutes to get ready they don’t really care.
“Sorry gtg“.
They usually seem more interested in screwing around than getting through the instance.
One word - NINJA.
Every once in a while someone will just go dark for 5 minutes […]

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I’m on my way to Shatt to turn in The Second and Third Fragments after soloing the second fragment in The Steamvaults.  It really wasn’t that hard and with decent gear you should be able to do it to.
The stealth to the Arcane Container was the easy part.  Once you enter the instance, you’ll turn […]

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I got to go on my first Shattered Halls run last night.  I was excited to go - I’d heard it was a good instance and I had a couple quests for completion inside.  It was also predominantly a guild run, so I was among friends.  I was a little nervous though, as I had […]

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Part of the fun of writing a blog is reading the comments you all make.  From time to time there are some real gems and I’ve tried to incorporate them either back into the original post, or point readers to the post comments.
Well, a comment was made yesterday that just begs to be it’s own […]

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I went on a run through The Shadow Labyrinth, or Shadow Labs, last night.  I had just got on and was looking for something to do.  A guild member was looking for dps help and I was looking to get my kitty some combat experience, so it was a fit.  The group came together pretty […]

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For a variety of reasons I only got to play one night over the weekend - Saturday night.  However, it was very fruitful.
I completed all the pre-quests leading up to the Aracatraz run to get those Verdant Gloves.  This is a long quest chain and one of the so-called “phat loot” quest chains in Shadowmoon […]

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 My “cliff notes” on Onyxia Attunement were such a hit I couldn’t resist posting the same for Karazhan.  Just like with Onyxia, I can’t take any credit for this, although I may add my own observations as I go through the process.  This is just a straight copy and paste from wowwiki (which has been […]

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I made it into The Underbog last night; my first trip into Coilfang Resevoir.  I had 4 quests or so from the nice spore folks at Sporeggar.  After a couple unsuccessful nights trying to get a group together, I finally got some fellow guild members to run the instance with me.  The Underbog is nice […]

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