WoW Screenshots

The wha huh?

2007-04-10T21:59:00.000-04:00

So Blizzard is opening The Black Temple in the next big content patch. Today they published an interactive chart that shows attunement paths for all the other BC dungeons (including Mt. Hyjal in CoT, but weirdly Black Temple is NOT included). I spent about 1/2 hour reading and re-reading it, highlighting various paths, and trying to understand it.

I don't get it.

Seriously, if you asked me to explain what needs to happen in order to access the Battle for Mt. Hyjal event - I couldn't. Hell, I can't even really tell you how to get into the Arcatraz. Overall I feel very confused looking at this chart, and it also makes me realize something - I just won't ever finish all these attunements and acquire all these keys. With my limited gaming time, it's never going to happen. NEVER.

I love being a mom and all but damn... I feel old now.

Lady Sylvanas

2007-03-05T15:48:00.000-05:00

One of my favorite quests in the expansion is something for lowbie blood elves in the Ghostlands. There's a pendant, which drops kind of randomly off certain mobs, and long story short, you have to take it back to Lady Sylvanas in the Undercity. It belonged to her sister.

Anyway, when you turn it in, she sings a beautiful song about the "Sin'dorei," the blood elves who used to be high elves. I actually recorded the whole thing in Fraps, but I found I don't have to upload it - it's all over YouTube already! Thanks, YouTube. :)

Screenshots from Burning Crusade Closed Beta

2007-01-13T19:31:00.000-05:00

Well, the BC beta is now over. The game launches this Tuesday. I doubt I'll have my copy of the game by then, not sure when I will have it actually. But I think the first things I'm going to do, based on my experience in the beta, are:

1. Create a blood elf noob (probably a hunter)
2. Create a draenei shaman
3. Start getting new gear for my 60 priest and working her towards 70

Coming up next, screenshots from the beta. Click on the image for the larger version - warning, some of these are very big.

Some funny dialogue by a few of the NPCs:

My 60 priest in front of the Dark Portal:

The sky in Outland is amazing:

A really beautiful shot in Hellfire Peninsula:

My draenei noob doing the famous quest that lets you ride an epic elephant mount for 15 minute at level 10:

My belf noob sleeping in luxury:

I know this is old news to everyone else, but my hunter was out in the Barrens and went up on the mountain to see that shrine to one of the engineers who passed away while WoW was being developed. It was really pretty awesome:

Back in Outland, a cool shot inside Blood Furnace, one of the new five-man instances:

My first socketed item - a belt that dropped in Blood Furnace:

The socketing interface:

Gems selected for the sockets:

A druid in the new tree form (already live):

My draenei noob disguised as a tree for a quest:

Leftover from Winter Veil: Father Winter tells me to step off:

Burning Crusade Beta

2006-12-01T15:37:00.000-05:00

I got into the closed beta for the expansion, which will be released on January 16 (or something like that). Whoa, dude...it's pretty phat. There is a HUGE amount of content, almost like too much. It's kind of overwhelming.

I'll post some screenshots this weekend - I've been playing it for about two weeks now, and have tried starting a Blood Elf noob (fun!), Draenei noob (sort of fun!), and copying my existing 60 over to level her to 70 (only 61 so far, but still fun!).

You Are So Dead

2006-10-14T12:12:00.000-04:00

After I transferred Betteh to Kael'thas I joined a guild called You Are So Dead. Awesome! A fun bunch of people. In this screenshot, we just killed The Beast in UBRS. Here's another view.

Every now and then, you see something weird in WoW. Like when the big bad dragon is just sort of hanging out in Stormwind Castle. (I especially like the guy bemoaning his inability to turn in a quest.)

I included this screenshot because it shows the amount of crap that generally clutters my screen during a raid. It's a miracle I can see in front of me! However, it usually doesn't matter - as a priest, I'm generally playing what my friends in Guild Wars called "the mini game": watching everyone's health bars, throwing heals and cures as needed, and not really paying attention to the actual creeps. It doesn't sound like fun, but to the right kind of person (me), it's actually pretty rewarding.

Overdue

2006-10-06T22:21:00.000-04:00

Wow. It's been forever since I posted on my WoW blog! Well I am playing WoW again. I transferred my one and only level 60 toon, Betteh, to Kael'thas to join some friends. It's lots of fun, I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed WoW. When I was pregnant I kind of stopped playing because it always gave me motion sickness, then when I got really fat it was impossible to hold my laptop anymore!

So Betteh has some phat gear and a super-fast horse now. She just got attuned for Molten Core the other night; looking forward to some raids in there. I'm so far behind the rest of the WoW world! All the hardcore guilds are already raiding Naxxramas, doing Blackwing Lair every night and Ahn'Quiraj 40 every weekend. I'll never get caught up, but at least I'm having fun.

And the expansion comes out next month! God help me resist the damn Collector's Edition.

Reunited, and it feels so....good?

2005-08-30T23:17:00.000-04:00

After dallying with City of Heroes and Guild Wars, I'm back on the WoWs. Just haven't been remembering to take screenshots! My priest on Kilrogg hit 60 but I've been working on my other priest, on Lothar, who's up to 41. I also have a new Horde hunter on Kilrogg and a mage on one of the PvP servers. Too many servers to choose from! It's as bad as competing games.

Here's a nice screenshot of the entrance to the Darkmoon Faire. I got my fortune told!

I didn't realize that when people manage to kill Onyxia, her head actually hangs in Stormwind for a while. That's pretty nifty, and here's a screenshot of it.

55 down...5 to go!

2005-03-01T19:52:00.000-05:00

Betteh hit 55 today. Here's how she looks now. Much better than the weird thing she was stuck wearing for a week or so recently.

Speaking of weird: pigs fly, or at least climb trees. And here's a nice screen of the portal (that does nothing) in Duskwood.

Five more levels!

Bling bling!

2005-02-18T00:58:00.000-05:00

Not sure why I chose "Bling bling!" as the title for this post, it's just what sprang to mind. :-)

Today Blizzard finally banned casinos in the game, which is a really good thing, in my opinion. These retards were getting waaaaay too spammy and obnoxious. So well done, Blizzard.

Speaking of bling (loot), I did this quest in the Sunken Temple called "The Secret of the Circle" or something like that. It was a total PAIN IN THE ASS, and when it was done, besides the standard xp reward I got a chest full of "treasure." And here's a picture of the treasure. Three items, all mostly useless to me. I threw the ring in the bank, just in case. Oh well.

Here's what Betteh looks like currently, except I usually keep the helm (the big blue dorky thing on her head) hidden in-game. That Runecloth Robe was one of the best investments I ever made. I've gotten tons of use out of it, it's black and white so it goes with nearly everything, and it has these cool cutouts on the front, back, and shoulders; so just by adding a different colored shirt, you can change your look to match whatever. Looking good is important.

This is the actual Dark Portal! It's in the Blasted Lands. I couldn't get any closer because it's surrounded by these level 55-ish demons, who looked like they wanted take a bit out of my hiney. Funky though.

And finally, I made another toon to play with some former Intrepidians on Lothar. I used to play a druid there, until it became less fun than major dental work. I did the wise thing this time around and made a priest.

A rant, and some other stuff

2005-02-13T01:38:00.000-05:00

Let me start with the other stuff.

Betteh wore this outfit for about a day, there are two versions - the colorful, and the not-quite-as-colorful. She's wearing neither now.

She ate this food called Savory Deviant's Delight, and it gave her a disguise!

Sight-seeing at the Tomb of Uther.

OK Here's the Rant...

People who do this attempted scam on the Auction House really annoy me. First of all, who is stupid enough to fall for it? Secondly, even trying to get away with it is just cheesy and lame beyond belief.

Here's one example. I really shouldn't have blurred the scammer's name, but there it is. Notice how the scammer has listed a buyout price of approximately the appropriate numeric value - but in gold, not silver. Lame.

Here's an even worse example. See how this same person has several listings for Thick Armor Kits? Most of them he has priced at 60s starting bid, 80s buyout. Then he lists one with an 80g buyout, hoping to trick a person not paying close attention into giving him a fat payday. Extremely lame.

I hope nobody actually falls for these things. One could argue "buyer beware," and if you're not paying close enough attention at the AH, maybe you deserve to be tricked. I would argue that it takes a pretty low person to resort to scamming like this on the AH in the first place. I make a note of the names of these scammers, and try not to purchase anything from them.

Be careful out there!

Why???

2005-02-04T14:26:00.000-05:00

First of all, why is Blogger so damn slow?!? WHY? It's getting annoying.

Secondly...pictures.

My friend Cazares and I drank the skelly potion from the Gadgetzan quest, then we danced in IF. Oh so cliche, but it was fun nonetheless. It inspired some ho to dance with us. Here's the proof.

Then we lay on the ground feet to feet - it was funny.

But back to the why issue. Why do my plugins sometimes cause things like this to happen? WHY?

/sigh

There's something you don't see every day...

2005-01-30T23:31:00.000-05:00

Various oddities...

Gahz'rilla in the Zul'farrak instance. Scary!

In some juvenile way, this guild logo was hilarious to me.

Profiteering goblins at the holidays.

So like, I drank this stuff, and it made me small, man. Seriously! (That's a normal-sized gnome standing next to me.)

The Feast of Winter Veil in Ironforge.

Location, location, location!

2005-01-30T23:25:00.000-05:00

Various weird and interesting locations in Azeroth...

What's going on with Dalaran? It's the city in a bubble.

One of my favorite places, the Temple of Elune in Darnassus.

A strange portal in the Twilight Grove, Duskwood. Apparently it does nothing.

Inside my favorite instance, Scarlet Monastery.

The Scarab Wall in Silithus. This doesn't seem to do anything either (at least it didn't for me).

Right next to the Scarab Wall there's a portal/gong thing in Silithus. Also did nothing for me.

Evolution of Betteh

2005-01-30T22:14:00.000-05:00

Betteh is my human priest, my main character, on Kilrogg. Level 47 as of today. Her look has certainly changed as she's grown! Her gear gets upgraded every few levels, as stuff with better stats becomes available.

Not long after she got out of the starter clothes, here's Betteh in one of her first robes. And she tailored it herself!

This look got her through her mid-late 20s.

She wore a Robe of Power that she tailored herself for several levels, then briefly flirted with the goth look of the black mageweave vest/leggings.

Frankly I wasn't thrilled with that, so when I got the pattern Betteh made a Crimson Robe and sported that up until 45 or so.

Here's how she basically looks today, with minor variations.