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the priest was a dissapointment to level but is turning out to be a real charmer now that he s 80 slowly gearing up and proving himself an excellent all round healer basic damage dealer and now it s time to sit back relax and slap some gear on the various toons in preparation for another 50 levels come cataclysm have to do something to keep myself busy eh posted by captain the first at 4 32 am 10 comments labels character planning levelling wow thursday april 29 2010 all things celestial all right all right i am sure you can judge by the title that i permitted myself the luxury of a celestial steed or sparkles as i like to refer to it i did a lot of research beforehand on wether or not i was going to buy one in the first place after all spending money is one thing spending it on crap is a completely different and substantially more annoying thing so having used the celestial steed for a week or so now i decided to just list the most common facts 1 celestial steeds can be bought from the blizzard store duh 2 the mount will cost you about 20 euros 17 pounds or 25 3 there s no delay in delivery after redeeming the item or i got lucky 4 celestial steeds once redeemed are sent to each one of your characters on a single account a celestial steed via in game mail 5 you cannot sell or trade your celestial soulbound 6 it is not an account bound item once used it s gone 7 according to blizzard all your future characters on the same account will also receive one i ve no gumption to test that one unless they give us another class 8 count as both a land and an air mount 9 you will stay mounted when you go through portals 10 you will not be able to fly right away if you pass from a non flying zone to a flying one i e from dal city to the landing platform 11 it scales with your riding skill but 12 take care to remember that if you do not having epic flying your celestial steed will be a regular land mount 60 if you are on land even if you have epic land mounts available 13 will scale to 310 flying if you have a 310 flyer each char separately 14 does count towards your mount achievements 15 produces little sparkly things stars that linger around the location you re standing and the steed has a small set of not so impressive but slightly different sound effects it s not that the above points were never said but i d figured i d group them together before i trail off into my personal opinion on the matter that said i would ve liked to see a few color options other than just blizzard blue and i am not very fond of the two very noticeable problems the sparkly steed has being the facts that having epic land means squat and passing from non flying into flying zones not allowing you to fly i also could ve done with a longer wing span when in flight but beyond that it seems to make a decent levelling mount after purchasing epic flying at 70 and the steed then really shines in it s ability to go from running to flying seemlessly interestingly enough i had expected some people hassling me for buying a mount with cold hard cash but that never seemed to happen people don t care one way or the other it seems so its not one of those things you have to use in hidden places due to social pressures all in all i d say if blizzard ironed out those two little problems the celestial would be a decent mount to consider for an altoholic with a loose wallet in the meantime you re probably better off getting your mounts the old fashioned way unless you have a slew of lvl 70s with epic riding on an account stranger things have happened posted by captain the first at 12 23 pm 3 comments labels celestial celestial horse celestial mount epic flying saturday march 27 2010 commendation of service and there we have it the inevitable in an attempt to simplify things blizzard has decided to do away with the extra currencies of the battlegrounds the infamous marks of honor anything previously purchaseable for marks is now available for a fairly low amount of honor your leftover marks including the ever useless ioc marks can now be turned in for 185 honor each well that s good i can turn them in now all my marks and i know i have hundreds and hundreds of them spread out over my various characters so off i go with my pally to the nearest turn in your marks here vendor which are conveniently located here the hall of legends in orgrimmar horde and the champions hall in stormwind alliance and as i arrive flop open the vendor window i start mashing away on the right mouse button to buy as many stacks as my 70 av marks would allow for only to see the familiar message you can t carry any more of those items which of course i misinterpret for a full bags message until i notice the 33 empty bag slots hmmmm commendation of service unique 10 no more than 10 on your character really did we really have to specifically make them unique 10 why why why why are you doing this to us i wouldn t have minded running through orgrimmar pressing the button as many times as it took to burn up the nigh infinite amount of commendation of service i would ve gotten for my marks but unique 10 so as i stand here trying to redeem my marks as quickly as possible i see the day progress and the vendor slowly turning into a parking lot full of people occasionally erupting in a burst of light stoically and silently trying to burn off their marks i know what i ll be doing all day a tip stay close to the vendor keep the trade screen open and bind the commendations to a button so you can buy while you mash the button posted by captain the first at 3 29 am 3 comments labels battleground commendation of service marks wow monday march 15 2010 gearscore and you there s a new metric in town well not so much new since it s not but it s becoming more and more blatant what i am talking about is gearscore one score to rule them all one score to find them one score to bring them all and in the darkness bind them to mildly abuse a famous quotation to put it bluntly the gearscore indicator makes an attempt or yet another attempt at taking the sumtotal of all your gear stats and boiling it down into a simple hard number for people to judge you by and judge they do now personally i am not so much affected by it because my gearscore most likely will always be significantly higher than any skill i may have but people get reamed and mocked pretty badly out in trade and bank chat for whatever their gearscore comes down to now i definitely understand where the idea of gearscore comes from it allows you to say hmmm he she s probably not going to cut it before you set foot in a potentially dangerous environment it saves you hassle and the other person some potential embarassment right yes but it s not a measure of skill ignorance drunkeness mother interference screaming gf and all those lovely other events and states that render the average dungeoneer into a worthless pile of raid wiping sludge but then who really has time for a 2 hour interview just to figure out if someone is mentally capable enough to actually go to the instance in the first place the argument is endless and so instead of argueing i propose we simply apply some common sense realize it s here to stay and 1 know what gearscore is appropriate to ask for if you do not know what you re asking for figure it out that said you can ask for higher than what is needed to increase the speed of your run 2 if they ask for x and you have less stay clear you already know they want more than you can offer in pure gearscore even if you have the skills to make up the gap it s not worth the argument even if you don t agree with the whole gs thing it doesn t matter whether they ask for gearscore or cooking skill simply don t apply 3 gearscore isn t the universal answer gearscore is the answer to the question given my current group and his her gearscore and class spec combination will he she likely be an asset in this run despite the fact that the gearscore manages to boil most gear values down into a single stat it s still just a small piece of a larger puzzle that is the worthiness of a player personally i still remember most of the wipes and failures with fondness and remember very few of the victories on the average 5man run and as such i rather enjoy the occasional miserable wipe but if you are of the persuasion that every run must be as fast and as near to perfection as it can be remember that gearscore is a tool a tool to be used with care posted by captain the first at 11 05 am 16 comments labels gearscore theory wow thursday march 4 2010 the fascination of the impossible sometimes you run into those kinds of moments where you realize that whatever you might be after in wow is completely futile and pointless and then you keep doing them anyway take baron rivendare for example we all know him we all know what he has and most of us would enjoy having one of his rather decent looking mounts the problem with rivendare is that unlike many of the other mount carrying bosses he is very much soloable putting a big huge carrot on a stick and dangling it in front of you it s soloable it takes less than 30 minutes 15 30 depending on your approach the greens disenchant into illusion dust which goes for some decent coin and you ll swim in runecloth if you do a semi clear to the baron s room which is nice if you like runecloth and in that ability to take him out in what seems like no time it makes it hard to resist the lure of trying after all whats a few baron runs maybe one a day maybe two or more if you re zealous how long could it take at 1 it means you d need to do just about 460 runs to be pretty sure to have gotten it but we all know doesn t work that way it s 1 every time you go you could go you entire life and never have it drop and someone else can get it on their first run a lot of things are that way remember that drop you didn t get back in tbc that you still remember fondly like the warglaive of azzinoth or maybe that turtle rat pet you re still fishing for it s all luck or it s futile which i suppose would depend on your outlook on life but in the end we keep going because in wow as it is in life anything worth getting is damn near impossible to get today s gear is tomorrow s junk but a mount will always be a mount and a warglaive will always be more than it s stats so here i am again standing in front of the gates of stratholme wondering if maybe this time i would be able to kill someone without killing their horse i asked him to just hand it over but noooo posted by captain the first at 12 22 pm 1 comment labels humor wow thursday february 11 2010 don t nuke the ant there has always been a lot of controversy around the addictive nature of computer games in general the topic recently flared again in the country i live in and once again about half the population screams for more warning labels on games clinics to treat the afflicted extra warnings in games and more of the same games are addictive there is no question of that simply because the definition of addiction includes statements like the condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something so in that line i can honestly say i am addicted to games as others may be addicted to exercise french quisine writing in their diary singing in the shower playing an instrument frankly i d be quite happy to be a bit of a compulsive when it comes to exercise but alas still all this just goes to show that it s not so much the addiction itself that represents the problem but how it s affect your life and the lives of the people around you after all just because you get a new game once in a while and then play it for as much as you can for a week or two or maybe even longer isn t representative of someone whose dangerously addicted and in need of treatment it becomes a problem when this game takes over your life and your work school performance starts to go down the drain and your loved ones only know you as that zombie that sits in front of the computer all day a recovery from that kind of situation is hard no matter the chosen addiction and definitely requires some serious kind of pro active measure but while everyone seems to be setting the stage every few years for a massive game addiction intervention i sit here and wonder if we re not just trying to drop a nuke on an anthill i am sure there are those dangerously addicted to games and they should receive adequate help but wouldn t it be simply enough to put the information out there burn a few million tax money on an add campain that runs for a little while that tells you the symptoms and a place to fix it and i think most people would get the gist if not the overzealous gamers themselves then surely a friend or family member will be able to connect the add to the situation and make the call on a side note when your child has been playing the computer for so long you actually have to check if he she s still sitting there it might be time to take the keyboard away for a few hours there s no crime in that instead we end up with rules and regulations that add nothing to the problem but making it cost money regulations need to be enforced and do very little worse if i start seeing games with warning labels that would represent glaring advertisement to me the game is so good it has a warning sticker on it sweet but what really needs to be done do we not have to first determine the size of the actual problem how many people are there really dangerously addicted to say wow you can t just see how long someone is on a day and then call it a problematic addiction after x hours simply because it doesn t take into account people that share accounts or just have a game binge and then stop playing alltogether in fact if you would ve measured my average ultima online time for an average day about 5 or so years ago you would ve come out with a staggering 18 hours a day for months due to various macro programs disclaimer only did that on free servers the simple fact is the figures i ve heard over the years from the dozens of studies don t match up even in the slightest and that s simply because there is no reliable way to measure those that are indeed dangerously addicted they don t turn themselves in they re too busy playing a game and the rest of us either do not recognize the problem as a problem or wouldn t know what to do about it if we did so how about some decent information before we decide to nuke the ant in fact please don t nuke the ant at all because us ants aren t cockroaches posted by captain the first at 7 13 am 2 comments labels game addiction game theory pondering wow tuesday february 9 2010 where is the love so there i was happily chipping away at the various achievements for the lovely holiday of lovely hearts lovely pink stuff and lovely tokens that buy lovely little trinkets and while i sat at my recently purchased lovely picnic basket somewhere in dalaran filching through the lovely achievements for this lovely holiday plotting my ...