Happy Holidays from Azeroth

Here Keila is in her Holiday best.

As usual Blizzard puts the girls in the least amount of clothes they can. That's not much in the way of winter clothes.

It's tough being a girl elf.

Cya,

Keilakat

King Bangalash

I spent a lot of time in Stranglethorn Vale. Luckily I took this guy on before Blizzard nerfed him.I appreciate Blizz making leveling faster, but did they have to nerf all the good quests?

Cya,

Keilakat

Happy Wowloween

I love World of Warcraft Holidays.

Here's Keila on her Broom Mount. This is the blue broom, which means it has the same speed boost as your 40 mount.
Too bad it's going to go away in a couple of weeks*

Cya,

Keilakat

*Blizzard goofed and I got nearly 3 months out of it. Thanks Blizz.

Wailing Caverns

I followed a solo run in Deadmines with one in Wailing Caverns. WC is just a short run from Ratchet, and even though it's Horde area, once you are in your 30's you will have no problems getting here.

I soloed this instance for one reason. Perfect Deviate scales. They are of course used in a deviate scale belt which sales for mucho gold. Great way to earn mount money.

The entrance to Wailing Caverns. It's in an oasis.

Cobrahn, one of the easier bosses to defeat inside the instance.

You ultimately have to rescue the druid, Naralex.

Cya,

Forest Cat

World Server is Down

As cool as this world is, it's not without technical issues. Warcraft servers crash just like those in the "real" world.


Cya,

Forest Cat

Why Do Blood Elves Look Like This?

One of the givens in World of Warcraft is armor for low level characters is going to look horrible, unless said character is a Blood Elf.

One of my alts, Keily, right out of the gate:

Cya,

Forest Cat

Soloing Deadmines

Getting to the point where you can solo Deadmines is a good thing. Even though the greens and blues you will collect are below your needs, they are probably good for your alt or even for disenchanting. I needed items to give to my enchanter, so instead of sharing with a group, I went alone.

As long as I paid attention and watched the pulls, soloing with my 36 Druid wasn't really that hard.

Boss number two:


Stopping to take a picture before moving on to the goblins:


This is what happens when you take pictures and ignore the patrols. They sneak up behind you. No worry, they really weren't much of a problem.


This place has annoying goblin engineers and their robots. Didn't save this guy though.


Cya,

Forest Cat

Keilakat Magic

When lag kicks in you can get some interesting shots of your character casting spells. This is possible because lag usually freezes you in mid-cast.


Cya,

Forest Cat

Stitches

When I first saw this Night Watch outside of Darkshire, I wondered what it was for? I found out rather quickly.

Stitches is a big guy that resembles the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. He spawns after you complete Bride of the Embalmer and marches to Darkshire. He cuts the Night Watch up pretty easily.

He wasn't counting on help. With the assistance of a 32 Hunter, we melted down Mr. Stay Puft.

Too bad he didn't explode into a bunch of goo. That would have been interesting.

As with all of the Elite mobs in Darkshire, he drops nothing of value. Why is that?

Cya,

Forest Cat

Weddings in Warcraft

Not only do they have weddings in Warcraft, in Booty Bay you can buy engagement rings.

They have no stats, so you pay a lot of money for nothing. I think I'd rather have a ring with stats.

Kinda like the mood ring though.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Treyu

Friends are what really make this game what it is. I was lucky enough to meet Treyu through my guild. She answered my plea for spider silk and she's been a huge help in many other ways.

Her armor looks great too. I love the purple. I think that's why I've been unable to get rid of my moonglow vest even though it's long since lost it's usefulness.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Gryphons, the New Mount?

I was taking Apolo to Darkshire a couple of days ago and we took the Gryphons to Sentinel Hill.

Apolomyth was following me, and after we landed, he stayed on the gryphon. He followed me down the road while still on the bird!

I asked if this was a warlock talent? He said, "What talent? What bird?"

He couldn't see the bird!

So, I took a picture.

Here we are almost to Darkshire and Apolomyth is still on the bird. He rode it the entire way. It was very cool. Wish I knew which glitch caused that to happen. I'd try it sometime.

Cya,

Forest Cat

More Sleeping

In keeping with the running joke of sleeping around the world.


Cya,

Forest Cat

Sin'Dall

I've been hanging out in Stranglethorn because I'm broke, and this place is leather heaven.

Sadly, even though I can make cool things like Toughened Leather Gloves, someone on Bladefist keeps putting stacks of them on the Auction House and selling them for nothing. So the best I can do is give them away to friends.

Anyway, while in Stranglethorn I completed the tiger hunter quest which included battling Sin'Dall. He's not real easy at 33 and he took me down twice before I was successful.

Of course with my luck he dropped nothing but the quest item. Oh well.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Darkmoon Flower

At the Darkmoon Faire you can earn tickets to turn in for prizes. The cost of tickets is pretty high and the quality of the prizes matches the junk you get at the fair.

Go figure.

Here's the Darkmoon Flower. AKA Darkmoon weed.

What this fair really needs is cool t-shirts.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Darkmoon Faire - The Ladies Room

What would a fair be without porta potties?

Cya,

Forest Cat

Darkmoon Faire - The Cannon

Here's Karrah at the big Darkmoon cannon. One of only two mini-games at the fair.

You launch yourself in the cannon and try to hit a target. No prizes for hitting the target, which seems dumb to me. Why not Darkmoon (bind on pickup) t-shirts?

Here's Karrah flying. When you launch from the cannon you get a pair of wings to use in your flight. They disappear shortly after landing.

Here's the target. I never hit it.


Cya,

Forest Cat

Frost Tabard in Booty Bay

After a long run to Booty Bay, Karrah has the frost tabard.

They make you earn this thing. A long run through Horde territory for a level 20 character is a bit dicey.


Still, it's a very nice tabard, and it's also a Purple Epic item.

I already received one compliment, from someone in Goldshire.

There are only two epic tabards in WOW, the frost and fire tabards, both premiums from the TCG.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Warcraft Prizes from the TCG

I just picked up a Tabard of Frost for Karrah, my Frost Mage. You get it from codes found in the Warcraft trading card game. Reminds me of sending in box tops to get a prize from Captain Crunch.

Here's what the Tabard looks like:

Cya,

Forest Cat

Darkmoon Faire Exotic Goods

One of the promises of Darkmoon Faire is that you can acquire items you can't normally find by taking down mobs and doing quests.

Is this true?

Not entirely.

Here is my mage Karrah in the exotic goods booth. This vendor sells herbs, leather and a couple of Darkmoon exclusives, a ring and a necklace.

The herbs can be things like Dream Foil and Steel Bloom and the leather is everything from medium to rugged. Prices are okay and if you want to make a quick item with your trade skill, this might be the place to get the ingredients.

But, they are limited in quantity. This means when you show up, the vendor may have 3, or she may have none. You can hang out and keep clicking, eventually everything respawns.

She also has a ring and a necklace.

We looked for the ring and necklace all day long. The ring finally spawned in the evening and we snagged it. It took five gold that we really didn't need to spend, but for some reason we wanted this level 50 ring we can't even use yet. Worse even, it's a bind on equip, which means it will sit in the bank a loooong time. Oh well. It's the fair. Aren't you supposed to blow all your cash?

Darkmoon Ring - Looks nice, but five gold? Maybe not.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Darkmoon Faire

Darkmoon Faire just opened outside of Goldshite. This is the first faire since I've been playing Warcraft, so I'm going to offer my impressions on this "in game extra."

Keilakat at the Entrance to Darkmoon Faire

Cya,

Forest Cat

Vultros Slain

Vultros is a rare spawn that hangs out in the area around Sentinel Hill. He's only a level 26 and he's not elite, so there's nothing special about taking him down.

The reason people look for him is he tends to drop a rare dagger, the Talon of Vultros. This dagger has the following stats:

23 - 44 Damage
Speed 2.00 (16.8 damage per second)
+5 Agility and +2 Spirit

It's a level 21 dagger, so those are really good stats.


Analar and snowy with the dead Vultros.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Mages and Non-Robes

Here's the Willow Vest of Frozen Wrath.

I like this better than a robe. She looks more formidable. Monsters beware.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Mages and Robes

Mages in World of Warcraft seem to wear robes for the most part. I'm not sure if it's because of the look, or the stats.

This one didn't last long. I replaced it rather quickly with the Willow Vest of Frozen Wrath. It adds a +10 to my frost spells and as a frost mage this is a good thing.


Cya,

Forest Cat

Snowing

Weather is a factor in World of Warcraft. It rains a lot in Darnassus.

In Ironforge it snows:


Cya,

Forest Cat

Sentinel Hill Graveyard

I've been here a few times, mostly as a ghost.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Read then Sleep

The inevitable shot of yet another bed.

Note the book on the nightstand. Harry Potter maybe?

Cya,

Forest Cat

Twins

With 9 million players, it is inevitable you will find other characters that look like yours.

This one is pretty darn close to mine. Taken in Darnassus.


Cya,

Forest Cat

Minions

In World of Warcraft Warlocks can have minions. A different take on the "pet" idea.

At first I thought this one was another player, until I noticed her "master."


She definitely was the attention grabber. And yes, her actions are as bad as her looks.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Goodnight Moon

Another bed shot. As I said, they are all over. Might as well use 'em. This one's in the Goldshire, on the second floor of the Inn.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Bottle Rocket Brigade

Picked up some fireworks the other day. The fireworks weren't spectacular, but I think the instructions that came with them are pretty funny.

I get the feeling that Gnomes are the Acme Corporation of the World of Warcraft.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Doomguard

My new Mage is currently based in Goldshire. I think every immature player in WOW is based here. They spend a large portion of their time online hanging out in the square, dueling each other, and saying stupid things. That said, it can be fun to stand back and watch the show.

This is the demon Doomguard. The square dwellers fought him over and over last night, somewhere at the other end of the keyboard you have to wonder if the alcohol is flowing.


Cya,

Forest Cat

Hats?

Headgear is very uncommon in this game. I find that really odd.

Saw this last night. Maybe that's why it's uncommon?

Cya,

Forest Cat

Making a Mage

After spending the first few weeks as a Druid, I wanted to try another character. Thus far I've taken this new character to level 9.

I have to say I enjoy playing a Druid much better, maybe that will change. Of course my Everquest character was a Druid, so maybe I am biased.

There is one nice option to having a second character, sharing gear, and gold. All that cloth armor that I sold before, now has a use.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Warcraft Bikini Armor?

The tuxedo seems to be all the rage in Warcraft fashion, I saw a couple last night.

I also saw one of these. The armor bikini.

Actually the bikini outfit is your female character with NO ARMOR, which is really dumb, but an option nevertheless. Welcome to WoW.

BTW, this is my new Mage, Karrah.

I'm thinking maybe blonde hair was a bad choice, but I don't think green was an option.

Cya,

Forest Cat

The Threshwackonator

I like this monster. He was a level 20 elite. That isn't what gets you. What gets you killed is you think this guy is an ally. When he turns on you he gets about three hard whacks in before you know what's up.

I took care of him in round 2.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Fashion Part 2

These girls are a little more fashion conscious than the one in my last fashion post.

Cya,
Forest Cat

And Now for My Next Trick

A quirk of the programming. Sometimes when player characters die, they just float in the air.

World of Warcraft Levitation

Cya,

Forest Cat

Warcraft Fashion

There are a lot of interesting outfits in World of Warcraft. Sadly, you can't pick what you look like. Sometimes you take something because of good stats. I hope her stats were REALLY good.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Darnassus Bank

You spend a lot of time at the bank, it might as well look good. There's a lot of animal sculpture around here. I guess it's a Druid thing.


Cya,

Forest Cat