Stood in the Fire

The other night WoW Freakz fixed the achievement 'Stood in the Fire'. It was so awesome; the whole <KnightTemplars> guild went to badlands, just to get killed by Deathwing. Lol.

Trash Drops

Once you have the starting gear/Rep gear, you should start doing Trash runs of Bastion of Twilight and Blackwing Descent,

The following gear drops in the trash runs,

Bastion of Twilight :

Bracers of the Dark Pool

Chelley's Staff of Dark Mending

Crossfire Carbine

Dragonwreck Throwing Axe

Heaving Plates of Protection

Phase-Twister Leggings

Soul Blade

Tsanga's Helm

Unheeded Warning

 

Blackwing Descent:

Claws of Agony

Claws of Torment

Corehammer's Riveted Girdle

Fury of Angerforge

Hide of Chromaggus

Ironstar's Impenetrable Cover

Maimgor's Bite

Maldo's Sword Cane

Scaleslicer

Shadowforge's Lightbound Smock

Theresa's Booklight

Treads of Savage Beatings

Starting Gear (rep Gear)

After running around all over Azeroth, doing quests upon quests, just to hit that 85 mark, now that you are 85, you would have lots of greens and a few blue items, you would need to get some starter gear. Back in Wrath of the Lich King, we used to get the PvP set as our starting gear, but this is Cata and things have changed.

In patch 4.0.6, the best starting gear is the Rep gear; you will have to be exalted with the following factions,

Guardians of Hyjal (Mount Hyjal)

Therazane (Deepholm)

The Earthen Ring (Deepholm)

Ramkahen (Uldum)

Wildhammer Clan / Dragonmaw Clan (Twilight Highlands)

Baradin's Wardens / Hellscream's Reach (Tol Barad)

 Each faction has different type of gear, most of the gear is easy to get, just earn Exalted with the faction and buy your gear but with Baradin's Wardens (Alliance) / Hellscream's Reach (Horde) in Tol Barad, you would need Tol Barad Tokens, which are earned by doing Tol Barad Daily quests, but are worth it because both the factions have the best Weapons and Trinkets.

Outland, Northrend and Cataclysm (60 to 85)

   

Level 60 to 80 was the same as it was on Wrath of the Lich King; nothing had changed in Outland and Northrend. So I quickly leveled to 80 and off I went to new Cataclysm zones.

All the Cata zones can be accessed by taking the portal in Stormwind or Orgrimmar, each and every Cata zone is lore heavy, leveling in Cata is comparatively more fun.

At 80, the 1^st zone I went to was Mount Hyjal, anyone who has seen this zone in the Cavern of Times raids, would love the changes made to this zone, Hyjal is simply beautiful.

You can also go to Vashj’ir, at level 80 but this zone is fully underwater and is bugged on almost every private server.

At level 82 I went to Deepholm, this zone is under the Maelstorm, this is where Deathwing prison used to be, the heart of Cataclysm, this zone is the home of Earth elementals and their leader, Therazane the Stonemother.

Once level 83, I went to Uldum, the theme of this zone is Egyptian, with Pyramids and Pharaohs, this zone is home to Tol’vir race, the cat-like humanoid, they were created by the Titans to watch over Uldum, this is the most fun zones of Cata, easy quests and good storyline.

Around 84, I went to Twilight Highlands, and thank god this zone has nothing to do with Vampires or the Twilight movies, this zone is the last leveling zone of Cata, the zone is the heart of Twilight’s Hammer cult, the followers of Deathwing and the Fire Elemental Lord Ragnaros.

Congratulation, no more leveling :)

The Alliance of Kalimdor (level 1 to 60)

As with the Horde post, I will write about the zone changes worth checking out, again this post will only cover Kalimdor, because I am too lazy to get on the Ship :)

Since I roll Night elf, I was in Teldrassil, nothing changed in the whole starting zone, so I quickly moved on to the next zone, once I was done with the starting zone, I was level 12, and I went to Darkshore, now this zone has been turned inside out, literally, the old Night Elf town “Auberdine” is broken and the NPCs are missing, this zone has a lot of things you should see, in short this zone is a ‘Must’ check out zone.

At around level 22, I went to Ashenvale and then Stonetalon Mountains, both zones are almost the same as before, when I entered Stonetalon Mountains, the 1^st thing I saw was Night Elf’s fighting Ores, other than that, both zones have not changes.

Desolace was my next stop at level 32, everyone who has been to this zone pre Cata knows that this is a really dry zone, this zone now has a Small forest in its center, according to the lore, Alexstrasza the Life-Binder sat at that spot and cried after finding out that her Mate Korialstrasz had died, you can read about that in the book “Thrall Twilight of The Aspects” by “Christie Golden”

Next stop Feralas, the island that hosted the Allaince town has been flooded, and Feathermoon Stronghold has made a huge new town at the cost of Feralas, other than that, the zone remains the same.

Once I was done with Feralas, I was level 44; I went to Thousand Needles, this zone has been known to be really boring, now this whole zone is flooded and is filled with water, the only way to move in this zone is by small boats, but they were bugged when I was leveling :(

I had to take a different route to Tanaris, but it was worth it, the Steamwheedle Port has been completely flooded, and the Goblin survivors were holding on to their washed out homes, rest of the zone is the same.

Around level 55, I went to Un'Goro Crater and then Silithus, nothing changed in both zones, once done, I took the portal to the Blasted Lands, and entered the Dark Portal to Outland.

The Horde of the Eastern Kingdom (level 1 to 60)

So I thought I should write about leveling a Horde character in Cata, according to my experience but I only leveled in the Eastern Kingdom because I was too lazy to take the Ship to Kalimdor.

All this post will cover is what changes have been given to the zones in Eastern Kingdom worth seeing.

Since I was leveling a Blood Elf my leveling started in Eversong Woods, Which was more or less same as Wotlk, same thing with Ghostlands, nothing new added or changed here. Once I was level 20 I went to Hillsbrad Foothills, now this zone has been completely redone, the once proud town of South Shore is now over taken by Undead plague, the whole zone is under the control of the Undeads, a really nice change I would say. The only quest worth doing is the “Welcome to the Machine” quest, where you are giving the role of a Quest giver to give out quests to new Npc, yeap the tide has been turned for once and we get to be the quest giver for a while. The zone is lore heavy if you’re in interested in wow lore, a must play for any Horde player.

At around level 25 I went to Arathi Highlands and The Hinterlands, because both the zones are closer to Hillsbrad and the Plague lands. Nothing new in both zones, just easy quests and moving on.

Next stop at level 35 was Western Plaguelands. Now I had heard a lot about this zone being completely redone, so I had to check it out. As soon as I entered the zone I was amazed to see that the zone was Greener, and much more lively then it was in Wotlk. According to the Lore the druids have been working on resorting the Plaguelands ever since the fall of Lich King

Eastern Plaguelands was my next stop at level 40, same as Western Plaguelands this zone has been resorted by the druids but to some extent, you will still be able to see the dark side of this zone in some parts. The “Fiona's Lucky Charm” quest is a must do starting quest of this zone; it gives us a few nice Buffs that help a lot in leveling.

Around level 44 I went to Badlands, this zone has been changed, and now has a lot of quests; back in Wotlk this zone would hardly give 1 or 2 levels, now we have comparatively more quests in this zone. At level 49 I went to Burning Steppes, nothing new or changed in this zone worth checking out, but it is nearer to Badlands.

Once I was done with Burning Steppes, I was around level 51, so I went to Swamp of Sorrows. The only noticeable thing is this zone is that the Forces of Horde are fighting the Forces of Alliance; rest of the zone is same as it was on Wotlk. At level 55 I went to Blasted Lands, this zone is more or less the same, minor changes to this zone have been added.

By the time I was done with Blasted Lands, I was level 60, and it was time to enter Dark Portal and enter the Outland :)

The Server Rush

I have been playing Wrath of the Lich King for over 3years now, and it had become boring as crap, doing the same stuff over and over again. I felt like it was time for a change, Time to move on. So I told Missedhit, We tried different MMO but nothing felt as awesome as wow. So the only thing left for us was to update our wow to Cataslysm. But there was a problem; we knew that Cata is still nowhere near bug free. But I had a few servers in mind that looked good by their website.

Monster WoW was my 1^st choice, so I told Missedhit about Monster wow, we both started to do our research. I like to just to log into the server and ask the players playing on that server, while Missedhit goes and reads the forums. I haven’t even logged into the server that I got a text from Missedhit saying that Monster wow sucks. Now this was a very bad thing, because I had good hopes for this server. We found out that none of the Raids and Dungeons were scripted, everything was tank spank.

After that I found Astral WoW, 1x server blizzlike, now I like blizzlike servers for some reason, so I logged in and asked around, it seemed that some stuff was working on this server and a few dungeons and raids were scripted, that is until I leveled my DK to 64. I found out that almost every class had one full spec bugged and my Dk Blood spec was not working right. So I packed my bags and left the server.

Now at that time Molten WoW had started their every own Cata server, I was looking forward to that, because Molten has made a name by having the best fixes and scripting in private server business. But on the other hand Molten always has a 500+ queue on log in, having to wait to play wow, well I hate that, so again back to step one and server hunting.

All going from website to website, server to server, I found WoW Freakz a Romanian server with 1 English realm. Once I saw the website, I was stunned, everything that was bugged on other server was fixed on this server, I had to try and check if the website was right or not. So I logged in and man did I love it. 20x leveling rates but rest everything 2x/3x. I have been playing here for months now, and I have had the best Cata experience here.

It took us a lot time but we have found a server that we can call home, WoW Freakz,

Anyone who plays Cata or wants to play, should try this server, but remember to Roll Alliance ;)

Blood Dk

Well i thought i would start our new blog with some thing, so here is my Blood Dk Talents/Spec. It is what i am using at the moment for Tanking and PvPing

The talents below are 4.0.6 talents since the server i play on is on this patch.



Blizzard has removed the defence rating in WoW and given all the tanking classes a Druid like talent which makes them Uncritable same as 540 Defence rating used to do. Since a Dk can't use a Shield, so our class does not have the ability to Block an attack, instead we absorb the damage, via our Blood Shield which is applied by using death strike. The death strike ability heals us and puts on a Shield depending on our mastery rating. At the moment my one death strike gives me 13k damage absorb shield and heals me for 10k hp. The fun part is that this Shield stacks up, so if i put up a shield for 12k and I take 5k damage and i apply another shield over it, i get a 19k shield and so on,  depending on how much damage i am taking.

In Cata tanking has changed so much that one cannot Afk tank a boss, plus the raid is no longer depended on a Tank or Healer. If a Dps makes a Mistake the raid wipes and tank can no longer depends on the healer to save the day as we used to do in Wotlk. All tank (Warrior. Paladin, Druid or Dk) have to apply their own Shields in order to stay alive rather than hope for the healer to save them.

mmmm, i guess this will do for my 1st Real post on this blog, i hope you guys like it.

I will write more on tanking and Death Knights soon :)

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