Thoughts on Wrath

All i can say is... I Love Wrath. This is a great expansion. I have come across very few bugs. There a lot of people complaining in general chat about quests not working. All i have to say about that is, READ THE DAMN QUEST TEXT!!! Blizzard™ is trying to make things interesting. And i really appreciate it. It's not just go kill 12 crows and then come back. It's more like "Here, take this cage. Release the dog. Kill some crows and gather their meat. Feed the meat to the dog and then return to me." I praise Blizzard™ for making things fun. But then all you hear in general chat is "Where is the dog i'm supposed to have and what do i do with him?" AARRGGGG!!! Sorry - drives me crazy. I mean take 2 minutes. Carefully read the text and follow the instructions. Too many people get a quest and then hop right onto the general chat and start complaining that the quest is bugged. Anyway - i'll stop complaining myself. Overall, i love this expansion better than The Burning Crusade expansion. The new Blood Elf and Draenai races were fun and new content is always welcome but Wrath is really better. Even if you don't intend to run up a Death Knight i highly recommend starting one and running thru the starting quests. Well worth the lore and the screaming citizens is hilarious. It's fun to be feared by your very presence. You just get close to them and they cower and run away screaming. A total laugh riot.

Northrend is very well done. As far as i have delved into it. I am just beyond the point i got to in the beta, so it's all new now. I have my hunter to 72 already and my warrior to 71. I know, i know! You're saying, "So what, my rogue is 79 already." I am a slow grinder but hey, i have a job and kids and a wife and kidney problems. This is fast for me and besides. I read quests. I like to take my time and move thru the content with precision. Exploring and mining and looking at the scenery. I really am appreciating the terrain and art that i think so many people overlook. Keep it up Blizzard™. There are many of us that really do love what you have done. 

WotLK Addon Gathering

WoWInsider has put together a great list of addons that work with WotLK. I hope there is minimal trouble with addons on Thursday morning. But here is something you might like to look at to prepare yourself. You can see the article here, it includes links to Curse and WoWInterface that are very concise. Try it out.

Pre-Expansion Trouble

Is this a bad sign? Blizz brought down servers for regular Tuesday morning down-time. But this is rediculous. It is almost 1:30pm PST and the servers are all still grayed out. They say its some problem with the mail system. This makes me feel a little uneasy. This kind of stuff happening this close to a major release is, to me, disconcerting. C'mon Blizz - i need to get my steady fix of daily quests.

Monkey Love

I must take this chance to profess my love for the Gorilla pet and thanks to the website, Big Red Kitty They have a videos out there on the intertoobs that are AWESOME!
One specific one is the Gorilladin 101 video that shows you how to use a Gorilla like a pally tank. Gather up 5, 8, 22 mobs and let the volley fly. I love it. After watching this i went to Un'Goro crater and tamed me a monkey. It has only been 3 days and i got him from level 65 to level 69. It was easy. Just doing 10 dailies or so and grinding a little Mag'Har rep and boom. This monkey kicks the ass of all asses. I will use Monkeedin (so i named him) to level to 80. I see no other viable option. With less than a week before WotLK i am as ready as i can be.

LOL! Cons has her eyes closed in this shot. Just bad photography.