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Is Wrathion questline Legendary enough ?

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Tzufit recently wrote a post about the Wrathion legendary questline. In this post he complained that Legendaries have become too easy to acquire thanks to the Black Prince, making them no longer legendary. This seems like a valid concern. As he said, when everyone’s Legendary, no one will be!

Well, this depends of what are your expectations concerning Legendaries. If your main definition of Legendary is rare, then effectively, the Wrathion quest is hardly legendary as anyone can complete it.

Although, if you look at the quest reward, these become scarcer. Of course, it’s easy to get your Sha-touched gem. But then ? Not really useful if you don’t have the associated weapon. So yeah, I suppose a lot of players have actually equipped the gem in the most advanced guilds, but if you’re hoping to get your Sha-touched weapon in LFR, it suddenly gets a legendary touch !

But Legendary isn’t just “rare” for me. It’s also epic, fabulous. And what would you call a gigantic questline that’ll keep you involved during a whole expansion ? In this quest you’ll have to do raids (all of them, as it seems), daily quests, battlegrounds, and maybe heroics, challenge modes or scenarios to get your 6000 valor points.

Of course, this can’t replace the legendary items for top-notch guilds (and I hope Blizzard will continue to introduce legendary weapon in future patches). But for the others ? For all the players out there who know in advance that they won’t be able to get the new legendary weapon because they aren’t part of a hardcore raiding guild ? Well, for all these players, the Wrathion questline really have a legendary fell in my opinion.

Wanna play SWTOR ?

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I was looking at my dashboard today when I noticed someone came to my blog after searching “make me wanna play SWTOR”. So, for the one of my three readers who don’t know if it’s worth it to play SWTOR or not, here are my top 10 reasons why you should give it a go :

  1. Class story. If there was one thing every MMO to come should have, it’s that. Your character have a story. In Swtor you won’t be going from planet to planet because you want to be level 50 as fast as possible, but because “what happens now ??” As a Bounty Hunter, each planet has a feel of “Finally, I killed the Lich King!” in Wrath, except on a shorter time-line.
  2. Quest cinematics are just great. No more dubious reading, and yet you know why you’re killing ten rats. And is a perfect complement to the class story to make the leveling experience compelling.
  3. You can have BSOCK with your companions, or, even better, with complete strangers !
  4. You can have your companions do the farming for you
  5. Light Side / Dark Side choices. This system allow you to give your character a real personality.
  6. You have a droid which says “It’s a pleasure to work for you mistress” each time it sees you.
  7. You can have a slave and torture her as you wish (or you can make her free if that’s your thing, but, seriously, who would do that ???)
  8. Your character will look badass.
  9. You have a ship of your own, and you can do space combat with it
  10. And last but not least : you can try SWTOR for free !

 

Is your UI ready for your Cataclysm leveling?

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For altoholics like me, having an interface that fits questing is very useful. But with Cataclysm approaching, we’ll all have to level and quest in a few weeks. Is your UI ready for this ? If not, here are a few addons and UI tricks I like to use while leveling, you may want to try these :

4 Addons you might need :

Mapster

This addon allow you to scale and move your world map. You can also make the border transparent and see the map for the zone you don’t have discovered yet (only if you want to). I find it very useful while leveling. With Mapster, as your world map doesn’t take a lot of space on your screen, you can have it always out and make the most of the quests objectives feature.

Mapster make traveling from quest to quest easy

Mapster make traveling from quest to quest easy

Ding Recorder

Automatically takes a screenshot when you level up. Nice lightweight addon to keep mementos of your leveling experience, especially if you’re like me and have a bunch of alts.

Quest mover

Allow you to move your quest watch frame. Lightweight and pretty useful if you don’t use the standard UI. I personnally prefer the 1.0 version of this addon. You need to define the position of the frame in the .lua file, but in the newer versions the frame can’t be locked.

To configure the 1.0 version, open QuestMover.lua in you World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns/QuestMover directory.

You can define the position by changing the numbers on line 2 :

WatchFrame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", "UIParent", "TOPLEFT", 30, -100)

The first number (30) is for the horizontal position, and the second number is for the vertical position.

You can also define the height of the frame by changing the number on line 3.

XP Bar None

If you use some action bar addon, you might need an addon that provide an experience bar. I suggest you to pick XP Bar None. This addon is lightweight and fully customisable, it can really fit any UI.

WoW Carto : another useful tool you should learn to love

This one is not an addon, but an external program that can show you about every thing you ever want to know about wow. It contains the maps of all continents with notes for any NPCs or point of interest. The french version is especially full and up to date. Last time I checked, the English version had less information, but the upcoming expansion is a good time to get the program and report anything you find out other players might want to know. While leveling, I often used Carto to find some hidden NPC or quest objective, or to clear my way through complicated dungeons (especially useful in Wailing Cavern).

3 UI tweaks you could use

If you’re a raider and didn’t level an alt for 2 years (I know it’s hard to imagine but some people – often warlocks, I don’t know why – just hate alts and are happy with their only character), you might want to change some things in your UI :

  • Disable any sort of “pass on green” you might have. Some addons can do that, and there is a option allowing you to automatically pass on loot if you right-click on your character frame. There could be some greens you need in the upcoming instances !
  • Make sure you have a good unit frame addon. If you’re a healer, you could have been using mainly your raid frames to check your own health, and your unit frames for player and target might be relegated in the corner of your screen. You don’t want to level that way, it’d result in painful deaths.
  • You might want to disable the testing feature for the talent tree. I often forget to click “learn” while leveling, resulting in playing for some time with unused talent point. Not good !

Do you have your Westfall chicken yet ?

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This post is an answer for this week’s Shared Topic, suggested by Syl  from Raging Monkeys.

In fact, I wrote this posts 2 weeks ago after ready 2 posts about WoW Secrets. Klepsacovic from Troll racials are overpowered explained about the most obscure quest in WoW and the Raging Monkey about Dalaran shoe-shine boy. The post was just missing a few picture before publishing when I saw this was the next week’s Shared Topic. So here is my “WoW secret”:

There is a secret quests in Westfall1I like to do with every character leveling in the area. Especially as the quest reward you with a cute Westfall chicken pet.

There is a farm in Westfall with a few chickens outside.

Westfall chicken house

Right Here !

Of course, the farmer has got some special chicken food to feed them.

Westfall Farmer

Do you fancy some seeds ?

If you talk to him you can buy this food2. And, if the chickens like you, you can also feed them. But, how can you make the chicken love you, you ask ?

Simple, just /chicken at a chicken.

/chicken

/chicken

But chickens must be deaf AND blind, as you’ll certainly have to /chicken a lot of time to make them care. When the chicken finally hear you, he’ll become friendly and give you a low level quest.

Cluck!

Cluck!

Then, if you give him some food, he’ll leave you an egg on the floor, with your long-awaited Westfall chicken in it !

Westfall Chicken

Enjoy your new Westfall chicken pet !

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  1. In fact you can do this quest anywhere in the neighborhood of a chicken ↩
  2. If you’re Horde side, you can now buy this food at William Saldean in Drill ↩