Saturday, March 26, 2011

The New Warbear

It looks like the model for the new amani war bear has been datamined, it looks green instead of red. As one of the few people who actually have one of the originals from tbc I have to say that I'm glad blizzard made it very noticably different. Same model but you can easily tell who got it when.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Valor points

Right now, you receive 70 VP for the first random Cataclysm Heroic dungeon you complete each day. In 4.1, you'll receive 70 VP for the first seven random Cataclysm Heroic dungeons you complete each week. Similarly, you'll receive 140 VP for the first seven random Rise of the Zandalari Heroic dungeons (the new Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub instances) you complete in the week, too. Collectively, you'll be able to earn up to 980 VP exclusively from Heroic dungeons, which in turn will count towards your weekly 1250 VP cap. - Blizzard

So it looks like valor points will be much easier to come by come 4.1.  I have mixed feelings about this.  On the one side it's definitely good for the casual player.  You can get your 5 mans in any time you want for valor points.  Heck, you can don't even have to raid at all and you will get near the weekly cap!  What this does do, is totally eliminates any advantage that 25 mans have.  One of the carrots on the stick used to be extra valor points.  When you can get 140 a pop from doing a 5 man though, that incentive becomes much less valuable.  I think we are seeing the slow demise of 25 man raids in World of Warcraft.  By next expansion they won't even exist.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

I'm back!

I decided it might be a good time to resurrect the blog!  Why you ask?  Well it's something I enjoy doing a lot, I just wasn't making time for it before.  Cataclysm sucked up quite a bit of my time and that's died down a bit now so
A. I have more time to blog and
B. There isn't quite the flurry of news which is difficult for me to keep up with. 

I am going to make a few tweaks to the format though.  While the main focus of the blog will always be world of warcraft, I'll also throw in some other MMOs which have caught my interest.  Currently I've been playing Rift a bit, so you might hear me talk about that until that gets old.  The second change I'm going to make is that I know I probably can't keep this blog updated daily.  My aim for this blog will be to update it about 3 times per week.

It's been about 4 months since the last post and much has happened since then.  Cataclysm had a pretty successful launch and I am loving the expansion.  I have also found an excellent raid group from my guild in "The League".  We started raiding a bit late but we are tearing through content like there's no tomorrow, so expect to hear my impressions of some of the raid bosses as we progress.

All in all, glad to be back though!