Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Nearly all of my visits with my death knight to Wintergrasp so far have been highly enjoyable PvP romps, but it is only recently I've realised that being below the level cap has meant missing out on collecting Stone Keeper's Shards from the Wintergrasp daily quests available. On the ...
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
There is a neat talented ability called Vigilance that is available to protection warriors. When applied like a buff to another character that character takes 3% less damage, 10% of their generated threat is transferred to the warrior and whenever they take damage the taunt cool-down is refreshed. ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Despite getting my death knight up to 76th level after a run through the Old Kingdom, and my warrior reaching the same level by completing the Netherwing Drake grind and Dalaran cooking daily quests, the harsh level restrictions in Wrath of the Lich King raise their ugly head again. ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Pleased with my progress to help the Wyrmrest Accord and the good work I have done in Wintergarde Keep my death knight is sent to Fordragon Hold for further instructions. It is there that I bear witness to a massive struggle outside Angrathar the Wrath Gate, Alliance and Horde ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
A few times now I have been tanking in an instance and had trouble keeping an accompanying death knight pulling aggro from me. In each case the death knight has been in frost presence, greatly increasing their threat generation, rather than my own threat generation being lacking. Apart ...
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Grabbing some mushrooms from the sewers of Dalaran—and only just now realising how disgusting it is to make a meatloaf from sewer mushrooms—I find a discarded Underbelly Elixir. Apparently forgetting that I am in a sewer, even with a warning on the bottle, I quaff the elixir anyway and ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Even though I am enjoying my Wintergrasp escapades and other occasional PvP battles in World of Warcraft they don't offer any XP, and I am not likely to get from 75th to 80th level on the Dalaran cooking daily quests alone. Being 80th level would make me more effective ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Chains of Ice is an excellent death knight spell in PvP combat. It is a ranged spell that roots the target and although any damage to the target breaks the rooting Chains of Ice has a secondary slowing effect once broken, preventing rapid escape of the target. In ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
My death knight has been heading in to Wintergrasp a often as she can recently, enjoying the open PvP zone with vehicles and buildings and the accompanying chaotic combats, whilst being able to return to the comfort of PvE at the end. Despite only 75th level and being up ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
I've been rather scathing of World of Warcraft's Northrend content recently, although it was partly owing to trudging through the quagmire of achievement-orientated and otherwise-pointless holiday events. Just as Winter Veil ends the Lunar Festival turns up, swiftly followed by Valentine's weekend. With so many holidays I need ...
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