The Plot Thickens: Archive

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Herb dilemma

My bucket list of stuff i want to finish off and prepare before the expansion is almost complete. With “level herbalism to 450” out of the way, i only got “farm Anzu for the Reins of the Raven Lord mount” and “bore yourself to death while getting fishing up to 450” left on the list. With only seven days to go, my biggest concern is not weather i will make it or...

Dec 2nd

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Holy Fuck!

Call 911! My heart is fainting… *nerdgasm* I just got a severe case of nerdgasm after i race changed my paladin. I never liked taurens, since they make me feel slow and clumsy, but this fella sure looks bad ass deluxe with my current gear. Argh, things just complicated again. Last couple of days i thought i had settled for tanking with my death knight in Cataclysm, but this stir things...

Nov 27th

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Trike-a-licious!

A small trike for a big boned troll Like everyone rest on the planet of Azeroth i did my Bilgewater Cartel-grind and got a flaming sultry trike mount for the trouble. I still think that the engineering bike is way more sexy, but the trike looks awesomely funny with a huge troll in the driver seat. Since the driver is placed so close to the ground, my feet dig a few inches into the mud while i...

Nov 27th

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Nov 25th

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Don´t stand in green shit, oh wait...

Blizzard have tried to teach us to not stand in fire and to pay attention to our surroundings since day one, but still they design spells like the screenshot above. No wonder why people still fuck up. Can you see the difference, in a split second, between the friendly AoE heal Evanescence and the nasty Death and Decay from Lady Death Whisperer? Another example is the green slime pools in the...

Nov 25th

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Ice, ice baby!

What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been since the last blog update. I will try to keep the long story short. The guild made up of swedish IRL-friends went into hibernate once again during the summer. As foreseen. The guild chat echoed like the empty streets of Dalaran on our low populated server. The dead server was now stone dead. I had made an pretty extensive bucket list of stuff i could...

Nov 24th

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Vertical bones and flying paladins

Hellscreams version of Orgrimmar on the background. A confused Death Knight on a ePeen-mount in the foreground. Cataclysm Beta After spending to much time in all the WoW betas to date, i kind of promised myself not to participate in the Cataclysm beta. I wanted, for once, to enjoy the finished product and explore the new zones for the first time on launch day. But then it came. The...

Jul 9th

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Mass hysteria

The RealID a-bomb dropped on everyone a few days ago and caused a mass hysteria without proportions in the gaming community (aka not only among WoW players). Basically Blizzard wants to use RealID on their public forums for their games to get rid of forum trolls that hide behind anonymity, which means that everyone will be posting with their real names. That´s it. I am really caught by surprise...

Jul 9th

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Blood in - Blood out

Bye bye Frost-tanking! So the bomb dropped on tanking death knights today. Tri-tank-spec and the flexibility that comes with it will be gone in Cataclysm. Blood will be the new revamped dedicated tanking tree for death knights. My first reaction: this is just sad! One of the reasons that i picked death knight over other tanking classes was the almost endless flexibility. I really liked that i...

Apr 7th

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God (can not) save the Queen

Finally some progress! Finally a well deserved high pitch echo of nerdscreams on Vent! The blood that floats in Crimson Halls are no longer ours. We have been stuck at Blood-Queen for a while. The mechanic for the fight is not very complicated, but requires some focused raiders to not fuck up the bite rotation and spread out and stay alive during air phase. We have had the fight for a while...

Mar 29th

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I am not only a tank, i am father too!

Pwnwear highlighted something that i have been wanting to write a article about in the magazine for a while. And that is “Parents that play WoW”. There are certainly a lot of us. Even in my very small guild there are at least five raiders that have kids and comments like “i have to AFK for a short while, my kid woke up” are very common. In fact; so common that nobody cares...

Mar 19th

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Trägen vinner

There is an old (?) swedish saying that goes something like this; “trägen vinner”. It means that those who persist and never give up will in the end succeed. And so i did, i never gave up. After almost one year of weekly egg hatching i was about to give up my hopes on ever cruising the skies over Northrend on a Green Proto-Drake. But today lady luck smiled on me when i logged in sick...

Feb 25th

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Wings cleared! Hello Mr Arthas!

After a nasty and unfair 5% wipe last reset we where back, fueled with revenge, to nail the chilly dragon Sindragosa. All decked up in Frost Resistance and a anti-magic unholy spec (6% less spell damage taken, 24% stronger Anti-Magic Shell and Anti-Magic Zone), i was ready to soak those Frost Breaths like there was no tomorrow. And i did. My heart almost stopped when we reached the last 5%...

Feb 17th

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On the Edge of Shadow with my Shadow's Edge

“Has the Edge gone dull?” True til Death / Chain of Strength (a 24 min hardcore history lesson - by Hensley). It certainly has not gone dull. In fact, it has never been sharper. As Hensley last night got the final quest item from Rotface to craft this axe from hell. Shadow’s Edge is mine. I doubt i will be able to upgrade it to Shadowmourne, since i am second in line for...

Feb 12th

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Today was a good day

My intergalactic detour as captain on Normandy have an massive effect on my time spent in Azeroth at the moment. Like everyone else on this planet, earth that is, i am completely stoked by Biowares epic sequel to Mass Effect. I still rank the first game as one of the best games ever created. Big words, but well deserved. Few other games during the last five years have managed to pull me away from...

Feb 9th

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Jan 30th

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258 days and counting...

Installing the Altoholic addon gave me some unexpected findings. Stuff that i am not sure if i wanted to know. *gulp* - Damn, i have played WoW for 258 days in total. Thats freaking 6192 hours (!). Lets cry/celebrate! - Holy Smoke, my most played character by far is a rogue! 66 days. Compared to my current main character with only 29 days. - Second most play character is my priest. Came as an...

Jan 26th

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Threat: Less is more?

I have been thinking about how focused tanks are on generating more and more threat. We can read awesome threat analyses on each talent/gear choice from theorycrafting guys/girls on EJ and sites like Pwnwear (good job btw!). And its awesome to a certain point, but when is enough? I mean, during our raids at least, tanks get Tricks of the Trade from our ass kicking rogues pretty much all the...

Jan 20th

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A message from the undercutter

Did not expect this. Instead of the ordinary auction house PvP i got a friendly message from one of my undercutters. He pretty much gave me a window of opportunity to sell some glyphs and control the market for a short while. Thanks Audumla <3

Jan 18th

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Ambassador Hensley

“9: Get exalted with all cities for the Crusader and Ambassador-titles.” CHECK! Finally exalted with all cities. It took a while. My initial plan to just buy loads of runecloth and turn them in for reputation went down the drain when i realized that on our low population server, there is no runecloth on AH. And if there is some occasionally stacks on AH the price is insane (like...

Jan 17th

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Impressive

Was browsing the new armory and stumbled upon a DK in Premonition, aka the best ranked guild in the world (of warcraft). Holy smoke, Advent is an overachiever by grande scale. 9600+ achivementpoints is pretty darn impressive (and inspiring). Especially for DK that entered the game late and had to play catch up throw the expansions. *clap* *clap*

Jan 17th

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Best Friends Forever

“We heard you like pugs. So here’s a pug for your pug, so you can pug while you pug, Or something. Hugs, Your friends on the WoW Dev Team”. Best. In-game. Mail. Ever. From. Blizzard! And i finally got a sweet little dog in-game! Perky is mine. We will throw bones and play catch in green fields on Mulgore everyday.

Jan 14th

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Weapon speed effect on dual-wield tanking →

Pwnwear strikes again with another brilliant analyze.

Jan 13th

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Enter the Cult (of Razer)

Since i accidentally poured IKEA’s pear cider into my old WoW-mouse last raid, the left button stopped working due to all sugar and alcohol. Tried to save it with some mouth-to-mouth emergency first aid and cleaned all parts carefully, but it’s gone. R.I.P (Rest in Pieces) old WoW-mouse. I will honor your memory! Not. The grief was short. I drove to MediaMarkt during lunch time and...

Jan 11th

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Diplomacy!

Yatta! Say hello to Hensley the Diplomat. A fancy title for a fancy death knight! I completed my first goal of the year much faster then i expected. Sporeggar and Mag’har was easy, but grinding rep with Timbermaw Hold was slow. Mainly because i did not read a guide before i started. If i had read up on the repgrind i would have known better and saved all quests until revered. Since after...

Jan 8th

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Field test: Anti-magic/AoE Unholy

Right before the raid invite i got the last Emblems of Frost and bought my tier 10 gloves. This gave me the 2-setbonus and the opportunity to try out my Anti-Magic/AoE Unholy spec in a live raid environment. On a side note: i am not a big fan of theorycrafting, all numbers, spreadsheets and simulations gives me headache. I rather go out and try things until they make or brake. The setup: ...

Jan 7th

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Happy hour of the week!

Today was a good day. My fellow co-tank Blyerts came over with his daughter to hang out with me and my son. After eating some extraordinary mouth melting vegetarian Korv Stroganoff with rice for lunch, the kids finally crashed and took a nap in my bedroom. Yatta! This meant that the dads could drink some coffee and discuss tanking uninterrupted for at least one hour. Happy hour of the week! We...

Jan 5th

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Declaration of war

Beware, a new era of terror, plague and death has just begun in the Emberstorm battlegroup. Hensley lost his mind and bought PvP-gear for all (200+) Emblem of Triumph and have entered the PvP-scene with no clue how to play and what to expect. I never cared about PvP at all and got minimal experience from both battleground and arenas. I tried some 3v3 arenas in the first season with my rogue...

Jan 4th

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New year resolutions from a troll

As the old hardcore act CIV once said with their debut album - “Set Your Goals”. Its important to have goals to avoid straying around like a headless chicken in Azeroth and currently there are more to do in the game then an normal nine-to-five-working-slave can manage in a lifetime. Especially for a Death Knight, who came in late into the game. Being a very goal oriented player, i...

Dec 31st

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Cockteasers Extravaganza

Five wild blond BELFs stirred up some attention in front the the hairdresser in Dalaran this morning. Blyerts, Felbulky, Prostinnan, Shellac (me, the tank in front) and Ponypie where teasing the boys crazy with some nasty ass shaking and newly blond dyed hair. RP/BELF-moment of today.

Dec 30th

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Backseat driver

I suddenly felt an urge to bring some uncontrolled chaos and fierce destruction upon Azeroth and revived my old warlock. After a few hectic heroic marathon runs i realised a few things that i never thought about before. 1: 7 out of 10 tanks have no clue what they are doing. I am by no means an awesome tank (I consider my co-tanks heroes and have i have many areas that i want to improve upon),...

Dec 28th

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Saronite Shuffle Deluxe

Some guy (probably a professional farmer) just dumped loads and loads of Saronite Ore on the auction house for 13g a stack. Thats crazy cheap on our server. A stack normally sells for about 20-22g a stack. I invested a couple of thousand gold and scraped the marked clean. Because the prospected value (baseline) is still around 33g. So it should be a good profit to just shuffle these ores (prospect...

Dec 25th

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Chilling with the penguins

Hensley finally got a deep red winter hat (from a Nexus run) and some nice loot under the christmas tree in Orgrimmar. The Marrymaker-achivement got completed on christmas day and Hensley took a field trip to Howling Fjord to celebrate with penguins. Regarding my trinket/gearing-dilemma in Icecrown Citadel. My fellow co-tank and some nice replies on the tankspot forum pointed out the obvious...

Dec 25th

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Big trouble in little Småland

Hensley have relocated to the dark frosty woods of Småland (south part of Sweden where people talk with a hilarious dialect) to celebrate christmas with the family. But there was some spare time yesterday to attend to the last raid before christmas. Things could have gone better thou, it all started up hill with a broken router that refused to let me access the wireless network. After some...

Dec 23rd

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