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 up inside me. Paladins are not only fun and diverse to play, they can finally look awesome while being righteous and judge people in the face!

Back to the drawing board. I think i need to take this bastard for ride in a few raids to try him out. 

Eat shit, dear old Charger! This kodo will eat you for breakfast!

November 27, 2010, 3:32pm | Leave a comment: Comments

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 solo with Hensley, to keep me occupied until the break was over. But as the summer turned into autumn and almost no one even logged in on rainy cold days, my patience was over. AK was dead and beyond resurrection. The few active souls that hung in there during the summer and made occasionally Alt-runs in ICC started to transfer or join other guilds.

It was about time for me to find another guild. 

Enter Shellac
After a few weeks of searching and writing a few applies i found a guild called Ice on Executus (EU) that where raiding hardcore, but only three (!!) times a week. This is extremely rare and made me really happy, since that was a schuedule i could keep up with as a father to a one year old kid and with a hectic real life in the background. The only problem was that Ice where already on LKHC25 and had all other hard mode bosses (11/12) on farm. I was pretty far behind with gear and had no experience of hard modes in ICC. But i tried my luck and wrote the longest guild application i ever written to convince them to bring me aboard.

After a long dialog with the management they where interested/convinced to give me a trial spot in the raiding team, but not as a Blood Death Knight - they wanted my under geared Protection Paladin. *doh*

I transfered over to Executus and quickly became a part of the raiding core. After a few weeks i was geared to the teethes with shiny i277 epics and we where plowing through ICC25-drake achievements on hard mode (for the challenge!). Everything went smooth as butter except the king himself. Fast forward a few months and here we are - still busting our asses on the bastard. A lot of people have quietly given up and even though they still show up for raids, it has become painfully clear that we might won´t make it before Deathwing tear Azeroth a part. Right now it seems like the only progress we make is - backwards. /sadpanda 

The Return of the Troll
With only a few weeks to go before Cataclysm, old-time friends and hibernating guild mates have started wake up from the slumber and are reactivating their accounts once again. My old 25-man guild have disbanded and reformed into a smaller and more cosy 10-man guild made up with only real life friends - which sounds very appealing! I miss playing among IRL-friends and i miss my grumpy troll. So, like a an teenage girlfriend rebound, i am planning to return to my old server and my friends. The best thing: they need a tank for the setup and i can pretty much pick any tanking class i want to do the job. This means that i can and probably will return to my tanking troll (or continue on my paladin if i change my mind in the last minute - again!). The only bad news is that they insist on staying on the low populated RPPvP-server that i hate passionately. But you can´t have everything, it seems. 

November 24, 2010, 6:38pm | Leave a comment: Comments

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 invitation. My editor had once again hooked my up through Blizzard EU PR and wanted me to write an article about the new starting zones for the magazine. Since i am pathetically weak and short of cash i simply could not resist. It´s a dirty job, but someone got to do it. :P

On the bright side, i will get the opportunity to try out the new class changes to help me pick a main character for Cataclysm. Thats right, i am not sure if will continue playing my Death Knight. It´s been a blast, but the changes so far are not making me super excited. The new abilities look a bit underwhelming, the changes to our resource mechanic seems goofy and the loss of flexibility (aka being able to tank with all three talent trees) is a bit disappointing. For now that is. Everything is changing rapidly in the beta.

But i know for sure that i want to continue to be a damage soaking meat shield and only considering to switch to another tanking class. So maybe its time to play my vanilla-old warrior or my neglected paladin-alt for Cataclysm. 

With this said, i will focus on testing and use this space to share my impressions on the trees for protection Warriors/Paladins and blood Death Knights. 

There will be blood
I was preparing a summery of my first impressions on the new blood tanking tree, based on a few runs in the two new 5-man instances (underwater Throne of Tides and rusty Blackrock Caverns) in the Cataclysm beta. But then, like thunder from a clear sky, Blizzard announced that they will totally revamp the trees with a heck load of changes and reduce the amount of talent points to 31. Holy smoke. Thats huge stuff. So, i decided to wait with my impression until the next big beta update that will be deployed in a few weeks. 

July 09, 2010, 7:00pm | Leave a comment: Comments