Archive for July, 2009
Black sheep resto talents – and why you shouldn’t (necessarily) write them off
Jul 29th
It seems black and white with most talents. This talent is good; this one is useless – don’t even think of picking that up. Good talents, garbage talents. Take these talents. If you pick that one up, you’re terrible. This one is mandatory; that one is a waste of points. Straight down the line. Simple.If
Spring cleaning
Jul 29th
I tidied up my side bar a little, and added a chatbox. Feel free to use it to say hi, leave a message, or ask questions! (This is about as close as I’ll get to Twitter)I condensed a few things that I had at the side, to make it tidier. Moved a few things around,
Half gnome, half bird, all wrong
Jul 27th
This is not a trick picture.In Icecrown, Frazzle Geargrinder will give you a daily quest to use her Jump Bot to jump all the way to the highest point of a nearby mountain, and then plant a flag (Alliance or Horde flavoured, depending on your persuasion).Along with having a whole lot of bouncy fun, I
Healbot v Grid (final) – better late than never!
Jul 22nd
Disclaimer: this writeup comes from experimenting with Grid and Healbot earlier this year (up to about March). If there have been improvements since then, they will not have been included in this post. If you know of a particular improvement that has since implemented, please let me know and I will edit in a comment
When greens mean progression
Jul 20th
Kiiva is 80. When I hit 80, I naturally started to put together a resto set (having levelled as feral and without any healing gear put away), so that I would be able to get back into healing.I was a bit lost, to be honest. When Keeva hit 80, she was still wearing Tier 6
Blizzard’s Q&A and the future of trees
Jul 16th
A look at the druid corner of the blogosphere today shows just how passionate we all are about our forms – whether you love them, or you want them changed.I won’t copy/paste the entire Q&A session, as others have already done so and given good summaries of their thoughts for each item. If you would
Epic flyer: done!
Jul 13th
Next goal: 1000g for dual specs. Then after that.. I’ll start stockpiling, I suppose! Possibly Related Posts: RL stealing me away Where I’m heading The single most frustrating part of Warcraft and why it pushes me ever closer to quitting the game
5000g
Jul 11th
I’m off to start my epic quest! I’m very pleased with myself – starting from scratch with no gold and no outside help, and now I have my epic flying skill. Much faster than when I got my first couple of epic mounts, too. I think this is the fourth one? I’m not sure –
3.2: Northrend flying at 68, no waiting; more info on raid extensions
Jul 8th
In 3.2, Cold Weather Flying is being changed to an heirloom item.Taken from Wowraid: Tome of Cold Weather Flight is actually a new heirloom item planned to go into patch 3.2. At level 80 players can buy this heirloom item from the Cold Weather Flying Trainer in Dalaran for 1,000 gold and send it to
Rawr!
Jul 8th
I set my alarm for 6:30am on Sunday and sat bleary-eyed in my pyjamas, as Stompalina cheerily wished me good morning. I asked whose crazy idea this was, anyway. She laughed. I grumbled.But I had a blast being on the show with them. It was a lot of fun, and I think I did okay,



My name is Emma and I live in Australia. I’ve been gaming on and off since I was about 11. I won’t tell you exactly how long ago that was, let’s just say long enough.