World of Warcraft expansion is very close, Cam is sadly excited

[misscam]

This is entirely a World of Warcraft post. Flee! Flee!

Wrath of the Lich King Collector's Edition reserved and ready to be picked up in the morning? Check.

Food, drink and other supplies in house so no need to shop for a few days? Check.

Main WoW character stocked with supplies, arrows, bag space and placed on the docks ready to catch the first available boat to Northrend? Check.

AddOns updated? Check.

Excitement? Check.

Oh yeah, expansion is out tomorrow. I'm so ready.

I've certainly had fun last few months getting through a lot of endgame content though.


Last boss in Mount Hyjal, Archimonde. You might remember him from Warcraft 3. Annoying fight in the extreme because one mistake from one person in your 25-man raid can kill everyone. But at this point we've won the fight - at 10% health wisps arrive, you get immune to all damage and he snuffs it.


And he's dead!


Meanwhile, in Black Temple, Reliquary of Souls was next on our hit list. Bit of an odd fight with three phases, each the 'Essence' of something. This is the last phase.


No more souls for that reliquary.


Here we've killed Mother Shahraz, who always gave me Fatal Attraction first and got me killed (as we skipped shadow resistance gear and just nuked her). I hope she likes it dead.


Illidari council. Four mobs, sharing health, all annoying. Long fight and almost as annoying as Kael. Almost, mind you.


Illidan! He wasn't all that happy to see us. This fight is long and got a million different stuff happening - fire elementals appear, he give speople parasite, he turns into demon, he does flame crash, he gives people inner demons - but it's actually rather fun. Because it's Illidan.


Maive appears at one point in the fight. You might remember her from Warcraft 3 too. Illidan's even less happy to see her.


We've killed him! Whole guild went mad and it was truly something hard to top. Oh, and on our second kill of him we got a legendary warglaive too. Oooh yeah.


We've also been going into Sunwell Plateau, and here we've managed to free blue dragon Kalegcos of his demon and thus downed first boss. It's a fairly chaotic fight involving random teleportation to 'shadow' realm where the demon is inbetween kicking the (then possessed) dragon's ass.


Further into Sunwell Plateau, bigass demon Brutallus gets challenged by blue dragon Madrigosa. He kills her. Aww :(


So we killed him. Unfortunately, as you can see vaguely in the background, he turned the dragon into undead evil frostwyrm. Which we have to kill. Aww :(

Our Brutallus kill can also be downloaded as a vid here.

Very ready for new challenges now, oh yes.

Comments

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

The BF is grumpy he doesn't get to play it at midnight ^^

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be very sad and say so am I.

But I am very happy I got the collector's edition, though. And with how tired I am today, staying up would make me a zombie anyway. Early tomorrow will do for me.

[adoraheatherly.livejournal.com]

I'm not ashamed to say that I've been counting down the hours all week. I'm making sure to get caught up on as much as possible today so I can spend my weekend on nothing but gaming bliss. My main (level 70 hunter) cannot wait to get out there and start leveling all over again, to explore all of the beautiful new lands and train her new eagle!

When the servers are bogged down or I'm just missing the old worlds, I still have my level 46 warlock alt that I can take a break and go level and I'm seriously considering rolling a death knight as my third. Not sure if I'm going to start leveling him right away, considering how overcrowded the starting zone is going to be at first. But I'd really like to try some tanking.

Are you going to be rolling one?

My guild is more of a casual raiding group, so we run about three times a week and have done everything except Black Temple, Mount Hyjal and the Sunwell. I'm hoping I'll still get to see those areas as we approach 80 and can handle them more easily, but I've been really happy with my progression as a player. Considering that I had never even played the game five months ago, I think I'm moving along pretty well.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Lothar&n=Adorama

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I will make a Death Knight, if nothing else just to see how it plays. But it won't be until my main is level 80 and I might even wait a bit more, until the DK rush has died down.

I got several alts I can play with if I feel like it, anyway. A druid, a shaman, a mage, all above 60. The druid is feral and has tanked a bit. Mostly all I see of bosses is my own big furry butt. Bears got some serious butt. My hunter will always be my main, though.

We do four times a week. Honestly, when I joined the guild, I didn't think we'd have this much progress, but it's really gone well and we got Illidan, whoo. We'l continue to poke about Sunwell while we level as well. The gear there is seriously good even beyond level 70.

And yeah, I'd say you're doing quite well indeed. I started playing just before TBC came out, so I haven't been around as long as some. I remember the feeling of being new to it.

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dragonblight&n=Camillaes

That's my character. I'm hoping to get a nice, shiny Sunwell bow though.

[crackpig.livejournal.com]

I hear the Lich King is mostly pissed because the Milk Man keeps forgetting to deliver the extra pot of yogurt to his dread abode.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

He could use some extra calcium, that's for sure. He looks like a dead man.

[crackpig.livejournal.com]

Blizzard have issued a photo of him after the finest stylists have done their work. Still a losing battle.

Edit - frickin html

[sparrowinsky.livejournal.com]

Awesome, didn't know you played.

I'm so pissed at Blizzard... been counting down to WOTLK, been leveling like crazy to get high enough for Northrend, and I could have done it last night if not for the stupid mailbox issues going on forever... and ever... and ever.

Oh well... it's gonna be awesome tomorrow anyway. :D

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, played for ages, have loads of silly pic!spam posts about WoW happenings.

I heard about that! Don't think it affect EU servers. Supremely annoying. So, stuck at lvl 67? That blows. But hey, Outland will be fairly empty so you can get the last quests done in peace and quiet ;)

Yes!

[sparrowinsky.livejournal.com]

66, actually :(

My boy's picking up our copies tonight, and if a friend of mine gets on I'm making him run me through instances with his mage. I might be able to hit 68 then and be able to play tomorrow...

oh well, at least the boy promised he'd stay out of Northrend until I could come with, hehe.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

And if you're not back on MSN in two years, I'll send a search party. ;)

(Ooh, white tiger as pet!)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Two years? Hah, in two years we'll be wanting another expansion. :P

Lots of new options for taming pets now for hunters. Some very very shiny options, yes.

[larakailyn.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to seeing Lich King offers. Although the last few months, I've finally gotten to see some of the endgame TBC content - been clearing Kara and the first four bosses of ZA regularly. Hex Lord's been a PITA, though.

Can't wait to see what happens next!

And I still need a new icon...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh, Hex Lord and his varying adds, and spirit bolts and power draining. I remember goes at him before we got him down. He IS supremely annoying. But Zul'Jin is worse. He's got phases for all the animal aspects you met in the other bosses and he always kills someone. I got fed up with ZA and didn't do it for like four months after our initial clearing of it.

I'm sure many new annoying fights await ;)

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

So it looks not to be downloadable from the website like the first two are. Poobum.

So I shall have to wait 4-6 days for it to ship here from the UK. Ah well, there's time to get Raystlin to 70.

And I did get to be on the dock at midnight to watch the first ship leave for Northrend. Just sucks I couldn't go on it!

[ashestothestars.livejournal.com]

Usually takes them about a month to put it up for d/l - at least with BC it did.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Ah, see I should have figured, really. Their servers would probably explode from the bandwidth demand if they released the d/l at the same time.

The Australasian version is out tomorrow, but of course I can't get that one because I'm on the EU servers. *sigh*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Aww, I'm sorry.

I'll be heading out to pick mine up in a few hours. I shall tell you all about it ;)

[starbuck042786.livejournal.com]

I just started playing WOW this summer. SOOO addicting! I'm only at level 42 at this point though since I've not had enough time to play lately :-( Since my level is so low still I'm not in any rush to get the new expansion. I can't wait until I have more time to play again. :-)

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I remember my excitement when first levelling and all was new and shiny. Really was the best.

But yeah, no point getting expansion yet then. Nothing in Wrath is useful for below lvl 68, unlike TBC which had two new races to play and areas for lower levels.

[ashestothestars.livejournal.com]

I'm headed to the local midnight release, and I'm still shocked my baby-hunter isn't a baby so much anymore - just dinged 50 today.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Grats! You'll have to level her a bit before she can go to Northrend, though ;)

[ashestothestars.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it gives me a reason to want to!

That and I can roll a death knight. [jumps on bandwagon]

[miri-d.livejournal.com]

Bb, I am so sorry if this is a WoW spoiler, or something like that, but I didn't know if you knew this:

THERE IS AN AGENT SKULLY AND A DEATHGUARD MOLDER IN WoW. I WISH I COULD PLAY JUST SO I COULD SEE THIS (evidently she gives out quests regarding The Truth?). HOW FREAKING AWESOME.