Only for a moment though, but the artist is worryingly talented, and patient. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGMj7o6AwnM] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM0VnL30rDc] When watching, particularly when he’s working on the Tiger’s stripes, just take note of the size of the piece he’s working with, the chisel and his finger for scale.

It’s the time of year to look back and do lists of the good, the bad and the puggy.  So here’s a quick thought on my favourite instance as triggered by today’s WoW Insider article. 5-man content While I didn’t start in Wrath it’s the first expansion where I was there for the start and…

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This is a statement I can sign up to, I’ve been avoiding PUGs on my tank like the proverbial plague.  Simply put I’m going to let a bunch of dps who just want to concentrate on their rotation ruin the game for me, I’ll be sticking to guild only runs (doesn’t matter which one, I’ve…

“There’s nothing like the threat of imminent death to force one to delegate” – Miles Vorkosigan, Diplomatic Immunity

With Cata we have a fresh focus on crowd control, I love it.  The approach I’m taking is not to mark up the cc targets but give that responsibility to the other members of the team, it makes more sense.  The DPS all have a better idea of what their cc is good for, which…

A mix of a raiding guild run with the addition of Kaylad wandered into Baradin Hold for the first time (Alliance on my realm is … “ineffective” at PvP) to have a quick look at Pit Lord Argaloth So what did we learn? Trash The trash does a debuff, the debuff hurts like hell, it…

I do have one problem with Cataclysm, which is neatly summed up by NPC Comic The shaman is currently in the 60’s with heirlooms on, simply so I can nuke through the Outland content as fast as I can.  To delay the moment of entering the old content he worked through all the possible quests…

There have been many miles of text written about how the removal of the portals in Dalaran and Shattrath is a terrible idea and it’s a waste of time travelling around, how Blizzard is evil and so on and so forth.  So let’s step back and look at the travel within the newly broken world,…

Potion of Deepholm, damn you Blizz, I now need to powerlevel Engineering and Alchemy to 525. That and spend the money for a Kirin Tor ring for my main. Actually I think I need to spend some time with a map, a pencil and a list of the items which prove that loosing the portals…