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The Little Things

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So, I was questing in Darkshire on my baby shammy yesterday.  She's now level 32, and ohmygosh I love windfury.  But that's not the point here.

So I was standing in the town hall, and I realised that the names of some of the NPCs looked terribly familiar.

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I checked WoW Wiki and my hunch was right.  All of Moroes' adds have relatives in Darkshire.  All but one are in the town hall, Farrin Darris is in the inn, upstairs. 

I'd never noticed this before, and I bet not many people have.  It is on the Wiki, but I'd never gone to the individual add's pages before. 

So, it kind of makes sense.  I mean, Karazhan isn't that far from Duskwood, and Darkshire has been overun by all sorts of undead and worgen nasties, and there's the link between the worgen and the black riders of Deadwind Pass already.

Duskwood has always been one of my favourite zones, I think because of the storylines there that all work together and (when I take time to read them) are well-written and make you feel something for the characters here.  I also love the Scythe of Elune line, I always take the time to go and start that one in Ashenvale so I can finish it up at the same time as the other worgen quests.

So, did those guests go there when Moroes and Karazhan were still alive(ish)?  If you just go by the book, the Last Guardian, nobody but Moroes and Cook were there with Medivh until Khadgar came.  The game seems to change that a little, having a whole host of guests and servants.  Perhaps these are before Medivh?  Maybe on dying, Moroes made friends with the local ghosts and invited them over for tea and crumpets?

I have no idea, but it's cool nonetheless.

Karazhan Haikus

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Here we go again

You'd think that the Violet Eye

Would go in by now.

 

Animal bosses

Really not worth the time

It takes to get here.

 

The guy and his horse

What I want to know is if

The hay catches fire?

 

Now to the ballroom

Our tanks are all getting drunk

Oops they made a mess.

 

Now to repentence

And the Maiden of Virtue

Trapped with sex demons.

 

Time to see what show

We keep all our fingers crossed

R&J AGAIN.

 

Time for the giants.

Debuff!  Run up the stairs!  Run-

Oh well.  Back door time.

 

Curator.  Gear check.

This guy certainly has flare.

Sorry.  Evocate!

 

Through the library.

How do the wyrms read the books

When they have no hands?

 

Shade of Aran time.

Run around the carousel.

STOP MOVING.  Run back.

 

Killrek.  Killrek.  Chains.

Don't forget the AOE.

Oh yeah, and the boss.

 

Go to sleep for trash.

Wait a second.  Why are there-

OH MY GOD THE SHADES!

 

Chess event.  Okay.

If we wipe here then we fail.

Why am I the pawn?

 

Now we go to Prince.

Infernal on the tank.  Crap.

Yes, that was the nova.

 

Big flaming dragon.

When he lands don't do a thing

Except run away.

 

Netherspite for last.

Don't cross the streams or it's bad.

That sounds familiar.

 

 

 

 

Random Fights

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I was catching up on some podcasts recently, and in World of Warcast they were talking about how a lot of the BC instance bosses have a gimmick that, once you learn it, makes the fight easier. 

 

It got me to thinking on one of the subjects that both exilerated and infuriates me.  Random factors.

 

On taking on Prince in Karazhan, the number one reason why any of my groups fail is because of those dang infernals.  One drops on the tank and he can't move quickly enough, one drops right in front of the ranged folks and they're stuck out of range, et cetera.  While the strategies might include ways of moving him and so on, no matter what, the sheer randomness of where the infernals drop is what I find to be the hardest part of the fight.  Keeping the tank healed?  Yep, can usually do that.  Keep other people healed when there's axes?  Check.

 

Keep order and tell everyone where to move and have them do it right without getting in the shadow nova.  Umm...

 

There are other fights like this, of course.  I've heard that Lady Vashj has a similar random factor.  It just annoys me to no end when we wipe because of a chance event rather than because we just plain screwed up.

 

Prince does lead to funny death poses, though.

 

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