Thats right, as of today the closed beta has begun. The ivites are being set out as we speak according to blizzards press release.
What does this mean, well if your lucky enough to get a beta invite then you can play cataclysm. It also means the NDA has been lifted. So we have the new talent tress.
MMO-Chapmpion has also put back up all their screenshots.
Also the new CM on the forms Lylirra just announce the beta. Not bad for the first day on the job. Check out the post its got good information on how to know if your in the beta
Also I would like to remind EVERYONE, if you get an email with an invite to the beta, DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS. Go to your web browser and type in the battle.net yourself. This way you keep your account information safe.
I now sit and wait for my beta key. I hope all who are in are having a good time.
If you haven’t taken a look yet head over to the WHU and check out the write up on pet tanking Sindragosa. Now we wait for the nerf from Blizzard. At any rate it is a very impressive feet none the less.
As its patch day and I am waiting for the servers to come up, I have a bit of free time to let everyone know what has been happening in the past few weeks. If you haven’t seen the patch notes yet you can find them here. Also the list of known bugs can be found here.
The big news is I have a new level 80 toon. Deyson the Paladin. This week I finally got around to leveling him from 72. Now I have the task of gearing him. This is not as easy as it sounds. With him being a tank, I have to try and push for the defense cap of 535 so I can tank Heroics. On my perivous two tanks It hasn’t really been an issue. For the Druid you dont need any defense as you get it from talents, and for the Death Knights, they get to cheat, as the Weapon Rune gets you the last 25 Defense. Deyson hit 80 yesterday and he is sitting at 504 defense, so for the next day or so I am trying to find another 30 defense so I can start the badge grind.
I have also been leveling with the recruit-a-friend account. Ariia and I, have almost finished off our second set of toons to 60. Of course she gets 3 toons to 60 because of grant a level. I mentioned a few weeks ago I also started a alliance Hunter. I haven’t seen above level 15 on alliance side, and I want to get to 60 before the world is changed forever. So we got our hunters to level 10 to get our pets, and also started a Death knight so we could fund our toons. Arria also started us a guild. I don’t know why but it is called Hunt This. They will get more attention over the next month now that we have finished leveling our Horde toons.
In more hunter related news, I was able to run ICC this week on my hunter. I have to say I was very rusty. My DPS was pretty low, and this was also not helped by my new G13 key bindings. I had only played Toresh once or twice with the new bindings and it sure showed. I hoped to get a few more raids in on the hunter as I am now in two different 10 man teams.
Thats it for now. As always don’t expect anything as you maybe disappointed.
Well it’s that time again. Ruby Sanctum is up for testing soon, and as always, there are a million people sitting outside – I love the screen shots I get from this.
Also Blizzard posted today that AVR is getting removed. This, I could see coming, as it steps over what Blizzard will allow for addons. They have a really good blue post up, letting you know why they are removing it.
If I get some good video from RS I will post a video later on.
Late last year I undertook a little project to get 3 out of the 4 Spirit Beasts. After getting Skoll and Gondria, I spent a bit of time looking for Loque’nahak, but I guess I lost interest and gave up. Well, yesterday I was bored and looking for something to do, so I went off to do a few laps around Sholazar Basin. Well 4 hours later I got lucky.
Now all I want is Blizzard to give me more stable slots. Arcturis can’t fit in the stable so he will have to wait till Cataclysm comes out. Below is how my stable is looking. I don’t have a wolf for raiding. Hmm, this could cause a problem. Rusty will have to do for now.
I didn’t plan it but, all my Spirit Beasts start with the letter A. I have no idea how this happened, but it looks kinda cool. Also you can tell my Photoshop CS5 skills are getting better, so I will redo the top banner soon… maybe.
If you would like to read how this all started or how to use NPC scan: