Skalador's BC Beta Blog

More Loots.

Johnny Ska — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:56:48 +0000

Couple more pieces, this time from Blood Furnace.

My New Trinket:

Who needs Ashkandi?

More Copper Than You Can Shake a Stick At.

Johnny Ska — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:09:12 +0000

Jewelcrafting is INSANE. Unless you have the patience of a saint, or a mad army trying to powerlevel your skill, it will take a lot of time to level.

I’m at 190 now, and I swear everything needs copper or bronze. I think I will just go mine a bajillion of each. On the bright side, I got away with 100 mithril. But I’ll probably need more of that too. Man, they made it tough to level. Out for now.

Massive Loot Update

Johnny Ska — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 15:24:46 +0000

Well, I finally got to playing. Here are the items that I saw last night:

That was in Ramparts and Blood Furnace off of various bosses. I also got a nice neck. The interesting thing about the neck is that its exactly on par with a certain healer neck everyone I know is after. Check this out:

Finally, I got that robe. Let me show you what I did with it:

General Update.

Johnny Ska — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:08:52 +0000

Really sorry about the late posts here. Life kind of grabbed me by the nut sack.

I got the WoW Trading Card Game. Its really good if you like that kind of thing. In the $45 I spent, I ended up getting the scratch card with the tabard. I wanted to recopy my character to have the tabard, but the new patch kind of axed that idea.

The new patch DOUBLES the amount of XP required to level. While I was 61.5 before, I became 61.25. Which really sucks. At least I have 1.5 levels of rested state. They fixed a number of character bugs, and changed the Rogue trees. I’m sure either WoW.com or World of Raids has those up.

Reputation Reward.

Johnny Ska — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:15:31 +0000

Here is an example of some of the reputation rewards. This thing is… well, I’ll let the pic speak for itself. Enjoy.

Staff Loot.

Johnny Ska — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:14:04 +0000

Here’s a staff I saw last night in my run. Will be playing more tonight.

Last Week.

Johnny Ska — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:07:40 +0000

Sorry I haven’t updated the site in the last week. I had to go to Canada for a family emergency. As such, I only played once all of last week.

I will be playing more this week and will have more updates for you.

Comparison.

Johnny Ska — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:51:04 +0000

Just so you guys see what I’m talking about. Basically any loot before AQ40 is meaningless. There are so many good greens that are way better than anything you can get before AQ/Naxx. Here is the mace I was talking about earlier… Take a look.

More Instance Loot.

Johnny Ska — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:48:38 +0000

Went to the Blood Furnace today. I got my vid card issue fixed. Here is what dropped. We couldn’t down the final guy, because he’s retarded. I think he bugs out when you reset him, so any more than one attempt will take you out. Its a complex fight. Basically he has 5 adds, they debuff and shadowbolt you. You need to AoE them down. Then he comes out with a 2-3k Blast wave that goes at LEAST 25yards. You can tell he’s casting it because he kneels. All the time he’s taunting you. Its kind of intense for a PUG group. Blizzard added a lot of voice overs, which is really cool. Here’s the Drops:

ATI Issues.

Johnny Ska — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:39:55 +0000

I’ve seen some reports of crashes and poor performance from some ATI cards [x800, 9800, x1300]. Basically the 6.9 drivers are too new. If you have problems with an ATI card with Beta, install the 6.8 drivers. It might not work as well overall, but it won’t crash as much.