Monthly Archives: February 2008

Coming Soon in a Hotfix Near You

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La la la, it’s good to be a rogue.

Since this is all over the World of Warcraft boards and the (mostly-boring) game video sites, take a look (or just read) about rogue chest farming in The Underbog. In addition to the linked video in that thread, there’s several other instructional Underbog videos on WarcraftMovies.

UPDATE: Thread deleted under mysterious circumstances (woooOOoooOOooo), but here’s the gist — rogue sets Underbog to heroic, stealths into instance, checks upstairs for a chest in 1st position, stealths upstairs to the overhang above the chest, pulls chest-guarding mobs with a long-range aggro mechanism (engineering items, magic candles, etc.), watches now-aggro mobs path around to his position in the distance for max lock-pick time just in case, drop down, vanish to lose aggro, the race to loot the chest is on, loot chest, dance if you’re a troll rogue, stealth, flee!, PROFIT! A video link is below for interested rogues. Shame they deleted that thread. Most of the entertainment was the rogues calling each other snitching shits and greedy F’s. Thanks to DSJ for the heads-up on the thread delete.

(No, my rogue hasn’t done the Underbog chest thing. I’m too busy farming magic candles in Elwynn Forest.)

Speaking of nerfed treasure chests … and I’m using the word “treasure” loosely … has anyone ever pulled good loot from an outdoors Outland chest? I never have. Never, never, never, never. I don’t even know why I bother anymore. I don’t think I’ve looted anything worthwhile from an outdoors chest since early 2006, and trust me, I check every one I see.

Chests used to mean something in this game. Now it’s just a bunch of crap food not even fit for a hunter pet.

See also: WarcraftMovies.com video by Jammno, rogue of Barthilas.
Reconstituted forum thread screenshot — soon to be deleted also but maybe the mods won’t notice it with all the shaman fuss.

A Cow and his AVs

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This cow named Unforgivable from the World of Warcraft Elune realm (Ruin battlegroup) tracked various stats from his Alterac Valley matches for 96 hours — that’s 202 AVs.

Before I quote his findings, recall that the Ruin Horde aren’t doing very well in AV; only a .749 Horde/Alliance win ratio. Not terrible, but certainly not the 3:1 ratio of other battlegroups.

Anyways, his data:

Total number of games recorded – 202

Wins – Alliance: 141, Horde: 61

Premades – Alliance: 15, Horde: 14

Joined In Progress: 31

Average resources remaining for winning team: Alliance: 328.30, Horde: 283.54

Bonus Honor: Alliance: 432.61, Horde: 286.29

Galv/Bal down: Galv went down first 102 times, Bal went first 70 times, and there were 12 instances where they were so close that I couldn’t tell. The remaining games were ones where I joined in progress past one or (usually) both going down.

Number of buffs in cave: 1.63

Manna Bread provided: 72/171 (remember, 31 JIP) Soul Stone: 110/171

He also makes some interesting conclusions and theorizes on why his battlegroup differs from Horde results elsewhere. It’s so refreshing when a PVP poster doesn’t resort to the typical inane conclusions like “this faction is more skilled at PVP” or “that faction’s average player is more mature”.

And who woulda thought a cow could be so articulate?

The Archmage Tours the World (of Warcraft)

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You know the Archmage Vargoth’s Staff for summoning the Image of Archmage Vargoth when doing those Netherstorm quests in World of Warcraft? If you’re a packrat (like me), you’ve kept the staff just in case you have another quest turn-in three years from now which might require contact with Vargoth. Or, maybe, you just like to call on His Archmageness in raid zones or the Scryer bank, even though your guildmates call you a packrat as if that’s a bad thing, but you know … they’re just jealous.

Well, my Vargoth image is jealous of this: the Alliance guild “vs Predator” of the Thunderlord server has taken their Vargoth on a tour of the world and they have the screenshots to prove it.

P.S. I really hope you have scripts off in your browser before you view that slideshow. Music alert.