Crazy Canadians

Sorry, no WoW today.  This was just too good to pass up.  Go read this from the LICD forums. 

You done yet?  Everyone here? 

You in the back… eyes up here!

I’m at a loss for words on this one.  I don’t live in Canada but I do have readers in Canada and if this goes through (I’ll be astouonded if it does) they won’t be able to access my site because it’s not Canadian.  See aparently the Internet should be a national thing.  Each country needs their own little WORLD WIDE WEB!

Anyone laughing as hard as I am?  Does anyone seriously think that the internet needs this much regulation?  Charging ISP’s to access creative content is just plain crazy talk.  I can just hear it now… “Sorry dude, I can’t go look at your site because my ISP doesn’t pay for that one” 

Anyone who lives in the Austin area will be familiar with this.  LIN TV, who owns the local chanel KXAN (who is our NBC affiliate by the way), wanted to charge additional fees back in October and Time Warner (who I would guess has about 70% of the market share around here) refused to pay the higher costs.  Whether the higher rates are reasonable or not is debatable and depends on who you ask, that’s another story though.  Time Warner droped KXAN from their lineup for about a month while ironing out details.  Everyone who subscribes to cable with Time Warner was without programing because the big wigs couldn’t get their act together. 

Do we really need more of that crap in our lives?  Do we really need more bureaucracy?  If you live in Canada you should consider making your voice heard on this subject.  Someone posted down in the comments of that forum post where to get more info.  We as internet users need to call bullsh!t on this one.

What’s Comming Tomorrow

OK, my post detailing the Chef title is turning out to be biger than I thought.  You probably won’t get it tomorrow, you’ll probably get the Northrend Gourmet post tomorrow, and maybe the Chef post later this week. 

I’m working on the Lunar Fest stuff right now and I’m thinking I should have waited to do the Explorer stuff until now as I’m all over the map again.  Oh well.  Hindsight is 20/20. 

My guild got Mally down this weekend and I wasn’t there 😦  I’m a little bummed but I was having some girl time which is more important!  We’re going to try Sarth +1 this week.  I’ve really been looking forward to trying this.

Happy Monday!  Drink that coffee and stay awake today 🙂

A Little Clarity

I see comments about how DS doesn’t stack with any other raid buff thrown around a lot, here most recently.  I want to clarify a small point.

Improved Divine Spirit doesn’t stack with any other spellpower increasing buff.

Non-Improved Divine Spirit is the best Spirit buff in game.

The moral of the story?  Blizz basically made Imp DS a talent that is only reasonable to take for soloing or 5-mans without certian classes.  It is no longer a raid talent unless you run regularly with a very strange raid make up.  However, take the 2 points out of Imp DS and put them somewhere else, all of your Priests, Druids, and Warlocks have the best Spirit buff in game. 

If I understand the mechanics correctly, even if you have the Imp DS buff the Spirit part of it remains active even if the spellpower part is overwritten… but why waste the 2 points? 

In conclusion:  Please don’t take away my Disc Priest justs because you don’t think I need a Spirit buff.

No Tuesday Post :-(

Sorry guys. I’ve had this “Post every Tuesday” thing going for, what… 2 weeks? I have my post for this week almost finished but a friend of mine is in the hospital and I’ve been there the last 2 evenings and not able to finish my post. It’s a guide to the Chef title, which isn’t currently attainable, but I hear rumors of patch today so it may be fixed! I should be able to finish tonight and have it for you guys late tonight or in the morning tomorow… assuming I don’t fall asleep while driving home tonight!

Outland Gourmet

I’ve got a post comming on Tuesday the details the parts of the Hail to the Chef Achievement, just like the fishing one I did last week.  Since the Outland Gorumet of the Achievment is so large, I moved it to it’s own post.

A few notes:

• Do the Shattrath cooking daily!  There are several recipes that are only available through this daily.  You will need to keep doing the daily until you have all of these recipes.
• Some of the recipes are quest rewards.  If you weren’t a Chef when you did those quests and vendored the recipe a GM should be able to restore it for you if you submit a ticket.  You may also be able to purchase the recipes on the Auction House.
• If you don’t fish you will need to purchase some from the AH or find a buddy to get them for you.
• Purchasing all of the needed meat/fish from the AH is an option, but one that I hesitate to recomend.  Since these are now “old-school” mats they will either be really cheap (because no one needs them any more) or really expensive (because no one farms them any more) depending on your server.  Either way, it may be hard to find everything and you’ll probably have to buy more than you need.  Once you have all of the recipes, you should be able to farm everything you will need in one sitting if you are level 80.

Assuming you are like me, and don’t have any of these recipes, here’s where you will need to go to get all of the recipes:

• Hellfire Peninsuila
  • Quests
    • Buzzard Bites – Smooth as Butter – this quest is available to both factions from the guys at the Zepplin Crash
  • Cookie One-Eye in Thrallmar or Sid Limbardi in Honor Hold
    • Ravager Dog
• Zangarmarsh
  • Gambarinka in Zabra’Jin or Doba in Orebor Harborage
    • Blackened Trout
  • Zurai in Swamprat Post or Doba in Orebor Harborage
    • Feltail Delight
  • Mycah – Sporeggar Quartermaster – Even though this is from a faction quartermaster, these require no rep, just a few Glowcaps
    • Sporeling Snack
    • Clam Bar
  • Juno Dufrain – This guy is just outside Cenarian Refuge at the edge of the lake
    • Blackened Sporefish
• Nagrand
  • Nula the Butcher in Garadar or Uriku in Tuurem
    • Grilled Mudfish
    • Talbuk Steak
    • Poached Bluefin
    • Roasted Clefthoof
• Blades Edge
  • Mok’Nathal Treats (quest in Blade’s Edge for Horde) or Xerintha Ravenoak in Ruan Weald (vendor for either faction)
    • Crunchy Serpent
    • Mok’Nathal Shortribs
• Terokkar Forest
  • Inkeeper Grilka in Stonebreaker Hold or Supply Officer Mills in Allerian Stronghold
    • Blackened Basilisk
    • Warp Burger
  • Rungor in Stonebreaker Hold or Innkeeper Biribi in Allerian Stronghold
    • Golden Fish Sticks
    • Spicy Crawdad
• Lower City
  • Cooking Daily
    • Delicious Chocolate Cake
    • Stormchops
    • Broiled Bloodfin
    • Kibler’s Bits
    • Skullfish Soup – WoWHead indicates this is only from the Barrel of Fish but I have no confirmation on that.
    • Spick Hot Talbuk – WoWHead indicates this is only from the Crate of Meat but, again, I have no confirmation in that.
  • Kylene in World’s End Tavern – the Barmaid in the tavern is also a cooking trainer
    • Fisherman’s Feast
    • Hot Buttered Trout
    • Stewed Trout

Once you have all of the recipes, here’s a complete materials list to cook all the recipes.  (Note: Mok’Nathal Short Ribs, Crunchy Serpent, Roasted Clefthoof, and Warp Burgers are left out as you will already have cooked them if you’ve done the Shattrath Dailies and if you have all of the recipes you will most certianly have done the Shattrath Dailies)

• Vendors – all of these are available from vendors in lower city
  • Simple Flour – 8
  • Ice Cold Milk – 4
  • Flask of Port – 2
  • Goldenbark Apple – 5
  • Soothing Spices – 9
  • Mild Spices – 4
  • Hot Spices – 1
• Meat
  • Buzzard Meat – 2
  • Clefthoof Meat – 2
  • Talbuk Venison – 2
  • Ravager Flesh – 1
  • Chunk o’ Basilisk = 1
• Fish
  • Spotted Feltail – 1
  • Huge Spotted Feltail – 1
  • Figluster’s Mudfish – 1
  • Lightning Eel – 1 (Found in several places, but not Outland, highest drop rate in Feralas
  • Bloodfin Catfish – 1 (found in Deadwind Pass and Zul’Aman)
  • Crescent-Tail Skullfish – 1 (found in Deadwind Pass and Zul’Aman)
  • Barbed Gill Trout – 2
  • Enormous Barbed Gill Trout – 1
  • Zangarian Sporefish – 1
  • Icefin Bluefish – 1
  • Golden Darter – 1
  • Furious Crawdad – 1
• Other
  • Small Egg – 8
  • Mageroyal – 3
  • Strange Spores – 1
  • Jagal Clam Meat – 2

New Header

My plea for graphics help was answered quickly!  Thanks go to Zasp who writes over at Ego’s site.  Thanks for your hard work and dealing with my nit-picking (“move her a little to the left… no I like it better the other way”).

Now I’m off to go buy a new adapter for my headset… I broke the other one during raid last week.

I Laughed Until I Cried

OFG this is hilarious(there’s some cursing so possibly NSFW)!!! My co-workers think I’m crazy now I’m cackling so loud.

On a serious note, it’s good advice! I get the Writers Blah’s quite often and the best remedy is to keep writing!

LF Graphics Help

You may or may not have noticed that I changed the theme around here.  I did so for 2 reasons.  I wanted to have the tagline displayed and wanted to be able to add a custom header image.  The tagline is up there but I’m not liking the screenshots I’m taking for the header image, they just don’t look right.  I’m woefully ignorant on graphics design-y type stuff and have no software to even attempt to teach myself anything (I currently use MS Paint to edit all of the photos that go onto the blog). 

I’m looking for someone to design a header for me, I’m willing to give you some kind of compensation (possibly trade services?)  for your time and energy.  I’m looking for a header with something “Wrath”-y in the background (I like Howling Fjord or maybe Wyrmrest Temple) and my toon off to one side.  Hopefully also in colors that will match the theme here, but I chose neutral colors specifically for that purpose.  I just don’t have the time to do this for myself.  If you are willing/able to help me out please leave a comment or send me an e-mail (galadriapriest [at] gmail [dot] com)

Fishing Acheivements

I thought about writing a guide to the Lunar Festival Acheivement… but there’s others out there who will do that and much better than me.  This is a guide to getting the “Old Salty” Title.  Most of you probably know some of this, but I doubt anyone knows all of it.  Use this as a quick reference to figure out where to go for each part of the acheivement. 

• Grand Master Fisherman – This one is fairly self-explanitory, you need 350 skill to learn Grand Master.
• The Scavenger – You’ll need to fish out of every “junk” node listed (I read a WoWHead comment somewhere that said it’s every junk node in the game and that’s not true, just the ones listed)
  • Steam Pump Flotsam – Zangarmarsh
  • Schooner Wreckage – Hillsbarad Foothills, Wetlands
  • Floating Wreckage – Feralas
  • Bloodsail Wreckage – Coastal STV
  • Waterlogged Wreckage – STV River, Theramore Beach
• Master Angler of Stranglethorn – You’ll need to win this event, here’s a guide from El’ s Extreme Anglin’.  You should have this achievement retroactivley if you have the rewards.
• One That Didn’t Get Away – Catch one of the following.  I’ve read that the drop rate is anywhere between 1/2000 up to 1/10000, so this will probably be the toughest one.  I recommend one of 2 options.  While leveling your fishing, do so in a location where you could possibly catch one or make a note of the locations where you could catch one and anytime you are in those areas fish for a little while.  From reading comments it seems that people are having the best luck fishing in the inland lakes of starter areas or the Bay of Storms in Azshara.
  • 103 Pound Mightfish
  • 22 Pound Lobster
  • 32 Pound Catfish
  • 68 Pound Grouper
  • Rockhide Strongfish
  • 15 Pound Mud Snapper
  • 29 Pound Salmon
  • 52 Pound Redgill
  • Dark Herring
  • Steelscale Crushfish
• Deadliest Catch – Fish up Gahz’ranka in Zul’Gurub using the Mudskunk Lure.  The first comment at WoWHead has a very well written guide for anyone unfamiliar with ZG.  You will need 425 fishing to get the Zulian Mudskunks.
• Outland Angler – Catch a fish in each of the nodes specified (I got this one over the weekend, only took me about 30 mins.  I fished in each node until I skilled up at least one point and cooked all of the fish I caught which let me work towards the Outland Gourmet Achievement and sent all of the food to lower level alts)
  • Brackish Mixed School – Zangarmarsh
  • Mudfish School  – Nagrand
  • Highland Mixed School – Terokkar Forest (requires flying mount)
  • Bluefish School – Nagrand
  • School of Darter – Terokkar Forest
  • Sporefish School – Zangarmarsh
• Fist Don’t Leave Footprints – Learn the ability to find fish.  You can get this out of trunks and crates that are fished up  or from the fishing daily.
• The Coin Master – Complete the coin fishing achievements.  Basically you have to fish up all of the copper, silver and gold coins from the fountain in Dalaran.  The gold coins can be flipped back into the fountain which grants a “luck” buff, increasing your chance to fish up coins.  Your buffed skill will need to be above 500ish to competly avoid misses, although I think you can start around 475ish buffed.
• The Old Gnome and the Sea – Successfully fish from a school.  This can be any school of 30 that are listed.
• The Fishing Diplomat – Fish something up in Orgrimar and Stormwind.  I was in Stormwind the other day and found it’s not all that dificult to get through there.  Generally speaking, the players left me alone since I was by my self.  The guards are 75 Elites and didn’t hit nearly as hard as I expected.  They also gave up persuit after a relativley short time.  You’ll want to look at a map before going into the city of the opposite faction and plot out a course.  If you’re a high DPS class you can try to kill any guards that are still with you when you reach your destination or simply let them kill you and try to rez in a location where you won’t get any aggro. 
• Mr. Pinchy’s Magical Crawdad Box – Fish your way to Mr. Pinchy’s Magical Crawdad Box.  This is fished out of Highland Mixed Schools in Terokkar Forest, which require a flying mount to reach.  One of my guildies made about 200 stacks of Spicy Crawdads while trying to get Mr. Pinchy!
• Old Man Barlowned – Colplete all 5 of Old Man Barlow’s fishing Dailies
  • Crocolisks in the City
  • Felblood Fillet
  • Shrimpin’ Ain’t Easy
  • Bait Bandits
  • The One That Got Away
• The Lurker Above – Fish up the Lurker Below in SSC.  I seem to remember needing 375 skill to fish him up back when I was raiding SSC, but some comments are saying that you only need 280 base skill.  As a Priest you should be alble to Levitate over to his platform (and soon Levitate your friends too), you can also use Elixir of Water Walking, or any other water walking talent/consumable/spell.
• Northrend Angler – Catch a fish in each of the nodes listed.
  • Borean Man O’War School – coastal Borean Tundra
  • Dragonfin Angelfish School – Lake Indu’le Dragonblight
  • Glacial Salmon School – inland lakes Grizzly Hills
  • Imperial Manta Ray School – any coastal waters
  • Musselback Sculpin School – Lake Kum’uya Borean Tundra
  • Deep Sea Monsterbelly School – Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Howling Fjord (near icebergs)
  • Fangtooth Herring School – inland lakes Borean Tundra
  • Glassfin Minnow School – Crystalsong Forest
  • Moonglow Cutlefish School – Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Howling Fjord (near icebergs)
  • Nettlefish School – inland lakes Sholazar Basin
• 1000 Fish – This is self explanitory, should be really easy to get as you do the rest of the achievements.  One thing to note is that the counter started when the achievement system was implemented.

A New Title!

The Hubby and I both got our Explorer titles over the weekend.  Here we are sporting our new titles and our Northrend Explorer Tabards:

 

Now that we have it there’s several others in our guild working on it 🙂