Posted on October 6th, 2008 by admin
WoW Moviewatch: The last goodbye
This is a hard post to make. I’ve grown so fond of the commentary and insults that it’s difficult for me to tell you that today is my last day at WoW Insider. I’ve received an opportunity to work in machinima that will allow me to help machinimators in a whole new way. However, my replacement, Natalie Mootz, is an excellent blogger and I’m sure she’ll make you proud! I’ll miss you guys.
Instead of being overly sappy, I thought I’d do a top five list of my favorite machinimas and scandals:
1. Here Without You – This love story is three and a half years old, but has stood the test of time.
2. First of May – This extremely not-safe-for-work video caused a riot on Valentine’s Day!
3. Thaenor Chronicles: Chapter One – The only movie where I’ve been accused of ruining a PR campaign.
4. Tunasushi – The time I accidentally blogged a movie with questionable subliminal images.
5. How to Paladin: Insanity Remix – I honestly have no words to even describe this video …
6. 9 Crimes – A bonus video that
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by admin
Skill Mastery: Improved Fire Nova Totem
I’m having a lot of fun playing an Elemental Shaman in the Wrath beta. As Mike described in Skill Mastery: Thunderstorm, we have some fun new talents to play with and I hope we get to keep most of them. The new talent I’m highlighting today is Improved Fire Nova Totem.
To the right you can see the stats for the Fire Nova Totem at level 71 without taking the Improvement talent. However, 20 points into the Elemental talent tree, you can spec Improved Fire Nova Totem. If you take both talent points, you’ll slash the time it takes for the totem to activate and you’ll add some handy bonuses to the spell.
First, the timing. The unimproved Fire Nova Totem takes 3 seconds to fire, but for each talent point you put into Improved Fire Nova Totem, it process one second faster. So, if you spec both points, it will only take one second for the Fire Nova to explode after you drop it. With only a 15 second cooldown on the spell, that means you can use this bad-boy several times during a PvE fight.
The second cool thing about Improved Fire Nova Totem is that it stuns all targets for 2 seconds. It stuns melee and caster alike, as
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by admin
Is Leading the Cavalry possible?
I mentioned the Leading the Cavalry achievement earlier, the achievement that requires 75 mounts to… well, achieve. The big question is, is that actually possible? Let’s find out!
Let’s use a Forsaken for our example, since they have no factors working against them like racial boundries on mounts. Keep in mind that some races will have a harder time, like Tauren can’t use two of the five Horde mounts, and Gnomes don’t allow anybody but Gnomes and Dwarves to use mechachickens.
The Horde has Peacocks, Raptors, Wolves, Skeletal Horses, and Kodo. From a glance at Wowhead, there seems to be…
· Seven Hawkstriders
· Five Skeletal Horses
· Six Raptors
· Six Wolves
· Five Kodo
Now, keep in mind: You’re not restricted by ‘type’ of mount. If you buy all seven flavors of Hawkstrider, you have seven mounts toward your goal, not one. Buying all of the available Horde mounts brings you to 29 mounts. Of course, buying all of those is going to cost you between one and two thousand gold, but they’re there.
Then
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