Frostbitten 2.0

'Dude! King Krush!'
"What?"
'KING KRUSH!'
"Holy shit, invite!"
'inc! :)'

Pretty much sums up the convo me and Eetio had IRL when I finally found King Krush for my second and his first Frostbitten achievement!

Again, King Krush is the final victor of this awesome achievement, though this time, at the paw of a bear and the bluntness of a Warrior's mace! :D

Ah yeh, you can probably see that my UI is a little different than usual, I finally downloaded Bartender and it's still a work in progress so bere with that :) also, I blocked out RealID names in chat for Privacy reasons :)

-Zuk

Download

Ok, so I intended to be updating you guys more than I could wish recently, but unfortunately, I ventured out into a field for a full 6 days of heavy metal, drinking and in general, fun. I'll try and get back on track with everything and keep you guys up to scratch, but one can only wish ;)

In the meantime, a heavily over-edited version of an Eetio sig I did before I went Download Festival. This was more of an attempt at a bigger version than the traditional Forum sig size you tend to get nowadays :) Turned out alright, but very very abstract :)



-Zuk

New Stuffs

Been really busy recently with Download Festival approaching and work, so as a whole, have been fairly inactive both in game and online. I have however become heavily addicted to Red Dead Redemption, and zomfg...

Anywhoo, will do a proper update some time within the next 48 hours hopefully and unfortunately, I'm having to disable all comments receieved from you guys as I keep getting messages from Japanese people with very dodgy links, most of which are containing keyloggers... So watch out :O

As for a filler, 2 quick pictures that I've been meaning to post recently for you guys to check out in the meanwhile :)





-Zuk

Good news everyone!

That's right, we managed to do Putricide for the first time a week or two back and since, we've killed him yet again! Things are looking good for us! :D The screenshot above is of the first kill and unfortunately was taken shortly after Putricide's corpse actually despawned.

Well, has been a few weeks since I've actually posted here so I'll enlighten you guys on a few more updates in teh community so far! It was april first little over a week ago now and blizzard gave us all a race change, at a expensive cost, being deemed as a ninja... I'm only kidding! We all got changed into Tuskarr's on the Armory with some pretty humorous flavor text to go alongside things obtained recently.

Since we did that OS10 3D zerg, we've only done it once since in which Xeonoth won the mount roll, again! :D Congratulations to him again on his new shinyy drake :) On the same night of the epic win loot fest, my staff for Luxray finally dropped :O Xeo's tanking bracers finally dropped :O and Eetio's tanking neck finally dropped also! :O

Alllsssooooooooo!!!!! Classe Changed for Cataclysm should be announced for both Hunter, Druid and Mage today! :D Woooot ;)

-Zuk

Primal Blessing!

Zul'Gurub is mainly farmed for around 4 or so things, which have only a benefit cosmetically. These are the 2 mounts, Raptor and Tiger, a Raptor Pet now, and finally a Polymorph spell for Mages to change Humanoids, Beasts and Critters into a Turtle! All pretty cool great things, but if you look a little deeper into the loot tables and are as obsessed with cool looking gear or gear which has epic potential to be pew pew, then there is a certain set of weapons which can only be found here! Eetio is a bit of an obsessive over gear more than mounts and pets like myself, and due to this, every time we head off to Zul'Gurub, we have to do a specific additional boss aswell in hope that the weapons drop. The first of the two can be found off the same boss which drops the Tiger Mount, so there's no real loss for pet/mount collectors here, but a detour over to the Panther boss allows the second weapon to drop of the set. Now they both have a fairly low drop rate being epics etc, but my god... the Proc is EPIC in it's own rights. Eetio finally got the second weapon merely minutes ago and so far has been testing it out on dummies etc.

Yeh... it turns you into the frikkin 'Tiger Boss'... Happy Gnome is happy! :) I've added a bit of information based on the weapons etc on the image as you can see, as well as information from Wowhead on the Proc. Shiny proc is shinyy... x)

Ah, also 3.3.3 is out tomorrow, so loads of shizzness to take in there! 102nd mount and 120th pet on Zukiji inc! :D

-Zuk

Glory of the Peddlefeet!

Happy valentines to all you lovers out there, too bad the only thing seeing attention from me this year 'round is the messy kitchen which could do with a good clean! Anyways, with that out the way, time for me to introduce the newest pet and mount to the ever gaining collection that is 'Zuk's collection of Pet and Mounts'! Great name ey? Got a nice feel to it ;)

Yup, finally I have managed to get Glory of the Hero done on Zukiji! The last achievement needed was Watch him Die, and as always, Daudinn produced some epic display thus allowing me to obtain this shinyy mount! Compared to the first time when we did this, back on Luxray, ages ago, we didn't have the option of 'Dungeon Finder' and whatnot, so we pugged 2 people, a healer and a dps who were both like 'lulwtfuxxwedoingguys?' Thankfully, if it wasn't for the Shammy's heroism, we wouldn't have got it done, as both healer and dps died, with only me and Eetio on the main boss and Daudinn making it out of the instance like a stealthy Paladin (how that works, don't ask me, Daudinn's the one with the skills ;)). But yeh, we got it done and voila! :D

Thankfully due to people's QQ over low drop rates, and my personal QQ over getting Peddlefeet last year on my bloody Deathknight and not on Zukiji, Blizzard have allowed us to obtain this rather dumb pet through the means of a vendor, so I salute you Blizzard for ensuring I get that next pet! But... In doing this, they have introduced another pet and another mount... Both which drop off the new seasonal boss, and both which I am (as of present) deeming unlootable via Zuk. As much as I would love to get the mount for Zukiji, not only to get 1 step closer to 100 mounts, but because of it's sheer rarety, I can only wish to just see it drop as with the Headless Horseman mount. People who state 'omg I NEED this mount so badly!' in my eyes don't actually deserve it unless they have a very viable reason, I'm just sayin'! Congratulations to everyone who has obtained it though, and to those people who have less that around 25 mounts and have obtained it, then I'll keep them words to myself... Now, on the first run on my druid, I managed to obtain the pet, which is ok to a certain extent. Firstly, I actually play Luxray as I don't, or try not to with Verex. Secondly, I have began to collect pets on Luxray when most of the ones on Zukiji became fairly hard to get. But lastly, it isn't Zukiji, so I need to see and win a roll on it again, which pretty much sucks. This ain't all too bad though with a consistent group of Me, Eetio, Daudinn and Skellibjalla, all going for it together each day. We should in theory, get everything we need/want unless we pug and they ninja it off us... But yeh, so far it's been fun and for the next 2 weeks, it shall hopefully stay the same :D

3 Mounts to Go! :D

-Zuk

SUCK FALT!!!

Ok, so it's been around a week since I updated, in which a lot of stuff has happened. We'll start with the bad news in hope that I can liven everyone's spirits by the end! A new, real good mate of mine, who you could see in the King Krush post, as 'Holymelons' has got his Hunter back, Mínstrels! This is great news as it is a very cherished member of his roster, and is what got me and him talking in the first place, Rares! So what is the bad news? On our search for Loque'nahak, a day or two after a successful Skoll tame by good ol' Mínstrels, we came across the green bitch that is King Krush. I quickly logged onto a priest and flew over in a major attempt at what could be another successful King Krush tame of the month! Nothing could go wrong right? Well unfortunately, if your a dumbass and don't understand combat in this game, everyone can attack everything (aside from other players on PvE realms) that is aggressive and most neutral mobs, and when I say everyone, I'm referring to the asshole who did this...

Ok, we got the loot down to the first attack and whatnot, but what really got us pissed is that he was actually watching us try and tame the beast in what seemed to be a flawless attempt! I'm writing this mainly so people out there should just leave a hunter alone when he is trying to tame something, it's not fair on the hunter who has put a lot of work and effort into finding such a beast and the effort into actually taming something as hard to get as King Krush. It's just not on guys, just sayin'. After this pretty traumtic ordeal, we decided to go find the King Krush 'original' which resided in Un'goro Crater, King Mosh. Now this guy is b-a-d-a-s-s being a lvl 50+ rare elite with over 61,000 hp. If you come across this as a level 50 or so, get prepared for a whooping! Off we set, with a rare Devilsaur at the back of our minds. Running back and forward, back and forward until... BOOM! Macro hit's gold (or silver if you know what I mean ;) ) In our hero, Mínstrels goes, proceeding to tame this giant mother with all his force! 'C'mon damn you!' he shouts down Ventrillo in a heroic gesture of revenge over the loss of King Krush. FEAR! Oh god, not this again... Frantically, he rushes off to tame a new beast, a raptor in order to use Bestial Wrath for the fear ward. While doing this, Zukiji is trying something which could shape the face of this tame, testing if the fear hits 100% of the time. Thankfully it doesn't on a level 80, Mínstrels got a little unlucky the first time and eventually managed to bag himself a shinyy new Devilsaur with huge sentimental value (in my eyes at least). Congratulations Mínstrels!

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Secondly in todays post, Eetio has gone and pushed the boundaries of 'epic son'bitch' once more with this 'small' addition to his slowly increasing mount collection...
Now, what struck me with this is the sheer amount of gold that went into the said purchase. It could have been more epic with the Mekigneer's Chopper, but who gives a fook, he's just gone and got every achievement mount from Mei Frances at once! Epic gratz bro, and good job you got all your stuff back from the GMs after the hack. Which reminds me, get a frikkin' Authenticator if you haven't already! That's right, I'm talking to you! :) Ok, I'll stop that, I'm a nice guy ;D

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Finally, my Druid, Luxray, is one suave pimping mo fo with this little number. A couple of weeks back, I started grinding rep for the Cenarion Circle in a fail attempt at getting the 'Guardian of Cenarius' achievement. This started to dry up until a couple of AQ runs later and many scroll hand ins, and BOOM, Exalted with the Cenarion Circle! I was just one step away from the ultimate Druid title! Cenarion Expedition was going to be a fairly simple, yet somewhat 'harder hitting' than the previous one. The first load of rep was already acquired while leveling, taking any quest from the Cenarion Expedition I could find as I intended to get this title as soon as I hit 80 (which never seemed to happen). This stood me nicely at the beginning of Revered, after which I started to grind it with me good buddy Mínstrels! The first couple of runs were easy and fairly boring, but rep is rep! When he got the key for being Honored, that's where things took off. Hitting the same place Heroic with Renoa with us ensured for a fast and smooth rep run! We didn't do another one for around 2 or 3 days until today... We ground the living crap into them places... Seriously... From around 8k rep straight through to the full 21,999 for full Exalted in 1 night! Thank you so much again dude, really was an epic grind, and thanks to Poisonmaster for joining us for the 3 Heroics! (or should I say Rilf ;) )

As you can see, I'm also on the Cenarion War Hippogryph! The perfect Druid Flying mount alongside the title and the Raven Lord for old world content! I woulden't have been able to get this without the help from Mínstrels again, and his patience with me, plus his weighty donation of 1000g for the mount, which has been considered as my early Birthday Present for Thursday! Thank you!

This reminds me, there is only 4 days left to vote on the Spirit Beast poll, I haven't checked the votes so far, and won't until the 28th which conveniently coincides with my birthday! (Coincidence? I think not!) So yeh, take a vote if you haven't already :)

-Zuk

Final Spirit Beast, Sapphiron

Over the past couple of days, Frenzyfever has managed to bag himself 2 of the 4 Spirit Beasts. This is an incredible feat of persistence and determination towards this rare collection, but finally, Frenzyfever has managed to tame Loque'nahak! Arguably the most elusive and hardest one of the 4 to tame, this completing his collection! Congratulations to Frenzyfever! :D Was a good job we stayed up them extra 10 minutes after a sneaky Zul'Gurub run ;)

Sapphiron... We have all bested Naxxramas and lived to tell the tale, however... To celebrate New Years, the guild got together for one last raid of 2009, and being that most people have been out celebrating the festivities, we thought it would be a great idea to try and 5 man a Raid boss... Good idea right? Right! So we went ahead and attempted Anub'rekhan, which ultimately failed. After this, what else could we try, for shits and giggles obviously! Sapphiron... The fight lasted a good 10-15 minutes, no deaths and no frost resistence. It was EPIC! Below is a picture of the members who took part, good job guys!:

Eetio|Yotora|Luxray|Randomrunes|Frenzyfever

As you may have also noticed, Frenzyfever is now Alliance and has joined our Guild! Tis' good news all 'round and great to have you dude! :)

-Zuk

Work work.

Busy busy busy. Haven't been on as much as I'd want to mainly due to a little thing called 'Photography at University'. Soooo much work to do it's insane! Ahhh wells, only 1 more week (I think) of it to go then I'll BOOM update you with everything I've got/done/accomplished in the World of Azeroth...

Patch 3.3.0 seems to be very very close, I mean, this Wednesday close possibly ;) Good news for everyone who has a level 80 as all the Emblems that drop in instances will now be Triumphs (T9 within 2-3 days without raiding much?). New 5 man instances with the Quel'Delar quest chain sounds ACE as do the rewards, much want ;)

Quick update in terms of Anzu Farming: Nothing still... Eetio decided to get a group for Karazhan shortly after the run (or it could have been an AQ run, I forget...) so off we went to the castle of ZOMFG. First boss, mount drop... Will upload a picture soon, but sure enough, the Reins of the Fiery Warhorse dropped, and guess who won it? Eetio xD Makes up for the constant disappointment with Raven Lord I suppose ;)

Glory of the Hero

Tonight has seen Luxray, my Druid, getting more than 1 step closer to his first Proto Drake! Mainly thanks to Eetio, Enoronan, Skellibjalla and Stratocaster (Who's paladin I can't name due to not being able to type his name out xD) who stuck together for a good 3 hours solid of Heroic Achievement Grinding. Each one with it's own story, and each one unmissed, you guys rock! I'd also like to point out that Skellibjalla has got 112 companion pets in game, which, to my knowledge is the most amount on Agamaggan, so extra gratz to her :D !

The most notable achievement gained in my eyes has to be 'Watch Him Die'. My god. For this achievement, we had Strat's Paladin tanking the adds, or the watchers out the boss room towards the entrance while Eetio tanks the main boss, Eno and Skelli DPS it down, and I keep the group up as normal. Sounds simple right? Well infact, it was quite the opposite. The actual fight was very short due to DPS nuking it down as hard as possible, but the beginning, and the sustain that Strat's Pally managed to pull off was incredible! I actually do not know how he managed to stay alive for that amount of time without a decent heal, but he managed to do it, thus, buying us enough time to down the boss. Despite the achievement is called 'Watch Him Die', the Watchers didn't really 'Watch' him die, being that they were actually headed out of the instance! Whatever the case, we got it done, and I really cannot see me doing that one again, like, ever... It's one achievement I'd gladly pass on Zukiji, despite being a bit of an Achievement Whore on him ;)

All of these achievements tonight started mainly because Eetio wanted to do the daily heroic, and being that I'm his brother and tend to help him out in situations like this, I naturally agreed and so off we went to Gun'Drak. The main achievement we aimed to get was 'Less-rabi' which consists of killing the associated boss without him transforming into his Mammoth form, thus failing the achievement and increasing his damage. It all ended up with us getting 'Share the Love', another very annoying achievement to get, but one less for us to worry about!

Anyways, below is a look on my Progress on Glory of the Hero achievement! Still got a few more to go now, but it surely is looking very promising, and soon, my Druid will be packing a Red Proto Drake!

Eetio

Enoronan

Skellibjalla

Dauðinn

Luxray