I remember Bre saying in a past Twisted Nether Blogcast that you should really do yourself a favor and take a turtle ride from the Borean Tundra. Larisa recently reinforced this.

So, I decided I would take the trip.

Now, what’s that old saying….

Curiosity killed the Gnome!

Well, I didn’t die, but I got a completely different turtle ride than the one I was expecting.

It started out innocently enough… but I just wasn’t close enough to the Turtle, I really wanted to look in it’s eyes as it traversed the frozen wastes.

Yep, one step too many, and rather than sharing the ride with the captain, I was sharing the ride with the fish.

Strangely I didn’t need my deep dive helmet

I guess I was just sharing the turtles air…

Unbelieveably, I made it to the other end in one piece, at which point the turtle gave a big shrug…

and spat me out…

So all in all it was an unforgetable ride… but I don’t think in the same way that Bre and Larisa intended.

Gnomer and Out!

Not Reading Frost is the New Black?

If for some reason you are reading my blog but NOT Krizzy’s, then get over there and have a look at the latest post.

Awesome idea’s there for TwistedNether Talents..

What are you waiting for?

Gnomer and Out!

I noticed a few things of interest while I was trawling the Twisted Nether Wiki the other day.

1. Episode 8- A Bird in the Nether is up.
2. I found some interesting resources I had never seen before on the Twisted Nether Resources page.

Gear: Lootrank

A site where you rate the various gear stats, select the potential sources, and get a list. I must admit I have never been particularly good with this stuff, and it doesn’t meet my needs from my earlier post LFT: (Looking For Tool) Mage gear comparison spreadsheet but it still looks pretty cool.

Reputation: WoWJuju – Wold of Warcraft Reputation Calculator
Quote:

By entering your Realm and your Character name you’ll be able to see what repeatable tasks you have to perform to advance from your current reputation level to the next one for the ALL Factions, both Alliance and Horde.

Character History & Tracking: WoW Character Watch
Quote (once again):

How does WCW work?
When you “watch” a character it is added to our global Watch List and every 24 hours we scan the WoW Armory and look for changes to the attributes and gear of those characters. If there are any changes we add them to the history we maintain so we can display them when needed.

There’s some great stuff going on down at the Twisted Nether Wiki… a personal thanks to all involved, and remember if there is a site or a blog that isn’t there, you can nominate it…

Gnomer and Out!

• Last 5 hours in WoW comes full circle
• Twister Nether
• Oceanic Forums
• WoLK Mage Talents and Skills
• Bad Hunter, Bad…
• Food for thought (well reagents anyway)
• My Mage Sucks

Last 5 hours in WoW comes full circle
In a BA Shared Topic, started from one of Matticus’ 20 questions (as picked up by Larisa ), Matticus has given us his “last 5 hours in WoW“.  So the topic has come full circle.

He also mentions that the topic gets a guernsey on the latest Twistednether Podcast .. Have you checked them out yet?

Twister Nether
I admit I am a late comer to the Twisted Nether podcasts.

1. I only started blogging just after they started, and have been engrossed with the print blogs, and thought I had no method of listening to them.
2. I only recently got a mobile phone with both storage and mp3 playing capability… it all finally clicked, so I am slowly catching up.

If you haven’t started listening yet.. get into it.  They are a great summary of what’s happening in the World of WoW and WoW blogging.

Oceanic Forums
I read that there are now Oceanic forums… not sure how I feel about this… I never get the time (or real motivation) to read the realm forums, so I don’t know if I will be trotting over the check out the realm forums in a hurry.

WoLK Mage Talents and Skills
I see there are some Mage WoLK skills and talents floating around now (see Spooner and MMO Champion

What I am going to do with this.. dunno really. If against all chances I end up beat testing, then it will probably come in handy.. otherwise I doubt I will put the energy into the theorcraft.  Though I guess it probably warrants a trip over to Elitist Jerks to see what they make of it all.

Bad Hunter, Bad…
I was drawn to Aspect of the Girl’s blog  for the read on her torturous misadventures with a pug hunter.  It brought up many sad memories.

The (otherwise) excellent Pally tank that was rolling on everything – and getting most of it, but quit the party when he lost a roll 1/2 on Curator, only to return to the instance to stop us getting a replacement.

The AFK healer.. also just after Curator.  We realised he was on follow, not thowing heals while we hada  1/2 wipe on trash.  We gave him 10 minutes of whispers before we gave up and drew some mobs to him while the rest of the raid ported for the night.

The AFK shaman during Attuman.. he had been bagging us for the previous 10 minutes… not just in raid chat, but on trade channel as well.  We realised he wasn’t actually doing anything during out attuman fight…  Ohh this guy had a bad rep all round.. to the etent he changed his toon name, but was still caught out (noticed he hadn’t changed his Vent name…. lol)

Food for thought (well reagents anyway)
WoWInsider’s Forum post of the day: Table plz, a discussion about how mages feel about creating their tables, time and time again.. heaps of comments… I haven’t gotten through them all (a maybe never will).

I must admit I tend to be conservative on the use off my reagents.  Not because I can’t afford them, it’s just the space they take up in my bag… if they stacked in the 100′s, I would create a table for each toon in the raid.  So I tend to create one at the beginning, and maybe later in the raid, if there is a need.  My general experience is that if someone joins the raid late, we can scrounge up some from those who grabbed them with no real intention of using them.  Arcane Brilliance I am happy to lay out every 45 min, or after a wipe, but in between I tend to go with Arcane Intellect.

Actually it’s really Pallies that I feel sorry for….

What about you?

My Mage Sucks

I just thought I would point out this blog.  If there is one thing I love about it (and there are more things), it is the Top “My Mage Sucks” forum posts that are brought up.  I mean Blue posts are all well and good… but I like to see the sucky ones occasionally.

Anyway.. I will see if I can knock something more meaningful up over the next couple of days… maybe try working on that warlock twinking series…

Gnomer and Out!