FFW Update

I heard from my Furtive Father Winter person today and I've been told I'll be getting my gift sometime this week since they've been sick. I'll keep it a surprise about who it is but I wanted to let it be known that it is coming!

End of 2012

Happy New Year!

2012 has been quite a year. Although I can't for the life of me remember what it was I was doing last New Years. Although my deductive reasoning has made me believe I was probably at home not playing WoW because my laptop was getting fixed and my desktop was in my college dorm room. Strange how my laptop isn't staying fixed. I'm going to be taking it in later. At least this time it's not melting. And since I'm a commuter student I'll still have my desktop. Three cheers for awesome parents, empty basement room, and purple, lime green, and teal paint.

As for WoW. Well, I ran raid finder Dragon Soul enough times to become sick of it. Leveled my death knight to 85, geared her up, fell in love, and made her my new main. I also leveled a mage, which was fun and she's a delight to play dress-up with.

I did take a small break from WoW to play a bit of Diablo 3. I took part in the WoW's annual pass. I figured in all the time I've played I've never really taken a break so committing for a year was no big deal. And I wanted the free mount. And since I got the game for free I thought I should at least play it once. I had a bit of fun but the highest level I reached was level 50. I think I just don't understand how the stats worked very well.

The summer was a blast though. I participated in JD's Mogolympics and a few Laid Back Raids, met Shoryl from Tiny Wow Guild and ran dungeons with her and she helped me get my red protodrake. And I started this blog. I'm not completely sure what I'm doing with it but it's been fun nonetheless.

And of course with Pandaria I managed to get my death knight to 90. And she's done raid finder a few times and is in a new guild with the hope of being able to do some raiding. The guild hasn't been able to get the new raids done but we've completed all the cata, wrath, bc, and classic ones. I also finally got my druid Aritâ to 90. She's given up being a bear and is instead running around as a tree. And a cat. I asked her if she wanted to try boomchicken and she gave me a rather nasty dirty look. I'll take that as a no. But I really enjoy feral and it hasn't changed much but I do have to keep reminding myself that I don't have to mangle stuff now.

It feels strange to try and set goals for WoW but I think making a list of stuff will help me from pulling myself in a million directions and focus on the stuff I really do want to accomplish.

1. Get some pets to level 25. I do enjoy pet battling but I seem to be rather slow at it. I'm hoping that having my druid as my dedicated pet handler will help. Although she seems to get distracted by archeology and running dungeons.

2. Level more toons to 90. I want to get my 85's leveled although I'll have to think hard about which one to level next. I'm leaning towards my rogue because I have a pile of lockboxes waiting to be opened. And I have the delusion that this time I'll get leatherworking maxed.

3. Get more professions maxed. While I only have two 90's I've been working on maxing out my professions. I have Blacksmithing, mining, alchemy, enchanting, and Jewelcrafting maxed and I'm working on skinning, Leatherworking, inscription, tailoring, and herbing. I also want to get cooking and fishing maxed out on my druid and my death knight.

4. Have fun! Meet new people, do stuff with old friends, try new things, and enjoy what I'm doing. It's a game after all!

Next week I should have a new who's that pet up.

Happy Winter Veil!

Happy Winter Veil!

From Azilem the Christmas Mage

and Tyledres, the Polar Bear Death Knight

If you're not sure who these two are see my Furtive Father Winter post at Prettyflydraenei

Yes, yes, shameless plug is shameless.

Winter Reindeer!

Would rather not spend any more time inside a wrapped holiday gift box.

The Winter Reindeer can be obtained during the Feast of Winter Veil. Randomly found inside the Gaily Wrapped Present that is available for players to obtain at any time from December 25th to January 1st. These presents are found either in Ironforge or Orgrimar under the tree by Great Father Winter.

Congratulations to Youyankityoutankit for being this weeks winner! You win your choice of a Sea Pony, Fungal Abomination, Chrominius,  Corefire Imp, Mini Mindslayer, or an Untamed Hatchling.
If you could either email me at Tyledres at gmail dot com or post here with what pet you want along with server, faction, and character name I'll get you the pet right away.

Thanks for getting back to me! Chrominius now has a new home.

Who's That Warcraft Pet?

This week I'm offering up a prize to anyone who correctly guesses this pet.

I'm not looking for the first person but will instead randomly pick the winner from anyone who guesses before Saturday, December 22nd at 10 am CST.

So what's this prize?

The winner's choice of either a Sea Pony, Fungal Abomination, Chrominius, 

Corefire Imp, Mini Mindslayer, or an Untamed Hatchling.

I'll ask that the winner email me their choice of pet along with

 a character's name, faction, and server than I can send the pet too.

I'll have the email you can reach me at posted with the winner.

Now I just have to hope someone plays :)

Draynee

Furtive Father Winter Gift for Draynee

Done in Illustrator

Time: about 30 hours (I'm just guessing, it's been quite some time ago)

Razorgore!

Here is what I do to kill Razorgore.

On your right is Razorgore and...

To your left you see a mind control orb and some mobs

When you enter BWL Razorgore is the first boss and is in the very first room. To your right is Razorgore on a platform, to your left is another platform with three mobs and the mind control orb, and scattered all around the room are dragon eggs. The goal of this fight is to kill the three mobs and use the orb to take control of Razorgore and use him to destroy all the eggs in the room. While there are eggs still left waves of adds will spawn and either attack Razorgore or you. If Razorgore dies before all the eggs are destroyed he casts an unavoidable explosion that kills everything. If you manage to destroy all the eggs before Razorgore is killed than any mobs still left up will run out, Razorgore's health will reset, and you will no longer control him. If you've reached that point you've basically won the fight.

So how do you win? This is what I do.

Kill them quick!

Get Control of Razorgore before he reaches you

1. Kill the first three adds quickly. You want to get control of Razorgore quickly since you'll have 45 seconds before the first wave of adds spawn. Put those seconds to good use by destroying eggs. You want to have Razorgore mind controlled before he reaches you otherwise he'll cast a disorient that will waste 5 seconds. That doesn't seem like a lot but that's one whole egg you could have destroyed.

Destroy the eggs on your platform

Next destroy the eggs closest to the platform

2. Destroy the eggs on your platform first and then the ones closest to it. Razorgore should be pretty close so you don't have to travel far but most importantly is that when Razorgore is destroying the eggs near you the adds will ignore Razorgore and aggro onto you. 

Keep a watch for mobs aggroed on Razorgore
Break the mind control BEFORE they can hit him

3. Be prepared to break the mind control. Once you destroy the eggs closest to the mind control platform there's a chance that Razorgore will start to get aggro. So be prepared to break the mind control before anything starts to hit him. I use trinkets and cooldowns to break the mind control and then use an aoe before mind controlling again. Basically if something is headed towards Razorgore but hasn't started to whack him yet than breaking the mind control will make it focus on you instead. And it will stay on you even when you go back to controlling Razorgore.

Break the mind control, use an ability or two than back to Razorgore
Exception is to take all the time you need to heal if it's neccesary

4. Stand below the platform where the mind control orb is. This isn't necessary but it does make finding the orb to click easier since your not hunting though a pack of mobs to try and find it.

5. Don't spend too much time not controlling Razorgore. If you're not controlling Razorgore you're not destroying eggs. Yes, you want to break mind control and you will probably be breaking it after destroying one egg very often. But only use one or two gcd's when you break the mind control unless you need more time to heal up. Another reason to not spend much time out of the mind control is that Razorgore can move pretty quickly. If he get's close to you he can disorient you and he's also further from where you left him.

Save the platform on the opposite side of the room for last.
Park and Burn but keep an eye on your health and what's aggroed on Razorgore

6. Get all the eggs in the middle down before getting the eggs on the last platform. The eggs in the middle are the hardest and if you can get all of them destroyed while Razorgore still has a decent amount of health left you should be good. Just keep a watch to make sure Razorgore isn't aggroing a giant batch of mobs and you can just park him and burn down the eggs.

When the last egg is destroyed the mind control break,
mobs run out, and Razorgore heals to full and engages

Success! Razorgore isn't a difficult fight once you get though destroying all the eggs. If you've reached that point you've pretty much won.

Hope these tips are helpful and good luck hunting down Razorgore!