Throughout the beta, I’ve tried my best to avoid getting any spoilers on the content ingame. Of course, I have read up on moonkin information and general class changes – I mean, how would I otherwise run a blog if I didn’t? But since Blizzard didn’t give a beta invite to the Best Moonkin in the World, I decided to avoid lore like a pest, and wait for the awesome experience in December.
But after watching the news streaming out from Blizzcon this weekend, I started thinking back to the dungeons of old. There are a lot of neat ones coming out with Cataclysm, but we have had some pearls over the past six years. I decided to make a list of my favorite – and least favorite – dungeons in World of Warcraft.
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Trinkets seems to be a big deal for everyone. Probably because they are so hard to come by. For each tier of raids, there are only a few trinkets to choose from, and there are a lot of people gunning for the upgrade, where as with other pieces of gear, there are usually alternatives that are, if not perfect, nearly as good.
So I thought it would be a good idea to compile a list of the most common trinkets, and my thoughts on them. I have excluded certain trinkets, those from Naxx and those dropping from the later parts of Ulduar, simply because these instances aren’t really that popular anymore, or because most random groups seem to crumble before you reach the boss that drops them. If you are still raiding Naxxramas and Ulduar on a regular basis, then no problem, but then your choice in trinkets is quite limited anyways.
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I started playing WoW when the US beta was in the late stages. I got a few days of play before the open beta ended, and then I waited a few weeks before the beta started in Europe. Back then, I was familiar with Anarchy Online, which was the first “real” MMORPG I had played – sure, I played a text based game called Nightmist, but that game wasn’t really “massive” and games such as Runescape is a lot further down in the food chain. Anarchy Online was a fun game, but very different from WoW, and despite all the time I had spent on that, it lost out rather quickly to WoW.
But the WoW five years ago is very different from the WoW we have today, both in the good aspects and the bad. My real life job has me analyzing and evaluating online memes, so my interest in WoW is not only for the game itself, but the society it creates. Lets take a walk down memory lane, as I express my rather biased, and perhaps, rather elitist views of the evolution of WoW.
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For tonights raid, we didn’t really have a good setup for Algalon, and since we expended all of our tries on Anub’Arak, we decided to do a mostly-alt run to Ulduar 25. With very few mains, DPS wasn’t really a massive competition, but I did have some fun on Hodir.
It wasn’t a hard mode, but the fight took about 3½ minutes overall. As you will see from the screenshot we had quite a lot of alts in the group. What I am jolsting about, however, is that I broke my personal record on Hodir – at one point peaking at 28,5k DPS! With my epeen boosted, I whispered our raid leader to upload the logs for tonight, just for a bit of fun on the player rankings, but unfortunately, he wasn’t running logs for tonight! Aww man, I would have love to look closer to that fight.
Regardless, enjoy the screenshot.
- QQ
