Posts Tagged ‘video’

The Adventures of Kazimierz and Saraku: Shatterspear Village

// October 14th, 2009 // 8 Comments » // The Adventures of Kazimierz and Saraku

It started out innocently enough.

Kazi had offered to help me out with something on Saraku (looking for an engineering recipe I believe) and on the way he stopped to see if the raid boss dragon in Duskwood was around. We tried to 2-man it, discovered that it uses a cheap sleeping cloud trick, and ended up running back to our bodies. Then we rode around some more…well Kazi drove, I rode in the side car of his Mechano-hog. Then we started talking over vent about exploring and we discovered that Kazi had never been to the little tauren farm south of Silithus and neither of us had been to the Tanaris Islands.

This called for a road trip!

We hearthed to Dalaran, took the portal to the Caverns of Time, and then I hoped in the side car again as we made the trip. There was some fatigue getting out to the islands but we made it in plenty of time (yay for Crusader Aura). This is the part where I completely forgot to take screenshots. /sigh

The Tanaris Islands are 2 islands that are only inhabited by a handful of Bloodsail pirates, a scorpion, and a buzzard. However there are a bunch of buildings and contraptions that are interesting. After studying the architecture we discovered that the north islands have gnomish buildings and the south island has goblin buildings. Between Wowwiki and our own thoughts, the place could be a testing ground for engineers, an old competition grounds, or what’s left of a battle between the two races. Either way, it was pretty neat.

Then we headed over to the tauren farm, which is a good half hour ride over water (thank god for shammy water walking). There was a small detour as we explored the rather large cave that’s on the way there and Kazi claimed it for the Horde by planting an Orgrimmar banner in the ground. While admiring the tauren farm, we started talking again about exploring and I mentioned the dancing troll village that I had heard about between Felwood, Moonglade, Winterspring, and Darkshore.

At this point, there was no chance we were going to pass us that challenge. We were off again to Winterspring while I found this video to guide us down the right path. There’s some LONG falls you have to take to get there so you pretty much need some way to slow fall or survive the drops. In our case, we both had engy parachutes and I had bubbles. Engineers FTW. ;) Kazi used his nitro boosts and parachute right at the first big jump, and he sailed right over the village and almost over the mountains on the other side into Darkshore. Being more nervous about it, I took the jumps slowly and one at a time.

Now at this part, I not only remembered to take screenshots but also remembered that Xfire has a built-in video capture. So I will let them speak for themselves.

I like how I ended the video with us fishing in the boat.

EDIT: Forgot to include this little tidbit from WoWWiki:

The Shatterspear village will become an accesible subzone of Darkshore in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. A screenshot of the village released via press kit shows an ancient nearby.

Speculation has it, that these trolls are the next troll tribe to join the Horde (following the Darkspear and Revantusk tribes). The ancient standing in their village, the proximity to Moonglade, and the fact Trolls are going to be able to become Druids in Cataclysm, causes a suspicion that the Shatterspear Trolls are either becoming a “playable race” (Just saying that the Troll Druids are of the Shatterspear tribe) or that they taught the Trolls of the Darkspear Tribe how to become druids, as well.

Next time on The Adventures of Kazimierz and Saraku, we explore the Tauren house in the mountains between Mulgore and the Barrens!

Argent Tournament Jousting Strategy

// July 25th, 2009 // 6 Comments » // Guides

I try to do the Argent Tournament dailies every day (before for the titles and now just for the seals). My guildies and other friends do them as well but I always hear them complaining about how difficult the jousting ones are.

I’ve tried to explain the strategy that I use (and I can’t remember exactly where I found it) but it appears to be a bit confusing since I can’t show them what I mean.

So my solution was to create a video of Niqora using the technique on two different opponents. Of course you don’t have to watch the whole thing to get the jist of what I’m doing but it’s there just in case you do.

Here’s an explanation of the technique:

  1. Get your shields (Defend) up to 3 stacks right before you challenge the opponent.
  2. Once he takes off, spam Charge. You’ll automatically charge him when he’s far enough away. This will remove one of his shields.
  3. You’ll keep charging past him and what you want to do is to make a loop back around so you end up standing right in front of him. While you make the loop, spam Shield Breaker. This may take a couple tries to get right and sometimes it doesn’t even work. But if it does work, your opponent will lose another shield and he won’t be able to get a Charge/Shield Breaker off on you.
  4. Once you are within melee range again after completeing the loop, spam Thrust while making sure that you have 3 shields up. I always press Defend once during the melee part even if I still have 3 stacks of shields up. This way I know they won’t expire unexpectedly.
  5. Once your opponent starts to walk away from you again, start spamming Charge and repeat the process over again.

A higher quality version of this video is available on Xfire.

Here are two other explanations of the same strategy in case mine isn’t clear enough:

And of course questions/comments are always welcome. I hope this helps some people out when they’re doing their jousting. :)

We all go a little crazy sometimes

// May 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // Gripe, Hunters and Pets, Random Stuff

Over here in Bloodriver, we’re a little nuts. Well Faeldray, just how nuts are you guys? So glad you asked, imaginary-reader-that-I-just-made-up. Well, how about this:

  • We have taken a 70 tankadin, Casavel to Nexus (x2), Utgarde Keep, Azjol-Nerub, and Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom all in the span of one weekend. Yep, a 70 pally versus 73-75 elites. In AK, the healer was a 76 tree and poor Cas had to try and hold aggro against 2 80s in heroics and raid gear (Niqora and a healadin playing retadin (Velinix) for the instance). The best thing about it? We did it with only a couple wipes on trash. Go Casavel!
  • In one of the above Nexus and the Utgarde Keep, we took a level 66 priest along. He only died twice in the gauntlet in Nexus. And he got almost an entire level just out of those instances. How’s that for a welcome back, Solarion? ;)
  • Gotta love it when people start singing the Mana Mana song in vent while we’re killing trash. (Dang it Solarion, it’s been stuck in my head all day!) And let’s not forget the crazy youtube videos that we kept quoting. (So many babies! 400 BABIES!)
  • Niqo also came along with a dungeon run through Underbog, with Cas tanking again. It was her first ever attempt so I was the backup in case anything went wrong. Of course nothing did because both Cas and Solarion who was healing were great. I was a little bored so…I unequip Niqo’s sword and shouted “I is melee hunter!” as I ran in to pummel the mobs with bare fists. Got my unarmed skill up about 200 or so points. :)
  • Oh yeah, and I started Underbog as an arrow-shotting rabbit. Unfortunately I got hit by a mob and transformed back into a regular old tauren. :(
  • And last but not least, Velinix (who was the healer at the time in Nexus) uses Divine Intervention and suicides right before a pull. Cue me laughing and yelling in vent “Vel, what the hell???”

Now Mysthowl and Solarion are back in the game so I expect much more crazy antics from us. I wonder if I can convince them to let me try pet-tanking…? ;)

In other news, Niqora got her springy little bunny minipet from Noblegarden. I’ll tell you though, by the end of Friday I was ready to rip a new one into the next person who threw bunny ears on me. Are there that few tauren females??? Anyways, the bunny was all I wanted so I didn’t complete all the achievements for the title. But congrats on Tzia for doing so!

Niqo also did her quests to get her Children’s Week minipets. Now she has all the Azeroth ones and Peanut. Next year, Willy is mine!

And once again I will leave you with another wonderful video:

I accept your challenge

// January 30th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Random Stuff

Hawk presented an interesting challenge the other day: find some music (WoW-related or not) that’s completely foreign and present it to the blogger community. At least that’s how I interpreted her post.

At first I was going to present a video about didgeridoos but then realized that it’s not the most foreign music that I know or enjoy. So I give you this, fellow bloggers:

(more…)