2009 December

So far so good…

Ever have one of those moments when you finally hit upon the solution to a problem but then realize it’s something you should have figured out a long time before? Yeah, so after booting up with 3.3 this week, my frame rates were terrible after just a few minutes of playing. All week I guessed at what might be wrong until one day I read somewhere about updating drivers. Poof, problem solved. *sigh*

So I haven’t had a chance to try out the new raid yet, but maybe this week I’ll find a generous pug or something. My guild is hobbling at the moment thanks to the holiday season, but we’ll be back on top by the New Year I’m sure. In the meantime, Vorya has been working on his cooking dailies, finally topped off his fishing skill and is about to try out some new specs just for kicks. At this point though, I would like to make a pitch for the random dungeon feature when used at lower levels than 80. Oh it’s great you can get those frost emblems at 80 and such, but you can also get some very nice blue pieces while leveling up by using the random feature. My little gnome warrior did RFC at 16 and came out with a blue belt with 6 sta/str on it! Good luck finding anything that good around that level. The system is also very quick which is nice after the days of sitting in a capital city spamming “lfg Stocks” or whatever only to have a million people tell you that no one wants to run those anymore, blah blah blah. The other thing I like too, is that most of the old world instances are long enough to level you once, especially if you have the rested xp available. That’s great for getting through a difficult level hump when there just aren’t many quests for you at your level.

*salute*

Cataclysm: Pre-order yours now!

Since Blizzcon ‘09 in August showed us the latest expansion for WoW, there have been loads of rumors and comments about it coming out in 2010. Well /clap for Amazon, they have put the year’s release out with the pre-order! Yep it is coming out in 2010! What month and day? Don’t know but that will be revealed in time.

Go grab your copy today by clicking here!

(US Amazon)