Pendragon Campaign (2)

Ok, much delayed but only by about 5 months! I'll continue on my catch up for our Pendragon Campaign.

Over the years since becoming friends Kian & Craig have done many great things. They have defeated evil knights & lords, almost single handidly recaptured city's, smashed invading saxons (lots of em), defeated unkillable Normans, dealt with Fae, Saved the country from an undead entity spreading a plague. Watched as Arthur drew his sword from that stone, Become Knights!, Become Knights of the round table, after the defeat of Lott they have even been made Earl's - on the border of Saxon controlled Anglia.

They are considered by most as mad! Neither has a fear of death and so they will take on the most foolhardy missions going and come out the other side victorious!

But in all the intermediate years the greated thing that has happened to Craig was falling in love! With the Lady Helen. Before he met her Craig put himself around a bit, but when she said no! that was a challenge! And after an incident with a Demon he woke up to see her face and that was it for him trapped and in love! Below is the Poem he wrote for her and performed in the court of Nottingham when trying to win her.

A spirit living wild and free,
Soaring High among the clouds,
Running Fast across the land.

Then came the eyes of forest green,
The voice of joyous singing birds,
And this spirit paused to see.

Hair the shade of midnight skies,
And skin reflected in the moon,
There stood a beauty radiant,
To put a woodland nymph to shame.

In a place of deepest horror,
The lightning struck and dark did come,
But when I opened up my eyes,
Beside me was angelic wonder.

This is the place my heart would be,
With this woman of warmth and care,
Beside this lady of charm and wit.

Free no longer willingly,
To be for you and you alone,
Thus I would pledge myself to thee.

I'll admit I'm actually pround of that one. Anyway onwards! They married and in 507 AD there first daughter Sharlwyn was born. Followed in 508 by the Twins Elwyn & Mael. Then in 509 Daughter number 3 in Arlwyn. The following year tradegy struck and Helen died in childbirth. Craig was devestated by this and had never been the same since. What makes this tale worse is Craig's best friend married a year after him. And his wife also died in childbirth a year after Helen.

So a few more years have past since then and we are almost upto date!

Wisp

The Steamwheedle Cartel

So after lots of trips it is finally complete! Exalted with all four goblin factions in the Cartel :)  Now I am able to move onto the next faction on my hit list! Wintersabre Trainers!

I was told to look at an armoury profile for Emilyspear on the Sylvanas realm LINK 33 exalted's is quite impressive! and in some intresting factions! Ravenholdt? - Non rogue? intreeging (4 attempts to misspell that word! damn is my spelling Awsome!) will have to investigate that at a later date!

Wisp

All for a Bow!

I saw the season 3 arena bow... It looks AWSOME! Stats aren't bad either but its one of the best looking bows in the game yet! See for yourself.

True the dressing room background dosn't help, but until I have it in my hands thats the best I can do! Anyway back to the tale! So I made a 3v3 arena team with some friends and got squashed!

See the problem was two fold! One I've not really done arena's before! Two my gear is so not upto higher level arena matches! Problem one will be fixed with experience which will come as I work on my quest to get the bow! Problem two requires gearing myself up in PvP gear! So over the weekend I have done a stupid amount of AV (its an AV weekend)  and have got the first two bits of gear. Can't make use of Sunday & Monday in AV due to being at my parent for Christmas but such is life.

My shopping list of gear, which should give me the survivability to push my rating upto 1850 is.

Honour Based (Honour needed in the brackets)

1. Medallion of the Alliance (Done)
2. Vindicator's Chain Sabatons (Done)
3. Gladiator's Chain Helm (Done)
4. Gladiator's Chain Spaulders (11,250)
5. Vindicator's Pendant of Triumph (15,300)
6. Vindicator's Chain Girdle (17,850)
7. Vindicator's Band of Triumph (15,300)
8. Vindicator's Chain Bracers (11,794)
9. Battlemaster's Cruelty (30,000)
10. Gladiator's Chain Armor (14,500)
11. Gladiator's Chain Leggings (14,500)

Arena Based (Arena points in brackets)

1. Vengeful Gladiator's Chain Gauntlets (1,125)
2. Vengeful Gladiator's Chain Leggings (1,875)
   
3. Vengeful Gladiator's Chain Armor (1,875)
4. Vengeful Gladiator's Chain Helm (1,875)
5. Merciless Gladiator's Chain Spaulders (1,304)

Other

1. Dory's Embrace (60 Badges of Justice)
   
2. Battlemaster's Cruelty (75 Badges of Justice)

Over all a pretty long list! Now a brief clarification of order! The Vindicator boots came first so that I could put the Boars speed enchant on them (minor speed increase & 9 stamina) this enchant means I don't have to use a speed increase meta gem in the helm.

Next comes the season 1 helm & shoulders, basically at current ratings it will be 3 weeks before I can get the season 3 gloves and as I need the 2 set bonus (+35 Resiliance) as soon as possible these are on the list. The shoulders being selected as the second piece because the season three shoulders need a 2000 personal rating! higher than the bow.

Then it is time to collect the rest of the Vindicator set, which after the neck peice for its socket will be in order of decending resiliance rating. The battle masters cruely is next. You will notice that it is on two lists because I may buy it either way depending on which one its reached with first.

Finally on the honour list are the last two bits of Season 1 gear I want. they are in order of worst first, because I'll pick up the season 3 replacements in the opposite order! If I get to the season 3 versions first I will of course not be spending honour on the old ones.

The arena list is basically what I get when I can! with the gloves being first as they are cheapest, and have a nice +5% multishot damage buff.

Wonder how far through this list I'll get before I can buy the awsome bow? time will tell.

Wisp

Hunter Decks

Starting with the Beast Mastery deck and Flameheart! The current deck list is as follows.

Allies [31]
4x Bloodsoul, 4x Scout Omerrta, 4x Scraps, 3x Shelly, 4x Kagella Shadowmark, 4x Broan Charges-the-Fight, 2x Nyn'jah, 2x Instructor Antheol, 4x Fury

Abilities [14]
4x Bestial Wrath, 3x Wing Clip, 4x Master of the Hunt, 3x Trophy Kill

Quests [16]
4x Solanian's Belongings, 4x Chasing A-Me 01, 4x Finkle Einhorn, At Your Service, 4x Torek's Assault

In the end I swapped in 3 shelly's to replace the big drops. This gives me an extra 3 pet cards for use 
with master and beastial wrath. The Instructor is a must as he gives an extra answer to cards like the Greench or Proudmoore etc.

The deck I've had the biggest problems with is solo rogue! so I'm tempted to drop the Nyn'jah and put a couple of anti equip or ability allies in. The side deck is going to be drastically worked on. 

Getting rid of most of it and going for more equip and ability hate.
preferably in ally form so they can be recursed :)

Now onto the other deck! which is very much a work in progress. Kana Nassis.

Allies [21]
4x Korthas Greybeard, 4x Kulvo Jadefist, 4x Parvink, 4x Galway Steamwhistle, 2x Medoc Spiritwarden, 2x Breanna Greenmother, 1xThe Abominable Greench

Abilities [6]
3x Trophy Kill, 3x Lightning Reflexes

Equipment [18]
4x Blackcrow, 3x Skyfire Hawk-Bow, 3x Wraith Scythe, 4x Band of the Ranger-General, 4x Hauberk of Desolation

Quests [16]
4x Rescue the Survivors!, 4x The Defias Brotherhood, 3x The Missing Diplomat, 3x Chasing A-Me 01, 3x Sunken Treasure

Ok the basic premise of this deck is simple, stall until I can get out a Band, a Hauberk, a Bow and Galway able to tap. Then its infinite damage for the win! The deck plays quite nicely but several changes are needed! 4x The Fare of Lar'korwri are needed as they would allow me to drop 
Galway on my opponents end phase. And other changes are to follow, when I think of them!

Ok thats it for now, bed in 40 mins so time for a couple more AV's

Wisp

The World of Warcraft TCG Catchup Post

Well, loads has gone on since the last post!

Darkmoon Fair London - Got into the draft, where I pulled a Stronghold Gauntlets :) Also for top 64 got an Onyxia playmat. This was my second one so I gave it to Chris from Pheonix (the only trader in the event) and sold it for £20. That was my entry fee back + £10 on top :) Overall a fun trip!

The worlds came and went, the 4th set - March of the legion has been released - I've qualified for next years regionals.

Tonight was the City Championship (not sure how often these are going to be tho!) and my winning deck was: -

Kassandra Flameheart

Allies [31]
4x Bloodsoul
4x Scout Omerrta
4x Scraps
4x Kagella Shadowmark
4x Broan Charges-the-Fight
2x Nyn'jah
2x Instructor Antheol
4x Fury
1x King Mukla
1x The Abominable Greench
1x Varimathras

Abilities [14]
4x Bestial Wrath
3x Wing Clip
4x Master of the Hunt
3x Trophy Kill

Quests [16]
4x Solanian's Belongings
3x Chasing A-Me 01
2x Finkle Einhorn, At Your Service
4x The Reason for the Season
3x Torek's Assault

Side Deck [10]
4x Bloody Welcome
3x Sonic Spear
2x Spirit Bond
1x Thunderfury

The deck is aggressive. Using similar principles to Omedus rush in the use of Broan & Kagella. I have gone for allies that on the whole have 3 or more health - this is due to the increasing amount of cards that do damage across the field, the bane of most rush!

Bloodsoul is an awsome card. 2/3 for 1! True it can only attack heros but who cares! And scraps! a 4/3 for 2!

Anyway the changes that I'm going to make straight away are dropping the 3 big cards (one 7 & two 9 drops) in exchange for 3x Bloodblade, a 5/5 for 4 that can only attack heros.

When the end of December comes round the Reason's will of course be dropped, and I'll up Torek's to 4, Chasing to 4.  And probably but not definatly Finkles' to 4 as well.

As far as the side deck goes, the Thunderfury and spirit bond's are out. I may replace the sonic spears with Ally based equipment destruction. As for the last few cards, not sure - ability hate maybe. Will decide for next Thursdays event :)

Wisp

The World of Warcraft Catchup Post!

A lot has happened since my last post on WOW or anything else for that matter! - This has mainly been due to laziness. - So here is the first of my catch up posts.

Starting with Raids

Kael'thas Sunstrider died on the 21st of November. And I got the T5 chest giving me a 4 piece set bonus :)

We then spent a couple of weeks of attuning the rest of the guild to Mount Hyjal. Before entering it for the first time on the 2nd of December, which I missed, on the 3rd tho we one shotted Winterchill! and by the end of the evening Anetheron was also dead. After Kael & Vashj these 
bosses are a walk in the park.

Last night we took our first steps into the Black Temple. All seemed ok until we wasted a criminaly stupid amount of time wiping on the penultimate batch of adds before the first boss. Once that was dealt with it was time to learn! Best attempt a 4% wipe. He is sooo going down on the next visit.

Moving onto Reputation

Steam Wheedle Cartel rep is moving along nicely as and when I get the chance to visit Dire Maul. Down to 41 Knot rescues to max out all 4 factions at 999/1000 exalted.

Exodar rep is also finally done, completing the 5 Alliance factions.

With the change in Wintersabre Trainer rep for a furball killing trip, from 75 a hand in to 250, I've once again started working on this faction. Once I reach honoured (8 more trips) I can include the giant killing quest as well. This repeatable has also increased in rep from 75 upto 350. This will make 600 rep a round trip - questimate average is 20-30 mins a time. The mount will be mine eventually!

Finally there are the factions for MH & BT which will slowly climb to exalted as we raid.

Now my Alts

I have been working on leveling alts in order to have every profession covered. The current state of play with this is as follows: -

Feltomoon Mage (48) - Tailor/Alchemist
- I've had this char since before TBC was released, when it was my lvl 35 (highest it needed to be) transmute alt, hence the name!

Kyella Shamen (26) - Engineer/Jewelcrafter
- Jewelcrafting is obvious as its a Drenai! This character was a miner, but once I started the druid it was switched to Engineering instead.

Playcat Druid (29) - Miner/Herbalist
- Ok so the name is not very inventive but so what! I needed a gatherer who can stealth instances and I am NEVER going to level a rogue on principle. When it hit level 70 I will buy the epic flying mount riding skill level and switch Wisp back from Herbalist to Skinner.

Erikka Warrior (22) - Blacksmith/Enchanter
- First of leveling a warrior, even as fury is HELL. This char covers the remaining two professions and as I won't play a rogue these two go well together. Basically at level 70 it will be able to solo DM North tribute runs, using skeleton keys, and then shard all the blue loot. This will help to supply Wisp with the LBS needed for Shen'drelar rep! Because they are currently about 10g each on the AH and I need hundreds!

While I am trying to get them all to at least 60 before WotLK is released, the most important is Playcat, as I need wisp to be a skinner again! Second is the mage to transmute whatever new items will be needed.

Wisp