See You Next Year!

Dot and I are taking off to Austria! We'll be back on the 1st and Looking-For-Group on the 4th so I hope we see you all then. We wish everyone a super holiday and a wonderful New Years.

New Achievement: MacGyver

Well, that didn't take as much time as I thought it might. Got my engineering up, assembled my mats, and voila!...an Easy-Bake Helicopter :-D

The AoA Blog Dings Level 3

I've added a few new features to the blog. Both Ryan and BK added labels to their posts so I added labels to all the old posts and a label section on the right side. While you're looking at that you'll notice the Slideshow above it. It contains a bunch of the photos posted so far. Lastly, if you scroll down a little you can see a Links section on the right.

I'm really happy that Ryan and BK posted stuff up (thanks guys) and I shouldn't forget to give credit to our first non-me poster Dot (<3). Everyone should feel free to post with or without labels as they're super easy to add later. I believe you all should be able to edit the links too if you want to expand that list for ease of use. I'll have to add photos to the slideshow myself but generally if you post any pics of us you can expect them to show up there at some point.

PS. Feel free to add labels to old posts if you have trouble finding them or whatever. And for the more worried among us, yes, the holiday colors are temporary

Area Man Dings 70, Takes to the Skies

Woooo, it's [Swift Purple Gryphon] time! Now to raise my engineering skill so I can make a helicopter....

Merry Christmas to all!

I just wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday before I head up to the frozen Borean Tundra that is Connecticut!  Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

File Photo: There's Work to be Done

I think Cora had her mind on business in this one. The rest of us are screwing around and dancing but she's keepin' us movin'. :D

Not Our Guild But "The Guild"

So a couple of you have probably heard of "The Guild" but for those that haven't it's a little series about a guild of MMO gamers (based loosely on WoW for copyright reasons). It's told in 'webisodes' which are available free online. The star, Felicia Day, might be recognizable from Buffy or from Joss Whedon's "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" which is also worth a gander.

Guild cast Photo

Metzen: The most famous reindeer of all!

So the Winter Veil Festival is her and with it Winter Veil quests and Achievements . Here's a little mini guide for those who want it all. Doesn't look easy. Personal favorite Achievement "Bros. before Ho Ho Ho's."

File Photo: King For A Minute

This is an old one with us in Blackrock Depths. The little dwarf girl by Apostate is Tyrbrand.

Tender clam meat anyone?

I could explain this but it's better if you just see it...

Patch Notes: Who's got spirit???

Patch notes are out and there's some nice changes in them! Here's some of the highlights...

• Players may now create death knights on any realm once they reach level 55.
• Racial restrictions on mounts have now been lifted. Night elves on mechanostriders? Tauren on raptors? You’re not seeing things.
• Tapping: All player spells which cause a creature to become aggressive to you will now also immediately cause the creature to be tapped.
• We have added over 60 new graveyards to Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms.
• The run speed in spirit form has been increased by 50%. Night Elves in Wisp form will now move at 75% speed.

DEATH KNIGHTS

• Raise Dead has now been split into two spells:
  • Raise Dead now raises a ghoul or pet ghoul (if talented). Requires corpse dust if no humanoid corpse is nearby.
  • Raise Ally now raises a fallen party member as a ghoul and has no reagent. Available at level 72. This should now last for 4 minutes

DRUIDS

• Starfall will now be cancelled by any shapeshifting.
• Growl: Range increased to 30 yards.

MAGES

• Arcane Blast: This ability has been significantly changed. Arcane Blast now increases the damage of the next Arcane spell by 15%. However, using Arcane Blast itself does not consume the charge itself. Each time you cast Arcane Blast, the damage of Arcane spells is increased by 15% and the mana cost of Arcane Blast is increased by 200%. This effect stacks up to 3 times and lasts 10 seconds or until any Arcane damage spell except Arcane Blast is cast.
• Slow Fall is now castable on others.

PRIESTS

• Levitate is now castable on others.
• Shadowform: You can now shift into Shadowform while mounted or sitting.
• Vampiric Embrace- Mana cost of this spell has been removed.

SHAMAN

• New Talent: Shamanism-Your Lightning Bolt spell gains an additional 2/4/6/8/10% and your Lava Burst gains an additional 4/8/12/16/20% of your bonus damage effects.
• Elemental Shields: This talent has been removed. It has now been merged with Elemental Warding.
• Elemental Warding: Now reduces all damage taken by 2/4/6%. Changed from only reducing Nature, Fire and Frost by 4/7/10%.

WARRIORS

• Taunt: Range increased to 30 yards.
• Fury:Titan's Grip: The hit chance penalty has been removed.

Auchenai Crypts Tips,Tricks and Strats

Okay mostly just strats. Here's a strategy guide for the instance tomorrow. I haven't looked through it really but it only lists two quests.

Wrathgate video shows Arthas is not a crook!

I thought this was kind of neat and kind of random so I wanted to link it. It's a new video from Blizzard entitled "Wrathgate." Not sure if this is supposed to be some sort of preview for something or what but here it is...

File Photo: Strike a pose!

Anyone remember where this was? It was back when Boann had better style, that much is sure... Gotta love the skulls and Apostate's flex action!

File Photo: AoA vs. the Giant Squid

Here we are in Underbog (I believe) after taking down the boss. I'll be putting up some more shots of us over the next week since I've got a backlog. I'm still looking for screenies from people for a project thingy I want to do. It probably won't come together until after Dot and I get back in January so be on the lookout for good stuff to screenshot between now and then.

The Sunday (?) Instance

Dot and I are hoping to do the instance on Saturday this week. This weekend will be our last chance as we will not be available to instance again on Sunday until Jan. 4th. I'll contact people by email but feel free to leave any concerns or questions as comments on this post.

Details:

• Saturday the 13th
• 12:30 p.m. (That's 9:30 a.m. Liz's time but if we go any later we'll run into problems picking Dot's mom up from the airport.)
• Auchenai Crypts. (That's the next on the list, I'm open to suggestions though)
  

Welcome to the Angels of Avalon Blog!

So, occasionally it has been asked how others can contribute to the front page of the guild website and since there has been very little traffic there (after all there are only 6 guild members and we all know each other in real life) the website has "gone dark" except for an occasional post by me. For our first year anniversary I wanted to do something to reinvigorate the guild online and really let everyone in on the posting action. I'll keep the guild website around until we work up a comfort level with the blog or decide it doesn't suit our needs. Until then, I believe I've invited everyone in as authors so enjoy and contact me with any questions.