Since 3.3 patch came out I have been using the new cross realm dungeon finder to get in some groups for the new Citadel instances and Trial of Champions.It really seems to work well and sometimes only take 5 or 10 minutes to get a group together.Last night I got in a group for the Halls of Reflection , I’d been in once before but the group did not last long before it disbanded! This time we had a good run and I ended up coming out with the Chilled Heart of the Glacier from the Lich King. It’s a fun encounter at the end with him chasing you down and several packs attacking you.
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Well, just to bring my 2 or 3 readers up to date with whats happening at Dirky HQ……
My last post talked about my two lads playing WoW on a private server. Well the younger one is still doing that, he likes all the messing around, having all the gear that he would not be able to get in ‘real’ WoW without spending weeks on end playing.
But, the bigger news is that myself and Bbcone (my eldest son) are back playing on Laughing Skull!
Bbcone got his mage to level 80 about 3 or 4 weeks ago, he went from 74 to 80 in about 4 days! Me, I’ve had to take it much slower! I started playing about 3 weeks ago and have managed to drag myself from 74 to 77. I’m in a guild with some local friends and just taking things easy and having a good time.
Bbcone has started his own guild, <pvp my pants>, which is aimed at PvP and he has been doing some 2v2 and 3v3 arena. He is doing pretty good, at least it seems that way to me 
Last night we had a crack at Onyxia, myself, Bbcone and a friend who has a 72 priest. We managed to get him down to about 25% but no further. I used my fellguard for tanking but once he dies it’s pretty much a wipefest! We will try again but could probably do with a better geared tank than my fellguard!
We’re also going to have a go at the ‘Jenkins’ achievement, which shouldn’t be too bad….hopefully!
Thats all for now.
10th July 2008, Lancaster UK.
Blizzard today announces the new upcoming Tier 7 loot for Wrath of the Litch King. Here is an exclusive picture hot off the presses of the new gear.
Click the image to see it in more detail.
When we get any news or new images of the Tier 8 gear we will be sure to bring it to you here first.
(Drawn by my 8 year old Son Cameron)
Just for fun I decided to create a level 1 character with good gear and enchants, whilst still remaining at level 1. I decided upon an orc rogue, due to melee classes making better level 1 ‘twinks’ and an orc as I thought the racial ability of Blood Fury would be nice. I actually did not put the best possible enchants on my rogues gear as I wanted to keep the cost down a little, as it worked out I spent over 250 gold on enchants etc! I’ve ended up with 735 health and 18% crit chance.
I’ve been able to duel level 12 horde’s and beat them just about. Anything below level 10 goes down very quick, I duelled a level 8 this evening when I took the screenshot showing the health, I beat him in 3 shots - 2 x sinister strikes and 1 x eviscerate!
I put fiery enchant on my sword and even took a trip to westfall (assisted by my warlock Dirky and my son Bbcone) to get the [Red Defias Mask] , which drops off the Defias mobs in this area, eventually! It does not give any stats but looks cool. However by the end of this trip I was about 5 bars of reaching level 2 !.
Last night was not really a regular raid, we decided to attempt a world boss. We gathered in Hellfire Peninsula for Doom Lord Kazzak who hangs about just over the hill at the back of Thrallmar.
Once we cleared the mobs which are all over this area now due to the daily quests which are popular here we started the encounter. The whole thing from start to finish lasts less than 2 minutes. If you dont manage to take him down in this time the enrages become too hard too survive, if any members die he heals himself for 150,000 hp!
We had a few failed attempts, one got kind of messy due to the mobs respawning after about 30 seconds! In my opinion this detracts from the encounter and makes it messy. I think this was a bad area for Blizzard to put all these mobs and daily quests. Anyway he eventually went down for what was the guilds first kill. I got 2 badges of justice, nothing else of interest dropped for Dirky 
Last weekend saw the Alterac Valley ‘holiday weekend’ or more accurately ‘double honor points for 4 days weekend‘. What this means is you can grind away in AV battleground, which in itself is one of the higher honor-gaining BG’s and on these 4 days, Thursday until Monday, you get about twice the honour as normal.
I already had about 11,000 honor and was saving up for [Gladiator's Spellblade] to replace my trusty [Continuum Blade] which had served me well for the past 3 months or so, queue time for getting in to the BG was about 30 seconds. So over the weekend I was able to pop on now and again as and when I got chance and partake in some PvP action! By late Monday I had the required 25,000+ points needed to purchase said blade! This gives me a an almost 80 point increase in my spell damage! I had the mats for +40 spell damage enchant for it too, so I’m now 120 spell damage up on what I was previously!
So now the only other item of my gear (well not counting my trinket items) that is non epic are my rather embarrassing pants/trousers/legs. Since level 66 or so I have been sporting the dapper [Stormreaver Shadow-Kilt] but over this last week I have been going all out grinding the mats for some new pants, the [Spellstrike Pants]. The good news is I now have the mats, the bad news I need to find somebody to craft these for me, hopefully it won’t be long.
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