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Never fear, it’s not all doom and gloom for enchanters. One of the improvements for this “Before the Storm” patch in preparation for the release of WoW Burning Crusade includes making all Enchanting Rods counts as all lower level rods as well.

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We’re getting ready for World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade, due out at the beginning of 2007. Blizzard put out a patch yesterday and scrolling through the changes makes me sad for all the newbie and wannabe enchanters out there. Time was, a new enchanter could increase their skill level and fill their enchanting bags with supplies for the future by disenchanting cheap buys from the auction house (or unusable but bound loot) but alas, it won’t be so easy anymore. (more…)

All you hunters better get your game on now. Burning Crusade sounds like the big nerf. Check out the changes Blizzard’s announced for your class. “Hunters now get 1 AP per Agility rather than 2.” Ouch. So everyone (including me) who’s been speccing the highest +agi gear they can find is in for a big letdown. They say they’re going to offset it with increases to damage for ranged weapons, but the fact that they have to make so many other changes to offset this loss lets you know it’s a big one. What am I going to do? Get while the getting’s good. I’m racing full out to level as fast as my rest +XP will pace me. (more…)

Round about level 10 my druid got the first quest in the series that ends with learning bear form. I went through the different stages of the quest pretty quickly - learned a teleport, got a few levels, but then it got complicated when I received Cenarian Moondust from the dude (Mathrengyl Bearwalker) at the top of the druid tower in Darnassus. I headed out to talk to the Moonkin spirit Lunaclaw and found the cave in Auberdine directly east. When the quest says “directly east” it usually means “really close”. I met up with another druid doing the same quest so we grouped and had no problem getting into the cave. I had my Moondust sitting in my action bar so I could apply it to the rock with ease. Applying it to the rock made the spirit appear, we both interacted with him (so I thought) and then the other druid departed to return the quest and I hung around to finish another quest in the same area. (more…)

So I’ve played a little World of Warcraft, but not much. I decided to start a new character and make notes of the experience of bringing a character up from level 1 as a relative newb. I just came off my trial account and have a couple characters under level 12. I haven’t made a rogue yet, so I’ll try that out.

It seems like the Alliance are the good guys and the Horde are the bad guys, even though the descriptions at the character creation screen don’t say so. While I think a Gnome or Elf might make a better Rogue, I’m still most comfortable making a Human character. Each race has its own advantages and an Elf might be the best choice here, but I don’t like to just play along stereotyped lines.

When creating your character you get quite a few choices of hair style, face, skin tones, and the like. (more…)