This week on Outland with Curs (11/12/11)

Today The Cursed got to level 20. The daily cap is now gone onward to the 25.

The Cursed level 20

 Earlier this week we had another achievement: Well of Eternity Guild run.

The Cursed: Well of Eternity Guild run

I did the new boss, Azibal, in Baradin Hold on my Death Knight, pretty easy fight. Not much special about it just another tank & spank fight and get out of the whirlwind.

No interesting drops.

I also did the second part of the Dragon Soul raid on my Death Knight with the raidfinder. Terrible... Moonkin druids needing on a strength trinket...

Anyway I got to see the content I suppose.

Death Knight at the end of Madness of Deathwing fight.

I did a normal run on my Shaman with Ättestupan in Dragon Soul. Got a pair of new gloves. Warlord Zon'ozz seemed to hard for our poorly geared alts. Guess we got some gearing up to do first.

In other news: Swtor will be released on 15th December, instead of 20th in Europe so I'll get that a bit earlier :-).

Also the server names should be published tomorrow.

This week on Outland with Curs (25/11/11)

This weekend another Star Wars The Old Republic beta. This time starting at a reasonable hour on Friday :-).
That being said I won't play much WoW this weekend, so I thought I'd wrap it up already for this week.

I did a Firelands run this week on Death Knight with Elysium (I'm a social in this guild). It's been a while since I raided again, We simply cleared it on normal.
No loot for me though, I guess i won't get those BOE trash axes. And with the next patch just around the corner I don't think it will make much difference anyway.

The Cursed got 2 new achievements this week:

A Class Act

 I'm surprised we didn't get this one sooner. We've been missing a rogue for a very long time.

That's a Lot of Turn Ins

This week on Outland with Curs (01/11/11) Midweek part

With Halloween I got 2 extra days off, I had some extra time in WoW as well. So I've decided to add an extra post.

On Monday

I joined an icc 25 hc hoping to finish off the infusion quests on my Death Knight... I got close but no cigar :'(.
Had 2 attempts, first try all went pretty will had 3 bites but it ended in chaos and some mindcontrols.
The second try some people had trouble holding off their dps and I didn't get bitten first and we killed it to quick this time, I only had time to bite 2 people. So better luck next time I guess.

Luckily it wasn't all in vain. I got Scourgeborne Waraxe and Bracers of Dark Reckoning for transmogrification.
This means I've got my wanted axe for transmogrification (as said in this post).

Not only did I get those two items for transmogrification, I also was able to finish of the Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 player). So now i have a nice Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher mount.

Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher

In the evening I did some raids with Ättestupan.
On my Death Knight I did Baleroc, Majordomo Fandral Staghelm (heroic!) and Ragnaros.

Majordomo Fandral Staghelm (heroic!)

And to finish we did another Ragnaros kill on the alts, on which I came with my shaman.
I got a nice helm, Erupting Volcanic Helmet, which looks fancy aswell:

Erupting Volcanic Helmet

Today (Tuesday)

Today was rather a lazy day. I did Karazhan this morning on my Death Knight. I really like the instance, the whole setting. I was unable to do chess as Medivh cheats to much ;-) and I wasn't that lucky with his cheats.

On with the show

Audience Pov

 In the afternoon I did some Zandalari heroics on my Warlock.

This week on Outland with Curs (23/10/11)

The Cursed got to level 16 on Thursday. We've obtained the cash flow guild perk now. Some more gold in the bank weekly. Might buy some additional tabs soon.

We also got Critter Kill Squad, killing 50 critters

Critter Kill Squad

I got the Creepy Crate on my death knight, it has some cool animations.

Creepy Crate

I leveled my rogue and my warrior a bit during the AV weekend. About a level each, although it was a lot harder on my rogue because we kept losing... Horde sucks at AV in the 80 - 84 bracket.


Thursday I had the chance to raid Firelands again with my Death Knight and the helm of Alysrazor dropped.
Wearing the earlier in week obtained  The Horseman's Horrific Helmet, I noticed that my item level 365 had more strength than Greathelm of the Voracious Maw (ilvl 378).

Someone made an intresting note on wowhead though:

Cata itemization has been incredibly linear(/bland) so it's a big surprise to see something like this come along. I wonder if it's a bug or if it's going live like this.
Reference.
i353: 263 in primary stat (usually Strength for plate, sometimes a tanking stat)i359: 281 in primary stati365: 301 in primary stati371: 322 in primary stati372: 325 in primary stati378: 348 in primary stat (some variance here; the tank ones have 388, the new 5-mans 346)i384: 371 in primary stati391: 400 in primary stat (tank ones 440)i397: 426 in primary stat (tank ones 466)i403: 454 in primary stat
This helm is a 365 with the Strength budget of a 384, the secondary stats of a mid-350s, and Stamina of a mid-330s. Given how much better Strength is than secondary stats this expansion, this makes it a ridiculously well-itemized piece and very comparable to 378s.

Mists of Pandaria - Blizzcon 2011 - Monk 2

They released some info on some of the abilities of the monks:

Level 1 AbilitiesJab 40 Chi - Melee Range, Instant
Requires Stance of the Drunken Ox, Stance of the Fierce Tiger.
You jab the target, dealing 5 damage and generating 1 light force and 1 dark force.

Tiger Palm 1 Light Force - Melee range, instant
Requires Stance of the Drunken Ox, Stance of the Fierce Tiger.
Deals 10 Physical damage, deals 5 additional damage if the target is above 50% health.

Level 2 AbilitiesRoll 50 Chi - Instant
Roll a short distance.

Level 3 AbilitiesBlackout Kick 2 Dark Force - Melee range, Instant
Kick with a blast of energy, causing 28 physical damage to an enemy target. If the target is killed by blackout kick, you are returned 1 Dark Force.
Level 5 AbilitiesFlying Serpent Kick 8-40 Yards range, 25 Seconds Cooldown, Instant.
Soar through the air towards a targeted enemy, knocking them down and stunning them for 2 seconds.
Spinning Crane Kick Instant, 2 Lights and Dark Forces
Requires Stance of the Drunken Ox, Stance of the Fierce Tiger.
You spin while kicking in the air, dealing 23 damage every 1 second to all nearby enemies within 8 yards. Movement speed is reduced by 30%, last 6 seconds.
Level ?? AbilitiesStatue of the Jade Serpent 5 Sec Cast
Summon a statue at the target location. Anytime you deal damage, a nearby friendly target within 20 yards of the statue will be healed. You can have up to 3 Jade Dragon Statues active at a time.

The moves:

Looking forward to tryout this class. I do wonder how the moves will look on the other eligible races.


I read some stuff might become account wide, things like achievements, I hope the rewards become account wide as well then.
Would be cool then if you switched main and you got that "special" mount for doing a series of achievements you can still use it.
At the moment I got 2 Frostbrood Vanquisher mounts, on my warrior and on my paladin. And now I mostly play my horde characters and none of those are being used.

Also noticed in the Q&A that someone asked for an expansion on character slots.

I have 10 characters, will you add an 11th slot so we can have all 11 classes? Not sure just yet, might keep the current character cap but let you have them on any realm, so you can have many many charaters on one realm.

I really hope i can get more slots on one realm so i can have my monk with the rest of my characters.