Chieftain Swiftspear and Frostfloe Deep

A friend on another realm was telling me today about a new thing that hackers are doing. A buddy of his had been hacked and when he had regained his account, one of his characters was dead in a strange cave in Stormpeaks. After looking around for a bit, he noticed what appeared to be several horde bots (characters being run by algorithms) running around and killing the elementals in the cave, Wailing Winds. Apparently they're a pretty good source of crystallized fire. What hackers have been doing is taking geared toons on accounts they've hacked up to this cave and just farming crystallized fire and putting stacks of eternal fire on the AH. What my friend found more interesting was the fact that neither he nor the buddy who had been hacked, had seen this cave before. After talking with some friends on the horde side (Camp Tunka'lo is pretty much directly south of this cave) they found out their friends didn't know anything about the cave either. Since checking wowhead.com would make too much sense for them, I did it ;)

The cave is called Frostfloe Deep. Inside the cave is the spirit of a Tauren named Chieftain Swiftspear. As a Horde member only, you get a quest from Xarantaur at Camp Tunka'lo to find Swiftspear and ask him about his memories. Turns out, the cave is a burial ground for the ancient warriors of Tunka'lo that has been taken over by a strange, elemental force. This force has been disturbing the spirits in the tomb as well as erasing Swiftspear's memories from life. He asks you to take his totem and close the rifts that have opened inside the tomb to restore the peace. You get sent back to Xarantaur after that to finish up the quest lines. It's really an interesting bit of lore, almost makes me wish I played Horde. Almost ;)

The mouth of Frostfloe Deep.

Chieftain Swiftspear

Dehlia - Level 80 #4

I have been having an absolute ball leveling and playing my warlock, Dehlia. Affliction is sooooo much fun! I hit 80 with her last Saturday while Alindras was over leveling her druid. We were supposed to go swimming, but with both of our toons halfway through 79, the call of 80 was too much to bear. We definitely skipped swimming altogether and once we leveled to 80, we didn't stop there. Oh no, of course not, we had to start doing the high-end dungeons (ToC, FoS, and PoS--we tried HoR but it was too much for our low gear) to replace blues and get emblems!

I still haven't gone swimming since Saturday, but I have been farming heroics!

Not a new comic, but close :)

Alindras drew this for me. I had the idea for the picture while we were on one of our failed attempts of the Dreamwalker fight. I think Heap had made a joke about helping the healers by using his frostweave band aids and that's when the light bulb went off above my head. Alindras agreed and handed me the drawing yesterday afternoon (which coincidentally was the same afternoon that she hit 80 with her druid and I hit 80 with my warlock XD). I LOVE it! :)

New modem = less lag!

Garaba's twin, Frost Armor Vendor (Priest gear)

Our internet has been wonky for a while. Last weekend was the last straw. It was only up for a minute or two before going down and staying down for much longer than it had been up. I hate Comcast. Too bad they're a monopoly in this area. Super was able to go to one of their service locations and just swap out the modem since we were pretty sure that was the problem and turns out it was. Thankfully we didn't have to schedule service guys to come out, with Super working nights (and sleeping during the day) and my crazy work schedule, it would have probably been weeks before service guys could actually take a look at our system. We raided last night with only a few lag issues (mostly Heap had them, he was on a hotel's internet) and FINALLY got the Prof. down for only the second time.

BIG NEWS! We've been in talks with BK about merging the two guilds (they have the same problems we do with finding people for the last one or two spots in their 10man raids) and creating a brand new guild for raiding. Both original guilds will remain intact for leveling alts and things, and the new guild will primarily be a raiding guild. Each set of guildies will retain their original raid night(s) with the added bonus of being able to help each other fill the remaining spots. No more pugs! After an incredibly productive vent discussion between the two guilds (each guild elected 3 people to speak in vent while others could listen and post concerns/questions in their respective guild chats, that way it wouldn't be a free-for-all and everyone's voice could still be heard), GoD has been invited to use BK's online forums to discuss new guild names. So far, there have been lots of good name suggestions made but no decisions have been made yet. My favorites has been "Set Sail For Epic Fail" and "I Stand in Fire" (neither of them were mine but I love them anyway!).