Sunday Daily 2/3

Written for The City Watch

The Botanica was our assignment for The Sunday Daily this week. TCW members Biebi, Viktel, Silverywolfe, and Lythand were joined by Dreadnaught member and Tankadin Medallaplus bright and early to make this run.

Medallaplus proved to be a very experienced player and led TCW through Bot with no wipes and no deaths.

Lythand had a great run recieving the Prismatic Mittens of Mending and the Runed Dagger of Solace.

Viktel just about fell out of his chair when he saw his first piece of Beast Lord Gear (he's been trying for some since Halloween). When Warp Splinter dropped the Beast Lord Cuirass he was heard to exclaim; "Holy Crap!".

Look for next weeks Sunday Daily to be posted on the Calendar!

The Sunday Daily is Back!

Written for The City Watch
We are back, baby! My schedule at work has finally returned to normal and I can start running instances again. So here it is:
There has been a call from Lower City for volunteers to discreetly handle a few "items" that the resident guards have been unable to resolve due to "internal disruptions". Pointedly the call is for The City Watch to provide One Healer, One Tank, and Three DPS officers for a trip into an instance. The specifics won't be revealed until the group reports in. Sign ups are first come, first served by the role you wish to fill for the group. If we have extra people sign up we can start up a second list.

Don't forget to mention which roll you wish to play (Tank, Healer, MQoSRDPS).

Please be aware that the times are early this week so as not to conflict with any Super Bowl activities.

Target start time is 10 a.m. Sunday morning (server time). We will meet in Lower City to receive our orders (get the daily quest) and roll out from there.
There will be a "three wipe" rule in effect. The plan is to give it our best, and if we wipe three times re-evaluate the situation. In the event that the daily requires a key that we don't have, or the instance proves to high a level, the group is free to select another dungeon to run. This is primarily for fun and practice so if you want to try something new feel to sign up.

Allies of the Netherwing

Written for The City Watch

A report has arrived at TCW Headquarters that something has disturbed the Netherdrakes in Southeast Shadowmoon Valley.

Mordenai, a Night Elf in the area reports that, "They won't even come down to feed. I have seen several fall to the earth, dead from exhaustion before their bodies hit the ground."
A patrol is to be dispatched this coming Sunday at 11 a.m. from Wildhammer Stronghold.

This week's Sunday Daily will be concentrating on finishing the initial quest line that will open up the Netherwing daily quests. These daily and repeatable quests will build reputation with the Netherwing faction and pay you 11 gold each time you complete one.

Do your quests every day and at the end of two weeks, yes that's correct one fortnight, you will have the gold to purchase your Epic Flyer AND the necessary reputation with the Netherwing Faction to have earned the right to ride a Netherdrake!

The only drawback is that there are six of these to choose from at the vendor
/hand + forehead

Here is the Wowwiki page that covers the Netherwing Faction:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Netherwing

If you look in the upper left corner you will see a tiny little link entitled "Required quest chain". That is the quest chain we will be doing.

Wowhead has a good list with hints and tips on the quests here:
http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10804

Facts about this questline:
1. Most of these are solo'able quests which are sharable, feel free to work ahead of the class if you wish.
2. The quest giver for much of the chain is flying above Shadowmoon Valley at approx 60, 63 so you will need a flying mount if you want to work ahead of the class.
3. We will need at least one tank type character, and one healer for step eight in the quest chain "Zuluhead the Whacked". This quest is a boss type fight.
4. Everyone is welcome to come.
5. Mordenai is more than he appears.
5. You do not need 5000g to get started on your Netherdrake
6. Vik likes to enjoy a nice cup of Kona Blend while doing his daily quests in the morning (two scoops of sugar, and just the right amount of half & half please).

The Sunday Daily

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The turn out for today's Sunday Daily was fantastic. The dungeon for the day was the Arcatraz. We had 8 total sign ups on the website, and several were interested in going once we all got signed in an started to send invites.

In all we fielded two groups. Krigsmager leading one, myself the other. There was one small caveat, you need a key to enter Arc and between the two groups we had one.

Krigs was kind enough to let my group into Arc where we made a solid attempt to move froward, however without a key we decided to move over to The Mechnar instead. Inside we steadily made our way through the lower level and took down Mechano-Lord Capacitus and opened Cache of the Legion .

Moving up to the second level we cleared the room of Mechbots and Bloodelves, unfortunately the second Boss, Nethermancer Sepethrea, was just a little too much for us. We gave it a good three attempts before having to call the instance for time constraints.

I can't wait to try it again with a new strategy I just came across.

I know Krigs' group cleared Arcatraz, anyone from that group care to give us a run down of how things went?

Thank you everyone that came! Keep an eye out for next week's edition of the Sunday Daily when we will be recruiting people that would like to complete the quest chain that will open up the daily quests that will lead to us getting our Epic Netherdrake Mounts.

Anyone want to ride a Dragon?

Attumen Down!

T.C.W. Has officially downed Attumen the Huntsman!

The team: Jhura, Girean, Krigsmager, Bekca, Tzulari, Dakaa, Grimwood, Zaris, and Verbina.

Way to start the new year guys, congrats!

Big Kudos!!

Review: Kaliban's Loot Lists

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The goal for many people in WoW once they reach the level cap of 70 is to experience the Endgame Raiding content that culminates with ridding the universe of the demon Illidan.

This is a long drawn out process that includes finding keys, going into lower level dungeons to find the armor and weapons that will allow you to survive the battles with the Bosses of dungeons, and finding up to 25 other people that are also on their way toward The Black Temple, Illidan's home. The full process can be seen on Blizzard's BC Attunement Chart.

Knowing what gear you need and where to get it can be rather daunting at times. There is a lot of it out there, in several different instance dungeons. Where does one start to gather the information needed? One site I have found very useful is Kaliban's Class Loot Lists.

Kaliban's site lists much of the critical loot in the game, and is being updated on a regular basis. Included in the lists are quest rewards, reputation rewards, world drops, crafted items, and Boss drops in both normal and heroic modes. There are even some strategy guides for the Boss fights.

I have found that the most helpful thing about Kaliban's Lists are that they are first divided by player class, then the lists are organized by player level. There are sections for both Old World loots and for the new Burning Crusade items. These lists are very simple to follow and are linked to WoWHead so you can compare the stats on the listed loots to your own gear in the Armory to see if the item is actually and upgrade.

Currently there is a gear planning function that is in its beta form. This function allows you select your class, what stats you are looking for, what your weapons set up is, and where the item comes from. For example you may want to enter if you are looking for a crafted item, a world drop, a reputation reward, or a rare item that drops when your group kills one of the instance bosses.

This function will come in particularly handy since it is possible to gear yourself for Karazahn with crafted items, reputation rewards, and action house items, as well as Boss drops. This is a huge time saver for those beginning to run the same few instances over and over.

Remember, as Heros our focus is on getting into the Black Temple to kill Illidan; it really isn't a race to see who can get the most loot. Kaliban's site will help you to know when to give up on farming for a particular piece of armor or weapon if there is a comparable item that is easier to get your hands on via reputation reward or Auction House Purchase.

If you choose to pursue the endgame content of WoW I highly recommend having Kaliban's Loot Lists bookmarked for easy reference. Knowing what loot you want, and where to get it will save you some time and help you get into the Endgame faster.

The update on how the team did:

I got this comment from Krigsmager:

Vik, its krigs, as an update. We killed the first boss. Did a double banish and were able to drop her once rahkim stopped standing in the raincloud. Just kidding around there, it took a little bit more planning to overcome, ended up having silver send in void first to take a beating then rahkim was in behind so when void died switched to him.

We then cleared all the way to the second boss no problem but second boss we just didn't have enough tank/healing power to hold while we dropped the adds and boss. On top of that was late for silver and lyth with some red gear going on so called it.

Y'all Totally Rock! And Daisy got level 70, and her flying mount. Congrats and Kudos

The Sunday Daily

Written for The City Watch

There has been a call from Lower City for volunteers to discreetly handle a few "items" that the resident guards have been unable to resolve due to political reasons. Pointedly the call is for The City Watch to provide One Healer, One Tank, and Three DPS characters for a trip into an instance. The specifics won't be revealed until the group reports in.

Sign ups are first come, first served by the role you wish to fill for the group. Don't forget to mention which roll you wish to play.
Target start time is 11 a.m. Sunday morning (server time). We will meet in Lower City to receive our orders (get the daily quest) and roll out from there. This is primarily for fun and practice so if you want to try something new feel to sign up.
There will be a "four wipe" rule in effect. The plan is to give it our best, and if we wipe four times call it a day.

They do seem to sweep the floors here though.

It has come to the attention of The City Watch that there have been some disturbances eminating from Medivh's old castle in Deadwind Pass. Gathering a handful of heroes The City Watch traveled into the valley to check out the reports.

WE WENT INTO KARAZAHN, YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

..er, sorry.

Ahem!

Seven officers were dispatched to the area and were verily handed their heads on a platter...

The funniest moment was just after one of our early pulls went bad. I saw the Spectral Chargers enter the room, dropped a trap and turned around just in time to see the door shutting behind the other party members that were still alive.

"Um, guys?"

A true Monty Python moment that one; "Attack!", "Run away!!!! Run away!!!!!"

I swear I hit the feign death hot key, I did, I did.... Gadz, is that a hoof print in my [Stalker's Helmet of Second Sight]?

You know thats going to cost at the blacksmith. What do you mean there is more than one?

So we got our sneak peek at Kara, just a gaggle of 70's that happened all to have keys and be online at the same time. What we did learn, once the initial exitement and silliness wore off a bit, was that we should do just fine in Kara. We had seven people instead of ten, and only one healer. Taking down the Mobs wasn't really a problem, what stopped us was time, and just a lack of experience in this instance.

The tanking was good, the heals were fantastic, we just weren't able to burn down the trash mobs fast enough to avoid the re-spawns. We kept at it until all present had achieved "friendly" reputations with the Violet Eye and each got our first Violet Ring.

Kaylee, my primary pet, did really well. I'll be tweaking her training quite a bit, but at this time I see no reason to give up the Beast Master Spec. I'll be heading up to Coilscar to practice some trapping soon.

I have to say it is very, very fun to be part of a group that is taking their first steps in the endgame content. The sense of community and comaraderie make all that work and waiting totally worth it.

And whats even more exciting is all the folks in the guild that are just starting their key quests, and gear runs, and approaching level 70!

We are close gang, so very close!!!

I am really looking forward to going through the whole learning process involved in a 10 man raid. And seeing a light at the end of the tunnel of my PUGing career is a beautiful thing.

Here's to you TCW!

And as I lay there, waiting for Verbi to rezerect me, I couldn't help but notice that there was a distinct lack of green goo all over the stable floor. A nice change from Outlands don't you think?