Sunday, March 28, 2010

Illidan Stormrage and Rak'shiri

Wow, I haven't updated this in a little bit :P But alas I am back with 2 new videos to share.

The first is Rak'shiri, this is a little video of Exxy and I killing the rare Rak'shiri in Winterspring. Usually I would just get a screen capture of the rare (which I did :P) but I decided to get a video, so without further adieu here is the first video:




The second video is a little something my guild and I did on Friday, we did an achievement run through The Black Temple. We went and killed Illidan, and I must say...it was messy but we were just having fun :P This is the final fight in BT, I am on my paladin healing.





-Cyphale

Friday, March 19, 2010

Holy Mammoths!

Yesterday was quite the event on my server, we had a mammoth parade :P Now as far as I could tell from searching on Youtube there were not any videos of a mammoth parade on my server.


So I took the liberty of making one :P

So here it is, a video of me and my fellow Anub'Arakians proudly marching on out mammoths :P




-Cyphale

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Frostbitten and Bloody Rare

The title of this does not have to do with the cold and food, it has to do with Rare Spawns! I finally finished up my montage of rare spawn screen captures. I would post it on Youtube but it is quite a long video. So what I will have to do is shorten it up a bit then upload it. Thank you to Exxy and Ewykuyi for taking some screen captures of rare spawns and for not killing then without me there :P

Btw, here are the achievements I listed in the title Bloody Rare and Frostbitten

-Cyphale

Monday, March 15, 2010

March Break :D

Ah what a lovely day I'm having :) It is March Break, or as others call it Spring Break. After a nice long few hours of sleeping in, I think I shall update.

This first update will probably be Exxy's envy...I got my raptor mount today :P I originally started the quest to get the mount even before Exxy started playing. I got to about 14 teeth and then I just stopped for a while. Then once I took Exxy to quest in the Un'goro Crater I mentioned the mount and how to get it. Needless to say Exxy was intrigued and it reminded me that I was close to getting the mount. Its nothing fancy, but it is a mount that not everyone (on my server) has. What surprised me about the mount was that the achievement you get doesn't have a category to be placed it, so it is considered a Feat Of Strength. So here it is:




The second bit of news that I have is that I got my lock to 60...finally :P I got D spec too. Questing was getting too hard, because I leveled as Affliction which is the lock PVP spec. PVP to me is the funnest thing in the game but I decided to D spec as Affliction and Demonology. Demonology being the proper leveling spec, but hey I decided to make a challenge for me :P I once tried to level my mage as Fire...that did not go over well :| :P Anyways another thing I think may possibly get Exxy to want to be a warlock would be that aside from the "sexy" mount, you also get Metamorphosis and Enslave Demon.

Metamorphosis, to put it in a nutshell is the ability to turn into a demon for 30 seconds. It gives you some extra attacks, a 600% armor increase...but lets face it the best part of demon for is that you look badass :P

Here is my lock in demon form:

 Quite the transformation from a little Blood Elf huh? :P

One of the other fun things about locks is Enslaving various demons. Now warlocks do get a selection of demons to choose from. Imp, Succubus, Voidwalker, Fel Hunter, Fel Guard, Infernal and Doomguard. But for Outlands especially, a lock can go to anywhere in Hellfire Penisula and hand pick a minion :P
This is a picture of when I Enslaved a Hellboar:
This is just one of the many demons I've had fun taming, some of them even offer some unique abilities >:)

Well I have some leveling to get back to :P

-Cyphale

Saturday, March 13, 2010

The Devilsaur and King Mosh

Anyone who has ever quested in the Un'Goro Crater should know what I am talking about.



Out of most areas, in Un'goro there are quite a few elites. Most of them are Ironhide Devilsaurs, Tyrant Devilsaurs,  and various prehistoric resembling creatures.

The white Devilsaur, is a particular elite needed for the quest Devilsaur Barb


Nothing special about him really, at level at he's just 1-shotted. Any time I am in Un'goro for whatever reason I make a habit of killing him and skinning him :P But he isn't the Devilsaur I want to focus on. 

There is a known rare who occasionally roams this crater along with his fellow Devisaur friends...King Mosh
(clicky the picture, it will be less blurry:P) 



Now as a hobby, I search for rare spawns in WoW all the time. Whenever I see one I usually get a screen capture before and after the kill to show the loot. But for King Mosh I took a video.






The reasons for the video are:

1) King Mosh is a very powerful Elite as well as a Rare Spawn and
2) He is said to be a clue about a mysterious "hidden quest" from a riddle a player received when talking to a GM

There is a whole thread on the WoW forms dedicated to this topic. Having read it, it does seem quite odd that GM's cannot give out hints so they could just be messing with us :P My personal stand on this is that hidden quests do exist in game, and Blizzard is just waiting for us to find out how to get to them and that they would take more effort to unlock rather than just making a NE, dying then whipsing around the world. If you want to see the thread I am talking about clicky here.

*Edit...the forum post seems to have moved somewhere >.> *

Another side project that I am working on is that as I mentioned earlier in this post...I am a fan of finding Rare Spawns. Expect a video montage of all the screen captures I have so far to come soon.

Well now I am off to find another Rare Spawn Devilsaur...King Krush, when I find him you can be sure to see another video :P

-Cyphale

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Vanity Pets! ^^

Well I decided that after the depressing post I posted before this, that I should lighten up my blog a bit!

And what would be a better way to lighten things up then with vanity pets!

I admit, when I fisrt started playing WoW, I didn't know what they were but soon after the achievement system came out...well let's just say that I went a little non-combat pet crazy.

It was all back in the day, my first character was a male Orc Warrior named Ihatekittys. (NO I don't hate kitties, that name is an inside joke:P) I was very lucky to have gotten a little money "boost" from my lovely Ewykuyi <3

He gave me 25G, and when I first started playing...it seemed like a lot of money. When I had gotten to the lovely level 47 (which is still where my shelfed warrior sits right now) I had discovered the nuetral auction house in Tanaris.

And that's when it all started. I bought a frog, I can't remember exactly what kind it was. I went to the mailbox to get it, found it in my linen cloth bag and there it was...my first non-combat pet.

From there it became a vicious cycle, and I bought out almost all the pets there.

I had gotten the achievement for 15 non-combat pets and then I wondered to myself...Could there be another achievement? And there was.

But I was broke on Ihatekittys, so it is almost 2 years later and I decided that I would try on my Death Knight.

So here is my collection as of now on Cypahle. It's not as developed as I would like it, but whenever I get the chance I add to it. Which is usually by doing the holiday events. The two pets that I would absolutly love to get would be the Pheonix Hatchling and the Hyacinth Macaw. The Macaw is the rarest of the two, and on my server is sells for around 20,000G. So my hopes aren't up for it any time soon.

-Cyphale

Sunday, March 7, 2010

ShapeShift On Hold And Story Blog Is Done :(

Alas, the title says it all, I have to put ShapeShift on hold :(

I announced that I would be working on a new machinima on January 19th but there are a few problems with that. I simply between high school, thinking about colleges and trying to gear my paladin to attain a 5k GS (Gear Score) and leveling with Exxy when I have the chance...I find myself really strapped for time :(

Now this doesn't mean that I have given up on machinima completely...I will still write parodies and record them but the big time consuming part of it is making the video. I have said before if I had a partner in machinima then things would be a little bit different but...I'm only one woman :P But possibly a new video could be birthed when I have free time.

The other thing is that I...after much deliberation with my inner self...have decided to close up my story blog. Which means there will not be any more posts made on it. For details of why it is done clicky here.

So what am I going to do since my story blog is done and my machinima is on hold?
Well I plan to blog about my experiences in WoW here. I'm not going to blog about how to down Onxyia (although it is fun when you do :P), but rather those little odd achievements and exploits. Things usual WoWer's don't do.

Speaking of, my dungeon queue just popped so I am being called to use my holy light to heal against the great forces of Brohnjam! (if you don't get that don't worry about it :P)

-Cyphale

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Respect Your Elders

Yay! I finally got my Elder title! I know I could have gotten it a lot sooner, but running dungeon after dungeon and flying to different places...it's a lot of work :|

But lots of work never stops Elder Cyphale...Most of the time anyways :P

Now that I have my title, and now that there are no more holidays until Nobles Garden (which I should mention I only need 1 female dwarf over level 18, because I could have had the title last year. But no one makes a female dwarf...they don't exist I swear) So now I can focus on ShapeShift...Finally! :D

Exxy and Ewykuyi! I need you both! Lend me your toons! ...Pretty please with a murloc on top :D

Another side project I'm working on is my banner. I love my new blog template. It's not really WoW related, but I need a wide to make a wide banner with my DK and possibly some other toons. I liked the other pictures I used to have but this template doesn't allow you to have a big height and width picture. So look forward to that!

Well I best be gettin' to school

-Cyphale

(Clicky on the picture...It will be much clearer)