It's Been A Month D:

Oh my! It's been a month! D: Luckily I do not have much to report...I've just been getting my monies worth out of Cata. I have new videos out...but there's a few so I'll just shamelessly post my YouTube channel link instead of each video :P

http://www.youtube.com/user/MissPenguin14?feature=mhum

So for the most part I have been occupying my time with WoW, school work and another MMO that I signed up to try the beta. It's called RIFT, and its alright. From what I've played out of it I still say that I prefer WoW. I may buy it and give the retail version a try when it comes out. The rumored release date is March of this year. So that gives me a little more time to think about it. If I were to get it I would still play WoW, I haven't gotten my fill out of it yet :P

Now I have some homework that I should be getting to :P

-Cyphale

Post Cataclysm

It has been a while! Almost a full year since I have started this blog :D

Anyways, Cataclysm has so far served me well. I chose to level up my nerfed-as-shit warlock first. I went demo, it was easy enough. I must say that I fully enjoyed each new area. I couldn't decide if I should quest in Hyjal or Vashj'ir, so I did both. I loved Hyjal for the lore and the backstory but my god Vashj'ir was amazing graphics wise. 

Deepholm was interesting as well, kind of reminded me of Icecrown. 

Uldum...cat people. Is all I can say :P

And Twilight Highlands, I didn't get to finish the area, but from what I did I loved the story. 

I haven't gotten much video footage, my computer isn't liking the upped graphics of Cata so much. But I still insists on keeping my particle density maxed :P But I have got a new parody out!

It's been out for a little while now, but I think that it is one of my favourites that I have done. The strangest things inspire me when I make a parody. And sometimes my friends inspire me.

Mana, Mana, Mana was done for my b/f and fellow raider Amorianth <3

Get the Raid Started for for my l33t pally healing friend ;)

And Orc n' Troll is for my race confused friend :P jk jk

I haven't gotten bitten by the inspiration bug recently...but I'm sure that it won't be that long until I release another Cyphale original :P

But until then,

-Cyphale

Cataclysm Tomorrow!

Well this is it! Tomorrow marks the start of another chapter if World of Warcraft history. We have been talking about it and wondering about it for a little over a year now, and now the day has finally come. I'm both excited and a little bit sad, but that's because I'm a sucker for nostalgia :P

Wrath of the Lich King was the first expansion that I become more seriously involved in. But since I have downloaded WoW alpha, I wish more and more that I actually played during vanilla WoW but I digress...

The shattering brought upon many changes to the world that I knew and loved. I miss the Barrens, because everyone always complained about it, I miss how it is no more the peaceful place where the kodo's play and Chuck Norris jokes can be heard.

I'll miss the Ironforge Airfield, I've went there many times and it was one of the more simple exploits but I loved the mystery of flying to Ironforge on my Alliance death knight and seeing it wondering what exactly was there; and more importantly...how can I get there? They made this place into a low level questing area. The same day as The Shattering I went on my Alliance death knight to go see it. I exploited to get there, even though there was probably an actual way to get there. Blizzard fixed it up, but it doesn't look like its normal, glitchy self anymore.

Another place that I will miss will be the Isle of Quel'Thalas. To get there before 4.0.1 all you had to do was swim, and if you played a class with some sort of water walking then that made your job much faster. But now, there are invisible walls to conquer. And I have no idea why, Blizzard was fine with this since it has been there since The Burning Crusade has been out. Quel'Thalas had to be my favourite place that I have visited. It is also so mysterious, just left to its own business. It is mentioned in lore as the home of the High Elves before it was destroyed by the Lich King (I think that's how it goes). I wasn't expecting them to just block it off, maybe it will be until I install the actual expansion, but maybe not.

But until tomorrow, I will just enjoy the world...while it is still worgen and goblin free :P

-Cyphale

Cataclysm Is Almost Here!

Today is the day of The Shattering. The world will forever be changed today... T.T There were some places of the world that I didn't want to change, but life goes on I suppose :P

I have been busy with getting some last minuet achieves, I was working on Glory of the Hero...but I think I may be a little late on that one, I won't know for sure until the servers come back up. Which according to the Breaking News on the new login screen, says that they will be up at 5:00 p.m. PST. And that means they will be up at 8:00 p.m. EST in my timezone (I'm a real nerd, I have my laptop clock set to normal time and WoW time) :P

As we speak I'm uploading my last pre Cataclysm video, its a long one so it's taking its time...400MBs and says it will take about 48 more mins. So I'll have to link it here later. It's just a montage of the last things I did before Cata; such as jumping off Thousand Needles, running along the Path of Destruction in The Barrens, visiting Ironforge Airport and the Wetlands Farm one last time and saying my goodbyes to Camp Taurajo. I had some footage of Southshore and Auberdine but I deleted the folder by accident >.< Funny thing was that I was thinking about that yesterday thinking that it was no big deal and I would log on today after maintenance and get some footage but no such luck :(

Another thing that I have been working on is killing the Emerald Dream portal guardians. Their level 60 outdoor raid bosses. Because my computer has a bit of a space issue ( I have 30 GBs free, and I need to save 25 GBs for Cata) I asked Amorianth to get some fraps videos of us soloing the dragons...but he accidentally deleted them >.< But I for some screen captures, and I took a video showing what happens when you hand in a Nightmare Engulfed Object. Its an epic quest item that drops from all 4 dragons and it has about a 80% drop chance. Any class can win the item and complete the quest, but you can only compete it once, Your reward is a level 60 epic ring, but I'll let the video explain:



Amorianth and I soloed the dragons using a 2 pally combination. He was prot and I went holy. I'm not too sure what will happen to these dragons once The Shattering happens. I hope that they are still there...Amo and I killed 3/4 dragons. The last one gave us the most problems, each dragon has a debuff which spreads throughout the raid making people fall asleep for about 12 seconds. And it seems the last dragon we fought sleeped us more than the others. If they're not removed in The Shattering, then I think that Amo and I will try them again...and hopefully I will have a video to prove it... For now screen captures will have to do :P

-Cyphale

Cyphale the Explorer!

Yes that is my most recent title! I decided to try for it before Cataclysm...because with all the changed that Blizz is making to Azeroth, it is possible that this achievement couldn't be done because of all the places that they are changing. This achieve seems like a daunting task at first, but once you pick a place to start it is actually easy. Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are the hardest ones, because you can't fly over everything like in Outlands and Northrend. As a death knight doing this achievement I had some advantages and some disadvantages. I had all the flight paths in Azeroth, but since I never leveled there I didn't have that many places explored to start with. All in all it was fun, the whole thing took me about 3 days to do. But I think I could have done it in less time if I didn't take as many breaks as I did.

Well I'm going to see if there are any more achieves I can get before Cataclysm! :D

-Cyphale

Vicious Tactics Reunited and Stupid Trolls -.-

Heh, I'm back, with a little good something to share. My old guild, Vicious Tactics who had disband when the ICC buff was at 25% (I don't remember the time that was xD) Made a comeback :D. Our GM started playing WoW again and asked Amo amd myself to join him in a raid. So we did, and the post below this will explain how that turned out :P

But my happiness is short lived. A little while back...before patch 4.0.1 I made a little video using WoWMapViewer. Anyone who has ever made a michinima should know exactly what I'm talking about. Well I found out that you could see the Emerald Dream by using MapViewer, and since I did not want to wall climb and hack with model edits to get there I figured that I would get a video of it through MapViewer. I did that, fixed it up and posted it yesterday. I don't know why I delayed posting it, I think I just forgot about it because I was writing a parody at the time. Anyways, I specifically state in the info and in the video itself that I didn't go there on a private or live server (I have no idea how to get to a private server :S). And people are telling me that I used a private server. I would make another video showing the specific steps I took in MapViewer to get there...but because of the Cataclysm patch, and because MapViewer is not being updated (as far as I know, I have checked everywhere for a current version) It crashes upon starting so I have very little ways of proving what I used. The only thing that I can think of is at some points in the video...at the top of the screen it will say "Loading" for a brief second. I know that in WoW that doesn't happen, so I would assume that would apply to a private server too. Another thing is that I am not sure about a private server, but for the version of MApViewer that I had it wouldn't load any skyboxes, so where the sky should appear its al black. I can't change people's opinions, but I would like to not be told how I made a video that ...well you know...I made :P

See for yourself, if the comments still get ridiculous then I'll have to disable them. It's kind of a shame because I did work hard to get the footage, MapViewer crashed several times when I was filming. And the point of this video wasn't to get myself to the Emerald Dream, it was just to show what I found on MapViewer and to share it with everyone. There are hundreds of videos about the Emerald Dream, and how to get there whether it is a live or private server. I'm not trying to pull the wool over anyones eyes and claim that I'm a badass by going there on a live server, I value my account thank you very much.

Anyways, I just had to vent about that :P In other news I made another parody! I had this one planned out for a long time, college and work got in the way of its production...but it's finally here! :D




So there is my update, I'll be back with more when more happens :P

-Cyphale

Screenshots From My First Kingslayer Run

Cataclysm Prep

I went to Shatterspear Village, and you thought that I was done...

Well I'm not :D

I have made 4 videos of some places that could possibly changed when Cataclysm hits. I am working on more, and hopefully I will get to them soon. Anyways, enjoy!










-Cyphale

Shatterspear Village

Well here it is...Sorry about the length of this video, I had to get all of my footage in. I found out that this place is going to be changed in Cataclysm, so I wanted to get all of the Pre Cata changes. This overall took an hour to get to. If Amo and I could have gotten there faster than I would have added in how I got there...but I guess that will have to remain a mystery :P




The screen captures that I took have a watermark on them because I don't want them being copied around :P I got some fairly nice pictures so, I'd like to keep the credit. If anyone got to reading this far and would like a specific screen capture for a desktop background or something just comment and let me know.

Anyways, that is all I have for tonight...if I find another place that I can get to...you'll be sure to see another video. For now, enjoy!

-Cyphale

Cyphale the Hallowed, With a Mount to Seal the Deal! Also Dancing Troll Village

I did it! Well...last year :P I got the Hallows End achievement last year so this year it meant that I could sit back and kick up my heals. I helped Amorianth with some of his achievement while just casually doing the Headless Horseman dungeon daily. Well DK luck was on my side :P

This was a nice surprise I must say! But....

This was pally luck :P Got the both the same day on my 2 toons. I don't have it on my main but hey...I'm even lucky I got one.

And in other news, as of today there are only 37 more days until the Cataclysm hits. So what does this all mean? Exploit while I have the chance! :D And that is exactly what I did.

I went to the ever popular Dancing Troll Village and visited some Shatterspear Trolls. Supposedly these are the trolls that in Cataclysm teach our current Darkspear Trolls how to become druids. I am not sure 100% on that, but it does seem like a good fit.

Now yes, going here was difficult. The wall jumping was a major pain in my pixelated privates, but thanks to my wonderful and patient Amorianth <3 we got there :D I didn't get a video of how we got there, if I left Fraps to record, my hard drive would have been full : / In total it took us about an hour to get there. But I must say...the efforts of us getting to that place were definitely worth every second, the detail put into that place is simply stunning. I took tones of videos and screenshots, and I will organize them into a nice montage of our little trip. But I am going back up to my apartment tomorrow and I have to get some sleep before I begin the 3 hour drive...so I shall leave you all to marvel at this picture...its my favourite that I took from our journey.

-Cyphale