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Dec 23

Battle of Angrathar the Wrathgate

By Xeross Posted in Gaming, In Character, World of Warcraft Comments (1)

After dealing with the Scourge in Dragonblight I am ordered to report this victory to Saurfang the Younger. After telling him about this victory he told me he was going to lead the Kor’Kron to the frontlines to end all this and that I should take over his post in the meantime.

Shortly hereafter he left the encampment and headed towards the Wrathgate with the Kor’Kron and I could see the Alliance had already started the battle. After a while of fighting hordes of scourge Bolvar Fordragon yells “Arthas, the blood of your father of your people demands justice. Come forth coward, and answer for your crimes !”,

After this the gate opened and Arthas appeared, after Arthas apperently said something (I couldn’t hear it from where I was standing) Saurfang charged towards him yelling “Let it be finished.”. As soon as he tries to attack Arthas his attack gets countered shattering his weapon and killing him.

After this suddenly a group or forsaken appear under the command of Grand Apothecary Putress, with them they have some sort of catapults that seem to shoot green poison gas bombs. These are fired at the battlefield killing everyone including Bolvar, only Arthas seems to retread back into Icecrown mostly unharmed.

After this the Red Dragon Flight appears in the distance and burns the entire area to rid it of the poison. I make my way down to Alexstrasza and get the order to retrieve Saurfangs armor and take it to High Overlord Saurfang at Warsong Hold to tell him the unfortunate news.

After arriving at Warsong Hold and reporting to Saurfang what had happened he told me not to mourn because death in battle is the most honourable way to die, and that there are more pressing mattes at hand.

OOC: I’m not really satisfied with how this post turned out, it’s more of a diary looking back then an in character story. And please leave a comment if you have any tips or other relevant stuff.

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Dec 21

World of Warcraft Tooltips

By Xeross Posted in Gaming, How-To's, Tech, World of Warcraft Leave a Comment

Since I’ve started playing WoW again and also have also been blogging about it I added World of Warcraft Tooltips (Quests, Items, NPCs, Etc.) to my blog, there isn’t any WordPress pluging at the moment that does this (Atleast not on wordpress.org) but it’s actually pretty easy.

All you need to do is add the following html code to the section of your wordpress template.

<script src="http://static.wowhead.com/widgets/power.js"></script>

And after that any links to Items, Quests, Etc. on WoWHead will automatically have a tooltip when you hover over them.

Example: ‘Tis the Season

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask them.

~Xeross

Edit: This is currently not enabled, will be re-enabled in the future.

Dec 21

Back Into WoW, Winter Veil

By Xeross Posted in Gaming, World of Warcraft Leave a Comment

Even though Winter Veil started at the 15th I just recently logged in to play again, I had a dream last night that made me reactivate my subscription and so far I’ve been enjoying it a lot.

Since I’ve played Borderlands I somehow pay more attention to detail in both Graphics and Sound, maybe just because I’m also planning on reviewing games and also because well I like pretty graphics. If you’d look at WoW you’d say that the graphics are dated and ugly, but when soaring through the skies of azeroth (with my UI hidden) it just looks incredibly good, next to that is the music that I’ve finally enabled just sounds great. Wings flapping, hooves running just wonderful.

Now back to The Feast of Winter Veil. I’ve begun completing the quests around this event and so far I’ve rescued Metzen the Reindeer and I’ve read the story of “The Feast of Winterveil“, I tried delivering it Cairne Bloodhoof but he was nowhere to be found. I’ll be continuing my journey through Azeroth and the current festivities and might report back at a later time.

~Xeross

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