(Sometimes when I am killing Chillmaw for my Argent Tournament dailies, I send my slime after the dragon and shout, “Slime … A-WAY!” It amuses me to no end.)
Ironically, I am leaving in just a few hours (early early Sunday morning) to fly to California — two days late for BlizzCon but just in time to ramp up for a major new contract my husband and I are taking. And we’re headed to San Francisco anyway, not Orange County, but it’s still ironic.
So today was Day 2 of BlizzCon 2009. The live Internet Stream schedule claimed that they would be showing only one World of Warcraft panel, the WoW Dungeons and Raids panel, which as you know is not my main interest in this game. *grin* Still, I would have liked to see it, but somehow I slept through my alarm … and some phone calls … and my husband mowing the lawn outside my window … and most of the daylight hours. *cough*
7:55pm EDT: Sheesh. I feel like I’ve spent most of today blogging. But the WoW Class Panel is about to begin and I am hoping to learn more about upcoming hunter changes. Be aware, I will probably phase out during the non-hunter bits, but I’ll try to grab anything that sounds particularly interesting.
Blizzard has announced the next World of Warcraft expansion: Cataclysm. The details we know so far:
1:38pm EDT: Ugh. I am way too old to be getting by on 6 hours of sleep every night like this. But I just couldn’t get to sleep last night — a combination of excitement and my normal insomnia.
So BlizzCon 2009 is beginning to ramp up. The good stuff doesn’t start until tomorrow, but people are already lining up to get their badges — and blogging about it, the lucky buggers.
I’m not, of course. I’m not lining up to get my badge and I’m not blogging about it. Instead, I’m blogging about not being there to line up and get my badge, because once again I couldn’t afford to attend (and I doubt I could have gotten a ticket even if I had the money to go).
MMO Champion has posted a massive load of unofficial, unconfirmed information about the supposed upcoming WoW expansion, Cataclysm.
I haven’t read through it all in detail yet (I’ve been doing 12+ hours of Java coding each day this week) but one thing immediately caught my eye:
According to WoW Insider, we will soon be learning from Blizzard that the next expansion is called “Cataclysm” and that there are two new races: the Goblins for Horde and the Worgen for Alliance.
If this is true — and it seems quite possible to me that WoW Insider has some sort of insider connections (Heh! Insider connections! Get it?) — I am very excited.
With BlizzCon only two weeks away, rumors about what we’ll learn there are beginning to swirl frantically around the WoW-o-sphere. (Some of these are apparently fueled by carefully-tended teasers and ‘leaks’. Others are probably just made-up.)
Careful when you log in today. Hunter talents were apparently reset last night or this morning, along with the talents of the pet you happened to have with you.
This came as a bit of a surprise to me in my first fight of the day, when I realized that I was getting my butt kicked and I went to hit Bestial Wrath and Intimidation … and they weren’t there.
Oddly, I could only find confirmation of this on the EU Hunter forum, but since my talents on a US realm have been reset I assume it applies to everyone.
