4.0.1

My warlock has drained his last soul shard (in the traditional style, anyway), and the 12 hour maintenance to implement patch 4.0.1, the beginning of “Cataclysm”, has started. Bye bye WotLK, see you all on the other side. The world is changed. I feel it in… the water.

A World of Warcraft Gallery, 2

Forgot one: Barobap. Undead mage lvl 43. Named after a soap company from the Danish motion picture “Oskar” (1962).

A World of Warcraft Gallery

My currently active World of Warcraft characters, excluding bank and profession alts.

Midsomer. Undead warlock lvl 80. Named after the county in the “Midsomer Murders” detective series.

Edwige. Blood elf rogue lvl 80. Named after the actress Edwige Fenech.

Ultraflesh. Blood elf paladin lvl 80. Named – ironically – after a dirty movie about another woman with holy powers.

Endeavour. Orc shaman lvl 80. Named after Endeavour Morse, the detective.

Desade. Draenei death knight lvl 58. Named after… you know.

Lamseben. Night elf druid lvl 33. Named after Prøve-Knud’s blonde love interest in a Danish kids’ show called “Score-Kaj”.

Cataclysm, 1

Mens vi venter. Goblin gameplay:

Goblin starting zone:

Worgen gameplay:

Worgen starting zone:

Og her er den nye Celestial Steed-mount – en hest af stjerner -som kan købes via Blizzard Store (formedelst 25 dollars/20 euro).

Og her er en utilfreds Boogie:

Sidst læst:
Peter Øvig Knudsen, “Blekingegadebanden 2″
Platon, “Kriton”

The Sin’dorei Will Prevail!

Hep! I forgårs blev min blodelver-paladin, Ultraflesh, level 80 – og opnåede således lige akkurat at overhale min shaman, der fortsat er level 75, indenom. Hun er dermed min tredje, fuldt udvoksede figur.

Snapshots taget, da hun var ung og havde brug for pengene:

Outland Is Full

Endeavour in Grizzly Hills

And here is my level 75 orc shaman, Endeavour, arriving in Grizzly Hills on his magical carpet. Compared to the preceding zone, greenish-white Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills is an explosion of colours.

Grizzly Hills Music

Some people do not have music on at all when they play World of Warcraft. For other people – like me – music is a very important part of the game. Each zone or place in the game has certain musical themes or “leitmotifs” – some, I think, are unique to that place, but in other cases zones share the same themes. My favorite places in the World of Warcraft are Ashenvale, Teldrassil, Winterspring, Moonglade, Howling Fjord – and to a certain extent Grizzly Hills. These are the places I look forward to seeing again when levelling (well, I actually only have a few lowbie ally characters, so I rarely see Teldrassil). I enjoy these zones because of the ambience there – and I revisit them regularly to remind myself why after almost 3 years I still spend time playing this game. Rewards, awesome gear, battlegrounds, instances etc. are all nice, but for me this game is fundamentally not about those things. It’s about places – and I find it easy to get nostalgic, or whatever you call it, about those places.

The best music in the game belongs to the woods of Northrend, namely Grizzly Hills. In my opinion, nothing in this game beats the epic feeling you get from revisiting these woods, flying over Vordrassil’s Heart and listening to the music after having completed some achievement you personally find important, although of course, it isn’t. Here is the hauntingly beautiful Night Music:

And here is the Day Music:

Quel’Delar, Lens of the Mind, II

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Quel’Delar, Lens of the Mind

Var i går i de nye femmands-dungeons i Icecrown sammen med Halfblind fra guilden og en flok, jeg ikke kendte. To af dem var meget opsatte på at en eller anden “hilt” skulle droppe, og det, jeg i den anledning sagde, var helt bogstaveligt følgende: “What are you guys talking about?” Så skete der hverken værre eller bedre, end at den rent faktisk droppede. Alle needede på den – og jeg vandt den. Til almindelig ærgrelse, naturligvis. Men efter bogen.

The Battered Hilt, forstår jeg nu, er et drop, der blev tilføjet i patch 3.3. Angivelsen af drop-raten svinger, men nogle skriver 1 % eller derunder. Hertil kommer så, at man i en instance-gruppe har 20 % chance for at vinde den, hvis den dropper (medmindre nogen har fået den allerede, og vedkommende derfor er ekskluderet).

Hilt’en starter en serie af quests – 13 i alt – der munder ud i, at man får smedet sit helt eget våben. Quest-serien ser vældig episk ud og sender bl.a. én til Isle of Quel’Danas. Man kan vælge imellem et antal sværd og maces alt efter, hvilken klasse man er. I mit (warlock-)tilfælde ville jeg ende med at få et sværd med det forholdsvis blærede navn “Quel’Delar, Lens of the Mind“.

Eller – og det er grunden til, at jeg har ligget søvnløs i nat – man kan vælge at sælge Hilt’en i auktionshuset, hvor den efter sigende vil indbringe én en net sum af mellem 9-17.000 guld. Flere penge, end jeg nogensinde har ejet på én gang i World of Warcraft.

Så kære brevkasse. Hvad gør jeg? Det er mange penge for et våben, ingen tvivl om det. Men jeg har jo – som der står skrevet – fået dem for intet, og hvad skulle jeg i øvrigt bruge dem på? Og at ha sit eget supersværd, smedet af blodelvere!