Hallow's End Candy Bucket Lists

In case you didn't know, there's LOTS more candy buckets than are listed in the 'Tricks and Treats' achievements for Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdore (the lists for Outland, Northrend and Cata have all the available buckets). This is important in case you're trying to get as many Tricky Treats as possible for the items that are vended only during the holiday (like Feline Familiar, or the masks for the 'A Mask for All Occasions' achievement).

You can find lists of locations, including waypoints, in the comments sections for each achievement on Wowhead. I can't link to individual posts, but if you click on the links to each achievement and troll through the comments, and you'll find the info you need!

Tricks and Treats of Kalimdor

Tricks and Treats of Eastern Kingdoms

The comment sections of the other areas are still useful since they contain waypoint listings for each:

Outland

Northrend

Cata

Happy hunting!

Pilgrim's Bounty begins!

...as if pre-Cata invasions weren't enough, it's time again for the annual Pilgrims' Bounty world event.

The best thing about this event is the ability to raise your cooking score as high as 300 fast! You can read a little more about that here.

Join us for pre-Cata instance runs!

Every day until Cata starts there will be 'Elemental Invasions' in Stormwind and Ironforge. If the invasion is successfully stopped, portals open to short instance runs where you defeat a couple mobs and an elite boss; the portal will remain open for about 1/2 hour.

What makes this worth doing is the bosses drop some nice gear! Unfortunately, only one piece drops each run. So we're going to try and form guild runs for gear! So far it looks like the invasion start time that would work best for us is at 7pm (and maybe 9pm) server. It will take a little time to save the cities so you don't have to be on at precisely that time, and Ironforge seems to always get done first so that's usually the best place to start.

Details (including drops) can be found here under the heading 'Phase 4.'

See you then!

Another patch...

...another problem, as is usual when a patch is issued!

This time it's chat. If you log in and can't send or receive chat, try disabling the Gearscore add-on. Not sure yet if installing the new version will solve the problem.

Pre-Cata achievement...Tripping the Rifts

Blizz is starting to push the pre-Cataclysm dramatics and one involves an achievement you can only get before Cata launches, Tripping the Rifts. You get the achievement by closing one each of all four elemental rifts.

Three things are helpful for getting this achievement quickly. One is a listing of what kind of elemental rift spawns in which zone. Second is a map (with mouse-over coordinates) that shows exactly where in each zone the rifts spawn. Third is Tom Tom, an add-on that points you directly to coordinates locations so you can get there quickly.

These will help you get this limited time achievement in short order!

Will I ever WoW again?

Thanks to the geniuses at Blizzard, I couldn't play Warcraft tonight. It seems their 4.0.0 patch takes so much hard drive space to install that there's not enough space on my hard drive to make it work. I'm working on a solution but until it works I won't be able to play.

Thanks, Blizz...

Un-Cursed...sort of

Well, our web site is recovered, at least partially. Here's the new URL.

A number of the familiar functionalities aren't there, and I'm not sure if they ever will return on this site. That's why I'm looking at a different host.

I'll keep you posted.