Mists of Pandaria release, first two days

 So, MoP came out this past Tuesday and I have to say, it's been quite the blast! I've really enjoyed the new content even after leveling to 90 via the Beta. The journey is taking longer because of the increase in exp needed, my dungeon guide is helping folks, the new gear (even the greens) looks really nice and the new features are extremely fun from Pet Battles to the WoW version of "Farmville" (I don't see the two as one in the same really, some likeness but not entirely). I love getting to see the scenery again from a different view as I am leveling Elemental questing instead of Enhancement while trying to do quests I didn't do on Beta, makes it feel like a bit of a different experience for me! Has some funny things happen the day before the release and now, a cubed box on a Fel Orcs head in the Netherwing questing area (got my mount!) and what looks like a barrel on my Ghost Wolf's butt, made me giggle a bit!

Dungeon Guide Completed, Alliance pattern sampled

Not a whole lot going on these past few days, I've completed my Mists of Pandaria dungeon guide (you can find it here:  http://www.epicism.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3704, it is a public forum on my guild's website) and I'm crossing my fingers that it will help some people out as I'm quite proud of the work I put into it :).

I made a sample Alliance lion knitting pattern the other day and am going to make myself an Alliance themed scarf with it, putting one lion on each end. I think it'll look really nice in Alliance colors! I already have someone debating on buying one off of me depending on the pricing, going to need to go shopping for some cheapish wool to make it cost effective.

Mists is in 2 days 5 hours and counting!

Theramore's Fall, now on Twitchtv, Sinestra killed

So, yesterday the new scenario Theramore's Fall came out of the live servers. Yet again, another Alliance town demolished by the Horde....when will they get a break? Not to mention the loss of Rhonin, a great mage of the Kirin Tor and someone I loved to read about in the World of Warcraft books.

 Overall, my impression of the scenario was so-so. I enjoyed having new content to do, but felt that it lacked in storyline as I had little to no idea what was going on. I didnt find out about Rhonin afterwards by reading the WoW forums :(. Scenarios themselves are an interesting concept, not really difficult, not so easy you could do them in your sleep (some opinions differ) but I would really enjoy knowing what was going on in the Theramore battle without having to go and pick up one of the WoW books (even though I'll probably get it anyways).

 In other news, I am now on Twitchtv! You can find me under the handle fulgora_epicism. I will be streaming any of the Epicism raids that I attend and some Diablo 3 when I feel like it :).

 This past week our guild's main goal (besides farming current content) was to kill Sinestra. Since I was sitting from the farming this week I decided to join in. Managed to get her killed after going through 3 of the 4 bosses in Bastion of Twilight on Heroic first (Council was done on regular for the achievement) and going back another night. Two healing it was not incredibly easy, even two tiers later! You can find a video of that kill on my Twitchtv channel.

End of Cata Blues, Mists incoming soon!

It's called a few things; burnout, end of expansion blues, etc. but I like to call it boredom. Bored with grinding the same content over and over, every week doing it the exact same as when you first killed the boss. Week before last Blizzard added patch 5.0.4 to the mix, changing our whole talent system and adding a bunch of new stuff into the game. Do I like it? Meh at best, shaman talents and glyphs are fairly underwhelming; there just isn't the same variety that it available to the other classes. I think my beta testing may have made them a little more underwhelming then it would be if I saw them for the first time then, but I'm not complaining.

 MoP is less then two weeks away today, yahoo! Less then two weeks until I wake up before 4am to (hopefully) get into the new content and gain some new levels on live. In the meantime I'm doing the usual, raiding when I'm scheduled to raid on one of the teams (I'm hoping this won't become the norm come MoP) and working on a strategy guide to all the MoP dungeons for my guild. Hoping to have that done soon :).

 Non-game I've been doing a hell of alot of knitting, currently I'm working on an Alliance banner pattern that I would like to turn into a scarf with the Horde banner on the other end. Will post pics when I have my samples patterns done :).