Friday night I found out that without Blizzard saying one word to let anyone know, and they have yet to publicly acknowledge this but they moved my realms data center which was located in Seattle, Washington to Phoenix, Arizona back on the 17th of August. While moving this data center they also moved the Boston, Massachusetts data center to New York, New York on the 20th of July and the Dallas, Texas data center to Chicago, Illinois sometime in June.

I think this would have been acceptable if they had made a post on the forums so we had a heads up, but I actually found this out from a trace-route while I was trying to work out my latency problems. After much playing around tonight, I read a post on the Blizzard forums with a command stating that it reduced someones latency by almost half so I thought I’d give it a go. It reduced my latency from 32930ms to 350-400ms which is what I was experiencing before they moved the server. I don’t really understand why this simple command fixes the problem so well but I will be investigating this week and I’ll make sure to edit this if I find out. But for now enjoy!

Simply run the following command in CMD with administration privileges.

netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface “Local Area Connection” mtu=950 store=persistent

This morning, my brother (Who is new to Northrend) asked where the prison is inside of Dalaran. I said its Violet Hold and that was all that was said, Until I went to see why he wanted to know that. Only to realize he was trying to do the fishing quest. I said to him “Wait what? Its not here!” and to which he pointed out the quest text. It was then I realized Blizzard had changed the Fishing quest from Monsterbelly Appetite to Disarmed! and had changed the location from the Frozen Sea to outside of Violet Hold in Dalaran. Note instead of a “Bloated Monsterbelly” the item in which the arm is contained in is now called a Bloated Slippery Eel.

OK, So where you like me and missed this part of the patch notes?

The “Monsterbelly Appetite” daily fishing quest has changed so it now takes place outside the Violet Hold in Dalaran. The quest still requires a [Severed Arm] and has been renamed to “Disarmed!“

Well then.. now that you have read it, Don’t be an idiot like myself.. I totally missed that change in the patch notes. All I will say is, I won’t complain.. I do actually like the change. It makes it much easier to do the quest.

EDIT: At this time, WoWhead still hasn’t updated the quest name in the tooltip when you hover over that link. I Will let them know.

Well today after the long wait I finally did Obsidian Sanctum 25 man 3 Drakes. I’m so glad to finally have my title “Twilight Vanquisher” and my achievement The Twilight Zone, as I had been using “of the Nightfall” for too long…

We have several changes planned for Battlegrounds in the next minor content patch and would like to share them with you now. This patch will be available for public testing and we encourage you to participate, queue up and provide some feedback on these changes.

• Firstly, say goodbye to Battleground Marks of Honor. We feel this currency system is a bit outdated and are getting rid of it. Any items which require these marks as currency will have their costs adjusted appropriately to remove this requirement. The quest NPCs will still be available to award players Honor for turning in leftover marks, but this is only to help players clear this expired currency.
• Next, the Battleground holiday weekend will now be denoted as “Call to Arms” in the Battleground tab and Calendar. If you prefer a specific Battleground over all others, look for those words next to its name to determine whether or not you’ll receive bonus Honor. The bonus awards for Call to Arms Battlegrounds have been adjusted.
  • Winning a Call to Arms Battleground for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
  • Additional Call to Arms Battleground victories after the first win for a player that day will award them with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
  • Losing a Call to Arms Battleground will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
• To bring the rate at which players obtain PvP rewards with Honor more in-line with the rate at which players obtain PvE rewards via the Dungeon Finder, we’ll also be increasing the amount of Honor awarded for an Honorable Kill by 100%. In light of this, the amount of experience provided from an Honorable Kill, and the amount of Honor awarded for completing the Wintergrasp weekly quests, have been reduced by 50%.

  It’s important to note one thing about these 50% decreases. All Honor awarded for completing objectives in Battlegrounds and Wintergrasp is actually based on an Honorable Kill conversion rate. So if you destroy a tower in Alterac Valley for example, the Honor you’re awarded is actually based on a flat number of Honorable Kills. Since Honorable Kills will now award 100% more Honor, completing such objectives will also award more Honor. This is why experience gains based on completing Battleground objectives and Honor awarded from the Wintergrasp quests are being decreased by 50%.

• Now that we hopefully have your attention, we’re pleased to announce the implementation of the Random Battleground system! This system will work virtually the same as the Random Dungeon option in the Dungeon Finder. Players can queue with a group of up to five players for a Random Battleground in the Battleground tab. As with the Random Dungeon option, the Battleground chosen will not be revealed until players zone into the Battleground for which they are selected. The bonus rewards for this system are identical to the updated Call to Arms bonuses.
  • Winning a Battleground using the Random Battleground option for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
  • Winning additional Battlegrounds using the Random Battleground option after the first random win will award players with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
  • Losing a Battleground using the Random Battleground option will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
  • When using the Random Battleground option, players will not receive additional rewards if the Battleground chosen is under the effects of the Call to Arms bonuses. In other words, the bonuses do not stack. In addition, if a player has been rewarded 30 Honorable Kills worth of bonus Honor currency from either the Random Battleground system, or the Call to Arms Battleground, he or she will be rewarded 15 Honorable Kills worth of bonus Honor currency that day for each additional victory. This applies whether the Random Battleground system is used, or the Call to Arms Battleground is chosen specifically, as a player cannot be rewarded the full amount of bonus Honor more than once per day.

All of these features and changes will be available in the next minor patch which should be hitting the public test realms in the near future. Please help us out by testing this system and providing your feedback so we can make some fine-tuning adjustments before the patch’s release.

I myself am pleased to hear these changes as it will be easier for me to get the PVP mounts to finally get my Mountain o’ Mounts achievement.

I thought I’d share my favorite music video with all my blog visitors.

This post is still under construction.

Keep an eye out for my mage.. Here is the picture that I gave them!

1. Albino Drake
2. Amani War Bear
3. Argent Hypogryph
4. Argent Warhorse
5. Armored Brown Bear
6. Armored Snowy Gryphon
7. Azure Netherwing Drake
8. Big Blizzard Bear
9. Black Battlestrider
10. Black Stallion
11. Black War Bear
12. Black War Mammoth
13. Black War Tiger
14. Blue Mechanostrider
15. Blue Qiraji Battle Tank
16. Blue Riding Nether Ray
17. Bronze Drake Mount
18. Brown Elekk
19. Brown Horse
20. Brown Ram
21. Cenerion War Hippogryph
22. Chestnut Mare
23. Cobalt Netherwing Drake
24. Cobalt Riding Talbuk
25. Cobalt War Talbuk
26. Darnassian Nightsaber
27. Ebon Gryphon
28. Exodar Ellek
29. Flying Carpet
30. Gnomeregan Mechanostrider
31. Golden Gryphon
32. Gray Elekk
33. Gray Ram
34. Great Blue Elekk
35. Great Green Elekk
36. Great Purple Elekk
37. Great Red Elekk
38. Green Mechanostrider
39. Green Proto-Drake
40. Green Qiraji Battle Tank
41. Green Riding Nether Ray
42. Ice Mammoth
43. Ironforge Ram
44. Magnificent Flying Carpet
45. Mekgineer’s Chopper
46. Onyx Netherwing Drake
47. Pinto
48. Purple Elekk
49. Purple Netherwing Drake
50. Purple Riding Nether Ray
51. Quel’dorei Steed
52. Red Drake
53. Red Mechanostrider
54. Red Proto-Drake
55. Red Riding Nether Ray
56. Sea Turtle
57. Silver Covenant Hippogryph
58. Silver Riding Nether Ray
59. Silver Riding Talbuk
60. Silver War Talbuk
61. Snowy Gryphon
62. Spotted Frostsaber
63. Stormpike Battle Charger
64. Stormwind Steed
65. Striped Dawnsaber
66. Striped Frostsaber
67. Striped Nightsaber
68. Swift Blue Gryphon
69. Swift Brown Ram
70. Swift Brown Steed
71. Swift Frostsaber
72. Swift Gray Ram
73. Swift Gray Steed
74. Swift Green Gryphon
75. Swift Green Mechanostrider
76. Swift Mistsaber
77. Swift Moonsaber
78. Swift Palomino
79. Swift Purple Gryphon
80. Swift Red Gryphon
81. Swift Stormsaber
82. Swift Violet Ram
83. Swift White Mechanostrider
84. Swift White Ram
85. Swift White Steed
86. Swift Yellow Mechanostrider
87. Tan Riding Talbuk
88. Tan War Talbuk
89. Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth
90. Turbostrider
91. Unpainted Mechanostrider
92. Veridian Netherwing Drake
93. Violet Netherwing Drake
94. Violet Proto-Drake
95. White Polar Bear
96. White Ram
97. White Riding Talkbuk
98. White War Talbuk
99. Wooly Mammoth
100. Yellow Qiraji Battle Tank

Well after lots and lots of work and dedication, I have finally got my Reins of the Red Proto-Drake from Glory of the Hero. It took a lot of effort and almost a year but, I have it! The last achievement I needed was Make it Count, which is the Oculus 20 minute timed run, Which we did it 15 minutes ;) In the upcoming weeks I will make a post for each achievement with a guide on how to do it.

Utgarde Keep:

• On The Rocks

The Nexus:

• Split Personality
• Chaos Theory
• Intense Cold

Azjol-Nerub:

• Watch Him Die
• Hadronox Denied
• Gotta Go!

Ahn’Kahet: The Old Kingdom:

• The Party’s Over
• Volazj’s Quick Demise
• Respect Your Elders
• Volunteer Work

Drak’Tharon Keep:

• Consumption Junction
• Better Off Dred
• Oh Novos!

The Violet Hold:

• Defenseless
• Lockdown!
• Dehydration
• A Void Dance

Gundrak:

• What the Eck?
• Share The Love
• Less-rabi
• Snakes. Why’d It Have To Be Snakes?

Halls of Stone:

• Good Grief
• Brann Spankin’ New
• Abuse the Ooze

Halls of Lightning:

• Timely Death
• Lightning Shock
• Shatter Resistant

The Culling of Stratholme:

• The Culling of Time
• Zombiefest!

Utgarde Pinnacle:

• The Incredible Hulk
• Lodi Dodi We Loves the Skadi
• My Girl Loves to Skadi All the Time
• King’s Bane

The Oculus:

• Experienced Drake Rider
• Make It Count
• Ruby Void
• Emerald Void
• Amber Void

Now I’ve actually got a pretty strong opinion of disenchanting at the moment and I’m going to let you guys know what my opinion is. I think that disenchanting and rolling for shards at the end of the instance is NOT fair to the enchanter. The enchanter had to spend a lot of gold and mats to level up the skill, and its quite possibly the most hardest profession to level in the game. Now for example a skinner, gets to go into an instance and skin everything and keep the profits at the end right? We don’t ask to split up the skinning/herbing/mining materials at the end. We let them keep it, the only place for an enchanter to get materials really is in an instance, which is when the materials of that run then gets split up and quite often the enchanter walks away with nothing.. I just don’t see this fair to the enchanter in the first place. If this is the way its going to be, I think it would only be fair for the group to be able to call shares on the leather, herbs and ore at the end of the run too. Just to be clear, I’m fine with running an instance/raid with my guild and those materials going to the guild bank, but a 5man pug on the other hand, that’s where I get annoyed.

The only other way for enchanters is to hope that greens drop for us outside of instances which can be quite tricky, when miners for example can go around the world on their flying mount chasing mining nodes.

Feel free to leave your opinion in the comments.