I took my L80 premade Death Knight, Freyya, for a tour of Icecrown Glacier.  Here are a few shots.

Icecrown Citadel from above Dalaran

The ships above Icecrown

Sindragosa's Fall

The sky above Icecrown Citadel

Spectral Flying Mount when returning to corpse

Fishing the sewers of Dalaran can be rewarding.

Giant Sewer Rat Pet

It took me about 300 catches to get the pet. Some have reported getting it after only 5. El from El’s Extreme Anglin’ got it after about 600.

Mostly you catch Sewer Carp, but you also catch Magic Eaters. Magic Eaters are fish that have been living in the sewers of Dalaran where careless Magisters and Alchemists have been dumping their refuse for years. The Magic Eaters consumed the magic leftovers and absorbed it.

If you eat one you will get either a random Well Fed buff, or one called Wild Magic that transforms you into something for about 30 seconds. I tried it a few times and was transformed into a Green Whelp, a Cockroach, and a Basilisk. I also saw someone transformed into a wisp that looked like the Spirit of Summer.

Also seen in the area. A large rat teaching 4 turtles among a bunch of broken chemical vials. Cowabunga Dudes!

When you fish in the fountains of Dalaran you have a chance to catch a coin that someone tossed into the fountain over the years.  Written in the description of the coin is either the wish that the person made when they tossed the coin in, or what they were thinking about when they tossed it.

So far I’ve caught coins from:

Alleria Windrunner who wants her sisters to grow into their full potential.
Aegwynn who thinks the mages should get their heads out of their books more often.
Genn who thinks the fountains in Gilneas are better.
Stalvan who is upset with the mages for not helping him win his love.
Khadgar expressing concern for and good luck to Alleria and Turalyon.

and Medivh….who’s coin is quite odd. It says “<You sense the ringing of three tones, the third barely audible under the others’ din>.”  Does anyone have any idea what that is about?

There are many more but those are the ones that I’ve caught so far.

One that has been reported is Jaina Proudmoore wishing that her love, Arthas, would return to her.

I found a penguin pet in my mail box when the beta servers came back up. COOL! He reminds me of Chilly Willy.

Chilly

From MMO-Champion…

Wormhole: Gadgetzan - Creates an wormhole that should get you and your party members to Gadgetzan. 10 sec cast, 4 Hours Cooldown.

SHOULD get you to Gadgetzan? I wonder what the backfire does?

The last build in on the Wrath of the Lich King beta servers added the Cooking Daily quests and a BUNCH of really cool recipes.

w00t! +Spirit!!!

To get the “cool recipes” you do daily quests. But they are a little different than in The Burning Crusade. Evidently Blizzard liked the way that the badge system worked so they added it to the professions. When you do a daily cooking quest, you’ll get a cooking badge. They are actually awards that look like ribbons. Each of the recipes costs 3 of these ribbons. You can buy them from the bartender at The Legerdemain Lounge in the center of Dalaran.

Here are just some of the new recipes:

Recipes from daily quests in WotLK

I’ve always been amazed by tag clouds.  So when Anna posted about Wordle I had to try it out.  Wordle makes a cloud of words from what is on the front page of a website (That has an RSS feed). It allows you a little bit of control over the shape of the cloud and the colors used.  But the words come from your front page and the size is determined by the word usage.

My Wordle Cloud before this post.

They’ve finally given Sylvanas Windrunner the right body. She’s kind of scary looking now though.

Sylvanas Windrunner

We got a new patch on the beta realms today and suddenly Frostbolts are as big as a….well…they are big!

Holy Freezer Burn Batman!

I’m reminded of the pet scaling bugs on the 2.4 PTR a few months back where giant vanity pets were everywhere.

With the changes to spell mechanics in the Wrath beta I thought I’d take a look at each of the gear items that I’m carrying and re-evaluate each of my gear sets.  I currently keep a DPS set and a Healing set.  Since +spell damage and +healing have been rolled up into +Spellpower Im noticing that not all of my DPS items are best for DPS and vice-a-versa.  So first, being an engineer, I’ll look at goggles.

DPS and Healing Goggles for Priests

Without gems an enchants the Destruction Holo-gogs give you:

174 Armor
+22 Stamina
+24 Intellect
+29 Critical Strike
+64 Spellpower
Meta Gem Socket
Blue Gem Socket (Usually overridden)
Socket Bonus +5 Spellpower

The Powerheal 4000 Lens gives you:

174 Armor
+14 Stamina
+38 Intellect
+28 Spirit
+54 Spellpower
Meta Gem Socket
Blue Gem Socket
Socket Bonus +5 Spellpower

Green stats are the same between the two, red is significantly better, black is lower or insignificant. Since your +healing output is supposed to be around 1.88 times your spellpower¹ (as of the current build. This may change) the DPS goggles are actually better for +healing, especially when gemmed with a red “dps” gem overriding the blue socket.

However, spirit loving priests may still like the Powerheal 4000 for it’s +spirit, and since I am one of those spirit loving priests, no changes to Outfitter yet.²