What do you want to see / learn about in this Beta!

My fellow guildies of THE PUNISHERS! What do you want to see in this Beta that you may not have seen on other websites! This is your chance to see anything the Beta has to offer up to the current build. Please remember there are a couple of things that aren't available in the Beta yet. Here is a list of zones / areas that are not ready for testing.

Felwood
Thousand Needles
Alterac Mountains
Burning Steppes
Hillsbrad Foothills
Swamp of Sorrows
Winterspring
Searing Gorge
Silithus

Misc Stuff Not Yet Implemented to the current build:



450-525 Professions (some stuff is in-game but the professions are not ready for testing)
Female Worgen
Archeology
Revised Glyph System
Levels 84-85
Most Cata Achievements
Rated Battlegrounds System
New Badge Sytem
Goblin and Worgen starting area cinematics
Goblin and Worgen mounts
New Trainable 310% Flying Mount Speed

Zones:

Uldum - In game but not accessible
Grim Batol - Not in game
Twilight Highlands -- In game but not accessible
Tol Barad - In game but not accessible

Raids:


Skywall unnamed raid
Blackwing Descent
Grim Batol raid
Firelands raid

Also for PVP the Battle For Gilneas is not yet implemented.

Installation Complete!

I guess it was foolish to think that I'd have this entire past weekend to play the Cataclysm Beta. 53 1/2 hours later Cataclysm was finally downloaded and installed on my computer. And now we're on to patching 4 builds. Half an hour per build it seems.. So I won't be playing that Goblin Warlock tonight. I have one more day off tomorrow. I hope I can spend most of the day with the Beta then.

Still Loading 48 hours later

I learned today that I could have possibly downloaded the Client from a mirror, but I didn't want any unforseen installation problems. At the rate this is going it should complete tonight. I have 2oomb left to download. Then it's time to patch up to the current version. Which I hope won't take as long.

I've decided I will roll a Goblin Warlock to level up with in the Beta, to try things out. So when I get everything up and running I will post pictures and catalogue my adventures.

Yeah.. Still Downloading And Installing..

Now it's over 24 hours since I started this install. It's freaking Sunday. And I'm finally sitting at 69% complete. I imagine I will be done with the install by the end of today, and then it goes to patching all the latest builds.. Which I believe there are four of those. I hope those don't take too long once I have the actual client loaded.

Still Loading.. 10 hours later

Still loading the client. 16% complete after all night. Glad I didn't stay up with it. I read in the Cataclysm Forums that some people who get into the Beta better be ready for a loooong install time. I was kinda hoping to be flying around Ogrimmar by this time today.. but patience has to get you somewhere afterall!

I've been trying to debate other than see the new leveling zones for level 80s.. (Mount Hyjal, Vashj'ir,) etc.. I want to take a new toon through the new content but I'm not sure what to do. On the Live servers I created a toon named Boneshot so that I could create an Undead Hunter to take through the new content. So it has to be something that I would never ever play. And it has to be something so that I won't spoil too much of the Horde content.

So my choices are: Human Hunter, Dwarf Mage / Shaman, Night Elf Mage, Gnome Priest, or a Worgen -of just about any class except Paladin and Shaman.

The Cataclysm Beta

At precisely 10:31PM on July 30th, I was finally invited to the World of Warcraft Cataclysm Beta. Yeah I'm pretty excited about it! I haven't updated this blog in like.. Forever.. but since I got into this I'm going to finally update it with my adventures within the Beta.

I already transfered Damere to the Lost Isles PVE server. I think the first thing I'm going to do is get on a flying mount and explore. Then I will create a new character and test out the new ravaged Old-World. Wait. Do we call it Old-World anymore?

Guess I have some 'splainin' to do.

Horrible things can happen when you get bored and have extra money on your hands. As you can see on the bottom.. I used to be a Human Rogue. As you can tell by the blog title..

But then.. something very strange happened. I was trying to get into a decent guild this entire time.. to no avail. I was trying very hard to get instance runs. Nothing..

So I quit Damere. Again.

I was playing other toons.. I started a Tauren Druid named Thada. Leveled him to his mid 20's. Then the greatest thing in my Warcraft life happened. Patch 3.3 and the new LFG system. Using it I stopped questing entirely on my Druid. I ran every single instance available to my level in Feral Cat form!!! Groups were even quicker when I spec'd Feral Bear. I leveled him all the way to 33.

Then something else happened. I actually faction transfered my Human Rogue.. to the HORDE! With the new LFG I was able to run Heroics.. and am now actually decently geared. I have a Gearscore of 1969 and have three pieces of Tier 9. What a difference! I could probably two shot the old Human Rogue Damere.

So will I change the name of this Blog? No. Cause I wanted to remember how this all started out. This will still be the evasion fail-blog. But the subtitle will change. As a matter of fact. Let me do that now.