<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135</id><updated>2011-09-09T08:03:18.827+02:00</updated><category term='expansion'/><category term='pvp'/><category term='shaman'/><category term='istance'/><category term='totem'/><category term='dragons'/><category term='Cataclysm'/><category term='how to'/><category term='crazy totems'/><category term='pve'/><category term='raid'/><category term='add-on'/><category term='patch'/><title type='text'>Crazy Totems</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-4280584177313233529</id><published>2009-07-13T15:48:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-13T15:52:51.024+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='totem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='add-on'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='how to'/><title type='text'>Patch 3.2: Shaman's new Totem Bars</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Although I've stop playing World of Warcraft several months ago, I've been keeping my eye on the developement of the game, with more attention on my preferred charachter, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;the shaman&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a new "how to", showing the new shaman's totem bar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wEVPKp_hj1M&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wEVPKp_hj1M&amp;amp;hl=it&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-4280584177313233529?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/4280584177313233529/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=4280584177313233529' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/4280584177313233529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/4280584177313233529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2009/07/patch-32-shamans-new-totem-bars.html' title='Patch 3.2: Shaman&apos;s new Totem Bars'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-7356845177257545707</id><published>2008-10-18T08:11:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T09:58:03.680+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patch'/><title type='text'>It's all about rotation - part 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The patch has landed! Enjoy it! Says WoW Wiki, and we enyoyed it a lot. Old addons does not work, but the new interface is way better than old one, Blizzard have done a great job on it (and it explain 2 GIGAs of patch, indeed). Graphic effects have been improved and there are now tons of achievements for the farming lovers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what about our loved Enhancement Shamans? There are lot of changes, affecting our solo grinding and or party/raid life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Let's begin from the minor one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Shapeshifting will no longer cancel Water Walking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, from now I can run like a ghost wolf on the sea, nice and maybe useful when running away from bad guys ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Windwall Totem has been removed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Windwall Totem? Let me think... Windwall Totem?? Never heard of it... ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Rockbiter ranks 5 through 9 have been removed. Windfury Weapon is intended to replace Rockbiter at level 30.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, let say they've nerfed RW from the beginning and now they could erase it from scratch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The range of all "friendly totems" has been increased to 30 yards, up from 20.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very useful in party life. No more talent point wasted on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ancestral Knowledge: Now increases your Intellect by 2/4/6%, instead of increasing your total Mana by 2/4/6/8/10%.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this one made pair with&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mental Dexterity: Increases your Attack Power by 33/66/100% of your Intellect.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a base of 100 intellect points AK give us 6 points and MD double them, raising Attack Power of 212 points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Grace of Air Totem has been removed! Agility has been rolled over into Strength of Earth Totem, that increases the strength and agility by 155 to all party members within 30 yards. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now the core of enhancement's Enhancement. Let the fun begin!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first new entry... &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lava Lash!!!!&lt;br /&gt;You charge your off-hand weapon with lava, instantly dealing 100% off-hand Weapon damage. Damage is increased by 25% if your off-hand weapon is enchanted with Flametongue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this is immediately inserted in the spell rotation! 100% off hand damage, a gratis fire attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Maelstrom Weapon proc chance reduced to 3/6/9/12/15% on critical hit when you deal damage with a melee weapon. Now affects chain heal.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;When you deal damage with a melee weapon, you have a 100% chance to reduce the cast time of your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Lava Burst, Lesser Healing Wave, Chain Heal or Healing Wave spell by 20%. Stacks up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is real? Every 5 hit I've an istant, a Lighting Bolt or Chain Light in most common raid situation when someone else kindly heal me, and an istant Heal when in party or grinding all alone. This is the another big change in spell rotation!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Unleashed Rage is now raid wide and increases melee and ranged attack power within 45 yards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one will made you loved by every melee in your party/raid group!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last but not least we have two lovely new friends, or Feral Spirits! &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Two Spirit Wolves under the command of the Shaman, lasting 45 sec.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They taunt, tank the target and heal the shaman for 150% of damage done. And they are pet!! Not like the elemental things, that you use the weapon unleashing an uncontrollable fire or earth guy. You have now your little useful panel to send the wolf attack a mob or another, using the ability or not, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;Try summon the wolves and the fire elemental when in the middle of the fight with a huge cup of pop corn, and enjoy the number flying!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6661/feralspiritei0.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, so after these little list of the new Enhancement talents and spells it's time to talk about HOW using them to maximize DPS. But to have useful datas about this central aspect of our battle life I need more time to view Recount data and try the different possible rotation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you, at part 2!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-7356845177257545707?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/7356845177257545707/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=7356845177257545707' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/7356845177257545707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/7356845177257545707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/10/its-all-about-rotation-part-1.html' title='It&apos;s all about rotation - part 1'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-4162394672484007773</id><published>2008-10-02T07:24:00.013+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-02T09:58:26.705+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dragons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pve'/><title type='text'>The One With the Netherwing Drake</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well I know, the title pay a debt to the time I've recently spent re-watching the entire 10-series cycle of the best sit com of the last 100 years, Friends. Just few hours after I've viewed the last scene, with the keys left on the Monica and Chandler's empty house, I've reached the exalted level of reputation with the Outdoor's dragons faction, the &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Netherwing"&gt;Netherwing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first time I've tried to cap my rep level I was an healer and not so good geared, and I remember hours spent trying to fill my bags of crystals and Netherdust Pollen being killed again and again from the elite patrolling the area. So I gave up and come back there only few weeks ago, with my fist weapon loaded with windfury power and the Merciless and Vengeful mail to protect me, discovering that the dailies are easy and not so boring, now that the mobs die very very fast. Ok, the one with the orc poisoning thing was a little boring but when you first reached Honored you could do &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;[Disrupting the Twilight Portal]&lt;/span&gt; and at Revered &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;[The Deadliest Trap Ever Laid]&lt;/span&gt; to gain 500 rep per day, beside the other quests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, three weeks (more or less) and now I've my personal, onyxian, shark faced (and not so "draconic") Netherwing mount! I've do the last quest, seen the ghostly version of Illidan Stormrage, enjoyed the dragon flight up to Shattrath and talked to &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Quest:Onyxien_the_Onyx_Netherwing_Drake"&gt;Onyxien the Onyx Netherwing Drake&lt;/a&gt; and received&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="float: left; width: 18em;font-size:0.85em;" class="itemtooltip"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="qc-epic" title="Epic"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reins of the Onyx Netherwing Drake&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Binds when picked up&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Unique&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mount&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Requires Level 70&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Requires Riding (300)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="bonus"&gt;Use: Summons and dismisses a rideable nether drake mount. This is a very fast mount. This mount can only be summoned in Outland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In those weeks, while questing again and again, I've read something about the dragon I'm going to buy &amp;amp; fly, just to know more about the background side of Warcraft, that is quite always well build and very interesting.&lt;br /&gt;First of all those we are going to ride are Nether dragon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Nether dragons resembles a normal dragon, except being semi-transparent and having a shark-like jaws in nether drake form. They are fully sentient intelligent beings and speak Draconic like normal dragons. They also share the ability to learn magic and take humanoid forms.&lt;/span&gt; [&lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Nether_dragons"&gt;cit&lt;/a&gt;] (that explains the sharp face!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And those dragons are a spawn of &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Deathwing"&gt;Deathwing the Destroyer&lt;/a&gt; (aka &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Neltharion the Earth-Warder&lt;/span&gt;), come to Outland from Azeroth in the Second War.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Near the end of the Second War, the black dragon Deathwing traveled through the Dark Portal to Draenor. Believing the world to be a relatively safe haven for his offspring, he secreted away a cache of black dragon eggs. Following the war, Ner’zhul recklessly opened multiple portals on Draenor, and the magical stress tore the planet apart. The energies released in this catastrophe altered Deathwing’s eggs, resulting in the nether dragons: partially corporeal and partially ethereal dragons who possess the ability to shift between the astral and physical planes. Without Deathwing’s guidance, these otherworldly nether dragons are just now finding their own way among the blasted ruins of Outland. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally we come to the Netherwing faction:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One faction of nether dragons, named the Netherwing, were attacked by the Dragonmaw Orcs of Shadowmoon Valley and many were enslaved by Zuluhed, including the female Karynaku, mate of Neltharaku, leader of the brood. Their son Mordenai wanders the Netherwing Fields seeking adventurers to help free his mother and eventually help the Netherwing escape enslavement. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now some pictures of the event!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SORt3yMvkuI/AAAAAAAAATo/ObehIUt-r8A/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_100108_181943.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SORt3yMvkuI/AAAAAAAAATo/ObehIUt-r8A/s320/WoWScrnShot_100108_181943.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252443870556295906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SORt61xIybI/AAAAAAAAATw/Q_6hp75-i2I/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_100108_182051.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;  cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SORt61xIybI/AAAAAAAAATw/Q_6hp75-i2I/s320/WoWScrnShot_100108_182051.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252443923053857202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SORt9oqX7LI/AAAAAAAAAT4/jnqOlPhE2k8/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_100108_194201.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SORt9oqX7LI/AAAAAAAAAT4/jnqOlPhE2k8/s320/WoWScrnShot_100108_194201.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252443971075435698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A short clip showing the event:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NyBhGLPxN4g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NyBhGLPxN4g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-4162394672484007773?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/4162394672484007773/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=4162394672484007773' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/4162394672484007773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/4162394672484007773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/10/one-with-netherwing-drake.html' title='The One With the Netherwing Drake'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SORt3yMvkuI/AAAAAAAAATo/ObehIUt-r8A/s72-c/WoWScrnShot_100108_181943.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-4487678839344330765</id><published>2008-09-16T07:33:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T07:33:00.250+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Wrath of the Lich King</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="border:0 solid;" src="http://www.memoriedalbuio.com/chaos/wrath-of-the-lich-king.gif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://eu.blizzard.com/en/press/080915.html"&gt;official Blizzard web site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft® Wrath of the Lich King™, the second expansion for its award-winning subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will arrive in stores on November 13 in North America, Europe, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Russia, and November 14 in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. The expansion will be available in Korea and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau on November 18. Details regarding the launch of Wrath of the Lich King in mainland China will be announced at a later date.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More interesting is the page about the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Collector's Edition&lt;/span&gt;. I love video game artworks so every game, every new extension, I'd buy it in the extended version.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Collector's Edition will come in a special box that contains many exclusive extras to enhance your adventure into Northrend, including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;* World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King on DVD-ROM.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;* The Art of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, a 208-page book featuring never-before-seen images from the game.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;* An exclusive in-game pet: Frosty, the baby frost wyrm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;* A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, the Wrath of the Lich King intro cinematic with director’s commentary, and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;* The official soundtrack CD, containing 21 epic tracks from the game, along with exclusive bonus tracks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;* A mouse pad featuring a map of the newly opened continent of Northrend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;* Two World of Warcraft Trading Card Game March of the Legion™ starter decks, along with two exclusive cards available only in the Collector’s Edition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two months only and we could travel in the Arthas kingdom...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-4487678839344330765?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/4487678839344330765/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=4487678839344330765' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/4487678839344330765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/4487678839344330765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/09/wrath-of-lich-king.html' title='Wrath of the Lich King'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-642928550030732293</id><published>2008-09-12T09:40:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T11:21:46.000+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pve'/><title type='text'>Dalaran</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4Viu2LSLI/AAAAAAAAASs/9FbUrKV0qpE/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_091008_125222.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:3px 10px 3px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4Viu2LSLI/AAAAAAAAASs/9FbUrKV0qpE/s320/WoWScrnShot_091008_125222.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246154302368204978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I remember the first time I've seen the lost city of &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Dalaran&lt;/span&gt;. I was a young shaman, about level 20, running shapeshifted like a ghost wolf in the low level zone of &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Silverpine Forest&lt;/span&gt;, enjoying a gentle rain on my brown fur. Inspecting the undead infested forest I came in front of a giant pink semisphere, created by magic and I stared at it.&lt;br /&gt;It was awesome (remember, it was two years ago, far far from things like the Core, the Plaguelands and more far from the colorful beauty of the Outlands) and really really big in size.&lt;br /&gt;Some days ago, after a badge run in the ancient rooms of the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Medivh's Tower&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Karazhan"&gt;Karazhan&lt;/a&gt;, a quest never completed &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Quest:The_New_Directive"&gt;[The New Directive]&lt;/a&gt; send me back to the city that I've to admit, I completely forgot. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, this is a part of the story of Dalaran, as reported by wowwiki (to read the whole story click &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Dalaran"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Dalaran was one of the original human cities in the Arathorian Empire. Long the center of magical learning, a conclave of mages called the Kirin Tor oversaw its mystic happenings from the Violet Citadel. Undead forces overran the city in the Third War; and Archimonde, then the Burning Legion’s commander, destroyed the city with his foul magic. The Scourge abandoned the ruins, but a group of mages reclaimed it months later. Now, an opaque violet dome of magical energy covers and protects Dalaran. No means, either magic or mundane, can determine the goings-on inside the dome. Archmages patrol its perimeter, but the dome is powerful enough to destroy creatures that venture too close. The mages are certainly working on something — but none can discover what it is.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The quest reward:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 0.85em; float: left; width: 18em;" class="itemtooltip"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="qc-epic" title="Epic"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Violet Badge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Binds when picked up&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li class="ttslot-Trinket"&gt;Trinket&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;+36 Stamina &lt;br /&gt;+45 Arcane Resistance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-642928550030732293?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/642928550030732293/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=642928550030732293' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/642928550030732293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/642928550030732293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/09/dalaran.html' title='Dalaran'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4Viu2LSLI/AAAAAAAAASs/9FbUrKV0qpE/s72-c/WoWScrnShot_091008_125222.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-6930404951520788704</id><published>2008-09-12T08:12:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:32:51.599+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pvp'/><title type='text'>Full Gladiator</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Two weeks of pvp honor's grinding and some arena points spent for the &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Vengeful_Gladiator%27s_Linked_Gauntlets"&gt;Vengeful Gauntlets&lt;/a&gt; and now I'm full Gladiator dressed with the shaman's tier called &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Merciless_Gladiator%27s_Earthshaker"&gt;Merciless Gladiator's Earthshaker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4a0BvWEKI/AAAAAAAAATY/jJOfBvOIN5U/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_091108_130717.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4a0BvWEKI/AAAAAAAAATY/jJOfBvOIN5U/s400/WoWScrnShot_091108_130717.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246160097055740066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-6930404951520788704?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/6930404951520788704/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=6930404951520788704' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/6930404951520788704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/6930404951520788704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/09/full-gladiator.html' title='Full Gladiator'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4a0BvWEKI/AAAAAAAAATY/jJOfBvOIN5U/s72-c/WoWScrnShot_091108_130717.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-8150376245903179078</id><published>2008-09-11T10:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:33:01.047+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='raid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pve'/><title type='text'>Supremus</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Past week I've been called to fill an empty seat in the &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Black_Temple"&gt;Black Temple&lt;/a&gt; guild's raid and I run to join my guild mates, knowing my DPS never change the combat result, but with the wish to snake into &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Illidan&lt;/span&gt;'s dark reign and see even a small part of it.&lt;br /&gt;I could say... &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Supremus"&gt;Supremus&lt;/a&gt; is really really big, and it hits very very hard... so I've had few occasion to get a nice pic of it and those are the results.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4X_nm4ipI/AAAAAAAAAS0/S_dYjV7K31E/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_091008_000208.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4X_nm4ipI/AAAAAAAAAS0/S_dYjV7K31E/s320/WoWScrnShot_091008_000208.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246156997664475794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entering the istance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4YE8NgHHI/AAAAAAAAAS8/h6iONZ_qYUg/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_091008_000841.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4YE8NgHHI/AAAAAAAAAS8/h6iONZ_qYUg/s320/WoWScrnShot_091008_000841.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246157089094507634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Standing in front of Supremus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4YHz6nyqI/AAAAAAAAATE/BjSH3RkSdFQ/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_091008_001642.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4YHz6nyqI/AAAAAAAAATE/BjSH3RkSdFQ/s320/WoWScrnShot_091008_001642.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246157138407443106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supremus punches (me and) the grounds&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-8150376245903179078?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/8150376245903179078/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=8150376245903179078' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/8150376245903179078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/8150376245903179078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/09/supremus.html' title='Supremus'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SM4X_nm4ipI/AAAAAAAAAS0/S_dYjV7K31E/s72-c/WoWScrnShot_091008_000208.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-1554466832938885559</id><published>2008-09-05T16:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:33:09.157+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crazy totems'/><title type='text'>New gear, new language</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SMFAisGVg7I/AAAAAAAAASk/eqxWTm_krsE/s1600-h/sp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 3pt 10px 3px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SMFAisGVg7I/AAAAAAAAASk/eqxWTm_krsE/s320/sp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242542405933433778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ok, writing down my post in english is really not the best way to explain my thought about my Azeroth life. My english is poor and I think it could be a serious obstacle to my wish of let you understand my stories, but on the other side is really the best exercise to learn deeper the most used language in the World (of Warcraft and not).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, new language is here, and what about the new gear? Well, after two years of healing, pvp healing, raid healing, istance healing, grinding &amp;amp; healing (there is few worst things) I've come back to my past attitude, enhancement shaman life style. Someone said me people dont love too much melee shammy, they've poor armor level, no Crowd Control so another dps is quite always preferred to us. So it's hard to find group for the istance, it's even harder to go into a raid group, it's a sad hard life...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT... let me tell you, it's all bullshit... I've respecced one week ago, take upon me the poor reputation gear (&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;[Seer's Linked Armor]&lt;/span&gt;, ...) and spent all my arena points to buy the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;[Vengeful Gladiator Linked Armor]&lt;/span&gt;, all my honor point to buy &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;[Merciless Gladiator Linked Helm]&lt;/span&gt; and all my gold to buy trinkets and rings to increase Attack Power (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;[Shuttered Sun Pendant of Might]&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;[Skyguard Silver Cross]&lt;/span&gt;, ...), source of my damage.&lt;br /&gt;Reached 1156 AP I've tried to find someone who could bring me in some istances, normal version of course. In two days using some good (blue) drops and spending few hours in the always good pvp allies massacre, I could drop all greens and wear an average mix of epics and uncommons. Using gems I've dropped in the istances my Attack Power reached 1204, not bad but always too low, I think...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT... with big surprise I found lot of friends which allow me to follow them into heroic istances with great results. 3/4 heroics in a row, lot of badges and my last, for now, and best piece, the "colorful parrot" fist weapon &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;[Vanir's Left Fist of Brutality]&lt;/span&gt;!!!. My average dps increased from 350 of the old Seer time to 600 and I'm now trying to learn the best spell rotation to maximize it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUT... I will talk about shaman's math another day, now I'm too happy to see that I could, as an enhancement shaman, find more fun in the istance than in the past and do my very good part in the party's damage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;/y Shaman Power!!!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-1554466832938885559?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/1554466832938885559/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=1554466832938885559' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/1554466832938885559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/1554466832938885559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-gear-new-language.html' title='New gear, new language'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SMFAisGVg7I/AAAAAAAAASk/eqxWTm_krsE/s72-c/sp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-707918784480535115</id><published>2008-08-27T16:27:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:35:26.382+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patch'/><title type='text'>WotLK: Feral Spirit</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E dopo un bel po' di tempo torniamo a parlare della carriera degli shamani nel colorato mondo di World of Warcraft. In pausa dopo la conclusione del libro che sto scrivendo, mentre germogliano gli spunti per il prossimo lavoro, mi sto rilassando nel migliore dei modi picchiando brutti ceffi dell'alleanza in PvP, correndo per le istanze normal e prendendo tante botte con l'amico &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Meracoon&lt;/span&gt; in Arena (ma ieri qualcuna l'abbiamo vinta! &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HUZZZAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;Avevo intenzione di dedicare un post alla nuova specializzazione... effettivamente dopo aver provato &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Elemental &lt;/span&gt;e averlo trovato utilissimo e potentissimo ma noioso e aver curato come &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Restoration&lt;/span&gt; per quasi 2 anni tra istanze e (pochi) raid mi stavo proprio annoiando quando ho deciso di ributtarmi nella mia vecchia passione, lo stile &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Enhancement&lt;/span&gt;, il corpo a corpo. Purtroppo questa versione dello sciamano non è molto ben vista, poca armor, nessuna abilità in Crowd Control però i suoi bei danni li fa e si rivela davvero una forza nel DPS melee.&lt;br /&gt;Ecco quindi che ho trovato in giro news sulle abilità che ci verranno messe a disposizione con l'espansione e su due in particolare volevo soffermarmi, illustrate in particolare dal filmato qui sotto.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="600"&gt; &lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1190132&amp;amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1"&gt; &lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1190132&amp;amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nel simpatico filmato si possono osservare: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hex &lt;/span&gt;(più volte), &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Flame Shock&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lava Burst&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Thunder&lt;/span&gt; (un altro spell con i fulmini!!! che fantasia!!!) e &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Feral Spirit&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Quelli che rivestono sicuramente più importanza, per gli sciamani in generale e per gli shamma melee come il sottoscritto sono:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2816/hexwj3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Insomma, non ci vogliono dare un altro Polymorph (50sec di durata e niente cooldown), niente spell fear-like, che ormai che l'hanno tutti, ma qualcosina sembra muoversi da questo punto di vista. Chissà che con WotlK lo shamma enhancement non diventi finalmente davvero indispensabile...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6661/feralspiritei0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nel filmato di lupo ne ho visto uno solo, ma immagino sia dovuto allo stadio di avanzamento dei test. Inoltre questo è un talento del ramo Enhancement e non uno spell come l'Hex.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E ultimo ma non meno importante... &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spectral Transformation&lt;/span&gt;!!! Dopo due anni di attesa ci danno un talento come quello che i Druidi hanno da sempre: se ci si trasforma in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ghost Wolf&lt;/span&gt; si perdono gli effetti degli spell bloccanti!!! Utilissimo in PvP/Arena, altro che &lt;a href="http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=37865"&gt;Medallion of the Horde&lt;/a&gt; (resilience a parte...)!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7016/spectralbo4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-707918784480535115?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/707918784480535115/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=707918784480535115' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/707918784480535115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/707918784480535115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/08/wotlk-feral-spirit.html' title='WotLK: Feral Spirit'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-7725807884917540416</id><published>2008-06-18T16:10:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:33:27.300+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='istance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pve'/><title type='text'>The Last Earth Shock</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/images/2/25/Magistersterracegraph.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 3pt 10px 3px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/images/2/25/Magistersterracegraph.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Una sera di un autunno arrivato a giugno, mentre i tuoni rimbombavano come i passi di un gigante infuriato e la pioggia prendeva a pugni i vetri delle finestre, riuscivo contro ogni speranza a trovare un gruppo per far visita alla &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Magister Terrace&lt;/span&gt;, versione normale. Diritto sotto il mob c'era &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dunk&lt;/span&gt;, incazzoso e perennemente con la sigaretta accesa, ai danni melee &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Toropazzo&lt;/span&gt;, agli spell &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Joker &lt;/span&gt;e la maga &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Akìra&lt;/span&gt;. Alle cure il sottoscritto.&lt;br /&gt;Ridendo e scherzando, per fortuna visti i wipe che siamo stati capaci di inanellare, si arriva all'ultima trash di mob che assolutamente non sapevo essere così bastarda. Sei nemici da far fuori tutti e comunque, perché se per caso si muore ressano tutti e si ricomincia. Ma nulla possono contro la nostra potenza di fuoco e lasciati a marcire i cadaveri sulle scale procediamo dal boss, tale &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Kael%27thas_Sunstrider"&gt;Kael'tas Sunstrider&lt;/a&gt;, elfo bastardo che ha tradito tutti, la sua gente e il suo padrone, &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Illidan_Stormrage"&gt;Illidan&lt;/a&gt;, per servire il signore dei demoni &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Kil%27jaeden"&gt;Kil'jaeden&lt;/a&gt; (quello che ha messo la sua faccia sui &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;[Mark of Kil'jaeden]&lt;/span&gt;!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo è davvero un bel combat, per quanto ricordo molto più divertente dei vari boss finali delle istance eroiche fatti fino ad ora, più strutturato se non altro.&lt;br /&gt;Praticamente è un mago bastardo che a 10 secondi dall'inizio dello scontro evoca una fenice ogni minuto. La bestia di fuoco va distrutta subito e portata via dal tank, e quando muore depone un uovo, che va pure distrutto all'istante altrimenti si rischia di trovarsi con due fenici ed è la morte.&lt;br /&gt;Raggiunto il 50% di vita il suddetto mago elfo bastardo casta &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"&gt;Gravity Lapse&lt;/span&gt; e ci si ritrova tutti a fluttuare allegri in giro per la stanza mentre si subiscono danni Arcane. Non soddisfatto di ciò Kael lancia in giro tre Arcane Orbs che girano per la stanza e vanno assolutamente evitati. Qui tenere vivi tutti per il sottoscritto che ha solo le sue curette dirette e nessuno HoT o cure di gruppo, è parecchio &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;laborioso&lt;/span&gt;. Passati 30 secondi si finisce a terra e ci sono altri 10 secondi prima che questa fase ricominci. L'unica fortuna è che in questo tempo non c'è danno di alcun tipo quindi si riesce a recuperare almeno una parte delle botte subite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Devo ammettere che dopo diversi try e quando oramai era l'una di notte passata non avrei creduto di riuscire ad andare oltre e finalmente attunarmi all'heroic MA, in un ultimo tentativo disperato, dopo aver atteso tutti i cooldown possibili in modo da avere a disposizione &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"&gt;Bloodlust &lt;/span&gt;e &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"&gt;Fire Elemental&lt;/span&gt; per me ed altri cast per mago e lokko, ci siamo ributtati nell'eroica impresa.&lt;br /&gt;Lo portiamo al 10% e in aria la gente inizia a crepare, al 3% siamo rimasti solamente Dunk il tank ed il sottoscritto, quindi senza dps. Il tank mena il menabile, io curo l'incurabile, volando come Superman, all 1% del boss muore il tank e rimango solo io che svolazzo in giro e mi curo a palla tornando al 20% circa di vita. A quel punto quando pensavamo fosse wipe assicurato il bastardo mi fa atterrare e mentre tutti in voice chat gridava ogni genere di cosa, "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ammazza il bastardo&lt;/span&gt;", "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;uccidilooooo&lt;/span&gt;" e via dicendo, clicco su ogni cosa nei paraggi, casto &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"&gt;Earthshock&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"&gt;Lighting Bolt&lt;/span&gt;, accendo il lettore DVD, riprogrammo il televisore e...  vedo che non riesco piu a targhettarlo... penso, ok, son morto invece... era morto lui!!!! Unico sopravvissuto al 5% di hp io, l'healer!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;Grida di esultanza, balli sfrenati, gente che piangeva al microfono (più o meno dai...). Per un istance normal e per la maggior parte della gente che l'ha rifatta mille volte in heroic ormai non sarà una sfida da mesi, ma come spesso accade son proprio queste piccole cose che danno senso a questo gioco.&lt;br /&gt;Ed è l'una e mezza di notte, e mentre Dunk esaltato cerca gruppo per una nuova incredibile sfida, si va a dormire soddisfatti ripensando a quell'ultima, critica, fantastica Earthshock... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SFi8T3CwTHI/AAAAAAAAAQI/gXv79n9Q-Pw/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_061808_011655p.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SFi8T3CwTHI/AAAAAAAAAQI/gXv79n9Q-Pw/s400/WoWScrnShot_061808_011655p.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213123618060389490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Foto di uno shamano soddisfatto che beve una birrozza brindando al gruppo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-7725807884917540416?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/7725807884917540416/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=7725807884917540416' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/7725807884917540416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/7725807884917540416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/06/last-earth-shock.html' title='The Last Earth Shock'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/SFi8T3CwTHI/AAAAAAAAAQI/gXv79n9Q-Pw/s72-c/WoWScrnShot_061808_011655p.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-8069713182540222954</id><published>2008-05-15T16:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:33:57.672+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crazy totems'/><title type='text'>Wrath of Gogg'ho</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tempo di cazzate, sarà l'estate, sarà che gli algoritmi di rimescolamento a blocchi di &lt;a href="http://lgc.altervista.org/"&gt;Libro Game Creator&lt;/a&gt; mi hanno annodato le sinapsi senza speranza, ma non riesco a scrivere nessun post degno di tale nome.&lt;br /&gt;Nel nome delle cazzate inutili ecco quindi alcune armi per &lt;a href="http://shamanic-journey.blogspot.com/search/label/world%20of%20warcraft"&gt;World of Warcraft&lt;/a&gt; forgiate solo per voi, direttamente dall'espansione &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Call of Gogg'ho&lt;/span&gt; ecco alcuni nuovi pezzi dell'equip epico e leggendario che troverete disponibili, assieme alle mount a 4 posti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float:left; margin:1px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.wowitemcreator.com/swf/wowTip_v2_0_en.swf" flashvars="item_id=215564" quality="high" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="252" width="226"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin:1px; padding: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.wowitemcreator.com/swf/wowTip_v2_0_en.swf" flashvars="item_id=215580" quality="high" wmode="transparent" width="226" height="399" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'oggetto è stato craftato solo per voi da &lt;a href="http://www.wowitemcreator.com/"&gt;Wow Item Creator!&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-8069713182540222954?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/8069713182540222954/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=8069713182540222954' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/8069713182540222954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/8069713182540222954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/05/wrath-of-goggho.html' title='Wrath of Gogg&apos;ho'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-7953035214324123827</id><published>2008-04-04T04:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:34:15.357+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pvp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crazy totems'/><title type='text'>Azeroth magazine?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Il mondo si divide in due categorie. Chi critta shadow e chi muore. Tu, muori.&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Anonimo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.memoriedalbuio.com/files/TGG_S1.pdf"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 4pt 10px 0px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.memoriedalbuio.com/images/tgg_special_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184194044113175698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Succede così, pensi serva un viaggio lunghissimo e basta un passo, credi di non vedere oltre la porta, invece varcata la soglia il mondo cambia completamente. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La Cosa sulla Soglia&lt;/span&gt; è un curioso essere verdastro, dotato di lunghe orecchie leggermente pelose e lo sguardo malevolo, simile ad un folletto perennemente incazzato. Indossa un completo nero che mal gli si addice e nella mano che tende verso di te c'è l'invito ad unirsi ad un team dal nome che poco ti direbbe, se non che tu già sai dove vuole portarti. E quindi firmi senza porre domande e allunghi la mano verso il portale bluastro che si è nel frattempo formato alle sue spalle. Ed è cosi che dalle nebbiose lande delle cittadine del New England riesci ad arrivare come se nulla fosse nel regno magico e perennemente in guerra di &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Azeroth&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Accade che in quel passaggio che hai fatto tempo fa non avresti scommesso una moneta bucata su chi avresti conosciuto e su quanto quei rapporti sarebbero durati e invece, nella marea di nomi illeggibili e mucchi di pixel usati come scudi e maschere, stringi alleanze più durature dei gruppi da istance, più forti dei raid da 40. Capita così, come è naturale che succeda, che qualcuno fuoriesca dal suo cespuglio di pixel colorati e ti stringa la mano, inaspettatamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E così, a quasi due anni da quando l'avventura è iniziata, eccoci qua ancora a giocare e sparare frecce/shadowbolt/cure veloci/soprattutto cazzate e a due settimane dall'inizio del &lt;a href="http://shamanic-journey.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-battle-time.html"&gt;Torneo di Arene di World of Warcraft&lt;/a&gt;, nasce un nuovo numero, completamente inatteso, della &lt;a href="http://www.memoriedalbuio.com/scrivendo.html"&gt;Gazzetta di Greyhill&lt;/a&gt;!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per una volta però sono felice di essere protagonista delle vicende narrate e mero spettatore della sua creazione. Il prodotto editoriale di notevole spessore (ma ha imparato tutto da me il giovine...) è una creazione di &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dhoulmagus&lt;/span&gt;, dps di vecchia data, nemesi degli gnomi di Alterac Valley, terrore delle galline di Shattrath, impalatore supremo delle Blood Elfette di &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Silvermoon"&gt;Silvermoon City&lt;/a&gt;, il cui nome è pronunciato con timore dagli ally di mezzo server (l'altra metà son quelli che l'hanno piallato nei battleground pomeridiani). E le sorprese non finiscono qua, c'è la collezione di figurine delle nostre imprese di guerra, un concorso con un premio finale che definirei esagerato ed un prossimo numero già in preparazione con in allegato si vocifera il reggiseno di &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Sylvanas_Windrunner"&gt;Sylvanas Windrunner&lt;/a&gt; che il prode &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Selvetarm&lt;/span&gt; (non nuovo ad imprese del genere) le ha sottratto con l'inganno la scorsa notte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per chi è giunto fino a questo punto e non ha timore di inoltrarsi nelle vicende mitologiche che circondano il team arena più lamero di Azeroth c'è un file PDF scaricabile liberamente da &lt;a href="http://www.memoriedalbuio.com/files/TGG_S1.pdf"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;, buona lettura!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;E ricordatevi belle blood elfine, trolle sinuose e pallide non morte di tutto il mondo conosciuto e non...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;se vi suscita ingordigia, non è un pacco... è una valigia&lt;/span&gt;!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_Ubix4PxNI/AAAAAAAAALQ/UMf-FkvydA4/s1600-h/tesoro.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-7953035214324123827?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/7953035214324123827/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=7953035214324123827' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/7953035214324123827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/7953035214324123827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/04/azeroth-magazine.html' title='Azeroth magazine?'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-6186639387108970873</id><published>2008-04-01T16:01:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:34:25.066+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pvp'/><title type='text'>World of Warcraft Arena Tournament 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_HkhR4PxEI/AAAAAAAAAKA/9Fvs5qulv0U/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_033108_183423.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 3pt 10px 2px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_HkhR4PxEI/AAAAAAAAAKA/9Fvs5qulv0U/s320/WoWScrnShot_033108_183423.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184175906466284610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ammetto che è da un po' che la mia presenza in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;World of Warcraft&lt;/span&gt; si è diradata, nonostante la nuova patch ed i successi dei &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Legio Septima&lt;/span&gt; (l'uccello infuocato di Tempest Keep è morto proprio qualche giorno fa) non riesco a rimanere per troppi mesi in quel mondo senza, per usare un tecnicismo, rompermi betatamente i marroni. E' folle perché adoro WoW ed il suo mondo, ma in un modo che non riesce mai ad essere in sintonia con quello che è il "modus giocandi" richiesto, per cui la sera esco e non raido, il pomeriggio lavoro (solitamente almeno) e non faccio istance, ed una volta arrivato al 70, una volta che sei li e tutti vanno avanti e tu puoi fare solo qualche battleground e massacrare ally in arena, beh, anche i colori incredibili di Ashenvale e gli abissi infuocati al tramonto delle Blade's Mountain perdono di interesse. Soprattutto poi se sei healer ed il tempo nei battleground lo passi a curare gente deficiente di cui non te ne frega nulla e che quando qualche dannato gnomo lokko ti inizia a menare di shadowbolt e ti riempie di DOT come un pino a natale se ne va allegro saltellando come un Tippete rincoglionito per la sua strada. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Così come ultima spiaggia finché non trovo un nuovo equilibrio, sapendo che maggio è il mese in cui mollo di giocare, come ogni anno, per poi riprendere in autunno (ma davvero tutti sti ventenni hanno voglia di passare le sere d'estate a giocare a Warcraft???), mi son dato con i vecchi compagni di battaglia Selvetarm e Dhoulmagus al &lt;a href="http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/arena/tournament/"&gt;World of Warcraft Arena Tournament 2008&lt;/a&gt;!!! Dopo alcuni giorni di indecisione sui server ieri sono riuscito a creare l'alter ego super equipaggiato del mio povero Crawlinchaos, che anche qui cura e non mena, ma vabbé, qualche lightining bolt la lancio ogni tanto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_HkqR4PxFI/AAAAAAAAAKI/YGLSK_SCCik/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_033108_181751.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 20px 10px 20pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_HkqR4PxFI/AAAAAAAAAKI/YGLSK_SCCik/s200/WoWScrnShot_033108_181751.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184176061085107282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_HkxR4PxGI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/zN-ypug-z9E/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_033108_181849.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 20px 10px 10pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_HkxR4PxGI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/zN-ypug-z9E/s200/WoWScrnShot_033108_181849.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184176181344191586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_Hk_R4PxII/AAAAAAAAAKg/wcOfWzZH4bs/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_033108_173126.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_Hk_R4PxII/AAAAAAAAAKg/wcOfWzZH4bs/s200/WoWScrnShot_033108_173126.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184176421862360194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appena entrato nel server si deve creare un personaggio ex novo e per non sbagliare nome e aspetto li lascio uguali che sennò poi durante le partite mi sbaglio e non mi riconosco. Se allo schermo di creazione il personaggio è nuovo ed al solito nudo praticamente come un verme delle Outland appena si passa a quello di accesso al server si viene istantaneamente vestiti col Tier 5 da Arena, il set &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Season_2"&gt;Merciless&lt;/a&gt;, che nel mio caso (il &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Merciless_Gladiator%27s_Wartide"&gt;Gladiator's Wartide&lt;/a&gt;) mi trasforma in una specie di Torcia dei Fantastici Quattro, un grosso tauren infuocato che corre per i Barrens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma non è finita qui, nel gioco si possono acquistare ogni tipo di oggetti epici da livello 70, PVP e PVE e vestirsi come meglio si preferisce. Nel caso del nostro mitico team (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Volevo un Blood Elf&lt;/span&gt;, il significato del nome rimarrà per sempre un mistero...) con urla singhiozzanti in Team Speak sul potere assoluto che l'equip permette di raggiungere ci vestiamo un misto PVP/PVE che probabilmente ci permetterà di essere massacrati dai primi bimbiminchia che troveremo online. Ma pazienza, per una volta siamo li solo per divertirci e abbiamo davanti un minimo di 200 arene da fare, in massimo sei settimane, che non sono poche ma nemmeno tantissime anche se, sotto sotto... noi puntiamo al primo premio di 75.000$!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E ora scusate ma dev.... BATTTLEEEEEEEEE!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-6186639387108970873?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/6186639387108970873/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=6186639387108970873' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/6186639387108970873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/6186639387108970873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/04/world-of-warcraft-arena-tournament-2008.html' title='World of Warcraft Arena Tournament 2008'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_HkhR4PxEI/AAAAAAAAAKA/9Fvs5qulv0U/s72-c/WoWScrnShot_033108_183423.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-713260353676857947</id><published>2008-03-26T15:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:34:34.887+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patch'/><title type='text'>Fury of the Sunwell</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/images/5/50/Sunwell_800.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 1px solid rgb(119, 119, 119); padding: 4px; margin: 3pt 10px 1px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/images/5/50/Sunwell_800.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E' tempo di cambiamenti nel vasto mondo di &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;World of Warcraft&lt;/span&gt;. Dopo le regioni ormai vecchie di Azeroth, dopo aver viaggiato in lungo e in largo per le lande di Kalimdor e gli Eastern Kingdoms e per un lungo anno aver goduto degli eterei e fantastici cieli delle Outland, è di nuovo giunto il tempo di esplorare nuove terre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questa volta è il turno del mitico pozzo del sole, il &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Sunwell"&gt;Sunwell&lt;/a&gt; degli alti elfi, dal quale traevano la loro energia magica, corrotto dal cavaliere Arthas (che conosceremo meglio nella prossima espansione &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wrath of the Lich King&lt;/span&gt;) e distrutto da alcuni sopravvissuti delle forze di Kael'thas. Ora il principe degli elfi è tornato e presto il pozzo sacro ricomincerà a generare il suo inesauribile potere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le modifiche al gioco sono notevoli e vengono raccontate in dettaglio nelle &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_2.4"&gt;release note della patch 2.4&lt;/a&gt;, come al solito. Questa volta ho cercato di documentarmi almeno un po' per capire come si collegano queste novità con la storia del mondo di &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft"&gt;Warcraft&lt;/a&gt;, anche se alla fine so che mi ridurrò al solito "ammazza il mob, guadagnati la repu, fai la quest, raccogli il drop" ma almeno cerco di capire cosa ci faccio li! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tra le maggiori novità ovviamente c'è la comparsa della &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sunwell Isle&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Isle_of_Quel%27Danas"&gt;l'isola di Quel'Danas&lt;/a&gt;) poche miglia di mare oltre il limite nord delle Eastern Kingdoms e raggiungibile all'inizio solo dalle città presenti nella zona. Per combattere le forze di Kael'thas che spingono per ridare vita al pozzo con le nefaste conseguenze che potrebbe portare con se si è formata una "alleanza", la &lt;a href="http://www.wowwiki.com/Shattered_Sun_Offensive"&gt;Shattered Sun Offensive&lt;/a&gt;, formata principalmente da maghi Blood Elves appartenenti alla fazione degli Scryers e preti Dranei per gli Aldor, guidate dai mistici Naaru. L'offensiva è una fazione attiva della principale città delle Outland, Shattrath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/images/e/e6/Map-of-easternkingdoms.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 2pt 10px 2px 0pt; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #666666; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/images/e/e6/Map-of-easternkingdoms.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La parte interessante di questa nuova patch è che la linea di eventi con le conseguenti quest attivabili si modificherà man mano che i giocatori completeranno le quest e otterranno i risultati nel contrastare le forze del principe elfo. Gli obiettivi principali porteranno a richiamare il naaru K'iru (che si troverà a quel punto nel porto dell'isola e bufferà i giocatori per 79 di stamina e 40 di intelletto) e far procedere la costruzione del portale da Shattrath all'isola.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci sono poi moltissime modifiche, alle singole classi, all'interfaccia, ai log, al pvp (honor calcolato e attribuito in real time, nuove daily per Halaa e le Spirit Towers), alle professioni ed alle quest (tra cui nuove daily ed il passaggio del cap da 10 a 25 daily al giorno). Ora anche i raid boss dropperanno le &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;[Badge of Justice]&lt;/span&gt; e si dice pure più soldi (YEHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!) e naturalmente c'è stata la solita piallata (nerfata o come preferite chiamarla) ai vari boss (tolto HP qua, facilitato il combat la e via dicendo) e sempre com'è consuetudine per mamma &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Blizzard &lt;/span&gt;non serve più nessuno degli attunement per cui moltissimi si sono fatti il mazzo (per andare a bivaccare sul Mount Hyal, visitare e far foto al Black Temple, il solito giretto for fun a Karazhan, ...). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per tutte le singole modifiche vi rimando alle note di cui sopra e vi lascio al trailer in game graphics della patch, in attesa di trovarci tutti stasera sull'isoletta degli elfi bastardi...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nota a margine, questa patch è stata dedicata alla memoria di &lt;a href="http://shamanic-journey.blogspot.com/2008/03/addio-gary-gygax.html"&gt;Gary Gygax&lt;/a&gt;, per il suo lavoro su &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dungeons &amp;amp; Dragons&lt;/span&gt; ed in generale con i giochi di ruolo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KE1TGCw2k6g&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KE1TGCw2k6g&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-713260353676857947?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/713260353676857947/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=713260353676857947' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/713260353676857947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/713260353676857947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/03/fury-of-sunwell.html' title='Fury of the Sunwell'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-1145683167933752129</id><published>2008-02-12T16:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:34:43.832+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='raid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pve'/><title type='text'>First Kill: Morogrim Tidewalker</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R7AnME2terI/AAAAAAAAAH8/OPS9x5oJsYQ/s1600-h/morogrimtidewalkersh7_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R7AnME2terI/AAAAAAAAAH8/OPS9x5oJsYQ/s400/morogrimtidewalkersh7_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165671861009087154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Quant'è profondo il tunnel? Non so bene ancora, non mi ci sono mai tuffato del tutto in realtà, a parte forse un primo folle periodo, ho sempre mantenuto un certo legame con il mondo "in real", ma ammetto che certe volte è bello perdersi nelle emozioni che un gioco online riesce a regalare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alcuni mesi fa ho scelto di chiudere per un po' con le mie varie "produzioni", tra gazzette e fanzine, tra città deserte e creature viscide e striscianti, tra l'ennesima rilettura di &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;H.P.Lovecraft&lt;/span&gt; e l'ennesima partita ad &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Arkham Horror&lt;/span&gt;, tra un tentativo di racconto ed un inutile libro game, ho scelto di tirar giù la serranda e affondare in qualcosa di più semplice. Sicuramente le soddisfazioni sono diverse, ma almeno per il sottoscritto l'esperienza del 2007 in fatto di "editoria" son state abbastanza pesanti da farmi dubitare dell'utilità del tempo passato a scrivere o impaginare testi ed immagini.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Largo quindi e ancora a honor e repu, a raid e quest, possibilmente in gruppo ma anche da solo, cavalcando il lupo infernale nelle lande devastate che giacciono oltre il portale e che riescono, al di la di qualsiasi meccanismo di gioco, a darmi ancora emozioni. Per quante volte posso averle viste, le architetture tridimensionali di &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;World of Warcraft&lt;/span&gt; mi impressionano e spesso mi trovo a vagare in qualche zona solo per il gusto di rivedere luoghi e creature mostruose, gustarmi i giganteschi funghi di Zangarmash o le costruzioni morbide di roccia di Silvermoon City nel suo eterno ed effimero autunno. Probabilmente è tutto, come si suol dire, negli occhi di chi guarda, c'è poca gente, almeno per quanto ne so io, che "perde tempo" a guardare il gioco e si dedica piuttosto ad accumulare qualcosa di "utile" (gold, repu, honor, drop,...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tutto sto preambolo solo per dire che ieri con la gilda con la quale gioco, i &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Legio Septima&lt;/span&gt;, derivata (tra separazioni, scissioni e così via) dai &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Signori della Guerra&lt;/span&gt;, abbiamo (ma direi hanno, il mio contributo, a parte aver aggrato i murlocchini maledetti al primo try, mi è sembrato minimo) abbattuto tale &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Morogrim Tidewalker&lt;/span&gt;, "o' gigantone puzzone" con i suoi earthquake, i suoi watery grave e così via. Non molto per diverse altre gilde che sono andate oltre, ma per me ha rappresentato il primo "first kill", e anche se non ho partecipato che ad un paio di try del suddetto bossone, è stata una soddisfazione veder scendere la sua vita al 50%, poi al 40% e pensare che forse forse si faceva, al 30% ed iniziare a sentire tutto farsi più frenetico, poi al 20%, correre, al 10% con diverse persone morte, tra eccitazione e panico di non farcela, pozze che andavano giù come birra, ricordarsi i cast giusti, scatenare l'elementale (fiammiferino, ovviamente, il miglior amico dello shamano) e poi 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,... e la sua giusta e meritata dipartita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tutto qua insomma, nulla di più o nulla di meno che una partita, ma con una soddisfazione notevole, lo ammetto. Ed ora si torna a "farmare", a "skillare" e a guardare le miniature che mi rimangono da dipingere o i libri che leggerei più velocemente se non giocassi. E so che prima o poi metterò di nuovo da parte la mount volante e le chiavi per il portale verso le terre esterne.&lt;br /&gt;Ma per ora, in questo momento, è ancora tempo di battaglie, ancora tempo di sprofondare nel rumore degli incantesimi e nella voce dei compagni che percorrono strade simili tra orchi ed elfi, troll e non morti.&lt;br /&gt;Pensando che ho scelto uno sciamano per la passione per un certo credo, un tauren per la bellezza della città natale Thunder Bluff, per un legame assurdo tra mondo e gioco, tra sovrannaturale e invisibile tecnologico, e a quanto adoro quella frase detta dai tauren di mezza Azeroth, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hear the call of the earth mother&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tutto il resto, in fin dei conti, è ancora al di la del mare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-1145683167933752129?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/1145683167933752129/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=1145683167933752129' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/1145683167933752129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/1145683167933752129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2008/02/first-kill-morogrim-tidewalker.html' title='First Kill: Morogrim Tidewalker'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R7AnME2terI/AAAAAAAAAH8/OPS9x5oJsYQ/s72-c/morogrimtidewalkersh7_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9000393515230349135.post-7824903586213179451</id><published>2007-12-27T01:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:35:07.645+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crazy totems'/><title type='text'>Back Home, Back to Thunder Bluff</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R3J88x2bb6I/AAAAAAAAAGE/TNXMIQzrdbA/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_122607_170551.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R3J88x2bb6I/AAAAAAAAAGE/TNXMIQzrdbA/s400/WoWScrnShot_122607_170551.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148314707653521314" border="0" width=600px/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9000393515230349135-7824903586213179451?l=crazytotems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/feeds/7824903586213179451/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9000393515230349135&amp;postID=7824903586213179451' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/7824903586213179451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9000393515230349135/posts/default/7824903586213179451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://crazytotems.blogspot.com/2007/12/tornare-thunder-bluff.html' title='Back Home, Back to Thunder Bluff'/><author><name>Matteo Poropat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14769163432639226802</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R_x13x4PxTI/AAAAAAAAAME/Be7ltpsi_74/S220/sage.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_UmiG8TWH2wI/R3J88x2bb6I/AAAAAAAAAGE/TNXMIQzrdbA/s72-c/WoWScrnShot_122607_170551.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
