A New Year, An Old Resolution

Once upon a time, almost exactly 2 years ago, I decided to start up a blog about gaming and gambling. It was a New Year's resolution to see how long I could go blogging every day. Turns out, the answer was 5 days, which is not exactly awe inspiring. Even worse I stopped updating even sporadically in a couple months. The only posts I ended up making were quest chains for horde dungeons for my World of Warcraft group to use to prepare for playing once a week.

I reread the few posts I did make earlier today and they actually brought back memories. I'd never have remembered colluding with Byung to try to kill 25 zombies if I hadn't written it down, and it made me chuckle. Most of the posts were duds, but the occasional good post makes me want to start things up again. Couple that with a desire to inspire some friends to go to the World Boardgaming Championships next year and a wish to try out this new Gleemax thing and restarting a blog seems like a great resolution for this new year.

I haven't read much about Gleemax, so maybe this won't be permanent, or searchable, or readable, so I'm going to start out double-posting things on my old blog which appears to be timeless.

Similar to two years ago I also intend to take up only gambling, only this time I'm mostly interested in backgammon, though I have been reading up on poker and playing some freerolls to stretch those gaming muscles again.

Well, enough intro babble for today. I'll work something up to post in the new year before I go to sweet sweet sleep. After a game of DotA, anyway!

I am not a spam bot, I'm a diplomat!

So as I was doing up the quest info for Stratholme I discovered that I've been flagged as being a spammer, not a real person. They made me fill out a box with squiggly letters to slow down my bottingness. Apparently a lot of links to one site sets off a red flag. Well, I'm not a bot, so here's a real post with NO links at all.

Ok, I lied. One link, but it's not to a World of Warcraft strategy site at all. DipBounced Diplomacy site is a fully self-contained site that 'judges' Diplomacy moves automatically. You sign up for games anonymously and can send messages to the other powers through the site itself. It generates maps of the game automatically as well. In short, it's great!

Quest Chains for Stratholme

I am bitter, both Allakhazam and Thottbot were missing quests easily picked up in EPL, so I'm wondering if more obscure quests were missed too.

Any Side?
The Flesh Does Not Lie
Houses of the Holy
The Great Fras Siabi
The Restless Souls

Live Side
(Chains from Fordring in EPL) Of Love and Family
The Archivist

Dead Side
(Live Side) Aurius' Reckoning
(Chains for Ras Frostwhisper quest) Menethil's Gift
(Chains from Nanthanos in EPL) Ramstein

Quest Chains for Scholomance

(Tirisfal Glades) Barov Family Fortune
(WPL) Doctor Theolen Krastinov, the Butcher
(EPL) Plagued Hatchlings
(Tirisfal Glades) Scholomance (Makes the key?)

Quest Chains for Black Rock Spire

Lower
(Burning Steppes) En-Ay-Es-Tee-Why
(Burning Steppes) Kibler's Exotic Pets
(Burning Steppes) Mother's Milk
(Badlands) Operative Bijou
(Burning Steppes) Put Her Down
(Chain from ZF, Tanaris) The Final Tablets
(Badlands) Warlord's Command (Onyxia key start)

Upper
(Burning Steppes) Broodling Essence --> Egg Freezing
(Winterspring) The Demon Forge

Quest Chains for Dire Maul

East
Lethtendris's Web
Pusillin and the Elder Azj'Tordin
(Moonglade, level 56) A Reliquary of Purity -> Shards of the Felvine

North
Elven Legends

West
The Madness Within

Tier 0 drop locations

For quickish reference, here are the names of the bosses that drop the tier-0 set pieces we need.

Tier 0 drops

	Druid	Priest	Rogue	Shaman	Warrior
Head	Darkmaster Gandling	Darkmaster Gandling	Darkmaster Gandling	Darkmaster Gandling	Darkmaster Gandling
Shoulder	Gizrul the Slavener	Solakar Flamewreath	Cannon Master Willey	Gyth	Warchief Rend Blackhand
Chest	General Drakkisath	General Drakkisath	General Drakkisath	General Drakkisath	General Drakkisath
Wrist	BoE from Strat/Scholo?	BoE from Strat	BoE from Scholo/Strat?	BoE from Strat/Scholo?	BoE from BRS
Hands	BoE from BRS	Archivist Galford	Shadow Hunter Vosh'gajin	Pyroguard Emberseer	Ramstein the Gorger
Waist	BoE from Scholo/BRS?	BoE from BRS	BoE from BRS	BoE from LBRS	BoE from Strat/LBRS
Legs	Baron Rivendare	Baron Rivendare	Baron Rivendare	Baron Rivendare	Baron Rivendare
Feet	Mother Smolderweb	Maleki the Pallid	Rattlegore	Highlord Omokk	Kirtonos the Herald

Wrist, gloves, and waist are all BoE, and mostly drop from random trash in some zones.

Quest Chains for Black Rock Depths

(Dead in BRM) Dark Iron Legacy
The Love Potion
(Kargath) Lost Thunderbrew Recipe
(Searing Gorge) Divine Retribution ->>>>>>>>>>> A Taste of Flame
(Kargath) Commander Gor'shak
(Kargath) Disharmony of Fire
(Kargath) KILL ON SIGHT: Dark Iron Dwarves
(Burning Steppes) Ribbly Screwspigot
(Kargath) The Rise of the Machines