Hallowed Be My Name

Ah yes, Hallow’s Eve. When this holiday rolls around it means only one thing… TRICK OR TREATING! It doesn’t matter what level, what class, or how much you play the game, this holiday isn’t one to miss. Masks, mounts, gear, costumes, pets, and last but not least CANDY, this holiday event has it all. Oh…and a nifty title.

Nothing says “I’m Badass” more than a title next to your name when you strut your stuff around Dalaran (or insert favorite major city hangout). While not all of us can be Kingslayers or Light of Dawns(Grats Strife), everyone who is level 78+ can be <Your Name Here> The Hallowed.

Most of this holiday you spend defending Azeroth from the menacing Headless Horseman and hoping to get an evil pumpkin as a pet or an oversized gourd to use as a helmet. Otherwise you will be spending a couple hours moving from inn to inn trick or treating all over Azeroth and Outlands, throwing pumpkins onto peoples’ heads, and getting changed into costumes via wands.

In every starting zone’s major town, ie Brill, Razor Hill, Kharanos, etc, the Headless Horseman attacks and torches the town. It is your duty as a powerful adventurer to help and put out the fire with water buckets. Not only do you get an achievement, you learn that to fully defeat the heinous villain you must find and destroy his head, which resides inside the Scarlet Monastery.

The Headless Horseman

If you happen to be level 78 or higher you can queue using the dungeon finder or talk to a floating ghost in your favorite major city. He isn’t so hard to defeat currently. HH, as he is usually called, is a simple 2 part fight.

Phase 1: Mounted, casts conflagration on a target disorienting them and doing damage. When you take him down to 0% his head pops off and the body walks around confused and immune to damage.

Phase 2: Head is flying around. Focus all damage onto it until the head and body rejoin. Repeat phase 1 and 2 until dead, although on the second time the head and body rejoin, he also summons Pumpkin Soldiers.

Well that’s my quick and dirty guide to Hallow’s End. Good luck on getting your random loot drops from the bags, as well as your Horseman’s Reins for a cool Flying/Riding mount.

-The Mighty Moose

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Death of Raiding

One thing I’ve noticed from 2 expansions is what happens when the new expansion is about to be released. Raiding guilds either rush to finish content, or the exact opposite if its already finished. I’ve been in several kinds of guilds over the years, a 40-man raiding guild in vanilla, a couple 25-man guilds in Burning Crusade, and a 10-man “core” guild in WotLK, and several small, useless leveling guilds along the way. But every time an expansion is about to hit several things would happen.

The 40-man Vanilla Guild literally disintegrated overnight after about a month before BC. The 25man guild would have stayed together for the expansion but right before WotLK some guild drama(the great raid destroyer) caused half the guild to transfer. Thus the fractured group formed the 10-man “core” guild for Wrath, and became Kingslayers with Frostbrood Vanquishers. This time though, we had a guild discussion and we aren’t going to fix what ain’t broke. And keep it up in Cataclysm.

What to do in the absence of Raiding?

And now the fun part, sitting and waiting. With Cataclysm a little over a month away, people are handling the situation differently. My girlfriend is starting to get into PVP. I am working on achievements that either won’t be there in Cataclysm, or things I should have done a long time ago.

Recently, I picked up farming for mounts that won’t be there in Cataclysm. The Zulian tiger is a recent acquisition to my mount collection, as well as the Reins of the Raven Lord(although I think raven lord is sticking around since its part of BC). I really should get back to farming my Goblin reputation back to at least neutral.

Mainly, just hang tight. Get used to all the new talents, abilities, and system changes. Take it all in because on December 7th, everything changes…..AGAIN.

-The Mighty Moose

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