Author Archives: Donny Rokk
Brawler’s Guild and Pet Battles
Damn you Pet Battles. Damn you to Hell.
The very idea of Pet Battles should be in violation of some kind of legislation. I mean, you’re taking these cute little vanity pets and you make them fight each other to the death. These little Butterflies and Pugs have spent entire expansions as eye candy, and now they’re expected to throw down like some kind of arena gladiator. It’s like putting two kittens in a cage and making them duke it out.
I will end you!
… okay, maybe I don’t really want this outlawed. I guess I just need to be saved from myself. I mean, Pet Battles might not break any kind of real legal laws, but they do seem to oppose the very laws of time and space. Specifically, time. I’ve seen this phenomenon with my own eyes – you sit down to fire off “just a couple of Pet Battles”, and suddenly three hours have disappeared faster than Lindsay Lohan’s jail time. What the what? Where the good goddamn did that time go?
I managed to kick the vanity violence habit once. But last week I just happened to come across a few websites (like this and this and this and this) that discussed Pet Battle teams. One of them involved my favorite pet, the Clockwork Gnome (I call him Jeeves, naturally). Reading the posts reminded me how much fun he was to use. So much fun, in fact, that I decided to use him to powerlevel a couple of low level pets. No biggie, right? I’ll only use him for a little bit. Just a couple of lousy pets. Nothing excessive.
Sure. Right. The “Just the tip” mentality. It NEVER works.
Pathway Through the Trove of the Thunder King
Let me just say this and I’ll move on – I’m not what you’d call antisocial. Put me in a room full of people, and I’m not going to collapse in some dark corner and curl up in a fetal position. I don’t need to be twelve shades of shitfaced to function either, a fact that I’m quite proud of. But put me in a video game society and I just don’t want to deal with most people’s bullshit. Makes for quite a bit of lone wolf play style.
This brings me to Blizzard’s latest home run – solo scenarios. With a new barrage of dailies being offered up on the Isle of Thunder, Blizz decided to sweeten the deal by placing a Key to the Palace of Lei Shen on random mobs. Came for the round of daily quests, stayed for the key party!
The Key opens the door to the Trove of the Thunder King, a timed instance with a mess of treasure chests in it. Also a boss at the end, assuming you reach it before time runs out.
The trick in succeeding with this run is knowing what to do. Displaying a certain finesse. A strategy, if you will. Don’t step here, step there alot, shoot that thing way over there somewhere in the face and head area. Me, being a master of both finesse and strategy (only in opposite land) I took a gander at Youtube and found a good strategy video for getting as much sweet coin as you can stuff in your deep pockets.
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