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Brawler’s Guild – Rank One for Death Knights
When I was deep into my Pet Battle madness, I was tipped off to the existence of a mechanical gnome pet with spiked boxing gloves. This vicious contraption was only available through the Brawler’s Guild at Rank 4. This became my mission. Clockem would be mine.
Numerous deathmurders later, I decided to look online for anything that could help me get through to Rank 4. And since of course they would have it, icy-veins.com brought the wisdom in a big bad way. Following their guides, I was able to get myself to Rank 4 without too much of a problem. There were occasional repeat beatings to my bloody torso, but in the end I peeled Clockem out of their cold dead hands and made him mine.
Thanks to icy-veins.com, this is how I did it. This is how you can do it too.
Rank One
Bruce – A giant gator. Not too tough if you’re paying attention.
Vian the Volatile – Caster dude. A Death Knight tip for killing this schmuck:
- Stood toe to toe and interrupted any cast I could. With Fire Line I just move out of the way. If health gets low move away and pop a potion or bandage to get it up enough to continue. Try to position the boss so he does not get hit by the orbs he has bouncing around the room and they miss you as well.
Goredome – He gores you with his dome. A Death Knight tip to cracking this dome:
- Stand and fight, worry more about the circle on the ground for his charge than anything else. Even if you have a little low DPS you can take this out as long as you don’t get hit by the charge. When the circle is there GET OUT OF IT or you are dead.
Dungeon Master Vishas: Roll a d20 and hope for a crit against this uber nerd and boss mob for Rank One. A couple of Death Knight tips for victory:
- You can absorb the fire damage with your Anti-Magic Shell, generating more and more Runic Power. In case you’re not sure, simply slow / root (depends if you have Chilblains from your talents) during his buff. Oh, and it’s not dispellable with glyphed Icy Touch(it is NOT a magic buff).
- As Unholy Death Knight, get diseases on and kite around, cast Icy Touch to build Runic Power and then hit with Death Coil. Drop Death and Decay whenever available. I do have the Chilblains talent so Vishas was slowed a bit. Use Outbreak to refresh diseases when they drop and use Dark Transformation when available. I did this at about 450 ilvl and, though it was close, it was actually easier than with my warrior as I did not have to stay close.
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.
… 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.
Screenshot Saturday
With my busy University schedule, I have exactly one day of free time. In that day I shop, visit with family and friends, and kill things in World of Warcraft.
This was my Saturday of Slaughter.







