A year ago I posted my first ‘Scarab Lord Whispers’ compilation. Some months after that I ended up putting together a second compilation and figured I’d leave it there.

Well as time passed and the whispers kept coming I started collecting screenshots again. This time I’ve gone for a much different presentation! Huge thanks to Shannon who helped out with the Photoshop work on this one.

Enjoy! :)

Hey Hey, well this is exciting! I’ve just finished putting the finishing touches on my new gold guide [Gold for Dummies]. I’m pretty happy with how the graphics turned out and I think the information is basic but informative so I hope people find it useful.

I decided to do something different for this as well. I’ve included a 2 minute video introduction to the guide that I hope takes some step toward breaking the ‘..but I have to read?’ dread that those-in-need often encounter with material like this.

I hope you enjoy the guide, and as always appreciate any comments, feedback and suggestions you might have!

Hey Folks! Just a very short update – I’ve finally got some spare time to get stuck into some of the changes I’ve had planned for the site. I have this week off work so am relaxing and putting in a lot of hours on the redesign :)

If anyone’s going to be around much in the next few days check back regularly and let me know what you think. I’d also love to have a few guinea pigs to test out new features and the like so let me know if you’ll be around.

More to come – stay tuned!

2AM Update – Phew! The design changes have slotted in perfectly and I managed to sort out the PHP code without too much trouble. I’m pretty happy with how it’s looking and really satisfied with the new look. Tomorrow it’s on to more tweaking and some functionality stuff. Let me know what you think so far!

This week’s jumble serves as both a shout out and congratulations to Cassandri of [HoTs & DoTs] this week.

Cassandri recently completed her insane grind and is our latest [Hall of Fame] inductee.

Also a big congratulations goes out to the other recent insane inductees – Frozzy, Elzibar, Healthstone, Zerotorescue, Eudaemonea and Kalkaph!

I’m honest and open when people ask me questions. I’ve got a track record of demonstrating that here in my guides and my posts each week. I always make time to talk to people in-game when I get random whispers. I always make time to listen. I enjoy the contact, I enjoy teaching, I enjoy helping. With me so far?

There’s one thing that seriously pisses me off though – when someone approaches me, asks for my advice and upon receiving it actively refutes it.

Now I freely admit to being wrong on occasion – ok once, in June of ’97 – but this is a different kettle of fish.

Imagine one day (continue reading…)

Hey Folks!

It’s been a crazy week for me, lots of (good) stuff happening at work and keeping me busy.

I got up at 5am on Friday to go and line up for my new iPhone 4. Very interesting experience! I live close to Canberra, which is Australia’s capital, so the store I lined up at was the main/best chance for me to get a phone at.

Now with that said, you’d think a reasonable amount of stock would be available for the launch right? I’ve read about the shortage of phones around the world so I was prepared for numbers to be smaller than expected but…

Seriously, have a guess right now how many they had in stock? I’ll write the answer >>here< < so after you’ve guessed click to see and let me know how close you were in the comments :)

Fortunately I walked away with one and so did my awesome girlfriend, Suzanne, who was a good enough sport to come along and keep me company.

So..the late running jumble this week! For starters it’s not really a jumble – instead I’ve rehashed one of the older competitions we did and have made it interactive. That way it’s easier for people to know if they’re right or wrong and get friends/etc involved.

Enjoy! Jumbles will resume as normal next week unless overwhelming feedback suggests something like this is better?

It’s important in business to always appreciate new and different approaches that catch you off guard. These approaches are far from being bad, too!

Having deftly slipped through our defenses we can learn a tremendous amount from asking ourselves ‘how the hell did that just happen?’ and going back over the experience step by step to find out.

So quite recently I was playing my 5-box shaman team, questing away in Dragonblight and minding my own business. I should probably explain before continuing that my shaman team are named after a group of Russian composers – their names are Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Antonovich and Porfiryevich.

So you can imagine my confusion when I received the following whisper: (continue reading…)

A huge /wave at Tamarind of [Righteous Orbs] this week. Always enjoy reading his stuff and particularly when there are bees and bonnets involved! :p

No particularly difficult words in this one. Although, the final solution did have me double-checking google to make sure and apparently either way is acceptable. No idea what I’m talking about? You will!

Enjoy :)

Have been working on a few things in Photoshop lately and put this together over the weekend. It’s not really for anything, just a bit of playing around. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out just the same!

The verse was written by [Carl Sandburg] in 1918. Apart from being an interesting commentary on human nature I thought the verse used in the image was an interesting fit for the druid.

I find that one of the more fun things about the design process is starting out with just a vague concept and building on it. Anyone got any similar stuff to share?

Ok so although we’ve talked about Pristine Black Diamonds here, here and here already it continues to be one one of the trickier components of the insane grind for people to figure out.

Emage submitted some of his tips on getting diamonds recently. I was impressed at the simple and easy breakdown so I thought it was probably worth sharing :) Click the link below to see the full post, enjoy!

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