Tag Archives: insane
WoW triples search volume for ‘Archaeology’ in 2 days
Thought you guys might find this one interesting – thanks to Cabac for emailing it through.
The graph below shows google searches that include the term ‘Archaeology’ over the past few years. Check out the impact that Cataclysm Launch had (all the way over on the right). Pretty interesting eh?
Google Trends: Archaeology
Here’s a bonus one for you, too – remember the shock Blizzcon announcement about insane? Check out how it impacted google search results:
Google Trends: Insane in the Membrane
That’s all for the moment. Lot’s coming! :)
Insane Changes – New FAQ Page
Interesting couple of days! Yes I’m getting a heap of emails from people about the Blizzcon Q&A panel information on insane in the membrane changes. We still have over a month before Cataclysm and I have a feeling the true extent of the changes won’t prevent the dedicated amongst you achieving your title.
I’ll be keeping an eye on the comments here and on twitter so if you have any niggling questions then ask them. There’s a whole community of insane around here and plenty of assistance to make sure you get the help you need!
Look how far we’ve come!
Over the weekend [Khaas of Bloodscalp US] completed his insane achievement. He sent me through his screenshot for the insane [Hall of Fame] which brings the hall of fame to 60 screenshots with a total of 67 insane titles.
Shortly over a year ago when I published the first few rep guides for the insane title I’m not sure I expected such a community to form around them. In April 2009, the month I published my Ravenholdt guide, saate.net received 689 visitors for the entire month.
Fast forward to a year later and now 1000 people a day are visiting to check out the guides, puzzles and other random stuff. That’s pretty extraordinary in my book. :)
Huge thanks to everyone who’s used the guides, sent in screenshots, added comments and especially referred people here!
The price of insanity?
Have been pulling together some numbers recently and started thinking about this. How much does the [Insane in the Membrane] achievement cost in terms of gold and hours? I’m talking about your average person who pays the average price for all their librams/pristine black diamonds.
I have a habit of recalling achievements completed as being much easier and less time consuming than they were. So keeping that in mind here’s what what I’ve got so far:
Bloodsail Honored
5-10 Hours to grind to honored?
No gold cost
Steamwheedle Cartel
20-30 Hours to grind?
No gold cost
Shen’dralar
84 Librams x 200g = 16800g
84 Pristine Black Diamonds x 200g = 16800g
15-20 Hours to farm mix of 84 stitchings/skins of shadow/blood of heroes?
5-10 Hours of time checking AH?
1-2 Hours of time to turn everything in?
Ravenholdt
1405 Junkboxes = 18 Hours of pickpocket grinding
OR
1405 Junkboxes = 14050g if paying someone else
Darkmoon Faire
120 Epic Decks x 350g = 42000g
10-15 Hours of time checking AH?
1-2 Hours turning in?
OR
How long if herbing and creating cards?
Help me out guys! What needs to be adjusted? Obviously for pricing information we’re looking for cross-server averages rather than specific “well on MY realm” high/low examples.
Posted in Achievements, Insane in the Membrane
Tagged Achievement, gold, hours, insane, price
Insane Fame
Well the last week has been crazy busy for me. Between my new job and patch 3.2 it’s taken until today for me to sit down and really get some good time in working on the site. I wanted to thank everyone for the comments and emails that keep coming! It really makes my day to read them so keep sending away, especially with screenshots of your new insane titles.
I’ve created a page to display all the screenshots as they come in so contact me with a link if you have one to share and I’ll add it to the page. Here’s the link:
Have been settling into life on Aman’thul over the last week. One thing I don’t think I’ll ever get used to is Dalaran being so busy at 11pm at night! After playing on a US server for so many years I’m used to my playtime being ‘off peak’ hours for the server so its a freaky change.
A special thanks goes to [Irv of Jellybean] and [Drakeness of Noctis Eris] for being around to answer my 50,000 questions about the server as I settle in. :p
Finally after much research I went ahead and ordered the Asus EeePC 1000HE on Friday. I opted for 2GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive which, along with its 9 hour batter life, makes for a pretty kick ass netbook to do site updates and auction-housing from. Thanks Bennick and Zhakoo for the input on that one, can’t wait for it to arrive!
Posted in General, Insane in the Membrane, Screenshots
Tagged Drakeness, EeePC, insane, Irv, Jellybean, Missus, Noctis Eris, Zhakoo
Darkmoon Faire Exalted Guide
Stayed up until 4am this morning putting the finishing touches on my latest guide – Darkmoon Faire Exalted! Since the method is pretty simplistic (ie buy 120 decks, k go!) I’ve gone into a fair bit of depth as far as collecting decks goes. I’ve even made a video guide sharing my auction house routine and tips for putting together the epic decks cheaply. You’ll even get to make fun of my Aussie accent since I walk you through the video – now that’s gotta be worth a watch amirite? :p
So here it is – my guide to the Darkmoon Faire:
That’s Insane complete! What should I work on next?
Posted in Guides, Insane in the Membrane
Tagged auction house, cheap, darkmoon faire, decks, easy, Exalted, Guide, insane, inscription, rep