Category: World of Warcraft

Brutosaur Mount Progress #1

With the upcoming release and retirement of the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur, I have the urge/requirement to farm for two of them.

Currently I have around 1.8million gold on my account and around 500k on the wife’s account. Putting me around 2.3m into a 10m goal. Still a long way to go that’s for sure.

Some of the activities I have been doing to generate gold include:

  • Emissary caches on as many toons as I can bear for the paragon caches
  • Rustbolt for paragon caches
  • Nazjatar for benthic items to disenchant/craft enchants
  • Tempting fate with Silas and Flask production
  • Crafting ilvl 400 uncanny gear across multiple professions after scrapping so many wrist items
  • Watching so many YouTube videos on how to make gold, only to realise I should have started farming earlier.

A lot of work to go, but a constant goal for the foreseeable future!

Heroic Auchindoun Guardian Druid Run

When I get some spare time I try to run for satchels using Looking For Group (LFG), these satchels give a large amount of gold as well as baleful tokens. First up was a run of Auchindoun on my Druid.

All you have to do is fill a particular role that is in short supply. Commonly this is either Tank or Heals, but sometimes DPS is nominated.

Playing as a Guardian Druid with thrash spam is both lazy and easy, and because I out gear heroics quite easily, the run is never going to fail.

This is a first up recording of the run, hopefully it is interesting to someone! It is also my first YouTube video upload, so hopefully it is reasonable quality as well.

Samsung U28E850R Monitors

I’ve been toying around with buying new monitors for a while now, eBay and a pretty good price on Samsung U28E850R (U28E85KRS) monitors tipped me over. 4k, 1ms, 28″ and all sorts of little features made this hard to pass up.

The monitors are great, fit on my existing monitor arms, even though the monitor arms say only 24″. Very clear picture, great packaging and cables (yay for displayport cable). They did come with 100% brightness by default, so you get blinded first use.

4k is easy to read (in my opinion) at this screen size, yes everything is small and some programs obviously do not scale well with the extra resolution. Being able to tile four 1080p programs on the one monitor is just amazing, thank you windows 10.

To set the scene, my computers aren’t great, old CPU’s and GTX770 and GTX970 videos cards, but they seem to hold up well for 4k in World Of Warcraft. Yes they aren’t going to be winning any performance/FPS contests. But everything seems playable, so far.

Video!