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Adamsm
I don't know, I agree her best book is still either Lord of the Clans or Rise of the Horde, with the Shattering tieing Warrior Born for third.....but her newer stuff? It's getting repetitive; I mean, reading Twilight of the Aspects, you knew that Thrall was going to make it through no matter what, and that the Aspects would as well. The drama wasn't really there like in her earlier work; I mean, you knew he would succeed but at least the challenges were actually things in the way: Twilight just kind had him bulldoze everything out of the way or had convenient other things move it: Arygos and alternate Blackmoore come to the mind the most in that case.....
So yeah, not as excited for the Jaina book as I was; will still buy it of course, as I'm OCD about collections but other then that....well, I don't know. I liked the B and C plot to Wolfheart, and while the A plot was annoying at times, it was still alright; maybe they need to finally break down and just have Knaak and Golden collaborate on the rest of the Warcraft novels.
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Adamsm
Biggest problem with Golden is she can't write convincing romance. I read rise of the horde and draka at first had no feelings for durotan then they go on a hunt and BAM they are in love and kiss.
/facepalm
That one made more sense then Thrall and Aggra; there is time skip of several years from the first meeting to when they finally choose to be mates; most of it was off page.
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Morec0
Biggest problem with Golden is she can't write convincing romance. I read rise of the horde and draka at first had no feelings for durotan then they go on a hunt and BAM they are in love and kiss.
/facepalm
That one made more sense then Thrall and Aggra; there is time skip of several years from the first meeting to when they finally choose to be mates; most of it was off page.
It did seem akward, but being as I can't write a convincing romance myself it didn't bother me as much. The sudden change in heart Draka had during the hunt is a bit odd, but I think it could be explained with maybe Draka was smiply messing with Durotan or playing hard to get. Other than that Adams' right.
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Adamsm
They should let the writers from the Legend series start sinking their teeth into actual books....since Tokyopop and Blizzard split ways, and we probably won't end up with any new mangas for a very very very very long time.....Hell, give the guy who wrote Warcraft: Death Knight a real book! His is one of the best.
Moreso since Tokyopop went the way of the dodo.
Well yeah that too.
Post by
Rankkor
what will this mean to those graphic novels (the ones with 10 different protagonists, 5 alliance, 5 horde) ?
those are cancelled now? =(
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Adamsm
what will this mean to those graphic novels (the ones with 10 different protagonists, 5 alliance, 5 horde) ?
those are cancelled now? =(
No, those are done by DC Wildstorm....I think....possibly? Best bet since all of the other comics are done by them heh.
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Rankkor
ok guys, I finnaly got a new hard-drive on my "gaming" PC (the one with the beastly Processor, RAM, and Video Card, not my sh1tty 7 year old relic that barely can withstand Tetris, and on which I've had to subsist for the past 3 weeks :S)
Downloading Cataclysm (Again) ATM. How much time I got to make it in time for the brewfest?
Cuz I got about 6 alts that NEED those trinkets badly, :S I've been waiting for this brewfest all year, and 3 days before it starts my hard drive had to have a face-melt. Go figure T_T
Gotta download over 9 GB of data, how much time I got left?
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Monday
'til the 5th.
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Rankkor
damn :S all of the 5ht? or just till like 12 pm?
this means I gotta download over 3 GB per day to make it in time, and even then, considering the queue-times I'm guessing my non-tanking alts will not be able to queue enough times to get the trinkets T_T
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Adamsm
damn :S all of the 5ht? or just till like 12 pm?
this means I gotta download over 3 GB per day to make it in time, and even then, considering the queue-times I'm guessing my non-tanking alts will not be able to queue enough times to get the trinkets T_T
Queue times are 3-5 mins Rank; should be fine even if it's the last day. And I think most of the holidays end at 3am local server time don't they?
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Rankkor
damn :S all of the 5ht? or just till like 12 pm?
this means I gotta download over 3 GB per day to make it in time, and even then, considering the queue-times I'm guessing my non-tanking alts will not be able to queue enough times to get the trinkets T_T
Queue times are 3-5 mins Rank; should be fine even if it's the last day. And I think most of the holidays end at 3am local server time don't they?
well I can't say for brewfest, but the last holiday (Midsummer) ended at noon (12 pm) I actually tought I had the whole day to get the ahune achievement on some alts, logged at 2 Pm and the whole thing was over.
I certainly hope the queue times are short, because for midsummer they were for almost 20min for DPS. Then again, people was not quite motivated to run it, the cloaks were very crappy, and with 4.2 arround the corner, brining the much superior epic cloak of the Thrall quest, people weren't motivated enough to run it. This time, the trinkets are quite good, not BiS good, but definitly AWESOME for non-raiding toons. I have no need for them on my main (Both my tanking trinks and DPS ones are superior) but my alts could definitly use them.
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Adamsm
Ah, just checked on the calendar on the main website; ends on Wed 5th of Oct, at 11:59pm Rank.
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306612
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Adamsm
Likely canned in the wake of their comic reshuffling, if not canned, they're on hiatus. It could also be Blizzard that asked for the nullification of the contract. Either way, the premise was good (I mean I totally didn't jack the 5-man band premise for that 3 part fanfic I wrote 2 years ago) so it's kind of bad that it is gone but to be honest, there was a good chance this comic wouldn't have led to anything.
Um, Sig.....they are predicted to be out some time in the next couple of months(well fourth quarter): Alliance book is World of Warcraft: The Dark Riders, and World of Warcraft: Bloodsworn for the Horde book.
Ah, found it! Back from July of this year.
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Anaran
Alright, so there's something I noticed today and I wanted to put it here, in the new End Time instance, Sylvanas is surrounded by SCOURGE, not Forsaken. Outright Scourge, when encountered she is raising new ghouls in the Ruins of the Ruby Dragonshrine, so is this a deliberate thing on Blizzard's part showing her as the new Lich King (Surrounding her with Scourge in a future setting) or just a "Meh that'll look good" thing they did? You decide!
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Adamsm
As I've said before, nobody had a problem with Alliance characters being way more visible in an expansion than the Thrall is now.
It's mainly because the newest books with Thrall are aimed to making him in the Super Orc Savior of Azeroth....while taking away a lot of the things that make him a good character; hell, one of the final lines from him to Aggra at the end of Twilight of Aspects was "I will only be a thrall to you, for I am Go'el"(little paraphrased), when he's told nearly every other orc/Horde/Alliance member that he choose to keep the name, human for slave, as a sign that he was able to rise up above the label. So yes, I'm not looking forward to the final book of the Thrall trilogy which will probably be out next year at some point, depending on how far Golden is with the Jaina novel at this point.
Alright, so there's something I noticed today and I wanted to put it here, in the new End Time instance, Sylvanas is surrounded by SCOURGE, not Forsaken. Outright Scourge, when encountered she is raising new ghouls in the Ruins of the Ruby Dragonshrine, so is this a deliberate thing on Blizzard's part showing her as the new Lich King (Surrounding her with Scourge in a future setting) or just a "Meh that'll look good" thing they did? You decide!
Since the heroes of End of Time are corrupted and dark versions of themselves, seeing Sylvanas using Scourge necromancy isn't really that unexpected; but to be fair, Death Knights raise up ghouls too.....
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