I saw a post on r/wow a little while back where a user had taken a great shot in Pandaria and thrown the CS6 Oil filter over the top. It looked pretty good, so I decided to give a few of my shots the same treatment.
I actually really like this filter – its so simple, yet it provides some really striking effects. Have a look and see what you think!
Voros
I randomly decided to check my WoW screenshots folder tonight and found a set of panoramas I had taken and completely forgotten about! I know it’s been a while since I posted anything here, I am pretty busy with life at the moment. I am up and moving my family some 900kms to another state, selling a house and starting a new job – so all of that is keeping my pretty busy. As a consequence my game time is fairly limited, but I did find time to whip these 10 panoramas up. So enjoy!
Till next time (hopefully not as long),
Voros
Thinking some WoW reddit users might like to grab some of my WoW panoramas for desktops etc, I uploaded all my shots to Imgur and posted the album to /r/wow. Three days later and my blog views have blown all previous page views out the window!
Since the reddit post I have had some 5k views on the blog (almost all on the panorama page). For me, that is far and above anything I have seen. I know it doesn’t compare to the main WoW blogs out there, but I was kind of excited 
Having a look at what people were looking at (using all time stats), I though it was interesting which panoramas people downloaded the most. The top ten people’s choices were:
10. Sword’s Rest (142 clicks)
9. Lakeshire (146 clicks)
8. General Vezaxx (174 clicks)
7. Illidan (190 clicks)
6. Grizzlemaw (218 clicks)
5. Vashj’ir Island (226 clicks)
4. Tarecgosa (228 clicks)
3. Stonetalon Mountains (243 clicks)
2. The Krazzworks (256 clicks)
1. End Time (302 clicks)
In total, 8,429 panoramas have been clicked (to see the full size version). There was a .zip file linked in the reddit post which contained all the panoramas on the blog, so I would guess there were a few people who grabbed that as well. In case you want it, reddit user Kupatrix kindly hosted the file on his website which you can grab here: http://kupatrix.com/i/wowpans.zip
The reddit post is here. I’m glad people are using thse shots, I didn’t make them to gather dusts on my blog. So if you want to grab one or all to use as a desktop background or facebook/blog banner, please feel free!
If you have any requests, I am happy to have a go at fulfilling them – just leave a comment.
Voros
I have been playing Guild Wars 2 since the head-start opened up, hitting level 26 last night.
The game is gorgeous, with many great views highlighted by the Vistas available (and encouraged) for exploration. Here are just some of the many Vistas in game:
Surely views like those are enough to tempt you?
Voros
With the release of the Mists of Pandaria expansion cinematic last night (my time, Aus), it’s probably a good time to put my thoughts regarding the expansion down on ‘paper’.
Largely, I have avoided the beta (despite being an annual pass holder). I jumped on early and leveled a Pandarian Monk out of the starting zones and then jumped on a couple of chars to try some of the new talents out.
Briefly, I thought the Panda starting zones were pretty good, I enjoyed the change of pace from say, the Worgen starting zone, and I loved the new animations that the Pandas have – leaps and bounds ahead of any other race.
I grabbed a couple of panoramas whilst leveling, which I threw up on the blog here, but here are two for you:
In terms of the new talents – I had a quick look at the DK and Hunter sets. The DK talents seem a little, well boring. Especially the level 75 set. A series of three rune regen options? Really? Some of them, like ‘Gorefiend’s Grasp’, look fun if a little situational, but by and large I am a little underwhelmed (compare some of them to talents like a Warrior’s Avatar for example).
The Hunter talents look a lot more interesting. Talents like ‘A Murder of Crows’ and ‘Dire Beast’ just look cool. When I logged on, some of them were a little buggy – like infinite random beast summoning. I especially loved the bug in which pets were summoned back in their original size:
Chromaggus’ Day Out
My play style has changed since we stopped raiding Dragon Soul. Previously, I have been primarily focused on 10 man raiding, but I think that is shifting to more 5 man groups. For me, this means that I am most looking forward to the challenge dungeons. Providing what I hope will be ongoing, challenging 5 man content issomething that has always been missing from WoW. We have heroics, but once you have done them and reach a certain gear threshold, they cease to be a challenge.
I am hoping that the challenge mode dungeons don’t fall prey to a similar fate, and it seems as though Blizz have though about this with a gear scaling system already in place.
The raids should be interesting, but I don’t think I’ll be looking to be part of a ‘progression guild’ anymore (not leaving my guild, just not raiding as much). Previously we hung around the top 10-15 on my server, now I will just be happy to finish them. If that means LFR, so be it.
Pet battles will be a bit of fun, but won’t consume me. I’m not sure I’ll even touch farming….
Overall, I am looking forward to leveling again. I always enjoy leveling my main (maybe not my 4th alt though…), so to have a new continent and a new story to level through will be great.
Final Verdict? Looking forward to release.
V
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