2/20/2005
In an attempt to raise my armorsmithing skill (currently 275) I have been farming Un’Goro Crater for Thorium. I had finally found a couple Thorium recipes, the belt and bracers. They are excellent plans to grind on because they only require Thorium and easy to acquire power crystals that respawn quickly all over. Un’Goro Crater is west of Tanaris, and is reminiscent of Jurassic Park surrounding a glowing volcano (impact site?). Sheer cliffs surround the crater (I guess that’s why it’s called a crater :P) and one path in the South allows access from Tanaris, unless you don’t mind a little cliff jumping… that is usually how I make my entrance.
Half of the crater is level 48-50 creatures and the other have is 55+. As long as you have a mount the only ones you need to keep an eye out for are the Devilsaurs. These giant lizards are World of Warcaft’s T-Rex, and they act the part. I got a little too close while taking a screenshot and was run down by one, kicked off my mount and launched into the air, though I was able to escape with a sliver of life. Too bad Nia can’t train one of these bad boys ;).
February 20th, 2005 at 9:57 am
I tried to see what lvl you are but didn’t find it. If you are 50+ or so, you might want to try Eastern Plaguelands for thorium, I’ve found more there than un’goro crater. But if you are still doin un’goro quests and such, I guess that’s the better place.
February 20th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
Your blog is very well put together and, I like it a lot. Keep the interesting stories coming!
February 20th, 2005 at 11:24 pm
I’m just at 49, I’ll keep the Plaguelands on my radar, Un’Goro is a little light on the Thorium…
February 21st, 2005 at 12:52 pm
Hey Hogit, I’ve noticed that the quality of your screenshots are very nice, you should have a nice computer
February 21st, 2005 at 2:15 pm
thanks!
details, P4, 1GB ram, Radeon 9600 Pro, I run at 1024×768 with high details, and I resize the screenshots to 640×480, it helps antialias the rough edges
it’s not a super computer but it runs WoW well
February 22nd, 2005 at 9:02 am
If I can upgrade it will probably be to an iMac G5 1.8GHz 17″, hopefully I can add RAM, that would be 512MB (total of 768MB) or if I can afford it then extra 1GB that would end up in 1.25GB.
Damn, WoW would run so nice
February 22nd, 2005 at 2:33 pm
yeah you really only need a video card comparable to the radeon 9600 pro (less than $100) and 1gb of ram to run WoW well
my friend used a radeon 9200 and it still looked and ran fine
I’ve got a Mac Mini on order!
February 25th, 2005 at 10:08 am
Well, the graphic card that comes with the iMac G5 is a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB DDR SDRAM with AGP 8X support, is that good?
What I like of the iMac G5 is that you could end up having 2GB of RAM, that would rock
February 25th, 2005 at 10:27 am
yeah that video card is plenty
January 15th, 2006 at 4:28 am
i carnt play games on my comp any more because when i run my DXDIAG on display it says!
“The system is using the generic video driver. Please install video driver provided by the hardware manufacturer.”
“Direct3D functionality not available.”
” You should verify that the driver is a final version from the hardware manufacturer.”
any ideas how to fix this?
January 15th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Sounds like something hapened to your video installation maybe try reinstalling your video card drivers.
January 16th, 2006 at 2:15 am
thanx man, i’v had the WoW game for a year now and hav’nt been able to play, i just read these blogs religuosly!
thing is i dont kno which model video card i musin , shud i post the details and prehaps u can tell me?