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Website Tune-Up

October 12, 2011 By Garwulf Leave a Comment

The slight surge in traffic to the site this past week – brought on by the release of the Throne of the Tides expansion – was enough to slow things down to a crawl around here. There were even times when the site wouldn't load for a few minutes.

Well, I'm pleased to announce that the site is back and running at full speed once again. It's been a frustrating past few days, but after much troubleshooting, I believe we are out of the woods.

My apologies to those of you that experienced the slow response times and database errors that occurred earlier this week.

Alright, so now it's onward and upward… I've got some fun stuff ahead, including some loot giveaways. 🙂

Throne of the Tides Loot Will Arrive with Patch 4.3

October 12, 2011 By Garwulf Leave a Comment

As noted on the WoWTCG blog, the Throne of the Tides loot will be available once WoW Patch 4.3 hits live servers. If you're sitting on a loot code for one of the new loot items, just be patient… this is a huge Patch with loads of new content, so it may be a few more weeks. 4.3 is by far the biggest patch to be released for the Cataclysm expansion… so far, anyway.

The new loot items have yet to be introduced on the PTR, so still no images or videos. As soon as pics or videos are available, I will put them on here posthaste. 😉 I have a feeling they'll be added very soon.
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Throwing Starfish Loot Preview: PTR Update

September 27, 2011 By Garwulf Leave a Comment

I still haven't seen any actual images of the new Throne of the Tides loot, but WoWHead did include one item tooltip in their latest PTR item database update. The Throwing Starfish has made it in, and appears to have a use effect similar to the Paper Machine Flying Kit – albeit probably a lot more amusing. The item tooltip for ‘Throwing Starfish' shows that they're stackable, which means that the actual loot item is likely some sort of Throwing Starfish generator.

I'll post more information once the Throwing Starfish and the other two Throne of the Tides loots make it onto the PTR.

WoW TCG Throwing Starfish Loot Tooltip

Throne of the Tides: Wasteland Tallstrider Loot Card Preview

September 21, 2011 By Garwulf Leave a Comment

In-game images of the new Wasteland Tallstrider mount have been elusive, but I did manage to spot a pic of the loot card today on eBay. If the artwork is any indication, it looks like this new mount is going to be an ivory colored tallstrider, similar to the tallstriders found in Mulgore and the Northern Barrens.

Wasteland Tallstrider Loot Card

I also saw another image which a seller posted on ebay that depicted the mount as looking like a Lost Torranche — the purple and green tallstriders found on Sorrow Wing Point, in Terrokar Forest.

To me, that would obviously be a more exciting option – albeit a little flamboyant. However, considering the Wasteland Tallstrider loot card is showing an ivory tallstrider skin, I'm thinking that's what it will probably be. So far, all of the mount loot cards that have been released all have artwork representative of what the mount actually looks like in-game.

Either way, it's going to be an awesome mount, and the very first tallstrider mount available in World of Warcraft.

At any rate, we'll know the actual model of the Wasteland Tallstrider pretty soon. Throne of the Tides is set to hit stores on October 11th. In the meantime, I'll be sure to post any pics or video of this exciting new ground mount from the WoW TCG.

The Wasteland Tallstrider is a rare loot card, found in approximately 1 in 242 booster packs of Throne of the Tides.

Sellers are already posting pre-orders on ebay, so grab one up now if you want to be among the first to show off this unique new mount. Average price is under $200 as of right now, which is relatively cheap for mount loot.

Wasteland Tallstrider Loot Card Pre-Orders on eBay

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Throne of the Tides Coming in October

August 27, 2011 By Garwulf Leave a Comment

Aftermath: Throne of the Tides is the upcoming expansion set for the World of WarCraft Trading Card Game, and is expected to hit hobby store shelves sometime in October, 2011.

Throne of the Tides will feature 3 new loot cards from the WoW TCG, including the rare Wasteland Tallstrider Mount. No information has been given on the look of the Wasteland Tallstrider mount, but it will be the first Tallstrider mount ever available to WoW players.

An interesting note about Tallstrider mounts…

They have been in the game data for years, but were never actually introduced. It's likely that they were intended to be an available mount type for horde characters, but for some reason, ending up getting scrapped. One theory is that Tallstriders were perhaps going to be added as the Tauren mount, only to be later replaced by the larger and more practical Kodo. It's also possible that maybe Tallstriders were the early concept for Blood Elf mounts.

Regardless… they'll at least be one Tallstrider mount available in-game, come October of this year. 🙂

As for the other two loot cards in Throne of the Tides… no info has been given about them, but it's likely that the common one will be a companion pet of some sort.