Darkmoon Faire Island

Friday! The last day before the long weekend. The day that seems to go by so slow because all you want is your weekend to begin. With this the last long weekend of summer and to the people close to Toronto know this is the last weekend of the CNE(Canadian National Exhibition) isn't the idea of the Reader Post being what you all think of the Darkmoon Faire Island the perfect topic. Yes, I know I thought so too. So let's see what everyone has had to say about it shall we.

The Darkmoon Faire Island reminds me of the old werewolf and horror movies with gypsy camps/carnivals appearing in spooky woodlands. I'm really looking forward to see what lurks in the woods at night on Darkmoon Faire Island!

Purple architecture. Misty, shady environment and attitudes. ...This can only mean one thing. Chucky Cheese has invaded World of Warcraft.

Here is a random shot in the dark theory, that I don't even believe myself: Darkmoon Island is on Pandaria. The Pandaren are stuck in the Emerald Dream/Nightmare, and one of the old gods is responsible. If you walk into the woods, the old god starts to drive you insane, giving a sanity alternate power bar, which has different effects when you reach different levels, such as randomly running in fear and cowering. 

Being the geography lover, I was immediately curious as to the position of this island. Unfortunately, that information was not revealed. However, from the images provided, the environment appears similar to what we see on Tol Barad. Of course, the atmosphere of the new Faire is merely intended to appear "dark" and the Tol Barad terrain and infrastructure was the best thing to fit. However, it is my opinion that Darkmoon Island might be one of the Channel Islands off the southern coast of Hillsbrad. This island chain was used during WCII for some of the naval missions and early working maps of WoW show place them within the same area of Kul Tiras, Crestfall, and Tol Barad.

With the thing that it says is like Gurubashi arena it sound like there will be 30 people in a free for all scenario in which case i think almost every time the healer will win because they can outlast that or classes like paladins and druids who can be a dps class yet still heal themselves whenever need be. If this is the case it will be extremely disappointing for warriors and all classes alike that will never win.

I am disappointed there is no mention of a roller coaster. What kind of amusement park has no roller coaster? 

There you have it. This week's edition of the Reader Post. Thank you all for the submissions. To let you all know there will not be an Ask Gauss this week, and that does not mean I ignored your questions it just means there will be a special post tomorrow instead of the regular Sunday Post. This will be the post where I will announce next week's Reader Post topic.

Enjoy your weekend. Especially if it is a long one like mine will be.

Ask Gauss

Sunday! I don't know why I am so excited it is Sunday maybe it is because I don't live on the east coast and I am not getting blasted by a huricane. Now I know I just made a little joke about that, but I hope everyone out east is safe and sound. So Sunday means it is Ask Gauss. The post of the week where I decide to put myself on the spot and answer questions. Let me first state about this there is only so many Transmog questions before my head explodes and I actually learn how to pronouce the word correctly. So as I will answer the emails I won't be putting any more put during Ask Gauss, so keep that in mind. Now let's get to this week's questions

I am assunming you took a look at the Darkmoon Faire Preview, what you think of it?

Well when the the Faire first came out I was a big fan of it because you were able to go out and have a little fun with something that really didn't matter to the game as a whole. A mini game that really had minimal rewards, but was still a lot of fun. By giving them their whole island and expanding upon it they are really making the week the faire comes an event. This I like. Also with making items available that have the same models as some now non existant weapons and gear. This will make 4.3 anf its "Fashion" component that much more attainable. Another big thing is it will get players out of the cities, which to me is needed quite badly.

Blizzard needs to get everyone out of the Orgrimmar it is getting really stupid that you never have to leave don't you think?

I completely agree. You can do everything basically once you are capped in the city. Besides go to your raid. You can queue for a dungeon, a BG, and so on and so forth. Blizzard redid the world for leveling but no one ever sees it after they are done leveling. By making everything queuable, which is a great convenience they have killed the world. If you go out and about you are lucky to find 1-2 people in the zone you are in. They need to get people out in the world. I don't mean daily hubs because that just means people are there for that, which is better than nothing I guess. It could be world events in specific zones, could be a hunt for something, a bounty. I really don't know but they need to do something. Even if they put in some world PvP with town objectives to bring back the old school save the lowbies attitude. Whatever they decide they have to realize they need to put it in.

What you think about mounts being Transmogrified?

Really? You need the item to actually modify it. So in the case of the mount you could just ride the mount. Since mounts themselves don't have stats...

So that is it for this week. Hope you all got some information that may be a little insightful or helpful.  For those waiting for it, next week's Reader Post I want to know what you think about the Darkmoon Faire Island. As always you have until Thursday night to get your responses in. Enjoy what is left of your weekend!