What's the Deal with: Stone Keeper's Shards

Today, I'll explain the mystery surrounding the Stone Keeper's Shards. You might have some drop without even having a clue what they are for. Loot it, then sputter around confused exclaiming something to the effect of, "Where did it go!? I just looted it! Aaaah!"

Stone Keeper's shards are dropped when your faction controls Lake Wintergrasp in Northrend. Your faction (weather it be Horde or Alliance) fights for control of Lake Wintergrasp every 20 minutes in a very large battleground type situation with crazy vehicles and explosions and elephants and what-not.
Why are these shards important you might ask? Well if you go to the Wintergrasp Quartermasters, you can get some pretty totally tubular items, DUDE.
I'll only list the items that hunters out there might be interested in, but here are ALL the items you CAN get.


Items to save up for if your a hunter:

Land Mount:

Of course, you have the woolly Mammoth Mount for 300 Shards:

• Reins of the Black War Mammoth

Equipment side-of-things:

Upgraded Insignia Trinkets for Horde or Alliance for 250 Shards:

• Inherited Insignia of the Horde

• Inherited Insignia of the Alliance

Awesome Gun for 325 shards:

• Upgraded Dwarven Hand Cannon

Shoulder-slot, 200 shards:

• Prized Beastmaster's Mantle

And other various gems and doodads and enchants you might want.

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Is the Collector's Edition right for you?

Is the Collector's Edition right for you? (Well, is it? Is it punk?) Or would you be better off getting the normal 40 buckazoid version and spending the rest at border's on freaking coffee?

You get:

• One Extremely large box that looks all "frozen" as if it just stepped into a Freezing trap.
• 2 Recruit friend's (you don't/won't have in 3 months) codes.
• Soundtrack containing the best orchestral pieces from Northrend. (Hey, pretty cool.)
  
• Mouse pad with the Northrend map on it. In-case you forget what it looks like, can't figure out how to look at your in-game map, or your in-game map is borked.
• 2 decks of the WoW trading card game you can play with your (imaginary) friends.
• Frosty, the adorable - yet - very dead, dragonling, in-game, non-combat, How-many-dashes-are-we-going-to-use PET. He is fairly large in game, so don't worry about him being tiny like the (miniature?) mechanical chicken. Makes squeaky baby-dragon sounds when you (accidentally) click him (in combat and die.) Note: this pet will go to all your characters you have or will ever make, so don't go trying to figure out which main you want to put him on. Whew.
  
• Making-of Behind-the-Scenes DVD. If you don't have a DVD drive, how the hell are you playing the game?
• You not only do you get all this, but you get the actual game DVD inside a DVD game-style case. Who would have imagined?
• Probably something else that's trivial that we forgot. -"Art book book, dummy."
• Oh Yes, The ART BOOK. Duh. We forgot, sorry. It comes with this great art book, and if your an artist or game a game dev. 0r BOTH, your going to want to see this.
  

You get all this at a $30 mark-up or more (see- amazon.com trying to sell you a copy through Hubbagames for $129 + shipping.) (ouch)

My "review":
I thought all this wasn't bad considering they are probably losing money on this by throwing all that in there for 30 extra dollars.

• We like Frosty, but then again we're totally obsessed with...crazy about...like dragons anyway. An additional plus is making everyone in our PUGs totally jealous.
  

• The soundtrack is good, we're enjoying it, but not good if you don't happen to like orchestral/dramatic/fantasy music.
  
• The mouse pad is totally just going somewhere to show-off because we don't have a mouse with balls. (That sounded bad.) Moving on,
  
• the cards are useless, we play Magic the Gathering.
  

• I haven't watched the behind-the-scenes DVD, if it doesn't have Ghostcrawer (despite he despises hunters (just kidding!) ) we're giving it five thumbs-down. Five.
• The art book and pet really make this worth it for me. The art book is fantastic.
  

So there you have it, now don't come begging me if you can't afford your border's coffee.

Your Hunter in...Utgarde Keep (OOT - Garde)

You go to Howling F'jord (Pronouced: Howling Fee-yord) and do a few quests, but something feels missing! Could it be...Utgarde Keep? (Pronouced: Ooot - guard.)
What's with all the strange, hard-to-pronouce names blizzard!?
Notice it is right next door to Vengeance Landing?
We just went through - twice.
We're thinking it's a bit easy, except for those darn fire-rune guys and the last boss who like making our gorilla go squish.

If your going in for the loot (and don't have anything better yet) consider adding these to your checklist:

• Random Drop-

Last Week's Mammoth

• Boss drops while you control Wintergrasp-

Stone Keeper's shard

• First Boss Drop-

Dragon Stabler's Gauntlets

• Second Boss Drop-

Skarvald's Dragonskin Habergeon

In the Lich King's Name...

We're not high enough to go to Northrend. So...What do we do, prey-tell?
Roll a Death Knight.

Named him Drakkor.

In Nexxramas fashion, you start out in the floating Ziggaruat, Ebon Hold...
From there you get a nice cut-scene describing how you, the hero, ended up becoming death knight. You quickly meet the Lich King, who talks alot and who sends you to Arnold Schwarzenegger,























"Get yoor weapun NOOW, or I wheel rip yer ahhhm aff. Oioioioi."

Errr, this guy.

And the guy tells you to grab a sword from a weapon rack and you use Runeforging to upgrade your weapon. Free Enchants for your weapon, sweet.

I won't tell you anymore, you'll have to find out what happens next for yourself!

Make a Death Knight and do all the starter quests, most are very clever and are quite entertaining.

This might be the coolest starter area ever. It sure beats the pants off Mulgore. Ew. What if they went back and gave all the old content this treatment? It sure would be awesome.

Installing Wrath now. +Other stuffs.

Opened up the Collector's Edtion WoW: Wrath of the Lich King? Check.
Hooked up DVD-RAM drive? Check...

Installed? Check.

Patching through the saved 3.0.2 patch, which you will need on your hard-drive in some downloaded form? Check.

See you in Northrend on Mag'theridon!


Just one problem-
We need to get our happy little butt to level 68 to do any quests there. D'oh!
Oh well, we're getting there. We're level 67.
Maybe We'll just turn evil and roll a Death Knight real quick. That's the ticket.

Update-
Another Problem-
...Whoa. Our server is full...
Dude, Where's my character screen?









Oh, the horror. Guess you guys finally got your copies, eh?