It's all about the elements baby!

I am going to get into my feelings about Cataclysm as a whole very soon (tm), suffice to say that the first draft was titled: "Meh".

That is not what this Friday evening post is about. It is about me "getting it". Hopefully I am not the last person on the face of Azeroth to get this, but the theme of the expansion is very much

The four elements

So far so good. In The shattering (the book), the elements play a very large role too. Especially how the 4 elements (water, earth, air and Fiiiire) play with each other.
(soon (tm) i'll get into the two books Shattering and Stormrage)

So anyways. today i found out that there is even MORE about the elements in the expansion!!

in this Alchamy post , Lylirra explains to us that:

We've recently seen a few questions regarding the functionality of Transmute: Living Elements and whether or not its effects are truly random. There's definitely some behind-the-scenes magic to this particular transmute, so we wanted to provide a bit more explanation on how it works.

Typically, when you use Transmute: Living Elements, you will receive 14-16 random Volatile elements (Volatile Air, Volatile Earth, Volatile Water, or Volatile Fire) in exchange for 15 Volatile Life. If you use this transmute while in one of the new Cataclysm zones associated with the Elemental Planes, however, the element into which your Volatile Life will transform will be predetermined. For example, if you use Transmute: Living Elements while in Uldum, you will always receive Volatile Air for your efforts.

Here's a list of the affected zones and their corresponding Volatile elements:

• Mount Hyjal: Volatile Fire
• Vashj'ir: Volatile Water
• Deepholm: Volatile Earth
• Uldum: Volatile Air

Additionally, alchemists with Transmutation specialization will always receive bonus Volatile elements when completing this transmute. The bonus will be random, though, regardless of which zone you are in.

TLDR: Each zone in cataclysms 4 new zones have an elemental Theme.
MH: is FIRE (they are burning the world tree)
Vashj'ir: is water (I know, I am as shocked as you are)
Deepholm: is earth (again a "well Duh" moment)
And Uldum is Air: (by now I was thinking "why didn't I see this sooner???)


So there you have it. They seem to have actually put some thought into the zones, beside the imidiate story that goes on there. I for one, did not see it coming.

 

Conflicting emotions

So this is almost the conversation I had with my boss boss this morning.
This play has 3 people in it, me, my boss' boss and my brain. We will call my bosses boss Tom.

Tom: So Dwism (yep that is like totally what they all call me at work), we are having a kind of important meeting next Wedensday evening. It is about our future budget and some pretty important people will be there, can I count on you to be there and make input on the Y and Z cases?
Brain: NOOOO YOU TWAT, we already have a 10 hour day, filled with screaming kids and boring work, please just say no and go the fekk home.
Dwism: Oh sure, totally. I'll be there.
Brain: MORON
Tom: Good, super listen I want to talk to you about....
Brain: You do realise that this Wedensday will be the 8th right? The day after release of Cataclysm.
Dwism: [twitches]
Tom: Are you okay?
Dwism: Totally, I'm great. Go on
Tom: blah with work blah*
Brain: Say you got something important. Your aunt will die and need to be buried, or you are planning to get snowed in. ANYTHING. You have looked forward to this day for a frikking year, and now you will be at work not playing. AND you have an early morning so no late night gaming either. loser.
Tom: blah blah
Dwism: mmmh totally.
Brain: Your guild will kick you, you won't be their go-to-death-tank anymore
DWism: [Blurts]Oh like I was that in the first place, Sol totally has that spot, he's brilliant, and can make the times plus I only did 10 manned in wrath
Tom: what who?
Dwism: eh what?

/end scene
So yea, Cata will be. Just. Great. Great. Great great great great.



*note: it wasn't boring, it was just work stuff


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