{"id":344,"date":"2009-12-09T03:10:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2009-12-09T03:10:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:10:39","slug":"big-shiny-swords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Big Shiny Swords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a big day for <em>World of Warcraft<\/em>, as the much awaited 3.3 patch was released. The centerpiece of the patch is a new dungeon called Icecrown Citadel, and there&#8217;d been a bit of hype over a quest chain to pick up an epic weapon called Quel&#8217;Derar &#8212; the sibling of the Quel&#8217;Serrar that was THE tanking weapon to have in the early days of WoW.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, as we were running the new dungeons tonight, the quest item dropped, I won it, and &#8212; to my surprise &#8212; I was able to pound out the entire quest chain in just a few hours (and it would have been quicker if it weren&#8217;t for patch day server meltdowns).<\/p>\n<p>So my death knight has a shiny new boxcutter to raid with, and it looks pretty nifty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-347\" title=\"Quel'Derar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/quelderar1.jpg\" alt=\"Quel'Derar\" width=\"576\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/quelderar1.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/quelderar1-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a big day for World of Warcraft, as the much awaited 3.3 patch was released. The centerpiece of the patch is a new dungeon called Icecrown Citadel, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}