Month: August, 2009

Faction Leaders and why you should hate them

Thrall is a noble character, and I guess pretty much everyone who plays Horde agree that he is a good and honorable leader. The other leaders in the Horde (Cairne, Sylvanas, Vol’jin, and that blood elf guy) are not nearly as important.
Alliance on the other hand had a distinct lack of notable leaders. Tyrande Whisperwind is [...]

Tip of the Day

When playing World of Warcraft make sure you check the “Sound in background” box in Sound options. That way you will hear things like when a boat arrives to its destination, or more importantly when a rogue starts ganking you when you are alt-tabbed and reading a forum thread (or right now writing a blog [...]

Just One More Time?

I was running my alt warrior through the Blackrock Mountain when it struck me: come next expansion, this place will be pretty much gone.
Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep heroics have been announced, so they will remain for sure (although they will likely get a little polish). But the other dungeons? Some instances that served as endgame [...]

The Cross Server LFG system on RP servers

One of the features that were announced for World of Warcraft at BlizzCon is Cross Server LFG, and it’s not coming in the expansion but in patch 3.3.0. Basically it will work like the Battleground system, where players from the entire Battlegroup are drawn together into a game. You queue up for instances in the LFG [...]

BlizzCon Costume Contest – Men’s Edition

Men’s Edition™ – when detail work or originality doesn’t matter.
The above picture could spawn so many captions that I won’t even ask for them.
I’m not denying it: the main reason I like these costumes is because I find them pleasant to look upon. Exactly why girls look more attractive when dressed up is something that [...]

BlizzCon Costume Contest – Personal Top 10

New expansions aside, you know that the costume contest at BlizzCon will always be worth watching. The effort (and in some cases originality) that people make for each convention is amazing. And let’s not speak about to also don the outfit and climb a stage with hundreds of people in the audience, and thousands upon [...]

Tanks and why you should love them

There is a reason you should love your tank, and it’s not only because they keep the big dragon for marching over and biting your head off. Tanks are the natural and expected leaders, not just for WoW but for any game. They have the thickest armor, biggest shields, and most health, so if there [...]

The Missing Lore for Horde

So I leveled two different chars – one alliance and one horde – to 80 with a very short time between. The process was painless on both, but one thing nagged me while I was leveling the Druid: lore.
While both sides had plenty of lore during the quests the alliance quests had a TON more [...]

Of Druids And Why I Do What I Do

When I started writing this post the below was to be the introduction to the real point of the post, but when the “introduction” was closer to 500 words I just abandoned that idea.
A long time ago (back when Molten Core was a relevant raid to run) I played a Druid. What spec I was [...]

Childe Matt to the Wild Whine Came

Some stories like to give a glimpse of the end in the beginning, but I have always thought that was gimmick and cheap. I like the beginning to start at the beginning.
PROLOGUE
First a brief introduction of me. A long time ago in a world not so unlike this one I wrote on a blog called [...]