Adventures in Azeroth

Lagged.

2006-12-21T08:06:00.000-07:00

Alright I’ve lagged a bit here on this blog. Been quite busy in WoW grinding alts, writing stories, and helping new friends with their questing. But, I’ve got a little distraction that perhaps you’ll be interested in checking out while you wait for another onslaught of WoW images. A character profile for my Ne Rogue

As well as a couple WoW movies I stumbled upon recently that center around Rogues. I found these rather entertaining for the skill the players had shown with simple UI’s, the really close calls, and the last video which will have the story patched in soon and was an extremely nice find.

PvP US- A lot of close calls:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5933478996579490213&q=WoW+Video

PvP Korea– Undead Rogue with Blood Elf skin; showing their fighting styles, really neat. And....meow?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8456311664344091433&q=WoW+Video

Story –Spoiler Movie- TBC quest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipQBFDb_SFI

The Big Move...

2006-09-13T01:02:00.000-06:00

I hate to blog and run, really I do.

I'll be back in October and hopefully will have some more screenshots ready to put up here by the end of the first week. I hope you've enjoyed the ones I've thrown here this week. =)

Until October, farewell my friends of WoW.

Oh, and don't let the lag get you down!

Undead-Xtrades

2006-09-10T12:41:00.000-06:00

If you saw the video earlier you'll know why these images are here. If you haven't seen the vid take a look here.

Logging in to attack some Alliance. It's just too bad they patched it out that you can't see your body or the mobs in the area after a restart. I feel sorry for gankees on PvP servers.

Mmmmm, Dragon brains.

Going after a twink. Not much to see here. Most of these moments last as long as it takes for a city guard to reach me. Though in one encounter I was killed, suddenly came back to life with full health, then was killed again. I'm still puzzled over that one. 0.o

Doing my part to bring up some random Role Play.

When you think your pet cat who's staring at a wall is staring at nothing...think again.

"I'd like to make a withdrawl pleasseeee...braaainnssss."

Though I unfortunately didn't get that far.

I spent about an hour one night picking on her specifically. Every night after that when she saw I was about she'd /pvp for me! How nice! /salute

Cross Faction Trades

The recent patch has made the Crossbow drop in value greatly for Rogues; I'm being generous with the copper. Heh. But seriously, more trading to my Horde guildies.

Someone in my guild's going to get that upgrade when I get back online. I wonder who'll make it to the required level in time...

Stealth Runs

2006-09-10T12:24:00.000-06:00

The whole encounter was like this:

Night Elf: "I'm a Night Elf!..no I'm a frog...no I'm a Night Elf! No I'm a frog again...wait I'm a Night elf!"

Gnome: "I don't care what you are, just stop hopping!"

Nice dagger except for the fact that it has an annoying DoT. =/

Killing the mother dog after we've slaughtered her pups. Such a loving game WoW is, brings the family together...

One big ass dog. I'd be more afraid of it humping my leg than biting my face off...

Whooo! Stunlocking a boss.

Killed a Rare Spawn, deciding on what we're going to do after this run.

Contrary to popular opinion, it's often the healer's fault. Especially if it's a Druid, speaking from personal experience. >.>

I've caused a lot of messes with Druids but find it funner to try and out damage the damage dealers with my priest...

Just chillin' back sittin' at our Lilly-stone pads. Don't mind the bear, she's friendly.

Frogitis carries on, now we've got more jumpers (and suicides.)

The Gnome in the group suddenly has an epiphany.

One bad aggro grab leads into more bad aggro grabs which leads into clearing out an entire wing in under 2 minutes. Not bad.

Ever farm a boss over and over and it still won't drop your gear? Insanity ensues.

"Eee Ii Ee Ii Oooo"

"Zomg, I hope it doesn't defecate in shock!"

Some days I hate playing a Rogue. /cry

The end game ogre bosses scare me. When you crit them they sound like Orcas crying out for help. Really damn disturbing I tell you. I'm still having nightmares.

Saying our goodbyes for the run.

PvP-Trades

2006-09-10T12:13:00.000-06:00

Yeah um this is World PvP...go /pvp and hide in a corner. Gah I miss the Tarren Mill runs. The poster in General is right; they should have it for AD rep. I think you should only get the buffs (or rep even if it was possible) if you flagged and were in combat marked as PvP. That would make for a hell of a lot of action.

I don't feel so godly when the Alliance outnumber the Horde...

Even 60's can beg. /smirk

Damn bags are too full and I've got more herbs in the mail or stashed with alts plus others off for auctioning. Some herbs can be quite elusive though.

Going through junk mail while doing my transmutes.

Might as well make my Rogue allies happy. Oh and nothing for me; I can't even use some of these potions yet.

I'm jealous of my friend who can bring in around 14 mooncloth a week. The bugger, he's so smart. I've got a few tailors but I'll never be able to out-do him in supplies!

Priest Alt

2006-09-10T11:56:00.000-06:00

I've got 4 priests and really only play one though I'm working on getting another to 60 for some Alliance gankage. >.>

Shadow prieste by far is my favorite talent set up and I do amazingly well when I duo with another priest. I miss the old days on the PvP server. *sniff*

Apparently your pet could be machine, humanoid, or animal and the bosses will still sleep them. I wonder if the druid's Bash attack can prevent it, hmm...

Got a good supply of blues to disenchant, and another Triune Amulet (necklace) which depresses me as every time I come there with someone who needs it the item almost never drops.

Dust storm!

/me lets out a hacking cough.

I love weather effects though this one does make me sometimes cough or tear up in real life by refelx. That's what I get for living in the damn windy plains for most of this life.

Apparently Ironeye the Invincible is not that invincible...he should have tried healing himself, might have changed the battle due to the +33 Healing belt he dropped. ^^

Found a bot earlier in the 1kpins, was extremely obvious. I really wish sometimes that I could go see what the GM's do to check up on bots. I have heard/read a lot of interesting tricks.

Big Rock guy being stabbed to death in the knees by little Human guy. Just shows you how big these mobs can get while wandering about picking off lowbie farmers.

Rogue: "Okay now don't get too close to the pit or the scorpids will see you..."

Priest: "Oops.."

Rogue: *finger over Vanish button* "...must..resist..."

Farming for Blues in Uldaman, and a quest too. Already got my Enchanting done first time in when I was 35th.

Talking about more bots. There really are a lot of them out there. In fact I bet if you walked into Tanaris/Feralas/Felwood/Winterspring...right now on any server you'd probably see at least 3 of them per zone.

This was one of those "Let's see how many we can pull and survive!" type of encounters. The Rogue actually didn't survive that encounter and I ended up bubbling and running all the way out to the end of the instance.

Rogue says "Omg you survived?"

I respond that I did and he runs through the instance entrance...not realizing till it's too late that all the mobs that had run after me are still waiting at the door.

*evil cackle*

Bored in Desolace. Did an escort quest with the caravan. Not sure where else to go. No Swamp of Sorrows since I don't pick herbs. I hate Stranglethorn, don't like Tanaris either...hmm.

Might as well go hand in an old quest with the Gelkis.

A Role Playing shot, bowing before Tyrande Whisperwind before the long journey ahead.

A few steps to the right and my pet could blend into the masonry. Though my weapon glow is a bit obvious.

Shhh...don't wake the Shadow Priest.

Miscellaneous Wanderings

2006-09-10T11:27:00.000-06:00

More of a trick than a glitch. I've got a few more mounted-disguise tricks like these up my sleeves. No file hacking necessary. Can't wait for the Onyxia-Mechanostrider one... =P

Normally if someone shoves a trade window in my face with a lock box I'll just ignore them or even put the box as picked but won't accept the trade. This guy knows how to deal with Rogues; bribes them with Fadeleaf. It worked.

Random questing, I've been putting this one off for months. Didn't think it was too important actually.

Apparently it was! Not every day the voice of Elune speaks to you! Though still won't make my Rogue a believer.

Yet another jump. I don't tire of this easily, especially when it's a jump into elite 60 mobs.

There's so many boxes like this scattered about in hidden corners of Azeroth. Not like the defiled Brezlon would want to open this box, let alone even look at the contents. *fear*

Flying through the Moonglade. Rather nice flight if a bit too long.

He'd have killed her if she really was a Blood Elf. Can't wait for Expansion...

I have to poke fun at this. Some people put stupid things on their RSP "Is a gorgeous person that you'd drool over the moment you laid your eyes upon her" and this was one of the long winded ones.

"..faint aroma of wilted roses...raven black hair...reminds you of a...features are sharp...red velvet eye patch(0.o?)....emerald eye...smiles forlornly..."

Good gods, ego trip much? Everyone wants to be beautiful, and a god. Oh and they need some hideous scar but still have to look good with it. >.<

*sigh* The thing that bothers me the most on it is how it tells ME what her looks remind me of. Who the hell says my characters have been in Human churches to know of such human-chiseled statues? Gah.

And wtf is with the red velvet eye patch?

Well at least it wasn't the one RSPer with the "And he has a large bulge in his pants." Double Gah! I bet he only "Role Play's" in Goldshire Inn... >.>

That said. On to more sane images...

Questing with a new friend. We seemed to just get along instantly which was nice as there was less of a struggle for me to say I'm helping and more of actually just killing the mobs.

I thought I'd help him out with my Troll Hunter since she can usually take on such mobs and survive. We almost had him down too but another add got us. =(

Now I'm a bit peeved and decide to ride up on my Night Elf alt. I see my alt's corpse and /cry. It's not every day one gets to step over their own grave...

My new ally flagging to distrupt a Hunter bot. Doesn't seem to realize that I have no way to save him if the bot attacks. Though they're pretty easy to get out of combat with thankfully.

Also bandaging myself as those Ogres do hit pretty hard. They must have Overpower as a main attack. =(

Baaaaaaaaa!

Playing my Dwarven alt with her trademark scottish accent...how Ironic.

/GlitteringPrizes, enter, enter, enter...

1000+ gold!
1000+ gold!
1000+ gold!

Dis bein' mah scahry Troll Huntress ya, she be kickin da Defias ass, mon.

Another long flight almost finished. I really should have taken the boat from Theramore. /cry

Sometimes random Roleplay pops up anywhere. This guy was a pro at it and may have a real life day job as a car salesman. Watch out! 0.o

Yet another bot *sigh* So many of these buggers. They come up as fast as I report them. I'm worried how my servers will be after I'm gone for a few weeks. I'm guessing it'll be hell.

"QQ (Cry more) eh? You're the one who's getting the Permaban, buddy!"

Either a bot or a non-English speaking farmer. She was wearing almost all gear under 40. Quite depressing. I tried speaking to her in other languages and even offering to upgrade all her damn gear to 50's if she'd respond. She never did. Ah well...up goes the petition.

Finally! Someone in Tanaris that isn't a damn bot! Had a bit of fun questing and chatting with this one on the finer points of RP.

Ended up sparking a bit of Role Play myself. From bad breath Undead to a minted Ninja. Roleplay hasn't completely died on the server, contrary to popular opinion.

My last shot of WoW. Going to miss playing I think. It's hard not being able to talk to most of my friends because the Internet will be gone. Postcards and letters really don't help as much as being able to quest with friends online.

Invisicat

2006-09-10T11:15:00.000-06:00

This is a rare pet that few have tamed. Not sure how long it'll stay in the game once people find out they can have a practically invisible cat stay half visible while attacking. >.>

If you can spot it quickly you -may- just have a chance to survive the encounter on a PvP server. No guarantees.

Cat standing in front of a Dwarf, shows how see through they really are. Now imagine the buggers with Prowl!

Taming the cat with my Troll. Now I've got a runner (Rare spawn bird that can out run just about any speed buff, mounts included) for WSG and a nurfable cat for world PvP.

Helping a friend get his Invisicat.

And I thought levelling mine will be hard with two mid 30's...his alt is a 60! >.<

Glitches

2006-09-10T11:00:00.000-06:00

Isn't really a glitch. More of a "Wall walkers still rule!" moment. From strafing to seaming; Blizz can't keep me down forever.

"Um...Hello?"

Damn server crash is about to happen. Too bad I wasn't mounted or I'd make a break for the Maelstrom.

Reminds me of the last time I was down here with no NPC's. There were players ganking and roleplaying everywhere for about a half hour. No hearths, no mounts, no flight paths. Good job Blizz.

This is the drop before the Maelstrom. Can't show you the rest though *puts on his best Neimoidian accent* It woullld not be Leeegal!

Almost word for word:

Druid 1: "Um, what are you doing?"

Druid 2: "Looting...or trying to."

Druid 1: "You can't loot at all? Lag?"

Druid 2: "Yeah I think so. Am I running around?"

Druid 1: "No you're still looting. Can you move?"

Druid 2: "Nope."

Druid 1: "Here, let me try and loot it. Maybe that'll release you."

....

Druid 1: "Damn it."

Some are saying her in that form is a glitch as she's usually a Red cap. However it doesn't look like the same model/skin as the original Onyxia (the eyes and parts of the body are too bulgy or 'off') but either way it made for some good Fraps footage. She was stuck like this for a couple hours I hear...

Flying to Orgrimmar with my Night Elf. At first I was like "Oh Orgrimmar that's where I was going." then I realized I wasn't on my Horde alt. Then I started panicking! I had totally forgotten that I was going through the new path from Ratchet to Felwood and remembered my Alliance friend who has repeaditly been dropped off at the Horde flight path in Silithus. >.<

Damn right clicks...

The Heartseeking Crossbow is now considered 'broken' in my view no thanks to the latest patch. It has a chance on doing damage to any ranged attacks. This means that if you're a foot or two away from a mob and try to Blind it, it might get out. /cry

Duels

2006-09-10T10:49:00.000-06:00

Testing out Stealth range in a Duel. Both sides have Master of Deception which makes us more stealthy. We also both have Whisper Walk boots. The Gnome is as close as he can get before I spot him.

And this is how close a Night Elf has to get before anyone can spot them! Very damn stealthy. It'd be worse if I had another + to stealth since I'm only at .5 with the boots right now.

A Rogue friend practicing her tricks on me. Not bad skills for a first time Rogue. Granted we all played on the same RP-PvP server before so we know how the real gankers operate! >.<

Dueling with a 60th level friend, checking out how much damage I can dish out (and take) in under 6 seconds...

Testing an ambush, I'm the willing victim. My turn will be next *wicked grin*

We're done messing about and try to attack. I reenter stealth but my opponent still has me targeted. The result? Double Cheapshot.

Unfortunately for him I'm spec'd to kill Rogues or anything as long as I can stunlock them. He may be in epics but if I get the drop on him he can't take me down fast enough.

However, he can still out-tank, out-damage, and out-pvp me in large groups...

Dire Maul/Druid

2006-09-10T10:39:00.000-06:00

Dire Maul

Ever try to beat someone out of an instance by Sprinting? Ever think that you can out run the hounds + Ogre Magi's slow spells? Ever end up Wiping both you and the opponent before you can even -think- to touch the Vanish button?

This is the after shot.

"Whoops"

Racing through Dire Maul.

Druid

Not even being a Druid can help you escape the wrath of Nature. Murloc pull in disguise!

Appreciating the serenity of Mother Earth.

Hmm I think I'll go for the Swiftness Potion for this 'twink in the making.'

Twins! Not really, but nice shot anyways.

Ready, Aim, Fire! These catapults don't shoot very far though =/

Gah! Even the Tauren Sea Lions are hideous!

More Deadmines

2006-09-10T10:17:00.000-06:00

It seems I'm always here with one alt or another. *sigh* I do love it though, if mostly for the Goonie theme at the end. However it is insanely ego-tripping to run down a tunnel 'one-shot Hemmoraging' every npc that comes at me.

"Hemo crit for 650?! It does extra damage???"

Awe thought we could one-shot him that time. Not so easy when I don't wield a main hand dagger anymore. We'll have to settle for a two shot instead.

Questing with guildies. Ooh and we got the Siamese!

A friend's attempt at pulling the whole room. Me thinks he missed a few Gobs.

Now this is a pull. I hate the Foundry room with a passion! Kill them, kill them all!!! /cackle

The Gnome brought in the Peasants too! Revolt!

A clean shot of the carnage.

"The death of a thousand kobolds..." this scene reminds me of it. They're slowly wittling away at the Gnome though he's probably rolling 1's and injuring himself with all that Goblin blood he's slipping on.

Chit Chatting over a real life place I haven't been to in such a long time. It's great when you know people irl who play the game and can chat about such things. ^^

Another mass pull. Getting addicted to them!!

This was an after shot of the chaos of an earlier pull. Showing my hatred for the Foundry and the Gobs inside of it.

Awe we only pulled 5 Humans. *sniffs*

A bit hard to shoot them from the lower planks. Next time we'll just have to run up through them.

Dancing on the main deck. "Avast ye Ninja Swabs! Set sail and Kamakazi!"

I hate full bags. So many greens I was about to destroy the extras. Thankfully though the runs only take about 15 minutes and most of the mobs drop stackables.

Another petition, another load of apologies. Geez, they're really not sorry. It's no use for them to lie but "I'm sorry" are great words for Blizzard employees to give paying customers ego trips so they feel like they're really important and that their petitions really won't be thrown out... >.>

Ah well, some petitions do get acknowledged. I should know as I throw up about 10 a day on all my alts and do see some results with at least 4 of them on average. *sigh*

He should really pull the whole room next time. It's not that scary when it's missing a mini boss. ;P

Hmm Pirates. Seems I'm outnumbered this time.

*yawn* Waiting on cooldowns. Edwin can see me, he knows we're coming; We've been ganking him all night. Will it ever end?

Porting out so we can go onto our Horde alts and get the BoP Defias parts for our 'twinks.'

Not too hard to kill at all.

Fire!

They may be red elites but I can still kick some ass...even if it is only 2hp worth.

We discovered that if a Druid uses Bash right before Smite stuns us that it ends up stunning him and we can still attack when he's running to the chest.

Killed VC with only a few hp left. Not bad at all!

Now it's my turn to be the main damage dealer. It went a bit easier since I'm beast spec an all Agility/Stamina gear.

Talking to the GM. Of course you don't see this but the low level Druid alt ends up pulling the whole top row. We get about 6 extra adds on us and barely lived!

The plan was to have my pet tank VC while we down the Rogues. Apparently my pet thought it would be nice to kill VC as fast as possible and we ended up getting all four Rogues at once!

Victory dance.

Gear Upgrades

2006-09-10T10:06:00.000-06:00

This was part of the quest for my upgrade from Shadowcraft to Darkmantle, the Dungeon 2 Rogue gear.

Duoing Hederine Slayers. Originally for the Priest Epic Item needed for Benediction but hey since I'm down here I might as well start upgrading my Shadowcraft set.

I can get 5 points on a target within two seconds thanks to my talent points. If she was a player I could have used a Rupture and Vanished without anyone knowing what was making her bleed to death. >:D

The components were easy enough to get (I've got an Alchemist and Enchanter) but the ash was annoyingly long. Granted I got distracted and started climbing hills in the Gorge again. >.>

Silithus Ghost Hunting. Boring.

Winterspring Ghost Hunting. Boring.

Plaguelands Ghost Hunting. "ZOMG" the aggro was hell. I swear every damn ghost saw me for miles. They're definately put too close together, don't go without a healer.

Ready to hand in my quest. I wonder if I'll be jumped by mobs like last time *looks about nervously* ah well, the rewards are certainly worth it.

Blackfathom and Upper Blackrock Spire

2006-09-10T09:26:00.000-06:00

I often take new friends and old friends alts through lower level instances. This one was quite interesting as we had a player in the group who had never before played WoW...lots of aggro. Fun times.

Black Fathom Deeps

I'm thanking the Gods in that scene. The whole room would have pulled if I hadn't have snuck up earlier and assassinated them all.

Here we are discussing the meaning of BoP. Took a few tries but the new player eventually got it. However she has yet to figure out what Need means; it certainly does not mean you can need on an item to sell for money. >.<

I was somewhat hoping they'd all light the candles at once. Even for a high level it would have been pretty hard to fight all the mobs. And yes I would have stuck around and fought, I've got two vanishes after all. ;)

Upper Black Rock Spire

There's no better way to do an 'endgame' instance than with friends. ^^

Summoning an ally in...our main healer which will be a Paladin. No Priests for this group; Priests are for sissies! >.<

Ready to attack Rend. Kinda wish I was Horde here so I could hand his head in and get a nice buff in Orgrimmar later.

...It really was a dress. ;)

Damn good healer though, I'll never doubt a Paladin's healing ability again!

I just about screamed when I saw this dragon. First Rend's riding a kick ass Dragon and suddenly this shows. When you've got Nefarius yelling from the bleachers you know you're in trouble when Dragons start appearing.

Pulling Vael to another group. Not a bad tank considering it has infinite hp.

Hmm...Nether Dragon or Phoenix...can't decide. Maybe I'll figure it out when Xpansion comes out.

This was one of those 'Whoops' moments.

I always make sure to tip my Warlock allies. 1gp is nothing compared to an extra couple thousand hp with no cooldown to a potion!

Default, I was sapping Sun and the other Rogue was sapping Moon. The battle took so long that my sap on the orc expired. Assassins drop Evisc(Rank 9) so I was really going full out on trying to kill them!

The Beast...dun dun dun. Would be nice if he dropped Finkles dagger. Was hoping Finkle would make an appearance!

Ouch, bad pull. Our first warrior (who is supposed to be punted back to us) ended up getting cornered. He was promptly eaten and digested. I only looked at the creature and it killed me ;)

It's not a good sign when your main tank is in fear and out running you...

The long run back to The Beast. We've been killing everything so quickly that there are no respawns yet. Here I am commenting on my Fire Resist gear, or lack thereof.

Tipping the Warlock again. Used the last stones and it actually kept me in the fight a little longer. We'll see how the next fight goes. Should be better now that we all have more Fire Resist.

I'm glad there's no audio to this screenshot or you'd have heard me saying "OH SHIT!!!" as I had just crit my Eviscerate for 2091, Vanish wasn't up yet and Feign was almost not pressed fast enough. I did live...that time.

The Beast is dead, no Finkle appearance though. /cry

Some of us were afk right as the Assassins and guards snuck up on us. Buggers.

Killing more Orcs...

I absolutely love my Preparation(resets all cooldowns on Rogue abilities; aka double Vanish) but I always feel guilty when I'm the last one standing and especially with how easy it is for me to die.

This was a pull of 5 (Red Cap included) which was going well till a patrol came in too. Ouch.

Working on a plan.

Two Rogues with Improved Sap. How sweet is that?! =D

Getting a good look at the boss. He's got my quest Reward, a Blackhand's Breadth which is wonderful for a Rogue.

Apparently getting closer is not a good idea. He had some nasty damage to deal out to the party. An accidental mess-up to a tricky kiting.

I think this Warlock is quite happy with me by now. When you're a casual gamer you've got gold to spare so I didn't mind much. Was worth it every time.

Downing the bosses two goons while he's running after our Hunter who kited him all the way to the Beast's cell. Nice job!

Holy hell AoE! If I didn't stop to bandage I'd have been on the next Orcen menu at BRD. Elf a la crisp!

Spoke too soon. Damn AoE.

It occurs to me that he's using Paladin abilities. Light indeed...

We got him down! /cheer

Gods was he a pain in the ass to kill.

Here's a friend of mine making fun of me for dying. He just HAS to rub it in. Bastard.

Finished up the instance only to realize that there was another quest involving BRD. Picked it up at the flight path, ran back to the instance, stealthed in and grabbed the item. I love being a Rogue.

If you're going to port anyways you might as well use the fancy one. Onwards, to Blackwing Lair!

Last Posts of the Month

2006-09-10T09:22:00.000-06:00

Here we go, about 170(?) images -coming up in the next few posts- for your viewing pleasure. These should keep your attention for a while until I can get my computer up and running again after this move next week. They're semi new since I was recently converting my .TGA's.

I've missed a few months of images here and there but hopefully none of you will mind ;)

The Elusive Ashbringer

2006-08-27T18:27:00.000-06:00

Casual Gamers just don’t get all of the fun…

I am considered ‘casual’ as I only have one 60 with epics and a whole bunch of alts, yet I play more than the average person. One of my passions in the game is to explore the world and uncover its secrets. Unfortunately to uncover the so-called biggest secret in the game, I’d have to drop my casual gaming style…

Ever stand in the presence of the true Ashbringer and knew you could do nothing to attain it?

Not just the Corrupted or the Ghosted Ashbringer, though they’re still important. It depresses me that I’d have to go through all those quests, all those instances, and between worlds just to speak to someone who will tell me what I’ve already known for a year…where to find it.

I know where it is, I want to pick it up…damn those magics!

The only alt I have that is even remotely ready to ‘search’ for the Ashbringer can’t even wield it due to class restrictions. My Fury Warrior could but she needs a few more levels and many months of raiding/questing just to prepare. *sigh*

Though to see her like this would be an awesome (and ironic) sight:

It would be interesting if it also turned her Human, going on the line of The Ashbringer’s advisor, but nah she’d look hideous if she was alive.

***

Perhaps I’ll just settle for the elusive mount, or the damn superbly hidden door that I still cannot enter. /cry

I will be very happy when someone else manages to keep their sanity long enough to get the true Ashbringer. I’m predicting it’ll be done by the Koreans before the end of November as that’ll be the shining month for a few more surprises.

Until then…I’ll be happy working on acquiring Thunderfury. ;)

Instances - Mid Level

2006-08-24T20:26:00.000-06:00

Here are a few screenshots of some instance runs I've done semi-recently (if you can call 6 month old screenshots 'recent')

Razorfen Downs

This almost made me fall out of my chair laughing. A 60th level offered to help us lower levels in the instance which was pretty nice. He gets an idea to mind control the rare spawn but alas it backfired on him! We got to sit there and watch him stand beside the Npc like a brainless puppy. Very funny to see that happen to a 60 who was previously killing the mobs faster than we could catch up to loot them!

I was quite tempted to attack him too, just too bad he was surrounded by a group of mobs.

Taking on a big spider mini boss. Quite an annoying thing too. Too bad I didn't get the screenshot of another raid where someone rang the gong without knowing what it did. >.<

Shadowfang Keep

Two hunters duoing the instance. I originally was going to solo it out of boredom but a guildie came online and happened to be in the area.

Too bad we didn't have lockpicking; Our epic was in there. =/

Arugal was pretty easy to take down, especially with a Turtle. I wonder how my pet would have done if he had spell resistances.

Edit: I'm not sure why this image isn't showing, the link to it does work however.

Scarlet Monastery

Roleplaying in the Monastery while attacking defenseless rabbits. ^See combat log.

Why oh why can't I get more crits like that on players =P

Out of two years of playing WoW I've never seen both drop with two classes that could use each! Just fantastic luck.

Scouting ahead for the next victims. /target Rabbit... >.>

Another perfect drop combination. I'm quite impressed and I wonder if Blizzard changed the drops to match who's in there or just increases their chances of dropping.

In this shot you can only see half of the Npc bodies on the floor. There was a hell of a lot of them and I'm surprised everyone lived long enough. I almost went down too and had to vanish at least once in the battle to get an extra surprise attack. And as I have said many times, it really just isn't fair to have the assassin as the last one standing!

Right after ressing our lowest level aggros two groups and unfortunately they had a lot of Myrmindons in them which can cut me down very quickly no matter my being 60th level. Thankfully the priest and I lived through it and we did manage to finish the rest of the instance without much trouble.

I have to admit though, I do love big pulls like that as being outnumbered kicks in my PvP skills and I start fighting a hell of a lot more efficiently.

Nerf Hunters?

2006-08-24T19:57:00.000-06:00

Perhaps this is the reason why people want Hunters nerfed. It doesn't matter though as in my experience any class can solo higher level mobs with the right techniques (though I've yet to properly roll a Shaman/Paladin so I don't know how to solo as one of them)

They Hyena is quite a useless pet as it has no abilities however currently beats out the Wolf because of the PvP-Howl bug. I had to tame this one because it reminded me of an NPC's pet I once DM'd; a demonic creature that looked -very- similar to the Pesterhide Hyenas. I love this pet and even though it's useless as hell it can tank just about as good as a Turtle (though I've no points into it's stamina or defense.)

Just grabbing this pet to train up Stealth which I'll never use as I don't really like cats for pets in this game.

Another red quest *sigh*

Nothing good from him, he usually drops a really sweet blue dagger too.

And another hunter bug. I hate this one but thankfully I've had so many I know exactly where to go/face. Confuses the hell out of melee party members though, I always have to scream "Watch my pet, the mob is with it, not over there."

Not everyone plays in the middle of the night on a weekday. Some days you just have to solo quests, though it's not really 'soloing' when you have a pet. ;)

Raptors deal a lot of damage, especially when they're ?? but having a Turtle with Shield is very valuable.

I hate these spiders as they can net your pet (causing it's shield to waste) then run at you. You have to run back to your pet, feint, or even feign death just to get the spider back where you want it.

And nothing good drops from these guys either. =/

These dragonkin are candy; I could farm them if they're red with only a little downtime since I had no downtime when they were orange to me. They drop scales which would be useful if I wasn't an Alchemist...

I love my pet! =)

He just loves killing Gnomes for some reason.

PvP - Misc Shots

2006-08-24T19:30:00.000-06:00

A small collection of random PvP images.

Damn Alliance attack Xroads every damn hour on this server with at least 5-10 all in epics. Thankfully they've left their PvP skills behind, which is why they're so easy to kill.

After defending Xroads yet again on another server we all decide to sit down and have a break and consume the flesh of our victims.

"Hey mon, pass da roasted Elf ear."

Ah, the true art of camping.

I knew this quest would flag me, which is why I had my hearth set for Revantusk. On an old server (since Retail) with a bunch of Epic'd out Alliance all twitchy to PvP...you have to be ready.

I found this funny afterwards as later on I helped another with this quest. He hearthed out and I stayed behind to see how many would come. Almost instantly there was a paladin there ready to slaughter us and was quite confused at me thinking I managed to complete the quest without being flagged.

He ended up following me for the next 3 minutes wondering if I'll suddenly glitch and flag from the quest he thought I had took but he ended up losing sight of me (damn he was stupid) when I ran behind a tree and up a hill.

The strongest Druid instinct is to run. I'm not lying. I have it too when I play my Druids and it's a good tactic if you know how to use it right; aka run only a few feet then jump into the fray again.

The other style of running (which is completely running away) is the worst thing a Druid can do, ever. And there's the proof, he had full mana too. He could have turned around, Barkskin, Natures Grasp and Starfired us both. He was a Balance (pvp spec) Moonkin too. How embarrasing for him, a 60 with epics to run from two level 45's. >.<

I already killed him once...might as well join in. He was with a group of 5 or so other Alliance and we wiped them clean off the map. My Undead didn't recognize him though since he was disguised as a Skeleton, otherwise she'd have gotten ready to attack him again.

I would have had this guy too if the ?? Druid he was with (who was attacking my Shaman friend) hadn't have healed him.

I'll say it over and over, Thunderfury fucking hurts! He stunlocked me more than any Rogue I've -ever- encountered. I did get him down once along with his mage friend but 1 kill to 10 deaths isn't much to brag about =P

More Random Screenshots

2006-08-24T18:07:00.000-06:00

Here's another mass of random screenshots. Enjoy!

A rather uncommon sight; human riding a 'wyvern' (They honestly look like Manticores to me).

Randomly helping people in the area. This druid was pretty fun to fight along side with. =)

They all had very interesting names, made it quite easy for the GM's to find too.

Selling 16 slot Travel packs for 1 copper piece each to another guildy on the other side of the faction. I do a lot of these transfers and can make a hell of a lot of money selling rare goods to the other side.

Farming Devilsaurs for [Devilsaur Leather] that I don't need. Typically sells for 3gp each on the Auction House and since I'm down there farming for herbs anyways I might as well kill them when they approach.

Here's me Duo boxing (ie, using two accounts to play two characters at the same time) which is rather fun though a bit tricky at first. You will rarely see these images since the print screen button takes screenshots of the current window only; I have to print screen and Paste as new image in Paint Shop Pro.

A race out of Ragefire Chasm. I thought I had them both beat with my Sprint, the hunter outruns me with Aspect of the Cheetah and the Warlock (the only one without a speed increase) jumps down a ledge and beats us both. =P

Here's me (the Undead) along with a very good friend. I met that player when my undead was a wee one in Tirisfal Glades. Very nice person and quite abnormal like me. =)

My Undead will attack anything that's a threat to her.

Un'goro is the WORST place to find herbs quickly in. I could run over a spot for ten minutes and still not find that darn herb. This one was actually hidden -under- the group of ferns, no wonder I turn my graphics to minimal (terrain/grasses mostly) so that I can find herbs out here.

I always miss the damn boat, and zep too with this character. Starting up a bit of roleplay with the opposite faction. The undead is so cute when she's sad and you can't help but feel depressed along with her. She's part Kender, I tell you! ;)

Filming in Silithus when I saw this mob. I had run across her group before and found soloing the 10+ humans to be quite difficult. Had another Rogue along with me so we decided to go for it.

This is the after pic as it was too crazy to remember to print screen. We ended up hitting her soldiers first (and they're all linked, btw) then eventually decided to only attack her. Once she died all of her men disappeared. No loot of course as she was for a quest. Though I'm not even sure what quest as I haven't taken it yet. Don't really care though.

I play WoW a lot and GM's know this as they can see where I've been and who I've been playing and for how long. This one was answering a petition to a naming violation and started (humorously) bitching me out for being online all the time and not sleeping. I do sleep of course, just more free running and biphasically. But I assured him that I'd go to sleep soon...

Another battle with the 'Dreaded Red'
I do greatly dislike this dragon, though it has already saved one of my character's lives on a PvP server; I bugged him to evade in the water and the Alliance couldn't attack my Priest unless they came close which would have them right at Narilsanz and in his AoE. He is a fun one to solo though rarely drops anything good.

When they said this spider was massive, they weren't kidding! My little Undead had to tank this thing and it was quite difficult as it kept dodging (or I'd miss) my aggro hold abilities. We got her down pretty quickly even though we were all lower level than her.

Human female jokes are so dumb. The one in this picture was "I like to fart in the tub." This is one reason why I never got my only Human past 22nd level.

On that note though, it is quite sad that they removed the Troll's "I kill 2 dwarves in da mornin'..." joke. =/

Totems, Totems, Totems! No one would dare attack us with this many totems. XD

Another uncommon sight for most. The griffon didn't seem to be bothered by it.

What can I say? I love jumping into Un'Goro. I've already had a few good jumps where I'd land at the feet of a Devilsaur.

I'm still not sure how we survived this encounter. They're all elites and we need to kill a mini-boss with two guards so that we can grab her key. The first fight we got her down but her guards and an extra got us so only one of us nabbed the key.

We come back and kill her again but this time every Troll in the area runs at us. We knock a few down and for at least 5 minutes two of us were both under 200hp. A lot of close calls, reminded me of a good world PvP fight! =D

All for now...

2006-08-21T22:29:00.000-06:00

That's it for now. The other half of the screenshots will come possibly tomorrow or later this week, for now though I'm going to sleep!

Mauradon Run

2006-08-21T22:22:00.000-06:00

I had to post these. Not only was it a fun event but a challenge against those that said the three of us at our low level couldn't do the run. We did it, very easily and made a lot of interesting pulls in the process.

Random Exploring and Alt

2006-08-21T22:04:00.000-06:00

Not much in this post. Just a few images of random locations.

My Undead really dislikes hot areas such as Blackrock Mountain. The fire causes her dry bones to spontaneously combust. I feel she may need a bit more Fire resist gear in the future. >.>

I don't care if Blizzard patches out Wall climbing, I'll still find a way. Of course I'm not sure if this was done before or after that infamous patch...

I think this was in Silithus but I'm not sure anymore, all the hills are starting to look alike (which makes climbing them so much easier.)

Here's me showing a friend that a naked Warrior in Defensive Stance can jump off just about any cliff without dying. I have a few videos of these jumps as well. Some real amazing stuff, I even lose about 27 more HP than I had initially but I didn't die.

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'Farming' Ogres for shards in the Ruins of Alterac.

I love sacrificing my pet, may even start bubble hearthing with it... >.>
Too bad I can't pvp with this one as I DK farm only for her RP background. *sniff*

She's still new at the enslaving thing...they will all fear the day she drops an Infernal in SW or Ironforge.

"It's my new pet! I named it Rocks, isn't it cute?"

Crashing Galore

2006-08-21T21:48:00.000-06:00

You just can't play WoW without a bit of crashing, that's impossible! =P

*Under Construction*

This was after a patch some time ago so my Ui's a bit messed up. We just killed a rare spawn when suddenly my whole computer locks down, a rare thing but always at the worst moments. =P

So that image is right before the crash...

I log into Xfire and WoW as quick as I can only to hear the familiar *zip* sound of an Xfire message. The chat window pops up "Careful..." then another *zip* is heard but it is too late; I'm loading into WoW and won't be able to read the message till after I fully log in.

I come to see 4 Elite giants (one's behind another in the image) as well as a monkey beating down on me!

I quickly go into defensive stance, use my Nifty Stopwatch Trinket to run faster and hop off the ledge behind me. I lose the giants but gain a few more adds.

Finally the hell is over and I barely manage to survive. Damn I love encounters like that. XD

I was worried that the server would boot me mid-fight(aka fleeing from the city) and I'd log in the next day dead. Thankfully the mobs fixed that worry for me. *laughs*

Bots and Farmer Hunting

2006-08-21T20:57:00.000-06:00

I can't stand people who use bots to play WoW. Basically they're using an automated program to fight and vendor items while the player isn't at the computer.

One lazy player doesn't bother me as much as the specialists however; those that buy 10 accounts, have them all bot to 60 or farm loot then sell the accounts or loot for real life money. I hunt those specialists with a passion. A game is meant to be played, not botted.

Non-botting farmers...well I don't have much against them as everyone needs to farm for items and such...heh, though I rarely farm for anything as I'm very lucky with drops or working the auction house. Herbs are the only thing I 'farm' and only because the price for them is especially high for something that can be quickly gathered.

If they're true farmers I'll sometimes distrupt them to show that they'll have some competition in the area for the next hour or so. They'll usually log onto another farmer character or level 1 alt to Auction.

If they speak another language I usually do reverse tactics and help them as much as I can as long as they continue to type to me. This not only distracts them more but I get free lessons in their language while teaching them a few English words. Win=Win in that situation.

Though sometime this backfires and I get a few non-English speakers every now and then whispering me to run instances with them and help farm. >.<

Here I am on an alliance alt (My highest level for that server) speaking to another bot, making sure it isn't a player who's so used to farming that they're starting to act predictable.

I usually wait about 15 minutes before logging off (I don't have timestamps on that alt) and continuing my report to the GM's.

This one just confused me to no end. Another Ne Hunter who was acting like a bot for 30 minutes suddenly stops, runs up to me and starts spamming /salute and /bow. Okay I figure that's not a typical bot behavior so I log into my alt to see what's up.

Confusion escalates...

Perhaps she is in the States but I'm quite sure she was botting till she noticed the whispers and checked to see what the words meant on a translator. Each response from her took about 5 minutes. Eventually I just gave up and told her the petition would be in anyways. She didn't seem to mind, assuming she could understand me. *sigh*

I finally figured it out. Hunters are by far the easiest class to bot with (especially with a Boar, often named...'boar') and it's my belief that people with fewer fears/morals for buying pre-made 60's online would more likely buy something 'prettier' or 'cooler' such as a Night Elf than an 'ugly' or 'uncool' race.

I think on that server alone there are more Ne Female Hunters then there are Horde.

Well this one certainly wasn't a bot but he definately wasn't a Roleplayer either! I think I lost some brain cells from trying to understand his words.

The word is out, farmers really do like me. >.<
This one of course insisted that I go to Mauradon and meh, I probably would have if I wasn't so busy trying to get rid of my green quests.

How do they find me?! *laughs*
Mauradon is definately the best farmer spot on that server for Rogues.

This was a hilarious encounter. A 60 Rogue bot farming turtles (Possibly for the pearls, though it was auto skinning so maybe the scales.)
I've encountered bots that act exactly like this one; they auto target you and stay there till you go away/feign death/vanish/stealth then they start farming again.
I had a theory that they might auto attack due to their target-attack scripting. So I /pvp'd up and volia! He auto attacked.

The bugger used Evasion in the middle of the battle, my Overpower proc'd so many times that in the end all I saw was 'dodge, overpower, dodge, overpower...' on my Scrolling Combat Text. I used Retaliation though afterwards I realized a simple stepping behind him would have confused his scripting program.

The bot dies then auto runs back to his corpse (graveyard is not far) and resses. Immediately we attack and he dies. This is turning out to be fun...

Now he has a death timer so we run around killing mobs waiting for him. Soon he comes back and starts fighting a mob... We jump him and he dies again.

If there was a real player behind the toon it would have run away, or at least thought to take out my much lower level ally as he was assist healing me the whole time.

He just keeps ressing and going back to the mobs like a normal bot. A friend whispers and I give the update (as well as /general informing everyone in the area how to farm the bot) but soon we get bored enough to leave, but not without us sending in a petition.

Attack on Barov

2006-08-21T20:31:00.000-06:00

Here's a little post on my hunting Alexi Barov. I didn't have the quest (as I don't really care for the end game instances) but decided to help out a friend with his.

Right before this there was a group of 4 Alliance all flagged and ready to hit him. We offered to help but suddenly the group pulled apart because one unflagged Tauren Shaman was in the area watching them. *sigh* Even with epics people can be cowardly.

We were about to try and duo him (my friend managed to get him down to 1/4 soloing before vanishing) while stunlocking him (it is possible) when suddenly another came in looking for a group.

At this moment the Tauren comes around again and now the new member is nervous "Let me invite my guildies..."
I ask my friend to go into the Undercity and ping it a bit to pull the Tauren away. It works and with the new members we're now ready to attack.

I left the group to allow those with the quest to get the tag and kept a look out for any new Horde in the area; I'd sap and stun them while the main group took care of Barov.

No flagged Horde about so I jumped in. Fight was good however the Warlock threw out a load of crits pulling the aggro from a heavy DPS Rogue.

We're done and an Undead is sitting there. Keeping in character I appologize to her and then brush the incident off. One of the players who thought he had the quest then stated that he already finished it but soon realized that he was on the step before killing Barov and was too lazy to hand that in. He says he'll deal with it another day and then runs off all depressed saying he's going to go kill himself which was funny as hell.

...of course it didn't end there. As my friend was handing in his quest we see the player run up to the other Barov brother to hand in his quest (now he's on the Barov quest to kill the other), the Barov yells and the player runs away as fast as he can.

My friend and I both look at eachother, laugh our asses off and then hearth out of there asap as we did not want him to suffer any more embarrasment. >.<

It was a fun quest to assist in though I'm not sure I'll ever take it. The reward is the Peasant Caller and seems useful but not really in character for my Ne Rogue at this time.

Alterac Valley - Undead Warrior

2006-08-21T19:31:00.000-06:00

Here's some shots of the AV games I've had. Fresh into AV I only had my Whirlwind Axe, Sword of Omen/Mug o' Hurt, and a crap shield I got in my 30's. Somehow I lived long enough to do a few really good solo's against some epic 60's.

I love that Warrior, fury/arms and can eat up most Rogues with ease. I gained a lot of skill from the early days in the Tarren Mill; I was in my 20's the week Honor came out without Battlegrounds yet.

I've mastered the art of Charge-jumping, Intercept-running, Charge-Fearbombing, and Stancedancing-Slow/Demoralizing. This one is amazing for getting out of any holds/stuns/slows without potions and makes it quite impossible for most to target due to her small frame.

First game of AV, not too bad...

My second game of Alterac Valley with this alt. Did a bit better than the first.

This server has many Alliance that love to PvP and almost always brutalize Horde in every game. This is another one.

I think it all started around 17 months ago when they first began their raids on Mulgore. A few big guilds would farm Cairne every night (at 3am or so when there were few Horde logged in) every single day for about 2 weeks. It really was a morale dropper for many Horde as the RP for Cairne was very strong on the server. It got to the point where the Horde didn't even want to defend anymore and that lack of motivation continues for PvP on the server.

However...

When the Horde do pull together they can amass raid groups of 300 within an hour tops and deal out a hell of a lot of damage. Just that it's so rare. I was in one of those raids in that alt's early 40's and was absolutely amazed at the mass pvp they dealt on Astranaar, Feathermoon, Nijel's Point, Southshore and suddenly regrouping to hit Darnassus. No Dishonor points were dealt and everyone was very patient.

Mmm Rogue. It's an absolute blast to kill with my Ne Rogue then suddenly turn around and start hunting Rogues with my Undead Warrior. Why not since I know exactly what they'll do. *grins*

A sea of red. When you're fresh into AV at 51st you really can't do much, especially as a Warrior. So I go back to my old strategy of Charge and Fearbombing/Demoralize shouting everyone. If I can make myself look like an easy kill often the enemy will drop what they're doing (such as slowing a weak 60 or capping points) and take the time to kill me. I die more often but it always helps the Horde gain more time and ground.

They're in our base, nothing more I can do now except fearbomb.

This...didn't work out as I had planned. Got aggro before I could charge (since I was 51st level it's easy to be spotted by NPC's) and couldn't find my target. Not like it would have mattered anyways since the Charge bug throws you 30 feet behind or to the side of your target. /sigh

Even though I played many games as Alliance I never had seen their General until that moment. Doesn't look too impressive but wow he has a hell of a lot of hit points.

If I can eat up anything in AV it's the Rogues and so I won't stop until every last one is down. However, there are more Ne Rogues than there are Rabbits on Azeroth!

I caught this one hiding in the Tank. Sneaky Elvsies...

I couldn't honestly tell you what was going through my mind when I charged in as it probably wouldn't make sense... The order was given to retreat and I of course step forward. As usual the entire swarm of Alliance all suddenly stopped chasing after the others -just- to kill me. Mission complete.

This is one of my most favorite images. Not because he's in some high-end epics (Holy hell Maladath!) but because he stunlocked a Rogue friend of mine in the middle of my battling someone else then proceeded to hunt me down for the next 20 minutes no matter where I was or who I was fighting.

Eventually I had it and went after him. We fought and both ran from our allies to solo fight. With little health left we finally threw our blades full force and fought to our last few hundred hit points. He suddenly threw a vanish and cheap shot on me and just as it was about to wear off I began spamming Execute. Right as he put a new stun (a 5 point Kidney Shot) my Execute went off and he died. It shocked me as I really didn't think I'd live through that stunlock and I'm sure it baffled him.

I love that battle more because if he had thrown an Eviscerate on me the both of us would have hit the dead books.

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And there you go, some AV images of my UD Warrior.

Hope you liked them!

More Alts

2006-08-21T19:10:00.000-06:00

I can't help it, I'm an altaholic. I'm always hovering at about 45 alts, deleting and remaking new ones weekly. I'd have about 10 level 60's at least if I put all that effort into them instead of the 40 other alts...

I already have a Ooomkin/Moonkin Druid but no apparently I needed to roll another. *sigh* And quite sick of playing an Ne Druid so I rolled up a Tauren. Female because I really dislike how the Male Tauren look/fight/run/anything.

Another alt doing another battlegrounds. I really like playing Troll Priests for PvP though I already have a 35th level Troll Priest on another PvP server. *sigh*

Some servers the Horde just brutalize the game, on others it's the Alliance. I do like a challenge but sometimes it's just nice to sit back, bubble and win. =)

Dancing with death, or in this case a level 60 Gnome Rogue ally. This one especially enjoys sapping me when I'm dueling others and Mind Controlling my Horde friends so they can beat on me. >:) /doom

*sigh* I hate it when I aggro one mob inside a wall, jump off a cliff/bridge/building only to look behind me and see a sea of mobs coming my way. I hate it more when I'm with roleplayers who've just met me.

Perhaps I should alter my RSP to read: "Warning, I CAN and WILL train mobs on everyone without my knowing. It's all good...just RP with it if you survive."

I have a lot of those moments. I'd like to blame it on my inability to shift alts and strategies...but it was more my clicking the Really Sticky Glue too early, letting the Void Walker pound on me during the fight.

Another alt. /sigh This one is going full combat spec (completely opposite to my Ne Rogue) for grinding to 60. He can dish out a lot of damage.

This is Polly the Parrot in both forms. The Horde Rogue quest has you open a box, the big (50th level) Polly comes out and attacks you but you can use a special Cracker to change it to a smaller (18th level) Polly. In this image they're both dead of course. Just another reason to Nerf Rogues. ;)

I've tried pulling Polly a few times on my few Horde Rogue alts and every time it gets stuck at that exact same spot. It can't attack and well if you're only 16th level you obviously couldn't hit it anyways but never fails to impress non-Rogues who happen to stumble upon you bravely attacking a ?? giant bird! *snicker*

I love scouting with my Rogues and perching on random buildings, fits with the RP and gives some neat screen shots.

Zombie Attack!

2006-08-21T18:52:00.000-06:00

Hmm, this uploading will take quite a long while...

So in the meantime feel free to watch one of the vids I made recently. Normally I don't show them to the public but it was a public raid with over 200 people so I guess it doesn't matter.

I took over 160 screenshots for that raid, renamed and converted them to jpg *gah* I also borrowed some shots from a few friends and a few videos due to my Fraps not working properly right now. *sigh*

Ah well, here's the mess of video. Was a fun raid and I plan on doing more raids (as well as frapping/screenshotting) like it in the future.

Zombie Attack

Sea of Screenshots

2006-08-21T18:49:00.000-06:00

Incoming!!

Alright, over the day I'll be adding in a sea of screenshots that I've been hoarding for the past 8+ months! *gasp*

I've put them together in 'themes' so hopefully they'll make sense. Edited out the names as usual (except Brezlon of course.)

Update - Blog reactivated

2006-08-16T20:38:00.000-06:00

Well, double moves are done finally and I've got another month before I need to move again. Expect a hell of a lot of screen shots up in the next week to make up for none since last year and a bit!

Moving

2006-01-22T13:47:00.000-07:00

I'll be moving from end of January to possibly end February (double move)and won't be able to update till about March.

This blog will stay dormant until then, thank you for your patience.

A Rogue's Life

2005-12-26T19:40:00.000-07:00

Here are the images of my current main character's recent adventures. No text on the images just yet. Most should be self explanatory. =)

Enjoy!

The Life of a Druid -Memory Post

2005-10-29T14:51:00.000-06:00

Well here it is, the big post with all the screenshots I've promised you. This is only a small view of all the things my Druid has done in over a years time playing World of Warcraft. Out of thousands of screenshots I've narrowed them down to these and also made sure they're not repeats from other posts. Many of these have long stories behind them. I'll try to fill you in on what was going on as I took the shot.

Keep in mind that this is only from one character and that I have many more images from all my alternate characters. (I have about 34....) >.<

A big arena tournament in Stranglethorn Vale. The event is just starting so there aren't many people in the shot. Throughout the tournament (mostly before, during intermission, and after) random people would just jump in and beat themselves silly. Was rather entertaining. At the end it turned into a big free-for-all pvp event...though that wasn't a surprise.

These Ogres were red to me at the time. I had a friend help me out with my quest up there in the ruined city. There were times when I was constantly feared into other Ogres, so the battle kept going and going. I think I only died twice that trip. I love how even a 7' tall Night Elf looks so small next to an Ogre!

Grr, my mortal enemy, Stitches. This was one of the first encounters with him, he would have been a skull to me then. (I'm sure he was 11 levels higher) I didn't know it at that time, but after 30th level I would be hunting this Abomination at every opportunity.

This one was fun to take. I'm on my way to Feathermoon, no one else aboard. Though I wish I had my Admiral's Hat. *chuckles*

Hunting in Tanaris. I look more like a Rogue than a Druid. The color combination of the whole scene seemed to fit perfectly. I think my main reason for taking this was for the absence of any mobs; usually you can't walk a metre in any direction without being attacked.

A somewhat inspiring and depressing scene. An Elven Druid climbing up a parched hill and pausing to look over the ruined landscape. One can almost see him sigh in sorrow and frustration.

A quiet promise. In the Moonglade. Looking at the scene I could imagine many things he was thinking at the time. Actually I'm quite sure I know what it was that he was thinking; reflecting on his personal past and vowing to not let history repeat.

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Friends

A tribute to all my friends who, without them, I'd have never made it past 10th level. *smiles* Thank you all for your help, kind words, and randomness that made my character's boring life full of chaos and adventure! I know I've missed some of you here as not all screenshots turned out perfectly, forgive me. I'll include you in a future blog of this type.

Never dare this guy to do something dangerous unless you're prepared to go with him. He's saved my ass so many times I couldn't even attempt to keep track. He's thoughtful and will go out of his way to help a friend, no matter what.

She's a wonderful person and I'm glad I met her. Amazingly sweet and funny. Don't ever get her angry or she'll shoot an arrow in your back!

Two good friends, both of them stopped playing WoW. The one on the left was my Druid's lover. Sweet woman, tricky and a good personality. The one on the right, very shy but generous.

Another image of me sleeping, cats have to nap you know. The Orc was a new friend, great person and hung out in the Human towns quite often.

Cat nap again.. next to two beautiful Elven women in the common room of Aerie Peak. The Hunter (on the right you saw earlier) and a Roguish lady. The second one always scared the heck out of my Druid; I didn't know if she wanted to kiss him or stab a blade in his heart...probably both. Dangerous woman! *chuckles*

This one just makes me laugh. First time in Goldshire, before it turned into a town of cyber sex. Note; no skeletons, bodies, and not full of people.

At Jainero's Point with my Druid's lover and a good friend. He's a good guy with more 60th level alts than anyone I know. He's always willing to spend extra time with friends.

First time in Ironforge. That was an amazing run and I was lost many times on the way. Thankfully I bumped into a friend that I had met in Darnassus who helped steer me around the city. Talented Paladin.

Friend on the left, a Human Rogue. Poor guy. First time we met him was when we were in the instance advertising for a group; we were almost done and asked if any Rogues wanted to sneak in to the end where we were, to help kill off Van Cleef. He made it all the way through respawns and the mobs we ignored with only being 18th level and I believe combat-spec'd. Now that takes patience, and steady gaming hands! =P

This scene is rather embarrasing. Apparently there's some secret plan to make sure all my friends give my cat-form a bath every week. No matter which friend I'm with (though it's almost always a Female Night Elf) they insist I get a bath. The scene would be better if you could actually see/hear that I'm growling, hissing, roaring, and really pissed about getting a bath.

This has to be the kindest and purest character (and player!) I know. I'd fear that if I looked at her the wrong way her heart would be crushed like a delicate flower in a strong wind. Such beauty should never be crushed.

This image is kinda sad as it was one of the last times I got to adventure with her. She ended up rolling another character on a different server. Nice person though. =/

This is one of my friend's friends characters. My Druid never hung out with Dwarves but we had a blast up in Arathi Highlands killing Kobolds so I had to include this image. Also since I didn't have very many screenshots of my friend.

This hunter has a very quiet personality. Kind, but always seemed to push people away (without being rude). Unfortunately he spends most of his time in instances now, so it's rare that I ever bump into him anymore.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm friendly to the Horde. You can't see it but they're all flagged and have been pvping around us for the past half hour. It's a big challenge to not go up and fight them when you're roleplaying a Horde-friendly character. *chuckles*

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Cat Form

My absolute favorite Druid form is the panther one. Adventures are around every corner when you're stalking as a cat!

The running of the Cats. This was a great feeling; to be charging down from one end of Stranglethorn Vale to the other, with all of us in Cheetah form. I'd love to do something like this again, but with many more Druids.

Who is who? I spent all evening roleplaying with another Druid in cat form, skipping, jumping about all over the Jungle like wild animals. Was really fun. Though I wished male/female skins were different so I know which one I was.

The adventure continues. Now we're running wild on Theramore Isle. The cart easily functions as an outdoor litter box.

And again, the mischief continues.

Rubbing noses. I blame the female for initiating that kiss in the middle of nowhere.

This was a fun shot. Both predators, both stalking, neither notices the other.

Another cat nap, in a broken boat this time. It's actually my afk screenshot as I had been farming that coast for many hours and needed a roleplaying reason to be away from keys so that I could run out and grab some food.

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Humorous

There's always some moments in the game where you're laughing so hard your ribs feel as if they're going to burst. Othertimes you notice a scene that makes you smirk for its irony. Here's a few of the funny moment's I've encountered.

Red versus Blue. Paladin against a Warrior. Warrior won.

This was to express my frustration at how annoying the Trials of a Druid can be. They send you here, there, everywhere just for bear form. And before it was changed, Sea Lion form was impossible to do without dying at least once.

It's also me showing off to the ladies with a "I can stick my head in the maw of this terrible beast and not be eaten!" pose.

Druids don't drink from glasses. And you'd insult them if you said they're too civilized to be drinking from a water trough.

Well okay, they might be civilized enough for a bed...who want's to sleep outside on cold stone anyways? >.>

This one is not me, but of a friend. The shot wouldn't have shown the whole catapult if I had been on it. =/ Anyways, when you run out of stones, sometimes the next best thing is a bear.

The beast and the Beauty. We found this Gnoll glitched at the 'three roads' on the way to Redridge from Elwynn Forest. Had a good 20 minutes of screenshots in odd positions before it disappeared. *laughs*

Jack on the Candlestick. Okay his name isn't Jack but it reminded me of the rhyme. Those things are hard to get up on, though they don't burn you either.. *shrugs*

It was funny when taking it, but kinda gives me an eerie feeling every time I look at it now; not long after taking this image, I stopped playing my Druid every day. Maybe it was a subconscious urge to tell myself what would be happening to my Druid's playing future.

I wish I alt+Z'd this shot. This game isn't always 1 on 1; you'll often find yourself jumped by many mobs at a time.

Here's why soloing in Desolace is almost as bad as Tanaris. What you can't see is many more mobs surrounding me and just -barely- outside of aggro range. If you could look behind me, you'd also see the big green elite Giant sneaking up on me. Still don't know why I didn't hear -that- one coming...

Cat Envy. I just got my Riding Tiger mount in this screenshot and wanted to head down to Stranglethorn to see if my cat was bigger than the giant stealthing ones on the isle beside Booty bay. (I'm 40-something level and they're 50+ level.) Apparently mine isn't as big, but I can't really complain.

There's a quest during the Holiday Veil that you can take and the reward is that you are able to turn into a snow man. They're not really impressive until they start to dance; they boogie! And the idle animation is quite funny as well. This is one of my friends showing me the effects of the trinket.

Another problem with Druids sleeping outdoors...you never know who or what is going to step on you.

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Well there you have it. Until next time.

Thank you all for your patience with this post. I hope you enjoyed them.

Addiction

2005-10-17T23:08:00.000-06:00

This post should have been made last week on the 11th when I took the screen shot but some things had come up.

This image is for some of my friends that do not believe I'm a visual-based person:

Keep in mind that folder was less than a month old and I have screenshot cd-burns of previous months for WoW alone. Now add all the other game images, real life photos, and you'll understand how full of images my comp is. *chuckles*

I've actually been putting some of the images together and will send out a few WoW posts in the near future for all my friends to see...just need to get them in order first. 0.o

Battlegrounds -Warsong Gulch

2005-10-06T14:40:00.000-06:00

As my loyal readers know, I had yet to enter any of the Battlegrounds since release, mainly because of the glitches/exploits there. Well last night (as I was kidnapped by a Gnomish friend) I decided to give it a try.

Upon entering battlegrounds I realized that I would probably get lost at least once and end up on some Troll’s dinner plate…I was right on both. The battle starts and I’m greeted with odd banging and clanking sounds. Everyone but me knew what these were.

Everyone also knew their place so I took it upon myself to assign my Roguish character the task of wandering aimlessly trying to figure out where the doors where to the damn building. After I figured that out, I spent the rest of the game guarding our flag.

The average levels were yellow to me (I’m at 26th level now) though I had expected everyone to be 29th. We had so many Rogues and Hunters in our group that one could not walk ten feet without stepping on a hidden trap or tripping over a Rogue.

The first battle turned out great, everyone worked as a team.

Here’s the score, and you’ll note that I’m last for Alliance… =P

The second battle was very difficult. We had less rogues, more hunters and a Paladin who wouldn’t heal but insisted he would be flag runner the whole time. During the start of battle there was very little action and I found myself getting rather bored...

The horde side was now 28th or 29th level and almost every one of them could heal. They had a mage, 3 priests, 2 shamans, druid, warrior, with the rest being hunters. It was bubble after bubble and I was frost shocked so many damn times that I’m considering finding some frost absorbing potions next time.

Our group still couldn’t heal so we ended up failing miserably. Though the last battle was great as both sides had the flag on one round and my friend (who happens to be a Subtlety-spec’d Gnomish Rogue) ended up hiding in a corner for ten minutes with three hunters trapping his body like mad.

I did manage to grab their flag, but that only lasted a good 30 seconds as it turned out both Horde teams split evenly down their exits and I bumped into five at once.

Second round’s score.

In these two battles I’ve realized a few things I could have done better:

* Change my Ui - As I’ve been playing other characters for the past two months, I’ve forgotten where my Rogue abilities are. I’ve also discovered that my Vanish, Gouge, and Cheap shot wasn’t where I wanted it in pvp battles. I’ll definitely be resetting my Ui and maybe tweak it with Flexbar.

* Study the map/sounds - I didn’t because I wanted a ‘fresh’ approach and a chance to adapt to unfamiliar surroundings. It was fun for the first couple minutes but when I ended up getting lost in the middle of the Horde’s base I realized ‘not knowing the map’ wasn’t a good idea. XD

I should also note that I didn’t know how to return our flag but thankfully there was always someone clicking it for me. >.<

* Key bindings - I’ve set most of my keys to fit my current alt so Brez wasn’t as fast with certain moves as I wanted. That can easily be changed. (Though I wish key bindings can be saved per character.)

* Less dependence on equipment - The Battlegrounds takes skill and though ‘phat lewtz’ is fun, it doesn’t always mean a win. Though most of my character’s gear is 13th level (13 levels behind) I found that I could still crit and dodge efficiently. I think eventually I’ll get down to very little gear just to test my skill..once I know my way around that damn camp.

* More Furbolg! - I’m addicted to the Transformation Rod. I definitely want to see more ambushing furbolgs in Battlegrounds. *Evil laughter* (Heh, and I’ve actually a background story for this rod now.)

* Less Potions - Well at least healing ones; usually I could have just died and came back to fight at full health though I kept getting lost at the Graveyard and decided popping a potion was much more time efficient...which it was. I’ll definitely be bringing a few swiftness potions and free actions in the future though.

Battles to note:

- There was a Troll Mage named Ryne. He was the flag runner in the second battle and played perfectly. So good in fact, that we all made /target Rhyne macro’s. XD *salute* Awesome job.

- Rogue battle. In the first battle I found myself constantly locked with another Rogue (undead), and it was Cheapshot/Gouges galore. I don’t think she was Subtlety spec’d like I was as there were many times I could see her but she couldn’t see me, even at her higher level. I’ll definitely be looking out for her in future battles.

- Damn shamans. It was right before this that I found myself lost in the Horde base for a while. I bumped into a shaman, got him down to about 3% health and kept trying to Gouge him while he backed away and Frost shocked me constantly.

He managed to heal himself right before I Gouged him so I ran to the speed boost (there were no other Alliance about to even run in and take back our flag), ran at him gouging and backstabbing. It was then that I found myself surrounded by red letters. My death was quick. >.< Good battle!

Missing in Action

2005-08-22T11:15:00.000-06:00

Just in case my friends will be wondering about me this week, I'll be rolling a Troll Priest on the new PvP RP server (I believe it will be activated tomorrow) and will be spending every minute I can getting it to 60th. *laughs*

If any of my friends need to contact me, you can email me via an email of mine you already have, through Xfire (see the tab at the bottom of this site) and/or via the extra email I have in my profile here. I'd love if more of my friends would join me on this realm (so far I've only snagged one. *frowns* )

I'm hoping by the end of the week that I'll be at least 30th, though I'm sure I can get much higher and will be taking lots of screenshots to add here!

I've been on PvP servers before and I had found them rather disgusting, more because of the lack of roleplay and GM enforcement. Though as many of the community-'Blue' posters will be on that server, I'm guessing there will be much strict enforcement of the rp rules.

Current WoW Characters -Part 2

2005-08-05T03:35:00.000-06:00

Here's my current list of characters. Under construction until I'm not so lazy and add some screenshots. Probably by Monday.

Old characters on past lists are either not played any longer or I only log in to chat with friends on their respective servers. I've added a new list -because- I recently rolled a few characters on some new realms. Hopefully this way it will be easier for friends to keep track of where I'm at. :)

(Last Updated October 11, 2005)

Character #1

Race: Night Elf
Class: Druid
Level: 46
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Favorite Weapon: Illusionary Rod.
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Panther form & Prowl
Trades: Tailoring/Skinning

Hobbies in game:

* Jumping off cliffs/buildings, though I tend to forget to jump in Panther form. >.<

* Enchanting the ladies. Feline form is definately a lady-magnet.

* Prowling about everywhere in Panther form.

Personality:

This Druid is quite sullen, the first depressed character I've had in this game. It all started many moons ago when his love was murdered and wished to not be ressurected (this upset him greatly since he had the power to bring her back.) He took to the forests for a long time and still roams about in cat form.

Usually he can be spotted staring at the moon or looking at his reflection in a pond. Though much time has passed, the loss of his love still upsets him. Thankfully his friends cheer him up every now and then with a "Come, get your mind off of negativity, let's go to this dungeon and risk our lives!."

His heart may be crushed but he still is very polite to all, especially the Kaeldori women and tries his best to not upset them in any way; somewhat of a subconscious re-creating his moments with his lost love, speaking kindly to them as if a sharp word or a bad look would make them crumble like dried flowers. Because of that, he tends to pamper any Night Elven lady he knows, offering his time or anything he can to aid them.

(Which honestly wears me out as I can spend many hours just gathering supplies (like leather or cloth) for players. But for the sake of roleplaying, it's quite enjoyable so it does even out.

..And he does get too mushy at times; Usually after playing him I log on to one of my Horde characters and smash some Alliance heads in. *grins*)

Pets:
-Bombay (black cat)
-Mechanical Squirrel; an old gift from his lost love. He only activated it once when she first gave it to him but shortly after when she died he put it away in his bank, worried that he might break it.

**
Server: Roleplaying Server (PvE)
Last Location: Teldrassil, Darnassus.
Average play time: 30 minutes/day
Total play time: Over one month.

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Character #2

Race: Gnome
Class: Mage
Level: 13
**
Favorite Weapon: N/A
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Fireball
**
Trades: Miner/Skinner
Hobbies in game:

* No real hobbies yet...unless you count conjuring water.

Personality:

I really don't have much for this Gnome yet. He's still quite 'new' and I need to see how I play him before I can type down a good personality profile. What I can tell you is he's fire-spec'd and so that may have a bit of sway on his character. I'm thinking he'll be terse, maybe even rude; playing heavily on a 'fire' personality, though I'm not sure about an egotistical one.

Pet:
None, he's so small he should be the pet!

**
Server: Roleplaying Server (PvE)
Last Location: Loch Modan; Thelsamar.
Average play time: 1 Hour a day.
Total play time: About 3 days.

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Character #3

Race: Night Elf
Class: Rogue
Level: 27
**
Favorite Weapon: Fist Weapons
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Ambush (Did a 496 earlier today!)
**
Trades: Herbalist/Skinner
Hobbies in game:

* None yet.

Personality:

Hah, my friends have been dreading this moment. Yes, I finally created a character based off the Drowic one I made over a half a decade ago. I will tell you right now he's evil, very evil. I still don't know what parts of his personality I'll include though; the original version tolerates, even deals with Demons, this new one may hate them entirely.

Pet:
None.

**
Server: Roleplaying Server (PvE)
Last Location: Darkshore; Auberdine.
Average play time: 1 Hour a day.
Total play time: About 3 days.

Special Note:

This last character was made for the hell of it, and more to unnerve my regular gaming friends. I rolled him up on a new server (well new to me) back in August so that he'd have a fresh chance at leveling (No cheating with high levels! *laughs*) and I wanted a server where I didn't know anyone. Already I've met a lot of nice people who are willing to quest with me and have their characters tolerate his evil actions.

I'm really not sure how long I'll play him. It depends on how this new server feels and what roleplaying options/storylines are already in effect here. It also depends on how much tolerance I have for his limited abilities. Obviously he won't have the typical Drowic ones, he really can't use the weapons he's used to, and he's more suited for travelling across other dimensions; not being stuck on one Primer World. Though we shall see...

As a bonus to my dedicated readers, his name is Brezlon (whoa! XD) and can be found on the Shadow Council Roleplaying realm. If you wish, roll up a character and quest with me or even just /whisper a friendly hello.

I will note however that this invitation is open to only those that are kind and tolerate others beliefs: If you come there to harrass me or my friends, I will do everything in my power (contacting GM's in game, email, letter...) to make sure it stops, with much force. This game has a very detailed Terms of Service that protects honest players rights and beliefs, just don't try to risk a perma-banning of your account.

That said, if your actions are sincere I'll be more than happy to quest with you.

Undead Fun

2005-07-25T19:48:00.000-06:00

It's always great playing an Undead character. They have one of the best dances in the game, some of the most hilarious emotes and can look so hideously menacing!

As most of my friends play Horde, I tend to roll the 'evil' side more often, usually undead. Here's my favorite undead character's recent adventures:

Everyone loves a fun rock! Well I'd have settled for the leather balls but all my friends took them! *laughs*

The rocks are just like the balls but they are a bit slower, epic mounts could keep them chasing you all the way across Azeroth! Unfortunately my character wasn't high enough level at that time for an epic, so here she is riding half way across Westfall, trying to outrun one.

I should note here that it's always a good idea to look where you're going...the people at Sentinel hill (Alliance owned) were not amused with my rushing through town. *grins*

When your weapons skills are maxed, and you're bored in an instance, why not practise your unarmed combat? Definate relief from farming Blues.

One of the many jumps I take with this character. Unfortunately seconds after taking this screen shot I slipped off the edge wearing all platemail; there goes my durability bill.

This is one of my favorite screenshots. It's actually a mix of a few, edited for a roleplay scene where my character is walking her horse up to the town of Brill.

Every server you go on, you've got to have an auction house character/mule. I use this one specifically for disenchanting items, I also made sure to make her with the ugliest undead face/hair combination I could find. As I was bored and very much sleep deprived one night, I decided to try to pull a (level 51+) bear from the Western Plaguelands to Brill.

Had to sacrifice my blue (voidwalker) to gain some distance, only to have the bear get bugged and evade...yes I stopped and shot it with my wand to see if it would move. *shrugs* Ah well, next time then....

Usual Phrases

2005-07-20T14:56:00.000-06:00

Over the months of playing WoW you'll hear a lot of things but some phrases tend to be more common and stick out the most. Many of these are what I've seen while playing my Horde and Alliance characters, a few (battlegrounds ones) are from my friends.

Warning: Some may seem crude, or overly hateful. In reality this is what most see every day in the game and all you really can do is ignore it. If you can't laugh at some of these, you're taking the game too personally.

Darnassus, Teldrassil

Combat log: Squirrel dies.

Orgrimmar, Durotar:

Combat Log: Gamon dies.

/yell or /trade: “Looking for Arcanite bar transmutation, plz whispr.”

/yell: “Just to inform everyone, the Alliance are once again farming Cairne. Fyi; If you’re interested in defending, you better hurry.”

/yell: “Great all horde. I come from Alliance, we want you join Battlegrounds. It empty from you, we no can play.” (Though sometimes there is proper grammar, this one always freaks me out.)

Crossroads, The Barrens:

Usual conversations in Xroads area:

/General chat(horde):

Player 1: “Large raid forming at (insert location)”
Player 2: “Yeah one here in (location)”
Player 3: ”Are they flagged?”
Player 1 and 2: “No.”
Player 4: “Probably getting ready to farm Cairne.”
Players 1-3 (All in agreement.)

/General chat: “Where is Manrik’s wife??????”
Usual reply: “In my bed.”

Player 1: “Where are the raptor eggs? and how do I get raptor feathers?”
Player 2 gives vague location.
Player 3 gives opposite direction.
Other players argue, 3 people offer to show the location, and finally someone says “Why do raptors have feathers?”
Player 1: “Nevermind, I’ll search for it myself.”

/general chat: (Usually right after zoning in):

Player 1: “Because Alliance are stupid; almost all of their players are 13 year olds with no proper typing skills.”
Player 2: “LOL”
Player 3: “tahts tru”
Player 4: “f’n funny, hehe. yaeh.”
Player 5: “Hey, that’s not fair; I’m thirteen.”
Player 6: “go ply allince then!”

Goldshire, Elwynn Forest:

/Yell or /general chat: “ne1 wnt to cyber with meee?!!!!!!!!1”
/y: “I can arrpee tooo!!!”

Stranglethorn Vale:

(every 20 minutes) Local/World defense (Horde): Stranglethorn Vale is under attack!
Reply(hordeside) in general chat/localdefense: “Poor Samantha.”

(every 3 hours) in /y or /general chat: “Damn (alliance/horde) got the chest, they (zergged/camped) again.”

Alliance general chat:

Player 1: “Can a lvl 60 help us kill a ?? horde?”
Player 2: “Where is he? who did he kill? why do you need help?”
Player 1: “(He/she)’s near (location), he’s flagged.”
Player 2: “That’s why you want to kill him? Because he’s flagged??”
Player 1: “Yes.”
Player 2: “….”

Menethil Bay/Theramore:

-General chat: “Damn boat dumped everyone.”

Auberdine, Darkshore:

/yell (usually) or General chat: “How do I get to Ironforge?????????”

/Lookingforgroup: “cna som1 plz help me with towr of Anthrax?”

Thunderbluff, Mulgore:

/General chat: “Dammit! Fell off again.”

Stormwind, Elwynn Forest:

/y: “Where’s Ol’ Emma????????????????????????”

/General chat: “I just killed VC, where do I take this letter?”

/Localdefense or /trade: “Just need (#) more for Stockades!!!!!”

Ironforge:

/y: “Cna I hav 10g/s plz???!!!!!!!!!1”
/y: “((Stay in character please!))”

/y or /general:”(Enchanting/Lockpicking) at the AH bridge, look for the dancing (gnome/elf)!!”

Ungoro Crater:

/General chat: “They need a flight path here!”
/General chat: “If anyone’s looking for a Devilsaur, it’s just near (location), currently eating my corpse.”

Tanaris:

/General chat: “ne1 hav giant eggs????????????”
/General chat or /y: “Selling Savory Deviate Delights on the AH, starting at a low price of 10gp for 2!”

Feralas:

/General chat: ”Anyone see a walking tree?”

Tarren Mill:

/General chat or yell:”I can’t move with all this ****ing lag!!!1”

/General chat: “So I flag, then my screen stops moving. 3 minutes later everything is moving again, and I’m dead.”

/y: “[Common]: Uden bur”

(Alliance side)
General chat:

Player 1: “Why do the horde keep beating us?”
Player 2: “It’s because they’re organized, they all form one big raid group so they work as a team.”
Player 1: “Forming a raid group! whisper me to join.”
Player 3: “Me too! send me a whisper and I’ll invite you.”
Player 4: “I already have a raid group going, it’s small so more people can join.”
Player 5: “Who ever wants to join a –big- group, whisper me! we’ll make one really quickly.”
Player 2: “…..”

(Horde general chat)
Player 1: “Wow look at all the Alliance! that’s like 2:1! That’s scary!”
Player 2: “What should scare you is how many of their rogues are out here.…”

Battlegrounds: (Thank you to my friends for helping me with finding out the common phrases)

“They’re using fa pots again!” (Free action)

“Awe damn, they have like 2(+) (shamans/paladins), we’re gonna lose.”

“**** the game, ffa; let’s just try to kill as many as we can for cp.” (51-60 level games)

Tirisfal Glades:

/y “I’m alive!!!!! well..sorta.” (Level 1-3 undead)

/General chat: “Can anyone make me sum bags? I have two linen! I’m in Brill.”

Undercity:

/general chat: “Where ((or sometimes ‘who’)) is Varithmas?”

/y: “How the hell do I get out of here?”

/general chat: “****ing elevator! I’m dead.”

I hope you liked these. Thanks to my friends who play Battlegrounds and could tell me the usual chat they hear.

Ungoro Crater

2005-07-08T16:26:00.000-06:00

(Had a few glitches last week where the blog ate my post/images. Here it is, redone.)

One of the most beautiful and scary places you could see in WoW (at this time.) The lush green jungle crawls with venomous Elf-eating plants, Tar beasts, and yes, dinosaurs!

So naturally when my friend said something on the lines of "Hey, feel like coming along and helping me on my quests?" (The unsaid and obvious words were, "you will die at least once, constantly run for your life, and begin to have great fears of walking plants.") I immediately accepted!

After jumping off a few cliffs (quite fun as I enjoy base jumping) I found myself very much alone, with giant bones of long dead dinosaurs scattered about me. I rode towards the direction of my friend, constantly looking over my shoulder. It wasn't long before we found eachother, but of course, something had found us...a Devilsaur!

After running for our lives and somehow managing to ditch our pursuer, we came across a little Goblin named Ringo. He has a problem, he's lost and needs help getting back to Marshal's Refuge (camp). He also has another problem; Ringo can't take the jungle heat very well..

I'd like to think it wasn't the heat that made him faint the first time; as right at that moment a big devilsaur walked by and promptly ate my friend (thank the gods for cheetah form).

Hell I'd play dead too ("Damn it! where's my possum button??").

After a refreshing drink, the little Goblin was back on his feet...for only a moment..

Eventually we got back to safety, he cheers and suddenly faints again. *sighs* Ah well.

Well after that adventure my friend decided that he needed to find some old bones. So off we go deep into the crater in search of not just -any- bones, but ones guarded by the worst monsters around. I think I died twice from this encounter, though it was a pterodactyl that got me as I was running away in Cheetah form...

Finally! We got the bones, now time to make our escape!

After tackling gigantic lizards, this Druid layed down in the cavern for a much needed cat nap.

Misadventures..

2005-03-10T22:00:00.000-07:00

I have two quick encounters up. One set is of my Gnome Warrior and one with my Night Elven Druid.

Here I am underwater mining away when 'Nessie' sees me...

I quickly swim to the shore, would have been a quick death if I didn't make it.

Ha! It missed me every time, so I /rude it.

Well..since I'm here I /dance with it as a way to say "Haha I stole the copper you were guarding, you can't touch me you water beast!"

Ah..the irony of life, and they can swim too; no escape.

***

Narillasanz

A friend and I are bored with the game so we decide to do something daring..like go kill a dragon.

We spot Narillasanz heading our way..

Within a minute I've burned out my mana trying to heal my friends Crokolisk that normally has over 3k Hp and 2k armor (or was it the other way around..). If he dies..we're toast.

Thankfully a Gnome mage around our level comes in to the rescue and sends out some arcane missiles. (He's hiding behind the hill)

We have killed Narillasanz! Our reward? One star ruby and skinned him for one heavy leather. *shrugs and sighs* Maybe next time.

Hope you enjoyed the screen shots!

Tiger Mount

2005-03-04T17:20:00.000-07:00

A big thanks goes out to some of my great friends for helping me in one way or another in getting this mount. No names on this blog, but you know who you are:

- My Warrior and Paladin friend (that seem to act like IC brothers), thank you both for the gift in gold to help me along when I was getting discouraged.

- My one Roguish friend who I met while farming monkeys. Gods I hate monkeys! Glad you did too. Thanks for letting me immerse myself in skin heaven. Man, those sneak attacks by them were nasty with the sudden 8+ at once.

- To my Priestly friend, you are the master disenchanter! And I also thank you for braving the Auction House when I couldn't risk it, even with the new patch that supposidly made it better. >.<

- To the Druid that kept me company in the wee hours of the morning (while I stabbed those hideous monkeys, covering myself in monkey guts). Thanks for the heals, your patience, and the kind words.

- And thank you to the others who kept pming me with tells such as; "What color are you getting?" "Did you get it yet?" "What cliff will you be jumping off with it?"..and other encouraging comments. :D

/cheer!

What Are The Odds...

2005-02-14T20:44:00.000-07:00

I was checking out my armor total last night after putting on my new ring.

I found it odd that it added up to that number especially after my ring was only 47sp...hmm, sounds like it is too good of a deal eh?

Current WoW Characters

2005-02-14T19:29:00.000-07:00

I've played almost every class and race but I've stuck with a few. Currently I'm playing very little WoW but here's a quick update.

(Last Updated July 5th, 2005)

World of Warcraft

Name: ---
Race: Night Elf
Class: Druid
Level: 45
**
Favorite Weapon: Illusory Rod.
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Shapeshift-Catform & Prowl**
Trades: Tailoring/Skinning

Hobbies in game:

* Jumping off cliffs/buildings.

* Enchanting the ladies.

* Prowling about in Panther form.

Pets:
-Bombay (black cat)
-Mechanical Squirrel

**
Server: Roleplaying Server (PvE)
Last Location: Ashenvale, astranaar.
Average play time: 30 minutes/day
Total play time: Over one month.

************

Name: Jezeka
Race: Orc
Class: Hunter
Level: 24
**
Favorite Weapon: Two handed Sword
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Aspect of the Cheetah
**
Trades: Leatherworking/Skinning
Hobbies in game:

* Farming for leather ;P

* Sitting in the Auction House, searching for the best items.

* Fishing in Ashenvale, about every other day for Nimmykins.

Pet:
-NightSaber named Nimmykins. Very pampered, eats only Fresh Rainbow fin Albacore.

**
Server: Roleplaying Server (PvE)
Last Location: Durotar; Orgrimmar.
Average play time: (Currently dormant character)
Total play time: About 10 days
This character's been put on the shelf for now

************

Name: --
Race: Undead
Class: Warrior
Level: 45
**
Favorite Weapon: Two weapon style, swords.
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Pvp-Hamstring/Rend Pve-Thunderclap/Execute
Trades: Blacksmith/Miner
Hobbies in game:

* Fishing.

* Killing Murlocs.

* Travelling.

Pets:

-Pet roach.
-Undead steed.

**
Server: Roleplaying Server (PvE)
Last Location: Thousand Needles, Freewind Post.
Average play time: 4-6 hours a day, every day or every other day.
Total play time: 9 days.

Addiction to WoW

2005-02-14T18:52:00.000-07:00

Alright, here's a little test to see if you're addicted to WoW.

I've placed some images below and if you know where they are, then consider yourself addicted to the game. *grins*

Keep in mind that I've cut out about 90% of each image so that it will be a bit harder to recognize the area. Though, if this doesn't hinder your guess then you really should go outside more.

I will not give hints, nor will I give answers as one day I'm sure you'll come across these areas.

Did you get them all? If you are an average WoW player, you should have been able to recognize a few of them (if not the exact spot at least the general location).

If you got them all then congratulations! Now, go outside and get a suntan!

...of course, this would include me too as I was the one to take these screen shots.

Stonetalon Mountains

2005-02-11T14:09:00.000-07:00

This would be my 19th level Orcen huntress' official first time hunting in the Stonetalon Mountains; the first time she was here was about 11th level and it was mainly to grab the flight path at the Sun Rock Retreat.

After a long flight here on a Wyvern I was quite hungry so I sat down for some raw rabbit; It'll put hair on yer chest!

Seeing a wanted poster, Jez quickly snatched up the opportunity to claim the bounty. Apparently in Sishir Canyon there lived a very large spider named Besseleth that was taking over Stonetalon. Jez and Nimmy set out to kill Beseleth's children and then hunt for her.

I honestly didn't expect her to be a 21 Elite but I wasn't going to leave Stonetalon without finishing at least a few quests. After taking out one of the spitters next to her I set a trap and studied her movements...

I had hoped that I could get Nimmy to distract her as my ranged does more damage than my melee attacks. It didn't turn out that way. Nim couldn't handle the aggro and I had been backed into a corner. It was a close match, even with a minor healing potion.

I know if I had the opportunity to use my ranged I would have killed her swiftly with Nimmy at half health even.

/cheer!

After defeating her I quickly bandaged myself, knowing the poison still flowing through could cause me to die. I grabbed her fang then Nimmy and I went to claim our reward; the onehanded sword.

I've decided to keep the sword as it will come in handy when I switch to two weapon fighting at 20th level.

I had a few more quests in the area. One was to gather some Gaea seeds which was pretty easy as the spiders were around 18th level.

The toughest quest I've had (considering my level) was trying to grab the eggs nearby; not only will the 23rd level Basilisks in the area aggro you easily, but you have to watch out for any stray Pridewings (22-23rd level).

When you finally get to the eggs there will be two 14th level baby spiders that will jump out of them. There's also a good chance that around the end of the fight a Matriarch spider will come to their rescue. 0.o

That quest alone took over an hour of studying the battle, setting traps, running to lose aggro, dying (once), and grabbing the few eggs that I could.

I want to thank my friend for talking with me in party; your words made the time pass by much more quickly, thank you. *smiles*

Crossing Over the PvP Border

2005-01-25T09:35:00.000-07:00

Naturally on a PvP server you're going to run into the enemy and exchange a few blades, preferably into their heart..

A couple friends and I happen to be questing down at the Amber mills when we had an idea to run to the Tarren mill to grab the flight path. We didn't really need it yet, though it was the thrill that we'd have to run from ?? monsters and try to avoid being seen by the Alliance.

As soon as we hit the border our flags go up and a ?? Human Priest runs toward us. We clench our teeth and attempt to run past him on the road...success! He doesn't even look back or /emote.

A sigh of relief and we keep running, on the path to the Tarren mills. Then, two big bears come out of nowhere (our low levels and they can spot us from 100' away, behind walls) and start to tear us to shreds.

We're about half health (with only one bear down 10% of its own) when a 37th level Orc comes in and slaughters them both in a few whirlwind hits. We thank him and keep running, even past a NE druid in cheetah form.

At this time I had all the things checked off my combat log so I couldn't see who was hitting me for what. I'll be putting that back on next time I play. >.<

So we're all now full health, running down the road when I spot a black panther up ahead. I can see its name and that it is level 29 so I figure it's horde, yet I can't see the owner. A flash around us and suddenly we're half health. We keep running straight while I'm moving the screen about trying to see what hit us, but we have no idea what hit us and from where.

About 20 seconds later we hear a growl and I notice out of the corner of my screen a Starving Mountain lion coming for me. By now I'm laughing my ass off as we've cheated death so many times;I just don't care if I die anymore.

The cougar keeps hitting me for about 25-38 points of damage but I know if I keep running that it should get bored and run away. Now I see a paladin to my side, but he doesn't attack, just runs near me.

Then I hear that familiar sound that I've heard hundreds of times; the whoosh of a Druid's Moonfire spell. One friend dies, 'whoosh' and another dies. I'm half health with a cougar on my ass and the fucking Druid had to hit me twice just to kill me. Amazing since our levels were 19, 16, 15, with me being the lowest; I should have died on the first blast.

So here's our death scene...

The best part about this was that our spirits were sent to the Tarren Mills graveyard; all we had to do was use the Spirit Healer! So they saved us a bunch of time running from ?? monsters. *laughs*

Though, we won't forget that they picked on something half their levels; We marked down their names and I'll send out the word to a few of my 40+ level friends to give these guys a rough time.

When I get up to their level (especially that NE Druid) I'll be sure to seek them out myself for a bit of cold revenge.

Change of Trades

2005-01-21T07:33:00.000-07:00

This is just a quick post to show that my favorite Rogue character has changed his two major trades from Leatherworking / Skinning to Engineering / Mining.
All the items in the backpack was gathered within an hours time so at the moment Mining is my favorite money-making skill :D

Why the switch?

This character is somewhat based off one of my favorite characters in the Planescape game that I created a couple years ago. He's 100% Xaositect, insane spiky green mohawk, wears goggles, breaking and making things for fun.

In the WoW game only engineers can wear goggles so I wanted to switch trades. Also, the thought that this character will one day be able to make an exploding sheep...well that's just awesome!

So here's a few pictures to show you him working with his new trades.

Amazingly enough he gathered the ore all by himself while competing with others for it!

76 ore in an hour isn't too bad...

You see where this is going to lead...

A Xaositect with dynamite!

***

For fun...

Sometimes even tuxedo-wearing bodyguards can forget to do their job.

To my good friend: I still forgive you, just won't let you forget that slip so easily. *grins*

WoW Music Video-Trip to the Bank

2005-01-18T06:07:00.000-07:00

Many of my friends emailed or whispered me in game about the video I found in the WoW forums and that if I could find more in the forums or WoW community to post them here.

The video below was taken by an Undead Rogue while he's paying a visit to the Bankerk in Ironforge. The Goon Squad is an awesome guild, very brave members that all try to find the most awesome (and dangerous) screenshots.

Thank you Goon Squad for such an awesome video!

Ironforge_bank

WoW Music Video -PvP for Alliance

2005-01-16T07:51:00.000-07:00

This has to be one of the best WoW videos that I've seen.

It contains some humorous scenes, pvp battles, and fuels a desire to go out and kill some Horde (or Alliance).

WoWSkindredNobody

Thank you to the people who participated in it, set the video together, and shared it across the WoW community forums!

Murlocs

2005-01-16T06:54:00.000-07:00

Yeah, you knew this post was coming; with my hatred of Murlocs and all. Actually I don't mind them so much, as long as they're far away from me, made into fin soup, or in a cage. *evil laughter*

A friend and I just raided a murloc camp in Darkshore. Thirteen Murlocs at once.
Now, all we need is a big stew pot...

Here's one of the typical Murlocs in Northern Tirisfall Glades.

These Murlocs charge up electricity to blast you with and at 9th level they are pretty tough. Usually one is an easy kill, but when there's one there's always at least 6 more coming.

We've killed the Murloc. Now all we have to do is wait for it to die...

*yawn*

This 'death scene' is so dramatic, takes about 10 seconds for them to finish it. All we really want to do is loot the corpse quickly so you don't aggro any more More murlocs.

Still waiting...

Ah, finally! It's good and dead. Or is it?...

A double-take and we realize that it's hand is still twitching while holding its dagger. No, this isn't a death-reflex; this Fuc#er keeps twitching for 5 minutes or more. 0.o

After seeing this a friend and I have come up with a new theory:

Murlocs don't really die; they're immortal and have annoyingly long death scenes only to make you think that they're dead. It's like feign death for hunters, only Murloc style. You loot the little bastards and they disappear; hiding in the shadows only to aggro you with all their friends, yet again.

Which explains the high Murloc population.

The amazing thing is that many people in the WoW game hate them but want to buy a murloc plush if the company makes them. More so if it comes with their classic gurgle when you move near them or poke their bellies.

I have to admit, I'd get a couple and probably set one on fire for fun.

Desolace and Alterac

2005-01-14T02:36:00.000-07:00

Here's some shots of my main character's adventures in Desolace and the Alterac Mountains.

This was right beside Desolace, in a deserted Orcen building. If you look closely, on the smallest rock in mid-center of the image is my human friend waving to me. Pretty big mushrooms eh?

This area is Desolace, near where the Kodo's come to die. Really looks like the Grey Waste in the Planescape game, brought shivers up my spine.

So, abandoning all hope here, I'm happy to say I only died once and it was because someones quest had gone very wrong; Spirit Kolkar turned on my friend who was nearby a quester. THe Kolkar Spirits kept multipling.

I figured they were like Nightmares that would disappear if you faerie fire'd them...was quite wrong.

To one Adnd buddy this magickal shell will be very familiar. I had dmed a game over a half a decade back where an ancient people was under attack and the only way to save their capital city was to cast a globe of protection around it.
It was neat to see this I was disappointed that there was no way in, though not suprised that I couldn't enter.

This is up in the Alterac Mountains, actually at the City of Alterac itself. I needed to get in here for one lousy book. Was quite fun and I don't know why but I was disappointed that the Ogre Magi's (oh sorry, Crushridge Mage *grins*) only real attack was a slow-ice spell.

Here's a close up of my Warrior friend with his sweet ass armor and deadly Katana on his back. I don't even want to tell you how many k his armor goes up to.

He looks like a bad ass but he's super kind, quite intelligent, and more thoughtful than I expected from a Warrior when I first met him ;)

And here I am, looking a bit more evil and sinister, much less like a Druid and very much like a Warrior or Rogue.

I really want my weapons to glow red just so this will all match. I might have to enchant my staff red for now until I can get either fist weapons or a good dagger.

Hobbies

2005-01-12T02:15:00.000-07:00

Everyone needs a hobby.

My favorite character just so happens to enjoy jumping off cliffs. A death wish? perhaps.

What's the real reason? Well, Out Of Character(ooc)-> this 'passion' for jumping started with a friend and I when we were playing the WoW Stress Test back in September.

We were sneaking around in the undeveloped Eastern Plaguelands and came across an empty zone. It was a big pit of nothing, not even proper earth tiles. Seeing as we were already dead, we decided to jump off the edge and into the pit.
We died. Yes, we died when we were dead.

It shocked us so much it created our desire for leaping off bigger cliffs when alive.

So, here are a few of the many cliff faces the Druid has had the pleasure of leaping from.

This jump was at the borders of Stranglethorn Vale/Duskwood. Not a bad jump, didn't die though.

This screenshot is decieving; It only looks like I'll hit the water Even with a running jump I hit the rocks below at the bottom.
Was a bit of trouble to get up there but worth the climb.

There are very good cliffs in the Wetlands. The best part is: If you don't die, the Raptors or Oozes at the bottom will get you, no slow death there.

I enjoyed leaping off this one, it was one of the biggest jumps in the area too. Raptors definately at the bottom of this one..not like it mattered.
Ah well, Dromaeosaurids could also be carrion eaters. *shrugs*

Here's me at the bottom of the cliff. I had under 800 health and fell for 979..not bad, wished it was 1k.

Always good to have a priest in the party.
Though my friend jumped with me..I'm just happy he survived and could ressurrect my now-shaped-like-a-pancake body ;D

To keep in with a bit of the roleplaying he 'survives' the jumps.

Well actually in the rp he doesn't but he has the 'Pet goldfish Syndrome'...or should I say 'Pet Frenzy Syndrome'. Which is:

Friends are with him, some stranger witnesses his jump and says "did he just jump off the cliff to die??", they reply with a simple "He's just sleeping."

As far as the Druid knows/believes, he's practically invincible; So when he dies he believes the spirit of nature that he is so much connected to re-warms his body, roots/moss gather up to mend him back together, and the moons of Elune (or whatever they are) breathe life back into him. Their gift to him for protecting Azeroth's wilds.

Nature seems to not mind his passion for leaping into certain death, so long as it makes him happy and he continues his love for the earth and a desire to protect it. The fact that he does not lose his spells for his continous jumps makes him believe that Nature not only does not mind, but encourages his bravery and passions.

And so he shall continue to leap...

Early Morning Adventures

2005-01-09T05:57:00.000-07:00

A few adventures of my main character yesterday morning.

I'm rushing around Elwynn Forest looking for a 50+ level Troll Hunter on a mount when out of the corner of my eye I see a griffon coming at me.

Yes, here is the proof. Griffon's hate this character, I'm sure of it. It might be a jealous revenge from all the times I've buffed riders passing by. *shrug*

Whatever it is, this one snuck up behind me in my Cheetah form and as I was about to fight off this griff (or scream and run for my life, hadn't decided yet) the griffon flew up and into Stormwind. *laughing*

I did pm the rider and asked what he saw, and he replied that his flight went as usual; no nose dives towards small cats or little gnomes. So only those on the ground could see this.

A Druid friend and I in Stranglethorn Vale with a new pally friend. The Druid behind me was the bear sitting on the catapult the other day in the Wetlands. I loved this scene as it seems to look peaceful even when there were enemies around us.

We spent some time down there dancing on a rock in the camp. Elven dancers look awesome with weapons in their hands, especially with a quarter staff!

The Human woman's dance is quite pathetic really as it's mainly the 'Macarana' and something like the 'butter churning' moves. Though, it does look pretty neat to see a battle-ready Paladin in full armor dancing. Well, not really -full- armor..

Let's take a closer look at this armor...

I understand this is a fantasy-based game and there's bound to be women in +10 loincloths with DD breast sizes but if I was an enemy and I saw someone wearing this...this would make my day.

Just look how many vital areas are exposed, a sword could happily thrust into this one without much trouble. I see the groin area, two major arteries vulnerable, the one down the center of her torso, insides of her elbows, her neck...

Ignoring the arteries/veins: Though you can't see her back, at a perfect angle upwards I could hit her kidneys, a thrust downward and it would bypass the breast plate into her heart. Ha! Breastplate, that's about all it's good for is covering the breasts.

That and her fingers are exposed from the poorly-made gauntlets. If I wanted to finish a fight quickly with little of my blood exposed I'd slide my swords down her own and hope to cut off those fingers so she couldn't strike back efficiently.

A thrust to the side of the knees and she'd be down, easy pickings while she sat there unable to run.

Though of course I took this picture with my Elven character so I shouldn't think about killing these pally's, at least, not while we remain allies to the humans; we'll see in the next few decades...

In the beginning I had just one character that was deathly afraid of murlocs, though the fear of them might extend to this Elf.

Why the hell are they here?! they're everywhere! I honestly thought there would be none in Stranglethorn..I was very wrong.

The brush to my right rattles as I'm hunting tigers/panthers so I'm expecting to hear a roar but instead I hear "LllggrRRGRLLRglllr!" and this little bastard jumps out.

I didn't want to mess with it that day especially with me being 6 levels under it, and I knew it'd be a close battle: Close battles by the way mean almost certain death by another creature when you're at 20 and under health.

An example would be fighing the 38th level Shadowmaw Panthers (sweet revenge!) with a hunter friend, an hour after taking this screen shot. We killed one Shadowmaw panther, only to be ambushed by a tiger and another Shadowmaw. The battle was dragged on and at the end we were all a bloody pile of guts and bones. Of course if we had survived then we would have bumped into the Basilisk that was melded about 10 feet away from us.

So here's my glorious retreat from the murloc last morning. No matter, in a couple days I'll be back with some improved spells and very hungry for some murloc fin soup.

Warrior Gnome -Mining for Trouble

2005-01-07T13:34:00.000-07:00

Just a couple pictures of my gnome; one a glich shot, the other is the type of shot which reminds you that, 'excessive greed is bad'. *laughing*

This started out as a mining glich; where you stand on top of the ore and while it disappears you remain 'floating'.

As I was sitting here, a 41st level paladin approached on his mount and stood there, trying to figure out how I was floating. I figured it would be a good rp..

"Invisible rock" I said

He replies "What?"

I sighed and said "It's my brother's fault, he was creating a potion for invisibility but all he could make was a fine powder. I was supposed to sprinkle it on me but you see, it affected only the rock."

The conversation went back and forth a few moments about gnomish inventions and then the Paladin took off, content with his thoughts that he really didn't see a gnome flying, that it really was just an illusion...

Poor little gnome. He didn't see it coming. After running from Kobolds in the Jangelode mine he decided to look elsewhere for copper ore. Suddenly two bright yellow dots appeared on his map. He rushed that way, not really caring why they'd appear on semi-flat areas of grass...

He ran straight into two wolves' dens, that'd be about 5-7 wolves each (level 7-9) and this picture was taken after he discovered the third wolves' den while runing from the first two. Poor bastard.

Different Perspective

2005-01-06T05:22:00.000-07:00

Here's just a few select screen shots of the funny -and fluked- things that my Night Elven character has encountered this week.

They may be brave, they may be dashing, but Paladins can't seem to ride horses very well. This one was caught riding up a wall.

*laughs at friend*

Busted! Well at least it wasn't in a well travelled area; I'd hate for his name to be tarnished *grins evily*

I loved this shot, the Yeti enraged right when I moonfired him. Usually the spell is deep purple with a white center.

Griffons are too damn suicidal. I've seen them fly low, almost taking heads off people, near dragons' maws, insanely close to tree trunks, and so on.

The one behind me that my friend is riding started to gain some speed and was about to smack straight into me. Of course it doesn't hurt, but when you've been killed by griffons before (with 400+dmg/hit) you get a bit nervous.

This is actually the 'after' scene. We were all going to line up and get a picture while our friend sat on the catapult.

At that moment some orcs spawned on top of us. We battled them but our priest accidentally feared one; causing the fleeing orc to bring about 5 more back into the fray.
We had over 10 orcs on us at once and we all died at the same time, was hillarious. :D

So this picture is after the fray. I'll probably go back with my friends for another round...well not today :P

I didn't get a screenshot of the flying pig that charged me the other day but I did get this one.
The Crocolisk -literally- took a poorly executed nosedive at me.

He didn't survive the impact.

The Deadmines -Death of VanCleef-

2004-12-30T19:01:00.000-07:00

Finally! Here is my adventure; the gruesome task of bringing in the severed head of a traitor to the humans; Edwin VanCleef.

Our journey through The Deadmines takes us deep into the heart of the Goblin Foundry. Much bloodshed occured, mostly the sickly green blood of the deranged Goblins.

Here's a nice action shot of everyone in the battle slicing a few squeaky goblins (and the Elite one as well). Our hunter friend in the far left weakening our enemies with his arrows.

This scene rocks! Not only is there a big @ss cannon down here, but it's useable. Sure you could reach your arm into that huge lock and pick it with your hands..but there's nothing like blasting the doors down to say with a simple boom; "VanCleef! We're coming for you!"

I wouldn't be suprised if people up in Sentinel Hill heard the blast.

Here's the first mate. A Tauren with two hidden rogues. On the first trip down here I didn't know about them (they're 100%invisible) and stupidly walked up to the chest, thinking to loot it first. Well the chest isn't lootable and only the first mate can touch it. He warstomps you then grabs the weapons inside..then as you're stunned he starts slicing you up.

Here we are working our way up to the top of the boat. Many pirates, parrots, and goblins..ah well, much better than the murlocs on the other side.

The goblin is killed and we can see VanCleef hiding in the cabin...his death nears.

The warrior charges with the panther as the rogue sneaks in behind. The hunter and I stay back, picking off the enemy with our ranged spells/weapons and healing the tanks.

At last! The hunter and I look over VanCleef's mangled body. I can finally rest as Westfall is now safe.

Well, I'll rest after my victory dance...

As we're leaving the cavern I take a final look back. I'm done with this place for good!

Fresh air and a beautiful night, a perfect scene after a viscious quest.

Here I am giving the bloody head of VanCleef to Gryan Stoutmantle. My name is called out as a hero to the people of Westfall. Though I know I could not have done this without the help of my good friends. Thank you.

WoW Winter Veil Poem

2004-12-26T14:17:00.000-07:00

Here is a little WoW Winter Veil poem that a guy in general had created:

'Twas a knight before Christmas and all through the realm,
The knight was upset for he'd misplaced his helm.

The hare meat was hung on the firehearth to cure,
The knight was a paladin; so his thoughts were most pure.

When what to the shock to his eyes should appear?
But 8 tiny gnomettes in clothing most sheer.

He averted his gaze just as quick as he could,
Something that any good Paladin would.

But they danced in a frenzy and tickled his toes,
And before he did know it,
They'd removed all his clothes.

The rest of the poem must not be dictated,
For the goings on then were most adult R rated.

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Thanks to the poet for sharing this poem in /general. And thank you again for giving me permission to put this up on this WoW-dedicated blog!

Btw, the creator of the poem: I believe was a Human Paladin (or warrior), strange coincidence don't you think? *grins*

Winter Veil Party!

2004-12-25T21:26:00.000-07:00

This party was hosted by an Undead lady who stated that "All, Alliance and Horde were welcome to attend".

The Winter Veil party turned out great. A couple accidental hits by one Undead and of course there were a few (even some under my level) that decided to attack the Alliance. I never countered, in fact I would sit if they attacked me. I died about 4 times in those couple hours and found out that the Horde-side partiers would /cry or /salute our corpses in sadness and honor. They also bitc#ed out the attackers and now some of them are on a few of the partiers shit-list; meaning the attackers won't be ever invited to their guilds/groups and will be ignored from then on.

I ended up becoming the Alliance-side translator that evening using mIRC and we did get a few words across. However, little verbal translation was necessary as /emotes worked well enough.

There was dancing, drinking and some snowball fights. Spells were also flashed about for show and/or on the target dummy that an undead created. I was also shrunk by an undead warlock which was awesome.

I know that I will definately attend the next party created by that hostess. I'm hoping though that the next one will be in a Neutral area like Ratchet or at least out of the way so that there's fewer party crashers.

An Elven trip to Gadgetzan

2004-12-22T18:49:00.000-07:00

A friend and I get ready to head off to the goblin city known as Gadgetzan. I've heard that it is a neutral town with an auction for both Horde and Alliance. After buying a kitten for the auction (to sell for cheap, more as a gift) we pack our bags and are ready.

Talking to the griffon master I find that the best route would be for me to head to Iron Forge then to Menethil Harbor.

Flying over the Burning Steppes, not much action here..

What is this? a tree in the middle of a room? and to top that off some careless shoper left their packages under it. *laughs* this tree's about 50' tall in game.

I turn the corner and what do I see? A fat old dwarf in his red underwear calling out to the little gnomes to sit on his lap so he can give them a present..truly sickening! *laughs* I found it cute and unfortunately there's no command to sit on Santa's lap. Heh, not like I'd want to though.

Speaking to the griffon master in IronForge we set off on a couple of crazy and low flying griffons over to Menethil Harbor.

Arial view of the Harbor, bit misty everywhere and it's quite early in the morning so there are few people about. Just what we're hoping for in the Barrens.

My friend and I meet up at the Griffon roosts and head off to the docks.

Waving bye on the boat to Thermamore.

Ah misty early morning, and not a guard in sight. Really glad the Horde doesn't scout this place around this time; would be easy pickings for them.

Running through the Dustwallow Marshes avoiding giant crocodiles and raptors which are eating my ears off...I 'barely' can soothe them with my drudic spells. I didn't tell the lady I was with that when a monster headed our way I'd go closer to it so that she was safe and yell "run". I survived of course and I'm happy to say that through the whole trip no monster attacked and killed her.

"Alright, shoot the giver of this travel guide"

Next time I won't visit when they say that the resort is an "open airy building, tons of fresh air and a great view all around".

Couldn't remember the name of this place..like it matters. (I'm sure it's for a high level quest)

This is the map of the Dustwallow Marshes, to see how far we've gone. (The 'Thousand Needles' is where we're heading, to the left and down of the map.)

Here I am on the 'Great Lift' (rogish friend behind me). We somehow managed to pass by the guards without them looking (seriously loving the panther's "prowl" ability). My friend hops on the lift and I run after, hoping to jump on..no luck; I slip off the top and fall...

I am dead and no it doesn't matter if you have more hit points than the amount of damage you fall; if you fall 400 feet as a panther and land on your feet you'll still have your feet go through your skull, winding up a pile of mush. This was the only death in our trip, caused by my carelessness. Fun though, wish I had taken a screen shot on the way down.

Prowling with the roguish lady through the horde lands, lagging behind a bit as this panther is still limping from the fall.

Unfortunately you can't see what I was taking a screen shot of. We managed to sneak past two more Tauren guards and as I was prowling I actually walked right through a stalking craig cat.

They are invisible unless you're really close, really high level, and/or they're attacking. The thing walked right through me even though it was about 7 levels higher, didn't notice me and then melded into invisiblity.

My heart just about jumped out of my rib cage from the shock of seeing one an inch from my face. Made me think of my poor 15th level undead that was graveyard camped by that level ?? shadow panther.

I remember this Thundering Boulderkin so I know we're close to the Shimmering Flats. I also remember that nearby is that damn Scalding Elemental, though I decide today is not the day to go after it.

Here we are in the Shimmering flats, early in the morning. We run by two Horde hunters that don't seem to notice us. I assume they were 'tracking beasts' only and didn't bother to check if we were horde. Ignorance truly is bliss.

I just thought it was a perfect picture as my Undead sat here in the same spot a month ago.

...enough is said in this picture.

This is where we travelled in Thousand Needles to the Shimmering flats. Not bad, not bad at all.

We met up with a very powerful warlock (human) who took the time -and trouble- to save our butts, actually mine as I was the lowest level of the group and the weakest is always attacked first. Soothe animal didn't work, so the Warlock had to scare this beast about 3 times. That crock was one persistent bastar#.

And here is the great city of Gadgetzan!..wait..this isn't a city!! more like a hamlet! Ah well, at least they have an auction, bank, wind travel, and inn here.

We split up in the city for a few moments and encounter some horde that seem to ignore us (I'm thankful as they're double my level). I looked in the auctions and saw that others were also selling kittens but for 1gp and 80sp each!

Being a generous Elf I decided to put the kitten up for only 50Sp (40Sp to buy, 10sp for my repair) as I was coming down here anyways and didn't feel like cheating anyone. After viewing the tacky pineapple wall paper and looking at the gladiator ring we both decided to leave, and quickly.

Flying from Gadgetzan, I didn't notice these docks. I think I'll come back one day and check them out.

In Thermamore Isle; misty, and still not a soul in sight.

We took the boat to Menethil and hopped a griffon back to IronForge.

I dislike these lands, but I find them quite beautiful in the early morning.

The Altar of Storms I believe it's called. Just something we passed by with our low flying griffons.

This was too close for comfort, though the other griffon I had one day flew so low that the dragon actually flew after and roared at me. Though I'm higher than I was last time I'd still like to be about 1000' further up in the sky.

I believe this particular dragons name is Hematos.

Ah and here we are flying back to Stormwind. The human lands never looked so welcoming *smiles*

We secured our flight paths in Gadgetzan and met a few kind souls out there.

Much fun (and fear) was had and so now I can't wait to take this trip with my 14th level Orcen Huntress, though I think I'll wait a few more seasons.

I hope you enjoyed reading/viewing this journey. Stay tuned for more adventures!

Until next time.

WoW Characters -2004-

2004-12-20T16:48:00.000-07:00

I've decided to keep 4 major characters, including my one main. I have 2 male characters and 2 female with 2 horde and 2 alliance (one gender for each of the two factions).

Some of these have been easy to play at low levels. Some (like the priest specifically) won't be very good until the later levels, say 28th and up.

I've found that certain trade skills when mixed together either make one lose money or make a crazy amount of profit, ie, my Priestess with Skinning/Herbalism almost made a gold at 8th level and could buy-out a kick ass wand and mace that normally she couldn't have earned until about 11th level. She's self sufficient and definately won't be looking for a guild.

The one that's losing the money is my Elven character with Tailoring. He didn't take Leatherworking as a friend can supply leather any time he needs. The problem is that he needs odd things like pearls (which he can never seem to find, even in Sealion form) and spider silk. Not once in his entire career of spider-killing has he found any silk by himself. Thankfully many of his friends stumble across silk/wool or can make the necessary ingredients, ie, elixers of wisdom.

I think with this Elf he'll just have to start the second trade, bring in money that way and buy the needed components via the Auction House.

With the training needed at levels the Elf will suffer, scraping for copper. The Priestess though, will probably buy a black stallion at 40th level (worth 1000gp) as she's so damn rich. *laughs*

Anyways those two characters are at the extreme of poverty/millionaire, here are my 4 major characters:

World of Warcraft

Character # 1

Name: ---
Race: Night Elf
Class: Druid
Level: 25
**
Favorite Weapon: Staff (Staff of Westfall)
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Shapeshift-Catform & Prowl**
Favorite Prof: Tailoring

Hobbies in game:

* Exploring the lands

* Prowling after low level characters; they only see my pet and some get confused as they see a kitten following them but don't know why or how it's possible.

*evil laughter*

* Buffing travellers that pass by

**
Server: Roleplaying Server (PvE)
Last Location: Darkshore; Auberdine.
Average play time: 5 hours/day
Total play time: 7 days

Character # 2

Name: ---
Race: Human
Class: Priestess
Level: 11
**
Favorite Weapon: Mace
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Lesser Healing & Smite

**
Favorite Prof: Skinning

Hobbies in game:

* Looking for skins/herbs/fish

* Making out carefully battle strategies; as any priest soloing needs to..

**
Server: Roleplaying (PvE)
Last Location: Goldshire
**
Average play time: 9 hours
Total play time: 9 hours

Character # 3

Name: Jezeka
Race: Orc
Class: Hunter
Level: 14
**
Favorite Weapon: Bow and arrow
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Hunter's Mark

**
Favorite Prof: Leatherworking/Skinning
Hobbies in game:

* Finding new and interesting pets.

**
Server: Roleplaying Server (PvE)
Last Location: CrossRoads **
Average play time: 5 hours
Total play time: 3 days

Character # 4

Name: ---
Race: Undead
Class: Rogue
Level: 10
**
Favorite Weapon: 2 daggers; Two weapon style
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Slice and Dice
**
Favorite Prof: Skinning

Hobbies in game:

* Pickpocket everything!

* Jumping, spinning, twitching; crazyness.

**
Server: PvP
Last Location: The Sepulcher
Average play time: 5 hours
Total play time: 2 days

An evening in Jezeka's life, and the Battle of Brill.

2004-12-18T18:02:00.000-07:00

Jezeka was in Thunderbluff that evening, putting Sarik (her pet owl) in the stables in search of a stronger pet. She loves Sarik of course but knows she needs something a bit tougher to guard her.

Looking through her list as she's running up to Ogrimmar she realizes she still has a pendant to place atop a grave in The Sepulcher; a town in Silverpine forest. Heading to the zippher post, she hears the battle cries of an Orcen grunt, then she hears his scream of death...

Running up the tower she smacks straight into a Night Elf with a pet tiger. Of course Jezeka's earlier encounters were friendly..if not strange, though this one had killed a guard! Jezeka fired a few shots at the lady (level 48) before being knocked unconscious by the Elf's tiger. (okay, I actually died. But hey, I'm rping here)

After a few minutes Jezeka awoke to find the guards lying in their blood and no Elf in sight. Figuring the Elf took the Zippher, Jezeka hopped the next one. Finding herself in the Undead lands she called out from the tower, warning others that an Elf might be lurking in the lands. Sure enough the Elf was around as someone screamed "She killed Gordo!"

Jezeka ran to Gordo's mangled body though he was already being guarded and revived by the necromancers of Brill. Twenty minutes of silence, the air was thin and cold and Jezeka shivered. "Well," She thought "That nasty Elf is not around, I should get rid of this pendant now" As she held up the old and broken pendant that an undead lady gave to her in ThunderBluff to deliver to the grave of the lady's dead husband.

Jezeka then burst into speed towards the Sepulcher, not stopping as the cursed pendant started to burn in her mind; hearing the words of the forsaken woman over and over in her mind "Betrayer"..

Running across a bridge along the way she spotted something out of the corner of her eye. Another Elf! Jezeka stopped, cautious yet friendly as she had only met 4 Elves in her life and all were peaceful except the one who killed the guard. The Elf raised his bow, Jezeka lowered her weapons. The Elf fired, Jezeka stood there in shock as she looked at the arrow that sunk deep into her shoulder. The Elf prepared to fire again and so she contorted her body down, hoping it would not strike her heart. The arrow hit her side and she fell to the ground, feigning death as she did not want to fight, was still confused by the Elf's actions...though, perhaps he was friend to the Elf that killed the guard...

She lied there in her own blood, breathing little, hoping the weeks she spent watching the possum 'play dead' would prove to be valuable at this moment. The Elf was convinced and ran down the road, heading for the Ruins of Lodaeron. Jezeka slowly opened her eyes and quietly pulled the heavy linen bandages from her bag, she then removed the arrows and covered the wounds, taking a potion so that she would not bleed to death.

Slowly she pulled herself up against the bridges rails and limped towards the Sepulcher. "I cannot fight them in this state." She said to herself and looked at the pendant "I must place this cursed thing on his grave, if I can only do that..."
And she continued her slow walking towards the Sepulcher, knowing she's surrounded by very strong and hungry beasts while her clothes are bloodstained, marking her as a very injured animal, just asking to be hunted.

Jezeka crawled up the hill to the Sepulcher and into the graveyard. Placing the pendant upon the grave she collapsed beside it. "How fitting.." she mused to herself "That I would die in a graveyard.." and darkness began to creep in. Swirls of shadow and light played about in her mind and the sound of voices in the distance "Over here! one of our allies has fallen!" she thought she heard. But no matter, death would come to her soon...

She awoke later that evening with amazement as she was upon a table surrounded by undead priests calling out to some darkened deity so that they may channel their healing energies to her.

Within minutes all her wounds had healed and she felt stronger than she had ever been in her life. She thanked the forsaken priests, giving as much money to their cause as she could..literally only having a few copper left and was proud to give such a donation, hoping it would stregthen their healing services in times of war.

Jezeka decided that being a hunter and being alone was not a good idea so she ran off into the woods to search for a pet. She found one, a great big grizzly bear. She slowly approached it, holding out a bit of meat and speaking softly to it. The bear charged at her though she expected this. Jezeka may not have accurately guessed the motivations of the Elves, but she knew animals well and could see that this bear was only trying to protect itself. She held up the meat and stayed calm. The bear stopped, a bit confused as it didn't know if this being was desiring to attack or if it was friendly.

After an hours time and about 10 good packs of meat rations the bear was convinced that Jezeka was his best friend. Jezeka and Brock the grizzly then headed off towards Brill, then the call came.

Someone yelled far in the distance "Brill is under attack!"

Quickly they ran towards Brill and saw bodies of both her allies and enemies scattered everywhere...

A cry for help came to her right. Her and Brock ran down into the ditch to see an Elven lady attacking an undead warlock. She did not know if it was the same Elf that she saw attacking the zippher guard but it did not matter, this Elf was hurting a friend and so the Elf will pay, with her life!

After finishing off the Elf they ran towards the tower where the sound of battle was ringing loudly in Tirisfal's cold night air. Atop the hill she spotted an oddly looking creature, he was pink and furry, more like a dwarfed upright bear. This was no beast of the forest and it was attacking the innocent townsfolk..she let loose a few more arrows and sent Brock to maul the imposter bear.

Convinced that the attackers were dead, the newly formed militia all headed back to Brill carrying the bodies of the few fallen hero's. As Jezeka and her new friends sat in the inn and introduced themselves, a forsaken ran inside screaming "They're here!! A whole army of them!"

Mouths dropped in shock, as well as ales, and all ran outside to see that a troop of living enemies were forming atop the hill. The few of us militia gathered, clearly outnumbered 3 to 1 and these enemies seemed to be seasoned warriors.

One Elven woman singled herself out by running ahead of her allies. She looked to be a second or third in command, if not the leader to the raid itself. Brock knew what to do and he charged ferociously at her as Jezeka loosed a few arrows into her side, also grazing her temple; stunning her in the process.

She sent out a furious attack at Brock, wounding him severly. When Jezeka had finished dispatching the Elf (with the help of her allies) she ran to Brock's side, reviving and mending him back to full health. She began to look for her next target, this time with a burning rage...

Screams sound ahead and an accompaning 'sizzle' sound as she sees many Undead running from a warrior with an aura of light around him. He's her next target. Jezeka sends Brock off to hunt him down as she runs up the hill behind him.

The Orcen Huntress's eyes flare with wicked happiness as she sees this Human man running in circles, screaming for help while her bear began to chew off his rump. She lets loose a few more arrows, some seem to miss entirely, others sink deeply into his sides and legs.

The paladin falls with a satisfying thump and the two; Jezeka and Brok run about looking through the bodies, making sure they're all dead. Then they notice a few strays off in the distance...

One of those little dwarf bears starts running in the direction of what the forsaken have said is a type of safe haven for humans; a monestary in the North East of Tirisfal Glades. Brock catches up with him as the Huntress lets loose many arrows, easily knocking this Dwarf backwards with the help of Brock. A Tauren also comes into the fight and stomps the Dwarf down into a pile of mush.

After destroying the thrid wave of attackers and picking off the strays, everyone meets back upon the zippher hill. Cheers in many languages are called and all celebrate a dance of victory!

Jezeka helps her allies bring in the bodies of the dead in front of the Town Hall to be ressurected. She later waves good bye to her new friends and heads off, back to Durotar.

***

To those that were there on that raid, thanks for the fun battle! Jezeka's character is really starting to develop with an understanding of some Elves are good, though most outside of their lands are not. As for the rest of the alliance, they're all evil in her eyes. *grins*

Note to the reader: I use an /everpvp program; so no matter if I'm in battle or not I'm almost always flagged for pvp. Meaning I can be backstabbed by alliance any time without my knowing. Makes for a more real and challenging game :P

An Orcen Hunter's Trip to Teldrassil

2004-12-16T10:02:00.000-07:00

This is the adventure I had with my newly created Orcen Hunter. I made Jezeka the other night because I have never played an Orc or a Hunter. I dislike playing Dwarves (because I'm sick of their lands) and Tauren. I've also had enough Troll characters.

As soon as I was able to tame pets I went straight for Teldrassil to tame an Owl.

Here's my adventure:

Nightsong Woods - Just past the top of the Barrens, this is the first of the Elven lands I had travelled in as Jezeka. There were few beasts around me (though they were level ??) and I saw my first Elf..though it was already rotten, near the guards.

Falfarren River - Not much of anything in the area. The beasts seem far off the road and I haven't seen any living Elves yet.

Ashenvale - Finally in a populated Area. Don't let the map fool you for there are many nasty beasts and humanoids here. I had to start alternating between the two trackings as I went further North. Demons, Bears, Spiders, Wolves, and all sorts of other nasty critters are running about here.

Astranaar - I manage to swim around the city though I met an Elven lady (also a hunter and level ??) that didn't turn /pvp but proceded to strip off her clothing.

My Orcen Hunter was terrified thinking "This lady is going to molest me! No wonder we don't like Elves!!!"

It was also as I ran from her that I was given a warm welcome by an Ashenvale bear. Not her bear, but some other level ?? that gave me a few 'love taps'. Thankfully I had a potion of healing and downed it when I was stunned (which resets the stunning so you can run again). I survived that Encounter, barely.

Ashenvale -Borders of Maestra's Post - Here I had seen a humanoid on my map running erratically. I figured it was a pc so I ducked out of the way. It was only one level 18 druid, but still 8 levels higher than me.

Ashenvale -Coast - Figuring that I'm going to start bumping into a whole load of high level Elves I decided to swim the coast. Hey it worked with my old Undead character when I went to the Human lands. I dodged a few Ghostpaw Alpha's/Runners level ?? to get here. All I saw at first on the coast were 19th level bucks.

Ashenvale Coast - Of course I've never been here as my hunter, nor any other race/class. Little did I know I was heading towards The Zoram Strand...

The Zoram Strand - Here's me running like hell from Wrathtail Razortails. You can actually see the look of fear on her face. Was quite hard to navigate here as there were both beasts and humanoids everywhere! I didn't survive this run.

The Zoram Strand - Here I am without tracking though I see a Mystlash Hydra right in front of me (and still the two Razortails nearby behind me). "Like Hell I want to ressurect now!!" Still, I find a way around them all and run my butt off into the coast waters.

Auberdine - I didn't add pictures of my swim up to Auberdine as it was pretty much uneventful except for trying to navigate around Costal frenzies, big ass water thrashers (think "Loch Ness monster" and you're on the right track) and some Elven Fisherman. I didn't know if the Elf would beat me with his fishing rod but I wasn't taking the chance so I stayed far away from him, also navigating around the bears, panthers..and murlocs o.0

So there I was in Auberdine and wondered how I could get into the inn to run on the docks. As I was pondering this some Sentinel snuck up behind me and killed me with one hit. That actually helped as all I had to do was ressurect on the docks above my body and it was free running to the boat.

Rut’theran Village - This part was the hardest; from Rut'theran Village to Darnassus as it was swarming with guards. So here I am dead.

Rut’theran Village - My spirit was back on Darkshore so I took a boat ride back to Rut'theran and here I see my body being camped by guards. And it wants me to ressurect..."f*ck that!" *laughs* Somehow I got past them and made it through the portal. I was dead on the other side as the guards there don't like orcen visitors either.

Darnassus - This part was easy to survive. I jumped in the waters of Darnassus, swimmed most of the way to the trade area. Then I ran across the city and managed to avoid the 12 guards at the front. I also walked by two of their Treants without trouble. Notice my durability is starting to go..not bad with only about 5 deaths for the whole trip.

Borders of Darnassus - I finally got out of town and now it's easy pickings as the guards are few and far in between. I'm fucking thrilled at the moment so I decided to dance beside an Elven body, just hoping someone would come by and shit themselves for seeing a level 10 orc in their lands dancing by a corpse.

Teldrassil - Finally! I find a perfect owl to tame. I named him Sarik and we decided to run around rampant in Teldrassil.

Dolanaar - Any closer to the town and we would have been squished by the Treant. Though no pc Elves were in the area so we moved along.

Teldrassil Map Shot - This is about how far I had gone in Teldrassil with no pc's noticing me. I suspect that most are ignorant and purposely left my everpvp off believing that they wouldn't bother to check if I was Elven or not; no one did.

Starbreeze Village - Hmm, I remember this place. My Elven Druid had died down here a few times when he was a bit higher level than me..so I'm not going further into this village.

Porting Home - I had practically bumped into an Elven Rogue before this shot. She melded though it didn't matter anyways, I wasn't about to attack her or even bother to be rude as she was 3 levels below me. She didn't make any agressive movements or /rude either so I figured that both sides were only curious..thankfully this Elf didn't strip as well. I waved bye to her and decided I had travelled far enough since I already got what I wanted (and I had been travelling from 4am to 8am so I was quite tired).

Razor Hill - Ah, home sweet barren home. Sarik, my newly aquired owl, adjusted very quickly to Durotar as the lower atmosphere and wide open spaces proved to be much more fitting for an owl. He also loved the Jerky I had in my rations pack so he'd follow me anywhere. (discovered all the fish I brought along on my journey was not liked by owls)

Durotar - Testing Sarik's abilities and gained 11th level! I see that my pet and I will make a good team.

As a side note, I named him Sarik after my old Tiefling rogue; Sarik was a pain in the ass to rp and most didn't like the character but couldn't survive without him. This owl was a pain in the ass to acquire and that's why I decided the name fit well.

I hope you enjoyed viewing these pictures as much as I did in taking them!

A special note goes out to two types of Horde I encountered the other night:

* To the few Horde players that said this couldn't be done, who laughed and ridiculed me because I said I would get an owl at 10th level by myself:

"I did it like I said I would so kiss my fucking ass!"

* To the other group of Horde that encouraged me and cheered me on, both before and after I got my owl:

"Thanks for the cheers! And if you ever want an owl pet or souvenir from Teldrassil I'll come with you as a guide!"

A day in the life of an Undead Warrior...

2004-11-21T20:04:00.000-07:00

...or should I say a day in the unlife.

Here is only one day of fun that I had in the few days I could play this character.

Deathknell: Picking off some mindless zombies for The Mindless Ones quest.

Deathknell: This boss wasn't for a quest at the time but he looked very much like a monster I encountered in a dream the week before.

Tirisfall Glades: A friend and I discussing poisons for rogues over a dead Cursed Dark Hound.

UnderCity: Just practising my fishing, can you imagine there's fish in that sludge?!

The Barrens: On Southern Gold Road; Taking in the scenery, heading down to Thousand Needles.

The Barrens: on Southern Gold Road; The Thunderhead pi$$ed off my roguish friend; who then decided to jump into the maw of the beast and slice it up from the inside.

Thousand Needles: There are a lot of Pesterhyde Hyenas in these lands. No matter that they're 20 levels higher than me :P

Freewind Post: Very beautiful and very dangerous land. Many mobs here ranging from 24th-30th level.

Freewind Post: HA! My favorite scene. In the first Stress Test a rogue friend and I (while we were dead) jumped off a very high cliff and both died, again.

I was thinking about that jump when I was up there in Freewind Post and wanted to take a good screen shot so I could send it to him saying "You thought that cliff in the Eastern Plaguelands was high? Well look at this one!".
Unfortunately I slipped and fell off with a resounding splat (184 hp damage).

I couldn't stop laughing for 10 minutes after! :D

Thousand Needles: Here I am dead and running back to my body. I died a lot in these lands and my durability sucked horribly by the end of the day though I still had fun, also enjoyed all the screen shots and interesting mobs.

Freewind Post: I'm back on the top, though much farther from the edge; I learned my lesson. I also watched the sun set while waiting for a friend's quest to be finished.

Darkcloud Pinnacle: See this? It's called a Scalding Elemental, they have very, very good vision. Seriously, they can see you coming from behind walls. >.<

It was an entertaining death of course, especially when your guide dies in front of you and a Pesterhide Hyena joins in to finish you off. But of course you don't realize this yet as you're still focusing on the Scalding Elemental... :P

Whitereach Post: And the Tauren race can get these as mounts!! I wanted a mount but I still had 33 more levels to go before I could get one. (was 7th level the whole time I was out there)

The Shimmering Flats: A very long run in an almost empty desert. I noticed some odd looking giant turtles, they didn't attack though. This desert is south of The Barrens.

The Shimmering Flats: Here I am at the Mirage Raceway. Full of Goblins, Gnomes and dwarves with a two headed ogre in the mix. Other than those and it's devoid of life ;)

...Roaches don't count as truly 'living' (I swear they're immortal).

The Shimmering Flats: Still at the Mirage Raceway watching a race that's about to start. Okay it's a bit familiar to some other fantasy storyline (especially with a two headed ogre as the announcer) but hey I'm not complaining. It's too bad they don't give the option to bet :/

Tirisfall Glades: Ahh home plagued home, never felt so good to be back here. I met up with another rogue friend; the same one I jumped of a cliff with in the first stress test. We kicked some good zombie @$$ that evening.

Agamand Mills: Watching a Moon (I don't know which one it is) setting down across the sea.

Well there you have it, one full day of exploring and being slain by mobs. Very fun!! :D

And it's only 18 pictures out of the 89 pictures I took for this character alone. I will definately play this character again at retail.

WoW Stress Test and Open Beta Characters

2004-11-19T14:52:00.000-07:00

Here are the main characters I played during the 1st Stress Test and the Open Beta.

I'll probably try and re-create them again as these three were my favorites :)

World of Warcraft

Open Beta Character

Name: Temporarily Withheld
Race: Night Elf
Class: Druid
Level: 13
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Favorite Weapon: Staff
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Shapeshift-BearForm
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Favorite Prof: Tailoring

Hobbies in game:

* Making pouches for free or at low cost

* Exploring

* Raiding Horde lands

* Buffing travellers that pass by

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Server: Roleplaying Server # 35
Last Location: Teldrassil; Darnassus
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Average play time: 13 hours/day
Total play time: 2 days

Open Beta Character

Name: Rusk
Race: Troll
Class: Mage
Level: 6
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Favorite Weapon: Staff
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Fireball

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Favorite Prof: nil
Hobbies in game:

* Getting polymorphed by Vodoo shaman

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Server: PVE: Server 3 (Eastern)
Last Location: Troll Spawn Area
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Average play time: 3 hours
Total play time: 6 hours

Open Beta Character

Name: Withheld
Race: Undead
Class: Warrior
Level: 7
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Favorite Weapon: Sword
Favorite Spells/Abilities: Rend

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Favorite Prof: Fishing (skill 60)
Hobbies in game:

* Exploring

* Dying from mobs 20 levels higher

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Server: Non-PvP Eastern
Last Location: nil
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Average play time: 5 hours
Total play time: 9 hours

1st(Old) Stress-Test -Played September 2004-

Character -deleted-

Name: Withheld
Race: Undead
Class: Warrior
Level: 15th
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Favorite Weapon:
Logsplitter or One handed Axe & Shield

Favorite Spells/Abilities:
Lightning Strike/Rend
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Favorite Prof: Fishing

Hobbies in game:

* Fishing in Dangerous areas (like Silverpine Forest's Fenris Isle)
* Exploring and Mountain Climbing
* Touting in UC

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Server: Non-PvP
Last Location: Tirisfal Glades; Ruins of Lordaeron

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Average play time: Was 22hrs/login
Total play time: 4 days, 12 hours.
Picture: Not available

WoW Blog

2004-11-13T14:29:00.000-07:00

This blog will be specifically for my characters in the World of Warcraft game.

I'll include short stories and screenshots of their experiences in game; quests, great battles, funny encounters, landscapes, and so on.

Enjoy!