tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29984856572443276432024-02-07T20:19:12.037+00:00Altoholic AnonymousUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-4557812418329580192017-05-29T15:23:00.000+01:002017-05-29T15:23:11.295+01:00The World Could Always Use More Heroes<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You've heard me mention that there is a new love in my life - one of three main Blizzard games that I have fallen in love with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cast your minds back to Blizzcon 2014 - an entire section of PCs was blocked off, no one knew what they were going to be for. Rumours were abound that there was going to be something new, but no one expected the announcement that was to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with any new game, OW has had a few teething issues and balancing problems over the course of the last year. The game originally released with 21 heroes available to play, with many streamers and people lucky enough to get in the beta before the game launched there was a lot of testing and pushing of mechanics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The game itself has been likened to Team Fortress 2 with similar team comps and a lot of people changed from one to the other once OW went live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beta and release of Ow also promoted an explosion of highly skilled players streaming the game, giving it a wider audience and creating overnight popularity for some people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overwatch released on May 24th 2016 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on PC, Xbox One and PS4</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The servers were surprisingly stable for such a large global release, and knowing the issues that Blizzard repeatedly have on release days with server problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By June 2nd 2016, Blizzard announced that they already had 7 million players across all platforms - Blizzard had released OW. Blizzard stated that t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">hese 7 million players logged over 119 million hours, swapped heroes 326 million times, and delivered 11 million payloads in the little over a week since the game released. To say that the game had been a runaway hit was a slight understatement and must have been a relief to Blizzard as it was a gamble with a game so different to their other releases.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">My personal love affair with the game began when I was lucky enough to get in to the beta. I had never played any kind of FPS game before so was a little apprehensive about trying it, however my love of Blizzard games as a whole was enough to get me to at least try it out.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Thus began my obsession with this game. I no-lifed the game throughout most of the beta, even watching people like Seagull play the game while I personally was not playing. WoW had reached a lull in content at this point so I was glad of something to do, even if I wasn't very good at the game itself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I tried out most of the characters, enjoying the dynamic of playing against the AI with my friends while we worked out which characters worked well together and just generally having fun.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">After a time, playing against the AI wasn't enough so I dove into the hectic madness of quickplay - back before there were such things as hero limits. It was a gamble whether you were going to get a composition that worked or whether you would end the match as confused as when you entered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I very quickly fell in love with Mercy - I've always enjoyed healing in games, and it didn't require me to be able to aim. I am a literal Mercy main.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif;">She inspired me to pick up my pencils for the first time in a very long time when the game first released, and I still love playing her to this day, though I have tried to expand my hero choice slightly (I'm not usually very successful at this!!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the course of the past year I have put a fair few hours into the game, but still not as many as others, and while I have dabbled in the competitive scene, it is definitely not something that I excel at.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were many differing opinions on garrisons, and these ranged from people being upset at the content being gated behind a certain point in the garrison storyline, to problems with instance servers and complaints at one factions garrison style looking way better than the other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent large amounts of time in both styles of garrison, and personally felt that the Alliance one was more aesthetically pleasing. The Horde design went with the usual outpost full of spikes theme that we seem to get lumped with all the time - I think Blizzard forgot about the beauty of the Blood Elf zones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There wasn't much customisation available for the garrisons, other than seasonal decorations and you could get an auction bot if you collected all the relevant parts, and due to gathering professions such as mining, herbalism and fishing able to be completed in garrisons, many people hardly left them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was a quick seven boss raid, all pretty standard tank and spank encounters, with the exception of Brackenspore where ranged had to use a flamethrower to stem the tides of moss looking to cover the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's been a while since I frequented these dusty halls </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, to look forward, we must cover what happened in the past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WoD as released on November 13th 2014. As I wrote at the time, the launch was not the smoothest with long log in queues and high latency for many, including bottle necking while levelling with the start of the garrison - a new feature added by Blizz that everyone had to partake in to be able to continue with the storyline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Through WoD, I managed to meet my goal of getting at least one of every class to level 100. This did end up meaning a few multiples of certain classes (e.g. hunters and paladins), as well as a few others dotted around. By the end of WoD I had 19 level 100 characters spanning both factions, and even two different regions as I had been playing on the US as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My guild underwent a rebrand as well during WoD, changing from The Drafia to Seren. This ended a period of uncertainty for us and we are still going strong today as our progress on the left hand side shows. For those wondering about the new name - it is Welsh for Star, hence the logo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fast forward two years to 2016. We are in the longest content drought since WoW began with many people fed up of Hellfire Citadel. The previous Blizzcon a new IP for Blizzard had been announced - a FPS game called Overwatch, a completely new direction for Blizzard. I was lucky enough to get into the beta, and absolutely fell in love with all of the new heroes. The first cinematic that was released mesmerised me, and even my nephew fell in love with it and I had many requests to play him "the video with the monkey who gets his glasses broken"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Playing on Draenor EU meant we had whopping queue times on launch, most of which I manage to evade, however one evening did see me taking around five and a half hours to beat the almighty Queue Boss!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My hunter was the first char I decided to level (of course!), and I went through each zone doing every quest I could find, not moving on until I got the achievement and bonus objective achievement for each zone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doing this found me many items and toys (which was fantastic!) including this toy that turns you into a tree!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My hunter is max level, and has also done the lovely taming quest thing for Gara the spirit wolf! (I would take more in game screenshots but currently getting World Server Down message on the hunter, as she is in her Garrison and they seem to be having issues at peak times on Draenor still ^^)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shammie is currently 91, but also picking up herbs along the way for extra XP, as well as all the little toys and gear and garrison resources. Because of the added gathering prof, I foresee this char taking less time to level than my hunter, plus I won't be reading all of the quest texts this time around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As such, I server and faction changed my 2nd 90 hunter, sending her over to Silvermoon and changing her from a Goblin to a Dwarf. I decided to go a bit different to my usual Nelfs and Draenei!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that's the plan to keep myself amused between now and WoD (or between now and getting Beta access!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We shall see how long it lasts, but I would like to get this hunter as well geared a my main back on Draenor!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-2567340900495829222014-07-22T08:58:00.000+01:002014-07-22T08:58:28.016+01:00The Waiting Game<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Howdy folks, long time no blog!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As most of you know I stopped writing quite a while ago as I was getting bored with no new content and running out of things to blog about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the ever increasing amount of information available about the Beta, my excitement for the game is slowly growing (even though I still try not to read too much about it).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However one of my friends now has Beta access so I'm going to be finding out more about the hunter changes than I would have on my own so I figured its time to brush off the blog!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the last time I played I have levelled a Holy Paladin to 90 via PvP (and discovered that healing BGs isn't as bad as I once thought!) I had a lot of fun levelling her and even started to gear her up before I got distracted - that is something I intend to go back to at some point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have also bought the Digital Deluxe edition of Warlords of Draenor for my main account! I recently also started a new job (yay!) so my time online and generally looking for stuff to do is lessened :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used my free char boost on a Dwarf Warlock I still had back on Steamwheedle Cartel so I have been busy taking her around the Timeless Isle getting her some gear. I also server and faction changed one of my hunters so she is now a Dwarf on Silvermoon - she is busily gearing up as I intend to have a horde and alliance main next expansion. I also bought myself a level 90 Night elf Shadow Priest on Draenor to mix thing sup a little!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus I have plenty to keep me busy over the next few months, as well as many achievements and loose ends I intend to tie up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally reached exalted with Darkmoon Faire on my druid, and am working on some of the other reputations that I need to hit my 50 reputations achievement. I'm also 20 mounts away from my 200 mount achievement so will be looking to try and complete both of those at some point between now and the start of WoD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Drafia is kind of hibernating until WoD with many of the usual people taking breaks as the lack of content is just too much to take but I am keeping things going as best I can, and there are still some people logging on regularly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If any of my readers have guilds on Silvermoon looking for a ranged DPS or Flex/Normal SoO drop me a message as I'm looking to get my Dwarf into the action and geared as much as my main hunter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other than that, I shall try to get back into the rhythm of posting more regularly, as well as throwing up Beta info as my friend finds it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ciao for now! </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-10394656800222528652014-04-03T13:35:00.001+01:002014-04-03T13:47:02.657+01:00Starting Over - But Not Really<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I try and rehabilitate myself back into playing WoW, (for those of you that don't know I have a broken wrist and it is in plaster, making it awkward to play atm), I have finally been levelling some characters on my US account.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have also been experimenting with how to actually make some gold for these characters as they are starting from scratch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mostly I have been doing this on Kil'jaeden as I have managed to get my hunter invited to the Sub Only guild created by Towelliee (for those of you not aware of who he is, he is a streamer - you can find his channel <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/towelliee" target="_blank">here</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So my "main" character is called Aurorasofia and she is, yes, a hunter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She has been experimenting with herbalism and the Auction House. So far she is level 19 and has 159g (roughly, still waiting on some sales).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She also seems to be operating a small stable in her back pack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Screenshot is old - she has received about another 15 mounts since then!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My secondary character is a Rogue called Sofe that I have purposefully levelled to 15 so that she is able to pickpocket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She shall now be spending her days pick pocketing the level 90 Kor'kron mobs in the Barrens, and mining and herbing in between.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One pass through of the Kor'kron by the meat part has netted me 26g and some tidy gold in sellable junk:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not sure how long I shall keep this up, but it's been kind of nice starting over completely, but still having all the knowledge I have gained since playing my main accounts.:)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-14231583401776113172014-03-31T09:26:00.001+01:002014-03-31T09:32:11.260+01:00The Liebster Awards<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many of you will have seen this doing the rounds and I think it's awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got nominated by Rinike of <a href="http://rinike.com/">Rinike.com</a> and to quote the quote of what the Liebster Awards are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have found some rules posted elsewhere so shall pop them here as well:</span></div>
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<a href="http://wordingwell.com/the-liebster-award-the-official-rules-my-first-blog-award-and-a-few-personal-secrets-revealed/" sl-processed="1" style="color: #fd5a1e; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="liebsteraward" class="alignright wp-image-12490 size-full" src="http://tomeoftheancient.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/liebsteraward.png?w=450" style="border: none; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2px 7px; max-width: 98%; padding: 4px; text-align: right; width: auto;" /></a>If you have been nominated for The Liebster Award AND YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT, write a blog post about the Liebster award in which you:</div>
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1. thank the person who nominated you, and post a link to their blog on your blog.</div>
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2. display the award on your blog — by including it in your post and/or displaying it using a “widget” or a “gadget”. (Note that the best way to do this is to save the image to your own computer and then upload it to your blog post.)</div>
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5. nominate 5 – 11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have a less than 1000 followers. (Note that you can always ask the blog owner this since not all blogs display a widget that lets the readers know this information!)</div>
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7. list these rules in your post (You can copy and paste from here.) Once you have written and published it, you then have to:</div>
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8. Inform the people/blogs that you nominated that they have been nominated for the Liebster award and provide a link for them to your post so that they can learn about it (they might not have ever heard of it!)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My only problem now is choosing people to nominate that haven't already been nominated!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I don't know how many followers some of these have (but I'm going to nominate them anyway!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miss Salvira - <a href="http://salvirashangout.blogspot.se/">http://salvirashangout.blogspot.se/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big Bear - <a href="http://thebigbearbutt.com/">http://thebigbearbutt.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liopleurodon - <a href="http://battlepetroundup.com/">http://battlepetroundup.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Laeleiweyn - <a href="http://laeleiweyn.blogspot.co.uk/">http://laeleiweyn.blogspot.co.uk/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Erinys - <a href="http://harpysnest.wordpress.com/">http://harpysnest.wordpress.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Godmother - <a href="http://www.alternative-blog.net/">http://www.alternative-blog.net/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, here are the questions that Rinike asked:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. When and why you started blogging?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">27th June 2013, and I decided to start blogging as I had read a few good blogs that I found via Twitter, and after deciding I wanted to write about WoW like The Godmother</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Usually just the game music, either WoW or Diablo, tho I listen to Towelliee if he's streaming</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What else do you like doing apart from gaming?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is your best WoW (or other game) memory?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is your favourite colour?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read all the lore or speed level?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are you a one character kind of person or an altoholic?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you could design one aspect of WoW, what would it be?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Horde or Alliance?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you have any pets in RL?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What inspired you to start blogging?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the past week or so I have only been playing Diablo 3. This has mostly been to try and get my characters ready for Reaper of Souls and to get my Witch Doctor and Barbarian to 60 (mission accomplished!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Initially when I started the project I was lamenting the fact that I would not be able to buy Reaper of Souls until after it's release date due to funding issues, but a very kind friend has since bought it for me so all things going well (and as long as the game code arrives today!) I should be able to play it at the same time as everyone else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I've noticed that I don't take as many screenshots on Diablo as I do in WoW, despite some of the graphics being equally stunning - but in a different way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My current favourite character is no longer my Demon Hunter! (Shock! Horror!) I have been immensely enjoying my Wizard so she may be the first one to try Act V (If I ever finish replaying the quests after I had reset them >.>) I am also looking forward to making a Crusader!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've not really bothered saving much gear for a Crusader as with the new loot system I've found that my characters have geared up fairly well on their own as they level - however I have saved a couple of Flails, just because they happened to drop!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though I have levelled the Witch Doctor and Barbarian to 60, I'm still not overly fond of playing them, the Witch Doctor especially, so they may just sit there and do nothing, not sure yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If any of you are thinking of coming back and checking out Diablo and Reaper of Souls I would heartily recommend it as the new loot system is awesome and the gameplay is so much more fun with the new difficulty levels - levelling a new character in Torment 1 at low levels if you have a character at level 60 already is awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I shall be coming back to WoW eventually (and will likely still be logging in for raids) but for now I shall just be playing Diablo! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other news, my very good friend and guidlie Arideen has finally joined both Twitter and the Blogosphere! He has decided to keep from being bored in the coming months he is levelling a characters from scratch on a new server with no heirlooms to try and recapture the initial joys of levelling. He is going to write about it in his blog and chronicle his journey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can find him on Twitter under the name <a href="https://twitter.com/LunaManifestum">@LunaManifestum</a> and you can find his blog over at <a href="http://arideen.blogspot.co.uk/">Arideen's Hunt</a> go give him a follow!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-75571821844011783192014-03-16T10:58:00.001+00:002014-03-16T10:58:54.682+00:00Reliving the Levelling Experience, With no boost to 90!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So as some of you may have seen on Twitter earlier this month, The Godmother proposed a challenge of sorts - level an alt from beginning to end, without using a character boost to 90, to relive the levelling and rediscover what it's all about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It took me ages to decide whether I was even going to do it as I have way too many alts and half levelled characters as it is, but the mood has taken me to level another one so figured I may as well do this too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is a paladin, who shall be levelled as Prot. I haven't decided whether to stick mostly to questing or bash through some dungeons yet, but we shall see how it goes!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-87786654412666357232014-03-11T10:52:00.000+00:002014-03-11T10:52:40.635+00:00Can You Hear the Cries of Horror?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As most of you are no doubt well aware by now, this happened yesterday:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most peoples' instant reaction was a kindo f shock and horror at that "release date" (hence the blog title ^^). T</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he reason I'm putting this in quotation marks is that it was confirmed by </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">@WatcherDev on Twitter that its basically a placeholder, but we're still looking at a "Fall 2014" release which would be September onwards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I want to go ahead and buy the pre-order now to get my 90 boost, Its just outside of my budget currently (especially as I want the Digital Deluxe, which is £10 dearer than what we paid for the DD of MoP!) so shall have to wait a few weeks to afford that. This week's money shall be going on the pre-order of Reaper of Souls!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In guild news, we had a bit of a blip this past week as two of my Officers left the guild to seek out higher progression raiding elsewhere (one of which was technically our raid leader). On the part of one of these it came as no surprise as he had been talking to me about it for a few days while he tried to make his decision as he liked being in the guild, so I advised to do whichever makes him happiest as at the end of the day, it is a game and he should be doing the things that he enjoys most. The other person leaving did come as a surprise as they didn't have the decency to forewarn me. However, I wish them both the best in their new guild.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luckily, our raid team is still going with the help of our lovely tank Raidhoof who has recruited in a couple of his old guildies and taken over raid leading, so hopefully good times are ahead!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now outside of WoW I occasionally watch a few streamers, but I mostly watch Towelliee. During the week I managed to get into a World Boss run with him (woo mini claim to fame xD) and it was much fun ^^</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And yes I was sad enough to take a few screenshots :D (He is the Undead Monk to the right of the Tauren on a raptor, an yes I even screenshotted my friends list xD)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along with many others I suspect ^^</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new patch is out with Loot 2.0 (which is fantastic btw) and everyone has 50% xp buff up until the release of Reaper of Souls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love Diablo, I'd never played it before I got my free copy of Diablo3 with the annual Pass prior to Mists of Pandaria coming out, but even at first with all the issues the game had I fell in love with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I managed to complete the game on Inferno eventually many months ago when more changes were made and left the game again until recently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The paragon level system adds a new level of gameplay and it's fun deciding where I want to put all the Paragon points on my various characters (after all, I am still an altoholic!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Barbarian and Witch doctor are still very low as I'd not really tried them much before, but I'm really enjoying the spell and skill changes and will no doubt work on getting them to 60 eventually!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I shall also be buying the expansion (but likely shortly after it goes live due to fundage!)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-33023380890069315552014-03-04T01:04:00.004+00:002014-03-04T01:04:47.244+00:00Colourful Hunter Pets!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I have mostly been playing Diablo 3 since the patch...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, I also went and got myself a full team of Warp Stalkers for my hunter, all in different colours!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Warp Stalker is my favourite type of hunter pet, I just think they look really cool and "different".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here they are in their multi-colour glory (courtesy of Stampede <3)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are on the look out for a pet that is slightly different, you can't go wrong with a Warp Stalker!</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-48432411353853459132014-02-25T10:34:00.000+00:002014-02-25T10:36:27.144+00:00Information Overload (If You Let It Anyway)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading The Godmother's recent <a href="http://www.alternative-blog.net/2014/02/confusion-waitress.html#sthash.vnxJpL9t.uxfs">blog</a> has inspired me to actually write another one of my own!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As she reminds us, we have recently been informed that there is basically a metric ton of information about Warlords of Draenor that the Dev team have ready that hasn't been shared with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This mountain of information shall soon be coming our way and as she points out, there are many different ways that people try to deal with all this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I shall no doubt do what I always do when there are large patches/expansions upcoming - which is largely nothing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like the rest of the fan base, I know there is a lot of information out there, and I even skim read some of it, but largely, I tend not to actually read up on everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't mind big things being out there, and I will inevitably read some massive spoilers (either from clicking MMO-Champion or such like, or from Twitter) which I have no issue with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However I don't tend to actively go and seek all the information I can possibly find on a new patch or expansion. This inevitably means that I log in on patch day and have no idea what has changed and just joyfully bask in the excitement of my guildies as we all tell each other what we've found out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will admit, I do tend to skim read over and look for anything that might be changing for hunters, considering that is my main class I play, and I sometimes read up on some of the changes that might affect my other alts (but not always!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mostly, I rely on the interpretation of said notes and information from the blogs that I read and use that as my basis for understanding what is coming rather than the official Blizzard released information (which usually leaves me with some varied feelings on the different aspects of changes incoming ^^).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did read about the upcoming changes to heroic dungeons in Warlords of Draenor and the fact that they will need a Silver in Proving Grounds to be able to PuG them, which did worry me as it was something I hadn't attempted (having only just gotten Bronze when I initially did it). I do a fair amount of my dungeons as PuGs, despite being in a guild. (Yes I could ask guildies, but half the time I feel that I would slow guildies down so would be better off with randoms - yes I know that's a silly point of view :p).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I logged in and after updating the guildies that were online of the upcoming change sent my hunter off to do Proving Grounds until she got Silver, and proceeded to one shot it. It seems having a large amount of gear since last trying helped the situation somewhat!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other News, I have been attempting to get the green fire scenario done on my Warlock (to much frustration). I have managed to make my way through to the last boss, but can't quite manage to kill him. Have also been attempting to learn how to play Destro which possibly wasn't the best time or place to do that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However one of my guildies has written a lovely guide on our forums and I aim to have finished this before WoD comes out (either that or wait till I'm 100 and zerg the sodding thing xD)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So to round off, I may only read some of my usual blogs in the upcoming months in an effort not to read too much about the upcoming changes, but I still love you all :p</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(That being said, gief all the information about Garrison!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any ideas or designs would be awesome as we need updating I think :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which is very nice, but I feel we need a change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Current one is roughly 710 x 260.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We would also be interested in one that is roughly 1436 x 104</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only stipulation is that it says The Drafia, Draenor EU, and that it has the Mafia guy on it somewhere (preferably - i'm open to other options!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So go ahead, show us your skills!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-19104801183114054022014-02-20T10:17:00.001+00:002014-02-20T10:17:19.998+00:00Bear-ly Made It!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have finally managed to finish this dungeon (after many years and giving up back when it was a raid - at least I remember Zul'Aman being a raid!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my guildies ran through it last night and got his bear mount, and I realised that it was an easy mount I hadn't yet managed to get.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now as I have the sense of direction of a new born kitten (I get lost in game stupidly easily, even after all this time!), I persuaded my friend to come with and run it again on an alt so I could make it through in the required time and get me a snazzy bear mount!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much running around and killing of things later I had my bear! And then discovered there were still more bosses to kill (cos who knew!? xD)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So for a short amount of my time I got a few new achievements and a lovely new mount!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The guild 10 man team finally managed to kill Garrosh so much rejoicing was had! I didn't manage to make it to that run, but I'm glad the guys finally got him down - now on to heroics!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She has however reached a respectable level 68, and I'm going to wait until she hit's 70 before sending her packing to the cold north. Her current levelling path has her questing in Blade's Edge (and whoever thought that two quests to kill two different sets of 30 ogres was a good idea, oh my gosh :-p) and its a place that makes it hit home how large and (for the most part) empty a lot of these areas are now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've purposefully stayed away from a lot of the information about the new zones and thigns we may see (granted there isn't a LOT of information, but I always do this as I prefer to have a very vague knowledge and be pleasantly surprised when its released). However flying around today, I can't wait to see what a lot of these areas used to look like, when we head forth into Warlords of Draenor. I know the zones aren't going to exactly match what we see in Outland today, but part of me from a purely historical point of view wants to be able to match up what used to go where and try and figure out what made it how it looks today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm still faffing about levelling alts (current project an Undead Frost Death Knight).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However I've also discovered the joys of Pokémon on the Nintendo 3DS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've never played any of the Pokémon games before so this rather quick addiction has taken me by surprise. I'm currently working on finishing my Pokédex on Pokémon Y, while playing Pokémon X to find some of the 'mons that are exclusive to that game so I can transfer them over using Pokébank.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In general WoW news - how good does that Garrison art look!? From the mumblings and hints that we'd heard (seen), and the art of the new character models, I suspected that we were going to be getting some visually stunning designs. Mists of Pandaria has been a very pretty expansion and I've loved just looking at the scenery on my travels, even stopping to take screenshots randomly on occasion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since my last post I have made a new druid, who is currently residing in the all Druid Guild Druids of the Beast over on Shadowsong. She will likely go the same way of my poor Warlock in The Tweeters guild on Doomhammer and be rarely logged in, but I will level them both eventually and enjoy being able to connect with people I interact with on Twitter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other news, The Friday Fun Run group went to Mogu'shan Vaults! I know, a proper grown up raid!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent the Thursday and Friday actually levelling my priest to get to 90, and she hit 90 at about 4pm. Queue me rushing around alts finding Timeless Isle gear, and taking said priest off to the Isle for her free Burden!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The raid itself went fine, but I definitely felt a little overwhelmed healing wise, and definitely felt very low on mana on more than one occasion. I need to do some more reading up on holy at 90, but for now, I have switched her to disc and will try that :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In wider WoW news, new character models for human female have been released! Even when I played Alliance, humans were one of the last races that I would choose for a few reasons. The biggest reason is that I felt playing a human in a fantasy game was a waste of a character, but also, the fact that the model itself looked completely naff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am so glad that the new model looks so good, it gives me hope for the rest that we are yet to see (I'm even starting to hope that troll females will have more than one face to choose from!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apart from this, I have mostly been playing Donkey Kong on my 3DS, and am awaiting the arrival of Pokemon Y (the first Pokemon game I will have ever owned) to see what all the fuss is about!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-48282334413747268282014-01-20T10:40:00.000+00:002014-01-20T10:40:32.578+00:00The Important Things in Life<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few things have happened in real life this weekend that have made me appreciate what, and who, I have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You've heard me talk about my Nephew many times. On Saturday morning, we heard the sad news that his other Grandfather (his Mum's Father) had suddenly died from a heart attack. My Nephew's Mum and my brother and broken up (amicably) and she was due to be moving back in with her Father - much shock all round.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Due to this we had my Nephew all weekend as the last thing his Mum needed to worry about was a two year old running around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though I didn't know her Dad very well, it was still a shock and made me want to re-establish my own relationships, both outside of the game and inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My very good friends Landerolin and Siorai have alt characters in my horde guild, and we spent the day yesterday levelling together, nattering on Vent (until I had to go afk to help with dinner).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her gear is also coming along nicely, she has gone from ilvl 494 on SWC to a current ilvl of 517! She's done a bit of Flex raiding and has started making her way through LFR, and is currently queued for ToES for the legendary part (tho I doubt I shall get all the way to the end of the legendary questline, already have umpteen characters at various parts of it.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To make it up to her, she has a nice new server to use her Tailoring on, and I have started gearing her up with some shiny new gear. She hasn't quite made it into Siege of Orgrimmar yet, but with the Throne of Thunder LFR thigns she has picked up, and the two pieces of gear from her first Heroic Scenario, she is well on her way there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guild wise, The Drafia is still making it's way through Normal Siege of Orgrimmar. I'm back on the raid team (and actually enjoying it now I'm not trying to lead it!), and we are up to Garrosh. We've had a fair few goes on him and have managed to get to Phase Three now, even getting him down to 24%, so we're getting there :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other news, I found a really cool looking Boar last night while levelling yet another alt, so had to take the hunter out to tame it - am yet to think of a suitable name for him though (and will likely still be stuck using my Sporebat in raids, ho hum ^^)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Am still trying to find a suitable transmog to go with him ^^ Will keep you guys updated if i do find a good one!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-67534253077600898742014-01-10T12:41:00.001+00:002014-01-10T12:41:48.100+00:00It Ain't Broken Yet!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, all seems to be going well, People haven't upped an left in disgust and I haven't broken the guild system yet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I even managed to cobble together a full group for Flexi last night with some different tanks and some friends of a guild member to make up numbers. We didn't get as far as usual, but it's a start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As well as our ex-GM not being around now, we need to get used to standing on our own two feet and doing Flex without him hand holding us through it. So I need to work on actually being "in charge" rather than sitting back and minding shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other than that, things are going smoothly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've made a few minor tweaks so far, like changing the colours on the guild crest slightly so you can actually see them, and organising the guild ranks. Also promoted a few of the more regular trustworthy people to Officer rank, and fiddled about with the guild website ^^</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next on the agenda (and actually already ongoing!) is a big recruitment drive and fundraising for the guild bank so that people get to keep their guild repairs! (If any lovely people have some good suggestions of how I do this (or how I set up bloody TSM) then I'm all ears!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still haven't decided if this is a scary or awesome thing that has happened yet as I've always been happy to be a follower, but we shall see :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other news, I attempted tanking Vale of Eternal Sorrows LFR on my paladin yesterday - and came to the conclusion that she is not "quite" ready for that, so I shall be inflicting her upon a ToT LFR soon (if I can find one!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also want to link to this fantastic thing that has been happening on the General WoW forums - <a href="http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/9051918105">http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/9051918105</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A heroic raider has set up a group for Flex raiding on Saturday, primarily for people who have been unable to get a group before due to not meeting the (often ridiculous) ilvl requirements being asked on peoples' servers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The group does appear to be full at the moment, but it is a fantastic idea and looks to be being taken up by others as well so good on you WoW Community! I knew you were still alive!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998485657244327643.post-71919875353660291292014-01-08T15:09:00.002+00:002014-01-08T15:11:02.328+00:00Riding Without Stabilisers!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So - this happened about an hour ago:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(This happened after a fairly long talk in Vent, not just out of the blue so not as much panic as you would assume!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our GM had been raiding elsewhere on an alt and when not raiding offline doing RL things, so felt it wasn't fair for him to keep the guild lead when he's not around if anything does go wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the most active officer, I've been pretty much minding shop for a while anyway (and had previously been in a similar situation with The Wanderers) so didn't mind taking over the leadership.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I've had my practice run (rad: with stabilisers) and now its time to really run the guild and make sure it works (read: riding without stabilisers!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A fairly frightening prospect even if essentially nothing has changed but my guild rank!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I need to make sure I'm fully switched on and operating for the good of my guild and my guidlies as opposed to just faffing along with it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst I am aware that 2014 is The Year of Faff, I feel that I need to be at least partially aware of things that I could ignore or let slide before, like recruitment drives, guild making efforts etc etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First point of business - reducing the amount of guild repairs that everyone (even non-raiders) have as they are very high and guild bank reserves are very low!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my defence I'm a bit ill at the moment so haven't been at the computer much :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other news, my RaF characters are still levelling, along with a pair of monks for fast XP! I now have a level 51 Druid levelled purely by granted levels so far, not sure how high she will end up going ^^</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we can no longer see our RaF links on the website, I'm not entirely sure when my account link runs out so am racing against time to level my alts as fast as I can ^^</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other than that, have levelled Inscription on my Warlock to give her something useful to do, and am just generally faffing about atm :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm yet to clean the d3esk around it as you can see by this pic, but the PC is running quieter and all should be well :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have also started yet another pair of RaF characters (that makes four pairs currently) but with the intention of speed levelling an Alliance Druid via Grant a Level, and seems as though I've partially done this already with an Alliance Hunter, I need to level another pair to get some more granted levels before the linked accounts expire!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have also started levelling a char on Doomhammer with <a href="https://twitter.com/MrandMrsWoW">@MrandMrsWow</a>'s Guild The Tweeters! She's only level 20 odd at the moment, and as per usual I have gotten myself sidetracked, but I shall return there eventually!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have also made myself a US account while everything was on sale, so if anyone has any server/guild recommendations send them my way!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0