Shared Topic “Quickpost”: An RP Intro …

Just a quick post, been sort of up in the air about this but a while back Effy made a post over on Blog Azeroth asking to see  how others would introduce themselves or their character in “RP”, and while I have always had my own head cannon on who my toons are and the rolls they fill, actually coming out of the mind and onto paper and describing who you are both alarmed me, and at the same time tickled my fancy.

The question is, in a short paragraph what do I want to say about myself .. Tauren, Male, Druid, Guild Leader. What I came up with was ..

Gearing & Guilds .. A New Alternative

You know .. how gear is obtained never made much sense to me. Truly. Now granted I can imagine killing Nefarian or Onyxia and pillaging their horde for gems and gold and finding the odd piece of enchanted armour. Being dragons that makes an odd sort of sense. But what about other bosses we down. Arthas has Frostmourne, why in the world would he carry a small armouries worth of weapons on him, or keep them in a throne room where anyone could use them to take him out? or Illidan, he is a bare-chested glaive wielding Night Elf .. why would he just happen to be carrying the Bulwark of Azzinoth or a staff that has a demon attached to the end?

Now over the past few days Adam Holisky over at WoW Insider has been decrying the need for a change to gearing  .. and after consideration, I would have to agree with him. I don’t enjoy character gearing, I do though enjoy character progression .. which for me, means seeing more, encountering more and doing more for my character, and in turn. My Guild. I am not advocating we get rid of gearing, I think that is still needed, but how we go about gearing needs to change, and how we benefit from raiding needs to change also.

A Villain To Be Proud Of …

Yes, see here we are on time for day two ( actually I am not, I had a second extended weekend so its been three days). Anyway there has been something I have been musing over for a while, a concept if you will that will enrage some and make others so enthused it wouldn’t be funny. While Mists has brought us back to the faction conflict lets face it, having “the Big Bad” there at the end of an expansion to work your way towards killing worked well for three expansions .. even if one wasn’t seen enough, one two much and the last had a disappointing fight .. the point was you were looking forward to killing them.

We have though, taken out so many it makes you wonder what sort of big bad is left that is not Sargeras .. a lore figures whose appearance would herald the end of WoW I should think. I mean we have faced down Deathwing, and his nefarious broodlings. We have taken out several Old Gods. Arthas and his favourite minions? Gone! Illidan and the new faction he was recruiting? crushed! Old Horde Heroes we wanted to hear about? well Zul’jin is gone (or is he?), Kargath is dead at our hands also .. and that leaves only Dead-eye with an ambiguous disappearance which lets hope is solved when we are told he died at the same time as Turalyon and Alleria.

No what we need is not a boss we have yet to encounter, but one we have already dealt with or so we believe .. who’s return we are simply not prepared for!

A Different View?

Hello folks, I hope you have had a happy easter and that most of you didn’t over indulge with the easter eggs! Anyway I have been a tad slack around here so as to make up for my slack I intend to post 1 post a day for the next five days. Lucky for those of you who follow my ramblings!

Anyway I (like many) tend to keep my eye out on MMO-Champion, Wowinsider and other sites for news when I came across this quote from Ghostcrawlers twitter account in the middle of a discussion about alts …

Player: It’s not about not playing it, it’s about the burden to repeat everything that the player already did.
Ghostcrawler: But isn’t that what an alt is all about – replaying the game through a different view? Otherwise we could just offer class respec. (Source )

Blog Azeroth Shared Topic: World Of warcraft Collections

Noahdeer over at Blog Azeroth has had a shared thread come up i think we can all associate with a bit. he Asks ..

World of Warcraft has added many different items for players to collect, whether it be collecting pets, mounts, transmog gear or knickknacks about the lore. This week’s topic asks what you do collect in the game and what is your prized item from that collection?

So relax as I take you on a small tale to explain my obsession, I mean collection ..