Hug one, hug all. Does it really matter who’s got whit as long as yer still enjoying yersel? Does it make ye happier to deny someone else somethin’? Ah really cannae understand this whole thing…

You’d think, the way some of my guildies and some others are talking, that when 2.4 comes out they are going to have all their epics perma-removed and given to newly dinged 70’s. In fact, it’s worse, their e-peen is going to be cut off and tossed to the murlocs!

I usually stay away from topics like this, I even tend to try and ignore them in g-chat as they’re something that’s likely to bug me and both sides have pretty strong feelings. But, to hell with it, I’ll write it all down here where no-one can interrupt me while I write.

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The end of Big Bear Butt’s post from a few days back kind of struck a chord with me.

In the end, my biggest advice to you is; if you want to meet someone, you are not going to do it by solo questing. You are going to have to get out there and actually meet and greet, do what it is you are interested in, and chat with the other people who are doing the same.

It can be scary, I know.

In the past, I have been in the position of wanting to have enough friends to run the 5 man instances, wanting to be in a guild that raided the 10 mans, and wishing I knew where to go to find one.

But my mistake was that I did not enter the instances on my own. I didn’t take the initiative to go PUGing. I waited to be invited into a guild, expecting to then start doing a lot more group activity.

And the truth is, the core problem I had was that I was intimidated by doing the instance. The time I expected it to take, knowing that I was going to be committing myself to be in a single run lasting an hour and a half, with other people depending on me not to screw up, was a big looming scary wall.

His post was in regards to getting yourself a nice girl guild but was relevant for me as, although I’m in a nice, cushy, wonderful guild - their level of progression is way beyond my alts and not many of them are willing to run normal instances on a regular basis. Not five guildies at the same time anyway.

So, I got out there and did it. (Headings included for those who hate reading about instance runs - y’can just skip on past them.)

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A good rogue has to know where to look fer his information. Without information y’might as well stand oot in the broad daylight, twiddlin’ yer thumbs and hopin’ the job will do itself!

Puttin’ these all in one place so that, maybe, someone won’t have to look as far and wide for the links. There are, of course, plenty I’ve ‘missed’ but these are the ones I use on a regular basis for reference, not every single useful link ever.

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Haud’ on tight, we’re goin fer a ride on the back o’ a dragon. This is the life, wheee!

I got my Netherdrake a week or two back but never really got around to mentioning it (it’s my second character to get one so I guess it’s not quite as exciting). Anyways, I have a habit of taking pictures when I find myself randomly in an area with nice lighting or somesuch and the above I took one morning whilst doing my dailies. I liked the screenie so much I made a very simple desktop (click on the pic for that). Nothing amazing as I really wanted a plain background which was softer than my old one. Shame that I couldn’t zoom out further to catch the tail…

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Cannae be daein’ wi’ adventurin’ or slayin’ on an empty stomach an without my bag full o’ bit an’ pieces which give me a wee bit o’ an advantage.

So, Onionpeels over at Blog Azeroth suggested jotting down what we take for raids and I thought I’d do a little writeup on what I take as it sounded kind of fun. As a rogue I don’t have any reagents to bring (thankfully) but that doesn’t mean I don’t bring bags full of consumables to a raid!

When I started raiding I had one raid bag. I put everything I needed into it so I wouldn’t forget when the time came to go somewhere. Slowly, as I added more items to my repetoire and started doing a wider variety of bosses my little stash grew and now takes up almost two full bags, not including the extra stamina gear and trinkets I carry with me just in case!

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Or, the cute and cuddly side of Horde-Alliance relations.

In mah time I’ve seen it all - Trolls tryin’ tae eat gnomes, Dwarfs kneecapping Tauren, all sorts of bad blood between the Horde an’ the Alliance but sometimes ye find yersel’ knee deep in Furbolgs wi’ an Orc at yer back and ye make do. Puts a different light on things, that sorta business.

Now, I’ve been on a pvp and a pve server and I’ve seen some pretty downright arse-hole-ish behavior between factions and, I admit, I’ve taken delight in killing off a gnome or two under my otherwise usually cuddly-care-bear Tauren guise. There is a divide in Warcraft - you pick sides and, as much as you may bemoan your own faction sometimes, they’re still a part of who your character is. Even the most ardent ‘I hate Alliance, we suck in pvp’ whiner will often be all ‘Kill the Horde’ the second they hit a battleground.

I’ve had so many bad experiences, with both my own and other factions, of people simply being gits - stealing nodes, taking quest mobs etc. That, however, is all blasted away when the nice things occur. I’m talking about a member or group of Horde or Alliance players actively helping out the ‘other side’.

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Sometimes yeh just get oot o’ the wrong side o’ bed in the mornin’ or it seems like everyone else does…

It’s one of those days. You’ve come in from School/Work/Rolled out of bed feeling not-so-good, you see you’re not on tonights raid list (bah!, you really wanted a chance at that uber-mace) and decide to farm. You clear to a node to see it’s being mined by some pink-tabarded Orc warrior and, if you’re on a pvp server, get ganked by one of those bloody lollermace rogues/huntards/warlols, etc. Then someone decides to ‘have a go’ at you in guild chat. You know, like “Haha if Frank were here he’d totally have messed this up!” or “Oh, lol, your mace of impending amazingness dropped and we sharded it Lololol!”.

BOOOOM!

*insert interesting expletives here*

It happens. Sometimes it might be one of these things, all of them or something completely different but at some point in your wow career you’re likely to feel a bit tetchy or upset about the game or its player’s behaviour.

Now I, personally, have a fuse shorter than most goblin rockets have. I get really irked sometimes at the most inconsequential of comments and this mutiplies tenfold when I’m tired, feeling ill or have had a bad day. However, my guildies and most people I meet on WoW don’t see this very often. Why? Because I’ve learned ways to deal with the stupidity that is people on WoW and their often irritating, anti-social behavior.

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Big bloody bear arses! Cannae see ‘roon them, over them or, mebbe happily, underneath them…

A few friends from the mysterious world of ‘Real Life’(tm) mentioned they were going to head to an instance when they got home and my little furry big, nosy ears perked up. ‘Want a tank?’ was my battlecry. ‘Of course!’ was their joyus reply. Sporeggar, since the beginning, had a tank shortage horde side. This was due to a couple of factors, mainly:

• Belfs. Sporeggar is a Burning Crusade server and so most of the horde side was made up of belfs as people rerolled on a new realm to test them out.
• A lot of people rerolled when they came to Spore - away from classes which had previously bored them such as their main tank prot warrior.
• A lot of people rerolled from the alliance and many weren’t keen on the look of the races on the horde side other than the belfs.

Ok, so the last two are speculation but somewhat based on what I heard from people in-game. Anyway, I had gotten so sick of tanking reqests (really!) that I’d spcced boomkin. It wasn’t me though, despite being a lot of fun, so I got myself back into a nice little feral number.

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