The pre-wrath events continue…

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Stormwind Harbor Invasion

Thrall duelling Garrosh Hellscream

The Orgrimmar Invasion

Are you excited yet?

I am… *grin*

As prompted by BRK, if late as usual, I went digging around in my screenshots directory.  I managed to drag out the few screenshots of myself and Khierra when we first started playing together on Eonar (EU).

Running around Darkshore in June 2006 bemoaning the long runs and, of course, the ever-present murlocs!

I’ve been terribly bad and not done a ‘Sunday Screenies’ post for almost four weeks now! Terrible slacking on my part due to being busy with playing and other things but I have a few nice screenies to share.  As the title suggests, the screenies below are from Wrath - I’ve been playing about on the beta and taken some shots which I’ve been reluctant to post until now.  With the big day on the horizon, though, I thought I’d get in the mood and post the few screenshots I’d taken which turned out well.  There are none pertaining to quests or events - just some nice scenery shots.

Still, for those who wish to remain unspoiled…

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Ye ken that silly gear all them Brewfest lot are wearin’ fer the tourists?  Seems they’re sellin’ it as souvenirs noo, too! Haha! An’ even worse, thon shaman has gone and got himself some.  Never laughed so much in mah life!

My guild lead knows me far too well…

Ye cannae get past the beauty o’ the Alliance’s capitals.  Ironforge, o’ course, is the best lookin’ but Stormwind has its charms and Darnassus is sorta pretty if ye like that sort o’ thing. I really need tae take a wee jaunt oot tae the Exodar one o’  these days.  If ye can call that a capital…

I was trying to take ‘iconic’ pictures of the capitals - that is, ones which I could use to represent them in future blog posts.  I quite like how they turned out so I thought I’d put the full un-bannerified versions up!

I logged on to the beta this morning just to pootle about and play with what my hunter could do and check out some of the new pets.  I found a few little things which  I wanted to share.  If you don’t want to hear about beta stuff, look away now (obligatory image spacer for feed readers)! *ahem*

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Ah love takin’ pictures and posin’ fer some too but y’see it takes a wee bit o’ pokin’ aboot tae get the results ye want.

What we have here is a rare creature on this blog:  a post about blogging itself.  Not going too far, of course, it’s about something in particular I like to use on my blog (as do many others), namely images.

Images, pictures, portraits, doodles, sketches or representations - whichever type or flavour you pick it will generally enhance your posts.  I have always been a very image-centric person - I like art, animation and video as well as creating websites and ‘graphics’.  It was only natural for me, then, to add a lot of art and imagery to my blog when I began it, though it took a little while to get the kind of pictures I wanted.

Why use images?

Although bolding some of your sentences, adding headings, italics and using various ·lists as well as plenty of  s p a c e s can give structure to your posts I find that it is images which can make me stop and really look at a post.  I could insert a cheesy line about a picture saying a thousand words but, to be honest, I believe that the way I (and perhaps blogs in general) use them is more in line with adding pepper to soup - it enhances the ‘flavour’ of the surrounding text and makes it tastier to eat.  Read.  Devour?

Images can also be used as visual clues - when I write a post about my shaman I usually include a picture of him - same for my druid, rogue and hunter.  A lot of people use this method if they have multiple authors so it’s no big leap to utilise it if you’re a frequent, chronic sufferer of the dreaded altitis.  Using Aurik as a model I hope I can illustrate reasonably simply how I make shiny images for my blog assuming basic knowledge of image editing.

Before I begin I will note that this isnae a ‘how to make shiny images of awesome dhoom’, a guide on how to upload / capture pictures and it also definitely isnae the only way to do things.  It’s  simple few tips / short guide about how to make some half-decent, quick images for your blog - in my opinion, unless your blog is centred around the images you use then making them should not take longer than writing the post. *grin*

There are two types of images I will cover: Screenshots and WoWModelViewer based images.  I don’t really like non-game images in my WoW blog so I’m afraid that’s all yer getting from me.

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Bloody great big dragons! Ah mean, it’s all well knowin’ what’s goin’ on in Stormwind, but it’s a whole bloody other thing tae find a big flamin’ dragon when yer just mindin’ yer own business…

In an effort to stave off boredom I’ve been pottering about trying to do the Onyxia quests.  Finally got them done after a few hours of running back and forth and, for the first time, I walked through Stormwind and got to see Onyxia spawn! Sadly there were no curious lowbies around. *ahem* Now I only need a trip to UBRS!

Ah telt ye that thon bloody Paladin wis gonnae end up healin’ an’ a wis right.  Ah caught him goin’ we some other adventurers tae the Deadmines (they still huvnae sorted that wee problem oot it seems…) and he had some interestin’ clothes on.  In fact, when he came oot he had even more interestin’ clothes oan…

What is this monster I’ve created….

Ah cannae say ah find the sight o’ the knickers o’ some big blue demon aw that appealin’ but Jhai seems tae be somewhat pleased a’ this picture she took.  Somethin’ about action shots an’ dreams and… well, ah don’t really want tae know why that lass is so keen on gettin’ hersel’ hit like that.  Druids, eh?

SQUEE I got to tank Prince, I got to tank Prince!  *ahem*

I know the screenie this week isn’t too amazing to look at but it marks a big achievement for me.  There are bigger bosses, there are badder bosses, there are more complex bosses to tank and we got about the easiest infernal drops you could hope for last night… But I TANKED PRINCE.  One of the main reasons I got so irked with my first druid / guild was being asked to sit out and dps whilst a warrior tanked.  I am not hugely fond of kitty dps (though it is growing on me now…) but I love tanking.  I wish you could have a section in the new achievements window to list ‘personal achievements’ - this is one I’d add.

I also tanked Attumen (I’ve only been on midnight before), Moroes, Maiden, Illhoof (had only done Kil’rek before) and Nightbane - and my guildies had to listen to me squeeing about tanking them each time, hehe.