A surfeit of Honor – Alterac Valley weekend

Got to love Alterac Valley weekend. My Druid has gone from being a brand new 85 in blues and greens to a full PvP set in no time at all. Have to admit I’ve always loved AV though. The sheer scale of it offers so many possibilities. Take and defend towers, kill Galvanger, defend Balinda, [...]

Saturday Screenshots – Undersea World

I fully expected to hate Vashj’ir. As it turns out, I was wrong. I was captivated by the beauty and scale of it.

The Importance of being Properly Dressed – A Blog Azeroth Shared Topic

The shared topic this week is Transmogrification and Void Storage, suggested by Essence. So, by now, we’ve all seen the tidbits of Patch 4.3 that Blizz has decided to release to us. The hype, in particular, surrounds two things directly related–Transmogrification and Void Storage. If you do not have any idea at all about what [...]

A Proper Return

So we’re back as paying customers. Turns out, for me at least, quitting smoking was easier than quitting WoW. Once the fateful decision to return was made, we had a couple of choices to make. First up, where did we want to play? This was a difficult question for several reasons. Most of the people [...]

From Sunset to Moonrise

  One of the major things I missed whilst not playing WoW, was the truly breathtaking landscape.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – WoW and Bag space

I read this week’s shared topic over at Blog Azeroth with a dawning sense of glee. Suggested by Amerence, it is after all something close to my heart. Questioning as it does whether we should request bigger bags/bank slots from Blizzard to help us keep track of potentially over six years of soulbound items. I [...]

Server Down Screenshot Time – Drowned World

As it turned out, absence only made the heart grow fonder. Not only am I still addicted to taking screenshots, I’m still in love with water and it’s effects.   As much as I always said I wanted a boat in WoW, now that I’ve actually got a steamboat of my very own, I’m almost [...]

A slippery slope – Starter Edition

After six months without Warcraft, we succumbed to temptation, installing Blizzard’s free to play Starter Edition. When we installed it, the plan was to have a look at some of the starter zones that were radically changed by Cataclysm and that we didn’t find the time to experience before quitting. The thought  of doing a few battlegrounds [...]

A second set of first impressions

Coming back to WoW after a six month absence, I feel a bit like I did when I returned home from my year abroad. Everything is the same but different. I’m constantly comparing things to the way they used to be, in the “good old days” or perhaps that should be the “bad old days”. I [...]

Lost, who me?

There we were, game reinstalled, running around on brand new low levels trying to see if that WoW feeling was still there. Lost in Teldrassil, I hit the M key and fell in love all over again. This has to rate up there with the old sleeping treeform animation and the Nightelf cower in terms [...]