Just when I thought I couldn’t be surprised any more…

I’ve been a bit preoccupied with real life stuff recently but when I was flicking through my feed reader, I noticed this post from Tome of the Ancient. “I don’t know if other bloggers do this, but I have a few posts that I wrote and then found lacking and they’re just sitting here collecting [...]

“What will survive of us is love”: A Tragedy in Three Acts

I’m going to blame Navi and  Matty for this post. To start, I’m not really romantic in the slightest. I hate chick lit and chick flicks with a passion I normally reserve for brussel sprouts and bad drivers. I got my worst ever mark in English Literature for an essay on Romeo and Juliet because I [...]

“Maybe you’ve heard of a terrible place”: The Black Market

Maybe you’ve heard of a terrible place Where the soundrels of Paris Collect in a lair When I first read about the forthcoming “Black Market”, my initial gut instinct was “Nooooooo!” but as I thought about it, my opinion shifted. To explain why, I want to start by talking about what might end up being for sale [...]

Check Mate: Jaina and the Fall of Theramore

This was inspired by a comment Majoto left on my blog in response to this post. “Unfortunately, because she’s [Jaina] a female character in WoW, this probably won’t happen. Blizzard is terrible at strong female characters. :-/“ As I read it, I found myself back in a lecture theatre listening to my tutor talk about the [...]

Burning Anger and Broken Hearts or why I learned to pity Staghelm

Throughout Classic WoW I was always firmly in the “Staghelm is a jerk” camp. A combination of his attitude, standing up a tree bare-chested being rude to passers-by, the obsession with morrowgrain and his whining about Tyrande meant that  I watched at least one Horde raid group slaughter him without lifting a finger to help. This morning I [...]

Dead as a Doornail: On World PvP

Looking back at my time in Azeroth, many of my stand-out memories involve World PvP. The ebb and flow of old school Southshore / Tarren Mill battles. Advancing one minute, running for my life pursued by a pack of deathguards, three blinking mages, two shamans and an angry warrior the next. Aoeing the deathguards and then sitting [...]

MoP and Resilience: It’s give with one hand, take with the other.

I read the Dev’s Watercooler post on the planned stat changes for MoP with interest, in particular the part pertaining to resilience. We are renaming this stat to “Defense (PvP)” or possibly “PvP Defense.” All players will have 30% base Defense, the same way all characters have some base Stamina. This is a good thing. [...]

E is for Emotes!

I was flicking through my blog reader yesterday, toying between the idea of replying to people or doing some actual work when I read a line of Navimie’s that caught my attention. Namely this one: “And those people in arenas who laugh at you and spit on you.  Why must you do that? “ First [...]

Fluff

This is my wishlist for MoP, focusing on all the important stuff like pets, mounts and romances between NPCS. Mini-pets A raven, quothing “Nevermore” is optional. My Worgen Shadowpriest would call him “Edgar” and take him everywhere. An octopus. Like the sea pony and the fish, it might have to be in a giant bubble but [...]

Garbled thoughts on Account-Wide achievements

What Blizzard have said on the subject so far: We are going to be testing out account wide features with Pet Battles that are coming with the introduction of Mists of Pandaria. If this proves to be successful, then we may even consider doing the same thing with mounts. From here. and With Mists of [...]