A New Hope

Thank you to those that responded to my last blog post. I posted in three different places one here, one at my old guild and one at my new guild. Yes, that's right. I said new guild. After much soul searching and consulting of the sacred chickens I decided it was time for me to leave and join a the new more raider friendly guild . I made a somewhat final post to the forum only to see my whole thread locked, including the blog post I had made earlier. I should have seen that coming since guild forums are a place to put the best face on your guild not to have someone say goodbye during times of guild drama. I have decided to leave Emmalynn my rarely played warlock in . I'm also starting to think I will create a new healing toon and put it in WICKED.


Looking forward to the new guild, I am very pleased to have so many people I already know in the guild. This along with some more raider friendly rules will help me adjust. Since my favorite thing in Warcraft is to see new content and to do that with friends around me; the move to is a good one. I am still trying to understand the loot system. I have never used dkp before and I hope it works out well. I have always had very good raid attendance and I never really cared much about loot. What loot I got was because I was there and no one else wanted it. Sure there maybe a few items that I really need but the simple fact is I have not seen Kel'Thuzad 25 be killed in a month and so why should I get his tanking weapon?


A question came to mind today as I listened to the Twister Nether Blogcast at work. Why do I like being a warrior or a tanking warrior? I was reminded of when I was a little kid and watched Thomas the Tank Engine (who am I kidding, I still watch it whenever I see it on.) There is a line in many of the episodes that said "Thomas felt like a really useful engine" I think that best sums up why I like it better then dps. I like the feeling of having a important role. I am not saying dps isn't important but as a tank I really feel like I am doing something. Whenever I am stuck in a off-tank or just dps position I do not feel that and I get quite bored quite quickly and feel I need something more to do.

I have decided to try and step out of my comfort zone and lead more raids. I rarely lead raids but the few I have in recent days have been fun. I think the added responsibility will help to break down some of the boredom I have felt during the raids.

Hero Class Part 2

Hero Class Part 2

As I was looking around to see which classes have existed in game I came around a few that have sparked my imagination. Some of them are well known while others almost never see the light of day.
This latest blog will profile one of the rarer classes seen in Warcraft and one that I think would may a fun hero class.

Lightslayers - A shadow in the night, the lightslayer moves with the sound of a whisper to extinguish light wherever she finds it — specifically, she extinguishes the followers of the Holy Light. The lightslayer embraces the teachings of the Forgotten Shadow and develops her personal power by slaying enemies who stand in the
Though mainly a role playing character for female undead rogues or shadow priest; they have a interesting though style to be a class all their own. Lightslayers were once holy priest when they were alive but have become members of the Forsaken and have started to kill what they once were.
As a class they work likely be a Forsaken only class, with the abilities similar to a shadow priest and rogue.

Wrath of the Lich King Six Month review

Wrath of the Lich King has been out for about six months now and I feel it a good time to take a little look back on what we have seen and try to get an idea of what we have to look forward to.

In the first month Wrath came out it was all about the levelling and some would call it the race to 80. This was one of the high points of the expansion. The questing experience in Wrath of the Lich King is one of the best parts of the game. Many players said it’s the best questing they had ever seen. The lore seemed richer and more detailed than ever. You got to meet the Lich King very early on and then at the mid way point you had the wonderful Wrathgate video. All of this pushed many people to continue questing for the Loremaster of Northrend achievement well passed the time they hit 80.

By the mid-December mark I and many others had hit 80 and were now looking to get geared for Heroics and raid instances. This proved to be much easier than most people expected. The amount of high level blues, crafted epics and the ease of heroic instances made getting gear very easy. This was where the complaining from many people began. The ease of heroic instance with their lack of trash made many people wonder if end game was too easy. The idea of shinning purple loot and the word epic changed. From this point on purple loot became candy and what was the best tasting candy for you and your class became the debate.

By January players had cleared all of the heroic instances and were pretty much rocked out in all epics whether it was crafted, rep grind pick-ups, or raid drops did not really matter. We were now looking at the raid instances. One question came to many lore whores minds why am I going there; I don’t have a quest to go there. Naxxramas, Obsidian Sanctum and Vault of Archavon none of them had quests. (Why am I killing this dragon?) Once inside any of the raid instance either on 10man or 25man we all found that the fights were too easy. Within two weeks of first stepping inside any of these raid instance players had them fully on farm and it became purely a matter of finding people who still wanted to raid. The only exception to this rule seemed to be Malygos as it took a little longer to get use to using the dragons. Many people did not like the dragons since it took their normal playing class away and gave them a floaty hard to follow rogue.
For the next 3 months a question circled around everywhere in Warcraft. What are we going to do now? Many raiding guild tried to fill that time with raiding achievements only to finish those off within two weeks of starting. For those in mid level guilds the idea of raiding achievement became more difficult as many players decided it was time for a break. Heroic instance achievements and rep grinding for mounts became the next option. Others found there new endgame love to be Wintergrasp and pugging together 25 people to push Archavon the Stone Watcher over on a weekly basis. Achievement whoring, and alts became the thing to do instead of clearing instances we were bored with.

During the 3 months between clearing all the raids and patch 3.1 another little event was going on; this was the arena tournament. Arenas quickly became the focus of many people in the game. Not for the game play of PvP but for the examples of how classes were imbalanced and why many did not really like PvP. Despite all the boredom many simply abandoned PvP both in arenas and battlegrounds Blizzard pointed to the rewards on offer as to why they was a lower turnout this time, but I feel that the mechanics of arena PvP were the real issue with player turnout.
Finally with much crying and complaining patch 3.1 came out. Ulduar has totally filled the gap. The video clip gives lore lovers a reason to step instead the instance (though there is no quest). The Argent Tournament has given casual players and achievement lovers a place to go and earn new rewards. The new patch should be able to fill most players time for the next month and then who knows. Likely we will return to crying about how we have nothing to do until the next patch.
The Wrath of the Lich King expansion can be divided into two halves it seems. The half where we have a ton of stuff to do and are totally excited to try everything and the other half where players are totally bored as they feel like they have seen it all. My advice is to take it slow this time there is no need to clear all the content on the day it comes out.

Pompey intro

Hello everyone.

With the realms down for maintenance it gives me a chance to put something on this blog. I am not such what this blog will be become but for now it will just be a brief bit of news about myself and my characters in Warcraft. I doubt it will become much more then that but you never know.

I have been playing Warcraft for about three years now and have one main character; a warrior named Pompey. He is a Tauren warrior named after the Roman general and not the city of Pompeii. I have another alt that I am levelling at the moment a warlock named Emmalynn. I have always had a habit of giving my female toons real life style names. For most of my time playing I have been using Pompey and have levelled him to a point where he is pretty rocked out in end game gear (Such that end game is at this point). Also in nearly the entire time I have played Warcraft I have been in one guild called WICKED. WICKED is one of the few gay lesbian bisexual and transsexual friendly guilds not on the Proudmoore server. I am not gay myself but have come to really enjoy WICKED as a community based guild and not just an end game raiding guild. The creators of WICKED like to kill alliance too much to role the guild on a normal server and so we have found a home at Eredar US. I myself could take or leave the PvP aspect of the game; being a protection specced warrior for most of my time playing pretty much meant PvP was just me getting my ass kicked.

With the recent lose of my job my playing time had gone way up. The bank account on the other hand is looking sadder each day, thank you economic down turn. With my increased playing time I have been able to get into more end game content and tried to get a better understand of my class and how to play it the best I can. At this point Pompey has seen most of the game but for the hard modes sections and 25 man Malygos. I would really like to get those done, but WICKED has always had trouble getting enough people to show up for raids. This brings me to the question that keeps coming up for me for the last year. Should I stick around in my community guild or do I want to make a push for deep end game and look for a raiding guild? What I have always liked about WICKED are the causal and friendly people in it and the maturity they have. My main concern with looking for a new guild will always be the level of maturity and the friendly atmosphere they have. The frustration for being a main tank with really good raid attendance only to have to cancel the raid for lack of people gets to me at times.