(Okay, I couldn’t resist the Dr. Horrible reference. Today’s guest post is from the Riders’ favorite half-faced, surly elf, Illithias. Like a night elf, Illi has blue hair IRL and it is awesome. I can neither confirm nor deny whether or not IRL Illi bounces when idle for long periods of time. On our forums, [...]
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Or mailbox. Or inbox. Mail thingy. I received an email from Jan this morning asking, Unfortunately, I’m one of those avid wow players who haven’t received any cataclysm beta invites! Do you think it’s wise to just wait for the release? Because some people say playing the cataclysm beta will eventually remove the fun in [...]
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Teleportation in its various forms is just a part of everyday life in WoW. Mages burn a runestone and move themselves or their friends across continents. Warlocks summon their friends through the nether. Engineers — both goblin and gnomish — cobble devices together that transfer their users from one place to another. They’re part of [...]
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I’ve been laid out with an IRL case of the plague all weekend, so today, let’s have fun with screenshots! Your mission: caption this action shot I found deep within my screenshot folder! (Clicky for a larger version)
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The Lovely Anna is busy this week, and thus, guest posts! Today’s WTT:[RP] post is over at the Annas, where I talk a bit about why you very rarely see the leader crown on my head in instances (unless, y’know, someone DC’d and the game passed the hat automatically, in which case I’m at my [...]
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WoW.com published an article about “Gender differences in armor” over the weekend. In it, Mike Schramm responds to a post at The Border House that delves into the several of the armor sets that cover up the male characters, but when equipped on a female avatar, they become nothing more than bras, thongs and thigh-highs. [...]
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“Killing a lot of people probably fucks you up.” But let’s face it, most of the people we RP in WoW have killed lots of people. We’ve killed scarlets and trolls, grimtotems and sin’dorei. We have killed people. in fact, I would venture to say that this is probably the hardest thing that we have [...]
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I’ve been running around in Tirisfal Glades the last few days, as part of a secret RP project that will be revealed within the next week. In doing so, I came across the quests that bring you to Agamand Mills. The Agamand family owned a prosperous farmstead, and when the Scourge came, they ordered their [...]
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In game, a character’s reputation–their relative fame within factions–is measured from Hated to Exalted. The mechanics of this feature has changed since launch, but the overall concept of how a character is perceived has not changed. The more deeds one does for a faction, the more said faction respects said character. It is a simple [...]
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Once upon a time, Ila Tarquin** introduced us to TV Tropes. (Warning: once you click through, all productivity will be lost. For at least an hour.) It’s filled with all sorts of plotlines, plot twists, character archetypes, conflicts and cliches that you can find in all sorts of entertainment media. One of my favorites is [...]
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