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Why I play this game

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Some days you play wow you feel surrounded by idiots in every PuG you go to and you ask yourself, why am I bothering? Or you’ve had a crap day and wonder if it’s even worth logging on. If you only get annoyed, end up not enjoying it when playing, what is it that keeps you coming back? It could be addiction, a lot of people suffer from it, unfortunately. It could be the lack of something else to do and the will to do something about it or it could be that you enjoy seeing yourself as better than others and need the confidence boost it might give you. There are plenty of reasons.

I personally play this game for a different reason: the people I play with who makes the experience so much better. I’ve gotten some good friends in the game, some of them I knew before I ventured into the world that is computer games and some of them I’ve gotten to know via the game. I think what happened this week proves as a good example why it’s the people that make it worth while.

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New toys? For me?

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I have never had much luck in wow. (That is a statement no one will no longer believe after reading this post.) Normally it takes tries upon tries to finally get what I am after, regarding both drops and rolls. It almost seems like it has all been stored up until this week and I’ve been unbelievably lucky.

The Zulian Tiger

I have lost count how many times I have been to Zul’Gurub poking the two bosses that can possibly drop mounts. I got exalted a while ago and since then my other half has nearly gained exalted as well from mostly just handing in the rep items dropped off some of the trash next to the two bosses. Zul’Gurub has nearly become Rebella’s second home. The bow drop off the raptor boss has on far too many occasions fooled me into thinking the mount has dropped and that’s as close as I’ve been. However, at the end of last week, the lovely Priestess Thekal finally gave up her mount!

White Hawkstrider

After a very hectic day yesterday we decided to just relax with a couple of instances that could yield a mount. I figured that my luck was long gone and I might get another after 6 months or so. Little did I know how wrong the assumption would be. Magister’s Terrace has always been a favourite of mine, even back in the TBC days of crowdcontrolling nightmares. (It is here the name Monstarkin was first used, but that warrants a post of its own.) The pet has dropped a fair few times, the orb only a couple of times and the mount had yet to be seen – until yesterday! I don’t know how long I was sat staring at the screen for, I just could not believe it. Only four days after I had gotten the Zulian tiger. Unbelievable! I was for a moment worried that we would not go back until the Bear said he quite liked this mount, so we will try to get it to drop again! I love Magister’s Terrace, and I love this mount!

Hawkstrider and the Bear

The Bear

The Bear is not a mount, but still needs mentioning. I could not write this post and I very much doubt I would have stuck to trying for the mounts for so long if it wasn’t for him, so thank you!

(the page will soon be updated with better quality screen shots)

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Finding a Good PuG

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

PuGs or Pick-Up Groups can consist of a mix of friends and random people, or just random people. Any person in your group who are not already on your friends list, in your guild, on your friend’s friends list or in your friend’s guild are generally considered a PuG person. A PuG person is a person you have little experience playing with and have little knowledge of. A group with several random people like this can go very well, but it can also go very badly. My personal experience is that PuGs aren’t all bad, but there are a few precautions I take before joining a random group, especially for a raid. I will try to explain what I look for before I join a group to hopefully help others find more good groups than bad ones. The following comments are mostly related to raids, rather than heroics, but can work for both. As gearing up as become easy, getting good groups for heroics isn’t anywhere near as difficult as it was in TBC.

Be Prepared

consumables

It is important that you make a good impression as it could make it easier for you to get into a group in the future. Not bring your own buff food, elixirs, pots etc for a raid you’re not quite over geared for generally doesn’t go down very well and you get labeled lazy or a slacker. Supplying the odd fish feast yourself if you have the skill and not relying on others to put down one each time also doesn’t hurt.

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