Alright, so here goes the first part of my rantings. Like all those who gathered here on this webiste, I’m an avid player of WoW, following the rule that dictates that “There is no real life, there is only AFK”. I have a happy career as a vending-machine and transportation means (e.g. mage) on EU Sporeggar (RP-PVP), Horde side.

Now then, this story will be about instancing. Instancing is that little thing where you happily press your “I” button and pray to god that you’ll find a group for before the five hours that you have left pass. That’s usually how it is on my server. Especially at level 70. Especially for a DPS since they are a dime a dozen. The likelihood of me doing a daily heroic is just like a PoM+Pyro’s chance to crit while clearcasting… it just doesn’t happen.

This is mostly because nobody wants to roll a tank. Don’t get me wrong here, people play warriors and paladins and druids and there’s nothing quite as frustrating as joining a group made from two warriors, a paladin and a druid and being kicked because “soz m8 we need tank”. So you resort to the ol’ faithful “take along what you can get” and I usually enlist the services of a real life friend to tank.

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Reading Sirg’s post and looking at the GM’s less than impressive clothes, I remembered my own beautiful red-and-white robe. And then I remembered the awful truth: last night I got a better drop… which looks so ugly.

Let’s compare.
First, the Robe of Power, lovingly crafted by myself.
55 Armor
+12 Intellect
+8 Spirit
Requires Level 33
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 14.

Then there’s the Silksand Tunic.
58 Armor
+5 Spirit
+16 Intellect
Requires Level 39

Can you see the problem here? I like that extra intellect on the tunic, but oh my God it’s ugly! I look like a naked draenei, everything is brownish and you can see that space goats weren’t made to ride a tiger because their posture is awkward when mounted (the robe hides that pretty well).

I never had this problem on my warrior. All plate gear is more of less the same, no pretty colors or patterns or anything. But it looks there’s more issues with playing a caster than I imagined…

So, how important should fashion be in-game? It’s clear the developers thought about it, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many pointless items like different colored shirts or a wedding dress. But should it influence gearing or not? Is that 0.2% extra stat worth it or not?

So far, my answer is “no, it isn’t”. I’m sticking with the robe. I have to look at my mage all day and I’d rather see something I like.
(And no, it’s not a girly thing, I have male guildies who agree with me.)

We know that Game Masters are all-powerful beings, yet most of us never see one. They are invisible, or they just don’t exist. Sometimes you might hear whispers, but that’s all. Glimpses of GM customs have been passed from father to son, main to alt and from alt to banker, but very few survive, like the “delete your WTF folder” popular custom. But I tell you - game masters exist, you have to believe! I know you want to believe! They are … out there! 

I was on an epic task - creating the Seal of Ascension to enter the Upper Blackrock Spire, but a glitch in the Twisting Nether Matrix (or whatever the gnomes call it) made things impossible. So I beged the gods.. the game masters, please help me o great ones, praised be the WTF folder and its holy contents! Soon, after 3 hours, I started hearing whispers from the GM called Khaarikh. Bless the patches! My call was answered! And by the power of the Patch, Lag and the Holy Bug, the GM created a new seal and put it in my bag! — You recieve item: [Unadorned Seal of Ascension]. 

[Sephala]: Thank you! This is like pickpocketing, but in reverse!

<GM> [Khaarikh]: :))

[Sephala]: May I pickpocket you?

After I “pickpocketed” the thin air where I thought the GM was, he revealed himself as a she, a female gnome wearing the Sacred Blue Robes of Game Mastery. She waved to me and next she was gone again…

So, GMs have many names, but the same blue robe, exactly like the myths from the Beta Age tell us. Some are funny others are plain. But they are out there!

Where I’m from (i.e Cthulu guild), we get bored easily. So what happens when Cthulu gathers up some guildies, ex-guildies and friends for some old-school Molten Core raiding? The train happens.

After we downed a couple of bosses and got ourselves some imba T1, part of the raid had to go off for half an hour to finish some quest. Then one of us noticed someone else had put follow and left… So what to do with the tag-along guy? Throwing him into a crevice seemed too difficult (and dangerous for the followee), but the sight of them shuffling along after each other gave me an idea, so I put follow on the second guy. And, 5 minutes later, we had the Cthulu train choo-choo-ing through Molten Core.

We made a nice orderly line and walked around for 15 minutes or so…

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Short facts on girlfriend playing WoW:

1. Always gets lost in instances, even in the ones she’s farming for months.
2. Gets the same items several times, forgetting she has them already: Wrynn Dynasty Greaves twice, Cookie’s Stirring Rod twice, Bloodstained Elven Battlevest twice.
3. Swears she never saw High Astromancer Solarian before, even if she currently has Solarian’s Sapphire equipped.
4. Is happy when seeing Hydross the Unstable, thinking she knows the fight, but afraid she’ll die as she can never tell when to jump in the water.
5. Goes to the Gnomeregan entrance convinced she’ll find Deadmines inside.
6. Overaggroes and dies in the first seconds of boss fight thinking she’s still on 200 DPS instead of 900, then wonders if the new gear is that good.
7. Picks gear for the looks of it (well, for low-level alts I must admit). Also stares at her female toons’ boobies.

What does your girlfriend do?

If you love non-combat pets as much as I do, you should hurry to the closest Battleground. In order to celebrate the Beijing 2008 Olympics there is a new PvP event in-game that rewards you with a Competitor`s Tabard and a Gold Medallion. You get the tabard no matter if you win or lose, just stay in the Battleground until the end. The Gold Medallion has a 50% drop apparently. You get both items instantly by mail when you end the Battleground.

I was lucky to win the first BG I went to, which is indeed a miracle because usually on my server Alliance PUGs get pwned hard in Warsong Gluch.

The pet is so cute, I really like the level of detail, I can count his shiny scales! But I still love my Yeti… I won`t cheat on the Yeti.

From Thunderbluff I went straight to Orgrimmar. I should have brought my sungoggles because all that red makes me berserk. I made a quick stop at a store to get me some fruits. It`s rare to find fruits in Orgrimmar, orcs really dig meat.

It seems the new fashion in Orgrimmar is not the bearskin on the floor but the… ogreskin! Nice, soft leather.

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Magdedeiu was in the Scryers Bank when… SURPRISE! THE DRUID BEARS FROM ALL OVER ALONSUS!

They love to dance all day. There is no space on that podium for all the bears.

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I was feeling bored and the midsummer heat was annoying enough to drag me out from my smelly alchemy lab to the exotic beaches of Stranglethorn. It just didn’t feel right anymore, alchemy was going poor and my mage studies were advancing slowly. Despite the extended rest, mana regen was slow as black lotus growth. I wanted to do something bold, like an adventure, and Trias Cheese deliveries didn’t fall into that category. So I left my dull lab from the old town and went to see the Midsummer bonfire, like I wasn’t enduring enough heat already. Frost armor magic really helps in the summer! Reaching the festival place, it seemed odd to me seeing so many people dancing and tossing flames joyfully, while 20 paces to the right there was this never-ending riot in the Stockade. The fire was burning hot, reminding me of the pillar of fire I accidentally casted into my room a year ago. Torch catching isn’t really my thing, I’m not that skilled in melee anyway, but this idea of flame stealing started to amuse me. What if I would steal the flame of Thunderbluff right from those silly bullmen? That’s much much further than I’ve ever wandered to gather peacebloom!

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Ah crap I sure know you have to walk a lot from Crossroads to Thunderbluff, Mulgore. I am so tired, can I have a Redbull please? Mr. Bull…um…I didn`t mean to offend you, no, I am not a pervert wanting bull juices…ah crap, please don`t do it!!!!”.

He kicked my ass from that up high, but I`m a smart mage and carry feathers with me all the time so I fell slowly on the ground.

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