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Blizzcon wind-down
What a weekend. I was awake at 5:15am on Saturday so I was up in time to watch the opening ceremony. Mornings are not my thing, but I was pumped, and have stayed pumped since. It’s an interesting phenomenon really, isn’t it? Even just watching people have fun and get exciting about these games that we […]
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The cranky pants are on!
I’m angry. And probably not for the reasons you think. There are less than 8 hours until the opening ceremony of Blizzcon, and there have been two pretty big leaks – one about Overwatch and one about World of Warcraft. And I am PISSED. I’m not angry about the content of the leaks (though I […]
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Great expectations – getting the most out of Blizzcon announcements
Blizzcon is this weekend, and the hype train is speeding along. I, like most fellow WoW players, are hanging out for any news about Legion. I’m pretty sure the one question everyone wants to have answered is “when will Legion be released?”. It’s a fair question – people are excited about the game and they […]
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All about the loot – Blizzard goodies!
Last week I received a very large box at my work. Inside the box was Blizzard goodies! I finally got around to making some space in the apartment over the weekend to give them a home and thought I would share them with you.
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Feel Good Friday! – Run little gnome, run!
Feel Good Friday! is a weekly exercise to help bring some positivity in to the gaming community by sharing stories to make people smile. They may be heartwarming or funny stories, tales of your epic kills or something that you’ve found in game – anything that gives you some good vibes. Gnome run 2k15 This year […]
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A horse with a new home
Today has been a good day. This morning I got up a bit earlier than I had planned because the sun was in my eyes and I needed to pee. And no matter how long I tried to ignore both of those things, they got the better of me and I got up, and stayed […]
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Feel Good Friday – quest complete!
Feel Good Friday! is a weekly exercise to help bring some positivity in to the gaming community by sharing stories to make people smile. They may be heartwarming or funny stories, tales of your epic kills or something that you’ve found in game – anything that gives you some good vibes. Quest complete! I’ve spoken before […]
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A question of valor
So there has been a couple of edits to the patch notes for 6.2.3. I wrote about my initial thoughts on 6.2.3 in a post last week (which you can check out here if you are so inclined!) For the most part – yay! Today’s updates I found to be interesting. Here’s what the edits […]
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Bye bye, Heroic Archimonde!
Last night was a good night of raiding. We had made our way through all of Heroic Hellfire Citadel on Wednesday night so that we would have all of Sunday evening to work on getting Heroic Archimonde down for the first time. Turns out we only needed 2 pulls. We were very fortunate to have […]
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Terky time!
Like a lot of others, I saw this post from wowhead on twitter, announcing the discovery of Terky’s* location: Players have discovered how to get a new murloc pet in game! http://t.co/Sr3bVgdA9W pic.twitter.com/YZzlJav1uS — Wowhead (@Wowhead) October 18, 2015 Terky can be hatched from the White Murloc egg, which is found in a well hidden cave […]
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Feel Good Friday! October 16
Feel Good Friday! is a weekly exercise to help bring some positivity in to the gaming community by sharing stories to make people smile. They may be heartwarming or funny stories, tales of your epic kills or something that you’ve found in game – anything that gives you some good vibes. I will admit, I need […]
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Thoughts on 6.2.3 (without the table flipping)
Edited: I misread the cross-realm information – Cross-realm Mythic raiding is EXCELLENT news! It’s quite daunting waking up to see twitter exploding with opinions about some WoW news that was released while I was asleep. One of the problems with the time delay is that I see opinions before I see what the actual news […]
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Behind the avatar – Cinder edition!
This weekend I was fortunate enough to sit down and have a chat to one of the loveliest people on the internets – Leeta! I was a guest on one of her shows, Behind the Avatar. We had a lovely chat – lots of fun and laughs about WoW and my blog and stuff! You […]
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Feel Good Friday! October 9
Feel Good Friday! is a weekly exercise to help bring some positivity in to the gaming community by sharing stories to make people smile. They may be heartwarming or funny stories, tales of your epic kills or something that you’ve found in game – anything that gives you some good vibes. For this week’s Feel Good […]
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Down the rabbit hole – Wildstar Easter Egg
NOTE: If you don’t want Wildstar Easter Egg spoilers, don’t read this post! One of the fun things about any new game is finding secrets hidden in the world. So you can imagine my delight at finding an Alice in Wonderland cave! Guarded by a white “rabbit” type creature, I had to eat a plant […]
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I’m a Wildstar, baby!
Wildstar went free to play late last week. I did what I never expected myself to do and Bootcamped my old Mac to get Windows on it. I’m surprised my poor old computer could handle it, because it’s certainly on its way out. But for now, she’s doing well! I forked out the $20 to […]
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Feel Good Friday! – October 2
Feel Good Friday! is a weekly exercise to help bring some positivity in to the gaming community by sharing stories to make people smile. They may be heartwarming or funny stories, tales of your epic kills or something that you’ve found in game – anything that gives you some good vibes. This weeks’ Feel Good Friday […]
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It’s on the list!
Even though Legion is probably still quite some time away, many people are already in the end of expansion wind down. Some people are unsubbing temporarily, whilst others, like myself, are making a bucket list of things to get done before Legion comes out. (By the way, if you’re looking for ideas of things to […]
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Feel Good Friday!
I’ve seen a lot of people in the WoW community (particularly on twitter and in some podcasts) go out of their way to bring some positivity back in to what can sometimes be seen as a negative place. I wanted to contribute to that positive vibe, and so I have decided to start a tradition […]
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Stormrage – all the rage
A week or so ago now I finished reading World of Warcraft: Stormrage by Richard A. Knaak. It made me very cross. This is the second World of Warcraft novel I’ve read, the first being War Crimes by Christie Golden (which is fantastic by the way – you should definitely read it!) I have about […]
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Is the new Warcraft book announcement hinting to a Legion release date?
Today Blizzard announced a new partnership with Random House for a series of novels about the Warcraft and Starcraft universes. All well and good, and something that I’m looking forward to. But what really peaked my interested was the announcement that the first novel, World of Warcraft: Illidan is (obviously) about Illidan, and is due […]
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Are rolling WoW expansions contributing to player fatigue?
Blizzard have made it clear that their intentions moving forward with World of Warcraft are to tie expansions together (Check out mmo-champion’s recap of Gamereactor’s interview with the devs for more). This is why Garrosh lead us to Draenor for the Warlords of Draenor expansion, and why Gul’dan is taking us back to Azeroth, in order to […]
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Calling it now – Legion for March 29/30
I was casually scrolling through the in game calendar this evening to see what the bonus events were each week. Then I got bored and just kept scrolling, when I noticed something strange. On Wednesday March 30 there was no bonus event. All other weeks had it, but not March 30. Which has to mean […]
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Making the move
It’s been a long time coming, but I have finally moved my blog over to WordPress. I’d been on tumblr for quite awhile because it seemed a reasonable place to blog about a computer game. But the environment there is very toxic – a lot of negativity and general unpleasantness made it a not so […]
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Archimonde’s defeat
Last night, Archimonde met his fate. (In other words, we kicked his butt!)
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Diablo adventures
This week I took a bit of time out from World of Warcraft and have been playing a little of Diablo III. I was very fortunate to receive a lovely first from my boyfriend earlier this week – he surprised me with Diablo III! It’s just the base for now, to see if I would […]
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Podcast goodness
Earlier this week I was a guest on the Girls Gone WoW podcast! It was a really fun time, even if I did get up just after 4am in the morning after a late raid night and then no sleep (’cos I was so nervous and excited!). Despite all that, I somehow managed to be […]
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I’m going to be on a podcast!
I’m going to be a guest on the Girls Gone WoW podcast this week! We’re going to be talking about being a raid leader/guild officer. As many of you know I’ve recently been thrown back in to these roles, so thought I’d share some stories/advice. Have you got any questions for us about being in these […]
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What I want from Legion
Legion has been announced! I’m still reeling from it all. There is SO much awesome stuff coming in this new expansion, and I am super excited about it all. But there a couple of things I want most of all from the expansion. Firstly, I’m not going to bother recapping the content of the announcement […]
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This is not a drill!
I repeat! This is NOT A DRILL! This time next week we will know what the next World of Warcraft expansion will be. I for one am VERY excited about this! Not too thrilled about the time that it’s happening, but that’s because it’s being announced on the other side of the world – so […]
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Arcane adventures
I’ve felt quite guilty having not levelled my mage to 100 yet. She was my first character, and I do love her. But when the mage changes came in for WoD, my mage just didn’t feel like my mage anymore.
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An Officer and a Raid Leader
Those of you who follow me on twitter will know that a few weeks ago our Guild Master/Raid Leader decided it was time for him to leave WoW. I was devestated to say the least. He’s an awesome guy, and I’m glad I got to meet him in person at our guild meet up earlier […]
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Shipyard – am I doing it right?
One of the features to come out of the 6.2 patch has been the addition of a shipyard to our garrisons. And I just don’t think I’m doing it right. I have to preface this by saying that I actually love having a shipyard as part of my garrison. It makes sense to have it. […]
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Brawling for gems and followers
This past weekend I spent some time in the Brawler’s Guild Arena in an attempt to get a new follower and a gem pattern. Meatball
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Hellfire Citadel – go team, go!
So raiding has been going well. We’re currently 10/13 just on normals, but it’s been good fun. The people who need loot have been getting it, so we should be good to start heroics soon (potentially would be sooner if not for stupid State of Origin. Argh, sports!) This pic is from the Socrethar fight. […]
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First week of 6.2
Fury of Hellfire (otherwise known as 6.2) has been out for a week now, and reactions (from what I’ve seen on twitter and heard in podcasts) seems to be a bit mixed, though most people seem happy with it. Me personally, I freaking love it. But then I love most things about this game and […]
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OpenRaid Transmog contest
OpenRaid’s transmog contest has ended for another year and the winners have been announced. A video has been put together of the finalists in the Grand Prize, and the placing prize winners in each of the theme categories. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYCOBcO7oI They’ve also done a storyboard showing all of the entries from […]
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Glyph of Ascendance
So I just learned about Glyph of Ascendance! I’m really excited about this. The Wowhead video above shows what they all look like. The only downside is that I already struggle with wanting too many other minor glyphs! But… this is super cool so I think Glyph of Ghostly Speed will go for awhile. Now, […]
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Cindelaera makes it to 100
Today my paladin dinged 100. So to celebrate I made her a lovely blue transmog. I actually really like this set. The blue in the pants is lovely. She’s still got her MoP legendary cloak because RNG-sus is not kind. But I don’t mind. I love those cloaks and am happy to keep it for […]
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Warlords of mosaic
My boyfriend did a thing, and I think it’s pretty amazeballs. This pic is a mosaic of world of warcraft selfies people have posted to twitter – each one only appears once and they’re all unedited. You might not be able to see it too well – there’s a much larger version here where you […]
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How to stop being crap?
Last night was raid night, and to be quite frank, it sucked. It sucked for me and because of me – not really anyone else. We did have a few issues with some key people being away, but there were people able to fill the roles and whilst it slowed things down a little, that’s […]
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Free Heroes mount!
Heroes of the Storm is finally launched and available for the whole world! I haven’t been playing it nearly as much as I should do/want to, but that’s another story. What IS fun news is that to celebrate the launch, we can all get a free mount by playing a silly little game! It’s actually great […]
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Mythic Blackrock Foundry
I’ve been raiding with my new team for a couple of weeks now. We are currently 5/10 mythic, which I am incredibly happy with. Sunday last week we managed to get down Mythic Flamebender Ka’graz and Mythic Gruul on the same night, which was an awesome feeling. Wednesday just gone had a few people missing […]
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All the achieves
I’ve been spending some time getting a few more achievements under my belt. Earlier this week I finally collected the pets I needed to get the So.Many.Pets achievement and get myself a little Stormwing. He’s quite the cutie! This evening I grinded out the last of the Apexis dailies to get another fabulous monument for my […]
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About that flying thing
Let’s face it – this is all anyone is talking about right now. I’ve read quite a few posts/forums/tweets about the lack of flying in Draenor and the possibility that there won’t be flying in future expansions either, and to be quite honest I’m absolutely sick and tired of hearing about it. But what I’m […]
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Purple fire
I made a new transmog yesterday – a purple fire set. I really like it. I think it’s something a bit different, anyway. 🙂 So naturally I had to take some screenshots the dark place behind Scholomance. I love the new earthquake 😀
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It’s elemental!
I’m still doing my trial with the new raid team. This week seemed a bit rough – they had a few people missing, but thankfully were ok with pugging some people so we eventually got the 20 to do mythic. Then content that they normally get through quite quickly took longer than usual, so it […]
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Oh the trials
Last night I did a raid trial with the team Zeirah is currently trialling with. The evening was for progression on Mythic Hans’gar and Franzok. I am trialling as an elemental shaman, and boy did I feel out of my depth last night! Not only was I learning a new fight that I’d never seen […]
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All about the raids
It’s been a week since all the dramas came to a head, and it’s only now I’m really in the right head space to write about it. Unfortunately the guild team that I have been a part of for almost a year now, a team that has many people in it whom I consider friends, […]
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How I’m playing IronMan
I’m doing the IronMan Challenge! I’ve created a page with all of my IronMan related posts for anyone who wants to keep track of my progress. You can find it here: https://cindersays.net/ironman So the official rules that I am following are available on the WoW Challenges site, and are pretty straight forward. But it does take […]
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IronMan attempt 2 – Cindermori
After Ironcinder’s tragic death last week, I decided to start a new character and have another go at the IronMan Challenge. I have made another hunter, but this time she’s Draenei, and I already feel more confident about this attempt. She’s kick ass and hot all at once! I’ve only completed the Draenei starting area […]
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Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Far too many things happening at once that’s a bit overwhelming. The short version is that I need to find a new raid team, as my current one only wants to do Heroics and not Mythics. But I’m not sure if I’m ready for a new raid team. […]
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Ironcinder – dead at 29
Sadly, Ironcinder died today, thus bringing an end to this attempt at the IronMan Challenge. She was level 29, and strayed just a little too close to a Horde area. An elite level 85 guard decided to sneeze on her, and she died in half a tragic second.
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Where are all the raiders?
martymuses: cinder-says: This seems to be the mantra of mythic guilds everywhere – where are all the raiders? Where are the people who want to kick bosses in the face? Where are the people who want to hang out with a bunch of random weirdos for a laugh and a few jokes? Where are the […]
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Where are all the raiders?
This seems to be the mantra of mythic guilds everywhere – where are all the raiders? Where are the people who want to kick bosses in the face? Where are the people who want to hang out with a bunch of random weirdos for a laugh and a few jokes? Where are the people who […]
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Cinder gets the cindermane charger!! I’ve wanted this mount since the preview came out ages ago. When it didn’t appear in game I waited and I waited. Finally it shows up – as a recruit a friend mount. And my heart sank. I didn’t have any friends who wanted to play WoW, and I couldn’t justify […]
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Ironcinder’s challenge – 20-25
I played Ironcinder a little more today and got her to 25 (For those just tuning in, you can read about my stupid idea here.) 20-25 took me through the last of Darkshore and on to Ashenvale. It has been relatively smooth sailing, but I am taking things very slowly. Very slowly. I only play […]
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Deleted legendary ring post
So I deleted the 6.2 legendary ring post that I did yesterday. The Warcraft Devs twitter account had the following today about the ring procs that had been datamined: The Legendary ring procs that have been datamined from the 6.2 PTR are from an old design. A new design is planned for a future PTR […]
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Hey! I just wanted to know if you have/ever played a shaman? I just made one Horde side and he is a Resto Shaman and I just didn’t know the best way for leveling a Resto shaman?
Hey! I DO play a resto shaman 😀 But I never level as a healer. I always level and quest as Elemental. It’s faster (cos dps) and super fun (cos earthquake!). The only time I’ll switch to resto during levelling is if I’m going in to dungeons to level. (The faster dungeon queues are always […]
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Ironcinder’s challenge
This is easily the stupidest thing I’ve decided to do in game, but I’m doing it anyway. I have decided to take on the Iron Man Challenge. For those of you playing at home who don’t know what the Iron Man Challenge is, it’s a crazy challenge to get a toon to max level with […]
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Legendary Tarecgosa
Well, it took me 9 months of on and off farming, but I have finally finished the Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa’s Rest legendary quest line. During the countless Firelands runs I did, I managed to see Flametalon of Alysrazor drop twice, but never managed to get the Crown of Flame from Ragnaros, or a heroic chest piece for […]
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So you bought a WoW token
Ok, I admit it, I bought a WoW token with in game gold. And I don’t regret it for a second. I don’t know how long the idea of having the in game token will last for, I don’t know what impact it will have on the economy, and to be honest I’m not too […]
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How Blackhand died Some of the guys in our guild like to record our raid nights. Thankfully they recorded our kill of Heroic Blackhand from the other night. Thought I’d share it so you too can marvel at how little melee have to do in this fight! (except for trollmonk – he has to go […]
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Blackhand is dead. I repeat, Blackhand is DEAD!! Tonight our guild FINALLY got down Heroic Blackhand. It took 94 pulls to get the guy down, but we got there in the end. In true Deadline tradition we got him down on our last attempt of the evening. I was shaking by the end. I can’t […]
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Argh realm maintenance
Realm maintenance started early this week – 12am PDT – 6pm Melbourne time. Unfortunately for me I got a whole 2 minutes of game time. LAME! So now I’m reinstalling Heroes of the Storm to see if that’s available instead.
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Cinder says is here! I was going to wait until the Easter break to set all of this up, but I just couldn’t wait. I found an absolutely beautiful tumblr theme to use for my new blog, and it snowballed from there. Come visit me! www.cindersays.net. (For those utterly confused, you may recognise me as […]
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Changes ahead!
Hi guys, Got some changes coming up to my blog in the near future, including new layout and a new blog name! Don’t panic – I’m not going anywhere! Just making a few changes 🙂
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Liebster’s 2015
Zeirah nominated me to take part in the Liebster’s again this year. So here my answers to her 11 questions! Z’s 11 questions for me What makes you smile? It sounds corny, but my boyfriend. He’s always looking after me, so if I’m feeling down he does all sorts of hilarious things to cheer me […]
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The 3 Lorewalkers
I have been running around Azeroth collecting music rolls for my garrison jukebox so that I could get the portable audiophone toy. (Which I did – but that’s another story.) One of the easier rolls to get is the Music Roll: Song of Liu Lang which requires a wee bit of Lorewalkers rep to get. […]
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Visiting CosplayPy
Today I went to visit CosplayPy’s tribute in Talador. It’s really fantastic! She starts out as a little sha-touched sprite darter called Pydarter. The dialogue is really sweet and mirrors the dramas she had at the last BlizzCon. At the end she turns in to Grand Empress Pydarter (just like her costume!) I think it’s a […]
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Thank you Sleeping Fox!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited about these. I commissioned the incredibly talented Sleeping Fox to do a chibi of my shaman, Cinderstorm (top) and my boyfriend’s monk, Thorfu (bottom). She finished them yesterday AND LOOK HOW DAMN ADORABLE THEY ARE!!!!!! I love them so much!! ❤
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Hi there!
layonhands was super kind and included me on a list of WoW related blogs to follow, and as a result there are a whole bunch more of you reading. So…. HI!!! *wave* 😀
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kisses in pandaria
My bf and I were mucking around taking selfies in game when this happened.
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Blasting the elements
So raiding went alright on Sunday. We actually did quite well, one-shotting Heroic Flamebender as well as Kromog (who we only got down for the first time last week!) We spent most of the night progressing on Iron Maidens. I had talented in to Elemental Blast as this is apparently what all resto shamans should be using, and […]
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I have some lovely followers. Thank you to everyone who messaged me after my giant whinge the other day. You’re all wonderful and kind and lovely. ❤ I do feel a bit better. I’ve taken trollmonk’s advice and checked out the class forums on MMO Champion. The Shaman forums seem pretty good. People asking for […]
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I’ve been feeling a bit crap about things lately. It’s why I haven’t been posting on here all that much. I’m going through a “I completely suck at this game, why do I bother playing it” phase. Mostly it’s because of my raiding performance lately. It’s tough being a resto shaman sometimes. It’s not often […]
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Blizzard Watch needs your help!
Many of you will be aware now that WowInsider (and joystiq et al) have been shut down by AOL. (As of a few hours ago, the WowInsider twitter account was taken over, so any new tweets you see are NOT from the original staff!) This is really a terrible loss to the WoW community. I […]
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Of course our internet goes down on raid day 😦
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On holidays – Milford Sound
Milford Sound- New Zealand This is where we were today. Most spectacular place I’ve ever seen.
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It’s holiday time!
Out of office is on, bags are packed and alarm is set – holidays have officially started!!
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Earthen warlock
Earthen Warlock I got these robes from my salvage yard on my shaman. I have them already on my mage so sent them over to my warlock. This set came together very quickly, and I love it. It’s a little bit earthy and rough. I like to image my warlock having to go live in […]
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Still here!
I’m still here! I’ve just been crazy busy with stuff and haven’t had a chance to do much on here at all. Still want to finish off my Highmaul Resto Shaman guides, and have a bunch of other posts I want to put up, I just haven’t had the time. My bf and I are […]
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Hatespark
Oh hello, Hatespark! Don’t we look pretty? I’ve wanted Hatespark the Tiny ever since I saw his little model come out. The drop rate to get him is sooooo low (0.03% chance, according to Wowhead, though I didn’t think it was quite that low!). I thought about buying him, but the cheapest price I found […]
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Look who lives with us now
Look who lives with us now
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Healing Heroic Highmaul – The Butcher
The Butcher getting in to the Festive Spirit! I’m putting together some short healer-based posts for each of the bosses in the Highmaul raid tier. Hopefully they’ll be useful for some fellow healers (my focus is on restoration shaman as that is what I play). Let me know what you think! (Read the Kargath Bladefist […]
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Whatever you celebrate this time of year, may it be full of love, laughter and good food. Cinder xox
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Healing Heroic Highmaul – Kargath Bladefist
Kargath Bladefist (image from wowhead) I’m putting together some short healer-based posts for each of the bosses in the Highmaul raid tier. Hopefully they’ll be useful for some fellow healers (my focus is on restoration shaman as that is what I play). Let me know what you think! Kargath Bladefist Kargath Bladefist is the first […]
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Look what I got for my work Kris Kringle gift this year! I’m determined to find out who gave this to me so I can give them a huge thank you!!
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Paragon World First Mythic Highmaul
Paragon have cleared Highmaul! I’ve been watching this race pretty closely. It’s been fascinating. For the longest time Ascension, who are an Australian guild on the same server I’m on, were kicking butt and clearing things super fast. They got a lot of world first kills so should be super proud. A lot of guilds […]
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and then….
Now it’s just getting weird. First there was my weekend pet surprises, then yesterday I got even more, and then today – 2 more! This morning from my garrison daily pet battle, I got the Albino Chimaeraling: Then tonight I sent my warlock off to the Darkmoon Faire to do the two pet battle dailies […]
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And the pets just keep coming…
After all the good fortune I had with pets and mounts over the weekend, I thought that would be it for awhile. So imagine my shock when, from my second Big Bag of Pet Supplies I managed to get this little guy! He’s a little Sun Sproutling and he’s super adorable. Maybe from my third bag […]
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All of the pets (and a rare mount!)
So many pets for me this weekend! I’ve been so so lucky. It started on Thursday with Argi: Argi is Blizzard’s fundraiser pet this year. 100% of the money paid for him goes to the Red Cross to help the Ebola efforts in Africa. If you haven’t adopted him yet, please do! He can do […]
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Highmaul Raid night 1
Well, all manner of dramas are happening on our server at the moment. Highmaul has just opened, so raiding has officially started again! We had a good start – everyone got in ok, and we one-shot Kargath Bladefist. And then everything went down the toilet. Looks like the servers are getting DDOS-ed so people have […]
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There are just not enough hours in the day! Posts will be coming soon. In the meantime, here’s a pretty screen shot!
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Hidden in a cave in Draenor
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The journey to 100
The journey to 100 has been a lot of fun. I was incredibly fortunate and didn’t experience any of the queues or other such issues (although many of my guild friends did). To be fair, some mornings I was up at 5:30am so I think that definitely helped. So! Here are a bunch of us […]
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poop in draenor
What is with all the poop in Draenor??
cinder says
gaming, crafting, writing… and cats
cinder says 