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Z and Cinder’s blog challenge topic 12: Design your own zone
I think this is one of the trickiest topics we’ve had for this challenge. For me, when it comes to designing my zone, I had to think about what I liked most about existing zones in WoW.
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Z and Cinder’s blog challenge – (Top 5!) favourite Legion screenshots
Ok so this week we’re taking things a little easier (or so we thought!) by having our topic this week be our top 5 favourite screen shots that we’ve taken in Legion.
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For Azeroth! (part 1)
Legion has now been out for three weeks. It has been an amazing three weeks, I have to say. The Emerald Nightmare raid opened last night, so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on how Cinderstorm got to this point.
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Blog challenge: favourite Legion NPC
Z and I have been chatting about Legion a fair bit lately, and it came up that we’re both feeling like we’re not blogging enough (well, I sure am not! Z has been doing quite well indeed!) Anyway, we decided to set a challenge where we would both blog about the same topic, to encourage…
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On saying goodbye
It seems to be that barely a few weeks go by before we are saying “farewell” to another Blizzard employee. And it’s always followed shortly after with the chorus of “Blizzard is collapsing” or “this is the end of WoW – even the devs know it, that’s why they’re jumping ship” conspiracies. What people tend…
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HAPPY LEGION!
I hope everyone has an amazing experience levelling in Legion. Remember to eat, drink plenty of water, get some sleep, and get up to stretch your legs every now and then. But mostly – HAVE FUN!!
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Melbourne Legion invasion
Last week my partner Thor and I were exceptionally lucky to be able to attend the Melbourne Legion release party, hosted by Blizzard and featuring guest visits from Celestalon and Gen St Michel
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Yer a wizard!
So I finally got the chance to transfer my mage back over to the Alliance. I was having troubles trying to decide what race to make her. She has SO much transmog…
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Pre-patch adventures
I knew going in to this new patch that there would be some big changes, and that things might not work. So I didn’t hold my breath that things would be ok.
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We made it!
We have a pre-patch date, and it’s just a few days away!!! Come July 19, we will have officially made it. The wait for new things to do is officially over! From here on in we’ll be having loads of content headed our way for months to come. (and here I am slightly panicking…
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Let’s fly away
I’ve been playing around on the Legion beta a little this weekend to see how well I hit things as restoration shaman in her mythic WoD gear (very well, by the way!). At one point I took a flight from Dalaran to Azsuna…. and suddenly I’m flying around on an Onyx Panther! This was one…
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(Temporary) Girl Gone WoW
I sure am getting around lately! (Not like that, silly!) This week I had the pleasure of visiting EJ and Raven from Girls Gone WoW to talk about levelling, and especially about levelling in Legion. You can have a listen in Show 227. Unfortunately Skype was a colossal asshole for us – we were all…
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Dummy for a day!
Last weekend I completely geeked out because I was lucky enough to be a guest on one of my favourite podcasts, The Training Dummies. I’ve been listening to Rob and Darryl for awhile now (TTD and Realm Maintenance were some of the first podcasts I listened to after Girls Gone WoW got me in to…
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The price of talent – let’s bargain!
Today Watcher Dev made a post on the forums about removing the cost of changing specs (that is currently on the Legion beta) but instead implementing a cost for changing talents. I’ll post both of his comments below (these can be found on the forums here) We’ve definitely heard much feedback to this effect, and…
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Ask me the right questions
I know that I’ve spoken about the legacy server discussion a bit on Battletagged (episode 12 to be precise, if you want to hear it!) but I thought a post was in order as well because this topic won’t go away!!! TL;DR version is this: A group of people hosted a legacy version of World…
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Defiler’s End
This week, I got an achievement I did not expect to get. This week, I killed Mythic Archimonde. Because my new guild only had a few kills on Mythic Archimonde, I didn’t expect to be in there for a little while yet. They needed to keep in strong healers to help out any lower level/newer…
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At the end of April
It’s been awhile since I posted. I’ll be honest, I’ve been busy and not really having a brilliant time of things so haven’t had a lot of energy to write. That’s not to say that things haven’t been happening, so that’s why I’m here. Raiding The biggest thing is that I’m now 12/13 mythic bosses…
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Legion Alpha Testing – levelling as a healer
****If you do not want ANY information about Legion, and don’t want any spoilers about anything at all, please don’t read this blog post! I will be talking about the Restoration Shaman levelling experience (without giving quest details away) and will be sharing some screen shots. Proceed at your own risk!**** Regular readers will know that…
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Legion Alpha testing- Restoration Shaman artifact
****If you do not want ANY information about Legion, and don’t want any spoilers about anything at all, please don’t read this blog post! I will be talking about the Restoration Shaman artifact quest experience (without giving quest details away) and will be sharing some screen shots. Proceed at your own risk!**** Today I went and…
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Legion Alpha testing – Demon Hunter
****If you do not want ANY information about Legion, and don’t want any spoilers about anything at all, please don’t read this blog post! I will be talking about the Demon Hunter starting zone (without giving quest details away) and will be sharing some screen shots. Proceed at your own risk!**** On Sunday night my…
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A Gilnean adventure
A couple of weeks ago, for no other reason than that I could, I decided to run through the Worgen starting zone in Gilneas. I really love this zone. I find it to be incredibly beautiful (even though it’s full of rabid dogs and undead types!) I just love the building style and the accents…
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Running with a new team
My poor neglected blog! I have been so busy lately, and to be honest I’m not completely sure why. Just lots of stuff happening I suppose, and time passing much too quickly. A little over a week or so ago I transferred servers to trial with a guild for Legion. I am back to being…
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Bitch away the changes
A few weeks back, for a period of 24 hours, WoW was all about the Water Striders. Namely a change that had come through datamining one of the latest Alpha patches that showed in Legion, Water Striders would only perform their trademark water walking ability in the zones of the expansion they were available in.…
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Navispammed!
The hunt for a new guild/raid team is still going strong, and I’m not having any luck at all yet (which will be the topic of a future post, I’m sure). However it hasn’t been a complete loss. On Wednesday the ever so delightful Navimie happened to notice my post on the forums about looking…
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A home to call my own
Well today I finally made a decision about where I want to be in Legion, and have decided to look for a new guild and raid team. I have loved being in Deadline – the people are amazing. We always have a laugh, we know how to have a good time. It has been awesome.…
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Field Photographer
Today I finally got off my butt and did the Field Photographer achievement. I had been putting it off for the longest time because I wanted to be smart about it and not waste my time zigzagging all over Azeroth. Then I came across this splendid guide on wowhead – http://www.wowhead.com/guide=2952/field-photographer-achievement-a-guide It has both a text version…
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A winner is ME!
This week I found out I was the lucky winner of a competition Skog was holding on twitter. I won myself a new twitter banner and a wallpaper! And I am in LOVE with them. And as an extra special bonus, he made an animated version of the wallpaper that loops!! ❤ ❤ ❤ I…
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Battling for epics
I started writing this when the topic of Epic Battle Stones was still being discussed. Today Blizzard has responded to the feedback and decided not to go ahead with the Epic stones. So my post is probably a little useless.But here I am anyway. I felt that the discussion around the epic stones was relatively…
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Cinderstorm the Proven Healer
I am still in a bit of shock as I write this. This evening I managed to get the “Proven Healer” title for completing 30 waves on endless difficulty in the Proving Grounds. I have been working on this achievement since Mists of Pandaria. This has been about 3 years in the making. And today I…
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Oh the whimsy!
I’ve been playing quite a bit of Diablo 3 of late. Season 5 started the other week and I have been playing away in the hopes of getting all of the Season 5 achievements for an in game pet. I only have 1 achievement left – to complete a class dungeon. So far I haven’t…
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Happy holidays!
Whatever you celebrate this time of year, may it be full of love, laughter and happiness. xo
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Ramble ramble ramble
I’ve been a bit quiet on here this last week. I’ve still been playing WoW, but not a great deal. This is for 2 reasons – 1. My work situation is pretty stressful at the moment, so I’m either too tired or too stressed out when I get home to play too much. 2. Most…
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An Alliance levelling adventure
This weekend I finished levelling my Alliance toon to 100. What a wonderful experience it was! The levelling felt different, even though a lot of the quests are the same, they were in different orders or for different purposes so they had that “newish” tinge to them. I levelled my Death Knight as Blood because it’s…
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Moooooose!!!
I know a lot of people got this excitement earlier in the week when it first came out, but tonight was our last guild raid night, and we all got our moose. And it’s so lovely! It has a funny run and flies weird, but it’s so pretty and I love it so much. It…
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Did someone say… happy birthday??
It’s WoW’s 11th birthday! And boy did we get some goodies this year. The one that everyone is talking about (because everyone always talks about it!) is the Inflatable Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker. I’ve only ever had one in Diablo, so this was a novelty for me. My favourite thing about it, though,…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!!