Tag: World of Warcraft
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Blaugust 2022 – 16 – Dragonflight Alpha
You wouldn’t think it seeing my blog, but I’ve actually had access to Dragonflight Alpha for quite a few weeks.
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Blaugust 2022 – 6 – The first night
I feel like the first time raiding with a new team is like going on a first date with someone…
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Blaugust 2022 – 3 – Raiding with the Silverbacks
Season 4 brings new affixes and a new mythic raid team!
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On reflection
For a little while now I’ve been feeling myself drifting further and further away from World of Warcraft and the community. I can’t pinpoint the moment I started shifting, but I find myself now feeling oddly separated from everything. It’s like I went to a party and was having a great time, laughing and dancing…
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General Shadowlands addons
Continuing on the theme of addons, in this post I’ll be going through some of my favourite WoW addons, what they do and where you can get them. (If you’re after raiding addons, check out my last post here for my favs.) These aren’t in any particular order – pretty much just the order in…
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Covenants & Soulbinds & Conduits – oh my!
My (current) thoughts on the covenants, soulbinds and conduits proposed for Shadowlands.
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Looking back on Battle for Azeroth – Azerite, Essences & Gear
With BfA coming to end, I’m having a look at what worked and what didn’t (for me!) when it came to gearing up.
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Cinder & Thor in the USA – Blizzcon part 2 – Blizzcon Day 1!
By golly I’m so behind on these. We are finally up to the good stuff, though! Actual Blizzcon! Our Blizzcon adventures actually started the day before, on the Thursday before we headed off to Disneyland, where we got up a bit earlier to line up for our passes. This was our first real feeling of…
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Someone like you
In a game that I dive in to to escape from the world, I found I wasn’t able to fully escape because I just kept seeing parts of myself in it.
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Who’s getting stabbed in the back tomorrow?
Tomorrow the gates of Azshara’s fabulous Eternal Palace open, giving us a brand new raid, with loads of new boss butts to kick. And with it (hopefully) will come some answers as to the next part of the Battle for Azeroth story. I for one am so pumped for this! I have some ideas about…
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The devil’s in the details
Can’t I just go back to a week ago, when I was ignorant? Please? It was more fun then.
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The stupid is strong in this one…
Oh lordy. I’ve been quite sick all week this week. It’s just a cold, but it’s been a big one. I’ve been off work for almost the whole week (thankfully being able to work from home), and am still recovering now (I sound like a hag! It’s actually kinda funny lol) Despite being quite ill…
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Classic adventures
Last week I was fortunate to learn that I had been granted access to the World of Warcraft Classic Beta servers. Anyone who’s followed my blog knows I’m a bit of a nerd, and a big part of me loves to contribute to these early access servers. I like feeling like I’ve helped contribute in…
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Sometimes raiding is hysterical (raiding outtakes)
We’ve been progressing on mythic Jaina for 2 weeks now. We’re at 200 pulls and seeing third phase, so we’re actually doing pretty well in comparison to some other guilds. But it is a hard slog, without a doubt. So it’s probably no surprise when I say that sometimes we get a little silly. Tonight…
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Bye Bye, Pandaren
Tomorrow patch 8.1.5 arrives in World of Warcraft, and with it comes the much-anticipated allied races of Kul’Tiran humans and Zandalari trolls (along with a WHOLE bunch of awesome content!) I am beyond excited (as usual) for new WoW content. But I will admit I’m feeling bittersweet. Since I first learned of the Kul’Tirans being…
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Come together
Warning – this post contains reference to sensitive content involving abuse and situations involving children. Please proceed with caution. I’m a bit quieter than usual this month as I am spending the vast majority of it interstate for work. I was hoping that I would have some time to finish off some posts before I left, but as is usually the case, I didn’t really get enough time before…
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Children of the sea
It seems the Warcraft development team are back at work, because this week the first official Patch 8.1.5 PTR went up. And there’s a lot of great stuff in there. As usual, Wowhead are going through and presenting us with a peek at what’s to come (and doing a darn good job of it, too!)…
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The goal for 2019
It is New Year’s Eve. 2019 is on the other side of this day, and as is customary, people are making resolutions in the hopes of making the most of the year to come. I am one of those people. 2018 was a pretty ok year for me. It was tough, but I won’t complain.…
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Tying a bow on 2018
Another year is coming to a close. It’s always a time for us to look back and reflect on the year, to celebrate our achievements and say goodbye to perhaps some of the sadder moments that have happened. For this post, I’m going to take a look back at my 2018 bucket list to see…
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Merry 2018!
Wishing everyone a very happy holidays! I hope your days are filled with happy hearts and happy tummies. ❤ Thank you to all of you for simply just being here; for reading my blog or liking my tweets, watching my streams or listening to my podcast, or just generally being an amazing person to know.…
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A quick catchup
It seems to be that the more adamant I am about writing more, the less I do it. It’s like the universe listens to my plans and says “Nup! Not today!” and I get ridiculously busy. Which is how I find myself in the middle of December all of a sudden. When did that happen?!…
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Happy 14th birthday, WoW!
Today marks the first day of a 2 week event to help celebrate World of Warcraft’s 14th birthday. As has become tradition, upon logging in today I received a gift form the Dev team, consisting of a ‘thank you’ message, a reputation & experience game token, and 200 time warped badges to spend on whatever…
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On the move
It’s been 2 lockouts since Realm disbanded. It’s been weird not raiding. I played a whooole lot less. The break was nice in a way, but to be honest one of the main reasons I wasn’t playing as much because there just wasn’t anyone else around. It got very lonely very quickly, and it was…
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The anxiety and the guild crash… and what’s next
It’s been hard to start this post. Or any other blog post for that matter, if I’m being completely honest. But this one, I don’t really know how to start. I know the things I have to say, but putting them in order is proving difficult. So how about we make a deal and pretend…
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The un-break-up
Those of you who follow my twitter account will have seen that this past week was quite the rollercoaster. I’m personally still reeling a little bit from everything that happened (though I am overly dramatic, I know). On Wednesday, Realm as a guild ended. And then on Thursday, it didn’t. Confused? Well, it will make…
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The happiest place on Azeroth
This long weekend I said to myself that I would take things a bit easier, and get back to just enjoying WoW. Yeah, there are things I definitely need to do, but my goal for the weekend is just to make sure that I’m doing the things I love. Like explore and finish obscure achievements…
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My BfA levelling adventure
How has it been a month since Battle for Azeroth launched? Holy moly time passes quickly. I suppose a bit part of that is about how completely flat out I’ve been in game. Which leads me in to the topic of this post, and the last Blog Challenge topic (I know I’m late!!) How do…
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Realm takes on Uldir
Last night, the first raid of Battle for Azeroth opened. Uldir is here! It’s a great looking raid. But more on that in a moment. Before we headed off, I wanted to get a team picture of our starting team for the expansion (and thankfully my GM entertains my annoying screenshot-taking habits!). So we all…
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Topic 37: First impressions of Battle for Azeroth in pictures
Ok, ok I’m late for my own blog challenge. Oops! For topic 37 we are sharing our first impressions of Battle for Azeroth in pictures. The challenge was 5 pictures… look, no-one thought I’d actually do just 5, right? I think I’ve done well to get it to 6, but boy have I ignored some…
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Topic 36: Farewell to Legion
It’s been awhile since I’ve participated in one of these challenges (which is pretty hilarious given I’m one half of the team that runs these things… ) I’m aiming to do better with these challenges, though, so here I am. I chose this topic for the challenge because I wanted to see some more positive…
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The night before Teldrassil burns…
It’s the eve of what is bound to be an incredible emotional day for many Alliance players (and maybe even some unsure Horde, too…). Tomorrow, Teldrassil burns. I’ve managed to keep the story of how and why Teldrassil burns a secret- I’ve successfully avoided it in the beta and all the website, and I’m so…
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Pre-patch makeover
I really love a new pre-patch. There’s something about it that makes me feel like I’ve got a clean slate. It’s a new beginning which means new opportunities to kick butt in game and have new adventures. It’s also an opportunity to have a bit of a spring clean and a makeover, which is exactly…
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Hope in Before the Storm
Every time I think about the book, I keep thinking about hope, and what it means to lose it. And what becomes of the person who does.
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Raiding with Realm
I’ve been wanting to do something for my guild for quite some time. I’ve grown so fond of my guildies, and I wanted to say thank you.
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Titanslayer, btw
Well, we have officially “finished” Legion. Last weekend our guild finally killed mythic Argus, giving us the Cutting Edge achievement. It took over 600 pulls and countless frustrations, but we made it. We are now Titanslayers (a title we now use to brush off dozens of wipes during re-clear…) I’m proud of our team, though. Even…
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A peek at Cinder’s world
Well hi there, friends. Today I wanted to take on a little peak behind the curtain, and show you where I am when I’m writing/streaming/talking to you all. It’s take awhile… in fact, it’s take the whole time we’ve lived in this apartment, so about 4 years? But finally – FINALLY I have all my…
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Class mounts – complete!
It has been a very long time coming (thanks my slow-ass levelling skills) but this weekend I finally finished collecting all of the class mounts. I’m officially finished!
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The last of the journey to Lord of the Reins
What a big weekend! Achievements and mounts and pets – it all happened! ~*~*~*~Note there are some class campaign and class mount story spoilers in this post for Death Knight and Rogue.~*~*~*~ This weekend I managed to tick of a lot of things from my bucket list, and even a few that weren’t there. First up, my…
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Uuna <3
One of the more recent secrets discovered by the amazing Secret Finding Discord is a story line involving a pet from Argus named Uuna. Instead of giving a mount or a pet or achievement, this quest line is simply story. Utterly gut wrenching, heart breaking story. It’s beautiful and tragic and hopeful and perfect. Here’s…
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Chosen
For the past few weeks/months a few people in guild have been trying to get a group together to work on getting The Chosen achievement. For this achievement, you need to complete the Trial of Valor on mythic difficulty without dying. That is, defeating Odyn, Guarm and Helya on mythic, and still being alive at…
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BfA Alpha Elemental Shaman thoughts (so far!) ~*SPOILERS*~
~*This post contains pictures and information relating to the Battle for Azeroth Alpha. If you don’t want to know or see anything relating to Alpha, please turn away now~* EDIT: MArch 16 – a new build went up last night with a couple of changes that will hopefully address some points below, so expect a…
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Rainbow bright
I’m not very good at saving money in real life, but I’m a little better at it in WoW (mostly because we don’t have to pay rent or anything in game hehe). I’m not the greatest at making gold at all; I don’t have the time or the patience. But I do make enough to…
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What to do in 2018
2018 is a big year for many reasons. The most obvious being that World of Warcraft’s next expansion, Battle for Azeroth will be coming out. awww yeah!
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The catch-up
It’s been awhile, so I thought I’d best do a catch-up post to let you know what I’ve been up to and what I have planned.
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Malfurion and Tyrande can get stuffed
Before Legion, I hadn’t really given Malfurion and Tyrande much thought other than Tyrande’s dress is super pretty, and Malfurion sleeps an awful lot…
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The quest for a hunter’s mount
~*~*~* This post contains spoilers for the Hunter class mount quest chain.~*~*~* One of my ongoing goals in game to have completed before the next expansion is to get all of the class mounts. I’ve been slowly but steadily making my way through levelling each class, then getting their mount/s. Today, I unlocked another, my…
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My 2017 in pictures
Part two of Topic 29: the 2017 wrap-up double challenge bonanza! The second challenge topic we had for December, to help wrap up the year, was to show one favourite screenshot for each month. I like this challenge, because I love taking screenshots (I have almost 3000 just from this year alone!!!) but boy is it…
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A look back at what was in the bucket of 2017
We’ve put up two challenges for the rest of December over at Z and Cinder’s Blog Challenge. Partly because we couldn’t decide what order to post them in, and partly (ok mostly!) because we’re just so busy these days that we didn’t want to miss the topics entirely because somehow 2 weeks passed by and…
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There is only one word- EPIC
~*~*~*~*~SPOILERS AHEAD!! This post contains images and discussion about bosses in the new Antorus raid. If you do not want to know anything about this raid, please turn back now. ~*~*~*~*~ Anyone who has been reading my blog for awhile that I love a new raid. There’s always something so exciting about it. There’s a buzz that…
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By the light!
The alt that I have been working on lately has been my priest. I’ve never been very good at being a priest. Shadow just doesn’t mesh well with me, and I didn’t really like holy last time I tried it either. Same for Discipline, really. But I *really* wanted the priest class mount. And the…
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The little run that could
It’s mid-October, and you know what that means – it’s time for the annual Gnome Run! This year was the 8th run, and the turnout this time was absolutely phenomenal. Last year they had almost 3000 gnomes race, and raised $5,500. THIS year, oh my goodness. According to organiser Dravvie, there were over 7,000 (yes…
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Mythic not-so-sassypants-anymore!
We did it! After all the dramas we have gone through as a team over the past couple of months; after losing so many players and recruiting and trialling others, we are finally at a point where, not only have we defeated all the mythic bosses we had killed before, but we have now got…
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Now scheduling: Blizzcon hype
I’m currently in the middle of a different post, but I saw that the Blizzcon2017 schedule was released today and just had to squee about it for awhile! Seriously, the hype is oh so real. Blizzcon this year looks AMAZING. There are so many panels that I’m planning to watch, that I don’t know if…
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It’s about time!
Oh my goodness what a month this has been! Back at the end of August when I finally made the decision to move my blog to somewhere more permanent, I had no idea how long it would be until my blog was safely in place and available to post to. I expected a weekend of…
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Trial of Style – Cinder’s tips!
This week one of the most anticipated micro-holidays finally rolled around- the Trial of Style. A micro-holiday all about transmog!!! It really is a lot of fun. It does help to go in prepared, so I thought I’d give those who haven’t had a go yet a quick run down of what to expect, and…
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Z and Cinder’s Blog Challenge Topic 23: Why do I blog about WoW?
Hey, what a surprise, I’m behind on posting responses to our blog challenges! That is so unlike me! 😉 Clearly I have a lot of catching up to do, and rather than starting at where I last left off, I’m just going to go in any darn order that pleases me. So, Topic 23 asked why…
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Look to the skies
~*~*~*~*~ Potential spoilers ahead.~*~*~*~*~ EDIT: adding more pics of little things like this as I find them. See them at the bottom of the post. This latest reset has seen a few new things appear in game. For those who have not yet killed Kil’Jaeden on Normal or higher difficulty, the skies would have been…
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Here comes the sun…darter hatchling
So the secret finding community has been at it again, and with the launch of 7.2.5 they discovered how to get the gorgeous Sun Darter Hatchling pet. It’s quite the puzzle, and incredible of them to have figured it out!
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Mythic Gul’doooowwwwwwwn!!!!
Well, it took us three weeks, lots of tears, frustration, swearing and hysteria, but we did it – Mythic Gul’dan is defeated! We got our Cutting Edge achievement, and new title Vengeance Incarnate.
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Z and Cinder’s Blog Challenge Topic 17: Playing dress-ups
Anyone who knows me knows that I love collecting transmog pieces.
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Z and Cinder’s blog challenge topic 16: there’s no place like home (thank goodness!)
I really struggled with this topic, which is why it’s late! I thought long and hard about which areas in WoW reminded me of home….
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Thank you Coolidge!!!
I’ve said quite a few times how wonderful the WoW community can be. From organising fundraisers, to helping each other out, to just being super awesome people. This week I was lucky enough to be the recipient of some generosity from the WoW community.
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Z and Cinder’s blog challenge topic 15: I love it all!!
It’s funny, I’ve put off writing this post for awhile. Not because I don’t have anything to love about WoW, but because there is so much to love and I’m finding it difficult to pin down only a few things to talk about.
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It was the best of times, it was the busiest of times!
Getting back to work has been really great – knowing I’ve got money coming in again to pay bills is a big load off my mind! But it does come with the downside of a lot less game time.
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Seeing Azeroth in a new light
Like so many other people, I have been running around taking screenshots using the Inky Black Potion. What a wonderful addition to the game that little potion is!!
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Get to the Point!
Patch 7.2 started for us Aussies on Wednesday. It was eerie going back to the Broken Shore….
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Cheers!
This evening I was pottering around Dalaran. I wandered out of the kitchen and noticed a door I had been running past all expansion. Of course I had to go see what was in there.
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Z and Cinder’s blog challenge topic 13: the WoW race I just can’t stand
I doubt this will come as a surprise to anyone who follows my blog or twitter!
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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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On a personal note
It sure has been quiet around here, hasn’t it? To say things have been chaotic in my life right now is a bit of an understatement, and it has obviously been affecting all the “extra-curricular” things I do in my life – this blog included.
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Neat!
The Real Neat Blog Awards are doing the rounds at the moment, and the lovely Z nominated me – thanks Z! :) I love things like this because it helps people find some great new blogs to read, and gives a bit of an insight into other authors.
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Z and cinder’s blog challenge topic 10: favourite world quest
So, world quests. I personally love world quests. The main reason being that I just love being able to choose to do the quests that give me the rewards I want.
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Z and Cinder’s blog challenge topic 8: changing mains
It’s a sad time for anyone who feels their class has moved beyond something they can connect with, and I feel for anyone who has to go through it.
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WoW Challenges!
Last Sunday morning I had the absolute delight and pleasure to be a guest on Stone and Leeta’s show, WoW Challenges Podcast. I had such a lovely time with them, and was super excited to get to speak to Stone for the first time ever.
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Farewell 2016
I’m stealing Z’s blog idea and posting a screenshot from each month of 2016 as a way of saying farewell to it.
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Classy! part 2
One of my goals during the summer down time has been to unlock all of my class halls. Today, I finished that. This is Part 2…
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Classy! part 1
One of my goals during the summer down time has been to unlock all of my class halls. Today, I finished that. This is Part 1…
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She’s making a list, and probably not checking it again…
It’s that time of year, where I start making lists of things I want to get done over the Christmas break.
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Z and Cinder’s blog challenge topic 5: Cinder, NPC
I don’t know about others, but for me the dream is to have an NPC named after me in WoW. I know, so lame, but how awesome would that be?! Getting to see yourself in game – what a treat! But what would an NPC in WoW be like if it were based on me?…
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Oh holy… paladin
Well ok that’s a misleading title. I keep getting random Christmas songs in my head so I dunno, it just happened. So earlier this week I was bumming around damaging eternity by killing time just kinda not really doing anything. I’ve been spending a lot of my game time doing my emissary quests and getting…
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Z and Cinder’s blog challenge Topic 4: Postcards from Azeroth
This week’s topic came about as a result of Z cheering me up one day. I was at work having a miserable day and she was telling me all the wonderful things I could look forward to about heading into Azeroth when I got home. It’s such an awesome topic!
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Blog challenge – 12 years and the impact
This week started the 12th birthday celebrations for World of Warcraft. It’s crazy that a game this old is still this popular, although I understand it. The topic we chose for the challenge this week is an opportunity to take a step back and look at how this game has impacted our lives. Because let’s…
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Blog challenge – favourite Legion quest, Uptown Murloc
My lovely friend Zeirah and I have turned our weekly blog challenge into a public blog challenge for anyone to participate in. Each week there is a new topic for everyone to write about and share. You can read everyone’s favourite Legion quest on our website here. You kind find Z’s post about the topic right…
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Z and Cinder’s blog challenge – thoughts on 7.1
This week patch 7.1 Return to Karazhan was released. And what a patch it is! 7.1 brings with it a new min-raid, a whole bunch of new pet battle content (including a new Raiding With Leashes achievement and wild pets to raise into mounts) and, of course, Karazhan – the mythic dungeon on steroids (plus…
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Run, run, run!
This weekend was the annual running of the gnomes. It’s a fun in game event created by some lovely people to raise money for breast cancer research. It’s a great event that the WoW team even featured this year! This was my second year running it, so I was a bit more prepared – I…
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Z and Cinder blog challenge – professions
My lovely friend Zeirah and I are challenging each other with a weekly blog post. We choose a topic and both write about. This week’s topic is all about professions. You can read Z’s post about this topic right here. This week’s post topic was suggested by Elgaric (who has a new podcast coming out soon – Azeroth or Bust).…
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Z & Cinder’s Blog Challenge – The Three Cinders
My lovely friend Zeirah and I are challenging each other with a weekly blog post. We choose a topic and both write about it. This week’s topic is a bit different – this week we’re talking about ingame persona vs. real life persona. You can read Z’s post this right here. There’s something about being in your own…
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Splishy splashy woes
The new raid week started for us last night and we absolutely powered through a full heroic clear in no time at all. Then we went in to mythics and cleared Mythic Nythendra on just the second pull. We headed off to spider bird but only managed to get 1 pull in (which we got…
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Z & Cinder’s blog challenge – favourite Legion dungeon
My lovely friend Zeirah and I are challenging each other with a weekly blog post. We choose a topic and both write about. This week’s topic is our favourite Legion dungeon.
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Blog challenge – saddest quest
My lovely friend Zeirah and I are challenging each other with a weekly blog post. We choose a topic and both write about. This week’s topic is the saddest quest in Legion. You can read Z’s post about her favourite right here.
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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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