tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18859210763811811572024-03-05T02:42:59.265-04:00Holy NovaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-2108080492162089512014-12-11T19:39:00.000-04:002014-12-11T19:39:50.443-04:00Rebuilding is HardIt's interesting, I've sat down and started to write a dozen times and published nothing. It's hard to know what to talk about when my go-to topic isn't something I can talk about anymore. This may be evident, but I'll reiterate - I'm not coming back for Warlords. While it's true that I sometimes miss WoW, I've learned that what I really miss isn't something that I can get back. Vanilla WoW is gone, and with it left my friends and guildmates. They're not coming back either and it would be silly for me to sit around in Stormwind or some other capital city, pretending to have fun and wishing they would just sign on. <br />
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I sometimes wonder if re-naming or putting up a new template would make it easier. Maybe deleting all of my content or simply moving domains and setting up shop in a brand new, spiffy blog that doesn't carry all of the memories from before. I don't want to walk away from this blog, and I'm not sure that I can commit to frequent postings with my job and real life taking up most of my time. I do; however, want to start doing this again. I still play video games and I'll be talking about whatever I'm playing when I play it.<br />
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What I've been playing recently:<br />
Dragon Age Inquisition<br />
Farcry 4<br />
The Walking Dead.<br />
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While I really want to start talking about Dragon Age, I do think it's a little bit to early to start spouting spoilers but, once I start my play through Nightmare mode next week, I will be spoiling and cursing. So, I just want to get that warning out there.<br />
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Also, I'm looking for a new mouse and keyboard and would really appreciate some suggestions. <br />
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Happy to be back, <br />
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MalkAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-64706902991357390882014-08-10T19:33:00.001-03:002014-08-10T19:36:36.705-03:00Reimagining/RebrandingHello all,<br />
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After much deliberation, I've decided to reposition this site. Unfortunately, one cannot be a WoW blogger who does not play WoW. Having canceled my subscription more than a year ago, I think it's safe to say that I am not returning to WoW. Obviously, the phrase "Never say Never" applies, but at least for the foreseeable future, I will not be among the denizens of Azeroth.<br />
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This is not to say that I'm done with games. I am absolutely still gaming, and I'd like to focus more on what I am doing now, than what I was doing in the past. My time in Warcraft is something that I will look back on and remember fondly and as such my original content and links will remain intact, the main difference will be what I'm posting about. I want to talk about the games that interest me and that I play now.<br />
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This alteration will likely come with a new look, and maybe a new name, all to be finalized within a few weeks. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-42307163366803995342014-03-21T13:34:00.001-03:002014-03-21T13:34:25.395-03:00Multi-player is not my enemy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I first left WoW, it was because I couldn't stand to immerse myself in a world that reminded me of Cy. In the beginning it was because I couldn't bring myself to see him online on my real-id, not because he would talk to me - he wouldn't we were stuck in our lease and I was too stubborn to move out so if he wanted to talk to me all he had to do was approach me in the living room, but more because I couldn't yet bring myself to purge him from my life and therefore my list. In the following weeks I continued to stay offline because I could no longer force myself to play with other people. His endless criticism of my caliber as a player had become a nagging voice in my head, telling me that I wasn't good enough to play with other people.<br />
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The mere thought of entering dungeons or playing with other players caused me a great deal of anxiety. So, I simply avoided it.<br />
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I became a staunchly single player gamer.<br />
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I played the crap out of Assassin's creed 4, but did not platinum because I couldn't bring myself to play one round of multi-player, much less play enough to earn trophies.<br />
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I even played Payday 2 offline, because it was more fun for me to get mad at the AI than it was to potentially screw up someones heist.<br />
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So, when I started playing Diablo 3 again, I was firmly set on playing alone.<br />
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Let me just interject here and say that when J told me about the new patch several months ago, I was less than stocked. "How can they make a game that was brutally so un-fun, fun?" I asked. He doesn't play Blizzard games, so he couldn't tell me whether the patch had fixed the anti-fun that was Diablo 3. "Just try it" he said. Now, something like 2 or 3 months later, I finally did and I'm glad I gave it another chance.<br />
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I love the dynamic difficulty of the monsters. It's a way better system than tying the monster level to the difficulty setting and the quest you're on. <br />
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So, I downloaded the patch and logged on to my Demon Hunter, who was at the time level 55. I played on Normal for a little while, and eventually made my way up to Master difficulty after the former three difficulties proved to be too easy. Eventually, I thought for a lark just to try a public game.</div>
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It's been great. Everyone that I've partied with have been nice to me - or at least very quiet. Unlike WoW, Diablo was made to faceroll so I haven't had to deal with any co-ordination which was half of my problem (I was very much volentold to do a lot of mechanics and fill roles that I was absolutely not comfortable doing) but I'm finding it to be a positive, and frankly fun experience.</div>
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I've noticed the drops are a lot better. I've gotten a ton of legendaries, my favourite being "Pig Sticker" due to the random squeal noises that it makes.</div>
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In short, I'm rediscovering multi-player as a fun, and positive alternative to single player.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-82398083596954547832014-03-12T17:13:00.001-03:002014-03-12T17:13:39.224-03:00So... it's been a year.It's been nearly a year since I signed in here and honestly, pretty much that long since I canceled my WoW subscription too. In retrospect, I wish I had posted a farewell or provided some notice that I would no longer be updating frequently, or as it turned out, at all.<br />
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I can't say that I've missed WoW all that much, the game as I knew it has been over for a long time and none of the friends that I played with originally still play save one, my father. That's not to say that the new friends I made along the way were lesser than the originals though they were fewer in number. Eventually, I went from playing with guildies\friends every night to being more of a loner and you don't get very far in MMO's as a loner. My home realm population dwindled and with the introduction of guild levels the small family guilds with tight knit raid teams that I loved became a thing of the past.<br />
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Over the years I've been in a number of raiding guilds with varied success - to me it was more about enjoying the people I played with rather than the internet points and imaginary prestige. At some point, I lost sight of that goal and got into some hardcore raiding with a boy I was seeing in real life.<br />
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Ultimately, it was the dissolution of that relationship that also ended my love affair with WoW. He sucked the fun out of my game and broke me down from a confident young woman who loved playing the game with other people and turned me into an anxious girl who didn't want to queue for raid finder out of fear of screwing things up. <br />
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It's been nearly a year since he broke me, and while my real life bounced back quickly, with the help of some of the best friends I have ever had, one of whom introduced me to a man who builds me up and has made me the happiest I have ever been, my online presence has never bounced back. I'm not really sure why that is, I suspect it has something to do with deeply my ex permeated my online life, but lately I've been missing this blog and while I'm not sure I'll ever go back to WoW I miss the friends I made here and on other blogs.<br />
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I make no promises, I don't know what I want this blog to be about if not solely about WoW. I still game just generally not online. Mostly, I wanted to put this out there - I've missed you and I'm thinking about getting back into this, whatever it is. <br />
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In the meantime I would like to try Hearthstone, so we'll see where that takes me.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-27347138657829851702013-03-25T20:35:00.003-03:002013-03-25T20:35:59.709-03:00Disappearing Act<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know, recycled screenshot is bad. Tough.<br />
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I just wanted to pop in briefly and acknowledge that I have not been around for the last little bit. Everything is ok, well it's all getting back to ok. School has been ferocious lately and I fear it will be worse in the coming weeks.<br />
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Fear not, my regular nonsense will return, when I get a spare moment (read: Easter Weekend) Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-5128480292877260392013-03-14T17:35:00.004-03:002013-03-14T17:36:53.627-03:00Raiders on Reserve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This started as a response to Navimie's post "<a href="http://frostwolves.blogspot.ca/2013/03/when-both-sides-of-story-are-right.html">When both sides of the story are right</a>" and sort of took on a life of its own, so rather than clutter up her post with all of my opinions and experiences I decided to move it in here.<br />
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To begin, I want to first let you know where I'm coming from. I am not a raid leader. I am not a guild leader. I am not actively involved in a guild at present. My opinions and experiences are not from a leadership perspective: I have never been a raid leader. I have never actively made these decisions and I do not envy those in a position to implement them. What I am is a former raider in a number of different guilds enough to consider myself fairly well educated on the impact that these types of decisions can have on the average raider and the effect they can have on a guild. My experiences are all from the view of someone who observed the implementation of these guild policies and had little no no say in the decision to implement them in the first place.<br />
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Through my raiding years I've run with many different raid leaders and
guild groups and it's been my experience that they all have their own way of solving the overcrowding
issue. While there is no "right" way to deal with it, there are ways
which are "less wrong" than others and ultimately the measure of the solution is whether your raiders feel it is a fair solution and leaves the least amount of hurt feelings.<br />
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When you have a fair amount of players sitting standby, but not enough to justify increasing your single 10 man raid to 25 man perhaps the most desirable, or obvious option would be to set up a second raid team. Then you can get everyone currently sitting out raiding and no-one would have to be cut from the guild roster. In a perfect scenario you would then have 20 people all of whom show up regularly, and are participating in the raid content that they want to be in. The problem is that the ideal scenario never works out exactly the way you imagined.<br />
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Having been recruited to fill out the secondary teams for several guilds the problem I most often run into is that people consider the casual or second group to be a stepping stone or, for recruits, an interview before getting bumped up to a spot in the primary group. I've always found this problem in progression driven guilds who have two groups that are running progression content in which one group is doing significantly better than the other and as a result, a spot in one group becomes more desirable for progression minded players and breeds discontent among members who feel they deserve to be among the better performing team and ultimately results in a high turnover rate for the second group which causes its performance to suffer further. I feel like there are two ways to avoid this:<br />
<ul>
<li> Having two raid groups with a sense of loyalty and unity among group
members. If you have a secondary group of people who all get along, and
want to raid together, perhaps with a healthy dose of competition
between the two raid groups - with members trying to do better than the
other group, rather than trying to get into the other group. I had one
guild in particular where a guild officer and raid member had a change
in his schedule so he could no longer run with the guild raid team. So,
rather than leave the guild he requested that he be allowed to lead his
own raid team that would run at different times so that he could
continue to raid. I ran with them for several months and he was an
excellent raid leader, who put the due care into recruiting a raid team
that would work well together. Each week we had a friendly competition
with the original raid group, trying to do better than them and in the
end it made our team that much better.</li>
<li> Have two raid groups with two different functions. One raid group is for
progression oriented players. One group is for causal raiders. Each
group recruits independently for the type of raider they were designed
for and the casual group is never used as an audition for the
progression centered group.</li>
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Clearly, 25 man raiding or splitting into two 10 man groups are not for every guild. Many guilds then need to implement a way to place people on reserve without causing friction between raid members and every guild leader and raid leader has their own way that they sit people out and not all methods are created equal.<br />
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It's hard to decide who sits out in a fair manner, and even then it's easy to read into being sat out. Some of the methods I've experienced are:<br />
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<li> Performance based rotation - Toward the end of Wrath I was recruited
into a guild that I had been casually running with. They were frequently
short a healer and Cy was part of their main raid group so I was
frequently drafted in to help pick up the slack. After several weeks of
being called in the guild leader asked me what I thought of joining
permanently and after I thought about it for a while, ultimately I
joined on full time. We didn't start putting people on reserve until
Cataclysm when the original raiders that members like myself had been
recruited to replace came back to the game and expected their place in
raid was guaranteed. As we entered the Cataclysm raiding scene it became
evident that people would have to sit out and the raid leader proposed a
rotation. His idea was that the first people to show up to raid get a
raid spot and if someone was not performing they would be rotated out
and a reserve brought in. I feel like singling people out in raid is not
ok, and being rotated out of raid because you're not doing well enough
is the ultimate form of that, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.</li>
<li> Favouritism - In Cataclysm I was recruited into another guild that was
looking for casual raiders by the guild leader, not the raid leader. As
it turned out there were a number of other priests in the guild with
seniority over me and after several successful weeks of raiding some of
them started signing up for raids and suddenly I was passed over every
week despite being one of the top performers. The reasons why I was
always placed on reserve were never formally discussed but it felt like
they were choosing old friends over fairness.</li>
<li> Volunteer reserves - I've seen this work really well and really poorly.
It is a great way for a regular raider to "take a day off"; however,
often the same people continually volunteer to sit out.</li>
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What I think is ideal:<br />
<ul>
<li>Scheduled rotation - Everyone who wants to raid gets to raid equally initially, and attendance is rewarded because raid members who show up every week will get to fill in for members not in attendance.</li>
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Like I mentioned, every guild has a way that they handle placing raiders on reserve and they work on an individual level - not every method is for every guild. Ultimately the method you employ should be based on the raiders in your guild and what works for you.<br />
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TL; DR Dealing with placing raid members on reserve is hard and the method for dealing with it that works is something that each guild needs to deal with on an individual level. Also, I've been in some pretty lame guilds. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-81067229662790269782013-03-12T20:42:00.003-03:002013-03-12T20:42:45.657-03:0020 Days of WoW Blogging - Day 11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Day 11 – Bad habits and flaws<br />
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I can think of lots of these, so I've narrowed it down to my top 5 bad habits/flaws:<br />
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1. Procrastination - Why should I do something now, when I can do it later? I am horrible for putting things off and then rushing to finish them at the last minute, or rationalizing not doing them at all. I tend to do things when <i>I</i> feel like doing them, rather than when I <i>should</i> be doing them hence why I have never been able to stick to a proper exercise regimen because and why I have yet to finish a single reputation that requires dailies.<br />
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2. Keyboard movement - I'm primarily a healer. I use clique and grid so that I can "click to heal" and because of that I have trained myself that my mouse hand is for spells which leaves my left hand, the one on my keyboard, for movement. 90% of the time this is not a problem and when it comes down to it if I need to make a quick turn and run away I drop my healing and run away (Sindragosa's Blistering Cold comes to mind). I'm not sure if that on its own makes me a bad player, but it does make me a bad dps because I have had a lot of difficulty breaking my healer habits and learning to use my keyboard and key-bindings for dps and mouse for movement.<br />
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3. Defensive - I'm not good at taking criticism. Instead of taking things in stride, I get defensive. There's a right way to give me advice and a wrong way and a thin line in between them. Often, it ends with me walking away from conversations that get too confrontational. Ultimately it's played a part in me abandoning dungeons and quitting raid teams. Sometimes it's not about who's right and who's wrong. With me it's often about knowing when to drop something and letting me learn to do things on my own. For example: I have a "friend" who refuses to accept any opinion other than his own as having even a little bit of merit. This results in him pressing the issue with me when we have differing opinions and with me getting frustrated, and defensive and ultimately walking away from the conversation.<br />
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4. Competitive - I love recount. I love it. More than that, I love to have my name at the top. Sometimes this gets in the way of being a responsible, mana managing, good healer.<br />
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5. Obsessive compulsive - I like things done a certain way and some trivial little things left out of place bother me. Little things like leaving the bathroom light or a coffee cup on the table bother me. I have a particular way that <i>I</i> fold laundry. In WoW this manifests itself when people break etiquette or do fights in a new different way. <br />
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I've decided to group these two together because the first only requires a link.<br />
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Day 09 – Your first blog post<br />
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Here it is : <a href="http://malkshakevg.blogspot.ca/2012/04/mandatory-introductory-post.html">Link</a><br />
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You'll notice that is is from April of last year because that's actually when I made the blog. I did a couple of posts and then lost interest until September, when I decided to stick around.<br />
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Day 10 – Blog/Website favourites<br />
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Wow, lots. For a selection of my favourite blogs I would invite you to check out the blogroll to the right. I'm not really going to go into a lot of depth n them because they're all right there.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogazeroth.com/">Blog Azeroth</a> - This is my go to blog resource site. I really like doing the weekly shared topics and it's how I met most of my blog friends.<br />
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<a href="http://www.warcraftpets.com/">Warcraft Pets</a> - When I need information on battle pets, I go here first. I'm mostly interested in capturing new pets than in battling pets and they have some really great tools to help me find out which pets I still need and how I get my hands on them.<br />
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<a href="http://www.askmrrobot.com/">Ask Mr. Robot</a> - Don't know how to reforge properly? Ask Mr. Robot.<br />
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<a href="http://www.noxxic.com/">Noxxic</a> - Noxxic provides "class guides" which I find helpful if I'm not sure which talent I might want to take or which gems I need. They also give suggestions on "rotation" or "spell priority" which I find really helpful when I'm playing a new spec or class.<br />
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<a href="http://howtopriest.com/">How to Priest</a> - As a priest resource it's hard to beat How to Priest. I'm not a very active poster, but there is a wealth of information and if I have a priest problem, I go there to solve it.<br />
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<a href="http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/squee">The Daily Squee</a> - Daily dose of cute. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-53868880235894626252013-03-06T00:00:00.000-04:002013-03-06T00:00:32.946-04:00He's back...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That's right, while everyone else is excited and getting into the new daily quest hub and raid content etc. I am excited because in a blast from the past <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/npc=19644/image-of-archmage-vargoth">Image of Archmage Vargoth</a> is back as a daily quest giver. Whoo!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-27724230324814004842013-03-02T02:15:00.000-04:002013-03-02T02:15:21.340-04:0020 Days of WoW Blogging - Day 8<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Day 08 – 10 things we don’t know about you<br />
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I just want to say, before you read this, that I've been reconsidering posting it for a while, because some of these feel like confessions and are not things I'm sure I want people to know about me. You have to understand that I am a particularly private person, and it's hard for me to put things out there that are "real" or paint a picture of me as anything but the parts of me I've decided were good enough to share online.<br />
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I'm sorry if any of this tarnishes your opinion of me. That was never my intention. <br />
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1. I have been playing WoW since September, 2005.<br />
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2. I wish Gerard Butler would tweet more because then it would be easier to pseudo-stalk him. Yes, he's old enough to be my father. No, I don't care.<br />
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3. I love My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I will never apologize for this. I get a great many compliments on my Rainbow Dash sweater albeit mostly from people who have no idea who Rainbow Dash is.<br />
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4. I love Grumpy Cat. <br />
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5. I just don't get children. In fact, they kind of scare me. Not in the "I don't want to hold your baby because I'm afraid I'll break it" kind of way, in the "I don't want to hold your baby because I'm just plain afraid of it" kind of way. I have, at times, used the former as an excuse though. It's easier than explaining the truth because I don't even really understand why it is.<br />
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6. Zack Morris was my first crush. When I was 10 I legitimately thought that I would marry him someday.<br />
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7. I HATE coconut. I hate everything about it - the smell, the taste, and the texture, especially the texture. Yuck.<br />
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8. Through Wrath of the Lich King I was an elitist hardcore progression raider and among the top 15 holy priests on my server. I didn't make the switch to Disc until Icecrown Citadel came out and Disc priests became such a hot commodity I had to try it. I never looked back. Now, I don't raid at all.<br />
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9. I have an obscene amount of toys - particularly stuffed animals. I know they are technically for children but I don't care. My favourite is a little pink bear that I have had since I was three years old named Rosie.<br />
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10. When I was in University I was mildly anorexic. It was never diagnosed, and I was never hospitalized, but it was there and at my lowest weight I came down to around 90 lbs and could borrow shorts from my nine year old brother. Luckily for me all it took to come back to a healthy weight was a move back home and a mum who constantly pressured me to eat, and helped me learn to enjoy eating again. I have never told anyone this, but sometimes, particularly when I'm sad, I miss it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-72459098523454730762013-02-28T17:25:00.002-04:002013-03-06T00:04:16.895-04:00She Must be Insane Part 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two months in to my insane quest and I finally have real progress to report. <br />
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<a href="http://www.warcrafttradingpost.com/">Starre</a> and I had been planning to do some of the pirate grind together and finally after weeks of trying to meet up we finally set a date and time that we both managed to show up for. Let's just say we both forgot a couple of times.<br />
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Anyway, it seems that we picked the perfect night to grind rep because we stumbled on a farming group who invited us to go along with them, and after about two hours I managed to go from Hated with Gadgetzan all the way to Neutral. Without further ado here are this months final numbers:<br />
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Booty Bay: Hated 21512/36000</div>
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In other news I also want to let everyone know that Cy and I have each started up Twitch accounts - he streams while he raids (1:30EST Tues - Fri), and I've just started so I don't really have a schedule set up yet. If anyone wants to check those out I'll throw the links up on the side bar and our banners on the bottom of this post. </div>
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Day 7 - The reason behind your blogs name<br />
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I feel like this is pretty self evident. When I decided I wanted to make a blog I had a lot of difficulty thinking of a name. I started off thinking that I needed something personally significant that said something directly about me and wasn't tied into class necessarily. Eventually, I started looking around WoW itself for inspiration and found <a href="http://www.wowpedia.org/Holy_Nova">"Holy Nova"</a> while I was rummaging around in my spell book on my priest. I liked the sound of it and while I'm not likely to be a priest strategy/resource blog there is definitely a connection that I have with my priest that I don't have with any of my other characters. Thus, "Holy Nova", a priest blog was born.<br />
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If you haven't already seen Mataoka's <a href="http://wowsugar.blogspot.ca/2013/02/the-mataoscarstm-red-carpet-strut.html">Mata-oscar movie mog roundup</a> yet, go and check that out. Now. You will not be disappointed - lots of great mog talent and movies being showcased. For my entry click <a href="http://malkshakevg.blogspot.ca/2013/02/oscar-mogs-for-matty.html">here</a>.<br />
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I know, I know, I slapped up that big disclaimer and said that transmog is not my thing. It was true. Was anyway. You see, I didn't count on it being fun and ever since I made those outfits I've been playing with Mogit. A lot. I really enjoy taking items that were never necessarily meant to be together, but all have similar colours and fashioning them into a new set.<br />
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I've come up with a couple sets my death knight is working on completing now, and I've decided to post them up here. Both are totally usable and are not completely horrific to farm, I'm currently only missing two pieces of this first one.<br />
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I think this is pretty self explanatory. Two monitors of varying size - the smaller one is primarily for reference material for whatever game I'm playing and also the one I blog on and the larger primarily for games. I'd also like to mention that the Gorilla stuffed toy is also a screen wipe... so they're not all just because I really like stuffed animals.</div>
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It is so hard to pick just one. You see, I'm kind of a WoW hoarder. I love to keep totally useless items because they have a cute name, like my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=19141">Luffa</a> or because they were useful in the past and they carry some weird personal significance like my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=37312">Carrot on a Stick</a>, or my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=25653">Riding Crop</a>. For Context: I used to ride horses. That, and my dad's leather worker made my crop, that makes it more special and even though it no longer has his name on it, I will always know who made it. I have the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=2576">White Linen Shirt</a> my rogue made while she was a tailor, made special because her name is there. I have my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=4091">Widowmaker</a>, <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=2163">Shadowblade,</a> and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=8190">Hanzo Sword</a>(which I never even really used) all of which are important because of who gave them to me and while I would have kept these regardless my<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=32768"> Raven Lord</a> and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=49665">Pandaren Monk </a>also fall into that category.</div>
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That's why I can only have one favourite item. One favourite otherwise I will go on forever listing off everything in my bank and saying "It's all my favourite. I NEED all of it." This is not an intervention, so I'm not going to get into defending why all of it is necessary and not junk. Every item has a story, or rather a justification, and I don't want to get into that any more than I already have. </div>
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When it comes down to it though, I think my favourite is my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=18608">Benediction</a>/<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=18609">Anathema</a>. Why? Because, more than any other item this one says "I am a priest". There was a time, when any priest worth her salt carried Bene, but that was before I knew I was a priest. I did not get mine until Wrath, and even then the quest was still challenging. I managed to complete it three times. The first time was on my own, level 80 priest decked out in purples. The next two were on level 60 alts, neither of them my own. It is one of the few items that I get to show constantly to other players. </div>
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While all of my personal items are important, there are very few that I get to show off constantly and I feel like the ones that I get to share with other players are the most important.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-17101068071346473752013-02-12T23:30:00.000-04:002013-02-13T12:35:22.664-04:00Oscar Mogs for MattyLet me preface this with I don't mog. Rather, I don't make my own mog sets. My priest is wearing full tier 6. So, the only thing in her entire outfit that I needed to match was her staff. This is totally new to me, but I could not resist trying my hand at <a href="http://wowsugar.blogspot.ca/2013/02/you-like-me-you-really-like-me.html">Matty's Oscar mog contest </a>because I love movies.<br />
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Ultimately, I ended up choosing The Little Mermaid - one of my all time favourite movies.<br />
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Chest - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=8265">Ebonhold Armor</a><b> </b></div>
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Shirt - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=6795">White Swashbuckler's Shirt</a></div>
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Legs - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=10047">Simple Kilt</a></div>
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Feet - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=89918/scent-soaked-sandals">Scent-Soaked Sandals</a></div>
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Offhand - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=13885">34 Pound Redgill</a></div>
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Chest - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=52583">Rat Hair Vest</a><b> </b></div>
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Waist - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=3344">Captain Sanders' Sash</a></div>
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Legs - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=7046">Azure Silk Pants</a><b> </b></div>
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Polearm - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=86124">Pandaren Fishing Spear</a></div>
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Shirt - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=2575">Red Linen Shirt</a><br />
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Waist - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=24109">Thick Ravager Belt</a> </div>
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Axe - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=1292">Butcher's Cleaver</a></div>
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<b> </b>In reaching the conclusion I tested about 5 different movies, trying to find the right pieces for characters. One of those was Wreck-it Ralph and I've decided to post this guy up because I would have liked to do that movie; however, I just wasn't happy with any of the other outfits I made for it.</div>
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Head - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=8292">Arcane Cover</a></div>
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Boots - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=24694">Bonechewer Shredboots</a></div>
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Hammer - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=65476">Gavel of the Order</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-72204703842732446052013-02-11T18:00:00.003-04:002013-02-11T18:00:32.607-04:00Nemo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not on topic, I know, but this is what's on my mind now and I'm feeling kind of like if I don't get it out it's not going to go away.<br />
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For those of you who don't know, I live in Atlantic Canada. Over the weekend, we and much of the northeastern United States got hit my a massive Nor'easter aka Nemo. <br />
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Nemo hit my hometown shortly before 10pm on Friday evening, just before I left work for the night. I walk home from work, and it was snowing gently with little to no wind. It made for an altogether pleasant walk home. The mass of the storm was still in Boston, we were merely getting the tip of it. We knew that the worst of the storm would be over when it reached us, we just didn't really know what that meant yet.<br />
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In preparation we brought the extra blankets down from our loft, filled up our water jug, and I put my "Lion King" flashlight on the night stand. I wanted to be ready in case we lost power, and as a result, our heat. The cats hunkered down for the night in the bathroom - one on the bathmat and the other in the sink. When I went to sleep at about midnight the worst of the storm still had yet to reach us.<br />
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<i>Obligatory cat-in-sink picture. P.S. Check out his Monroe beauty mark.</i></div>
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I remember that as a child I used to wait with giddy anticipation for storms. The worse the blizzard the better. Now, as an adult there is a certain dread that accompanies the snow instead. Questions come up "How am I going to get to work? Is it going to be safe for me to go to work? Are we going to have power/heat/water?" When I went to sleep on Friday night, I didn't know the answer to any of those questions. Not knowing is the worst part.<br />
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When I woke up I was relieved to find out our power had stayed on through the night, our heat was still running and despite being without water for a few hours due to a busted water main we had made it through the first half of the storm relatively unscathed. Cy shoveled a trench for me through our alleyway so that I could get out to the street for work and the snow had piled roughly to my knees at that point. Two hours later, when I left to see how bad it was the trench was half filled. At that point nothing had been plowed. My half of the street had drifts piled up to my waist and in some places taller than me. The other half was completely barren and windswept.<br />
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I walk to work, and ultimately I decided it was safer for me to stay inside than to risk getting run down by someone foolish enough to drive on un-plowed roads in the middle of a blizzard. <br />
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<i>The best way to break up a wall of text? Add some cats.</i></div>
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I understand, that as an employee, the decision to go to work in inclement weather ultimately lies with me. I made the decision to stay at home, inside because the conditions outside were dangerous. I did it because I care more about my life than I do my job and I think I would have been a fool to make the walk down, especially after my roommate nearly got hit by an out of control driver two blocks down from us. I do not provide a vital service. If our place of work were to close down for a day because a potentially record-breaking blizzard was bearing down on us, I think that would be ok. Many responsible employers made that decision and either closed their doors early or did not open them at all. The mall that my workplace is attached to closed. So did the liquor store across the street, along with the entire downtown area.<br />
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9/10 times I support having the employee make his/her own decision on whether it is work the risk to work through the storm. In this situation, I feel that an employer <i>should</i> recognize the danger in asking their employees to come to work. I feel that many employers did; however, once again my own left me and a lot of other employees feeling undervalued.<br />
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Overall, of those affected by Nemo we were by far among the lucky ones. We were safe, and warm in our home and my heart goes out to those more severely affected by it. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-91787883905687002232013-02-06T10:06:00.002-04:002013-02-06T10:12:34.036-04:00Week Made<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was having a rough day. No, that's not true it's been a rough week. Some of the reasons are pretty personal so I'm not going to get into them but suffice to say it hasn't been easy lately.<br />
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Then, I woke up and this was in my inbox<br />
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-<a href="http://frostwolves.blogspot.ca/">Navimie</a></div>
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Thank you Navi. I love it! Week made. How can I be sad when I've a friend like Navi?</div>
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Also: I didn't have a screenshot of us together so I improvised. I think that this option was better than my other idea - cutting and pasting her into a photo with me like a weird creepy stalker >.< </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-56327404803283311062013-02-06T00:05:00.001-04:002013-02-06T00:05:59.778-04:00Feral druid sketching<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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They say the road to hell was paved with good intentions.<br />
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I certainly went into this half of the month with the best of intentions and raked up some numbers with a couple of pirate killing sessions.<br />
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My momentum didn't last; however, and I ended up laid out in bed, sick, for nearly a week. <br />
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As of today, I'm back in business, and hopefully a couple of serious sit downs and I'll make up for the lost time.<br />
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Here's the round up <br />
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Booty Bay: Hated 5181</div>
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Everlook: Hated 5050</div>
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Gadgetzan: Hated 9986</div>
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Ratchet: Hated5050</div>
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Darkmoon Faire: Friendly 4450</div>
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Looking forward to getting in those Darkmoon Faire dailies in the upcoming week :) </div>
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Day 4 - My best WoW Memory<br />
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Well... that is a loaded question.<br />
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I feel like I started to answer this with my <a href="http://malkshakevg.blogspot.ca/2012/11/blog-azeroth-thanksgiving-event-also.html">Thanksgiving post</a> back in November.<br />
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If I had to pick one distinct memory it was on the Lakeshire bridge when a level 40 rogue came up to mine, who was sitting on the bench waiting out rez sickness, and asked if I needed some help and maybe a guild.<br />
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This is my favourite because it sparked my first, true WoW friendship. It gave me a guild that I will remember forever. One whose name many of my toons still wear even though all of the members have moved on. Honestly, sometimes I feel like I'm still waiting for them to sign back on even though I know they aren't going to. I know that it's beyond time to move on, but now and then it's lovely to look back and think about the people who made my high school years bearable. <br />
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Anyway, I'm still horribly sick, so I'm going to pack this in for tonight. Tune in tomorrow for another installment of my journey to the insane.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-40737246377200268512013-01-28T19:24:00.000-04:002013-01-28T19:24:21.908-04:0020 Days of WoW Blogging - Day 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Quick little update here first. So, I'm still sick and that sucks; however, I now have Supernatural season 5 to keep me company thanks to my roommate, who did not know it's my favourite when he purchased it for me. Also, we had a bake sale for my marketing project and raked in a cool $120 so I'm super pleased with that. <br />
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Now, on to question 3. My first day in WoW<br />
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I still remember coming home with World of Warcraft. My family had taken a day trip to do some shopping and it was about a two hour drive home. I remember opening the box and reading the manual, thinking about which class I was going to play. I remember my fathers surprise that I had decided to play a rogue and not a hunter. I am a notorious animal lover.<br />
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There was anticipation and frustration as I made my account and <i>finally</i> signed in for the first time.<br />
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I was hooked from the first hour.<br />
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I didn't even make it off Teldrassil, but I did make it to Darnassus where I wandered about for ages, consumed with wonder at just how big Azeroth was. I had no idea that I would still be playing it now but then I was 14 and I didn't have a clue about very much.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-60157958525956971362013-01-27T12:53:00.002-04:002013-01-27T12:53:55.883-04:0020 Days of WoW Blogging - Day 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cy got me sick.<br />
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I feel awful. I have to finish my bake sale goodies. I have to do our laundry. I have so much stuff to do and only one day off to do all of it and I'm sitting at my computer, blogging because I can't fathom getting up right now.<br />
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This sucks.<br />
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My everything hurts. <br />
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Day 2 - Why I decided to start blogging.<br />
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I don't think that there is any one reason why I started blogging. It's more like a culmination lots of smaller factors.<br />
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At the time when I started blogging actively WoW had become a really solitary game for me. I had just left my guild because I disagreed with the way our raid was run, and I couldn't stand the thought of being in the same place as our raid leader for one more second. So, I left and joined my fathers alt guild to get some air and make it evident to those in my previous guild that I had moved on because I was too cowardly to tell them why I left. I mean you can't bad mouth the guild leaders girlfriend and get away with it.<br />
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So, I was feeling pretty lonely. I've always noticed how tightly knit bloggers tend to be. Regardless of the subject matter bloggers always make friends with other bloggers who write about the same things. I wanted to be part of your community so, I started a blog and hoped that I could stop being an observer and become a participant.<br />
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Also, I had some things to say. I'm pretty soft spoken... actually make that I'm really soft spoken. I've never, ever held my own in a fight whether it be with fists or words. I can count on one finger the amount of times I've stood up for myself in game without Cy having to stand up for me. I wanted a forum where I could say what I wanted without having to deal with the players I was angry with and having to read the hateful things they had to say back.<br />
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Mix those in with the fact that I've always wanted to have a blog that I actually stuck to writing for regularly and you end up with me here, 4 months in to writing Holy Nova.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-46081063342154256032013-01-24T23:04:00.001-04:002013-01-24T23:04:53.751-04:0020 Days of WoW Blogging<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Have I mentioned yet, that I was Navispamed? Wait, I did? Oh. Sorry, still coming down from that.<br />
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Now, the real reason why I brought that up was to cleverly segue into why I'm doing the "20 days of WoW blogging." You see, while I was chatting it up with Navimie, she mentioned that she wanted to visit to get to know me a bit better. I've noticed that, as a recurring theme through the segment. Whether they be readers, writers of blogs she reads, or people she admires in general, she visits them all to get a better idea of who they are, as people. <br />
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With that in mind, I wanted to find a way to let readers learn a little bit more about me, without having to try and catch me online. So, I've decided to do <a href="http://spellbound.nu/?p=829">Spellbound's 20 days of WoW Blogging Challenge</a>. Please, bear in mind that I may not be able to do it 20 days in a row. My schedule is already packed to the brim. I can promise that I will try to do these as expediently as possible.<br />
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We start with day 1. Introduce yourself.<br />
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Hi, my name is Malkshake, Malk for short. I've been playing WoW since August of 2005. My first character was a rogue, but in late 2007 I decided to change mains and have been priest healing ever since.<br />
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I graduated high school in 2008. That's right, I was one of the high school baddies everyone complains about. I took my first year of university toward a BSc, and quit midway through my second year and promptly signed up for pastry school and graduated from the Culinary Institute of Canada in 2010. I'm currently attending college full time in Business Administration and next year I will be specializing in Accounting. Ultimately I'd like to receive my professional designation in a few years and get a cushy job working in the financial sector. In my spare time I like to WoW, write for my blog, and I draw a little too. At home I have two kitties and a dog who lives with my
parents because my dad decided he liked him too much to let him move out
with me. To be fair the dog loves my father way more than he ever loved me. <br />
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In WoW, I am a level 90 discipline night elf priest. I'm strictly a healer, meaning my secondary spec is holy, and I've been that way since Wrath. I've held multiple positions in a number of hardcore raiding guilds primarily throughout Wrath; however, have taken a more backseat role presently as my schoolwork and job have taken priority. Most of the time these days you'll find me treating WoW as an escape from the real world. In the time that I get to play I'm usually chasing some new mount, pet, or title, most recently the insane. I'll also admit to having been quite the achievement whore in the past. Sometimes, I just like to sit on WoW and write for my blog. I don't know why, but it's always easier to hammer out an article if Hemoglobin is sitting there on the screen.<br />
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I have a handful of alts, all of them alliance. The most noteworthy of which are: an 87 resto/enchance shaman, an 87 frost death knight, an 85 resto druid, an 85 assassination/subtlety rogue and a level 80 holy paladin who is currently looking for a Herald of the Titans group both for gearing and ultimately getting the achievement. <br />
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I think that is probably enough rambling for now. If you have any questions that aren't likely to be addressed through the 20 days challenge, or if you want to do this with me please drop me a line at my email malkshakevg@gmail.comAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07814188314704252890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885921076381181157.post-78855093575974556692013-01-23T23:28:00.000-04:002013-01-23T23:28:09.578-04:00CaughtYou'll never guess who caught me online this past Sunday. <a href="http://frostwolves.blogspot.ca/">Navimie</a>, of Daily Frostwolf and Navispam fame. <br />
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I should have taken pictures, but I was just so excited that I completely forgot, so for pictures you'll have to head over <a href="http://frostwolves.blogspot.ca/2013/01/navispam-holy-moly-malkshake.html">here</a> and check out her post about the visit. I had a great time getting to chat with her, and for more details check out her post.<br />
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Ultimately, I'm just so pleased that she took the time to come out and visit me and more than a little star struck, if I can be honest. And for those of you wondering, yes, it was Navi who gifted me my silkworm.<br />
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Wee I got a golden seal :D</div>
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