Man Down!

…or Hunter, rather. This past Monday, BigRedKitty announced on his site that he was stepping away from the game. BRK is on my short list of a half-dozen or so WoW related sites I like to peek at daily. There are some great WoW blogs out there, but I just simply do not have the time to check all of …

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Post Number 100

I don’t know how to put this but I’m kind of a big deal. I just discovered this morning that Alltop is listing me on their aggregate WoW blog page, so I figured what could be more fitting than announcing this fact in my 100th post! I’m sure I barely sneaked through the back door in order to gain entry, …

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The World of Warcraft Economy

Gettin' PaidBefore I turned in last night I went to WoWInsider to catch up on some of the latest WoW news. I saw this article that inspired me to do something I’ve been meaning to do for awhile – create a dedicated banking character and park him in Ironforge. My wife does this and it works out great for her.

I only have one available character slot on my realm and I’ve been apprehensive about filling it with a level 1 banker. Lately I’ve been using my level 22 Warlock, but his bank’s full of mats for leveling his professions (when I decide to play him again).

Probably what I’ll end up doing is transferring my level 58 Dwarf Hunter to a different server, therefore leaving me 2 available slots. That way I can make a banker toon, but still have one space available for that Rogue I’ve always wanted to create, or perhaps for the next hero class.

I’m so old school I have an 80 NE Hunter who’s a Lieutenant Commander and a level 58 Knight Captain Dwarf Hunter. I rolled the Dwarf because I wanted to tame more pets, try out mining, have the uber engineering advantage for PvP, and for the treasure finding. I used to love playing him, but somewhere along the way I got a renewed interest in playing Garwulf and never went back to playing Thorgren (my Dwarf) again. I think it’s time to unleash him on a new realm.

So anyway, one of the things I plan to do this weekend is to create a level 1 banker, deck him out in some fine threads and play the auction house. It’ll be so nice to only have to worry about one toon for buying and selling.By the way, if any of you reading this haven’t tried out the Postal addon, please do, it’s a fabulous time saver. You can open all of your mail with one click, provided your bags have enough space. It has a host of other cool features such as a recipient list, and the ability to send items using alt-click. Check it out.

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Pantera + WoW = Win

I’m not sure what you guys listen to while gaming, but metal is my music of choice when playing WoW. Usually I don’t listen to music when I play, but once in awhile I like to throw on the Sennheisers, sip an adult beverage of choice (usually either Red Nectar, Fat Tire Ale or Stella Artois) and put a whoopin’ …

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Garwulf Turns Three

Old SchoolIt just occurred to me that this weekend marks three years since I first started playing World of Warcraft. I can’t recall the exact date I entered Azeroth, but I know that it was approximately a day or two before Valentine’s Day. I remember my wife was away on a business trip, so I decided to install “that game she bought me for Christmas”.

I was heavily into the Diablo series, but aside from that I wasn’t much of a gamer. I put WoW on my Christmas list only because I read it was tops graphics-wise and I wanted to see what my super-duper PC was capable of. I had a screaming machine at the time with dual WD 74GB hard drives in a raid 0 setup, 2GB of super low latency ram and an nVIDIA 7900GT graphics card.

My Frenzy Barb Farming BaalI was torn between making a Hunter or a Shaman. I ultimately went with a Hunter after watching the mind-blowing cinematic after installing the game. I wanted to be the class that had a pet for a sidekick, but I didn’t want to be an ugly Dwarf at the time so I rolled a Night Elf. Dwarf lovers need not be offended however. Since then I’ve made 2 Dwarf toons and I love the race. In fact, back before x-realm PvP I made a second Hunter who’s a Dwarf because I felt the race was better geared towards PvP (Stoneform and Gun Specialization FTW), plus I wanted to roll a Hunter with Engineering for the battlegrounds.

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