Gnaked gnomes!

Aye i ran in the gnaked gnome race brk held and came 3rd overall it was the most fun i've had in a while.At least 260 gnomes ran so 3rd is pretty good in my opinion. Anyway me and my mate who i met shortly before the race Itsnoteasy. Practiced a special route to minimize the runtime we went around kharnos cutting off a fair bit of time then we ran right up over. Old IF airport then through the wetlands farm. Itsnoteasy led through the entire race til the farm where he made a wrong step fell and died otherwise he would have won by a country mile. I too led the race but then made a stupid mistake with croc aggro and paid for it. But you know what its not about winning its about having fun and heck i had heaps of that and i hope brk will run another soon

Decisions, Decisions

Well, its not long now till i am back in Azeroth on my main account. But i have certainly had alot of fun on my free trial proving you don't need a 70 just to have fun. Well on my variety of characters i mainly went exploring because quite simply its easy and very fun.

I went all over but my first stop was a place i was told about a while ago but i never got around to actually go there that place was Newman's Landing http://www.wowwiki.com/Newman's_Landing
quite a nice little place worth the swim there in my opinion, but id advise to bring a fishing rod as it is a nice fishing spot.

Next we journeyed on to karazhan crypts an unfinished zone which is blocked off from convential methods but if your are polymorphed you can get in. Inside the zone are many quite amazing bits of scenery the best example of this would be "The room of upside down sinners". An underwater room with bodies hanging from chains, which gives it a quite eerie and creepy feel of course i collected a large number of screenies.

After which we went on another swim from the north coast of tirisfal glades to un-instanced quel'thalas a large area with pretty big trees and ruined night elf buildings. While i was a level 3-4 undead priest my friends were 70 druids so they had fun dueling and i would recommend this as another tranquil fishing spot. Oh and if you plan on making this journey i would go from tirisfal up even though the bloodelf lands are closer to this point they are in an instanced part of the server and as such do not exist in the regular world. Nor would i suggest going from hinterlands as i did when i first discovered the place (hey i was bored although it took like an hour or more).

As far as i know exploring is not going against any of blizzard's rules but of course i may be wrong and if i am please contact me. However that being said i have never been reprimanded by a GM on Haomarush and have even asked if it was he said it was not an offense but GM's are occasionally wrong and the rules do change but i don't think you will be banned or suspended for exploring.

In a side note i really wouldn't mind some feedback on this or any article or even my blogging ability so please use the comment-making-button-thingie.

Reflection

As i near the point where i begin wow again (i quit for roughly a year and i am getting my gamecard soon) i looked back on what made wow fun and of course it was easy to figure out what it was.

No it wasn't that epic feeling you get when you downed rag for the first time, Nor was it the first bit of gear ya got that was in purple. It was the people ya played with your friends that made it fun (a fact most wowers seem to forget nowadays). I really learnt something from each of my friends and where better to start then Snellopy.

Snellopy is/was a dwarf hunter from Darkspear (School teacher from northern Australia) and he was without a doubt the slowest leveler in the history of wow but he probably had the most fun doing it to. When i first met him and fozzie (his white bear) he was around level 48 and he was running me (level 16 at the time) and some other puggers through the deadmines.

Now this was a common occurence for snellopy becasue he always lent a hand to whoever asked. Of course i leveled beyond Deadmines eventually and he kept on running it but it wasn't just deadmines we ran everywhere together from sfk to eventually a pug molten core but more on that later.

Snellopy was just that kind of guy generous and always helpful and i learned a few things from him including:

1. Jumping of big things is fun (Darnassus tree, Mount Hyjal and that mountain in feralas was just a few of the places)
   
2. The hunt is usually more fun than the catch and the best example i can think of was him searching for the good ole sewer beast in Stormwind to tame he spent about 2 months and finally caught it, played with it for a week and let it go. Of course i was wondering what insane reason would make him release it. He told me the croc was no different than any other white skinned croc out there and he could always go tame another if he wanted. And yet again i asked him why did he want the sewer beast then?(Although looking back i probably used more "adult language") He replied "for the challenge" and promptly went and tamed a pink Plainstrider he called Gonzo.
3. You don't need to plan what you are going to do or even know where you are going. This can be best described by his never-changing reply to my question "which way now?" His reply of course to my eternal annoyance was "leftish" And to his credit we may never have planned where we going but we always ended up having fun.
4. Just because most people don't do it doesn't mean its not fun. This mainly refers to quests and i can think of hundreds examples where have done the unusual a very good example would be The demon razekilah chain in blasted lands or tirion fording chain these quests were rarely done on our server and proved to be very fun. That and most people didn't get a jubling vanity pet and we did and we loved ours .
5. Fishing although boring to some is rewarding. Snellopy was the embodiment of a fisher a dwarf hunter that loved booze and some of the things he fished up and cooked were crazy all the nightfin soups really helped his guild out and he sold huge amounts of rare fishing items. And oh yeah his fishing companion when horde were nearby was his white chicken vanity pet as a white flag of truce and be damned it worked he never was ganked when he /point to it while he was fishing.
   

And well yeah theres 5 things that i remember he taught me there probably is way more but things are a little hazy and i've learned stuff from other friends too but then the post would be waaay to long. The point was friends and people make this game great and fun don't forget that and when you go adventuring in azeroth always remember fun is just a bit leftish of where you are.

A whole new blog

Heh, Welcome

First post i've ever made in a blog so forgive me if it lacks grammar etc.
Well i do play the world of warcraft after a year of hiatus (not long after tbc came out). And i'm coming back and this time i think ill record what i do.

I got the inspiration from other blog sites such as bigredkitty.net and well seems like a fun thing to do. I will be doing all sorts of things not just raiding not just pvping not just exploring (Although im told i waste too much time exploring and hunting down easter eggs).

Basically just playing this game for fun so while i dont expect anyone to read this if ya do and you find something useful/cool/helpful/fun well then im happy, Course if you dont like it tough.