Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
I was looking forwards to running my new druid alt, Hélène, through Elwynn Forest and, more specifically, Westfall and beyond, zooming through the levels and indulging the furry in me as a DPS kitty or bear tank. But even though I am in the bright, warm countryside of Westfall ...
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
I'm bored at 80th level in World of Warcraft, hardly entering Azeroth in the past couple of weeks. My warrior effectively completes the Argent Tournament, but quickly becomes frustrated at also needing to be exalted with the Argent Crusade to be awarded the Crusader title. My death knight ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
There is an understandable buzz about Cataclysm being the next World of Warcraft expansion and what regions and new content it may include. It is assumed that the level cap will be raised another ten levels, as it has in both previous expansions, pushing all the old content still ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
In the midst of the Azerothian midsummer celebrations a guild friend invites me in to a group that is heading to the Slave Pens, where Ahune the Frost Lord awaits. As we get coordinated and ready to fight it is interesting to find myself at odds again because of ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Grouping up with a guild mate to defeat Chillmaw as part of a daily Argent Tournament quest I ask if we could continue as a group to clear out some of the lingering quests in my log that require help to complete. As she agrees to come along to ...
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Along with Gnomesblight getting the Wintergrasp Veteran achievement my warrior, Sapphire, has managed to keep busy. Sapphire is still trying to attain exalted status with the Argent Crusade to complete the Argent Tournament achievement list, although my casual gaming times playing World of Warcraft will make that goal last ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Gnomesblight, my death knight, has finally reached one hundred victories in the battle for Lake Wintergrasp, granting her the achievement of 'Wintergrasp Veteran'. The last few victories took a while to get under my belt, what with the Horde being so powerful at defending of late and my continued ...
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
The Argent Tournament offers players the opportunity to joust their way to monetary and reputation gains, but it is not only with Northrend factions the Argent Crusade and Silver Covenant that reputation can be gained. The character can prove herself worthy of competing in the tournament, then collect enough ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Wintergrasp bugs and geographical bias aside, the Horde are continuing to defeat the Alliance on a regular basis partly because they are employing strong and effective strategies as a team and partly because the Alliance are less likely to work as a cohesive unit.
Some Horde forces take advantage of the ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
The Horde have almost complete control of Wintergrasp on my server at the moment. Even with an small advantage of numbers the Alliance assault falters before we get too far in to the fortress and the Horde manage to repel the invaders successfully. It is becoming a little ...
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