It’s quiet

Too quiet.

And that is how many conversations now start in our household.

As you may or may not recall, my kitty passed away recently.

There were still 2 dogs in the house, but we were missing the feline touch.

And hair, there was a distinct lack of cat hair. Continue reading

For the Horde

Going through my screen shots again…

I think I get a snap shot of this every time I level through Northrend.

I’ve done parts of Northrend as Alliance but can’t recall anything so… patriotic or unifying on their side.

The quest line that follows the story of the manga about Thassarian was pretty awesome, especially going through it as a DK.

But nothing compares to the blood and glory sentiments of the Horde.

Lok’tar ogar!

No good deed shall go unpunished

So I’ve spent the last while with Tir leveling a warrior/pally combo.

This marks the first time I’ve actually gotten one of my many created warriors into – and out of – Outland!

We’re puttering around Northrend, moving altogether too slow for Tir… so we’re spending a lot of time insta-queueing for instances with him tanking on his holy cow.

We get Utgarde Keep for the eleventy-billionth time.

We have me on my little warrior flailing about for DPS, the first DK we’ve seen in ages, a shadow priest, and a resto shaman to fill out the group.

My numbers aren’t great. I’ll admit, I fail fairly hard at DPS. Plus my gear sucks and until I got Bladestorm, I might as well have just enjoyed a slushie while waiting for Pengu to take care of trash packs.

But this DK was bad. He made me look stellar.

He was breaking triple digits, I will give him that.

His playstyle seemed to amount to using a different pair of skills each pull in a random selection. Continue reading