I hate this time in the game’s lifecycle: that last couple of months before an expansion, where everything you could do is viewed in light of “well, is it worth it?”
It’s not that I’m not playing, or that I don’t want to play. I’m doing weekly Karazhans and 3-5 heroics a week on my priest, [...]

Recently I talked about my indecision over how to have my cake and eat it too. I have since achieved enlightenment!
This was also a Blog Azeroth shared topic from two months ago! With all my indecision, though, I had no answers for it - until now.

What I’ve Decided

My main will drop Alchemy just before [...]

Because I’m kind of twitchy about planning for things in advance, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m going to tackle the early days of Wrath of the Lich King. I didn’t do too well when TBC was released; I was burnt out on levelling from a last-minute push to get an alt to [...]

Note: this post contains spoilers for Wrath of the Lich King.
Today’s new build of the Wrath of the Lich King beta contains barbers! Naturally, I had to go and try out this new feature.

I’ve just played through the Death Knight starting area and quests on Siaka, my Draenei Death Knight. I have to say it: this is the single most fun and immersive in-game experience I’ve ever had. I tend to think almost everyone should roll a death knight - even if they have no desire to play [...]

Following a few questions from Nuetralise of Spirit Is Your Friend in the Blog Azeroth chatroom, I thought it might be useful to add a companion to my Guide to the Shattered Sun Daily Quests. To wit: how best to tackle the quests once they’re all available. (Note that I’m giving the “ongoing” quest names, [...]

Occasionally, people will do and say the darndest things. Things, in fact, that make you go “Hmmm” - or, more likely, things that make you go “WTF were they thinking?!” Here’s one I remember.
The background: pre-TBC, we used a DKP system for raiding, and we introduced a proviso that if you disappeared your DKP pool [...]

I’ve just hit 70 with another alt, my night elf priest Siha. She’s currently a Holy DPS spec, running a Surge of Light/Imp Divine Spirit build (32/29/0) which allows her to do reasonable DPS and still contribute good healing if we’re short on healers.
Of course, gearing up an alt at maximum speed is always [...]

Note: This post contains spoilers for Wrath of the Lich King.
This post could also be titled “I’m never going to run out of things to do”.
Upon loading into WotLK for the first time - and oh, I was bouncing in my chair! - I set about checking out some of the banner items for Wrath [...]

I’ve been meaning to make one of these posts for ages, so here goes:
A Guide To My UI
First up, here’s a shot of my UI, full-size, for comparison’s sake. Note that I’ve resized it down to 1200×750, so you can actually see it onscreen; I play at 1920×1200.
Now, let’s take a look at it [...]