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Then and Now: Seithir Edition

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Oh you guys are mean. Like.. I was about to go read and then you all had to come up with this meme that lets me show off some of those old screenies of my Priest that I was looking through the other day? Think I could just walk away from that? Well.. I blame Vid. Jus’ sayin’.

So, Seithir. She’s not my first character.. my first character would have been much more interesting, actually, considering the race change, but Seithir is definitely my longest running character, and has been my main for the longest amount of time of any character.

TBC

Yeah. I did a lot of Aldor bank afking in TBC.

Oh who left that there?! That’s not me with that Gnome that’s.. err.. yeah okay, me and Imnotshort may have had a short stint. But it really meant something, guys! And don’t tell him but he was, in fact, rather short.

So, the earliest known screenshot I have of Seithir is thus:

This must have been around level 20ish, looking at my gear. RFC robe, shoulders (zomg), and the staff from the end group quest in Ghostlands. What I’m doing in The Barrens remains to be seen but I’m sure I was quite smitten with my new main actually having flesh on her elbows.

And at level 70:

She looked liked that for a large part of TBC until she finally got the full BT/Hyjal set, of which I can’t find a screenshot of her wearing, oddly enough, but I did always like this screenshot of me in my healing gear and Lew (the friend who hosts my blogs) playing around with Holy Nova.

And you really want to see my TBC UI? Are you sure? *cringe* My UI is constantly undergoing change. Even back then. But here’s an action shot from a BT run…

The worst part? I didn’t see what the problem was!! At least my bars had the right spells on them I guess. But why I had 2 raid frames is beyond me. I guess I hadn’t discovered Clique yet.

Wrath

This is the best screenshot from Wrath that I could find of my Priest.. hmm..

But here is my UI:

At least I understood it was messy this time, but I was cool with it! I kind of miss those profile bars. They looked cool.

And just for funsies:

Oh Steve, I miss you. ((Steve is the rhino.))

Cata

We all know that I have played WoW a lot less in Cataclysm and calmed down a lot but I’m still going, and looking back on these screenshots has only reminded me of why I loved this game. It has always been the people, and once you remove the people and replace them with people who could quite happily called trade chat their guild.. well it takes all of the fun out of it. So I play a lot more casually these days and here is my Priest currently.

Transmog has changed a lot for me. I’m so much more comfortable playing around with different pieces of gear. As you can see in the picture from TBC, I was a Tailor and that gear was irreplaceable until Tier 6. I didn’t get to run around in Tier 4 because it just wasn’t good and Tier 5 was hard to get, so I’m finally using the Tier 4 I’ve always loved and that gorgeous halo. I do have further ideas for this set, but you shall have to watch this space for that!

And my UI currently.. this is the best in combat screenshot I could find. I wish I had better but apparently I don’t screenshot my UI so much these days. I do use Quartz though and I’ve lessened how much Forte shows once again. I’ve always liked having the information I need in front of me, which is why my action bars are always full.

Well I think we can all agree that not as much love has gone into it as my Wrath UI but I REALLY hate designing my UI. REALLY. Spending the time on it makes me tear my hair out and when it goes wrong I just want to scream. Perhaps it’s reminiscent of how my love for the game has waned, or perhaps it just shows I’d rather put my time into playing. I couldn’t say, but that’s my ‘Then and Now’ for Seithir, who I didn’t play as much in Wrath as I thought I did. But I can assure you that she will always be the character that I am most attached to.

Whether I’m still playing in a year or not is beyond me, I might be, I might not be, but in retrospect, I don’t regret a single one of those days that I was playing. I thought I might when I eventually come to quit, but I’ve had some wonderful memories with this game and if I never played and took a chance, I wouldn’t be with my wonderful fiancé now who I have been with for over 4 years now. World of Warcraft will always mean a lot to me.

“Sixth”

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Tagged by Apple Cider and Saxsy at I Like Pancakes, huzzah! And set off by Gnomey.

  • Go into your image folder
  • Open the sixth sub-folder and choose the sixth image.
  • Publish the image! (and a few words wouldn’t hurt, though I dare say I couln’t stop a blogger from adding a few words of their own).
  • Challenge six new bloggers.
  • Link to them.

Umm… how did this get there? *shifty eyes*

I ended up in my Burning Crusade folder and this was the sixth image in there! There were many, many better though, I dare say. Ha. This was during a ZA run back in my first guild, Capo, around the time it was dying admittedly but we still had a bit of fun at this point. The dead Blood Elf had “disconnected”. Myself and the cow are apparently voyeurs. *shrug* Go figure!

I challenge.. (and oh GOD it’s hard to pick 6 people)

  1. Fulguralis
  2. Rades
  3. Laeleiweyn
  4. Ophelie
  5. Ironyca
  6. Cynwise

Through Your Interface: Player Housing

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Through Your Interface is a 15 day screenshot challenge put forward by Saz of World of Saz. Feel free to join in – the more the merrier!

Day two is: Player Housing
If you were to claim a place to call your own, where would it be and why?

Whilst I couldn’t think of a suitable building to portray the player housing, I know exactly where I belong ingame and where I would want my player housing to be. Even though I’m slightly favouring the Goblins these days, and they do have some wonderful architecture, and even though I’d much rather be playing a Draenei, my favourite place ingame is still Silvermoon and the surrounding area. The colouring is just beautiful. I love autumn and this is most definitely where I belong in Azeroth.

Through Your Interface: Favourite Hangout

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Through Your Interface is a 15 day screenshot challenge put forward by Saz of World of Saz. Feel free to join in – the more the merrier!

Day one is: Favourite hangout
Find yourself perching in a particular tree as a druid? Have a certain hovel you like to hang out in on your undead rogue? Show us where it is, and why your character hangs out there.

When I’m afking, you can usually find me here. I like to stick to the main city (on Alliance side I always preferred Ironforge but same deal as Horde, Stormwind is easier these days. So I migrated to the Dwarven District as there is also an anvil there so it’s perfect for my Blacksmithing Death Knight) because this is where the portals and the main zeppelin hub is, and the people, of course. It’s not exactly the “main” area in Orgrimmar, that still seems to be near the front gates, but that is also the laggiest part and I just don’t care for it. I don’t like Orcs, and I don’t like the black spikiness. New Orgrimmar is horrid, and so I chill with the cows and the little waterfall (can’t see in this screenshot, it’s behind the camera). It’s rather lovely being so close to the portals as well. Ideally, I’d like to hang out in Thunder Bluff but it’s too far away from everything. Yeah, I’m lazy. Or, perhaps, here:

I discovered this spot yesterday when I was fishing and I fell in love a little bit. It’s so gorgeous. The trouble is, when I’m ingame I don’t do very much actual ‘afking’. I’ll usually either quest or farm while I wait for groups to pop and it’s too useful to be near auction houses, banks, and portals.

What about you, where is your favourite hangout spot?

20 Days of Warcraft – IRL Race/Class

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Day 9 – Which race/class combination are you most like in RL?

Well, I want to say Night Elf Mage but reeeally, no. Tauren Druid.

Night Elves are tall, mysterious, beautiful, and… blue. Okay, so we can’t have everything, but Elves are cool, kay? And I’d rather be a Night Elf than a Blood Elf if we’re talking IRL land here. Mages are great cooks, they can turn people into different animals, set things on fire just by thinking about it, quick transportation what’s not to love?

If I’m honest though, that’s what I’d like to be. The question is which are you ‘most like’, and so I say Tauren Druid. No, I’m not a giant bipedal cow, or hairy, but I’m not thin and slender, so body size I’d say that makes the most sense.. except for the cow part. I couldn’t be a Dwarf because I’m not short. Plus, I’m fairly gentle in nature, so the other Horde races don’t suit me much either. That also rules out Human.

I say Druid because, well, I wouldn’t be too good with weapons, I think the elements would hate me, but I do like nature. Whilst I can’t turn into a bear or a cat on a whim, Druid seems to fit the most. Plus I always wanted to be a cat when I was a kid (I don’t know either).

20 Days of Warcraft – Guild Names

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Day 8 – Favourite guild name you’ve come across?

I’m going to have to say that I love a funny name, or a good reference. I get bored of all the latin and single word guild names, and so I present my two favourite guild names:

  • Pining for the Fjords
  • Pretentious Latin Name

Knowing that Pining for the Fjords was taken on Vashj, because that’s where I stole it from, I had to make this guild! So I made it as my bank guild on Terenas.. however, it’s so good I use it for my guild over there. I’ve always been a big Monty Python freak and I absolutely adore this reference!

Pretentious Latin Name I spotted on Terenas, a fair while before Single Abstract Noun came to be, in fact. They’re both equally as funny, really, I just saw Pretentious Latin Name first. I don’t really need to explain why it’s funny, do I?

20 Days of Warcraft – Vanity Pets

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Day 7 – Favourite companion non-combat pet?

Oh this is an easy one! Or.. is it. Hmm. I’ve been a big pet collector for quite a long time and you would think I had a favourite wouldn’t you?

Well, generally speaking, my favourite vanity pet varies. You’ve seen my collection haven’t you? I’ve worked damn hard on it and I love a lot of my pets, so much that I went and named my blog after my pet collecting .. thing. I do believe I wrote a post about my vanity pets around the same time last year, when Tam offered around a bit of syphilis. Here if you’re interested in my thoughts on the appeal of vanity pets, though I would change my top 3 now, in this order:

  1. Phoenix Hatchling
  2. Wind Rider Cub
  3. Baby Blizzard Bear

Though, bare in mind, there will be a bunch of new pets coming up soon and that might very well change in the next year.. again.

You know what guys, it’s not easy to beef up a post answering a question that you know the answer to!

20 Days of Warcraft – Dungeons

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Day 6 – Favourite dungeon and why?

First off, sorry this is a tad late. Scratch that, I’m not at all sorry! I’m enjoying this little blog project immensely, but the Shattering happened and then we had nice pizzas and watched a movie. You understand. And this will run over into the Cataclysm release, in which time it will be pushed back further, but don’t worry, I’ma finish.

So, I looked at this question and a few came to mind: Ulduar, Shadow Labrynth, Caverns of Time: Durnholde, Black Temple.

SLabs (as we lovingly call it) was probably the first level 70 instance I did all the way through. I remember how terrified I was of Murmur (shutup, like you weren’t) and how difficult we found it. The heroic version was just tough enough, and I loved it. Not entirely sure why, I just did. I suppose fond memories or some such lark.

Black Temple was the raid I progressed in with my TBC guild, Supreme. I can remember having a lot of fun, people being stupid and all that, and the bosses were complicated and fun. There was such a high sense of accomplishment every time we killed a boss, the only thing I regretted was missing the first Illidan kill – my internet was off for about a month at that time. However, I did kill Illidan plenty of times and loved the fight.

Ulduar, I felt, was possibly the perfect instance for people who wanted fun hardmode encounters and of course, us achievement whores. There were plenty of different ways to activate hardmodes and I loved that because it gave the raid a nice varied feel to it. And sooo many achievements which I still need to go back and do. It was brilliant!

Caverns of Time: Durnholde I think I loved so much because you walk in and oh! Look! My Blood Elf is a human, haha look how stupid the cow looks as a human haha. And you got to fight with Thrall. Yay! It wasn’t until Wrath when I levelled my Death Knight that I discovered that some Alliance races, not including humans because honestly derp, didn’t change. I was quite disappointed, that was always the best bit of Caverns of Time for me – seeing what the hell your character would look like if it was human. So yeah, that one.

20 Days of Warcraft – Names

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Day 5 – The meaning behind your mains name?

I fear this will be a reasonably short post today. I don’t think I have much to say or any images to back it up. Let’s see.

I have written a post previously about how I choose my characters names. In which, I quote:

One way to name a character is to just throw a jumble of letters together and see if they sound okay. This is how I named a lot of my characters, including Jaedia and Seithir. You have to be fairly sensible with this one because you could end up with a character name that sounds ridiculous, however, there is less likelihood of any name you decide on being taken.

See, originally, Seithir was a name I had chosen for my Troll Shaman. I threw the letters together, pronounced them in my head as “Sigh-thar” (you would be surprised how many people have said they can’t pronounce my name) though really, it’s not entirely important, and from there decided it was a good name. There is no more meaning behind it than that. I got the Shaman to level 7 and gave up. I didn’t like the Troll race much, and I really struggled with the Shaman class until very, very recently. So, when I chose to make a Blood Elf Priest instead of the Undead one I had levelled to 22 already, I thought Seithir suited her a lot better than the Troll Shaman. Thus, my main became known as Seithir.

Oh and what do you know, an image of my Priest from around level 20ish! That’s an old one :)

20 Days of Warcraft – Emotes

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Day 4 – Favourite Emote and the best situation to use it in.

Oh! Oh! Me! Pick me! I know this one!

There are so many emotes I love, but today I know the answer, unlike yesterday.. I’m still wondering whether I should change my answer to Thrall for favourite NPC.. but anyway, I’m not telling you quite yet. First I need to blather on about some things that aren’t necessarily my favourite emotes but are still awesome and need to be mentioned.

Everybody loves a good /dance. When you’re bored, waiting for a boss pull during tactics *cough* I mean afk breaks, of course, hanging around in cities chatting, or wherever your preferred place to dance might be, well, it’s fun. I’ve spent the entirety of Wrath wondering where the hell these new dances we were promised have got to, because as aforementioned, I primarily play Blood Elves. You’ve seen their dance right? Yeah. No. I hate it. Especially since this video (which you may even remember. See: 2:15):

However, you can’t deny me a good /dance, especially on any other race I play. Female Tauren and Draenei dances are great!

Anyway, getting every earworm under the sun (excluding It’s Not Unusual) in one video really was one feat – moving on.

You know what else I love? /spit. No, not in the dick way. I pretty much only use it on Dan. Aren’t I a lovely girlfriend? I can’t really be arsed with terms of endearment ingame when he’s sat right across from me, so instead we often pretend we hate each other instead. Pretty sure we’ve weirded out a few pugs in time with our fake arguments.. When people actually use /spit in PvP and to generally be twats, rather than as a joke, then I hate it. Sadly, it will always be remembered for that.

The winner for me though: /pat. So good we named a guild after it! I know, I know, the rest of you have picked /hug, /wave, all the lovely things and I’ve gone for the second most patronising emote in the game. I think it is just the perfect emote to convey it’s tiny little patronising message and it is brilliant – especially when somebody is being a big lootwhore. Picture it:

  1. [Lootwhore]: FFS!! My trinket didn’t drop again!! I’m only one piece off full BIS FFS!
  2. [Yourself]: /pat.

See? See?! Perfect.