The Soapbox: Manners and social etiquette


April 30, 2010 at 9:00 am by

I was sitting peacefully on my lawn the other day, drinking tea with my pinky out and eating a scone, flicking through a weathered copy of Debretts and I wondered to myself why there is a total majority lack of social decency in World of Warcraft.

Considering it’s a world wide forum for communication and a game in which you choose to play with other real life, living, breathing, human beings you would think that internet anonymity, however real that is, wouldn’t slip into a world where having manners actually improves and enhances your game play.

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Devil’s Advocate – Warlocks > You


March 12, 2010 at 2:05 pm by

Funny guy – What does a noob and a rogue have in common? They both pick locks.

On the news tonight, a funny guy was found dead in what appears to be an agonizing manner with strange Shadow Bolt related injuries. More on this later, now for the weather.

Funny guy had it coming to be honest. Only an idiot mocks his superior to his face. Oh you’re unaware of this? Yes it’s correct, Warlocks are your superior. We rule over you in every way. Since I am a compassionate and understanding overlord allow me to tell you why.

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FAILPUG! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly


March 10, 2010 at 8:02 pm by

Oh yes, I’ve done it again. Far from learning any lessons at all from the past few weeks, I instead continue to join whatever I’m asked to with boundless optimism. It usually doesn’t go well.

In reverse order then, the ugly, the bad and the good!

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Blog Azeroth Shared Topic: Positive Pugs!


March 5, 2010 at 2:02 pm by

Shell, all professional and editor like, introduced us to Blog Azeroth. This week’s shared topic was all about reading something different for a change. Positive experiences in Pugs!

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FAILPUG! Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?


February 3, 2010 at 7:28 pm by

Introducing one of the new features rolling out over the next couple of weeks, FAILPUG! will make you feel better about that pug you previously thought was bad just by showing you how much worse it could have been. If you find yourself in a true FAILPUG!, take some screenies and send them our way.

Everyone expects VoA pugs to end terribly. Everyone except me that is. I’m like an innocent, fragile flower who has been sheltered from the raging storm of frustrating players by hiding behind my big rock of not-pugging. Good analogy, eh? So last time I saw a callout in Wintergrasp general for more to do a quick 10-man, I rolled up my sleeves and thought what the hell…

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Emerald Dream: The Patient!


January 21, 2010 at 8:00 am by

One of the biggest changes to the game recently is cross-realm pugging. In my opinion and I know many share this, a fantastic and welcome change. Now that the system has been running for a few weeks the initial novelty has passed. Everyone has settled and many are undertaking endless badge farming marathons, the mobs in low level instances are receiving more bashings and hell even /2 has changed “somewhat”, so an all round success!

The interesting thing now is, some further light on the horizon of our battlegroup has been shed. As well as some new pugging trends!

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Our Survey Says: Are You A Guildhopper?


December 17, 2009 at 2:21 am by

From Wowwiki:

Guild hopper is a term used to describe players of World of Warcraft who join a guild for the sole purpose of gaining loot, then leaving to join another guild. It was possible for this type of player to gear themselves up in a very short space of time by gaining drops from boss kills with their guild.

If you’ve been in a lot of guilds, chances are that somewhere along the line someone you know has considered you a guildhopper. You may not fit the definition above, but whether you left your guilds for good or bad reasons often doesn’t matter since all we see when researching guild history is the number. The question is do you think your guild number is a bit over the top, or is all fair in WoW and loot?

Would you ever consider yourself to be a "guildhopper"?

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As a sidenote I’d like to point out that this poll is two days late, I have had horrendous flu and will be spamming you all again shortly.

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How to: Not apply to a raiding Guild


December 14, 2009 at 12:01 pm by

ButterknifeFor some guilds, all you need to do to get an invite is whisper someone and they’ll invite. For others… you have to apply. Now this apply may take many forms, for some its a simple forum written application, for some its an interview, for others its a dark ritual taking place late at night in the middle of the woods with people wearing black hoods and carrying serrated knives… Ok maybe not serrated knives, dinner knives most likely.

The general idea though remains the same and when applying to a guild there are some simple steps you can take to give yourself a better chance and some easy to make mistakes that’ll shoot yourself in the foot.

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