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Happy anniversary, Warcraft!

Posted by Peter (Devee) on November 23, 2014
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Petros

Happy 10th anniversary, World of Warcraft! Happy 20th anniversary Warcraft!

Today seems like a good day to reflect a little. That’s Petros in the screenshot, my Night Elf warrior of S A D on Uther. He was my very first character. You can see that the guild is pretty dead; that’s fine, because I don’t know who anyone is. I think I joined because my high level friend was in it. I started playing WoW as soon as it was released and made this character to play with my roommate at the time, Antonio. Everyone out leveled me very quickly because I took things slow. I always ended up switching characters quite a bit. Before hitting 20 or so I switched to a tauren hunter to try it. I ended up liking Horde more. I then switched to a PVP server and made an orc hunter. Along the way, there were a few mages and priests that never hit 10. Eventually I tried my original character again, getting him to 23, before switching to my current server, Kil’jaeden. I started with a tauren shaman who got to his 30s and then made my current priest. My plan was to heal with Mooglegem until she caught up to my level and then switch back to my shaman. That switch back never happened.

Warcraft itself always reminds me of my friend Lloyd from elementary school because we used to talk about it a lot. Honestly, I’m not sure I ever actually finished one of the games. I mostly screwed around in multiplayer, but I was terrible anyways. Regardless, I knew the general plot. I don’t think the first two are really playable anymore, but the third one holds up. I should go back and play it.

World of Warcraft gave me a lot of great memories. It seems like such a different game now – not just because of the mechanical changes but because of the mindset. Once you see the game through to max level, it changes your perspective.

I remember being so amazed at the size of the game. When I finally got my Night Elf all the way to Ironforge, I had a dilemma. Do I set my hearth there, giving up the quest lines I was doing, or do I hearth back home and give up the long trek to reach the city that was so full of people I had to use my roommate’s computer so I wouldn’t crash? I wrote an article for WoW Insider on this subject.

I ran dungeons with a group of friends I knew in real life. I remember Antonio yelling at me not to attack things that weren’t aggressive. I wanted their skin.

When one of my characters first reached the Barrens, one of the quests said something about the Horde soldiers needing me to help them. It felt so cool. “I’m one of them now!”

hitting 80 with thrall

I finally hit the level cap for the first time in Wrath of the Lich King. I made sure to plan it so I could ding by turning in a quest to Thrall.

I joined a terrible guild to raid because they did a lot of old raids just for fun. They didn’t raid the current tier at all, but there was no stress of an application process. I got over that quickly.

Joining Carpe Flux Capacitor was a big deal. Who knew I was making such a great friends? I’ve met a pretty good chunk of the guild despite not living near most of them. It helps that I live in Irvine so some of them come to me for BlizzCon. It did feel a little odd at my guildmate’s wedding to say, “How do I know him? Oh, we play WoW together.”

8 hour warsong gulch wsg

Once there was a bug and the flag despawned completely from Warsong Gulch. I played in this one match, with breaks for dinner, for over eight hours.

Moogle made delicious cookies for everyone participating in our guild’s Secret Santa.

Bulleto, Mooglegem’s tauren hunter, made me a mechanohog. I tried it and killed the both of us almost immediately.

I was so excited when we finally killed Arthas after weeks of failing.

The quest line to get Quel’delar was one of my absolute favorite memories. I did it with Mooglegem, and we had a blast. I can’t use swords, so I received the Hammer of Purified Flame. I still have it, and it’s a popular transmog choice.

I’ve had a ton of wonderful memories in World of Warcraft, and I’m sure there are many more to come.

Blog Azeroth: Three Must Haves

Posted by Peter (Devee) on September 21, 2012
Posted in: Blog Azeroth Shared Topics, Devee, In Character, Journal, World of Warcraft. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Leave a comment

Every week, Blog Azeroth proposes a Shared Topic for World of Warcraft bloggers to discuss. This week’s topic was proposed by Mataoka of Sugar & Blood.

But with the new patch, and all the new things coming, what are three things that you will absolutely not leave behind? Consider these three objects your virtual backpack- the twist is, a tiny story to go along with each item.

Hammer of Purified Flame – When Mooglegem and I found a Battered Hilt within the Forge of Souls, we had no idea what we were about to do. With the help of Krasus and the Sunreavers, we discovered that the hilt belonged to the legendary blade Quel’Delar. After we reforged it with Saronite at the Pit of Saron and tempered it in the Crucible of Souls, it came to life on its own within the Halls of Reflection. We subdued it, and following the advice of Uther’s spirit, we took it to the Sunwell to be cleansed. The blood elves and the Sunreavers allowed Mooglegem to keep it. As thanks, I was rewarded with the Hammer of Purified Flame.

When I originally wrote this post, this section was much longer. I realized that I wanted it to stand on its own, so I took it out and posted it separately.

Old Ironjaw – I always enjoyed fishing. It’s a quiet, relaxing activity. However, there was a little more to it. Whispers told of two very old fish that were impossible to fish – Old Crafty and Old Ironjaw in Orgrimmar and Ironforge respectively. I wasn’t sure I believed the stories until I found fished Old Crafty himself from the waters of Orgrimmar. At once, I knew I had to travel to Ironforge to see if the stories were true. I prepared for the worst, because I knew I wouldn’t be welcome. I donned the best armor I could to defend myself from the Alliance and waited until the dead of night.

Slipping into Ironforge as quick as I could, I darted left, travelling around the center forge clockwise. Guards chased me, but I managed to evade them and find a pool of water. Some Alliance members did see me and didn’t take kindly to me entering their city. I chose not to fight back, hoping to show my willingness to cooperate. Most of them didn’t care. However, I then felt a pressure on my mind as a draenei priest took control of my mind. I expected more trouble, but then I felt soothed, and I realized what was happening; She was Mind Controlling me to heal me and protect me from her own faction. I wish I could have learned her name, but I never did. Soon after, I found the legendary Old Ironjaw himself.

If only I could win one of Azeroth’s fishing tournament. Regardless, Old Ironjaw will always be my trophy.

Rusted Proto-drake – After defeating the Lich King with my guild, Carpe Flux Capacitor, Mooglegem and I had a request. We wanted to see the great Titan complex of Ulduar. We had heard many stories from our fellow members who had fought against Yogg-Saron in Ulduar. Eventually our leader, Harley, yielded and took us back there. While Yogg-Saron had been defeated some time earlier, the Old God’s minions still held sway over parts of the complex. We managed to to drive them out. Brann Bronzebeard wrote to me soon after saying that his men found a drake that was likely an Iron Dwarf experiment. As they weren’t trained to ride such a creature, he saw fit to gift it to me as thanks for my help in Ulduar. Can you imagine that? A great dwarven hero gifting me such a magnificent creature as this rusted proto-drake? I was overjoyed.

Seriously, my guild did not want to return to Ulduar. As I mentioned earlier, I hit 80 when ICC was released, so I never got to see Ulduar. Mooglegem and I loved it! It’s so fantastic. I really wish I was raiding when it was current.

Runners up included Sylvanas’ Music Box (which I purchased from the AH because it’s awesome), the Runed Signet of the Kirin Tor (because Dalaran reminds me of home), the PVP trinket (regardless of which one because, come on, how could you go out without a PVP trinket?), my T10 as a whole, and Halion, Staff of Forgotten Love (which I won on our first LK kill).

Last week’s topic was proposed by Noahdeer.

“We all know of the Seven deadly sins (Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy and Gluttony) and we all succumb to aspects of them at one time or another, but is there one particular sin that affects you more than the others when you play World of Warcraft?
Are you a bit too prideful about your armor set? or Do you look upon someone with envy when they have a piece of armor that you don’t have yet?”

I enjoyed ReaperSA’s response on Mending and Mayhem. Like quite a few other people, he amusingly had to admit that he suffered from all of them. Noahdeer on BeMOP and Jstmel on MoMaR both felt quite gluttonous. We all suffer from that I think.

Quel’Delar and the Hammer of Purified Flame

Posted by Peter (Devee) on September 17, 2012
Posted in: Blog Azeroth Shared Topics, Devee, In Character, Journal, Role-Playing, World of Warcraft. Tagged: , , , , , . 1 Comment

Back before I joined the ranks of Carpe Flux Capacitor to put an end to the Lich King’s wrath, I worked with a small group of people to infiltrate The Frozen Halls of Icecrown Citadel. We discovered a Battered Hilt with ornate markings. Mooglegem and I took it to the Sunreavers, who suggested we talk to Krasus (may he rest in peace). Krasus had a book he believed would help us to identify the blade, but he already gave it to a Silver Covenant member. He suggested we talk to a Sunreaver contact to negotiate with the Silver Covenant.

Rather than negotiate, our contact had us kill a Silver Covenant member that was snooping around the Underbelly of Dalaran. On his person we found orders to take the book to Icecrown after receiving it from someone in the Silver Enclave, which we did instead after borrowing Silver Covenant tabards.

We had to do a little laundry to get the tabards!

Mooglegem made a cute High Elf! My back just hurt the whole time. It’s weird to stand straight like that, mon!

After obtaining the book, we brought it to Quel’Delar’s Rest, where Blood-Queen Lana’Thel appeared, informed us that she brought the blade to Northrend and broke it.

She then shattered the blade before leaving. We reforged the blade with Saronite Bars and the Forgemaster’s Hammer in the Pit of Saron…

…and then tempered it in the Crucible of Souls in the Forge of Souls.

The tempered blade seemed to want to enter the Halls of Reflection. We were worried, but what choice did we have? When we entered, the spirit of Uther left Frostmourne and urged us to keep the cursed blade away. Perhaps we should have listened, but we approached regardless. The blade sprung to life when exposed to Frostmourne.

After we subdued it, Uther scolded us for reforging it with Saronite, the blood of an Old God. He taught us that we would need to expose the blade to the Sunwell to cleanse it.

After we proved our worth to the sin’dorei by meeting the spirit of Thalorien Dawnseeker, we were admitted to the Sunwell. They seemed hostile to me…

…but allowed me passage because I was with Mooglegem. After cleansing the blade in the waters of the Sunwell, it was fully restored. Mooglegem was treated as a hero, and we left to much fanfare.

She brought the blade to Aethas Sunreaver, who congratulated her and noted that the blade seemed to be adapting to her abilities. As thanks for my help as an outside to the sin’dorei, I was gifted the Hammer of Purified Flame by Justicar Mariel Trueheart of the Argent Crusade.

I’ll always treasure the hammer and wield it proudly.

This quest chain was probably by favorite chain in the game. I never hit the level cap during Vanilla or BC, and I reached 80 right when Icecrown Citadel was released. At the time, I was running heroics with a group of friends. We decided to run the ICC 5-mans as a group without reading anything about them. We wanted to truly experience them. On our first run of the Forge of Souls we found a Battered Hilt. Mooglegem received it, eventually getting Quel’Delar. I farmed it for a while but ended up purchasing the Battered Hilt on the Auction House so I could experience the quest chain myself. I was pretty surprised when I got different interactions at the Sunwell! I’m sad I didn’t get a weapon with story behind it but happy to experience the quest chain nevertheless.