In-laws

Invasion of in-laws. Back Monday Oct 22. 😞😞😞😞

Goals and progress

Over the weekend I spent most of my WoW time trying to gain some rep for my Druid (so as to get the level 3 alchemy recipes), and starting to level my alt hunter. My alt hunter — a Beastmaster hunter — used to be my main, but for a lot of unimportant complicated reasons …

Talking across each other

con·ver·sa·tion ˌkänvərˈsāSH(ə)n/ noun the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words. "the two men were deep in conversation" synonyms: discussion, talk, chat, gossip, tête-à-tête, heart-to-heart, exchange, dialogue Yesterday was another in what has become a regular series of Q&A sessions with Mr. Game Director Hazzikostas. I still maintain this is a good move on Blizz’s …

Back — and cranky

Hey, all. Well, vacation is over — although “vacation” is not really the right term, as I was engaged in a lot of manual labor every day. I even took a slight break from WoW — would go two or three days without logging in, usually on evenings when I was too beat to do …

Moving

I am taking about ten days off from writing in order to set up my new pottery studio. Will be putting up shelves and pegboard, drill and power tool mounts, moving my wheel and tools and brushes and clay and such in, and hopefully organizing it a bit. I have some patio furniture on order …

Azerite mess

There has been a very interesting forum thread, topped off by some extensive Blue comments, on Azerite armor in Battle for Azeroth. You can check out the most pertinent posts, assembled by MMO-C, here. Even more enlightening, though, is Matthew Rossi’s Blizzard Watch commentary on the subject. I really recommend taking a look at it if …

The path to fun

Last night our raid team sailed through a full clear of Uldir Normal in about an hour and a half, one-shotting every boss. After struggling with the raid since it opened, and after only killing G’thuun for the first time last Thursday, this was a welcome development. I am honestly not sure what the difference …