The Siren Call of Engineering

I remember choosing professions back when I started playing. I was set on a draenei hunter, and after consulting with Ponder I learned that draeneis had increased skill in Jewelcrafting. He advised me to choose Mining to go with it. I was entirely new to the game and was "afraid" of the Auction House, and leveling Jewelcrafting was a tedious and time-consuming hobby.

Cataclysm Bucket List

I read an inspiring post by Gavendo at Rapid Fire last night; Cataclysmic Bucket List and OpenRaid.

I've been browsing OpenRaid all afternoon, you should check it too! I registered, set up Ventrilo, and started browsing raids, so I'm hoping to soon have finished some old raid achievements. :)

Hunter UI's

I've compiled some pictures and links to Cataclysm hunter UI's. They're from hunters I'm stalking and from WoW Insider's Reader UI of the Week. Yes, another post with no real creativity from me. But finding the pictures was a lot of hard work, I promise. Phew. I'm very interested in UI's and keybindings these days, want something new for Mists of Pandaria. If you see something you like, click names for link to article or blog. :)

Edited already (23 Apr 2012), as Garwulf has updated GarUI.

Suggestion submitted: More room on ignore list

There's some new features in the in-game Customer Support; among them "Submit Suggestion" which I used for the first time today.

Why is it called Invincible if you can see it?

I apologize for the troll line in the header; I can't help appreciate the classic ones, even though I don't troll trade myself (see some of my favorites in Leveling Without Heirlooms).

We're a small group of people in my guild who would like some of the items that are obtainable from Lich King when someone acquired Shadowmourne. And some are interested in Shadowmourne too of course. So I thought I'd make an overview over how much time we would need, and we'll see if that's something we want to do.

The Neverending Key Binding Project part 1

Before I started to play World of Warcraft I hadn't played many computer games; Carmageddon, Duke Nukem Forever, Doom II, Keen Commander and some browser-games pretty much makes up the whole list. Instead I played console games (PlayStation). Because of this, key bindings didn't feel very intuitive to me when I started my hunter. I got off at a bad start, tried to improve, but still now I don't feel like it's where I want it to be. I've had posts on our guild forums, googled "pro key bindings" (hehe, not that exact phrase perhaps), and I even asked "what are your key bindings?" on a Hunting Party Podcast a long long time ago. It's a big deal to me, and I'm really hung up on it.

Hunter Gear

There was a series of blog posts several months ago regarding "do you show off your geekness?". I'm slow, so here's my post finally :)

I GOT TURTLE!

Being an achievement-hunter, or nerdpoints as Kia and Dhevon calls them, one day last week I was checking out my Achievement-tab trying to plan how I should spend my time in-game between the raids.

Spring Cleaning with ArkInventory

I've collected stuff on Lae since I started playing 4,5 years ago. It goes without saying that I need to tidy my bank up now and then, where I search up quest items on Wowhead to see if I can safely delete them, or ask myself "do I really need this?". The answer is surprisingly often "Yes. Yes, I need this item." (It's my precious.)

Archaeology and Transmogrification have given me even more things to collect. :) And with it, a major difficulty increase in inventory management. Void Storage helped a little, but it's only a drop in the ocean to be honest. So while organising myself, I thought I'd show off my little management plan:

Thoughts on Girl Gamers

I've recently read a lot of blog posts concerning sexism*, racism and other stereotypisms**; How we all subconsciously or consciously discriminate not only others, but also ourselves (!) because of gender, race, sexual orientation etc. In national and international media there are also discussions; "Can you blame yourself for getting raped if you wear sexy clothes?" and "Can you blame yourself for getting killed if you're at the wrong place, with the wrong skin colour, wearing the wrong clothes?".

White Polar Bear

I'm working on [Frostbitten] (missing 5), so I was flying through Storm Peaks, looking for Vyragosa. I noticed a blue exclamation mark on my minimap, and decided to dive down and do the daily quest for The Blue Ladies of Storm Peaks. Finished the quest, got my bag of Hyldnir Spoils, opened it, saw something with purple colour. Eyes widened, jaw dropped, did I actually just go ahead and get myself a [Reins of the White Polar Bear]?! I don't know how many times I must have done that daily back then! :)

Draenei hunter Laeleiweyn with Skoll and White Polar Bear

Mists of Pandaria Launch Predictions

What do we want? Mists of Pandaria! When do we want it? NOW!!!

I've started collecting predictions I hear or see people make for when Mists of Pandaria will launch. The price for predicting the correct date; Eternal glory!

Cataclysm Almost Mortem

Mists of Pandaria has totally taken over the news. Before I get my Beta invite and start living the panda-experience, a wrap-up of Cataclysm seems fitting. I'll give you my top 3-lists of different things, but as you will see I felt I had to cheat with the numbers here and there.

Loremaster Laeleiweyn

Loremaster Laeleiweyn. The quest that triggered the achievement was "Burnout", which isn't totally unfitting.

Yippi!

Other news: Not in beta yet.

And here's some Mists of Pandaria gear that Wowhead mined:

The bad beta-tester

As an Annual Pass-owner, I will in short time receive an invite to the MOP-beta. I’ve had an active subscription since august 2007 and signed up to the annual pass as soon as it was available, so I probably won't be the first one, but pretty early still, to get access.

The problem is that I’m not a good beta tester...

Spoiler Alert: Mists of Pandaria 2012 Press Event

All pictures and info found at

Official Mists of Pandaria website
Wowhead
WoW Insider
WoW Hunters Hall

New: Blogpost by Bashiok giving even more info that I haven't seen anywhere else yet!

Things I absolutely love

Surr's Makeover Day

Draenei hunter Surr in Merciless Gladiator's Pursuit

New collectibles please

I'm in need of something new to collect. With my 168 companion pets, 121 mounts, 12525 achievement points, 34822 honorable kills, awsome PVE- and PVP-gear I can be proud of, most of the cool archaeology items, more than enough tabards, cool transmog fashion from around the world and more titles than I bother thinking of, you might think to yourself that I've done more than enough collecting already? My stable is filled to the brim! And so are my bags, bank and void storage. But I’m telling you; I need something new that I can collect. Please. :)

Update of Hunterstalker March 2012

Update of Hunterstalker 3rd of March 2012.

I've updated achievements and kills today. Some observations on the 63 hunters I'm following:

Baby hunters

As a follow-up to the swearathon that was my last post, I decided to go the oposite direction this time and talk about the cute topic that is baby hunters.

On Hunting Party Podcast Episode 120, they got a question from Aspects: “I always hear people mentioning baby hunters or baby dwarves. Where do babies come from?”

Euripides: “Well, you see. When a mummy dwarf and a daddy dwarf love eachother very much, they do something we're not allowed to talk about and at the end there's an egg. The egg; the mummy dwarf sits on for about six months, and when it hatches there's a baby inside."

Shame of the Alliance!

Warning of very bad language, I was so fucking mad when I wrote this.

I can’t believe how arrogant some people are, and how bad morals they have!!!

The Hunter Faction

I was visiting Darkmoon Faire Island a couple of weeks ago. When I got to the Shooting Gallery, Rinling yelled at me: “Come play a game so simple that even a hunter can do it!”. What the...? Grr... I gave him a /rude. Then I took a better look at the guy. A troll. Of course. Quick search on Wowhead tells me he insults all the other classes too, not just me and mine.

Nevertheless, a train of thoughts started.

For once, I want to be part of the main team when a big bad thing happens to the world. I’m tired of helping the “holier than thou”-paladins, the tree hugging druids and the down to earth shamans all the time.

I want one quest giver, one tiny quest giver, that says “I’m sorry ClassNotHunter, this situation needs to be handled by professionals. But if you absolutely want to help, you can collect 10 mushrooms and make us some soup”.

Sixth

I read a post at WoW Insider. Which sent me on to Martha.Net. Where I found that Jaedia from Jaedia's Menagerie had tagged me! So, here I go:

The basics (from Armageddon's Coming):

• 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.

One picture can say more than 1000 words

I'm having some sort of a writer's block. For every new blogpost I've written they've been bigger and longer and deeper than the last one. And that's really not the point of a blog; to feel like that much work. It's more about freely writing your current thoughts. Right now I have a good idea for something to write about, but I'm stuck with hundreds of single words scattered around, refusing to gather themselves neatly in a post. Let's hope it losens up. :)

Over the weeks the screenshots have piled up. So I think I'll just leave them here, to speak for themselves. This is Naanei, levels 1 to 80. Traveling the world, looking for new and old draenei friends. If you click on one photo you can easily see through them in a bigger format. :)

Update of Hunterstalker

I've updated achievements, kills, specs and links in Hunterstalker today. A few observations since the last update that was 3 months ago, in november: