The First Comment

As Cait over at One Among Many has so kindly kicked the ball into my court today, I've got a post on the first comment I ever got on the blog. It was a comment in response to me disagreeing with another hunter over whether or not a 58 hunter was ready for Outlands -"Hunter, money and some hunter blog"-

The first person to comment was Troll on a Powerbook, who unfortunately is no longer playing the game or blogging. The second person to comment, and welcomed me to the blogging community was Cait. She commented a few times in the first weeks, which lead me to her blog. That caused me to read her, and through her I found Hunter's Mark, and eventually Blog Azeroth, and Kestrel's Aerie.

Cait? All I have to say, is thank you for being a frequent responder which lead me to so many others... you even led me to Aspect of the Hare. And I guess, a quick thank you to Pike, who has fueled so many Spark Posts over the last year!

Without all of those who read at least once a week :p it gives me a reason to keep on writing.

Now for me to pick people to tag... hmm. I can only think of one person.

Niqora?

Tag, you're it!

One Among Many on her First Comment.

Kestrel on The First Comment

Blacksmithing 298

Well, part of the reason for not having too many updates on the blog is, well, I'm not playing any of the Tzia's very much. Nope, I've been playing my now level 66 paladin, Dione on Quel'dorei.

I started playing her again to keep my awesome original CC guildie, Rivey, company while he leveled his paladin towards 80. He did make a post saying that I was the reason he didn't get anything done before he left for Washington state. I deny that accusation. I was on a QD character fumbling my way around Hillsbrad. That hunter is 26, I couldn't remember what the heck I'd been doing, its been several months! But I would have been happy to just figure out which quests I was doing, load up on arrows and kill things with the black lion while chatting with Rivey as he leveled. He instead decided to go back over to Deathwing, and I followed him over and logged into Tzia. Not like I'm doing much there either, since The Guy and I are leveling those two together. The guy was at work, so Tzia sits, and well... I didn't want to play the DK either. So, Rivey leveled his lil rogue and he and I talked. And talked. He got a few quests done, I got a bit of rested XP under my belt.

Once Rivey logged off to pack, I went back over to QD and tried to figure out just what the heck I was doing with Di, because I figure if I can talk him into questing together, then I can help keep him on track with Jaska. I figured I'd try and level up my blacksmithing to something remotely useful... I don't have to level the paladin all that fast, she's not a main character, so I can dink around on her to my heart's content.

Anyways, did a number of runs through EPL. Got thorium until its coming out of my ears. Then I remembered something... I hadn't chosen weaponsmithing or Armorsmithing yet on her... oops. Rivey obviously wasn't on at the time, and since I needed a bit of advice, I flipped back over to Deathwing to see if any of the blacksmith's I knew were on and could point me in the right direction with a potential tankadin.

Ran into somebody from Vane in our friendly group channel, and he pointed me in the right direction: Armorsmith. So, I returned to Quel'dorei and found that I have to do a LOT of work just to get to the point where I can break the last few points and get to 300.

I've done The Old Ways. Now I need a ton of Mithril and even more Iron. I guess Its back to Arathi for a few stacks of Iron, then on to Ungoro and Tanaris for Mithril and a bit more Thorium.

I'll give you a blacksmithing report when I've broken 300! And I might just have some hunter news by then too!

Chens Champions Reborn

Well, yeah, um... Hmm. Tzia on Deathwing is now running a guild. Its not a major guild or a fancy guild (we do have our tabard though!) or even a guild with a bank tab yet... (I'm working on it!). However, its my guild and The Guy's guild. And I am happy.

We resurrected the old name : Chens Champions. We also dug out and dusted off the old black and white Drunken Pandaren inspired tabard. And that's about it. I'm working on making enough cash for the intial bank slot purchase... does anyone remember what that costs again? *scratches head*

Anyways. The Guy missed the tabard, and the name, and if truth be told, kinda misses Quel'dorei, but we can't get his friends to seriously consider playing over there. So, its Deathwing and dodge the Plated Featherkin that are currently turning my hunter into a pile of blue troll goo... yes, Tzia got nuked by a laser turkey. I only had time to go Red? Hun... wtf was- *dead*. Not too pleased with that experience. I'll figure out how to turn the moonkin into soup later - I'd need egg noodles. Back to the shiny new guild!

The Guy and I have our own guild. I happened to be running around the web reading various blogs... Altis I think got me started on reading DK related things- I do have 3 at last count, which lead me to a Matticus post, which got me thinking about recruiting again... *shudder*

But Matt did point out that you should start with Trade Chat *cringe* and work from there. Once I have that first bank tab, I'll start considering recruiting... as well as snap up any newbie hunters that seem to need a bit of help figuring out just what goes where while trying not to shoot themselves or their new fanged companion in the foot (Been there, done that, my cat Lilith was not amused). If I can help at least one hunter not make most of the blunders that The Guy and I made, they will start out well ahead of their non hunter savvy competition.

Wish me luck will ya?

*Waves and clicks on the WoW Icon*