7/14/2006
Elessedil recently started exploring the great Temple of Ahn’Qiraj, and so far it has been quite challenging and exciting. My guild and I have been working on the god C’Thun and the encounter keeps you on your toes to say the least. The fight requires you to pay attention to one-hundred different things at once but the key is surviving. As hard as this encounter is, there is no doubt in my mind the god will fall soon.
As you approach the instance you can feel your heart pumping very fast, maybe it’s the huge flight of stairs you have to climb or thinking about the many rewards that await inside. But I think the best part about raiding this ancient temple is the feeling you get when you are with forty people who have the same goal as you do… TO PWN!
7/7/2006
If I could change one thing in the World of Warcraft I would tell Lieutenant General Andorov in the Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj to put on a damn shirt, grab a shield, and learn to tank. Better yet Blizzard can just replace him with a Hogit clone and buff up his crew of NPCs because they suck as well. I mean sure, Andorov obviously is a hardcore Fury Warrior, and his area of effect two-hundred hitpoint heal every three seconds is pretty uber, but he’s no Dwarf!
7/4/2006
I’ve noticed there are a lot of celebrations in Azeroth that contain explosives and the Midsummer Fire Festival is no exception. The festival mirrors the heat of summer by lighting huge fires across the land; I guess they didn’t grow up with Smokey the Bear. There were a number of rewards available to adventurers including a Captured Flame pet, but this year Hogit was after the Crown of the Fire Festival. The crown is only given to the bravest because it requires stealing a flame from each of the enemy’s major capital cities.
Hogit began the journey by traveling to the Undercity whose flame was near the entrance and posed no challenge. From there he stowed away on a Horde zeppelin bound for Orgrimmar. Riding in was easy enough because Hogit had the element of surprise (naked Dwarf on a ram mount), but leaving was a bit more difficult; the Horde loved the Dwarf too much to see him go without a fight! After a corpse run Hogit was off to the last stop, Thunder Bluff. This city is rarely populated but the guards are a pain because the buildings will dismount you. A little prime rib never stopped Hogit; he captured the last flame and hearthed back to Ironforge. After realizing he was not a crown type of Dwarf he vendored it and left to take a nap.
