These Ancient Eyes: Time Marches On…
A year ago today, I lost a father. Not my biological father, though in the past year he’s had his own issues, but still, a father. There’s something to be said for the family that chooses you. You don’t have a choice, the parents you are born to, the siblings that are born before or after you, the extended family you end up with – but to choose someone, to think of them as family… That’s something else entirely. Thinking back on the circumstances surrounding my move to California recently, I realized that Tom Stein chose me before I chose him. He was the one who told Lona to come get me. He went out of his way to make sure I was comfortable and felt safe in my new home – and in that way, he became a symbol of my safety in...
Read MoreTooth & Arrows: Dual Specing The RIGHT Way…
These days, when I make a new character on Wow, I bookmark talent builds that I want them to have and I spend time focusing on their talents and glyphs so that they maximize their DPS for leveling, and their other abilities for dungeoning (in the case of my tanks – Reyune the DK, Kalitri and Ionaria the feral druids, and Betamus the warrior). However, somehow, my main got lost in the rotation. I wasn’t as diligent when I created her. Heck, I didn’t even KNOW you could look up/emulate talent builds. I didn’t know what Glyphs were until I was high enough level to use six of them. I focused on her story and living my little in-game life. Now, this didn’t work too badly for her chosen primary spec – Beast Mastery. My pet did hells...
Read MoreTooth And Arrows: Cross-Faction Consideration
I am an Alliance player. I am apparently among the minority. However, recently, I’ve become curious how the other half lives since the Cataclysm. As a result, and thanks to my fiancee’s experimentation along the same line, I’ve rolled a couple of Horde characters on the Dawnbringer server. A Death Knight, as a bit of a bankroll for the server since I don’t have several hundred gold to spend on ease of leveling my server main, and my new obsession – my Troll Druid, Ionaria. And it would seem with my faction cross, a new place, a new start, has given me the mental drive to do something I’ve never felt able to do before. Ionaria is a Feral Combat Druid, and therefore a Bear Tank. And thus that is what she’s queuing, and has...
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