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Apparently back a while ago, during a WoWInsider podcast, an incorrect web address was given to Bellwether’s blog, 4 Haelz. Right now, it’s located on Blogger instead of being self-hosted at a domain of her choosing. Later it was found out that a lovely (that’s sarcasm there, folks) domain name camper had snatched up the name. The intrepid Leafshine, however, loathes such critters, and being the “wise in the ways of teh internetz” tree that he is, went off, set up an alert for when it might get released, and waited. Patience pays off, cos today he happily told Bell, as well as the rest of the Blog Azeroth chat room, that he had just purchased 4haelz.com and was redirecting it to point at her blog.

That’s when it happened.

Took her a good 4 minutes to come back after that. ::giggling:: Congrats Bell, and yey Leafy for being so sneaky.

Breana over at Gun Lovin’ Dwarf Chick posted about trying to find WoW players without getting The Look from people that don’t play. It came up in discussion in the bloggers’ chat room, and the idea of hand gestures came up. Me being me, my brain took a slightly different track…

Jon: there needs to be like a gesture or something
Nightravyn: like gang signs? ::grin::
Breana: hmmm….flapping arms are too strange
Nightravyn: have an overall WoW signal, then have one hand sign for Alliance, one for Horde.
Breana: lol
Nightravyn: I can see it now…
Breana: if we have two then they both need to be known so even members of the other faction can tell
a parade of flapping arms?
“are you suppose to be a chicken”
Nightravyn: “..sup.” “sup ::flashing hand sign::” “::flashes sign back then folllows with side::” “Filthy SCUM! ::beatdown::”
Breana: roffle
Nightravyn: “Sorry officer, but he’s HORDE!” “oh? what server? I might have ganked him…”

This always seems to happen when I’m talking to other Blog Azeroth people. Leafshine happened to wonder how on earth the Tuskarr from the next expansion would even kiss. Photoshop happened… sorta.

It’s Leafy’s fault.

Over on Blog Azeroth, the Shared Question of the week is “How did you come up with your character name?”

Just about all of my characters have had names pulled from different locations. My mage came from a book, but the name itself is Gaelic in origin. My pally is Japanese name in origin. My banker character is named for a cat that I had at the time, who has since passed away. My baby priest is yet another Japanese derivative but I’d used it for another character in another MMO. I have a placeholder that’s named for my first MMO character, and that was derived from wanting a “raven” without it being “Raven”.

And then there’s Siana and Mirya, her pet. Siana came from another method I have of creating names: taking a word, chopping it apart, and rearranging it, usually with another word that’s also been chopped. In this case, however, Siana came from “LouiSIANA”. No, seriously. That’s where it came from. I was looking around the house for anything to start building a name from, saw a Louisiana state map I was about to throw away (since I don’t live there anymore and haven’t for years), and used the state name. That was for a banker character in another MMO, and when I was surprising The Boyfriend on WoW’s Opening Day (cos I hadn’t told him I was getting WoW), I knew he didn’t know that banker character, and having some person named “Siana” sending him a tell would confuse him. It worked. Mwhaha…

Mirya was an easy choice for my teal kitty. I told the story of how I got her over at Survival Hunters Anonymous. I’ve known the real life “Mirya” (not her real name) for over 12 years now. I’d sucked her and her husband into MMOs and they’ve been merrily committing carnage over in FF11 for a few years now. She’s also a vet and a huge kitty lover, and dang it, I missed having a flurry of teal and steel running around me from back when we played EQOA and she was a bard while I played cleric. So asking her if I could name a rare teal cat pet after her wasn’t that far a stretch for me, and her reaction of bouncing in glee and demanding pics of her namesake wasn’t that far a stretch for her.

Ah character creation. Ain’t it grand!

I was chatting with Bellwether and Siha this morning, both members of the Blog Azeroth group. Guild drama came up, and the “drama llama” term was used. Somewhere in the sleepy recesses of my mind, something stirred. Then Bellwether sealed my doom by awakening the Photoshop Monster: “omg. it’s a super hero llama”.

After about 5-10 minutes discussing super hero llamas and my Photoshop Monster yelling “DO THIS!”, I sighed and gave in. So now I present to you, Super Llama.

I need help…

Last week, right before I scooted out of town for family duties, I joined the Blog Azeroth community of bloggers. Much has been written on it by now, so I’ll refrain from pages of glowing words over what a wonderful community it is, and just say, if you’re a blogger that writes about WoW, it’s a really good idea for you to join it. Great people, good times, and tons of helpful info.

Siha over at Banana Shoulders posted a suggested shared blog topic to the members of Blog Azeroth: What do you enjoy about the class you play the most? So here’s my bit on why I love hunters.

When The Boyfriend first said “So I’ll be picking up WoW when it comes out this Tuesday…” and I looked at getting it, I pretty much knew I was going to pick Hunter for my main. Through all the other games I’d played, I’d always been an archer/hunter-type character. Diablo 2, my biggest time-suck on my computer pre-MMO, I’d played the Amazon, with her specced as a bow user (Frost Maiden Bowazon for those that remember what that is). So when WoW came out, Hunter was a natural fit for me. And then I dinged 10 and got this pet… and it fought for me… I came with a TANK?! Awesome!

That’s how I got started being a hunter. Why do I keep being a hunter? It suits me. I have to solo a lot (yey weird work schedules), so having a built-in meat shield is a Good Thing. I liked being able to survive past one hit if something got too close to me (I’ve since gotten better about clothie survivability on my mage). I liked standing at the back of a fight and turning something into a pincushion. I like being able to use my class and spec to the best of my ability to help the raid, while still being able to play the way that suits me best. And I have to say, laying down a snake trap in an instance just to wait for that moment that the boss fears the snakes after they’ve been chewing on him a while, it probably one of the more giggle worthy moments I get these days. (Hey, I’m easily amused. What can I say?)

Being able to have a pretty pretty teal tiger as a pet. Being able to have other cool looking animals as pets. Survivability, utility, sheer fun and chaos. Oh yes, I love being a hunter. Frustrating moments? Oh sure. I have those. But overall, I can’t imagine not being a hunter for any time in the foreseeable future. I’m too addicted.