Love Moves On

What with the new expansion rolling into the spotlight thanks to the open beta I’ve found a lot of my friends (And, uh, me. More than them. Maybe. A bit.) to be extremely nostalgic about how things were before all these new races, features and planets. It all results in a big long discussion about UBRS and Strath 45 and Core Hounds and when PvP wasn’t so gear dependent and… Thottbot.

Yes, Thottbot.

I remember very clearly a time when all the cool kids in trade would leap on anyone unfortunate enough to enquire after the proper price of an item with “lol thott it” and “obv u don’t know how to thott” and the like. It didn’t matter that the comments on Thottbot came from various different servers with various different levels of supply and demand, of course, because an understanding of the inner workings of an economy and how much it’s liable to bear has never been required to be cool. But that’s beyond the point.

I haven’t been directed to Thottbot for a long while.

There was a period in which I recall Thott and Alakhazam struggled for dominance, but it looks like Wowhead came along and blew them both out of the water. It’s easy to see why: the site has a much more finished feel to it. It’s pretty, it has nifty features like predictive text in search boxes and that much-loved code to place item links into blogs and on forums and is generally more accurate. But I don’t hear many people exclaiming about it in trade any more. Let alone ordering poor little newbies to go “head it”. Then again, I dare say that would end up getting perverse, considering Trade.

Personally, I still use Thottbot despite its obvious deficiencies. It’s chockfull of silly comments and epeen boosting and such, but I guess I’m quite attached to it nevertheless. There are some very good posts on there, of the sort you don’t tend to find so prolifically on WoWhead, if you’re willing to scroll through the find the yellow posts.

Besides, I’m cool. Gotta search in style. Retro style.

Dwarven plaits and slit-eyed goats.

I've always loved dwarves in WoW, ever since I first levelled up a dwarven warrior on my first server, Thunderhorn, and had her running around in full scarlet plate screaming bloody murder with an accent. There's a certain pleasure in being one of a minority when wandering around Alliance cities - though I love the night elven model when she's not, er, moving much there are so many about that a short, bright faced dwarf really stands out. Our racials are nice too, stoneform especially, and as a dwarf priest I'm enjoying the holy focus of our class-racials. Not that I would ever want to trade in Miriah's devouring plague, but chastise and desperate prayer are extremely handy whilst levelling up.

Neither racials nor rarity are what decided my race choice. It had much more to do with...

Oh aye. Plaits. Pretty little pinned up plaits. It's odd, I played a gnome before in the form of a pigtailed mage called Melly but I never got vicious attacks of squeeing over how cute she was, yet whenever I pause in my frantic levelling of Tally here long enough to really notice her hair again my mind is overrun by exclamations of how adoooorable. Daigeil thinks this is pretty out of character for me, but I honestly don't care. She makes me very happy, and I see this as a long and beautiful relationship.

Oh, and the other thing? That would be this.


GOAT RULES YOUR WORLD

I like writing, I like Warcraft

So this has come about.

I won't list how this blog will differ massively from every other because almost undoubtedly it won't; I know all about the hundreds of thousands of other people tapping out their thoughts. What it will be is a place for me to share my personal feelings on classes and races, developments in the game, events in the community and roleplay-related things too.

But first, a little about me. My name is Cassie, though I'm more likely to refer to myself as EviAlaris or some abbreviation of it because that's my gamer tag and hey, I'm on the interwebs here. Using my name more than once might be detrimental to my health. I'm eighteen and heading off to university next year (my family> I hopes) to study creative writing, which should be interesting. Though it'll undoubtedly cut into my play time I hope to continue writing here anyway, working with the excuse that any creative writing counts as worthwhile practise. ;)

In-game I have a fair few forms due to suffering from longterm altitis, but my main toons include Lady Miriah Trias, Magister Baelmyrr Alvantaris, Karantiel Isolde Bloodwraith and Deyka all on Scarshield Legion-EU. I also have Sevielle Mystraen, Pyríte Ethersford and Talista Remtravel on Moonglade-EU, but I prefer Horde to the Alliance. Those in the know will realise this means I'm a roleplayer or one of those who either rolls on an RP server to pester RPers or take advantage of the generally more mature atmosphere there. The first option happens to be true, and my various misadventures as a roleplayer on a dying server and more recently on a very busy server will no doubt reflect on this blog.

Enough introducing, though, I'm sure anyone following this will pick up enough on their own. I hope some of it comes in handy.