I just realised that I haven’t updated my blog in forever and ever. Not that I get many visitors over here (yet), but I should still update it regularly I reckon since I like writing.

Not much is happening lately, other than job hunting and that kind of stuff. I’ve applied for a fair few jobs and had a telephone interview for a trainee position recently. And I need to apply for more and improve my CV as best I can.

In the great world of WoW, my hunter is currently level 66 and going strong and quickly. She has also acquired a new pet, one of those big dinos (the blackish one). I’ll post some pictures later (I really do love taking screenshots ^^).

It’s been a while since I’ve written about World of Warcraft in this blog, so I thought I would do that today.

An update since the review is that my Paladin reached lvl 80 a few weeks back. I wasn’t among the quickest to reach lvl 80, nor amongst the slowest. I wanted to take my time about it so I could just enjoy the game and not do any rushing. In the end, I did rush through the last couple of levels because the Guild was preparing to start raiding a bit (casual raiding, that is) and we needed more lvl 80 people to do 10-man Naxx.

I like Naxx, I was among the lucky people who got lots of drops the first times we went it. And we have learned the last few weeks how important it is to have reliable healers and tanks, and also there has been a lot of adjustment on dps, since many of us dps-ers are/were relatively inexperienced and had builds that needed a bit of work. I let my boyfriend build my Pally, and he had nerfed her quite badly when we started raiding because he got the idea that a build with Seal of Corruption as a central skill would be very efficient and deal lots of damage. That turned out to be very wrong, and at first he thought maybe the dps-meter didn’t count all my damage. After looking more closely we went back to a variation of my old build, centred around Seal of Command, et voila, my dps shot up into the roof.

Anyways, here is my dear Ret-a-din, in some old gear and some new, shiny purples from Naxx:

While I’m at it, let me present my other characters (that is, the ones that are more or less likely to get levelled sometime). My most used alt, and one I really love playing is Flavya the Hunter (currently lvl 48):

I love Flavya’s pet, the turtle Alisia who was named after a certain tree (my boyfriend’s Druid):

Next up is my Mage Maurawien (lvl 22), who was actually the first character I made on the server I play on (I originally played on another server first, but moved after TBC came out), but hasn’t really been used much since I created Elrawien:

After WotLK came out I created a Death Knight named Elisjeba (lvl 55). I haven’t really played her much, and I don’t know if I will play her very much:

And lastly, I have an Alliance toon, Eldrene the Shaman (lvl 18). Again, I don’t know how much I’ll level her. I do like this character a lot, but I really prefer playing on the Horde side and with the Guild, so we shall have to see. I mostly just play her a little bit now and then, so she might actually get levelled a bit, it’ll just take a lot of time:

And that’s it for today. I now need to go do something useful since we start moving some of our belongings back to London tomorrow.

It’s been a fair few days since Wrath of the Lich King was released by Blizzard. After having had a good look, I must say: this game is yummy! The graphics are fabulous and there’s lots of fun stuff you can do.

My character (a currently lvl 72 Blood Elf Paladin) has learned loads of new Jewelcrafting recipes. There’s a new skill for jewelcrafters called Gem Perfection, which gives a chance to create Perfect Gems, meaning that ordinary green gems can get better at around the same level of quality as the blue ones. This is very nice, and I’ve already had some good luck with that.

Both starter areas are lovely. I especially like Howling Fjord and the Taunka, distant relatives of the Tauren. The first instances are very good, with new and interesting bosses. The first time the Guild went to the Nexus was late on the release day. We were all lvl 70 still, and fourmanned it. The team set up was one warrior tank, one ret-a-din, and two druids. The instance went very well, there were no wipes despite none of us knowing the tactics for the bosses (which was part of the fun for going there in the first place). This went very well probably because of a good team set-up, we have a very reliable tank and the healer is phenomenal. All of us have done fair few instances together by now so we know each other well. I know what to do as a dps and support character with this group. The graphics of the Nexus are really gorgeous. I don’t have any screenshots on this computer, but I will post some later.

My boyfriend and I went exploring in areas we’re too low level to go to, you know, because it’s fun. There were no other players there, since most other people were desperately trying to level (after all, it was still the second day after release), and we may have been among the first to visit some of these places, at least on our server. We went to see Icecrown, and the picture below is from a screenshot of the map to show the areas we got around to seeing:

And here is a nice view from Jotunheim in Icecrown, the character is that of my boyfriend’s druid:

In Agmar’s Hammer I’ve found an orphanage for tiny Taunka babies on the top of the Inn building:

Oh, and Dalaran is a lovely city!

More will come about this game later. It is really lovely, and full of fun. Thumbs up, for Blizzard has done a very good job on this one!