Titles

Titles. Now that they’re account-bound, all your alts have a list to choose from as soon as you roll them. So today I want to know – Who’s wearing what, and why?
Let’s go through my list (including links to back issues for those of you who are bored and want to clicky):

Horde

Vanicus is my main this expansion. Now, being the character that I do the most things on, you would think he would have a special title. But there just isn’t anything that sticks out to me. He cycles through titles depending on my mood. At the moment he’s wearing Savior of Azeroth because it’s the last achievement we did. But he didn’t get it when it was current, so it has no special meaning.

Arelin wears Defender of a Shattered World because he was the first to kill Cho’gall. Yes, I realize the title required killing the rest of that tier, but I finished the tier on Van, so Arelin gets to wear it as a nod to his 15 minutes of fame as Arv’s sidekick. (side note: omg I’ve been raiding with you bitches for two years?

Junahu, the first character I ever rolled. Who knew she would lead to this? She wears Loremaster because she was the toon who achieved it, BEFORE Cataclysm changed the zones and you had to guess where to find the quests you were missing out of the 700-some that you needed to do in Kalimdor.

Rozjin wears Kingslayer because he was the only one of my Horde toons to kill the Lich King before Cata came out. Granted, he was totally carried by the SR crew, but still … he got it, he wears it. Ok fine, so it was the night before Cata … it was still officially Wrath, bitches!

Dyle has done nothing but look fabulous in his transmog and get ganked repeatedly in Halfhill. But I’m quite fond of him. He alternates between Professor and Loremaster. I think it’s just .. priest, robe, undead male, he must be one of those smart guys so he gets a smart guy title. Whatever, they both fit him.

Why is Kalethos even in my sidebar, other than being 85? I don’t think I’ve even logged into him more than once since MoP came out. Anyway, he wears the Hallowed because he earned it at level 64 with the help of Averry, Khizzara and friends over on Kargath … and then I went and transferred him back off the server to help Stunnah get his guild on Firetree to level 25. But I’m making up for it now with my army of alts on Kargath.

Kirgra is wearing Dragonslayer, because it’s cool and she’s badass like Zaela of the Dragonmaw clan. Hm, she’s actually about the same skin tone and has the same hairstyle too.

Madorsa is wearing the Exalted, because she has a pretty high opinion of herself and thinks everyone else should, too.

As for my Horde babies on Kargath, the priest got Professor, the hunter got Tamer, and the warrior got Bloodsail Admiral.

Alliance

Kerick has worn the Noble since he got it back when he was level 61. It’s just a perfect fit for him. It embodies everything that he, as a paladin, stands for. Even though he and Van are both paladins, Van just … isn’t like Kerick. Kerick is a total good guy. I did the Operation Shieldwall quest the other day to purge the Sunreavers from Dalaran and … well, if I hadn’t been doing the questline to help out a friend who needed screenshots of the final cutscene, Kerick would have refused to do it.

Kalyon wears the Kingslayer because he was the first of my characters to kill the Lich King. That night is still the most memorable night in my entire WoW ‘career’. It was the end of not days, not weeks, but literal MONTHS spent zoning in to ICC. It was … truly epic. Nothing since has even come close.

Karius wears Guardian of Cenarius because (a) he’s the one who earned it and (b) it rhymes with his name, duh! I’m sure there’s a post showing him getting the mount, but I can’t find it and I’ve spent too much time on this already.

Ragle wears of the Nightfall in shadow spec, and the Hallowed in … um, whichever healing spec I put him in. He’s been both disc and holy at one time or another.

Sanbec is and will always be Jenkins.

As for the lower levels, Kriann the dwarf shaman wears the Explorer because … dwarf, Explorer’s League, duh. Kroy the rogue wears Bloodsail Admiral.

That’s it! At least for the toons that matter. If you’ve made it this far, you must *really* be bored.

Ok, your turn! What titles do you use and why?

No Time to Post

…too busy pet battling.

Yeah, so … Darkmoon Faire started on Sunday right? I took each toon down there to do the profession quests. Van cleared his quickly, then I moved on down the list. Oh. Arelin doesn’t have his arch high enough to do that quest. Well, let’s just go dig for awhile. Hey, this dig site is in the zone where I was last leveling my latest pet team. Gogo pet battles! Yeah … not only did he level them, but he went to Dustwallow, got a rare Spawn of Onyxia, and beat the tamer there. On to 1000 Soggy Needles!

His adventure was cut short in Tanaris when Lyss needed a hand with something. So I moved on to the next toon and went to the Faire … and needed to do some digging … and ended up doing pet battles. Dyle started to do the same but I got all the way to Feralas before realizing that he had only the most basic level of flying skill. Do you have any idea how S-L-O-W 150% flight speed is when you are used to 310%? Not only that, but 310% boosted by Crusader Aura (or whatever they call the passive skill that does the same thing now). Yeah. He went back to Org, shelled out 4k for faster flying, and then I figured I’d try mounting the violet proto just to see if it gave the 310% anymore. No luck. Oh well.

Logged over to Kerick last night. Looked all over the portal room in the Shrine in the Vale trying to find the one to take me to Thunder Bluff so I could go to the Faire …. yeah. I seriously did that. Then went wait, why is there a portal to Stormw .. oh. Yeah. /facepalm … and oh darn, Kerick has no fossil fragments. Hey, there’s a fossil field in Western Plaguelands. You know what comes next, right? Yeah. Build a team to face the tamer in Eastern Plaguelands and it needs a little leveling, and I need a rare Blighthawk, so …

Kerick ended up logging out in Searing Gorge, chasing after lava crabs and molten hatchlings (he got rare Ash Spiderling and Fire Beetle in his first two battles there). He never did make it back to the Faire. Come to think of it, neither did any of the other toons I sent out digging. >.>

Oh hi

Yes, I’m still here. Just … bleh. I log in a couple times a week for old raids, but until the pre-patch hits with the new talent system and stuff … I’m just … yeah. BUT … I’m super excited about MoP; you know I’ll be on a lot again soon. Just don’t have much to talk about right now.

When I DO log on for stuff, we have a good time. Yesterday morning SR ran ToGC and drug Telanarra and Navimie along with us. (screenshots are at home because i r slacker). Last night for Laid Back Raid Night (Alliance) we had a great group of around 15 or so for Tempest Keep, including Elgar and Bocat. We followed that up with Black Temple and Elgar finally got exalted. Kerick needs one more run yet. Good times.

Maybe the best part though was at SR’s run, where we made Cayle log on and summoned him to ToGC … after everything was dead, just to get him in a screenshot and meet Navi. haha! Tel laid down on the ground and did his best impression of Cayle’s tanking skillz.

Ok, not much but at least you know I’m still around hey?

Clash of the Dragons

I haven’t had a lot to post about because I haven’t really been logging into my major titles as much. But that doesn’t mean I’ve been sitting around doing nothing. So today I thought I’d show you guys what else I play.

No, it’s not Farmville. >.>
But you CAN play it on Facebook if you want. Personally, I prefer hanging out at Kongregate.com though because of the chat rooms and wide selection of free flash games to check out.

Anyway, the game I spend most of my time on is a CCG called Clash of the Dragons. I’ve played during downtime at work for quite awhile now, but I recently joined a clan and became even more active, so I’ve started playing at home a lot.

When you first start out, you can choose to be a Sentinel, Assassin, or Pyrelord. Pretty self-explanatory I think. Probably doesn’t surprise anyone that I went with a sentinel named Kerick.

Go ahead, you can make fun of my paint editing skillz. I’m no Sorak that’s for sure! And yes, he has a shirt … I took it off. ^.^

Class choice really doesn’t matter a lot, it just affects your base stats of weapon, magic, and absorption. As far as I know though, there is only one card that is restricted to a single class. Most decks have a mix of weapons and magic in them.

There is a pretty cool storyline if you take time to read it during the questing. You fight enemies in quests …

and some of the nodes have a boss at the end which unlocks a brawl when you defeat it. Brawls are multiplayer real-time battles with 2-5 people depending on which one it is, where you all work together to defeat a powerful foe … and get loot, of course.

There’s also PvP, but it takes awhile to collect the cards you need in order to be competitive in that. I goof around in the custom battles that don’t cost any gold or energy to enter, just for fun. Those usually end with me getting my butt handed to me, like my buddy JC is doing to me here.

Yes, he hit me for 130+ when my actual deck size is only 44. Good times. Heh.

But the MOST fun part is drafts. Drafts are 4-player real-time tournaments where you choose your cards out of special draft packs that you purchase and are opened right there at the draft. Take a card, pass the rest to the next guy for him to choose, etc. You can get awesome epic and even legendary cards this way, including some that can only be gotten in drafts. I got my first legendary, Lord Edmund, in the second draft I did, which certainly helped form my addiction to the game.

I don’t have any screenshots from inside an actual draft because, well, I’m far too busy concentrating during one of those to think about it. But one of the best parts about drafting is, since you’re all choosing your cards right there from the unopened packs you’ve brought with you, it’s a level playing field. Your actual level in-game doesn’t really matter, although some knowledge of the cards and strategies helps, along with a good dose of luck. Here is a pic of me winning a draft over a couple of players that outlevel me by a lot.

So anyway … if you can’t find me on Battle.net or SW:ToR, I’m probably on Kong. My ID there is AceHawkblade, so feel free to follow me and say hi if you already play there or if you sign up to check it out.