Blood Spec Tanking :P

Today, I decided to spend some time on my death knight, Shyama. She is just so much fun. As you can see, she got a cute little Wood Frog pet today, while she was leveling up professions in Mulgore and decided to stop on by the Dark Moon Faire. She got two achievements from hanging out in Mulgore today: [Can I Keep Him?] and [Explore Mulgore].

Shyama also went through Mana-Tombs today as a tank. I've never tanked as a death knight before, and have little experience in tanking in general; plus, Shyama is specced blood. Despite that fact, she actually did rather well tanking and kept aggro just fine and with no wipes. :)

Later, she was invited to go to Sethekk Halls just dpsing. This was quite a "fail run", because the tank was a bit of a noob and we wiped multiple times. We did manage to do the entire instance, though.

She also got two spontaneous achievements today: [Got My Mind On My Money] and [Know Thy Enemy].

And finally, she dinged 68, which means that she can officially go to Northrend now. I think I'm going to pay proper respect to the previous Burning Crusade expansion, though, and level her to 70 in Outlands. It'll make Northrend leveling go by much more smoothly too, I think.

Arthas: Rise of the Lich King Contest

Forgot to mention that I entered a contest from Blizzard. It's to win a copy of the new novel Arthas: Rise of the Lich King, and all you have to do is read an excerpt from it and answer a few questions afterward.

It's so easy to do, and I really loved the little snippet I read, so whether I win or not, I plan on getting my hands on a copy of that book. Wish me luck, though! ;)

Too Many Tyraels!

Today, I witnessed something incredible and disturbing. I can only assume that this one player had a multi-alt add-on that allowed him to do this, but he was on five alts at once. They were all the same model, had matching names, and were on the same mounts. It was TERRIFYING. My mind was just... screwed over.

Grats, Tyraels. You managed to freak me out big time. (Excuse my language in the PST.)

I also got my [To All the Squirrels Who Shared My Life] achievement (the follow-up to [To All the Squirrels I've Loved Before]). Thank you cute little Lava Crab! I /love critters so much. :)

This was just a funny conversation my guild had after I observed that, in a rare moment, I was the only level 80 on. So my fellow guildies started to "worship" my awesome strength.

A final achievement that I got today but never screencapped was [Not Even a Scratch] from the battleground Strand of the Ancients.

Pretty-Awesome Spam

Now here's a second screenshot spam of just pretty or awesome-in-general screenshots.

The very necessary 80 ding shot.

A pretty gliding image of my drake.

On my death knight, Shyama, I observed that gear from the Lich King stays solid when you're dead. Thought that was really cool.

Thought this image of Zila was pretty cool.

A neat debuff on my baby Nightelf druid, Imma.

I quite liked this pose my drake was striking.

That's all for pretty screenshots for now. ;D

Silly Screencaps

Before I get into daily accomplishments, I want to do a couple screencap spams of files I've had lying around and never got to share before.

So let the "Silly Spam" begin!

A nice guild collaboration on the One Ring poem.

That's a heavy load for my poor drake.

A couple silly drake bugs. Sitting and flying!

My friend and I are leveling our Bloodelf priest and paladin together as a "gay couple", and I found this image to be amazing. xD Oh, baby. Spank session.

When I got turned into an arakkoa, I couldn't resist /dancing.

That's all of the silliness for now. ;)

An Introduction

Hello all. I feel an introduction is in order before this blog begins.

I am a female gamer who is very much addicted to World of Warcraft. My real name is Marie, but you may all refer to me as Zila or Z. Zila is my main; she is a level 80 Undead Warlock on the PvE server Kul Tiras. (For the Horde!)

As you can see by my armory so far, I am not amazingly geared out just yet, but I am definitely getting there. Getting geared is very nice, but I know that gear gets outdated quickly, so it's never been a main goal of mine.

My main love in WoW is getting achievements, mounts, pets, all that "useless" stuff. I am quite the gold whore as well, and am currently sitting on... well... a good amount. xD I am also the proud owner of an Albino Drake from the achievement [Leading the Calvary]. I have 52 mounts so far (the 52nd is the War Bear from [For the Horde]).

The guild I belong to (Bring Out Your Dead) is incredible. Not that we are an "epic raiding guild" or anything like that, but we are very close knit and made up of wonderful, awesome people. Our guild master is actually a middle-aged woman, which is very empowering for a fellow female gamer.

I am also an "altoholic" and have way too many, so there will be updates on those as well.

The goal I have in mind for this blog is mostly to pat myself on the back for various things I accomplish in the game, and also to geek out about things involving WoW, post funny screenshots of conversations, etc.

I also encourage anyone who decides to read this blog to respond with their own experiences. I love sharing. :)

That's all for an intro I think. Keep on gaming!