Secrets of Shadowbolting

One of my friends who knows and completely understand my warcraft addiction sent me a link today. I giggled at part of it but the paragraph about the battlegrounds totally resonated enough that I feel compelled to post it here.

“Just this week I’ve been fighting in battlegrounds — special areas where armies clash and 12-year-olds question each other’s sexuality — over and over just for a chance to win a tiny little flying dragon. This dragon doesn’t fight on my behalf or give me powers or anything. He just follows me around. In real life I try to avoid being tailed by parasitic flying creatures, but in the game I seek it out, even though I hate battlegrounds.

And really, what does my little dragon tell the other people in the game? The same thing it tells you — I spent too much time playing Warcraft. “

Read the whole article here

Oh yeah. That’s me. An addict. Though in all fairness, I did get my little dragon guy after only 1 battleground. I did not spend time grinding just for the pet.

Seriously. Why me?

The thing that made this even more amusing is posting about this in guild chat and having one of the other officer’s who knows me too well asking if it was a Draenai character acting like he was 12…. inside joke but for those in the know, it makes perfect sense and is quite hilarious. I was just standing in stormwind with my 2 toons trying to play the auction house when this happens.

In other news, flayer’s dying in semi circles make awesome forts. When i saw how they died, all I could think of was SNOWBALL fight! Yes flayers may be a little squishy, but they were the perfect size for defending your territory.

Can you imagine the botantica all snow covered? Those flayers would be a perfect base for the most amazing snow fort. Add that to the glowing background around you and super cool.

And yes, the beach boys are awesome, they sing very well and this is a completely true statement. Think of it as giving a new 70 a netherwing drake. It just wouldn’t be pretty. They’d go out and go zipping around flying faster than advisable and crashing into trees and mountains.
It’s just not a good idea.