New Site!!

This will be the very last post in Tiny WoW Guild.  Since I am no longer a guild leader, and while I am still in two tiny guilds, one probably won’t remain that way. The other, well, time will tell what happens with Drunken Fish. It may become a bloggers’ home away from home kind of place, or it might remain a handful of people with lots of toons.   That’s up to Zeptepi.

But, I didn’t want to hang up my hat as a blogger, so I decided it was time to change titles, and also become more true to the direction of my WoW playing. You will find my ramblings at Dwarven District!   (For those of you interested, the Clan of Three Hammers series has been reposted there, and there’s a new part (or two)!

I’d like to thank all of you, my followers, my commenters, and my friends, for sharing this ride with me, and I hope you’ll transfer to the new site.  For those of you who follow me on twitter, I will be linking the same twitter account to that blog, so you will continue to get updated when I post something new.

Interesting Times

I’ve changed raiding guilds on Whisperwind. I moved to Whisperwind for a couple of reasons, the biggest one being that I felt very alone on Ysera. Jackoby and Yawondergirl are both good people, and I enjoy our Wednesday night runs around the old world of Azeroth, but they don’t talk a lot when they’re doing their own thing, so it was quiet any other time.

I also thought I wanted to raid again, and I was very right there. I had completely forgotten how much I love raiding. Even the very different raiding environment of today as compared to vanilla is exhilarating. Also, it’s 2-3 hours of spending time with good people. At least, it is if you have the right raiding group.

But, Reloaded turned out to not have the raiding environment I wanted. They also stopped raiding for the summer, after a variety of struggles which I won’t go into at this point.   Because of these struggles, the very talented Hawtpocketz has started a new guild, which I leapt to without much of a look back. I say “without much” only because one member of Reloaded’s raiding team asked me what was up, and I told him. He’s now part of the new guild. There are certainly many good people in Reloaded, but the struggles were endemic to the nature of the guild culture.

My toons remain split between two guilds. The raiders (Breige and Gurdrid) are in the lofty raiding guild Rubber Ducky Society. The remaining dwarves reside in Drunken Fish, Matty’s little guild, though Breige and Gurdrid did both make a brief stop in DF to provide a couple of crucial tick marks on the Classy Dwarves achievement.

I do still have three dwarves to move from Ysera over to Whisperwind, but those will occur slowly. Sveala, being level 90, and having changed race thanks to Matty’s generosity, will come to DF representing the shaman of the Wildhammer clan. Sruith, at level 83, will bring her shadowy self along, and possibly join RDS. I’m still not sure about that. Finally, Muirri will come to DF to take over the bank toon responsibilities from Aingrit. When those are done, I will have 10 dwarves on Whisperwind, representing each class a dwarf can be.

The next task will be getting a lot of leveling done, since I only have 4 90’s. And then there will be the professions. I’ve decided to take my previous completion of all of the professions a step further. Not only do I intend to have every profession at max level, I also intend to have each specialization represented, meaning I will have two engineers and three alchemists.

The plan at this point is to do the following:

• Alchemy (flask) – Grianna
• Alchemy (potion) – Eirid
• Alchemy (transmute) – Sveala (already max)
• Blacksmithing – Gurdrid (already max)
• Enchanting – Aingrit (already max)
• Engineering (Gnome) – Saoire (already learned)
• Engineering (Goblin) -Kemodhne
• Herbalism – Eirid
• Inscription – Sveala (already max)
• Jewelcrafting – Aingrit (already max)
• Leatherworking – Breige (already max)
• Mining – Gurdrid (already max), Saoire (already learned)
• Skinning – Breige (already max)
• Tailoring – Grianna (already learned)

In other news, I’m working on moving my blog to a new URL and blog title. It’s quite thoroughly still under construction, but I could use the expertise of one of my graphics editing friends. If you are willing, send me a message at shoryl at gmail dot com, and I will share the details.