I might still be posting this or that occasionally if any ideas happen, but for the most part this blog is on hold.

I have paid to renew the site for the next year.  I figured that there is a lot of info here that can be used by those still playing.

I wish all of you well and hope you continue to have fun in the land of WOW!

Chatmay

I only had a few screenshots from vanilla WOW and a few more from BC because I had a computer crash before LK came out.  Just from LK, cata, and pandaria though I went through over 1000 screenshots to make this video.

Hope you enjoy!  Feel free to comment on the youtube video or here.

I was going to shoot some level 90 PVP shots of Chatmay for my “Farewell to WOW” video (those shots never actually made it to the video, but that will be covered in another post), so I had to transmog my gear that I had used previously of course.

I decided to make an outfit around Pontifex Kilt (leg slot).  I threw these pieces together, and at the last minute I threw in Mayor’s Hand Fan (offhand), which was a grossly huge piece I had kept from Pandaria questing for some reason.  This pic isn’t a very good shot of it, but this has to be the only outfit it ever suited.

Not too happy with this wand I used, but I didn’t have time at the moment to go digging for a different one that matched.

I’m Sad But Stylin

Also Shown Here:
Laughing Skull Cap
Contender’s Satin Amice
Aurora Armor
Wand of Ahn’kahet
Gossamer Gloves
Ruthless Gladiator’s Cord of Accuracy

Looking through all of these, you can tell there is a major difference between using  paint, etc. and doing one/having one made in photoshop.  It also looks like photoshop has improved over the years, but I wouldn’t know.

Our guild used a facebook group instead of a guild website forums starting with Cataclysm. I also had the banner to this blog site made by the same person that did most of these signatures.

for Avatars of East Kingdom

Ellenoria was in different guilds than Chatmay still

Magdakine moved to a guild on Terokkar

wordage change, Chatmay back from the shelf

had this one made at the last minute by my dad, who knows nothing about WOW… was for a swap faction event

I didn’t really like this one that much

From a sig generator, I combined them into one sig

had this one made to replace the one I didn’t like

had this one made as well for important WOW Moms posts

I will have a farewell video posted soon that I have made to say goodbye to WOW.  In the meantime, here are some fun facts about my WOW tour:

1. My first toon was actually a gnome warlock, but I soon decided that I hate running close to the ground and deleted her at level three. Then Chatmay was created.  My second toon was Ellenoria, a NE druid.
2. I became guildleader of my first guild, <Avatars of East Kingdom> on Maelstrom, because the GM quit.  I wasn’t the first person in line to take over either…that person decided he didn’t want to lead, made me guildleader, then left the guild.  It was very strange.
3. I was such a noob in the beginning that mid-way to 60 I equipped a phantom blade with firey enchant on it (as a warlock).  Mainly because it was an expensive gift from a guildie, but also because it looked pretty.
4. I created a guild alliance of four guilds on Maelstrom so that we would be able to run raids, which were then 25 man or 40 man.  This was before there was an ingame calendar or anything really ingame for guilds to work this way together.  Everyone was required to use a calendar addon.
5. At one brief point in vanilla WOW, I was actually GM of two different guilds.
6. I never really wanted the improved level 60 warlock mount because it was a pain to get.  I was also known as a tightwad, and the mount still cost more than I wanted to pay. My husband actually took me around and made me get it.  I think he even gave me the gold.

Chamay in WOW Model Viewer

7. My first guild fell apart right after the Burning Crusade xpac came out.  Chatmay guild-hopped on Maelstrom and even transferred to Moon Guard during the next two years.
8. Yes, you read that correctly… I was on Moon Guard.
9. In the meantime, I raided on three different servers- Maelstrom, Bronzebeard, and Terokkar- with three alts.
10. After moving to Terokkar, my husband and I worked on three accounts. We had 30 toons- three of each class, one of each spec. This was before dual spec.
11. When dual spec came out, my hubby refused to delete any toons.  When cata finished, we had 20 of them to max level, seven of them raid geared.
12. When Lich King xpac came out, our guild was not raiding so I pugged myself to guilds for Naxxaramus, VOA, and OS.
13.  I took a few WOW breaks over the years, most notably before finishing Uldaur.  When I came back from that break, I found that my server had become somewhat unfriendly to pugs, especially someone who had not been into ICC before.  I never really raided ICC during that expansion, just started PVPing again.
14. The most players I ever grouped together were for my birthday party held on Maelstrom during vanilla.  I put everyone into a raid group, but I had more than 40 show up. I received so many presents that I was sending them to alts because I could not hold them.  The most valuable gifts I received were gold and the “fel” soul shard bag, which most warlocks could not afford to make/buy.
15. Speaking of bag space, Chatmay’s bags have been full since vanilla WOW.  I used to horde things like scrolls and potions- whole bags of them- lol.  By cata xpac, my bags were mostly full of transmog gear from all the previous years (also full personal bank and full void storage).
16.  Around the end of LK xpac, our guild became a casual/social guild.  I put on all kinds of crazy guild events from that time until the end of last year, which are almost all detailed on this blog.
17. When guild leveling came out for cata xpac, our guild, <The East Kingdom on Terokkar>, went from 150 toons to around 450, making it easy to get level 25.  When I finished WOW this past week we had around 725 toons.
18.  I was never… on a 5vs5 arena team.  I never got to do Brawler’s Guild, didn’t get around to it.  Also, I only went into the original Naxxaramus one time (even though I had the rep).
19.  Since 2005, I have hosted/run at least four level-one gnome races from Dun Murough to Stormwind City.
20.  I have never gotten a horde toon past level 20.
21.  During down time on Tuesdays, I would often make level ones on other servers, which eventually got me to max number of toons on my account.

list of servers with toons (there are more if you scroll down)

22.  Many of you know I was admin of a Cafemom.com group for WOW moms. Once we did a swap faction event, and I was in charge of the horde guild.  Our guild name was <Mommy Mafia>.
23. Right before they got rid of the world dragons, my husband (prot pally) and me (on holy priest) were 2-manning them for gold and drops.  I have to admit, some of them were a bit difficult even at the higher level.  It was an interesting challenge as a player.
24. Even before now I have had personal retirements on a few places.  For example, I would not go back into Molten Core after my husband made me help him for a long time to get his legendaries made.  I have not been back to Ulduar since getting the 10-man mount, which was a huge pain in the butt.
25. From the start of playing, my hubby would always joke that my in-game friends list was “my little black book.”  This was because I always had the max amount of names on it all the way through pandaria.  I had a lot of friends that were not in our guild, so I could always find people to fill in for dungeons and raids when needed.
26. Last but not least, many who were in my guild during Lich King will remember that I spent a few weeks helping my husband with the most ridiculous waste of time ever.  For some reason, he wanted exalted with the anti-goblin faction whatever it is called.  It is impossible in the game to do that as far as we know unless you cheat with a lot of suffering: a goblin in Badlands that gives 1 -read it- ONE- reputation point per kill with a five minute respawn time.  I had to farm this goblin for quite a long time… I would basically just leave the computer on for long periods of time and whack him when I was walking by the desk.  Horrible. lol

I will add to this later if I think of any more strange things.  Also upcoming soon are my goodbye video, my last transmog, and blog status update.

I have some screenshots of different times I have been to fireworks events in WOW that were put on by players.  One time it was a friend who was an engineer, another time we had a guild legendary party, etc.  Instead of trying to show it with a screenshot though, here is a video I found on youtube:

There are lots of fireworks you can gather for an event like this in WOW:

* MADE BY ENGINEERS – some of these are new for Pandaria.  The ones with (*) require a firework launcher, which engineers can make/use OR can be bought during festivals.
1) Red Firework
2) Blue Firework
3) Green Firework
4) Snake Burst Firework
5) Jade Blossom Firework
6) Autumn Flower Firework
7) Celestial Firework
8) Grand Celebration Firework
9) Serpent’s Heart Firework
   10) Large Red Rocket Cluster and Red Rocket Cluster *
11) Large Green Rocket Cluster and Green Rocket Cluster *
12) Large Blue Rocket Cluster and Blue Rocket Cluster *
13) Large Green Rocket and Small Green Rocket *
14) Large Red Rocket and Small Red Rocket *
15) Large Blue Rocket and Small Blue Rocket *
*) Firework Launcher

* CALENDAR OR EVENT SPECIFIC FIREWORKS
1) Darkmoon Firework – can only be used during Darkmoon Faire
2) Dalaran Firework – received when hitting 80
3) Sold By Midsummer Fire Festival Vendor (A) – Stormwind City, Ironforge
4) Sold By Midsummer Fire Festival Vendor (H) – Ogrimmar
5) Sold By Midsummer Fire Festival Vendor (N) – STV
6) Lunar Festival Fireworks Pack – from coins of ancestry vendor during festival,
includes some of each type

* FIREWORKS VENDORS
1) Red Fireworks Rocket
2) Red Streak Firework
3) Yellow Rose Firework
    4) Midsummer Ground Flower – once festival only, now are available now in Jade
Forest

* HARD TO GET FIREWORKS
1) Perpetual Purple Firework - trading card
2) Pandaren Firework Launcher – drop

After gathering all your fireworks, spread the word about your event in guild chat and/or trade.  You will want everyone to gather in an open area.

Fireworks usually only stack in 5s, which takes up a lot of bag space, plus you will want multiple fireworks going off at one time.  For this reason, you will need volunteers to help you lay down fireworks.  I usually give a few others stacks of fireworks that don’t require launchers.

Fireworks events are always a hit, hope this list helps some of you out.

Here are the details about the transmog she was wearing in those pics:

Hunter transmog

Vicious Gladiator Chain Helm
Wrap of Valley Glades
Chestguard of Earthen Harmony
Gloves of Earthen Harmony
Cloudbender Kobo’s Chilled Crossbow
Girdle of Unerring Flight
Greaves of Desolation
Treads of Ardent Antagonism

It is best to have older members participate as well as the newer members.  These are the ones we did:

1) Guess Who.  You mail five things about yourself to the leader.  Four things that are true and one thing that is untrue.  The leader reads them on vent, and everyone first tries to guess who it is.  Then they guess which one is not true.

2) Desert Island.  You are stuck on a desert island- name 1 piece of music, one book, and one luxury item you would take.  (you cannot take a boat to leave the island)

3) Random questions.  Ask the group things like- Where is one place in the world you would want to travel? etc.

It wasn’t a horrible transmog I guess, but Chatmay is not a sex-ninja or whatever that skimpy thing was.

So here is the slightly altered transmog- I just changed a few things:

Chatmay is Back

Hood of the Faceless Shroud
Arcanoweave Robe
Shadowsummoner Spaulders

This is more of a lock look to me.  Let me know what you think!

It only made sense that after gemming and enchanting etc. I would do a heroic.  But I stopped first to transmog, the first I have done for her since MOP came out.

Here Goes:

Gold In Stormwind

The outfit is fairly simple:
Gaze of the Unknown (helm)
Four pieces of “Elegant” set
Liuyang’s Lovely Longstaff (staff)

I had been hording the pieces of elegant… since the end of Lich King!  It turned out ok, but I am not sure how long Chatmay will tolerate her butt hanging out of the back of this outfit.

Also, a guild member said she looks like a Power Ranger!

NO!!!!…..

YES!!!