Leafshine: Lust for Flower

Whatever happened to Leafshine?

2013-01-12T13:24:14+00:00

Getting wood in Pandaria - old style

What the hell happened to Leafshine?

Dammit, this blog is over five years old - and it missed its half decade anniversary. Silence has reigned for months, with only occasional bursts of activity. What is happening here?

Well, the major reason for silence over the last six months can be summed up thus:

I'm on your blog, Daddy!

Yes, Dr. Leafy and I had our first child back in the summer and - while I had intial hopes that life might return to something like normal (hence the "countdown posts" that went nowhere…) - it changes everything. Free time has been at a major premium, and WoW has all but vanished off my agenda.

Our baby daughter isn't entirely to blame. Just over a year ago, I was made redundant from a job I loved, managing a network of 100+ business blogs, and training journalists in online skills. I finally made the decision to try and build a freelance and conultancy career. That's been going well - but there have been extended periods where I haven't been able to give myself permission to do anything apart from try and build that career. Rethinking your working lifestyle is hard enough on its own, but when you combine it with having a child and buying a new house, well, 2012 was most certainly an "interesting" time for me.

So, here we are, in 2013, with a beautiful baby girl, a wonderful new house by the sea, and a great new way of working. Where does that leave WoW?

As is stands, Leafy is level… 86. Yes, nearly two patches into the expansion, I've managed a whole measly level. Yet, in the last couple of weeks, I've done nearly half a level on top of that. Things are shifting; my daughter is sleeping better, there are fewer demands on our time and I feel more free to spend time on fun activities.

Heck, I've even played with my daughter on my knee a few times. She's figured out the space bar and what it does, so all of a sudden Leafshine has turned into one of those Night Elves. Ah, well.

So, no promises of a return to blogging here. No grandiose plans. Just a quick checkin to explain, and let your know that things are shifting a little…

How have you all been?

2… (speed isn't everything, Ratters)

2012-08-18T22:32:17+01:00

3…

2012-08-18T21:02:41+01:00

4…

2012-08-18T19:25:33+01:00

5

2012-08-18T18:14:38+01:00

Head shot!

2012-06-02T10:25:53+01:00

From the official WoW blog:

Once we decided to no longer offer new head enchants, we made the older ones non-functional to eliminate giving players the feeling that they had to go back to older content or miss out on a little bit more power. Head gear is simply no longer enchantable, and you now have one less required step to get a piece of loot ready to wear.

Hurrah for reducing "forced" faction grinds. And double hurrah for ensuring that you don't have to go back a grind expired content just because your raid leader is a min-maxing dick… ;-)

[MoP Beta] Pandas Cannot Pass (this quest)

2012-03-31T15:22:46+01:00

Given up on levelling a Pandaren for a while. This problem just isn't worth the time it would take to get through it:

It's infuriating, and will be an issue for the week or so after launch if Blizz don't do something about it…

[MoP Beta] Too Many Damn Pandas

2012-03-31T12:39:55+01:00

I thought pandas had problems breeding…

It's just possible that a Saturday morning after a new wave of beta invites went out was a poor choice of time to try the beta…