Back by Popular Demand!

After gearing up my undead rogue, and levelling a BE priest and completely gearing HIM with both a T9 healing set and a T9 dps set, I can finally settle down and get back to my little gnome mage alter ego.

Although I'll still be playing mostly on weekends so I can raid on weeknights with my horde guild, I can begin the hunt for mage gear. I'm very satisfied so far, after picking up T9 shoulders and gloves, as well as the lvl 245 wand - thanks go to Luela for giving me a pointer on my arcane spec (frost is STILL more fun!) that allowed me to be well over 2k dps in pugs with NO gear - I can't wait to see how it goes when he is FULLY geared.

Anyhoo, it's good to see my ADS friends again, even though they're Alliance SCUM (slipping back into horde parlance, for the moment)...

Keeping Up With the Jones' (or the Orcs, as it were)

Well, I've been scarce on my Alliance toons since 3.3 dropped. I really want to get back to getting some gear on my little gnome, but everyone in my main's guild has been so busy pugging and running the new instances for gear/badges, I've been forced to do the same on my main (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Coilfang&n=Nosnum) so as to remain a viable raider, as we're getting back into raiding after a two-week hiatus. So I apologize once again to my ADS friends for taking another extended leave, but the big dawg's (or Undead Rogue) gotta eat!

This Is ADS

I made Ertris a little going away gift by using some Photoshop magic to create a Guild Officer portrait. I think it came out pretty well, but I look a little too short :)

Total Coolness

My son showed me a site that he happened across that allows you to create custom posters of your toons. Through some deal with Blizzard, this site is able to access imagery of your character to produce a poster that shows your toon as he appears in-game, which is way cool. The site is http://www9.printwarcraft.com/homepage.html.

Above is an example of Nosnum the Mage...

Live Long and Prosper (but please don't procreate)

In case you hadn't heard the news (check out "Ert's Corner" from the main webpage), Ertris has decided to hang up his Wow cleats at the end of January to go play Star Trek Online.

Now, since Ert is my brother, this makes complete sense - the man is the biggest Star Trek geek who ever lived. He once used Christmas Lights and lego blocks to create a mock bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise in his bedroom closet; he collected action figures, models, ANYTHING. But for those of you who don't know Ert in real life, I'll make it easier for you to understand - these are his kind of people:

I Pity Da Fool!

Hand grenades that change your likeness into that of Mr. T? What else needs to be said??? I PITY DA FOOL!

Its Almost Here!

The 3.3 patch is just around the corner, and along with the talent point reset that everyone always loves so much (NOT), there are new features galore - new 5-man dungeons, new raid and LFG queueing, cross-realm party matchmaking, etc.

You can read the PTR patch notes here: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html - always a good read!