Group Etiquette

(a.k.a. Why You Should Check Who Has Just Left the Group Before You Start Talking About the Person Who Has Just Left the Group)

So while questing my Paladin (that's right!) in the south of Ghostlands, I come across another Paladin (I'm going to call him Winkle...his name was something along that line) questing on what seemed to be the same thing. As hesitiant as I always am about interacting with other players (WoW is a social game, what?), I gave over a Blessing of Might which got a "ty", and then went on to group up and do some quests together.

Riveting as this was, after about a quest or two, I started to tire of the company. Not that anything was wrong with Winkle, he seemed perfectly fine. But there's only so much of WoW that I can take with other people before I want to just get back to being alone.

My problem has always been that I never know how to say "Right, it's been a good 30 minutes, we've had some laughs and some drama, but I'm going to go now, so BB", disbanding the group and completely abandoning said player.

But I'm deviating. Back to the story. So anyway, I'm still stuck with this guy, who's insistent on doing some more quests together. I'm trying to be irritating to put him off staying in the group, but it's not working. When who should I spot but Ultimatehunk also in the Ghostlands. So I think, huzzah! And invite him to the group. Now it's an awkward threesome. Winkle still isn't getting the hint. Long story short, eventually it comes down to a time where Winkle says he has to go. So all nicey nicey I say "bb" etc.

Then he leaves the group.

I then say to Hunky "Damn it! Oh well, at least now it's just the two of us."

Hunky should have laughed at this point. He didn't. At which point I realise that it was Hunky that left the group. To make it worse, instead of leaving the group, Winkle said "Oh dear" and I had to leave to get out of there.

So that was one of the more awkward moments in my WoW life, and that's also one way to leave a group!

Unusual Social Interaction

I'm just pottering along in Ghostlands questing when a whisper pops up at the bottom of my screen.

'Hi, great name. I am new to the horde.'

That's what it says. Terror fills my heart. There are two reasons for this.

1. Anyone who compliments a character with the name 'UltimateHunk' is a weirdo as far as I am concerned.
2. I can think of no response to this statement which will not provoke further conversation; It's not a question, so I can't just answer it and get on with my life - it's a statement which demands a response and also for me to ask a question, which will almost definitely lead to further awkward social interaction.

So, I try and be clever. I say,

'Thanks. I am new to this server.'

I haven't asked a question, showing that maybe I am indifferent to this persons chatter, but I have responded in a polite way.

'Oh great I have like 5 chars on alliance couple 80s are you new to wow?'

Oh god. Maybe it's just me, but I kind of hate this interaction. If I were to respond I will definitely have to have a proper conversation with this person. I don't want to do that. So I basically ignore this person from now on. I can't handle it.

But there is a problem. We are questing in the same zone. We are questing on the same quest chain. This is hell. We are running alongside each other ignoring each other, both knowing that I, Mr.Rudepants, have ignored her. And it lasts ages. Absolutely ages.

And the worst thing? Cat is there. Questing with me. Laughing in my face.

Eventually I relent and invite the person to join us. She doesn't want to.

So we go on questing next to each other until I curl up into a ball of embarrassment and eat my computer.

Aiv... Aiv... I'm back again.. (Redux)

First and foremost I want to thank the whole guild for getting behind me (ooh-err again) and helping me with the unfortunate situation that befelled me. As was explained in the blog before this, I was victim to a hack-attack, and they merged my WoW account with a Battle.net account (A mistake I will never make again. I've merged ALL my wow accounts, and I urge others to do the same)

It takes 3~ minutes, and will save you

- Heartache
- Frustration/Anger
- Losing your account


When I logged in, or attempted to log in, and it said "Please use your battle.net account", my stomach dropped. I thought, what the hell? Is this a new implemented feature? So I tried to log into my account via the website, which told me the same. I immediately tried to retrieve my password, and was told "That email/account name does not match our records".

At this point, I was devastated. When you play for as long as I have, you become "attached" to your character. I felt as though I had lost a friend, seriously. However gay that sounds .. it's true, and I don't wish it upon anyone. So immediately I submitted a webform (As guided on the email I receieved "thanking" me for merging my account. (( No verification? wtf.)) )

I received a reply quite quickly, stating the information was incorrect, so I replied, this time with what information I could remember.. and again a similar message. So I spent a good hour, trawling through my drawers, trying to find my WoW box.. I found a few of my old pre-paid gamecards, which I added the serial-numbers into the webform, I also found my TBC/Wotlk CD-Keys and put them in aswell.

It was a mash of information, and I don't pity whichever person had to read through it.

Alas, I waited. Frustratingly for a reply. It took longer, 1 hour, 2 hours, 5 hours, 9 hours. A day. Still nothing. I put another month on Cuie's account to try to petition a GM, but after 30 minutes of being logged in, I was disconeccted. I tried to log back in to receieve a "This account has been suspended" message. The email I got was stating a "Precautionary action", after the 24 hour suspension was lifted, I logged in again.. and 30 minutes later was suspended again. This is where I hit rock bottom, I was -so- frustrated. to top it off, I had a shitty night at work last night, I come home, go to check my email and I had 2 emails from "noreplyeu@blizzard.com" the first was a phishing email (You can always tell by mousing-over the link. You'll usually see www.dodgysite.com/wow.html) and the second was a password reset email.

I believe it was the whole guild that helped. But Dreanie was the catalyst. It seemed that him speaking to GM "Draxxiag" worked magics. Draxxiag apparently shifted all my information back to what it was originally and sent me a temporary password.

So, if you ever have dealings with " Draxxiag" then tell him you love him.


And merge your WoW account with your Battle.net account - So you don't have this happen to you, too!

The NuGen Continues...Don't Continue?

On a rather sombre note, we have to report that the NuGen Continues guild has been struck with tragedy. Aiv, our resident GM for Continues, has had his account hacked. In the process, his characters (including Aiv) and everyone else's in the guild were removed. We have no idea of the NuGen Continues' fate as a guild, other than it is still showing on the armory with 5 members, all of which are below level 10 so we cannot see the details of these characters. As for its members, they were to login to find themselves guildless as a result. No doubt some of the less core group will have already been snatched up by other raiding guilds, but here's hoping that those who have stayed and soldiered through will still be able to salvage a raiding guild through this.

On the day it happened, I logged into Facebook and the game to find panicked messages from guildies about what had happened. But there was nothing I could do, other than remove Aiv's alts from the NuGen Alliance so a similar something didn't happen there. Logging into Vent found more members than have ever been online there before. People banded together to seek out one of the hackers as they speed/terrain hacked underneath Icecrown on one of Aiv's characters. A number of us opened tickets to report the attack. I don't know if anything happened as a direct result of this.

From Aiv's standpoint, he has found himself in an unfortunate situation. The hackers merged his existing account (one of the standard WoW accounts) with a Battle.net account, giving them the opportunity to change all the registration details on the account. So Aiv can't prove anymore that the account is or ever was his. To compound the issue, he no longer has the CD Key he originally registered with (it was 4 years ago, and that's easily enough time to misplace a DVD case), so he can't prove the account is his by that method, either. Blizzard have also suspended his brother Cuie's account, which they are calling a "precautionary measure" due to suspicious activity.

It's not so much a matter of losing the guild or the bank and all the epix within it. You can replace those quite easily (Nymphó, formerly of the Alliance and now of Carnage Kings, has already lent a hand going around to create The NuNuGen Continues - which he's called The NuGen Continuez...that's right, with a "Z"). It is that possibly as a result of this situation, if Aiv cannot get his account restored, we may lose one of our best players. He has already mentioned through various frustrated chats that he is not happy with the way Blizzard have handled his problem, and who can blame him, really?

Aiv is an integral part to our GM threesome (oo er!), and he's also just a joy to have around. I hope he manages to get everything restored, or at the very least get his account back. I don't care about the guild. You can farm new items. You can't farm new friends. And I'm assuming everyone else will be crossing their fingers, toes, and everything else that crosses, that he manages to get it sorted.

NOTE: If you have been in a similar situation to Aiv, let us know what you did, who you spoke to, the steps you took, and - provided you got your account back, of course - how long you had to wait for things to go back to normal on the NuGen Alliance/Continues Forum

The rise of a babelicious ultra-priest.

It’s so difficult, being beautiful.

Women throw themselves at me constantly, urging me to fulfil their every twisted desire. Men weep tears of jealous rage as they pass me in the street, before committing bloody suicide as they realise that whenever they look in the mirror, they will never see my face beaming back.

What’s even more difficult is that I am a priest, sworn to celibacy, and that my parents decided to name me ‘UltimateHunk’.

Why would they name me ‘UltimateHunk’ and then send me to study the ways of the light? It seems like a perverse punishment for a crime I never committed.

I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t keep my vow of celibacy and I couldn’t follow the light. How could I keep something so beautiful from the women of this world? I may be a priest, but I’m no saint.

How Funky is Your Chicken?

Turns out, not very. While I do adore the chocobo hawkstriders, I may have been biased in the past, in that all my blood elf characters have been female, looking strangely elegant and graceful with it guddering and gittering about with some kind of poultry OCD. With a male blood elf (I've asked before, but if I find a male blood elf attractive, does that in fact make me bisexual?), they don't look quite so good.

It was for this reason that I tried my damnedest to get my reputation up with another faction (namely Undercity) in time for the mount, so that I could avoid this. Unfortuately, despite my best efforts, I only managed to get into 10,131/12,000 Honoured, shy 22,869 rep from Exalted.

I have now reached the point where I have to come to a decision. I have two characters ready to roll with (three if you count Jaego, but I won't mention him yet...), and I am trying to work out whether Maegan or Deakin will be my first choice when it comes to levelling.

Here's what I've come to work out so far:

• Meagan is a healer, therefore it'll be easier to get a place for her as either healer or DPS while levelling, and at 80, when that happens.
• Meagan has a cool mount, looks cool and sounds hilarious.
• Deakin has a poo mount and looks like a div riding it, but he looks so pretty and also sounds hilarious, for different reasons.
• I've never levelled a rogue beyond mid 30's.
• I've never levelled a priest.
• I would like to be able to pick locks.
• More people seem to be levelling priests than rogues in the guild.

Does that help me decide? No, not at all. But I will be thinking on it as time goes on, and failing all else, I'll alternate them, like a child with joint custody. So they're...my parents. Does that work?

I Am Addon (like I Am Robot)

Well, for those who know me, I am a big, wait, HUGE addon fan and user. As Bubble pointed out the other day 'Riande IS an addon'. which is nice.

yes I am the Riande addon, God of all things extra and here to help you with random and sometimes useless but fun things to add to your WoW experience. So I shall aim as I have done in the past to try and keep you up to date with any changes that might be happening and to post any addons I think you might like for fun or for their ability to help me slack off in WoW and yet make me seem cool.

A brief intro and opinion

As I handle so many I also have to keep track of them all and use addon updaters to do that. The two I use are WowMatrix and Curse Client. Both are simple and easy to use. CurseClient is a must. I usually browse curse.com for mine as I'm far too lazy nowadays to search several different websites, but bear in mind there are a few out there such as Wowinterface and WoWAce. Which is why I also ans still use Wowmatrix. For those addons users who were following the curse versus wowmatrix discussion a few months ago it was not a happy time.

So quite an easy and simple way of keeping all your addons up to date. So I have a few for you this week. One useful and the rest...well...because I'm a gnome. (most of the time)

Squire

Very simple and little or in fact no configuration. For those of you with numerous mounts who might like the game to pick one for you at random instead of having all your mount macros taking up space. It's very intelligent, I notice this more and more when on my druid it chooses travel form for when I'm just running and aquatic form if I ever go in the water. Anyhoo, check the link for the full info but I havent found a fault with it yet.

Gnome sage
Ask and he shall answer!

Gnome dust
Who wants a fairy?

And finally, perhaps the greatest addon of them all if watching Gnomey and Alka raid is anything to go by!


Gnome Licker
Could it do exactly what it says on the tin?

So kids, thats it for this week. I'll leave you with the brevity of all things gnome-like.

About Last Week

Morning All,

I know last week was a bit weird for the majority of you, especially those in Continues. But we're chaling it to a bad week. What with Cat being preoccupied with Horde, Aiv being at work, and my general slacking off and drinking binge leaving me hungover most days, (what's that you say? AA, isnt that to do with cars?) we were not at our best. For that we apologise, but sometimes we GMs like to drop the ball too.

But needless to say, we're back on track now. Cat has finally and fully left/abandoned us and I'm back at glorious work after my two weeks.

So a few new things Alliance wise, what with ALL my officers absconding, I'm in desperate need of new slaves to boss around and delegate my workload to. I sent out a few mails and got a few back from guildies, some I thought would not want to do the oh so mighty anf glorious officer work (yes, I call it work as that's what it is) saying they might be interested. So over the next few days I'll be getting in touch with a few of you and your trial period will commence.

As to my crossing over to the Horde, well, my non sexual life partner is making new friends without me and I'm not sure I approve. So all I can say on that matter is there will come a time for me to go and join her. For now I want to try and secure the Alliance and Continues guilds firmly over here.

Remember Hordelings, keep us up to date and don't be a stranger. Use the Ally forum from time to time so we know you are not lost. And for the favoured few, keep on blogging!

What A Difference A Day Makes

So, in admist the small matter of the new World of Warcraft Expansion being announced, The NuGen began their adventure into Horde territory.

Eight WHOLE people online! No wai!

It was a fairly quiet night, no major drama. We welcomed some brand new NuGenites into our weird little world and everyone else just got on with levelling.

I myself pushed Maegan on through the early teen levels. Levelling a priest doesn't seem to be as difficult as some would have me believe. I am levelling Maegan (Undead) in the Ghostlands, which is Blood Elf "territory", but I don't care. With the exception of Deakin, who I'm doing a different experiment with, I will probably level all my lowbie characters through here.

So that was about it. The guild didn't fall flat on its face in the first 24 hours, we have a steady stream of levellers and full timers, and we're almost ready for our first instance!

Vampires Are Cool, Y'all

Hijacking the forum to tell you all about the new edition of my book, which is only about 12 months late!

All the cool kids are buying it. If you don't want to be mocked in the playground and called a loser, you should buy it, as well.

Click Here To Buy It, M'kay!

OMG it's Elvis!

So I've changed my mind. Already. That's right. I've decided to remove the warlock from my list and instead go for a rogue. So I've made a beautiful male blood elf.

He's so dashing. Debonair.


And then he hearths. It's rather unattractive. Let's just look at this up-close.


Oh my God! Elvis lives!

Not even a remotely insightful post, admittedly, but Hell, it made me smile.

Anyhoo, everyone welcome Deakin, Queen King of the Rogues!

Aiv... Aiv... I'm back again..

So, I havn't wrote a blog in a few days. Oh my God, do I hear you say? Yes that's right.

It's a complete injustice.

Blame my work. They made me add 2 hours onto each of my shifts because "Oh, we think it might be busy". Well, Mr. Bossman. Do you THINK or do you KNOW? Idiot.

Anyhoooooo babes,

News on the mire for Continues hasn't changed much except that I've promoted two upstanding raiders to officers. With the big switchover to Horde, and Riande going to be manhandling Alliance, I decided that I need to hire more slaves assistants for the less enjoyable tasks that I have to perform.

The two people I chose were Alkazarus and Kedarii. These two have been possibly the 2 most annoying people I have ever had the misfortune to meet! No, I jest. I'd like to copy riande a bit and make a little story for each one!

Alkazarus
My other half. Not literally, RE: Riande's blog, no I'm not gay. Calling another man "Babes" for the sake of affection should not be condemned as being gay! It's just guy love. But, Alka is a solid guy and he's always up for helping people out which is why he was chosen to be one of my minions Officers.

Kedarii
She's a girl, and she has a girlfriend. Enough said.


So, those two, alongside Dreanie will make up the new heirarchy of NuGen Continues, (I've no doubt Riande will stick her nose in as often as she can.. women...) so if you have any problems, please do either speak to one of them, or if you just want my awesome attention, send me an ingame mail. I'll see if I have time to reply while I'm sifting through my 1000's of gold from the auction house. Oh yeah.


Our progression has been pretty much stumped as far as I know, at the Iron Council. (This is probably due to a lack of my presence, and even more so : A lack of my [Beat Stick]). But never fear guys, we're burning through Ulduar like we're on some sort of Crusade. (Oh! See what I did there?) So I've no doubt I'm going to have to write more of these to revitalize the ePeen of our more hardcore raiders. (Just me..?)

Alas, It's getting a bit late and I should be heading to bed.

Look out for my other blogs, which I promise will be soon!

Ciao babes,

Back to the Horde, one more time?

I started playing WoW in January 2008, it was as a result of an email I got from a fellow Civ III player. After trialling on the US realms (I did not know there were EU realms) I signed up and picked the less numerous Horde. I rolled on the recommended PvE realm of Aerie Peak and picked the least popular class at the time, Druid. That was my first learning experience and it included joining a ‘good’ guild and even getting made an officer in it. Unfortunately I wanted to play with all the toys and as a result ended up with 4 level 40s and got left behind when everyone else was gearing up for raiding.

I re-rolled on another realm, this time my main was a Hunter. Joined another guild, but this one was a bit fragmented so I was soloing most of the time. Then came the NuGen Alliance, a chance to get in at the same level as others without feeling the pressure to race to end content. It was also an opportunity to see if the Alliance were as bad as players on the Horde said. I have still yet to encounter anything matching the Barrens chat to be honest. I still rolled alts, but never got too far behind. I got my first L80 with the NuGen Alliance. This time it was when I could play that got in the way of being able to join in as much as would have liked.
Wow has changed a lot in the year and a half I have been playing, finding groups for classic content is a major problem so when the chance to re-roll and try to recapture the fun of the classic group content I jumped at the chance.

I will be trying to keep my main (Holycrepe - Paladin) up with the rest of the group so I can do more groups, I will be around at least one evening during the week. In addition I have an alt Shaman, both of these are classes I have not levelled beyond 20 before so I will be learning as I go. In addition I have a little project to see if I can turn 10 Linen Cloth into 1,000g by playing the auction house. I hope to keep everyone updated on how that goes as the weeks roll by. My main will be going for the Loremaster title from the start so I will probably be doing a lot of low level zones at the start.
Those who know me (Zandathor on the Nugen Alliance) will know I am an early riser so you can catch me online between 4 and 6 most mornings. In addition I will probably be around 4-6 most evenings from September onwards.

Big Smiles, Everyone!

The NuGen Horde launch approaches. I know that those re-rolling from The NuGen Alliance are currently twiddling their thumbs quite irritably waiting to go, while I'm running about trying to "tidy up" the guild ready for the new arrivals. Friday can't come along quick enough. We now have 17 individual players in the guild, and something ridiculous like 30 characters in total.

It's not like the old days, where you had 1 character in a guild and flopped about on it for a while, then got booted out and joined with another. Now we all have a good solid following of a bank character, a Death Knight to bring us in the funds, and at least 2 other characters than you think might be your next main, once you've tried it out a little bit.

It is entertaining at the moment to log on and see nothing but Death Knights in various low level instances. But it's still the easiest way to get some lowbie greens to stick in the guild bank. It was doing this that netted Ravenmind one of the Deviate Hatchlings from Wailing Caverns. While being an avid pet collector, I was distraught that the game hadn't blessed me with a pet, I handled the news in a mature and calm manner:

The countdown continues. Patience, little ones. Good things this way come.

Keeping in Touch

With The NuGen Horde's arrival quickly approaching, we shall lose some long standing and intregal members of our little community. I think that the Darkspear guilds will be changed greatly and it might take us some time to get used to their absence.

But never fear, they still have a way to show their undying love and appreciation for us.

Some of you have already discovered the joys/pains of our ventrillo server. For those unsure as to what it is, its a voice communication software that enables guildies to physcially chat with each other into the late night.

Here's a little taste of some of the regulars; the ppl you shall come to know and love/hate if you ever log on to spy. The following unfortunate people are the unlucky ones that have simply been floating around the same vent channels as me at the same times as me. And all I have to go off is their voices and their laughter, so for your amusement, I give you a few words for some of the poor souls who were the first to discover vent with us. You may know them by other names so they shall be added as well ;)

Dreanie - I have come to find that Dreanie or Dr. Dre/Dr. Eanie/DJ Dreanie is the resident member of vent. Whenever I have logged on he is already there before me. If there is a SFX or music to be played then Dreanie is the one who plays it. He is best known for this PTT (thats Push to Talk to you, ladies and gents) echo, due to his utterly crap mic you might that you hear yourself rather than him if you choose to speak. The conversations are longer and louder and repeated back to you, which is always a pleasure/pain in the arse I assure you.
Catrinna - Ah yes, the other GM, the most I have say about Cat is that in guild I shall lose my sparring partner and we shall lose a GM who works tirelessly to ensure your needs are met in game (oh wait, thats me, Cat is the one who sits around and corrects everyone's grammar). Vent wise, it's the high pitched squeaky yet hilarious and highly infectious laugh she has that we hear most often.
Alka - Why bother to type his full name? Some occasional useful information about pallys spouts from his mouth, though half the time it is simply the words 'Go Pally Power'. The rest of the time, he and Cat have indepth discussion in their own private language called 'Mehmehmehmehmeh'. You get used to it.
Aiv - The effective tripod (what?) of GM conspiracy. The bringer of the spam 'Babes' into the vent world, (no ladies he's not gay....I think). Numerous attempts to beat the world record for explaining boss kills. An acerbic (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/acerbic) wit and charm that makes him the Yang to our Ying, the fool to our kingly court, the homeless person we step over in the street. His low tolerance for idiots makes us wonder why he is still with us... (Aivy baby we love you really).
Koru/Eikin - A voice as calming as having your own babbling brooke which makes you think of a young white James Earl Jones. Officers chatted once about how nice and soothing it was to listen to him...only without the obscenities. Mufasa would never swear. (No other actual benefits I'm afraid, he's just there as the voice candy).
Kedarii - Again, another high pitched squeak from our third resident female (yes we have girls on Vent). Alas whenever I'm online with her, all I can hear is her complaining about her crap DPS (which it is) and mainly yelling at her gf down vent with 'Omg, you noob' 'C'mon you idiot' 'God, you're so crap'. (I'm taking bets to see how long that relationship will last if anyone is interested ;) ).
Ulreazj/Ultake - The man has a scary shift between 'C'mon you f***ing noobs' while raiding to 'Awwww, Muffin died'. Though I will let him off as some of his end game knowledge is informative (on occasion, as some of us are uber raiders anyway ;P) but I feel we should get more ppl on vent to entertain him as he makes his way through some of the more timeconsuming and dull achievements in game. And he'll make sure we know about them. Nuff said.
Riande - aka God/Spawn of Satan/the dominiant to Satan's submissive/your favourite GM. Kind of sits in the background waiting to pass judgement on all of you. Little know fact; is actually nicer on vent than in guild (marginally).

There are many more of you that have the pleasure of entertaining/boring me on vent, some I only hear when raiding, the rest; you were simply not funny or interesting enough to make the above cut. So a challenge I put before you! (I jest...honest) . In truth there are too many of you to all fit in one blog and in future I'm sure I'll do a little wink and nod in your direction.

Previous Highlights of Vent

1. Koru singing the theme tune to Gummi Bears in Dutch/Swedish/French/Albanian was it? ;P Who can tell, you continentals all sound the same.
2. When a late night guild run cba to move into a private channel and you hear the randomness of their conversation. e.g. I assume Cat was either healing or tanking which was why it was sooo abysmal. 5 of us in Violet Hold heroic and suddenly the frantic cries of 'I'm dying, I'm dying, I'm dying!' and my all time favourite for that night 'Oh my God, his balls!' 'He has exploding balls!' and 'His giant balls are coming after me!' Good times.
3. The musical stylings of Cat and myself durnk on a raid night and singing down vent. We take full credit for the new lyrics to Freres Jacques as our raid song. Ergo 'Here I am now, here I am now. Here I am, here I am. Don't start the raid without me, dont start the raid without me'. (Shamefully we couldnt think of anything to replace Ding Dang Dong). True story.

Alas with the good times come the bad.

Lowlights of Vent

1. The Silence. Yes folks, sometimes it does happen. There might be a million of us on vent, but sometimes, even we, the hilarious guild you would gladly give up your other half for, have nothing to say.
2. The burping. Yes. Mainly boys. (notice I put boys, not men)
3. The football. Yes. Again. Mainly men. (notice the handy reverse)

So ladies I beg you, with Cat, Kedarii and myself as the 'resident' women, please join us and we can fight back with talk of shoes and make up and clothes (as at the moment it is simply Cat and I advising Keds to wear make up and her advising us about the best dungarees to get and what crew cut would go well with them).

So you can see what you are missing out on. A mic is never needed, you dont need to speak to enjoy the wonderful world of vent. I give you a warning though. Sometimes....we are dull. Sometimes? Well yes, ok then all the time.

We/Beef/Cat/Koru have placed a lovely step by step guide (with pictures and everything) on the forum to aid you in becoming our audience. This direct link is all you need, though if you havent checked out the forum yet, do it. There is a whole world of wit and laughter The NuGen try to share with you outside of the actual game itself. Remember, we do all this out of love...and too much free time.

http://www.vampyrsnyper.com/thenugen_a/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=447&view=unread#unread

Cattrina's Horde Following

So I've gone through the epically confusing business of creating some hordie characters. In preparation for the reroll and guild creation, I have brought over my druid from Aggramar to bring over some funds. We now have a guild bank (yay!), and a super tabard. Yes, it's just like the Continues tabard. But this one's red.

I now have a very good idea about what I want to roll, and why.

Link

1/ Undead Priest - Maegan - One of the reasons for rerolling is that I wanted a change. I have never had the patience to level a priest to 80. And I know level 80 priests exist; I've seen them in Dalaran. If others can do it, so can I. I intend* to level her as Holy until 40, when I will switch to Shadow. I intend* to go to as many instances the guild can get together to level, and I intend* to heal with her.

2/ Tauren Druid - Jaego - Sitting in the background is a druid. The only thing putting me off levelling this instead of the priest is because I already have a level 80 druid. Of course, I didn't level Disotto properly (she was RaF'd to 60) so I may switch later. I intend* to reattempt tanking, in the hope that starting from early on may net me more experience as opposed to what I did on Disotto, which was levelling to 80, buying some epics and charging straight into heroics. I think we all know how well it went. I may also heal with Jaego, but I will be saving up dual spec for Maegan first.

3/ Blood Elf Warlock - Maramay - At the back of the queue is another warlock, also called Maramay. I'm seeing a pattern here. I will level this when I'm bored with the other two, as it has less to offer help wise (DPS only class). Never had a high level warlock, either, so will be interested to see the benefits, other than of course the "Gief portal nao plz".

I think three characters should be more than enough to keep me busy. I am still very much looking forward to getting started on the re-roll.

* Actual intention may vary due to laziness or procrastination.

Much Ado about Nothing...oh really

Morning All,

I guess this shall be the first official post for the Alliance, though you will be disappointed if you expect in depth news about our guild progression :)

This blog will be different in many ways to the others as Horde and Continues have progression to record. Alliance on the other hand, is slowly approaching its 1st birthday! (awww) So dont be surpised if from time to time I post absolute bolox which might not have a huge relevant to anything much.

For content in these blogs I'll be putting in an Addons FTW post, which will essentially be my sharing of the wonderful experience I have with addons on a daily basis. I won't mention the f-ing and blinding I did at the screen yesterday when in a fit of God knows what I thought I would remove my WTF (aptly named, Blizz) folder and start with a clean slate and no saved variables.

CUT TO:

4 hours later. Me crying infront of the PC and replacing my original WTF folder, yelling more at the screen and to punish it, I logged off. (yes, i know, i punished the pc).

Also I'll post whatever guild news we might have, or any new ideas I/we might come up with to keep the guild/playing WoW as fresh as possible for the old timers. There'll be shout outs to guildies who might have caught my attention and hideous amounts of name dropping (that's right, YOU could be featured in a NuGen Blog, OMG. I promise I write this without laughing...much). As well general musings and wonderings I might have over the course of this with the leveling of all my alts and what your fellow guildies might be up to or have said. (Last night's musical vent shall be one if I can be tempted to cover a vent topic at some point)

So for the moment I'll finish with letting you know if there is anything (whatever it might be, I have no idea) you think you want me to mention, stick it in a mail to Banktella and we'll figure something out. It's your guild too peeps, so any ideas or thoughts are welcome.

Gratz to Alka and Kedarii for their new officer postions. A welcome basket is on its way, so lets hope you past the trial period where much hazing and flaying of the body will occur. I shall say no more for now, as Aiv will mos likely cover their rise in the world in another Continues Blog, and if he doesn't....well I shall see that he does.

Rx

You know you love me XOXO <--------For the Gossip Girl fans out then (Beef I'm looking at you).

Raids, Rage and Automobiles.

So! Here it is, the first blog of Aiv.

Firstly I'll start off by saying how awesome Continues is!

In only one week we've gone from 2/14 Ulduar, to 5/14 Ulduar! Won't be long til we're yapping at the heels of every other so-called "Amagad RAID NAO" guild. And we're "Casual". Oh yeah.

The bosses arent too tough in there, it's a lot more focused on precision, tactics and making sure everyone knows what to do! There's a lot of "Oh god" moments, too. Such as being dropped into Ignis' pot, or having Kologarn man-handle you. Vent times are funny times.

Aiv : Ok guys, nicely done. Just keep moving him.
Random1 : Oh god!
Everyone : What?
Random1 : I'm in a pot!
Everyone : What??
Random1 : I'm in his pot! What the hell?
Everyone :
Random1 has earned the achivement : [Hot Pocket (10 Player)].

So yeah, this will be updated pretty much after every night spent wiping progressing in Ulduar!

With love,

Wayhay, Another test

I won't write anything interesting. I promise.

Hey hey, I might as well do a test too!

Here's hoping this bad boy works! I'll assume as Cat held my hand through the process it must have done! if not I can blame her.

For now this might be a moo (yes, moo, like a cow's opinion it doesn't count. Points for those who guess the TV show ;) ) point. And this blog format might change slightly after I've spoken to Cat who is after all the God of all things techincal in The NuGen.

So for now, I shall say pip pip and fare thee well

Rx

A NuGuild is Born

So we've I've decided to re-roll the NuGen on the horde side, and on a new server. Fresh start, something new, and all that. It was a bold decision, lots of talking and planning and whatnot. There are a few people who have said they'll come along, which I'm really looking forward to. So I should start from the very beginning.

I created a Death Knight, which I intend to use as my bank/mule character (I don't find any appeal in Death Knights, and I doubt I will ever have the drive to level one to 80), and called her Cattrina. I then begged asked people from the alliance guild to make some toons and login with them so I could get signatures for the guild charter. How very exciting.

Dreanie (now known as Leetmonkey...his decision) didn't make the charter signing that easy. Typically, his was the last signature I needed, and in typical Dreanie-style, when I came to find him, he had his character (a level3 rogue, if I recall) out in Borean Tundra. That's right. So I, level 58 Death Knight, had to go find him, and get a window between him being alive and me being alive at the same time long enough to get a signature. I have a picture of this somewhere, which I will post when I root it out.

We had an interesting few hours shortly after creating the new guild, spent primarily asking in guild chat "So who are you?". Tzix made a priest, called Tzix. Dreanie doesn't like it; says it isn't right. I have to agree. He wanted Twix, but unfortunately, it was taken.

Being in Orgrimmar, I wanted Cattrina, who is a blood elf, to have what I am steadily thinking is actually the best mount in the game, the chocobo hawkstrider. So off I went, forgetting most of the time that I actually have a Death Knight, and as such has access to an epic speed mount.

I then parked my blood elf and her chocobo hawkstrider in Undercity, where she will probably stay for the rest of the guild's life.

Fun times ahead.

I also saw a few people "LF friendly Guild" in trade chat, so there is promise that we will be able to create a new fantabulous community of dead things, egocentric things, cow things, fugly things, and trolls.

The re-roll officially launches on the 31st August 2009. Hope to see some of you there.