So yeah, then I made it into a blog...

Hello Hordingtons!

Good to see you on the dark side!

Hi, I'm Riande and i'm an altoholic :)

You all know Cat, and if you don't then there's something wrong with you! Well Cat and I have been running guilds together for a couple of years now (all with NuGen somewhere in the title) to date we have 'The NuGen' <------BEST GUILD EVA!! in that it when was cat and i first started wow and we were too scared to talk to ppl in the game (yes, its true) so that consisted of only mine and Cat's first ever horde chars on the Aggrammar server. and its still there as we've not deleted those characters as of yet.

After that we decided it was time for a 'proper' guild with acutal ppl in it and everything. So we rerolled and then came 'The NuGen Alliance' 'The NuGen Mooners' 'The NuGen Continues' 'The NuGen Continuez' <---lasted a day the z was a no no, 'The NuGen Horde' <---thats you!! and also 'NuRF', which is NuGen Reformed. A lot of these lovely....names that dont appear on the website's main page were because of us trying to expand and finding a GM to lead the way with raiding, as frankly Cat and I were total noobies (still are, really) when it came to raiding.

Anyhoo last couple of months have been pretty hectic in the NuGen life, what with Cat and me decidind to reroll, me chickening out, cat rerolling, the GM of the raiding guild getting hacked, getting the raiding guild and the GM back, then the GM of the raiding guild getting hacked AGAIN, and finally me not being able to live without my wow life partner. (thats you, Cat, btw)

Those of you from the very early days of NuGen Horde might remember a hunter called Daerwin, well that was me :) I came over in the beginning for little bit to help recruit a few ppl and see if my rerolling would actually stick. Alas no, my little gnome warlock demanded more of my attention so i continued to play on Darkspear.

anyhoo, now the GM team is back together and we are whole again! Yeay! So i'll be seeing you all in game. I dont have a regular 9-5 job so ill be on at random times frequently and infrequently, RL stuff has been demanding a lot from me lately and the voices in my head are telling me to cut back on wow so thats what i'll be attempting to (she says as she types on a wow forum...) so in my role as the other half of the GM cru i'll be doing...well pretty much sweet FA really.

Those rerolling with me might be surprised or not knowing how much little wow time i've had recently and i'm here to pretty much chillax and answer questions/queries/comments like everyone else.

My areas of expertise include

1) Addons
2) The AH
3) Locks (tho only end game mainly as im lvling a lock for the first time again in like a year)
4) Raids (done most, and can give tactics for the really easy ones especially from a ranged dps POV as we all know Locks RULE, but mages, hunters, priests all smell)
5) erm...i can tell you what wines go really well with what foods...
6) and i can tell you how NOT to burn your hand on your new portable heater

So with that bit over with here's a few additional things

Cat and I spent a lot of time sorting the website (ie, she makes it look pretty and i applaud) and we try and make it useful for you. Remember the forums are here for you guys to help each other out and share questions and information outside of the actual game. Cat and I love the social apsect of WoW, it's what kept us going for so long and we love it when a project gets utilised.

So take the time to check out some of the topics your fellow guildies have posted. Feel free to post pretty much whatever you want in the Offtopic section (lets keep it clean guys).

Want to know more about your class if you're just getting started or are starting a whole other one. The class specific forums are a great place to learn and ask as all of NuGen can share their knowledge.

We currently have a MUGSHOT thread where you can post pics and finally put faces to names!

And NuGen are very lucky in that we have (atm) a free vent server where you can chat if you're fingers get sore from typing. You'll most likely find ppl in it from darkpsear but we also have plenty of channels designed to give ppl some privacy. There are rules to go along with using the vent server and we've not had a single problem yet. BUT i must warn you, it's mainly dull :) If you want sparkling conversation about the outside world around you then go outside! It's mainly a bunch of ppl chatting about WoW or other such scintilating topics or they'll be five ppl on and once every 20mins someone will say something.

But along with all this, as there are changes to the NuGen, so there will be changes to the website (Cat is not one to stick with the same picture for long :) ). We'l be giving you more information on the above topics now that I'm here to nag Cat and give her a kick up the bum. (We're STILL waiting for a new bit on the raiding guild section and its only been oh i dont know, a few MONTHS) Needless to say (so i guess i'll say it) we'll be working hard to make thing a little easier, and hopefully, more fun for you in and out of WoW.

So with the new year rolling in, I raise my glass and salute you fellow NuGenites, wishing you a happy New Year and plenty of WoWing

Rx

Like Buses

You wait for ages for a blog post then TWO come along at once!

And there will be more. I still have many thoughts and feelings towards the 3.3 patch, and in particular the new LFG system, with its pros and its eye-popping cons. But I'll talk about that later. Right now, I want to talk about me. Me, me, me.

So on Saturday, my hunter Catrinna dinged 80 after what seemed like a lifetime. While the NuGen Horde guild has only been running since August this year, I have had Catrinna in some form or other pretty much since I started playing almost 2 years ago (Wow, I've wasted almost 2 years of my life). This was a very special moment for me. I'd like to thank everyone who supported me through this journey; Jesus, my cats, etc.

This one time, in Shattrath, the server reset while I was logged in and I didn't get logged out...

In other news, Christmas is coming in case you didn't know, and the hordies have (mostly) embraced the funtime Christmas tabard (and those who haven't can suck it - I hate Christmas as much as the next miserable cow, but you can't say that watching a Tauren run around brandishing a Christmas tree on their chests isn't funny).

Hordies in Icecrown

OK, so at some point in my altoholism, I forgot that I actually have a level 80 healing druid (and healing is about all I can do on it - cat Dee Pee Ess is just far too complimacated to get my head around, and tanking? LOOOOOL, no). So when Omg and Divad were asking about attempting a run through Icecrown Citadel, I leapt at the chance at being able to heal with people I know instead of the LFG "OMG NOOB HEALZ0R NOOOOOOB".

The group was made up of Divad (on Mor) tanking, me treeing it up, with Omgnametaken, Kharren and Paragus bringing up the rear with the pewpews.

The run went steadily for the most part. I think I died at some point. But then I tend to do that a lot anyway. Thank goodness for 3 druids with battle rezzes and innervates in their arsenal.

In the end, there wasn't enough Dee Pee Ess to escape from the Lich King and he kept reaching us by the third wall block [fail pics to follow], so we called it off as a bad job. Still, not a half bad attempt all around.

Afterwards, we had some fun with Arthas:




No hard feelings, eh, Arthy? We'll come back for you, eventually.

You just watch this space.

Log Flume FTW plus other crap

Pretty moon


I pity the fool

Yeah Baby. Talk to an NPC in Blue Sky Logging Grounds to play!


More log flume fun

Must have been one of our first naxx kills /cry


Yeah I shot bambi's mum


Optional croc surfing



Fireworks in SW on Bonfire Night.

I'm in January I'll have less work and plenty of wow time!

For now, keep on trucking