So to celebrate this great event, tonight I shall reinstall the game, since the updater refuses to work (something about not finding wow.exe and I cba to google it). After the reinstall, depending whether it will take me a few hours or my whole life, I shall reactivate my subscription and play the game once more.

Why quit in the first place? Well, I’ve been playing a Prot Pala for a very long time and I was tanking before it was cool (credits go here). I liked how being able to do a good job at tanking with a Paladin in TBC times was a challenge and not everyone and their mother could do it. But then came Wrath and all the bullshit changes made to the classes and I was like “meh, F-it, I want to be special and not like everyone else”. So I quit my Pala and started a few Priests (2 to be more exact, for PvP and the shizzle). Then that didn’t work out as I started a full time job and had to finish my studies and well, it all came down to me quitting the game. I had a post planned to explain the reasons on a much larger scale, but then I started reading Jong and was mesmerized so I forgot.

Long story short, if everything goes as planned, I’m back in the game and back into blogging about the game we all love.

Toodles!

PS: what really made me want to play the game again was the short movie introduced in the patch which you can see here.

PPS: when I first saw the following picture (click for full resolution), I read “Fail of the Lich King”. Anyone else in the same situation?

Fail of the Lich King

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Fail of the Lich King. I’m also back

• Welcome to Patch 3.0.2
• My evolution as a World of Warcraft player
• How I started tanking
• A new beginning!
• Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs

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The Doodad is Back

• Protection Paladin soloing Stratholme Undead side — live blogging
• We’re back and we’re fresh
• Retarded and stupid persons should NOT play World of Warcraft
• WoW Bitch Slaps Me. Again
• The Dress Up game

Let’s say your name is Tepisor and you play a Protection Paladin. Let’s also assume your character copy over to the PTRs is finally over. You rush to the Paladin trainer to look at the new things and notice dual specs. Your try to purchase the specialization. You realize you only transferred with 188g.

That’s when you are stupid.

Later edit: If anyone is on the Brill server and has an extra 1k gold, please tell Name is like always Tepisor.

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How To Tell When You Are Stupid

• Interesting Protection Paladin builds
• Retarded and stupid persons should NOT play World of Warcraft
• Paladins, Stop Sucking
• Learn to play AV already
• How do you PvP?

But what are “the good old raiding days”? 40-man raids? I truly admire the capacity to actually gather 40 people and go killing. I think it was a very hard job to do so. We failed at gathering 25 in TBC most of the time and now we seem to fail at actually gathering 10 to do a lousy Naxx run. But I guess that’s highly dependable on your guild. And your guild is highly dependable on your game style and preferences.

So the evolution went from 40 to 25 and now to 10. They made all classes easier to play. They made certain AoE abilities not brake CC (see Avengers Shield). They made 30 minutes Seals (worst addition ever!). They transformed Paladins into Warriors, Warriors into Paladins, Druids into Rogues. They created Death Knights. I only have one sentence to characterize all these changes: dumbing the game.

Don’t get me wrong, certain changes they made we’re really good (see 10-man raiding or single-target taunt for Protection Paladins). But, I’m really afraid they will pass a point when it will stop being challenging. Because right now, they are very near that point.

Ending the rant and getting back to the subject of old content, I have started a solo spree. My first target was Karazhan where I shot a vid on how to solo kill Attumen. I’m still working on the ending touches and I’m pretty happy with the result. You’ll get to see it later this week or the next. I plan to continue soloing my way into Karazhan and see how far I can go. I roughly estimate I can kill 2–3 more but I might need some help to pass certain ones.

I found capturing and editing videos very fun. I plan to document all my solo endevours. Even tho there are many similar vids already out there, it will be a good practice and something to keep me playing for a while more.

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Visiting Old Content And Random Rants

• My evolution as a World of Warcraft player
• A new beginning!
• Paladins, Stop Sucking
• Achieving RL / WoW balance — biggest threat to you
• Writers block?

This was my quest gear at level 71. You can clearly see the ZA/Kara/Badge gear combined with some Nexus quest reward and Kings Defender.

Mounting a Drake while mounted and riding a flaming harpoon. Worth a SS.

Everybody loves murlocs and cats! And cows for that matter.

Quest gear at 77. Changed some TBC epics with blue WotLK items. I cried.

Back when I got my Bronze Drake 1 million years ago.

Bored during a Naxxramas run, they decided to fly some kites.

And then some more.

There we go, that was my picture post. My work here is done!

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The Picture Post

• Blizzard, please give us a third profession
• Protection Paladins — heading towards the right way
• 2.4 Shopping List
• Mini guide to tanking Nightbane for Protection Paladins
• My first epic