My Alternate Reality

Ice, Ice BABY!

G'morning! Razor here!
Thought I'd chime in as I've had a pretty adventuresome day so far! It started last night really. I finally scrounged up enough coin to go ahead and purchase the dual spec ability for Razorwyn. After fumbling around with that for around an hour, I was off and running. My secondary spec is now Beast Mastery. This spec, while not optimal for raiding any longer (CRY) will always be my favorite spec. Yea, yea... call me a nubcake, whatever. It is by far the most enjoyable spec for me to play. I'm so happy I did it!

But that isn't the half of it! Since I specced BM (with the Beast Mastery talent point to allow exotics) I decided to just snoop around Sholazar Basin to see if I could corral Loque'Nahak the Spirit Beast. Prior to respeccing to Survival waaay back in the day, I must have hunted this beast for WEEKS with no luck.

Well- After flying around her usual haunts. I decided to head for Icecrown. While making my way through Sholazar to the mountain ranges, BAM!! I got a hit on my target macro! THERE SHE WAS!!!

Landing in front of her, I dropped a freezing trap at my feet and started the tame. She bolted directly for me and began her attack. **POOF** my freezing trap encased her in a nice handy block of ice while I finished off the tame. A quick feeding, a scratch on the neck and she was purring at my feet like a kitten.

SHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!

Now comes the arduous task of leveling her to 80. Yea, I know Blizz made pet leveling easier but that doesn't change the fact that leveling pets is major suckage. I suppose I'll hang out in Icecrown and grind on 80 undeads until I get her leveled.

Naming a pet is one of those tasks that really drives me crazy. It reminds me of my old DnD days where I would literally spend DAYS trying to think up a really cool 'medieval' sounding name like Audrik or Lothar. After flying around and pondering, I got to looking at that really cool blue glow coming from her eyes, nose and mouth. She also breathes frosted breath so I decided to name her ICE! I must say, it really fits and she just looks COLD all the time!

Damn now I've got that stupid song in my head. "All right stop collaborate and listen, Ice is back with my brand new invention Something grabs a hold of me tightly Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly..."

Well, that is gonna drive me bonkers for the rest of the day! Anyway, think I'll get back to grinding. Want to get her in a dungeon or two to see how she fairs! Oh, did I mention she also has this really awesome arcane ability called Spirit Strike? It looks really bitchin' when it procs albeit not very effective.

See ya 'round the Meeting Stone!
~SjN
(a.k.a Aurendar & Razor)

No Gnews is Bad Gnews!

Greets all of you WoW-o-Philes!

Today I thought I'd throw a post down about Razor over on Moon Guard. Last night I was relaxing in Stormwind and like clockwork, a very well known guild on the realm, The Underfoot Express gathered at 9:00pm server to deliver the Gnightly Gnews to the masses!

If you like the RP side of the World of Warcraft, you just can't do better than Moon Guard. Everynight when The Underfoot Express assembles, everyone in Stormwind gathers around, pulls out a pet, munches on some snacks and sits down to enjoy the Gnews. It really is RP at it's finest! I find myself looking forward to it! As a matter of fact, thirty minutes prior to the Gnews, I started setting my Brazier of the Dancing Flames out. To see 20 to 30 people all doing the Draenai dance while on fire is quite the sight! It also is sure to gather an even larger crowd to the Gnews. Moon Guard is definitely good times.

Speaking of Razor, she's been going through some changes as of late. She's currently unguilded and has been wandering around Azeroth doing her own thing. One day while doing some shopping in Ironforge, I came across Truitt Haefyn. The Exchequer of The Order of Sterling. A fabulous RP guild on Moon Guard. Had a nice conversation with him and that soon set me on the path to possibly rejoining the guild.

Razor was a member of Sterling for a long long time until I started to get bored with the game. I thought If I changed things up a bit, I would reignite that interest. It worked for a while but I soon began to miss my friends and the wonderful RP that we used to have.

Well, I have been in contact with Sterling's Guild Master - Bjorke and I soon hope to don the Sterling Tabard once again.

I am thinking about posting a thread on RP-101 as I get asked about RP'ing quite a bit while I am online. I get the distinct feeling that people join RP servers in hopes of picking up on the fine art of "living the game". I really like getting asked the questions and do what I can to help. But I think an official "do's & don'ts" of RP might be beneficial to anyone that would like to get more deeply involved into it. As a matter of fact, Bjorke has a podcast that she puts on (albeit she's been sluffing as of late) called Mischief & Mayhem. She does a WONDERFUL job on laying out RP and how to become an expert at it! If you have some time, go check out some episodes!

Well, gotta run. I've got some dailies to get done!

~From the journals of Razorwyn Moonstrider

Out of the Mothballs

Meet my lovable Draenai hunter Razorwyn.

The poor thing, I feel so sorry for her. She's such a great hunter and with my loss of interest in the World of Warcraft lately, I have neglected her.

That is about to change.

With her step sister Aurendar's uncertain future, I think it's about time that Razor here, gets some much needed attention.

This pic is actually a bit old in that she no longer adorns those Beastmaw Pauldrons upon her shoulders. She is now sporting the much less exotic Spaulders of the Black Arrow that you pick up from the Ebon Blade Quartermaster. Less fancy schmancy but much better numbers.

Anyway, I'm having a problem with Razor that I don't think I had with Aur, well at least not to this extent. For the life of me, I can't seem to get her hit rating up AT ALL! Right now she is at a dismal 42 hit rating. Not quite sure what is going on there but I think it's time to correct that. Maybe some heroic runs will take care of that problem as she really hasn't had any 'facetime' with any of those heroic bosses.

Aurendar was a much more "raid-centered" character while Razor is quite at home mostly in the RP world. I can't help but inject some more instancing or raiding into her future. She's an absolute blast to play and I'd like to balance her out a bit more. I gotta think doing so will address that ((ahem)) hit rating issue she seems to be having.

Being an RP character, it was necessary for Razor to have a backstory. I decided to tie her into my main's character, Aurendar. The two really do fit well together. Razor at age 12, left Azuremyst Isle to learn more about this mysterious land she found herself on and soon sought refuge with the Nightelves in Teldrassil. Razor was quickly adopted by House Moonstrider and raised as their own. Her step parents live in the small hunting village of Dolanaar just outside of Darnassus. In keeping with the Moonstrider tradition, she followed in her stepsister, Aurendar's shoes by learning the ways of the hunt.

Day after day, month after month, Razorwyn soon became proficient in all manners of beast mastery. Word of her accomplishments and uncanny abilities spread through out the realm. Little did she know that the legendary hunters of Dun Morogh would soon seek her out. Emissaries of Ironforge soon called upon her and she felt compelled to answer that call. It wasn't long before Razorwyn recieved word of Aurendar's disappearance through the Dark Portal, never to be seen again. Razorwyn made it her mission to discover the fate of her beloved sister Aurendar. Thus an adventure begins.

Well, keep an eye out on further entries of 'The Adventures of Razorwyn Moonstrider'! I'm sure you'll be seeing a bit more of her here in the pages of Alternate Reality!

~SjN