Guild Names

With the introduction of the Guild Bank back in patch 2.3 there has been a huge influx of guilds in Warcraft. Most of them are personal bank guilds. It is nice to spend a small chunk of money and have an extra guild with 2-4 tabs of more space for all the stuff we collect.

With creating a guild we are stuck in the same situation of the character creation screen. What is its name? Some people go with a favorite saying, band, movie, or location in game. I have two bank guilds, Hordecore Pwnography and Razorfen Down Syndrome.

What are some of the funny guild names you have seen? Below is a list of a few I've seen over the years that stuck out.

Nagas Gave Me Harpies
Vendor
Burns When I PVP
She Said She Was LvL 18
Built Horde Tough
Crits and Giggles
Gnomeland Security
And Two Stealthed Rogues
Bovine University

Hunter Rep Rewards - Cata Edition

With Cata Hunters have a lot of options of rep rewards to help gear up for Heroics. Once you become friendly with a faction you can wear their tabard in level 85 instances to gain rep and there are also quests you can do to raise rep. The only faction that doesn't reward rep for wearing a Tabard is the Tol Barad factions. Here is a brief list of Hunter related gear.

Dragonmaw Clan/ Wildhammer Clan

Zone: Twilight Highlands
Quests: Once you have done some of the quests in the zone you will have access to 5 dailies that grant a total of 1,250 rep per day.

Snarling Helm - Revered Head

Guardians of Hyjal

Zone: Mount Hyjal
Quests: Doing all the quests in Mount Hyjal will bring you up to Revered.

Acorn of the Daughter Tree - Revered Neck
Treads of Malorne - Exalted Boots

Ramkahen

Zone: Uldum
Quests: All of the Ramkahen related quests are located in Uldum. There are also 2 dailies which will grant you a total of 1,000 rep per day.

Belt of the Stargazer - Honored Belt
Arcanum of the Ramkahen - Revered AGI Head Enchant

The Earthen Ring

Zone: Vashj'ir, Deepholm, and Twilight Highlands
Quests: All of the zones above contain quests related to The Earthen Ring faction. There currently isn't any dailies related to them.

Mantle of Moss - Honored Shoulders
Softwind Cape - Revered Cloak

Signet of the Elder Council - Exalted Ring

Therazane

Zone: Deepholm
Quests: Once you have completed most of the quests in Deepholm 6 dailies will open up for you for a total of 1,500 rep per day. Once you hit Revered another 2 dailies will open up but only one is available a day for another 350 rep.

Lesser Inscription of Shattered Crystal - Honored AGI Shoulder Enchant
Greater Inscription of Shattered Crystal - Exalted AGI Shoulder Enchant
Terrath's Signet of Balance - Revered Ring

Hellscream's Reach / Baradin's Wardens

Zone: Tol Barad and Tol Barad Peninsula
Quests: You will get 5-6 dailies in Tol Barad Peninsula a day netting you 1.3500-1.500 rep depending on how many you get. If your faction controls Tol Barad you will get an additional 2-3 dailies in Tol Barad.

Baradin Grunt's Talisman - Honored Trinket
Dagger of Restless Nights - Revered 1HS
Ravening Slicer - Revered 1HS
Sky Piercer - Revered Ranged Crossbow
Spear of Trailing Shadows - Revered Polearm
Unsolvable Riddle - Exalted Trinket

Day 8 - Least favorite dungeon and why?

Though there has been a lot of great content through the years Warcraft has had it's share of completely crappy content. With the release of Cata there is one instance that makes me cringe every time I go into it, Throne of the Tides. For some reason my computer hates that instance. Whenever there is someone who has something on them that makes their character not fully appear that toon is under the ground on my screen. Being a Goblin whenever I am in Camo this happens and my Ghost Wolf also appears under the ground. The puddles of slime that appear with some mobs are also under the ground which makes it hard to see them because I can only see the top part bubbling. Even with completely upgrading my computer and making sure my video drivers are updated I still have this problem.

With the older instances it would have to be Blackwing Lair. I dont mind the instance as a whole. It is the first boss fight that I hate. Razorgore is so buggy that it seems like the raid stops before it even starts half the time. Grumble and I went in there last week to try to duo the instance but we couldn't get control of the orb for the fight. After about 45 seconds we would explode. After looking up the fight on WoWHead we learned there is another bug that makes the raid die instantly once the mind control over Razorgore ends. It just seems like a terrible fight to start off a great instance. I would like to run it weekly but hate the repair bills because of no fault of our own.

WoWathon 2011

One thing I have learned from blogging and just being active in the Warcraft community is how we stick together and how big of a heart gamers have. Starting June 30th a group of WoW gamers are going to have a WoWathon to raise money for Child's Play Charity. Child's Play raises money to buy electronic and board games for childrens in hospitals around the world. This gives children who are undergoing scary treatments a way to get their minds off their condition.

At 8am on June 30th they are going to create a Worgen Druid and Hunter duo (best classes evah!) named Chyld and Playy on Lightbringer-US. They will be leveling up their toons to 85. They have a goal set of $800 by the time they hit level 20 and an overall goal of $10,000. They have welcomed people to make toons with them but said they will keep groups near their level so they aren't power leveled.

If you would like more information please visit their website WoWathon. You can donate by clicking on the ChipIn widget on the sidebar of their webpage or the one I placed in the side bar of this page. You can also check out the Child's Play website for more information on the organization. In addition to monetary donations Child's Play is also looking for volunteers to do things such as hook up and maintain gaming systems at local hospitals.

Day 7 - Favorite dungeon and why?

There are so many good instances in Warcraft. With the Cata there were a couple of revamps which added some interesting game mechanics to lower level instances. I like how Blizzard has changed things so not every low level instance is just a tank and spank.

As for my favorite instance it would have to be Black Rock Depths. During BC I used to run that instance over and over getting enchanting mats. In under 2 weeks I was able to buy fast flying for both Grumble and I. I like the fact that after the split at the beginning the instance is very linear but when someone new runs it doesn't seem to be linear. The instance is very organized chaos.

I also like the fact that this instance was the first one that involved any type of game mechanics to get through it. You have fights with adds, fights involving a whole group of mobs coming at you one after another, and the room where you have to get the torches and light the braziers within 5 minutes or your torch will go out.

Life Chat Headphones

(This is not a paid advertisement. This is my personal review on a blog related product.)

A couple weeks ago I went out to look for a new set of headphones because my old ones were about 2 years old and constantly had a tone which was annoying. In the past I would always get Logitech headphones and they have always worked well for me especially since I refuse to buy headphones over $40. The store I went to had just stocked Microsoft Life Chat headphones. The ones I saw were $25 so I thought WTH I'll try them out.

When I was looking at them I liked the fact they were well padded. I have noticed when you use foam a lot of the sound is diffused so you have to turn up the volume to make up for this. My old headphones were always kept at 70-100% volume where these Life Chat ones I keep at around 20-25% system volume.

Another pet peeve is the volume control and mute buttons headphones have in the middle of the wire. What usually killed all other headphones I had was the wires inside that casing would come apart. When I would take apart that casing the wires were usually all frayed and up to 20% of them weren't even soldered correct. With the Life Chat headphones the connectors to the mute/volume are very sturdy. They probably aren't as good as a $150 set of headphones but they are much better quality than the others I've tried in the under $40 range.

The sound quality of the Life Chat phones are excellent! I usually keep my in game sounds low and when I'm flying on a drake my headphones rumble slightly giving me a bit of immersion feel. I have played around with various types of music and it has a lot of bass and completely clear sound quality.

This is the first time I have done a review besides replies on online stores from products I've bought but I have been so impressed with the cost and quality for these I had to let you all know. 8o)

Day 6 - Time Played

Today is total time played. I have only listed Autumnn and Treeana because they are my main characters I play. All through BC Autumnn was the only toon I played. Once LK came out I started leveling Treeana and she was 80 for the last 9 months or so for LK.