Glory of the Hero: New Internets Edition

I am going to try and keep this brief because my eyes are still bleeding. (Full disclosure: I failed at brevity).

Yesterday Marv’s shiny new internet connection that was giving him something like .1 nanosecond ping to the server was installed. About the only thing I know about ping is that they make golf clubs. It was explained to me yesterday (a lot, very many times) that a low number of pingness is: “awesome, incredible”.

“I’m weeping with joy”. -Marviliper

True story. He’s pretty stoked about the new intartoobz. It would not surprise me if this happened shortly after the installer left.

Glory of the Hero: Bait Company Style

Yeah.  As you can see Barklay has a long way to go before he’s any kind of Glorious Hero.

Being a new toon to the World: Barklay was started launch night, leveled up through the Worgen starting area, and then was recruit-a-friend catapulted up to level 60 where he joined Marv for the ultimate in WoW zones:  Hellfire Peninsula.

Marv had pretty much shut down his WoW playing, and was somewhat on the fence to if he was going to make it for Cataclysm.  Fortunately he decided he did want to play again.  A lost authenticator/screwed up account just led to a completely new account for Marv.  All new toons for him. It was a perfect time to start fresh for me, and get back to the class I love the most:  druid.

Lunar Lunacy: Elder Extravaganza

Well: The Chinese New Year must be close because the Lunar Festival is upon us in Azeroth. Or has been for a few days. Or whatever.

The link above has all the history and lore of the event if that is your thing–so click away and enjoy. There is also a guide at WoW Overachiever. I cannot speak to the accuracy of said guide, post-Cataclysm, because my intarwebz journalistic responsibility stops at putting in a link. Fact checking? Yeah right.

My enjoyment of this event has been…let’s just say I’m finished.  Yes. I know. Back in your day you could never fly in old Azeroth, and you had to ride your mount uphill–both ways–at 25% speed. In the snow. That is all irrelevant to the here and now. My Lunar Fest is over and I have a few questions: