First, dear John, I will be a massive killjoy and explain something massively basic to you - any “scientific excursion” should be led by someone with, at least, a basic understanding of the terrain he or she excurses into. You exhibit all the signs of someone who is - at best - innocently unfamiliar, at worst, unscientifically indifferent to the world you pertain to be taking this excursion into.

How do I know? Well, for starters, let’s look at your … gasp[1] …  Level 20 Hunter “Gonzorina”. You see, Earthen Ring is a so-called RP server, a place people converge to Roleplay. Your excursion, the setup, its premise, its participants, even your character’s name are essentially contrary to the RP element of the server and, in the case of your guild and character name, violate Blizzard’s RP policy. I am sure HST takes a massive left spin in his grave over your naming yourself a “Gonzo” something, but unlike him Blizzard can act. In fact, me being a massive Killjoy Cow, I’ll make sure to log on and report your name and guild name as well as names like “Mynameisman” right then, and there, for said violations. Or Mr. Bainbridge’s character names, Sciencemag, Computabull, and Price. I bow before your understanding of RP and WoW-RP in particular. I am massively interested to hear all I can about this “convergence” of your “Computabull” Level 30 Elemental-specced Tauren Shaman. Or your Level 20 Hunter, another fine example of your understanding of the environment and theorycraft behind it.

Let’s be clear on this… I am no rabid RPer. I usually don’t get my virtual panties into painful wads over naming convention breaches. But I do, call it a weakness, get annoyed at “scientific” excursions exhibiting massive, even dangerous, flaws like yours. This alone could - and should - call your understanding of the Virtual Ecosystem you claim to be familiar enough to lead through, into question, but it gets better.

One of my absolute favorites in your sessions is the “Anti-capitalist, pro-environmental values in the picture of a priest fighting a deforestation machine.” The priest shown is a Blood Elf, who - according to lore - couldn’t give less of a flying gnome about “anti-capitalism” or “pro-environmentalism”. Oh, you don’t care about lore? Get your pixelated behinds off that RP server, pronto.

Another one is almost as funny - your “undisclosed Alliance location”  which you will attack (iow, grief) after the “sessions” are concluded. I just hope you have a good RP backgrounder for this one, because it’ll be hell to explain why a bunch of Level 5s got two-shot by the spawned guards in Sentinel Hill (yes, it’s kind of dumb to discuss the “undisclosed” location on the same page…). Crushing blows are teh suxz0rz.

In short, this “conference” is ill-conceived. Not something I’d have expected from someone with a nsf.gov email address, and definitely not something that will yield any true scientific results. “It appears,” to quote a guildmate of mine, “to be a boneheaded attempt at starting a guild.” Is it? I don’t know, but Mr. Bainbridge and Mr. Bohannon don’t particularly exhibit an understanding of the very Virtual Ecosystem they’re taking their conference into.

[1] Level 20 can be, easily, reached within 5 hours /played. Anyone claiming to know anything about any ecosysstem after spending five hours in it (and having been exposed to less than ten percent of its extent) needs a serious scientific attitude re-adjustment.

No April fool’s gag. All realms, except a for handful are down right now. My alts on Kul Tiras are up, albeit sluggish[1], Daggerspine and Gnomeregan are down. I called Blizzard on behalf of metblogs and got a “no comment” statement. The friendly PR person on the other side of the phone, however, was nice enough to ensure me, that these downtimes are not related to the extended outages in March 2005 and April 2006 as well as April 2007, which happened, curiosly enough, after a content patches not unlike this one.

[1] The sluggishness and login queues are almost certainly a result of massive waves of level one alt re-rolls invading realms that are currently online. One has to wonder just how addicted a player has to be to taper off to a realm he or she will most certainly never visit again to roll a level one alt.

Not quite ready to give up fully, I first got it into my head to get Conqueror on a character rolled after the Burning Crusade came out. Which, given there’s no AB and WSG rep for tokens anymore, amounts to an average 8,000 Warson Gulch games. Even at twelve a day, which is unlikely given the wait times in my Battlegroup, that’s 666 days (and the number is fascinatingly fitting).

So I decided to try my hand at speedrunning. Hunter to 70 in four days six minutes /played, Warlock in four days, nine hours, twelve minutes, Shaman in about ten (it’s what passes for “balance” these days). Three speed runners later and I am sick of that stuff, too … and have barely passed the fourth week into the BlizzBlues.

Enter Achim, my trusty sidekick, former HWL grinding partner, crazy Ice Cream parlor owner, and avid reader of bad 60s tuppence romance novels. Under his guidance and continued pushing we assembled the team (”we’re getting the band back together,” he proclaims on Vent and is seriously miffed that only half of those in attendance get the reference), and re-rolled.

Building a new guild, a new social structure, a new way of thinking and leveling, while setting new goals and thinking about progression in terms of experience, not bosses, prove to be a daunting task. But somehow we did it. We formed and leveled an Alliance guild on a server none of us had ever played on. We suffered, again, through the indignities of low level pugging in Deathmines, Scarlet Monastery, and Stockades. We filled our guild pool with gold extracted from those of us who accidentally clicked Horde Flight Masters and got two-shot by those enraged wyvverns we formerly rode into the sunset of Tanaris, and we experienced, for the first time in years, Wailing Caverns as a challenging instance (In 2005 WC put the L into L2P, to quote Eyonix). At 60 we entered Molten Core, we slew bosses and trash in Zul’Gurub, we wiped on Nefarian and the trash before the Four Horsemen. The game was fun again.

Thusly invigorated, actually looking forward to log into the game and play for an hour or two, we decided to mash it up once more. This time we’d take everything we’d learned from leveling Alliance and make a Horde guild. There was some apprehension at first, not the least in yours truly. My Horde characters and the new Alliance toons had grown familiar and become attached. That epic flight form was hard work, so was the Paladin’s Cenarion Gryphon. But, in the end, we all agreed - nothing would be lost and much could be gained.

Beating the BlizzBlues takes a few simple rules. Here they are, in case you’re interested in trying our adventure for yourself. And if, for some reason, you feel like trying it with us - we just started and will wait up for you (see Rule #1), join us in our next adventure.

1. Create “stop points”. We suspended leveling at all “nines” (19,29,39,49, and 59), waiting up for those who came a little behind. PvP and tradeskill leveling are good things to do during those breaks. Thanks to the 2.3 leveling speed changes this was never more than two days or less, but it helped us to stay together and experience content as a community, not as individuals.
2. Re-focus on what’s important in the game. Getting to 70 as fast as possible and farming Illidan might be some people’s idea of the games’ only true purpose, but alas taking a handful lowbies at the lower end of the level requirements into Wailing Caverns or Blackrock Depths can be more exciting and rewarding than farming Lootreaver for weeks.
3. Observe the story.Your first character might have been a little bit too occupied with getting the hang of the game while subsequent ones tried to level quickly to catch up to the guild. Stop every once in a while to actually take in the story, it’s what you pay your monthly fee for, might as well enjoy it. Do the long but fun chains such as the Tirion Fordring chain, they’re worth it in terms of entertainment.
4. Play the polar opposite of your current main. I went from a Druid tank to a caster class (my formative roots).
5. Play without compromise with people you totally, completely, and absolutely, trust, respect, and call “friend”. If this means waiting another two weeks to enter Karazhan instead of recruiting someone whose attitude is just “OK” but who could tank/heal/DPS today, wait the two weeks.
6. Don’t make the re-roll your new job. You have a main somewhere else, play it. Take time off from the game, as well. As long as everyone in the team observes this simple rule no one will be stuck too far behind.

The best place to find re-roll guilds is in your current circle of friends. Chances are, some are as burned out as you are and can trade the (understandeable) attachment to their mains for a few hours of refreshingly fun adventures a week on an alt. Or that guy/gal you became best friend with, in game, when both of you were already 70? Wouldn’t it be fun to level with him or her from scratch?

I know I will enjoy our next foray into pre-TBC leveling and playing with a new and old set of friends I never had a chance to level or play with. This time the goal is lofty - Kara cleared by May, but we’re confident we can do it. After all, time and levels fly if you’re having fun.

What about you? Got any prescriptions for the BlizzBlues for those of us who still want to spend time playing?

6. “Cliche of Place” guilds. “Defenders of Azeroth”, “Knights of Stormwind”, “Killers of Hearthglen”. “Heroes of the Horde” are chewed out, cliched, and as unique as Ford F-150s in Dallas, TX. Your guild name should stand for something, not just your inability to think of a good one.

5. Ümløût åbüße - if you can’t spell it without putting accent characters all over the place there’s three reasons. Either the original name is barred from being used, someone else already grabbed it, or you’re just in love with bad 1980’s Amiga BBS jargon. Accent characters stopped being hip when Mötley Crüe sold their second album.

4. Fad names. “Two Draenei one Cup” was funny for a week.  “QQ Pew Pew” for two. Ain’t no more.

3. The “Daddy took me to the movies” guild name. “Spartans” was a good name before 300 was released. “Browncoats” still is, because only insiders get it. It ends there. “House Hufflepuff” is as unlikely to attract players with anything but a two-hour playtime allowance on weekends, after chores and homework, as “Fellowship of the Ring” is.

2. The “what’s so bad about it?” name. “Sapped girls can’t say no”, “Come in the Van”, “Naga stole my bike”, “Your mom is a Horde” are - at best - immature jokes that stopped being funny about a second after they’ve been uttered the first time. Should you find yourself still finding them funny I recommend a deep and long soul searching.

and, finally,

1. Any guild named Drama, Nihilum, Death and Taxes, Aftermath, Premonition, Death Wish or any of the other so-called “bleeding edge” guilds, unless you’re the original. Naming your guild after one of those not only shows a lack of actual creativity, it’s the WoW equivalent of a slightly pudgy teenager wearing a Chicago Bulls 23 shirt and thinking anyone will mistake him for (or think him capable of playing like) Michael Jordan.

So much for guilds. Next time we’ll talk about the top character names that should get their owner kicked in the bee-hind.

The Death Knight will be a plate wearing, dual wielding or 2h wielding, class with a new magic/melee system allowing it to tank and DPS effectively. Tom Chilton mentions that “they will not wield no wussy shields”. Unlike other tanks or casters there will be no rage or mana required to perform the DKs abilities or skills, instead a system of three runes (Blood, Frost, Unholy) arranged into any combination onto six rune slots.

The DK will need to etch those runes onto a sword outside of combat, spent runes will slowly regenerate in combat however.

Basics: there will be two entries into Northrend. Unlike Hellfire Peninsula, which was the way in for everyone, this expansion continent has two “low” level areas. This is, as I am assured after the panel, especially important since there’s no new races/classes to play and everyone will hit the new zones on opening day.

First Area: Howling Fjords. Viking themed. The “Howling Fjord” demo video shows a Fjord with small and larger settlements. Lots of snow.

Second Area: Borean Tundra. This one is Naga themed with the Tuskarr as its native inhabitants. The demo video shows a truly majestic Orc town and a goblin Settlement with an air strip as well as the Tuskarr coastal villages with fishing nets.

Third area, north of the Howling Fjords, Grizzly Hills. Home of the Furbolg. Time to get that rep up, I guess :). Blizz didn’t want to make this yet another “snow” zone, so it’s a lush and very dense Redwood area.

Fourth Zone, Dragonblight. Home of the Blue Dragonflight, which - just as the Burning Crusade last time - seems to the central theme in WotLK. To counter the Blue Dragonflight, the Kirin’Tor unearthed and retconned Dalaran from Arathi to Northrend, placing it hovering over the continent. This will be the Shattrah of Northrend.

Next topic: Death Knights. I’ll address all these things in the DK entry next.

Following: PvP and Battlegorunds. New Battleground with 30-45 minute game times upcoming. Also a PvP zone which is contested even on PvE servers. Siege Weapons and destructible buildings will be available both in the new BG and in the PvP zone.

The ceremony begins with “Where are all my Warlocks at?” - much yeah and boo.

Mike Morhaime comes on, thanks everyone. Shows a bunch of footage from WWI 3 in South Korea and then the Starcraft 3 trailer. We get to see some Terran designs.

Co-Founder Frank Pierce comes on. We’ll get Voice Chat in WoW 2.2. Now you’ll find out the Hot Night Elf Chick is actually a dude. And Guild Banks. No ninja looting the guild bank please.

That’s all cool, but here’s the “one more thing”. Who’s been posting rumors on the Internet? You’re all banned. Yes, there’s a new expansion called Wrath of the Lich King. He’s a baddie, so we’re raising the level cap to 80.

Customizable hair styles, dances. Cool new talents and skills. A new profession - inscription. Allows inscriber to permanently enhance spells and talents. A new continent - Northrend. And the first Hero Class - Death Knight.

Shows trailer.

Trailer shows a Paladin running away from a mob. Everyone laughs. Paladin gets surrounded, someone screams “Bubblehearth”. Everyone laughs. Paladin transforms into a Death Knight, ooohs and aaaahs, Death Knight kills everyone in his path.

Next up WotLK panel and Class Balance panel.

Users: Blizz, please fix Druid range bug.

Blizz: QQ more, lrn2notbecat

or..

Users: Blizz, please fix Mage blink bug

Blizz: QQ more, lrn2notblink

and then, there’s…

Users: Blizz, the Druid “fix” is a bad nerf,
itemization is not up to par with other classes and will lead to a
situation as pre-2.0 come Karazhan.

Blizz: QQ more, nublet, Durid is b 4 heelz.

and, finally, today:

Users: Blizz, why did you disable cross-faction inspects and then introduce the Armory, which produces well-formed XML which can be easily downloaded and - using a 24 line Ruby script - turned into a feed for an addon which basically pre-loads all Arena teams in my Battlegroup and lets me “inspect” them in-game?

Blizz: Here’s a tinfoil hat, troll. Shed more tears, will ya?

… to wit, the “tinfoil hat” is made from “troll tears” and allows users to “see the truth”, which they “can not handle”.

In short, maybe I am overreacting. But to brand everyone who had issues with the Armory as a “crying troll” and prescribe a “tinfoil hat”, basically dismissing all concerns about the Armory, is … well … not very customer-oriented corporate. Or, maybe, Joi will have to rewrite his “Wisdom of Rob Pardo” and rename it “Lessons why it’s bad to hire a bunch of untrained Everquest no-life raiders to define your corporate culture, especially if some of them were the worst trolls and tear-shedding server-crashers in EQ history themselves”.

To this goal, AFKZero traverses the scoreboard and finds players who meet three criteria - more than 100 bonus honor, no damage done, no healing done. The list of such players can then be either just enumerated locally (on your screen) or sent to the Battleground.

This is a first, 20 minute code, start at something I was wanting to write since the new honor system was released - a meshed shaming and blacklisting application. Version 1.0 will not only list and print the offenders, it will also sync offender lists between players who have the AddOn installed, allowing those who are on the same realm as the offender to take appropriate action (imagine my surprise to be informed by a beta test version of 1.0, that one of my former guildies is a honor leech).

There will be some common criticisms of this. First, of course, the fact that anyone can evade the AddOn by simply killing a wolf/ram and add to the damage done listing. That is correct and something I might make configurable in the next version, maybe a threshold of 2x Ram/Wolf or so…

Secondly the reverse criticism. There’s the AFKers whiny response that, indeed, they are not “idle” but are “coordinating” assaults from the cave. It’s a hollow defense and anyone who’s been in an AV since the honor changes knows that. Secondly the “defender” defense. People will claim they are “on D” and not seeing any movement yet. After 100 honor, Horde is usually past Stonehearth (no idea about Alliance, I’d assume the same distance) and Alliance is on Galv. With Alliance on Galv any defender worth his or her salt will be there, stalling Alliance approaches by helping Galv. If that’s not the case it’s akin to AFKing, just outside the cave.

Under all circumstances, you do have the ability to simply show and verify AFK behavior. Print the offenders to the screen and verify they’re really AFK and not “defending the poison goods vendor” or something equally pathetic.

Usage:

Drag the AFKZero folder into your Interface/AddOns directory. In-game type /zero show (or /afkzero show) to locally display all offenders. If you are comfortable with the list, you may report it to /bg by typing /zero avreport.

That’s it so far. Enjoy. If you happen to hate AV AFKers as much as we do, would like to be in a guild with people who love to code, love to theorycraft, and love to progress (all the while not having a GM, long story), come to Kul’Tiras (US), Horde site and look us up. We’re always in the market for more cool people.

You can find AFKZero on Curse Gaming.

It’s my story…

The evening was young. We’d just come back from the movies, don’t ask me which of the many bad “blockbusters” it was, and I’d just hit 58 on my first character, a Priest. I kissed the SO good night, lit one last cigarette outside, opened a fresh can of Diet Coke, and logged into the game. Alterac Valley, I was told, was the ultimate in Battlegrounds. PvP, PvE, multiple objectives, vendors, cities and towers that needed razing, graveyards and graveyard objectives. In short, an epic battle.

I came prepared. With potions, bandages, a bag full of reagents, another bag full of assorted things I’d found useful in World PvP. All greens, not a blue or purple to my name, I zoned in. What followed would change a lot about me, my perception of the game, and whom I am today.

The game had already begun. Running around aimlessly I finally found the Frostwolves to the south and the Wildpaw Cavern I was supposed to get some banner from. And I found a gaggle of epic Alliance who sent me right back to where I’d zoned in. Rezzing I swore revenge, found the Paladin who’d killed me, and manaburned his behind into the next grave yard. I was hooked. That night I didn’t come to bed as I’d promised. The game, already going for more than tree hours, wound up running for nineteen hours straight, and I am proud to say, I was there when Van died, that Sunday early afternoon. When I went to bed I was exhausted, happy, and had a cramp in my left hand. But, man, that AV sure was a cool place to be.

In the weeks following this day, I ranked up. I spent time in WSG and AB, but ultimately always came back to Alterac Valley. I fought Korrak the Bloodrager, even looted a Staff of Hale Magefire from him. I built my portable shredder unit, gained reputation with Frostwolves and the Horde, assaulted and took back mines and towers, and I fought. A lot. As my gear improved so did my survivability. Soon I didn’t bring much potion love into the Valley, anymore. Equally soon I found a group of like thinking people, many of which had seen their share of skirmishes, whom I’d grouped up with. I healed my little heart out, I feared people in circles, and I went and respecced for optimal PvP usefulness.

Time went by and I hit ranks I’d never imagined I’d hit. Soon I was in the grind, finding a group of people who thought, acted, and fought like me. The grind was hard, really hard. I became irritable, my SO told me many a day she’d leave me if I didn’t change back to the casual player and man I’d been before AV, friends stopped calling, and my health went down the drain. But there I was, in Alterac Valley, fighting Gnomes, and Elves, and all the other Alliance adversaries, competing with my own faction for Honor and standing. In due time I hit Rank 13. A decision had to be made. 14? That evening I sat down with my SO. Explained how the past weeks would have been for naught if I didn’t try. Try, at least, I said. And we agreed. 14, then I’d go back to being a casual. Until then, she’d live with my irritability, the lack of face time, the fact that she sometimes had to log into the game and Ventrilo to hear my voice or see me before she went to bed.

When I hit Rank 14, physically leeched dry but happy, I felt something I’d only felt a few times before. The day the love of my life said “Yes”, the day my final PhD thesis paper was accepted, or the day I bought my first car with money saved from working as a printer, coroner’s assistant, and short order cook in a seedy kitchen. Accomplishment doesn’t begin to describe it. Elation, joy, happiness at being … well, I guess, done.

I left Battlegrounds PvP shortly thereafter. Tried to repair some of my relationships, reconciled with the SO and family, and began to work out. AV changed. Korrak the Bloodrager disappeared. Shredder units were removed from the game. The players changed, too.

When I returned to the game, rolling a new priest, AV had become a honor farming ground at the Field of Strife for my server. Alliance and Horde would meet and beat the living noodles out of each other. Then, when honor was diminished enough, they’d race to Van and Drek and end it. Shortly thereafter I switched servers. In the mean time I’d leveled a Warlock and a Shaman to 60, moving my three “big guys” to Kul Tiras. KT didn’t have epic battles, Horde always won (on my previous servers Alliance rarely lost), and the server climate was weird, to say the least. Horde not only tolerated but welcomed Alliance players in Orgrimmar, chatting on Vent and IRC while /spitting on any Horde daring to kill the flagged Alliance. Alliance relied on gear and numbers much more than on skill and class knowledge, a welcome feast in Alterac Valley for me and my, dare I say it, “battle hardened”, friends who’d transferred. Then the NPCs disappeared. The race to Van and Drek got faster. No more six hour stalemates, no more epic battles, no more /afk-ing out for dinner to return to the same AV three hours later.

Cross Server BGs entered the picture not much later. By then my fourth and fifth 60 had entered the game, a Druid and a Hunter. Declaring the Druid my main I decided to aim for Rank 10 once more, trying to get my blue PvP gear. My, how the battlegrounds had changed. Cross server battles removed what little sense of reason, community, responsibility and repercussions had been prevalent. Farmers, unafraid of whatever non-repercussions Blizzard would not dole out, stood in the Cave, laughing at anyone suggesting they move and help win. “Ur ghey, nub” might very well be the number one sentence uttered in those days.

The Big Two Oh hit, and things got worse. Where previously three, maybe four, people AFKed in the Cave, ten now stand. “Let’s just lose fast,” defeatists open the game with. 120 honor, they say, in thirteen minutes, is still a good cut. It’s all about the epics, all about that HWL weapon, all about those glowy shoulders. A little cringe of agony hits my lower intestines every time I see someone in all greens with Rank 13 shoulders. The one piece, arguably, with the worst stats for an epic PvP item, it glows. Reason enough to spend 12,000 honor and a few tokens on it?

Where in the days of server BG we had an agreed upon signal, two waves and a nod, which ceased all conflict and led the Alliance and Horde to some AFK botter for easy killing (me and an Alliance priest had this down to a science, including MCing the other side past hostiles, then watching him or her kill the botter, watch him recall and happily kill his hiney next time we saw them on the battlefield), we now tolerate AFKers, we even welcome them - after all it goes faster if we lose faster…

From this here PvPer, someone who loves World PvP over BG PvP, someone who’s been in AV for a loooong time, now, if you are new to this, I feel sadness for you. You’ll likely never feel that twinge of accomplishment as you buy that epic head and shoulder piece. You’ll likely never become friends with someone you met in AV as much as I have with Gricend, one of the coolest Mages out there. You’ll likely have to listen to people calling you gay, a fag, a nub, or more, for simply suggesting to win this time. You’ll never see Korrak, never send a Shredder into the fray and watch it waste clothies, and you’ll never survive that Gnome rogue just to be slaughtered by a bunch of wandering NPCs in the Field of Strife.

If you never upgraded all your units all the way, had wolf riders out, got a full air assault going while bringing Lok to Dun Baldar and simultaneously kiting Ivus to your cave, you’ll likely never understand what made us tick. If you never sat there at 2am in the morning, chatting with others on Defense about their respective life plans, why they played, knew the names of that Troll Rogue’s children, her husband’s hobbies, and zoned in the next morning to find out how the Orc Warlock’s father’s bypass surgery went, you lost out on something. If you never zoned in to find you knew everyone and knew that every action you took had a direct repercussion, good or bad, outside the Battleground, you missed out.

Yes, it was a mindless grind. Yes, at 4am, nine days into the grind to 14, I found myself mechanically pressing the same buttons, almost like the BWL runs I fled into the battlegrounds from, asleep at the keyboard, but I also knew I would be “done”, one day. When I bought my HWL weapon I did so while reading the “gratz” messages on our forums, I did so through phone calls from guildies wishing me the best during my hiatus. Today, it’s a non-ceremonial act. Get a mace, get it enchanted, get back into BGs to get the next piece.

My name is Hoern. I am a PvPer. And I, for one, miss those days.

There’s an addendum to this. A wishlist of sorts for 2007. A plea for more civility, too.

Blizzard, please. If you read this, give us a way to report botters more intuitively. It shouldn’t be that had to extent over the “Harassment” tab (it is not harassment) and add a “botter, automatic game play” section to the list. Regardless if it’s the bot in Feralas or Winterspring or the guy sitting in the cave to the tune of 0 damage, 0 healing and full bonus honor, if a friend of mine gets a three day suspension for calling someone a douche, why does someone who sours the game for me this way get to be back for the next game?

Play to have fun, to win, not for gear alone. I know this is a hard proposition to make. After all, from end-game guild to PvP grinder, it’s more about the loot than anything else for a lot of people. All I ask of you is to try it, once. Play to have fun. Try new strats, try something new. Your glowy shoulders may have to wait one more day, but come back and tell me you didn’t have fun.

Be civil. I am a prime offender in this one. I use swearwords, I call people names, and no matter how often I resolve to stand back and just play, I aggravate easily. I promise, for 2007, to be more civil in my dealings. Don’t call people names, don’t be a homophobe, don’t be a racist, don’t be a douche. Argue, reason, learn the strategies and evangelize them. I know, in my heart of hearts, that if only a handful of us become advocates of a better BG we can get one.

With that, I bid thee farewell. And that’s about as RP as you’ll ever get me :)

Yours truly, Hoern. Known as Cemetor, Thodt, Cattivo, Srsly, Salvator, and more in BGs and wherever a World Defense message pops up.