Dwarf City

Well, I made a bank alt named Rulero. I like him, he is dressed snazzy and will hopefully make me a ton of gold.

Yes, I managed to fall down here.

There are some really great looking buildings in here.

Just cool!

The gnome stuff makes me dizzy.

Deep in the center of the dwarven city is The Great Forge. I think.

So much to see, so much to do in WoW

Continuing my adventures in World of Warcraft, I have seen a lot of sights. Most of my time in WoW is spent exploring, not killing monsters or doing quests. Hey, must be a draeni thing, we where born to run!

Deep in the forest, you always gotta watch your back! Who knows when you might come to a scary forest in the woods surrounded by undead.

Noone is safe from the undead menace!

Well, that forest was too scary so I went back to the human city. I think this mount sure looks cool.
Here is Ironforge, city of the dwarves!

I looked up at one point in time, and was blown away by this architecture. Very cool.

There was a cute painting in the same place.

Yeah, I think I could study magic here!

Just some sightseeing

Phew! It's been a long month, but I'm pretty much done with my first year of college! I'm proud to say that I have survived, and I'm also happy that this blog continued throughout the year. Well, I could say more, but lets just get into the screenshots. ^^

Yeah, this picture is just awesome.
This is the king of Ironforge or something like that.
Flying on a griffon really is great!
Sometimes dancing just breaks out in the auction house. ^^

Well, that's all for now, thanks for reading!

Deadmines, and a little other travel

Continuing my adventures in World of Warcraft I have made it to the deadmines and the respective area. The deadmines are... well just a mine I guess, but it has some interesting sights inside. I got some great pictures outside too!

This first picture is great. I kinda forgot where I took this, I think it was in the wetlands.
In WoW there are these summoning stones you can use to transport group members to your location. They are always outside of a dungeon or instance.

I was really surprised by the flowing lava in this part of the deadmines. It really has a great effect! I wish I could show it to you in motion. (Maybe someday moving pictures will be really common, like in Harry Potter where it shows the same thing usually but you can see things like water move and lava flow and the characters shuffle now and then)

Deeper in the deadmines you come across this awesome looking ship. And sometimes.... gnomes dancing.

After a few runs through the deadmines, I wanted to just do some exploring, so I decided to take one of the boats I saw and see where it went.

The boat led to the night elf area, which I wasn't terribly interested in, but wandering deeper into the surrounding forest I found this really awesome structure. You know what it reminds me of? If you have ever read The Wheel of Time, it reminds me of the giant magical-amplifier things. But it's obviously stuck into something, and that something seems to be bleeding light... so I don't know. I would be curious to find out just what this structure is and what it is used for.

[EDIT: I just noticed something interesting! Some of these screenshots where taken at night and in the dark, and yet they look fantastic! In EverQuest 2 I couldn't take any night pictures because they would always come out bad]

[EDIT2: Oh, one more thing! I started another blog and I would love it if anyone reading this would take a look. It is almost exactly the same as this blog, only it is pictures from real-life! I will be going to California and Alabama this summer on vacation, so expect some great pictures. Take a look at my new blog: American Roast]

Bloodmyst Isle. Aliens, woot!

I have to say, this Burning Crusade stuff is great! I was really impressed with the Bloodmyst Isle area, and this is where this blog will take us today.
Great shot, too bad the sun only sets once a day in Azeroth or I would get more pictures like this, hehe.
This is the entrance to the Bloodmyst forest. Yes, more crystals.

I like these monsters because they really do look like aliens!
Cool... floaty crystal things. Awesome.
I wonder what that thing is in the distance, looks cool.

Journey into Exodar, land of the crystals.

A good internet friend of mine, Professer, doesn't like Exodar at all. He didn't tell what what it was he didn't like about Exodar, just that it was the architecture. Well, I can only assume he doesn't like the colors and all the crystals. I on the other hand, love Exodar! I don't think I will make it my "home city" but I had fun walking around the city and looking at everything.

This is the first thing you see in the tunnel down into the depths of Exodar. This gives a good taste of the Draeni architecture to come.
Deeper in you see this simply massive crystal hanging down from the ceiling. This really took my breath away!
In a circle around that massive hanging crystal, there are doorways to other parts of Exodar. But this one seems to be closed off from an overgrowth of crystals! Just how well can the draeni control these crystals?
Here is a better view of some of those doors.
This place really is amazing... I can see why it turns off my friend, but I think going in really wild and new directions is a good thing. WoW can do the traditional fantasy well, but I think when it really goes out on a limb like with the crystal stuff that it excels.

Exodar

The boxed set of World of Warcraft comes with the Burning Crusade expansion. Playing the trial, I always eyed those grayed out Draeni and Blood Elf character creation options with envy. So, when I got the expansion, I made myself a Draeni Warrior! I actually liked the starting zone quite a bit, especially the architecture (a friend of mine said he hated it, dunno why). Here are some pictures of my adventures starting there.
Here I am, standing in the place you first start. You can see a crashed spaceship in the distance.
Here is a better look at that spaceship.
There are some great monsters in this area! I love these plant things.
And lots of crystals. A friend of mine hates them, but I like them!
Here is one of the alien's that came along with the Draeni. Very cool, and definitly a good hunter pet.
Of course, you gotta have some blood elfs to kill!
Owlkin are always fun to kill too.
In the distance is the great city of Exodar!
And finally, a little owlkin totem. Nothing major, but I like to take pictures of little stuff like this.

Kitty cat, night elf starting area

The night elf starting area is called, Tertradissl or something like that. It is basically a giant tree, the whole zone is based inside of this tree. Cool stuff! I won't go on and on about the lore of this area, but I will say that I enjoyed it and that I am now interested in WoW's lore. I might even read some of those books! Hey, why not?
Well, CowNoseKitty is a rogue (gah, I always spell it rouge) and this is her sprint effect, gives here this cool little trail behind.
The Night Elfs have this awesome mount, the hypogriff, but in this screenshot you can also see the great tree behind. Notice all the giant roots, cool stuff.
There is an epic flying mount that is probably pretty difficult to get, because you need a huge amount of reputation plus a lot of money. Still, it's very awesome because it looks like this hypogriff except with some armor. Very cool! I will probably try to get it, since I like these guys much better then griffons.
I never knew WoW could be pretty! ^^
This forest does the dark spooky thing really well.
And interesting thing I didn't know, is that WoW runs on real-time. That is to say, a 24-hour day in WoW is a 24-hour day in the real world. What this means is, there is only 1 sunrise and 1 sunset per day in WoW! (unless somehow you can fly fast enough to catch more than one hehe, I suppose that is possible) From a screnshot perspective this is kind of annoying, because it means I won't be able to just camp out for a few hours and wait for the awesome light conditions, but it's also awesome because it makes the sunrise/sunset more special.