 Ophelie  Sunday, 10th of October 2010 at 04:02:24 PM  Another Sunday, another roundup of Shared Topic posts! And this week, I’m actually on time. Take a screenshot since you might never witness a moment like this again.
Last week’s Topic was suggested by the lovely Llani from Pocket Heals who asked us about our character naming habits:
How did you decide upon the name for your character(s)? Did you delve into Norse, Greek, or Roman mythology? Did you choose a name from one of your family members? Did you mash the “Random” name generator button in vain until you stumbled upon something you liked? Is your name a play on aspects of your class, using spells or other traits? Did you play around with syllables, vowels, and consonants until you found something that you loved?
How long did it take you to come up with your name? Do all of your characters share the same ‘theme’ or naming convention? Have you ever run into someone who had a similar name? How did you feel? Does your character have a partner with “the other half” to your name (such as “Salt” and “Pepper”). Do any of your characters have a “themed” guild that goes along with your name? Do you have a nickname that your guild, friends, or significant other has given your character?
Has your character name become your online persona, or maybe the other way around?
Do you have any tips for naming your characters in WoW, or any other game? Resources, name generators, mythology websites, sources of inspiration, etc.
If you are an avid roleplayer, how was your name decided upon by family/friends? Did your character choose the name later in life or were they given it at birth? There are whole stories behind naming/birthday celebrations that I am sure are floating around out there.
So much can be said about names. What does yours say?
Participating were:
Llani from Pocket Heals
Icedragon from Druid Main
Relevart from Relevart’s Druid Reliquary
Dragonray from Azerothian Life
RestoDude from RestoDude
Violet Scribe from The Violet Scribe
Ecclesiasticaldisc from Ecclesiastical Discipline
Syrco from Syrco-Owl
Halophoenix from Azeroth Metblogs
Zinn from Jinxed Thoughts
Moxie from Battle Priestess
Zabine from Life in the Soul Well
Jeffo from Looking for More
Pndrev from Prime Time Casual
Erinys from The Harpy’s Nest
Runzwithfire from Runzwithfire
Windsoar from Jaded Alt
Angelya from Revive & Rejuvenate
Sarindre from Through the Eyes of a Tree
Bigbody from This Is Your Brain on WoW
KiwiRed from One of These Alts
Sionel from Eight Paws
Ophelie from The Bossy Pally and the Giant Spoon
Zahia from One More Alt
Now for this week’s Shared Topic! Do you know of a quest that’s often overlooked? Or how about a really cool spot that happens to be a bit tricky to reach? Or an item of epic coolness that’s slipped under the radar? Let us know! Let us know by writing a blog post about it and sharing the link in the thread over at Blog Azeroth!
And as usual, here’s a peak at our upcoming topics:
WoW Voice in cross-realm dungeons
The Way of the True
Once again, we’re running a bit low on topics, so don’t be shy! Have a topic you’d love to see others discuss? Share it! Head over to the forums at Blog Azeroth and start a thread entitled “Shared Topic Idea: *your idea here*”.
Happy Blogging!
Fimlys Friday, 8th of October 2010 at 03:55:12 PM  For tomorrow nights show (October 9, 2010 – 8pm PDT : http://ustream.tv/channel/twisted-nether-blogcast ) we are going to be taking some time to talk about Blizzcon. “So what else is new?”, I hear you ask.. Well, this time we are going to be talking about the meta-con. Huh? Well, things like:
- What to bring
- What to wear
- Who to hang out with (duh!)
- What will be there
- more…
What is more? Well, that’s where you come in. We need some questions. So, send ‘em in ASAP so we can get them in the show tomorrow night. Even if you aren’t going to the convention but have ideas for things people might want to know. Or.. If you have your own TIPS, TRICKS, TRAPS, etc.. Send them in too, we’ll read them on the air.
Our guest this week will be Pocket from the Slash AFK webcomic and the 3 Girl one Group Podcast. Be there or be SQR.
Fimlys Wednesday, 6th of October 2010 at 03:43:25 PM
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We’re back.. Again.. Getting back to the normal routine now, we still don’t have an interview guest but once again Daewin joins Fim (no donuts were harmed in the recording of this episode) as they talk about a bunch of new news (isn’t that why they call it news?). We’re back to running through each of our segments and, despite the short length of this show, we get through a lot of stuff!
SPOILER ALERT! WE TALK ABOUT CATACLYSM!
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Rilandune Monday, 4th of October 2010 at 07:29:42 PM Greetings folks!
Just a quick note here to start, my name is Rilandune and I’ll be taking over the Resource Spotlight here on Twisted Nether. I hope to fill the role well and keep the spotlight going to the excellent standards set by Arthemystia. I also produce the Addon Junkie segments on the podcast, so in either role if you want to contact me with any questions, ideas, or shouts of anger and dismay, you can do so by emailing me at rilandune at gmail dot com.
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“A healer heals, always.” Billy Crystal said that in “Throw Momma from the Train.” Actually what he said was “a writer writes, always,” which is good advice indeed. But if you want to heal always, and write always for that matter, than you’re idol must certainly be Matticus from such things as World of Matticus and Wow.com
This weeks spotlight is going to be covering Plus Heal (www.plusheal.com), a community for healers by healers, covering all aspects of healing in the World of Warcraft.
Matt was so kind as to answer a few questions about the community, so take a read at what the founder has to say about this weeks spotlight:
1) How long has Plus Heal been active?
Matticus: Plus Heal opened its doors around August of 2008. The community has been growing for a little over 2 years now.
2) Would you describe Plus Heal as a resource site or a healing specific community, with more active discussion than graphs and documentation?
Matticus: Its more of a healing specific community than anything else. I’ve always wanted to expand into a website front end with organized content, but I simply don’t have the time nor the technical expertise to pull it off right now with the numerous projects I’m invested in. The people in the community contribute a wide variety of advice including numbers, graphs and practical applications. Some people excel at different things and the combined knowledge from the assorted viewpoints is huge.
3) What are the main focuses of the community, if any?
Matticus: I wouldn’t say there’s a main focus (other than healing). We’ve got class specific forums, theorycrafting, raid strategy and some PvP forums. If its healing related, its up for discussion.
4) Would you say Plus Heal is an easy environment for the new WoW player to become acclimated into?
Matticus: The moderation team (a wonderful crew, thanks to them for their hard work) and the rest of the community on Plus Heal do try to make things as comfortable as possible. Especially with the special stress that comes with healing, the atmosphere is fairly easy going (until you get into the math threads, in which case bring advil).
5) What Canadian beer do you prefer and do you actually live in an igloo?
Matticus: Sleeman’s for me, and indeed we do. I upgraded to a two bedroom igloo. In fact, we just got running water and power last week. ^^
Please take a trip over to Plus Heal, whether you are a healer yourself, healer curious, or even a raid leader looking for a greater understanding of one of the core roles in WoW. Make sure to hug the healer in your next heroic random, I promise you, they could use it.
Cheers!
~Rilandune
Ophelie Sunday, 3rd of October 2010 at 04:47:13 PM The Shared Topics for the past two weeks were a little elaborate. As a result, we only had a handful of people tackle them. Let me assure you, though, that those who did take a go at them did an incredible job. I suggest you all check out each one of these posts, it’s well worth it.
The first topic was a suggestion of Pndrev from Primetime Casual. He started a little game: mixing and matching talent trees from different classes to create a brand new class:
It’s quite simple. We’ll do it LEGO style. Take each available talent tree (either WotLK or Cata, if you’re in the Beta). Shake. Pick three.
To elaborate: Out of all the talent trees available, if you could freely choose three to create your own, ‘custom’ class, which ones would you choose? This is something that a few small budget roguelikes or diablo clones do, and it’s fun to ponder if this would work in WoW as well.
Your starting class gives you the skills to work with. You may take for granted that all talents that enhance a class skill also automatically give you that skill. You must have at least one talent tree of your chosen starting class.
Rising to the challenge were:
Dragonray from Azerothian Life
Pndrv of Primetime Casual
Sarindre from Through the Eyes of a Tree
Natalie from Pocket Heals
Violet Scribe from The Violet Scribe
Excandersham from Excandersham’s WoW Guides
As for last week’s Topic, it was brought to you by Runzwithfire from the blog Runzwithfire and touches on the controversial topic: Games as Art, is it possible with WoW?
could an MMORPG start incorporating some of the feature we take for granted in singleplayer RPGs? Rather than the “get quest, kill x number of things, hand in quest” formula, could we start seeing multiple ways to complete a quest? Could there be moral choices to be made, with an outcome that will affect both you as a player (emotional involvement) and your character (rewards/penalties). Larisa at The Pigtail Inn has already alluded to a similar idea.
Ithink I’ll pop this up as a discussion topic on my site with a full post later, but I’d love to see what other people in the blogosphere think of it. Could it be done? If so, how would you do it? What would you like to see? Would it take away from what WoW essentially is?
Offering their thoughts are:
Windsoar from Jaded Alt
Runzwithfire from Runzwithfire
Natalie from Pocket Heals
As for this upcoming week, we talk about names. Names for our characters, for our online personas. How did you choose your name(s)? What does it/do they mean to you? Blog about it and share a link to your post back at Blog Azeroth!
As for other upcoming topics, check out:
World of Warcraft secrets
WoW Voice in cross-realm dungeons
And, once again, we’re running a bit low on topics, so if there’s something you want to read about, suggest it as a Shared Topics over at Blog Azeroth!
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