Shared Topic: Does Your Toon Have a Soul?

This week’s Shared Topic is brought to us by Warpy of The Warlock’s Den, and ponders whether your character has a soul or a mind of its own.

Even if you’re not a role-player, you may have noticed your toons having their own personalities and preferences. My dwarf hunter, for example, is one of those typical crazy engineers, won’t learn bow skill, and abandons pets that don’t match his armor. But, he has a cool roflcopter!

Trystan finds that his character has some rather exacting habits, but she is difficult to talk about personality wise.

If you think that your character has certain traits which you didn’t give them, or if you are just interested to see the Shared Topics, head on over to the Blog Azeroth Forums.  Remember, the Shared Topics are made even better by your participation!  Thankyou to all the bloggers who have a go at these topics each week.

Shared Topic: What Three Achievements Are You Most Proud Of?

This week’s Shared Topic comes from Saithir of The Angry Dwarfs, and asks bloggers to consider which three achievements they have completed that they are most proud of.  For many bloggers, this is a big ask, with so many dedicated achievement grabbers out there!  Saithir issued the following challenge

I’ve had this question ringing in my head for a while now. As it seems, it has been a topic on the US Warcraft forums (which I didn’t know even existed before the WI article), and it even become a Breakfast Topic on WoW Insider some days ago, so I guess that I’m not the only one that had that idea. And I think that’s a really good question to ask. After all, we’re doing these achievements, and not all of these are even remotely hard to get. Still, I don’t think it’s easy to choose one of them, so how about three? Let’s try that! :]

This topic has drawn a huge response from the community, with many bloggers jumping on the bandwagon to ponder what their three favourite achievements are.

Trustyn from The Elitists explores this in a unique way, highlighting the difficulty of the meta achievements and the struggle involved.

Naissa from Naissa’s Rage talks about her three favourite achievements and why they appeal to her – not always what you would expect!

Skarrde from Tank 2 Heals shares the achievements that he is currently working on, and something he thinks should be an achievement.

Athryn from Athryn’s Tier discusses cutting back on the achievement grabbing, and what 3 (of many!) are the best ones of all.

It’s great to see the community embracing the Shared Topic, but it can not continue without your help!  if there is something you think would make a really great discussion point, go on over to the Blog Azeroth forum and share it.  Also, make sure you check the Shared Topic each week to see what’s happening.

Episode 39 – Eye of the Hunter

logo This week we have Lassirra from The Hunters Mark as our Blogger of the Week. We sat down “in front” of a “live” chatroom and discussed Huntering and Bloggering..

Also, sorry about the sound quality this week. We were having some Mic clipping..

— Continue reading Episode 39 — Eye of the Hunter —

TNB Live This Friday!

I’m moving this post up because it’s a REDO!! Yes, we’re doing the interview with Lass tonight, Mar 27.. Updated the post below to the new info…

We are going forth with our new format! Join us as we interview the wonderful Lassirra from The Hunter’s Mark.

That’s great Bre, stop selling the darn thing, and tell me when it is!

The show is scheduled for tonight, Friday, March 27th at 12:30 am EST

Okay that is a start, now where do I go?

To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Ustream show and use the password tnb73 (the password is caps sensitive. Only use lowercase)

See, easy!

Some general ground rules:

  1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
  2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow!

Hope to see you there!

Netherhood Welcome Wagon – Trustyn from Zap!

tnb-welcome2Welcome to Trustyn of Zap! – The Elitist, Hardcore Blog!

This guy does a lot. In asking him for some background information for this post, I received a decent shock at just how much this author has on his plate, and how much he is doing. Besides his blog (which I will get to officially in a moment), he has a podcast, youtube channel, is writing a book, collaborating on a comic book, and is going to university to be a teacher. And, of course, he plays WoW. Not only that, but he’s a “hardcore” raider, which implies his investment in the game is much more serious than many.

Trustyn has been playing since shortly after release in 2004, and has raided everything from Molten Core to the original Naxx to Sunwell to every WotLK heroic achievement but Immortal. Despite his title (and the title of his podcast, The Elitist), he’s actually against the stereotype of the “social outcast jerks” stereotype about hardcore raiders. He’s played a rogue, paladin, warrior and his current main is a shaman.

He talks about addons and preparations for finding a guild, as well as his own shot at love, and so many others. He’s been blogging since February, so he’s very new to the game, but it seems to be going swimmingly so far. He does his own podcast every week covering WoW news, and it’s worth checking out. I can’t wait to see where this blog goes next.

Welcome to the Blogosphere, Trustyn!

Every Friday, Bellwether from 4 Haelz is bringing you the Welcome Wagon, introducing new bloggers and great reads. If you know of a new blog to the scene or wish to get your name out there, please send an e-mail to 4haelz AT gmail DOT com with the subject line “Welcome Wagon.” She’ll do her best to highlight as many as possible!