There are many things that I have always wished tailors could do. Of course, being that I have just gotten out of bed and have an hour before I have to go to school, I can guarantee half of them will have vanished into the ether.  I’ll give it the old college try, hey?

1. Basic repairs

I have always wished that tailors who happened to be cloth wearers (so, the vast majority of us) could perform some minor repairs to our clothing. I have always viewed tailoring as a bit of a money sink (Never having made money off it because selling bags is rarely successful, and I am too lazy to sell the specialised cloth), and something which would help us save money would be great.

2. A tailor-only, BoP bag

Tailors can make an astounding array of bags. However, I think we should be rewarded for our goodness in making bags for all by giving us a larger than usual bag pattern, just for ourselves. Doesn’t really hurt the other classes, doesn’t force people into tailoring like the epic sets did for min-maxers… just a nice reward.

3. For the girls

I know my female bank alts would love a cute handbag offhand! Not so sure what I would make the guys though… a pointless hand puppet? An oversize wallet? *shrug* A briefcase would go well with my banker’s tuxedo, but that would of course require a leatherworker. Drat. Of course, most people would kill to have a genuine Saresa handbag, especially after some clever marketing in the Trade channel.

4. Discoveries!

I am firmly of the opinion that all professions should have some form of discovery. Of course, discoveries work well with alchemy because alchemists are making things all the time. However, I would have loved to have discovery attached to tailoring while I was levelling as some form of reward for making umpteen zillion of the same pair of pants.

5. Embellishment

Thanks to Nibuca for the suggestion when I was stuck, it would be wonderful if tailors could add a customised symbol to their cloaks (similar to tabard symbols I guess). What would Sar have? A Felhunter rampant of course!!

Improvements implemented in the patch/expansion which I loooove:

- Flying mount in the form of a flying carpet

- Increased chance of getting cloth drops off humanoids – FINALLY

This post has been brought to you courtesy of PixelatedExectutioner via another BlogAzeroth Shared Topic

A new shared topic over at BA is ‘What would be your character’s theme song’? Of course, Sar’s sheer awesomeness means that she doesn’t get just one song – she gets about 10! I decided that I would look at 5 of these from a raid perspective, start to end.

1. “I Want Candy” – Aaron Carter

One of the first things every one wants when we enter a raid is healthstones. Suddenly, there is a chorus “Where’s the Candy? Where’s the Cookies?”. If you really hate the thought of Aaron Carter – so if you are sane – you can substitute for Cookie Monster singing ‘CookieCookieCookie!’

2. “Fuel” – Metallica

Can you think of any better song for “More DPS damnit!!” Just the first few lines alone capture the feeling of being a pewpew DPS machine.

3. “Who Will Save Your Soul[s]” – Jewel (I threw in the ‘s’)

Why, I will of course! In a nice shiny shard bag, to feed to my demons. Provided, of course, there’s plenty of trash to save them from.

4. “Gloomy Sunday” – Rezso Seress

Warlocks are infamous for killing themselves at the drop of a hat, especially if a wipe looks remotely likely. For something less obscure, also listen to “Killing me Softly” – the Fugees (and many many other people), or “Chop Suey!” by System of a Down

5. “Bring Me To Life” – Evanescence

Who is it that brings that rezzer back to life to rez your bums? Us locks! Now where would you be without a Soulstone?

What songs would you use for your character? Do tell!

Succubus? Bat? Demonic Gryphon? What would be the perfect flying form for a Warlock? That my friends is the question posed in this week’s Blog Azeroth Shared Topic! I am a fan of the shared topic, I must admit, since a) it helps me beat the writer’s block and b) it tends to bring some more traffic over here, and when we are sharing the love I do like to get greedy and hog more than my fair share!

I have long had gripes about the lack of a Warlock class flying mount. I had gotten somewhat accustomed to getting my mounts through quest chains, and really hated the idea of riding a boring old gryphon. I’m a lock, I am meant to be above that sort of lowly peon transportation, best suited to Mages and those other pesky people (you know – Hunters, Druids, Warriors, Shaman, Rogues, Priests and Paladins). However, I have often wondered what I should ride, should Blizzard be kind enough to come to their senses and give me a flying mount.

I used to just ponder upon the demonic creatures which have wings, but you know what? Some of them have faces! Most of them have faces! I can’t ride something with a human like face! Can you imagine the jokes? Eeeeeeep. So, that rules out succubi, other random winged demons, and also Illidan, despite the fact that would be kinda cool.

So… something winged and not with a human like face. Well, after seeing the absolutely laughable skeletal gryphon, I don’t want anything gryphon related. I want it to be memorable, or distinctly warlock-y.

Nah, a demon rabbit makes NO sense. In all honesty, I think a demonic unicorn would be spectacular. I absolutely adore my Dreadsteed, so if he could fly that would be pretty nice. I could also cheat and say that since Druids get to shift into their flying mount, Warlocks should turn into a flying demon – perhaps a weird evil fairy for gnomes hehe. Humans of course would be succubi (yes, even if you are a man!). I’ll leave the horde mounts up to you guys.

As a completely unrelated aside, I have made another vid, despite proclaiming I wasn’t going to until I got a new camera. I won’t put it on here, because it isn’t really relevant – it’s a response to TJ’s video. I took the ‘remove glasses’ advice, and so am pulling weird faces when I try to read. Not to mention it is also super quiet due to bad microphone placement. Next time I may have to wear my headset – scary!

Edit: How about a demonic flying murloc?????

… OK, so they aren’t really. However, this is this weeks BA shared topic (brought to us by Lasira, inspired by Matticus). What would YOU do if you found out that WoW was ending in five hours time… forever?

Personally, I found this to be a really difficult question to answer. 5 hours? Eeeep! The first thing I would do would be to try to round up all of my old friends from across Cenarius. I would really want to share my last few hours in the game with them. From there, well, the list of things that I would like to do would be HUGE!

1. Raid a Horde city – Yes, I have never ever raided a Horde city. I really am not much of a PvPer, and raiding a city never appealed to me. In fact, it just doesn’t seem to happen all that often at all anymore anyway. Occasionally there is a Crossroads raid happening, but killing a bunch of lowbies never appealed to me. It does look like it could be fun though!

2. Explore all my unexplored areas of the map – I am sure that I do have a couple of places lying round… Horde starting areas, all that sort of stuff. I think there may be a couple of tiny hidden areas in some places still… and most of Kalimdor, come to think of it. I never did like questing there!

3. Wipe for old time’s sake on some of the world dragons – Heaven knows that my friends and I have done this sort of stuff enough, but it is some of the best fun that I ever had!

4. Go run round a couple of Azeroth raids, simply because I never got to see them – Have I set foot in Onyxia’s Lair? Nope. (although I am attuned). Ventured into Molten Core? Nope! I have set foot once I think into ZG… for about 5 seconds. Then I died. So I would definitely have to do that.

5. Finally, get the contact details for all my really good friends – ’nuff said. I can normally find them in WoW, but if it didn’t exist anymore, I would have to be able to talk to them some other way!

“So, what would you do, if your mother (or me in this case) asked you?” (to paraphrase Dr Seuss)

Yet another wonderful shared topic brought to you by the folks at BlogAzeroth

Cathmor challenged us to write a post about our top ten WoW memories. Now, I think it is going to be challenging for me to come up with my top ten, rank them, AND make these events interesting for other people to read. However, since I do love a challenge, I will try my best!

10 – Levelling to 70 for the second time

I think that this deserves its own little mention because I found that the process of levelling an alt was a difficult one for me. As a player who doesn’t engage well in solo play, the long grind to 70 was especially painful. So when it was all over, I cheered!

9 – My first ever epic

Athough my first epic was awfully ‘cheap’ and nasty, it was still my first. And I was excited. So zip it about the non-epicness of my Seal of the Exorcist!

8 – My first raid with Arcis

My first raid with Arcis was simply wonderful. Everyone was very nice and friendly, and I scored a great first ever drop: Cord of Screaming Terrors

7 – Getting my imp Dagpep

There still is nothing more exciting in my mind when it comes to levelling a warlock than getting your first pet, seeing what his name will be, and dragging his poor sorry behind with you around Azeroth. poor Dagpep, he has been through so much – no wonder he curses my name when I summon him!

6 – Levelling tailoring to 375

I levelled my tailoring up properly well after I hit 70 – I was far too cheap and lazy while I was levelling to do it, and had incredibly poor gold management skills, so I could never afford the mats. With a great deal of help from friends and guildmates, I finally got there, and crafted my full Frozen Shadoweave Set!

5 – The Five Man Ironman

I have written a post about this before, really not much to be said!

4 – My first raid – Karazhan

My first foray into Karazhan was a fun filled adventure with nine other guildies, some of us experiencing our first ‘real’ raid. We successfully downed Attumen after a couple of tries, and spent the next few weeks butting our heads against Moroes. Great times!

3 – Hitting 70 on Saresa

Your first ever 70 is a pretty big deal. I was so excited to be the same level as all my friends, and to be able to play with the ‘big boys’ (and Girls!) now.

2 – Creating this Blog

OK, so technically it’s kinda cheating, since it isn’t a WoW moment as such. However, if it weren’t for WoW, I wouldn’t have this blog, and I wouldn’t have the opportunity to enjoy writing and talking with fellow players.

1 – The moment I realised I had found a home in Dying Breed

Finding a group of friends who accepted who I was, liked who I was, and got along with was simply the most wonderful part of World of Warcraft. I would even say that these people are more than my friends now – they are like members of my family.

Most of my favourite memories in World of Warcraft are to do with people. To me, WoW is people (a mantra I have said here many times). The reason I continue to play is the people. I love all of my friends in WoW as much as I value my friends in real life.

Close Runners Up

Venturing into a series of Arena Battles equipped with a Fishing Rod (total accident, I assure you… but hilarious).

Random fun with a couple of friends wiping on world dragons. Repeatedly.

Speaking of World Dragons – the massive failed raid against the dragon in Darkshire. He pwned masses of us – yet we kept going back for more!

The wonderful people at BlogAzeroth have again combined to bring you a shared topic “Preparing for Wrath of the Lich King”. This wee morsel here is my contribution – there are many more tasty snacks awaiting you out there in the vast world of WoW Blogging.

So, Illidan told us we were not prepared for Burning Crusade. That we had no idea what was lying in store for us, out in that mysterious world called ‘Outland’. To some extent, he was right (of course, I venture that Sillydan was even less prepared for us!) The first foray through the portal was literally like venturing into a new world, one completely unlike that which we had seen in Azeroth. Under a many mooned sky, we bravely killed strange creatures from an even stranger land, combating them as well as the contagious insanity of NPC’s who had been stranded in this forsaken land for just a little too long.

Will our first forays into Northrend feel the same? Already anticipation is building – I look at the screenshots in wonder at the beautiful landscapes Blizzard has produced, and marvel at the ice and snow (did I ever mention I am a winter freak?). I sometimes wonder if it will feel the same as when Burning Crusade began….

Here is the point where I best come out with ‘the truth’. The awful truth is – I wasn’t playing WoW when Burning Crusade came out. At that point I was a mere level 40ish Warlock, abandoned and lonely somewhere around Stranglethorn Vale while her master went off to persue real life goals (This is back in the day when I had a darn good figure because I went to the gym every day!) I missed the ‘excitement’ of fighting people for kills, repeated deaths doing the world PvP quest… When I first set foot into Outland, Burning Crusade had been out for a long time, and the area was deserted. I was lucky enough to have a levelling partner for a couple of levels while a friend worked on their alt, but he soon zoomed ahead of me, and I was left to trudge through Outland alone. Defenseless against those nasty pigs, looking at me like I was a nice, tasty snack. So my experience of the Burning Crusade is vastly different to the one I will have of Wrath.

However, some of the concerns that people are having still apply to me now I guess. I just can not compare and contrast with the advent of Burning Crusade, so what is new to me is old hat to you.

One of the major concerns for me in Wrath is how I will go about levelling two, or possibly three characters (depending on how motivated I am to level my priest!). I think it really is a major decision. Do you level your main, racing along with everyone else, and then bring your alts up behind them? Or do you try and level all of your characters concurrently, and try your best to not fall behind other characters? Personally I think I will focus on my main, but try to bring my alts up not far behind her so that I do have the ‘trifecta’ and can slip into most any role where necessary. I could never abandon Sar, and she has always been my main focus. I am especially looking forward to finding which way her character will go in the expansion. Will warlocks revert back to their pre BC orientation of support class, being the best debuffers in the game? Or will they retain their post BC incarnation, being damage dealers of immense power, valued in raids for their damage output and various ‘stones’. With my alts, I really haven’t been playing them long enough to get a huge interest in what they will be doing in Wrath. I am still trying to learn exactly what they are doing now!

Another consideration is how to level your characters. Will I respec out of my beloved Destro spec? I KNOW that Destruction is incredibly weak for levelling, I have been there and done that. However, it will be immensely difficult for me to leave Destruction and consider a Demonology build. I will forever be missing my immense Shadow Bolts. I have also basically never been anything other than Destruction (I was Affliction until level 15, and I have made incredibly brief forays into other specs at 70 – these weird happenings generally don’t last any longer than a day). This consideration affects people in every class. Will healers stay as healers, or change to their various damage dealing specs? Will prot warriors and paladins respec? While these roles will always be in demand for instances, they will be less efficient soloers. Of course, with my propensity to grouping anyway, the odds are I will be doing much of my levelling through instances.

The thing that I am most looking forward to though? A new cinematic! Yes, yes, it’s lame, but I am sure I have mentioned this before – I just adore Blizzard’s cinematics. They always make me feel so excited about playing the game, and occasionally bring a tear to my eye (or make me laugh sometimes!).