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The Guild Season 5 ” Episode 9  ‘”Invite accepted”  Fawkes says to Codex

“Codex  I am a lone unarmed paladin in a Pvp wasteland whose god has forsaken him…….   Crit heal my loneliness.”

/melts

Ok we know he was a douche. Don’t date the bad boy – even if he is a gamer ( and pallys seem to be the biggest charmers in game ….. )

The particular line  “Crit heal my loneliness ” though,  seems to be  more about him joining Codex’s guild because his fell apart,  then about wanting to get back with her, but I like it because it means something a little bit different to me.

You can take what you want from the line, but I’ll take it as “Overflow my health bar with life and happiness” or even “give me somewhere that I belong”

I was trying to think of any  girl,  that I have met in guilds, over what is years,  that had never been involved with a boy from wow, even once,  and I include  online only relationships,  and real life ones here, girls that came to the game on their own,  and girls that were bought here by partners.   Only one comes to mind,  she never spoke on vent,  but I believe she was a much older lady.

There has been inter-state, inter-country,  marriages, divorces, babies,drama, failures and successes,  girls that got around,  guys that got around, cheaters, two timers, lovey dovey couples, and people who kept their relationship secret, its like real life,  some work, some don’t, but it seems to happen a lot.  I know Wow creates a better environment where there is opportunity to meet like minded people, there are guilds,  there is vent,   ( and yes, sometimes lots of drama)

I think the girl/boy ratio makes it easier for girls to find like-minded boys in wow,   but you don’t run around stormwind with a ” lf bf who shares  “these interests” Lives” ** miles/kilometers  near me is in “this” age bracket. You can walk past someone in the street  that you know in-game, and not know who they are ( unless they are on your facebook, and you stare at them rudely thinking that they look familiar and then check with them next you see them on wow ” were you wearing….  today near this street in the city at this time” ( true story that)

I have kept my inner cynic and still put more importance in a relationship being real when you can be physically close, at least sometimes, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t get emotionally involved when it’s not, and I know male and female players in-game who can say they have been there and gotten hurt.

But sometimes you can meet someone under unexpected circumstances  and they end up on your friends list,  you speak to them in some way on a daily basis, and then you look forward to seeing them as often as you can ( IRL). Sometimes it makes sense, even when there sometimes is a stateline between you.

Battle standards increase health of all players within 45 yards by 15%, but they only have 1500 health,  this means that they are very fragile and can be affected by AOE. Lasts for 2 min, and has a 10 min cool down.

Where and how you place the flag can make a massive difference to a battle,  defence, or offense.   They only cost 500 honor to buy so more people have and use them,  this also means that more people recognise what they are and will target them. Hiding the flag in a strategic location can mean you keep the health buff longer, letting you survive longer and perhaps overpower the position.  So think about where you put it.  Plopping it down in the mid of a battle melee will mean you will usually lose it rather quickly. Try and keep it out of sight, and out of AOE

In Battle for Gilneas hide the flag in a hut,  the huts are close enough to the flag, and not many people go in there, or hide it IN the node. ( yes that’s me babysitting WW again.. ) It will also work in Arathi Basin as well.  ( but if the node is getting AOE’d then you will lose your flag.) So it is more useful when you have an incoming force or they are fighting from range ,  I wouldn’t put it in the flag if you are fighting over it but you can get lucky and no one will notice it.. ( then you stick it in the hut)   In AV when you’re in a tower,  try to stick it at the back as well to avoid Aoe.

Or you can hide it in a tree.. ( Lets play “Where’s the battle standard”

In WSG and Twin Peaks, use it in the flag room  try and get it as close in the corner as possible, and away from the direction the other team is attacking so it stays out of sight, tucking it into the corner makes it harder to see, or you can put it in on the 2nd level of twin peaks   or if in WSG the little room,

In Strand of the Ancients when your defense,  put it under the dock.  None of the opposition will go under there, and they wont be able to target it.

So next time you plant a flag,  have a look around and think,   ( only for a nanosecond) where else can I put it to be of more use longer..

I’ve seen some Wow Google + profiles disappear,  disinterest or victims of the naming policy, not sure.

But if your interested I now have a Google + badge on my side bar.   I am not promising you anything exciting if you add me though. Because of the naming policy I am using my real name. So it’s not just wow stuff, it’s me stuff ( when I use it)  I am currently bombarding my FB friends with everything from book reviews to political rants and telephone company complaints ( no such thing as loyalty I tell you) Not quite gotten into that kind of swing with G+  I need G+ to get more slightly integrated into my web browsing – and I need  all the places I have liked, and want to follow as a mini Rss feed on facebook to have the same or comparable presence on G+  and until that happens then I need to use both.

Between facebook and google it’s supposed to be a new age of real names online.  For the record I don’t like this age, because it comes down to  identity, and who I am.   There were days where more people would call me Zahrah, or Zah then Sarah, but real identity policy means I am Sarah first.

You can argue that Blizzard did something similar with Real Id,   forcing us to show real names to access some services, and we can remember the community backlash when they wanted real names on forums.

When I play wow,  or blog about Wow,  I am not Sarah first

I glad that WordPress is not connected to Google, because  I would like to keep my Wow player blog identity.

I am not sure if the opening up of Google Plus to the public will mean more people will use it,  most people I know are using Facebook and Google + in-tandem  and the people who really wanted an invite before the release made sure they got one.

The naming policy,  for the record is disappointing,  you can be known in the real world by many names,  but you have a legal identity,  one that you sign all your documents with, open your bank accounts with,  put on your child’s birth certificate.  Legal,  life binding, changing things, but I will call my mum, mum, mummy, I have a grammy, and used to have a  Grandad,  and I used to have a Nana, and Pop,  I get called Sarah, Sair Zah, Z,  two people have gotten away with calling me Sair bear.. and  you know me as Pugnacious Priest or Zahraah , or if I’m on an Alt, Zah, Zip, Zoph   and over the years I have granted, called and identified people by Nic names, or handles,  web id’s,  Wow toon names,  there’s no deceit in that,  no one is committing fraud by being known as that name.  its life, its community,  its society, its family.

I am more than just my birth name, I am a special snowflake..

But anyways It’s there if you like