To buy or not to buy?

Be.Imba lists my hunter as a nooby green geared wannabe, who should stick to struggling at heroics.
But (post-patch at least) he's more than capable of holding his own in T4 raids, and has made one T5 attempt.
Since then I've picked up a couple of the welfare epics from the Argent Dawn event, but only as a side effect. Grouped with some other Munquis I picked up 3 epics, a new tabard, a couple of trinkets and alot of fun, all within about an hour.
We also carried on to do the HeadlessHorseman, who dropped me a usable epic ring too [Ring of Ghoulish Delight]. Stingy git wouldn't give up his horse though.

Last night, after getting bored with just grinding money for my epic flyer (am I really going to need it, since you can't fly in Northrend until later levels anyway?) I decided to check out what my rep rewards could buy me.
I spotted a pair of nice blue [Bombadier's Dagger] from the SSO vendor to replace my 'Green' [Legend's Glaive of the Bandit], 80g later and I check my stats to find that they're worse in every way apart from a, just under, 1% increased crit chance. No thanks.
Sold them back to the vendor for 9g each... Ouch! and went back to my good-old green.

Be.Imba can tell me that my gear sucks, for all I care. I'm not planning on jumping ship to a raiding guild, and my freinds and Guildies know they can rely on me to deliver the DPS needed.
If I'm doing something for the fun of it, I might pick up the odd epic, but I'm happy with what I've got, although it does make me wonder just how much DPS I could squeeze out of him if he was epic'd.

Maybe I'll just try and pick up the pants to go with my Argent Dawn set. And maybe a new helm.... and a set of gloves... Hmmmm.

Pre-Lich Playing

With the Wrath of the Lich King due out soon, for the last few weeks I've been wondering what to do with my time in-game.
I don't want to waste it, but I'm not interested in collecting Epic's that will be worthless soon either.

The Munquis are a non-hardcore guild, but we do plenty of raids so there's plenty of choice for me when I'm online, but my game-time is a bit hit and miss at the moment, so I decided to do a couple of things:

1 - Level my Hunter to 70, and learn to play it properly. (Making it only my 2nd lvl 70)
2 - Save money and buy myself an Epic Flyer (For the first time ever)
3 - Maybe level my gathering skills

Well I've reached lvl 70 with Smythy and I'd say I'm pretty good at playing the character, I'm a PvE player by the way. As an indicator, the day after I dinged 70 I was invited to Zul'Aman, despite having entirely lvl 65ish green gear. I was 3rd in the damage meters, behind only Vind and Bolle (who are both extremely good players, and seriously epic'd), my DPS averaging 1k per second. Pleased with my performance, things only got better when the final boss dropped an Epic Bow for me. Kachiing! (Easiest 5 minutes work I've ever done).

So I'll count number 1 as completed, onto number 2.

This is taking ages, I'm currently upto 2.7k Gold but with limited play time, I'm restricted to the SSO dailies and whatever I can make from the AH. It's looking doubtful that I'll be flying anything faster until WotLK.
So number 2 is ongoing, and number 3 is at a standstill, my Leatherworking maxed itself out on the way to 70, but my herbalism is currently stuck at 203. Oh well, as Meatloaf should have said "1 out of 3 aint bad".

The Blog Begins

"Hi" to anyone who decides to read this.
To be honest, I'm starting to wonder why I didn't start a blog sooner.
I'd consider myself to be extremely computer literate, and have been using forums, chatrooms, myspace, facebook, blah blah blah etc etc etc... since back in the day. But anyway, that's not the point, the point is now I AM blogging, what's it all about?

Well, for a while now I've been reading a blog by another Warcraft guildy of mine and started to think that maybe I should do something similar. So here's my blog, it'll be mainly based around my adventures and experiences in World of Warcraft, although I make no promises that I'll keep my rants just about that.
If you've no idea what Warcraft is (maybe you live under a rock?), or you know exactly what that is, but can't stand it - Click the little 'X' in the top right hand corner of your screen now.

So let's set the scene:

I'm a 28 year old guy who lives in the NorthWest of England, I have a decent job, a long-time girlfriend, a son, a house, a car and all the other things that the world expects of you. But for some reason I chooses to spend quite a few hours each week playing an MMORPG... Hey 11 Million people can't be wrong, even if 9.9 Million of them are Chinese and another 1 Million of them are gold sellers.

I've always been a gamer, and have played pretty much every type of game at some point or other. Loving RPG's in general I eventually moved onto Guild Wars, which filled my time for several months, but inevitably I moved on to bigge rand better things - World of Warcraft (WoW).

I've been playing WoW for quite a few years now, and luckily for me, only a few weeks into playing the game I met a couple of great guys, even if they were Danish, who helped me out, and invited me to join their guild the 'Munqui Tribe'. The guild grew, and became quite well known on the Nordrassil(EU) realm, with it's main ethos being 'Fun First'.
So a big thanks to Brastfield and Cyrick (Now known as Vindikator) for starting off my addiction.

The rest is history. I stopped playing for a while, when I moved house and had no internet, and when I returned, to my horror, I found that the Tribe had gone!
There was no trace of any of the members, and I went guild hopping trying to find another one that lived up to the quality of the Tribe. There wasn't one.

Sitting at work one day, bored. I decided to google "Munqui Tribe" just out of curiosity, it paid off http://www.munquitribe.dk/ was too much of a coincidence. Click the link and it tells me how there was a mass exodus from Nordrassil to Darkspear and pretty much all the core guild members had transferred. Later that night, I log on, switch my realm to DarkSpear and do a quick 'Who?' on the word "Munqui"... Bingo!
Guess who's online, a guy named "BrastFelt" a whisper later, and several comments along the lines of "OMFG!"and I'm back in the guild, abandoning my Nordy toons forever, and starting again from scratch. The Tribe is worth it.

Anyway, that's enough about that, like I said, it's history, what's important is the future. And the future is Lich-Shaped.