06 Sunday Apr 2014
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I am now playing two MMOs… WOW and Elder Scrolls Online.
I have been made Event Coordinator of a large ESO guild called ShoddyCaste. You can read all about the events I am doing for them and my ingame adventures at:
http://esosociallife.wordpress.com
There is a link at the top of this site to go there as well.
Hope you will check it out!
Adventures Away!
14 Sunday Jul 2013
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After several months of being absent from WOW, I’m finally but reluctantly admitting that I have sneaked back to it over a month ago.
I never had really intended to come back and thought I had made it pretty clear to everyone that it would be that way forever. Even after at least 50 people commented to me- “aren’t you coming back yet?” – or – “you know you won’t stay gone, no one does”- etc., I was still away, although pretty bored with netflix and ipad games I have to admit.
Coming back to WOW was really just a random thing that happened, never planned that way. I didn’t even know until that week that my account was still active, but my husband had mentioned it. Then he also mentioned one night that a friend of mine who had been away from game for a long time was on. So I thought- I’ll just jump on for a minute so I can give him my facebook info or email, yada yada….
Next thing I know, he basically talked me into not only coming back to WOW but transferring to a new server (long story but basically to leave a dying one).
I’ve been playing the past month by ear, still not even sure whether I will renew my subscription in August or not. Slowly but painfully gearing up PVE, learning to do rated BGs and arena on my priest, and getting to do lots of raids with complete strangers on an active server through trade chat, general chat, and LFR.
Before a Rated BG on Meridiane
Not sure if I will stay on the server I am on currently (Proudmoore-US) with my priest or not, but I am definitely considering possibly another subscription to the game that has been my hobby since 2004.
25 Monday Mar 2013
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Just letting everyone know… yes, I quit WOW (maybe? lol) last week.
I might still be posting this or that occasionally if any ideas happen, but for the most part this blog is on hold.
I have paid to renew the site for the next year. I figured that there is a lot of info here that can be used by those still playing.
I wish all of you well and hope you continue to have fun in the land of WOW!
Chatmay
17 Sunday Mar 2013
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Over the year I have been a part of too many WOW forums groups to count. Member of some, admin to many. Here are signatures I have used over the years. In a way, these tell about my history in WOW.
Looking through all of these, you can tell there is a major difference between using paint, etc. and doing one/having one made in photoshop. It also looks like photoshop has improved over the years, but I wouldn’t know.
Our guild used a facebook group instead of a guild website forums starting with Cataclysm. I also had the banner to this blog site made by the same person that did most of these signatures.
for Avatars of East Kingdom
Ellenoria was in different guilds than Chatmay still
Magdakine moved to a guild on Terokkar
wordage change, Chatmay back from the shelf
had this one made at the last minute by my dad, who knows nothing about WOW… was for a swap faction event
I didn’t really like this one that much
From a sig generator, I combined them into one sig
had this one made to replace the one I didn’t like
had this one made as well for important WOW Moms posts
16 Saturday Mar 2013
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Monday was my last day of World of Warcraft. After eight years of playing I decided the time has come to stop.
Many have asked if I am leaving over some kind of drama, and the answer is no. The main reason is that I am just burned out. I feel like there is nothing really new enough in the game to keep me going. Also, I am getting old and too tired to play after dealing with two little ones all day.
In case anyone wonders, my guild will continue. I have turned it over to my husband and the officers.
I will have a farewell video posted soon that I have made to say goodbye to WOW. In the meantime, here are some fun facts about my WOW tour:
1. My first toon was actually a gnome warlock, but I soon decided that I hate running close to the ground and deleted her at level three. Then Chatmay was created. My second toon was Ellenoria, a NE druid.
2. I became guildleader of my first guild, <Avatars of East Kingdom> on Maelstrom, because the GM quit. I wasn’t the first person in line to take over either…that person decided he didn’t want to lead, made me guildleader, then left the guild. It was very strange.
3. I was such a noob in the beginning that mid-way to 60 I equipped a phantom blade with firey enchant on it (as a warlock). Mainly because it was an expensive gift from a guildie, but also because it looked pretty.
4. I created a guild alliance of four guilds on Maelstrom so that we would be able to run raids, which were then 25 man or 40 man. This was before there was an ingame calendar or anything really ingame for guilds to work this way together. Everyone was required to use a calendar addon.
5. At one brief point in vanilla WOW, I was actually GM of two different guilds.
6. I never really wanted the improved level 60 warlock mount because it was a pain to get. I was also known as a tightwad, and the mount still cost more than I wanted to pay. My husband actually took me around and made me get it. I think he even gave me the gold.
Chamay in WOW Model Viewer
7. My first guild fell apart right after the Burning Crusade xpac came out. Chatmay guild-hopped on Maelstrom and even transferred to Moon Guard during the next two years.
8. Yes, you read that correctly… I was on Moon Guard.
9. In the meantime, I raided on three different servers- Maelstrom, Bronzebeard, and Terokkar- with three alts.
10. After moving to Terokkar, my husband and I worked on three accounts. We had 30 toons– three of each class, one of each spec. This was before dual spec.
11. When dual spec came out, my hubby refused to delete any toons. When cata finished, we had 20 of them to max level, seven of them raid geared.
12. When Lich King xpac came out, our guild was not raiding so I pugged myself to guilds for Naxxaramus, VOA, and OS.
13. I took a few WOW breaks over the years, most notably before finishing Uldaur. When I came back from that break, I found that my server had become somewhat unfriendly to pugs, especially someone who had not been into ICC before. I never really raided ICC during that expansion, just started PVPing again.
14. The most players I ever grouped together were for my birthday party held on Maelstrom during vanilla. I put everyone into a raid group, but I had more than 40 show up. I received so many presents that I was sending them to alts because I could not hold them. The most valuable gifts I received were gold and the “fel” soul shard bag, which most warlocks could not afford to make/buy.
15. Speaking of bag space, Chatmay’s bags have been full since vanilla WOW. I used to horde things like scrolls and potions- whole bags of them- lol. By cata xpac, my bags were mostly full of transmog gear from all the previous years (also full personal bank and full void storage).
16. Around the end of LK xpac, our guild became a casual/social guild. I put on all kinds of crazy guild events from that time until the end of last year, which are almost all detailed on this blog.
17. When guild leveling came out for cata xpac, our guild, <The East Kingdom on Terokkar>, went from 150 toons to around 450, making it easy to get level 25. When I finished WOW this past week we had around 725 toons.
18. I was never… on a 5vs5 arena team. I never got to do Brawler’s Guild, didn’t get around to it. Also, I only went into the original Naxxaramus one time (even though I had the rep).
19. Since 2005, I have hosted/run at least four level-one gnome races from Dun Murough to Stormwind City.
20. I have never gotten a horde toon past level 20.
21. During down time on Tuesdays, I would often make level ones on other servers, which eventually got me to max number of toons on my account.
list of servers with toons (there are more if you scroll down)
22. Many of you know I was admin of a Cafemom.com group for WOW moms. Once we did a swap faction event, and I was in charge of the horde guild. Our guild name was <Mommy Mafia>.
23. Right before they got rid of the world dragons, my husband (prot pally) and me (on holy priest) were 2-manning them for gold and drops. I have to admit, some of them were a bit difficult even at the higher level. It was an interesting challenge as a player.
24. Even before now I have had personal retirements on a few places. For example, I would not go back into Molten Core after my husband made me help him for a long time to get his legendaries made. I have not been back to Ulduar since getting the 10-man mount, which was a huge pain in the butt.
25. From the start of playing, my hubby would always joke that my in-game friends list was “my little black book.” This was because I always had the max amount of names on it all the way through pandaria. I had a lot of friends that were not in our guild, so I could always find people to fill in for dungeons and raids when needed.
26. Last but not least, many who were in my guild during Lich King will remember that I spent a few weeks helping my husband with the most ridiculous waste of time ever. For some reason, he wanted exalted with the anti-goblin faction whatever it is called. It is impossible in the game to do that as far as we know unless you cheat with a lot of suffering: a goblin in Badlands that gives 1 -read it- ONE- reputation point per kill with a five minute respawn time. I had to farm this goblin for quite a long time… I would basically just leave the computer on for long periods of time and whack him when I was walking by the desk. Horrible. lol
I will add to this later if I think of any more strange things. Also upcoming soon are my goodbye video, my last transmog, and blog status update.
03 Monday Sep 2012
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Almost every guild event I have posted on this blog was done by my guild, <The East Kingdom> on Terokkar. We are now recruiting for Mists of Pandaria. It is an alliance, central time zone server.
Guild Leaders: Husband/Wife team, Chatmay and Nôxåmon
Type of Guild: Casual/Social, Family-Friendly, level 25. Been around for four years.
# of members: We have around 715 toons now, 270 accounts
Our guild’s first priority is about one thing- you having fun playing the game. We are helpful to new players, we don’t make restrictions or a lot of rules about things like what class you are, what spec you play, what add-ons you have etc.
We are not really a leveling guild, but we do get a lot of server rerolls and transfers so we try to help where we can.
During Cataclysm we had three 10 man raiding teams in Dragon Soul… ranging from semi-serious to very casual. We are currently filling some spots on these teams that have opened up over the past two months.
We also schedule other runs every week for non-raiders such as getting transmog gear or achievement/mount runs. We sometimes do contests such as screenshot competitions and a guild lottery. We have a seasonal guild party four times a year.
We have a facebook guild page where we keep up to date on guild info. We are currently using that page to set up five man dungeon teams for Mists leveling.
So How do I get an invite?
Contact Chatmay first here or in-game mail. I am sometimes on my many alts, so feel free to say “/who the east kingdom” and ask if I am on the game.
Please ask any questions here that I have not answered! Thanks
11 Tuesday Oct 2011
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guild, guild event, guild party, warcraft, world of warcraft, WOW
Check out my new blog page about how to plan an awesome guild party!
If you like it or have feedback, please let me know so I can add more to the page at a later date.
Also, check out another blog mention for The WoW Debutante… this time on The Twisted Nether site! Thanks guys!
Thanks for reading!
25 Saturday Jun 2011
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I got this message from Atlantaareamommies.com blog writer MadsMom:
I’d love to get some blog content from you on your gaming, how you got into gaming, the basics of WOW, your experiences with Motherhood and gaming or the other Moms who you play WOW with etc…
Here was my response:
I got into World of Warcraft in December 2004 when my husband got the game for me for Christmas. He thought since I was on the computer so much I might enjoy playing the game too.
At first I played with my husband some, but due to different hours of play and different play-styles I eventually ended up making new friends on the game and playing with them. In 2005 I even became a guild-leader for the first time, which has continued off and on since then.
For those that don’t know, WOW is a MMORPG- Massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Millions of people worldwide play the game at the same time, and you interact with both them and the massive in-game world around you.
There are many things you can do in game… play by yourself, learn professions and sell things, play with others, fight the enemy players, etc. I enjoy many of these things, but I like the social aspect of the game the most. You can meet many different types of people in game of all ages, and I enjoy having them in my guild so they can interact with each other.
Some of my guild members are from a forums group on Cafemom called World of Warcraft Moms. Some of us are moms that have gaming as our major hobby, and some are moms who just pop on for an hour here and there when they have time.
I even have one mom in game who is older whose entire family is in my guild- her toons, her husband, her son, and her daughter.
My experience with moms who play the game is that we are just as good as anyone else who plays. Some men will joke that women don’t play the game… but there are a lot of us, and we are capable of outplaying them even!
I think being a mom doesn’t mean that you can’t have outside interests, and World of Warcraft is one I have enjoyed with my husband for 7 years now. I don’t know any other moms on Atlantaareamommies.com that play WOW, but we would love to have them on game with us if they were interested.
06 Monday Jun 2011
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I was interviewed yesterday for episode 17 of the newer podcast Girls Gone WOW from the UK. Here is the link to the show:
http://girlsgonewow.net/?p=236
The audio is the link at the bottom of the post. Thanks guys!
24 Sunday Apr 2011
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Blogger Kamalia has headed the second installment of The Great Blog Noblegarden Egg Hunt Part II.
I am participating in this egg hunt by hiding an egg on my site! It is pretty easy imo compared to some I tried to find, but good luck anyways!
Chatmay
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