World of Warcraft Madness!

World of Warcraft is actually quite a lovely game. Blizzard has done a good job with the “look” of the game, not trying for photorealism but not cartoony either. These images (rather old; my character is significantly higher level now) come from a low-end video card without advanced texture or shader support; on a higher-end system, the visuals are even better.

I love the atmospherics; the environments they’ve created are both exceptionally diverse and quite pleasing to look at.

Crossroads, Ragnarokkr’s oftime home away from home. This is the place where a series of air and land routes come together in a single Horde town; most Horde-side characters spend a fair bit of time here, even if it’s only to get from point A to point B.

Moonrise over Freewind Post.

The pass to Mannoroc Coven, not a friendly place to be. Demons galore.

Ragnarokkr beating up the evil giantess Myzrael. A player in cat form and another player’s pet panther look on. The nice thing about being a warrior? You’re the one going toe-to-toe with the bad guys, running right up to them and bashing them with a sword while the other folks hang back a safe distance and shoot things at them.

Rags, sword in one hand and axe in the other. He’s since traded those weapons in for slightly…um, weirder ones.

The Shady Rest Inn at Dustwallow Marsh, after having been torched. Much of Dustwallow Marsh is in ruins…proof that it pays not to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if oyu happen to live near him.

Large, carnivorous wyverns–the onlyway to fly!

8 thoughts on “World of Warcraft Madness!

    • Heh. When Rags and Shelly’s character Indea were in their mid-40s levelwise, we tried heading down to the Badlands and accidentally ended up in the dwarf newbie area instead. Caused a bit of a stir–we could both kill a level 2 or 3 character with one hit, were we so inclined. We started dancing with the newbies instead. 🙂

  1. Nice. I have a bunch of neat screenies but need to host them somewhere.

    Unfortunately, I lost my screenshot keybinding when I removed Cosmos so I have to set up another. 🙁

    BTW, any idea how to take a pic from the character selection screen on OS X?

  2. Nice. I have a bunch of neat screenies but need to host them somewhere.

    Unfortunately, I lost my screenshot keybinding when I removed Cosmos so I have to set up another. 🙁

    BTW, any idea how to take a pic from the character selection screen on OS X?

  3. Heh. When Rags and Shelly’s character Indea were in their mid-40s levelwise, we tried heading down to the Badlands and accidentally ended up in the dwarf newbie area instead. Caused a bit of a stir–we could both kill a level 2 or 3 character with one hit, were we so inclined. We started dancing with the newbies instead. 🙂

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