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Poor, Poor Pitiful Paladin

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WoW Forums - Im a girl and im new to WoW Poor, poor Warcraft girl, can’t find anyone to help finish her Redridge quests.

Or, should we say, poor, poor level 60 paladin, forgot to switch posting identities before attempting a forum scam? He did fool a few would-be suitors, and possibly countless lurkers, before the scam came to light.

Poor, poor Warcraft forum thread, headed for glory, deleted by author, but thanks to my elite archiving skillz, I have a screenshot saved on Flickr and a Furl archive, for your viewing pleasure.

(Flickr: Click All Sizes to choose a suitable size for reading. Original forum thread was here.)

A Farewell to Ironforge

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Packing up my World of Warcraft bags, putting out the campfire near my designated, fiercely guarded floor tile, I bid farewell to Ironforge. I may not pass this way again for many weeks.

Farewell to Ironforge

Reminds me of the olde days in EverQuest when Planes of Power was released. Almost everything we could want or need was up there, and we had little reason to return to the old world — so we didn’t. It’s no wonder that the younger noobs had no idea how to properly kite the Freeport guards as they hadn’t received the benefit of our unsolicited, and unwelcome, advice. Sloppy kiters, every one of ’em.

Time marches on, even in virtual worlds, and we come to the future of World of Warcraft.

The Future

As I’ve posited lately to some of my more panicky guildmates, this will change everything — our raids, our allies, our friends, our guilds, our groups, and our characters.

And that will be good for all of us.

The World Waits for the FedEx Guy (or Gal!)

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TBC Spawn of the DevilThis is fun: watching the growing panic on the World of Warcraft forums as the world (of warcraft) anxiously awaits delivery of The Burning Crusade.

Here’s some to get you started:

EBGames.com – “No more processing” (Probably 2 million people pumping the My Orders button on the EBGames site has destroyed their servers.)
Best Buy preorder issues – Blizzard speak to BB
Who here is outside a gamestop w/ tent? (wtf)
Amazon Shipping Info
Gamestop Warehouses Delayed: Ice Storm (Can’t Blizzard call God and have Him melt the ice? Crimony, doesn’t anyone work over there?!?!?!)

UPDATE: On the EBgames.com website >> My Orders:

Due to system maintenance our order status system is temporarily unavailable. Please do not call our customer service center as they share the same system and do not have additional information. We apologize for the inconvenience; please check back later.

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade orders are shipping today, on schedule, out of our Louisville, Kentucky distribution center. If you placed an order before 2:00pm (cst) on Monday January 15, 2007, and have NOT received an email from us requesting additional payment processing information, your Burning Crusade order should ship today at the shipping service level you requested.

We Warcrafters are like a swarm of locusts, we destroy everything in our path.