Category Archives: World of Warcraft Journal

Farm Encounters of the Close Kind

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Here’s a recent encounter I had with a Warcraft (alleged!) farmer while I was merrily harvesting Dreamfoil in Azshara.

I have some screenshots to aid the storytelling!

La la la, I love running around LIKE AN IDIOT in a zone peppered with annoying elite mobs and nuking giant birds! La la la, I love visiting all the spots that SHOULD have dreamfoil, but they’re empty now because 89 other players are also looking for dreamfoil.

So I’m talking to Raster about the Vanguard beta — we’re trying to sneak into the beta, no luck on that so far — when a fellow rogue sends me a cryptic tell:

Close Farmer Encounters

I respond in kind … cryptically.

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A Christmas Party

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While hiding from the Warcraft guild, on one of my dozen “hiding from the guild” alts, I passed through Stormwind and overheard this noob begging for a mage portal to Darnassassass:

Christmas

Now c’mon! If you’re going to name your character Christmas, you’ve got to expect joke responses to EVERYTHING. Christmas shouts, “LFM for a party.” Punchlines: Will there be presents? Did you invite Santa? Can I grope the receptionist?

How about the priest rezz macros? “Resurrecting Christmas” Sounds like a Hallmark Holiday Special starring Wilford Brimley, which is probably just the sort of television programming that would appeal to a humorless Warcraft character named Christmas.

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