BA Shared Topic: How did you come up with your character names?

The current Shared Topic on Blog Azeroth is “How did you come up with your character names?” and has been brought to us by Bunnyfer. I will follow suit and post my rambling here and now. :-)

Aylah was my first character and I have to admit that I just used my imagination to create a name that sounded night elvish and hinted of nature and such things. I have been playing Pen & Paper Roleplaying games for a very long time, and creating names from scratch is nothing that comes hard to me.

My second char was Rancora. With her, I wanted to theme the name tightly to the class. Since warriors use rage, I thought about synonyms and ended up using “rancor”. Thus Rancora was born.

Next up came Rakel. Since the Burning Crusade was still far off, and Fear Ward was such a nice spell to have, I decided to go for the stout folk, and I needed a name to go with it. Since I somewhat associate dwarves with colder climates and Nordic mythology, looking through some online dictionaries with Nordic names provided a solid selection. I liked the Nordic version of “Rachel”, so Rakel breathed the crisp, cold air of Dun Morogh not very soon afterwards.

My cute, little warlock ended up with the name Agonya. As you can see, it’s pretty obvious. *razz*

Boss Focus: The Opera - Wizard of Oz

In a Nutshell

The opera is accessible as soon as you have killed Moroes. You need to talk to Barnes, the Stage Manager, in order to start one of three possible events.

This post is about the most fun event, the Wizard of Oz. It evolves around some unconventional means of crowd control and dealing with a lot of mobs at once.

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What’s up with 2.4?

Hello there. I have been reading and researching a lot on the changes that patch 2.4 will bring recently.

I’m writing this post, because I want to share some of my thoughts and rambling with you. ;-)

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Spell Focus: Renew

Description


Renew (Rank 12)
450 Mana, 40 yd range
Instant cast
Heals the target for 1110 over 15 sec.

Renew is one of the few instant cast spells without cooldown a priest has hat his or her disposal. It has a very nice health per mana relation considering it is instant cast.

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Boss Focus: Maiden of Virtue

In a Nutshell

The Maiden of Virtue is an optional boss encounter in Karazhan, that is accessible right from the start. She is controlling the respawns inside the guest quarters and is usually killed 3rd, after Attumen and Moroes.

The fight is basically a tank and spank encounter. However, it requires your raid to position correctly and your healers to keep up with some solid damage that will be going around. Additionally you will need at least one player that is able to dispel magic debuffs.

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