For us here at WarAnvil, this is fantastic. It’s very heartening to see our server getting some proper use, but we want more! If your guild needs a channel, email me! If your friends guild needs a channel, email me! If you just want a channel for your 3v3 Arena Team, email me! Hell, if you register on the Teamspeak server you can create your own passworded channel, and it’ll be there permanently from that point on, so you don’t even have to talk to us at all if you just want a basic no frills channel! Remember, this is a totally FREE service we’re offering here. Your guild could have a raid ready Teamspeak channel TONIGHT.

If you want us to set up a channel, email me with the desired channel name and password. If you just want to try it out, log on and create one yourself! You can access the server by clicking the big old Teamspeak link at the top of the site. Now get in there and make some use of it!

Oh yeah, and did I mention you can email me?

I’ll admit it, I’ve never played an arena match ever!  I know this is quite shocking to most people reading this, but the simple fact of the matter was, I simply was not interested in PvP.  For a long time I had been a stern die hard PvE player.  My reasons behind this stem from a lot of my past experiences.  I played eq2 for a few years at the highest level of raiding, admittedly I’ve not played wow at that same level, but I still know all the dungeons inside out.  I’ve always tanked too.  Sure I’ve had alts which I’ve messed with and in some cases I’ve even claimed to be changing my main over to them.  In the end I always come rolling back to Grim and his Warrior buddies to tank yet another instance!

But what if I look at this from a totally new perspectiveve?  What if I simply strip all my characters of everything they own and send it all to one of my alts and make him my full time main no questions asked?

I want to get into competitive PvP as its the last thing left for me in WoW, so to speak.  These are my alts:

• 70 Paladin
• 65 Warlock
• 54 Mage

The rest range from level 1-10 so are not really worth mentioning, oh and I forgot the obligatory Death Knight.

I went with the Mage I’ll discuss why are the split.

I play WoW with Kir on his many characters, 99% of the time I log in when hes logging in.  So the selection of which character to play sort of depended on the level of character he wished to play.  Luckily enough he has a priest of level 55, which he is extremely interested in.  Given Priest, Rogue and Mage seems to be one of the best arena combos it all started to make sense!  Also I have a very soft spot for my Mage and I’d love to learn the class inside out.

And so our Mage and Priest are looking forward to leveling up!  Given the amount of times we have gone through Azeroth and Outland we should be in Northrend in no time.  I plan on updating our progress as often as possible.

Currently we are just finishing off Western Plague lands and are looking forward to moving to Eastern Plague lands.  From there we should be able to make 57 in a few hours of playtime, then we can move to Outland! Yay!

The only doubts I have at the moment are my seemingly unbreakable attachment to tank classes, and classes which hit stuff up close and personal.  I guess its just the type of player I am.  Still I’m very interested in having dps at my fingertips for the first time ever (at a high level).  As I said at the top of this article, the main goal for my Mage is to go full on PvP.  The days are long gone when I could sit at the computer for hours and hours on end waiting for instance groups and the like.  Now I’m after the instant satisfaction PvP brings.  I can’t put into words how excited I am about this whole affair!

See ya next time

Grim, er I mean Icecomet! (what a sexy name)

The other day I got my Black War Bear, and I have to say, it was awesome. I’ve not really managed to break into raiding yet due to various problems with my free time not lining up with guild raiding times, not having guys to crew the raid, and so on, so I set myself a few targets over New Years. There are quite a few things on the list, and some of it is fairly unlikely to happen but everyone needs targets, right?

So, my resolutions are as follows:

• Obtain a Black War Bear
• Start a Druid
• Level a Druid to 80
• Tank Heroics with a Feral Druid
• Complete a wing of Naxx with a PuG
• Have a round of PvP in the Strand of the Ancients
• Get at least two pieces of Tier gear

Getting the War Bear was surprisingly easy. We powered through Ironforge, killed the lawn ornament, then took the tram to Stormwind. We headed straight to the docks, and changed boats at Auberdine, going to Exodar. Due to various complications, only 10 of us got there and had to wait for the other 30, so we started early. Two tanks, me and 7 DPS took on the space goat, and got him to about 50% before the rest of the raid arrived. He went down like a lead balloon, and then it was off to Darnassus to kill us a Night Elf.  She became an excellent member of the dirt inspection squad, and from there it was back to Stormwind! By this point, most of the Alliance who were after us had caught up at Darnassus. We pretty much just ran straight through them, got on the boat, and arrived to find Stormwind all but open to us. We took out Mr Wrynn with very little trouble, and fought our way out of the city, past the few defenders that had mustered.

Now, as anyone else would, I celebrated by standing in Orgrimmar on my Bear, then logged out and started my Druid. All in all, a pretty succesful day! So, thats two off the list, and a few more to go. Have you made any Warcraft resolutions for New Year’s? Let us know what they are!