Random Musings

Because I've got a lot of thoughts running rampant around my head, and I don't think they're worthy enough to be expanded into full blog posts.

-I need a new mouse. One with a middle button, preferably. When I bought my new desktop in January, I bought a wireless mouse with it. It doesn't have a middle button. It's definetely not a gaming mouse. (My problem with gaming mice is that most of them, (i.e 99% of them) are right-handed, and the few left-handed ones are a lot more expensive. Which is why I use a regular, neutral mouse) Now normally this wouldn't bother me. But recently, I've dual-specced Holy, and seeing how BBB reccomended it on his site, I decided to try VuhDo. (And I reccomend any new healers to give it a whirl at least too. Well, as far as I've figured so far, what I need keyed into it are: Holy Light, Flash of Light, Cleanse, Sacred Shield, and Holy Shock. With my sad little 4 key mouse, I have no room for Sacred Shield. Which sucks, since it really is important to always keep it on the tank.

-It's incredibly easy to get geared up reasonably well as Holy without ever stepping into an instance. Which is good, considering it's impossible to get into instances as Ret, and to get into them as Holy, I can't be in all Ret gear.

-There is ever growing pressure to switch professions and become an inscriptionist. My friends are telling me to do it, my guildies are telling me to do it, the evidence is all around me. Inscriptionists make a ton of cash. I need a ton of cash. It seems like a no brainer. The thing is, I'm a huge achievement whore and a small-pet collector. Which is the reason why I'm mining/Eng. right now. That and the roflcopter.

-I'm thinking of starting a new blog. Just a place to jot down my thoughts on random stuff, and to go all philosopical on your asses! I don't have it set up, nor do I have a site for it yet. In fact, I don't even have a name. It's just an idea that's been floating around in my head for a while now.

-There's gonna be some major changes in this blog. But that's another post. (/tease)

If I was in an elevator...

Happy 3.1 guys! Hope it's going well on your end! Personally, I'm halfway towards having enought cash for dual-spec, although I'm debationg on wheather to spend it on dual-spec of cold weather flying. I really don't get why they lovered the lvl down to lvl 40, if you're not really gonna have enought spare cahs on you until lvl 80. (Well, maybe lvl 78.) If you're steel reeling from having to pay 39g for your first mount, there's no way you'll have a whopping 1000g. I know lvl 80's who struggle to earn 1000g.

As for the fishing dailies, they've inspired me to finally lvl up my fishing. The new 'queue for BG's where ever you are in the world' thing really makes fishing a lot less boring. (Although it's still the most boring part of this whole game, in my opinion, mostly because of the sheer amount of stuff you need to catch.)

Now that I've got all my post-3.1 reflections out of the way, it's time to get down to the main purpose of this post. After thinking about it a lot, I've finally decided to take part in the official '31 days to build a better blog 2009'. Note that because of my erratic posting nature, this will be m0re like 31 posts to build a better blog, as I probably won't do the thing every single day for 31 consecutive days.

Now the first task I've been given is to develop an elevator pitch. An elavator pitch is basically summing up your blog in the time it takes to ride an elevator. It can be used to draw readers into your blog, say, when you're in an elevator. (Is the word elevator starting to sound wierd to you?)

When I first read the task, it seemed pretty easy for me. Because, while there may be a multitude of paladin blogs out there, none of them use a distinctly 'non-80, non-hardcore' look at things. And as I thought this over, I realised that really is my niche, not paladins. I have other characters that I enjoy just as much as pallies. I never really give a distinctly 'paladin' angle. (Revelation!) So because of this task, I will be fixing things up and moving away from the 'paladin' niche, and more into the 'total and utter noob' niche.

So here goes. This is my elevator pitch. (By the way I'm assuming everyone in the elevator know's what WoW is. (a.k.a, the elevator is at Blizzcon.))

"Knights in Gold is a blog giving an angle on WoW from someone who isn't a master of the game, and doesnt know everything there is to know about the game."

Whew. That was actually a bit harder than I thought! Well, obviously I'll have another post soon, definatly in the next few days.

Drazmor