It’s a Monday, and somehow I’ve already been awake too long. Let’s dive right in to what’s running through my head and has been happening in-game, shall we?

• Leave it to Blizzard to invalidate anything I was writing about two posts ago. I don’t have to worry about pet control in a 51/0/20 Blood build because, well, it’s completely impossible. The permaghoul is now completely in the hands of heavy Unholy builds.
• I respecced my DK again (0/20/51), grabbed the best slow/fast weapon combo I could get with absolutely no effort, and went to Heroic HoL. I hadn’t had any practice whatsoever with this build, but I still took second place on overall DPS. I would’ve had higher, but the tank was having a lot of problems holding threat against the shadow priest and me. Reason: I don’t think I’d ever really given dual-wielding a fair shake, and so I figured, why the hell not? Not like I’ve got anything else going on these days.
• I really, really, really want to get into a Malygos raid one of these days. I don’t see it happening pre-3.1. /sad
• My baby druid is up to 22, having just finished up the last of the Tranquillien questlines, hitting Exalted with them, and wandered off to Undercity to hand over the good tidings of Dar’khan Drathir’s passing. In all his clothie gear, he’s the funniest-lookin’ moocow to ever moo. I also just remembered he needs to go train. Hopefully I remember to do that tonight.
• I keep looking at my shaman and wanting to level her, but at the same time… I wish it was an orc. And not a her. I dunno. 36 levels isn’t really that much to lose, especially when 20+ of them were RAF granted ‘bonus’ levels. But, I’ve been holding off on that because…
• Vandersloot and I are supposed to be starting new alts soon, possibly as soon as Friday. He wants to make a warlock, and do recruit-a-friend, so I volunteered to be on the ‘new’ account, and will probably be rolling a warrior. Busy, busy.

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Random thoughts

1. What is your name and where did it come from?
• Zulfon’s name is fairly adequately explained in this earlier post.
• Queklain’s name… well, there you go.
• I’m feeling generous, so here’s some more alt names. Valmafra, my blood elf hunter, is from the same source material. She used to be called Eladhon, which was generated by the random name generator in WoW and had the unfortunate side effect of my guildmates referring to him as ‘Aladdin.’
• Xajek, my troll priest, is another random name. In this case the generator generated ‘Xaj’ and I added ‘ek’ pretty much by tapping a random vowel and a random consonant.
• Galehorn and Whitebough, tauren shaman and tauren druid respectively, got their names by being modeled vaguely after existing tauren names.
2. How old are you and what is your birthday?
• Queklain: “Time is meaningless to the dead. My birthday is every day, as far as I’m concerned, since I’m still alive. Undead. Whatever. Flee, mortal, you’re beginning to bother me…”
• Zulfon: “I was mebbe 20, 21 years old. Jus’ a few years as an adult. Now dat I’m like dis, though… I’m as ageless as he is.” She jerks a thumb to indicate Queklain, who is nodding off in a chair. “Birthday, though, is August sevent’. And don’ you forget!” She grins a little bit, exposing her small tusks.
3. Are you in love and with whom?
• Queklain and Zulfon (in unison): “Hah!”
4. What is your favorite mount and why?
• Queklain: “My Frostwolf Howler. It was truly an honor,” he says, his voice dry, “to help our Horde brethren in Alterac Valley, for which they bestowed upon me this wolf.” Under his breath, he mutters, “They sure as hell wouldn’t have made it on their own.”
• Zulfon: “Malfas, mah purple nethawing drake. ‘S a sign of my pact with de Nether Flight, and mah work underminin’ Illidan. And a far deal comfier than dem bony birds mah brethren ride.”
5. Do you prefer a certain type of Azerothian meal and where do you get it from?
• Queklain: “Gnome.”
• Zulfon: “Dat’s disgustin’.”
• Queklain: “Don’t knock it till you’ve feasted upon its freshly-slain corpse.”
• Zulfon gags a little. “Food don’ quite taste like it used ta, so I go for de more exotic flavahs. Spiced wyrm burgers, that kin’ of ting.”
• Queklain: “Gnome’s kind of exotic.”
6. You know those giant mushrooms in Zangarmarsh? What is your theory on how they came to be and why are they so huge?
• Queklain: “You know how mushrooms grow on dead things, right? Well, look at Draenor. I rest my case.”
• Zulfon: “Ain’t nothin’ right about Outland. I worry less ‘bout de giant mushrooms and more ‘bout de ones walkin’ about.”
7. If you saw the Lich King walking towards you, what would you do?
• Queklain: “Oh, doubtlessly flee in abject terror. I’m surely no match for a man who – oh, wait, who can be wounded by a single apothecary with a batch of blight. Bah.” Queklain waves his hand dismissively. “Lich King, Bitch King.”
• Zulfon: “Well, it’s not like it’d be de first time, now is it?” She grins again, this one a bit more predatory. “Dere’s always a price to pay for betrayal, and we bot’ done betrayed each otha, so dere’d be hell to pay all around.”

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Fine, fine, since you asked

Tonight was a fun night. First I made myself productive, by maxing out first aid and then adding 100 or so points to enchanting (currently at 247, unfortunately; still too low to enchant items from heroics or many green Outland drops). Then, after the summons to heroics, ended up running Heroic Ramps, Heroic BM, and Heroic Mech back-to-back. Yes, back-to-back.

First, in Ramps, I picked up the Headdress of Alacrity, which in addition to looking like a completely pimped-out mohawk frame (and it’s even in my favorite color, Warlock Purple), is a pretty good helmet and will be even better once I hit revered with the Sha’tar and can enchant it.

Then, in BM, while I didn’t get anything apart from badges, Vandersloot picked up an Hourglass of the Unraveller while Mandollf got himself a Quantum Blade. I was kind of hoping for Khadgar’s ol’ kilt, but it didn’t drop. Alas!

Finally, after some technical difficulties (Van needed 1 rep point to get his key, then one of our DPSers apparently lost internet in his entire region, and so on) we popped into Heroic Mechanar and ran over the place. I did half of How to Break Into the Arcatraz and picked up a Mana Wrath. I kind of feel guilty, because I joked to Mandollf saying that I was going to laugh if we went through all this nonsense to get to the end of Mechanar and the Mana Wrath dropped instead of the sword he was going for, and then it did. Whoops.

And last but not least, because I didn’t think I’d be able to compile quite as large a collection of badges by Wrath as I’d like, I went ahead and picked up an Orb of the Soul-Eater, too.

So, yes, I’m slowly getting there… and I guess if it turns out that even after all this work warlockery isn’t for me, it’s nice to know I can always turn to a life of piracy.

Yarrr, matey.

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All in one night?!

1. Death Knight! deathknightdeathknightdeathknight.
2. Leveling Queklain to 80. I predict this to be a slow and painful process. I don’t intend to respec out of destro to do it, either.
3. Taking a stab at leveling any of the others to 80. Since 3.0.2 is going to include the xp drops to get from 60-70 as well, I fully expect to have at least a second 70 by the time Wrath drops. Best case scenario, all 4 of my current alts hit 70.
4. Seeing what kind of new tailoring recipes await me in Northrend.
5. Taking Eladhon to tame a silithid and a devilsaur, assuming they allow us to have more than one ‘exotic’ pet. (In all likelihood I will be doing this when 3.0.2 drops, not necessarily when Wrath is released.)

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Blog Azeroth Shared Topic: What will I be doing…

In all seriousness, though, it’s a blog. One person, Queklain (H, Feathermoon-US) who decided to finally start blogging about World of Warcraft. I used to blog about FFXI too, before I quit playing it. I have a few alts, because I have altitis: Galehorn, my shaman, and the 300% XP Twins, Eladhon (with faithful crocolisk companion Leatherneck) and Xajek. I dualbox those two, because I’m abusing the recruit-a-friend program to get them leveled quickly, but they are the only ones I dualbox, and I’m not particularly good at it. It’s pretty easy to overlap two DPS characters, at least (and yes, a shadow priest counts as DPS, in my book).

Feathermoon is an RP server, true, but the closest I’ve gotten to RP was the time Eladhon got an in-game mail from the brother of a gay troll (with 20 flowers attached). As they say on trade, there is no RP on Feathermoon.

None of my alts belong to a guild yet. I have a few friends in Warsong Aces, and a couple more in Adepts of Ouroboros, but I remain guildless as of the time I write this. I want to raid but I’m not at that level yet. Back on Korialstrasz I used to be GM of Legion of Zod; that position is now held by Volcana.

You can also find me on Wowhead, frequently commenting on WoW Insider, on Blog Azeroth as StoppableForce, on my collection on Warcraft Pets (small pets are the one thing I collect besides tabards), and a few other places.

As for the name: The Stoppable Force drops for me so often that I used to joke about making a guild named after it.

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What is The Stoppable Force?

Queklain: Voltaire – “When You’re Evil”

The others took a little thought.

Eladhon: Duran Duran – “Hungry Like The Wolf”

Xajek: Well, he is a shadow priest. Sorry about the Halo video: Graveyard BBQ – “Cheat on the Church”

Galehorn: Even though technically it’s from that other MMO, the one I quit, I chose Naoshi Mizuta – “Sanctuary of Zi’tah”

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Blog Azeroth Shared Topic: What is your character’s theme song?