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Around Azeroth: I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything
"So I'm a regular viewer of Around Azeroth and I saw an image a little bit ago showing your typical, light-following paladin shining through the darkness," writes submitter Valentone of Dracarys on Bleeding Hollow (US-H). "Well, there are some paladins that chose another path and exercise their judgement in a different fashion. Now, I wouldn't go as far as to say my Blood Knight is a particularly evil character, but his ability to hone the light given to him by the Sunwell into literal flames bursting from his body does give him quite the 'fallen' vibe. I will say. though, he's quick to unleash those flames on anyone interfering with his cave skulking, as that poor, hapless death knight sprawled in the foreground so abruptly learned." %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Come to my window
Slaughtering NPCs can get repetitive sometimes. How many times can you hack, stab or drain the very essence from a collection of pixels before you start yearning for new, exciting ways to kill someone? Heck, even Skyrim lets you decapitate people. At least the lack of collision detection can sometimes lead to interesting deaths. Submitter Nobby somehow managed to toss two NPCs through the window of an inn without even breaking the glass. Impressive! %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: A bug's life
"I spent about 35 minutes trying to catch this guy, but he kept escaping my net," writes submitter Daeaye of Tears in Heaven on Anachronos (EU-H). "I was hoping to catch him, train him into a mean, lean, fighting machine and destroy every other insect in Azeroth with his cute face, but he seems more interested in lily pads." Silly Daeaye, didn't you ever try to catch insects as a kid? Dragonflies are the second hardest insects in the world to capture. The most difficult, of course, is the cockroach that skitters across your kitchen floor at four in the morning. %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Orgrimmar's next top facemelter
"Yeah, those other shadow priests who think shadows curling off your form is flair enough? PAH!" exclaims submitter Snuffit of For Her Tallest on Wyrmrest Accord (US-H). "We gotta compete with mages and warlocks and their over-the-top gear, people! Not to mention warlocks cheat with their Shivarra's Mesmerize. Us priests get all the plain robes with the occasional dash of color, and maybe some crazy shoulders if we're lucky. The true elegance and flair of shadow spec is posing. You gotta work it, girl!" Just for fun, read the preceding paragraph in the voice of Honey Boo Boo. %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Beloved wife and mother
Submitter Haraharu of Faceroller on Elune (US-A) made a trip to the Stormwind Cemetery to pay her respects to the dear departed queen, Tiffin Wrynn. She wrote that she also took some time to reflect on the horrors of war. Tiffin died after being hit by a thrown stone during the riots that occurred when the nobles refused to pay the stonemasons for rebuilding Stormwind. So it might be a better idea to reflect on the wisdom of trying to cheat a bunch of large angry men who work with giant rocks for a living. Of course, this obscures the real crime here, which is that someone thought Tiffin would be a good name for a little girl. %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: I don't want to wait in vain for your love
When submitter Wauzledop of The Gnomeland Security on Doomhammer (US-A) was planning his first date since The Burning Crusade, he knew he'd have to make a big gesture to get the girl. And girls like candles, right? Everyone who's watched a romantic comedy in the past twenty years knows that. So Wauzledop bought out the entire stock of Ironforge's Yankee Candle Company to turn his apartment into a sexy, sexy firetrap boudoir. Will his efforts result in a second date? Only if those candles are the Christmas Cookie flavor. Those smell delicious. %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Summoning up a lawsuit
Boss, there's really nothing to this complaint. I saw the gnome opening some sort of doorway to hell and I wanted to protect the little lady -- weaker sex and all, you know? So I pushed her out of the way. I didn't even look where my hands were going. There's no need for her to get all hysterical about it. Besides, at her age, she should really take it as a compliment, you know what I mean? Heh heh heh. Wait, why are these security guards coming to escort me out of the building? (Thanks to portal handler Yokko, harasser Wirrieation and submitter Nounours of GrandGalaticInquistor on Llane [US-A] for the screenshot!) %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: The power of flowers
Submitter Jeremy was wandering around on the PTR when he spied some a night elf druid doing a very ... druid-y thing. When faced with the might of the Sha and all their nasty negative emotions, this green-haired hippie decided to grow a field of flowers in protest. Too bad that the Sha's presence scourges the ground of all living things and salts the earth so nothing can grow again. It kind of ruins the might of the gesture, like sticking a flower in the barrel of a gun and then getting the flower shot back at you. %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Skulls for the skull throne!
Guys? Come on, guys. We spent like an hour getting this Oondasta group together, and now we're just going to give up? Sure, it's one in the morning and everyone has had to repair their equipment five times, but that's going to make it even sweeter when we finally kill him. Oh, you're just going to hearth back? Fine! Go do your scenarios for your easy-mode loot. You losers would have never made it past Vaelstrasz in vanilla! (Thanks to submitter Mtwohb of Spectacular Death on Llane [US-A] for the screenshot!) %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: The most self-righteous
"In the darkness there stands a stoic light, a silhouetted radiant beacon among the unknown, a savior of souls, just and righteous," writes submitter Danny. 'Where there is scourge or hysteria, there will be a hand, a hand held out for those in need. A risen shield, bolstered and displayed -- to protect the weak and those in need of redemption. Put your faith to him now for he has always believed in you." Boy, no one does the holier-than-thou shtick like a paladin. I really don't think Azeroth needs any more crazy cult leaders. %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Their satanic majesties request
When the mists dissolved and Pandaria was discovered by the rest of Azeroth, did someone think to give the pandaren a briefing on what's been happening in the last ten thousand years? If not, they might end up a bit confused, like submitter Serkae of GrandGalaticInquisitor on Llane (US-A). Since no one bothered to tell her about the recent history of Azeroth, the quests re-enacting all of Illidan's greatest battles in Feralas convinced her that giant transparent demons were coming to eat her soul. No wonder she's quaking in fear! %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Feed your head
Want to look your best while adventuring in Azeroth? Most major cities have plenty of barbers, tailors, jewelers and fashion designers. But without a shower or bath, your efforts will be doomed to failure -- and good luck finding anything other than a good old-fashioned wooden outhouse. The lack of ablution facilities has led to some severe cases of head funk. This gnome would trade in all of his shiny plate armor for some good anti-fungal shampoo. (Thanks to submitter Rosicreide of Azralon [US-H] for this screenshot!) %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Revenge of the overfished
"Ah, lovely Azeroth, where you can't even help a fisherman reel in his catch without getting in deep, deep trouble," writes submitter Arugadh of The Brotherhood of Iron on Wyrmrest Accord (US-A). "Seriously. Just south of the Dread Wastes is a small Angler's village, and you -- the great mighty hero, slayer of the Lich King, tromper-on of the Burning Legion, etc etc etc -- get asked to help a fisherman reel in his catch. Which, this being WoW, means that the Kraken is going to pop up and attempt to eat you. I guess it all fits. I mean, we get Old God Tentacles whenever we farm, so the Kraken on a simple fisherman's gut line is just par for the course." %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
"And now we come to those dog days of summer, when it's too hot to do anything but dream about cooler places," writes submitter Cleiti of Duskwood (US-H). "Sometimes my troll shaman dreams about the time she curled up next to Thrall, enjoying a nice cool breeze in Garadar while the warchief discussed family matters with his grandma. Sometimes she dreams of Thrall being warchief again, though she understands why he prefers a sleeveless shirt with a simple skirt and sandals in this heat. Other times, Cleiti dreams of rolling in the snow in the Storm Peaks - would it be cold and crunchy if she ate it? Once she dreamed of splashing in the Southfury River, just outside of Orgrimmar, and running back to Grommash Hold to shake her wet fur all over Garrosh. But her favorite dog-days dream is that when the weather cools off, Thrall will take one of those balls from around his neck and throw it at her so they can have a rousing game of fetch." %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: A mammoth undertaking
"File this under 'Be careful what you wish for,'" writes submitter Gimmlette of Spectacular Death on Llane (US-A). "On a recent guild Icecrown Citadel run, one of the raid members mentioned, prior to the Sindragosa event, that his bags were full. 'I'll just teleport to the front and empty them,' he said. HA! Again we say, ha! That's 10 members with Traveler's Tundra Mammoths. It's probably a testament to how easy it is to make gold this expansion when spending 20,000 on a mount doesn't make you bat an eye." %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: With your eye so big and shiny, you can see the whole damn land
Submitter Argaraf of Engrenagem Desgastada on Azralon (US-H) was questing through Tanaris when he felt a burning need to recharge his chakras. A little meditation should do the trick! Since he couldn't have his quiet time interrupted by those pesky yet ever-present scorpions and hyenas, he levitated himself onto a craggy peak and sat there, at peace with the world, for about thirty seconds until the carrion birds attacked. Whoops. %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: The last house on the left
"Can you tell I love that flying disk?" asks submitter Arugadh of The Brotherhood of Iron on Wyrmrest Accord (US-A). "For me, it's one of the simplest, yet coolest flying thing designs in the game. Anyway, I was out squishing bugs and running errands for all these Azerothian people who can't seem to be able to do their own grocery shopping -- and you know that every time you run such an errand, it's going to bite you in the butt a bit down the road -- when I came up on a Big Scary Glow-In-The-Dark House up on a Hill. Which got me thinking: what IS it about the Evil Powers that they love such gloomy icky color schemes? I mean, if I was evil and all powerful, I'd be filling my world with rainbows and unicorns, just to throw people off ... or even masquerading as a glowy paladin." %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Making the desert bloom
"My character recently gathered with several of her fellow guildmates, sin'dorei, and even other members of the Horde in a massive effort to bring life to the Dead Scar using the tree saplings from the Tillers in the Valley of the Four Winds," writes submitter Raynell, guild leader of Thori Anore on Wyrmrest Accord (US-H). "While the trees we planted lasted only a few minutes, the hope they brought to the Dead Scar will surely last a lifetime. We grew our own little forest out there among the zombies and skeletons, and for myself and others, it was definitely the coolest moment our guild has ever been a part of." %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Sunrise, sunset
Submitter Lib saw our recent speculation on the end of the Horde, and has something of a counterpoint, if you consider "The Horde is awesome" to be a point. "In response to the 'Twilight of the Horde' screenshot, I had to send this one in," she writes. "Sunrise or sunset, this natural occurrence is a tribute to the glory of the Horde. That gorgeous red sky is the first thing you see in the morning and the last thing you see at night - obviously proof that the Horde both begins and ends each day." Lib, you've got a bright future in the North Korean propaganda business! %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
Around Azeroth: Holy matrimony
Longtime readers may remember that sometimes on Sundays we like to feature pictures from the meatbag fleshspace outside of Azeroth. Today's photograph features a dwarf wedding! Boy, I hope there wasn't an open bar. "When Dwarfkinz and Bleumerald of The Guilded Age on Kargath (US-A) got married, guild Typhoon addict and balance druid Galador deemed it appropriate to mark the occasion with his signature move," writes submitter Eric. "Now we know how all that trash feels." %Gallery-107338% Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Include "Azeroth" in the subject line to ensure your submission dodges email spam filters; if you'd like to be credited, also include your name, guild and realm.
