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Around Azeroth: I wanna be like you
Ruith of Hellfire-EU writes, "I was just drying out by the fire when when my pet walked over and sort of admired the form. Think that's what he wants to be when he grows older." Since I'm currently petsitting for what began as a small black cat and evolved into a violent, hissing TV cabinet, I keep expecting those two to go for each other's throats. Maybe the druid cats are more evolved than my own.Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Jaws of life
Criadilla of <I Aggroed Frogger> on Firetree can never figure out how to avoid the Deep Breath. After one too many missed warnings, he's been exiled to the entrance of Onyxia's Lair to wait out the fight. Better than running through the whelp caves, or worse?Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Blackrock and roll
Hey, I didn't realize that they'd added in a Hangover Demon boss for Brewfest this year! That explains a lot about my current headache. Anyway, Valafar of <Hellfire Club> on Exodar writes, "After a fun-filled solo mission to take down the Blackhand in Blackrock Spire, I unfortunately ate some of the floral life that had been sprouting in the cracks of the molten rock walls, and when I came to, let's just say, I wasn't quite the same."Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: The abominations of desolation
Running old dungeons can be depressing. When you think about how many hours you spent wiping and slaving over content that you can now solo while alt-tabbing to read about Jon and Kate on TMZ, it feels somewhat anticlimatic. Killerbees of <Ambient> on Silvermoon stares forlornly at the remains of the formerly difficult abomination gauntlet before Baron Rivendare. You can't go home again.Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Mystery train
Tauren Ferith doesn't generally envy the Alliance races, but he couldn't help feeling a pang of jealousy when the gnomes built the Deeprun Tram. Ever since Ferith read The Boxcar Children, he's harbored a burning desire to ride the rails, a desire that can't be satisfied by airships, fishing trawlers, and teleportation orbs. With the introduction of Ulduar, Ferith was finally able to fulfill his fantasy. Next on Ferith's list: a trip to the Crossroads at midnight to sell his soul to Kil'jaeden.Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Catastrophic failure
Far too late, Luke learned that the "25" in Naxx 25 does not refer to how many minutes it takes for a single gnome warlock to make it through the dungeon. But his tiny reanimated body did add some much-needed racial diversity in the Scourge armies. Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Children of the naked revolution
Temporarily nude Krekrik (usually known as Loopjongen of Earthen Ring-EU) writes in about his experience at Gutrot the naked troll's level 80 party. "Here be da last survivin' warriors of da Gutrot army, mon. After da glorious hero Gutrot achieved da status of da mightiest naked troll of Azeroth, he gathered da masses to create da new naked troll empire in dem rat-infested Alliance cities. Thousands of naked warriors, marchin', slayin' dem Alliance sissies along da way. Da voodoo was too strong for dem to be resistin' us, and while many fell, a handful of da bravest warriors made it into da tram station. Gatherin' our strength, we travelled to da underground city of Ironforge, where da filthy dwarves had placed their secret weapon. Many of us fell again to da hands of dat monstrous gnome Haggle. But dem spirits be strong with us mon, and he be slain by our bare hands." Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: The price of loyalty
Once again, It's time for the Harvest Festival, where the Alliance and the Horde make long treks to the shrines of their revered but deeply flawed heroes, Uther Lightbringer and Grom Hellscream. After fighting their way through demons and Scourge, the rank and file lay tributes at the monuments, and return to their capital city to receive the grand reward of ... a book? A book of really bad poetry? And a food-summoning horn? Pathetic. Here, how about I save some silver, stay here in Ironforge, and just get a drunken dwarf to recite some free verse at me? (Thanks to Boz of <Dark Revelation> on Arygos for the pic!)Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Aerial assault
2v2? 5v5? 40v40? Minifig of <Darkness Beyond Twilight> on Draka doesn't like those odds. He'd rather just parachute into the Horde base in the Isle of Conquest and use his Death Knight mojo to bring down the fortress from the inside. If this idea brings back fond memories of burning down towers in those four-hours Alterac Valley death matches years ago, just remember how you felt three hours in.Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Warning sign
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" is so overused. Your hip and with-it modern troll gods prefer to extend a friendly word of caution to any would-be adventurers by leaving skeletal remains suspended in mid-air above their shrines. This fairly obvious warning doesn't seem to be scaring off Plavalaguna of <Light Up the Darkness> on Executus. For mages, +Intellect gear is easy to come by, but I guess it's more difficult to acquire +Common Sense.Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: The cat who walks through walls
Darodar of Bleeding Hollow is fighting the disturbing trend of feline illiteracy spreading through Azeroth. Unfortunately, Darodar will never live up to the example of his brother, Dewey Readmore Books. At least he's got my cats beat. Their only interaction with books involves pulling them off the shelves and eating the pages at two in the morning.Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Buccaneers and tentacles
The painting? Oh, yes, the painting. Well, I've always wanted to redecorate the old houseboat, and after I successfully sued Disney for copyright infringement when the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out, I finally had enough gold to do it. So I commissioned this from some local Kalu'ak artists. I think the mangled flesh sets the perfect romantic atmosphere. More wine, my dear? Are you leaving already? Well, I guess it's just you and me again tonight, Steak Whale. (Thanks to Cuco of <Little Known Secret> on Blackwater Raiders for the screenshot!)Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Protected by the Light
David sent in this submission with a note: "I'm a creative writing major, so naturally, I wanted to write something appealing, engrossing, and overall epic to describe this sweet little shot I snapped during a timed CoS recently. I sat for around 45 minutes staring at my screen, slack-jawed and vacant, before I realized that it wasn't important, and that this shot, by itself, is more than epic. It almost kind of seems like words might actually ruin it. You know like ... these ones. Crap." Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Looking for love in all the wrong places
Rolandnghs of <Tranquil Dawn> on Exodar writes, "Rolando is a helpless romantic, always searching for that one true love. He uses his charm, strength, and stunning good looks to win women over. But none of the normal women fill his lonely heart, until he meets the beautiful and strong-willed Freya. He tries his hardest to win this tree-hugger over with a lovely rose." One can only presume that the next step involves Freya scraping the amorous dwarf's remains off of her sandal. Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Heart of the wild
The cuteness of a sitting bear, whether virtual or all too real, can almost make you forget that they're godless killing machines. Almost. A bear smiling at you from the middle of a circle of dead bodies tends to spoil the effect. Maybe if he was wearing a party hat things would be different. (Thanks to Amanda for the screenshot.)Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free
We received a lot of submissions from various Pirate's Day celebrations yesterday, but Richard's picture was by far the most ... glittery. He didn't provide much information, but this appears to be an Alliance party at the pirate ships down south of Booty Bay. You know, the area where you get repeatedly killed by respawns, running pirates, and magical teleporting buccaneers who spot you through the walls of ships. Fun times.Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: Mission improbable
Those of you who were impressed by the recent picture of Thrym at the Argent Tournament, prepare to have your minds blown. Yes, this is King Jokkum from Storm Peaks, dragged unceremoniously from his icy home to the mage trainers in Stormwind. And don't say Photoshop, because it's been done before. How did this even happen? Has someone decided that the quickest way to get to Exalted with Sons of Hodir is to hold their king hostage in exchange for reputation? Are disgruntled mages just randomly stealing NPCs away to their chambers? (Thanks to ML for the pic.)Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Around Azeroth: The dreamer and the thinker
Erik writes that while trying to solo The Plume of Alystros and "getting his face ripped to shreds from his futile attempt", he happened to glance over at Ysera's napping area. Usually, the glade is full of a giant translucent dragon, but since Erik was dead, he was able to snap a clear screenshot of the giant statue that serves as the Dreamer's perch. It looks like a lot of people have noticed the statue, but no one is quite sure who or what it is. I vote for a bald-headed Brock Samson. What do you think, loremeisters?Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
Razer Naga MMO mouse (and Megasoma mat) unboxing and hands-on
Razer's got a knack for cranking out the unusual, and from the First Edition Boomslang, the outfit has also had a thing for developing gaming mice that demanded respect. The recently announced Naga (which is now shipping out to customers, by the way) is one of the most bizarre mice yet, boasting no fewer than 12 buttons on the left side and a promise of making your MMO gaming a more enjoyable experience. Alongside the wired USB critter, Razer also introduced a patently gigantic gaming surface, the $49.99 Mesasoma. We were able to spend some time with each of these peripherals, so hop on down to the gallery for a closer look and on past the break for a few impressions. %Gallery-73385%
Around Azeroth: An edge over the competition
Let all hear the testimony of Thrym the Hope Ender! Thrym hear tell of great tournament in mountains. Thrym leave Zul'Drak, come to stadium in Icecrown. Thrym throw all foes into ocean. Thrym thinks he win tournament, go home with mountain of gold, live with many pretty draenei ladies with not much clothing. Then tournament leaders tell Thrym he fail drug test. It not Thrym's fault growth hormone in urine! Thrym not know what was in injections Drakuru give him. Why congressional committee pick on Thrym? (Thanks to Kavalry and the unknown hunter of Silvermoon-EU who pulled Thrym all the way to the tournament grounds.)Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, gold seller ads with dead gnomes any race at all, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.%Gallery-1816%
