Raedel's Raids

WoW Blogger and leveler, .NET web developer. http://www.raedelsraids.com

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Classic Servers

Classic Servers #WorldofWarcraft #classicwow

“I am pleased, and also a little bit nervous.. to announce the development of a classic server option for World of Warcraft” – J Allen Brack Okay, hands up, who else didn’t see this coming? Anyone? I honestly never thought Blizzard would actually do this, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited and intrigued by it. Old screenshot of my vanilla WoW main, Concretewing the Night Elf hunter I…

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Back After a Break

Back After a Break

Hello again! Long time no see! I really suck at this blogging business don’t I 😛 A bit has happened in the past year or so since I last blogged, so here’s a short list: Achievement Unlocked: Put A Ring On It I got engaged!! ❤ I changed jobs! I now work for a software development company really close to my home. No more 1.5hr train rides to and from Sydney City for me anymore! I quit WoW for about…

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Let's try that again...

Let’s try that again…

Warcraft movie poster. Via: goliath.com I saw the Warcraft movie on Thursday night :D! I heard about all the negative reviews it was getting from critics so I was kind of worried that it would be terrible, but a lot of Warcraft fans that I follow on Twitter were posting that they really enjoyed it which gave me some faith! I went in to the movie trying to not hype myself up about it – I have…

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Starting Fresh

I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been losing interest in WoW again – I know, shocking right? At the same time I don’t think I’m ready to completely give up on the game. Legion is looking amazing and I really cannot wait to delve into it on release. But, I’ve lost that spark, that wonder that I used to get when playing. I would set aside days of the week to raid in Vanilla, I could grind rep…

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So I tried to PvP...

So I tried to PvP…

I held the orb for so long it insta killed me! …and it went better than I expected! I changed from my beloved Holy (oh yeah, I’m a shadow priest in my raid team now! Too many healers!) to Disc to give PvP a go. PvP has never really been my thing, I mean I did a few battlegrounds here and there on my hunter back in vanilla wow but nothing serious. I’m not sure why I avoided it for so long, it’s…

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Umbraco Housekeeping

Umbraco Housekeeping #umbraco #webdev

The other week I was deploying a redesign I had done for an Umbraco based website we do for a long time client. They’ve had the same Umbraco 4 installation since the beginning (about 2012!), and either never had the budget or care to upgrade to newer versions. For those of you who have used Umbraco for a while you’ll know that the interface of the backoffice was sorely in need of an update. It…

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Twitch Stream Overlay Attempt!

Twitch Stream Overlay Attempt!

A streamer I enjoy watching, Mercader,  mentioned he was looking for a new stream overlay for his WoW stream. I’ve never made one before but from what I could gather it’s just a bunch of image assets placed on the screen by the streamer in whatever program they use. So I had a crack at it and here’s the result: Example of the overlay I think it turned out alright for a 30min effort in photoshop…

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Raedel.... raided?

Raedel…. raided?

Fraaaannnnds <3 So, last Sunday night I finally joined in on a guild run of Hellfire Citadel! I was a little nervous at first, I haven’t raided for quite some time and felt a bit rusty at healing as a Holy Priest. But I surprised myself and was doing pretty okay on the healing meters even at a low gear level of 674. Healing honestly felt a little bit weird and unnatural, but I guess that’s what…

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Re-Rolling Alliance??

Somewhat! Panda’s look adorable in all situations! I don’t think I could ever truly leave the Horde side, but I have been wanting to level some Alliance toons for some time now. Yesterday I got my Panda Rogue to 100 – making her my first level 100 Alliance character. And now I’ve started on a druid! I’m planning on leveling this new druid as a guardian tank and maybe switching to feral when I get…

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Back again with a fresh new look!

New blog post: Back again with a fresh new look!

Raedel, my priest. Howdy there strangers! It’s been quite a while since I’ve written a blog, 1 year 4 months and 5 days to be exact! But now I’m back with a fresh new blog look and ready to get back to frequent posting and reviewing MMOs/RPGs again. How do you like the new design by the way? I made it myself :) there are still a few kinks to be ironed out (I’ve noticed there’s some spacing and…

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10 Years, 10 Questions

10 Years, 10 Questions

I’ve been reading a lot of other bloggers responses to Alternative Chat’s “10 years, 10 questions” for the 10 year anniversary of World of Warcraft this week. It’s really interesting to read about the different experiences that others have gone through while playing the same game that I have for 10 years.

So below I’ll be answering the questions too!

  1. Why did you start playing Warcraft?

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The story of Raedriel: part 2

The story of Raedriel: part 2

Entrance to home

It was late and Raedriel could feel the sun beginning to rise, and while Night Elves could be in the sun they felt more comfortable and powerful during the night, so she began to head back home. Passing under a massive archway entangled in thick vines she entered the village where her and her family had lived for the past 10 or so years since it had been built. Immediately she…

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The story of Raedriel: part 1

The story of Raedriel: part 1

Raedriel in the forest.

Moonlight reflected of the clam, still waters of the moonwell, the lush green forest floor expanding for as far as she could see. In the distance were a pair of young nightsaber cubs playing about in the grass, she watched them intently as they rolled about, letting out the softest of laughs as she smiled. Though Raedriel was not born in this part of Kalimdor, it was here,…

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Finally got the legendary cloak!

Finally got the legendary cloak!

I’m smoldering!

FINALLY!

I had made decent progress on the quest chain when I mained my Monk, but after quitting and re-rolling my Paladin I just really didn’t want to do it all again, so I was just really half arsed about it. I did the quests but I really didn’t actively try to get all the drops by doing LFR every week and stuff.

Then, for some crazy reason, the last few weeks I decided I wanted…

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My thoughts on the new female Draenei model

My thoughts on the new female Draenei model

Derp face!

With the announcement that the new female Draenei model had been added to the beta I jumped right in to check it out. I’ve always liked the Draenei, even their refrigerator men, but something about this new model is a bit.. off.

I can’t put my finger on what it is but there’s just something different. After looking at all the remodeled hairstyles and the same looking faces with…

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