Honor's Code

Saturday night, I was running some Alterac Valley with my guild when Wintergrasp was coming up. We finished our AV and got a group together for it. On Altar of Storms, we are heavily outnumbered by Horde. Double digit Tenacity in Wintergrasp is not unheard of. But one of my guildies had a plan. We went to a vehicle show and all got in the big siege engines. Then we went to a part of the keep away from the main battle and blasted our way in. It took a couple of tries, but we managed to win Wintergrasp . Almost immediately General Chat started to fill up with people trying to form groups or get into groups for Vault of Archavon . I saw a name I recognized from my leveling days. It was a Rogue that had helped with a couple of group quests back in Dragonblight . She (the toon was female) was 3 levels higher than me, and just farming some Cobalt. Not only did she help me with the quest I was on, but also flew clear across the zone to help me with another quest. So I know she’s a good...

Since this will be cross posted to be my first post on Big Hit Box, perhaps a bit of introduction is in order. My name is Honorshammer and I’ve been tanking on my Paladin since Patch 2.0. This was the Burning Crusade preview patch where we got the talents and new spells but were still stuck at level 60. I'm a Tank through and through, more Juggernaut than Wolverine . The big numbers I get excited about are my health and stamina, not my latest crit. So what in the world is a Paladin Tank doing writing an article for Big Hit Box. You guys lay the wood, not me. But Patch 3.1 is now up on the PTR and with it the ability to Dual Spec. For many Tanking Paladins, Death Knights, and Warriors for that new second spec they will choose a DPS spec. Likewise for DPS, many will choose a Tanking spec. But a spec is only half the battle, the other half is gear. While you can’t start your dual spec until the patch is live, you can start today with building your new gearset. Now with all that estab...

If you haven't seen slashhug's post on Dual Spec's you really should take a moment and check it out. It's fantastic. Link love incoming: http://www.slashhug.net/dual-specs-an-anti-rant/ Tuesday night was decision night for Honorshammer. I whispered Salvation's GM and told him I was going to take the Heroes offer. Then I told the officers. It was pretty much what I had expected. People were disappointed, and saddened by my decision. I had wanted to avoid that, but it just wasn't possible. I still consider all those guys friends and would help them out in any way possible. I hope they know that. I was feeling pretty low myself so I fired up the engines in the Gyrocopter and headed out to Storm Peaks to work on my Son Of Hodir rep. I've joked to a friend of mine that I'm going to hate the Sons of the Hodir by the time they love me (exalted). Not long after I got out to Dun Niffelum, something completely unexpected happened. I got a whisper from a Hunter tha...

No one has commented yet, but I made a very subtle change to the background image for the blog. I hope you liked it. So I got tagged, but not tagged by Josh at Eye For an Eye on the Sixth Screenshot meme. I love screenshots. To me, WoW is like a vacation. It's a fun place to be for a short period of time. Screenshots are like the pictures that you can look back on with fond memories of the time that was. So here's the 6th screenshot in my screenshots folder taken in early March of 2006: This screenshot comes from a batch of screenshots I was taking of all the toon I had at that time. I think I was going to put them on my Geocities site, but I don't even remember. I had 4 toons. A Level 2 Dwarf Warrior and a Level 8 Night Elf Druid who were on the server Dark Iron. A Level 13 Human Paladin and Level 6 Dwarf Hunter were on Rexxar. The Paladin on Rexxar was a Human Paladin named Ittai, who was the very first toon I ever rolled in World of Warcraft. If you are observant, you ma...

Yes, I’ve seen the 3.1 Patch notes. I’ll comment on them in a couple of weeks but we are still very early in the PTR cycle. Blizzard has even stated we don’t have all the patch notes just yet, so I’m going to wait before I post on them. I had given myself the deadline of 7pm yesterday to make a decision on which guild I was going to join. After some deliberation with myself, I requested and then graciously gave myself an extension to tonight to make a decision. I know I haven’t handled the situation well. Sunday night, when I logged in, I saw the Guild Message of the Day stating that everyone needed to start finding new homes. I was shocked, disappointed and saddened. I watched as toon after toon began to gquit and my emotions grew. Finally, I decided I couldn’t take it anymore and gquit myself. In retrospect, I shouldn’t have gquit until I knew where I was going. I would later learn of a Warlock who has said he will stay in Mal Katai until it disbands or the GM kicks him, he will not ...

The Ten Commandments for Raiders: http://frostmage.net/index.php/ten-more-commandments/ Honorshammer gives this a BRILLIANT!! It's a great read. You laugh, you'll cry, and you'll learn a thing or two.

Anyone who has known me very long knows I’m an NFL fan. I love the NFL. This is the talent evaluation portion of the NFL season, and the time for Free Agency. Players whose contracts are up are pursued by teams that want them to join their team. Honorshammer has hit a time of Free Agency in his own virtual life. With the dissolution of Mal Katai, Honors basically becomes a Free Agent. Two teams have already made offers to Honorshammer. I’ll call them T10 and T25. Both have indicated a willingness to work their raid schedules around my own so I can attend most, if not all raids. It’s really nice to have people respect your in game ability and personality. On the other hand, it is difficult because I can only be on one team, be in one guild, so I have to choose. I can’t decide which guild is a better fit for me until I know what I’m really looking for, and what I really want out of a guild I want to be in a guild that is full of individuals who are good people as well as good players . I...