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It's How We Mosey …

Midnight is Live ... and AMAZING!!!

That's right ... since Dragonflight, this new generation of developers and artists have been hitting it out of the ballpark for us and Midnight is no exception. I feel old school design concepts from the days of classic and Burning Crusade, melded with new thoughts, designs and stories ... I am enthralled by this release and it makes me warm, fuzzy and happy all over ... like being hugged by a massive happy Murloc!!!

The housing is loooooooong awaited (it was a serious chat even in alpha and throughout beta way back in 2003/2004) and they have done a supurb job of implamentation. So much potential I could live on playing this alone. However, the new remake of Silvermoon gives me so much hope that in future expansions, we could continue to revisit old lands instead of the method of build a zone, then abandon it completely with new releases. So many wonderful places in the world of Azeroth, why can't we revisit, reinvent and bring new meaning to it all.

Blizzcon 2026 RAID

Once again the Daffy Blokes will be in full RAID mode for this new Blizzcon in 2026. As Blizzard returns to there amazing event format, the Blokes will return to partake like everytime in the past. These events don't only represent gaming in all its Blizzard glory but for us, they are a gathering of friends to share in our absolute passion for gaming. We hope to see everyone there, happy, healthy and excited. We are also pumped to have several Blokes from the next generations attending ... a true passing of the torch.

I'm Going Back to Blokies ... to Blokies ... to Blokies ... Hell Yeah, I think so

So what do we have here … I believe after all this time, there are still some ol’Blokes hanging around the coffee house looking for some drinks to be had. Tis been some time since I had the honor to run around the greater pastures of Azeroth with friends. However, that’s just what happened recently and I am planning on participating in more havoc making fun on routine.

Many of us have drifted away for one reason or another … family challenges, life moving on, gaming habits changing, free time vanishing … even real world challenges that put our very way of life in threat. I thoroughly enjoyed what little I could level through Dragonflight … in fact, I wish we had been more present as a guild because it was such a great expansion that just got missed: some part of me thinks it could have competed with Legion in fun. Alas, life did not allow for this and as such, the expansion has come and gone. Then a whole new “set” of expansions was announced and once again we are off to the races with The War Within as the first part of a series. Initially, I jumped in but again things pulled me away … but I’ve had some recent enlightening thoughts about gaming society and my own life as a gamer which has resparked a passion for many of the older long term games I fell in love with decades ago.

And so this is Tcheekiin returning to the world of Azeroth hoping others might be interested in also following their hearts back. I’m not looking for competitive play, massive RAID schedules or a new job (I’m retired). I just want to travel the world of WoW, follow some storylines, grab some cool loot, find some great creatures and just enjoy the creativity I’ve always loved in the past. I need to return to the Mosey way of life. When I look out over the real world and witness the horrific direction it seems to be heading … I think we all need to mosey a little more.

Blizzcon is BACK!!!

And once again, we're going ... that's right gamers, The Daffy Blokes are once again in RAID form for Blizzcon 2023. We'll be there with our (now ancient) jerseys on and representing the "older gamer" gen!!

Will be interesting what they bring taking into consideration the Microsoft purchase as well as the long COVID gap. Still if they use the model for the last Blizzcon I am very confident this will be another great one for the books.

Can Dragonflight Make WoW Great Again?

After the last two let downs, I am apprehensive about the upcoming Dragonflight expansion. However, so far everything I've seen from reports, interviews and the Alpha testing has me cautiously hopeful.

Points that really have me excited ...

Dragons everywhere
Huge focus on professions (NEVER been done since Vanilla)
Return (and expansion) on deep spec trees for unique character builds
Did I mention dragons?
A central hub that feels more Dalaranish as a social gathering point for all players of all factions
Zones that are less "other worldly" and more lush (like Wrath)
And .. uh .. dragons ..

Dragons ... dragons dragons and more .. dragons ...

Remembering the last Blizzcon ...

So COVID has taken its toll in so many ways but one that may have quietly been lost is that of Blizzcon. Over more than a decade this has been an annual event for us Blokes to gather and partake of our shared love of gaming, good drink and great food. There are countless stories of our shared times at the various Blizzcons, each funnier than the next. Our last Blizzcon in 2019, we had no idea it would the be end of an era but at least it was a good end.

There is talk that they will bring Blizzcon back and I'm cautiously hopeful (like the next expansion) that they will but will it change? Will it forever be scared, a quiet victim of this horrific scourge made plague called COVID? Until I see my friends, my Blokes around the gaming tables again, here is one to hoping it remains the same amazing gathering as before. Life needs to have at least a few things that never change.

This is a general news/blog/forum/repository/etc of all our guild adventures :) Although we have spanned several servers over the years, we are now dedicated to playing on US Kilrogg. The server is PST (Pacific Time) and many of us are West Coast Players but we do have a small faction within the guild of East Coast Blokes. We are a tavern guild: we don't recruit ... our doors are always open, anyone is welcome to come in, sit down, have a drink and chat it up. Give us a ring if you are looking for someone to just hang with ... we don't take the game seriously ... we take having fun seriously. We do more than casual ... we Mosey :)

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