At one point in time, my blogroll started to become so laden that I simply stopped advertising any additions and entered silent mode.
Still, from time to time, it’s definitely worth going back to some of these blogs and reviewing what they provide.
So without further ado and in no particular order:
Alts Ahoy! is brand new and on the surface definitely goes against my long-held policy of only adding blogs with at least 20 posts and 2 months of age, simply because I want to link to writers with staying power. As it happens, though, Alts Ahoy! is the new blogging venture of Nasirah, who previously ran A Tale of Two Druids. Changing focus from a previously main class to other horizons? That’s damn close to what Altitis was about in the first place. I’m definitely looking forward to Nasirah’s retelling of the part of the game we tend to look over (and forget) after a while spent at level 70.
Of Light and Fury does look new. In practice, though, it’s the reincarnation of Zerei’s Blood Paladin, who underwent a name change and then moved from Blogger to WordPress.com within the past week. Zerei, one of the first blogging paladins to link Altitis in its early days, recently realized that his interests have broadened way beyond all things Healadin and decided to embrace his altitis in full. No matter the class he really writes about, though, Zerei does it in a clear and thorough manner, never afraid to delve into the maths where needed without actually becoming boring like a statistician.
Adventures in Azeroth is a resource only a druid noob like me could leave off the blogroll for as long as I did. Amanna is one of the many well-written, high quality druid resources, also well knows for in-depth druid gearing and gemming advice.
Altosis is written by Skindancer, a poor sap who suffers from the acute version of Altitis. In his typical “Hello World!” post, he positioned his blog like this:
I have lots of alts. In fact, I have leveled every class to the endgame (…). So, I must be crazy. “-osis” is a medical suffix tacked onto to something to indicate a condition, disease, or abnormal process. Hence, I arrived at Altosis. This is not to be confused with altitis, mind you. That would mean that I had an inflammation or irritation of my alts, like this poor soul on Altitis. Maybe there is an ointment for that.
There is none. Skindancer however combines his medical (mental?) condition with being an active raider, though, which means there’s even less chance of a cure for him. That being said, Altosis is proficient in almost all end-game classes and has a lot of techniques to share, and that blog is usually a lot less cluttered with the kind of social fluff you’ll find here.
Apathy, Inc is written by Fate, and he provides a well-written and sometimes deliciously cynical perspective on the game in general. Fate writes as a raider first and foremost, but fortunately for us as one of these who is fully aware that WoW is a vast universe appealing to a very broad audience. If you’re seeking a hardcore raider frothing and dribbling in outrage about the upcoming doom which will kill the game the very moment another MMOG releases because evil Blizzard is making the game more casual-friendly, you’ll have to keep searching. If you want to read sane commentary by a mature poster, Apathy, Inc is definitely a place to add to your feed reader.
And this pretty much concludes the “A” section of the more recently added but unadvertised blogs on my roll. Since my limited English vocabulary only allows for a limited amount of words like “insightful”, “perspective”, “view” and “voice” per post, the rest will follow some other day. So my apologies to all the other blogs I mean to mention some time, but I totally ran out of words. Someone get me a thesaurus, or something.
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