Transmog Time: Use The Force

I've been riding the Star Wars hype train lately. I thought it was brilliant when Blizzard decided to dress up the Orgrimmar and Stormwind guards with "lightsabers" to commemorate the release of the Force Awakens. In all my years of playing WoW, I always thought those swords were really awesome looking. I never did receive one not did I actively go looking for one since it was never something I wanted to spend my gold on. As if it was meant to be, Saturday I received a Blade of Wizardry from my salvage yard. This got me to thinking about putting together a Jedi master and a Sith transmog.

The Dark Side

Helm: Thistlefur Cap
Shoulders: Laughing Skull Shoulderpads
Chest: Silver-Thread Armor
Cloak: Blackmetal Cape
Gloves: Silver-Thread Gloves
Belt: Sash of Whispered Secrets
Legs: Silver-Thread Pants
Boots: Veteran's Dreadweave Stalkers
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Of course for this set, the weapon of choice is the Blade of Wizardry or Teebu's Blazing Longsword. Some off-hand items that may fit well are:
Spring Gadget (Horde only, sorry) - Looks like a remote you can use to "control" a droid.
Rod of Molten Fire - The perfect torture device for your Rebel scum prisoners.
Drakestone - Yes, let the hate flow inside this little red orb.

The Light Side

Helm: Resilient Cap
Shoulders: Resilient Mantle
Chest: Durable Robe
Cloak: Mammoth Fur Cloak
Gloves: Gloves of Purification
Belt: Bright Belt
Boots: Nat Pagle's Extreme Anglin' Boots
Shirt: Yellow Lumberjack Shirt
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This weapon is a little easier to get since the Spellfire Longsword drops from The Slave Pens. Don't forget to get yourself a Lil' Bling to act as your protocol droid during your adventures through the galaxy! Here are a few other off-hand items you could use to complete your look:
Cosmos: You're going to need a planetary map to help navigate through deep space.
Tesseract Timepiece: A little more difficult to get, but I think it looks like some space age shield.
Surplus Limb: Everyone knows that most Jedi are prone to having limbs cut off, so why get rid of it when you can carry it around with you? (Ok, I know, bad joke!)

As always, these are for cloth wearers, and I try to use items that would be more easily available to all players. If you have any other Star Wars related transmog, please leave a comment below. I always love seeing what everyone puts together. Oh, and one last thing before I go... May the Force be with you!

Transmog Time: Illidari Conjurer

This week has been a bit crazy. I wasn't going to blog, but since things have calmed down, I had the chance to. I've been sick with a terrible cold so I haven't been doing much of anything but taking medicine and sleeping. If this post seems a bit strange, blame it on all those potions the alchemist have been making me take!

Illidari Conjurer

I am a complete sucker when it comes to those cloaks from Black Temple. I have all three and use them whenever I can. This is the first of 3 Illidari themed transmogs I planned out. I've already worn two, but I'm still working on pieces of the third. I believe I need to get exalted with the Aldors. /sigh

Helm: Amethyst Beholder Eye

Shoulders: Hatefury Mantle

Cloak: Shroud of the Highborne

Chest:  Elder's Robe

Gloves: Revelosh's Gloves

Belt: Wizard's Belt

Boots: Greenweave Sandals

Weapon: Headmaster's Charge (not available anymore, but plenty of lookalikes!) - As always, use what you want for your weapons. I think this staff looks the best though.

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With my Eye of the Legion

I like to wear this set with the Lavender Mageweave Shirt. It's the same color as the robe so it blends in nicely. Sometimes I also wear the Purple Trophy Tabard of the Illidari also to add another layer to the transmog. The robe is so pretty that I don't always like to cover it though. The only thing missing is a Feldrake. I think it would have topped off this transmog nicely. Perhaps one day!

Meet the Alts!

You all know Velgana by now. She's my main toon, alter ego, and my most favorite WoW character. I am getting close to having a full year played on her alone. What you don't hear me talk about often is my much lesser known characters - my alts! These guys and gals always get leveled and geared up much later in an expansion, but I still try my best. While I don't think they will ever take the place of Velgana (who knows, maybe someday), I still enjoy playing on most of them almost daily. Some are even still in the process of being leveled up.

This may be one of those posts that I update in the future to keep consistent with whatever new characters I may create. Until then, click below to meet my current family!

Blog Azeroth: Mountable Mounts

I guess it's a good time to participate in a Blog Azeroth topic again. They have a few good ones over on the forum. I want to do a few others, but this one stood out to me first after looking over the list.

"So, what are your top 5 mounts - or just the ones you go to all the time because you like the way they ride? What are the ones you really dislike and can never bring yourself to use - does it rub against your collecting nature (if you have one) to buy all the mounts even though you know you will never use them?"

I decided not to talk about the ones I really dislike because honestly, there isn't really any. I'm the kind of person that thinks certain mounts can be used for certain occasions. For example, you will rarely see me riding any wolf mount, but I will definitely be riding them for Warlords of Draenor. Instead i decided to focus on my all time favorites so far (ones that I own), and my wishlist (ones I wished to own). Enjoy!

Representing the Frostwolf Clan!

Transmog Time: Hallow's End Costumes

Since October is right around the corner, I have some pretty cool things planned for each week. I wanted to get things started with a few Hallow's End costume transmogs for cloth wearers, and some other odd items that would make for spooky additions to your collection! This is my favorite in game holiday (just like Halloween is my favorite IRL). I tried to use items that are available for everyone and not too difficult to farm if you need to. Plus, you could always find some items on the AH. Here we go!

Witch

Helm: Wicked Witch's Hat

Shoulders: Thuzadin Mantle

Cloak: Cape of the Black Baron

Chest: Black Mageweave Robe

Gloves: Black Mageweave Gloves

Belt: Fishy Cinch

Boots: Black Mageweave Boots

Weapon: Farmer's Broom - yes I realize this item cannot be transmogged, but how cool is it to run around with your own spooky looking broom!

Extra: I like to keep out the Feline Familiar since it's perfect for a witch costume. Also, if you get the Broom mounts from the Hallows End, you can mount on it and the pet will do the same on its own little broom!

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Dark Conjurer

Helm: Chief Architect's Monocle
Shoulders: Black Mageweave Shoulders | Soulstealer Mantle
Cloak: Blackmetal Cape
Chest: Robes of Arugal
Gloves: Magefist Gloves
Belt: Sash of Whispered Secrets
Boots: Silver-Thread Boots
Weapon: Blade of the Unrequited
Off-Hand: Skull of Burning Shadows
Extra: Since this set mimics the Necropile Raiment which is no longer available, I thought using the Restless Shadeling would also give the illusion to another item that is no longer available; Haunted Memento.
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Harvester of Souls

Helm: Thistlefur Cap
Shoulders: Duskhallow Mantle
Cloak: Warmonger's Cloak
Chest: Robes of Rhonin
Gloves: Gloves of the Blood Prince
Belt: Runed Stygian Belt | Cincture of Polarity
Boots: Saltarello Shoes
Weapon: Telaari Polearm | Grim Scythe
Extra: I think I would use the Ghostly Skull mini pet with this costume. After all the grinding out you will do for the scythe, you won't need anything fancier!
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Ghostly Figure

Helm: Aurora Cowl | Cowl of Benevolence
Shoulders: Amice of Brilliant Light
Cloak: Formidable Cape
Chest: Aurora Robes
Gloves: Bloody Surgeon's Mitts - gives the illusion of having bloody fingertips!
Belt: Replica Virtuous Belt
Boots: Sage's Boots | Replica Virtuous Sandals
Weapon: Starlight Dagger
Off-Hand: Urn of Lost Memories
Extra: I would use the Lost of Lordaeron mini pet to follow you around. Also, to give yourself a true "ghostly" effect, use either Ethereal Oil or Ai-Li's Skymirror to complete the look!
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Genie

Helm: Mystical Headwrap
Shoulders: Mantle of the Locusts
Cloak: Chromatic Cloak - Since this cloak would take some grinding to get made, personally I wouldn't even show a cloak with this set.
Chest: Robe of the Magi
Gloves: Gloves of Meditation
Belt: High Councillor's Sash
Boots: Elder's Boots
Weapon: Nightstaff of the Everling
Extra: For this costume I would definitely be using my Magic Lamp while riding around on Frosty Flying Carpet for a mount!
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Other Creepy Items

Armor:
Spider Robes (1, 2, 3, and 4)
Corruptor Raiment (Warlock T5 Recolor)
Robes of Umbral Brute

Replica Dreadmist & Replica Deathmist Set

Cloak of Armed Strife
Dark Shroud of the Scourge

Weapons:
Charmed Cierge
Zhar'doom, Greatstaff of the Devourer
Staff of the Shadow Flame
Necromantic Wand
Eerie Stable Lantern
Surplus Limb
Manual of the Nethermancer
Book of the Dead

I haven't decided on what I will make Velgana wear yet. If you decide to dress up your toon this year, I'd love to have a look. Feel free to leave a comment below! 22 Days until Hallows End, and I cannot wait!

Timeless Isle - First Thoughts

Free trip around the Isle! Wheeee!

So with 5.4 hitting yesterday, I thought I would give my first thoughts on the Timeless Isle. Let me start off by saying that I enjoyed it so much I ended up playing for almost 13 hours. I peeled myself away from my computer around 1:30 or so last night. I didn't get all the screenshots I would have liked, but I was in the moment and that's all that mattered.

When I arrived to the isle for the first time, it was littered with skeletons, but I quickly figured that out why later! I must have died more than a dozen times last night... and all I was doing was hunting rare spawns! The Alliance definitely outnumber Horde on my server. Everywhere you turned you saw yellow! I had to be very careful when looting stuff not to accidentally hit one of them to make me flag up. It's times like this I am so glad I do not play on a PvP server.

Me and my friend on Huolon watch!

The first things I did on the Isle where pick up my quests and explore. I opened so many chests and was actually able to get quite a lot of gear for my alts. In fact, I managed to get more pieces from rares last night that I need to send to them. I also want to try to get myself a trinket piece because I looted a burden blah blah from a chest in things cave. The Celestial's didn't give me a piece of gear... just gold.

I tried out the Celestial Tournament. I managed to beat the 3 tamers very easily, but the Celestials were really hard! I definitely need to work on getting some more pets up to level 25 before I attempt that again! I did manage to get a few new mini pets:
Ashwing Moth
Flamering Moth
Skywisp Moth
Skunky Alemental
and my friend got me an Azure Crane Chick

This rare spawn bug was bugged... Har, har, har!

While I will be playing around on the isle again today, I will definitely be taking it a lot slower, hehe. While fun right now, on a server like mine, I can see it being pretty dead really fast... which will make it a dangerous place to be in!

Transmog Time: Fel Flame Caster

I guess I'm what you could call a bit of a "transmog snob". I'm generally not impressed with what most people put together, because it just doesn't match. I had a freak out a month or so ago when it seemed like every single Shaman on my server was wearing Tier 6.... seriously. I couldn't tell anyone apart!

So while taking a look at my banks and what to wear next, I figured I should start posting my sets, pictures of them, where to get each piece, and loo-a-likes if they aren't available anymore.

Fel Flame Caster

It was a long time in the making. I had started gathering the pieces when I got the headpiece from Ambassador Flamelash. I always wanted those robes too, but I never had any luck of the ones to drop from Entropius. Finally Robes of Faltered Light dropped, and I was able to use a Sunmote to trade them in for the one I wanted. While I think it would look good with any cloth caster, I think it would look amazing with a warlock!

My current weapon is a wand, but I always prefer one handed swords for a caster. I think the sword and off-hand below look a lot better. I'm hoping next patch there is a good caster sword I can get and double upgrade to keep until the next expansion!

The shirt I'm wearing underneath is the Sawbones Shirt, but it's currently not available in game. You can substitute it with Red Linen Shirt, Red Workman Shirt, Stylish Red Shirt and even the Green Linen Shirt looks wonderful.

Helm: Circle of Flame
Shoulders: Mantle of Three Terrors
Cloak: Drape of Fuming Anger
Chest: Robes of Ghostly Hatred
Gloves: Feralfen Hand
Belt: Captain Sanders' Sash
Boots: Greenweave Sandals
Weapon: Torch of Austen (wand) | Muramasa (sword)
Off-Hand: Heart of the Pit | Book of Highborne Hymns
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The Magical Mr. Pinchy

Mr. Pinchy... where do I begin...

I actually fished and got my Magical Crawdad during the Burning Crusades, so when I decided to take up this task again, I didn't quite remember how much of a pain it was and STILL is!

Mr. Pinchy having a well balanced meal.

Here are the things that changed for the better. First, the pool spawns used to only pop up every 30 minutes or so. Now it seems that after you fish in one, you can guarantee another will be up in one of the other locations. Second, and best thing of all is now Mr. Pinchy is on a 4 hour cooldown. It used to have a 2 day cooldown which really made it frustrating to get him!

Fishing skill required: I would go for at least 300+ just to be on the safe side!
Flying mount required! (or someone to bring you there!)

So get your fishing poles, and let's head to Outlands - namely Terokkar Forest! You're looking for the pools called Highland Mixed Pools which of course, only spawn in the "highlands".

Here's the wonderful part, you have 3 locations where you can chose to fish from!

Lake Jorune

Lake Ere'Noru

Blackwind Lake

I really like fishing from  Lake Jorune and Lake Ere'Noru because I was tending to get a lot of unwanted attention at Blackwind Lake. Some Alliance leveling up would follow me and fish from the same pools as me just to be annoying! Also it's a daily hub for the Sha'tari Skyguard so you may have some competition there.

You'll get BC fish and crates with goodies from that xpac in them. You should get Mr. Pinchy pretty fast. I don't think it took me longer than an hour to fish up any of the Mr. Pinchy's for this post, so hopefully you're just as lucky. I'm not sure they increased the drop rate, but since the pools spawn so fast, that's probably why!

After you catch him, this is where the fun begins. The item will grant you 3 wishes. You can use the item every 4 hours. It's completely random to what you will get from it. Here they are below:

Benevolent Mr. Pinchy: follows you around and fights mobs with you!

Furious Mr. Pinchy: very mad and will try to fight with you!

Mr. Pinchy's Blessing: and old flask buff, but you turn a cool shade of red!

Mr. Pinchy's gify: he gives you a gift that contains old health and mana potions!

The last gift is the best of all, Mr. Pinchy grants you the Magical crawdad Box (and an Achievement)! Sadly, I wanted to get another one just for this post, but after 18 unsuccessful wishes, I decided it was just better to write this thing and send all my luck to the person on the other end going on the hunt for him. If you decide to fish him up just for fun, or because you want him for your collection, let me know how long or how fast you got him! Good luck and happy fishing!

My Log:

1. Benevolent Mr. Pinchy

2. Furious Mr. Pinchy

3. Mr. Pinchy's Blessing

4. Benevolent Mr. Pinchy

5. Furious Mr. Pinchy

6. Mr. Pinchy's Gift

7. Benevolent Mr. Pinchy

8. Mr. Pinchy's Gift

9. Mr. Pinchy's Blessing

10. Mr. Pinchy's Gift

11. Mr. Pinchy's Blessing

12. Benevolent Mr. Pinchy

13. Benevolent Mr. Pinchy

14. Furious Mr. Pinchy

15. Mr. Pinchy's Gift

16. Furious Mr. Pinchy

17. Mr. Pinchy's Gift

18. Benevolent Mr. Pinchy

Blog Azeroth: Junk Mail or Repurposed?

It's that time again for another wonderful shared topic from Blog Azeroth:

"What junk or grey items in game should be made to be used for spells or buff foods, etc? There are many fun items that no one wants, but could be used in imaginative ways!"

This is actually quite a funny subject to me. My collector friend Rocky (where are yooooou??) once asked me if I had any idea what the Exquisite Murloc Leash was for. After telling him it was just vendor trash and nothing more, we went on a discussion about how cool it would be to actually be able to use it.

He said that he would be keeping a few just on the off chance that Blizzard would implement a system that allowed you to use it to basically "tame" a murloc! Since most of the murlocs were only obtainable via Blizzcon or from International contests, how cool would it be to be able to find one, use the leash on it, and tame it. Of course, I would imagine you would only be able to keep three, and they wouldn't be cageable like other pets from the wild. I think my murloc of choice would be Cruelfin!

Before I go, I want to thank my WoW bestie Mr. Waffles who once again surprised me with a new mini pet. I feel so lucky and spoiled sometimes! :)

Adorable!

I have to admit, I'm a sucker for posts that show off people's inventory, bank, and void storage. Lucky for me, on any given day, /wow usually has a post or two about it. I love to see the things people hold on to and what they have for transmogging. Since I finally made myself full Royal Satchel's for my bank and personal inventory, I decided to get to organizing... again. Usually I go through and vendor things every so often, but most of the stuff I have now are things I want to keep. I thought I would share some pictures of my WoW hoard with everyone. Here is goes...

My Inventory (Addon used is Baud Bag; Been using it since BC and it's awesome!)

I try to keep my bags empty as possible at all times. I never know what I may need to do... which usually means that I'm going to go run instances over and over which will net me a mass amount of cloth or just fish for hours at a time because I'm bored. I have my cloth for Imperial Silk at the top and at the bottom I have a few stacks of pet battle bandages and some Incantations to summon bosses on the Isle of thunder. That belt is my matching belt for my dungeon 3 set.

My last bag keeps all my junk I like to carry around with me. No, you don't need two Hearthstones, but I never deleted mine since I first started playing, so why should I now. I also like having the Inn Keeper's Daughter around too even though I've only seen her ghost once. Also no one needs to keep all that fishing equipment, but I like using different fishing poles when I'm in different moods. Other things are my D.I.S.C.O. machine, transformation items, Little Wickerman (because I'm too cool to use the campfire), my keg pony in case I want to drink, dino bones, and of course my Thunderfury!

My Bank

I would like to think that my bank is more organized than most of the ones out there. I know where most things are at... which is good, heh.

My main bag holds all my tabards that are either unobtainable or just a pain to get (grinding honor or other types of currency and holidays). I keep my Imperial Silk in there along with my pitiful Skyshard collection. The shirts at the end are the main ones that I rotate in and out of my transmogs.

Bag 1: shoulders, gloves, belts
Bag 2: staffs and one handed swords
Bag 3: holiday items, a few unobtainable trinkets, some recipes, and my duplicate battle stones
Bag 4: robes, helms, boots, and my postmaster set!
Bag 5: daggers, held in off hand items, wands, cloaks
Bag 6: Tier 11 pieces, Tier 13 set, my dungeon 1 set (I have 4 real pieces), and the rest is gear that is from MoP
Bag 7: random quest items, event items, some holiday items, and my beloved faded photograph.


My Void Storage

My only complaint with Void Storage is that I have more items that I would love to store in it. I wish we could buy another tab. I would easily pay 10k for another tab to put more stuff in... especially things that I have that are no longer available.

In there I have everything organized as sets. I have my WotLK event set, Tier 2, Tier 4, Tier 1, AQ Enigma set, Tier 6. The next two sets are what I like to call my "Burning Crusades" sets because they look like I came straight out of Shadowmoon Valley when I wear them. In the last column I have my spider robes and their matching pieces (which can be interchangeable), and my Scholomance set with Alanna's Embrace sitting by it because I haven't figured out what to match it with yet...

So yea, I call myself a WoW hoarder, but I am much more organized that I'd like to think. Space has always been, and I think it will always be an issue for me. I don't mind though... this junk is my world!

Fishing for Carp

I know a lot of people are getting frustrated with the Tiny Carp mini pets. At the beginning as I was having flashbacks of attempting to fish up a Sea Turtle mount in WotLK. I used to farm hours for it along the coasts of Borean Tundra, and I ended up getting it randomly one Saturday during the Kalu'ak Fishing tournament from a pool in Grizzly Hills.

Anyway, here are a few facts I know (from personal experience) about the carps.

- I caught all of mine at different times of day with different weather conditions happening. I don't believe this has anything to do with how they are fished up.

- My fishing skill is maxed out. I wore only my Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat (with the buff applied) and used my Kalu'ak Fishing Pole.

This next one is the most important one...

- I DID NOT fish any of the carp up from pools!

At first I was using the "fish of the day" as a guide for which pools would possibly get me the carps faster. After a few days of getting nothing, I changed my game plan. I do not have an estimate of how many casts I have, but I did get three of the four carp in a matter of two days using my method. After taking a break over the weekend (to move into my new place), I caught the stubborn remaining carp in one day.

Now here are pictures of each location where I fished up each carp.

Tiny Red Carp

Townlong Steppes

Tip: Stand on the rock in the middle of the pond while fishing to avoid mobs.

Tiny Blue Carp

Vale of Eternal Blossoms

Tiny Green Carp

Valley of the Four Winds

Tiny White Carp

Kun-Lai Summit

This carp was my last catch and definitely took the longest to get. Very rewarding to finally get him!

Please remember, what worked for me may not work for you. There are no "magical spots" that let you fish up the carp faster. If you find yourself getting burnt out, fish for about an hour or so in one location and then switch to the next. A good thing about fishing in Valley of the Four Winds and Kun-Lai Summit is that you can take advantage of killing world bosses in between fishing. Also, you may get a good bit of Sealed Crates. The contents and fish are basically free gold if you aren't using the mats to level up a profession.

Remember it's just a game and mini pet collecting was meant to be fun, not cut throat competition. Good luck to everyone on their carp journey. They truly are wonderful little mini pets.Now, grab a Kungaloosh, relax, and keep on fishing! ;)

Blog Azeroth: WoW Collections

I have finally signed up to Blog Azeroth. I love the fact that they have a weekly topic posted that you can blog about. It gives me new content to discuss without having to keep saying the same things over and over. I just have never been too great with posting on forums, so I doubt I will really contribute much on the site. Anyway, here was this weeks question:

"World of Warcraft has added many different items for players to collect, whether it be collecting pets, mounts, transmog gear or knickknacks about the lore. This week’s topic asks what you do collect in the game and what is your prized item from that collection?"

I know I touched on this subject on a post last year, but I went more into detail of older, non obtainable items that I have. As far as collecting goes... I collect it all! Seriously, Vel is one of those characters that keeps it because you never know when she might need it.

I started off in BC with a huge collection of mini pets. Before you could learn them, you would have to keep the physical item in your bags to summon it. It got so bad that my entire bank was filled with them. Thank goodness for the "pet tab" now. I have almost 500 of them, but my most prized pet would have to be my Emerald Whelp. I used to spend long hours farming for it in Swamp of Sorrows. I never got it to drop, but I finally bought one at the beginning of WotLK for 5k, eek.

In Wrath, I became more obsessed with mount and tabard collecting. I bought a lot of TCG packs to try to get loot, and at the end I had so many I was able to redeem myself a Tabard of the Void. It's still a very nice tabard that I use whenever I'm wearing a dark set. It's probably my second favorite tabard right behind Tabard of the Argent Dawn (for obvious reasons of course).

Now as far as mounts go, I will probably sound really cliché by saying this, but my Ashes of Al'ar is my most prized mount. I don't even care that a ton of people have it now... I love it because it reminds me of late night Tempest Keep runs with my friends to try and get transmog gear and telling stories of the past xpacs and raids. I never thought I would see this thing drop, much less legitimately win the roll. That mount means so much to me. <3

Titles! I almost forgot about titles! I didn't raid during Wrath, but I always wanted to kill Arthas. He has one of my favorites stories lore wise and ICC is still filled with some of the coolest bosses (imo). I ended up getting into am Arthas kill during Cata just so I could get my "the Kingslayer" title. Something about that title just gives me the chills. I have no idea why, but I love it so much. My second favorite title is "of the Shattered Sun". Both me and my boyfriend got that title back in BC from grinding out all those dailies to get exalted. It was also rare to see someone with it because it cost 1k... which was still quite a good bit of gold back then.

Finally I leave you with transmog. I cannot tell you how excited I was when Illidan dropped Cowl of the Illidari Highlord. I ended up spending a good bit of time making a really pretty set around it. It's definitely my all time favorite transmog set (I have a thing for BC of course).

There are some other items that I REALLY like, but sadly I don't have a sword yet and we could be here all day with me going through them all, hah.

I also wanted to say after all the headache that the "new" Photobucket has been causing me, I've decide to switch all of my photos over to Dropbox. They are all there, I just haven't had a chance to organize them a bit better. I'd like to have my Moonguard pictures separate from everything since that is a whole different story in itself. Please feel free to visit the new home of my screenshots: World of Picturecraft.