Heya hordlings and evil allianc-lings(that’s you gnomeagedon and DCL…or is it DLC?!?). We’ve been bad bloggers here at 4theHorde. How bad? This bad.

Yes, we’ve been bad, sorry for the gap in the wondrous writing that is 4theHorde…wait, this just in, we’re not wondrous, just odd and slightly Canadian(well, Fik is Canadian, so technically, that’s 1/5th of the writing staff…wait, we don’t get paid, so we aren’t a staff…what are we then? Oh yeah, hobbyists. Where was I going with this? I forget.

Now, onto the main event. My world of warcraft time as of late has been spent earning mounts. Last time I felt you with a number, that number was 73. Then number of mounts I had at that time. Now, I’ve been avoiding the netherwing drakes because I had always heard it was a crazy stupid grind. Lets face it, by now in my wow career, most things I do are stupid grinds. It was time to get at it. I started the quests, and some ten days later, I was exalted with them. I found a few eggs in there as well,lol. Now, a few things about the netherwing ledge quests. I liked them. They were fun. I mean come on, where else can you roam around as a GIANT RED ORC?!?!

Honestly, Gozz was a sweet looking orc before, but  he’s awesome looking as a big red fel orc! This, combined with the ease of doing level 70 quests at level 80 made the time fly by. I spent 30-45 minutes per day doing the quests and flew through to exalted. I bought all six netherwing mounts and will probably never go back again! Now, if you are keeping track, that brings the count to 79. Now, I’ve still been doing argent tourney quests, not every day, but most. I hit another hundred marks, and went after another mount. I was under the impression that the argent tournament mount(the horsey) was paladin only. I was wrong!

Pure awesome.

Even if this mount isn’t paladin specific, it’s hard to not imagine I’m a paladin when I ride it! This brings me up to 80. Then, with teh addition of another pvp mount, the wolf, I’m sitting at 81. I have 19 to go for my 100 mounts goal. This is no easy task. There are some that are going to be a grind. I have three more pvp mounts I can get, 7 tournament mounts, bringing me to 91. Then it gets rough…and expensive. I still need to purchase the red drake from dragonblight and blue armored windrider at roughly 2k each…1600 with rep? that’s 93… Then I can get the 300 spirit shards one from wintergrasp, 94…. the 200 emblems elephant from dalaran, 95… the exalted hodir elephant, what 8k gold, ouch! 96… I will run stratholm until the baron finally caves and gives me his mount, 97… I can switch my mining to tailoring and get two carpets, woot! 99!! Then it either gets hairy, or expensive where I go from here… I can get all of the mats for the mechanohog(what 12k+ im mats and gold?) I can purchase the traveling tundra mammoth(ouch) or I can run karazan, zul garub, HMr. T and pray that one of the mounts comes my way, or give my druid healy friend(yeah you Nim) the money for his epic flight quest and run crypts for the archlord thingie over and over again… Either way, I can get to 99 cheapish, but the 100th mount might be tough… I’ll get there, just wait!

Anyway, mounts are on my mind, as well as my rogue. I’ve been playing the rogue a bit lately, but more on that in a later post. You may be surprised to hear my motivation for playing roguey Mcrogerson again…

~Uncle Sy

Wow. I’ve run around saying “I’m a Night Elf Mohawk!” as much as the next guy ever since the over the top wow commercial featuring Mr. T. But wow, this is just ugly. I never want to be a night elf mohawk again…

Man is that ugly…

~Sy

Before I start this wonderful list of mounts I currently own, mounts I’m currently working on, and mounts I will never see, let me just take a moment to thank Fikkle. Jerk. This whole mount obsession started a few days back. Fikkle, his bro, and myself were all on vent. He asked a simple question, and my mount obsession, nay, addiction kicked back in. Thanks dude. Thanks.

Also, many thanks to the people at Warcraft Mounts. Without their work, I would have a hard time coming up with this list, you guys rock my digital socks off!

Gozz’s Collection of Current Mounts:
73 Mounts Owned

	Albino Drake
	Armored Brown Bear – Horde
	Big Battle Bear
	Big Blizzard Bear
	Black Hawkstrider
	Black Skeletal Horse
	Black Wolf
	Blue Hawkstrider
	Blue Riding Nether Ray
	Blue Skeletal Horse
	Blue Windrider
	Bronze Drake
	Brown Kodo
	Brown Skeletal Horse
	Brown Wolf
	Cenarion War Hippogryph
	Cobalt Riding Talbuk
	Cobalt War Talbuk
	Dire Wolf
	Emerald Raptor
	Flying Machine
	Frostwolf Howler
	Gray Kodo
	Great Brewfest Kodo
	Great Brown Kodo
	Great Golden Kodo
	Great Gray Kodo
	Great White Kodo
	Green Proto-Drake
	Green Riding Nether Ray
	Green Skeletal Warhorse
	Green Windrider
	Ice Mammoth – Horde
	Ochre Skeletal Warhorse
	Purple Hawkstrider
	Purple Riding Nether Ray
	Purple Skeletal Warhorse

	Red Hawkstrider
	Red Riding Nether Ray
	Red Skeletal Horse
	Silver Riding Nether Ray
	Silver Riding Talbuk
	Silver War Talbuk
	Swift Blue Raptor
	Swift Brown Wolf
	Swift Burgundy Wolf
	Swift Gray Wolf
	Swift Green Hawkstrider
	Swift Green Windrider
	Swift Olive Raptor
	Swift Orange Raptor
	Swift Pink Hawkstrider
	Swift Purple Hawkstrider
	Swift Purple Raptor
	Swift Purple Windrider
	Swift Red Hawkstrider
	Swift Red Windrider
	Swift Timber Wolf
	Swift Warstrider
	Swift Yellow Windrider
	Swift Zhevra
	Tan Riding Talbuk
	Tan War Talbuk
	Tawny Windrider
	Timber Wolf
	Turbo-Charged Flying Machine
	Turquoise Raptor
	Violet Raptor
	White Kodo
	White Polar Bear
	White Riding Talbuk
	White Skeletal Warhorse
	White War Talbuk

Here is a list of my “attainable” mounts…(41)

Here’s the short list of mounts I could easily get my hands on…and how I can get them!

	Argent Hippogryph
	Tournament Dailies 150 chamion seals…
	Armored Blue Wind Rider
	2k gold in dalaran…
	Azure Netherwing Drake
	Finish my netherwing faction rep grind…
	Black War Bear – Horde
	Kill the last two alliance leaders I need to kill…
	Black War Kodo
	BG PVP
	Black War Mammoth – Horde
	300 shards…
	Black War Raptor
	BG PVP
	Black War Wolf
	BG PVP
	Blue Proto-Drake
	HUP drop…
	Cobalt Netherwing Drake
	Finish my netherwing faction rep grind…
	Dark Riding Talbuk
	Halla PVP (Nim’s helping em with this one!)
	Dark War Talbuk
	Halla PVP (Nim’s helping me with this one!)
	Darkspear Raptor
	Tournament Dailies, 1oo chamions seals
	Deathcharger
	Stratholme runs….1% drop rate…
	Flying Carpet
	Drop mining, level tailoring…fun, fun
	Forsaken Warhorse
	BG PVP
	Grand Black War Mammoth – Horde
	Buy this one from Hodir guy right?
	Grand Ice Mammoth – Horde
	Buy this one from Hodir guy right? or is this one in dal?
	Magnificent Flying Carpet
	Drop mining, level tailoring…
	Onyx Netherwing Drake
	Finish my netherwing faction rep grind…
	Orgrimmar Wolf
	BG PVP

	Purple Netherwing Drake
	Finish my netherwing faction rep grind…
	Red Dragonhawk
	100 mounts reward!
	Red Drake
	Buy this guy from the wermrest accord guys…2k~ish gold right?
	Red Skeletal Warhorse
	BG PVP
	Sea Turtle
	Level my fishing, and spend too much time fishing in northrend…
	Silvermoon Hawkstrider
	Tournament dailies 100 champion seals
	Sunreaver Dragonhawk
	tournament dailies, 100 0r 150 champion seals, can’t recal…
	Sunreaver Hawkstrider
	Tournament dailies 100 champion seals
	Swift Horde Wolf
	Tournament dailies 100 champion seals
	Swift Razzashi Raptor
	Zul Garub boss drop…
	Swift White Hawkstrider
	Heroic Mr. T…
	Swift Zulian Tiger
	Zul Garub  boss drop…
	Thunder Bluff Kodo
	Tournament dailies 100 champion seals
	Time-Lost Proto-Drake
	Rare spawn in Storm Peaks
	Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth – Horde
	way too much gold in Dal… what 12k???
	Venomhide Ravasaur
	Un Goro dailies(haven’t started them…)
	Veridian Netherwing Drake
	Finish my netherwing faction rep grind…
	Violet Netherwing Drake
	Finish my netherwing faction rep grind…
	Violet Proto-Drake
	finish my “what a long strange trip it’s been” achiement…
	Wooly Mammoth – Horde
	um, dal? money? or hodir money? or shards in WG?

So, as you all can see, I have quite a bit of work ahead of me to attain my goal of 100 mounts. Beyond that, I’ll keep going until I have as many mounts as I can, mountians of mounts if you will! It’s going to take some time, but to be honest, ahs reinvigerated me with the desire to play this game. Now to get at it before cataclysm comes out… Once again, thanks Fik…

~Uncle Sy

Thanks again for everyone’s comments and entries for the win some art contest. I wanted to take a quick minute to show you guys what we ended up with. First, the image I was sent to work with, DCL’s Shaman.

Now, here’s a look at what I ended up sending his way.

Not a bad representation for a dirty alliance! Just playin Larry, you know you’re all good in our books! Now remember, if you want a piece of artwork done for yourself, go over to either my blog, or my etsy shop and I’ll start leaving this blog back to the Horde, where it belongs!

~Uncle Sy

After what, three months now sense HToC came into the world… of warcraft, I finally have my grubby little hands of the one item I’ve drooled over. It’s finally mine folks, it’s finally mine! I figured I’ve run it 2-4 times per week from the beginning, and only seen it drop for a group I was in twice. I lost the first to a warrior… Yeah, I know, fail. Then I picked this beaut up. I’ve seen the shoulders get DE’d a few times, the necklace, gloves, boots, Morrowstrike, anything a hunter might potentially want drop. I’ve seen everything else enough to not only have a chance to win the rolls, but to sell a few to vendors when we have no enchanter with us! But finally, SHE IS MINE!

VS.

I mean come on, they aren’t light years apart stat wise, but it is making about a 200 dps difference on the few runs I’ve went on sense getting this  fine piece of machinery, so well worth the effort in my opinion. (Yes, I know it could be better, I could go run raids and get ubber leetness guns, bows, and crossbows, but I’m casual. Not that hardcore… so I guess I’ll settle for this!)

~Uncle Sy

From the healing survey at Miss Medicina. So what if I’m late to the party and no one tagged me? Gotta do something to avoid working on my NaNoWriMo novel.

First of all, let me say thank you to everyone that came by my site adn entered my contest! If you came by my site, didn’t bother to say hi or anything, even enter the contest, well, you guys are cool too. (Unless you didn’t enter because you thought my art work was crap…then I’ll hunt you down like the little gnomes you smell like. Yeah, we know you were here, we have good noses…) Anyway, the traffic increase here and at World of Sylus was amazing. No sales of toon picks yes, but I’m assuming that’s because you all want to know if you won the free toon drawing first. (that’s what I’m telling myself to keep from crying at night. )

We had many great comments, and many more people pimp my art work via twitter, blogs, and even facebook. Thank you all for the kind words(even if they were to get in my good graces to win the artwork) I still love you! So, here’s how I picked the winner. I wrote down all of the people that pimped my stuffs on the internets. (Twitter posts with links, facebook posts with links, blog posts, etc) After I had all of your names on little pieces of paper,(Gnome, you had your name in there like 6 times I think, YOU ANIMAL!) the lovely LadyGil drew one random name out of the bucket. (it was this candy thing for Halloween, scary!) Now, I know who that name is, heck I want to tell you who that name is, but I think I better not just yet. Let me spend a little bit more time rambling on and on about how awesome this contest was, how cool my artwork is, and how amazing you all were for entering and visiting the site.

Is that enough rambling? If not I can do some more, seriously. I can ramble for hours and hours without slowing down. Okay, I”m boring myself. The name drawn out of the hat, against all odds(seriously, how the crap was Gnome not drawn, he was in there so many times!) the winner of one custom toon drawing is none other than DotComLarry. Yes folks, DOTCOMLARRY. Good Ol’ Dot threw out a tweet during the second day of the contest I believe and came back here telling me to check it out. I did, and thank you for the kind words Larry! I’ll be contacting you via twitter to get your info on what toon you want, the screenshot, and where to send it too.

As soon as I’m done with this fine piece of artwork, I’ll post it out here on the interwebs for all to see. Now, I wasn’t going to do this, but Gnome, send me a direct message on twitter. I’m giving you a second place prize. I feel you earned it. I mean seriously, I got so much face time on Gomeageddon’s blog I was beginning to feel like I was a co-author or something, sheesh. It kind of creeped me out a bit, seriously, the view from down there is scary!

Well guys, thanks for the great contest and traffic. Keep stopping by, and remember if you want to purchase a custom piece of world of warcraft art for you or a loved one, check out my etsy shop, or leave me a comment at world of Sylus.

~Uncle Sy

Lok’tar friends!  Meet my new main!

Kor is now a level 80 warrior!

Oh, and I’ve finally got my RP project off the ground.  I’m actually going to call it a fan fiction blog, but if you’re interested in going to read some stories about an Orc Warrior and a Human Warrior, you can go check it out at Dragontooth Chronicles.

Stay Hordecore!

–Fikkle

Hey guys, it’s Sy again, with another contest! This one’s a good one folks, with prizes, pimpage, and passion fruit?… Okay, so maybe no passion fruit, but definitely prizes and pimpage!

Here’s the contest. I want you to tell the World…of Warcraft about how they can get their very own character drawn! Just find a creative way to tell the internet about either my etsy shop, or my personal blog and you could win a custom drawing of your character’s bust. Yes, bust. That’s his face, chest area, and shoulders(if they are sweet looking enough! No level 14 white shoulders here folks!

For your chance to win, just leave a comment on this post telling me where, and how you pimped my artwork. Wala, you are entered!

I’ll run this contest through the end of this week, picking a winner on saturday and getting contact info on how to get started on your award-winning piece. Yes, it will win awards, and I haven’t even started it yet. Now, you know I’m not a slouch at the art, but just in case you forgot, here’s my baby troll hunter’s face. This was done with Copic markers on 81/2 inch x 11 inch acid free paper. Your’s will be the same size, and of the same quality(or better!)

I’ve also got a tree druid up right now at Tree of Doom. yes, I did the header for Saresa’s tree blog. I like it. Now get out there and tell the World…of Warcraft, and get your hands on a custom toon sketch created by Sy just for You!

~Uncle Sy

I’ve had my mind made up for a while now and I may have mentioned it here before, but I wanted to talk about it one more time before its official.  When will it be official?  “Soon”

My history with the different classes in the game is a bit unique and very altaholic-ish.  That being said, I want to run a recap of characters that I’ve considered my main of that class. 

I started out as a Mage.  His name was Fikkle.  I retired him during BC (at level 70), but have kept the name as my internet persona.  He’s since been levelled to 74 in Wrath so he can port to Dal.  Yes, that is the only reason I levelled him at all.  After that I levelled two other characters at the same time.  The first was a priest.  He was going to be a raid healer.  He made it Terokkar before I dumped him and swore I’d never ever play a priest again.  Don’t get me wrong, I love me some good priests, I just can’t stand playing one.  The other one was my hunter, Grimshot.  He became my main once he hit 70, taking over from my hunter.  He raided and was the character I took the farthest in current-at-the-time end game content.  After that a bunch of us decided to reroll on a pvp server to see what it was like.  My Druid Antaeus was born and levelled to 64 on that server before I switched him to a PvE server.  He then finished levelling to 70 and did some BGs and Arenas, never getting very far.  After that, I dual-boxed a Warlock and Shaman from 1-70 together.  The Warlock hasn’t been played since.  The Shaman, Brak, hit 70 just before the Scourge invasion and then became my first character to 80 in Wrath.  He’s been my main for the past year.  Once again going back to before Wrath, I had a Paladin that I’d levelled to 64 and never ended up getting back to.  After Brak hit 80, I pulled Juris out and quickly rocked through to level cap, getting my second character to 80.  After that I levelled a Rogue that I had at mid level (can’t remember when I got him there) up and he made it to 73, where he is now.  After that, I took my hunter back out, levelled him to 80 and decided that I’m no longer a hunter.  It was a sad day.  It was almost as sad as the day the music died.  Can’t remember when it was, but after having done 200 arena matches in the arena tournament as a Death Knight, I pulled my DK out of the starter area and levelled him to cap as my fourth 80.

If you’re keeping score, there is one class I haven’t mentioned yet.  Warrior.  I suppose I saved the best for last.  Not that I’m saying they are the best class in the game (they are the best class in the game) but they are the best class for me.  There are a few reasons for that though.  You’ll notice that I started with a caster, and with the exception of the hunter, I levelled all of the casters first, and even levelled my shaman and druid in resto builds (and maybe moonkin too, for the druid).  After hitting 70, my Shaman went enhance and I tried melee out for the first time.  I liked it.  I levelled my Paladin ret.  It was easymode.  I levelled a rogue.  Very sneaky-cool, Sir.  I played a DK in the arena tournament, and that I think had the biggest impact on it.  While there were times when I got frustrated and just logged out for the night before we’d met our quota, I really learned how to play a melee class in pvp from those 200 matches in a short amount of time.  The DK really allowed me to find my own spot in the BGs.  My live-server DK, Martog, was levelled to 80 before the changes to pvp levelling were introduced, so I never got to try that with him.  But my Warrior, Kor, has almost exclusively levelled in BGs.  That experience as well, has really helped me to learn the class well, what works for them and what doesn’t.  I think knowing ALL of the other classes helps as well, but when it comes right down to it, I’ve found me a home. 

My brother came to visit last weekend.  He saw me pvp’ing on my warrior for the first time and was blown away at how much I was outdamaging the next highest person in the BGs, and the tricks I was using to keep myself moving and living, while still killing everything else around me.  Now, I’m not trying to toot my own horn here.  I would never call myself ‘the illest’.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.   Then again, my warrior isn’t the son of the man.  Although, he could be, he’s not really sure.  He’s an orphan and doesn’t know who his parents are… (RP Story coming “Soon”)

 They’re definately not gnomes though.  I mean, I have green skin, not green hair.  

Anyways, all I’m saying is that I’ve learned a thing or two and decided to write some tips for anyone else who’d be interested.  I’m planning a multi-part guide to levelling an Arms warrior as a Transient Twink, called Arsenal.  Keep an eye out.  So right now, Kor is level 72.  I’ve been keeping him going, and I’ve got his gear wish list ready for both Prot (Primary spec) and Arms (Secondary spec) for when he hits 80.  I want to get back into raiding, I’m enjoying him that much.  I also plan on pvp’ing with him until he’s a Conqueror.  Those are his roots after all.  Maybe then I’ll be able to be the illestconquerorwarrior! Amirite?

 EDIT: /grammarhammer… I can’t believe I there’d a they’re… wow

Stay Hordecore

Fikkle