Sooo the other day I got my latest and probably "coolest" looking pet:

Shattered Hand Warhound, and hella cool looking:

Have I mentioned I love WoW

I logged into World of Warcraft this morning and immediately was told I won the achievement of logging into Warcraft on the 4 year anniversary... Okay.. kinda cool I guess. I then noticed that I had mail... I went to look and it seems that anyone that logs in today (Sunday) gets a free pet "companion" in the looks of a baby snow-bear. That's kinda cool!

I have tons of alts, and many I have barely used... I thought it rather funny that a undead rouge by the name of rotgutruby would have a baby snow-bear

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/solidruss/babybear.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/solidruss/babybear2-1.jpg

The things Blizzard will do, it always amazes me

Installation was a breeze. 1 dvd and one or two minor fixes and I was up and running! I started up the game and immediately looked at creating the new hero class Death Knight.

I was a bit confused at first because I misunderstood how one was created. I thought you had to have a character of at least level 55 and you could turn them into a Death Knight... personally that would have been kinda cool. Instead it's just having any character of 55 on that server will allow you to create a new Death Knight with a starting level of 55.

So now that I got that figured out (dur!) I launched the game. Right out the gate they hit you with all kinds of cool content.. you get to place runes on your weapons that add stats to it and also makes them glow as if they were enchanted; a profession I never tried due to it costing so much gold, so this is a neat thing.

I probably played for 3 or 4 hours which is a really long time for me, and all I have to say is this is fantastic fun! There are a lot of people complaining that it's too easy at first, that they practically give you a mount, and halfway decent gear from the start, but I think that was done on purpose.

So far all I've done are the startup quests which are like a training area. I finished up one of the last ones this morning before work, so I'm eager to get home and play some more. For the record, I haven't even set foot on the new areas yet

I don't have screenshots, but I may upload a movie or two over the weekend. This is going to be good fun, I can tell already!