I thought rather than just stick it up unannounced I’d prattle on talk a little about why some of them are on there. Firstly my main port of call, and probably the initial reason I started reading blogs; WOW Insider, it’s moved about a bit over the years as it’s become bigger and bigger (and possibly a tad more commercial), and is the only blog which I know about which can boast coverage of every class and every spec and a whole host of other regular columns. Fox Van Allen is the regular Shadow Priest author, Dawn Moore the Holy (and Disc) and both talk an enormous amount of sense (generally). Seriously, if you’re regularly reading WOW blogs and haven’t heard of these guys you’re not doing it right.
One of the first blogs I click on when catching up on the rss feed is Divine Aeigis, with two main authors, Lyria and Lilitharien with regular posts focusing on the pro’s and con’s and the use of specific priest abilities, raiding, up and coming developments and patches, its a must read for me. Next Comes the Stories of O, written by Oestrus, who until very recently had jumped ships and was authoring for Divine Aegis. Oestrus is now back on the one blog and covering similar types of topics to Divine Aegis but is often found branching out to druid (branching! geddit?? ), shaman, and paladin healing to take more of a generic look at all things healing.
The Greedy Goblin is a strange sort of blog, Gevlon strikes me as a pretty hardcore player of WOW and his views are often quite extreme, and polarise the blog community; just have a read of some of the comments on his more controversial posts if you don't believe me. The blog is extremely ‘elite’ player focussed and Gevlon spends a lot of time ‘helping’ morons and slackers ‘improve’. I’ve included a commentary on this blog specifically because it stands out as one of the prime reason why people should blog; Whilst his views aren’t always popular, or in line with my own, Gevlon generally makes good, well balanced arguments, comments are (understandably I suppose) pre vetted by Gevlon as I would imagine he gets a fair few abusive comments, but to his enormous credit, he always seem to post critical comments (by critical I mean “I don’t agree, and here’s why…” comments, not “this post is crap…” the latter I would consider abuse). I’ve seen some excellent debates go on in the comments of the posts here as a result, and I’ve taken inspiration for a number of my own posts as a result of reading posts or comments here.
Moving from the more niche focussed blogs to, well, random, we have Pugnacious Priest, I’m sure some time in the distant past this blog was more focussed around priests, now it’s at best loosely priest focussed, but is still an excellent and entertaining read. Larissa and her Pink Pigtail Inn is another one of these blogs that I wouldn’t class as having a specific focus, taking a look at wow from the perspective of a raider, gives an enthralling commentary on the thoughts of Larissa on WOW and the Blogsphere. with the added bonus that Tamarind, who was recently lost to the blogsphere, occasionally stops by with a guest post.
I also couldn’t write a post like this without mentioning two of the blogs and bloggers that have, for whatever reason, stopped blogging. Misery written by Merlot which was loosely based around his shadow priest but encompassed an excellently articulated commentary on WOW. And then there was Righteous Orbs, written by Tamarind, an excellent,well thought out, and thoroughly engaging blog. Both of these guys decided to hang up their pen about the time I stared putting my ramblings down in prose and I do hope both will have a change of heart soon (though as I mentioned above Tam does occasionally pop up else where, but its just not enough).
Well there's a seemingly random sample of the blogs I read, there are loads more, but I think I’ve prattled on for long enough. My blogroll will contain only blogs which I genuinely read and wont be an attempt to get more links. Rather topically I received an email from some random as I was half way through writing this post “I really like your blog ‘pleasefeedthetroll’ would you be willing to exchange blogroll inks….” yada yada yada. Looking at the ‘blog’ it was clearly nothing to do with WOW, or actually anything in particular and just survived on trading links with other spam blogs. I almost replied “certainly, if you can tell me one thing about the content of my blog”, but sensibly decided to consign it to the spam trap instead. Hey ho….
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