Runzwithfire

My name is Runz and I'm a Troll Mage. I think I'm 29, but my guild keeps telling me I'm old, forgetful and incontinent so I could be wrong.

I’m currently a member of Darkened, a fairly hardcore progression guild on the Burning Steppes EU Realm, a PvP realm.  Burning Steppes is an oft maligned realm due to population imbalances, a dodgy economy, under used realm forums, a lack of world PvP and other things.  But to me it’s home, it’s where I go adventuring and it’s where my friends are.

I enjoy a nice sit down with a cup of tea and a choccy biccy.

I have two other toons:

Runswithfire (A 65 Tauren Warrior and my first ever toon)

Runswivdeath (A Tauren DK – I use him to sew things, take that Mr. Badass deathknight, you sew things now… sew me a dress!  I mean robe!

I also make machinima when I can be bothered and I have the time, my youtube channel is here.

Oh and I'm English, I therefore use a multitude of words for fecal matter and use them all as nouns, verbs and adjectives.

How I got into WoW can all be found here.

Why Blog?

Good question, well presented.

I guess I blog for a lot of reasons.  It kinda started as an idea to host my machinima on here.  Unfortunately it takes a long time [for me] to make machinima and the site was not open to the public as it were because there was nothing here so I decided to do something with it.  After all I was reading a wealth of blogs and thoroughly enjoying them.  I’d make occasional comments but I soon realised I wanted my own platform to express my views and my opinions about stuff rather than just hijack someone else’s comments section (I tend to get a bit ‘wordy’ at times).  On top of that, I’m pretty sure my guild was getting miffed with my constant stream of posts in the forums. 

So in the end I decided I’d rejig the plan for my site a little bit, I can blog, I can share news and machinima I like with other people, I can collect together guides and impart some advice or I could just have a good old rant about stuff.

I do hope that people enjoy reading it, I hope the jokes go down well and my own little brand of English witticism is well received; I like making people smile.  I’d love to see tons of readers and loads of regular hits but honestly, I guess I really write this blog for me (and for certain members in my guild).

Subject Matter

Dear God, whatever I feel like writing at the time lol.  It tends to be WoW (or at the very least game) related and usually with a good mage perspective on things.  I love writing about my guild because they’re just such a great bunch of people, I <3 them all.

General Topics include:

• Raiding (specifically as a Mage although general raid stuff is included)
• Mage News
• A bit of theorycrafting
• Useful websites and addons
• Lambasting of not so useful addons (gearscore, I’m looking at you)
• Machinima
• Guild Life
• Real Life (in relation to WoW and vice versa)
• Discussion Topics (see Around The Water Cooler)

Well that’s me and my site, I hope you enjoy :)