Well, let’s head back to the start of the year. I made a pretty ambitious set of goals, and I know for a fact I accomplished at least a couple of them, but it wasn’t even close to half. Work out at least once a week Nope. Didn’t quite pull this off. I got sick…

If the title doesn’t make it obvious, Z and Cinder want to know my favorite role in an MMO. In other words they want me to I don’t think it will surprise anyone that the guy who plays a mage (when he isn’t trying to switch to a warlock or elemental shaman) says his favorite…

We’re coming around to the question that really defines Battle for Azeroth lately, and that’s “Why DO you play your faction?” I’ve been playing Warcraft games since Warcraft 2, and if you’d told thebmatt of those days that one day there would be a Warcraft MMORPG and he’d be playing on the Horde side, he…

Z and Cinder are asking about my to-do list for BFA in this challenge topic. Honestly, I don’t particularly have a very big list at this point. I tend to establish my goals in the later part of an expansion life cycle. For now my major goals are the following Get BFA Pathfinder Level at…

Your topicmasters and mine wanna know “How do you level in Battle for Azeroth?” I refined my leveling strategy into the following during Legion, and I carried it over into BFA: As I’m leveling, I will do every single quest I come across. I will finish off every side quest hub/chain I can find before…

Z and Cinder wanna see our BFA screenshots! Well, I forgot to take a bunch as I leveled, but I’ll share what I did grab! First things first, I had to take a screengrab of Oldmanfranks receiving the Heart of Azeroth. He’s still wearing the Sha-Skin Regalia transmog at this point, and it cracks me…

Z and Cinder are back! We have a new topic! It’s also a 2-parter! Is “2-parter” a word? Probably not. I’m using it anyway, because I can. Anyway, let’s get crackin’. Special Programming Note: Because I was so late getting this out, tomorrow there will be two “5 Things” posts. Who will be featured? Come back tomorrow…

It’s time for the latest Blog Challenge, and this one’s all about the times when we’ve felt like awesome badasses when playing WoW.  Honestly, I’m not a great solo player. I’ve been trying the mage tower challenges whenever I can and I’m awful at them. I can’t PvP worth a dang. So I think most…

For this challenge, Z and Cinder are asking about my favorite real-world reference in World of Warcraft. I admit, I knew right away what I wanted mine to be, but due to various sicknesses and or busy weekends, I haven’t had time to put thoughts to text, until now. And if the side image doesn’t…

I realize I’m a bit late with this one, I usually try to have a post up every Saturday, but I was pretty messed up this past week. It involved a newly adopted dog, some allergies going into overdrive, not being able to take any medicine while waiting for an appointment with an allergist, and…

Z and Cinder wanna know if I’m playing any of the new Allied Races, and what I’d love the next Allied Race to be. So let’s go through what I’ve done so far. We’ll start with the Horde. This is Merf, my new Highmountain Tauren shaman. I knew pretty much right away that I wanted to…

This time around, Z and Cinder want to know what my favorite mount is. This will prove a bit challenging (heh) for me, because I have a LOT of mounts that I love for various reasons. There’s mounts that I love for practical reasons, ones that I love for the lore tied to them and…

And now for Part 2 of Challenge #29: The Year in Pictures! …..what? OH yeah I know I said it probably wouldn’t be up until the new year, but we’ve gotten a LOT done on the packing front for our trip to Texas, so I actually have time to do this part as well. So…

Part 1 of Challenge #29 asks me to revisit my bucket list established way way back in Challenge #7. So let’s have a look Finish my Legion Leveling Series on my YouTube channel This one did not happen. Between YouTube’s many well documented ad woes and a whole host of technical problems that resulted in…

Z and Cinder want to know what I would have done with the next expansion and what I would have announced at Blizzcon for this topic. Well, in a serendipitous sense of timing, the same day this topic came out on their blog, I actually wrote about my thoughts on Battle for Azeroth’s story and…

For this challenge, Z and Cinder wanna see my favorite noncombat pets. So let’s get this train a’rollin. I’m not a huge pet collector, by any means. I don’t really participate in pet battles much, I don’t go clear old raids on a weekly basis looking for those random drops off of bosses, and I…

The next challenge from Z and Cinder asks me to answer the question “Why DO you blog about WoW, Bmatt?” Uh…well that’s easy, ladies. You asked me to. Well, okay, maybe not me directly, but you did lay down the topics and ask anyone interested to write about them! Blogging about something is challenging for…

For this challenge, Z and Cinder, by way of fellow contributor Kamalia, want to know…..about things in WoW that make you think of other music? Specifically not music from the game itself? Huh. Sorry, maybe it’s just me, but I don’t get this challenge at all. Any good memories or screenshots I could share would…

Z and Cinder asked to take a look inside my bags in this challenge, and well, I’m happy to oblige.  I’m proud to say that I don’t use any bag mods to organize my stuff, I’ve gotten far too used to organizing it myself, and can’t get used to an addon doing it for me….

Across worlds, across universes, throughout many different species and cultures (at least ones that have a diurnal cycle), there is a universal truth that practically any sentient being will agree with. Mornings come way too soon. A soft knock on the door to his quarters reminded Dahkar, Archmage of the Tirisgarde, that this truth still…

It’s another suggestion of mine this week from Z and Cinder, and I’m all too happy to contribute to this one…except I wish it was a different answer! I would love to be able to say I have a certain naming scheme/convention for my characters, but sadly they are kind of a mishmash of things….

I had a hard time with this challenge, because I’m not really the kind of player who wanders around looking for things anymore. Between my 2 children and all the other things that tend to happen as you become an adult, my time in game has gone down significantly on average. Because of that, when…

Gonna be honest, I don’t think this is the greatest topic for the blog challenge, but that might just be me. I mean, I’m from North Central Texas, specifically Fort Worth. It’s a pretty flat area, no real interesting geographic features, just a lot of big open land, which means plenty of room for a whole…