Rerolling in the Deep <—Adele song :P

I only speak for myself here, as the AFKER can add her own comments if she wants. This has hands down been the best NuGen guild we’ve ever created. It was a really tough decision to finally leave and you guys have been the reason I’ve stayed so long. We’ve really never had a single guild this long.

I don’t know every single guildie well but I can say that for whatever reason we managed to bring together and keep some of the nicest and most interesting people we’ve ever met in the WoW community. 

This guild managed to shape itself into exactly what we set it out to be and what we wanted out online gaming time to be like. It’s fun, active, chatty, and rarely seems to be a dull place to be. Yes we had some drama and a few bumps, but I wouldn’t trade the rough times!

I do think NuGen itself is one of the best guilds/concepts out there. Myself and Cat have only ever been in NuGen guilds and we hear tales of what other “Social” guilds are like and wonder why we’re different. We do seem to get people who join and stay with us for a long time, and even hop over to different realms with us!

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Profession related addons

Click on the name of each addon to go straight to the page :)

Advanced trade skill window

This will change the way you do your professions, trust me. ATSW is a complete replacement for Blizzards tradeskill window with more overview and special functions. I know the pic issnt shown in english, but the addon itself has the english locale.

Some features, check out the rest on the curse site:
- has a production queue: you can queue several different items and have them all produced automatically by just clicking one button. 

- is able to consider items you have to produce in order to use them as reagents in the production of other items. So: if you need item A to produce item B, you don’t have to manually produce first item A, then item B. The ATSW does that for you: you just tell it to produce item B and it automatically queues the production of item A.

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Two into Five Mans: Auchenai Crypts

Mrs Zand (she isn’t a gamer usually) and I have been running the 5 man instances with two characters. This is mainly because random groups do not cater to a non-gamer, we tried but the random people just wanted to do their own thing which made it not fun. At first we slightly out levelled the instances, but from Gnomeregan onwards we were within the green range. From Zul’Farrak onward we were in the yellow range 

Our team consists of a protection Warrior and a discipline Priest. 

After the previous two runs it was quite clear that the difficulty was ramping up. In order to try and stay on top of things I got into the habit of visiting the auction house prior to setting off and buying an gear upgrades I could get. Usually these are relatively inexpensive most items  cost 10-15g, basically anything with a stamina increase. I managed to get my unbuffed health to 11.5k and added another 1K to my armour value (an increase of around 15%).

I also made sure I had at least half a dozen battle and guardian elixirs, most runs took in excess of 2 hours.

Both boss fights sounded challenging and there was one trash mob in particular that looked like it would cause problems for a two man group.

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