All the World’s a Stage: So you want to be a Leatherworker

This installment of All the World’s a Stage is the thirty-fourth in a series of roleplaying guides in which we find out all the background information you need to roleplay a particular race or class (or profession!) well, without embarrassing yourself.At the outset of this series on how to roleplay one’s professions, Leatherworking struck me as the most difficult profession to write about, even more than wow goldskinning, herbalism, or mining. This was in spite of (and in fact maybe because of) the fact that it was the first profession I ever chose in WoW. My very first character, who was a druid, wanted to choose leatherworking in order in order to make her own armor as well as prevent the dead bodies of all those animals she had to kill during her quests from going to waste.   At that time I didn’t know a whole lot about roleplaying, or how to play the game, and I knew even less about the background lore behind everything I was seeing. I originally roleplayed with my friends that my night elf had been born in Darnassus, only later to find out that would have made her about 3 years old — a fact none of us had known, because WoW was our first exposure to the lore of Azeroth. This was actually my inspiration for writing these articles, so that our

Forum post of the day: The end of big guilds

Oldmaveric of Azgalor posed the question on the General Discussion Forum: are Big guilds on their way out due to easy WoW? He suggested that easier content on 10 man raids and regular content nerfs has led to the breakdown wow goldof some of the top guilds and caused players to quit the game. Savvage of Spinebreaker quickly responded that big guilds have their place, but “People can now play in closer more tightly-knit groups…” For many players, raiding offers sufficient challenge while being more enjoyable than it once was. The raiding experience is not only more accessible, but also more fun. Smaller guilds can afford to be more selective of the online personalities of their membership, while still being able to to make progress. That being said, there are still many people who are not willing to put time and effort into raiding. They seem to want to have epics handed to them, without going through the proper progression. I’ve seen many come into raids completely unprepared. They don’t study the fights, but instead believe that they can “tank and spank” their way through anything. This simply isn’t the case with most raid bosses. Raids still require adequate preparation. Just because you can get in the door does not mean

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