A peek at the abandoned freight yard

I don't know for how long this has been abandoned, as I couldn't find any information on it. I've seen this building whenever I go down Hannover, as it is directly next to the main station, and I've always wondered what it looks like from the inside. Another thing I plan to have a look at with niaseath when he's here.

When I was there today, the place was not as deserted as I had hoped. One lone guy was golfing along the remains of the tracks, and two people were wandering around, apparently going for a walk. Or maybe they were dealing drugs, who knows, they gave everybody an incredibly wide berth. I know that the yard is the home of illegal rave parties, and judging from the used condoms which are littered all over the place it's also the less romantic version of "lover's lane" (and apparently, more fitting terms even exist. No wonder there was a rush to rename the streets in question in the eighteenth and nineteenth century).



( +6, freight yard and blooming willow )

Dungeons and Death Knights

Given the entire purpose of MMORPGs it's rather strange, but I used to hate instances. This is why I didn't do them very often, which is why I sucked at them, which is why I didn't like going - especially with my Shadow Priest, because even though my DPS sort of sucked, I sucked even worse at healing, which I was usually forced to do, because, "Of course you'll manage! It's not that hard!" - which of course it was, especially in Ulda, where it's at times nigh impossible to see anyone and people kept running out of reach or not wait for the drinking casters, which is why no heals arrived, which is why they ended up dying a lot, which is why they got angry at me, which is why I avoided dungeon invites.
So - not really my thing.

Until I started going with people who know what they're doing, and until I started playing a class I enjoy rolling in a dungeon. Yes, I know, everybody loves them, they are ridiculously overpowered, they will be nerfed and stop being so awesome, but to my battered cloth-wearing little heart it is such a relief to be able to play a fierce and plate-encased imba melée class, it's bliss.

In other words I have just spent the evening on a different server than usual doing ridiculously fast Hellfire Ramparts/Blood Furnace runs with three other DKs, among them niaseath, of course, and a Priest and Shammy, rounding it off with an stint into the Slave Pens. And I Had A Good Time.



My DPS didn't suck, either, but maybe that was just everybody else only having played their DK for a couple of days and in one case being two level below the rest of us. Still, during the fight with Quagmirran I ended up top of the damage meter for the first time ever, and seeing as this is about my seventh time in an instance at all, I'm rather pleased with myself.

Fun. Me. In a dungeon. Go figure.