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I thought I'd start this blog to diary my PvP experiences in the Shadowburn battlegroup. I'm a Shadow Priest residing on the Malfurion server in a small PvP guild named No Quarter.

I've been playing World of Warcraft since open Beta, way back in September (I think?) of 2004. I created an Undead Priest. I remember then, the good old days, when my racial spell - shackle Undead - actually worked against Undead player characters. I also remember when the Undead didn't breathe and could walk freely under water. Ah those were the days.

Now, one expansion pack later, Paladins are now Horde characters too and can out heal any holy Priest with faster, more efficient heals, Druids have better Heal over Times (HoTs) and Priests just aren't as useful in a raid as they used to be.

I have spent hours inside the older 40 man raids, like Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Naxxramas, hours inside the new 10 and 25 man raid areas just to find that its pretty much the same old thing, boss after boss, repair bill after repair bill and little to no gratification out of it. Sure it was nice seeing some new content here and there, but character development is important too.

After watching yet another guild implode due to personality conflicts, drama and all round stupidity, I have decided to stick with my friends and go all out for Player vs Player combat and "win fabulous prizes". So we resurrected the guild No Quarter - as we thought the name would go perfectly with PvP - and hit the battlegrounds and the arena encounters.

Tuesday of this week concluded week one of the No Quarter 5v5 arena team "No QQ" and we got our asses handed to us. Over and over and over again. Our first rating for our 'uber' group was 1375. It wasn't fun, but we learned an important lesson: Organization, a plan and some gear are important. Well, maybe that's more than just one lesson all rolled in to one.

Luckily for us, this past weekend was an Alterac Valley bonus honor weekend and did we ever hit the battlegrounds. I think in total our guild managed to reap in well over 260k worth of honor. I myself managed a shade over 43k honor. Not bad. I bought an epic ring, an epic cloak, epic bracers and an epic belt with all the honor I had saved up.