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Perhaps because of the recent large patch download in preparation for the second WoW expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King (be still my beating heart!), I and my gaming buddy have been witnessing an unusually high number of glitches. Most of them are just annoying, but there have been a couple of rather fascinating ones.

My buddy is a “druid,” which is a shapeshifting magic-user strongly attuned to nature; he has several animal forms, including a cheetah form that can’t be used for combat but runs faster than any ordinary character on foot. The nice thing about this “travel form,” as it’s called, is that while it does not run as fast as a character mounted on a steed, a player can’t mount his steed during combat, but a druid can transform into “travel form” if it turns out he’s bitten off more than he can chew and needs to run for it.

However, what you can’t do is mount your steed while IN your travel form.

Usually.

Another kind of mount a player can “borrow” to travel from one city to another is a flying mount–for Horde characters, this is usually a giant bat (ew!) and for Alliance characters, this is usually a hippogriff. A player finds the Flight Master in any town or city and tells the Master where he wants to go, and then suddenly finds himself atop a fast-moving winged steed. As soon as the destination town or city is reached, the hippogriff vanishes and the player drops lightly to the ground. These mounts are for travelling from city to city ONLY. You can never, under any circumstances, remain mounted on one once you reach your destination city.

Except this one time! YEAH!!

Lovin’ the glitchez…

…on a side note! as part of the patch upgrade, players can now change their hair color, hairstyles and piercings at the local barber shop. Now, the below used to be true:

But now…thanks to the barbershop…you too CAN be a “Night Elf Mohawk!”

And lastly…pictured below is Aogail, about whom I have posted before. (You may notice she has also had a trip to the barbershop; she now much more strongly resembles her progenitor in terms of coloring and hairstyle.) Aogail is a paladin, a holy knight-errant. She is level 69, which til the new expansion comes out, is but one level away from being “maxed out.” She is awesome. She also is wearing the best, toughest, highest-level set of full metal plate armor that she has ever owned; just by existing upon her, it absorbs well over 50% of the damage of each and every attack launched against her by the denizens of evil all around her. She is what is known in the game as a “tank,” able to sustain endless amounts of crushing blows from a heavily offensive foe. In short, she is armored to the teeth.

However, as my boyfriend pointed out, the graphics for these games are clearly all designed by a bunch of horny teenaged boys.

Aogail, the holy knight-errant…stripper.

Oh well.