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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Figuring things out

Evidentally I really hashed up how I built my Alliance hunter on Talents and Trade skills, I have no money what so ever. I am going to have to drop Leatherworking. Work on skinning and mining and get cash up for my mount and training or by the time I am 40 and beyond I will not be able to afford training or anything.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Busy Busy Busy

So yesterdays plans cratered so I spent it playing lots of WoW. I am now up to 62, Did my first IoTS. I was alot of fun I even caped the flag 3x for our side. No one has mentioned my low level in the BG's at the top end. I am generally mid way or higher on the DPS and kill counts so I guess thats why they don't.

I FINALLY GOT MY EPIC MOUNT

I got me the 30/30/30 Reward Epic mount from the Hall of Legends in Oger. I now have my self a black war wolf.

I have completed just about all the hellfire quests and instances, though I have yet to get anything off them for me. Though a few things did drop that I would like. I might go back and forth for a while but I also need to get alot more honor so I can get my Heroic key for them.

I have done several quests for Zangermarsh (sp) working on the outpost quests first and then moving over to the Cenarian quests. Then on to the far outposts. Overall theres alot less ganking in this zone vs what I experienced in Hellfire.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Posting

I know I have not been posting that much as the holidays get closer. I seem to get thrown into overdrive between friends and family. I alos have not been playing as much seeing I am driving everywhere and gods creation.

I have basically been logging in doing a WSG, AB, AV (or at least enough to get 3 marks of each) my Daily Hellfire and thats about it. I have not been leveling just putzing around getting pet skills that I have skipped and what not.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Busy

Between finishing my move up, being sick and a few other things. I have not been able to play all weekend with the exception of jumping on tossing things on the AH and making some money and a few Daily PvP's.

Hellfire: I got this done 1 time this weekend. The other times I asked for people to stop camping the Alliance so I could get mine done and was basically told. No, we need the DMG bonus. I will not get into that conversation here but if you NEED the 5% DMG bonus then you freaking suck. Don't come to me QQ that you cant get something done and need help. Your cockblocking me from being able to complete my quest. IE go take a long walk off a short pier with concrete boots pls thks bye.

WSG at Level 60. I was almost always with in the top 5 of DMG and was told great job by many there and I am 60, the Low man on the totem pole for this one. I was shocked. Anyways. Hopefully more AV/WSG/AB tonight.

I am working on completing a few quest chains in Azeroth and once I get them done I will be able to focus more time in Outlands.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Ok now for the fun stuff

Yes, I finally made it into Outlands. Linked up my flight points from Thrallmar to Shat. That was a fun ride and exploration let me tell you.

Already completed a quest and got a good 2H Axe out of it. Will work on more tonight. I want to get a few quests done out there before I go back to Azeroth and clear out the quest logs of the back log I currently have.

I figure once I get the current logjam cleared out and am working on Hellfire exclusivly for a while I am going to go back to the other starting zones and clear one zone a week of quests that I can get. By the time I am 70 I hope to have all Horde Factions at Exaulted and be able to buy my Epic Flying mount. When I make it to there. I am going to get into Leatherworking. I know I keep pushing back when I will start a real craft but at this time I am just going to horde what resources I have. I am sending stacks of Linnen, Wool, Silk, Mageweave, Runecloth off to my alts so they can train first aid easier, and do the turn in work in all major cities for faction.

I have a method to my madness, I figure I will get my alts working on their tradeskills also Alchemy and Leatherworking for my Shaman, Tailoring and Jewlery for my Lock, not sure what to do with the others at this time. I know I want Leatherworking on my main, but not sure what I want to do for the second profession if I decide to give up Skinning.

YAY

DING 58
Hello Outlands.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Hollidays encroaching

As it comes closer to the hollidays it just gets busier and busier. Friday I was really busy (love the last minuite requests at work). To top it off I went out of town. No network available wireless or otherwise. So I couldn't do anything till I got back into town last night. I got home jumped on the computer and played for about 2 hours. With the rested XP and quests I managed to blow away almost 1/2 a level in that amount of time. I was runing around in Western and Eastern Plaugelands. Got my Argent Dawn factions up to Friendly but I need it to be Honored before I can learn my First Aid. There are so many quests to do I will be in outland before I can complete them all. I am going to drop all the dungeon quests with the exception of 1 hunter quest in the Sunken temple when I make it to 58. If I don't do that or just work on clearing my quest log to where I am only about 1/2 full when I get there I might keep them all and ask for guild help to finish them. I only quest mainly for the EXP and the faction. I am Exaulted with Ogier already with Darkspear not far behind, I want to get all my factions I am able to get up there so if anything needs faction for other things I will not have to worry about it that much when the time comes.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Ugh tis the season to get sick

Yup, thats right. I got the holliday bug. So needless to say I didn't get much done yesterday or the day before. But on a bonus note I did finally make Exaulted in 1 faction. Working on another one now.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Holliday catch up.

I left off on Wednesday, Level 47. I am now 54 and enjoying the goodness of AV. I have completed all the quests for it already and working on improving my trinket that I have recieved. Almost to Revered in just 2 days. We won more often than not, so it was a good weekend.

How did I make 8 levels in 4 days? Well questing of course. Lots of it. I am now at a point that I will have to pug or something to get several quests done.

I am on the Hunter quest that has you go all over Azshera and then to the temple in Swamp of Sorrows. I need to complete several instances that are now grey to me. I need to go back and look over several quests that I skipped when I was going through and do them now that I can solo them since at the time I could not get groups for them.

I logged into my Psychohack also and realised just how bad I did with him as far as spec/money/questing/gear. Totally sucks compared to what I have accomplished with Psychotropic. I am going to have to go back and backfill lots of things with him before I allow him to level any more. I am going to drop leatherworking and bring up mining and skinning so I can actually afford things. Its living and learning I will fix him over time. He was my main but I feel the need to raid.

Since leaving EQ just due to nothing to do at the top end even if your a beastlord except grind AA's continus key/flag farming to unlock the instances to be able to raid with your team. It just really got me down. I know I will have to do it with WoW also but it does not seem nearly as tedious as it is in EQ. I might one day resurect Soriab on Povar and go at it again I don't know though. If I do I know I have a assured place in one of several raiding guilds when I come back.

Anyways Thanksgiving was good, I had 3 dinners yes count them 3. Now I am a tall thin man and eating is something I don't do in excess but how can you turn down Thanksgiving dinner x3. I think I might have gained 1lb through all that. After that I hibernated at home and wow'ed all weekend. It was cold and raining in Dallas so I really didn't fel like going out and shopping on black friday.

All things considered it was a good holliday weekend. Today's agenda is training skills for 54. Getting a few groups together for the instances and completing more quests.

Oh yea before I hit publish. One more thing I need to do. Go get pet skills that I have neglected to get for 10 levels.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Catch up

Yesterday I was feeling under the weather so I didn't go to work. By about noon I was feeling well enough to get out of bed so I got on the computer and loaded up WoW. Started at level 45 most of the way though. Ended at 1/2 way through 47.

I was completing quests all over the place. Hinterlands, Feralas, Un'Goro Crater just to name a few of the places. Trying to flush out the backlog of quests I have has proven interesting as many are chain quests that sometimes lead into instances. Getting a group together to complete the quest and get what you need done in the instance is not that easy. Unfortunately it also means that I am loosing faction that I need to get them up to Exalted. I would really like to get rid of the Raptor I am riding and get a Worg. I know when I get to 60 I can get my elite mount. I really want a Worg. For some reason it just seems better suited to a Hunter.

So now that I am 47 about to be 48 I find my self back at the BG portion of my grind. I am unsure if I want to hold off on what I am able to buy from them and save up for a epic set or get what I need now and grind the epic set when I get there. I am also running into gear issues. I upgraded my ammo pouch for my gun, got a new gun, put a sight on it. The nice Hunter/Engineer that made my sight also gave me 4 stacks of Mithril Gyro-Shot, but I had already bought 10 stacks of Accurate Slugs. But the nice part is the new bag is a 12 slot bag.

I have been neglecting my gear in a bad way. Since I do the Mining and Skinning I need to look into who is a skilled in my Guild and have things made for me. I get things by the stack so I generally have 1~5 stacks of most all leathers and hides on me(in the bank but who cares). Not to mention several stacks of Iron, Steel, Silver, Gold, Mithril, almost able to mine Truesilver and Thorium.

Eventually I will have one main thats 70 that is able to supply my alts with what they need to level and skill up to where I want them to be. My eventual goal is a alt that is high enough to take over that and allow my main to move into a craft or 2. Not sure what I want to do as a craft at this time though. I know 1 will be leather working so I can make my own armors. The second one though I am on a wall with. As a engineer I can make things like ammo and if the rumors are true soon to be arrows and possibly bows. Or I can do Enchanting, this will enable me to twink my alts and my self and others in the guild. Cause gods know no one really donates well to a chanter. I paid the person that made me the scope 5g and 2 bars of truesilver that I had from the purchase on the AH.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Something I have noticed

When I am fighting I prefer mobs that are 1~8 levels above me. 1~5 if Elite. Generally my pet has no issue holding aggro on a mob. But last night after being frustrated with a quest in Dustwallow Marsh. I was called up by a guildie who needed help in Hinterlands with a quest that was in the 49~52 range. With out hesitation I was there. It took him longer to get there due to the curse of being a hunter than it did me as I already dealt with this curse just before resuming my frustrations in Dustwallow.

So I get to Hinterlands and swallow up all the quests I left after getting my flight point last time I was there cause I knew I was too low to survive long in the zone. But 5 levels later I am back. We go to the Troll temple there and go all through it. I am drawing aggro like crazy proxmity or while fighting. My pet just cant hold it. The mobs were high enough that my kitty was getting resisted on almost everything and his DPS was abysmal. Being 6 levels lower than the other hunter I did about 40% of the DPS though with all things considered. I of course am BM spec, he on the other hand is MM speced. He was still very impressed that I was able to deal the ammount of dmg that I was even though the mobs had me cold a few times. Resisted my FD about 50% of the time and my traps about the same. Kiting and snare was my best friend unless I knew I would aggro more mobs. Depending on what we were doing or what was around I would aggro them and lead them all on a merry chase. That would be when I would have 1 he would have 1 and I would only grab one other. If I knew I would bring the total over 3 I would just sit there trying to generate as much dmg as I was able using pots and everything I could to stay alive.

All in all we got the quest completed for him, I got though 1 quest and most of the way through another while I was there. Tonight I will be working on more of them to clear out my quest log, I have about 23~24 quests right now and I need that number to be lower so when I go into Instances I have the ability to accept shared ones if they are available.

Guess the only real counter to pets being able to hold aggro is their level so the aggro spells don't get resisted as much. Hopefully I don't move too fast up in level so my pet will follow. I can complete several quests a day as I have noticed and have almost out leveled my pet by 2 levels.

Fun weekend

What can I say. It was a very fun weekend. Made it to level 44. Completed loads of quests from all over. Desolace, Stranglethorn Vale, Hinterlands, Dustwallow Marsh, Even got the new flight point and did all the chain quests in Dustwallow.

Tough I did have to have a GM help me on one. It was dealing with the Ogers in the swamp and the dragons taking over. The final part is planting a banner and fighting a named dragon just outside Onyxia's lair. Well I got there and he was up. But he wouldn't activate no matter how many times I planted the banner. So I got a GM to despawn him and it worked as intended.

I have finally left the realm of earning silver for completion of quests and am now into earning gold. It will help some and I might be able to start a profession now. I do Skinning and Mining as a way to earn money. Along with selling Green and Blue drops from world and instance runs. But at the rate I am leveling I am not sure I will be able to save up what I need to begin crafting. I know I will be working on leather working first so I can build my own armor. From there I am not sure what I want to do. There are allot of possibilities. I am thinking of enchanting so I can apply buffs to things that I want with out having to have help from others.

I finally got Arcane Shot (Rank 6) PvP'ers beware I will remove your buffs now. This will help out allot in both PvE and PvP. I do not like being hit by flame shields or things like that.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Busy

I will be posting some time later today or tomorrow. Fridays are supposed to be some what relaxing at work. Well, not this week.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Finally

Made 40 last night. Did some questing and BG's. I got me a Raptor mount. Not really sure what I think about that, I think I am going to get the faction to get a Worg from the Ogers. For some reason that just seems to fit a hunter better.

I thought it was interesting in the 40's bg's. Alot of the people I was in there with were very rude on the Horde side. I finally had to tell one that if he didn't like what was going on and kept complaining to leave the BG or keep his mouth shut. Every few seconds it was complaints about something over and over and over again.

I had a few comments about my level when I joined the BG that I ignored. I ended up with the most kills and the highest DPS for the horde, and the 3rd highest in healing. I immideatly rejoined after that BG and had a few whispers telling me thanks for the good job on keeping every Alliance dead that came near the fortress in WSG. I also got similar results in AB.

I did find to my dismay that for some reason I was thinking that I could go to AV at 40. I definatly deluded my self. Its 51? I don't know not really worried about it. All I know is its a minimum of 10 levels away and much gear and talents purchased from here to there. With the increase to how fast we are leveling now doing Quests I find I am unable to keep up 2 pets. I guess I will let my other pets go for now and keep learning all the skills I can to make sure that when I get to 70 I can get the pets I want and train them in all the skills I need. This is barring that by the time I get to 70 I wont be in a head long rush to 80 along with everyone else.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Patch 2.3 Hunter Notes

Hunters

- Aimed Shot (Marksmanship) now reduces healing done to that target by 50% for 10 seconds, shot time reduced by 0.5 seconds.

- Arcane Shot (Ranks 6 and above) now dispel 1 Magic effect in addition to their normal damage.

- Explosive Trap: The initial damage dealt by this trap is now also increased by 10% of your ranged attack power.

- Expose Weakness: The triggered effect from this talent will no longer use up charges of Misdirection.

- Immolation Trap: The total damage dealt by this trap is now also increased by 10% of your ranged attack power.

- Misdirection: This spell will now always be removed correctly if multiple Hunters overwrite each other's Misdirection.

- Misdirection: If a Hunter attempts to use this ability on a target which already has an active Misdirection, the spell will fail to apply due to a more powerful spell already being in effect. This will not trigger the cooldown or cost any mana.

- Readiness: This talent now finishes the cooldown on Kill Command.

- Serpent Sting, Immolation Trap and Explosive Trap all gain additional damage based on ranged attack power.

- Serpent Sting: The total damage dealt by this sting is now also increased by 10% of your ranged attack power.

- Steady Shot: Tooltip clarified to indicate base weapon damage is used in the damage calculation.

- Trueshot Aura (Marksmanship) no longer costs mana to cast and will last until cancelled.

- Wyvern Sting (Survival) is now instant cast and has a maximum duration of 10 seconds in PvP.

- Wyvern Sting: This ability will no longer be overwritten by lower ranks of Wyvern Sting.


Real update will happen after I get real work done.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Fun story

While reading Outland-Bound I was reminded of a PUG I was on this weekend. I am running around leveling to 38 Friday night so I can BG's to my hearts content Saturday and Sunday to get marks for gear. I get invited by a tank that I have grouped with to good results with before. So I decide to stop what I am doing and go to the other end of the continent for Scarlet Monastery. We start out with the Cathedral, now I have soloed in there to good effect if I am very careful and manage my crowd control properly, now I can't get past the first CY solo but theres good exp to be had and deacent cash and gear for the trash drops.

So we get there and get going. Group is as follows, Tank, Rogue, Mage, Priest(Holy), Hunter(Me). We clear the first hall to the CY and get ready to go in. I am trying to keep up with pulls and marks but its about futile, we are killing to fast and moving too much. We get into the CY and start the mass slaughter no less than 3 to 5 mobs in camp every pull so for me its pet on one, I'm on another and every time its up Multi-Shot. The mage isnt even bothering with CC we have too many AE's going off (moslty his) and the mobs are falling over fast. My hardest thing was to have CS ready to snare the runners as we were killing so fast we could have 2 or 3 at a time. One pull we have 2 and I pop off with Multi-Shot and I see 3 shots leave me heading out. I started to freak out cause I didnt see the mob that the 3rd shot was going for. Then I saw the impact and the name it hit. It was one of the 5hp critters that was under the tanks feet. Poor bunny didnt stand a snow balls chance in hell aginst my dps. CRIT(200) poped up from the little bunny. I started laughing my arse off on that one. The Mage and Priest saw the shot and labeled me bunny killer for the instance.

The rest of the run went about like the first, high DPS plow fest. We managed in 2 hours to clear Cathedral, Armory, and 1/2 of Library we only went for the beastmaster.

Wow what a weekend.

I played almost non stop this last weekend. But I am not 40 yet. Why you ask? BATTLE GROUNDS :)

I spent a good long time this weekend working WSG and AB. I got the 38 meele ring, Dagger, Neck, I got the sword but completed a quest that had a better one so I don't have it equiped at this time. I took some screen shots of some of the battles at the end. I was topping the charts in KB's, HK's, DMG, and some time deaths as I tried a few insane tactics to stop the Alliance from doing things.

Yesterday aside from being busy as all get out with work. Gotta love Mondays. I quested my way through a few new places and lots of old ones. Hinterlands, Alterac Mountians, Hillsbrad, Alterac Highlands. Made it all the way through 38 and 75% of the way through 39. It will be a short trip to 40 when I log in and get my mount. I wanted to make 40 before the patch but didn't quite hit the mark. But I got really close.

Well, more later I still have to finish work for the day.

Friday, November 9, 2007

Not much to report

Got on Psychotropic and completed a few quests before going out last night. Cleared all the double exp he had and earned some regular exp. Did alot of mining and fishing and cooking to raise skills and earn money for the up coming mount.

For some reason today I am not able to think that well, might have something to do with going out and not getting much sleep last night. Other than that I plan on a long grind session tonight and tomorrow in the PvP to get more marks, at 49. Want to get to 100 before I get to level 38 and if I go start questing again I will be there really fast.

I want to make it to 40 and get my mount before the 2.3 patch comes out. That is what my goal on this character is. I am going to start working more with Psychohack some next week but he is also in the BG's right now earning marks and honor. I will have to see what I can do about making some money on him though so I can keep up with repairs and arrows.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Whats been going on.

Well, its been busy at work and outside of work. So I apologize about the last 2 days. I have been comparing my Horde to my Alliance character and have come to some large disparities. They are now the same level. If you look up you will see them right off in the Hit points and the Mana. Both are 4 levels from 40 and getting their mount. My Horde character has been massively active on the AH with his skinning/mining while my Alliance has been making leather armor. The difference is one has made and spent close to 300 gold and has Neitherweave bags in all slots on him and the bank slots opened and filled with them. The Alliance has made about 30g total and only has 8/10 slot world drop bags and almost no bank slots opened up. Since these are both my mains on their respective servers and my Alliance one was the first toon created I made some glaring mistakes with him and the ability to flourish. I think its time to fix a few problems with him. Like dropping Leather working till I get higher in levels. Run WSG/AB like crazy for the 38/40 gear. Farm leather/ore and get his mining up to 200. Once I get each one their mounts and training done we will see whats going on.

Patch 2.3 goes live this coming Tuesday (hopefully), bringing with it lower exp requirements. More exp for completing quests. Almost complete removal of the "Dead Zone" for hunters (Hello PVP DPS Boost.) and a whole host of other changes. I am looking forward to this and see what these changes do to the game.

So leveling will be slow over the next few days as I get both of them to 100 marks from WSG and AB to gear out with better gear. Complete a few more quests and raise skills on both of them as best as I can. Hopefully I can have both of them at 100 marks from both of these BGs by Tuesday and at level 40 so I can train Mail and get all the goodness that comes with much better armor ratings. I have heard and seen the other people have fun wise in AV so I will jump in when I get the ability to do that just so I can see what its like from both sides. I know I will be low man on the totem as far as gear and level goes in them. But I think it will be fun. Besides I need to keep all their marks as high as I can so when the new gear opens up from the BG's as I level I will be able to buy it to fill the holes that I might have.

One thing I know I need to do is take Psychohack to STV and complete the whole series of "Panther, Tiger, Raptor Mastery & Big Game Hunter" from there.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Move successful

Ok, got about 90% moved will get the last 10% and storage cleared out over the next few days. RL aside back to the hunters.

So with limited play time this week I decided to load up on quests and knock out as many as I could. Desolace and Stranglethorn. Got 3 completed in Desolace and 5 completed in Stranglethorn. I plan on finishing Panther and Raptor chains tonight if I have the time. That should also throw me up to level 36. The Alliance loves to find people engaged in combat in Stranglethorn. Now I am not adverse to being beat down if I let my guard down. But I have no defense from a level ??. That happened about 6 times. I lost 2 encounters to a few Alliance that were of higher level 8 to be exact. But took down 5 others that were higher level than me. One of the ones I lost was against a 44 Lock. I would have won the encounter if I had him targeted instead of his pet. I killed the pet but lost most of my main burst of DPS to the pet instead of the lock. By the time the pet was dead and I went after the Lock I was down to about 400 HP and he was only down about 1/3 I got him to about 10% before I died but still. I lost to not paying attention. I originally had him targeted and ran on past and decided to sneak up on him after I had ran on for a while and he dropped as my target. But when I went to re-target I didn't do so well.

The Gunpowder Treason and Plot.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
t'was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.

Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.

Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys,
God save the King!

A penny loaf to feed the Pope
A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!

Yea theres more to it than what you heard on the movie V for Vendetta, Imagine that Hollyweird only telling half a story or partial information to show you what they want.

Update later Mondays kick my arse with work overload from the weekend.

Friday, November 2, 2007

Pet Skills

Was caught up just before I logged out last night. But I ding'ed 32. Now I have to go get Dash and I think a few more. Some might think that going and getting all the skills is a waste of time. I don't think so personally. If for some reason I want a different pet I would have to go backtrack and learn all these skills just to make my pet be 100%. This way I will not have to worry about it later in the game. It is also one of the reasons that I am working factions right now also.

Ok now on to the interesting parts of yesterday. Hillsbrad Foothills and the what looked and felt like the prepetual raiding of Tauren Mills by the Alliance. I don't know if the level 70's from our side were raiding Southshore or not cause I don't see those alearts. What I do know is that about every 20 minuites there seemed to be some or several level 70 Alliance going through town slaughtering everything. The annoying part of it was all the quest dealers and the stable master was dead.

Other than that I trained my level 32 skills and leveled the Enraged Ravager I got. The only thing about him I am even mildly annoyed with is his diet, (Meat, Raw Meat). Yup just those 2 things. And I am running out of meat where as with my cats I can feed them the product of my fishing.

Tonight I don't think I will be playing much or even this weekend as I will be moving. It shouldn't take me long to move, its more the orginization once the move is over that is going to take time. But also now that I am 30 I have to look into getting new gear so I can continue to grind out the levels. I have had the gear I have now for almost 10 levels some longer. So here I go off into the realm of Itemization and determining what will work for the next 5~10 levels. But since 2.3 is comming out in a few days levels will be flying by faster as I quest alot. So keeping in gear will become a larger issue till I get into the 50's or to 60. Just due to the fact that I will be leveling so fast my gear will go out of level range faster with less work. I hope Bilzzard took that into account when they make this change.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Gaming on Halloween

No I didn't get out and go trick-or-treat'ing. I did however go out clubbing and see alot of my friends. Other than that, I was working on obtaining pet abilities. I managed to get several of them. I need to get deeper into WC and get Poision Spit from there. I have a few more zones to get to and learn skills from. I made level 31 also. But that was when a friend asked me to go on a Razorfen Kraul (RFK) instance run with him. Unfortunatly I didn't get to complete the instance cause our priest had to leave. Hopefully I can make 32 tonight and also get Dash.

Aside from getting all the pet skills I plan on taking a chunk out of my quest load in Hillsbrad. I figure that after I complete those chains and get into Desolace and STV I will be some where in the upper 30's if not 40.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Oh yea RL update

I will soon be in the middle of a full swing move of residence. And the laptop I ordered 2 weeks ago will be ariving in the next 3~5 days. Now I can blog and look up data while I play and won't have to limit my window size to 1280x1024 I can go to max resolution and graphics on my 21" widescreen on my desktop.

And just to say thank you, Big Red Kitty for linking to me on his blog. If you have never read his blog go look at my links and check it out. You will not be dissapointed. Even if you are not a hunter.

Once I get my laptop and everything set up at my new residence I will post a pic of what it all looks like set up.

Backtracking

Occasionally as you grind, quest, pug your way through the levels you find you need to backtrack to complete things that you missed while you were going through. From the hunter prespective this is time consuming. Putting pets in the stable running around learning skills that you didn't get the first time through. I spent most all of last night doing this. I call it one the necessary evils of the class. I know I am still not done, theres many places I have yet to go to fill out all my pet abilities that I am able to get at 30. I know it sounds odd but I want them all. That way any pet I decide to pick up in the future will have all the skills available to him to learn. Also you have to look at your factioning. This will mean completing low level intro quests from other starting zones. Being s Troll I mitigate some of that by being able to faction Ogerimar and Darkspear at the same time. Ratchet comes with the barrens and Straglethorn Vale quests. Unfortunatly this makes it difficult to do all the quests necessary to level Undercity and Silvermoon factions. I will be going back and doing those a few at a time. Right now I am loaded up with Hillsbrad quests and will get all of them done first. Then I will move on to Stranglethorn and Barrens quests.

Yes I know this will take longer but I would rather get them out of the way now while I am still lower in level than do them later when I am trying to get things done in Outland. I am going to try and complete all the quests as I level. I do know that this is going to be almost impossible at some points due to no one working some instances though. Those I will decide as I go through as to if I keep them or not. Doing this does many things. Keeps me busy for one. Allows me to connect all my flight paths. Explore every zone I am able to and get the maps opened up. I have most of the Azuremyst and Bloodmyst Isle's. As many of you know your faction can do many things for you. Reducing costs in a city to being able to ride different mounts. Anyways back to the pets.

After running all over the place I have got me a new PvP pet. Enraged Ravager from Bloodmyst. Now all I need to do is level him up and train him as the points come available. I am also thinking of replacing my current Lion with the Ghost from the top of Darkshore's Ruins of Mathystra by opening the cat figurines found on the ground. I know many of the skills are not able to be learned till higher levels like Dash 32. But that will not stop me from making sure that any level pet I have will be able to use a skill I have for it. Also while all this is going on I am making sure I keep up with my weapon skills. I think the only skills I have completly put off so far is Crossbow's, Thrown, and to a lesser extent Cooking and Fishing. I am working on fishing but its not what I am focused on at this time.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Plans for today.

Hopefully when I get home and have the time (Starting moving to new place today). I am going to run up to Darkshore to the temple at the far north to get me a ghost kitty. I am also going to be moving around alot with help of Petopia to get Dash, Bite 4, Claw 4, and all the other things I have been neglecting. The part of being a hunter that everyone loves to become annoyed with. Right now my pet is the white lion from the Barrens. I figure get me a few new pet abilities replace my boar with a ravager. Yes that means getting through to the alliance cities. But I think I should be able to pull it off. Just need all the abilities before I start doing that.

Hello Hillsbrad Foothills

Finally, I completed the last of the quests in Thousand Needles for the most part. I know I will return here and clear all the raceway quests. Before I said adiu to the zone I ran down to Gadgetzan and got the flight path. Unfortunatly while I was down there some high level mage thought it would be fun to gank me. I got back to my corpse to find said mage being mauled by several level 70's. They sent me a whisper and told me to do what I needed to do while they take care of this guy for ganking a lowbie. I told them thanks and asked them not to grief him too much as I was only here for the flight path and was headded out. After another round of thanks and good lucks I took off out of there and unloaded my bags at the AH.

I went fromt there to Ashenvale to clear a few quests and Stonetalon for a few more and hooked up with a Rogue who I stayed grouped with for a while we completed "The Den" quest line and several of the "Blackfathom Deeps" quests. Yea I finally joined a PUG. We did well only 1 wipe due to one of the mages getting over zelous and lighting all the torches. We regrouped and slaughtered everything there. Just off that series of 4 quests I received almost 7K exp and level 30 in the progress. Thats not counting the 1/4 bar of EXP I got while in the dungon.

Once again leaving Ashenvale I went to Thunder Bluff and cleared inventory and bags at the vendor and AH. After getting all that situated I take off for Ogerimar and get on the Dirgibal for Undercity. I forgot to get the Spelucher flight path previously and I forgot once again. But I made it to Hillsbrad Foothills. Upon getting there I almost immideatly get in the line of sight of a 31 Human Paladin. He tried to get to me but I kept him snared and stunned while my pet ate him and I dotted and blasted him into oblivion.

Being in a hottly and contested zone like Hillsbrad has its own interesting dynamics. I see several high level Horde there. Generally they are just bouncing around not really doing anything. Some are collecting things for tradeskills but they are not harrassing the lower level alliance players too much. They will come to your aid if they see you in trouble but I found out that a few of them stop in to make sure we are not being plauged by high level Alliance players thinking to come here and grief us. One an Orc Hunter told everyone in general chat that if a ?? character comes and ganks us to send a message to general and he would come even the playing field for us.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Warrior vs Hunter

So as I said in my previous post. I was cruising around in Thousand Needles on my Troll Hunter. Who is on the PvP server. I am near the Alliance Outpost at the west end of the zone about to complete the Robot Control quest. I see a Warrior NE level 31. Hes full health and in the walking path. I once again target him to see if hes about to engage. His ToT is clear nothing getting ready to pull. I send in my pet ahead of the mark. I don't want to let him know I am there. Pet gets close I mark and open with Scorpion Sting to start drawing his HP down. After that I just unload using everything I have to keep him at distance and drop him. I hang around cause there are a few things to mine in the area and I need the skill up's from it so I can go learn Gold Smelting (which I finally got to 155 and am able to mine and smelt gold finally. Now for 165 Steel Smelting 175 and Mithril Smelting & Mining.) Anyways I ramble and go all over the place. Back to that Warrior. I like a idiot don't see the fill flask icon on my pet action bar while controling the robot (Yes I dismissed the pet so I could do it but didn't look down and see it while controling it) start to leave there and go to the Windreach outpost to see if I did something wrong. I leave the bluff and start running and low and behold here comes the Night Elf again. I once again send off the pet and snare him with a shot and try to get ahead of him so I can mow him down again. I was off my game and he caught up with me so I get down right ugly with him snaring and using Immolation trap while doing everything I can in meele range to kill him. I have to back out while hes snared to apply first aid to my self while all this is going on. I am back at 600~ or so HP when hes at about 150 and next thing I know hes dead. I vaugly recall a shaman passing me in lion form going this isnt good if hes alliance. But he was a Troll. So we polish off the remains of our Warrior snack and I sent him a whisper thanking him for saving my bacon. We group together and start grinding quests out fairly fast. Over all was a fun encounter.

Note to self: Be more aware of my surroundings when near a Alliance base.

Weekend off

Not many level's made this weekend. Was busy getting people smashed at a out of state party. Got home last night and got a few hours in before crashing. I am still crusing through Thousand Needles. Completing several sets of chain quests (Almost done with them all though). I want to complete all the current quests I have so when I move to the next area I can load up again. Other than BG's I have not set foot in any instance yet.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Fun times

So yesterday was full of level grinding and questing. I spend most all of yesterday in Thousand Needels. Windreach Post was almost under constant attack from 2 Alliance players. Both were level 70. Aside from being a pain in the ass due to trying to complete quests and the NPC's necessary were constantly being killed. Any player was killed if they came near. Several of us caught in the cross fire took a rez and jumped off the cliff to our deaths. Just so would be able to rez and regoup with out being a target. Anyone that flew in got slaughtered also. After a while a few level 70 Horde showed up to have some payback on them for being annoying to us lower level people. For almost 20 minuites the attacks stopped. Only to be started right back up again when the Horde protectors left to go do what they needed to do. I was working out of a smaller outpost to the North West completing a few chain quests while I was in the area. Got a few gear upgrades and have lots of things in my bags to sell on the AH.

I am also at that annoying spot in Mining where the only way to raise your level is to mine Tin and Iron to get to 155 when you are able to start mining gold. Unfortunatly I have to get to 150 first so I can get my next level in Mining, Expert(151-225). But I can not mine Gold till 155.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

What to do what to do????

Just joking. I know what to do when being ganked by some one whos level is ??. The question is what should they do? This happend last night. I was on Psychotropic and having just got the last page for the quest I was working on. I was returning to Splintertree Outpost. I had just gotten on the trail and was heading west when I see a level 31 Night Elf Druid comming at me just jumping along evidentally completly oblivious to what was in front of him. I target him to see what hes got on target. Nothing, hes just skipping right along. I figure hes 4 levels above me and we are on a PvP server. Neither of us are in combat or recovering from. Hes fair game. I mark him send in my white lion of a pet and proceed to blast him into next year. I chase him stunning him all the way into Forrest Song. He is trying to kite me around through this Alliance outpost and get me killed from the NPC's there. For some reason they are not beating my arse. I finally get him dead. I pop on cheetah and resume my journey to complete my quest. I am almost to the bridge to the west of there when I get mauled. I do mean litterally mauled. I was attacked my a ?? Level Night Elf Druid in retaliation for killing a 31 Druid that if he was paying attention could have handed me my ass easily. He kills me then emotes to me "NO. Not going to happen." Here I am thinking um it did happen. I got a clean kill, the points for the kill, and the honor for the kill. You my furry friend got nada. Zero. Zilch. And the knowledge that you ganked a toon that could do nothing in retrobution to you. I run back to my corpse and go to the far side in the direction I was headding. Take my rez and run out of there to complete my quest. It will do me no good to presure him or annoy him.

PvP is what it means Player vs. Player if you can't handle it please go to a PvE server so you only get ganked for being a idiot and flagging your self PvP when not in a safe location or outside of a BG or Arena match.

And to the ?? Druid. One day I will be higher in levels if I see you out there not in battle just standing to traveling to some where I will repay you the favor. But I will not bend to your level and tell you that its not going to happen. Cause once again it will happen.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Welcome one and all

Welcome

I am Psychosis, this is my nickname in life I have had it well over 10 years or more. It all gets fuzzy with time and age. This blog is for those that are curious more than anything. About the trials and tribulations of leveling 2 hunters. One Alliance and the other Horde.

My Alliance character is Psychohack. He resides on Baelgun a PvE (Player vs. Enviroment) Server in the MMORPG World of Warcraft. Currently hes level 36. I play with friends on this server and am a casual player at that. I am a Skinning/Leather Worker as my professions. He is the first character I have made on WoW.

My Horde character is Psychotropic. He resides on Ursin a PvP (Player vs. Player) Server also in WoW. He is currently level 27. I also play with friends on this server but my goal here is 70 and Raiding. His professions are Mining/Skinning for profits out of the AH (Auction House).

I have both of their signatures at the top I am thinking about putting all 4 of them up. If you look to the right and under links you will see 2 links to the two different signature generators. I have picket the one with the most information that I do not have to regenerate all the time as the main one to display. I think that I will just keep them up there and not worry about the ones that I have to regenerate all the time as my stats change.