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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.