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.

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.

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.