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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.