Yawwwwwwwn

Ok, so my rogue is exalted with SSO. And I got the tabard and the necklace. Cool. I've logged in with(or tried to remember to) every day just to do the 4 dailies that have the chance to get a Badge of Justice, and so far have gotten ZERO since hitting exalted. He is stuck at 10 badges.

And now my Shaman is exalted with SSO. Got the shield as well as the neck and tabard. Wooh. And probably will not continue doing those 4 dailies. Stuck at 11 badges.

We will be working on getting my Paladin and his Shadow Priest to exalted next. I'm really sick of these quests though. I actually logged into my hunter for an hour or so and did a few Nagrand quests, but I can't even be bothered to play him for more than that right now. Ugh.

Back to being a yawnfest/grind and yet part of me WANTS to log in and play all day and another part says NO work on your website! And another part says 'You paid for a life-time membership for Lord of the Rings...PLAY THAT!'. And yet, no, I can't even do that right now. Everything makes me bored right now. And I don't know what to do!


/sigh

Weekend goals and more SSO and other stuff

So.....ya know that new fishing daily? Well, most of the quests require you to have high level fishing(at least 300+). Except the one to fish up the Baby Croc in Orgrimmar. You only need level 70 and fishing of skill level 1! So I had done this daily yesterday with 4 of my 70s. My last, Eremit, did not even know fishing. So I decided to fly him to Zangarmarsh and learn fishing. Bought a cheap fishing pole and headed to Org. After several 'fish got away's and getting his fishing all the way to 11, he caught the baby croc. And took it back to Mr Questgiver fisher dude. And Lo and Behold, my newly learned fisherman got himself a Baby Croc to follow him around! His name is Toothy and he is just about the cutest pet I have! My pally is so serious, his only pet had actually been Egbert, but I think Toothy is going to be very happy with Eremit! =)


As for SSO, Rayak is up to 10,820/12k. That means tomorrow he will be Revered and will be able to buy the new swords! And I will head to Silvermoon to respec to Combat swords from Combat/Sub daggers. I will still use my Retainers Blade from Scryers Exalted(how could I not?), but I hope he does tons more damage with these swords. Now to decide what enchants to get and what I can afford. Sweet!! And then hopefully just another week and a half or so to Exalted...an epic necklace and a new tabard. Very cool. =) Then I will work on the others. Kick will be revered in probably about 3 more days, same for Tohopka. Eremit will take a little longer, but I have such a hard time soloing with him on tough mobs. Oh well.

ALSO....I have come up with a way to do the boycott I had originally planned to do for this whole deal. I didn't want to help those "higher-ups" get their precious places opened sooner, screw em. They complain about someone like me being able to get easy rep or Badges of Justice or Primal Nethers without working so hard like they did(waaaaaaaaah!). Well, only 2(now 3 maybe?) of the daily quests count towards progression of the new areas. So with 5 characters, I was doing my part to help. But now....I do those with Rayak, but only the NON-progression quests with the rest of my characters. I ain't helping anymore than I have too. Boooo to you.

Elitists....another reason to hate this game. Sigh....

One week later with Shattered Sun

So far I am liking this new patch. The dailies can be tedious and a bit annoying but the rewards are good for someone who primarily solos. I've done them all almost every day with my 5 70s. As of maintenance today they are at the following:

• Rayak -Honored 4220/12k
• Kickingbird -Honored 3670/12k
• Tohopka -Honored 3470/12k
• Eremit -Honored 2570/12k
• Wormtongue -Honored 220/12k

Not too bad I suppose, without running the new instance at all. Our server is on pace to hit Phase 3 in about 5 days. I could easily be Revered with at least Rayak by then. And when new areas open, new quests are added, which means more rep per day.

And it appears that at the end, when all phases and vendors are unlocked, all quests will still be available. If I did my math right, it will be 18 quests for 4350 rep and 202 gold. Per day. You could go from 0 Revered to exalted in about 7 days with that! And that means I am in no rush to get all of my characters to Exalted ASAP. Rayak, yes. Eremit and Tohopka as well. But Kick and Worm can wait on this one.

In the meantime, I've managed to gather quite a bit of gold doing this among my characters. Kick already has her epic flyer(and Netherray and Netherdrake :smile: ). Now I am wondering which one to buy for next. Rayak is a herbalist/skinner. But Tohopka is an engineer and would get the cool Chopper and be able to farm motes faster-*however* I still need 4 more points to get full in Engineering and can't make the chopper until then. Not too concerned about getting it for Eremit or Worm.

I have also considered letting Eremit spend his money on some jewelcrafting recipes. I bought the Dazzling Talasite recipe for 260gold. I had an abundance of Talasites and I had wanted that gem for my Shaman anyway. Always need MP5 with her. I still can't bring myself to spend too much for one, but I'm a cheapskate and I'd rather just save usually. We shall see, maybe if I find some good deals.

Now if the realms would just come back online!!!!!!!!!
I HATE TUESDAY!

Patch Day 2.4

Am I ready? No, not really. I managed to get all but my Shaman to honored with Lower City. But she doesn't have much to go. And I don't have my toons in the right places to begin what they want to do as soon as I log in. Oh well, logging in will take traveling time to start. And who to log in with first? My Druid, to do the first fishing daily? Probably. And to get her some of the gear, and maybe head to the Sunwell place to check out the dailies there. I'd rather have my Paladin get exalted with them first, but I'd really like to be able to get all 5 of my toons to exalted with them. I'm going to be very busy.

ARGGGGGHHHH! I hate this game!! I can't get away from it though!

Lower City rep

So this Tuesday is probably the new patch, 2.4. And there will be some easy new gear to buy and new dailies to do. some of the new gear comes from Honored with Thrallmar and Cenarion. Those were easy enough. One comes from Lower City-I only have 2 of my 5 at honored right now. The other 2 are Shat'ar and Keepers of Time and I have no honored with them, as the only way to get honored is to run instances, screw that.

So I need to get my other 3 to honored with Lower City. Eremit, Tohopka and Wormtongue. Today we will do the Fumping quests(which we skipped because after the first time it SUCKED!); the Vengeful Harbinger quest-because it used to be broken, we might as well go back and do it now that it works; and the Mini-Wing escort for those who have not done it. Then it will be time to farm Arrakoa feathers until we get my 3, hubby's 4 and kiddo's one to Honored. Fun.

At least there is a way to GET Honored with them that does NOT involve instances. No chance on Shat'ar and Keepers of Time. That means the other 2 pieces of the set will not be gotten by me. Sure, some may say that it IS a starter-PvP set and what do I need that for if I don't PvP? Well actually some of these pieces are just flat out better stats than the crap quest or AH gear that I am currently wearing. And while I **really** don't give a crap about having better gear, marginally better gear always helps when it comes to just farming motes or finishing regular quests or doing a few dailies. Can't complain when it is basically handed to you as well.

And of course all this will be moot again when Wrath of the Lich King hits. Heh. And on and on we go.

I hate this game.

Blah blah blah

Haven't played much. No time and no want. Playing Lord of the Rings.

I did however log in long enough on Thursday to get my Blood Elf Hunter to level 65(well, LotRO was on maintenance!). I just don't know if I will ever get him to 70, but it would be really nice if I could.

Zul'Furrak and WACK servers

So we attempted ZF last night. First time through was my 44 Lock, hubby's 70 Sham and kiddo's 70 mage. First problem, took 5 minutes to get loaded in-should have taken a hint right there. Several instances of 'loot-lag'. And then when we FINALLY made it through the stair event, I got stuck in 'loot-lag' on the last boss and never got a chance to get the d-rod from the last guy for that quest. ON TOP OF THAT the Priestess didn't drop the Voodoo Mask, the Zilla didn't drop the dagger AND the Voodoo dude didn't even drop a BLUE!! OMG I've never seen such horrible drops before!! And to top it off not being able to finish that quest really ticked me off. And we will have to do it all again for hubby's Lock, unless we decide to skip the whole stair thing so neither of us get the quest done(no biggie, reward sucks for us).

GAH! I hate this game!!!

Ding 44

So our Warlocks got to 44 last night. Went to Stranglethorn and ripped through the Nessingwary quests that we had skipped earlier. All the way up to Bangalesh. Dinged 44 and needed to quit for the night. Went to train. Will get back to the King tonight(or next log in). Also planning to head to Zul'Furrak next chance we get to get our Carrot on a Sticks. Can't *not* get that little trinket! =)

Still playing more LotROnline though. Having fun with that, which is more than I can say for WoW right now.


Want to mention also, for those leaving random links in the comments....they lead to tinyurl.com or whatever, and I will not click on those no matter how many you leave here and hopefully no one else will either. Either keyloggers or gold sellers, I obviously do NOT approve of either one. So bugger off and only comment if you actually, ya know, HAVE a comment!! Thanks!

Weekend Summary

Warlocks: ran Uldaman, got to level 43. I got the chest piece from Grimlok and the cape from the Fire dwarf guy(I hate Ulda, I don't want to remember the names). The cape is 1 stamina more than the Silky Spider Cape from RFD, but it is FUGLY. I hate those short split capes. Gah.

Did some mining this morning. Not quite enough, I did have to buy some Adamantite Powder and Primal earth from the AH, but I *finally* got those last 5 points for my Paladin in Jewelcrafting! Yeah for 375! I still don't have a lot of blue gem patterns, but then I don't spend all my time on him and he isn't rich and dang those patterns cost a chunk on the AH. Whatever, noone wants my gems anyway, even the people I offer them to. Oh well.

Now to get the last 5 points for my engineer, which will not be easy because the orange items are pointless or too expensive and everything else is green or gray. And still too many mats. At least with the next patch, with Primal Nethers being made BoE, I can finally make one of those epic helms for her. That will be nice. That's ONE point! Heh!

Spent more time watching the "Lord of the Rings" movies this weekend. Fact: I'd never seen them all the way through before. Shocker, I know. And of course, LOTRO is on maintenance today. Figures....but then WoW will be tomorrow, so works out ok. And maybe patch tomorrow?? Too soon probably still, but who knows. I will be ready! Or not...

Doan again...

So we didn't have a lot of time to run to Doan again last night. Took my Lock first. Let me just say that in 2 attempts, STILL no Hypnotic Blade. Oh well, I am resigned to find something decent on the AH or wait for a quest reward or something else later. HOWEVER....on the first attempt, Ol' Doan did drop me this....Deadman's Hand!! Epic ring, +10 to stamina(good Lock stat), and chance for a frost nova when hit in combat-which I get frequently for some reason, mobs don't like my wanding much.

So while I don't really care about epic gear, it is NOICE grabbing this baby!! Heh. =)

Of course, then switching to hubby's Lock, and he gets Hypnotic Blade on first attempt. Then I ran him into Cathedral to catch up on XP and maybe get Whitemane's Chapeau(I have that on my Lock), but no luck there.

Such is life. We will probably move on to Uldaman next. Then ZF. Then somewhere else. It's amazing, I do hate instances, but only with groups I don't know. Running these Locks through instances have been the majority of their XP so far. They have really not done too many quests. No problem by me. Some get old, some I don't relish ever doing again! Some are fun and I don't mind so much. Nice to be picky and choosy.

But I think I still hate Doan, just a little less! Thanks for the purps Doan!!

Last night (I hate Doan!)

We didn't do a whole lot. Ran around grabbing some flight paths for level 40ish zones with our Locks. Hinterlands, Searing Gorge, Feralas. Did the Ogre quests in Feralas, got some decent boots. Did the Warlock level 40 quest for the offhand/staff. Didn't really like the staff so much, offhand is excellent. Now only need a sword/dagger. The only decent one I know of is the Hypnotic Blade, drops from Doan in Scarlet Monastery.

So we decide to run it quick to get us each the Blade. He had one, but sold it awhile back when he couldn't get a good offhand. Sigh... So we(he on 70 Shaman, my Lock) head over. Able to skip a lot of the mobs and the runs take about 12-15 minutes. Thing is, after 3 tries I got Mantle of Doan and the Illusionary Rod all three times!! GAH!! We decided to try our luck with my 70 Druid and his lock. One time and it was the exact same drops. Must not have been our day. >.< And done for the night. Will try again today maybe.

Also, about those awesome tabards I linked below...it is starting to look like you HAVE to kill that level 70 mob in some instance(holiday only spawn) in order to get it. THAT SUCKS!!!!! I do NOT want to have to run this stupid instance to get an awesome tabard!! No, No, No!! Dang. I hope I can manage to bring myself to do it once(and hope I don't get laughed at for my gear-NOT THAT I CARE!) JUST to get that tabard. If not, oh well, I don't really care that much. They have added 2 new pets as well, and one drops from this guy and one drops in the new Sunwell instance. Screw you Blizzard! The people who collect mini pets tend to be the people who don't collect purple gear!! GAH!!!

Tuesday

So it's maintenance day. Last night hubby got home late. We only had time to log in and gather mats to get him to 200 in Jewelcrafting. And then we both made our Jade Owl trinket. That will help with the mana issue a bit. As it is with Life Tap, we rarely have to stop when fighting lots of mobs, we can just go and go and go, it's quite nice. Life tap, drain life, wand, VW does all the work with a few dots. Lock is pretty easy.

With realms being down I will find other things to do. I think I've done enough research on the upcoming patch for now(though yesterday I found some info that there are some new tabards coming for Summer >World of Raids.com< and I am hoping they are somewhat easy to get because I love tabards! This is the Horde version: Tabard of Summer Flames
But that looks like it won't be out until the Summer fest which is late June-July I think. Lots of time to find out.

So today I will play Lord of the Rings Online. I have a level 15 Hobbit Hunter. It's fun. It's not WoW, but it's a nice distraction. And QUIET! No PvP, no Barrens chat, no jerks with names like "Ipwndu". Nice. Very nice! So I am off to Middle Earth...=)

Warlocks

The warlocks we started a couple of months ago have finally hit 40. Actually they even dinged 41 before we logged out last night. And we actually died for the first time last night in Stranglethorn Vale. Attempting a level 46 quest. We almost had it done, but repops and adds and a Blood Elf hunter who was also too low for the area got us killed. No biggie(aside from the HORRID run in STV when you die somewhere in the middle!). I like the Felsteed, very cool to finally be riding one! Now the only mounts I've never ridden in game(normal level 40 mounts) are the Gnome thing and the Blood Elf chicken. I've also never gotten an Alliance Paladin mount, but it isn't much different than the Blood Elf one-and I think the BE one is much, much cooler!

Also did more mining this morning. I have finally gotten my Lock to 200 in Jewelcrafting. Now I only hope there is enough mats left over for hubby's Lock to get there as well. Or else I might be buying stuff off of the AH for him. I'm just sick and tired of mining.

Fishing- Rayak is up to 291 in fishing. I was fishing this morning while reading some Stephen King. Then some random numnut asks me to run him through SFK. Exit>log out. On to something else. ASK SOMEONE YOU KNOW OR DON'T ASK AT ALL! Gosh!

Sunwell Plateau-I think that is the name for the new place coming in the next patch. It's hard to tell, but I am hoping that it is possible to get to exalted completely solo. I hope so because I want to get my Paladin and Rogue and maybe even my Druid to exalted. That means lots of dailies, every day. And as far as I can tell, all of the quests(aside from Dungeon ones) can be done solo. That will be nice. Between those and the Fishing daily for my druid and rogue, it looks like I will be quite busy after the patch. Good thing is I can do most of the quests when most people aren't on. Bad thing is, GEEEZ another thing to suck me in!!! And it will most certainly suck for my druid and pally because I know as soon as they step foot out there, they will be asked repeatedly to do the new instance. Need to make sure to keep my /dnd up at all times.

Also coming in 2.4, new gear(meant for PvP) from honored reputation from 5 different factions. Two of these I don't have anyone honored in(Shatar and Keepers of Time), but at least I can get some gear from the other 3(Cenarion, Thrallmar and Lower City). I know it is meant for PvP, but for the most part it is better than a lot of the gear I am already wearing for PvE. Yeah, missing +hit and things like that, but I will deal with it when it is clearly superior to what I am wearing. NOT that I care about gear(remember that one!), but hey, basically easy dungeon-equivalent gear without having to go to a dungeon is nice. Just helps me kill those mobs while soloing that much easier. Even though I know in a few months it will probably all be replaced by new stuff in Northrend. Oh well, no biggie to me, I'm sure it makes all those epicced out freaks cry....GOOD!

Fishing

Forgot to mention that I am working on fishing with Rayak, my 70 BE Rogue. He is at 275 right now and I really need to get over 300 before the next patch. My druid is already 375 and it seemed like it took FOREVER! But hopefully getting some of the new items in the fishing daily quest coming in the next patch will be well worth it!! Must have +94 stamina fishing hat! MUST HAVE! Must have baby croc pets too! AHHH! Who cares about purple gear, I want mini pets!!!!!

Work work work

So we took a vacation a week ago and last week hubby has to work extra each day. And now Saturday morning and he is at work again-and he NEVER works Saturdays. Sucks. Means that I am not motivated to play much. I fiddled around with several characters yesterday, I don't even remember which ones. I just log in, run around, check quests, check bags, fly somewhere, sit there for a minute and then log out and log in with someone else.

Am I getting bored with this? Of course! Can I stop? Nope. Cannot stop. Will go grocery shopping this morning and then will log in and do something. Maybe play my hunter. Tempted to even start a new character on a PvP server-a Horde character. And I HATE PVP! Bored, bored, bored. Ugh.

Not much today

I ran around a bit, gathered some more iron and tin, etc. Got a few skillups on my warrior in blacksmithing. Then jumped on my 64 hunter and did a few of the Nessingwary quests in Nagrand. Then I got bored and went and did some laundry. Yeah.

Just threw on a pic of my Paladin and my kid's hunter that we took awhile back.

Forgot to mention that we got our Warlocks to level 38 last night. Two levels to a pretty demon horse!

Jewelcrafting

So we took up jewelcrafting because it was my bright idea to be able to use the BoP trinkets. The first available one is at JC level 200. We are at 115 right now. Seeing as how we also have tailoring, we don't have mining. And so every morning now I have to run around with my Pally gathering mats. Geez Louise it takes alot to level up! To get from 115 to 130, the easiest way, is to make Heavy stone statues-that takes 8 stones each, that is 120 heavy stone, times 2. After that to get from 130 to 150 takes 40 Shadowgem and 40 Bronze bars. The bronze bars is the easy part. Forty shadowgem, ugh. And 240 Heavy stone-well at least I can send the iron to my Warrior/blacksmith. I know nearly every inch of Thousand Needles. So I've moved on to Arathi. After hitting 150, we will need 120 mithril bars just to get to 180. I haven't even checked what's after that.

Another pain in the rump, and another reason to hate this game.

Tuesday maintenance

Gives me time to post here. Well, and get to the grocery store at some point. And maybe do the dishes.

Spent most of last night running around gathering Tin and Copper to make Bronze bars with my Paladin(Crusader aura FTW!). Sending the bronze to our Warlocks to level up Jewelcrafting. They both have JC and tailoring for all the BoP items later on. If we ever get them to 70. If. They both hit the rested pins on Sunday, will wait for some build up for more rest now.

Luckily I wasn't asked at all while I was on to head to any instance. So I didn't have to use up any of my random excuses. I hate instances. I personally think I suck at this game and don't want to bring anyone down and cause wipes just so everyone will hate me. Just nip that in the bud and not even put myself in that situation to begin with. If I don't tick anyone off, then they can't hate me. If I don't go to instances, I can't cause any wipes and force people to call me "noob" or "idiot" or whatever. I don't deal with being called names. And ya know this goes all the way back to Wailing Caverns. 'Attempting' to heal with my lowly little druid, way back when. No one died until the very end, but that one idiot who let me have it, saying how much I sucked because he died, well I just won't put up with that. At all. Ever.

It's a Catch-22. I don't do instances, so I don't get better gear so I can tell people "my gear sucks and isn't good enough for the instance you want me to go to". Perfect. But then I MUST be doing something wrong because it sure seems like everyone I know who plays has all "epixxx" and thinks I am stupid for not wanting any epics. I am not 'embarrassed' because I don't have epics. Epics don't make you a better person or better player. You might have better stats, but that doesn't make YOU better. It doesn't make you a better person. I am more interested in being a good person than being a great video game player.

And that's another reason why I hate this game.

Still playing

But I honestly hate this game now.

So yeah, it's been awhile because frankly I forgot all about this blog.

So a short bit to bring it up to date, and then I think I will turn this into a daily gripe about how much I hate this game but keep playing anyway.


UPDATE:
"Burning Crusade" came out January of 2007. I started 3 Blood Elves. My Tauren Druid was first to 70. Hubby, kiddo and I got our BE Rogue(mine), BE Pally(hubby) and UD Mage(kiddo) to 70 next. Then my UD Mage and hubby's Tauren Shaman got to 70. Then my BE Paladin and hubby's UD Priest got to 70. And finally my Tauren Shaman and hubby's Tauren Hunter got to 70. And my BE Hunter is level 64. Oh and the Human mage I went on and on about finally got his cat mount around level 50, is now level 62 and I transferred him to Kael'Thas and his name is now Daneck.

Hubby and I have recently started UD Warlocks, up to level 37 now.

My Tauren Druid has her epic flyer, and a Netherdrake and Netheray flyers.

And I still despise PvP and instances. More about that later. See you tomorrow

Revered

That's right. I am now Revered with Darnassus. At level 42. I know it is a long row to hoe to get to exalted, but with Mageweave and then Runecloth turn-ins still to do, just starting Feathermoon Stronghold quests, and then the Morrowgrain repeatable at level 50, it shouldn't be too hard. Looking forward to it! I can't wait to ride a Kitty around! Although I do love my Pinto. =)

Realms down, Tuesday. Well, actually not all-I've been messing around on Kael'Thas this morning as it didn't go down. Echo Isles did though. So I got Taphophilia to 43. Equipped that Epic gun with the +14 agility. Only there for the stats, as I rarely use pulling unless I have too. And it's neat to have an epic on. =)

Dane is 42. Gotten his alchemy up to 225. Herbalism at 235. Fishing is at about 250. Finally took up cooking and am up to 220. I got the Lucky Fishing Hat in the fishing contest last week. And got another one this past Sunday. I don't need another hat-I need the boots! And to win would be nice. Need to go get the Big Iron Fishing Pole in Desolace as well. And up to 75gold. Getting some good stuff from fishing the floating debris. Got almost 5g from a mace out of a trunk I fished up. Not too shabby!

I've gotten Tohopka to 50. I kinda want to play her, I really do. Even if JUST to get to the yeti quests in Winterspring to be able to make a Yeti pet! That should be incentive enough. Just have so many other things to do. And hubby has taken his Shaman on up, he is 54 now. It'll just be another toon to sit and do a job eventually though. Need mining things? Take Kick out farming. Need Herbs or potions? Go get Wormy. Need an engineering thing-call Tohopka. Working on getting Taph to 45 so she can open all lockboxes and then I will pretty much be set there. And when Burning Crusade comes out, she becomes the Jewelcrafter. Pretty cool I guess. Just me being self-sufficient so I can play alone, essentially. I might someday work on my lower toons on KT-the lvl 18 priest, lvl21 warlock, lvl 12 warrior-but they are basically just bank alts for the time being. I just can't get into playing any of them at all. It would be cool to get the Lock to 40, just to have the coolest mount(and probably buy a wolf as well, just cos I always wanted a wolf mount-thats why Kick got exalted with AV, for the wolf!).

And now downloading the patch(well pre-patch). The last patch before expansion(in January!). Honor system changing. I can change that stupid title over my head(or hopefully get rid of it altogether!). Redoing talents-Dane is going frost I think(although fire is fun, hehe!). Who knows on the others. Still cannot decide-I'd better figure it out soon!