Hunter weekend!

Played my Blood Elf Hunter, Wyl, some time this weekend. He is at 69.5 right now. Attempting to get to honored with Aldor, Shatar and Lower City for the last half level. Looking to get the four parts of the blue set from the factions. I don't plan to pvp with him, but it is good looking gear and probably better than anything he'd get from just questing. So what the heck. He will sit after getting them while waiting for Wrath of the Lich King anyway, so... .

Also played our Dwarf Hunter trio this weekend. They are now level 56, close to 57. Going to attempt to get to Morphaz in Sunken Temple ourselves to finish the hunter quest. And then just over one level to hit Outland! Can't wait.

Exalted now!

When realms came back up around noon, I logged in with Hekubus. One note-Wowhead does NOT have reputation gains correct!

From Astranaar I went to Maestro's Post and turned in Tower of Alth. Got 250 rep, expected that. Accepted next part. Went up to Master's Glaive to do level 17ish escort that I forgot. Easy as pie. Then went to Tower of Alth, turn in next part(25 rep) and accept part to get head of guy in Tower. Stealthed up, killed him, died to all those stupid Warlocks on the way out. Turned in head, 250 rep! Back to Auberdine, fly to Astranaar. Turn in escort quest at Shrine of Assenia(?) for 250 rep! Then over to Maestro's Post to turn in last quest of Tower of Alth for *another* 250 rep and BOOM exalted!

Yeah!

Now he sits at the cat vendor/trainer waiting for the patch. Cheers!

Exalted with Darnassus

My Gnome Rogue, Hekubus of Draenor, hit level 30 last night. And he is at 20152/21k Revered with Darnassus. I am pretty much out of quests in Ashenvale. I have to turn in the Tower of Althalaxx(free the highbornes) for 250 rep. The next and last three only give about 150 rep, but I think I will do them unless I can find something else. I missed an escort in Darkshore(Therylune's Escape) that will be good for 150 rep. And I'm in the middle of the Scythe of Elune quest with 188 rep left. That still leaves about 250 points to get without hitting level 31. Could be tough. Although I think a few of the first easy quests in Wetlands might give me just enough without giving too much XP.

And once he hits Exalted(hopefully before level 31), he will then be parked in front of the Cat trainer/vendor and will sit there until the next patch hits. Then I can log in first with him and get his cat mount. Sweet.

Hunters

This weekend we got our Dwarf Hunters to level 54. Started out Friday at level 50. Did Flame quests to get to 51. And then quests in Felwood and Un'Goro to get to 54. Killed three Devilsaurs without any trouble. Anxious to get them to Outland!

Midsummer Fire Fest....yawn

So yesterday started the two week holiday Midsummer Fire Festival. Wake me when it is over.

There are "flames" to honor in most zones. Cool. At level 51 with our Dwarves(dinged while seeking them), we were getting I think 3500xp and 40 silver. At 61(warlocks) we were getting about 4850xp and 1gold. You also get 5 Blossoms. Blossoms are used for currency for "Summer" items. Here is a list...

Summer Robe-nice, I bought this with a few characters, cool "on use" effect-your hands glow with fire while you dance

Summer shoes-waste of blossoms

Flaming shoulders-look rather dumb, but I got them with loads of my characters last year and the year before, don't really need them with anyone new

Flame mini-pet-Also got this last year with those that mattered. It's not that interesting a pet anyway

Dancing brazier thingee-dumb, just dumb. Well I guess if you want to stand around and watch a dancing fiery Draenei, go for it-I think it's dumb

Buff food-the only thing really worth spending the blossoms on, for me

So some people want lots of this crap. And you get MORE Blossoms from stealing the other faction flames. Which of course makes you flagged for PvP which I LOATHE. I don't need them blossoms, THANK GOODNESS!

There is also the matter of this new instance boss. Level 70. My level 70s are so poorly geared I don't think any of them would be asked to go into the instance. So I miss out on the cool epic gear he drops, the chance at the little mini flame elemental pet, and the cool tabard you get after killing him. That all sucks. Really. But I will live.

It's crap like that, that make me HATE this game! Oh, yeah, BRING ON BREWFEST! Kodos for my Alliance characters! WOOT!

Uhm, heh.

I am on a mission!

My Gnome Rogue. I want to get him a cat mount from Darnassus. I've stated that before I think. BUT...they just started testing the next patch on the test realm and the big new thing...mounts at level 30! LEVEL THIRTY! Yikes! And now a rush to get to exalted with Darnassus before the patch! Well here is the scoop at the moment...

Ding level 28 today, 15155/21k revered at level! Not too shabby but I am running out of quests my level or lower that give rep. At log out at about 28.3 level I am 16080/21k. Only 4920 to go. I have gathered Redridge gray quests and hope I do not get much xp from them.

Had to log out, for some reason computer kept alt-tabbing for me as if something else was running and I couldn't figure out what. I wasn't kicked from game, just tabbed out. Weird. Now I have to figure this out. >.<

Father's Day weekend

So hubby wanted to play lots of WoW this weekend. No problem! We got our hunters from just at 48 all the way to 50.5. Spent lots of time farming for thick leather on gray mobs, got his leatherworking to 265 or so. My engineering is at about 215. Got up early to get kiddo's herbalism up, now at 202. My mining is at 240.

Also, he ran my Gnome Rogue through Stockades. Mainly to continue Seal of Wrynn questline. Got lucky, first time through the rare mob was there, dropped fist weapon "Iron Knuckles". Would rather have had the dagger drop, but will not complain. Turning in quests levels him up to 24. Three bars into Revered with Darnassus. Oh yes, he will be exalted before level 40. Sweet.

Weekend Summary

It was hunter weekend!! First we started with my boy, Wyl, in Nagrand. Hubby got one of his 70s to help finish most of the group quests there. He is up to 67 1/2 now.

Then we got kiddo to play our Dwarf Hunters. First of all, we went from level 45 to 48. We finished up some quests in Tanaris, Feralas and the Hinterlands. Managed to get the chicken escorts for TN and HI(had already done Feralas) and got ourselves the Mechanical Chicken mini pet! I think hubby does not want his. I will have him send it to my rogue. Sweet. :) Then we decided to have some fun. We went to Scarlet Monastery and ran through there several times, for the silk(kiddo needs help on tailoring and first aid), and the drops to help our money situations. We had loads of fun and no real problems getting through each of them. Then for a lark, we attempted Uldamen!! And imagine our surprise when we managed to finish it with NO deaths! (ok, I got real close once when hubby aggroed a scorpion pit and then his pet somehow pulled half a room of those dwarves!) Kiddo got the shoulders from the Ancient Stone Keeper, but most of the rest of the drops were crap. Well, I did get the Emberscale Cape, which is ok, maybe no *really* an upgrade(and fugly for a cape), but I put it on. AND we did get the quest at the end finished so we got the 14slot bag, HUGE help! All in all, lots of fun...I can't wait to get these guys to Outland!

Ding 60!

Yeppers, our Warlocks hit level 60 last night. Good lordy they gave Locks alot of things to learn at 60!! On top of spending for an epic mount(we will get around to getting the Dreadsteed eventually), I don't know how much we spent on training but it was a LOT. And then back to Outland. First up, the Assassin quest line. Excellent xp for little work and good reward at the end. Yeah it is an excellent robe for the level, but my boy Gediman has NEVER worn a robe!! Gah! I prefer tunics and he looks absolutely AWFUL in this dress!! Need to do more quests and get something better to wear, this is FUGLY!

A little rogue, and a little warlock last night

First off, we ran our Druid/Shaman 70s around the Dire Maul courtyard until we had enough Runecloth to finally get our Locks to 300 in tailoring. Took about an hour, but it was fun. The only decent drops came when one of those rares showed up in the Arena and we jumped down to take him out. It was Skarr the Unbreakable, and he dropped Lady Alizabeth's Pendant(meh) and Sword of Zeal. I'm not even sure I'll be able to sell these on the AH, who knows. I suppose I could save it for my rogue on Kael'Thas, but she is only 45 and this is level 58 and she may never see level 58! The pendant will probably be disenchanted for a Large Brilliant Shard.

Then we played our Locks for awhile. We actually went back and fought Blazerunner for "It's Dangerous To Go Alone" in Un'Goro, piece of cake. Then a few more quests in Winterspring. We ended up about 2 bars from 60. Still not certain if and when we will do the Warlock Epic Mount quest. Don't have any of the mats for it yet, but it wouldn't take too long to put them together. Right now we just want to go buy a mount and go back later for the quest. And I'm still about 50g short of buying a mount. Though my 70s have got loads, so no worries there.

Then hubby took his 45 hunter over on Draenor and ran my little Rogue through Shadowfang Keep. Dinged 21 while in there and got the Rugged Spaulders and Fenrus' Hide cloak. Two pretty big upgrades to what I was wearing. Will need a run through Stockades soon too, just to continue the Seal of Wrynn quest line. Also have gotten to within a bar of Revered with Darnassus...at level 21. Sweet!

The two hour level

We get home from a weekend out of town with just a few hours to play(and rest from the trip too of course). We had our Warlocks only about 3 bars from level 58. We scared the three friends of that weird Goblin in Winterspring and turned in that quest. Then made our way to Eastern Plaguelands. Turned in the book to that guy, ran to Darrowshire and found sister Pamela, and then went on to the Bulwark and turned in the Everlook Report...boom DING! (well, ok I was a few points behind, we went into WPL and killed on spider and then DING!) Went back to Undercity, trained and headed for the Dark Portal!!

Inside the Dark Portal and onto Thrallmar. Getting the early quests, we did the 'kill several demons', 'close the demon portals', 'bomb the two big portals', 'bomb lots of demons and cannons', 'kill Razorsaw and some other demons', 'gather wood and metal', 'gather Bonechewer blood' and 'burn the Alliance cannons'(yeah I don't remember the quest names, if you've done them you know which ones I mean!) and two hours later were level 59!! Yes, and about 500 hit points and 1000 mana points higher! I don't even remember what our spell damage went up to!

And now I have my 8th character in Outland. Wow.

I've also come to grips with the fact that I will probably have to delete my level 32 warrior in order to start a Death Knight on Kael' Thas. I know I don't *have* to start them there, but that is where our resources are so why not. And if Blizz isn't going to give us another character slot with the expansion then someone has to go. My two lowest on my account are the 30ish hunter and warrior. Since this hunter is played rather different than my other hunter, and the DK will basically be sort of a warrior-the warrior will probably be the one to go bye-bye. Now I have all this time to decide what race it will be and come up with a name!

Busy, busy weekend

Three day weekend, start of summer vacation for the kiddo. Joy.

I got Daneck to level 64 last week. He is fun to play when I feel like playing him. Hubby and I played our Warlocks quite a bit. They are now level 57, finishing up in Winterspring and hopefully headed to Outland soon. We haven't touched EPL or Silithus, so they are possibilities if we feel the need to go back and grind another level out before moving on. My 'Lock is only about 1k from being exalted with Orgrimmar as well, which will be nice-my first Undead character to ride a wolf.

And we dusted off our Dwarf Hunter Trio on Draenor. Got them from 42 to 45 doing some rather tough quests in Feralas. But we got our Sprite Darter babies! The kiddo and I have gone back to get Darnassus reps so that we can get cats to ride, we are at 7k/21k and haven't finished Teldrassil and haven't touched Darkshore. We should have them soon! (of course, today is TUESDAY! >.< )

And...I got them to boost my rogue through Deadmines last night. Did get the Buzzer Blade and Thief's Blade, and Smelting Pants but friggin Van Cleef drops the Corsair Overshirt instead of the 3 things he could drop that I could use!! At least I got the Tunic of Westfall from the quest. Need the shoulders from Shadowfang Keep now and he will be set for awhile. :) And at level 17, he is almost revered with Darnassus already and has barely done any Darkshore quests! So yes, he will ride a cat too if I can help it. And yes, Daneck rides a cat. Can't help it. I like 'em! Heh.

Level 54

That's what our warlocks are after last night. Special. Four levels from Outland. And then I will have EIGHT characters out there. I really do have a real life, I swear it.

And now the Wrath of the Lich King is starting Alpha testing. That means in about six months I will have to level all of these characters to 80!! EIGHT- OH! I need to get my personal website finished before then, I may not see much of the outside world once that hits.




Help me.....

Some one please stop me...... /cry

Ok, so we got our Warlocks to level 51. Played them up to their rested pins. Aaaaaaaand decided to dust off our old hunters on Draenor and try to get the kiddo back playing with us. We leveled them a bit the one day this week that hubby got home before bedtime. And then I did it.....


I started another alt. I wanted a rogue to play while hubby and kiddo are not at home or not interested. I already HAD one at level 10, but I didn't like his name. So I started a Gnome rogue. Male. Named Hekubus. (I was watching some Kids in the Hall skits this week, and of course someone had the spelling I wanted, good thing 'c' and 'k' are interchangable) And now he sits at level 15. At 5k/12k to revered with Darnassus(because of course he will ride a cat and not a mechanical chicken). Found a Blood Elf Bandit Mask on his first kill of one of those bandit guys. He looks silly in it though. Now ready to take on Darkshore for more Darn. rep and a Deadmines run-through.

Sigh...I just can't stop. I hate this!!! >.<

Shattered Sun and Children's Week

Ok, so it's been awhile since I posted. I've been either busy or bored. And both most of the time. So here is the skinny...

Rayak, Eremit and Tohopka are exalted with SSO. Kick is about 8k from it. And I am bored out of my skull with those quests. Haven't done any in about 2 weeks.

All 3 of my exalteds have about 12 Badges of Justice, each. And you need at least 15 for something decent for my Paladin and Shaman, 25 for a cloak for my Rogue. And I just can't bring myself to do those quests anymore in hopes of getting the badges. I think that they may just sit in my bank and rot. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

Our Warlock duo is up to level 48. I have been running around doing old Orgrimmar quests in an attempt to get exalted so that mine can ride a wolf when he wants to ride something different than the fiery horse. I like wolves. He is at about 13k/21k, only about 8k more, but I am getting bored with this too.

Did Children's Week quests with most of my main characters-and at least all of the ones in Outland. I wanted to do as many as physically possible, but I even got bored with that.

Now if I could only just STOP playing altogether since I am so bored!! Argh. I got my Hobbit Hunter in LotRO to level 25, nearly 26. Bored there too sadly. Maybe it's just a thing I am going through.

Sigh.....

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.