A HA!

I figured out why we don't post often to this blog.

Cuz all our free 'puter time is spent playing.

Remind me about Gnomeregan and great SM armor. Heh.

Dings and other notable notables.

I have been tired of staring at Shamue, sitting there all pretty in her leather at half way through 38. I finally got the motivation to get her levelled and mounted, so off we went through Scarlett Monastery for two reasons - the fantabulous mail set that drops and hopefully a level. Or two. And so:



Voila, my third mounted character. Most of what she is wearing is from SM, including two pieces of the Scarlett set. Fortunately the helm and shoulders also match the fantastic red. I am such a girl at times.

I have been running Vassylleen as well and she is level 12 now. In the first hour I had her online, I got all kinds of these:



Ah, good times. I will say that since Valen is a new server the lag is practically non-existant. Which all I can say is, Woot! Now I just need to get to the SMC to sign the guild charter.

Another new toon

Meet Vassylleen, the second. The Buttered Monkeys have decided to move over to Valen and in doing so we have all rolled new characters.



And so she is a skinner/leatherworker, uber-rogue-extraordinaire-to-be. Hopefully. If I can afford it. Heh.

Three more levels...

It was my day off yesterday and I spent it with Kaewhy. She and Himhotepp went grinding in Nagrand and I ended up grinding an entire level. Yay, 67! Since RPGO for some reason isn't updated (again), you can check out my Armory profile. And the beautiful mace I picked up. I am using it off-handed for now (daggers have never really been big for me since I find backstab a waste of time and I do more damage with cheap shot than ambush), until I get my mace skill up and then I am switching hands. I think it will do until I get the Night blade, non?

My new goal.

The Night Blade.

And the Dirge in my off hand.

Let's all bend our will towards this, shall we?

I would never play any other character again.

Grind, grind, grind...

As much as Himhotepp has been grinding, so has Kaewhy. I have gotten her to 66 on Sunday, and in the last few days have been earning an average of 75 gold per session, from drops and quest rewards. I have been putting nothing in the auction house, saving every penny for my epic mount. And I have been rewarded.



Now I have four more levels to go to raise enough for the flying mount. But I have to come up with a few gold for my level 66 training first. This is more urgent than I realized - I get Cloak of Shadows as an ability. Mages and priests no longer even have a chance.

Especially those gnomes.

A Double Dose of Gaming

So today post consists of 2 parts. The usual WoW info and an new section, called "MY CoD". First, the WoW.
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My WoW

So I have been listening to my own advice (finally, right?) and started grinding Himotepp again... just get out there and DO the damn quests... and guess what? He dinged 67 early this morning! yes! 67!! W00t!!
He has picked up a lot of cash and very few new items, but I am grinding for the flying mount! /drool
I want to be able to DING 70 and then fly up and celebrate!
LOL

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My COD

Call of Duty. This was my passion before WoW, and there are still many days when I cannot decide between them which to play! Inevitably I wind up playing both on the same day, which of course means I don't really get into the rhythm of either one! LOL
I wasn't sure if I should post here regarding CoD, being as this is (so-far) mostly a WoW blog, but wth... it is my blog too, and CoD is almost as big a part of my gaming life as WoW. Except Christine doesn't play it... yet! L0L

The big news for me in CoD is that I recently (couple days ago) got the my highest rank ever in the game - Gunnery Sergeant! W00t!

For those not familiar with the game, CoD is a WWII FPS - and probably the best one ever created (so far at least). Graphics are awesome, gameplay is smooth (most of the time... heh heh) and the MP gameplay is outstanding! I've been playing that for a little more than 3 years, and the MP for nearly as long, and I have arrived at the following conclusions:
      (*see below for a defintion of the abbreviations. ~S)

1. I prefer MP* to SP* play. Hugely...
   
2. I prefer TDM* to all other types of games.
   
3. I prefer SOSniper.net as the best server to play on. SO much so in fact, that I applied to their Clan. Wish me luck!
   
4. CoD is superior to CoD2 in every conceivable manner and way, IMO.

Abbreviations
FPS = First Person Shooter (type of computer game)
SP = Single Player (usually one player against many computer controlled characters, called bots)
MP = Multi-Player (usually online with many people playing against each other, and no computer controlled characters)
DM = Death Match (every man for himself)
TDM = Team Death Match (Team "A" vs Team "B")
CTF = Capture The Flag (there are variants of the name, but the game is the same)
SD = Search & Destroy (obvious name choice for the game style, lol)
BEL = Behind Enemy Lines (like TDM, except you are outnumbered 4:1 or 5:1 and score points for kills AND for simply staying alive.)


I will add more abbreviations as they become necessary to understand my upcoming posts... lol

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~Cheers, Scott

Lie? Me? Never! The Truth is far too much fun!

Watch it cuz it's funny

So there is a contest happening at YouTube featuring a bunch of different WoW videos. Some are downright hilarious, and as viewers, we get to vote.

Here is our favourite.

W00T! The Shanker Dropped!

I know as incredible as it sounds, I got the Barman Shanker already! 2 bars into level 50, and there it is! w00t!! I also go the Mixologist Tunic and about 5g in random BOP drops. All in all, a sweet run.

We took about 7 successful attempts to get to the bar (and about 25 deaths to send me back to the beginning) but there it was. On the majority of runs it was just Christine and I - all but the last few where another old friend "Heyblinkin" aka Dave Bolton, joined us for some Roguish fun! lol

Kaewhy (64 Undead) Heyblinkin (61 Undead) and Velvyt (50 Troll).

Pics to follow as soon as I get them ready. w00t again!

btw: we each died at least once (and I died 3 times) on the last run... heh heh but it was all worth it now!


~Cheers, Scott

Lie? Me? Never! The Truth is far too much fun!

You know you're a twink when...

So, I realize that I have been spending too much time on my alts (away from my main) when I start to say things like:

"He needs a new weapon, 'cause that one is just ugly."

Huh? When did this happen? How shall I rectify this situation?

0_o
I'll get him a new weapon.
That'll fix it...

~Cheers, Scott

Lie? Me? Never! The Truth is far too much fun!

A note from the Burning Legion...

Well, we finished an SFK run on Burning Legion (we have 2 characters on that server - Hephaestius and Vassylleen), and I have to say it was quite a successful run, indeed.
Having been the only time I have ever run SFK with a group, and not having any healers with us, I was skeptical of our chances, but we DPS'd our way through in about an hour. And only 2 deaths... Woot!

More later!
~Cheers, Scott

Lie? Me? Never! The Truth is far too much fun!

Velvyt Finally Made 50!

w00t! Velvyt dinged 50 this morning (after much grinding). Now the next big thing is in the works: Barman Shanker. heh heh

Also, I have made a plan for his Epic Mount: I will do 3 BG runs for each of the BG (WG, AB, AV) for each level - this will result in (at least) 30 BG tokens for each BG, which in turn means : EPIC WOLF!! WAHOO!!

It has been along climb, and now that I am here, I am feeling almost the same pull to get to 60 that I felt with Himhotepp.. lol must be a proximity thing.

In other news, my other alts (except Fripple) are all 23/24 and I am going to try to level them all to 40... starting with the Paladin (Justiss) and the Warlock (Magewannabe) because they don't need to buy a mount! I guess we'll see what happens...

~Cheers, Scott

Lie? Me? Never! The Truth is far too much fun!