The only thing better than one...

My wonderful husband bought me an in game gift. Seems he had been perusing the auction house and found Ced's Carver for a mere 65 gold. Considering I have never seen it for less than 150, this was a steal. And so:



Pretty, non? Complete with a life stealing enchant. Where did we get that fancy enchant, you ask? Well we are a pretty small guild, with 16 accounts. There are only 6 characters (4 players) over 60. So guild run instances in the Outlands right now is not an option. We do want to help bring our guild up so we thought we would do a few Scholo runs to see what the deal was (yep, most of us had never run it), and to see what we would need when our guildies got high enough to start getting their Tier 1 armor. The first three times we ran it as a group, (Kaewhy at 70, two 65 priests and Velvyt at 55, 56, 57, & 59), the Life Stealing enchant dropped FOUR times. Once it dropped TWICE in the same run. Gah. Needless to say our guild enchanters are very happy.

I had a supply of Nogginfoggers elixir on me during these runs, and had great fun -



I was shrunken down and Peanut kept looking at me with love in his eyes.

So what about this blog title then? Glad you asked. A few days later Scott found another Ced's in for 80g. And so:



Complete with Life Stealing - to balance things out, of course.

*Applause*

Gold Spam: Our Continued Efforts

Nice. If you are going to go after one, go for the most annoying. Yay, Blizzard.

egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam

I was reading WoWInsider today and an article popped right out at me. And it made me think (I know! Shocked me too.). Where's all the spam gone?

Can this be true? We will actually be logged in for more than five minutes without being whispered about gold for sale for only $69.99? What ever will we do? How will we go on? I may miss this as much as my add ons!

FYI - we now have most of the addons running. Now, I haven't actually played for longer than 20 minutes, just to check the mail and the add ons, so the true test will come on my day off.

Yay, patch day

Patch day will from now on be henceforth known as "Add ons? What add ons?" day. When we were finally able to log into our server last night (Scott was just a tad irritated with all the rolling restarts that finally stopped about 10:30 pm last night - just in time for me to come home and log in), we went in with the knowledge that our add ons would not work. But we had no idea how much we had come to rely on them. Yes, we got a hint when BC came out, but it was so much fun playing a blood elf that we were able to overlook it until the next fu versions came out.

Do you have any idea how irritating it is to actually have to exit out of auctioneer to check your level of enchanting to figure out if it really is worth 8 gold to to buy the Enchant Bracer: Greater Stamina? And how frustrating it is when you know you have scored a record crit fireball and there is no way to record it? Or even to know at a glance how many of your friends or guildmates are online?

Sigh. So before I do any logging in today I will be perusing the various websites to get all my precious bling back.

Before I go, I thought I would like to Big Red Kitty's take on the patch - quite funny, IMHO.

---xxx---

Edited to add:

I realized it was remiss of me to talk about downloading our add ons but not listing which we use. The various sites we use:

Cosmos - 2.1.0 is up and good to go.
RPG Outfitter - we use Character Profiler and Guild profiler. The 2.1.0 patch is up and running
WowAce.com's Files - (WoW 2.0 only) - this is the One-Stop-Shop location for AL the AddOns, with a very simple interface and a great download speed. And unlike WoWinterface.com & Curse-Gaming.com it is not laggy at all.
WoW Interface Add Ons - this site is extremely busy as of today and having download issues. There isn't a lot available as of yet. This is the site that hosts FuBar, which apparently hasn't been updated yet.
I have found a FuBar 2.1.0 on Curse gaming. This is just Fubar, but the site has the other Fu-additions. Go nuts. I sure am.

Scott's note:
I use files.wowace.com almost exclusively now. WoWinterface.com & Curse-Gaming.com are always so damn laggy. Curse-gaming is so bad that I frequently time-out when waiting for the download dialogue. WowInterface.com does have a large amount of info, and is sometimes worth the wait to get hard to find or rare AddOns, but I use a limited list now, and all I want is to get the latest build for the AddOns I have. Hence, I go to files.wowace.com for that.

Just keep grinding

So Schokti and Vassylleen have seen more play time recently and I have managed to get Schokti to 45 fairly quickly. She is now spending her time in the Hinterlands killing trolls and owl beasts. Woot, good times.

Vassylleen is busy grinding most of the Crossroads quests. Yesterday, thanks to Ravenkiller she got her poisons. Yay! And then, like a total noob (and a sure sign I have been playing Kaewhy far too much), I promptly went and spent two gold on crystal vials when I should have spent 3 silver on empty vials. Some days I am convinced I just bought this account on eBay.

I did manage to find a rare I have never seen. Ravenkiller tells me he is a popular haunt for hunters, and now I know where the blue raptor comes from. And so Takk the Leaper met my blades:



And he dropped something I could actually use. Woot!



And in true form I created a new character yesterday. I know - I just can't stop myself! I will try to resist logging in with her, I really just wanted the name.



My (soon to be) frost mage on Valen. Cuz I want to see what Scott is on about with Himhotepp's "mob control". Plus she just looks cool. But I have to catch Vassylleen up with the rest of the guild first.

Now What?

So we are 70. Woot. Now what? We are casual gamers so we have NO raiding experience - i.e. anything above 5 person groups has never been done by either of us, and if we want any of the tier armor that would be the way to go.

Yes, we can ask to join groups, but we are up front about our experience and raid groups at our level tend to be looking for more experienced players. Sure, we could withold that information, but that just creates bad blood. So now what. Well, we wait until we have more of our guildies up with us, and try and run our alts in more raids to get the experience.

So what alt should come up next? I am thinking Schokti will be the next to ding 60 for me, Velvyt is well on his way there already. I have (thanks to Himhotepp) two pieces of the Magister's regalia for Schokti already and I imagine it won't be difficult to get the remainder. Tier gear for at least one character!!

I will also be playing Vassylleen a bit more. Buttered Monkeys is a guild of casual gamers so we can all learn raiding together. I just need to catch up now. Heh.

The grand ding

Not to be outdone, Kaewhy dinged 70 Saturday night. Unfortunately I didn't get the screen cap or note how long it took me to get there. 30 days seems to be the best guess, though.

Today we ran off to get the flying mount. Voila:



Previous to this we have been running a lot of low level instances for our alts. Shamue now has every single piece of the Scarlett Monastary set. The only thing that would make it more complete would be the sheild from the big protector dude. Don't ask me his name, I don't remember.

We pulled through Justiss through Gnomeregan, not knowing that getting the quest from Orgrimar first will greatly facilitate the run into the instance. Noobs. The instance itself was a cool run, we got some great drops for the pally.

Kaewhy and Velvyt ran through Mauradon and have decided that while the Princess is cute, the instance itself is the most annoying waste of time ever. EVER. There are virtually no trash drops for all the work you do to get through the instance and though it is fun to kill the princess for the extra attack sword quest reward, that is the only reason to run the instance. I will likely never run it again.

All of the instance runs have an ulterior motive - Schokti is now a level 275 enchanter. Which means fiery enchant is mine. Woot!

So now we are waiting on a couple more guildies who are close to dinging the grand 70 and then we start on the outland instances. I am very close to being honoured with the Scryers so goodies are starting to look very, very nice. Especially that Deathmantle Armor. Insert Homer's drool here.

The Final DING!

Well, it took 33 days, 14 hours, 17 minutes, 18 seconds ... but it's official.

Himhotepp is now 70!

And he has a flying mount. Woot!



Now we are grinding to get an Epic Flying Mount... but 5000g??? OUCH!!!
Hopefully, screencaps to follow...

~Cheers, Scott

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