Vassylleen update

Today I dinged 25 with Vassylleen, finishing quests for Gann and getting a totally useless ring. But I got plenty of junkboxes to lock pick so its all good. This completes my barrens quests (yay!) and I have moved on to Ashenvale.

In my travels I have found another rare, Thunderstomp:



And voila, his drop:



To 26!

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!

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.

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?

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.

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!

Ding, ding

So I spent some time with Kaewhy yesterday and brought her up to 64. I now only have the dungeon & group quests remaining in Zangramarsh and three group quests in HP and I am off to Terrorkar forest. About bloody time. I think I am spending less time with her since it takes so freaking long to level. I did a round of 8 quests yesterday in one loop and I went up two bars. TWO bars. That includes the kills. Sigh.

I did get a cool new ability though. I can now slow down my opponent to 50% speed, and the same ability increases damage from missile weapons. Perfect for those beasts who run away at around 25% life.

Later in the evening Scott and I brought on Vassylleen and Hephaestius. We each got to 21 (I think Scott is a few bars from 22) and finished our Ghostlands quests. I have a purdy new dagger and our exalted status got us each a groovy new cape. Of course between this glowing new red dagger, my red cape and a pair of pants that are bright red and orange, they quite clash with my blue shirt. So I have ordered a red one. Apparently elves like red.

Ding

Sigh

He won.

Sigh.

58!

Scott and I are now neck in neck. What grand fun! I am spending my time in Easter Plaguelands and grinding scourge stones and all the that other fun stuff one can collect there for the Argent Dawn. My goal? The pretty knife the quartermaster carries! Drool! Of course, I may just save it all up for the epics.

As a celebration of levelling, I spent some gold in the AH and bought the Assasination Blade.

So wandering around in EPL Scott and I decided to go grind together. We didn't get far. We were attacked by a 60 rogue & warrior. They left, we rezed and vented on a 60 mage who was sitting having a drink. My first 60 kill! Of course, we paid for it dearly since it turns out he was partied with the rogue and warrior. Go figure. We left to the other side of the map to grind.

Onward to 59!

Ding. Ding. Ding.

Is that a bell? No, that is Kaewhy at 57. It is unbelievable how quickly this is going. And I am only 5 bars from 58. There are a couple of factors that are pushing me up this quickly:

- a three month hiatus resulted in almost 6 full levels of restedness. It happens quickly when each kill is 700 xp.
- killing all those darn furlbogs! I had picked up two totems from them in Winterspring and Felwood, and they both were quest items, which I could not cash in until I was at least neutral with the Timbermaws. That is 6000 rep points. Each kill 5 points. Each stack of feathers or beads is another 150. That was a lot of killing.

These last few days of gaming has really driven in that I do not have a grip on effective PVP. I got my behind handed to me in Winterspring from a 53 druid. Those damn heals! And faerie fire - aaaaaaarrrrggg! If I can't stealth, I am toast!

Ah, well, that is something I can focus on at 60. Once I have beaten Scott to the end. And I am only 8 bars behind Himhotepp.

I won't even start today about the latest patch and what it has done to all our add-ons. Purists of the game would be pleased. I am not.

Ding... again

54! Seems to be going a tad quicker now. Now that I know where I need to grind to level, etc. I spent some time yesterday clearing off some maps and doing some quick easy quests in Felwood and wandered into Winterspring.

In Winterspring I was welcomed with a wave from a warlock, whose wave was actually a dot on me then he proceeded to fear me and laugh at me since I was mounted and could neither dismount nor Will of Forsaken to stop it. I am sure I provided hours of chuckling afterwards. Very nice and quite ingenious. Kudos to you, unknown ganker.

Ding

Kaewhy made it to 53 last night. Finally. Let me tell you - Un'Goro is by far the hardest place to get anything done for all the allies roaming around the place. Let's just say I added up to a few HKs for a few characters. Including one kill that took place while I was AFK. I suppose I should know better than to walk away while not in the city. It took me far too long to kill pteradactyls, apes, and far too long to collect spores! Then in triumph I left and was looking over my quest list and discovered I had missed two quests. Arg!

In my frustration I vented on a NE rogue hanging out in Ratchet. It was fun. A lvl 16 Troll something or other whispered to me asking me what level this ?? rogue was. Instant stealth mode and I go look - 40. The troll had the presence of mind to say "farewell" just before he hit the dirt. Beauty! Pay it forward, I say.

Ch-ch-changes

So I have been pushing Kaewhy hard and hit 51. And I am totally and completely bored playing her right now. It is all the same stuff - I need to run instances to get the quests done and we always sit on our hineys and wait for a priest to join the group. Then by the time we get one to join, someone needs to go - because the three hour slot they had set aside to play was taken up by 2.5 hours of waiting.

So I created a new character on a totally new server, a dwarf priest. Heh. She should level no problem.

Scott is planning to create a horde on the same server - it is a PVP server, so that should be interesting.

So for all my whining...

... two days ago, I dedicated Saturday to levelling Kaewhy. And I have. Some of our guildies are reaching similar levels and we ran RFD and while I didn't get fantastic xp from it, being too high, it did help to level the guildies. We did discover, too late, that a 47 and 37 rogue backed up with a 42 priest is not enough to kill Amnennar. Go figure. We almost did it, though. Next time.

So I have been running around, getting ganked, trying to finish quests. I have managed to do so, out of shear persistance. Of course, any Allies I can take on the way meet their end. But then it runs both ways. Most memorable was I was stealthing through the badlands (mostly because I don't feel like encountering any creatures. I realize a higher level Allie can see me, but if they are higher level I am most often dead anyway - except for those warlocks. heh.), and a ?? hunter rode by me. He stopped, backed up, waved, dismounted, and proceeded with the ganking. I had enough time to lol. What the hell else am I going to do?

Anyways... I am now 6 bars (rested) to 48 and actually bullying my way through this. Perhaps that was all that was needed in the first place.

My Little Pony

I shall call her "Rainbow Star" and I have a glitter comb for her mane and I will braid her hair with pretty ribbons and she shall be my squishy.



So I now have a horse. I finally dinged 40 last night and now I can play with the big kids. Woot.

Quick update

Last night I dinged 26. Woot! Now I have all the cool little rogue tricks I got used to with Vebjorg. So, I will be re-outfitting Kaewhy with Vebjorg's stash and deleting the character.

I am at the point with most of my quests that I am not tough enough to go at it alone. That in between stage where one more level and I can handle it, but just not right now. So, I have been doing a lot of killing slightly tougher creatures (which of course means I spend some time in Tarren Mill getting ganked by some ?? NE Druid).

One thing I have not been doing with this character and have shot myself in the foot with - I haven't been keeping my lockpicking up to date. I went into Durnholde Keep and couldn't pick the locks of the guys chained there (which I could with Vebjorg), so, *gasp*, I actually had to kill the jailer. And got ganked by a ?? NE Druid immediately following. But - I got the key, managed to lift enough practice boxes to boost my lockpicking and managed to open every lockbox in the place. My lockpicking is much better now. Hee.

Which brings me to a question - why on earth can we not stay in stealth when picking locks? Picking locks is a basic Rogue thing, along with stealth. One would suspect that if you knew how to do either of these, we could do them at the same time. We can apply poisons in stealth, why not pick locks? Perhaps this is something we learn at higher levels? I doubt it but I hope so. Maybe on a future release of the game....

Gotta see a man about a horse

Just popping in for a Woot! for Himhotepp who dinged to 40 the other night and who has now achieved the title of "Mounted Guide of all Instances for Which I Am Not Yet Capable of Entering Myself."

Woot, indeed.