Latest News

Well, the latest news concerns new servers, new guilds and of course new Toons.

To start withm, I should announce that I am intending to move Himhotepp from US-Darkspear server to US-Shu'halo, and PvE server where Durgah (my current Shu'halo main) is placeholding for Himhotepp.

I am really enjoying this server, and the new guild that I have joined there - The New Imperium - of which I am creating a forum (again), which I will link on the bar. It seems to be a guild of people who enjoy the game for what it is - a game. I am hopeful that they will be happy to have me along when they finally make KZ. I really want them to be geared for the new content before it launches.

And Speaking of the new content, that brings us to my third latest news. And this is the big news. Big News.

I have been invited to Beta Test Wrath of the Lich King. Skreee!

LMAO - Schokti is terribly jealous that she hasn't gotten an invite. I tried to empathize, but meh - I got an invite and she didn't so nah-na nah-na boo boo! LMAO

I haven't really had a chance to test it out yet, but it had better be worth it after the 5 hours of downloading that I had to do /grrr

I copied Himhotepp and Justiss to The Northrend server, however I had to rename them both. I can tell you that it did not make me happy to rename Himhotepp...
I have created a Death Knight (of course) and I will keep you posted as I level him.

More to follow
~Cheers, Scott

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

 

 

Guild Wars

Well now, it has been a while, hasn't it? Sorry about that. I guess that happens when one gets sucked in plays too much. Add to that much has been happening.

Where did we last leave our intrepid explorers? Schokti moved on to the guild Hellraisers, and I believe I was around level 62. Hrm. That was a while ago. Schokti has now pretty much become my main. At level 70 she has become fairly nicely outfitted and is Kara keyed. Things did not work out so well with Hellraisers, and while the guild has potential, it was not what, in the end, I was looking for. So Schokti and Himhotepp are members of Death Threat. This guild is very small (16 members, I think) and only a few of us are not keyed. That is only a matter of time, and soon we will be able to do a few Kara runs. I got keyed three days into the guild and we ran our first guild only run into Black Morass. What a rush! I love that instance! Even with two portal stone glitches we rocked the place. I can't wait to see what the heroic version is like.

My recent guild jumping has made me wonder what makes a guild sucessful. In Hellraisers, we managed to get to 130 members - then there was a mass exodus when Kara events did not go as planned. I left when I had finally had enough of trying to get any guild members to help me with my BM key. It is unfortunate, and I truely hope this guild gets back on its feet. If nothing else, there are good people there.

We still have Cursed Earth, which is in limbo. We also only have about 18 members there, mostly in the 16-30 range. I would love to have this as a thriving guild but I really don't want to put the effort into it. I know - reap what you sew. Perhaps one day.

In the mean time, Barbaracue has made it to the outlands, and is now level 61 and rapidly advancing. Kaewhy is now my farmer, grinding primals for various money making things I am doing. I will respec her to combat one of these days, and try and get her PvP geared. One day.

My frustrations with Schokti recently caused me to check out life as a tank. I started a warrior, again, and this time really getting it. Understanding the purpose of a tank and wrapping my head around the concept of threat is helping. He is only level 16, but I plan on levelling him quickly.

In other news, Shamue, at level 42, got deleted. She hasn't been played in over a year. I still had all my talent points from when they gave back all the shaman points three patches (I think) ago. That should be a hint and a half.

That's all the news for now. Perhaps I won't wait 6 months before I post again.

Adulterer!

We have been cheating on the horde. I know - I know. Shake your head in shame. Blame it on altitis.

Say hello to Belgarath and Polgara, two mages on Aggrammar. Included in this lovely family portrait, Hogger. Or what's left of him. Easily handled at level 11.



Don't worry, we will be back. The urge to yell, "For the Horde" is strong within us.

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.

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.

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.

What WoW character am I really....

OK. OK. No one is morwe surprised by this than me...

Well almost no-one. Mwahahaha

Undead Mage Undead are the forsaken: just like you. While it's important that you don't fall apart (physically or mentally), you might find yourself salivating in an unhealthy manner when someone comes selling cookies. Get more sleep. As a mage, you like blowing things up. Your favorite bit of technology is anything that goes, 'boom'. You live for that huge front-end KAPOW - but, after the dust has settled, you'll find yourself searching for something else to explode. Find out your real-life WoW race and class at QuizGalaxy.com

Cheers
~ Scott