We're Baaaaaaaack!!

And we have Epic Flyers! I can be seen zooming around on my Epic Purple Flyer, and Schokti can be seen on her Red Epic Flyer.

We are now active members in a new guild - Death Threat - and are moving toward Zul'Aman with eager anticipation. This is a great guild, with great people. And with our help, it will become even greater! Muha!

I am certain that Schokti will want to post pics of her new precious mount, and give all an update, so I will leave that to her, for now.

~Cheers, Scott

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

 

 

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.

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.

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.

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!