Hmm, it's been a while.

So. Yeah. How 'bout that?

We have been busy. So sue me. Heh.

A couple of good friends of ours are back online and we have taken to running with them the last little while. Both Kaewhy and Himhotepp has seen quite a few hours of play, most notibly in the Outland instances. We have never run them, so we thought with our two level 68 (now 69, 40% until 70) priest friends, we could start from the bottom and fight up.

And so we started with Ramparts, then Blood Furnace. Seeing as these are both early 60 level instances, we managed them quite nicely. Running Blood Furnace was much like RFC for the Outlands - Sap one, sheep one, kill. Sap one, sheep one, kill. Oops, there is four in this mob. Mind control one, sap one, sheep one, kill. Hey, one resisted! Kill faster.

We also ran the Slave Pens, which gave us a little more trouble (specifically that boss with the totems. Dude is tough!). But we managed it and we plan to run Underbog this weekend.

Of course, being the levels we are the drops were good for disenchanting fodder. Which is good, since Schokti just finished a two week grind with the Timbermaw Furlbogs to get the +15 agility enchant for one handed weapons (side note - did anyone notice that in this latest patch they upped the rep rates for Cenarion Hold, Argent Dawn and the Timbermaw? Nice. The day after I got the reward for grinding. Very nice timing, Blizz.), and the cost for this enchant is EXPENSIVE!!!

I am all for expensive enchants, but I have a line up of 6 daggers to enchant for the top rogues in the guild. That is 36 large brilliant shards, 36 greater eternal essences, 24 arcane dusts and 12 essence of air. That is a hefty price tag. But its a +15 ag! How sweet is that!

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 Tao of "DING!"

So I am on the verge of dinging 65 with Himhotepp, and it has been quite a trip so far. I am liking the Outlands, more so since I have Christine to adventure with, but I have done most of the stuff out there alone. This has led me to a revelation which I'd like to share with you.

I have realized that Himhotepp has "decided" to adventure alone. That is, I would rather go alone than with a group of people I do not know. (There are many reasons which I have used to justify this decision, however, they are merely obscuring the truth - it was my decision.)

I am going to adjust this decision process with my other alts, namely Hëphæstius on Darkspear, my new Undead Mage, and Justiss, my Blood Elf Paladin. I am using Hëphæstius to correct the mistakes I made with Himhotepp (and my goal is to eventually replace Himhotepp with Hëphæstius). Justiss, is my adventure as a Holy Warrior. LOL

I have been invited to more groups in the Outlands in 4 (almost 5) levels than I was invited to in the 60 levels before I came here. Is this a reflection of the new mindset that accompanies the BC Expansion? Definitely. Have I accepted these invitations? Some, yes. Is this a reflection of my mindest? Definitely.

I am trying to MAKE myself accept the invites to group activities. I will never get the Frostfire Armor Set otherwise!


Cheers,
~ Scott