Category: WoW
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You know, the rewards program is tempting me to sign-up for a second account so that I can two-box level my alts atop a glorious zhevra mount. Blacksmithing finally gets some love in the form of Blacksmith exlusive patterns that add a socket to armor pieces. Tailors also get love in the form of Flying Carpets. Why no Blacksmithing toys? Why am I not allowed to craft a flying magic anvil? QQ.
I've made up my mind on mining: I'm not going to drop it. Last night I skilled from 115 to 190; I'll finish off mithril this week (a skill fo 245 is needed to poke at the small thorium veins), and hopefully be mining in the Outlands next week and onwards. Skilling mining is so damn painful because I've done it on my paladin. The same mining circuits over and over....The new areas should be mildly more interesting.
I would like to have 5k gold by the time the expansion rolls around. My original goal was 10k, but fat chance I'm going to get that unless a couple more Sunmotes roll my way. Oh by the way: Players can now be reported for both raid ID theft and guild bank theft according to Belfaire, a blue poster.
"People whose raid IDs have been "stolen" are encouraged to contact the Game Master department with an in-game ticket explaining the situation. We'll examine the case and see what we can do.
Preemptively: Yes, regulars, this is a new policy."
Another blue post in the same thread:
"Sure. We're also asking any victims of mass guild bank theft, regardless of permissions the person may have had, to report it to our Game Masters for review.
We won't be able to help all victims, but there should be an increasing number of actions against those who abuse their withdrawal privileges to hinder guild progress."
Awesome, it's nice seeing Blizzard taking action against asses who intentionally try to steal another guild's progressed instance. I've had the misfortune of dealing with both issues in the past. To be fair though, the theft occurred way way long ago when "guild banks" were pretty much level 1 officer alts.
That was actually the incident that lead to Guild Master being passed down to me. I should post about my guild history one day. I think I did that already, but nuked the post when I dumped my old database.
Oh by the way: lol, comic of the day.
I was browsing through old screenshots the other day and added a few to the Keiya Gallery. I've always liked taking screenshots of my characters whenever a major aesthetic gear change occurs. It's fun collecting and looking at them; Kind of like aWoW photo album.
I have a few Burning Crusade leveling screenshots that I need to rummage around for and add to the gallery. Unfortunately, I didn't take a whole lot of them because my gear and overall appearance didn't drastically change often if at all. I was reluctant to break the 5-piece Judgement set bonus. Consequently, I wore that goddamn skirt through the late 60's. Well, that and most everything that I wanted from the instance never dropped....
I think I will try to remember to take more screenshots in WotLK for the sake of doing a photoblog thing. At least one clear one every interesting gear change and every ding.
Back to WoW blogging! The trickle of Wrath of the Lich King news is exciting. Besides, game wise, there really isn't a whole lot else worth playing or writing about until some of the AAA titles come out in Fall. I think I'll hang onto some of my legacy gear a bit longer. It looks like, according to an interview with Jeff Kaplan, some of the achievements are going to retroactively activate through related quests that have been completed (ie Onyxia's Head) and boss drops in your inventory/bank.
My paladin is an armorsmith and enchanter, that's not going to change anytime soon if ever (I'm the guild armorsmith and one of the main enchanters). I have a large stash of enchanting materials stock up but, if I recall correctly, the low level Brning Crusade enchants starting using the new materials early on. The thought of having to level blacksmithing makes me retch a bit; that was so expensive...
My hunter is an alchemist and minter. His alchemy is stuck at 300 and his mining is below 100. I, as mentioned previously, will most likely drop mining to pick up inscribing. I'm tempted though, to level mining and drop alchemy for the sake of feeding Keiya ore. Mining was a pain in the ass to level though, I don't imagine myself doing it again.
Apparently the new tradeskill uses raw materials extracted from herbs via milling. Milling is to inscribing as prospecting is to jewelcutting. My lowbie mage is an herbalist and a tailor. Since they upped the old world experience gain x number of months ago, and since as of the last patch she has her mount, I've had interest in leveling her once again. She also has an Staff of Jordan chanted with +40 spell power waiting for her (I was going to do Soulfrost, but that was way too expensive. Even for a twink lol).
I wonder if they will roll out the new talent trees and UI/mechanics changes before the expansion pack is released. I would love to start recollecting non-combat pets without negatively impacting my bag space.
I'm hearing about raid attrition hitting a lot of guilds on my server. I wonder if it is a local issue or if it pre-expansion anxiety. One of the problems with my server is that when drama happens, instead of merging or joining into a pre-existing guild, the general thought is to branch off into a start-up raiding guild. So consequently, there are probably 50 guilds all at the same tier of progression and all fishing from the same pool of recruits.
So the expansion pack! Word on the street is that it is going to be released sometime late Q4 of this year. I wouldn't hold my breath on that, my personal bet is on it being delayed to early Q1 of 2009. I'm actually hoping that they delay it so that I can squeeze a few more titles into my fall game budget *Fallout3Rockband2etc*. Blizzard works on Blizzard time lol!
Keiya will of course, will remain a protection specced tank upon hitting the serious level 80 content. Until then, I haven't decided what I want to level as. You know, I haven't leveled as a prot spec before; I specced protection a month or two after hitting level 70 out of guild need (and never looked back since!). Retribution is actually a pretty fun leveling spec. I might end up going lolret for the sake of pure novelty (I have a reasonable crit set in the bank, we shit spare plate DPS gear).
My hunter, well, he needs to get off of his ass and finish off his last one and a half levels. I'll replace his mining profession with inscribing. Keiya will remain blacksmithing and enchanting, I've soaked way too much gold and time to ever change my professions (in addition to being the official guild armorsmither and one of the official guild raid enchanters). One of these days I'll have to take a look at the WotLK profession materials so that I can get a better idea regarding what I need to start stocking. That's what we all did pre-BC and it worked out well.
I might give Heroic Magister's Terrace trinket/pet farming another go this week since I'm that "busy" during the weeknights. I need to replenish by badge stash anyways, I used a lot of it on my gem spree this weekend, to swap out some of my crap blue gems.
Happy umm June! I had five or so half-completed entries milling on Google Docs for two months. By the time I got around to editing and reviewing them, all were out of date/irrelevant; Meh. Gaming stuff:
- I updated the guild site/forums. Note to self: Update the homepage recruitment, kills, etc.
- Bought a Playstation 3, GTA IV, and HDMI/DVI adapter the other week and have spent every free moment fawning over it.
- Speaking of PS3 games, Metal Gear Solid 4 comes out soon. I should really wait until I beat GTA IV before buying it, but we'll see how temptation goes. My gaming life follows this pattern: Buy a game, half-complete it, buy another game, ignore game one. Consequently, I have a stack of unfinished games. Though, most of them are left unfinished because they sucked or were a giant waste of time (*cough FFXII*).
Workspace obsession
My living space is becoming a dump. I'm on a small quest again to organize it but I cannot find office furniture that fits my exact needs dimension wise. Everything is either too wide, too tall, or does not match. I want a relatively narrow drawer/filing unit. No wider than 12" & no taller than 27".
This one from the wonderful world of Ikea might work. I very badly need more storage space to organize guitar cables, charging cables, USB cables...Everything at the moment is on the floor.
Other things/WoW
- I am bent on learning how to play every single tune from Mega Man II on the guitar. I tabbed around half of the Wily Castle theme, but got lazy and just googled the rest.
- A guild member pointed out this site. Handy quick gear check/reference /App vetting tool.
- I have a growing stack of badges and nothing to buy for my tanking set. I should just blow them all on Emp Saph's and epic gem out the rest of my slots. There's not a whole lot of gear that I'm going to be upgrading any time soon (until Hyjal).
It's been a good month for guild progression. After kind of a lull in 25-man progression, we are coming into our stride and downing bosses at a good place. Having a fairly consistent team of raiders helps immensely. I spent a fortune chanting and gemming my new tanking gear and my healing set. I replaced half of it within the past month or so but never bothered gemming or chanting it properly.
Oh, Zul'Aman is finally on clear; we blasted through the entire instance last Wednesday and got our first full clear. Zul'jin died on the 3rd try (2% on the first attempt lol). In the middle of phase 3 we collectively realized that no one knew what the hell to do for phases 4 and 5. So there we were mid-fight, fast as hell googling strats and reading off of WoWWiki on vent, LOL.
I got the Battleworn Tuskguard off of Malacrass to replace my Tier-4 helm and another 2-hander toy off of ZJ to play with/dump in the bank. We were a couple minutes off from making the 3rd chest, close!
The HMgT tanking trinket apparently only drops when I am not in the run /boo.
