Gnomish Raiding and Other Shit

So I raided yesterday... as in actually raided. I ran Gruul's Lair and Magtheridon's Lair. Was a good time, for the most part. Gruul's went extremely fast seeing as we one-shotted both bosses. With the guilds luck, as usual, both bosses dropped at least 1 Lock token piece. I did not need the shoulders piece, but no one else did either. So the gnome now has T4 legs and shoulders. GG. The pants were a huge upgrade, so I'm happies about that!

Mags was a pos and some people were being stupid. 'Nuff said.

I'm enjoying playing WoW with friends... though I wouldn't say raiding has really gotten any better in the few weeks I spent leveling and not raiding. We'll see how I feel IF I get to do any SSC and beyond soon.

While leveling, I recieved very little help in running lower level shit. Jago has been bugging me to run him through things, but I must say man... I think the only low level shit I had help with was SM. I never ran SFK or just about any other low level place. Just quested my ass off. I think I ran BFD or whatever once... and then BRD and shit. I'll run you through SM asap.. just let me know when you'll have some time so I can work with you on that. I have a few rep things to farm up right now, and I'll be raiding tonight - but I'll have some free time. Sorry I haven't really had that here recently. Just because I hit 70 didn't mean the grind was over >.>

It's been fun running normal mode 5 mans with the guys, I must say. I mean it's been awhile since I've been with people who are intelligent enough to handle all of the retarded shit we do. Pulling two 5 pulls at the same time in SL's... fear bombing into more mobs (oops!), just overall being dumb. I've missed that. I hope those who are running with me here lately are having fun too... =p

Soooo... yeah. Fun times with the gnome. I think more and more she's becoming more appropriate as my alter-ego. I mean I can't stop laughing when I die due to the fact that she squeeks and even hops before falling into her death pose. It's AMAZING. Ooh... and let's not forget getting punted. That is so SWEET. I mean, how many of you actually laugh when you die? Didn't think so.

GNOMES RULE. :D

Level 70

So after 16 days played time, I've finally reached level 70 on the gnome lock. Thankfully! Leveling has been burning me out as of lately.

Much love to those who have helped me out along the way, especially through these last 4 levels. Also, thanks to all of the support from everyone else... without you guys, I'd have just given up awhile ago. :)

The minute she hit 70, I was able to equip 3/3 Frozen Shadoweave, enchanted and gemmed, as well as a few other dungeon items. It was pretty hot. I am still not a fan of the tailoring crafted stuff deep down, but as a reroll it was definitely worth it to go this route. With Jade, though, I didn't want to drop herbalism of enchanting... therefore there was no way I was going tailoring just because of the gear I could farm for and craft. All in all it is still a ton of work to put into the gear just to know it is replaceable. T5 over it, anyday, honestly.

Anyways, the gnome is my second 70, ever... second 60+ ever, as well. Two 70 locks.. wtf is my problem? :)

I'm happy with my choice to reroll. It's been different this time around! Now I get to... rep grind. Yay. >.>

Picture inc soon, I suppose.

Lack of Sleep = Blog Post

So it's 6:42am and I cannot fall asleep. I'm starving for some reason. I attempted to go to bed around 3:30am and failed... so here I sit.

Gnome is 50% through 65 currently. I am pleased with the rate at which I've leveled her but at the same time, I feel I could have done it much quicker. Meh... taking time off to enjoy some RL hasn't been a bad thing.

I think since I've hit 63 I've started to come across a few people alliance side that are just fail at playing the game. This paladin for example, who has been 67 for at least the past 4 days, has shown up right behind me, and dove in to tag quest mobs that I had been clearing to. It's annoying, but funny at the same time. He'll seriously run in and pull 5 mobs with him, spam consecrate, and just heal tank shit. He will watch me clear into a building, then dive ahead to tag the quest mob. I find it fun to place Curse of Recklessness on all of the mobs he pulls because his hp suddenly starts to dive down much faster. Of course he'll bubble and the mobs drop to me, but I'll just have my void out to pick them up... run them back to his consecrate, and he'll proceed to spend 10 minutes killing these mobs. Mind you, I'm doing level 63 quests. I'm not sure why he's just now doing them... at 67, but congratz... you've stolen my mobs at least 4 times in the past 2 days.

To add to that, he was apparently in on an instance run with Blaw's alt one day. So I got to watch the pally in instance action. He was pretty epic... kept letting the tank die (He's holy specced with a mix of prot and who knows what gear, gg armory).

So yeah... it's fun trying to avoid this guy. Not really sure why he keeps appearing where I'm questing but hopefully I just level faster than him and move ahead of what he's capable of doing. He plays all of the damn time... so being stuck at 67 is impressive. He must spend a lot of the time he is online... just standing around waiting for someone to clear his way to some quest mobs. Pewpew.

Good news is... I have nearly all the mats banked for my Shadoweave gear at 70. I did the specialization quest today and made my first two pieces of Shadowcloth. Blaw has been making them on his alt for me for the past couple of weeks... so I have a stockpile of mats and this pleases me lots.

So yeah... good things happening with the rerolled warlock. It's been a trip playing Alliance so far... and I intend to raid some at 70, so we shall see how that goes.

In other WoW news... the ptr is out. I haven't downloaded it yet, but probably will. I'm not entirely sure what all is on there, but there are a lot of tweaks being made to current items... and then obviously some patches and changes. Check it out, I suppose.

I think I'm kind of sleepy now. I may go crash on the couch for a bit. Rawr.

p.s. - Jago... wtf update? Not sure where you're at buddy. Hope all is well.
And... Jezza returns home sometime tomorrow. Woot. I failed at 70 before he got back tho. >.>

Wal-Mart

So there was a spider hanging over some flowers in Wal-mart today... and it was orange. Tiny, but creepy as hell to look at.

I took a stick and slowly started moving towards it. The fucking thing attacked first.

Scared the shit out of me. I seriously screamed right in front of everyone in the store... dropped the stick and all. Yeah... was a good time.

Completely un-WoW related, but I thought you all should hear this. :D

World Boss Fun

So I ran around with 8 level 70's and we took out the World Dragons tonight. I'm level 62 now, so it was a lot of fun. Old content, but hey... it was great gold. :)

Need to hardcore work at leveling tomorrow. I've been slack this past week... it sucks. I'm starting into Terrokar for the second time... it's strange doing everything from the other faction. Hehehe.

Goodnight all.

Jezza...

I'm only 61 atm. *sadface*

Had to spend a couple of days cleaning up some spyware/spam that sadly got onto my PC (I think from Project Playlist). I've also been out during the day a lot this week... so my play time has been cutback lately.

I am still determined to get 70 before you get back from vacation.

Don't worry... I miss you too. *hearts*

Realm Downtime. Noooooes.

So I hit 60 last night. That makes my second level 60 warlock AND second level 60 character, period. I'd forgotten how much of a bitch it was gathering the shit for the warlock epic mount quest. Pewpew.

It's storming here right now. Not a huge storm, but enough to have made the power shutoff earlier. I hate it when the power just shuts off enough to reset everything, and that's it. Why not just fucking go out? Argh.

Lots of my friends are away or have been away this weekend. /cry

According to the patchnotes Incinerates graphics have been improved. I don't think I've used that spell in over a month... for one because the gnome obviously doesn't have it yet and two, because I rarely used it on Jade. The ability to specc into Improved Shadowbolt always made it make more sense to use because it placed a shadow vuln on the mob every time you crit it... and she wasn't a heavy destro lock, so yeah. I wonder if it actually looks better? Also, shadow wands will no longer look like death coil, I guess. Damn.

Also, various UI issues have been fixed/improved. The ability to bind keys by halves on your keyboard is being introduced. I'm unsure of if I'll ever effectivly use this as a warlock but we'll see. I have tons of spells, but I've managed thus far to happily only bind things with the old style bindings. Especially in pvp, I have my doubts that I'll substitute my mouse hand into using my right shift key for bindings, etc. I don't think this is a bad addition to the game, even if I won't be making much use of it.


So, here's to getting my epic warlock mount then promptly buying a chicken, most likely. I hate using mana to mount. It's like 'Oh, I just finished killing 12 mobs chained together, I'm out of mana but I want to get the fuck out of this area... oh wait, I can't mount.' Argh, yeah. Annoying.

I'm bored and hungry. I guess I'm out to go eat and bum around for the next few hours before realms are back up.

Mostly Non-WoW Related Post

I have no idea why but for some reason I was thinking about this video today:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JXmlA3p7EXo

I was actually watching the live broadcast of that thing when that happened. I still laugh whenever I think of it... and I don't really like Kanye West that much, but I can't say he was entirely wrong there.

Poor Mike Myers. :D

On the WoW side of things, I logged onto Jade for awhile to enchant some old friends. While there, I had two different guilds attempt to get me to play Horde again. Lol. It's funny how much the horde has changed in the two weeks I've been absent from it. Sorry guys, but Jade is retired from the raiding scene. There is a chance that I'll do favours for some of my good friends that side in regards to raiding, as Jago knows, but that's about it. I really don't have any interest in Hordeside raiding anymore. Much love to those who still want me around though.

So far, so good.

So in case you didn't already know it, I've been leveling a gnome warlock. . You should all know that she is sexy and I'm loving my decision to go Alliance. I spent countless hours staring at Jade's boney figure and half decayed limbs... and honestly... it's refreshing playing something cute.

I'm a leveling beast if I must say so myself. 9 days played time and she's nearing 55. :D
Could be going faster, I know, but I've been taking the opportunity to spend time doing lots of other bullshit since I don't have a raiding schedule to work into my life currently. I should be 70 before Jezza gets back... at least I'd better be. He's gone for two weeks. *sadface*

But yeah... loving my gnome and not regretting any of the choices I made regarding WoW. Escape Artist is hacks.. though I do miss Will of the Forsaken. GG for being on the fear ward side of the game though. pewpew.

WoW is Like Acting

Even though I'm not on a Role Playing Server, WoW is still a place in which people take on roles that aren't the same as who they are outside of the game. I've played on a RP server before, ages ago, until about level 20. It was rather different from a normal server, at the time. No idea how they are now.

I think it's unique and somewhat weird when people seriously take on their characters role. I mean some people are very much into the game... their name and the life of their character, it's all very detailed and meaningful. Honestly, maybe that's what this game should have been from the start. I know many other RPG's are the same way... and then there's always conventions attached to them in which players and fans dress the part and act like their characters... in real life. It's all different, that's for sure. A lot of the people on normal realms make fun of RP realm players... but realistically, they are more hardcore into the game than most of the people I've come across on my normal realms. You heard me.

Back to my original point, WoW in general is a lot like acting. You're playing a role, though it's very liberal and in your own interpretation of how you think it should be played, it's still a role. It amazes me the sides of themselves people let out in WoW. It's like every asshole thing some people think of doing at work and shit, they bring it home and take it out through their character. It's kind of sad.. and pathetic. But then again, maybe some people are just acting that way? Hmm.

Time.

Jade's Played Time:

Total: 157 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes, 33 seconds.
@ 70: 50 days, 5 hours, 44 minutes, 14 seconds.

What's yours?

(My total is probably more than how long most of you have been playing. haha.)