Not the fastest but still half decent...

Kinzlayer hit 80 tonight and although I wasn't rushing to max level as I did want to in the past, the temptation was there. The crazy thing is the dungeons/raids progression. In BC, you didn't really see the pugging of Kara on Cho'gall till pretty late, Kara was serious business for at least a good 6 or 7 months, if my memories serve me right. And heroics were painful to pug at most but talking to a few friends in high places and watching the Trade channel, pretty much Naxx10 are being pugged successfully as of last Saturday, which just blows my mind.

Kinzlayer has been alive for roughly 130 days and been 80 for 4 hrs already, crazy I know. Looking through my gears I definitely am going to try and see what if there are any huge things to upgrade with and of course go see how crazy heroics are, I still have nightmares of Heroic Shattered Halls when Louis wasn't AoE-tanking with his pally, or that crazy fight in Heroic Alcatraz with Skyriss and his pre-nerfed mind rend. Anyway the leveling game is done and so the mid game here I come, Heroics, rep grind, and if I can get a Naxx in that would be fun to see how far my current gears will stretch.

Haman, Kiserai, and Orgreaznik will have to wait, I might touch Haman next week and see how far I can get on his rest xp before hitting the other two. I figure I can just rotate the 3 alts to 80 with their rest xp while Kinzlayer gears up and wait for the rest of the crew to hit 80.

So far, I'm very impress Blizzard... worth every dime I've put into this game.

my new toy

Flew into St. Louis all ticked off at the BestBuy in San Diego as they basically can't deliver the P-7811FX like they said they were going to, rushed to the hotel to check-in, dropped my crap off at my room, go have dinner with Jenn and Ken then rush over the BestBuy at South County Mall before 9pm. They were suppose to close their gate at 9pm but I don't typically shop at BestBuy right before they close so didn't realize they actually just close their gate and that's really like around 9:30 if their hours are til 9. Anyway, I love it.

I did do the trick that Brent suggested, which is to copy off the WoW folder from my desktop to some DvDs and copy it back onto another computer, you don't have to re-install the damn game. Well for the most part it works except it seems a bit buggy, can't honestly tell if I'm getting disconnected from the server because of the interweb connection sucks at this Towneplace Suite or just that the WoW that I have copied over from my Desktop is just crapping out on Vista but showing it as a server disconnect. Meh, I decided to just download the installer from Blizz and actually do a clean install on this laptop and see if I can stress-test it a bit more to alleviate my fear about getting a bad P-7811FX, like any pre-installed and mass build stuff there are always some crap.

Will be able to tell probably after work tomorrow in the evening. Oh also the High setting in WoW is very nice to look at but it gets really choppy (<30 fps) in major city which is a bad sign that I won't be running that for raids and large BGs, ah well, eye candy while I level to 80 then back to the simple graphics for raiding.

A ding of a sort.

As of this morning, around 3am PST or so, Haman, my fun filled warrior, got his Shattered Sun Pendant of Might, yay for not having to do anymore daily quests on the island, well we should talk about that later but for now it feels good to be done with "having" to do them. Haman also picked up both the Merciless Gladiator's Slicer and the Merciless Gladiator's Quickblade then promptly went to find an Enchanter. The Slicer got Executioner, thank you Kerry for logging on at the right time and the right early morning, hehehe, and the Quickblade received a nice coating of Mongoose. It does feel good to be sporting something different then my two Grunt's Waraxe and of course the Waraxes had only gotten Deathfrost put on them since I really didn't feel like wasting too much mats on what I felt like leveling weapons. Now it's just a matter of doing Arena weekly for pts and wrecking havocs in BGs until Wrath comes out. Along with 14k rep to grind with the Scryers which isn't really that hard with them signets coming from the daily on HFP and 3 feasible 70s to do them. It does feel a bit more "regular" with leveling Haman, as he being the 4th 70 getting to level cap and having none of the rep stuff left for him to use, nothing else it's a very different experience.

Speaking of Arena, I had done some quick calculations the other night and Haman would need a max of 2,125 arena pts since at best he can do is to get the Brutal Gladiator's Plate Gauntlets and the Brutal Gladiator's War Edge then it's a matter of BGing for honor to get at least a few piece of the Battlegear set if not 4 of the Season 2 variant. It should be fun but I'm sure there will days when I'm sick of doing BGs, hahaha, I can still remember doing something similar with Kinzlayer just before the launch of BC, well that is a story for another day.

As for the others, Kinzlayer is enjoying the time off from having to run around and supporting the alts. Orgreaznik is sitting pretty where he is at, maybe if I'm at all motivated this weekend, get one BM run in and should pretty much get Honored with Keeper of Time, which of course means I can reach 375 on my Leatherworking for no other reason then to say that he's at 375 before Wrath comes. As for Kiserai I'm debating whether if I really want to BG more to get some more welfare epics and then whether if it's too late to grind for honor to switch to Ret. Tough to choose right now as Haman is really fun to BG with and he does need around 50k honor if I want all 4 Battlegear S2 pieces.

The list

If pre-Wrath patch is out before 9/12 then these have priority:

Get 70s to PTR if possible.



If pre-Wrath patch does not come out before 9/12 then do these:

Hunter - need at least 1 more run of Old Hillsbrad Foothills, best if we can get Don Carlos quest done as well, should reach Honor with Keeper of Time. BG for honor.

Pally - BG for honor and look into if it's worth it to run more Arena. May not be worth running Arena if it takes too long, at <300 Arena points per week to get any S3 gears.

Warrior - BG for honor, SSO dailys to finish out exalted.

Kinzlayer - farm for Lower City's feathers, look again to see how many is required for the Hunter and Warrior.



Is there really any time left over:

Start the druid and shaman.

Once more for VR

Arrrrrggggg with another week of TK before I can get an attempt at my robe from Vashj, not a great upgrade but getting the T5 shoulders would at least cross that off my list.

- Vestment of the Sea Witch
- T5 Gloves
- T5 Shoulders

Kiserai is sitting at 61 and fully rested; I'm just itching to play her but at the same time I'm afraid that she will outlevel the dungeons??? with Kinzlayer, I didn't even think about doing the 5-mans till he got to lvl 70 but I really want to go through the dungeons with Kiserai, Haman, and Orgreaznik, well at least Kiserai and Haman since I think those two will get more gears from the dungeons then Orgreaznik. Ah, speaking of Orgreaznik, once he is at 58 I'm getting a boar and go Outland... will definitely try to keep both my Humar and the boar the same level. I figure I will need the extra aggro from the boar. Hehehe, of course Haman went into UG and picked up all the quests, as well as the stupid Linkin's quest... got to get through the stupid Timbermaw and then the stupid Winterspring flying back to Feralas and all that stupid flying around... arrrgggggg, but I think that sword from the quest might actually be useful for Haman.

Mercs

SSC happened and Kinzlayer now has his Vashj vial, one half of his Mount Hyjal attunement. I was also hoping to buy the Vestment of the Sea Witch, after I thought about what else Vashj drops, but I just was not lucky enough to see it drop. As well the T5 gloves from Leo didn't drop but I did pick up the quest from Seer Olum and went to talk to Akama but now I need to kill Al'ar which is pretty straight forward however he drops nothing that Kinzlayer would want so it will be interesting to see how I can get Kinzlayer to be apart of that kill. The TK portion of this weekend's run didn't happen so no chance at T5 shoulders from VR nor the vial from Kael but hopefully there will be another run either next week or the week afterward. Now that I'm serious about getting Kinzlayer attuned he will be farming the 10 richest dailys again to build up some goldz... if not for Kiserai, Orgreaznik, and Haman it will be good to have goldz to buy Kinz some nice gearz when the opportunity comes.

Orgreaznik is 9 pts away from 300 on his LW and from making Knothide Leather from all the scraps that Kiserai have been skinning... I was itching to level them but they all had less then 100% rest bonus so they will sit till this coming weekend, especially since this Friday is an off-Friday. Gothicel will see a bit of love tonight or this week if Kinzlayer finish his dailys fast.

Prospects

It looks like I have talked myself into buying the Mount Hyjal attunement run offered by Death Wish for Kinzlayer. My reasoning are two folds, if I ever find a guild on Cho'gall that run raids on PST times then I'm at least ready for MH or if I ever xfer to another server for raiding BT/MH then I'm also ready for MH since finishing the vials quest is the base requirement most BT/MH guilds has atm. Also I figure, once Sunwell Plateau comes out and DW has it on farm like most anything else they pwn, there might be runs of MH offered by DW. Ah, I just realized that I would need to also buy a Leo kill from DW so that I can start on the BT attunement, which I need to read more about (www.worldofraids.com/burning_crusade/attunements/).

I would love to raid again but no guilds on Cho'gall that I know of have a raid start time of 7pm PST or later. On that subject, looking at the list of PST PvP servers and going through a good many of them to find a guild that is in the middle of SSC/TK, need a lock, and start raids around 7pm PST has yielded many BIGFATEGGS!!! I think I have gone through 2/3 of the list and so I hope I find something promising soon or Kinzlayer will never see the inside of BT/MH for himself. HAHAHA, the consolation with the rapid releases of expansions lately in WoW, if Kinzlayer never see the inside of BT/MH... he will have a fresh starts when WoLTK comes out. If I'm still playing WoW when that happens then I will get Kinzlayer to 80 and raid ready faster then I did with the release of BC. I was very disappointed in the collapse of Fatality, so much potential, and as well as the death of Bloodthirst, we might not have been as fast as some of the other guilds during that time but we at least made it into SSC/TK without a free key and well that was the past, I will not live in the past.

Kiserai will be spamming in trade to enchant Battlemaster while she gets her rest exp, hopefully I will get one. I really love how much faster she's leveling with rest exp and the exp from Outland, so much fun.

Haman will be going to Ogrimmar to pick up his Armorsmith specialization and making those leggings to get to skill 270 Blacksmith. I'm still ambivalent on continuing to level Blacksmith with Haman since most comments I have read from Blacksmiths range from "thank god I dropped BS" or "hopefully BS will get a buff with WoLTK" since the consensus agrees that the few things: the sword, axes, maces, or armors, that drew you into being a Blacksmith are very easily attainable with Arena/PvP equivalent gears. Am I doing Blacksmithing in order to make my own stuff or is it to make stuff that I can used with my other toons??? Well Kiserai has always been higher level in both adventuring and profession then Haman so the fat cow hasn't really help her any many places there. Orgreaznik have never really needed much from Haman and I don't know if there are anything he will need from Haman, either as a hunter or a Leatherworker. Hmm, I think the only reason I will keep Haman a Blacksmither is because I'm stubborned and lazy. The only other profession I can see having fun with as Haman would be an Engineer? I have not had much experienced with Engineering even though Orgreaznik had been one before I took the long break from him previously. Still out for debates it looks like.

Orgreaznik is looking pretty, he will just sit there and get his rest exp. I think he's done with Feralas so next up is UG and then to Winterspring then Outland fun.

With all of this waiting for rest exp is starting to get me thinking about leveling the shaman early??? I really do not want to rush Kiserai, Haman, or Orgreaznik so I might have to do something there.