It's not over yet!

Good morning one and all,

Please make your way to your allocated seating as the presentation will be commencing shortly. Please note the exit signs to your left and right at the rear of the room.

Ok enough of that. I haven't failed yet! Let me elaborate on this statement; I was passing through Stormwind on the weekend, throwing up some auctions and such (I was in the area, otherwise they would just be mailed to my auction-toon) when I thought I would go to the Champion's Hall (or whatever it's called) and see what new PvP weapons would be available to me now that the Season 1 gear was being phased out.

Lo and Behold, the Gladiator's Left/Right Rippers. Still sitting there, taunting me, saying "You shouldn't have stopped PvPing! You could own us by now!". 'Holy smokes, Batman!' I said to myself. What am I to do? Well, ultimately, I did nothing. I finished off my 10 daily quests (would be more if I could get a group to do the Ogri'la pre-daily quests!) and logged onto my Pally for some low-level Horde fun. Why you ask? Because I was bored after an hour of questing, couldn't find an Arcatraz group (for my final kara key frag) or get into a premade.

So after a few days of the same (daily questing, no groups, I'll play my Pally) I think 'what am I doing wrong?'. Is it because I am a Rogue? I don't know. But I will make an effort to do at least 1 AV/AB prior to logging off and playing the Tankadin from now on. I have 7908 honour and more than enough Marks of Honour for the weapons I want. I could save up another 1098 more and get the off-hand, or I could save up 5098 and get he main hand, or save up 13098 more and get both. Geez I hope my math is right haha.

I would prefer the main hand Ripper first. Just having a much higher DPS on my off-hand seems... odd for some reason. Yeah, I'll do that.

In other news, I got to Honoured with Sha'tar so my leatherworking is up to 370/375. Just need to do maybe 1 or 2 Durnholde/Black Morass runs to get the last 5 points. I'm sitting at about 3/4 of the way through Friendly with Shattered Sun Offensive, which is nice. I haven't worked on my Consortium rep for a while, but that should be up on my list, because I want those leggings, dangit!

Umm, not much else to share. I've saved up around 450g since 2.4 came out, and that is ONLY from doing daily quests. Not a bad effort I thought. I'll have to get a blacksmith to make me some of those uBer throwing weapon things.

Well, that's about all for my rambling on this morning. Looking forward to hearing from YOU!

Fury of the Sunwell

Patch 2.4 is finally out! You know what that means? I've failed my quest to get the S1 Fist Weapons! Nooooo! Why did my computer crash, why did it take so many days to get it up and running again? Why did I say I was 'bored with my Rogue' and rolled a BElf Paladin? /cry

Anyway, enough of that! There is nothing like a new patch/new content to make you get back into an existing toon. As soon as I was able, I leaped onto Raitin, picked up a few quests in Shatt, ported to Ironforge and flew off to my destiny.

When I arrived we were on 44% complete of Stage 1. Not to bad. I did all the daily quests in the area (only 4 for now, including the 2 at the Throne) and checked out the new area. Man was it crowded! I'm glad Dath'Remar is a PvE server, let me tell you! I was almost d/c'ing as it was!

After looking around for a bit, I logged. Last night I logged back in, did a new daily, one I had done yesterday involving getting Blood Elf Plans in Netherstorm. Someone told me it's 5 minutes of work and easy gold. It took me about 38 kills for the plans to drop. A friend of mine said it took him 3 kills. Where is the justice?! I'm not sure if I'll do that daily again, but I think I should.

Anyway, when I got back to the isle I did the 2 daily quests there again. When I picked them up I saw something good. We were at 99%. "Cool" I thought. Not so cool. I actually did disconnect last night. More than once. But that's fine. We dinged 100% of stage 1 shortly after and there was much rejoicing. A new area with 2 new daily quests to do. I managed to complete one of them (no, not the bombing run) before we had a rolling restart. I decided to call it a night after that.

So first impressions? I like the new area. A lot. I'm looking forward to the new content becoming a novelty for people so it won't be as crowded and I can do more quests there easily. I'm liking that they are making it easy to duel-rep-grind (by quest rewards giving you Aldor/Scryer tags). Hopefully this is the start of a beautiful friendship with the Shattered Sun Offensive.

Ok, I promise I won't be so lazy and wait another 10 days for an update. My many and devoted fans (at present count I have 1, thanks Crimson!) are demanding I post more often! And so I shall! Hopefully over the next week I'll actually put some effort in and spruce up the site a bit too, make it all shining and nice.

"Be excellent to each other"

All Systems Go!

Hey everyone,

As you can see, it's been a little while since my last post. The reason being that I went to a LAN with some mates about a week ago. During that LAN and it's many downloads and transfers, I picked up a Trojan. It made using my computer very difficult or impossible.

The 'official fix' didn't work. The latest and most upgraded Norton didn't work. I was very sad. So I backed up some important files and did what I thought best. I reformatted.

I finally got my PC up and running, but my 'poota refused to recognise my wireless adapter, so I had to buy a new one. I also have lost my sound card drivers, so I'm using the motherboard sound at the moment. But eventually, I got WoW reinstalled and patched, and there was much rejoicing.

So I haven't had a chance to play again yet, but I will make the effort soon, which I will report in full the following day.

Thanks for your patience and I'll see you again soon.

Going Places

Howdy all, and welcome to another brief update in the life of me and my Rogue.

First of all, I joined my first premade the other day. It was awesome. We bounced to perfection and won every match we entered. Sweet how the Badges and Honor flowed from the heavens. I didn't stay for long, maybe 30 minutes or so, but I'd clocked up around 1k honor after calculations. It was great.

I haven't gotten into another premade since then, and my PvP luck has gone from good to bad. I've saved up around 7k honor all up, so I still need another 16k to get what I want. Almost a 3rd of the way there, but no end to the Horde premades in sight.

So I took another night off after /afk-ing out of a particularly bad EotS. I managed to get a SLabs run for the Kara Key Frag. After wiping time and time again on Blackheart the Inciter, our mage dropped. We picked up a Shadow Priest for extra healing support (We had a Holy Pally as well) and on the 2nd attempt we dropped him. Next boss dropped on the 2nd attempt also, so we got our Kara Key Frag! Yay! We did 1 attempt at Murmur before we decided to call it, he is too hard with 3 melee DPS classes.

This also got me to Honored with Lower City, which earned me the Heroic Key, which will make getting my Consortium Rep much easier let me tell you! I also did a brief run of Arcatraz BEFORE running SLabs, but we stopped just as we got to the Botanist (2nd boss). I am around 400 rep away from being Honored with Sha'tar and getting my leatherworking up to 370. I have all the mats I need ready in my bags for when this happens.

So what's next? Firstly, I'm always going to try get into a premade for honor farming. If I can't get into one, I will work on my Kara Key Chain, which also gets me both the reps I desperately want. Everything seems to be panning out nicely for me at the moment, I always seem to be just 1 small step behind where I want to be, but it is definitely within my grasp. There is still a lot to do, and I'll always add more to that list, but I'm pretty happy with my toon at the moment.

On a side note, I miss raiding. A lot. I used to raid with my Druid quite a bit, but in this new Guild, they start raiding at 6:30 server time. I am lucky if I am getting home by this time, let alone logging into WoW. It usually takes me an hour or so to get my chores done and log in. But I do not worry, some of the people in my Guild have been VERY supportive and are always more than willing to quest and instance with me when needed. You all know who you are, so thank you very much. Major props goes out to Dhurg and Glollex. You two are my heroes.

Well, it's a public holiday in Melbourne today, but I am stuck at work (as we do nationwide sales) and it is DEAD. It was supposed to be really busy today, but I guess I'm lucky. It's also a lovely 35 degrees outside, bright sunshine and all. And I'm stuck inside. With no Air Con. Oh well, such is life.

Stay tuned for more updates as they come folks! Thanks again for reading.

A Night Off

Last night I logged into WoW and jumped into the first AB that became available. It seemed a bit strange that I was the only person there. I checked the numbers. 1 Alliance / 14 Horde. Very odd I thought, maybe tonight is not the night for it. I /afk'd out of there.

So while the Deserter Debuff is counting down, I figure I might as well work on my Scryers Rep, which in turn will work on my Sha'tar Rep. Cool. I was 4995/6000 Friendly, so I needed 41 Firewing Signets to get to Honoured. Sounds Easy.

Well, it was haha. After about 30-45 minutes, I had all the Signets I needed, plus had made about 30g, so I was happy. I went and turned them all in, purchased the two leatherworking recipes that Honoured status afforded me and that was it.

I checked my honour again, 'Yesterday' I earned ~637 honour. So much for the 250 bonus honour a match, but still good for 30 minutes of work or so.

I didn't stay logged in much after that. I spammed this blog link in Guild Chat and went on my merry way. I logged out of the game standing next to the AB Battlemaster, hoping tonight might give me better luck.

Tonight I will run AB once, see how it is going. If we are winning quickly, I'll continue. If it is taking 20+ minutes to finish a match, then I think I'll take another night off, head on over to Netherstorm and grind out some Sunfury Signets to further my Scryers Rep.

Sorry for the (comparatively) short update, but I'm mighty tired today and don't really have much to update on! So until next time "be excellent to each other".

My Disappointment with Honour Calculations

Two updates in as many days! I must be going BLOG CRAZY! Well, no, but I do have 30 minutes before I start work every morning that I can use to update, so I will do so, when I have something to update about.

Today, I complain about Blizz's honour calculations. In my last post I was all excited that I had made almost 2000 honour in one sitting. When I logged in last night, I checked my updated honour screen to see what my total was. It wasn't high. In the 'Yesterday' field, it showed "493" or there abouts. 493. Not almost 2000. I am officially NEVER going back to Eye of the Storm unless I absolutely HAVE TO.

But, I was not dismayed by this. I knew EotS was not for farming honour. AV (and AB I found out) was where it was at. I decided to go with AB, as they generally run quicker than AV and my realm seemed to favour AB. I only did 3 BGs that night, all AB, all took about 10-20 minutes each. Alliance won each time (Woot!). Some got close, but we always won. There was good honour to be had killed Horde, and I got 250 Bonus Honour each game because we had won.

After only those 3 ABs, my Honour Screen looked a lot better "~1183" or there abouts. 'Cool', I thought, this is easy! But then my heart sank, what if it's the same as yesterday and I only get a quater of that? Then I steeled myself. Not to worry! The game itself showed that I got 250 Bonus Honour each AB, surely they wouldn't dock me of that! So if my hopes are true, then when I log in tonight for some more PVP action, it should show in the Yesterday Field at LEAST 750 Honour. Not bad for up to 30 minutes of work.

If I am at all deluded by my ambitions into PVP and need to be set straight, please let me know!

P.S. Still no comments! Come on people! I spammed this link onto the Guild Forum, so no excuses!

P.P.S. I know the rest of the site is still bland. My internet access is very limited at work, so I will update it when I can.

Ticking off 'The Checklist'

Good morning all, just another brief update as to what has been happening over the last few days, or a week, however long it's been. I told you I would update sporadically!

Right-o, so I got all the Thick Clefthoof Leather I needed to get my leatherworking up to 365, with some to spare (turns out I was on 361, not 360 like I thought). Now of course I'm broke, I think I might AH the left over Primals and Leather, just to make me feel like I have some money again.

I also have the 40 EotS badges I need to get my S1 Fist Weapons. Whoopiee! I got the last 9 yesterday, some wins, some losses, but all fun. I didn't really try capturing any points or flag-tag; I just went where the fighting was thickest. Almost got 2000 honour in the 2 hours I played, not a bad effort I thought. I can't wait until I start doing AV's (tonight I hope) to start really cranking up those honour points. I only need about 19,000 more points, so if I go by last night's efforts, it will only take me about 10 nights of playing to get that, or less. Let's just hope that Patch 2.4 doesn't come out in the meantime!

Ok, back onto leatherworking. All I need now is to run TK instances to get my Sha'tar rep up. Before I do this though, I want to do a complete run of SLabs so I can knock out 2 birds with 1 stone (Kara Key Chain). Then I will run TK about 3-5 more times to get honoured, then move onto Steam Vaults for the last fragment of the key, and my Helm of the Claw. Best non-raid Rogue helm you can get, or so I hear. Then it's off to the Dark Portal, again, both to finish my Kara Key Chain and get Keepers of Time rep. Once that is honoured, then it's onto grinding the mats I need for the last 10 points in leatherworking. Booyah!

Hopefully by the time I complete this, Patch 2.4 will be out. Then I will frantically be working on my Scryers and Shattered Sun Offensive reps. There are some really nice leatherworking recipes that drop in the new 25-man instance. Some of them are just godly. I'm hoping for Exalted with SSO before the expansion, and also with Scryers, because the Epic Trinket from SSO procs a nice 200 crit rating if you are exalted with Scryers (again, if you believe the news).

Well, that's about it. Primarily I'm working on my honour points, which is the one thing I really want done before 2.4 goes live. Then I have my updated 'Checklist' above. Hopefully this casual gamer will be able to do all this!

P.S. I took out a few Epic'd Warriors in EotS by myself last night. Never thought it would be possible, but there you have it. Fun times. Please comment! I'm lonely!