Sunday, September 30, 2007

Gnomer

Went on my first Gnomer run today. Had a mage that got pissy because someone made a mistake. Looting was set at "free for all". Rather than ask about it and work through it, he quit and ran. Didn't hurt us as we had a 60 Pally running us through. After he left, I asked about the looting and the party leader (as much a noob as I) didn't know about the settings or party loot etiquette.

I didn't get all my quests done, but that's OK. There are a couple of guys in MOD that are leveling new toons and they want to make the run. It will be interesting to see the difference between a run with a PUG and a guild run.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Cleansing

Today I went through the toons on the various servers on which I play and culled those toons that I just don't "feel".

As I have said, I am a self-proclaimed alt-aholic. That doesn't mean that I fall in love with every toon I have. The upside - I stripped down every toon I deleted before I deleted them, vendored the soulbound and crap stuff and mailed the remaining gold and useful items to the toons I am keeping. I haven't been back on to see how much actually got sent, but I am down to about eight toons or so. I would be down to fewer, but I am unwilling to delete the final toon on a server because I just cant get rid of all their gear and gold - I have to give it to someone. And I seldom know anyone well enough to give them everything I worked for on a server.

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On another note - I finally am using Vent. I can't see how I lived without it.

I also just joined my brother's guild on Llane - MOD. I am excited to be playing more closely with him.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Out of the Stone Age

Flintstones, mEEEt the Flintstones . . . .

I am leaving the stone age today. I finally broke down and bought a headset w/ mic so I can see what this whole Vent thing is about that you kiddies have been going on and on about.

My brother finally talked me into getting the headphones - a mere $20 and I'm good to go. I'll be trying them on for size tonight.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Post-patch Blues

Can I just say that I hate patch day? Especially when there is a major patch. Mostly the pain revolves around add-ons. More so yesterday than usual.

Why, you ask? Because about a month ago I started using the MazzleUI. For alt-aholics like me, this is a great package. It gives me everything I want, for all my different toons. And it is eminently (and easily) configurable. I can even use add ons that I prefer (auctioneer instead of whatever gumpy AH addon Mazz uses)

Patch day is not a happy day, though. Things just don't work right. I imagine it may even be a few days before things are tweaked to work correctly.

What did I do last night? I spent a couple of hours setting up an alternate Interface/Addons folder so that i could function.

I sure hope that Mazz gets his stuff together soon. As I was linking to the site, it says that it isn't available right now. I sure hope that this is a good sign.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Non-focused playing

Last night was an interesting playing session. I looked at the quests Nohuntardi had and thought "I really don't want to do any of those right now." So I logged. I started looking at my alts. Nope - nothing there I wanna do either. Looked around at RL and realized that there wasn't anything I really wanted to do there at the moment.

What to do?

The answer: non-focused playing.

Earlier in the day I was reading one of the many WOW blogs about someone who had gotten into pet milling. (my phrase not theirs) (and I apologize that I can't give credit to the blogger, I just don't remember which blog and I read a CRAPLOAD of blogs yesterday - slow work day)

One of the pets mentioned was to be found by doing the chicken dance in front of chickens in Westfall.

What the heck.

So I re-logged on to Nohuntardi and away we flew.

Can I tell you what kind of idiot I felt like there dancing in front of that chicken as toons ten levels below me ran by - MOCKING ME?

Finally that damn chicken looked at me quizzically. Did I click on it and read the quest? NO - I'd already read the WOWHEAD entry - I knew what I was doing. I had that chicken feed on my actionbar ready to click.

Did you know that you can regain heath from eating chicken feed? Well you can IF YOU NEED ANY HEALTH! Which I didn't.

So, it's back to clucking away. I pull my head out enough to finish the quest, get the egg and now. . . well you have one noble dwarven hunter running around with a killer cat and a . . . chicken.

Did I mention that the only reason I did the quest is because I gathered from the blog I had read earlier that they were in great demand by hordies and that you could sell them at the neutral AH?

Nope. SOULBOUND. I almost cried.

So there I am noble dwarven hunter, killer cat, and their pet chicken.

That's what you get from non-focused play.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Hello World

This is my World of Warcraft blog.

I am one of many who has been inspired to write by the ubiquitous BigRedKitty.

So, why me? What do I bring to the table. I dunno. The one thing I see is that most of the warcraft bloggers have high level toons and have been playing for, oh, I dunno, forever?

I am a n00b (or nub or newb). I have been looking for information on how to play at the level I am playing and to push me to be a better player. BRK has been a great resource for this. The challenge is that most bloggers (naturally) write about what's going on currently in their game play.

While I would rather READ about what people are doing at my level, since I can't find much being written there, I will WRITE about what I am doing at my level.

I hope that someone finds this useful. If nothing else, my mind works better when I am analyzing what I do, so I'm hoping that writing will also improve my game play.

I am also an alt-aholic. I have several toons on several servers. I play them based on:
  • My mood at the time (Hordish vs Goody goody; Hunterish, Shamanish, Druidish, Priestish . . . well, you get the picture)
  • Whether I want to be social or not. My Hunters give me a chance to solo play when I'm wanting some alone time
  • Who is online.

    I am in a couple of good guilds. I was in Alea Iacta Est on Earthen Ring (great guild) until I had to take some time off (that whole work, school, family, life thing) I got /gkicked because I didn't play for a month and a half. A guild's gotta have her standards. I haven't really played the toon that was in the guild since I have started playing again so I haven't even tried to get back in.

    My brother lives in Japan. In game chat is about the only way we stay in touch. He's been playing since launch and so is great on giving tips and such. He is the one that got me to cross the line and start playing (gasp) Alliance.

Anyway. There is probably a lot more to cover and this hasn't been the most coherent of ramblings. I imagine that I'll get better as I write more. That's usually how skills work.