Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Zhero & Maix

Maix
Maix is lvl 69,93. Yes, so accurate is it! Why not 70? Don’t worry, by the time you read this, she will be, but this is the (small story). Mondaynight = pokernight at a friends house, so normally i do not play on mondays. I was home rather early (23:00), but had to get up at 06:45 (and this is nightmare for me) so did not want to play too long. I had 7 bubbles to go till 70 and was questing in Netherstorm. That really is the area where experience is top notch. I did some quests from 23:00 on, but then my arena partners were on as well. An heroic instance was cancelled and Krexxor (shaman), Zekro/Acacia/Daymare (rogue) and myself (lock) were ready to do 10 games. We went 6-5 in the end losing 3 in a row to the same warrior/paladin/shaman, losing 1 to a discing Zekro and 1 to Abdi and Lovedeath (they simply outplayed us). I have to add I really like playing with those 2 and we are closing in on 1800 so the points are not that bad either.
After this session, i continued grinding quests and Sad helped me out with some groupquests. It was 02:20 when i noticed i had a little more than 1 bar to go, but it really was too late. I regretted it bigtime this morning. Tonight Maix will ding 70 and then another question arises.

What to do?

I had planned to go full pvp with Zhero and Maix (Zhero still being my main, but besides arena nothing to gain for him), but wonder if I should not PvE some with Maix. Can this be combined? I would love to have a pvp-spec which still is good enough to heal with. Zhero does ‘ok’ damage in PvE, but far from optimal with 8 resilience/12 stamina gems all over the place and a full PvP spec. I wonder if not the same will happen with Maix, who will be an average healer in PvE with all the PvP-goodies.
I still plan on pvp-ing with her, but i’ll mix it up with instancing (if possible). For now she is in questgear, so whatever upgrades is welcome, whether it be PvE or PvP. It will take time anyway, so i just postphone this problem.

Zhero
Szwok told me yesterday that I should not count on him coming back. That means my lock is 2v2 teamless, which is no big thing cause we have a 3v3 running, but i like the 2v2 a lot (except for the long waitingtimes). Hopefully Krexxor wants to team up and else I think i go look for a healingdruid or maybe a shadowpriest.

2.3 patch
Everyone seems to be waiting for 2.3. They said the new arenaseason will start when 2.3 goes live (or close to that date) and we will get 2 weeks prior notice. With only a few weeks to go for 2.3 as it looks now, I will go grind some BG’s and just save the points. Now I have 2 chars, so I can switch whenever I feel like it. Ofcourse I still have a 70 paladin (transmutebot) and a 70 rogue (AH-whore), but those are just fillers in my charscreen atm. With all classes, except warlocks, receiving buffs, I might as well level another char to 70. I still have a mage and a hunter on 60+ (and another druid, but he is male so that is a no go). To complete my idiotic actions, I created a warrior (female orc), a shaman (female tauren) and a priest (female troll) as these are the only classes that i do not have atm. It is said experience for questing after level 20 is increased and the experience needed to gain a level decreased by 25%. Adding those 2, I come to the conclusion that levelling might go close to twice as fast with the 2.3 patch. I plan on rested-playing them once in a while and see if i can get them a little higher. Though it is low on my prioritylist, i will get them close to 20 in the coming weeks to find out if 2.3 makes it indeed so much easier.

In the end the advantage of having 9 lvl 70 chars is, that it is easy to choose from whenever you want to switch mains :D

RL
I am moving to my own house (again :D) in 2 days. No internet for the coming weekend it seems, they come mondaymorning and the next week I have the week off to fix administration-stuff and buying all kinds of things i need for in my new house (like a plasma-tv, nintendo wii, senseo coffeemachine etc.: the primairy things you need in life), but don’t have already as well as game a lot. Looking forward to it A LOT (understatement) as I need a break from the job as well. It bores me too much atm.

Ravens
Still fun, still a lot of erectiontalk, still problems with raiding, still cosy, still awesome, still Eleutherios talking silly stuff, still Lima fucking with little boy’s minds, still Hood being Hood, still Artanias being a good target for telling ‘frostmages are lollancers’ and getting him upset, still Jonez being awesome with his hunter, still Daymare being up there or down there, still Muda for president, still Aloran on his shammy (awesome you hang in there), still Kipucka changing specs every week. Well, I think you see where I am heading.

Ravens are awesome.

-- Zhero (nothing to add this time)

PS: I talked to Nimra. He said he would be back with 2.3. Ofcourse you never know with this dude, but let’s see if I can get him crazy enough to go 2v2 with my druid then.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Hallow's End and Ravens Raiding

Maix
It's Hallow's End in Azeroth which means we can have fun again with masks. I am not much of a roleplayer, but when I saw my female cow like this, i had to smile anyway.
Maix is 64 atm. Yesterdayevening we were doing Karazhan and I saw Muda in his PvPhealing-gear. Drool... My .... female .... cow ..... needs ..... that ..... badly!! And I probably look better in it than him as well (ok, a bit of a roleplayer then).

More merciless
For my lock I got the merciless gladiator offhand, which puts my resilience close to 400 with 1000 damage and 11.7k HP unbuffed. I still wear Oblivion Hood and netherwing wand as the only blues. But I might save the points as well for S3. We'll just see how hard it is not to spend them when I have enough for an item.

Friends quitting
The people I used to play with the most seem to have quit the game. Nimp disappeared as only he can. No sign of life to be seen. Szwok only logs on for arena. Sorcia went back to DAOC. That leaves me without my standard pattern. But as I tend to look on the bright side of situations, it gives me more time to raid a little and my lock will be IN YOUR FACE with daymare/zekro/acacia and his RL friend. A new 3v3 team we are planning and which I am looking forward to. I only briefly talked it over with daymare, so let's not hope i talk too much here.

Ravens raiding
Raiding with Ravens is tough. It takes dedication and total selfcontrol to survive our raiding. Not all people are suited for that. Our requirements are pretty stiff actually. Failing them results in serious action from officers. Veritha/Eleutherios explains a disciplinary action to the other guildies:

-- Zhero (2 weeks till movingday!)

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Maix is 60 & "TASTE THE PAIN"

Small update, because yesterday I finally hit 60. Ofcourse the last 2 levels go quick in Outlands, but it is always a good feeling. I walked to Shattrah, portalled to Thunder Bluff, bought my spells and an epic Kodo.

One thing I wonder though. I think I did it very quick (mucho kudos to Szwok who did a lot of powerlevelling. Tnx dude, I bet SM and BRD are 2 instances which are not going to see you in a while). But here is the strange thing. I dinged 60 and took the screenshot a few seconds after. It still claims I've been on this level for 6 minutes and 12 seconds. Anyone got an explanation for this?

I am still feral, picked up some pieces in Ramparts and plan on doing a lot of quests to get exp.

Hood was online yesterday, so dirty talk all over when I said female cows are the new thing.

Ofcourse he went even further, give him a finger, he'll take your hand and goes beyond.
but what got me all laughing behind my pc was Eleutherios/Veritha. He came online at 23:30 after being in a nightmare for 4 hours.

-- Zhero (still laughing about Veritha)

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Random shizzleshuzzle

Random info:
- Maix = 59,4
- Palinda left the guild in search of a better raiding guild.
- Sorcia stopped playing wow and now plays DAOC again
- Nimra is nowhere to be seen. It is rumored he quit as well.

Now for something more funny: I found these guildnames in the BG's:




Ravens guild chat. It is (why am i repeating myself?) about penises and boobs.

Here is Artanias, telling us he knows nothing about boobs. o_O.


Hood being smart


Being honest is what it is in Ravens:

and here Milker being honest again on his alt


Daymare/Zekro telling us how swedish girls are


And quote of the week from Senbonzakura


PvP is not for weak people.
This is what i got when we lost in arena.
Makes you wonder what a 'fudkin noob' is. I can only imagine it is something real, real bad. A quick Google gave me a man who's last name was Fadkin and who did a backgroundcheck on his name. He believed Fudkin was also changed to Fadkin over a couple of centuries. This Fadkin guy is probably a very very noob WoW-player and therefor being called a fudkin noob is a reference to you being as bad as this Fadkin guy. So ofcourse I armoried (not as well knows as googled, but i think you know what i mean) fudkin and fadkin. Fadkin does not exist, but fudkin gives me 3 players, lvl 31, 31 and 41 AND ALL GNOME. So what I really believe is that he told me that I am a low-level-gnome noob, which makes sense in the end.

But this was the hardest of all: My daughter's name is Serra. It's an uncommon name in Holland. But Blizzard made me kill my own flesh and blood 'For The Horde'. I should get extra points for being dedicated.


-- Zhero (is looking at boobs more since he is in Ravens)

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Maix Reaches Outlands

I hit lvl 58 yesterday-evening (4days, 22 hours) and although I wanted to update with pix (put them on my mp3-player and forgot to take it with me today), I still wanted to let you know. I had 0,75 level to go and was doing quests in Winterspring and Western/Eastern Plaguelands to finish the last 3/4 of a bar. I came home after a pokernight and logged in only to be sorry this morning when I had to get up, because levelling till 02:30 is not good when you have to go to work the next morning. But never mind that. I can enter outlands, so I'll respec healing and will ramparts/furnace myself to the next levels!

I checked the first instances and the questrewards. It seems it's feral-gear all over and while I probably will be feral for questing and levelling later on, the plan still stands to be healing at 70.

So if you happen to run into Maix, be sure to roleplay some treehugging!

-- Zhero (has the feeling to take the day off for gaming. I bet you think the same)

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Ho, ho, ho. Marry Christmas!

It really felt like a presence yesterday when my final points were added to my arenatotal. Happy lock here!



So, next is the offhand, which should take me 2 weeks as I had not much points left.

By the way:
- I heard Vinnie (our altwhore GM) is rerolling to paladin (unconfirmed)
- I heard my druid is lvl 54,5 now (fact)
- I heard patch 2.3 seems to rock hard! (fact)
- I heard doing an instance with Eleutherios is better than sex (confirmed by some)

-- Zhero (happily levelling his druid, while randomly playing his lock)