7 weeks and what to do?

It is 7 weeks till WotlK (and where the f*ck stays that patch?)! I think they will bring in the patch rather late, because it will fuck up the balance so much that they can not let that last for 7 more weeks. On the other hand they should keep people interested enough for them not to move to warhammer where 7 weeks is still enough time to go from let’s-Try-this-game-till-WotLK-hits-the-stores to zomg-i-already-closed-my-account-cause-i-am-addicted-to-Warhammer. Must be nasty to make such decisions. Personally I would throw in the patch in 2-3 weeks and announce it now. 3-5 weeks of total imbalance is still doable i guess.

What am I doing in the meantime? Basicly I am not doing any arena or battlegrounding (I have 14k honor, I wonder if grinding an extra 13 is still worth it and buy the boomkinstaff or I just buy some boomkinbracers and leave it at that), but spend my time doing things which still are usefull in 7 weeks.

Repgrinding
It’s not my factionsheet here, but I am busy grinding rep when I am online and this picture is a motivator. Since knowing about achievements (and my possible addiction to them) I was thinking if I could do things so that my time is not thrown away. Reputation it is. I am not exalted with Orgrimmar, Trolls, Thunder Bluff or Undercity, so I am working on that. Since my IQ sometimes drops 100 points and it can take 30 minutes for it to come back, I was grinding runecloth in Tyr’s Hand (of all places) to deliver for 75 reputation per stack. After 30 mins (and 100 cloth) I alt-tabbed and realized that the reputation you get from lowby quests is very high. I ported, took the road through Razor Hill all the way to ‘The Den” aka starting area for Trolls and Orcs. I killed 10 mottled boars -à 350 rep, I collected 10 apples -à 500 rep. I think you got it now? This is absolutely insane and works wonders. I got like 9k Orgrimmar + Darkspear Trolls reputation from doing the quests in Razor Hill, The Den and Crossroads. Not to mention the hidden reputation you gain for the other Horde factions.

In the mean time, I am working in Skettis to gain Shatari Skyguard reputation (almost revered now) and me and Nimp are working on the Onyxia questline (the good old days). We did LBRS in 20 minutes with all bosses down and a fully gemmed key for UBRS. Amazing how fast you can go when you stealth through everything and just kill the boss.

I remember a 7 hour visit to LBRS back in the days when the documents randomly spawned at a boss and only 1 could loot it. Then you had to go back to another boss (respawns all over) to see if it was there and so on untill all in the group had it. And this was before any nerfs, so loads of mobs, very hard pulls and wipes only to discover that, at 03:30 on a weekday, 1 member of the group still needed the documents….

So still enough to do and if you are interested in fulfilling the 3000 quest done achievement don’t forget to do one of the coolest questlines in the game: The questline (23 quests) of the Fallen Hero of the Horde. It all starts with this quest: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=2784
I did it on my warlock at 60 and while the first quests are pretty easy, the end was pretty hard (because we did it with 2 people including fighting the demon at the end). The quest now suggests 2 people but that is at lvl 70 :D

-- Zhero (never bored, never out of stuff to do)

Reset is coming

Contrary to what i thought (and read), it seems honor WILL be reset. Deadpool sent me the news just a few seconds ago.

"As many of you know we will be featuring a new Battleground, a dedicated world PvP zone and all new PvP items in Wrath of the Lich King. In order to make the transition from The Burning Crusade to Wrath of the Lich King flow as smoothly as possible, all accrued honor points will be reset at the launch of the expansion. We do this to ensure select players do not have an unfair advantage at level 80 from stockpiling honor to instantly purchase the newest Wrath of the Lich King PvP rewards. For those with unspent honor points prior to the release of the expansion, we will be offering a few upgrades and special rewards in next content patch solely for purchase via the honor system.

All Honor Tokens will be wiped as well. This reset should happen right before the launch of Wrath of the Lich King."

It seems we need to stockpile honor till the patch and then spend it! I wonder which overpowered goodies are coming...

-- Zhero (I just spend 40k on my trinket goddamnit!)

edit: these seem to be the items to buy:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?items&filter=maxrl=70;cr=131:93;crs=1:1;crv=0:0
trinkets are 35k and 40 av
cloaks are 20k and 20 ab

Boomkinning

After spending 40k on the epic version of Medaillon of the Horde i was done with my feral set. Not done in a way that I did not like it anymore, but done in the sense that I had no idea how to optimize it more. The only way would be arena, but since I am not playing arena that much anymore atm, i decided not to try and push it.

Instead I went for a new challenge (gotta keep ourself challenged one way or the other) and specced full moonkin (not restokin). No other gear than my healing gear, but after doing a few BG’s I get the idea that crit is what makes the boomkin dangerous. Ofcourse there is no crit on the healparts, so I am slowly changing my gear and it already feels very good.

Boomkins can hurt you. Like any caster that you leave alone, he/she is dangerous. In BG’s it is about positioning now (went 22-1, 20-2 and 9-0 (5-0 game) in a row yesterday with most damage done in all games). I can’t do damage if they hit me, so choose your position and nuke. Lovely! I still need a lot of practise in 1v1 i noticed, but that will be something to work on.

I bought wyrmhide gloves yesterday and regemmed all my healing gear. It only adds up to a lousy 18% crit (when you are used to almost 50% crit in feral that feels kinda low), but I am not sure how high you can get it. I’ll keep you posted :D (arenapoints will be lost, so better spend them, honor will stay, but since we don’t know what marks we need etc. I would not aim at 4x100 marks and 75k honor too hard).

It sure feels good to starfire for 4200k and do 2 wraths for 2300 and a 1200 moonfire ender in a few seconds. (lucky streak on a mage yesterday)!

Brewfest
As with most people I hardly win anything special in these events (like a mount), but now the first time there the kodo dropped and I won. Lovely!

I have no screenshot with me but here is a link to the kodo ingame. Looks really awesome.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37828#screenshots:id=97763

I picked up all the trinkets as well (feral/heal/moonkin) as well as the roleplay 45 stamina thing where you have to wave to the female brewmaster. Nice stuff those free epix.

Since I will continue with this druid, I will level the cooking. I noticed I did not even train it. Levelling professions is more difficult from 200-300 than from 300-375 (and that will probably be the case as well when we go to 80). To make it a bit easier it is a nice target to set for the 8 weeks we will still have to wait for WotLK to get that to 375. After all who knows what WotLK will bring in terms of food that enhances abilities. Better to be max level then.

Grinded some in Skettis as well. I can summon Terokk 3 times now. Nimp and I thought it would be fun to kite him to Shattrah. We did not try it yet, but i’ll be sure to fraps it might we do it.

Stay tuned.

Not happy with your char? Try a different spec. This shaman did.


-- Zhero (thinks they should make a female version of the moonkin)

Island Fun

Maix is fully epic gemmed now (the feral set that is). I made the last gem this morning after buying all the recepies of the vendor. (wtf 50g each, that was a lot of gold. 1500 or so?). I collect gold by doing the Island-dailies. If you do them all, it is easily 200g, greenies, lots of cloth and sometimes a badge plus 4k rep. I am exalted for some time now, but the gold is still good and nothing farms as quick as a feral druid thanks to improved Leader of the Pack.

I did all Netherstorm quests as well for gold (lots of gold if you put some time in it. Rep is the extra bonus) and I was doing Skettis as well. Nice quest where you get to be a birdy! That would make a nice new druid form.



But I am doing dailies with Nimp when this appears



Now I am not really interested in sucking someone’s cock, but this ofcourse has some backgroundstory to it though it might have been a genuine gesture as well if it is an honor to suck this guy’s cock. Too bad I never heard of the guy nor seen his cock sucked by other people. I might have missed it since I am not always “in the scene” and maybe have to read in the comments that I missed an opportunity here.

Since above is unlikely, let me give you the events that lead to this.

The quest to get the 3 ore is an annoying one. Droprate (sometimes) sucks, lots of people farming them and by the time you have 3 keys, you have bombed over 200 Greengrill Slaves out of pure boredom. Nimra and myself were teaming up for the dailies and arrived at this point. Lots of people there, no male naga’s to be seen so we move to the very end of the beach in the hope we will find some. We did and I run towards him as I see this shadowpriest running as well. Tagging war it seems and instead of using shadowword death, he dots them up and I mangle for the first damage. I continue further to gather 2 more male naga’s while nimp kills them behind me leaving no naga’s for the shadowpriest.

Speed is important in farming.

It did not take long for the whisper to come in. I expected this as the average WOW-community is not hard to read. This guy reacts accordingly. I love it when I am right.

The following discussion follows and it feels like beating a puppy. Being put on ignore is like playing an online 1v1 and the other one pulls the plug, cause he knows he is beaten, but just does not want to admit it. All fine by me, the taste of victory is still sweet. Though I know it is not fun when mobs are being tagged in front of you while you wanted to tag them, it is absolutely not ok to go out like that in my opinion.



His attempt at owning me with "Jorge and last night" goes lost cause i type in between. The "12-year old" is a typical last attempt at saving face. I read one argument and that was swept away swiftly.

Putting someone on ignore is a sign of weakness.

My ignorelist is still empty…

-- Zhero (afraid of achievements and my possible addiction to them)

My Kitten Hurts

Yes, I am still here. Yes, I still play WoW and yes I did not write for a long time. Reason unknown or as it pops in my head “I could not be bothered”. Hell, I might have even forgotten about this blog if it wasn’t for “Hos” a warlock on my server that asked me when I would start writing again. That actually made me feel good.

Friday afternoon at the office seems like an appropriate time to start writing again.

Quick char/gear update to cover 3 months of inactivity.

Lock Zhero:
Full s3/s4 (without shoulders and weapon cause I am a noob). 540 resilience! Lol.
I’ve had numerous discussions about this, but chance-to-be-crit still goes down, dot-damage still goes down, just the reduction from critdamage stays at –25%. Since I am the primary target in every arenamatch, it seemed like a good idea. Never bothered with the lock after I used my 75k honor and 5k arenapoints at the start of the season. He sees play a bit lately and I started regemming/respeccing him to what top-locks have (hell, i was thought years ago that it is better to ‘copy’ a good idea than to franticly trying to make it work yourself)

Druid Maix
My precioussssssss. I love this female cow and never had any regrets dumping my lvl 62 MALE (arghhh) cow druid and relevelling a female cow druid. I had s3 healing gear (without blablabla cause i suck blablabla. Old news) and decided to go feral for S4. Not only did I go feral, but decided to really max her out as much as I could. So epic gems all over the place. Still got some S2 parts, but i got points and honor, just no rating. BUT SHE IS AMAZINGLY MUCH FUN TO PLAY. Why bother with other classes if you have a char which can change into something else for 50g? I respecced her healing now to get 1600/1650/1700 with my Lockfriend Nimra to be able to buy the gear. We did not manage any yet, but that will come. YES: CYCLONE IS THAT HARD!

I grinded 5k in 3 days for my epic flightform. Sometimes I think I was a goldfarmer before i reincarnated in a not so succesful arenaplayer. Epic flightform is awesome. I bought 3 epic flying mounts before, but this gave a lot of satisfaction. Even the quests for it are fun to do.

Levelled enchanting to 375 and jewelcrafting to 375 (do you guys have any idea how expensive it is to level from 200 to 300. I think I spend 2k gold on that. No joke L )

My preciousssssssssssss. She will be the first to 80 as it stands now. (and maybe the only one? o_O?!!)

Hunter Jasmina
Made her 70, grinded some honorstuff, levelled a stupid scorpion to best friend (how stupidly long does that take btw) and put her back on hold.

Rogue Kirosta
Full S3 without blablabla. You know. Doing nothing with him besides filling up teams for 10 games and grinding primal airs.

Paladin Soni
Auctionwhore and transmutebot. Good part about having her 70 is that i get a discount cause i am revered with Orgrimmar while depositing unsellable stuff in the auction house.

Mage Sonia
Levelled her to 68,5 for reasons unknown. She will get 70 somewhere before WotlK.

Let’s leave it at this and talk more about my hurting kitty next time. I’ll leave you with some random stuff

- feral druids are hard in arena, cause we can not cause a healing debuff (our damage is fine there)
- when i played with nimkin with my rogue 2v2. (Nimkin as in Nimkin of the Bandit) we went down very low and walked into full s3 war/pala at 1400 rating (THANK YOU CYCLONE, CAN I HAVE SOME MORE?)
- I ravaged a mage for 4290 in BG’s.
- I messed up a 37 minute druid/hunter vs. druid/lock (us) fight by letting our pet die 5 times. I am still rusty at healing (read: I suck, but this explanation is plausible).
- I am still in Ravens but not PvE-ing at all (though I need 150 badges for the staff. I had 90 and then spend 60 on the cloak. I am like a woman with money in her pocket. It won’t be there when the shops close)
- I bought a PS3 and busy with hard on Guitar Hero III in between.

-- Zhero