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Keeping your feet on tha grround

This blog is dumb

May-28-2008

I’m trying to figure out how to make this thing better.  There is about 2405 blogs that are hunter/priest focused so I’m going to spin this different….or try.

Here are some blog direction ideas.  Plz comment on them.
-Guild managment/happenings
-daily/weekly WTF (something that happens that makes you say - WTF?)
-Professions
-How to find the center of gravity of a rocket.

kkthxbai

 

oh yeah, I made a druid.  Her name is foshizzil.

Beaming at your keyboard.

May-15-2008

Ever been there?  Proud of your little corner of the digital divide?  Just purely happy for your team, your guild - for their success?  Man, last night was that night for me.  Bobo’s House of Gank voted on what to do on Wednesday and people decided they wanted to go to SSC and kill trash for recipes, and random epics.  I got on late and was invited into the group.

We had 22 people in the raid, and killed the trash around Lady Vashj, Tidewalker, and Lurker.  The DPS was eye-opening.  I think we could actually raid SCC if you look at the dps alone.  The overall raid healing and fight mechanics are where we lacked, but it was a ton of fun.  We got a few drops - and I won a roll for the leatherworking pattern - Boots of Utter darkness, which is kinda a rogue item.  I like the hit and crit on them, and I think I’ll use them.

We tried Lurker, with about 2-3 of the 22 having ever seen him.  Strategy was laid out, deep breaths were taken.  I think something was off with my Deadly boss mods.  Or maybe I’m a n00b.  Both?  The spewing thing seemed like it wasn’t really when the timer said it was.  Then I was WTFpwned by it.  It lasted about 30 seconds total but with 22 people all but 2-3 inside SSC for the first time, some of them still in greens (including me) we got him to 91%.  Pretty cool if you ask me.  Then the raid ended and we all went our separate ways.  It was fun, laid back, and new.  It was Bobo’s.

Frighteningly close.

May-14-2008

BRK’s Top Ten Things a Level 69.999 Hunter Should Know About Level 70

10. Hitting 70 means getting a flying mount.  Check
9. Start an arena team and get your Vengeful Gladiator’s Waraxe.  Check
8.
When you start doing heroics, consider respecing to get at least 17 points in the Survivalist Tree.   *
7. Get two pieces of the Beast Lord set, don’t settle for the Desolation gear.  WANT
6. Leatherworking rocks for hunters.  Check (225…grrr)
5. Get a cat/ravager/raptor pet for DPSCheck
4. Cooking is the single most important and profitable generic-profession for hunters.  Check 375
3. Your ranged weapon is your life. If you’ve got less fire-power than a Valanos’ Longbow, get to the Auction House and buy one immediately.  Check (see armory)
2. You cannot put off learning the Jump Shot any longer. Check - got that one in the bag
1. Once you hit 70, the time has come for you to teach someone. Kinda done…**

* I don’t know how I feel about this.  So far my trapping in heroics (last night in Shattered Halls heroics) has been pretty successful.
** I helped a co-worker understand how to play a hunter and make some money…does that count?

I would love the Beastmaster helm and shoulders, I’m still rocking greens.  Other than that I’ve got a pretty good start.  Yesterday I got my axe and slapped a +35agi on it.  I’m sitting on 1400 unbuffed AP with about 5 greens still.  Progress has been made.

20 gold plz

May-7-2008

It has come to my attention that people like to have lists for their characters.  Lists of “things to do”.  Perhaps you could benefit from a list such as mine.  I will divulge my mysterious methods of loot/reputation/instance information collection for you to peruse at will.

First of all, the best site to find anything WoW (items, quests, etc.) is WoWhead.  WoWhead generates the cool tooltip things on my blog. 

Second of all, the best place to find class specific gear is wow-loot.com.  They have it nailed for the toon that just hit 70 and needs to gear up.

Thirdly you need to check the worldofwarcraft.com PvP section.  If you discount PvP to get some decent gear right now, you are being stupid.  You can loose 10 arena games per week and get around 200 points per week.  Some arena items are 1000 arena points and are very VERY good.  Arena rewards are a good place to start - but don’t forget the regular PvP rewards as well.

Third.5 is the amazing post from The WoW Inn that directs you to the pvp gear you can pick up at honored rep.

Fourthly is of course, the armory.  Find someone in your guild that is geared up the way you want, and check them out.  See how they gem things up, see how they enchant their items, etc.  Go to your own profile and click on the upgrade button tooltip when you mouse over your gear.  It’s a great resource that is sometimes overlooked.

5th is WoWiki.  This is a wonderful site on which instances drop which loot, and extensive reputation guides.

6thly, find a blog.  Find a blog that is written by someone in your class who knows what they are talking about.  Email them questions, comment on the posts, etc.  The most widely known blogger is BigRedKitty - and he has links to blogs written by nearly every class.

Mash all that up and you have a pimp list.  Enjoy.

NEED.

May-7-2008

It’s just easy for me to plan my hunters next steps here. Watch or ignore. idc.

Reputations:
-Get honored with Sha’tar for Shoulders
Terrokar quests, basilisk eyes, venom sacs, marks, fel arms, etc.
-Get honored with Lower cities for head
Auchindoun instances, arrakoa feathers
-Revered with Aldor for ring
marks, fel arms
-Revered with CE for head enchant
underbog steamvaults, coilfang armaments

Quests:
Do Zorus the Vindicator quest line for blue helm (4 quests)- just need to kill the dragon in netherwing ledge (3-4 players needed)

Instances:
Mechanar - beast lord helm
Steamvaults - beast lord leggings, mantle
Shattered halls - beast lord (hands)
BM - desolation helm
Seth halls - ring

Enchants:
Leg- Clefthide armor
boots- agility
back- agility
weapon - agility
chest - resilience

PVP arena:
Shoulders - 1500 arena points

1 more week

May-6-2008

Well, we went 3-7 this week. My warlock buddy left me for someone else. I appreciated his help, but wish we could have done some more matches. I think I will have around 920 points after today, so I will need 1 more week of arena for mah epics.

My prot paladin buddy tried healing a bit with mixed results. He doesnt have any (ANY) healing gear, so healing is a bit of a struggle. He was being stunned and shield bashed? taking away his healing spells for around 5 seconds, in which people would finish me off. I die really quickly, if I’m focus fired, I get about 4-8 seconds before I die. I don’t know if it’s really just horrible gear, or superior opponents. Probably both. Arg.

Anyway - almost there, once I have the axe, I’ll probably stop playing 2s. It will be nice to be completely done getting gear for my ranged weapon and my melee weapon. I don’t think there are many better than the Sunfury bow and the Arena Axe.

Curator in 2 minutes 31 seconds

May-5-2008

Yeah, it was one of those nights…

It was the night you dream of.  My guilds’ A-team lets me tag along to Kara with my alt.  4 hours and 30 minutes later every single boss, and optional boss is down.  22 badges, from 0-2500 friendly with violet eye.

Here is the hilarious amount of loot I got:
Edgewalker Longboots
Chestguard of the Conniver
Girdle of the Prowler
Fiend Slayer Boots
Sunfury Bow of the Phoenix - WOOHO!

and I got another pair of boots but I can’t remember what they were. I felt like prince (the songwriter, not the guy in Kara) with all the purple raining down on me. I guess I did ok, I mean I still have 2 green items on right now, but I haven’t seen the WWS reports yet. I never pulled aggro, my tanks had misdirects when they needed it. I provided some crowd control (didn’t need it much at all) and did my best version of Massive Quantities of Sustained, Ranged DPS.

It was funny because at the end, when we were taking screenshots of the group with all our orphans out (you couldn’t join the raid if you didn’t have an orphan) - everyone was kinda thinking - “Man, if we did that, we should be able to hit the ZA timed events…”

Hopefully they will invite me on another run. :)

If I have a super night tonight in arena- I may get - Vengeful Galdiators Waraxe!!! Only 300 more arena points to go!

Calling the WoW Blogosphere!!!

May-2-2008

I need your helps.  I have 2 horde characters (Ichorgoo - fire mage, Wogger- 53 Rogue)who are on a miserable server - Firetree.  I would love to transfer to another server to join a guild that is:

Somewhat mature
Active
Casual
Fun
Reigns purple down on their members every day*

*not necessarily a deal breaker

OK.  Now, if you are horde, have a good guild, and need a Mage or Rogue- please comment, email, whatever.  I love the horde, but I’m not CONNECTED to any guild or even the server.  I feel like a stranger there. 

Thanks for your help!

Dinoraurs are 1337

Apr-29-2008

It’s official, my 2v2 rating is now 1337. I pleaded with the general public loitering in Nagrand to join me for 10 2v2 arena matches. My pally buddy was not on. He did not answer his cell phone.

A guy - dotdottab, told me his resilience wasn’t really that great but he would join up if I wanted. I sent him an invite. We joined up and started in without many expectations. Game 1 - we win. Huh, pretty cool. Game 2 - two rogues, loss. Game 3 win. Game 4 win. Game 5 win.

Woah. This is officially fun.

Game 6 - Hunter/healer? - loss. We tried killing the healer first, and it didn’t work very well. I got killed pretty quick and that was pretty much it. The next game - we had the same team, killed the hunter - controlled the healer, we win.

Game 7 - Warrior/shaman - loss. Tried killing the warrior, never saw the healer. Warrior killed my lock. Game 8 - same team. We found, killed the healer - controlled the warrior. The warrior killed my lock again, but I was still alive and had trap cooldowns up and kept him at distance, killing him to win.

We ended up 7-3, giving me my leet rating. That was VERY fun.

Arena Week 2 - improvements

Apr-22-2008

WE WON 2 MATCHES!!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!

Ahem…sry about that.  Yes, we did win 2 of our 10 matches.  Yes, they were against real live people.  We beat 2 warlocks (lol?) in the Ruins, then beat a priest/warrior combo in the Circle of Blood.  The warlocks went down smooth, kind of like A & W creme soda.  I think I heard Lexy purring after the match.  Our first ever legit Arena win! 

Then we came up against some rogue teams which we definitely seem to have a problem with.  I think everyone kinda has problems with Rogue teams though, so I don’t feel to horrible about that. 

Our second win was decided about 20 seconds into the match.  We saw a priest and took off right after him.  Bestial Wrath, Intimidation and some crazy shield stunning thing and the poor priest never had a chance.  We had him down in like 15-20 seconds, took a breath and started after the warrior.  This is about where the video started - I’m retarded and didn’t catch the whole thing. 

Anyway we had a blast and went 2-8. We ran up against the same Priest/Hunter team 2-3 times and couldn’t really deal with them that great.  Dark just needs better gear, respec to Ret, and to do more dps.  We could get the priest down, but by then the hunter would have me almost dead.  The priest would die, and get one last greater heal in and the hunter would kill me, then prance around the arena kiting poor Dark everywhere while King Bangladash was taking bite sized chunks out of my wee little dwarven pally.  lolz.  At least we had a good time, eh?