Tuesday (2 Mar) - Slogging Through Dragonblight

Tuesday (2 Mar) - Slogging Through Dragonblight

There was no Icecrown Citadel for Wild on Tuesday night. Wild was in game, on time, and at the Citadel, signed up and ready to go, but Wild was posted as a Standby and, counting noses, they already had the six healers they planned to invite. The horde held Wintergrasp, so there was a small chance that there might be an opening just for VoA, but that was not to be, either.

So the evening belonged to Philly. After getting all of her dailies done - the Isle, the JC daily, the fishing daily, the cooking daily - and getting her daily crafting done, AND getting in another Wintergrasp pvp battle with Sis (we lost), Philly was 80% of the way to level 76.

With Sis in game as well, she and Philly chatted while we quested. Sis is now level 78 and Philly probably isn't going to catch her before she makes level 80, but at least Philly hoped to close the gap. Philly began at Moa'ki Harbor in Dragonblight, starting a string of quests that would take her all over the zone, collecting flight paths as she travelled. From Moa'ki Harbor, she travelled to Agmar's Hammer, picking up a couple of quests there that led her to the Tauren's Icemist Village. There, she helped refugees being attacked by the bugs of Azjol Nerub. The poison and contamination there got her a ticket to Venomspite for cures, by way of Wyrmrest Temple, where she got to meet some dragons.

When the evening ended, Philly had acquired all of the flight paths in Dragonblight without the benefit of a flying mount - and she DINGED! to level 76.

Now the real grind starts. Getting from 76 to 79 seems to be the hardest period of levelling. These levels have the most xp to gain, and there is an anxiousness about the fact that level 80 is so close, but still so far away. Philly will have to dial it back for a couple of days, though. Wild is hoping that his own fortunes are positive, and that the MM group will be running an ICC10 raid Wednesday and Thursday. The raid is on the calendar and Wild is most definitely signed up.

Thanks for the feedback on the movies. It's interesting to hear how other folks felt about them. I'll be doing the Showcase again this coming Saturday, to see the other five Academy Award nominees - The Blind Side, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, and Up in the Air. I haven't seen any of them. I'm looking forward to three, I'll still probably enjoy a fourth, and might catch dinner for the other one. I'll leave which ones those are to ya'll to figure out.

Gratz to one of your many Deathbots for level 19, erik! If your allie plans to stay in the 10-19 bracket for a bit Chaitee will happily join you.

The Tuesday maintenance yesterday was a rolling restart instead of a lengthy down time, but at the same time there was a small download of new content. Perhaps we are getting the beginnings of patch 3.3.3 laid in. Then, during the evening, the lag even away from major cities was very noticeable, aggravating Philly in her questing. This morning (Wednesday) a number of servers (although not Silvermoon) had to undergo emergency server restarts. All of that is irritating enough. I would be furious if we were having the kind of trouble you're having, martin, with the EQ2 expansion. Expansions always have initial problems, but even the worst issues with WoW haven't involved having gear and progression lost because of it.

Speaking of problems, my second computer started acting funny a few days ago. When I started smelling something overheating, though, I figured I'd better crack it open and see what was going on. Fortunately, the problem was a dying power supply and not something more critical (or expensive). So I had to troop down to my favorite computer store, Frye's, and pick up a new one. While I was there I saw they had a great sale on video cards, and so I took the opportunity while I had the computer open to upgrade the video as well. I told the Mrs it was needed so that she could come back to WoW and play Chaitee. I don't think she believed me. :)