Weekend (24 Jan) - It's a Quiet One

Weekend (24 Jan) - It's a Quiet One

I was going through some posts on the blog recently when I noticed a couple of comments to them that I had missed. My bad for not responding! After so many years using a forum thread where posts and comments are linear and visible at all times, I still forget that comments to blog posts are tied to a specific post. I gotta work on that.

It's been a quiet weekend for the Wild family. Lots of real life stuff going on. JB has had the most in game time. In fact, JB has fallen in love with her enhancement spec again and picking flowers in Mount Hyjal just isn't doing it for her anymore. JB started taking the long way to herb nodes - the long way being the path that took her through the most mobs she could carve and pummel to death. She also started picking up quests. JB plans to clear Mount Hyjal first, and then hit up Vash'jir.

Early Monday JB DINGED! to level 81.

JB and Lao crossed paths a couple of times over the weekend. At level 77, Lao's pace should have her catching up with JB by next weekend. Then it'll be party time! for the gurrls. On Saturday JB still had three pieces of pre-Cata gear to replace - relic, ring, and trinket. As of now she is down to just one - she needs one more cata trinket. JB prefers to be in full cata gear when she signs up for her first random dungeon. She has the gear score already - ilevel 293 - but doesn't want any Pugger jawing at her for her gear. The main thing that JB needs to get smart about is totem use in dungeons. I know there is a sort of stock four that's used, but there are a lot of buffs that can do what some totems do and shaman need to know all that and adjust totem use as necessary.

Mery was in game for a good while, but only to try and sort out what has become a mess of junk in her bags, and gear that would look old on a level 40. She's level 56. There's no quick fix to that, though. Happy almost swallowed his abacus when he saw what plain green gear cost on the AH. The prices are completely insane. She won't get much in game time, though, not with Wild, JB, and Sista sucking up the hours. Maybe I should just say Wild and JB, since Sista hasn't seen action since last week.

Wild has his new cata-level enchanting rod, [Runed Elementium Rod] and is at 520/525 skill. Almost maxed out. And then Wild will start working on his tailoring. Although, Wild may be re-thinking that profession. Since we now have that new ability which makes wearing cloth a no-no for leather wearing Wild, Wild can't take advantage of all that nice cloth gear he could make. On the other hand it's nice to be able to make the spellthread enchants for his leg gear, and the big enchants on his rings are nice as well.

Things should start to get a little more exciting as the week gets going good.

Oh, but there was a little pvp news over the weekend, courtesy of the DER and Lao families:

"Kire was in game, Unbleached came in game, we tried to pvp together, Kire queued up, but only for myself but didn’t figure that out until I was already in WSG alone. Then Unbleached invited me to a group and queued us for AB, but only so I could take it then she could requeue us for WSG. It took about 10 minutes of getting pounded in WSG to get AB to pop, then joined AB and were rolling it over when we WSG popped. I joined the new WSG which was supposed to be with Unbleached only to discover she wasn’t there as she got DC’ed in the process of accepting the bg. I ended up running in the WSG alone again with the horde just steam rolling alliance then had to log. It was a crappy time! We were in game together trying to pvp for 30+ minutes and never actually got to play together… Unbleached lucked out though as horde were owning WSG."

And gratz to Daethbot who has gone leveling crazy, ripping his way from level 42 to level 56 in just a few days. Over-powered 'locks! :P