Weekend (25 Nov) - Guild Master for a ... Moment

Weekend (25 Nov) - Guild Master for a ... Moment

The initial number of bank slots available to a guild is six. However, with the right guild reputation, it's possible to add more. Happy looked into this, as he is struggling to find room for all of his stock. Happy found that there is a guild perk available that grants a guild a 7th bank slot. When Happy went to the guild vendor to buy it, however, Happy was turned down. Happy is the guild master. But, the guild master must also have reached at least Friendly reputation with the guild to qualify for purchase. When Happy made The Undercity his permanent home, there was no such thing as guild reputation. Happy never thought he'd need it, either.

Well, maybe it would be a good thing for Happy to get out and see a little of the world, and earn some guild rep in the process. Getting from Neutral to Friendly shouldn't take all that long. "That's gold a wasting!" Happy cried out. Happy would not leave his beloved Auction House.

A compromise was reached. Fist has Exalted rep with the guild. Happy grudgingly agreed to pass guild leadership to Fist. Fist headed over to the Guild Vendor and asked for her 7th bank slot. "Where's the gold?" the vendor growled. Gold?

Given a nudge by Philly, Happy reluctantly turned over TEN THOUSAND GOLD to Fist. Hmm, thought Fist. I'm the guild master! I've got 10k gold in my pocket! Who needs a 7th slot? It was tempting, but Fist finally, as grudgingly as Happy had given it to her, paid the vendor and created the guild's 7th bank slot.

Fist thought about keeping the title. Happy then explained the responsibilities, and told Fist the guild was all hers if she wanted the headaches. Having heard what her mother had to deal with, she decided she wanted no part of that. Fist returned guild leadership to Happy.

Saturday - Fist discovered that she had missed a quest at Grookin Village in Jade Forest. That quest started a chain that kept Fist busy for awhile, with two cut scenes and a visit by a nasty monster that might be the equivalent of Wrath's Ragnaros. Just a taste of what's to come in the raids, I guess. Fist's quest lines had been rather disjointed lately, but completing that series of quests seemed to get things back on track. She is back in the Four Winds, now, with the npc Li Li trotting along with Fist. Li Li is a happy young lady who always has something positive to say about whatever Fist is doing. Fist will be a little sad when her quests are over with.

On the not so good side, there were two screen locks in the hour Fist was in game. I was playing without any addons at all. None. It's not the addons. Which means it's probably a computer problem. Or an installation problem. Gah, I don't want to have to reinstall WoW. But I think that has got to be the next step.

Sunday - On Sunday I did a complete system check of my computer and WoW. I uninstalled World of Warcraft, and followed Blizzard's directions to totally obliterate every file on the computer associated with WoW. I felt like a rogue on a quest to assassinate all of the parties of a conspiracy to keep me away from the game. I deleted the recycle bin to destroy all remaining evidence of WoW.  I ran a chkdsk, which is a pre-operating system check of the file system. That took hours. I defragmented the hard drive. And did about ten other things having to do with ensuring the proper operation of the system. Everything checked out.

It took about two hours to reinstall World of Warcraft. Fist logged in to a clean install of WoW. Some settings are kept on the Blizzard side, and Fist was happy to see that the keybinding settings and location of spells and abilities on the button bars were still in place. Everything else was like a new game. No addons were installed.

Fist spent about three hours total on Sunday night in Pandaria. There were no screen locks. That is encouraging, but I'm not declaring victory yet.

Fist, of course, just wants to get out there are get things done. She made decent, if slow, progress. Fist has discovered Halfhill, a town in the Four Winds where the Tillers faction makes their home. This is a new feature of Pandaria, where faction rep is gained by working a garden. Fist has only just started, but she kind of liked it. Fist received gardening tools, and planted her first four plots. Gardening requires tilling the soil, planting seeds, weeding, watering, and harvesting. The harvesting part has a growing period built in, so plants can't be harvested immediately. Fist will find out on Monday if she can harvest her crop.

Fist is now 66% of the way to level 88.