Arena's & Stratholme & Lack of lust to play

Ok so here is friday evening. Been wanting to go home all day to play some AV's

I play 2 AV's and am instantly bored with it..... Decided to log for the evening and start a new druid its level 9 now. Prob will level it when i dont feel like playing the shamans.

Saturday : Was up pretty early did my weekend shopping. And other then that i did pretty little. I did 1 AV and tarded around a bit. Also finally finished Wrath of the Mad god by Raymond E. Feist. Turned out to be better further in, as i mentioned it started out pretty weak. Story took a turn for the better.

Sunday : I started out by creating my Arena team. Then a guildmate of mine Zstrike came and asked if i wanted to do some 2vs2 Arena with. After a bit of hesitation i said yes. We did fairly well, he played his lock and i played my priest. (disc/shadow).

We ended up at something like 8-12 win/loss for a first time for me doing arena's not to shabby. Also considering i only have 75 resiliance. Afterwards i asked him to heal for me with my 4 shamans. This was well a slaughter to put it mildly. 6K hp, and 0 resiliance is just not gonna cut it.... 0-10 win/loss. He knew it on forehand so np, just getting some points now to get gloves and S3 items :)

Ended the early part of the day with doing some stratholm, did like 7 runs. Was hoping for a mount. but basicly just going there to kill some time. and make some cash.

Somehow i just dont feel like doing daily quests. Strangle enough doing stratholm is more satisfying then going to the Isle of Quel.

Anyways tommorow i might actually start some daily's who knows it'll actually happen this time. :P

Steamvaults.

Yesterday i took my first shot at a level 70 instance, picking steamvaults cause its nice and small. After having 2 goes at the first boss (Thespia with the nice lightning cloudes...) When i was running back (ran out of anks).

My pc froze all of the sudden, same black screen issue i had before. No big deal really but i just didn't feel like clearing again since the party disbanded automaticly when all members are offline.

So today i went back to get my revanche. It took me a few tries and a new move right and left macro to get it done. but about 5 wipes later, and Muramar reminding me of my heroism *doh*. I managed to take her down fairly easy with 0 death.

Got myself Scintillating Coral Band and some other blue stuff from the bosses in Steamvaults.

The 2nd boss was hard the first go. Second go i took out the fire elementals and they well decimated the small adds so he went down very quickly.

Warlord Kalithrass was also fairly easy except i forgot to think about the shield reflect. but after 1 volley i noticed, and he went down first attempt. It is so nice to have everyone shoot the cans at the same time :)

Tommorow i will try Magisters terrace for Shattered sun rep.

Level 70.

YIIIHHAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!

I hit level 70 this morning. The last level questing (especially collection quests) really annoyed me alot. But i guess that might have something to do with doing ALL colletion quests up to Netherstorm :p

All characters have got a slow flying mount now.

They addiotionally got 400g to spare. So thats all going toward their fund for epic flyers :)



Also made a video of when they dinged 70 (boring but hey its a milestone :p

Gotta love weekends.

So its monday, back at work.

This weekend i managed to get my toons to level 69, and all of them have enough cash to buy a normal flying mount. I only have enough for 2 epic mounts, but for now i will just have them on normal mounts.

Additionally i also managed to somehow ruin my ankle it seems inflamed, which somewhat cut my playtime this weekend, am 100% sure i could have made 70 otherwise.

I just had to go to bed on saturday around 22:00 due to the pain which is annoying. Cause sleeping is a waste of time :/

Tommorow probably calling the doctor to see whats really going on with my ankle.

I did not do the herbing i mentioned earlier due to simply being way to busy with questing. I cleared out all quests in Nagrand and Blades Edge Mountain, also started out with a few netherstorm quests, now sitting at 30% of my level.

Being tired sucks.

Came home from work, and just was to tired to do any serious boxing.

Which kinda sucked, since i was looking forward to starting in nagrand.

Ended up doing a hour of herbing till 270, and getting my mining to 375.

On another note i started the last book in the Dark war Saga from Raymond Feist Wrath of a Mad God. Its the last book in this seria, and the two previous books i rather quickly read through, but somehow this book is less intresting and feels like reading a Terry Brooks book from the shannara serie's. a story line done a million times, and sucked for 999,999 times.

Ah well guess i'll finish the book this weekend just for the sake of finishing the serie's but next time i buy books, i doubt it will be any of Feists.

World is full of strange people.

Ok so we all know multiboxing is a touchy subject, especially for people with little to no PVP skills, that feel cheapened out of their easy win epics.

So today i had this strange encounter with 2 druids seemingly friends of each other. Since i reported one, and then the other complained to me about reporting that guy.

Screenshots below :

Mining & Herbalism.

Ok so i slacked on professions during levelling, mostly cause i always feel it distracts me a lot, and also due to a bit of boosting, i skipped quite a few zones.

So last 2 days i spend on getting my mining and herbalism up. Currently sitting on 311 mining and 225 herbalism. The intention is to level herbalism to 315 aswell. But i wont be doing that till this weekend.

Well back to levelling again!

AV & Zangramarsh.

So i skipped my first collection quests this weekend. Killing the eels in Zangramarsh, and Collecting Diaphous Wings and Tentacles were just a bit to annoying. All other quests are now complete.

That also means Underbog and Slave pens were cleared. I must say i wiped horribly on Hungrafen in Underbog, I tried him, and had all toons close by at 20% and thought we also got rooted. Which at around 1% of my life i found out was not the case. so next time we moved out. and that worked alot better.

I noticed as well that my grounding totem management was lacking quite a bit. On the 2nd boss in Underbog i had 2 out of the 4 shamans die due to lack of groundings.

Gave AV another try. Won the first match i was in. Actively parcipated managed to defend Belinda with 1 other warrior quite easiely. Lost all other matches. But still had some fun. Managed to finish all quests, aswell as gather 2300 honour :)

Zangramarsh

I started out in Zangramarsh last night, i did collect 120 naga claws ! :)

I however did not accept the quests for the Diaphous wings and Eel filets since the droprates on those 2 items are just not healty for my mental state even when single boxing they frustrated me alot. Other then that questing is pretty fast in there.

I believe i gained about 30% of a level in 2 hours of playing.

Tonight i will most likely try my hand at Underbog & Slavepens assuming i can get the quests for them. I will also record the boss fights in the instances, and make some sort of "nicer" movie out of it.

Blood Furnace

Ok so i had my go at Blood Furnace today, first attempt i had 1 wipe at the guys that drop the mines. I pulled 4 of them at let them come close to my shamans and well they ended up dying really fast.

Below is the video of the run. I hope you like it. I know the recording is a bit "dull" in terms of action but hey its a first attempt at it. Expect alot more of them.

Ramparts turned out easy.

Well ramparts is a quick 15 minute clear instance. Bosses drop like they are made of tinfoil.

Yesterday i did very little except raising my enchanting on Sandaleth to 240 so i can disenchant what drops in ramparts/blood furnace

Perhaps today some more instances today.

Revenge is sweet !

Today we attempted another go at Drakkisath, myself geared in outland greens and level62, and gnarlight at lvl59 we blasted through the whole instance except for a small screwup in the start we got to drakkisath.

This time he did not even get to conflagerate my paladin before we burned him down. So now all my characters are BWL/Onyxia attuned.

Currently waiting for my heartstone to finish cooldown. Then its off to ramparts !

Upper Blackrock Spire

Ok so as mentioned yesterday, i went into UBRS today, finished the key and all.

So we wiped on the first room right away cause Gnarlight was bit to low level and aggro'd pretty much every one of the first 4 rooms, summoners got out of hand and it was a wipe.

After that things went pretty smooth. cleared the Pyromaster guy, then came up Father Flame.

I must admit i totally forgot about the egg hatchers, so they came running to our guys and ran back in to open eggs. By the time i really understood what was happening. All low levels were dead and my paladin's health steady decreasing. Unfortunatly i didnt make it and we wiped. When we came back we made sure to take all the Rookery hatchers out as first, Gnar got nice Devout shoulders (They look silly on dwarfs ;p)

Next up was the rarespawn thats in there. unfortunatly no briarwood reed trinket, but a mail item for one of Gnar's hunters. Proceeded to Rend (no we did not jump.) Dismissed of him rather easyly. On the way to the Beasts room i had to restart all my wow apps since some addon was causing bug grabber to make my system go crazy. I really need to redo the addons but i like to play to much :p. The beast was a intresting fight we had 4 people left standing in the end. The Fear and random aggro mechanism was just well crazy. And not good enough healing setup on my side and not enough healing experience in a raid from Gnar.

Sharded all the loot from the beast we cleared the room to drakkisath.....

And well damnit that guy is a bitch if your only playing with 1 tank. The first conflagaration i manage to bubble out, but at that time he was only at 30% and smacked down 1 or 2 or more characters , then i got aggro back and i got conflagged again. And that was the end of the story. We gave it like 4/5 tries but in the end just decided to call it till Gnar's hunters can actually hit Drakkisath (they were lvl55, drakkisath is lvl63 :p)

Fun night overall. But not really productive but i guess fun is worth something on its own :)

Level 60 !

So yesterday evening i hit level 60 will the shamans. Since i did the onyxia quest line before i decided to try my hand at Upper Blackrock Spire to get myself the blood of the dragon champion :)

Well I kind of forgot that you needed a key to enter the Upper part, so together with Gnarlight i went to Lower Blackrock Spire. We cleared it very easyly being 2 5 man dualboxers. Few small deaths along the way but nothing special really.

Picked up some nice hunter items for Gnar's hunters. Other then that my paladin got all the gemstones for the key and is now ready to go kill Emberstrife.

So most likely tonight i will focus on UBRS and perhaps even Stratholme/Scholomance afterwards. When i did all that its time to move to outland.

Unfortunatly i have not enough money at the moment to buy epic mounts for all my characters but i am sure that will sort itself out soon enough.

Ungoro & Felwood

On sunday i spent most of my time in Ungoro Crater doing all the quests except collecting the dino webbings, it was another level worth of quests/xp.

In the late evening i then went to felwood and made a start on felwood doing the first batch of available quests. Now just have to do the follow ups.

Yesterday however went a bit different then planned, ended up spending most of my night in the AH sorting out all the stuff i had laying around, and selling all the Enchanting materials i got from all green BOE's that dropped during questing. In total i went from 100 to 750g with still a 100 auctions running :)

Besides that i joined got asked to join MgT normal on my paladin i did so we managed to clear it fairly easy except for the start where we asked a hunter to trap things. Well he clearly failed at that so i just ended up tanking all mobs instead of ever bothering to trap things.

Anyways the plan for now is to get to level 58, and then see how viable it is timewise to do the Wintersaber quests. The simple reason for this is that the mount only needs 75 riding skill and if i can save out 600g x 5 for now till 70. I can get that gold at level 70 much easier.

This is a picture i got from a guildmate after i got it.

I originally did the wintersaber quest on my warrior being the first person on Silvermoon-EU to get this mount, we spend 3 weeks 8 hours a day at least most of the times more then that to farm it. Thank god its alot easier these days and it gives 500% more rep.

We'll see how it goes.....

Lenghty run in Blackrock mountain

So i managed to finish the whole instance, and every single quest except the fannypack one, somehow being in there for 6 hours, i did not feel much for looting mobs with my slaves.

I did do the onyxia quest chain. The escort was quite a pain in the ass and i had 3 deaths total.
One time two died which was scary but with my pala, and other shammy being able to ress i prevented a faillure.



In the end i got to 54 and 90% of a level.

Un'goro is next i think. Alot of collection quests but if i start skipping to much i will never get enough XP from quests/kills to hit it on schedule.

Blackrock Mountain preparation

Yesterday i cleared out searing gorge of all its quests, hit 52 in the process. Also i started gathering all quests for Blackrock Mountain, hopefully today i can do a full run and gain another level.

Thing to remember the Dragon that gives u the Black Dragon Mold (needed for BRD quest) has a huge spawn timer on it, and it only drops for one of your guys.

So i ended up waiting 5 minutes between each kill for the drop. Thankfully it was during dinner time but be warned it might take u a while.

I also prepped for the Onyxia quest line who knows i might 5 box it some day :P