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Ding 46; Got a Better Bow

June 11, 2007 By Gitr 7 Comments

Ding in 3d 10h 34m /played time in Feralas while hunting hippogryphs. It was a long, protracted battle while fighting for the right to kill things with a Chinese Gold Farmer (named something like Djsajf) who managed to hit level 48 and still had a pet named “Boar.” He was too stupid to realize when I had already tagged 3 mobs. He ended up helping me kill about 10 mobs before he realized what I was doing. I think he woke up and started monitoring his bots.

I got a Sylvan Shortbow from Cawind Trueaim in Camp Mojache, a limited sale item that is better than my crossbow. I got that fully skilled up and turned in 20% of level 46’s XP in quests. Then, according to Joana’s Horde Guide, I made my way to Ashzara. I finished up that stuff for about 9k XP and I’m headed to the Hinterlands for about a dozen quests to get me to level 47.

Ding 45; That Was Quick

June 9, 2007 By Gitr 3 Comments

I only played for about 30 minutes last night and bout the same this morning, yet I dinged 45 after a mere 3d 7h 38m of /played time. This has been the best run ever, and I no longer feel like I don’t have any good gear because I’ve been sending my bank alt stuff the whole time, which got me my mount at level 40 and several blue gear items.

With 45/70 levels down, I’m feeling pretty good about playing hunter for a good long while. I’d have to hit a pretty boring section to want to switch to Paladr again before I ding 60, but I’ll already be in Outlands at that point. We know how hard it is to stop playing in Outlands. It’s like crack on the keyboard. Or something like that.

I logged into Deadr last night and grabbed about 15 Netherweave bags out of my mailbox 3 days before the letters were going to expire. I’ve made that mistake with Gitr before. That sucked. I lost a Lionheart Helm to the Mailbox Black Hole. Sad, sad day, that was.

I finally got my WoWinsider fix yesterday by finding their RSS feed using Google and added it to my Netvibes. As long as the story isn’t continued, I can keep up to date now. /cheer

I’m off to work for a few hours and going to see the $5 pre-noon Ocean’s 13 show with the wife. What’s up with you guys today?

Ding 44; Caliph Serpentsting Is Easy

June 8, 2007 By Gitr 4 Comments

3d 6h 3m /played time using Joana’s Horde Guide. I remember back in the day, Caliph Serpentsting in Tanaris was nearly impossible to find and kill. I have now killed him 4 times because he give triple Gadgetzan reputation in addition to being the highest level mob in the area. I got everything in Tanaris done except for the Shipping Schedule refused to drop and the 6 footlockers that I did get did not contain the Middle Map Fragment. I’m looking for that on the AH.

I’m off to Feralas for what I know to be a ton of quick kill/drop quests, so I loaded up on arrows and flew to Freewind Post last night.

I discovered that I have placed some of my Beastmaster points in the wrong skill, so the next time I’m at a trainer, I’m going to drop my talents. I’m darn tempted to fly to Thunder Bluff this morning.

I found a great pair of gloves on the AH for 50g, and then realized that I can’t use them to the best of their ability unless I partake in BRK’s pet peeve of being a melee hunter. No thanks. I ‘d hate to become an object of one of his WoWinsider posts because of that.

I got over 50% of the way done with level 44 because I was taking on 3-5 pirates at a time and ripping them to shreds. I have reached a pretty good stride with making sure Tiggr hits each one of them before I heal him. Once the heal starts, usually one or two of them are down, and I can take that kind of beating for a time until he gets another one down and call him back for help. It’s a good system and I pity anyone without a 3k HP 4k Armor tank traveling with them. 🙂

Ding 43; Almost Done with STV

June 4, 2007 By Gitr 5 Comments

I completed Nessingwary’s hunter questline with the downing of King Bangalash, a level 43 Elite and his two level 33 (/cough /laugh) spawns. The reward bow was a complete joke compared to my current crossbow, so that was a bit of a letdown. I then hearthed to Booty Bay and turned in one more quest to get my ding with 3d 2h 12m of /played time.

I’m on my way to Thunder Bluff to turn in Frostmaw and hit the AH with almost 75g to spend if I need to.

On a slightly personal note, it will be a crazy week at work because I launched a new database for another department and I need to create all of the reports that my boss will undoubtedly request by Thursday. I’ll be checking for comments, but unable to reply to any until lunch.

Comment away about how your weekend went.

Ding 42; Back in STV for More

June 1, 2007 By Gitr Leave a Comment

I finished level 41 in just over 3 hours because of pitiful drop rates on croc items and dragon drops. I trained up and found level 42 skills quite disappointing. I will be dropping Tiggr’s skills and adopting more of BRK’s tips on pet attributes. I was going about his stuff pretty blindly, not thinking it made much difference. BRK has since educated me otherwise.

Anyway, back to leveling, Huntr got to level 42 in 2d 22h 39m /played time and dinged at the precise moment stated by Joana’s Horde Guide. It was quite nice, so maybe my time wasn’t all that bad, seeing as how I pretty near had to kill all of that stuff anyway to get that much XP.

The guide has me in STV for quite a while, but I enjoy wrapping that stuff up because I know Tanaris is coming soon. I love all the stuff Tanaris has to offer.

I logged in this morning to over 30 sold auctions on Bankr. It was quite a glut. I’d emptied my mailbox and posted everything I had at a deep discount from HSP, but well above what I paid for things. Here is how that turned my money situation around.

What did you do today?

Ding 41; Blew Through Level 40

May 30, 2007 By Gitr 2 Comments

I didn’t even have to grind one second for level 41 and got there in under 2 1/2 hours with a total /played time of 2d 19h 29m. I reached it before I was supposed to, most likely because of drop rates with the buzzard wings. Badlands is so good for leveling when there are quests associated with all of the killing. There are tons of mobs, but they aren’t really aggro nets like other places.

I think I’m done with Badlands, or at least for a while. I already killed the patrolling orge boss, a 45. I put Hunter’s Mark on him and sent in Tiggr to Intimidate him right off the bat. I struck him with Serpent Sting and kept nailing him with Arcane Shots as often as it cooled down. As soon as he went down, I started running because Tiggr was down to 15% health after taking a beating from 6 mobs at one time. I got away and came back 20 seconds later to loot the body.

I’ve got all the pages for the Green Hills of Stranglethorn, so I’m off to turn those in and run all the way to Swamp of Sorrows.

I see Ravenkiller hit level 30 last night. Gratz, man. What else did you all do last night?