WoW

I’ll write more at work, but the short of it is that I scored more HK tonight than my whole PvP time before this. In just two matches, which were both wins. This should catapult me a couple of ranks up.

It’s been really rough at work, so all I wanted to do was log on and kill PEOPLE, not NPCs. I was in WSG just as I’d made the flight up to plant the termites in the lumber mill in WP. I placed the barrel, completed the quest, and went into battle.

I was immediately invited into raid chat and we were en masse at mid-field killing horde as they came at us. Every time we offed one or two of them, we could see another one jumping down their cliff toward us, just to get killed again. I’ve never been in a BG where everyone stuck together. I wanted to be sure to move up a rank (or 2 or 3) because of the server maintenance on Tuesdays, so I signed up for another run at it.

This time I was raid leader. That was interesting, since I still don’t really know what’s going on. I need to find a good PvP BG guide, but most of them are blocked at work. Time for some diligent searching, methinks.

For example: How did we win if it doesn’t show that anyone captured the flag? So many things to learn.

I’ll be back to BGs tonight unless I’m doing UBRS for more gear.

Sleeping.

After a long week of gov’t rushes at work, I was tired every night when I got home. I did 1 hour per night, tops. Some nights, I just went to bed. Gitr didn’t play at all on Saturday or Sunday… hmmm… maybe not even Friday.

I got most of the rushes completed on Saturday and today, but will not be home until late tonight. Tuesday evening looks good after playing dominoes with the grandparents.

Linux still isn’t co-operating on gettting WoW to work on the emulator, as 1 frame every 8 seconds is the best I can muster. Otherwise I’d be sitting pretty right now in Panera.

Life will settle down, and I’ll get some more play time this week.

Since Josh Dura’s helped me so many times with code on this blog, when he told me he finally got his blog up, I decided to give him a featured link/post today.

His main is a level 60 Orc Hunter on Burning Legion as a member of the Nightelf Skinning Co. guild.

Go check it out today.

Adventures of Aeigelus

Lockr got to come out and play last night. I was attempting to install Linux on my 1.2 GHz laptop to give WoW a try using Wine for the claimed performance improvement. After an hour of dinking while Lockr worked on tailoring and flew on grifs, I finally deduced that Disc 1 of Mandriva 2006 is not enough to connect to the Internet. I didn’t see the browser or any way to unpack the Wine download that I burned to a CD.

I took him down to SW and went to turn in a quest in Goldshire and ran over to the keep north of the bridge into Westfall. I got the Hogger and gnoll quest. Using his voidwalker to hit each target in a clump, Lockr cursed each target and proceeded to wand them to death. By the time he got to the next target, he was back at 100% and I was only down about 200 mana.

Hogger was simple. Let the voidwalker get aggro, curse Hogger, wand/Shadow Bolt, then using the Health Funnel to keep the voidwalker up until my Shadow Bolts would finish Hogger off. One thing is for sure, playing warlock is fast and cheap. No bandages, no health potions, and double or triple xp gain by taking on groups.

Next stop: Westfall. I might even try Duskwood at 16, depending on my gear.

I had a wild idea last night, and if it’s too wild, I’m pawning off the responsibility of thinking it up onto Lockr, because he’s obviously demented enough to be able to summon demons.  Ready?

A WOW LOTTERY!

Just think… an end to gold farmers and the entire gold-selling industry. For 10s, there would be a Pick 3 lottery; for 50s, there would be a Pick 4 lottery; and for a whopping 1g, a Pick 6. You can buy a lottery ticket from any general goods vendor or innkeeper and the numbers would be /rolled every Tuesday when the servers come back up from maintenance.

59 is mine! w00t!

I got punted all the way to WP and killed bad bears and spiders and undead thingies of all sorts for an hour.

When the PvP rankings came out, I was quite disappointed when I saw how close I was to skipping “Private” altogether.