I downloaded the PTR client last night to check out the new sun effects and create an epic-geared level 70 so I know what I’m gunning for. Sounded like a fun night, at least until I got frustrated. I got Deadr transferred, but no premades are working. There isn’t any official news from the blues posted on the thread yet, although I’ve tried several toons over 20 times from 9pm last night until 6am this morning.
WoW
Update on Where I’ve Been
I’ve been too busy to play lately, anything more than making 20 bags and checking my mail. I completed The Shadow Tombs last night, but that’s all. We had plumbing issues over the weekend and had major cleanup yesterday after I worked 10 hours at the office.
Check out the whole story at my personal blog: Back to the Basics #2: Be Grateful for What You Have.
Did you get to play much over the weekend?
Working on a Secret Project
Sorry for the lack of posts, folks. I hope you aren’t too terribly put off by my recent absence. My life has gotten incredibly full lately. Here are just a few things going on:
- Summer session for college at USF takes up 8 class hours per week.
- Work has become ever-so much more demanding.
- Work has banned me from blogging when I’m waiting for things to do. Other people wandered… I blogged. I see no difference.
- I am editing a book for a friend.
- My wife is now working full-time at her top 5 bank and I am picking up some of the chores at home.
- My parents moved last weekend.
- I am building a blog for my parents.
That should be enough to keep 3 people busy, so it’s no surprise to me that my posting frequency is suffering. Despite all of this, I am still finding time here and there to play. I’m working on a secret project of mine for the blog(s), which I will reveal when it is closer to being done. With my schedule the way it is, if I divulge too much too soon, someone could start and finish before me and I would lose my marketing edge.
What I can say, is how cool playing in Exodar has been. On Velen, I started a hunter (of course) and a priest (also of course) this week. [Read more…] about Working on a Secret Project
Want an Upgrade? Check out the Armory
It’s time for me to stop complaining about my bad gear on my new main, Deadr. He’s hit level 66 and is specced out full Shadow with points rolling in on Discipline now. After getting killed dozens of times in Nagrand by rogues, warriors, and pallies, I had a bad attitude about my gear. Nevermind that they were usually 2-5 levels higher than me, I still thought that I should be able to get away at least.
This week I stumbled across a feature that I must have missed earlier on my Armory page, or it’s a new thing that I missed news of: Find an Upgrade. For any piece of armor, weapon, or trinket you have, you can have the Armory suggest upgrades for you. It puts them in a nice column-sortable table that shows quite a few stats AND how it is attained (quest, rep, boss drop).
I discovered the stats on even some of my lower-level items are still tops in the game outside of running instances because many of my things that I was unhappy with were crafted. For example, I have DE’d many a piece of armor because my Netherweave armor pieces have bonuses that were too good to pass up for a few extra Stamina or Intelligence. That has changed with some higher level quest rewards last week, but some pieces are not likely to get any improvements until I hit level 68 and get some level 70 or group help with some quests that look like a lot of fun.
So before you get down on your gear, check out the Armory.
How is your gear doing now?
Don’t Steal MY Content… You’ll Regret It
I found that I had a backlink to my blog from a ton of sites today, so I checked them out. This one didn’t have anything to do with me, except a stolen image.
What is a publisher to do? *ding!* Replace the file with another and edit my original post to point to the original image with a new name. ๐
Click the image to see what he sees now. ROFL! In an effort to tone this down a bit, just in case one can get in trouble for obscene images getting back at someone being a jerk, I added the censored dot to this kid’s obvious contemptuous display.
What do you do when this happens?
UPDATE: I checked his blog last night and he had replaced the image with another one (undoubtedly stolen somehow), but my image was up for a full 8-10 hours first.
Ding 66; Tons Done in Nagrand
It was quite a weekend. Here is a quick summary of my progress and an apology for not posting sooner:
Ding 66 – Got Shadow Fiend
Honored with Mag’har
Completed the entire Nesingwary questline with Zipthunk’s help
Logged about 20 world PvP kills, several 70s
With all of that to recap, we’ll see if I have time this sitting. I’m at home with the piano tuner dude because my wife’s work schedule changed. I’m making the most of my time. ๐
Let’s see, Friday night, I started with a grouping with a 66 Druid that totally rocked until a few level 70 Alliance decided to make our lives miserable. The fun thing was that 2 of them weren’t enough when we were ready. They either waited until we pulled too many mobs or came in 3s… except one rogue who rocked our world. I’d go down first while low on mana, and then my poor buddy was singled out against a clear expert.
I spent most of my time Saturday just trying to kill things here and there and picking up quest items in Nagrand. Sunday morning was more of the same, with life as a 66 from the morning before to make me happier.
Things got rocking fun last night when I was on my way to Bloodripper’s area to look for help when I spotted a 66 BE hunter named Zipthunk killing the 2nd quest owls for the Nesingwary line. I greeted him and asked if he could help me with the elites if I helped him. He said he’d done all of the questline but would gladly help in exchange for healing with demon elites at Camp: Hate. Sure thing.
With that settled, we made quick work of Bloodripper and Bach’lor. We took care of his quest, twice (I didn’t realize I was ready for that quest, so when he turned it in, I picked it up), but we’d drawn attention from Alliance players several times. We eventually got done and agreed to take out any and all Alliance on sight and went on our way to find Banthar.
After about 15 PvP kills for us, we were ready to hunt down Tusker, but one of the guys we kept killing was hovering over Tusker on his flying mount… pissed. We figured that if he attacked in the middle of the fight, we ditch the elephant and go all out on his a$$. He never attacked, and I got my Nesingwary Safari Stick. Talk about an upgrade!
One last picture for the day… my ride on a netherdrake for Survey the Land:
