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Reader Participation Monday: Hot Keys

April 23, 2007 By Gitr 9 Comments

Today’s question is: “What are your favorite [tag]hotkeys[/tag]?” I’ve got a set place for certain actions, such as “8” is my horsie on every toon I have. It makes life very simple when I want to get out of somewhere fast.

I have recently been binding the ` key (left of 1) for the Blood Elf racial, but I found an even better use with Huntr for it. While still being a Belf, I found it much more useful to just hit ` than to CRTL-1 to sic my pet on something. It’s saving me all kinds of hand cramps and don’t see me changing that [tag]binding[/tag] any time soon.

For Deadr, ` is a satisfying 1400 point Shadow Word: Death as a finishing move. Awesome.

What are your favorite hot keys? Do you keep them the same across the board on your alts?

Sound off.

Ding 20; Made it to The Barrens

April 23, 2007 By Gitr 7 Comments

I hit 20 this morning, (/played 13h 49m) after I should have done it last night in Deatholme. I made my way through all of the troll Ghostlands quests yesterday morning and then was ready for the stuff around the Southern areas in the evening.

I got him through all of those quests and into Deatholme in pretty good time. We welcomed our newest member into our friends list, since we still don’t have the guild up yet. Huntr was sitting at 68% of 19 and he needed to turn in all of the quests for Deatholme to ding. This was the first time I had been all the way through Deatholme without a single death, and I was quite pleased with myself.

I was waiting for the last of Dar’Khan’s Lieutenants to respawn (for about 15 minutes) and decided that after the entire building repopped twice, he was either on a different timer or he was bugged. I turned in my one quest I had from there and made my way to Orgrimmar. In hindsight, I should have just kept killing things around there and dinged earlier and been right by the trainer in SM on my way to the Translocator. As it was, I had a way to go until 20. [Read more…] about Ding 20; Made it to The Barrens

Late Friday Funny; Old Couples at Dinner

April 23, 2007 By Gitr Leave a Comment

True story:

Two older couples go out for a nice dinner, but one of the husbands is running late from a previous appointment. When they get seated and the fellow is still not present, his wife says they can go ahead and order now anyway.

“Shouldn’t you ask your husband what he wants to eat?” asked her friend.

“Why should I? I never ask him what he wants to eat at home.”

Ding 18; Got Kel’Gash’s Head

April 22, 2007 By Gitr 10 Comments

I hit 18 this morning before logging, and got up to 50-something percent after turning in quests. I’ll be spotty again in my play today, but probably getting on again tonight after Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

I sent Butterbanker a gold and a bunch of greens.

/played 11h 0m to level 18…buy the guide, people. Don’t waste your time playing 1-58 when all you want to do is play in Outlands.

Ding 15; Guild Update

April 21, 2007 By Gitr Leave a Comment

It’s my 6th month wedding anniversary, so this is my first log-in since this morning. I checked Butterbanker and he has almost 4 gold. I’ve made some lucrative purchases that are coming out pretty nicely. That’s it for now. I’ll be on late again tonight.

Huntr hit 15 last night. He’s almost 16 because of the way the quests are falling. He dinged while questing and has more to turn in for XP. I updated his progress page. /played 7h 50m to 15.

Ding 14; Huntr Is in Ghostlands

April 20, 2007 By Gitr 7 Comments

Huntr got to levels 12 and 13 last night and hit 14 this morning and logged right away to get to work. The process is going pretty smoothly for starting out with absolutely no money or equipment support. The biggest adjustments are:

no healing potions
no big bags (I’ve had 3 6-slotters drop)
not always enough to train (that is over now)

I got Butterbanker to SM and bought a couple of things for 2s in hopes that they go for 10-12s like they should. Huntr is doing okay with money now, so I will start sending Butterbanker money after each training session.

Leveling with a hunter is certainly easier than it was with a mage, as there is positively no downtime right now. Unless I do something stupid, I also have no fear of dying, but that’s not to say I haven’t. I hate murlocs, by the way.

/played 6h 34m – see Huntr’s progress on his Journey Page to the right. Yay for Joana’s Guide. I’m following it to the T (with the possible exceptions of training out of order), so these are the results the guide gives you.