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Bloodr Hits 12 and Is Getting Dangerous

February 12, 2007 By Gitr 4 Comments

Saturday I played Bloodr to level 10 and picked up the level 10 pet training quest. Sunday morning, I tamed the 3 beasts and finally got a level 9 cat to level to 10 quickly. As with most hunters, it is MUCH easier to go once you have your own DPSing tank. It has been non-stop carnage ever since.

I played for an hour this morning and am 20% of the way through level 12 and I am having a blast playing hunter again. It takes me about 5 seconds of combat per mob, plus loot and skin time for beasts, I’m still making pretty darn good time.

Bloodr is already Honored with Silvermoon and has a few quests left to do before moving on to Ghostlands, although I might not in exchange for greater XP for killing.

Deadr is sitting in an inn in Zangarmarsh collecting rest for my next run in Slave Pens.

I will post pictures today, but it’s another busy day at work. Thanks for stopping by. How were your adventures this weekend?

Gender Wars – Cross-gender Playing

February 9, 2007 By Gitr 9 Comments

I wrote some time ago about playing your opposite gender in-game and wanted to re-visit the topic now that I have rolled my first female toon in over 15 alts. Read this oldie in Cross-dressing WoWers, and get caught up with what I’ve said in the past.

I’ve been reading more and more about women playing WoW, and they have been commenting on their experiences playing a female character. One thing that they may not realize is what is different treatment from male treatment, as they are women in RL. As a guy playing a female toon, I will quickly notice anything out of norm for my normal playing from hundreds of hours of playing male toons.

Ding 62, Hellow Shadow Word: Death

February 9, 2007 By Gitr 4 Comments

Deadr dinged last night after dinner and I gained 3 training skill, including the new Shadow Word: Death spell. I really like how it drops something NOW just like Gitr’s Execute, only regardless of rage. I always have mana, but Gitr didn’t always have rage.

I re-rolled Bloodr as a female BE hunter. That’s right, my first female toon. I played her this morning after finishing a couple of things with Deadr (finally finished disabling the 4 pumping stations). I got her to level 4 pretty quickly by finishing all 5 quests that I picked up at one time. I’ll kill the trees tonight and move on to the village to pick up my trades (skinning and leatherworking) and get my gold that Deadr sent.

I finished several Zangarmarsh quests last night, but I had read yesterday that if you do all of the quests and then run the instances, you will get locked out of getting reputation in the instances, whereas if you get rep from the instances all the way until that stops at Honored, you get to Revered by doing the quests.

I will likely be leveling Bloodr now to play with Kelthais when he’s on. A pally with a hunter should be a very nice combo. I chose a hunter because it is easy to solo, it was my first class, it forces you to do cooking, and I want to be a leatherworker. This time, I’m going all the way with it, too. By playing Bloodr, I will extend my enjoyment of the expansion with Deadr, but I will still play him quite a bit to make progress to be able to run the end-game stuff with the guild.

I got a nice chestpiece, belt, and boots from quest rewards, but everything is an ugly mishmash that is really hard to look at from the front. At least the cloak hides stuff from my view. Deadr certainly won’t be getting lost in a blizzard (no pun intended) any time soon.

Do You Invert Your Mouse Controls?

February 8, 2007 By Gitr 6 Comments

I got a huge spark in my brain when I read and commented on Wilhelm’s post on the control keys we use in games, in particular the WASD movement control. I found that to be a really stimulating post about his, and thus my, gaming history.

Now for the noodle-cooking: invert mouse or no? I have, since day one, inverted the mouse for one very simple reason: flight simulators. Some of the first games, and the ones that I undoubtedly played more of than any game pre-Doom/Duke Nukem 3D, I played were flight sims. I still remember the old Amiga and hearing “Pull up, Pull up!” from the cockpit’s female warning while in a dive too close to the ground in Falcon. You move the stick back to go up, and move it up to go down. I just can’t make my brain switch in first or third person games to reverse that directional control. [Read more…] about Do You Invert Your Mouse Controls?

A Look at Aldor vs Scryer Allegiance Dilemmas

February 7, 2007 By Gitr 15 Comments

Once you venture into Shattrath City, which there really isn’t any reason why you can’t make the journey at level 60, you will be presented with a choice of picking what side to ally with. If you are like I was, you will have several questions right off the bat when you get the option. I am going to attempt to clear up the muddy water.

You are directed upon finding the city to go to the city center. After that, you speak with Khadgar, who was very close to Midvh (Read more at Know Your Lore: Medivh). His summoned pet gives you a tour and history of the city, which is easy XP, even if it’s a mindless 5 minutes.

Getting back to Khadgar, he makes you chose your allegiance, either to the Scryers or Aldors.

Riding Around Outlands

February 7, 2007 By Gitr 1 Comment

I bumped up my screen resolution now that I got things running smoother using Ace2 addons. I can run 1280×960 now, just fine, so I’ll be taking more screenshots of my adventures. This is an easy post today because I’m still struggling with the database and we really need full functionality ASAP. Tough to admit that I’m having difficulty, but I’m an adult, so I can do it. 🙂