Gear

It’s MINE! My Mage’s Battle Baton

July 2, 2007 By Gitr 5 Comments

With the help of some Core guildies, I got my today. Crugg and Wakarathe and I took down the next 3 bosses, but needed to call in a trial member (sorry I didn’t get a screenshot to capture your name) to take down the final boss in awesome fashion. He was a 70 Druid and took the heals as I donned full Shadow glory and VE’d and simply MB’d and Melted Face the whole time. So we 3-manned it (with a close call several times) until the last boss.

There were always no less than 4 Alliance players around, but they were just waiting until their help came. I think when they inspected Crugg, they decided against making any aggressive moves. 🙂

I got 70g, sold over 20 bags, and got this to bring my spell crit rate up 5% to 16.33%.

[tag]Battle Mage’s Baton[/tag]
Binds when picked up
Unique
Two-Hand	Staff
92 – 161 Damage	Speed 2.10
(60.2 damage per second)
+45 Stamina
+31 Intellect
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 85.
Equip: Improves spell critical strike rating by 30.

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 36; Lots of new Gear

May 22, 2007 By Gitr 6 Comments

I hit 36 after about 15 minutes of grinding trolls and working my way back to Grom’gol killing crocs and basilisks. I even took out one of the 38 Elite Elder Saltwater Crocodiles along the shore. That was fun and satisfying. /played time: 2d 4h 14m.

I trained up in Grom’gol and went to UC to turn in the Silk donation and to fly to Hammerfall. Just for kicks and grins, I hopped on the AH as I passed by to see if there was a better ranged weapon available. That was when my heart skipped a beat and I saw my favorite ranged weapon to date: Swiftwind. I got this for Grimr back in the day and ran him through DM to level it. He got to the ship okay at level 37 or so. I leveled this baby on the critters and trolls of Arathi Highlands. It’s fully skilled now, and killing kobolds.

I didn’t stop there. I bought a new headband, shoulders, Deadly Kris of Arcane Wrath, Shadowskin Gloves, and Tigerbane. Huntr has over 1,600 HP and Mana now and Tiggr is well on his way to becoming my best friend.

When you combine Dash and the extra DPS of my new crossbow (27, up from 19) and tack on the +Arcane damage of my dagger to my Arcane Shot, I’m peeling off HP faster than yesterday morning. We’ll see if it makes a difference in my leveling speed.

My immediate plans are to get Huntr to 40 and then do the same with Paladr. What are you current goals or plans with your toons?

Ding 24; Nice New Armor

May 11, 2007 By Gitr Leave a Comment

I dinged 24 last night after completing [tag]Forrest Magic[/tag] and picking up the seeds in Stonetalon Peak. I tried 4 times to kill [tag]Gerenzo Wrenchwhistle[/tag], but I didn’t have the healing potion to take him down. I’ve never seen him where he was and he had one of the guys that spawns a robot. It was all in the mechanics and strategy…I was playing stupid and with a nearly broken left hand.

Irritated, I ran off and turned in what I had completed, hearthed, flew to TB to get some nice armor and a nice, shiny 18dps blue mace for 7g. I also hooked him up with some more Hulking armor pieces, although my boots and gloves are already better than that set, I went for the shoulder and chest pieces. My leggings look totally…um…flamboyant, shall we say. I can’t wait to get some good pally gear that covers me up again. I went 3 levels refusing to get one set piece that looks like a loincloth and 2 mudflaps.

[tag]Beazel’s Basher[/tag]
Binds when equipped
Main-Hand	Mace
32 – 60 Damage	Speed 2.50
(18.4 damage per second)
+6 Strength
+2 Spirit
Requires Level 24

Ding 23; Getting Forest Magic

May 10, 2007 By Gitr 3 Comments

I dinged 23 with Paladr last night and headed back to Stonetalon Mountains on my normal track using [tag]Joana’s Horde Guide[/tag]. It got my XP rolling again, so I’m happy that I’m still able to level like I should, though I’m thoroughly enjoying playing a healing tank. I’ve got my polearm skill maxed now and working on getting my 1H skills up again to use with my new shield. I’ve updated my profile, but I woke up late this morning and didn’t write down any of my new gear.

My happiest moment of the evening was right before I logged when I was mindlessly fighting Coursers (deer) on my way to Stonetalon Peak for a bunch of quests. First, a new Blue pike dropped off of one (sorry, check my bags for the name). It should sell for about 9g, putting me at 40g already. We discussed how many Blues have dropped. I said I’ve had about 6 drop so far with Paladr. I was mistaken, but it’s been 5 between Huntr and Paladr. I have such a hard time separating stuff like that, but at least I can separate what happens on which realms. 🙂

My second best moment last night was finally getting rid of those annoying buff bar/timers that are always appearing above my head, right over my target, when I engage them. It’s a mod called Chronometer, described as: timer bars for Skills, HoTs, DoTs and more. I HATE it. Well, at least I did before I knew what it was called to attempt to move it. I kind of do like its information, so maybe I’ll re-enable it tonight and move it below me.