Gitr Knows WoW

Deadr entered the PvP realm last night and went to 2 Warsong Gulch Battles and an Arathi Basin debacle. The first WSG took a mere 8 minutes for a Horde victory, with Deadr getting 23 HK and 2 killing blows.

Then came the interesting part, my first ever AB. I’ve never waited out the queue for an AB on Kargath as an Alliance toon. They have always been more than an hour. I think I was in the queue last night for all of 53 seconds. I had no idea where to go, I couldn’t get ClickHeal to show the Raid party, and the Alliance players were killing all around me. After about a minute, I got the raid to show up, and I started healing everyone around me. After many, many deaths, we lost 2000-1980. Everyone was talking on the raid channel about how good of a game it was. Whatever. I have no clue. I ended with another 36 HK.

Then came the longest WSG ever. A 48 minute zerg of the idiots. I’ll say this for their method: it worked at slowing us down. Every 2 minutes or so, 7 of them would zerg our fort. Eventually, we got 3 steals when we fortified and took them down with brute force in our flag room. Thankfully, they had one lvl 21 and a 23, but the rest were 29s. My bubble doesn’t last long against a dual-sword-wielding rogue 3 levels above me.

So I ended the night with 78 HK and turned in my badges for WSG for 2800xp.

There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom. Deadr dinged 26 last night. Korgg was available to take me around Thousand Needles and we finished 5 quests in under an hour. I only had to grind the centaurs near Freewind Post for 30 minutes or so before I dinged. I dropped 10g on a Gnarled Ash Staff for a few extra stats.

I updated my profile and was a bit surprised to see that I’m up to 1700 mana. Then I checked Priestr’s profile, who is sitting at level 27, with 1900 mana. He has a bit of a different build, though. He’s built for pure grouping and instances, so I pumped up his +INT, and he has 12 more INT in item bonuses, while Deadr has about the same advantage in +SPI for gaining mana back for non-stop grinding.

I’m not quite sure where to go next, after the centaurs, but I think there are still higher level mobs left in Thousand Needles. I will probably explore the pinnacle a bit more now that I have another level under my belt.

At this point, I’m not sure if I’m more warrior or priest, but I hit 60 as a warrior first, and have yet to hit 30 with a priest. 🙂

1. For the first 5 levels, kill EVERYTHING in sight, everywhere you go.
2. Find out what gathering profession’s goods sell best on your server, and pick that profession for financing your clothes and wands.
3. Don’t waste money on potions, with the exception of a maximum health potion to save your butt if you’re getting hit by multiple mobs.
4. Use your wand to save mana. You’ll need your mana to bubble and heal in a bind.
5. After level 10, only buy armor that increases your stats. Don’t bother with a huge stat in one category (i.e., Belt of Intellect +9 INT) if there is another item with 2 decent stats that add up to a bigger bonus.
6. If you’re in a grinding mood, get kill quests. If you’re bored, get point A, point B quests to boost your XP.
7. Don’t forget to use Inner Fire at all times. Your health will stay up longer after your bubble goes down with that extra 15% damage reduction.
8. Strike with a casting spell first, preferably a DOT, followed by instant casts, and finish the mob off with the wand to regenerate your mana for the next fight. I do not carry drinks of any kind while grinding.
9. If you accidently pull 2 mobs, at least put a DOT on one of them while you take care of the other.
10. Keep the best wand possible. With this style of fighting, your wand will influence your killing rate, and thus your leveling rate, the most.

I hope this list helps you in your adventures as a cloth-wearing healer.

Maybe it’s not the Horde. Maybe it’s not the Alliance.

It’s bored people.

When I logged in last night, there was some major ganking going on in Hillsbrad. I landed at the Tarren Mill flight point and immediately got stunned and backstabbed. It was a short little “fight.” The evil-doer was a “??” level druid. There were two of them at first, then it got up to about 8 Alliance.

In the afternoon, I was making my way toward the Hillsbrad Farms to give the Elixir of Pain to a dog, had been fighting a few farmers for a few minutes to gain access to the dog, and along came an elf priest who Shadow Word: Pain’d me, and whacked me with her staff and kept running. Thanks for the 4 minute ghost run for nothing.

I’ve never done any such thing as a toon on either side. Then again, when I’m bored, I go play the AH, not make other people’s experience miserable. As in real life, the World of Warcraft world would be a better place if people would just abide by the golden rule. I mean, seriously, how hard is it to think, “if this happened to me, I’d be pissed?”

Is it just that being remote, representative bits of information allows people to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t? I think so. I think most of the people who do are doing that kind of stuff are the same ones soiling their pants if someone gets out of the car that they just honked at, not the ones getting out of their car because they were honked at. I don’t believe insecurity exists nearly as much in MMORPGs, with the exception of large guilds where there are obviously more talented people with higher ranks, gear, etc. When it comes to just wandering around the countryside in Tier .5 gear, sure, why not kill the little 25 trying to finish his quest? It will be fun to see how fast he dies.

Anyway, I need to get back to work. 🙂

It’s a great number. A U.S. quarter of a dollar, discounts on renting cars (or at least no surcharges), silver anniversary, auto insurance discount, etc. The list can get extensive, but this is a World of Warcraft blog, not a list blog.

Check out Deadr’s profile to see some good AH work. I believe it’s set to show my gold amounts. Last night, I passed 65g at level 25. I immediately went to the Auction Hall to buy more stuff. I logged off with 50g in my bags and over 50g in auctions that were priced to sell.

Now for a diatribe about Alliance jerks in my next post.

Deadr hit 24 yesterday. Two days of grinding and a bunch of quests with Rhone in Hillsbrad will do that for a priest. My AH work is going well. I’ve got some darn good equipment for my level without doing instances yet. I dropped a pretty penny of about 12g on my Necrology Robes because I wanted the +12 Int. There is a really nice wand that appears every now and again, but it uses Nature Damage, so I’m passing on the temptation.

Nothing much more to write about until some big sales go through or I get into some groups in some instances.