Gitr Knows WoW

I’ve noticed one thing that bothers me about playing a Horde toon: the General Chat channel is terribly sophomoric. I cannot get over the number of juvenille things I’ve seen on the channel since I started seriously leveling Deadr.

It has forced me to /leave 1 every zone I go to. It’s totally unnecessary for all that chatter that EVERYONE has to see. Isn’t that what whispers are for? I know I like to give a good harassment to idiots and jerks from time to time, but I don’t make the whole server or zone watch it.

Oh, sure, I’ve seen that more often on Kargath playing an Alliance character, but I have over 50 DAYS of playtime for Alliance. I got on Dethecus to play with my cousin in Texas as an Orc warrior and had to /gquit after 7 levels because his guild was full of bad-mouthing short-bussers who were taking it to the next level by drawing pictures using the chat windows, trying to see who could draw the best rack.

So my basic premise is, I think that in an RPG, people with a bit more delinquency and other associated problems that generate the above behavior will tend to lean toward the “dark” side and play a Horde avatar.

This is certainly not the case with everyone, as some people play both sides, and others play as perfectly well-adjusted adults who can form good, solid, mature guilds. If there was a study on it, though, I’d bet that there are more societal outcasts on the Horde side. This idea is so engrained in my head from my past experiences on other realms that I actually had a decent amount of internal resistance to creating Deadr on Burning Legion. I finally figured I’d do the best that I could and be a priest. 🙂

Think of it this way: on how many Horde PvP’er blogs do you see them complaining about ganking?

Controversy time over. I’m working down the list from 10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic. We’ll see which technique floats my boat next.

I have found a design that I like. Now it is *just* a matter of gathering all of the WordPress IDs and classes from my existing template and making them work with it. The change is a total overhaul and probably more than I can bite off taking baby steps, so we’ll see how it goes.

I got Deadr up to level 16 last night, making him my highest-level PvP avatar. I found the apothecary I was seeing the dot for in Undercity, too. That was tricky. 🙂 Now, just to find some PuGs to run Deadmines over and over again to get Cookie’s Stirring Rod.

I got to 15 by running all of the Arugal quests by and in the cave by the Sepulcher. I found those guys by accident and found them to be pleasing to my XP and just right for maximum fun without stopping. At level 14, I finally realized that my wand was as powerful as my Mind Blast, so I should just save the mana. Unless I was in the cave and facing the possiblity of a re-pop right next to me, I even stopped using my bubble to minimize waiting and any mana usage at all. It’s quite silly to have 954 mana and never stop killing at your level and never get below 75% mana and 90% health. Boy does that change later on 🙂 That fun stopped after turning in the last quest to that guy before he tried to send me down to the village outside SFK. Time to go to Kalimdor, methinks.

My Kalimdor adventures started with flying back to the Crossroads. First, I dropped off 2 delivery quests and headed West to the Oasis for some fungus. I killed raptors and striders along the way and had 3 quests to turn in when I got back to Crossroads. Then it was back out there to kill the zevbrahs, and then again to kill the prowlers, and AGAIN to kill Echeyakee, who was quite possibly the biggest let down of any “go kill that big bad end of questline monsters” I can think of. I even drew an add and slaughtered both of them in 30 seconds. After that, it was just a matter of going to kill the scytheclaw raptors and look at their nests for the level-up. It was 10:00 and time to hit the hay for work.

Sorry folks. I had to add the security plug-in code to the comments file. We’re back in business.

I found two interesting sites today in my travels online. The first one was a complete surprise and took me a while to figure out what it was. Netvibes is a personalized page service that puts the hottest web content onto one page, including news feeds and blog feeds. I’m going to have to put some time in this week to get all of my wanderings centralized there, but I think it will be great.

The second site is kind of a re-discovery. I have had it up for quite a while in my links list, but I haven’t been bored enough to click ALL of my links until today. Problogger is a site by Darren Rowse that helps bloggers make a living from blogging. Pretty much everything is there. There were days after I found this site the first time that I thought about playing so much WoW that I could blog in the morning and play WoW all day, and thus becoming a professional gamer. Isn’t that what we all want in our deep-down childish, self-centered, lazy parts of our minds?

Sure, I could do great things at work and become a respected technical editor. I’d be contributing to the Company, my family, and the marketplace by turning out a great product that is used to train those who serve and protect us. But no one would know that I was the last person to approve that manual going out the door to that $13 Million piece of equipment. On the other hand, as Gitr, I am sitting at the #2 spot in Google searches for ‘wow blog.’ Despite all of that visibility, no one knows about me, the person. Hmmm. Does that matter? Heck no. I’m going for the #1 anonymous place.

Why can’t Undead toons stand up straight? It seems to me that if a skeleton can walk, run, jump, and kill like William Wallace, they should be able to straighten up and walk tall. I just spent some good money on a belt and I can’t see the stupid thing. That’s my thing for the day.

I leveled 13 and 14 last night in the Eastern Kingdom. I have a couple of people I need to kill and an Apothecary that I can’t seem to access in Undercity. He shows up as a dot on my minimap, but appears to be 50 feet above or below my head with no access bridge or tunnel to get there. I’m going to have to Thottbot it.

If I get a chance to play tonight, I’ll head over to Kalimdor again and hunt lions and go to the Oasis. There should still be some good Crossroads quests to plow through. I’ll do some leg work and research which ones are parts of chains.

With Burning Legion being a PvP server, I’m still pondering how one does Deadmines. I’ve been ganked plenty of times around Sentinel Hill as Alliance when I’ve had my PvP flag up, so I have no idea how a level 14 is going to walk around there. Also, there must be some other quest-givers for VC for Horde, giving me yet more stuff to look up.

Some of Aeigelus’ friends ran me through SFK last night. I ended up with the Robes of Arugal, which I should be able to wear some time next week. I remember that there are about 4 good pieces for casters in there, but everything that was dropping was for leather wearers, until that.