Gitr Knows WoW

I’ve been quite busy in RL and not getting as much play time as normal. Here’s the scoop. I really need to get organized and more presentable. I haven’t ever been good at being a neat person, but used to be quite fickle about my hair growing up. The part had to be just right, including that spiral in the back. I was late to school a couple of times because I had a “surfer’s curl” barrel wave in the back when I was about 12 years old.

Anyhoo. My room is somewhat messy. It’s been WAY way wayyyy worse, but I’d like to get everything in its place, toss stuff I won’t move out with me, and basically fumigate it for anything that may have decided to take up residence with me. That shouldn’t take too long.

My nagging problems that are always staring me in the face are my car and my general appearance. I think both will be easy to improve, but will just take a little extra time. As for my car, when I go out in the morning, I usually have an extra shirt or papers or something that I might want for the day. Every day I go out with my girlfriend, I’m sure to get a carry-out cup that goes in the console. What I don’t do is take my shirt in at night or throw the cup away. The next time I get a drink, I empty the old cup and put it behind my seat. I have a 4-door sedan. This allows for a lot of cups. I need a viable trash bag/can/incinerator solution for when I’m driving. I can’t be turning around throwing stuff away, but I can’t be all up in her space on the passenger side, either. Hmmm.

My appearance. That’s simple. I just need to make sure my eyelashes are debris-free, my beard is neat (I just trimmed it 1/8″ short), and that my clothes are wrinkle-free. That is the big thing. If I don’t take the clothes out of the dryer right away and hang them up, they will still be wrinkled when I put them on. Not badly enough to warrant an ironing to me, but it drives her up the wall when I’m out and about all day, then she sees me and wonders how many people saw my wrinkled clothes. My defense is that no one from work ever says anything about my clothes, but she’s probably right that they can’t talk to me like that, so they just don’t say anything.

So, getting this stuff straightend out is taking some time away from WoW, but I will get some good play time tonight.

Nothing much to report today. It was a busy weekend. I had to go into work for about 6 hours on Saturday (Bah!) and got to play a little while doing laundry and waiting for the Denver game. Some would call it the Denver-New England game, but obviously only one team counted. Yay Broncos! Yay for first post-Elway post-season win!

Anyway, I got Druidr up to lvl 14 and went to the AH to do a scan with Gitr a little after halftime. As I logged in, it suddenly came up with the server shutdown time at 00:45 and counting. Next thing I know, I’m disconnected. I tried Twisting Nether to see what was up, and got on fine. Kargath wasn’t even listed as a server.

As I started an AH scan with little Gitr, I saw that The Forge, Pathos Hammer’s militia PvP posse, was heading out. All levels welcome and required for members. I bowed out because, gee, it was the end of the 3rd quarter and still way too close to call. A touchdown, fumble, and interception later, it was time to go back to my desktop for some PvP action.

Arathi Highlands is a very interesting place to be as a level 16 warrior. First, my agg radius is like 3 miles, and as a warrior I have to way to take agg off me. They spent half their time keeping me alive between battles. I died about 10 times, but got 28 HK during my alive times, without killing anyone myself. As soon as I level to 60, I’m playing Pathos Hammer more. That was fun.

I got the site I was freelancing fixed last night. It was a frustrating time with tags and which class id to use to get things to work. The issue was text being a ghostly gray in IE, but perfect with Firefox. That color was not listed anywhere in the .css file, but I eventually got it by changing the class, editing the class, and getting it to the right font and lowercase. I’m quite proud of it, now for some equally impressive Google placement like this site. 🙂 I hope it doesn’t take too long. The higher it goes, the bigger the bonus. Go front page!!

Question for Josh Dura, I can’t get the border to appear on linked images, and get it off images like the 24 book and blogshares. I see no way to differentiate the code for which images get outlines, like how the smiley face is crapped up now 🙁

It’s date night, so I’ll be getting on a little later than normal. Last night I had some freelancing to take care of. I talked my way into setting up a press release blog for a company doing an initial product release. It will be a central location just for reading the press releases and they can sign up for the RSS or XML feeds, too. So, not much is getting done in the way of leveling or anything.

I played Druidr a while and almost got him to 13 in Westfall. I just keep going after the trappers and smugglers. He’s amost done. That will level him as soon as he turns it in after the last few kills. Then it’s on to the gnolls and I think the Messenger. At that point, he should be 14 and ready to return to the bear spirit for more druid training.

I need to level Grimr for improved alchemy training. He’s at 150/150 and needs to get to 35 to take him all the way to 300. At that point it will be tempting to level a couple more times and tame an elite beast in STV with the help of a priestly bubble. I’ve never done that, and it sounds like fun. Sin’Dal is a 37 Elite from what I remember. Then King Bangalash is a 43 Elite. Those would hold me over for several levels each. King B. might even last me until 50.

Gitr, Gitr. I fully expect to hit 56 over the weekend, unless the Broncos game takes too much time out of my schedule. Saturday morning is shot with errands, so it’s going to be tight. My alts might have to wait until next week if Gitr’s going to level.

Tox wants rugged leather to make rugged armor kits for turn-ins for the Alliance. I’ll probably go kill apes in Un’goro. I killed about 15 worms in EP last night and not a single larva acid drop. That really made me made because I died twice when random bats would fly too close. Those areas are really too dense with worms, dogs, and bats all doing their own things.

Gitr hit 55 while getting Yeti skins and Pristine Yeti horns in Winterspring. Then it was off to Scholo with a partial in-house, partial PuG. I HATE PuGs, but this one worked just fine. No wipes and only about 5 deaths. I got the Boots of Valor, and a loot list to follow in the morning. Here is the summary with one missing portrait that I’m quite upset that I didn’t get because I was too busy getting the 1H mace off him.

We ran 2 Baron runs back to back last night with in-house raids. We did a 10-man first with what was referred to as “omgdps.” 🙂 We had all 60s but a 54 and a 55. The raid included a total of 5 mages and warlocks that just plain nuked everything. With a slow 2H sword, I usually didn’t get 2 swings in before something died. Baron even fell in about 15 seconds. It was ridiculous zergging.

The second run was an 8-man with much less dps, so it was a little more controlled. We lost me a time or two when I actually got aggro when I tripped Recklessness and critted 3 times in a row.

It was an awesome night for loot:

Band of Flesh
Ramstein’s Lightning Bolts
Chitinous Plate Legguards
Peacemaker
Crest of Retribution
Skullforge Reaver
3x Corruptor’s Scourgestone
Banshee’s Touch
Massacre Sword 

Of course, a lot of that stuff requires leveling to equip it, but I’m up to the challenge. I’ll be taking the night off, getting Gitr some rest, and then we’ll probably do Strat live side on Thursday night.

Gitr has made it to the big time! I’ll avoid the talking for this post and let the pictures to the talking.

After all of that excitement, I got my second +15 AGI enchant on my Dawn’s Edges. I sent Druidr some lesser healing potions and logged in to level him and to kill Hogger while still an 11. I did it. That’s all there is to it, folks. Druids rock.

The trick to playing druid is simply to keep your health high enough to continue wearing them down with the bear form, and I suppose also to rip them apart in cat form. The order of action was:
Roots, wrath, wrath, wrath, wrath, arcane, bear form, druid form, lesser healing potion, bear form, druid form, healing touch, arcane, bear form, Hogger dies. That was fun, let’s do it again.