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Didn’t Make 40 Yet; New Theme

October 25, 2007 By Gitr 14 Comments

I didn’t get to play last night because of a massive amount of school work. I deferred working on school during our vacation last weekend (hey, you only get a first wedding anniversary once!) and had to play catch-up. The price I had to pay was writing a 2 page analysis on a sucky website in the library two hours before class. That was just Tuesday!

Last night, I still had to read 80 very dense pages of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying to write my weekly 3/4-page critical analysis; for the 6th week without any feedback from the full-doctorate professor. Who knows how I’m doing?! The grades aren’t posted online, she hasn’t given us the papers or the grades, and she was only available to fix her mistake of leaving the papers at home last week during lunch hours Monday and Wednesday. Hello! Some of us have full-time jobs. That’s why we’re taking night classes!

I’m almost done working on a new theme that I found by a terrific web designer. I have every confidence that when it’s completely Gitr-ized, you will love the new feel and tell more of your friends. It is by far the most superior theme I’ve seen available to the public and should really get a foothold on the community. Stay tuned in the next couple of days.

UPDATE: Giving the theme a trial run until I get home from class. Please leave feedback.

Ding 39; Grinding away kill/drop quests

October 23, 2007 By Gitr 5 Comments

Paladr hit 39 last night and frantically tried to level out his Blacksmithing to 300 using the simplest and cheapest methods possible, only to fall short of the next recipe level at the trainer. I think Paladr is at 272 and must need 275 to get the next round in Booty Bay.

I started investigating the specializations and decided to go with Armorsmith and was moderately disappointed to learn that I have to hit level 40 for those recipe quests to become available. I have stored up most of the crafted items used to receive those Ornate Mithril Armor pieces, which I am obviously eager to don at level 40 anyway. I have some nice stuff crafted already, but I can’t wait to see what kind of beating Paladr will take with plate armor.

Ding 38; Herod’s Shoulder + Ardent Custodian

October 19, 2007 By Gitr 7 Comments

After running SM Library and Armory last night, Paladr dinged AOE grinding murlocs in STV this morning. Last night saw the much-drooled about Herod’s Shoulder, which I was the only person emminantly qualified to wear such an awesome piece of armor. At times, we had 7 mobs all over the place, with 5 of them generally hitting me. The mage had no concept of waiting for me to get some damage in before tossing a Fireball or Arcane Missles into the mix. At the beginning, the priest thought that she should be the one to pull, because of her range. “Hello! I have Mana Tap! Watch me pull… you stand back and keep me alive.” We had no combat-related deaths, but the shaman was unable to run out of the Library through the mass of repops. At least it was his idea to just run. 🙂 Here is how my run stacked up as a level 37 tankadin, leaving me one conclusion: I can tank, and I can heal. Those are my roles in-game. Luckily, Huntr just has to do damage, and his build and gear lets him do just that.

Ding 37; Really Itching to Equip My Epic

October 18, 2007 By Gitr 11 Comments

One more level to go for my Ardent Custodian MH mace. I read that it is likely the best pre-MC tanking mace available. I haven’t checked that claim, though I saw that one from Dire Maul has good stats but loses the Defense.

I’ve been 37 for about 3 hours now, and can take on Elites multi-levels above Paladr. I’m testing to see what is the highest melee Elite I can down. He can do a 38 with over half health and half mana left. Both could be higher, but I was getting bored and used some spells. I can wear down anything that doesn’t hit harder than my Seal/Judgement of Light + Bubble/Healing. When Redoubt is up, I’m at 40% blocking, have 9% parry and dodge, a 20 point Mithril Spike, 2200HP, and 1700 mana.

It’s class night tonight, so we’ll see how much playing time I get in when I get home. Tomorrow is a busy Friday before a weekend vacation.

Ding 36; Scarlet Monastery Tankadin Time!

October 15, 2007 By Gitr 5 Comments

First thing’s first: I cleaned up my UI after I realized that there was still too much stuff in my field of vision. I hate the feeling of numbers everywhere, information blocking my view of potential threats, etc. I moved the minimap up to the top corner again and dropped my second chat window into the bottom bar, the damage meter and threat meter only come out to play in groups now, and things look a lot cleaner. I even changed the Scrolling Combat Text to arc so the Consecration damage didn’t run right up the middle over all the action. It was going to be too distracting while tanking.

Bhag’thera Down

October 12, 2007 By Gitr 3 Comments

I solicited Punitor’s help last night in STV to take down Bhag’thera (feel free to make fun of his hat). After waiting 15 minutes where he used to spawn, I found him over a felled log-bridge near the ogres. Then silly me aggroed 3 tigresses/panthers at the same time as Mr. 40 Elite. Doh!

Let’s recount:

Two 38s
One 37
Bhag’thera 40 Elite

I had to rez Punitor because he dropped a DoT on Bhag before dying and then I held aggo and tried fighting him off until he fell. I was actually surprised, thinking I was going to be doing a corpse run for sure. /cheer!

Last, but not least, Punitor is very proud of his free mount and was not ashamed to play steeplechase over me while a tigress was trying to chew me a new bung hole. I got him back by killing him in the process of downing Bhag, though, so it was all good. All’s good that ends dead, I like to say.

I doubt any of you had as much fun in 20 minutes as we did last night, but feel free to try and convince us otherwise. If you link up a purple, I’ll /slap you the next time I see you. 🙂