Gitr Knows WoW

I hit 36 on Saturday in STV getting Lashtail Raptors on the 15 raptor quest from Grom’Gol Base. I turned in the quest and had to kill 4 more to level. Then it was off to Org again to equip my Spellforce Rod that I had in the bank and to hunt for more 36 or other gear. The AH was really hopping this weekend.

I believe I got my first Robe of the Magi before Friday, or on Friday for 30G. Auctioneer told me it should sell for 39G. So I went for it. I decided that if it was that easy to come by 9G, then I could part with it and get another one later. I put it up for 41G and it sold. On Sunday, I bought an Elemental Raiment that showed my shorts again. I haven’t seen my legs in about 30 levels. At least my Necromancer Leggings are also black. With the nice golden Sutarn’s Ring, everything looks pretty nice together. My wife has been teaching me these things since we started dating, so I’m starting to get how colors make you feel better. Looking at those stats, I’d have to agree.

Wow, that is a lot of blues.

Now, I have a serious equpment issue, so listen (or read) up closely. My profile has all this equipment up if you want to just look there, or here are the links of my query:

 

I also acquired another Robe of the Magi this morning. Should I sell it or equip it or go for a Robe of Power after I sell it instead of equipping it?

I’m 1/3 of the way through the level, so things are moving along nicely for how much time I’ve played Deadr. His /played time is 4 days, 13 hours, and I’ve spent a LOT of time doing auctions. That reminds me, I broke 100G on Saturday morning before I bought the robe. I’ve got quite a bit of gold wrapped up in that equipment I just linked up, and not all of it has been equipped and can still be resold.

I played a couple of WSGs to try to get to Friendly with the Warsong Outriders. I’m not seeing any reputation increases as I play, so does anyone know exactly what it is that gives rep rather than honor?

For weekends, I will start out by listing links of good news, articles, sites, and blogs I have found during the week.

• Is Joana’s 1-60 Horde Leveling WoW Guide Really Worth It?
• Joana’s World
• World of Warcraft Addiction
• Top 10 Things Not to do in WoW until Jan 16th
• Finding a virtual identity
• Inner Fire’s Priest Healing Guide

I’m sitting here thinking about why I’m blogging WoW. Before October 2005, I had never heard the word blog. I don’t know how I managed that. I’m on the computer all the time. I’m a geek. I used to be a dork (I could do a whole post on the differences between geek and dork). When I discovered Blogspot.com, I couldn’t think of a darn thing to blog about. It basically came down to ‘What do I do every day?’ I ate, slept, worked, talked to K on the phone (or saw her), and played WoW. Out of those choices, I figured WoW had the potential for the most interest for others. It offered:

• contantly updated content
• content that at least 1 million people were surfing for
• little or no creativity at times (it happened)
• easy graphics (Print Screen)
• an instant community of geeks
• anonynimity

Within a month, my Blogspot site was showing up on Google with pretty good regularity. I’m currently #2. I’m #1 in Alexa. Readership is lacking, though. People are visiting and leaving right away. It is kind of sad to look at your stats and see 50 visits on a page and all but 3 of them are registering as 1 page and 0:00 time spent. That is when I decided it was time to really revamp things and make it at least look like people would want to stay and read. I used to have quite a few readers that have stopped. I don’t know why, but I hope it wasn’t my content or the look of the place.

I am a perfectionist at heart and I am always looking for ways to improve myself and the things around me. I suppose this blog is an outlet for my need to improve and control things. I even created two more Blogger.com blogs to have more outlets. I created an office humor/omg!/log and a more creative blog about my idiotic ideas about parenting. Those have virtually no content because they require creativity. I control the theme of the site. I control the words and photos I use. What I can’t control is you. The reader is in charge.

Now, I ask you, “What is it that you come here for?” My guesses have landed on the following things, but nothing has really happened to the readership. I am still getting Google hits and then they leave.

• guides
• tips
• links
• industry news

What I don’t want this blog to be is a link-fest to other WoW-related sites about releases, patches, and complex formulas for hardcore raiding tactics. What it also can’t be is a daily log of a raider going into the end-game instances like Gitr used to.

So…why ARE you here?

I imported all of Priestr’s posts and comments from his blog this morning. As you search for priestly things, all of his stuff is here now, screenshots and all. 

Deadr made his way to Stonard this morning. It was a harrowing journey through Ganklethorn Vale, as Shalkis put it, and a very maddening run through Duskwood. When I got to the bridge leaving STV, a level 45 Paladin on a horse dismounted and started casting crap on me. I bubbled and started running. I kept using Psychic Scream and bubbling. He, and I’ll use his name so he can Google for some attention: Conorr, chased me all the way to Darkshire where I took an angle to avoid the town and flight point.

After I made it to the Swamp of Sorrows, I grinned as I saw like-level mobs again. Everything was level 35-37. Perfect. And none of them run away when you are about to kill them, either. I hate chasing things after I kill them, which beats what I always had to do with Gitr: chase them TO kill them.

I followed Shalkis’ advice and started killing Dreaming Whelps after I got the flight point and some limited supply items from NPCs to sell. They do pack a whollop, though. They were ticking me off for about 145 HP per cast. I should look into some Arcane Resistance if I’m going to fight them for long. I got one Green Whelp Scales and it sold for 95s in the AH. Not one stack. ONE. I also say Itharius is an idiot. What right-minded individual, trapped in a cave, in a swamp, surrounded by dragons and jaguars says this when someone comes to rescue him:

I had to wait a few minutes to hearth back to Org, so I killed some time with jaguars and crocs. I was on crunch time with getting ready to leave for work while K got ready. I hearthed and re-posted my Volcanic Shoulders pattern for about the 10th time. Maybe Auctioneer lied about the deal I got. I looked in the AH for some of my wish list that isn’t BoP, and only found Sutarn’s Ring and noticed that the Staff of Jordan is down to 200G.

Tonight is steak night, so I’m looking forward to grilling. We can’t have grills out on the porches, so we got a grill griddle for the stovetop and I can really let things cook in their juices or marinades on it. It’s really fun to caramelize honey that drips of when I brush it on. It makes a nice golden color that looks really good when I put the grill marks on it at the end.

I finally got the bug out that was screwing up the columns for Internet Explorer. It ended up being the Digg Reloaded plugin. I guess my CSS and HTML are better than how concerned I was getting about my skills. I could have kept looking at the code all day every day and never found anything wrong with the code for the styles.css

I have everything the way I want, except I will be making the header fade move over to the right enough to cover the third column. I will be brainstorming some ideas to make my blog fresh. It needs something special to stand out. The graphics aren’t great, and the coding is pretty plain, so it is desiring some bang. I got the idea to get some more bang from Copyblogger’s post: What Prince Can Teach You About Effective Blogging.

On the life note, we took K’s care to the auto shop last night. He ran some diagnostics this morning, and it was one of the three things I feared: the engine, computer, or transmission. It was slipping and refusing to shift and stalling at the worst possible times. The tests showed it all being related to the torque converter putting strain on the engine for the stalls, and the obvious issue of slippage. Married for three weeks, and financial strain already. It sucks, but we’ll get through it. I’ve got a decent position that allows me to work more overtime than I’m physically able, so getting hours won’t be an issue.

I played for about half an hour this morning before work, just trying to wake up after such a nasty awakening this morning. My alarm went off! This was my first morning being tired since we got married, so I guess it was long overdue. We had a long day yesterday, so we’d best get some sleep tonight, because we BOTH have work tomorrow. K has Thursdays off to catch up on errands and housework. Errands are getting postponed until I get off work because of a lack of a “K-car.”

It looks like we can view cached pages from gaming sites from work now, so I went through my slots today and came up with a wish list. Any comments or improvements to the list are very welcome.

Head:
Electromagnetic Gigaflux Reactivator

Neck:
Glowing Eye of Mordresh

Back:
Mantle of Lady Falther’ess

Shoulders: I’ll put up with Twilight Mantle of the Owl until I can get something else.

Chest:
Robe of Power
Robe of the Magi

Waist:
Deathmage Sash

Hands: I’m stuck with my Gloves of Old and Twilight Gloves of Healing

Legs: I’m fine with my Necromancer Leggings

Feet:
Thoughtcast Boots

Finger:
Underworld Band

Advisor’s Ring

Trinket:
Rune of Perfection

Main/Off-Hand: I bought, but need to ding 36 to use my Spellforce Rod
Illusionary Rod
Staff of Jordan

Wand:
Lady Falther’ess’ Finger