Couples do many things that people would consider strange or omgwow. Like wear matching sweatshirts and sweatpants... to the mall. or they wear tshirts that says, im with stupid. or use each others deoderants.
And other couples make a guild and play together.
This happens in wow with some success and some failings. One such success is Shadows and Dust, on ravenholdt. top guild in ravenholdt. has a few couples in the leadership playing together. thats great.
then there are the no-name guilds that i've been to that were started by couples. Army of Tranquility (started by a couple that broke up after a year), Blood of the Sun (very social leveling guild started by a college couple, but bf played a lot less than gf) and a couple others i cant remember. of course, these are no-name guilds because no one really knows them.
So why am i mentioning these guilds started by couples? well, because i am going to start a guild in ysondre with my gf. we're going to have a bunch of social levelers together and manage a group of rag-tag folks just looking to meet friends. We're going to call ourselves "Team Jacob". yes..... team jacob. <Team Jacob>
Seriously.
hey... its what couples do.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
To Devynity.... and Beyond!!
This post will be about Devynity, my almost level 80 paladin.
As many of you know, he's leveling through this game as ret. from day one, he's been ret (yes, i leveled him to level 10 on the first day or so and gave his first retribution talent point) and will probably always be ret. One of the reasons he will stay ret is because i already have a paladin tank on another server. so making him a tank would mean going through the whole gear set grind. im happy with the gear i already have for Devynity, mail pants included. there is really no reason why he needs to do tank stuffs, unless he wants to get insta-queues and attempt to roll on dps plate vs. dks, paladins and warriors. but he doesnt. he wants to get priority when it comes to rolls for dps plate. he doesnt want to ask, "is it ok for me to need for offspec, please?" i mean if i even see a dk/war/paladin in the group when im taking, im going to automatically pass on the dps plate drops unless they dont "need" it. its just another concern i'll have out of the way. i dont really want to deal with it really.
The other reason why Devynity will not be going prot is because he's got no bag space left. none. nada. he's got an enchanting bad in the bank and filled bank full of frostweave bags. he's carrying around all frostweave bags and his backpack. he's got a bunch of enchanting mats that he still needs to use to skill up his enchanting (currently pretty low, in outland enchanting levels, but enough to DE nr blues but not purples). He's got inscription to about 85, but there's absolutely zero room for herbs, glyphs, parchments, inks, pigments, etc. zero room. All of his fish are sent to the alts to sell. There are a bunch of enchants he still needs to get rid of (that no one wants to buy!).
So because of the limited bagspace, the many professions he's already got to deal with and the constant annoyances of tanking heroics (see many previous posts about this), he's not tanking. ever.
Sorry Manda, i know you wanted me to tank stuff for you. i wish i could. but i wont. i love dps too much to change. i wish my gearset can be stored in a different bag. i wish i can put it in a closet instead. you know. all soulbound gear should be stored in a closet. that would rock.
SOOOOOOO..... moving on, devynity will be doing heroics when he reachs 80. he will get to do heroics instantly, i believe, as much of his gear is now pretty decent, with almost no green gear except maybe for a trinket, but thats it. most of his gear is level 175+ so hopefully he can get into the heroic randoms quickly. also, he's specifically choosing Culling of Stratholme, Halls of Lightning, Utgarde Pinnicle and Oculus instead of using the dungeon finder tool. these four instances are more beneficial. god knows why a level 79 should be doing halls of stone or worse, gundrak, for their daily random. but i'll do them if i have to. i dont want to tho. i'd sooo rather do the other four level 80 instanes because really, those are the places where i will actually get gear that will count to getting me into random heroic runs. otherwise, im stuck at 80 doing regular HoL over and over or... buying my gear. desing flaw anyone? indeed. especially when people dont even do normal instances anymore at 80, unless its the later instances like forge of souls.
But seriously blizzard, why do you make us suffer through normal halls of lightning for the 8th time when we're already 80, have two pieces of triumph gear? only because we have a trinket that is level 135 and a cape that's level 156? we cant even queue for ToC because our gear isnt good enough yet? what is this shit? When my warlock guildie hit 80, she ended up having to go through two instances before she could actually join a heroic run. in those runs though, she did upgrade three different items. but the upgrade wasnt by a whole lot, and in the end, when we did enter normal ToC, her dps was about the same. (i get it tho, you want people who randomly q for groups to at least qualify via some gear scoring system, and so it will eliminate some of the fruststrations of pugging at 80. but still... i have 6 80s. come on now.) /rant
now back to devynity's progression. he'll continue to fish. he'll also continue to cook. what he'll stop doing is inscription altogether for the next month or two. i really just want him to get a good base of enchants and get a feel for the enchanting market on our server. also, i'd like him to continue to fish for gold and kirin tor rep. as well, he should be able to dish out some good damage in heroics. he'll be a character with just a few pieces of triumph gear, as i dont really care of he does 2k dps or 3k dps. actually, i'd like him to stay at around 2k dps (which means get all the ilevel200 gear from heroics bosses) which may mean i'll only use my triumph badges for my libram and only my libram.
why do i want my dps at 2k? because thats really all i need in heroics. sure, doing more might be stroking my epeen, but then again, anyone in iCC gear should be able to do more than 4k dps anyway. so what does that have to do with anything? do i really want to repeat Krakkenskull's and Akeelah's project on Devynity? i'll have to think about that. but i do realize that if i only do heroics for now, there's really no need to be buying better gear. those "free" drops from instance bosses are just fine. granted, i might have to run the instances many times, but im going to do that anyway. in the end, i really dont think it will matter except, unless i decide i may want to pug ICC. rep runs? sure! GKP runs?? i'll still have to amass some gold. pugs? this might be a good time to just join a pug for the hell of it. we'll see.
but that's it for my plans. thats all devynity will be doing. hopefully, if i like ret enough, my prot paladin will dual spec ret. i dont know why. i just think it will be fun. maybe. i dont know entirely where im headed with this. i just know that devynity is a blast to play, but his playstyle will get boring eventually. i dont want to go the pvp route though, since i know i have other characters im leveling up just for the sole purpose of pvp.
all in all, things are a little busy for me on RH, as im with a new guild. which gives me reason to be there. but eventually, if i dont find anyone to talk to in-guild, i might just quit the guild. i mean im there for some social interaction, but its been almost a week, and i am welcomed with silence most of the time, even when i say hello or when i ask how's everyone. i get zero response from the 15-20 people online. this does make me sad and i dont know what to tell my friend who invited me to join the guild. we'll see how that goes. but for now, and for the past two years, i havent been able to really find a home.
As many of you know, he's leveling through this game as ret. from day one, he's been ret (yes, i leveled him to level 10 on the first day or so and gave his first retribution talent point) and will probably always be ret. One of the reasons he will stay ret is because i already have a paladin tank on another server. so making him a tank would mean going through the whole gear set grind. im happy with the gear i already have for Devynity, mail pants included. there is really no reason why he needs to do tank stuffs, unless he wants to get insta-queues and attempt to roll on dps plate vs. dks, paladins and warriors. but he doesnt. he wants to get priority when it comes to rolls for dps plate. he doesnt want to ask, "is it ok for me to need for offspec, please?" i mean if i even see a dk/war/paladin in the group when im taking, im going to automatically pass on the dps plate drops unless they dont "need" it. its just another concern i'll have out of the way. i dont really want to deal with it really.
The other reason why Devynity will not be going prot is because he's got no bag space left. none. nada. he's got an enchanting bad in the bank and filled bank full of frostweave bags. he's carrying around all frostweave bags and his backpack. he's got a bunch of enchanting mats that he still needs to use to skill up his enchanting (currently pretty low, in outland enchanting levels, but enough to DE nr blues but not purples). He's got inscription to about 85, but there's absolutely zero room for herbs, glyphs, parchments, inks, pigments, etc. zero room. All of his fish are sent to the alts to sell. There are a bunch of enchants he still needs to get rid of (that no one wants to buy!).
So because of the limited bagspace, the many professions he's already got to deal with and the constant annoyances of tanking heroics (see many previous posts about this), he's not tanking. ever.
Sorry Manda, i know you wanted me to tank stuff for you. i wish i could. but i wont. i love dps too much to change. i wish my gearset can be stored in a different bag. i wish i can put it in a closet instead. you know. all soulbound gear should be stored in a closet. that would rock.
SOOOOOOO..... moving on, devynity will be doing heroics when he reachs 80. he will get to do heroics instantly, i believe, as much of his gear is now pretty decent, with almost no green gear except maybe for a trinket, but thats it. most of his gear is level 175+ so hopefully he can get into the heroic randoms quickly. also, he's specifically choosing Culling of Stratholme, Halls of Lightning, Utgarde Pinnicle and Oculus instead of using the dungeon finder tool. these four instances are more beneficial. god knows why a level 79 should be doing halls of stone or worse, gundrak, for their daily random. but i'll do them if i have to. i dont want to tho. i'd sooo rather do the other four level 80 instanes because really, those are the places where i will actually get gear that will count to getting me into random heroic runs. otherwise, im stuck at 80 doing regular HoL over and over or... buying my gear. desing flaw anyone? indeed. especially when people dont even do normal instances anymore at 80, unless its the later instances like forge of souls.
But seriously blizzard, why do you make us suffer through normal halls of lightning for the 8th time when we're already 80, have two pieces of triumph gear? only because we have a trinket that is level 135 and a cape that's level 156? we cant even queue for ToC because our gear isnt good enough yet? what is this shit? When my warlock guildie hit 80, she ended up having to go through two instances before she could actually join a heroic run. in those runs though, she did upgrade three different items. but the upgrade wasnt by a whole lot, and in the end, when we did enter normal ToC, her dps was about the same. (i get it tho, you want people who randomly q for groups to at least qualify via some gear scoring system, and so it will eliminate some of the fruststrations of pugging at 80. but still... i have 6 80s. come on now.) /rant
now back to devynity's progression. he'll continue to fish. he'll also continue to cook. what he'll stop doing is inscription altogether for the next month or two. i really just want him to get a good base of enchants and get a feel for the enchanting market on our server. also, i'd like him to continue to fish for gold and kirin tor rep. as well, he should be able to dish out some good damage in heroics. he'll be a character with just a few pieces of triumph gear, as i dont really care of he does 2k dps or 3k dps. actually, i'd like him to stay at around 2k dps (which means get all the ilevel200 gear from heroics bosses) which may mean i'll only use my triumph badges for my libram and only my libram.
why do i want my dps at 2k? because thats really all i need in heroics. sure, doing more might be stroking my epeen, but then again, anyone in iCC gear should be able to do more than 4k dps anyway. so what does that have to do with anything? do i really want to repeat Krakkenskull's and Akeelah's project on Devynity? i'll have to think about that. but i do realize that if i only do heroics for now, there's really no need to be buying better gear. those "free" drops from instance bosses are just fine. granted, i might have to run the instances many times, but im going to do that anyway. in the end, i really dont think it will matter except, unless i decide i may want to pug ICC. rep runs? sure! GKP runs?? i'll still have to amass some gold. pugs? this might be a good time to just join a pug for the hell of it. we'll see.
but that's it for my plans. thats all devynity will be doing. hopefully, if i like ret enough, my prot paladin will dual spec ret. i dont know why. i just think it will be fun. maybe. i dont know entirely where im headed with this. i just know that devynity is a blast to play, but his playstyle will get boring eventually. i dont want to go the pvp route though, since i know i have other characters im leveling up just for the sole purpose of pvp.
all in all, things are a little busy for me on RH, as im with a new guild. which gives me reason to be there. but eventually, if i dont find anyone to talk to in-guild, i might just quit the guild. i mean im there for some social interaction, but its been almost a week, and i am welcomed with silence most of the time, even when i say hello or when i ask how's everyone. i get zero response from the 15-20 people online. this does make me sad and i dont know what to tell my friend who invited me to join the guild. we'll see how that goes. but for now, and for the past two years, i havent been able to really find a home.
Monday, July 19, 2010
New Guild on Ravenholdt (RH)
I just wanted to mention to my readers that i have found a guild to join on Ravenholdt US. The people seem really cool and i would love to join them in their adventures.
I plan to have four of my 80 characters in the guild. So far, i've logged on to two and have gotten invites. I've actually been a bit lazy to get on my other two toons to get them invited. i'll do that when i actually need to log on to them!
So far in the guild:
Devyn, my dps/tank DK, who leveled through wrath as a tank, in tanking spec only. no dps. the dps sucked, but i lived through everything while leveling. instance-wise, i did struggle a bit in the beginning (running utgarde keep, nexus, anh kahet and azjol nerub were hellishly annoying) but gotten a whole lot better in terms of gear when i hit level 75ish. so tanking violet hold and drak tharon keep were pretty easy. once i reached 80, i began tanking (and, unfortunately, went through the whole beginner tanking experience like i did with utgarde keep, again. this time in heroics) normal level 80 instances and then heroics. got my def to 535 (actually it was 525, with a sigil that gave me 11 def whenever i used icy touch to make it 535. this works out as i usually use icy touch in the beginning of the fights anyway). Then i switched over to DPS and LOVE LOVE LOVE it even more. I went frost dps with the two weaons, one on each hand, and a total makeover of all my gear. gearing was easy, but queueing up for instances as a dps sucked. in any case, i have pretty good emblem gear and should be able to do decently in ICC10 if ever asked to join.
(this got me annoyed this past saturday as the guild was asking for people from their saturday run, and i said i could go while on Devyn, but never received any kind of invite. instead, i saw maybe six people in ICC, with the rest of the people pugged. maybe they missed my comment. i should have repeated my statement. oh well. there's always next week i guess. as the new person in the guild, i would expect to be ignored? probably. there's probably better people in /trade they can pug with anyway. Instead, i hopped on Diinky and had a great time running one of our brand new dinged 80 warlocks through a few instances. she had a blast, at least i hoped she did.)
Diinky, my pve/pvp resto drood, joined as well. as you can see from the above statement! she's pretty decently geared. not too great, but still enough to push out about 2,400 per rejuv tick. i havent done much pvp on her lately, as i find it pretty mundane (maybe i should try arenas!) and instead, rush off to doing randoms and trying to help one of my friends get her tanking gear, and whoever else who needs a healer. i dont know anywhere else to get better gear tho. maybe i can get the 4pc t9. i currently have 2pc t8 and 2pc t9. that combo seems pretty good to me. but the ability for my rejuv ticks to crit might be more of a raid healing kinda thing. i do like extra swiftmend and extra nourish. at least, that's what matters more for me in heroics anyway. hopefully i can get some gear out of running more heroics, and maybe grab a frost emblem piece somewhere. i love playing this character despite the boredom because i do enjoy the occassional "awesome heals!" or "epic heals man" and the like. =P
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To be in the guild eventually (if things go well, ofc):
Brooke, my prot paladin. She leveled through outland and northrend as prot and has gotten quite good at tanking. when she first hit 80, she went to do heroics immediately. got a bunch of compliments about how the dps (ToC was out, but i think ICC was just about to launch) could not pull aggro off of me, ever. i had 23k hp then, gemmed with avoidance (no, im not a stam stacker and hate healing those stam stackers). had some basic weapons from lv.80 instances and a titansteel shield wall. i then bought my first two emblem of triumph pieces and got a bit more comfortable tanking at around 30k hp. i now have a bit more hp, but still, trying NOT to priortize HP over Def/expertise/agi. i'll blog about those stats vs stam one day. maybe i can get some feedback from healers on what they prefer healing, or just go on plusheal.com since i know my readers are not healers. ahem! but anyway, moving on.
Akeelah, my affl lock. Happily spamming Seed of Corruption in every instance. loving the AoE dps and the high numbers. and getting decent numbers on bosses. knows to stack some dots and 2 shadowbolts before using Haunt, using Curse of elements much more than Curse of Agony, and lifetapping like crazy since i dont have dark pact, nor will really need it due to health returns from Haunt and healers' heals. sorry for the rambling. im hungry. its lunch time. my apologies.
I may have mentioned this before, but may have not, is that i want to gear Akeelah up in Heroic gear only. This means that I will not buy emblem gear. I will only use the drops that come from heroic instances and the other normal, but difficult, instances like ToC, Forge, Pit and Halls. I may end up being able to do some heroic TOC, forge, pit and halls. but that's later on. i do know that Halls is SRSBZNS. so i'll dps that when i do get decent gear. but it does seem like everyone needs to be way beyond "heroic' geared for that one. there's just craziness involved in those fights and if people can CC property, use the right auras/totems and dps the right people down first, the fight will be a whole lot easier. /end halls of reflection tangent. so as much as possible, i will have ilevel200 gear, and some that are, i think 219 and 223. or something like that. emblems of triumph will be unused until later on i guess. when i need to if i ever become a regular raid dps. but as far as i can see, i dont think i'll be playing ranged dps in raids.
So in the end, i'd like to see how well akeelah's gear can outperform other dps with better gear. i purposely limit her gear so that i can prove, mainly to myself, and maybe to others, that gearscore isnt what makes your dps rise (although its just partial) but that your own skill and practice will help you find your best dps. once you get into that "high dps" zone, you'll never want to leave it. but it takes some work to get there. i do know there are certain limitations to every class and some classes will naturally (all things being equal) outperform others. bliz lied when they say all classes are withing 5% of each other. that is their goal, but certainly not our reality.
This is my pre-lunch update. off to lunch. and hopefully be back to essplane my plans for devynity on Ysondre. that's about it for now! laters!
I plan to have four of my 80 characters in the guild. So far, i've logged on to two and have gotten invites. I've actually been a bit lazy to get on my other two toons to get them invited. i'll do that when i actually need to log on to them!
So far in the guild:
Devyn, my dps/tank DK, who leveled through wrath as a tank, in tanking spec only. no dps. the dps sucked, but i lived through everything while leveling. instance-wise, i did struggle a bit in the beginning (running utgarde keep, nexus, anh kahet and azjol nerub were hellishly annoying) but gotten a whole lot better in terms of gear when i hit level 75ish. so tanking violet hold and drak tharon keep were pretty easy. once i reached 80, i began tanking (and, unfortunately, went through the whole beginner tanking experience like i did with utgarde keep, again. this time in heroics) normal level 80 instances and then heroics. got my def to 535 (actually it was 525, with a sigil that gave me 11 def whenever i used icy touch to make it 535. this works out as i usually use icy touch in the beginning of the fights anyway). Then i switched over to DPS and LOVE LOVE LOVE it even more. I went frost dps with the two weaons, one on each hand, and a total makeover of all my gear. gearing was easy, but queueing up for instances as a dps sucked. in any case, i have pretty good emblem gear and should be able to do decently in ICC10 if ever asked to join.
(this got me annoyed this past saturday as the guild was asking for people from their saturday run, and i said i could go while on Devyn, but never received any kind of invite. instead, i saw maybe six people in ICC, with the rest of the people pugged. maybe they missed my comment. i should have repeated my statement. oh well. there's always next week i guess. as the new person in the guild, i would expect to be ignored? probably. there's probably better people in /trade they can pug with anyway. Instead, i hopped on Diinky and had a great time running one of our brand new dinged 80 warlocks through a few instances. she had a blast, at least i hoped she did.)
Diinky, my pve/pvp resto drood, joined as well. as you can see from the above statement! she's pretty decently geared. not too great, but still enough to push out about 2,400 per rejuv tick. i havent done much pvp on her lately, as i find it pretty mundane (maybe i should try arenas!) and instead, rush off to doing randoms and trying to help one of my friends get her tanking gear, and whoever else who needs a healer. i dont know anywhere else to get better gear tho. maybe i can get the 4pc t9. i currently have 2pc t8 and 2pc t9. that combo seems pretty good to me. but the ability for my rejuv ticks to crit might be more of a raid healing kinda thing. i do like extra swiftmend and extra nourish. at least, that's what matters more for me in heroics anyway. hopefully i can get some gear out of running more heroics, and maybe grab a frost emblem piece somewhere. i love playing this character despite the boredom because i do enjoy the occassional "awesome heals!" or "epic heals man" and the like. =P
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To be in the guild eventually (if things go well, ofc):
Brooke, my prot paladin. She leveled through outland and northrend as prot and has gotten quite good at tanking. when she first hit 80, she went to do heroics immediately. got a bunch of compliments about how the dps (ToC was out, but i think ICC was just about to launch) could not pull aggro off of me, ever. i had 23k hp then, gemmed with avoidance (no, im not a stam stacker and hate healing those stam stackers). had some basic weapons from lv.80 instances and a titansteel shield wall. i then bought my first two emblem of triumph pieces and got a bit more comfortable tanking at around 30k hp. i now have a bit more hp, but still, trying NOT to priortize HP over Def/expertise/agi. i'll blog about those stats vs stam one day. maybe i can get some feedback from healers on what they prefer healing, or just go on plusheal.com since i know my readers are not healers. ahem! but anyway, moving on.
Akeelah, my affl lock. Happily spamming Seed of Corruption in every instance. loving the AoE dps and the high numbers. and getting decent numbers on bosses. knows to stack some dots and 2 shadowbolts before using Haunt, using Curse of elements much more than Curse of Agony, and lifetapping like crazy since i dont have dark pact, nor will really need it due to health returns from Haunt and healers' heals. sorry for the rambling. im hungry. its lunch time. my apologies.
I may have mentioned this before, but may have not, is that i want to gear Akeelah up in Heroic gear only. This means that I will not buy emblem gear. I will only use the drops that come from heroic instances and the other normal, but difficult, instances like ToC, Forge, Pit and Halls. I may end up being able to do some heroic TOC, forge, pit and halls. but that's later on. i do know that Halls is SRSBZNS. so i'll dps that when i do get decent gear. but it does seem like everyone needs to be way beyond "heroic' geared for that one. there's just craziness involved in those fights and if people can CC property, use the right auras/totems and dps the right people down first, the fight will be a whole lot easier. /end halls of reflection tangent. so as much as possible, i will have ilevel200 gear, and some that are, i think 219 and 223. or something like that. emblems of triumph will be unused until later on i guess. when i need to if i ever become a regular raid dps. but as far as i can see, i dont think i'll be playing ranged dps in raids.
So in the end, i'd like to see how well akeelah's gear can outperform other dps with better gear. i purposely limit her gear so that i can prove, mainly to myself, and maybe to others, that gearscore isnt what makes your dps rise (although its just partial) but that your own skill and practice will help you find your best dps. once you get into that "high dps" zone, you'll never want to leave it. but it takes some work to get there. i do know there are certain limitations to every class and some classes will naturally (all things being equal) outperform others. bliz lied when they say all classes are withing 5% of each other. that is their goal, but certainly not our reality.
This is my pre-lunch update. off to lunch. and hopefully be back to essplane my plans for devynity on Ysondre. that's about it for now! laters!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Plans at 80 on Ysondre
My leveling days in Ysondre are coming to a close pretty soon. I started a few days before i started this blog and figured it would be something worth writing about. besides, there's so many tree healing blogs out there that anything you may get from me would probably be less valuable than the many other tree healing blogs out there. besides, they're all anticipating cata changes at the moment while im still QQ-ing about 5man loot. heroic, or whatevers.
So anyway, back to my two characters on Ysondre. I've past 10k gold in little time. all while leveling. i have my DK at 79, ready to hit 80. just 10% more on my experience bar and i'll be bathed in that goldeny swirl of light they call a ding. or something. My pala is 72 and will simply do daily randoms, do daily fishing, cooking and try his best to get into more outland dungeons (this is where he excels anyway, being level 72 and all). Not to mention, having Ingvar's axe, it makes dps a breeze. most of my other gear is really from TBC. maybe the rings are not. but my chest, shoulders, headpiece, gloves, boots, etc. my shoulders and headpiece are the pvp honored rep variety. still, i pull off over 1k dps in utgarde keep. i think its due to the bold bloodstones and bold scarlet rubies he has.
My plans for my DK, Krakkenskull is this: To have him run heroic dungeons to collect gear. he will have only gear from heroics. that's it. no triumph or t9 gear. what he gets he'll get from running heroics. but he can get a boost with ToC, FoS, PoS, and HoR. these isntances are higher tuned and will drop better gear. i am still wondering if i should equip any of the gear i get from these instances tho, since i really want Krakken to have only ilevel200 gear. i dont know why. just to see how well he can do in "crappy" gear vs people who have all i232 or i245 gear. i know my other dk, Devyn, has pretty decent gear. no icc gear tho, but still, triumph gear gets me icc ready correct? whatevers. people are in blues doing the first wing so let me see how well my i200 gear will hold up against better geared people. we'll see.
The other reason i am having krakken just run heroics for gear is because he's in a guild of about 12 toons. this means a few things actually. in terms of unique accounts, there's much less. im a "Lord" in the guild but i really do not know what that means. We are called Knights of the Round so i am assuming we're all kngihts and pretty "round" IRL. it also means that i usually see no one online. not a single soul. not for most of the times i've been on. i did see one other person online last night, for about two hours, but that was it. the other times i find that its really dull and boring. i guess i could recruit, but i really dont know any of the guildies well to even want to recruit for the guild. i do know one person in the guild. but she's off playing other toons on other servers. i think i will just drop guild one day. but not sure when. not sure if i should just keep krakken there to run randoms since, really, you dont need a guild for that. Sorry Manda, its really lonely.
My plans with Devynity is still to do the same as what im already doing. namely, to gain rep with outland factions, to collect more enchanting recipes, to get more outland gear and gem it with bold bloodstones, to fish, to cook and to make a killing off the AH. actually, i havent really made as much as i hoped. mainly because the JC market tanked and my initial plans backfired somewhat. now, i am going to go farm some mats (i know farming sucks, but hey, 50g for a stack of cobalts is nothing to scoff at) or something. my fishing is making some gold (glacial salmon, icefin angelfish, darkclaw lobsters), my scrolls are selling well and my gold is over 10k. hoping to double that once i get a footing on northrend JC and enchanting recipes. It will be a fun ride i hope, as this may be my final project playing wow. we'll see how that goes.
By the time Devynity hits 80 though, i hope he can raid with his guild (at least do the weekly as a raid). they have quite a few people with at least 20 on during the weekends. this leads to the possibility of raiding. we'll see. during the week though, there's maybe 10-15 on, but by the time im winding down for the day, there may be 2-5 people left (1am, pdt). Although the guild Devynity is in is more of a social/leveling/casual guild, there is still talk about raiding and doing content together. there will be odd "fun" things to do like the jenkins achievement or doing 5mans together. they also have a lottery/raffle we can join (although it does seem a bit skewed since alts join in too) on a weekly basis, with an entry of 5g. we usually get over 100g, with about 10-20% of the funds going to the guild bank (all of which i dont see... yet).
i am hoping this guild will do things together often. they have a decent player base and some showing of leadership. although i do not see much else happening in the guild, if enough people hit 80 with intentions of raiding, we may pull something off. we'll see. as far as i can tell though, we're not much more than a bunch of casuals who kinda know what they're doing. a lot of us are pretty smart and can do more than just spam a single spell. i've partied with a few and, although i do see some elitists in the guild, i do hope that they will be a bit more laid back even in raids.
So anyway, back to my two characters on Ysondre. I've past 10k gold in little time. all while leveling. i have my DK at 79, ready to hit 80. just 10% more on my experience bar and i'll be bathed in that goldeny swirl of light they call a ding. or something. My pala is 72 and will simply do daily randoms, do daily fishing, cooking and try his best to get into more outland dungeons (this is where he excels anyway, being level 72 and all). Not to mention, having Ingvar's axe, it makes dps a breeze. most of my other gear is really from TBC. maybe the rings are not. but my chest, shoulders, headpiece, gloves, boots, etc. my shoulders and headpiece are the pvp honored rep variety. still, i pull off over 1k dps in utgarde keep. i think its due to the bold bloodstones and bold scarlet rubies he has.
My plans for my DK, Krakkenskull is this: To have him run heroic dungeons to collect gear. he will have only gear from heroics. that's it. no triumph or t9 gear. what he gets he'll get from running heroics. but he can get a boost with ToC, FoS, PoS, and HoR. these isntances are higher tuned and will drop better gear. i am still wondering if i should equip any of the gear i get from these instances tho, since i really want Krakken to have only ilevel200 gear. i dont know why. just to see how well he can do in "crappy" gear vs people who have all i232 or i245 gear. i know my other dk, Devyn, has pretty decent gear. no icc gear tho, but still, triumph gear gets me icc ready correct? whatevers. people are in blues doing the first wing so let me see how well my i200 gear will hold up against better geared people. we'll see.
The other reason i am having krakken just run heroics for gear is because he's in a guild of about 12 toons. this means a few things actually. in terms of unique accounts, there's much less. im a "Lord" in the guild but i really do not know what that means. We are called Knights of the Round so i am assuming we're all kngihts and pretty "round" IRL. it also means that i usually see no one online. not a single soul. not for most of the times i've been on. i did see one other person online last night, for about two hours, but that was it. the other times i find that its really dull and boring. i guess i could recruit, but i really dont know any of the guildies well to even want to recruit for the guild. i do know one person in the guild. but she's off playing other toons on other servers. i think i will just drop guild one day. but not sure when. not sure if i should just keep krakken there to run randoms since, really, you dont need a guild for that. Sorry Manda, its really lonely.
My plans with Devynity is still to do the same as what im already doing. namely, to gain rep with outland factions, to collect more enchanting recipes, to get more outland gear and gem it with bold bloodstones, to fish, to cook and to make a killing off the AH. actually, i havent really made as much as i hoped. mainly because the JC market tanked and my initial plans backfired somewhat. now, i am going to go farm some mats (i know farming sucks, but hey, 50g for a stack of cobalts is nothing to scoff at) or something. my fishing is making some gold (glacial salmon, icefin angelfish, darkclaw lobsters), my scrolls are selling well and my gold is over 10k. hoping to double that once i get a footing on northrend JC and enchanting recipes. It will be a fun ride i hope, as this may be my final project playing wow. we'll see how that goes.
By the time Devynity hits 80 though, i hope he can raid with his guild (at least do the weekly as a raid). they have quite a few people with at least 20 on during the weekends. this leads to the possibility of raiding. we'll see. during the week though, there's maybe 10-15 on, but by the time im winding down for the day, there may be 2-5 people left (1am, pdt). Although the guild Devynity is in is more of a social/leveling/casual guild, there is still talk about raiding and doing content together. there will be odd "fun" things to do like the jenkins achievement or doing 5mans together. they also have a lottery/raffle we can join (although it does seem a bit skewed since alts join in too) on a weekly basis, with an entry of 5g. we usually get over 100g, with about 10-20% of the funds going to the guild bank (all of which i dont see... yet).
i am hoping this guild will do things together often. they have a decent player base and some showing of leadership. although i do not see much else happening in the guild, if enough people hit 80 with intentions of raiding, we may pull something off. we'll see. as far as i can tell though, we're not much more than a bunch of casuals who kinda know what they're doing. a lot of us are pretty smart and can do more than just spam a single spell. i've partied with a few and, although i do see some elitists in the guild, i do hope that they will be a bit more laid back even in raids.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Update: Where to now?
I'd like to say that I am now 20% away from 68 and hitting northrend soon. Although it will be sad to leave outland, I feel that northrend is just as stale, being that I've gone through all of the zones already. I've gone through several areas with my first 80, then switched it a little on my DK, then a little on my paladin, then a little more on my druid. actually my second druid, the healer, went through as little of northrend as possible. she chose to pvp and run instances most of the way through. she pvp'ed in pve gear and at 80, was able to gear up both fairly quickly. she was first to buy dual talent specialization as well as use the game's gear set changer. later on, my dk received a similar treatment as she went to dual spec as dps once her tanking gear basically maxed out, from emblems of course.
Now that I've leveled a paladin from 1 to 67, I do not want to give him dual talent specialization because he is ret. he will always be ret. he's grown up as ret and should never stray away from the light. he's learned to swing his manner one way and one way only. besides, wearing a shield is just not him. he sucks using a shield. he's tried it. never liked it. his arms ached for massive damage.
So I will keep my paladin as ret. for now at least. hopefully my guild will have several tanks that will run heroics with me to get gear. I will not need to spec into prot unless we're doing raids and someone needs an offspec tank to cover for the night. they are thinking of doing some outland raids so I feel that maybe this guild is for me. at least for now. I still do not like the constant "grats" on everything, and the stupid addons that tell you when a guildie gains a level. No really, I just hate leveling now. every time I ding, I see "diamond star skullGrats Devynity on [level]!!skull star diamond xD" from an addon someone has. and half the time, it’s the guild leader. i can live with it, but im just not used to it. but then again its better than having no guild interaction, no guild chat, or even guild events. at least we have a raffle and some guild events. that's a plus. im pretty happy about that. maybe im just jaded with leveling life. who knows.
So with level 68 coming, I really do not know if I want to actually go to BT or HF to do any quests there. it’s the same quests on both sides. maybe I'll run off to help the Tuskars save their homes. I will still go do pugs as much as possible. those emblems are juicy and the random gear would be great to get, even though DE-ing them would make me… 1gold/DE. I think I'll try to save up the shards to buy recipes. doing quests would probably get me lots of gear to DE. but I don’t even know if I want to do that.
I started off with a tauren druid when I ventured into northrend. she was feral, and I was slow at leveling. I went through BT, then did parts of HF, then helped the Tuskar and Taunkas on both ends of the map. Then went through Dragonblight and finally went to grizzly hills before I was able to buy cold weather flying. once I got cold weather flying, I went off immediately to storm peaks and opened up the sons of hodir. then I went to icecrown and opened up the shadow vault. I ended up doing levels 78-80 in icecrown. it was pretty fun, and being under 80 meant I had to watch my distance most of the time. I think I ding'ed 80 somewhere by the fleshworks or by the scarlet island west of icecrown.
My second character to hit 80 was my DK. she spent most of her time going through the same thing my druid first went through. she didn’t veer much off that path, but she did venture a little further into zul drak. she actually did some of the quests from the argent stand and did quests for trapped spirit animals in the snowy areas.
My third 80 was my second druid. she did BG and Instances only. she did a few quests but that’s all. nothing much. she doesn’t have much rep with anyone besides northrend because she would wear tabards and such. that's about it.
My fourth 80 was my paladin. she leveled as prot from 60 to 80. she was a blast to level because it was so hard for her to die. the only problem is, in order to get any mana back, she had to group four mobs together at once to fight. otherwise, blessing of the sanctuary would be inefficient. I started in BT and HF, like usual. I skipped grizzly hills and most of dragonblight. since I was a tank, I had better success with instance queues and got a lot of exp through it. I ended up skipping most Dragonblight and Grizzlyhills and went straight to Zul Drak. I did the scourge side of zuldrak and went to sholazar. yep, new zone, and ended up leveling to 79 there. then she went to icecrown and opened up shadowvault to get the tabard. and that's it.
Between those four 80s, I've logged a billion northrend instances and know much of the zone. the only other thing I can really do is get on an ally and level through their zone. lol. but I wont. not yet at least.
So there, I don’t know where to go. maybe I should just level in SMV and Netherstorm. lol. I feel like skipping to dragonblight and doing the wrathgate event, then, since im a paladin, I will run off to zul drak to help the argent dawn/crusade there. it will be fun. then I can go back and do some baron rivendare farming for his mount. that should get me to exalted with the dawn. The Argent Champion is really all I want. =P tho… the title, The Light of the Dawn is very very enticing. =]
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