Saturday, August 30, 2008

Orcapalooza This Saturday

BRK put up the Loot list for his shin dig.

I will not be participating in this event. Why? because I have a deep seated loathing of scavenger hunts. So you can understand why I would not go.

I mean a LOATHING to the point of hives.

I think you would find me wearing pink before I would willingly do a scavenger hunt. I will be having fun NOT going to Orcapalooza. So you all have fun!

Friday, August 29, 2008

Log Says A Meat Man

I have no idea how my combat log was turned on and off at different points. So I installed the add-on LoggerHead to help with automatically turning on and off the file.

It has been a month since using the add-on. So far I have been happy with the add-on. Now I just need to take the time to LOOK at the information.

I cleaning out my Combat Log file. I found really random things. In my file almost a year ago I see he sure likes his Clefthoof with a side of Talbuk:

11/4 16:15:02.046 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:05.062 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:05.250 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:08.265 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:08.390 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:11.484 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:11.687 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:14.703 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:14.906 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:17.812 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:18.015 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:20.937 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:21.140 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:24.062 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:24.250 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:27.281 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:27.468 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:30.593 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:30.796 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:33.718 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:33.906 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:36.937 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:37.125 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:40.265 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:40.437 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:43.484 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:43.671 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:46.593 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:46.796 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:49.812 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:50.203 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:53.328 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:53.531 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:56.468 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:56.640 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:59.781 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:15:59.968 Bigredkitty begins to cast Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:16:02.890 Bigredkitty creates Roasted Clefthoof.
11/4 16:16:07.406 Bigredkitty begins to cast Talbuk Steak.
11/4 16:16:10.421 Bigredkitty creates Talbuk Steak.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Guild Notes

Checking who was online in guild I noticed a change in my note. Our guild doesn't have many notes so this kind if sticks out. This maybe evidence of my killing problem rearing its head again.

Some of the best notes I have seen are from others giving them to you.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Quest for the Gold Medallion: Iuncusia

Iuncusia (37 Druid):
I am leveling. You hear me LEVELING. Leveling Leveling Leveling Leveling. I haven’t had a problem killing anything.

*glare* We have to kill Horde to get my Gold Medallion. WRONG… I have to WIN against Horde to get my Gold Medallion.

I don’t see kiting, or healing, or stealthing, or… or… WINNING. Seriously you $^@#* (#*^&@ and your pet too.

*sigh* I need to fix something. Hydra tells me that the only thing you can fix is myself and tell people about Shift+M.

Ohnoes. I am in battle with level 22 items. EEP. Need to fix that.

But what should I focus on in battlegrounds? There seems to be a lot of individuals just randomly killing. So that is not needed. What does that leave me? *shiver* Healz *double shiver*

So I stack stamina, intellect, and the only piece of healing gear I could find in the auction house. Spent around 18G in all. And the stamina gear will help with the leveling, so all is good. I WILL NOT RESPEC. So I plan on healing feral. DEAL.

Right off I remind everyone about shift+m and watch my map. Horde has farm, LM, BS, and mine? I head to farm to check out the bored out of their mind Horde. *wait wait wait* There they go. *turns farm* Which in turns make 3-5 defenders from the other nodes return to farm. So off I go to LM. Then back to farm. Then to mine. I had six flag assaulted in a game. Sooo much better…

*grumble* I did that healing thing. *grumbles more* Apparently Horde don’t like when you are healing stabby stabby rogues or chop your head off warriors. *shrug* go figure. I GO BEAR. Grrr.

No mount! lol

I win! You lose. I get my dragon! Bye Bye... or ... Bai Bai.

To be continued introducing Artume…

Monday, August 25, 2008

Fishing Observation

Ever notice that the fishing pools in Nagrand have sparkles. But the ones in Terokkar Forest forest do not.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

1556

I have my first rated piece of PvP gear!My 2v2 partner and I were having fun. Running games over and over. There were some where we out lasted an identical team, Healy Pallie and Lock. The one that gave us the hardest trouble was a Hunter/Pallie team.

Our mistake was to assume the Hunter was Marksman but sadly it took us three losses to realize that the hunter was Survival. *sigh* We did get our rating after our second week of playing above 1500 (we skip weeks). But an unfortunate queue later that night put us up against our bane for the night. We lost yet again. *grumbles about stupid traps*

A friend of ours hopped into our channel to chat while we were doing our 2v2s. He listened for a while and asked if we had a 3v3 team. I handed him gold and told him to sign us up. My dear sweet Retribution Pallie friend has a Challenge title from last year. I figured the gold was worth it just for even one week to help us understand our own dynamic and learning about the other classes.

And I was schooled alright.

We had great winning streaks. A RMP team CC us to death. Which was expected. Hopefully next time we will be able to us Megan's strategy effectively.

My biggest thing was to get across how important it was to get the rogue, warrior, or shadow priest off me. I think the “Ow Ow Ow warrior Ow.” or the “Get it. Get it. Get it. Rogue killing me.” moved us in the right direction. I also learned about a very lovely spell called Blessing of Freedom.

We kept hovering around 1500. To the point were I told them I refused to look cause I was having too much fun just playing. I didn’t want the pressure on a game to be concerned about rating. So when our game became 3v1 and congrats went out on my pants, I was shocked to giddiness.

It was not expected at all.

After I enchanted my new pants, we did some AV. With some buffs I almost hit 17K health! I didn’t have Naltog with me or stamina food but I could have pushed myself over the edge. No I will not be going into Arenas with all that extra stamina, but that sure looked nice in battlegrounds.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Quest for the Gold Medallion

Hydra (70 Lock):
The Gold Medallion... Remember I don’t PvP. If I don’t get it first, I never will go into battle. Anything but AV is horde dominated in the Emberstorm battlegroup. I hope to achieve some wins with my guild mates and friends. We run Alterac Valley and to fill in the wait time some Eye of the Storm. After winning four AVs in a row I had no Gold Medallion.

We were having fun killing in EotS. I was guarding Fel Reaver. One of the ladies I play with is a Priest healer. It was absolutely great. She would go help assault Bloodelf tower. When it got hot for her she would lead her assailants toward me at Fel Reaver. I would run down the ramp and they would run away. We were laughing so hard.

I am not kidding … hunter, druid, or rogue. It didn’t matter. Priest to Hydra. Running scared Horde. She would sit below me and drink up. Then off to heal again. This happened six times and we laughed each time.

[Priest] What did you do to the Horde Hydra to make them so scared of you??
[Hydra] I put on my angry lock face. grrr.

Sure enough Gold Medallion was mine after that win in EotS. Quite proud that is was not an AV.

Aurum (19 Rogue):
So you get a Gold Medallion for beating on Horde. You are kidding right? I beat on them in my sleep. Hydra said it may take a few games. Picked up a friend, capped three flags, and wiped off my blades after each honor kill. I have mail… look at that … a new tabard and a Gold Medallion.

Iridium (29 Hunter – Horde):
Received notes from Aurum about how easy she had it to achieve her medallion. If that is the case I shouldn’t have a problem. Was I wrong. Game after game it would be a frustrating loss or win with nothing but the tabard. So I called it a night.

Lets try this again. I have so much fun in there in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin. What is different? Then it hit me. Apparently the horde responds to dingbat girl talk. *clears throat* I can like totally start doing that.

[Iridium] *squeal* I like absolutely love Precious.
Iridium huggles Precious.
[Iridium] Precious and I are like going mine. And you should TOTALLY help me.
[Iridium] But you know … only the cool ones. The rest should go LM and BS.

[Iridium] WooHoo! Go team. Everybody group hug!
Iridium hugs everyone.

*jumps up and down* I like so had a pet dragon in my mail. He is so cute I just want to cuddle wuddle him.

Molybdenum (37 Hunter - Horde):
I’m leveling here. I am trying to reach 70 sooner then later. A break for some battleground can be fit in. Well at least a game or two, because there are mines to be had and gold to be made. I am not geared for battle. We shall see how this goes.

Some gear would be nice to help with leveling. I think I shall get myself the Outrider’s Bow and build up some marks for gear. Now I just need a scope made.

Arathi Basin seems promising. Kitted Alliance around like puppets and enjoyed every moment of it. When the person next to me knew to change the flag while I kitted, I know we would win. There it was the Gold Medallion on the first game. Yea I am up to a few more to see if I can get the tabard.

To be continued by Iuncusia and introducing Artume…