LWing 440

So i hit LWing 440 which means i can now make all the epics. Well i can make the ones i have patterns for at least. Still going to take a lot more leather and arctic furs before i can get all the patterns. Just need to make myself the icestrike cloak and giantmain bracers and i will be good to go. Got some great legs out of Halls of Stone so i dont need the giantmaim ones anymore. I really need to replace trinkets and rings, but they are so expensive to get. Oh well, in time i suppose. I also got in on my first naxx run. It wasnt stellar by all means, but it was the day after christmas so our group composition was probably not ideal. We downed 3 bosses which is less then they normally get, but hopefully i can get in a couple more runs just to see more then the arachnid quarter.

I also hope that new patterns will come out. I think the patterns available now are for basic raiding gear, but i personally like the rare pattern drops also that came in some later raiding such as in The Eye. So basically what we have now is good for the casual player and those wanting to get into Naxx, but as content is added hopefully there will be some pattern drops or something to keep the crafters from getting bored.

p.s.- still working on the epic flying mount. I have about 4000+ gold so im getting close. Once i ge the training hopefully i can get a free mount from H-culling or a proto drake from the oracles egg or H-UP.

Level 80

So since i returned to playing on wednesday of last week, I have done some serious playing. I did a lot of leveling and questing finishing scholozar basin which i love for skinning, and then pretty much finishing everything in storm peaks. Now not to do any spoilers, lets just say i felt completely owned and like a douche once the story unfolds for storm peaks. Now I am level 80 and really trying to get myself geared up to join B4B in Naxx. To do this i have mostly been doing serious leather farming or heroic runs. LWing is up to 425ish and i would love to get up to the giantmaim pieces at 440. I got some new swiftarrow gear that replaced my T5 stuff, but dude it is like intro PVP gear. It has resilience and good stats, but has absolutely no hit point. My hit points are in the tank and that really needs to change. Plus none of my gear has sockets on it, and that sucks. So back to feeling crappy about being weak like i did for months when i dinged 70.

Additionally since i powerleveled 75-80 in 4 days the only pet i have close to 80 is my gorilladin sepharose. So zn additional thing i need to do is get on leveling or obtaining new pets. I have a worm which i can get a new one from storm peaks which will be like lvl 79. But my main need is as a dps class, to get a dps pet. Now i found it odd that there were no cats in the game according to petopia that are higher then 76. This was odd since i got a lvl 69 cat from skettish before. Anyways, so since im stuck with a 76 cat i might as well get a cool skin so i wanted to tame Pitch in SB. Funny thing, the frenzyheart still hate me and there are like 2-3 elites guarding Pitch. I did manage to fly to a raised area where i could trap him without aggroing them. So i have Pitch and he is 77 or 78 or so now. Of course the ultimate accomplishment will be spirit beast. So while i am farming leather i am absolutely /target loque to hopefully find it by accident.

All this work is to hopefully allow me to get some money. I NEED AN EPIC FLYING MOUNT. Ximera is my first toon and my only high level toon and as most new players can attest, it can be hard to make money at first. I still am monetarily challenged. I bought the cold weather flying so at least i can fly, but it is so slow. Storm peaks with a slow mount was painful. Anyways, as a result of the training being 5000g or something crazy still plus mount costs, i am praying for a free epic mount drop. I could really use a proto drake from either oracles, time-lost proto drake, blue proto drake. Something so i do spend all my money at once. I only have about 3k gold.

Also did a 40 man raid for the black war bear mount "for the alliance". that was fun too.

Anyways, this was really scattered so hopefully i can gear up, make money, and get pets to accomplish the above goals. And i will leave you with this thought. Where have all the healers gone?

im back

ok proposal is finished. presentation done and over. it went very well. now i can return to leveling since i havent been able to for the past near 3 weeks.

almost back

My committee meeting proposal presentation is tomorrow. It is kind of a big deal since it is the first time my committee has met and will get a chance to see what it is i am proposing. Hopefully that will go reasonably well. Tomorrow night though, i am back on WoW and will ding 76. Ximera is gonna be powerleveling like mad to 80 since im so far behind. Hopefully i can catch Loque'nahak on the way, but if not ill stalk her later. If you dont know what she is, you are clearly not a hunter. Ok so hope to see you all tomorrow night and i will resume in grizzly hills most likely before heading to the basin to really ramp up my LWing.

Nerfed to the floor baby...well not really

So as stated in BRK's blog, ghostcrawler has put up some nerfs that may be coming the way of the hunter which can be found here. Now to be honest, some of these are needed since especially BM pets are doing way too much damage. It is great to feel OP, but i know balance is key to the enjoyment of the game, so ill go with it. Just sucks to be knocked down, even if you were way up in the ceiling to begin with. I just hope since they decrease volley damage they better fix the volley damage issue otherwise weapons will be going even faster since we will be using volley even more.

OK that is all. I need to rewrite me entire research proposal tonight. Hope to be back on WoW by the 17th i hope if im not out celebrating my meeting being over.

Thanks Fal

So i havent played WoW in about 10 days, but last night was the first time i signed on and though it really wasnt efficient in how the time was spent, it turned out well. I am lvl 75 and i completed the dragonblight achievement so i thought i should move on, and sholazar basin seemed to be a good level to start except i couldnt find any quest givers. Someone said you may have to be 76 to get quests there and something about it starting in dalaran to send you there, but regardless i roamed around SB for a good amount of time without luck. So then i wentto dalaran to try and find said quest giver to see if i could go at 75. The only quests i found were for violet hold and in my nubishness i didnt realize it was the northrend version of black morass. HAHA i tried to solo a dungeon and wondered why the first elite mob out of the portal creamed my pet. So i ran towards the exit to find the door blocked, popped a feign death and just sat there till the dragons open the door and ran out. I followed and somehow i didnt die. that was so noobish. So wondering where i can go next, i decided to shoot over to grizzly hills since i hadnt been there. Popped over there and killed some elk for a quest, and who waves at me but Falromord, one of Graimerin's alts. I read on BBB's blog that Grai made him a couple savage cobalt slicers so i just asked what the mats were for them. He linked them and just said lets go find an anvil. He runs outside and bang bang bang he whips up 2 of them on the spot without asking for mats. And let me say, i feel like he gave them to me cheap. So i just wanted to say thanks to Grai again. These two will replace my legacy for the time being. I only duel weilded swords once before around level 60 so i need to get used to the look. Needless to say my sword skill was a bit low around 320 so i went to HF starting zone and just womped so of those continually incoming guys for a while. It was fun, i felt like a melee class. I set gorilladin on aggressive so was just charging all around dropped thunderstomps like crazy. Of course being 74 and the mobs on 68 or whatever, he was barely hurting. I would just run and follow and start swinging. Was a good time. Still need to get the swords enchanted, but i will have Camila do that later once i get mats and am back to playing. I still wont be on much due to writing my grant proposal for my PhD committee meeting, but oh well. I will power level to 80 as people are starting Naxx and probably get carried through like last time making vast gear upgrades on my first run. Here is the screen shot with the swords and sepharose my gorilla.

p.s.- if you ever see me on i will make any leather i can for you for free. Im level 405 now