Turbo Chicken... /cry

Well I laid out the 85G to buy a turbo chicken yesterday. Man that hurt. I still can't help but feel I'm getting screwed somehow. Training was 510G and the mount was 85G. I thought the last time it was about 490G. The only difference this time around is somehow I only managed to get revered with BElf-land.
Valanos' Longbow landed in my mailbox yesterday. I got that off the AH for 45G so that's all done. I just need a decent scope for it now.

Blood Furnace PUG

I did my first true instance with my BElf hunter two nights back. We were going through Blood Furnace and had a decent set-up. The tank was a level 70 Arms or Fury Warrior that used an Epic two handed axe. I would guess that he was Fury because I was putting out equal damage to him so he probably stayed in defensive stance the whole time unable to use his Fury talents. There was another BElf hunter level 63, a BElf priest level 62 and a BElf rogue about our level. The warrior and the other hunter knew each other well and ribbed each other throughout the whole instance. I even jumped in a little on the hunter. He was getting down on his wolf pet, how much it sucked and how often it died; I told him he should rename it Corpse. A good time was had by all...

... until we wiped. There's some crummy pulls in the hallway shortly after the first boss. They include two engineers in some and their proximity mines suck. The warrior wasn't allowing us to crowd control so we were muscling through each pull. Sadly we weren't downing the engineers quickly enough. We not only wiped but everyone (besides me <3 Feign Death) died a time or two coming back; it seems they couldn't avoid a group of mobs we bypassed despite the fact the mobs were anchored in the same place they had been when we skipped them. /bitter All in all a pretty depressing run by the time said he had to go and dropped instantly. Thanks for the warning.

It never ceases to amaze me how little people think about ditching parties in WoW. The fact that you can easily solo to the highest level in the game really pampers some of these chumps. How can you ask for an invite to an instance and then leave forty five minutes later. Instances can take a long time. Make sure you can commit before you get involved please.

I did manage to pick up a new leather cowl. It looked pretty sweet until I replaced it last night with a new ass lookin leather skull cap. It brought up an interesting dilemma for me. The new skull cap offered slightly less RAP (eight less I believe) and a minuscule reduction in crit (.06%) in exchange for 1.42% increased chance to hit. I debated a little but ultimately it was an easy decision. The loss in RAP translated to eight tenths less damage per second. It brought my +hit percentage to around 6% which completely negates misses against even level mobs and leaves me with about 4% chance to miss mobs three levels higher than I. Once this debate was done, I looked in my bag to find Marksman's Gloves, or some such, and I was given the same quandary. This time I was trading .9 damage per second for about 1.3% increased chance to hit. I'm up to more than 7% increase to hit. Considering that I typically fight mobs one or two levels higher than I am, I'm sittin pretty and should see virtually no misses. Now why couldn't they make the +hit hat look cool. /pout

I had the chance to train skills last night from level 62 and added Steady Shot to my macro bar. It took the place of Arcane Shot which moved to my upper left bar, still within reach but not one I'll be using much any more. Steady Shot rocks for mana efficiency. It's much cheaper than Arcane but has a casting time of half a second I believe. That's fine by me. I've got more time than mana. Next level starts the new skills every level period. Crud. I'm lazy enough as in making it in one or two levels later to go gte new skills. If I remind (haha @ Max) some of those levels are not worth going back to town for.

Last bit of news: I have a bid in on a V-bow. There was one on AH that had a lower initial bid so I put in. We'll see if my bid stays. I'm going to make a to-do list and add it to side bar today. V-bow will be one of the items on this list.

My Afterthoughts on BElf

In a word: yuck!
I made the character quickly when Kerikov logged on and said come to Stormrage and make a new Horde char. I think they had been playing for 20 minutes or so and I wanted to make my char as quickly as possible to get in there and start doing noob quests with them. I knew I would have to do a lot of traveling too before I could even get to them in Deathknell. I hurriedly made a BElf chick, my first BElf ever so I didn't know what they were all about, without even changing so much as her face. Now I sit regretting that she's not a troll. Troll get +1% crit when using a bow and they get beserking which increases their attack speed.
Enhanced bow crit along with beserking would be so much better a racial benefit than the AoE silence I got. I thought that it would scale much higher than it did for the MP that it returns to me. I think I can get back about 300 MP. I'm not sure if it scales depending on level or a stat but 300 does a sum total of meh at my level. Even +1% pet damage would have been a godsend by comparison. Once I get to doing more BG's I may yet again change my mind about my racial but for now I may as well map something different onto those two buttons.
The whole attitude and actions of the BElf chicks are very high schooler. That's pretty annoying, but they do have a cool /cheer. Very energetic. Maybe it was supposed to be high school cheerleaderesque.
It's obviously too late to do anything now, and I'm completely opposed to rerolling. What a waste that would be. I'm truly not bitter about my bad choice, but I'm fairly certain this will be my last BElf.

I Heard This Blog Sucks Live!!

Last week has been pretty slow progression. I've been pretty sick or having to take care of sick people. The only great accomplishment is during one of my not as sick days I went out and spawned Shy-Rotam to make her my pet... twice. The first time I kept my pet out because I thought she and her mate spawned a la vez. It seems she calls him at 50% health. By the time I figured her mate wasn't coming and I tried to abandon the trash pet I picked up so I could freeze trap and tame, she did call him. /sigh His AOE fear caught my taming at about .5 sec remaining. SOB!! 1 hunter - 1 Pet + 2 level 60 mobs + O mobs fooled by Feign Death = Dead Hunter. I was forced to farm up another of the super crappy drop rate Sacred Meats and pop her again. The second time she got concussive-shot-freezing-trap tamed. Hooray. The new pet is a very cool color and fairly unique. Green glowing eyes too... ooooh.

Last night I did some xp'ing and a little crafting. I had to go back and farm 120 rugged leather to make it to level 300 LW and get some knothide recipes. The problem is the knothide recipes require mats that are super shitty to farm or buy, so back to rugged leather it is. I hit 375 last night in First Aid and level 100 fishing so I can use my spiffy fishing pole with +25 fishing. I have a slim 100 levels of fishing until I can fish up something to level cooking with. That 100 levels represents something like 400 fish. Ouch! Definitely a level 70 lfg activity.

As far as level, I am about to hit level 62. It's fun to watch the progression of stats since I have hit the Outlands. I was surprised to see that most of the increase in damage my char gets is from flat AP increases. I had forgotten how many pieces have increased AP along with increased Agi. I thought the first group of loot consisted solely of +Agi. Quest loot has comprised most of my upgrades with the exception of a blue leather belt I found last night. I was pretty shocked to find it. I went to vendor crap in my bag before heading out to do more questing and noticed it. Saw the stats were perfect for me, +Agi, +hit, +AP, and that it was BOE. I couldn't for the life of me remember where I had gotten it and why I hadn't yet equipped it. I checked back in chat log and tada, there it was. Huh!

I'm always torn a bit on equipping leather. Armor which translates to a loss in my pet's armor. This particular belt was a loss of 17 which translates to a little loss, but my body piece is leather too. Ugh! I was 250 Armor lower than what I replaced. I don't know how much pet armor that translates to, and I didn't care to look either.

Charts. Yay!!

Assuming I keep up to date on the snapshots thing these charts should automatically update.

Snapshot # 2 level 59

Level 59.3

Str 51+9
Agi 125+148
Stam 86+143
Int 68+12
Spr 68+14
Armor 2423
Damage 264-266
Ranged DPS 163.5
Speed 1.62
RAP 693
+hit 10
Crit 10.41% (quest rewards was a crossbow so my crit % was down due to lower crossbow level)
4098 HP
2730 MP

Spectre
Str 129
Agi 72
Stam 326
Int 29
Spr 71
AP 405
Damage 130-159
DPS 112.7
Armor 5578

The changes seen between Snapshots 1 and 2 are due to only 3 items that I received as quest rewards. Some big jumps here: RAP increased by 189, ranged DPS increased by more than 30, HP increased by almost 900... wow!!

Snapshot #1 level 58

Level 58.3

Str 50+9
Agi 122+140
Stam 85+95
Int 67+18
Spr 67+29
Armor 2205
Damage 223-286
Ranged DPS 132.8
Speed 1.92
RAP 502
+hit 10
Crit 11.49%

Spectre
Str 127
Agi 71
Stam 303
Int 29
Spr 70
AP 334
Damage 117-146
DPS 102.9
Armor 5578

Outlands goodies, here I come!!

Nearly a month to the day, my toon is ready for the Outlands. I made it to about 58.5 last night questing with Alenko in the Western Plaguelands. Grouping for quest XP makes leveling a synch but causes hunters a unique problem. My pet is now 2 levels lower than I am. Nothing horrible. He can typically tank something 4 levels higher than he and maintain aggro. At 5 levels, he starts to get more growl resists. Combine this with lower damage output due to level difference and I typically have to feign death once per fight to wipe my threat rating. No huge concern but if he falls too far behind, he becomes useless. If he is seven levels behind the mob he's not only ineffective as a tank but also has negligible dps.

No worries. As happened before, I grow a little tired of the Ghost Saber skin. There is a very cool tiger that is summoned out in Winterspring named Shy-Rotum (sp?) that has an icy blue appearance. I can tame him when I am level 60 and that will bring him immediately into line with my level. This will negate the level disparity and nab me a cool new pet all in one step.
I'd like to take a snapshot of my stats in before-Outlands gear and then track my stats level by level. This will be kinda neat to see how quickly my stats jump due to quested gear.

Guild Drama

I've heard of it before, I think anyone that plays an MMO through to endgame content has heard of it and many encounter it: Guild Drama. I was lucky enough to not encounter any major guild drama in Anduril while playing FFXI. It was a very stable linkshell with people that were typically more interested in playing than gearing. They had a stringent recruitment process. Very few new players were allowed into the LS to help avoid the watered-down feeling of linkshells that allowed too many people in. It's a fine line that they walked. They need to keep enough active members so that we could consistently make scheduled runs but not induct so many people that we lost the feeling of a team. Very few LS's ever accomplished this. The fact that I can look at Anduril's roster and still see many of the same names that were playing when I quit 2 years ago speaks volumes. Most other LS's have probably imploded by now. Backstabbing, behind the scenes bitching and pissing matches over who should get what gear over whom wreak havoc and limit the shelf life of most endgame LS's to 6 months or less.

Not until reading a post by Big Bear Butt Blogger did I realize what sort of a fiasco endgame grouping can be.

http://bigbearbutt.blogspot.com/2007/12/guild-drama-endgame.html

It's a long read but well worth it. The big thing that lead to problems was the lying. Big Bear Butt reminds me of myself in some ways. First off, it seems he has a general confidence in his guildies or people he's played with on a long term basis. He also seems to hold a belief that is crucial to end game players if they truly want to succeed: it's not all about you, gear needs to go where it makes the biggest improvement. DKP systems are fantastic but sometimes people just need to refrain from bidding because it's going to make a bigger difference in the other players' gear. Last... I think he's kinda old like I am, old for an MMO that is. He mentions his wife and receding hair line so...

I certainly hope that when I get to endgame raiding (what seems to be the quintessential endgame activity), I don't run into shit like this.

Lesbians WTF

The title of this post comes from a humorous exchange last night while partying with Alenko. Typically Buru, Alenko and I play while on Ventrilo. It makes chatting so much easier since we don't have to type, but occasionally it's fun to type stuff out for comedic reason. I tried to do just that but messed it up and made something even funnier, IMO.

We were running around by High Priestess something-or-other in the troll temple just North of Revantusk Village (I'm not entirely sure that's the name of the place). He sent his succubus to seduce a female troll. He hypothesized that since the succubus could seduce the female troll, that would mean the female troll was a lesbian. A pretty fair assumption. I wanted to give a little chuckle, so in raidwarning I typed "lesbians ftw" or at least I intended to type that. Instead "lesbians wtf" came up. The intended message of "lesbians for the win!!" being replaced by "lesbians what the fuck?" isn't wildly humorous but man did that strike me as funny in the moment. Anything can be laugh out loud funny at 11PM.

I hit level 50 on Monday evening and celebrated Tuesday afternoon, by making a Tauren Druid. Odd way to celebrate, I know. It was for a little break. He made it to level six before I was done with my break, and then back to hunter.
Previous to-do list now looks like this:

1. Train level 46 skills
2. Attain level 50
3. Cook all the Raptor Meat that I just took out of the bank
4. Spring the gold for guild bank
5. Find Claw Rank 7 (mid 50's)
6. Make the Tough Scorpid Armor set items I need

Alenko said he has little interest in the guild bank. He figures we'll develop our chars and then look for a larger, group focused guild so we can knock out instances and maybe raids. Colombian Necktie will still be nice to have for our alts and a guild bank can help us share crafting items and usables between chars, but we'll see.

Scorpid armor is coming along too slowly. I was able to make the breastplate, which I really wanted, right away. The other pieces were either too high leatherworking level, not as good as my equipped item, or I didn't have the recipe. I found the glove recipe on AH last night for 80S so I picked that up. I had used up all my leather on leveling so I'll wait to make them. New to-do list would look like this then, once again, no particular order:

1. Spring gold for guild bank
2. Craft Heavy Scorpid Gloves for myself
3. Find next cooking recipe to level on, like Enormous Omelette
4. Attain level 58 and go to Outlands (6 more to go)
5. Get Claw Rank 8
6. Level up First Aid with the Runecloth that is now dropping
7. Turn in 3 stacks of Runecloth in Undercity for XP and a little rep
8. Quest in Felwood and then on to Winterspring
9. Complete quests for hunter trinket in Azshara, 2 or 3 in Azshara and one in Sunken Temple
10. Level new Druid to level 10 and make him Balance spec 1/0/0
11. Tame the cat in Winterspring that has the same skin as one of the riding mounts

The Hinterlands did pretty well for me in terms of gear and XP. I was lucky enough to group with Alenko so we could complete all the troll temple quests there. The best quest reward being the trinket that grants +20 AP and + 10 hit. Holy crap is that a nice upgrade from the empty slot I had. I received a new bow from another quest with a slight drop in AGI but a nice increase in DPS. Two random drops that were upgrades (pretty uncommon) a set of mail shoulders and mail belt. 50 to 52 went by pretty quickly. And to think, I considered skipping the Hinterlands.

Things won't change after the wedding

I think I have an inkling of one aspect of what it's like to be in an abusive relationship. It's very common for a person in an abusive relationship to want to go back to their the abuser if they have left. There were always good times to remember and maybe that's what brings them back. Maybe it's the comfort of knowing the status quo versus establishing new relationships. Well here it is: I kinda miss PvP.

I played first on a PvE server during one of my many 10-day free trials. I played a Horde char and was astonished to see an Alliance player in Ratchet, which I mistakenly thought was for Horde chars only. The little human char was running around, going to the same quest givers and same shops I did and it just seemed wrong. Obviously, I now know that Ratchet isn't just for Horde but this single incident helped me choose PvP when it came time to make a real account. It just seemed to go with the game better. There are two sides that are warring and it makes sense that when they see each other they should fight. Let's not confuse this with role playing, which I berated in the earlier post, PvP just makes sense... sort of in the same way that using a cat as a melee weapon doesn't make sense.

I already admitted to Kelviel, who is now Buru, that I feel like I'm cheating in a way. I run through areas that are wrought with Alliance and no one bats an eyelash. I still /rude to a lot of Alliance and few do anything back. There's no built up animosity. They even jump in and help me when I have links.

Having said all of this, there is still an abusive side to PvP. Griefers. Typically, when I played on PvP, I didn't kill players that were grey to me unless they threatened me (maybe farming what I was farming or waiting until I was low health to attempt killing me)or were a nuisance (off topic: I correctly pegged this word's etymology as Old French). O sure. I've had occasional spats of ganking retribution, (e.g. you killed my low level char so here comes my level 70 druid to stealth kill you), but for the most part I will leave them alone. Griefers are the asshats that kill you then corpse camp you. They are there to cause you grief. These bitches are equivalent to hackers in my mind's eye. They're intentionally malicious yet reap no benefit of seeing the frustration or damage caused. They make me want to create a second account and pay $15 a month just to have a horde char on my same server to tell them to knock it the fuck off. You have to remember that there is someone on the other side of that character that just wants to spend some leisure time playing a game. Kill me once? Great! That's how the game is. Hang around to kill me a second time when I did nothing to you? Super shitty and someone in real life needs to beat the piss outta you.

I digress. I do enjoy certain aspects of my new PvE. No interference is priceless. You want to complete a quest? There is no worrying about how many Alliance are there already doing a quest. They won't kill you. I still get to PvP in BG's so I'm not totally missing out on the warring aspect. All-in-all, the new server is saving me a lot of stress so it's fine by me.

Milestones

Level progression has slowed down a little to let crafting catch up. I am up to 47.5 now. I still haven't made it to go train level 46 skills despite the fact I've been running through Org. I'm sure I'm not missing out.

I completed the Triage quest out in Hammerfall and burnt up most of the built up mageweave I had making Mageweave and then Heavy Mageweave bandages. The rest of the cloth went to Alenko. I've got cooking up to 225 now. That was a pain. I had to go back and farm crawler meat and clam meat back in Ashenvale. After that, it was Hillsbrad for the best cooking farming: turtle meat. It typically drops two at a time and recipe requires only one. Once I had hit 225, I got artisan cooking quest and finished that up. With those things out of my way, I'll be rushing to 50. I hope I get good skills then.

50 will be cool because the levels until Outlands will be so few. I can head out there at 58 and get copious amounts of xp and items with gratuitous stats. And instances..., PUG's may not happen every night but having Alenko around will make things a bit easier. He always seems to get parties together so well. I think he does well for FList management. It will be nice to run instances with Alenko and Kelviel again.

Speaking of instances, I did get a decent PUG for Zul'farak (sp?) yesterday. I got a drop from a rare mob and finished out the divine-o-matic quest to get the Mason-something-or-other ring with +13 agi. yay. Interestingly enough, I got the very same foot item on old Lÿnn on a run with Kerikov and Bayard or Haziel. On that run I got the +AP head item too, but not last night sadly.
There will always be better stuff and I hate the look of the wolf headpieces anyways.

Current To-do List (no particular order)

1. Train level 46 skills
2. Attain level 50
3. Cook all the Raptor Meat that I just took out of the bank
4. Spring the gold for guild bank
5. Find Claw Rank 7 (mid 50's)
6. Make the Tough Scorpid Armor set items I need

I can see clearly now the rain is gone...

Inspired by BigRedKitty and Big Bear Butt Blogger, I thought to write a post about being a male that plays a female char. I've loved this theme for at least the last five years or so. For me, it all started with Final Fantasy XI. There are four races if I recall correctly: hume, galka, taru taru and mithra. Hume and taru taru had the choice of picking male or female characters while mithra and galka were limited to only one gender. Mithra were female and galka appeared decidedly male, but in the back story were asexual. I chose a mithra for my main because I originally wanted to have a thief. What could be more stealthy and agile than a cat person. Truth be told, even if they had male mithra, I would have chosen a female.

I thought nothing of this choice as the character I played never reflected me in real life. In fact, what I generally enjoy about video games is that they do not resemble my life. Why the hell would I want to play a game about going to work 40 hours a week and paying bills? Since the video game does not resemble my life, why does my character need to resemble me? Better yet, why does it need to represent me projected into the video game world?

Many a time have I clarified my gender to other gamers. They make some sort of comment or emote and I realize that they think I'm a girl. I would correct them because I didn't want to have them continue calling me 'hon' or whatever else unless they were female. Quick replies usually came: "Oh, are you gay?" The concept that I choose female chars because I am gay is laughable. One player I know who is gay has chosen all male chars... does that make him straight?

I typically responded that if I have to look at a char that I will be playing for hours on end, I'd rather it were female. I would rather check out the new armor I get when draped across a pair of cartoon boobs than the chest of a male char. Let's not confuse this, however, with being attracted to my toon. I don't /login to /poundoff. I thought this was a justifiable argument, but it seems that a large portion of the male gaming population thinks this is a trite cover-up of my true intentions.

This is the first illogical prejudice or stereotyping that I have truly been a target of. I was perplexed by other players forming their opinion of me based on one decision. After my recent bout of reading WoW blogs, I think I understand them a bit more and hope to help them understand my side a bit more. It would seem there is a large population of gamers that feel their characters are a reflection of themselves or of a fantasy that they create in their own minds. They play male characters because they wish to project themselves into the world. They feel more a part of the game when the character represents them in this way. If I felt this way, I think I would be equally stupified by someone representing themselves in a manner that is contractictory to their real form.

As an example, on a role playing server, if I rolled a chick char and a male char /flirt'd with me, I would flirt back... that's a little weird to me... not the flirting but the whole roleplay shit. I think it's all farked. You are, in many cases, a grown individual that's playing pretend... FARKED! It's the equivalent in my mind's eye, of grabbing 2 Barbies and 6 beers and sitting down with Joe, my good friend, and having an afternoon of playing dolls. Do I share my opinion, do I judge people that roleplay, do I chastise people for thinking that their character is in some way a little version of themselves on the monitor? NO!! I roll on a server where people don't say things 'ooc' because we are not our characters.

So to set the record straight: I am not my character. I am male. My hit percentage with a bow and arrow at 30 yds is maybe 5%. I can't dance, ... well the BElf one dances pretty poorly so she can't dance either. I have a pet cat but when I tell him to attack things, he continues to sleep on the couch. If I put on a shirt that says +7 stam, I am still just as easy to kill as before. I can't make traps that explode. I have a 100% resist rate when I feign death. I don't have long hair, long ears, ridiculously long eyebrows, or boobs. I AM NOT MY CHARACTER.

Your Name Here

Well it seems that Alenko enjoyed the same fast leveling that I did in STV and DUstwallow. He sped through levels 37-40 negating much of the buffer I had made. By the time he catches up, we may be able to run some noteworthy inastances together like Mauradon or some of the Black Rock instances.

I hit level 45 last night by doing a fwe more quests in Feralas. I was a bit dissapointed by the troll witch doctor quest I completed. Collect 2 tree trunks, 6 minerals, 20 sinews and 40(!) metal pieces. The first two were easy and I enjoyed a nearly 100% drop rate. The 20 sinews I got from Hippogryphs in Feralas and I farmed the metal at the same time. The metal had the lowest drop rate... lame since I needed 40. Since I was in the area of the Hippogryphs, I continued my slaughter of their kind to get the metal. A full on long time later, I'm not sure how long but irritatingly long, I finally got piece number 40 and ran off to turn in the quest. I wouldn't have spent so much time on it, except that it was a red quest. It netted me 6600 xp so I was a little pissed. That seemed low for all the pissfarting required but it's done. I think it's part of a multi-branch chain so we'll see what the other troll witch doctor quests get me.

After I hit 45 and did all my turn-ins, I went to level crafts a bit more. I was alraedy startiong to stockpile thick leather and mageweave as well as a bunch of lion and raptor meat and raptor eggs. The heavy leather I had was sufficient for me to hit level 200 and start crafting with thick leather and hides, good thing since I'm already starting to skin off some rugged leathers. I noticed that I had an orange cooking recipe that required clam meat and one that needed crawler meat. These can be farmed at the same time by killing crawlers in Ashenvale. All of my cooking took me to level 124... pretty low and crappily one level short of a new recipe that uses zesty clam meat, another mat that's easy to farm. My mageweave sat since I haven't done the First Aid quest to get my next rank. I dislike the quest so I put it off for far too long. Thankfully, the horde side quest looks a bit easier to do. It's in a larger building and is in one group instead of the U shape that Alliance has to contend with. My final task of the night was to turn-in 60 wool that have been sitting in my bank. That went to the Undercity cloth collector to acquire more rep with Undercity. I'd much prefer the skeletal horse to the chicken mount I have.

Move over STV, now there's something meatier!

Dustwallow Marsh and Stranglethorn Vale were very good to me. They allowed me to whizz through levels 32 to 42 in record time. There were quite a few new quests in Dustwallow Marsh at Tabetha's and Jarl's homes and a new goblin city named Mudsprocket. The goblin town allowed much quicker travel to the southern section of Dustwallow, which without using a flightpath is horrible to traverse. After completing most of the quests in the Horde/Ogre village quests I swapped to Stranglethorn. After running through most of what Grom'gol and Nesingwary had to offer, it was back to Dustwallow and Mudsprocket quests. The last quests between these two areas were in Booty Bay with a few Grom'gol leftovers.

I stopped at 42.9 last night. Just a little more to go for 43 but I decided to go to bed with Melissa instead. Right before logging, I got a bit of crafting in. I had stacks and stacks of heavy leather taking up loads of inventory space. LW is at 190 now. I'd like to kick this in the butt and get over to Tanaris for some scorpid scales. The Tough Scorpid Mail set is pretty nice for Hunter and is made with LW. I didn't rush over to Tenaris right away. I swung by Camp Mojache to pick up a FP and the !'s were too much to resist. I enjoyed leveling in Feralas on NElves but Feathermoon is so far out of the way, it was a pain to do turn-ins. No such inconvenience on the Horde side. Camp Mojache is fairly centrally located. Nice. I knocked out a couple of quests there but when I next log, I may just head over to Gadgetzan. It's a tough decision, Camp Mojache provides Horde rep which is key is getting a mount that's not super lame like my duck. Gadget has familiar quests and Scorpid Scales.. hmmm. Decisions, decisions.

Dirty Laundry

The deed is done. There is no denying what I have done or turning back the clock to change what has come to pass. I feel dirty but the shower does not wash away this feeling.

All kidding aside, I went back and played my Night Elf a little. I wanted to go run AV once and see if Alliance had pulled their heads out of their proverbial asses. They have. We won AV by defeating their War Chief or whatever he is. A net of 488 honor. We'll see if it ever gets used. Unlike the AB run on my BE, I was middle of the MVP pack. They put people in order by the sum of damage done and healing done. My gear isn't super enough to give me awesome DPS but I do well enough.

I returned to my BElf later that night and took her one more level to 41. She's progressing nicely and thanks to a loan from Khanjin, she has her very own riding chicken... yuck!

I was debating Ferocious Inspiration versus the pet dodge talent at 41. Kelviel and I had a bit of discussion. I decided to take the dodge skill at that time. On further analysis, I chose FI. While only 1% more damage once proc'd versus a constant 3% dodge, I like the damage better because I rarely take on too much. I'm pretty proficient at taking on a crowd of mobs if I have to but it doesn't happen often. My pet almost always stays above half health without me healing him so... damage it is.