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.