A Hunter's Story

“Shuffle to the left, and shuffle to the right, and hide!” – InspiredOgre.

Yeah, totally cool. Finally gots one! Not counting the massive amounts of fish and things fished up prior to achievements & stats, my 9,488th fishing lewt item was a Sea Turtle!!!! Zomg!!! Can’t believe it! So long I’ve been just fishing in the hours I wait for LFR to pick up a group… I dunno what to do during that time anymore! Wowzer! So cool! Thus, I took a bunch of pics, lol. Here ya go:

Had a couple slower groups last night, when running for the Frost Badges. Didn’t mind too much, because it made it easier, but it also made me think about how fast we’re now running dungeons. Makes me think back to the days of doing a trash pull, getting mana back, doing a trash pull, etc. In some ways it makes me sad that the dungeon’s aren’t really challenging, that we can just crush through. But at the same time, there are new challenges – like how fast you can go, how large of a pull can the group handle, and so on.

But the other thing I realized is that WoW slowed down a LOT for us this week… Been working on Loremaster. Which, of course means we had to get back to grinding up Steamwheedle Cartel. We got it down to about 650/700 quests in Kalimdor before we hit a wall and couldn’t get any new quests. So here’s my tip for the day – do Loremaster before The Insane. And if you want to make it even easier, do Bloodsail, then Loremaster, then The Insane. But really the key is doing Bloodsail first, before you’ve burned all the quests that’ll give you rep w/ the Cartel. That way you only have to grind up to Neutral, and can quest a huge chunk. But yeah, regardless, grinding the quests & rep makes the game go slow. My tip for that, is to put on a movie, get a comfy chair instead of your computer chair, and put the alcohol w/in reach, lol. Ok fine, not too much alcohol, but a beer or two can make the grind go by quicker. Or maybe that’s just because I love beer, lol. But the comfy chair idea is really good. Lady X agrees

Oh, and sry for not dropping in links. I’m at work (yes, on vacation and I’m at work at night… already stated I wasn’t too happy about a few things…) and not even at my desk, so no mouse, no power, and I have to monitor like 10 ppl. But oh well, c’est la vie! And ‘sides, home soon, WoW soon, and Loremaster soon!!!

Woohoo! I have a new pet! Was doing the blood fishing quest down in Borean Tundra and Lady X suggested I fly up and check for Loque. So I’m flying around, NPC Scan goes off. I figure it’s just some hunter with a tamed Loque out, and then I realize it’s Aotona. So I look around, figuring no one really has him as a pet, and sure enough, just northeast of the Frenzyheart area, he’s flying around. I quickly tag him, to make sure he’s mine, and start taming. Of course an extra mob agros, so I had to kill it first, and Aotona did his nice little wing buffet thingy to make me go flying, but after losing a few extra heartbeats, he was mine!!! Now named Vree, he’s probably the prettiest pet I have. Now I just need a Hyacinth Macaw to tag along with us, lol.

So long post today, since I’m on vaca this week and Lady X is afk. Anyway, a good addon to get if you use the auction house is Postal. I won’t tell you what it is I’ve been making & selling so you won’t fight me for it and bring the price down, but the short version is that I sell 40+ of this item each day pretty much. So previously I had to open each piece, collect the gold, open the next, etc. But at the suggestion of a guildie, I downloaded it and it is SO nice! Just click “open all” and it collects all your gold for you. Quick couple tweaks to the settings, and you can make it only open the AH mail, leave X number of slots open in your bags, and so on. Postal. Good addon.

So final part I was going to talk about, are jerks. Two guys actually, that were such jerks I’ll even call them out by name. First is Bodie-Antonidas. I was helping a guildie out by running a low level dungeon with her. Took my 80 tank so we’d get in the dungeon quick, and could fly through it pretty fast. Of course, at the same time I was also on my main & running Lady X’s main to grind some rep back with Booty Bay & the other 3. But it’s a lowbie dungeon, so pretty easy to have a divided attention. When we get to the end and down Anub’Arak, and he says “Scrub-ass pally that just had a 74 out damage you”.

Now yes, that was true on that one fight. Considering it’s mana intensive for the tank, I’m a TANK and don’t do much dmg, and I was tri-boxing all at the same time, yes, a 74 out damaged me. I averaged 931 dps and he had 1120. Wow, big gap. Of course, he didn’t bother to check overall damage where he would have seen I did 38.3% of the damage in the dungeon and he only did 29.7%. But tbh, that’s hardly the point. What a jerk! Why would you say something like that? An 80 just ran you through a dungeon and made it easy for you. Just helped you out. Even if you are an idiot and think you did more dmg than him/her, why would you say something like that and ditch immediately after? The guy was being nice and running you through – be nice back! UGH. I hate jerks.

So jerk #2, Maglin-Garrosh. Running HoR, and notice the tank is taking forever, just standing at the entrance. After a few minutes, we ask if the tank is ready, and she replies “Sorry, my guildies and I were busy laughing at the shammy” and then starts the dungeon. We’re all like what? So my wife says “At me?” since she was on her shaman. Tank says yes, “Your gear and weapons are hilariously bad”.

Isn’t that just plain mean? I mean, seriously, if that’s true do you really have to say it? Jerk! Especially considering that she’s wearing all 200+ epic gear. Like, has 232, and 245 gear even. So she’s not poorly geared, that tank was just being a jerk. How mean is that?!?! I mean, if someone’s gear was really bad, then talk to them on the side or something. Don’t just be like “my guildies and I were too busy laughing at you to start the dungeon”. Especially when it’s not true! UGH, I hate jerks. So we figured rather than run with the jerks, I said “Well, that comment just lost you your healer too” and we both dropped group. Not our fault that the tank waited 5 minutes to start the dungeon, and then after starting it proceeded to insult one of the DPS, who happens to be in the same guild as the healer. I wonder how many waves they got through before wiping, but however many it was, I hope Bliz gave them double repair costs just for being jerks.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the very helpful tip I wanted to get up on the web! If you are thinking about the insane title, or the bloodsail one, when you want to get back rep with Ratchet, Booty Bay, etc… Yeah, go to the place just south of Ratchet. Kill the Southsea guys. If you have some way of not dieing when jumping off cliffs, it’s fast, easy, and awesome. Start in the south next to Northwatch Hold. If you run north along the coast, then up the hill, then south, then jump off the cliff and start over, it’ll go real fast. The respawn timers are short and you’ll be able to go nonstop, or until you get hungry/thirsty and need to make a trip to the kitchen, lol. It does not hurt your Bloodsail rep, so the only downside is that it’s boring. But then, so is every grind, but it’s a lot better than the Evacuee’s in Grizzly Hills. Zomg, we killed those for ages, but their spawn timer, while quick, is not very quick. Plus that little ship gets real boring real quick. Great way to level Vree though! Lol. Got him up to 80 by grinding rep there. But seriously – the Barrens is really the place to go. I think there’s another place or two similar, but those level 13 mobs go down real quick, lol.

Ok, back to gaming and… grinding… Oh well, better than work! Lol.