- Was on a quest for x/y/z kills and meantime looking for some guys book. Came across a hunter doing the same quests. He asked to group and my initial reaction was no (want that XP for myself) but we helped each other in a few fights and ultimately grouped. It is the first time I've played with a hunter, or rather the hunters bird, we would fight together while the hunter hid somewhere. We did ok, we got all the kills and helped each other out. It was the hunter who used thottbot to find the book, not me.
- When we finished the quest we parted but met each other again while getting the followup quest, the reward for which was a choice of necklaces with nice stats. We grouped again and killed a couple of bosses. As we made our exit on our mounts he agroed about three horsemen and was dismounted and got in a big fight. I dismounted and helped his bird and he just ran off, leaving the bird and me to deal with it. I died in the fight (tried bubble and hearth but hearthed too late). I guess this is a legitimate hunter tactic, leave the animal to take the flak while you scarper. Are ALL the other classes easy mode?
- After my corpse run I was heading back to quest turnin and found a group of beasts I am supposed to be culling for a quest. The other guy was nowhere to be seen and had gone quiet. Embarassingly I died in my post-death weakness. I exited the party, skulking away. Embarrasing defeat plucked from the jaws of victory. Up till then we had been doing well. He asked me at one point why I wasn't riding the pally mount so he knew his stuff, although he didn't know what blessing he wanted: I gave him Blessing of Salvation and he was happy (classes that hate mele love BoS).
- Went into a mine to kill 12 guys. No biggie. While in the mine found a boss and killed him too, a level 61 just for the challenge. I beat a warlock to the kill and she had to wait for the respawn. I offerred to help her but she said no which I can respect. Turned the quest in and got the follow up to, you guessed it, go back in and kill the boss. I left this to the next morning. This time someone else (level 66 farmer) beat me to the kill and I had to wait for the respawn. It only took a minute though, it was one of those times when you are fighting a named enemy who's body is already lying in the background. In the evenings Outland is a little congested, there are lots of people about doing the same quests, some ignore you when you're fighting for your life (or worse run through you), some race you to kills, some hastle you to join groups, you get all kinds. If an area is congested I'd rather find a quiet area than race people to kills.
- I did take an early laptop trip to Ironforge to do a clearout auction, selling off excess stock in the bank (still haven't found a bank in outlands: I have maybe six quests left to do in the area I am in, all yellow, no time to go off to the big city). I've decided to sell my runecloth stocks, I've got maybe 10 stacks, enough for 750 rep out of about 26000 needed to impress anyone.
- On to darnassus to finish off the annoying morrowgrain quest, every ten minutes having to plant some seeds and usually getting trash weeds. It turned into a repeatable quest for more weeds and darnassus rep but I abandoned it and vendored the last of my un'goro soil. Darnassus can kiss my arse.
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Life with the G11 keyboard:
- Still like the feel, looks nice, makes computer look dead swish.
- Hasn't broken yet
- Sometimes I fire up WoW, boldly approach tough monster, ready to attack, press a macro button and nothing happens. Have to explicitly launch the profiler application before it will do it's thing (after I've killed the tough monster with 4, 7, 9 etc).
- Sometimes the prerecorded macros seem a bit sluggish when they play back. Would be nice to try to optimise the delays between the key presses. I think there is an xml file somewhere I can tweek, the profiler doesn't let you edit the macros directly.
- Sometimes I forget a macro is running and try to, for example, change aura while the seals are still being unleashed.
- Back to another quest in outlands. Kill an orc and get a talisman. Follow on quest? Kill more orcs, get 12 more talismans. As usual with these things I had to kill 30 to 40 orcs to get the 12. I did it all protection mode as I was getting tired of the two-handed style of looking death in the face fights interspersed with mana breaks and corpse runs. After a while the one-handed was boring and I was gathering pairs of level 61's to spice it up. I only stared death in the face a couple of times when I agroed a damn hellboar along with two other guys. Hellboars are just annoying and normally yield nothing more than a chipped tusk but they take valuble time to kill. I played this quest very cautiously, once I got agro I would back up to a place where I wouldn't attract any adds, safe play but boring. There must be a compromise somewhere between safe play and corpse runs. Playing like this I needed few mana breaks or pots and I didn't die so saving on my repair bills. I got a couple of green drops which I vendored for about 2g each. They may have sold to gullible 57's back in the old world who didn't realise how easy this stuff is to get here.
- I might try again to find a compromise between slow safe kills and quick risky kills, either with a slow one-hander and seal of righteousness or fast two-hander and seal of light. Certainly the level 40 days of fighting four or five equal level monsters are past, at the level I am now three is starting to be a stretch: they are tough, they take a long time to die and 16 damage from a shield spike is a pin prick.
- Things are looking good though. Real soon now I should be travelling in style...
WoW Daily News Issue 66
Submitted by Peter on Thu Apr 05 2007 07:52
about 1 year ago
Peter's Moblog
