Peter's Blog

Maecyn

Maecyn did the 'Cursed Crew' quest in Wetlands, she 26, mobs 26-29 including Snellig. Snellig was easy but most fighting was tricky with downtime between almost every fight and a lot of running away when adds appeared (e.g. giant crocolisks when she kited things along the shore). Maecyn was 27 for the follow on quest against the level 30 ghost pirate captain but she couldn't handle him. He hits hard, is sited where he can't be pyroblasted from 41 yards away, resists every other spell. Tried twice, ran away twice, will leave him and ponder strategy (e.g sheep/pyroblast). Maexyn and pooky both kicked his arse.

Maevyn

Following my tip the Auction House is full of Everstorm Diamonds at 150g a time. Ok funny man reader who's trying to kill my market, I have enough gold for now and I can choose when to sell my diamonds. In fact, the mats are on a cheap cycle at the moment so it's time to stock up.

I had some spare time so I actually took Maevyn out of Ironforge(!) and sent her to silithus to buy some enchants. For the first time in months she used her flying mount for the inn->darnassus portal trip! I still don't see any point in busting a gut for an epic flyer if she can't use it till level 77 in wotlk. However, at level 77 not having one will be social suicide (not that I'm social)

Maezyn & Pookypoo

A while back I tried the multi-boxing thing where I had two instances of WoW running and controlled two characters, Maezyn(mk 1) and Sissle. I gave it up because it felt like cheating.

Right now my thoughts are, is it cheating any more than doing solo quests in a group? I find it annoying when I get to a quest site and there is a group there laying waste to the place, why aren't they off farming instances where they belong? Multi-boxing takes more skill than ganging up.

So I'm tempted to send pook off to a new account and have him team with Maezyn so they can take on outlands as a duo. The problem is, given Maezyn is dps, what is pooks role?

Replace the pet

as protection he could do this but I can't imaging his dps on autoattack is any better than a pet, especially if he is sword and board. With a two hander he will need Maezyn to chop stuff down quick. Also Beefy has a charge ability, pook has little more than Linken's Boomerang.

Follows as healbot

only a small mana saving over Maezyn using Mend Pet. The buffs would be pretty negligible too.

More dps

paladin dps is about spamming judgements, doing this at the same time as spamming steady shot with Maezyn would be a challenge. Would paladin + hunter autoattack be powerful enough? Saving mana would help them both.

Pet on defensive would be around back of mob out of pookys way but it would still be levelling.

(Wotlk question: if pets are going to automatically jump to five level's below the hunter when trained, what about pets that have been left in the stables for 20 levels? Is one meant to abandon them and mess around getting another ghost sabre/Rak'shiri?).

I could also move Maexyn to a different account so she can enchant the others but it looks like in WOTLK she will be emailing enchanting scrolls to them so it's not worth the expense just now, especially as she's having trouble levelling > 275 as the mats aren't coming in. When Maesyn starts skinning rugged leather this should improve. Then again, Pooky's big axe would look good with a glow, even a cheapo elemental slayer.

WoW on Wine Notes

• Linux would make a nice multi-boxing platform as Gnome and KDE both has 'focus follows mouse' facilities where I just move the mouse from one instance to another and key presses will go to that instance, no need to click on the app.
• My linux disconnection problems seem to have gone away.
• I use a script to launch WoW on linux. The script waits for WoW to finish, then uploads my inventory to the blog and backs up my WoW install to the mythtv box so that my two installs are in sync. This kind of thing is a bitch on windows as batch files don't wait for windows applications to end.

I can confirm that the latest titan panel fixes the 'open ticket' thing.

Wotlk

There is no way I'm typing Wrath of the Lich King half a dozen times in every blog. Yes I've been looking through what is coming, some nice things, but the amount of coverage is bordering hysteria. I will be bearing it in mind in my planning and I'm certainly not going to waste time on S4/T6 epics if they are Northrend vendor trash.

The thought of levelling any crafting profession to 450 makes me groan. Should be heavenly for gatherers though.