Maximum OOM-age

Originally Posted - January 16, 2009 at 1:44pm

Me <<< Cries tears of joy upon reaching 80

*Sob* Finally! It's been such an emotional experience...I even made a little speech right outside the bank in SW, thanking all my loved ones...starting from my great-great-grandfather right down to my youngest cousin on my mother's side (thrice removed).

Ok, that's utter BS...The speech, I mean (not dinging 80), though this blog could possibly count towards that as I am immensely grateful to those people who have developed some very clever little addons, without which this momentous occasion would never have come to pass...I am quite prone to exaggeration. Can you not tell? But jesus...those last few bars REALLY did drag!

I'm sure everyone has a few addons they swear by. However, these are the ones I've stuck with because they haven't let me down.

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Cartographer + TomTom + Atlas + AtlasLoot
Me has no sense of direction whatsoever, so you can imagine how handy these came in. Plus, I like the idea (in theory, since I hardly ever get what I want) of being able to check out what might drop before deciding if I want to do an instance.

QuestLevel +

Originally Posted - January 7, 2009 at 3:00pm

Actually, this reads more like a to-do list for my main to complete before the month's out...If I pay as much attention to my own blog as my task manager in Outlook, everything in this post will most likely still be marked red mid-February...

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1) Get to 80 Still not level 80 yet...Shameful, I know. But to be honest, I haven't felt the need to rush. However, now that I'm 78 (8 bars in) and so close to end-game, I might as well make a concerted effort to get it out of the way just so I can raid more with the rest of my guild mates (hence get better stuff), and start doing 2v2 Arenas with the other half (who is already 80).

2) Get Mining to 400 I have also switched my professions from Enchanting and Tailoring (was masters in both too!) to Mining and Herbalism. All that Mining power-levelling over the holidays have paid off and my Mining is even higher than my Tailoring used to be, though Herbalism (sadly) is still 1...LOL...That will be on next month's agenda most likely!!! Oh well, at least I now have more gold, which is the whole point...I earned back what I paid for Cold Weather Flying in Northrend (with interest) and may now actually be able to afford a faster flappy in the hopefully near future. YAY!!!

3) Get the Explorer title It's one of the easiest, and doesn't rely on grouping so I thought it might be a good place to start. Next will most possibly be the Jenkins title.

4) Get my first 80 BG Gear A bit of a long shot, but thought I'd go for it anyway...I'd prefer Season 5 Arena stuff for PvP, but do not see myself earning any of it anytime in January, so it's more realistic for me to aim lower.

5) Get a Wintergrasp Victory

Originally Posted - November 21, 2008 at 1:30pm

The novelty of having a Death Knight has finally worn off (I'm quite sick of seeing them everywhere now, if truth be told), though I must admit they're pretty challenging characters to play.

What's got me gripped in WLK is one of the new BGs - Strand of the Ancients. Most of us are still very new to it, and you'd be amazed at the number of players who keep asking what they're supposed to do as soon as they enter...Perhaps they have never heard of Google.

I haven't got a strategy as such, but have observed a few things which a lot of people don't seem to be aware of (judging from the number of them milling about)...I guess this blog is more in the nature of Handy Hints (albeit a fairly basic one).

OVERVIEW

The battleground consists of a beach, beyond which are three terraces (for want of a better word). The first two terraces have 2 gates each - Blue and Green for the first, then Red and Purple (or Amethyst if you want to be pedantic) for the next. The final terrace has only one gate which is Yellow, before you get to the last gate which leads to a room that holds a relic. The objective of this BG, if you are attacking, is to get to the relic within 10 mins. If you are defending, then you must stop the other team from getting to the relic. There are two rounds in all. Your team either starts as attackers or defenders before you swop places in the second round. To help the attackers along the way, are tanks and bombs (stored in

Originally Posted - November 1, 2008 at 12:30pm

I've got my helm, my helm, my helm...and also a spanking new chest piece lalala...

I swear I was beginning to despair of ever getting any decent gear, but I got some eventually...Staff is next on my list, but now I'm wondering if there's even any point.

By the time I earn it, 13 Nov will be here and there'll be kick-ass stuff for 80 which means I'll probably have to start all over again!

Sod it...Anything's got to be better than the crap I'm currently wearing. I'll worry about this again when I've levelled up.

Originally Posted - October 20, 2008 at 2:30pm

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I'm still fairly new to the gaming scene, but have noticed that I am increasingly spending more of my free time playing WoW than doing...erm...I can't actually think of anything else I'd rather be doing...Hehe

Although I'm chronically incapable of keeping my onlife self divorced from real life, I have been toying with the idea of setting up a separate blog just to catalogue my gaming XP and was wondering if GAX would be a good place to start...Hmmm...the verdict is still out on that idea, though that has got nothing to do with GAX.

Thing is, I do have a main blog but updating it has proved a struggle (due to all the time I spend in WoW)...which makes me a little dubious about the upkeep of yet another blog. My reasoning - less time blogging equals more time gaming.

But then again, it's nice being able to keep a few snippets of what I've done, if only for the sake of posterity.

My main has reached 70 at long last, and will soon have to look foward to levelling up again by the time WLK comes out next month. You'd think I would have got all noobish mistakes out of the way by now, but nooo...I've predominantly been soloing, telling myself that other players wouldn't be held back by my general crappiness this way. The result is complete lack of experience in PvP, and plenty of green gear. I've finally seen sense in entering BGs, and got myself some purple stuff, but it's slow-going. Plus, I'm playing a Boomkin, which I have been advised doesn't perform the best in Arenas (considering my partner-in-crime will be a hunter who is MM).

Oh well...Nevermind, you live and learn.

For now, I'm just happy to have all my gaming AVs residing in one place. It

You'd react like this too if your blog had suddenly disappeared, like mine did.

I used to host it on GAX Online, but that site seems to be down...whether it's a temporary glitch or not, I am taking no chances.

I suppose it's partly my fault. I'd been busy, and not been gaming for awhile, let alone updating my various blogs, so perhaps there was some warning that GAX was on its way out, only I wasn't paying enough attention to realise what was happening. I did notice on Ning that there is another version of GAX in beta, so maybe some major changes are being made.

In any case, I'm pretty vigilant with back-ups and thought I'd shift all my blog entries here...It didn't have much on there anyway, so this won't take long.