Feral Again

The Druid has gone back feral. I decided to let my son decide what spec to keep the druid since he now owned him. My son likes running around as a bear….. so there you have it, choice been made. I even let him run my mage through RFC just for kicks. He just runs around swiping things and loves every minute of it.

I realized this weekend that I am too darned lazy when it comes to this game. I got an invite to a 25 man this weekend and I turned it down. Bah! I view 5 mans, 10 mans, 25 mans about the same way. I start playing and think…. I don’t know… what if we take too long… what if I go all the way out there and…. And … I don’t know… Lazy!

I love killing things with my lock. I love being in groups that work. I love seeing new content… so…. What is my deal? I think I have a fear… It all stems from my days back in Final Fantasy Online. I would wait 4 hours for a group only to have it dissolve after the very first pull. I can’t explain why this would carry over to WoW, but I can not think of any other reason.

I need to make myself get in there.

The Adventures of a Druid and a Lock

Pros and Cons of Dual Boxing with my lock and druid…

Last night I finally transferred my Druid (62 now) to my son’s account and took him for a walk in Hell Pen with my Lock…..

Pros
I was able to complete almost all the Hell Pen quests last night. The only thing that held me back was time. There is no mob in Hell Pen that gave my lock trouble, so no quest is too difficult. I always feel like I am “cheating” on my lock when I play the druid, and dual boxing, I can always have him there…. You know… smiling at me…

Cons
The xp is just NERFED. I tend to get into just “locking” things to death and let the Druid die 3 times last night when he could have healed. I know this part sounds absurd, but I was doing the Colossal Menace and those elites spawn adds which got the Druid when I was not into the “groove” yet. My lock died once while waiting on the Druid to run back…. Again… on the Colossal Menace.

Conclusion
I still enjoyed the evening. I would have enjoyed it more if I was getting my rested 1k xp per kill rather than my rested 240ish. I think the farther into Outlands that I get with the Druid I will enjoy it more. When I get to rep like the Nagrand Ogres, I should be beaming with joy.

Transfer Underway

My Druid transfer should be completed by this evening. I just made the account transfer. Tomorrow I will be able to give an update on how the dual boxing goes in Outlands. My goal as of right now is just to use my Lock as a Immolate / Wand / Felguard button for my Druid.

My macro will look something like this….

/petattack focus
/cast [target=focustarget, harm] Immolate
/assist focus
/cast [target=focustarget, harm] Shoot

My only real dilemma at the moment is what spec to keep the druid now that he has a lock-bot. I recently switched to balance and I am enjoying it, but I am wondering if going back feral would speed up the leveling process. Decisions decisions….

Toon Transfer

I have decided that I enjoy dual boxing so much that I am going to transfer Tsarbovine (61 Druid), and Drakhan (65 Hunter) to my son’s account so that I can see if this is still fun at BC level. This will accomplish several things….

1. I will finally be able to finish those last 9 levels on Tsar.
2. I will finally be able to finish those last 5 levels on Drak.
3. I will have a pwrlevel toon on both of my accounts for those pesky low end dungeons.

I also built another set of toons last night for my son and I to try. I have never really played a warrior or a priest. I have toyed around with the. I have leveled some up to the late 30s… but nothing serious. I made an orc warrior and troll priest combo last nght to try out. I figure a tank healer combo should work out nicely. We shall see…. The lock\mage combo still takes priority.

Memorial Service

The Runnin of Da Bulls was this Saturday evening and it was a huge success. I would guess that there were easily over 1000 people there showing their support for Sharvan’s family. Reading over BRK’s post on the subject it appears that her family came to run with us as well. For the most part the event was full of decent people paying their respects, however, being an internet function you are bound to get the dirtbags that either do not realize why they are there or do not care. I died 18 times while enroute from TB to Arathi, and it was a blast. The racers ended up heading on down to and through IF and then on to raid Hogger. Great fun!

Soooooo……. I have recently picked up dual boxing with my son’s account. This is causing me to neglect my “guild duties” and I need to better manage my WoW time, but it is still highly entertaining. I am running 2 Blood Elves, Arkhanis (Mage) and Daemus (Warlock) and it is working out nice. I dinged level 20 last night with my Mage (he cheated and had a head start) and have only died once….. I tried to “dual” the Elite Abomination in Ghostlands and he hurt me….

Army of the Hermit

I love guild banks. The greatest thing ever. I play on two different servers still and now have the "Army of the Hermit" on both. I invested 4g per signature and now have the first three bank slots. Those things really add up.

I have no one in the guild, nor do I wish too. Just my alts, and my son's account. It is nice having all my junk in one place for when I am tooling around on an alt. I never have to discard things and then miss them later. Truly inspirational, thank you Blizzard.

I have recently begun dual boxing. I am not sure how much time I will devote to it, but so far I like it. I play on a mac and a pc though, so I can not do the typical setup. I keep both laptops by my side and just have macros assisting me.

Revival

I have been away for a while now. I started playing WoW again about 3 weeks ago and I figured I would start my blog back up. I apologize to all those (both of you :P ) that read my blog but I felt as though I needed a break from WoW and quit cold turkey. That meant my blog too, lest I be lured back in :)

I have still read my "blogroll" on occasion and looked at the WoW site just to stay with the times.

Recently one of the guys I read lost a good friend and guildie. They are honoring her with a level 1 "bull" run on May 3rd. Drop on by if you can just to lend your support.