Tuesday, May 13, 2008

In Honor of...

Today’s post brought to you by the following….

Duel Spammers
Party Spammers
Gold Spammers
Beggars

I love you all. You make my WoW time the greatest ever. I love to run by Org and get duel spam. Thank you. My day would not be complete without it. Obviously I wanted to duel or I would not have ran into Org. There is no other reason I would have ran to Org, thanks. I must have forgotten to jog off the road and put my name in the hat. I appreciate your concern.

As to me being a wuss, punk, prick, loser, etc… yes that is true. I am sorry I am all of those but must decline and keep on going. I have less important things to do and will be unable to join in your stimulating conversation and amazing duel prowess. Please forgive me and spam me again a few minutes later when I come back out of Org.

Obviously I want to team up for this level 5 quest line. I am not sure how I could make it without you. Please. I have forgotten how to whisper, /s just does not get enough attention, please /y. If that fails then please just invite me. I know I am too stupid to accept. I know that I suck. Please be patient with me and spam it over and over. It is not you, it is me. I just keep missing the accept button. I really do want to join in your party though. Honest.

I am unaware of the gold selling services that you offer. I did not know that I could get large quantities of gold for low low prices. I did not know that it was both fast and secure. This is great. I would tab out right now and visit your sight but I am a cheap skate. I know I know… it is cheap, fast, and secure…. But still…. It is me… Not you.

5g? That is all? You sure you do not need more. Of course I have 5g I could give you so that you can get that new sword, new armor, new recipe, retrain, and get your mount. I just do not have the time right now to stop. Sorry. If you could ask me again in a few minutes… perhaps….

Monday, May 12, 2008

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.

Friday, May 9, 2008

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.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

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….

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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….

Saturday, May 3, 2008

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.