Kicking it old school!!

So last night, around 5pm, the 5 core members of my guild, yes I said 5, all gathered together for our  first ever run as a group. We decided to head into……

Karazhan!!

Yes, you read that right. While every other guild out there is in Ulduar and Naxx, our small group has made its  first official guild run of Kara. The group was myself, Daxan, playing healer, hubby was tank, and we had a 71 mage, 80 ret pally, and an 80 shadow priest.

We pretty much blew through everything. We struggled a little bit on the R&J fight, but we got through it much better then when we only had 3 people. This was the 2nd showing of R&J for us…lets hope next time we get something else.

The only bosses to give us issue were Illhoof, and Netherspite. Netherspite requires more than 5 ppl. So he will always be  skipped. Illhoof caused issue  because out shadow priest does not put out enough burst damage and we needed that to down the chains. We made it all the way to the Chess Event, which is TONS of fun BTW, before we called it a night. Our plan is to head back in tonight, and down Prince, and get the achievment.

All in all, it was great fun. The mage is a fresh 70, so he got a few gear upgrades, including a piece of his tier gear. This should make his leveling a bit easier. I managed to pick up the enchanting recipe from Shade as well. Everything else was De’d by myself and the other enchanter. Still hoping for the mount, but otherwise, its fun to get together as a group, and “see” content, even if that content is 10 levels below us.

Next on our “to do” list…Gruuls!

Noblegarden…Love it or Hate it?

Ahhh, finally another holiday has made its way to Azeroth to break up the normalcy of the game. Noblegarden has gone live as of Sunday.

Noblegarden is the “Easter” like event that Blizzard has added to the game for the spring holiday. The event has also been re-vamped to include achievements

This is bringing out the darkside to MANY players. Instead of hunting for eggs, people can be seen sitting in one spot, waiting for the spawn. How is this fun? What makes it fun for me is they are so diligent in waiting for 1 spawn point, they are not seeing the ones that spawn behind them that I come in and grab.

Oh, and the egg basket…don’t use it myself. I see people dashing about and running right by eggs. More for me!

I lucked out and this morning, Daxan earned the title, the Noble! I got lucky in my eggs and got the dress, tux and robes within the first 50. I collected enough for the rabbit, then proceeded to eat my 125 for the achievement.

The best strategy I have come up with is 1) Try to be on at less populated times, like early morning. 2) Dont camp the spots. I found you get less when you do. 3)Look in odd places. I have seen them under carts, benches, in water troughs, and other odd places. 4) To get the Shake your Bunny-maker, head to Dalaran if you can. I lucked out and found a female dwarf who was sitting right near the bank, allowing everyone to “ear” her. She would then clear them off, and allow another to do it. Ask in trade if anyone has seen what you are looking for.

So now that I have my title, I am preparing for the start of Childrens week on the 1st of May.

2 People in Kara..Part 2

Well friends…2 people cannot do Kara. At least not a heroics geared Ret pally and Prot warrior…We got decimated on the trash leading to Attunman.

So we will wait for guildmates to return from whatever hiatus they are on and try again.

Can 2 People do Kara?

So now that 3.1 is live, I noticed a small blurb that drop rates have been increased on old world Pre-LK items. So I begged and pleaded with hubby, and he has agreed to help me get my Mongoose enchant. This enchant typically goes for about 400-600g on our server.

Well last night we started this. We knew we did not have the key to Kara, as we did not go through this on the horde side. So we quickly started this. We made it through SLabs quickly, and then pretty much snuck through the stuff in Steamvaults. Then we hit a snag…we did not have the Arcatraz key…so we had to do those quests.

So after running Mech and Bot, we had what we needed to get the key. But hubby was tired, so we did not head into Arc yet..so that is the upcoming thing…Then we will finish the quest line to get our Kara key..

Stay tuned….more to come!

Patch 3.1

As I write this, we are hours away from 3.1 going LIVE!!! Realms are still live at the moment, as I was just online with my newly minted 80 hunter…

Will there be play Tuesday? Will this patch be a total meltdown of the servers? Lets hope not.

Happy Patch Day all!

Status Update 4/6/09

So while I am still unemployed (one month now), I am still playing WoW. Daxan the pally has FINALLY scored some good gear, and I am at this point Naxx ready…now I just need to get into Naxx..LOL..no rush though..Been plowing through heroics when I can, and trying to get the enchanting up..both a slow process.

My warlock has gotten over the slump of the 20’s and is now sitting at 42..I am getting better at melting face, and having a blast doing it!

My warrior, is stalled in the 20’s slump. I really hate the 20’s on horde side.

I have created a shaman..just for fun really. We shall see how it goes.

Otherwise, nothing else really to report on. I am still playing, just not blogging as much. Patch 3.1 should make things interesting. We shall see.

RL is FTL!

Sorry that I have not been keeping up with the blog. While I am still reading others, and soaling up all the new 3.1 info, I havehad a major change to my RL that has really begun to take a toll on me…

I was layed off from my job on 2/25.

So now I am unemployed, and trying to not lose my mind. The job market as you know is bad, so the future is scary. For now, I can still escape to Azeroth, and will continue to do that.

So when something good happens, I will post more, I just wanted to let my readers know I had not abandoned them.

Coming Soon…Mounts can SWIM!!

So 3.1 patch notes and PTR have finally hit. While I will not be copying anyone to the PTR, as I am not Naxx ready, let alone Ulduar ready, I am always interested in the changes we will be seeing. Right now, it looks like Paladins may not get beat down with the nerf bat, at least so far. I am sure this patch will give everyone a free re-spec, as it looks like many classes are having talent point changes.

I admit, the thing I am MOST excited for right now…Staying mounted in water!!!! This is the MOST annoying thing to be running along, and you hit a patch of water that is JUST deep enough to dismount you. Then you have to get to solid ground again, then take the 3 sec to remount and continue on. We all know horses in RL can swim with no problem…why not in WoW? So right now, I am waiting for my mounts to swim

In other news…I made another paladin…yeah yeah…I dont need another alt…but I did remove one, and we cant have an empty slot now can we. The plan is to level Ret to 80, then spec into Holy so we have another healer. I am playing solo for the most part, so we shall see how it goes. Our guild healer has also hit 80, so we have been running dungeons with him, and also working our way through the Outland dungeons on heroics. If I could only find a good use for all these old badges, we would be in good shape.

Bits and Pieces Update 2/18/09

Wow, can you belive we are in the middle of Feburary already?? It seemed like Christmas was only yesterday..but I digress..So whats new in my WoW world?

- Well Daxan has finally hit 80, has finally gotten the Explorer title, and is not working on getting more achievments done. I have decided she needs another title, just haven’t found one I like yet, so I will work on anything at this point. I must say I am having a BLAST playing her, so much in fact, I find it hard to go back to my hunter and low level alts.

- As our tightknit group of 4, myself, hubby warrior, 79 priest, and 73 ret pally, we have been going through Outland dungeons, both on heroic and non-heroic, to get the achievments and reputation rewards. So far, we have completed Outland Dungeonmaster, and have done both Blood Furnace and Ramps on heroic, in record time. Good times had by all as usual.

-My first dungeon as a new 80, was Culling of Stratholme. After some issues with a mage, who decided to quit the group during the 2nd boss, and then needing on the drop, we continued on with the 4 of us(a diff ret pally, who was 79) and Arthas of course, and we managed to defeat the instance. Brute force basically. The healer got a nice upgrade though, and I earned some Wyrmrest Accord rep.

- Our core group got bored Saturday night. Being as we are not big Valentines Day people, hubby got me a nice bottle of vodka, and I proceeded to share in his gift. My guildmates enjoyed my online banter(and proceeded to giving me spelling lessons) but I decided in a drunken stupor to take out Onxyia. The rest agreed, and after a over 10min fight, Orgrimmar had a 2hr buff, and we had a screenshot of her head on a stick. GREAT TIMES!!

- I am bummed there are no more holiday events until May. I enjoy the events, but on the other hand, it gives me time to work on other things, like saving money for my epic flyer…then proceed to spend 300g on the Crusader Enchant formula on the Ah…<sigh>

- I am at a crossroads with my alliance toons. I currently have 3 of them, and I have done VERY little play on them since I went horde. I am seriously considering removing them, but Bunnyfer, has all my hard Alchemy work, that I am not to quick to want to give up. I may just keep her around so I can shuttle things through the neutral AH, and ditch the other 2…I just dont know yet..

- An off topic note…my kitten Arthas is going to have his manhood removed tomorrow. I cannot have him spraying all over my house, so the “boys” got to go. He will be a happier kitty for it.

Level 80….DONE!!

I am pleased to say that at 12:03a, Friday 2/13, I hit 80!!! Hubby hit his about 15min sooner than I did. I dinged in Storm Peaks, and it felt like a HUGE relief to get it done.

I also became Daxan the Explorer on Saturday.