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April 27, 2007
So very tired...
Okay, some days... this new schedule kicks me in the ass.
Today we did a bank run during our lunch break, to deposit paychecks. Good thing, since I haven't paid bills in.... ::Cringes.:: Well, a month now? Obviously something I shouldn't do, but sometimes, shit happens.
Grabbed Burger King on the way back to work, and had a Hershey's Sundae Pie... Heaven! While I perfer Oreo pie, this was just bliss.
The day went rather swiftly, which is always good. I've been rather exhausted since getting home. We tried to work on my Kara key, but it was next to impossible with do without a tank. And then time came for Caverns of Time--which ended up being an absolute waste of my time. Ah well.
If I get any time tomorrow, I think I'm just going to instance grind and work on Jarn's enchanting.
Posted by Coyote at 11:39 PM
April 23, 2007
Indecision
I've come to the solid realization that I don't like gaming solo.
Back when we played FFXI, I hated the idea of grouping. Hell, that's why I quit the game, since leveling past... what, 7?... was impossible if you didn't group. I hated that aspect, even though when I was in a group I did enjoy myself.
I've leveled about a dozen characters in my Warcraft 'career'. Some didn't last very long at others, while I have a 70 and a 65. The 70 amazes me, in all honesty. I strived to hit 60 before The Burning Crusade launched, but was unable to due to the house reconstruction. Instead, I hit Outlands at 58 and worked my ass off. Hellfire to 60, the Marsh to 63?, Terokkar to 65, Nagrand to 67, Blades Edge to 69 and then the killer... 69-70 in Netherstorm. I only stepped foot into Shadowmoon once before 60, and I simply ran for the flight point, and then went back to what I was doing. I hit 70 before Mike. I honestly didn't think that would happen. I had help. Trilok was there, pushing me from one quest objective to the next. When I realized that I was a single kill from leveling Zind for the last time (at least until the next expansion) I flipped, told him to stop and ran downstairs to grab Mike. Then I flew upstairs and bailed on our party, hoping that if he did kill something--since he was fighting--I wouldn't get the experience and level without Mike there to see. (Trilok then ordered me to Orgrimmar to finish my training, and then Shadowmoon to buy my mount, with shiny new gold that he shoved at me.)
Shortly after the expansion, Mike had become disinterested in playing, it seemed like. It took some nudging, but I got him onto our current server, and we both happened to roll Paladins (Blood Knights!). It was unplanned, and it wasn't until we were around 3 or 4 that we realized that we kept running past each other on our new belfadins.
At that point, we grouped and continued playing together until they hit.. 23. Yes, I think they're 23 now. Unfortunately at that point, he'd decided to move Grog over to what was now our 'new server' and he got back into playing Grog. He was excited about Grog again, which was good. God he loves his hunter. When I had first gotten WoW, my computer was broken and I was so upset. He did the considerate boyfriend thing, and let me install it on his. He made a character on my account and played a little bit, but not for very long. It was another orc hunter, with a similar Grog- name. Why change what works?
So yeah, he transferred Grog over and started playing him again. He's 69 now, and so very close to leveling. And he'll sit there, so close to leveling until Mike's computer is finally repaired. He won't finish leveling him on mine--even though I have the new video card (30+ FPS finally!). It's not his computer. Fine, okay.
Yes, I'm rambling. I have a point here, I swear it.
Our poor Paladins are sitting at 23, with full rested experience and quests collecting dust. The funny thing too is that when we were leveling, it was--quite literally--me leading the way with him on follow for any 'boring' parts (running from the Crossroads to Thunderbluff? Oh yes, he was on follow). I don't mind, oddly enough. But with us leveling together, I had to come up with a plan of attack, as it was. "We'll start with this quest, move into that one, which will bring us here...." Planning! How silly is that?
I miss that though. I've been up and down through the Barrens so many times that I'm finally beginning to hate the area. I'd kill to be in ... Azshara or Feralas. I want my warrior pushing through Scarlet Monastry, and not with someone rushing me though, but rather tanking a regular group through. But I don't have the drive anymore to push a character on. I hit 53 on Lothar solo, with my long since deleted hunter. I pushed to 70, again with a hunter, pretty much solo to play with everyone. Shink too, was pure solo play up until... well, one level. For all of a single level, she was grouped with another shaman. She'll make it to 70 at some point in time. It's always handy to be able to say, "Oh, you have a hunter already? How about DPS/off-healing?"
(And let's not get into this nonsense of being keyed for places. Zindi is likely going nowhere special. I don't have the patience to drop into a zombie state and simply grind mindlessly. I don't know how Chazz did 57-60 in 10 hours!)
So, what have I decided? I don't like leveling solo. But everyone's so spread out, and it's impossible to find someone to actually level with. Hell, I'd transferred my priest over, thinking I'd play with Sharon and Trish. Too bad Trish stopped playing with us. :( I should go yell at her, but I deleted my character on her server (early case of spring cleaning, oops!).
Outside pulling teeth (leveling), my only other thing is trying to scrounge up the gold to get Zindi her epic flying mount. Of course, I think I found a good source of income. I auctioned off all her Fel Iron, Adamantite and Khorium bars. And then Primal Earth and Fire. I also had two Essence of Undeath from our last Strat run, that finally sold off. Took like two or three attempts before they sold. I made around 300g today from that, of course, it's not something I could do on a daily basis. That was about a dozen auctions that I put up, and those bars had been growing for quite some time.
Engineering costs far too much. I'm actually considering dropping herbalism from Jarn to pick up enchantings, so that I can do solo runs of places like SM for mats which are pricey. (5g for a single Small Radiant Shard is awful. Especially when there's only 4 on the AH, and I need 8 total for my poor rogue.)
She used to be an enchanter. Mike ran Chazz and I into Uldaman to finish up our enchanting training. And then... I bailed on it. Of course, I had no high end mats, and man... Chazz could out advertise me any day of the week! But... selling strictly mats? Hmm. Maybe I'll pull up a list of blue mats and check the AH for them, and see if it's worth me dropping my 375 herbalism for it.
I think I should go to sleep. I've been "ordered" to bed once already, and Mike asked if I was going to be done soon. Yeah, think I'm done. I'm exhausted, and hopefully this cold will be fully gone by Tuesday. Nothing quite like working in a dusty store with a head cold.
( Oh, Mike got his Reyes jersey! Fabulous birthday present for him! )
Hopefully tomorrow my jaw won't be hurting either. I've been clenching my jaw too much. You'd think I was stressed or something, since that's the only time I do it. ::Shrug!::
Posted by Coyote at 12:39 AM
April 15, 2007
Oh, the Joy!
OKay, so last week we started a new work schedule. Saturday through Monday are our days off now. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday are 10 hour days (technically 11 hours, due to a hour lunch break) and Thursday is sticking to our standard 7 hours so that we can come home early and let Mike relax before bowling. Well, not that he's been going bowling with any consistency. Last week was due to being tired because of the new work schedule; but his bowling has been piss-poor with how his finger is hurting him.
So yeah, new work schedule. It went well, I believe. The week before we had worked our normal schedule, but it was the first week of the new delivery schedule and we ended up being so horribly bored on Monday and most of Tuesday.
Last Monday Mike's computer finally got home. Mike was reluctant to set it up, he was sure that it wasn't going to work. I honestly think that somehow, somewhy, he cursed it with that thought alone. Obviously, it didn't work. Four phone calls back to the computer place later, and we're having to send it back to them to be repaired. Again. In the end, we ended up with a broken cellphone, and a pre-paid Fedex tag to send it back. Bastards.
Aside from that, everything's been rather uneventful. I've been slowly working on my warrior, and piecing together a website for our little alt guild. We still don't know what we want to do with it specifically, but it's going to take me getting that warrior leveled up some before anything happens.
Speaking of which, Mike challenged me to get to level 30 by the end of the weekend (which I'm assuming means Monday night). I'm at 26. I was at 24 when he leveled that challenge at me, so its possible just ... unlikely at the moment. Who knows. Of course, I'm rather enjoying crashing on the bed with my laptop and writing, so... it's hard to say. Mike may just be using my computer more often than before. :D
Who knows. *shrug*
But yeah, I'm going to try and get back to writing. I'm trying to kick off the IC posts on our board with a starting one for Kelyna--my Belf mage. She's the GM of the guild, for no reason other than the fact that I was playing her at the time I decided to make the guild. I think I'll keep her there, as she is secondary to my warrior and I don't like warrior GMs. They tend to seem greedy, regardless of their deserving of the gear they earn. Main tank ought to be geared first--in terms of defense based plate and a good one-handed weapon. But whatever. Heh.
Oh yeah, found a rather cool site/addon for WoW. It was created by Shawn Fanning (of Napster fame) and it tracks your characters, so much better than Armory. Keeps track of kills, BG wins/losses, etc. Very cool. I'll add the link later. :)
Anywho, going to try and finish this post up. Adios!
Posted by Coyote at 8:14 PM