Silly Observations

1. How can you miss both boats in Menethil at the same time?! I don't know, but I still managed to do it...

2. Why do I always spawn on another continent once I die? It's a little annoying to be in Desolace, die, and then wake up in Stranglethorn Vale.

3. Speaking of Desolace, I must confess that I love it. Ugly? Sure. Completely filled with mobs? Okay. Can I average close to 20k an hour there? Sure can. Horde aren't too bad, either--got ganked once in the course of an hour and a half. Moral of the story is, if you're level 32 or so, get your ass to Desolace. So worth it.

4. Silk farming may or may not be profitable. If it is profitable, I just made a decent amount of gold. Otherwise, meh.

5. Getting Mining 125 is stupidly annoying. I can mine tin or silver for a point. That's it. I see tin once in a blue moon. I see silver about as often as I see an episode of Walker: Texas Ranger that isn't completely stupid. Yaaaaar.

6. Isra, Saren and Rantel = <3. They like to powerlevel me, it seems. Kvasha = <3, even though he's a doofus with no mic. XP

The Joys of Powerlevelling

Asos, a 59 Mage, and Windstalker, a 60 Rogue, took two other members of the guild and me through Deadmines. We started at 11:10, and we were done by 11:40. :o

I should've gotten screenshots. I didn't. Didn't occur to me. Basically, there was rampaging, death, and constant loot rolling. I didn't get a lot in terms of items, really, just a lot of little crappy things to sell. But, at the end, I did manage to get...

>> Emberstone Staff <<
>> Corsair's Overshirt <<

Very lovely. And far more lovely than getting ganked every three seconds in Stonetalon... grr. Where oh where is a 25 Warlock supposed to quest, anyway (besides Wetlands)?

WoW and the Unconscious Mind Do Not Mix

I had a longer, much more exciting post all written out with pictures and links and everything but Blogger hates me and deleted it. Therefore I will share a WoW-related anecdote:

Last night I dreamt of WoW. I dreamt I fought a very angry giant harpie thingie alongside my sister (who doesn't play) while the dots of my two other party members (my mom and dad, it turns out, who also don't play) wandered obliviously away from the battle. For some reason my sister and I couldn't deal the death blow on our own and I was very angry at my parents for losing me all that fine XP. So I gave up and was going to hearth but I couldn't find my hearthstone. Apparently I had put it on a t-shirt and had forgotten to wear that shirt today. Now I was stranded.

"Wait--" my sister said, "I heard that you can type /home in the game and it'll send you back to a town!" It sounded a little strange but I thought, why not, and typed it. My sister was going to hearth too but she'd made some sandwiches on the other side of a cave we'd emerged from and had to go back for them. Fair enough. I typed /home and was sent to some fictional ghost town my subconscious mind interpreted as being in one of the Plaguelands. It was inhabited byJapanese ghosts and ghouls, all very friendly, and a few nuns from my Catholic high school. One of the nuns w as a vendor, who sold me all manner of tasty snack foods such as chicken strips and nachos. I thought, "Awesome, I should pop by Trevor's work (the Olive Garden) and share some of these with him!" For some reason it clicked in my dream-mind that the Olive Garden was in Menethil, which for some reason was a Gryphon-hop away. You heard me, the Olive Garden is in Menethil. How cool would that be? So long story short I resolved to pop in and deliver delicious snackfoods unto my beloved.

I drifted into consciousness at quarter till eleven with a strong feeling that I should get up and take the snacks to Trevor at work. I was wholly disappointed when I came to my senses and realized that there were no chicken strips or nachos and that it had all been a dream.

On warlocks, betas, and things I should have known

So, I played all through the beta of WoW, May to November 04. I got up there in levels as a Troll mage. Life was good. But I decided not to buy it because of no Battlegrounds and a lack of time and money. But this year, since I was arriving at school a week early with nothing to do and plenty of money, I figured, what the hell, I'll buy it. (read: Isra made me do it.)

Isra said the guild needed warlocks and priests. I'm not a big fan of priests. Played one in late beta for a bit, just not my cup of tea. So, warlock it is (hey, I like to be useful. plus I've done rogues and mages to DEATH.). Now, I had done a warlock for a bit early on in beta, and I hated it. Oh God, did I hate it. You know Westfall? You know the first field where you have to collect the oats? It's filled with level 8 and 9 mobs, pretty easy stuff. A level 11 Warlock had real trouble in beta, mainly because the Voidwalker was about as useful as a blue teddy bear (and much less cuddly). Shadow Bolt was also kinda lame.

So, I had my doubts that a Warlock was a viable class. But alas! I forgot that this is Blizzard, not SOE. This is Blizzard, the people who made even necromancers good in Diablo 2 (eventually). I get my imp, and already, it seems beter than beta. I keep going, and I get my Voidwalker. I go and kill some mobs. The voidwalker doesn't suck. The warlock is actually scaling with levels and not becoming useless for anything besides summoning and soulstones. Why did I doubt you, Blizzard? I felt dumb. Then I went over to Loch Modan and did the Gathering Idols quest (with mobs between 17 and 20) at level 15 without huge problems (just had to be careful with pulls). I felt more dumb.

Warlocks don't suck. Blizzard actually fixed things, and I shouldn't doubt them. I want PvP already.

Edit 2: fine, despite the fact that Isra was right and I like it, I won't publically thank her. :P