Daily Blog - July 31, 2009

Decided to take a night off last night and watch a couple of movies; The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Backdraft. Both pretty good movies, just sad. I'll probably play tonight.

Daily Blog - July 30, 2009

Played a few hours last night. Mostly just fished my way up to 150 for my Druid and also did some of the delivery quests in Redridge. That's about it. I'm halfway between level 17 and 18 right now so I've decided not to update any of my gear. Shouldn't have much trouble leveling to 18 tonight if I have time to play. After that it's off to my Preist.

Daily Blog - July 29, 2009

Had the electrician put in a electrical outlet and run my video wires through my ceiling yesterday. (only cost me $45!) I also mounted my projector to the ceiling and plugged everything in. My screen size for playing WoW is now at 10 feet and looks great. After all that was done my wife and I played for an hour or so. I used my Druid and we completed the Lighthouse quests in Westfall. I'm at level 17 now and moving over to Redridge to get to level 18. Hopefully I'll be able to do that tonight.

My wife got another character last night, which will make it her third. Her first was a Paladin, but she says it's too difficult and confusing to play. She's been using a Rogue which she thinks is easier. Now she rolled a Warrior which should also be easy. I'm thinking she may start becoming an Altoholic like myself.

Daily Blog - July 28, 2009

Was getting ready to play last night with my wife, but had problems with my system while using the projector. Everything automatically zoomed after I did the Function F8 on my dell laptop. Messed up everything when I tried to map my keys. Took a couple of hours to find a fix for it. It had to do with my microsoft mouse that I use at work. After that was finally fixed I added ctrl and shift to my extra Logitech mouse buttons and then redid my interface for my Druid and mapped my keys based on advice I found online. I use the esdf keys for movement and then my normal combat moves I use qwrt12345zxcv and then my healing goes to ctrl qwrt12345zxcv and I'll use shift qwrt12345zxcv for my forms. Everything else can be clicked with my mouse. Once I got all that taken care of it was already too late to play. So maybe tonight I will get around to actually playing.

Daily Blog - July 27, 2009

Only played a little bit over the weekend. My wife is level 16 with her Rogue so I played my level 16 Druid with her last night in Westfall. We're currently working on a strategy to fight against the Murlock magic users. We pulled in too many at one point and quickly died.

I bought myself a bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse this weekend from Logitech and am trying to get used to using it. It's somewhat backwards from what I have been using. I was just using my lap top touchpad for my mouse, using the arrow keys for movement and then assigned all my skills to letters on the keyboard. So I would move with my right and and select skills with my left hand. Now I'm changing it to moving with my left using the WASD keys and selecting skills with my right for my mouse. There's a lot of buttons on my mouse though so I think I can actually move with my mouse if I can figure it out. Then I can go back and map my skills to my keyboard and select them with my left hand. It seems faster to do it his way rather than moving my mouse around all the time. Maybe I'll do some research online today to see what other people do.

Daily Blog - July 23, 2009

Didn't play last night. Watched 12 Rounds which was another lame movie. Too much like Die Hard 3 or 4 (can't remember which). Anyway, I probably won't play again tonight because I'll be busy putting together my new component cabinet that will go under my projector screen in the game room. It's supposed to be delivered today. Sorry WoW....

I did go ahead and purchase a 50 ft monitor cable so it can run from the back of my receiver through the ceiling and to my projector for when I want to play WoW on the 92" screen. That way I will just place my laptop on the cabinet with my receiver, hook it into the monitor cable and then hook the sound to my receiver. I will need to buy a blue tooth keyboard and mouse so I can sit about 15 feet away on my couch and play. I already found a cool "Gamer's Desk" from a company called Lap Works.

If anyone actually reads my blog out there, can you suggest a good keyboard/mouse for WoW that is Bluetooth? I would rather not spend an arm and a leg for it though.....

Thanks!

Daily Blog - July 22, 2009

Didn't play again last night. Having too much fun watching movies on my new projector, although the one I watched last night really stunk. I don't recommend watching the supposed horror movie Brotherhood of Blood. Low budget and lame.

Daily Blog - July 21, 2009

Didn't play last night, watched the Astros instead.....

Daily Blog - July 20, 2009

Had a busy weekend so didn't get to play much WoW. I had a wedding to go to on Saturday and a Birthday to go to on Sunday. In between all that I was trying to get my new home theater room set up. I bought my first projector which is an Epson 1080P and also a new 7.1 home theater system from Onkyo. Hooked everything up and projected onto my wall in my game room (still waiting on my screen to be delivered) and everything looked and sounded fantastic. Last night I hooked my computer into the projector and my sound into my home theater system and it was freaking awesome!

The picture above is blurry because of the camera I used, but believe me it's extremely clear in person and it was about a 106 inch screen size, not to mention the sound was spectacular. It shook my house.

Anyway, I did level my Druid's first aid to 150, so now I will work on fishing.

Daily Blog - July 17, 2009

Quickly finished leveling up my Leatherworking for my Druid last night and also leveled my cooking to 180. I received a lot of gold for the things I sold the night before so I was able to buy medium leather and medium hide. I aslo started leveling my first aid. I think I'm around 80 right now, so I'll be able to quickly level that tonight if I play and then move on to fishing which will probably take a while.

Daily Blog - July 16, 2009

Played some last night but didn't get very far. I've still got 10 more skill points left before I reach 150 on Leatherworking. It takes a long time to do if you don't have a lot of gold or can't get easy access to medium leather. My Hunter dinged 20 while gathering the leather, but mainly he only gets light leather. I don't think I can take my Hunter to Worgen in the southern part of Duskwood yet. They always drop medium leather but I think their level is too high. Maybe in the mid-20's or so. I may be able to take one down, but if I got tag teamed I would be dead quick. Maybe I'll try it. I could also scavenge other people's kills if they aren't killing them for leather. Seems pretty cheap buy someone has to clean up.

Daily Blog - July 15, 2009

Didn't play last night. Watched first 2 episodes of Entourage Season 5 instead. Maybe I'll play tonight.

Daily Blog - July 14, 2009

I leveled my Paladin's engineering up last night so I could make my Hunter some bullets. I made 1,200 bullets and sent them over to my Hunter. That's about as far as I got though. I went to bed early (around 10) last night. I've been staying up past midnight for the last several days and it's catching up to me so I decided to take a break. I also helped my wife a little bit. Tonight I should be able to take my Hunter back to Duskwood and kill more wolves for medium leather and finally get my Druid's Leatherworking up to 150.

One other thing - why doesn't the WoW armory ever update? It's so sporadic. Sometimes it'll update every day, other times it won't update for weeks. Pretty crappy if you ask me.

Daily Blog - July 13, 2009

Played several hours over the weekend but didn't get too much accomplished as far as my goals are concerned. I'm still working on leveling my leatherworking for my Druid, I think I'm around 135 or 140. Right now I need medium leather to level the profession and the auction house prices are too high (around 5 gold per stack). I remember back several months ago when I started playing in December 2008 I would sell leather on the auction house for much cheaper. I believe the server was fairly new back then. I would sell a stack of light leather for about 1 gold and be happy, now they go for 2-3 gold. Same with copper bars as well.

So now that it's too expensive to buy I have to go out there and collect it myself. I've been using my Hunter because I find it easier to kill mobs that are a few levels higher with him. I went to Duskwood to kill some of the wolves to get my leather. It takes a long time, and I somewhat regret giving up skinning for my level 34 Rogue. I could have easily gotten medium leather with him in Duskwood, but unfortunately I switched him to herbablism instead. Oh well, it's more difficult to do herbalism with a low level charcter than skinning so I'll just use my Hunter for now. While getting leather I actually got him up to level 19.

Also, in the past week my wife has started to play again so I've been helping her. She only had one character before (paladin) and she thought it was a difficult class to play, so I told her to be a Rogue. She's enjoyed it so far, but is having a little trouble in some areas. She is trying to master the technique of drawing only one mob at a time. The Rogue is a little squishy if you get too many mobs on you at once. I went ahead and helped her with some armor and weapons to make it a little easier.

Maybe tonight I'll be able to collect some more leather, but my Hunter has now run out of bullets (heavy shot) so I need to make some more with my engineer, but unfortunately my engineer is only around level 40 or so. So I'm working on leveling my Paladin's engineering profession so he can make heavy shot for my Hunter.

It sure is slow going leveling all my alts.

Daily Blog - July 10, 2009

Finished getting my Hunter to level 18 last night. Did the Lighthouse quests and then several of the delivery quests in Lakeshire. Got the Multi-Shot skill which I believe is an essential skill for a Hunter's arsenal. Of course, I won't get to use it for a while as now I've moved on to Dotsmadasix, my Druid. I need to upgrade leatherworking for my Druid which won't take much time considering I'm already at 115. My Hunter is a skinner so maybe I'll take him out to Redridge and kill some of the beasts over there that are part of my quests anyways. I can try out my new skill and get some leather for my Druid. That's a good idea. My goal this weekend is to get my Druid through level 18 and then start on my Priest. I actually enjoy playing my Priest.

Daily Blog - July 9, 2009

Played a few hours last night and finished gearing up my Hunter. He's now ready to get to level 18. Tonight I will be in Westfall doing the boring Lighthouse quests and probably do some more quests in Redridge before I make it to 18. Probably won't take that long because my Hunter is stacked. I'll be using my tank bear as my pet. After I'm done with my Hunter I'll move on to my Druid which is probably one of my least favorite characters. When he's in his bear form it just seems so limited, but when in his normal form he's pretty weak. I know that there are some better forms latter on though, so I'll keep plowing through the levels.

Maybe by the time patch 3.2 comes out I'll have all my alts to level 20. If I do then I'll be able to buy a mount for all of them (if I have the gold ,of course). I heard that they are lowering the level requirement from 30 to 20. Not so sure if I like them lowering the requirement all the time, but I suppose since all my characters are around 20 it really helps me out. Now if my characters all just reached 30, I would be kinda pissed off.

Daily Blog - July 8, 2009

Played about 3 hours last night and got alot accomplished with my Hunter. Leveled fishing and first aid to 150 and also upgraded my weapons and armor. Now it's time to enchant those new items and also create potions, scrolls and glyphs. That's what I'll probably be working on the next couple of days. Hopefully I can do it in one night, but I may run out of money and have to either make more money or go farming which takes more time.

Daily Blog - July 7, 2009

Played a few hours last night and got a lot accomplished. Finally raised my Jewelcrafting to 155 for my Hunter and also raised my cooking to 150. I received about 50 gold from my Sunday auctions so was able to buy some stones to easily attain skill level 155. I had a bunch of raw fish already so it took no time to level cooking to 150. Now going through the tedious process of raising my fishing skill to 150. Right now it is at 25 so I have a ways to go.

So it looks like I'll be doing a lot of fishing tonight.

Daily Blog - July 6, 2009

Well I played probably around 12 hours over the three day weekend and still have not got my Hunter's Jewelcrafting profession to 150 (actually can get it to 155). I'm currently at 143, which is only 43 points higher than before the weekend. It takes a lot of money to level this profession, so I end up putting things on the auction house (copper, stone, dusts, everything possible) to make money. I'll make about 10 gold and then spend it to raise it by a couple of points. I'm now having to buy jades which seem to be in short supply and too difficult to obtain myself. I cannot currently get iron ore myself to prospect the jades, which has about a 1 out of 3 chance of happening anyways. So I'll wait on the auction house and buy one for about 3-4 gold apiece.

To speed up the process I went ahead and got rid of my skinning profession for my lvl 34 Rogue which was at around 250 and picked up mining. I leveled that up to 99 last night. I'm hoping that I'll be able to locate iron nodes and collect it myself and possibly also come across some of my own jade stones. I hope the iron nodes aren't in areas that are too high for my Rogue.

Painful process, this leveling of Jewelcrafting. Not sure why it's so much worse than all the other professions. The items that you are creating could not even be used by the player making them most of the time. Once you reach level 20 and can become and expert (or whatever it's called) there isn't anything you could actually use until your in your upper 20's or 30's. And you would never be able to collect the items. You would have to be at a much higher level to collect the items you need to make the jewels.

Oh well, I'll continue leveling my Rogue's mining tonight and hopefully I'll eventually find some iron nodes or find some cheap jades at the auction house.

Daily Blog - July 2, 2009

Played a few hours again last night. Quickly leveled my Warlock to 18 in Redridge and got my new skills. I am now working on my Hunter and trying to level his Jewelcrafting. It looks like it's going to be expensive. I was able to get to 100 before it got too late and plus I ran out of money again. I had my Mage sell off all his dusts and shards at the auction house. Hopefully I'll have a lot of money in my mail box tonight. I have to buy a lot of bronze or silver bars to level up quickly. Looks like pretty soon I'll be needing iron and gold bars as well. I'm sure those costs an arm and a leg. This looks like it's going to be a long process. Oh well, the things I can create look pretty helful although they are for levels that look much higher than most of my characters.

Daily Blog - July 1, 2009

Played a few hours last night and got a lot accomplished. Got about 27 gold from selling my copper and rocks the previous day so was easily able to finish gearing up my Warlock for his quest to level 18. Once I was geared up I went to Westfall and finished up the rest of the quests in the area which was the Defias quests up until escorting the traitor and then the lighthouse quests. I really hate Murlocs. I only died once when I was trying to get back to the lighthouse and turn in my final quest. I was tired of skirting around all the murlocs and got too close to a bunch of them. They froze me and took me and my minion. The beach is packed with mobs and it is difficult to get just one at a time and if you're not careful you'll net 3 or 4 on you and that's certain death if you're only level 16.

Anyway, I was about halfway between level 17 and 18 and it was about 12:30 am so I had to shut it down for the night. I should be able to play tonight and go over to Redridge and start questing to get to level 18. Then I'll start up my Hunter, Dotsmadanin, again and go through leveling everything up for him. I'm not too excited about leveling cooking, first aid and fishing, but I am excited about leveling jewelcrafting. Right now I'm only at level 69 so I'm interested to see what new items I'll learn on the way to 150 and be able to outfit all my alts with their new rings and whatnot.