Daily Blog - August 31, 2009

My Mage was able to get his cooking to 225 and fishing to 190 over the weekend. Spent only about 30 minutes fishing. I will be doing more of this tonight although it is really boring......

Meet Dotsmadanin, my Beast Master Hunter....

I can definitely see why people enjoy leveling with a Hunter. He's super easy and fun to play. The only problem I usually have is running out of mana after continuously killing mobs. I suppose he deserves a break now and then.... Here are his stats:

Level - 20
Strength - 34
Agility - 79
Stamina - 50
Intellect - 36
Spirit - 40
Armor - 567
Jewelcrafting - 155
Skinning - 150
Fishing - 150
Cooking - 150
First Aid - 150

My Hunter makes all my jewelry for my alts and is also my main leather farmer. I've concentrated his stats on Agility and Stamina. He ranks # 2 in Agility behind my Rogue and is ranked # 3 overall. Love playing this guy.

Meet Dotsmadaeit, my Enhancement Shaman....

My Shamy is not a bad character to play. I like his totems and he also can heal himself. The last time I played him I don't think I died at all. He's a good survivor. His stats are:

Level - 18
Strength - 44
Agility - 29
Stamina - 54
Intellect -46
Spirit - 43
Armor - 862
Skinning - 30
Mining - 102
Fishing - 150
Cooking - 150
First Aid - 150

My Shamy is just a gatherer since I ran out of professions (no need to do more than one profession with my characters). I've concentrated most of his stats in Stamina, Strength and Intellect. He is also got a great armor class as well since I use a shield with him. He ranks # 6 overall.

Meet Dotsmadasev, my Shadow Priest....

My Priest is actually one of my favorite players to play. As long as I don't have too many mobs on top of me I can survive pretty well. It's fun to attack and almost die, then heal yourself and keep attacking. If you time it right you will never die eventhough your super squishy. Here are his stats:

Level - 18
Strength - 23
Agility - 31
Stamina - 30
Intellect - 57
Spirit - 63
Armor - 262
Alchemy - 150
Herbalism - 75
Fishing - 150
Cooking - 150
First Aid - 150

My Priest has the fun (sarcasm) job of Alchemy which is probably my least favorite profession. I really dislike gathering herbs. The auction house has the prices of herbs too high if you can find them so I usually have to go out and farm them myself. That's the reason why I changed my Rogue over to Herbalism. The potions made though are very helpful to all my characters. As a magic user all of his stats are in Intellect and Spirit. He is my # 1 ranked character in Spirit. He ranks # 8 overall.

Meet Dotsmadasix, my Balance Druid....

This is probably my least favorite character. It just is not that exciting changing into a bear. It's a Warrior with less options. When I get the cat form, it will be a Rogue with less options. Not very fun to me. I hear the Druid shines more when he is further along, but I guess we'll see. Here are his stats:

Level - 18
Strength - 29
Agility - 48
Stamina - 35
Intellect - 45
Spirit - 52
Armor - 453
Leather - 150
Skinning - 120
Fishing - 150
Cooking - 180
First Aid - 150

My Druid is pretty much middle of the pack in all stat categories. He is my Leatherworker so he makes armor kits for all my alts, but that's about it. As I said, pretty boring character. He ranks #7 overall.

Meet Dotsmadafiv, my Demonology Warlock.....

My Warlock is fairly simple to play as I just sick my minion on the mobs and just pound on him from afar. Here are his stats:

Level - 18
Strength - 25
Agility - 28
Stamina - 44
Intellect - 61
Spirit - 60
Armor - 265
Mining - 84
Tailoring - 150
Fishing - 152
Cooking - 150
First Aid - 150

Much like my Mage I've concentrated most of my Warlock's stats in Intellect and Spirit which he is ranked #2 in both. He also makes my bags and cloth armor for my squishy characters. He's ranked #5 overall out of my 9 total characters.

Meet Dotsmadafor, my Frost Mage.....

This is my Frost Mage. He's pretty entertaining to play as long as I don't run into multiple mobs. Here are his stats:

Level - 18

Strength - 22

Agility - 23

Stamina - 32

Intellect - 68

Spirit - 52

Armor - 281

Enchanting - 150

Incription - 150

Fishing - 157

Cooking - 161

First Aid - 150

As you can see, I've stacked all of his stats in Intellect and Spirit. He is number one in intellect out of all of my alts, but ranks as my least most powerful character. He is very important though as he enchants all my gear and creats scrolls for all my other players. I enjoy playing him.

Meet Dotsmadathre, me Protection Warrior....

This is my bad ass Warrior. I really enjoy playing him and just finished leveling him to 20. Here are his stats:

Level - 20
Strength - 67
Agility - 55
Stamina - 84
Intellect - 23
Spirit - 31
Armor - 1,525
Blacksmith - 150
Mining - 100
Fishing - 229
Cooking - 225
First Aid - 225

This is my first character that I've leveled the secondary skills up to 225. He has the highest armor class, by far than any of my other characters. He is also high in strength and stamina. I have him ranked as my number 2 character so far, with my Rogue number 1. When I play my Warrior next I will be working on leveling Blacksmithing.

Meet Dotsmadato, my Combat Rogue....

This is the character that I have leveled the furthest. I suppose he would be considered my main character. I really enjoy "slicing and dicing" through all the mobs with this guy. I have almost gone through all of the Deadmines solo, but wasn't able to defeat VanCleaf. I probably could now since I'm more experienced, but haven't tried in a long time. Here are his stats:

Level - 34

Strength - 52

Agility - 122

Stamina - 89

Intellect - 23

Spirit - 48

Armor - 859

Herbalism - 208

Mining - 100

Fishing - 90

Cooking - 141

First Aid - 189

As far as his skills are concerned, you can see that I use him as a gatherer, mostly with herbs. I did have him as high as 256 with skinning before I switched him over to mining a while back. I now use my Hunter as my leather farmer. I will have a lot to do regarding his secondary skills, but I won't be playing my Rogue (except for gathering herbs) until all my other characters are up to level 34, which could be a very long time at the pace I'm going. He is obvioulsy by far the highest Agility character I have. He also has the highest stamina. He is my most powerful player.

Meet Dotsmada the Retribution Paladin....

Dotsmada is my very first character. ThePaladin class is probably one of the most difficult to play so it was definitely a challenge when I first started. I haven't played my Paladin in probably several months now. He's been sitting at level 20 while I level the rest of my characters to 20. Here is his current stats:

Level - 20
Strength - 68
Agility - 36
Stamina - 59
Intellect - 34
Spirit - 37
Armor - 952
Engineering - 40
Mining - 59
Fishing - 1
Cooking - 85
First Aid - 64

As you can see, I will have a lot to level as far as his skills are concerned. He currently has the highest strength of all of my characters, just edging out my Warrior. He's a distant second in Armor behind my Warrior. He is my fourth most powerful player.

Introducing my characters v2

When I started my blog back in April I introduced my characters to you. I would like to once again introduce my 9 characters to you with a photo of each in the next several posts. Enjoy....

Daily Blog - August 28, 2009

I finished leveling my Warrior to 20 last night, and also got him his mount. Boy are they cheap now. Only 3.5 gold for training and less than a gold for the mount. Makes it less of an achievement, but not sure if I really care. I didn't have to go farm to raise money. Above is a picture of my Warrior, Dotsmadathre, on his new horse. Now I will move on to my Mage and leveling his secondary skills to 225 and to level 20.

Daily Blog - August 27, 2009

Leveled my Warrior up to 19 last night doing several delivery and collection quests between Redridge/Westfall/Stormwind/Darkshire. I think I have already gotten a hang of the battle rotation once again. It's not too difficult. I really enjoy having to push several buttons with the Warrior and having to time them right. Other characters you just mash one or two, which is pretty boring. The Warrior brings variety I think. Tonight I should be able to level my Warrior to 20 while doing my Redridge quests and then I'll need to buy a mount!

Daily Blog - August 26, 2009

I finished upgrading all my gear last night, now hopefully tonight I can go out and level my Warrior to 20. I can't remember exactly where I left off last time but I think I just started in Redridge. I enjoy leveling in Redridge because everything is so close together. Hopefully it won't take too long. I will have to get used to fighting with my Warrior once agains. That's one of the drawbacks of playing 9 characters at once I suppose.

Daily Blog - August 25, 2009

I was kicking myself last night for not running around Elwynn Forest the night before to put some copper on the auction house. So when I played last night I didn't have any money to purchase supplies so I could finish upgrading my Warrior's gear. I spent about an hour or so running around last night collecting about 120 copper bars to sell at the auction house. Hopefully they sell so I can have some gold to buy supplies tonight when I play.

Daily Blog - August 24, 2009

Was able to get my Warrior up to 225 in both Fishing and First Aid over the weekend. I was also able to upgrade some of my armor through the auction house. Now I'm trying to enchant my equipment and make potions and scrolls. I should be able to do that tonight.

Daily Blog - August 20, 2009

Played about an hour or two last night and was able to level my cooking to 225 and my fishing to 199. I got tired of fishing so I started leveling first aid. I got up to 210 which is when I need to start using Runecloth. I have no idea where to farm Runecloth, but I'm guessing it's off of mobs that are higher than any of my characters. So that means I'll have to buy it from the auction house. I looked and there was some (don't remember how many) for about 5 gold. I didn't have enough gold at the time so I'm stuck at 210 for now.

I'll probably do some more fishing tonight if I get to play, but it now takes 5 fish to go up one skill point, so 26 skill points means I'll have to cast at least 130 times. That's if it stays at 5 all the way up to 225. This will take a long time. As for first aid, I'm going to have to go collect some copper so I can sell and have enough money to buy runecloth. I'll only need to buy 1-2 stacks though to get to 225 in first aid.

Daily Blog - August 19, 2009

I was able to get my Warrior to Stromgard Keep without dying last night. I also picked up some flight points in the Wetlands and Refuge Point so it won't take as long to get back there again. I got some recipes for cooking fish at the Wetlands (can't remember the name of the city) so I could cook the mithril trout that I would be catching. Unfortunately I can't learn it until I reach skill level 175. That means I will need to raise my cookings skill 25 points while cooking more bristle whisker catfish first. I sure wish I hadn't trashed all the ones I caught on my journey to fishing skill level 150. Oh well. I went ahead and fished for about 20 minutes at Stromgard and caught a bunch of trout and some catfish. Went back to Goldshire and cooked the catfish, but it only got me to skill level 164. I will go to Redridge to catch more catfish so I can hopefully get up to 175. Right now cooking catfish is green so hopefully it stays green until I reach 175 because I'm not sure what else I can cook to raise my level. Once I do reach 175, I think I should have enough trout to get to 225. If not then I will just go back to Stromgrade.

After all that I hope I'm at 225 on my fishing skill level, but I highly doubt it. I'm only at about 172 right now. My fishing skill is currently outleveling my cooking skill, but that will change quickly once I reach 175 in cooking. I will just give my left over fish to my Mage. That will give him a headstart on leveling his fishing and cooking.

So that's probably what I will be doing tonight if I get to play.

Daily Blog - August 18, 2009

Was finally able to finish upgrading my Shaman and level to 18. Finished up the Westfall quests (except Deadmines) and dinged 18 while doing the delivery quests for Redridge. It was actually pretty easy. I did not die once.

Next I start back on my Warrior and try to get him to level 20 so I can get my mount. Before then I would like to raise my secondary skills to 225, but I'm not sure how easy that will be. Fishing won't be difficult, but seems like it would take forever. I would like to catch fish that will level my cooking as well, but I'm not sure if I can take a level 18 character to a safe place to do this. I will have to do a little research online to find a good strategy. First Aid shouldn't be a problem.

Looking online it looks like I should go to Stromgarde Keep in the Arathi Highlands to catch mithril head trout. Unfortunately that's a level 30-40 area. Probably won't be too easy to get there with my Warrior. I suppose I have three options:

1. Try to get there with my level 18 warrior by avoiding all mobs (not sure if possible).
2. Take my level 34 Rogue there and catch the trout with him, send the fish to my Warrior and level his cooking that way. I will have to take my Warrior to Redridge and increase his fishing skill there. I would then just trash everything I catch.
3. Buy the trout from the auction house if they are available and if they are reasonably priced, and fish in Redridge to level the fishing skill.

Not sure which one I will choose.

Daily Blog - August 17, 2009

Was able to finish most of the equipment upgrades for my Shaman over the weekend, but ran out of money. I had to go out and collect copper bars to sell at the auction house so I can finish up. All I have left is 4 enchants on my equipment then I'll be able to go out there and get to level 18. Shouldn't be a problem.

I only played on Friday night as I went to bed relatively early on Saturday (about 10:30pm) and Sunday I spent all day making my 120" projection screen. I started at about 1 pm and finished around 9 or 10 that night. I was too tired to do much after that. The screen looks great though. If I was to buy one that was professionally made it would cost me $1,000 or more. I made my own for between $100-$200. All it takes is some 1 x 4's, some brackets and screws, some adhesive black flet, black-out cloth and a french cleat to hang the screen on the wall. I will take a picture and post it.

Maybe tonight I will see how my PC looks on my new screen by playing some WoW. We'll see.

Daily Blog - August 14, 2009

Continued to upgrade my gear last night and prepare for my journey to level 18 with my Shaman. Didn't get too far though. Takes a lot of time to gather the necessary herbs to make all the potions. I was able to make 10 Elixir's of Defense, 10 Elixir's of Lion's Strength and 10 Healing potions. I still have to do the following before I can set out on my journey:

Create 5 Lesser Mana Potions
Create 10 Scrolls of Strength
Create 10 Heavy Weightstones
Create 2 Medium Armor Kits
Create Major Glyph - Flametongue Weapon
Create 4 Small Silk bags
Enchant Weapon - Lesser Striking
Enchant Cloak - Lesser Protection
Enchant Chest - Minor Stats
Enchant Bracer - Lesser Stamina
Enchant Boots - Minor Stamina
Enchant Shield - Minor Stamina

So, as you can see, I have a lot of stuff to do before I begin leveling. It may take me the whole weekend just to prepare, if I get to play.

Daily Blog - August 13, 2009

Played some the last couple of days. I am now working on my Shaman and upgrading my gear. I've bought better armor, jewelry and weapons where I could, now I'm making some potions and scrolls and that kind of thing. I'll also have to add some enchants to my equipment. That'll take some time as I'll either have to go get some supplies or make money to buy supplies from the auction house. I probably won't finish that tonight even if I do get to play extended hours. My 3 month old doesn't allow me to play much right now. It's hard playing with only one hand.

Daily Blog - August 10, 2009

Played some last night. I was able to level my Priest to 18. I will now start working with my Shaman and getting him up to level 18. He's my last alt that I need to level to 18. I will need to reorganize his action bars and get used to the new totem bar that they have now from patch 3.2. I currently only have fire and earth right now.

Daily Blog - August 7, 2009

Didn't play last night. It's hard playing WoW while holding a 2 month old so I just watched a horrible Children of the Corn part 7. I hope I'll get to play this weekend.

Daily Blog - August 6, 2009

Didn't play again last night. Bought the game Sacred 2 for my PS3 and played that a little. It's ok so far.

Daily Blog - August 5, 2009

Haven't played the last couple of nights. I've watched movies instead. Finished Carnivale Season 2, watched Carrie and the Changeling. I'm excited about patch 3.2 though. Most of my characters are close to reaching 20 or have just passed it so now I'll have to go ahead and save up some money so I can get my mounts.

Daily Blog - August 3, 2009

Only played a little over the weekend. Got my Druid up to level 18 and that was about it. Played a little Oblivion on my Xbox 360 and also watched a couple of episodes of Carnivale Season 2 which is an HBO tv series that was on some years back. Not too bad of a show, just very dark. Once my wife starts playing again I think I want to use my Priest to heal her while she's leveling.