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 - May 1, 2009

Played a couple hours last night, before and after a Rockets win. I switched out mining for herbalism for my level 33 Rogue and got to work leveling his herbalism skill. Ran around Elwynn Forest a couple of times to get my skill up to 70, then went over to the Barrens to get my skill up to 130. I think I'm up to 110 to 115 right now. I wish the Armory would update on the WoW website so I can see exactly what my level is. For some reason it hasn't updated since April 21st. I will continue running around the Barrens until I get to skill level 130, then it's off to Stonetalon Mts to get up to 170. After that I can finally go to Stranglethorn Vale and get the necessary herbs I need to level up inscription for my Mage. It will be rough considering the area is levels 30-45 and I'm only 33. I'll just have to be careful and take it slow.

This is the first time I've been in the Barrens and it's pretty impressive with the giraffes and those huge beasts that look like Rhinos (don't remember their names). I guess it shows how little I've explored in this game. The Barrens is soooo huge! It's strange not seeing any other player for an hour. I was all by myself out there collecting flowers which was nice to not have any competition. What a beautiful game!

Daily Blog - April 30, 2009 Part 2

I've decided that I will gather my own herbs to level up my inscription to 150, instead of buying flowers from the auction house. In order to do this though I will need my level 33 Rogue to start picking flowers. I'm going to drop mining and get the herbalism profession. Even with my Rogue though, I'll eventually be venturing into territory that has mobs that are a little higher than myself (Stranglethorn Vale). I suppose I'll just have to be carefull. Also, maybe I'll actually be able to raise my Rogue's levels. It's been awhile since I've been in an area where killing things actually gave my Rogue experience. This will be another thing that probably takes a long time. I'm just glad my Rogue has a horse so I can get around much faster. This game takes forever, but that's why I love it!