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Ding!

petewood — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:26:37 +0000

My pally dinged 80 on Friday! Yay!!

Now I get to start working on leveling up jewelcrafting and eventually cooking. I just got my mining to 450 this morning and that means that I can start to craft some Titansteel Bars! My first goal will be the Spiked Titansteel Helm, followed by the Titansteel Destroyer.

The Spiked Titansteel Helm requires:

The Titansteel Destroyer requires:

Each Titansteel Bar requires:

3 Titanium Bars (each bar requires 2x Titanium Ores) = 6 Titanium Ore
1 Eternal Fire
1 Eternal Earth
1 Eternal Shadow

Miners can only make one Titansteel Bar every 20 hours so this set will take me a while to obtain. I think the only things that I will need to by off of the AH are the Eternal Fires and the Frozen Orbs.

I did manage to level my jewelcrafting from 99 to 276 last night! That took around 700ish gold but that is only because I couldn’t get to my stockpile of ore and stones in the mail. I will put most of my leftover ore back in the auction house so that I can recoup some of my spent gold.

I now have to start questing again so that I can earn some more gold to help pay for my new gear and enchants!

Since I did all of the quests in Howling Fjord, Borean Tundra, Dragonblight and Grizzly Hills, along with many, many instances while leveling, I still have Zul’Drak, Sholazar Basin, The Storm Peaks and Icecrown Glacier zones left for questing where I’ll be earning gold!

That will definitely help me to get my JC leveled and my Titansteel stuffs!

My pally is level 70!

petewood — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:51:21 +0000

I finally dinged level 70 on my paladin Sunday morning! I had a lot of spell upgrades, including Blessing of Might, Rank 8 and Avenging Wrath! My pally finally has her wings! It seems like I’ll have to wait for boss fights and/or soloing elites to use them though, since I seem to blow through mob too quickly.

I purged about 70% of my addons yesterday as well. A lot of them were mostly fluff that I didn’t need. I still have the most important ones though, Bartender4, FuBar and Perl Classic.

I also got my flying mount for her as well, which is awful slow when you have the epic flyers on two other toons, even with Crusader Aura.

I’ve been running a lot of instances lately and have been amassing rep. I’m not going to bother trying to farm honor for any PvP gear since Wrath will be out on November 13th so I’ve been buying whatever reputation PvP gear I can get. The ret set is called Crusaders Scaled Battlegear. I’ve got two pieces so far, the legs (Crusader’s Scaled Legguards) and the hands (Crusader’s Scaled Gauntlets).

This pally is a lot of fun! Even with the post-3.0.2 nerfs, playing as ret is still much better than pre-3.0.2; we’re still op!

Tanked Slave Pens, dinged 68

petewood — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:03:08 +0000

On Sunday night, I tanked for the second time. I tanked slave pens so that I could finish up a quest that netted me 22k experience and some rep.

I’d like to get to honored with Sporeggar so that I can buy the best AoE grinding shield for pallys, the Petrified Lichen Guard! I only need to complete “Now that we’re still friends…” quest 5 more times before I can get the shield. That shield coupled with a Felsteel Shield Spike is a AoE paladin’s dream!

My pally dinged 68 on Monday morning, just before work. That means I got to equip The Oathkeeper I found on the auction house for 40g!

Today is the day of the much coveted 3.0.2 patch! Ret pallys got an insane amount of buffs this patch. We actually got a good crowd control spell in Repentance! Repentance is like a long range sap.

I’m very excited to play with the new spell and abilities. Ret paladins will now be *very* viable for dps spots in instance groups!

Paladin is almost 70!

petewood — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:25:59 +0000

I went to bed last night only 20k experience from 67 and I had to go to sleep in preparation for coming to work today. I got dressed and showered rather quickly for some reason and had some time to play before work.

I’m in Nagrand at the moment after I flew threw Zangarmarsh and Terokkar Forest. I barely finished the ring of blood quests in Nagrand. I was unlucky enough to be the only healing capable class in the party so once again, I healed as ret. We wiped 3 times on the first boss and finally got to the 3rd before one of the party members had to leave. The tank grew tired of my lackluster healing and called in a 70 lock buddy of his and a 64 holy priest. Despite the help, we wiped once more and then finally finished up the quests. I got the Honed Voidaxe as my reward. This will soon be replaced by The Oathkeeper that I can equip at level 68. Speaking of which, I need to start looking for it in the AH!

Speaking of the AH, I finally replace my paladin’s netherweave bags with some imbued netherweave bags! Ideally, I’d like to have some primal mooncloth bags, but they are ridiculously expensive (300 gold-ish each x 4 = lots o’ gold).

I had one quest to turn in and that gave me 5800 xp and a very easy quest to burn some buildings near the Horde city in Nagrand. So I ran over there and in the process of trying to burn the buildings and killing the mobs in the area, I actually dinged 67! Yay pally!

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Pally is 61 and holy atm

petewood — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:31:18 +0000

I’ve managed to level my pally up to 61. I wanted to do some instances as ret but I got booted after it was determined that our warrior tank would be better as dps and a new tank was found…

So I bit the bullet and went holy since I had some +healing gear already. I healed almost all of ramparts up until the last boss. We wiped 2x before one of our party members got pissy and left group. My lack of healing was the major reason for the wipes.

After not having any luck finding another dps (seriously…), someone asked their friend to help out, a 70 hunter. That fight went from being super difficult to being a joke.

After I turned in the quests for the ramparts run, I got some quests to run blood furnace. I figured “what the hell, I’m already holy” and I started looking for a group for blood furnace. After finally getting a group, the run didn’t last long at all. We didn’t even make it to the first boss. Initially, we had a ret pally tanking and me healing. Our dps group consisted of 3 warlocks.

One of the warlocks had to go so we found a feral druid. We asked him to tank and he agreed but he didn’t know how. I had to tell him how to pull with a druid in bear form, even though I’ve never tanked anything with a druid, I knew that they had a ranged “spell” to pull with.

When I get home tonight, I’ll be going back to ret and abandoning those quests for blood furnace. It took too long to find a group and then not even being able to complete the run.

I did get to heal some battlegrounds though, that was a bit more fun than healing an instance.

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Quitting and restarting Warcraft, job, TS Fay

petewood — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:56:03 +0000

I stopped playing World of Warcraft for about 2 months. I continued to read blogs about it and intended to pick it back up when the Wrath of the Lich King came out (which is supposed to be before Christmas 2008). Well I finally caved and reactivated my account. I’ve managed to get my rogue up to level 28. My last update here was for level 26 back on June 14. At this point, I’m really unsure if I’ll continue to try and play it since finding time to play has been difficult lately.

I started my new job almost three weeks ago. During the first two weeks, everything was awesome! I was busy and I was learning a new system AND I was writing code again! Well this past week, things have slowed down tremendously. I’ve been dragging out “research” assignments as much as possible and trying to pass the time any way that I can.

Tropical Storm Fay was supposed to hit Orlando almost directly! Well it didn’t. Fay went south and then east of Orlando. We didn’t get much in the form of wind and rain when we were “supposed” to (i.e. when Fay was south of us) but we did get a LOT of rain when Fay stalled out on the East coast of Florida! It rained for almost 4 full days. Some of the East coast counties received over 3 feet of rain over a 4 day period!

rogue level

petewood — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:00:39 +0000

and my rogue hit 26 this morning – two levels while on-call. I guess being on-call is useful for something!

rogue and on-call bullshit

petewood — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:34:36 +0000

rogue dinged 25 – yay

I got a page at 2am after going to be at 11pm – WTF?! all week of no calls overnight and my first night on-call, I get a 2am page. bullshit

WoW fascination

petewood — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:39:13 +0000

So I’ve been playing WoW quite a bit lately. I’m re-fascinated with the game since I really started with my rogue (Backpain of Maiev). She’s dinged 24 just a few moments ago. Leveling combat-specced rogues while dual-wielding swords, seems like cheating in my opinion – everything seems to go down pretty fast with them!

That pally of mine (level 55) is on hold for a while. My account is due to be cancelled on 6/23 (15 days from now) but I don’t think I’m going to let it – at least that’s what I’m thinking now!

weekend recap

petewood — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:43:06 +0000

Saturday
went to Aaron’s soccer game,

went to a birthday party with over 100 people for one of Aaron’s neighborhood friends/soccer teammates,

Edit: I forgot to mention that I mopped the kitchen, hallway and downstairs bathroom floors! (linky to my twitter status)

Sunday
cleaned up the garage thanks to a major kick in the ass from meri,

donated multiple things to the Goodwill and Salvation Army (why the hell didn’t that Goodwill take furniture?!),

bought the necessary things needed to create my own pegboard and some other “get shit off the floor” organizational tools for the garage,

went to a water park in oviedo where we paid $8/person to get in. some little girl fell and busted her head open, emt’s showed up, very exciting for the people around us.

dinged 53 on my pally, sold that blue mace for 50g

eli slept like a champ all day sunday, until night-time, then it was payback for having slept all day – take THAT mom and dad!

all-in-all, a good, although busy (for me), weekend.

now I’m on-call at work. yay