Over the rivers and through some hills to grandma's house I go.

Well I'll be gone all weekend to my grandmother's house. Not a bad deal due to great food and time away from the hustle and bustle of city type life. It's much better now since they upgraded to satellite TV a few years back. Of course, I'll take a few guns and kill a few cans and rabbits, but it's what I do.

Is it time for a new pet?

Okay so I have the white lion from the barrens that you get with a quest. I thought I was being different. I am not. I am sad because I have this white lion and I keep seeing tons of them running around. Well...I go to Petopia (see link in my favorites area) and check out the special pets section. Hrm. There are pets with unique skins. Hrm. So....do I travel around and try to get a special skinned pet or hope that the other huntards will drop their white lion skinned pet for something else.

On my dwarf, I ran a raptor almost all the way up through until I could tame King B. Then I tamed the Raptor King and ran him through to Winterspring, then went with a bear. I am digging the cats though.

Working on my UI a bit

Okay working on my UI a bit, what do you think?

Revered with Thunder Bluff!

Okay I've moved on from the 20-29 bracket and starting to level. Turned in a quest in 1KN and woot! Revered with Thunder Bluff. Just 20988 rep left and I'll be able to buy my kodo. Maybe when I reach 40 even!

Braggin' That's all..nothing more.

Okay, maybe more than bragging. WTF is wrong with these rogues? I have tons more damage and played Defense and rocked the world of the ally and they have 20k less damage than me? Sneaky is one thing, not doing crap is another.

First group. Dang I'd BG with them anytime. They flat out rocked. We just could not be contained. Second group. WOW, they showed heart. Big freaking supersize heart. This match started out poorly, we were outnumbered, then we caught up, then we lost a few thinking we were going to lose. We didn't we came back from 2-0 and won. Yeah, this is a group of fighters. They can go to battle with me anytime. Except Matrim. You let a hunter beat you by 20k points and well..that's a shame.

I am so digging playing the Battlegrounds. They are a rush if you get in there and mix it up. There are some freaking great Alliance folks playing these days. Badman or Badassman. Warrior. Wow, he topped me in damage during a match. He just kept coming.

Dude! I want my kodo! Leave me alone!

Okay so I am 29, inching up with enough savings to get close to being ready for 40th and the mount buying time.

Well... I want a Kodo. Yes, I am an orc, but I want a kodo dangit! So, I am grinding rep in the TB area. Screamed through the Tauren starting quests and moved to Mulgore to do the Bloodhoof Village ones.

Out gathering my stones and seed/nuts for the quests, killing swoops (how much I hated those things as a young tauren) and raising up my unarmed skill. Yes, I was punching all my mobs to death and my pet was just sitting there on passive. MUNTARD FOR THE WIN!!!!

So, minding my own business and such, when the defense channel starting spamming:

Bloodhoof Village is under attack

Hrm. Hey don't kill my quest givers you silly alliance dudes. I am on my way back to the village anyway and a 5oish level Warrior runs by on his way too. So, I go check it out.

2 mid 20's level NE hunters. Interesting, both flagged.

I don't really want to get into world PvP I am rep grinding here. But one of the NE decided to chicken cluck me and then challenged me to a duel. Did you know dueling cross faction flags you when you kill the other person? I didn't. So...I kill the higher of the two hunters because. They suck. Although they do have one of those spitting snake things. Hate those. But I digress.

Whitemane is my cat. He's white and he loves to chew on tasty mobs and allies and NE and gnome are he favorites. I send him to chew on the NE, I ice trap the spitting snake and start the pew pew. Oh did I mention I had been battlegrounding before that day? And I am set up for Battlegrounds with my gear is stamina heavy. And my pet doesn't have growl active, but bite? Perhaps I should have mentioned that to little NE girl/boy. Don't both of them have girl type looks?

The other hunter just stands there as the first goes down. Um..hello, I just flagged. You don't stand there. I rip the 24 lvl hunter apart. Really, he's toast.

I was all good with them being dead and me going back to turning in quests for rep. BUT no...they gotta attack me again....before they are fully healed back up. Both go down again. About the same spot too. Really, run away, seriously.

They come back and are smart enough to move away before rezzing. We find them and I attack. Forgetting that I am low on HP too and that stupid snake gets me. Normally I ignore the pet, but this time I decide to be a jerk and kill the pet first. Stupid Stupid Stupid. I die. come back and rezz and the warrior is chasing the higher of the two (the lower apparently wasn't rezzing after 4 deaths, by me)

The hunter is running across Mulgore (heading toward TB for some reason), weaving around mobs so as to not pull aggro. She's got a head start on me and she has cheetah and so do I. What she doesn't know is Whitemane has Bestial Swiftness. So he can run just as fast as she can. He doesn't have to weave like she does because he doesn't care about aggro. He cares about a NE snack. He catches here and stuns her. That brings her into my range and she gets a concussive shot to make sure she understands life is about to get ugly. Long story shorter, she dies. Her fourth death at my hands and I decide I've had enough and head back to the BH village. Apparently that was enough for her because she came back unflagged. Heh.

Woot! Made 29

Okay so as you can see above, I made 29. Now it is time for me to wander back into the Battlegrounds and soak up some honor and marks.

I am currently raising up the Ravager, named Howdy. The white lion Echeyakee, whom I named Whitemane, and the boar formerly known as Bellygrub, whom I haven't named. Since Gore and Charge are about to enter the dead zone, I suspect I'll be dropping the boar and picking one back up when I get to 48. I doubt I'll do enough PvP to really need that charge immobilizing thing.

While I am not in the Battlegrounds playing on Halkale, perhaps I'll bring up Hawka some. Or, maybe I'll roll up another hordling..or go visit my dwarf hunter on the other server.

You don't have to be twink to do damage.

Apparently a well geared hunter can still hand out the damage in a 10-19 level WSG. Still a lot of deaths, I need help staying alive in BG. The boar's name is Howdy. I got him from Redridge. Bellygrub got me once and him and I once. Bellygrub will get tamed by Halkale once I hit 24.

im in ur reckage stealin ur ravagers!

So after thinking about it last night and today, I decided I wanted something different. Something like a cat that would eat faces while I pew pew. What is more different than a Ravager! Oh noes, the only ravager is over in the blueberry's starting areas. So, after many deaths (I only died in Darkshore) I am the proud owner of a Ravager. Working him up to catch up to me, so he can be used for lovely carnage!

The Rake, he's bad, he's different and he's mine. Well Halkale is his. Cats tend to view non-cats as possessions.

I suspect when I get a bit higher and can train the white cat that's a quest and I won't even try his name, I'll switch. White goes with my hair!

Upgrades for Hawka

The grind to 39 is progressing. Hey, I like that..the grind to 39!

So, Batgik, 61 lvl Shammy in my guild Questionable Content, helped me finish off the troll tusk part of the Whirlwind Warrior Weapon quest. He also had previously grabbed the charms from the elementals in Arathi Highlands for me too. We go to the quest giver, do the things we need to do and he summons the cyclone.

We are victorious! With Batgik's help, of course. So! Here's my new axe!


Whirlwind Axe
Binds when picked up
Two-Hand
Axe
102 - 154 Damage
Speed 3.60
(35.6 damage per second)
+15 Strength
+14 Stamina
Durability 100 / 100
Classes: Warrior
Item Level 40

Over at Arms and Fury http://armsandfury.blogspot.com/2007/07/mace-spec.html the talent for mace specialization was discussed. Well, on a previous run of SM, I picked up this lovely little weapon.

Mograine's Might
Binds when picked up
Two Hand Mace
87-131 Dmg Speed 2.80
(38.9 damage per second)
+17 Stamina
+16 Spirit
Durability: 100 / 100
Requires Level 39

The stamina rocks, spirit is...meh. But for running the Battlegrounds, this might be a nice weapon. Throw an enchant on there and we are good to go.

So I need to get my 2hand Mace skill up. I am just using a basic green 2hand mace, no biggy. So after hitting 37 during the troll killing spring, I put 1 point in Mace Specialization. The tool tip says:
Gives your melee attacks a chance to stun your target for 3 sec and generate 6 rage when using a mace.

Hrm..interesting. Okay but we all know how much a chance is eh?

But wait! In SM, against the elites, it procced a goodly amount. It loves to do it when the mob runs too, so it's nice to keep runners close. I am definitely looking into taking the last two points I'll get and putting them in that Talent.

Let's revisit the axe. I have been trying to keep my 2 hand skills up to par, knowing this axe was coming. So both mace and axe are almost maxxed, sword is limping behind a bit.

So, we go into SM, I have the axe in hand(s) and we start in the cemetery. Come on Ironspine 1) spawn and 2) drop that chest piece! He spawns, but drops his ring...boo. We move over to the library to finish up a boss and get the books I need for my quests. Nice blue drops, can't use so they get vendored. We get to Herod and he drops his helm. UPGRADE!

Raging Berserker's Helm
Binds when picked up
Head
Mail
213 Armor
+13 Strength
+8 Stamina
Durability 70 / 70
Requires Level 37
Increases your critical strike rating by 14.
Item Level 42

Crit strike is nice, more deep wounds for you!

How did the axe perform? Oh, it is nice nice nice. I use TopScoreFu and it was lighting off a lot during the runs. Of course, the windfury and Strength of Earth Totems had a huge part of that. I had several crits over 650 and several hits over 600. My highest Crit is now 711 and my highest hit is 647ish. The green Mace I am using until I get to 39 was hitting hard so that tells you how much those totems work! Go shammy go!

The axe hits like a ton of bricks. It's huge! and I need a really good enchant on it. I hear it lasts for a few levels, for when I start leveling after 39.

In the library on one of the last little rooms (with the groups in each corner and books on benches) we had a runner pull the entire room. Totems were down and I had the mace in hand. I had retaliation, sweeping strikes and cleave up, so I put up retaliation, then sweeping strikes, waited for some rage and then cleave and then spammed Thunderclap. My screen looked like the Fourth of July. Wish I had a screen print. The shammy was like WTF was that?

It was a good night. We cleared the remainder of SM and only died once, in the armory from being kinda dumb.

Have a great day!

Time for Hunter goodness!

Okay, my guildmates whom I try to play the most with, have given me their blessing to begin leveling up the hunter. So, expect more posts on the goodness of hunters as I level up and gain new skills and pets and such.

I like the change of pace of playing the warrior, sometimes. Gah, I just can't get into the flow of things with him though. Warriors are definitely harder to play than hunters. As for mastering both classes, I am not sure. I am leaning towards saying once you learn how to play a warrior, mastering the class is much easier. It seems opposite of how hunters play. Playing a hunter is easy, mastering..not so much.

My altitis might rear it's head and I'll roll up a pally. Except...I hate to roll up a Belf.

Ya know, I've wondered how a warlock would be to play.

Formatting this blog

Formatting this blog and making it look nice is sure taking me a lot of time. I start looking at it, then I don't like how it looks, or I want to add some things and what?? it needs to be changed again.

Please leave a comment if you would about things you like about the blog look and things you don't.

Update on Rant

We didn't make our numbers. Oh, the warehouse had enough orders to make the number and then some, but couldn't execute. Sad, sad sad.

Update: Okay perhaps we did make our numbers but only by the hair of our chin..or skin of our teeth...

Still, soon I shall be out of here, hopefully in a new job.

Respec for Hawka

Okay, based on a few thoughts on Arms and Fury blog, I respecced Hawka to total arms. Hawka is going to be my warrior in the BG. I suspect Halkale will do the BG too. I like it as a change of pace from grinding and questing. Plus at lower levels, the rewards tend to be better than other things available.

Got to my beserker weapon quest yesterday. Now, I need the help of a couple of my friends to farm the tusks and the charms from the elementals. 39 level elementals vs 34 warrior = not good for warrior. Apparently, hunters are overpowered. ;)

Rant!

Okay so, I work for a sporting goods manufacturer, of sorts.

This week was close week. That time of the month where everyone loses their freakin' heads and we try and try to push more product out the door, because..well...we've sucked the previous weeks getting said product out the door and we need to make numbers. Wow...that was a long sentence.

So this month, we have 5 weeks to make our sales number. And of course, being the company lead by the insane, we wait until this week to push out over half of the number. WTF?? 5 weeks and we ship 1/2 of the sales number out in 1 Freaking week!

Seriously, you can't make this up.

So, here I sit at work at 4:30 wishing the clock forward, hoping an email or voicemail will come from my next job. Yes, I am looking for a new job. These people are dumb.

One definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Hence..my calling them insane.

Warriors have a voice now!

Big Red Kitty. http://bigredkitty.blogspot.com/ has a friend who has a new blog himself. It's a warrior blog. I am really excited about a warrior blog because I feel so lost sometimes as a warrior. Having played a hunter most of the time, I find myself hesitating to attack as a warrior. Oh and my other big mistake as a warrior. Trying to take on too many mobs. Yep, I keep forgetting I don't have a pet to help or ways to get out of jail.

Go visit http://armsandfury.blogspot.com/ and support a warrior blog!

Clarification of sorts

For those of you who are new to this site (at the time of writing I suspect that is everyone), this blog isn't just about WOW, it's about other things, as well. In real life, I am a hunter as well, so I might talk about stuff that pertains to that. Or Pie. Cuz pie is good.

Howdy!

Okay this is my first post. Thought I would detail my voyage on a new server and switching factions and returning to my primary class. I just recently created a new Orc Hunter and am leveling up with some friends. We are looking toward doing battlegrounds and also end game instances, as well.

I am on Quel'dorei-US server. I currently on this server play a 6th level Hunter named Halkale. I also have a 33rd level Warrior named Hawka. Our battleground group is Emberstorm. My guild is called Questionable Content, I was invited by my friends when I came to this server to join them. Our guild is pretty laid back, some of us want to raid and do instances, while others just prefer to play around and learn new stuff.

If you are ever on QD, shoot me a whisper!