The Final Knight

So, apparently I am supervising a couple of bite-sizes (levels 26 and 27) as they attempt to raid Elwynn Forest. This… will probably not end well, but it’ll give me a laugh. And I’m bored. I don’t want to do dailies right now, but I know I still need 1.9k before I can even think about getting my epic flyer. Ugh.

Well, maybe I should update my kindly readers on the what’s-what since the Fold… folded.

There was a brief period where about a third of the members of the Fold decided to get back together under the same banner, including the former Guild Master, Raakan. Which was nice, because after a few weeks of being guild-less I wanted my green-guildie-text back. Shut up, that is totally an awesome reason for wanting a guild.

It was good for awhile, until Raak decided that a fifteen man guild was disheartening and made a deal with Murloc Monster to be allowed to drag the Foldies along with him when he joined. MM is a raiding guild– a FANATICAL raiding guild, at that. I know I’ve been level 70 for a couple months, but I also have Space Vikings, CFUD, an intensive costume (Wicked/Black Lady from Sailor Moon. Ooooh boy) to finish, AND a trip to Hawaii to plan.

So yes.

My armor was crap.

I was well aware of this. As of right now, my total time played at level 70 is 5 days and 12 hours. I hit 70 in March. That should tell you about my play time, and most of that was spent trying to get the gold for my epic flyer. Which I still don’t have, because I dropped 1.8k gold on a belt, and then 100 gold on a new staff and… what’s 80 times four? right. 320 gold being a twit and buying all the Horde racial epic mounts. I like switching between them during the Alterac Valley Battleground. Anyways. Back to what I was saying.

I totally understand where MM’s guild-leader was coming from. I didn’t have a problem with his intentions or his guild’s policies or anything like that. It was his attitude that rubbed me the wrong way. I know for a fact that if I hadn’t been in the Fold, I wouldn’t have been allowed to join his guild. Mostly because of the rather… disparaging remarks made about someone who was petitioning him to join. This person had better armor than mine, over all. But he was denied admission, and from what I understood, it was due to his lack of armor.

The bite-sizes just got me killed. I’m holy-spec, dammit.

Anyways. MM’s guild-master seems like a great guy, at least that’s what I saw from everyone else in the guild and how they treated him. But… for me, something just rubbed me the wrong way about him. Possibly it was his rather ego-centric way of talking. Without tone of voice it’s really hard to judge what someone means when they type.

And I’m dead again. (for the record, I’ve been writing this post for an hour now).

I wound up leaving Murloc Monster a couple days ago. Hilariously enough, less than five minutes later, I got an invite to another guild: Twilights Call. I haven’t done any raids or anything with them yet, but from the guild-chat it’s a pretty laid back guild, not unlike The Fold. It’s nice.

I’ve also started playing the war games known as Battlegrounds. PvP in controlled situations is actually a lot of fun. Bad memories of Deathwing caused me to put it off until I hit 70, but it’s awesome, and I’m enjoying it. I’m trying to save up honor and marks for the Arena Season Two priest set, which is supposedly comes out “soon” and “possibly at the end of may” (isn’t it the end of may now?) according to a variety of forums I’ve poked around. It would be easier if I played in the Arena, but I don’t. Oh well.

Mmm, what else, what else?

Ooo, Plans: Volcanic Hammer just dropped off of Volchan. Yeah, I bailed on the bite-sizes. I’m hoping this means the one will stop /r’ing me every day to see if I want to raid Elwynn with him. It’s boring when it’s a teeny tiny mage and a teeny tiny rogue and a holy-spec 70.

I think that’s it for today. Total time spent writing this piece (since it was done in between fights, death, and just running places): 1 hour, 20 minutes. Go me.

The Fold disbanded earlier today. I guess it wasn’t just me who’s had life sneak up from behind and keep them from playing games.

Space Vikings comes to the net on April 1st. I need to test some things.

You know, I keep composing posts for this while I’m in the shower, then forgetting to post. Good job, Nas. Good job.

I did, in fact, go and get Volume two of .hack//GU on December 27th. I also picked up Volume 3. I’ve finished volume 2 (about a week and a half ago), but have yet to start Volume 3, as I am doing my best to bring all of the characters up to level 100 before I do a save convert. On that note, CFUD + .hack//GU = Combo Breaker for Marco’s apping habits. heh.

Not going to say exactly who I’m apping, since if anyone does a search for it, they will become biased, and Marco will emo out of characterly.

World of Warcraft wise, I’ve started (another) new character, as well as cleared out a bunch of characters I haven’t played in ages. Actually, I think the only old-characters I’ve still got hanging around are Mazze and Lyandira. Renora is only about half as old as those two, so she doesn’t count.

Anyways, I’m playing on Atolinae right now. Another Priest, as I enjoyed leveling Nastassja (she’s level 61 now) quite a bit. I did, however, forget how annoying it was to play a Priest without mindflay. I miss mindflay. But there’s only four more points in the talent tree until I get it! Yay!

She’s at level 15 right now, so that makes… level nineteen/twenty. Eh.

Started classes again yesterday. I’m enjoying what I’ve had so far.

…I had some long and involved need to post, but I can’t remember it right now. Dammit.

…my hands hurt like crazy right about now. I haven’t had access to a PS2 since May 1st, and mom decided to get one for me for Christmas (it was cheaper than buying used games for my PS1, apparently) and thus I have spent the last two days straight playing .hack//GU Vol 1. Going out to buy Vol 2 tomorrow.

I figured that was the best game to play for my first shot at having a PS2 again, considering that I a) never finished it and b) dressed as .hack//GU’s Pai for both Otakon and Animethon this past summer.

Logged on briefly to WoW yesterday for Christmas wishes and to check my bank, but GU was holding all of my attention. Actually, mom got me PhantasyStar Universe with the PS2, so I might try playing that tonight after the parental units go to bed. I’m off the PS2 right now in accordance to my mom’s wishes to make sure my dad does not regret allowing her to get me a PS2. (I find this continually amusing, as I intend to buy a PS3 in 2008– after my trip to Hawaii, of course. I figure Hawaii + PS3 next year = Going to AO and Otakon this year, so it’s all good).

Now that Christmas hols are essentially over, I’ll probably be getting more into CFUD again. That comes with having my laptop back from hell.

Started work on Space Vikings in Space, though there’s nothing up yet. Should be amusing once things actually get done.

Nothing else to report today

Still half an hour to go before maintenance is over so I shall recap the last few days of play. Whiiiiich wasn’t all that much, because I had a final yesterday and studying for that tends to be a good idea. Moving on.

Nas is close to level 55 now. This is the fastest I have ever leveled, and that’s not just because of the easy-mode patch. Even the first 39 levels went faster than any of my other characters. That said, I’ve found myself tiring out from quests again. Granted, I’m only trying to get up to level 70 or so for roleplay purposes, and so that I can run around all shadowy-like.

Oh yeah, I decided I wasn’t going to switch from shadow to holy. Since we have Aliman, and Ali’s only a couple levels below me, I figured it wasn’t necessary for the guild. Which makes me happy because I like damage dealing. My other two “high levels” are a Warlock (lvl 60) and a Paladin (lvl 44). Slaughtering things is fun.

Mmm, right I was supposed to be recapping. Ali, Shade, Larakata, Velerias and I decided to take on Mara on Saturday Night. Actually, we decided we were going to do Mara, then ZF, then ST. Vel wound up bailing after the third or so time he died just trying to get to the first boss of the instance. I don’t blame him, though. I was getting kinda irritated at that point, too.

Lara, Ali, Shade and I proceeded to die a few more times on our way to the final boss, seeing as we were all annoyed and decided to pretty much skip the rest of the instance. Lara and I had a quest to finish, otherwise we probably would have gone on to ZF. Well, by the time we got that taken care of I was dead in my chair. It was another one of those “stayed up the entire night before” nights, followed by a long boring day at work. It probably didn’t help that I’d also been up pretty late on the Thursday night, too, with the rest of the “cast” of http://www.spaceleper.com/

So I wound up offlining and… then I watched tv. I don’t seem to have this ability to go to my bed before two am. It’s kinda annoying. Though somehow I dragged myself off to bed last night at midnight. Didn’t get to sleep until one, but that’s better than normal for me.

Anyways, Sunday I spent a good deal of time running back and forth and taking flightpaths all over the damn place while also checking CFUD regularly. Marco has possibly made a new friend in Shawn Spencer. I just found myself snickering at the keywords of the first icon Shawn used– “gtfo my head yeerk”. Much with the ♥ Shawn.

Did some quests last night after work. Not a whole lot, and surprisingly I was the only one on in the guild. Normally that doesn’t happen until much later in the night. Guess everyone was tired, huh?

Supposedly I get my laptop back today. It’s almost noon and I haven’t gotten word of anything so I do believe I shall call my mother and bug her. She’s the one who has the invoice from and the phone number for the Staples where it was taken. Three months is beyond too long for this crap. The iPod Touch is nice and all, but it’s hard to play on livejournal and impossible to play Warcraft. And since I’m not allowed to take control of the TV even if dad is using the computer, I can’t play any video games.

I’ve spent the last three months very, very, very bored.

I am absolutely and completely beat, I’ll have you know. Dead tired– only five hours of sleep, and here I am at one am playing WoW and writing up my latest efforts in-game.

Basically, I logged on, flagged myself as wanting to play in ZF and took a flight down to Freewind Post. I was pretty sure I could get some time to finish off a quest or two in Feralas (I didn’t have the flight-path, so Freewind was closest)– I didn’t even get halfway to the border before I was invited into a party for ZF.

Everything was running pretty smoothly for a while. I was fumbling a bit at playing healer, but I was managing. As a shadow-priest, I know my stuff. I can tear an elite of similar level down to nothing in a minute flat if it’s attention is kept on a good tank. Keeping the tank completely healed up and buffed is a bit harder. But I was managing, and we were doing good.

The tank bitched at me a couple of times, but since they were mistakes and they were my mistakes, I was already beating myself up so it’s not like I was really noticing. Well we cleaned up and moved on. I attempted to balance healing and damage dealing… the tank died a few times, but since he didn’t say anything I didn’t think anything of it. Apparently his rage was just a’stewin’, however, as he had a rather… vindictive response to another member of the party not much later. The tank was a Warrior. But we also had a Hunter with us. So there was a drop that they could both use.

Well, mister Warrior Tank had been needing on Blues throughout the instance. That irritated me a bit, but whatever. He was party leader, and it wasn’t like I could actually use any of the drops. But this drop could be used by someone other than the tank– and she asked if she could need it. Instead of just hitting ‘need’ as the tank had been doing, she asked if the party minded if she needed.

The tank had a little hissy-fit over that. Like he was the only person with the right to need a blue item in the instance. The rest of us didn’t really care, and the Warlock told the Hunter that if she would– not could, but would actually use it– then she was free to need it if she wanted to. The Hunter needed it, and the Warrior’s hissy-fit only grew– he’d greeded it at the same instant that the Hunter had asked if she could need it, which was a bit of a surprise. I’m thinking he hit greed by accident, instead of his much more common use of the need button.

Anyways, we continued on after our leader-tank, and headed into the section reserved for fighting Gahz’rilla. We prepared for battle most glorious.

He ran headlong into a gathering of enemies capslocking WIPEOUT into the party chat. We WTF’d, and did our bests to stay alive. We were, of course, wiped out. He bailed on the party and left the instance. God we were so pissed. We rezed, tried again, died, rezed, tried again… then I poked Aliman into helping us out.

Thaaaaat didn’t work out so well. We got wiped again, and then the party disbanded. I really should get Ali something awesome for the trouble. Maybe some fanart?

I handed in what quests I’d finished. Meandered over to Feralas to do the quest I’d originally set out to complete. Did that, finished Cuergo’s Gold and skipped it back to the Hinterlands to finish off some quests up there. Then I decided I was too damn tired and lo and behold here I am. Finishing this up and getting ready to passout. I so awesome :DD

Been a way long time since I updated, but it’s the end of the semester and all of my projects and papers have come due, so you’ll have to forgive me (actually, I’m supposed to be finishing up a paper on Thomas Jefferson’s contributions to North American Archaeology right now, and I have no doubt that my parents think that the tappity-tap of the keyboard is working on that and not this.)

Nastassja hit level 50 last night. That annoyed little tick in my head from the easy-mode patch has finally faded, though it took almost a week of not playing WoW to get me to the point where I decided it didn’t matter– my addiction to the game did.

Rambie ran us though Sunken Temple on Friday night, which wasn’t the most brilliant of ideas for our little group of four (Rambie, Shadesparrow, Aliman, and I), because Rambie had only ever been in Sunken Temple once before. On that note, I’ve only been through half of Sunken Temple, about a year ago on Mazze. That was the standard “well, someone in our group left, see if anyone’s up to joining us” sort of thing that let me complete about half the quests Mazze had for ST. So I knew… how to get absolutely WIPED taking on the final boss. Mazze’s party died four or five times before we finally managed it.

But back to Nastassja. Due to our complete lack of knowledge when it came to the instance, we wound up running in circles for a few hours. Three or four, actually. There was a whole lot of running back and forth and trying to figure this-that-and-the-other-thing out. Got some nice XP out of it: Nastassja had been three bars from 49 when we hit the Temple, so she leveled up really early on. She was almost halfway to 50 (according to TitanPanel she was sitting at 49.9%) when we gave up the ghost and headed our separate ways. I sold off a lot of the junk I’d picked up, which brought my nethaul of gold for ST up to five.

We made some brief plans to get together on Saturday (yesterday) to run around Zul’Farrak, then Rambie and Shade logged off. Aliman and I chitchated for a bit– we’re both priests, but Nas is shadow-spec’ed and Ali is holy-spec’ed, so we were talking about some of the differences between the two. Then I followed the example and logged off for the night.

Understandable, since it was two am, and I had to go to work in the morning (except that I stayed up an extra hour because I decided that my hair was finally long enough that if I cut out the patch of dye-fried blonde and then trimmed my hair it wouldn’t look stupid.)

Well, after work on Saturday I checked CFUD, didn’t see any posts I wanted to post to (I’m thinking about dropping Cap, since I barely use the guy), so I logged onto WoW. Due to the time I got home, I had figured that they’d actually be all done with ZF and that I’d go another day. Well, it was a lucky day, apparently. They we actually just getting into Tanaris when I logged on. I said hello, they were discussing some guy who was flagged PvP. When I looked at the guild roster, they were all in Tanaris, so I figured that they’d just finished, and went out to finish a few quests in STV (since I was already there, having dumped the obscene number of lockboxes from ST into my bank the night before).

Finally nailed Gorlash and finished The Captain’s Chest (Group). We kinda killed each other in the same blow so I didn’t get any XP, but that was okay. In the middle of the fight Rambie asked if I wanted to do ZF. Of course I was going to say “Sure”. Handed in the chest and got me some quest XP, then sat and waited for the ship to come so I could get to Tanaris. I kinda wanted to pick up the other quests in Tanaris for ZF (I’d dropped them when I was questing in the Hinterlands), but they summoned me directly to ZF and I decided that I could run ZF again later to get the quests I didn’t have with me at the time.

The ZF run was a lot neater than the ST run. Lots of gold, lots of XP, and three finished quests. I didn’t level in the instance, but I only had a bar and a half to go by the time we left. Handing in two of the three quests bumped me up to level 50 and all was happy-happy-yay~ time. Though deciding where to put my talent point was difficult XD. Too many choices, desu yo~. Finally settled for Vampiric Touch, then made my way back to the Hinterlands. Tried a couple of quests then logged off in favor of messing around with my iPod and watching a couple of random episodes of Ouran.

Man, I wish I could put Ouran onto my iPod. Trying to find the episodes with YouTube is a pain in the ass– you can’t read the full title of any of the videos when you search from your iPod Touch. I somehow got an episode of Captain Planet on my iPod, though. I’m still not sure how that happened XD

Spelling mistakes in subject line on purpose. Spelling and grammar in post fault of level of drunkenness.

So the easymode patch went into effect on Tuesday. I offically feel cheated, by the way. As someone who has played for nearly three years now, I’ve done a lot of leveling. So now that it is so much easier to level I have to wince; I remember tge sheer effort involved in levelnt Mazze to sixty, and the various elites betwee. Nastassja’s level and Mazze’s. As it stands, Nas is now level 42. The time it took to go from level 39 to 42 was about equals to prepatch 38 to 39.

That said: yay Nas is level 42~

The guild totallyjpaid for my mount even though I had Enoch gold to pay for itmyswlf

…fuck. I can’t keep m eyes open any longerj. It really hard totype on a toy screen when your’s not sure what buttons you are puzing. So I logging off of my drunken self while I can still think ohsrwnty out t ten off my iPod

Raid to tommorrow. Update then desk to

It’s been a few days, but then, I haven’t played in a few days.

On… Thursday? I think it was Thursday. Anyways, on Thursday I caught a little play-time between classes. Didn’t do a whole lot of stuff, but Raakan came and helped me put away a group quest (still colored orange, too!) in Desolace, which gave me a nice boost to my experience bar. Then I went to class, had an exam, and spent the next four and a half hours researching in the library /o/

Yeah, no. That wasn’t a whole lot of fun. Moving on.

Today I hit level 38, as the title of this post implies. Hacked my way through Raptors in Arathi,  then kicked it down to Stranglethorn Vale in order to chit-chat-talk with Fizzlesomethingorother for the quest line that starts over in Thousand Needles. Zanzil’s Secret is still a few levels too high for me, but I got the quest in my log now, so unless I feel like there’s something way more important that needs to be done immediately, that one should be done in a week or so. Hopefully.

If this paper doesn’t kill me first. Ugh, ten page requirement. And I currently only have three right now. Sucks to be me.

Anyways, decided to check the Auction House while I was in booty bay and picked up a couple more pages from Green Hills of Stranglethorn. While I am quite happy to get the pages while grinding, it’s still a pain in the ass to get the right pages, so I check every now and again. There were two pages I needed in the price range I was willing to pay (under 10 silver), so I bought them and flew up to Grom’gol Base Camp.  Since I was going to see Nesingwary anyways, I figured I might as well get  Panther Mastery out of the way. I’d forgotten I had Mok’thardin’s Enchantment in my quest log until I’d gotten a Shadowmaw Claw. Hunted a few Tigresses and ta-dah~ another quest completed.

I hit level thirty-eight in the middle of that.

Once I handed in the pages to make Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Chapter II,  I logged off. There’s still that paper that needs writing, after all.

Ha-ha! Finally killed that fucker.

I had been questing Desolace, and had a single bar left to go before I hit level 37. Obviously this means that I needed abandon my current quest and head back to Hillsbrad in order to defeat the idiot. Lucky me, he spawned in one of the rooms off to the side of the main room. Unlucky me, there was a Mountaineer with him. First shot, I focused on Ironhill and tried to pound him into paste. It didn’t work out so well.

Second time, I used my  brain and killed the Mountaineer first. Granted, I died again, but I took the blasted Mountaineer with me. So when I respawned (and reapplied all my buffs…) all I had to deal with was Ironhill. Easy~

Okay, maybe not perfectly easy, but you know what I mean. Booked it back to Tarren Mill, handed in the quest, got told to head to UC and talk to Sylvannis’ pet demon. Titan Bar was going “dude, kill one more monster. 10 SECONDS until you level. Kill the damn monster!”

Except that I didn’t, and went all the way back to UC to hand in the quest so that I could get my level from the demon-pet.

I’ve been leveling pretty quickly of late, but that’s mostly because I want my mount, dammit. I played three separate times yesterday: morning before class, afternoon after class/take home test of DOOM, and after I went shopping last night. Good times.