Have not felt like playing all that much in the last week. My in laws home at the NJ shore is not completely destroyed, but anything lower than 3 feet off the floor in the house is gone. Televisions, DvD players, furniture, beds, hot water heater, carpets, and all the lower 4 feet of drywall is now out at the curb, along with thousands of others in the area. The entire house has been scrubbed down with bleach and cleansers. I will have to go over it again later when it is all dry. Carpets were developing mold on the back, and they are synthetic, so never let anyone tell you they could be saved and cleaned.
Hole in the back wall of the shed is more of a door now. The dock survived without damage, many neighbors have floating docks on top of their upper docks, many boats are gone. Two area marinas are gone. So worrying about getting a daily done, or maxing valor for the week, or getting LFR run is not all that important right now.
The insurance on the house does not cover anything, and because it is not a "Principal residence" they are pretty much screwed. We will rebuild it all. My plans to redo my bathroom nest year are on hold, seeing them worried and not being able to see the damage because we are concerned for their health is tough. But we will fix it all, and they will be able to enjoy spending time down the shore, fishing and crabbing.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Another day, another 16 crops
Dailies may kill the game. Hard to believe that Farmville may be the ultimate WoW killer. Getting into a routine, log in, check mail, make Sha Crystal, fly to Silken fields to make cloth, harvest, plant, do Tillers quests, try to get a random in.........rinse repeat.
Faction dailies are on hold. Tried to work on cloud serpents, got as far as finding 2 eggs. That was enough. Looks like there is some support for my idea about letting us use lesser coins for faction rep. I think it has some merit. Guess we will see if a Blue takes notice, maybe tweet a link to them.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6933306508
Saw an Elwynn lamb on black market starting bid 10k, wish I had that kind of money. Maybe some day.
One the plate for tonight, more farming. Headless Horseman mount grind coming to a close on year 4. /shakes fist
Faction dailies are on hold. Tried to work on cloud serpents, got as far as finding 2 eggs. That was enough. Looks like there is some support for my idea about letting us use lesser coins for faction rep. I think it has some merit. Guess we will see if a Blue takes notice, maybe tweet a link to them.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6933306508
Saw an Elwynn lamb on black market starting bid 10k, wish I had that kind of money. Maybe some day.
One the plate for tonight, more farming. Headless Horseman mount grind coming to a close on year 4. /shakes fist
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
1 month in
So today is 1 month in to the expansion. Let the long haul begin. Felt like I made 0 progress last night. Got on about regular time, went out and took care of the Tillers yet again. Fortunately it seems now I am only working on rep with the rest of the clan. Think I have 4 or 5 of them as best buddies now. I think there will be a point when I just toss in the towel and just buy food buffs from the AH. Half my bags are filled with cooking materials and cooked food in case one of them wants some dinner.
Did the Headless Horseman last night. Pally Tank was bad. Could not hold aggro off me, I popped everything, even stopped DPS, it was almost like they did it on purpose. So 2 deaths and run backs, a wipe, and then they showed up for the fight and we got it down. Still no mount after 4 years. Couple more tries still left.
Did not run a dungeon, did not do LFR, really had no desire to. I think right now it is just too much to do, yeah I know they say you don't have to do the rep grinds, but if you want to raid at all, you need the Valor gear and that means grinding rep to unlock them. Unless you are sitting on piles of gold and can buy pieces of BoE.
Kind of down about Shadowpriest.com being gone. I will be the first to admit the site had issues, and a lot of blame should be put on the company that owned it. They had all sorts of ideas and made a lot of promises that they never followed through with. It's a shame, if they had done even half of what they told us they would have, it would have been very successful. I wish I had gotten a hold of Veiled sooner and told her what HoHo and I were talking about and had just done it all then, back in January instead of waiting as long as we did. Being a Moderator was an honor, even if it was only at the end when it was already heading down hill, is something I will always cherrish. It really was not a difficult job. Ban about a dozen spammers a week, move the occasional post to a corect forum, fix broken links in posts, and just read. We are a pretty good group of people and we do not really need a lot of moderation. I just hope that whatever little bit I did at the end, posting on General and at MMO-C for everyone to switch, and telling the owners that I had done it, and the should just sell or shut it down, made some difference in H2P being able to buy the site up for a lot less than they wanted. I have to admit, I did consider taking the offer they made to take over the site. If I knew more about web design I probably would have. As it was giving me full admin rank may have helped to clean it up some. Kilee has told me he will continue to keep his guide going as long as the site is up. Just crossing my fingers about doing all of this. I guess time will tell.
Howtopriest.com is by far a much better site. The info is current, the theory crafters are all there, and it is not exclusively Shadow. I don't feel comfortable offering any advice on gear checks with the new system of talents and glyphs. There really isn't a quote "Bad Choice" unless you are picking all healing talents to DPS. Yeah the cookie cutter build was boring, but you could tell in 10 seconds something was dead wrong if you saw points taken in Holy for Shadow. Now it can depend on the fight. Rotations are out the window too. It is too much for me to offer any basic tips to anyone, so I stay away from a part of the game I use to love doing. I think that except for ramblings here, I may be done with Forums. I am not some super knowledgeable player with years of experience. If I ever think of something that does not seem right I will ask privately. Just feel like I am going from a place where I could contribute to one where I am an elementary school kid trying to talk to College grads working on doctoral papers. All I can offer is the point of view for the average player. Don't know if common sense and keeping it simple will fit in with all the advanced theory. Two very different worlds for sure. those in the top 5% and the other 95% of us.
Well may take a few days off from here. Unless something exciting happens.
Did the Headless Horseman last night. Pally Tank was bad. Could not hold aggro off me, I popped everything, even stopped DPS, it was almost like they did it on purpose. So 2 deaths and run backs, a wipe, and then they showed up for the fight and we got it down. Still no mount after 4 years. Couple more tries still left.
Did not run a dungeon, did not do LFR, really had no desire to. I think right now it is just too much to do, yeah I know they say you don't have to do the rep grinds, but if you want to raid at all, you need the Valor gear and that means grinding rep to unlock them. Unless you are sitting on piles of gold and can buy pieces of BoE.
Kind of down about Shadowpriest.com being gone. I will be the first to admit the site had issues, and a lot of blame should be put on the company that owned it. They had all sorts of ideas and made a lot of promises that they never followed through with. It's a shame, if they had done even half of what they told us they would have, it would have been very successful. I wish I had gotten a hold of Veiled sooner and told her what HoHo and I were talking about and had just done it all then, back in January instead of waiting as long as we did. Being a Moderator was an honor, even if it was only at the end when it was already heading down hill, is something I will always cherrish. It really was not a difficult job. Ban about a dozen spammers a week, move the occasional post to a corect forum, fix broken links in posts, and just read. We are a pretty good group of people and we do not really need a lot of moderation. I just hope that whatever little bit I did at the end, posting on General and at MMO-C for everyone to switch, and telling the owners that I had done it, and the should just sell or shut it down, made some difference in H2P being able to buy the site up for a lot less than they wanted. I have to admit, I did consider taking the offer they made to take over the site. If I knew more about web design I probably would have. As it was giving me full admin rank may have helped to clean it up some. Kilee has told me he will continue to keep his guide going as long as the site is up. Just crossing my fingers about doing all of this. I guess time will tell.
Howtopriest.com is by far a much better site. The info is current, the theory crafters are all there, and it is not exclusively Shadow. I don't feel comfortable offering any advice on gear checks with the new system of talents and glyphs. There really isn't a quote "Bad Choice" unless you are picking all healing talents to DPS. Yeah the cookie cutter build was boring, but you could tell in 10 seconds something was dead wrong if you saw points taken in Holy for Shadow. Now it can depend on the fight. Rotations are out the window too. It is too much for me to offer any basic tips to anyone, so I stay away from a part of the game I use to love doing. I think that except for ramblings here, I may be done with Forums. I am not some super knowledgeable player with years of experience. If I ever think of something that does not seem right I will ask privately. Just feel like I am going from a place where I could contribute to one where I am an elementary school kid trying to talk to College grads working on doctoral papers. All I can offer is the point of view for the average player. Don't know if common sense and keeping it simple will fit in with all the advanced theory. Two very different worlds for sure. those in the top 5% and the other 95% of us.
Well may take a few days off from here. Unless something exciting happens.
Monday, October 22, 2012
I'm Back
Well apparently GMail had some issues with me using Marathal Shadowpriest as a name, suspended account. All fixed I hope, not that I expect thousands of people to read this all some day.
So coming up on week 4 of the Mists of Pandailia expansion. Been busy. Have all of the regular quests done, Loremaster taken care of. Explored everywhere, Lorewalkers is out of the way, Love flying disk, especially as a Shadowpriest. Exalted with Tillers but still need to max cooking, Archeology maxed out and got the BoA umbrella, Honored with Golden Lotus and finally got the tailoring patterns, just in time for there to not be a market for the gear. Klaxxi still working on, and all the others, got Cloud Serpents to Revered, yeah!!
Dungeons are interesting, sometimes a challenge, sometimes not. Definite improvement over Cata heroics. LFR. Hmmm, yeah, something wrong there, have not had 1 full run, just groups doing 1 boss then falling apart, no idea what is up with that. Downed Sha of Punch me in face I drop loot for everyone but you twice now. Have yet to see Galleon, but understand a lot of people are greifing others. Hope they phase it to the first group that tags.
Lesser coins are a joke. Probably have over 300 and cant turn in but 90 a week for 3 coins. That needs to change. I suggested allowing us to turn in 100 for 1000 rep. No one said hey great idea or no thats stupid. Hoping someone at Blizz thinks its a good idea. I thought so. (edit, Woaden, thought it was a great idea, if you ever read this TY)
Well tonight knocking out Panda candy buckets, and maybe a random. Thats it for now.
So coming up on week 4 of the Mists of Pandailia expansion. Been busy. Have all of the regular quests done, Loremaster taken care of. Explored everywhere, Lorewalkers is out of the way, Love flying disk, especially as a Shadowpriest. Exalted with Tillers but still need to max cooking, Archeology maxed out and got the BoA umbrella, Honored with Golden Lotus and finally got the tailoring patterns, just in time for there to not be a market for the gear. Klaxxi still working on, and all the others, got Cloud Serpents to Revered, yeah!!
Dungeons are interesting, sometimes a challenge, sometimes not. Definite improvement over Cata heroics. LFR. Hmmm, yeah, something wrong there, have not had 1 full run, just groups doing 1 boss then falling apart, no idea what is up with that. Downed Sha of Punch me in face I drop loot for everyone but you twice now. Have yet to see Galleon, but understand a lot of people are greifing others. Hope they phase it to the first group that tags.
Lesser coins are a joke. Probably have over 300 and cant turn in but 90 a week for 3 coins. That needs to change. I suggested allowing us to turn in 100 for 1000 rep. No one said hey great idea or no thats stupid. Hoping someone at Blizz thinks its a good idea. I thought so. (edit, Woaden, thought it was a great idea, if you ever read this TY)
Well tonight knocking out Panda candy buckets, and maybe a random. Thats it for now.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Borean Tundra server Mists Day 1
The first day. Had to wait for a delivery this morning so I took a few minutes to turn in 23 daily quests and visit all of the profession trainers, mental note, I forgot the First Aide trainer, I will hit that tonight when I have a chance to get online.
I have seen some posts of people going for realm firsts 90 are around level 88 right now, possibly 89, so almost 9 hours of non stop, fighting others, and racing to the next quest. I salute you all for having what it takes to attempt something like that. I did see a post from someone earlier,
LOL. wow, and we are a low population server. Feel sorry for the poor guy in the water, but I can imagine what the sky looked like to him.
A few people I know that have played a long time, since BC and Vanilla are saying so far the best expansion ever. I just hope in 2 months they wont be saying the worst, and that looking back Cata was the best ever, Time will tell.
Org, was a ghost town this moring, think I saw one level 11 Pandaran come through the front gates about 4 hours after launch. I am sure there will be a bunch later when I get on. I hope that later in the day many will be passed out and asleep so I can take some time to experience it all in peace.
Next stop a wild ride into the Mists.
I have seen some posts of people going for realm firsts 90 are around level 88 right now, possibly 89, so almost 9 hours of non stop, fighting others, and racing to the next quest. I salute you all for having what it takes to attempt something like that. I did see a post from someone earlier,
LOL. wow, and we are a low population server. Feel sorry for the poor guy in the water, but I can imagine what the sky looked like to him.
A few people I know that have played a long time, since BC and Vanilla are saying so far the best expansion ever. I just hope in 2 months they wont be saying the worst, and that looking back Cata was the best ever, Time will tell.
Org, was a ghost town this moring, think I saw one level 11 Pandaran come through the front gates about 4 hours after launch. I am sure there will be a bunch later when I get on. I hope that later in the day many will be passed out and asleep so I can take some time to experience it all in peace.
Next stop a wild ride into the Mists.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Mists minus 18 hours
About 18 hours from now we start Mists. I will be getting on much later in the day. So many are plotting out their courses for turning in quests for the jump start. I recall when Cata went live, how everyone swarmed Mt. Hyjal, I stumbled into Vashj'ir and competed with so many others looking for tiny objects on the sea floor, increased spawn rates of NPC's that as fast as you could kill them were back on top of you.
I will probably log in tomorrow evening, hit all of my profession trainers, maybe fish a bit, level some cooking, then head into the new lands. I have spent a brief amount of time in the Beta, enough to know the new zones are spectacular to view, is a whole new theme from what we are use to. I have no planned out course, no must do list, just going to go in and experience the whole thing.
I think back to when I first started in August of 2009. I only knew what I had spent 8 months of looking up for my wife who also plays, on Thotbot or WoWhead. So completing quests was not to difficult. But I explored the world, I investigated little valleys and paths to no where. Some times entering an area I should not be in, sometimes finding a peaceful spot away from it all. Those first 4 months, not knowing about raiding or end game content were the best times in the game for me. Helping out the younger kids in the guild having problems with their level 20 quest, asking if a level 80 could come help. LOL. It was an innocent time.
Going into Cata, I spent 8 months reading all of the information, joining web sites to find out all I could, so much of it I shared with those in my guild, I became a go to guy for "What will we need to do?" When Cata dropped it was the mad dash to 85, get into the dungeons, get into Heroics, get into the raids. By the time I felt I had good enough gear and I had gotten decent with our rotations I had no desire to do the raids. The heroics had such a huge wall from regular that so many people I knew were turned off from the game, and so many left. To other servers, to other games, or just left the gaming completely.
So this time I am doing it different. I have said I will jump in to fill a raid slot if needed, but I will not raid full time. I will try my hand at the new Battlegrounds, will work on all of the reputations, will master all of the cooking skills, will do what I can to help those new to the game or returning from long breaks. I will probably not Master all, but I will experience All.
So I decided to start a Blog. I will probably post something most days. It will not be a go to guide to be the best at being a Shadow Priest, but more of a record of one persons experiences playing World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria. The ups, the downs, and the boring in between.
I will probably log in tomorrow evening, hit all of my profession trainers, maybe fish a bit, level some cooking, then head into the new lands. I have spent a brief amount of time in the Beta, enough to know the new zones are spectacular to view, is a whole new theme from what we are use to. I have no planned out course, no must do list, just going to go in and experience the whole thing.
I think back to when I first started in August of 2009. I only knew what I had spent 8 months of looking up for my wife who also plays, on Thotbot or WoWhead. So completing quests was not to difficult. But I explored the world, I investigated little valleys and paths to no where. Some times entering an area I should not be in, sometimes finding a peaceful spot away from it all. Those first 4 months, not knowing about raiding or end game content were the best times in the game for me. Helping out the younger kids in the guild having problems with their level 20 quest, asking if a level 80 could come help. LOL. It was an innocent time.
Going into Cata, I spent 8 months reading all of the information, joining web sites to find out all I could, so much of it I shared with those in my guild, I became a go to guy for "What will we need to do?" When Cata dropped it was the mad dash to 85, get into the dungeons, get into Heroics, get into the raids. By the time I felt I had good enough gear and I had gotten decent with our rotations I had no desire to do the raids. The heroics had such a huge wall from regular that so many people I knew were turned off from the game, and so many left. To other servers, to other games, or just left the gaming completely.
So this time I am doing it different. I have said I will jump in to fill a raid slot if needed, but I will not raid full time. I will try my hand at the new Battlegrounds, will work on all of the reputations, will master all of the cooking skills, will do what I can to help those new to the game or returning from long breaks. I will probably not Master all, but I will experience All.
So I decided to start a Blog. I will probably post something most days. It will not be a go to guide to be the best at being a Shadow Priest, but more of a record of one persons experiences playing World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria. The ups, the downs, and the boring in between.
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