Post 85 Activities (WoW Stuffs)

So, I found some things to entertain myself with recently. And now I am going to share them on this blog. So of course, the thing to do right now is run around the Firelands and do dailies. Sneaky Blizzard, making you do a quest chain to open up the dailies. And then having you gather marks from those dailies to open up more dailies. I am just waiting for them to ask me to sign over my first born. (Which most of us would actually consider depending on the loot. Don't lie). So let me tell you about one of those quests which made me want to send my fist through the screen.

For those of you who play, the quest is called Enduring the Heat. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, let me explain. You get asked to run inside of this fire cave and you have to stomp out 8 runes. Sounds easy, right? Wrong. Fire elementals are swarming that place like flies on rotting meat, all waiting for you to enter and try your luck. And they hit like trucks. Especially when a large group decides to jump your ass like some gang initiation. This was not the frustrating part. The frustrating part was the fact that I could only find 7 of the 8 runes and was usually running to my death to find the 8th one. 4 deaths later, I found that 8th rune tucked in a corner. This let's you know just how much Blizzard loves to mess with us. Yeah, that rune you are looking for...on the ground behind that pile of rocks, behind you. Just want to see how many times you die before you decided to hop over that way. Let's just say, I am extremely grateful that I don't have to do that particular quest again.

Aside from Firelands, I have decided to visit the Argent Tournament. I never did that during Wrath. I only had one 80 and then ended up taking a very long hiatus from WoW due to school. (Stupid school). I'm only doing it now for the Dragonhawk mount, really. One of my guildies has one and I want one as well. Not sure how long it will take me to get it, but it's a goal. Nothing really exciting to say about this chain of quests so far. I just got started, so it is basically simple things. Or I just might be spoiled by the chaotic fray that is the Firelands daily quests.

I started PvPing, just as something to do. You really can't wipe a PvP group, so I never have that anxiety of "I don't know what I'm doing" *nervously chew nails*. Whoever had the grand idea of putting time limits on Battlegrounds deserves a kiss. That is what I used to hate, previously. You could be in one battleground forever before a side would win. Now it's "complete before time runs out" and it is best. I picked up my first piece of PvP gear yesterday. I don't think I have ever gotten PvP gear before. By the time I had enough honor to purchase anything, I had already gotten something out of the raid that was just as good if not better. So actually getting to buy something was pretty awesome.

I had at first decided that I was going to trade my honor points for Justice points in order to get PvE gear. But then it thought about it. I should get PvP gear, since that is what I'm doing. Let me not try to fool myself into thinking that I am going to be doing any dungeons or raids soon. Let's just go with what is in front of me right now. And if I get my full PvP set, then I can start dumping my honor into Justice points.

So this and role playing has been about all that I have been doing. So far, so good. I am working on a mini storyline for my character to rp out. I just haven't figured out how to make it involve everyone just yet. I think I can have the spot light on me for a little bit, just so long as I don't bore people to death. I will probably sit down and write some things out and figure out how to make things interactive. I like the way my guild does rp events, so I want to incorporate as much of that as I possibly can. Plus, it would be my first mini story that didn't involve everyone sitting around a table and just talking.

So yeah, that ends my WoW adventure talk for today :)

I made it to 85!

Well now that WoW has let go of my brain for a little bit, I suppose I can sit down and write a blog about it. Yes, because while it has released it's vice like grip on me, it still sits in the corner, giving me the eye. Anyway, 7 months after expansion pack release, I have hit the level cap. It felt awesome. Would have felt more awesome of someone had actually been awake to see it happen. But whatever. I dinged 85 and I promptly passed out. Now I have hit the level cap conundrum. What am I to do now?

Of course there are the obvious answers of "Go and get yourself some gear!" and I have to say that I was a bit resistant to that, at first. I am not entirely sure what my issue is when it comes to dungeons. I ran them all the time in Burning Crusade and then suddenly, I cracked. I didn't want to touch another dungeon. I didn't want to see another raid. They were just long, painful, arduous things. I would just rather forget them all together. But now that WoW has changed so many things, I am wondering if running dungeons are less painful.

But my brain starts wigging out the moment I think about it with a whole bunch of, "You don't know the fights. What if you end up being a huntard? What if you wipe the group? They will yell at you!" and it kind of paralyzes me. So instead, I went into some Battlegrounds. Surprisingly, those were really fun. I like the fact that they were timed and we didn't have to stay in there forever. I like that you can get in, fight, and get out without feeling like your entire life is spent in one encounter. I'm sure that I will get over my dungeon slump. Until, battlegrounds so I can get my welfare epics.

But what were my non-obvious answers to what I was going to do now that I'm post-85? Well, it was time to hit up everything that I skipped over in my quest to hit the level cap. First, I was going to work on First Aid. Don't know about anyone else, but those Firelands dailies can be brutal and there are times when I need a band-aid. However, I sold all the cloth I found early on and never bothered leveling First Aid. Now it is time to rectify that. Cloth in the auction house is ridiculous (which is why I was selling it), so I either part with my dailies money or go and find it myself.

I want to level fishing, just because. I guess it is something that I enjoy about the game. Just standing there, catching virtual fish to cook later. I think it goes back to my rp tavern running days. I actually enjoyed doing things like that. So all of my characters must have maxed fishing levels. It is going to take a little bit to max out fishing however. When one of the patches came through and I didn't have to feed my pet to make it happy, I didn't have a reason to fish any more. Just press Mend Pet and keep it moving. Now I fish just to make the different cooking recipes.

That's the next thing. I have decided that I am going to make several of the Feast recipes from WotLK and put them in the guild bank. Might come in handy when we have those rp events where everyone just sits down and talks. Yeah, it's a silly prop and we could just rp the food that is there, but I want to do this and so I am doing it. Gathering the ingredients will take some time, but heck, I'm 85. I have all the time in the world.

So my list continues on with things of that nature. Leveling secondary professions, farming up things for the auction house for a little side cash in case I find some big ticket item I want, explore things that I left behind in Outland, blah blah blah. Just ways of making sure that the game doesn't get old and boring for me too quickly. I'm not ready to jump in and level alts yet. Sure they are fun to play around on, but no one else is getting to 85 in the near future.

Part of me would love to transfer my mage over, seeing how she is 83 and just collecting dust. Having two 85's would be nice. But I am not going to throw out money for the transfer and the faction switch. I will just have to have another 85 the hard way. Also, I am still not feeling the mage.

So yeah, that's it for my WoW ramble.