Who Can it Be, Now?

Me, that's who...

So, some time in the last few weeks, my total page visits brok the 10k mark. Woohoo!

Sadly, I wasn't around to notice. (As of writing this, it's at 10,036, so it was likely in the last few days)

What's been going on with me in WoW?

Nottalotta.

After several months of running Marrowgar - to - Rotface (and only getting t see Putricide twice) life in WoW got a tad bit boring:

- Do some dailies to get enough gold for raid stuff (pots, scrolls, etc)
- Hope I got selected to do the weekly run
- Run the same few encounters, and wipe on Rotface
- Rinse, repeat, ad nauseum.

Argh.

(Drat, I forgot that yesterday was international talk like a pirate day! YARR!!!)

Anyhoo, I watched Kattastrophe and her imploding guild, and just couldn't bring myself to look for a more "serious" guild, especially whenI wasn't exactly Mr. Dedicated.

So, I just didn't play. I think I've logged maybe 2 hours in the last 2 months.

So what now? Why am I cluttering up the feedreaders?

Because I will be playing a wee bit, though my goal and intent is rather narrow:

Brewfest (followed by Halloween)

Prior to some server reset/glitch, I had done about half the Brewfest achievements and a bit less than that for Halloween. Sadly, NONE of that shows up.

You see, these are the last things I need for my 310 speed mount. What a long strange road indeed. At least I will have completed something.

So, I started up WoW over the weekend, at least long enough to get the patches (wtf was up with the crap updater? I had to log onto my machine as Admin, and run WoW from the depths of my Program Files folder) and then shut down. At least I'm now ready to chase the Brewmaster title en route to getting the long road achie.

Am I "back"? I don't know. With the pending close of the Betaclysm and the world reset of the upcoming Cataclysm, maybe I will. Or not.

Cheers!

Bad Boys: Will Sometimes Trick AND Treat...

So I'm running around Winterspring last night, dropping off some E'ko

and messing around when Carbonite flares up: "Enemy Blahblah seen in your area." (I honestly don't know what the name was) I scout around the area, and lo-and-behold, there's a level 52 Belf Hunter fighting some Yeti.

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And he's flagged PvP. (remember, I'm on a "normal" Server)

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So I saunter over and stand and watch him finish the fight. (I'm mounted, of course)

He finally notices the 73 Alliance Pally staring at him, so he mounts/bolts. Perhaps he has Pathfinding and assumes/thinks he can out run me. (repeat after me: no)

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A hint for those without much knowledge of Paladins... Similar to Hunters, we can get some tier 3 talents that increase out speeds (both mounted & unmounted) with Pallies getting a max boost of +15% (compared to a 10% for Hunters) In addition, at level 62, we get this handy Aura called "Crusader Aura". This gives us a 20% mounted speed bonus. The only folks that keep up with us are Death Knights.

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So, anyways, this guy figures out quickly that he's not going to outrun me, so he starts jinking back & forth. That doesn't work, so he just starts running south from Everlook. (going to Everlook MAY have been a better choice, since there's at least the possibility of other Horde being there to support him)

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I harass him for a bit more and then just peel off. I had run through my possible attack: Repentance then Hammer of Justice? Reverse? Then hit with Judgement of Justice? (Which also stuns) I laid out my plan, then just decided not to be a (bigger) jerk.

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After all, maybe he just finished running a BG and was still flagged? (in a "normal" realm, you stay flagged PvP for 5 minutes after ANY PvP activity)

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So little Mr. Hunter got a bit of a trick: me hunting HIM, and following him around for a couple minutes, and then a treat with me not killing him. I'll be honest though, and say that I was ><>

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Another part of me wanted to emphasize that mounting and running is almost never a good idea. Especially when your best defense is only available when not mounted (your pet).

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*sigh*

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Ah well, guess this means the next sod I run across like this is gonna get worked over a bit... I can only play nice for so long... :P

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EDIT - sorry for the wonky formatting. BLogspot's editing functions (and basic simple functions) pretty much sux rox (a bad thing)