Wrangar 11/19/08

I played Wrangar, my DeathKinght, for about an hour and a half tonight and got him to level 59. I was questing in Hellfire Peninsula and it went pretty good for the most part. I got to 59 there and went to Shattrath to get a Heartstone from the Innkeeper at Aldor Rise so I could set that as home. I went back to Ebon Hold and got training and changed the runes on my sword, thinking the whole time I could take that portal to Stormwind. Funny story, the portal was only there for the quest. I flew back to Stormwind and then went to Darnassus because I was going to do some battlegrounds with him but then decided not too. I haven't been playing it long enough and don't think I am good enough with it to hit the battlegrounds yet. Besides I want to get both Wrangar and Wranngar to level 80. I expected to get on early and get a couple levels yesterday but ended up not getting on at all. Tomorrow I might have another chance to get on early and, hopefully, get a couple more levels.

DeathKnight 11/17/08

I played my DeathKnight some more tonight. I think I am getting hooked on it or maybe it is just because it is so easy to level. I got Wrangar to level 58 tonight and was able to get out of the Vortex. I guess I am no longer Scourge but am fighting Scourge. It is all a little confusing. By the time I was able to leave the Vortex all my gear was upgraded to blues from quest rewards. One quest took me to Stormwind to talk to the King. The portal I took from Ebon Hold (I think that is the name of the place I call home now) landed me right outside Stormwind Gates. When I walked through them one guard threw a rotten apple at me and the other one threw a rotten banana. Then I got spit on a lot as I was walking through Stormwind and people were screaming in terror. From what I understand DeathKnights were once heros of the Alliance the went to the Dark side to fight for the Lich King. Now I am back on the good side fighting against the Lich King. Anyway when I talked to the king he straightened it all out and it's all better now. He gave me a quest to do and sent me off. A DeathKnight is kind of like a Warrior. I tried playing a Warrior once but didn't like it. I also heard the DeathKnights aren't what they are all cracked up to be but I am liking it so far. They seem to do pretty well for their level but now that I am questing out of the Vortex we will see what happens. I will be able to get on earlier tomorrow and hope to get him to 60 or higher. I already have my fast mount so I don't know if I will get anything at 60.

DeathKnight 11/16/08

I started a DeathKnight tonight, I was going to wait until I got Wranngar to 80 but wanted to see what it was all about. I had heard that you had to go into Stratholme and complete a quest to get one but all you really have to do is create one from the log in screen. I created one named Wrangar. He is still too new to show up in the Armory but I will link it when it does. You have to have a level 55 or higher character on your account on that server to create a DeathKnight. I did a few of the quests and got him almost to level 56. With a DeahtKnight you start at level 55. I also got my DeathKnight mount, just had to do a couple simple quests to get it. I will probably be going back and forth between the two to alleviate boredom.

North Rend 11/16/08

I did a little more questing on Wranngar in North Rend tonight. I didn't get to get on earlier like I had hoped so I only had a little while to play. I am about half way to 71 now. I did a lot of exploring, opened up the maps some more, and did a few quests. I had my first death in North Rend and it wasn't a mob that killed me, I ran off a balcony because I thought I was going to be going down a flight of stairs. Instead I fell about 4 stories and died. Tomorrow night I hope to have more time to play.

North Rend 11/15/08

I finally got on and was able to play again. I installed Wrath of the Lich King yesterday and figured I would try it out. I got on the boat and took off for North Rend. By the time the load screen cleared I was already pulling out of North Rend. I tried a few more times but had the same problem. I didn't have enough RAM (Memory). I went out today and picked up another GIG of RAM and installed it then tried again, the difference was incredible. I knew I was in trouble a couple patches ago when I stared getting a lot of lag and 1 fps in Shattrath but I didn't think I wouldn't be able to get off the boat :). I did some quests in North Rend on Wranngar and got 6 bars XP. A lot of people are playing with this new expansion, there are queues up to 90 minutes to log in on Aman'Thul. I did a bunch of exploring which is what I usually do in a new place and got a few quests done. I haven't gotten any really good drops yet and no rewards that are better than what I am currently wearing. I will play some more tomorrow morning when there hopefully won't be such a long queue time.

Battlegrounds 11/08/08

The daily today was Alterac Valley and I did it on Wranngar. I didn't have any time to play the last few days so I felt good to get on today. It took 3 battles in AV to get a win and get the daily done. I ended up fighting in 7 battles altogether, 2 wins and 5 losses. Needless to say the Alliance isn't doing any better in AV. There was only one battle where the Alliance held SHGY and cost us the battle though so that is getting better. In the other losses a couple were close and the others was just poor playing. I hope to get on and do some more later. I got Wranngar's hairstyle changed as part of an Achievement but I changed it back today. Attached is a shot of what his hair looked like before I changed it back. I thought it made my ears look like they were sticking out.

Battlegrounds 11/3/08

I fought in 3 Arathi Basin battles tonight on Wranngar. It was my daily again and it took 3 to finally get a win. Not as bad as last night but not great. The first battle I got into was already in progress. I thought we were going to win that one for a little while until I realized the fact we had 3 nodes when I came in was pure luck. After watching the other players perform I knew we were going to lose. It wasn't that they were playing poorly, they just weren't thinking, an all too common problem for the Alliance. They were leaving nodes with one person to guard it if they left any at all. I saw a few occasions where there was no one at a node. They were constantly on the move trying to get another base, leaving the ones they had poorly guarded, and the Horde were coming along and taking them. The next one really wasn't any better. I got in that one at the start and we were doing ok for a little while then it was back to one or none at a node and half way through the battle the majority of our team was at the Stables trying to get that back. Rational thinking would dictate if the majority of the Horde are there then there are some Horde bases left pretty much empty. No one could be torn away from the Stables though and we lost that one too. In the last battle I was in we actually had a 5 cap going on for a minute then we held 3 and had a 4th on and off. We won that one by about 600 points. Anyway I got my daily battleground done.

Battlegrounds 11/2/08

Today's daily battleground was Arathi Basin. I fought in 7 battles on Wranngar before we finally got a win. I had some pretty bad groups but the last 2 were pretty good. We were very evenly matched in the next to the last group, they won 1990/2000. That got them an Achievement too, winning an AB by 10 points :(. In the last group we were doing good, we had a 3 cap almost all the time, a 4 cap most the time and a 5 cap for a minute or two. We won that one by over 1,000 points but no Achievement in that. I am still happy I got the Blitz done in AV yesterday. I thought that one would take foever. I also fought in one losing AV tonight. We weren't doing too bad in it but the Horde got Vann down before we could get Drek down. We got Galv in that one too so we got some pretty good honor anyway. I have over 55,000 kills now, less than 45,000 to go for my title.

Battlegrounds 11/1/08

I hadn't played in a few days so I was happy to see that Alterac Valley was the daily when I did log on again. It took awhile to win one though. As usual I fought on Wranngar. I am not going to go into a lot of detail except to say SHGY played a major role in ALL our losses. I kept playing though, farming kills and all of a sudden the quality of people changed. It was a quick transformation, we went from losing groups that were lucky to get over 100 honor to groups that were doing the Blitz Achievement. The Blitz Achievemant is win an AV in 6 minutes or less. We got that one by rushing Drek right from the cave. There were a few players with full T6 gear and with a couple healers so there was no problem taking down Drek. No one took SHGY in those battles either, it was incredible :). There is one instance where you can take SHGY without too much repercussion. That is when we have all the GY's except SHGY. That causes the Horde to rez in their cave and we seem to have no problem winning at that point. I am still collecting honor to make up for the 55,000 I spent. I am back up to around 45,000, 30,000 to go.

Battlegrounds 10/27/08

I only did 4 battlegrounds on Wranngar tonight. I did 3 Arathi Basin which was my daily and one Alterac Valley. The first 2 AB's I was in were losses but I got into them towards the end so they went quick. In the third one we got a 4 cap going and kept it throughout the entire battle. I capped the Gold Mine and then stayed to defend it. It was one of the places that got hit a few times. At one point I had 2 at once, a shadow priest and a warrior. I killed the squishy first then killed the warrior. I called incoming but nobody came. I was pretty buffed up and my attack power was over 4600 in cat form so I was killing left and right. I had no deaths and finished 4th on the list for killing blows even though I was defense not offense. In the AV I was in I got in right at the start. It went pretty smooth, I helped defend IBT, a small group took out Galv, and we got IBGY and TP. We moved on to FWGY while those were capping and then got FWRH started. We had SFGY and at that point someone took SHGY..... It didn't matter though because we had the East and West Frostwolf Towers capping and the Horde were rezzing in their cave because they didn't have a GY capped. We capped E & W Towers then took down Drek for the win. One of the better AV's I have been in lately. Still looking for a good battlegroup to get Wranngar into.

Battlegrounds 10/26/08

I fought in 5 battlegrounds on Wranngar tonight, 3 wins and 2 losses. The first one I did was Warsong Gulch which was my daily. We won the first one I was in. We had 2 pretty well matched groups in there, it was a 45 minute WSG which is pretty long for WSG. Neither side seemed to be able to make any headway. The Horde captured the first flag, then we took over. We ended up winning that one 3/1. After that I did an AV. I don't know why I waste my time in there. We were doing great, had IBT, IBGY, TP and FWGY capping then some idiot decided to cap SHGY. After that is was just a long hard loss. All the Horde started rezzing at FWRH, their only GY, and came through and took FWGY, then TP, IBGY and IBT. I don't know why people keep capping SHGY but it costs us the battle almost every time they do it..... I was so disgusted after that I decided to do some Eye of the Storm. The first battle I was in we had a really good group and held 3 towers throughout while running the flag. We won that one by over 1,000 points. The second group I was in was ok, not great though, and we held 2 towers throughout and ran the flag a lot, we won that one. The last group I was in was pretty poor. They were all over the place, way too many going for the flag which the couldn't seem to get anyway, and not trying for a third node. We ended up losing one of the nodes we had so we finished up with one node about 1,400 points behind the Horde. I can't wait until the expansion comes out to fight in the new PvP areas they have. I also want to get Wranngar out of this battlegroup and into another one.

Battlegrounds 10/25/08

I only had time to do a few battlegrounds tonight. The daily was Warsong Gulch which we won on the second battle I was in. I also did 2 AV's, one win and one loss. I did them on Wranngar. I got in the first WSG after the start. The score was 0/2. It was a pretty poorly coordinated group and we never did capture a flag before the Horde won it 0/3. In the second battle we did a lot better although I saw some people from the first group in there. They must have been the better ones from that group. We won the second one 3/0 and I captured the last flag for the win. In AV the first battle I was in we barely won by taking down Drek, it was close. The reason it was close after we had such a good start was someone took SHGY and held it. Same stupid mistake that is made all too often. In the second battle the same stupid mistake (SHGY) was made and this time it cost us the battle, we got Galv and 2 towers, that was it. We were moving along pretty well until someone took SHGY then ALL the Horde rezzed at FWGY and came back and took everything we were capping. After that is was just a long hard loss. I am really looking to get Wranngar out of this battlegroup and into a better one.

Battlegrounds 10/22/08

Today's daily battleground was Eye of the Storm. I did it on Wranngar. We won the first one I was in by over 1000 points, we had and held 3 nodes throughout. The Horde seemed more concerned with running the flag than getting more nodes but that only works if you have 2 nodes. Usually it is the Alliance that makes that mistake. I got that done and collected my 11g99s and 419 extra honor for the daily. I spent 55,000 honor the other day so I need to restock that again. After that I went into AV and ended up with a really poor group. We were way ahead but people decided to take and hold SHGY and that cost us the battle. It is really quite sad that the same people make the same stupid mistakes over and over again. The fact they are unable to learn from their mistakes doesn't say much for them. Those were the only 2 battlegrounds I was in tonight, I was really tired and not in the mood to lose any more AV's which is what would have happened with the quality of players that were on.