Orphan Week - Dornaa 4/30/08

This is Orphan Week in WoW so I got a Draenei Girl with Wranngar. Her name is Dornaa. I picked her up at the orphanage in Shatt. I took her to see the Dark Portal, visit her brother in Nagrand and to the Circle of Observance in the Bone Wastes. Then she wanted to go see the Seat of the Naaru in Exodar but I thought she would have more fun doing a couple AV's first. I was right, she had a lot of fun. She wasn't any help in combat though. We didn't win but she got 44 HK's :). She can run fast too, she has no problem keeping up with my Swift War Tiger. Then we went to Exodar to the Seat of the Naaru and she saw that. From there we went to The Caverns of Time. We had to wait a long time before she noticed the Dragon and we could complete the quest. After that I got her a souvenir from the CoT gift shop and we were on our way back to Shatt to get her back to the Orphanage before bed time. All in all a pretty easy fun quest with nice rewards, you get to pick between Elekk Training Collar, Egbert's Egg and Sleepy Willy. I got the Elekk Training Collar

Server Back Up 4/30/08

I guess the server came back up around 7:30PM. I was trying about every 15-20 minutes or so. I went right into AV which also happens to be the daily today. I am really liking Deadly Boss Mods. It gives me all the times on all the graveyards and towers in AV, both Horde and Alliance. Like I said I have been wanting it for awhile and I finally got it.

Aman'Thul Down 4/30/08

I checked again at 7PM and the server is still down. You can check the Realm Status
here but it never seems to be right, it is saying that Aman'Thul is up right now when it is not. I created a new character Whelzely on a US server while I was waiting. The server is Jaedenar and it is a RPPVP server. I will see how that works out, should be interesting to say the least. I got Whelzely up 5 levels in an hour. She is a Night Elf Druid. I am also leveling another Druid on Aman'Thul, Sylventa, she will be Resto spec when I am done. I really like the versatility a Druid gives you. I haven't worked on Sylventa much, she is only level 11 but I do work on her once in awhile when I have my daily's done and am bored with the battlegrounds. That doesn't happen too often :).

Server Update 4/30/08

Well 4PM has come and gone and the servers are still down. They are no longer giving an estimated time as to when the problem will be fixed, they are saying they will keep us updated to their progress. That, to me, means it is going to be awhile.

Servers Down 4/30/08

I tried to log in today and the server was down for Aman'Thul along with a bunch of other servers. I can't complain too much, usually when the servers are having problems Aman'Thul is fine. I took that opportunity to download and install Deadly Boss Mods. First I downloaded WoWMatrix then I used that to install Deadly Boss Mods. The Deadly Boss Mod Add-on gives you the GY and Tower timers in the Battlegrounds as well as how long they estimate to win and who they estimate will win based on current conditions. I have been wanting to get this one for awhile but every time I thought of it I was already playing and didn't want to, or couldn't, leave to install it. So now, if the server ever comes back up, I will have that to use in the battlegrounds. I wanted it mostly for AV as that has so many towers, bunkers and GY's. Anyway they say the server will be back up at 1PM PST which is 4PM my time, which is now so I am going to see if I can log in.

Daily Cooking Quest 4/29/08

The daily cooking quest today was the same one I got yesterday, Super Hot Stew. I did it on Wranngar. I had to go out to Blades Edge and kill some Wind Serpents and Lashtail Raptors for meat. When I had a few pieces of each I cooked them up and flew over to Forge Camp Terror. I killed a giant elemental and used the pot to cook the stew over it's remains. After I had it cooked I flew over to Shatt and turned it in. I got 7g59s and some Basalisk meat for it, no recipe again today :(.

Alterac Valley 4/29/08

I did 10 battles on Wranngar today, Axeelina was in 2 of them with me. We won 5 and lost 5. I guess 50% is not bad compared to some of the days I've had in AV. I can't believe that there are still people calling for rushing Drek and kill him. No towers, nothing, just rush down there and kill him..... That doesn't work anymore which should give you an idea how long it has been since these people have been in an AV battle. We actually had a battle where everyone went and did Galv first and we won! It actually went pretty smooth. We got Galv then stormed IBT, IBGY and TP pretty much running right over the Horde, we drove them into the ground :). We moved up and overpowered the defense at FWGY, still moving in a large group, and then went into Frostwolf Keep and took the relief hut and towers. After that it was a simple matter of downing Drek when the towers capped. I guess this proves that pretty much any reasonable plan will work if everyone works together on it. A couple of the ones we lost we had most the towers capped and were on Drek but not fast enough, the Horde downed Vann. A couple we lost from turtling SHGY and/or DB. I can never understand the defend SHGY with everything you got and give them DB strat, it just doesn't make sense to me. On our other wins we rushed either FWGY or IBGY and worked forward from there, got the towers and Drek. We didn't win any of our battles on reinforcements today.

Daily Battleground 4/29/08

The daily battleground today was Eye of the Storm. I did it on Wranngar and we won the first battle I was in. The daily battleground pays 11g99s and 419 honor. A little later I did another EoS with Axeelina but we lost that one. Axeelina had already gotten the daily BG done, she was just going after marks.

Daily's Wranngar 4/29/08

I did my Shattered Sun daily's on Wranngar along with Gaining the Advantage, the daily cooking quest and the daily battleground which was EoS. I made about 130g on them. I didn't get them done on Gomorra and probably won't get them done today.

Alterac Valley II 4/28/08

I went back for a little more AV on Wranngar. I fought in 4 more battles and we won 2 and lost 2. The last one I was in was a loss. There was no teamwork, some people went for the rush FWGY plan and some went for the rush IBGY plan and some just went to Galv but not really enough went to any one place. It was mayhem. We managed to get IBGY after awhile and eventually FWGY which we held for a little while then lost. The other loss we were trying but just ran out of time when the Horde killed Vann. We had 1 tower still up and we starting on Drek when they killed him. In the two wins we had one was using the rush FWGY strat and one was using the rush IBGY start, both seem to work well. I have heard the rush FWRH strat called for a few times but no one does that too much anymore for the simple reason it doesn't work that often. In our second win we had all the towers down, but FWRH hadn't capped yet, and we killed Drek, it went pretty smooth. That was the battle where we rushed IBGY. After we claimed that we went on to cap IBT & TP then get Galv. Others went ahead and got FWGY, FWRH and the Frostwolf Towers. In our first battle we rushed the FWGY but also managed to pick up IBGY along the way. IBT & TP got capped pretty quick while we were capping the FWRH and the East & West Frostwolf Towers. We ended up taking Drek with the East Tower still up but we had FWRH and did it without any real problems. One extra Warmaster +25% more health to Drek isn't too bad if you have a good offensive team. Heck he's really not that hard to take down with 2 Warmasters and +50% health with a good offensive team and good heals.

Daily's Wranngar 4/28/08

I did all my Shattered Sun Daily's on Wranngar today plus the daily BG, daily cooking and Gaining the Advantage quests. I made about 130g off those and was able to send 250g to the bank from my daily's from both. I am a little over 2/5 of the way to Gomorra's 300 riding skill. Another couple weeks and I will have it.

Alterac Valley 4/28/08

I went into AV and fought in 4 battles on Wranngar, all losses. One was a turtle in Dun Baldar and another was a turtle of Stonehearth GY. The other 2 were a little closer. In one we were on Drek when the Horde killed Vann. We had Drek at about 47% when they killed Vann. In the other battle, the last one I was in, we had IBT, TP and IBGY capped, had just capped FW West Tower and were in the process of capping the East when the Horde killed Vann. Not a very good day for the Alliance in AV, at least not in the battles I was in. Yesterday I picked up Gladiator's Idol of Tenacity for Wranngar. I will use that mostly for PvE and use Gladiator's Idol of Resolve for PvP.

Auctions 4/28/08

I put some things on the Auction House today. I put up one stack of Heavy Knothide Leather for a buyout of 55g, a stack of 10 Wind Scales for a buyout of 55g, 2 stacks of Roasted Clefthoof for 5g buyout each and Pattern: Riding Crop for a 10g buyout. I picked up an extra riding crop pattern from Old Hillsbrad when I went to get mine. When this one sells mine will be paid for :).