Battlegrounds 9/29/08

Looks like I am back in battleground mode, it is all I have been doing the last couple days and I see no end in sight. This will slow down my leveling on Brieanna but once in a while you feel like doing some battlegrounds. I fought in 9 AV's on Wranngar tonight, 6 wins and 3 losses, the Alliance was doing good for a change. We won two battles by reinforcements and the rest by killing Drek. We had some pretty good battles and some good groups. There was not too much (In Team) fighting going on except one battle I got in late. We ended up losing that one, I think it makes a difference on overall morale when there is a lot of fighting and bickering going on. I am happy to say there was not a single battle I was in where anyone took and held SHGY so that is a step in the right direction. For the most part we rushed FW Keep in the battles we won. A few of them we hit IBT and IBGY at the same time and got them both capping, then with the Horde unable to rez at IBGY we were able to get TP capping. We had one battle, the next to last one I was in, where EVERYONE rushed FW Keep and we didn't have IBT or TP. We had some good defense going in that one though and they kept the Horde out of Dun Baldar. Eventually we went back and capped IBT and TP then got Galv. With 25 reinforcements remaining on the Horde's board we took down Drek for maximum honor which I, unfortunately, don't get anymore. We had one battle with someone in it that was insisting that we take out Drek with 3 towers up. They don't know the importance of the towers. Each tower represents an Elite Warmaster in with Drek and +25% health to Drek in addition to the 2 Elite Frost Wolves with him. So with 3 towers up Drek was at 175% health and he had 3 Warmasters and 2 Frost Wolves with him. It wasn't going to happen. For the most part we had really good groups and really good teamwork going on today and it showed in the wins.

Brieanna 9/28/08

I played Brieanna for a little while today, I got her to level 36. I went to Ironforge and got training for me and my pet. I still have 7 more points until I have 300 cooking skill, then I can see how high I can get my cooking. I need to work on my fishing some more too, I think it is 151 now. I think my skinning was at 269 when I logged off today so that is coming along well. I dropped mining (I had forgotten how much I hated mining) and took up herbalism so I need to level that, it is at 1 now :(. I was a little bored leveling today so I played Wranngar most of the time.

Wranngar - 50,000 Lifetime Kills 9/28/08

I passed 50,000 lifetime kills on Wranngar. I was in Alterac Valley, of course, when I hit this milestone. I fought in 16 AV's tonight, 8 wins and 8 losses. Some of the battles were pretty good and some were not so good. We had a few turtles, a couple directly related to holding SHGY which is never a good idea. We won a couple battles on reinforcements which is unusual for the Alliance, usually the Horde win on reinforcements. I didn't care either way, I have 100 marks from each battleground which is the maximum you can carry (I got the last 4 I needed from WSG this morning) and I have 75,000 honor which is the most honor you can carry, so I am in it for the kills now. I finished the daily battleground I had this morning on my second battle. When the daily's rolled over and I got today's daily it was AV again :). All in all I did 16 AV's and 3 WSG, 1 win and 2 losses. Now I am setting my sights on 75,000 lifetime kills.

Battlegrounds 9/27/08

Today's daily battleground was Arathi Basin but I still had the one for AV from a few days ago so I decided to do that one instead. I was on Wranngar. I fought in 4 battles, all losses, with some of the worst players I have played with in awhile. There is really not much to say about what happened except we were plagued with AFK and the mentality of the majority of players was around the 7 year old level I think. In the best (closest) battle we had we managed to make it to FWGY. In the other 3 battles we never got past IBT. People were turtling in DB in all 4 battles, anywhere from 25-35 people in DB, most AFK. I am going to try to get this done again in the morning and see if there is a better quality of players on at that time.

Instances 9/27/08

I did some instances tonight on Brieanna, Wranngar and Gomorra. The first one I did was on Brieanna and it was SM Armory. I went in with a group of 4 other people and we didn't really have any problems at all. I didn't have the quests for there yet but the XP was good. After that I had to AFK for awhile and when I got back 2 of the people I had been grouped with were still trying to run the SM Library but everyone had left group except them. I logged over to Wranngar and ran them through there. After I finished that up I saw someone in LFG looking for help with the Epic Warlock mount quest, the Dreadsteed, in Dire Maul. I logged over to Gomorra and gave them a hand with that. We had a pretty good group going there too even though there were only 4 of us to start out. We picked up a 5th for the end where we fight all the demons and that is where you really need a full group. We were able to complete that and they got their Dreadsteed. All in all not a bad night.

Brieanna 9/24/08

I got Brieanna to level 35 tonight. That opened up a couple doors. I got my first aid up to 375 and my cooking up to 293. I can also get the fishing quest when I hit 225 fishing skill. I leveled to 35 in Theramore which is where you take the first aid quest/test to learn first aid to 300. I took the quest/test and completed it on the first try. You have to save 15 soldiers before 6 die. They range from injured to badly injured to critically injured. Obviously you have to tend to the critically injured ones first while the injured ones can hang on a little longer. I think I had only 3 die by the time I healed 15. Once I had the skill to take me to 300 I logged over to my cloth bank and sent the cloth I needed, logged back over, and made some bandages. When I hit 300 I logged onto Gomorra and went to the Temple of Telhmat in Hellfire Peninsula to get the books to take Brieanna to 300. When I got there a 70 Rogue was attacking the place. I landed and he was standing there laughing at me so I killed him. I don't think that was the outcome he was looking for :). Anyway I got the books, sent them, then logged back to Brieanna and leveled to 375. I am glad that's out of the way and I don't have to worry about leveling it up anymore. I would like to get her cooking to 375 too, that would be very helpful while leveling.

Battlegrounds 9/23/08

Today's daily battleground was Alterac Valley. I did it on Wranngar and we won the first one I was in. I stayed and did 4 more, 1 win and 3 losses. We won the 2nd battle I was in then, you could see it, the quality of players changed. I don't know if school got out somewhere or nap time got over but the quality of players just declined rapidly. In the 2 that we won we got Galv and killed Drek along with capping all the towers so they were maximum honor games although that means nothing to me as I am maxed out at 75,000 honor and can not collect any more. I gave up after that but I did collect my 11g99s, 419 extra honor and 3 marks from AV for the daily.

Brieanna 9/22/08

I did some more questing in Stranglethorn Vale and got Brieanna to level 34. My next goal is to get her to 35 so I can continue my cooking and first aid. I will do first aid first and within an hour of completing the quest I will get my skill to 375, I have all the cloth in the bank just waiting. All I will need to do when I hit 300 is go to Temple of Telhmat in Hellfire Penninsula and get the book that will take me from 300 to 375. After that I will head down to Tanaris and do the cooking quest, that will enable me to get to 300 then I will have to buy the book in Honor Hold to get to 375. All my quests in STV are orange and red so I might have to go somewhere else to quest.

Brieanna 9/21/08

I did some more questing in Southshore and Wetlands then I headed over to Dustwallow Marsh on the other continent, Kalimdor. I got Brieanna to level 33 there and got a few quests. I did all the yellow and a bunch of orange ones then I headed over to Stranglethorn Vale to see if I could get any quests there. I got a few of them there and met up with a guildie so we quested together for awhile. I got a few quests done and am now 3 bars away from level 34. I logged off at the Inn in Booty Bay so I should have those last 3 bars rested when I log back on. Tomorrow I will hit 34 right off, go get my training and see how many quests I can do in Stranglethorn Vale. After that I will head back to Dustwallow Marsh and do some more there. Hopefully I will be able to get to 35 tomorrow.

Brieanna 9/19-20/08

In the last couple days I have been questing in Southshore, Wetlands and Duskwood with trips back to Stormwind as the quests require. I got Brieanna up to level 32 between logging over to Wranngar to help guildies and getting her cooking up to 225. 225 is as high as I can go until I reach level 35. So now I am waiting on level 35 for first aid, cooking and I am sure I will be waiting on it to level my fishing past 225 too as that is also a quest. I cleaned up all my old quests so now all the quests I have are Yellow, Orange and Red. I will probably work on her some more tomorrow and I want to do the daily fishing on Wranngar, I haven't done that in awhile.

Battlegrounds 9/20/08

For a little change of pace I did the daily battleground on Wranngar. It was Eye of the Storm and unfortunately it was also their holiday weekend. It took me 4 battles to get a win and my daily done. Some of the poorest playing I have ever seen in EoS. There were also a lot of AFK in the battles I was in, weekend warriors just in there for the extra honor. I also did one Warsong Gulch, we lost that one. I think I was the only one who made it past the half way point, everyone else was fighting right outside our base. They obviously weren't interested in winning.

Brieanna 9/18/09

I went around and cleaned up a bunch of old quests that were in danger of turning Green on me. In the process I got Brieanna up to level 31. I did some questing in Wetlands, Duskwood, Stormwind and Southshore. It was in Southshore that I leveled to 31. I saw another mount I liked so I went to Darnassus and got it. I got the Reins of the Striped Frostsaber. Now I have 2 mounts to chose from, this one is already getting out of control :).

Brieanna 9/16/08

I finally got a mount for Brieanna tonight. I finished up some quests in Duskwood then headed over to Southshore and did a couple there. Southshore is where I leveled to 30 so all I had to do was fly over to Wetlands, take the boat to Auberdine then fly to Darnassus. I got the Reins of the Spotted Frostsaber. It is so nice to be mounted again, it will make things quicker going forward. It cost me a total of 45 gold to get the riding lesson and mount. After that I got my hunter training done and some pet training. I need to get more training points built up to train him some more.

Brieanna 9/15/08

I am way behind where I wanted to be on Brieanna. I figured I would be at 30 at the end of last week and, when that failed, I figured I would be at 30 by the end of the weekend at the latest but that didn't happen either. I got her to level 29 last night so hitting 30 tonight is not out of reach and I am going to give it a shot. I did a few quests in Duskwood, got killed by stitches, then went to Wetlands and did a couple there which is where I hit 29. I will probably plug away in Wetlands and Southshore tonight to get to level 30. Then I can go and get my mount. I still haven't gotten any good screenshots of this character but here is one of me sleeping on a bench in an inn in Wetlands where I logged off.

Battlegrounds 9/15/08

Today's daily battleground was Warsong Gulch. I did it on Wranngar and we won the first battle I was in. That put me at 95 Warsong Gulch Mark of Honor, only 5 more to go before I am maxed out on Marks of Honor for all battlegrounds. It was a long battle and we were pretty evenly matched, or at least it seemed so at the start. It took forever to capture the first flag but once we did we got the other two pretty fast. We ended up winning 3/0. I got the 11g99s this battleground pays along with 3 Warsong Gulch Mark of Honor for winning. I am currently maxed out at 75,000 honor which is the most you can accumulate.

Brieanna 9/13/08

I only had a little bit of time again today to play but I did manage to get Brieanna to level 28. I am going to try and get her to level 30 tomorrow and get her mounted. I worked on a couple quests in Wetlands then went back and finished up a couple in Duskwood before they turn green and I lose XP on them. I might head over to Southshore tomorrow and see what they have. From what I remember about Southshore they have some easy quests there I should be able to kick out fast. While I was in Duskwood I ran across Stitches. There were 4 of us that decided to take him down. It was close but we got him down. Really close for me as I fishished up with less than 40 health left.

Brieanna 9/12/08

I only had a little time to work on Brieanna tonight but I got her to 27. My original plan was to get her to 27 Wednesday, 29 Thursday and then 30 today but that didn't work out. I didn't get to play at all Wednesday, I only played for an hour or so on Thursday and then only to do the daily battleground on Wranngar. I will be riding this weekend though, I will see to it, only 3 more levels to go. I got her to 27 in Wetlands and will either continue to quest there or maybe Southshore.

Battlegrounds 9/11/08

Today's battleground was Alterac Valley. I did it on Wranngar and we won both the battles I was in. We rushed FWGY and once we had that we got the towers, IBGY and the relief hut. After we had all the towers capped we took down Drek for the win. It wasn't even close. I decided to try another one and see how that worked out. We won that one too doing pretty much the same thing but it was a little closer. It goes to show how teamwork, everyone working togther, makes a big difference, not only in AV but, in all the battlegrounds.

Daily Fishing 9/11/08

The daily fishing quest today had me heading over to the waterfall by Tuurem. It was Bait Bandits and I did it on Wranngar. It took me 6 casts to get my Blackfin Darter. When I went back and turned it in to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest for my Bag of Fishing Treasures I got 7g49s17c, Sharpened Fish Hooks and 4 Motes of Water. Nothing great today but I will keep plugging away at it.

Brieanna 9/9/08

I did some more questing on Brieanna today and now I am half way through level 26. I will hit 27 tomorrow and hopefully hit 29 Thursday. I did a lot of questing in Wetlands and went back to Duskwood to get a new wolf so I am in the process of training that again. I was questing with a couple guild members today, Brieanna is not in Blackmoor Coven, she is in "And Justice for All". It is a pretty good guild and most the members are willing to help out. I am more of a solo player but I group up when I can help someone or someone wants to group with me because we are questing in the same area. We were killing Raptors in Wetlands tonight, there were a few quests that involved doing that. I didn't remember to take any screenshots tonight so I have nothing new, I will make a note of it and get some tomorrow.

Brieanna 9/8/08

I did some more questing on Brieanna today and got half way through level 25, only 5 more levels until I am mounted again, I can't wait. I did some quests in Wetlands and went to Arathi Highlands and got the flightpath. From there I ran to Southshore and turned in a quest and got the flightpath there. I killed a few level 30 Raptors (480xp for the first, rested, and 204xp for the 2nd and 3rd) in Arathi Highlands and got my first piece of Heavy Leather on this character. My skinning is now 196. My First Aid is 225 and I can't go any higher until level 35 when I can get the quest :(. My cooking is 112, kind of low, and my Mining is 21, really low. My fishing is 140 tho so that is coming along. I think fishing is one of the worst skills to have to level up when you are a high level. I did it on Gomorra and it was pretty bad but it wasn't as bad on Wranngar because I worked on his more while I was leveling. I will try to keep this one up to speed and not have to go through that at all. I will hit 26 tomorrow and try for 27, we will see what happens. I will have to get some screenshots in Wetlands tomorrow, I don't have many of this toon.

Brieanna 9/7/08

I had some time to work on Brieanna today. I got to level 24 and got a new pet that seems to be working out well so far. I also worked on my fishing today, I went to the pond right outside Wailing Caverns in the Barrens and caught Deviate Fish while I was leveling it. I got my fishing up to 140 skill which let me finish a quest in Lakeshire. I sent them to Gomorra to make into Savory Deviate Delight. Brieanna can put a stack on the AH for 50-60 gold, that will come in handy. To get to the Barrens, and Ratchet, I took the boat to Theramore, got the fly point, then ran to Ratchet. It took awhile but from Ratchet I was able to get the fly point and I hopped the boat to Booty Bay so I got the fly point there too. After that I did a few quests in Duskwood and got some really good XP. That is also where I picked up my new pet. I had my pet chicken out running with me today too. That is the one I got in Westfall where you have to cluck like a chicken at a chicken until it decides to talk to you. It is a pretty embarassing quest to do and people look at you like you are crazy.

Brieanna 9/6/08

I worked on leveling Brieanna a little today, got to level 22. I did a couple quests in Lakeshire to level then went back to Stormwind and got my training. Only 8 more levels to go until mounted. I hope to have some more time tomorrow to get a couple more levels in. It won't be long until I am riding again. I sold a bunch of the leather I had been skinning and got over 20 gold for it so that was a nice surprise.

Daily Fishing 9/6/08

The daily fishing was Crocolisks in the City, I got it done on Wranngar. I had tried earlier and, after 33 casts, had no luck but when I logged back on I got my Baby Crocolisk on the first cast. I fish for these right in the canal outside the Mage District in Stormwind. It is a pretty easy quest and one that can be done by someone with a lower fishing skill. When I turned it in to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest for my Bag of Fishing Treasures I got 7g41s60c, 3 Elixirs of Water Walking and a Razor Sharp Fillet Knife which I sold to a vendor for 4g28s. I put the Elixir's in the guild vault. Nothing great today but I will keep plugging away for the good stuff.

Battlegrounds 9/6/08

The daily battleground today was Alterac Valley. I did it on Wranngar and, surprisingly enough, we won the first one I was in. We rushed FWGY, then FW Keep while some stayed back and got IBT and TP. We got all the towers capped then took out Drek. Galv also got taken out along the way so it was a maximum honor game. I might go back in later for a few more if I get bored leveling up Brieanna.

Brieanna 9/5/08

I had some time to play Brieanna tonight and got her to level 21, only 9 more levels until mounted again. I pretty much wrapped up some quests I had in Stormwind, Westfall and Lakeshire then went to Duskwood and did a couple quests there. I was getting some pretty good XP in Duskwood as most of the mobs were 2-3+ levels higher than me. I wanted to get another level before I headed back to Lakeshire to finish up some quests there.

Brieanna 9/3/08

I only got to play for a little while today but I got Brieanna up to level 20. One of the guildies from my guild took me on a run through Deadmines and I got a few really nice pieces out of there. When I got done with Deadmines I was less than a bar from 20 so I did one quick quest in Westfall, that I picked up in Stormwind, and that put me over the top. Only 10 more levels until I can ride again. It is really hard going from riding swift mounts to having to walk everywhere. Anyway I got a nice leather chest piece that dropped off VanCleef, a nice pair of leather pants and a nice polearm. all that should help me going forward. I need to take some more screenshots as I only have a couple so far.

Battlegrounds 9/2/08

Today's daily was Eye of the Storm and I got it done on Wranngar in the first one I was in. I turned that in for 11g99s plus the 419 extra honor that you get from the daily. After that I headed into AV for 1 win and 5 losses, seems the Alliance fell right back into their clueless groove. You would not believe the amount of AFK in all the battles I was in. There is a new twist now that a lot more people are using TuringTest AFK Reporter, you see a lot of people at the end with 1,000 dmg, 1,500 dmg and so on, they just hit something once in awhile so it does not report them AFK. To give you a basic idea, most people have between 50,000 all the way up to 200,000+ dmg when a battle is over. It is really sad that these losers are costing us so many battles... In the one we did win we had a lot of people that were actually playing and we rushed IBGY, got that, then it was no problem to take IBT, TP, Galv then move on to FWGY, FWRH, East and West towers and finally Drek. That was a maximum honor game. We had another battle where we were doing really good then someone decided to take SHGY which cause the Horde to start rezzing at FWRH and that coat us the battle right there. When will people learn? It is the same stupid mistakes over and over again that cost us so many battles along with all the AFK... Blizzard really needs to get their act together and do something about all the AFK in ALL the battlegrounds, it is really out of control. Once someone is marked AFK they should have 60 seconds to clear it or they are kicked from the battleground with a 24 hour deserter debuff. They get 3 of those in one month they get banned from the battlegrounds for a month, first offense. Second offense they are banned from the battlegrounds for life. What they are doing now, if anything, is definitely not working that is for sure.

Battlegrounds 9/1/08

I decided to head into the battlegrounds to see how the Alliance was doing in there. I picked up the daily, Arathi Basin, and headed in there. The Alliance is still doing pretty poor in there, it took me 3 battles to get my daily done. Between battles 2 and 3 in Arathi Basin I went into Eye of the Storm where it appears we are still doing well despite the fact people can't seem to follow simple directions. The plan was to get MT, DR and either FRR or BET before going for the flag. When the battle started 7 people went directly for the flag, so much for a plan. I headed to FRR, as I usually do unless we have assigned group positions, and we had a pretty good fight there as there were only 3 of us trying to get it from 5 Horde. We had a healer for a change and somehow managed to get it. At that point I noticed we also had BET, DR & MT so that gave us a 4 cap. We trapped the Horde on their rock and it was over pretty qiuck. After that I decided to see how we were doing in Alterac Valley. I went into the first one figuring someone would grab SHGY and it would be all over but that didn't happen, instead people moved forward in a group, with the exception of the AFK in the cave and the ones that run into DB at the start, as we took IBT, TP, Galv and moved up to FWGY. Everyone was working together and it showed what teamwork can do. From FWGY, which was not completely capped and empty when I got there..... we moved into Frostwolf Keep and took the relief hut and towers. When we downed Drek the Horde didn't have anything capped or capping in DB, they were just starting to get in. That was a Maximum honor game. Of course there are still the people that have no clue how AV works, someone, I assume they were in DB, was yelling hurry up because the Horde were going for Vann but with 2 towers up they could go for him all they want, they weren't going to get him. The second AV battle I was in didn't work out as well although we did win after close to an hour. We won that one on reinforcements and it was close, we won by about 140 reinforcements. That was due to too many people going for Galv at the start. I think a lot more battles would go a lot better if people just left Galv alone but in this case I guess it ended up helping in the end as we won on reinforcements. It seems the quality of players it getting a little better, not really good but good enough to win. On another note I have 100 Arathi Basin Mark of Honor, 100 Alterac Valley Mark of Honor, 100 Eye of the Storm Mark of Honor and 92 Warsong Gulch Mark of Honor. 100 marks are the most you can carry so I am almost maxed out on all the battlegrounds that give them. I also have 70,000 honor and the max on that is 75,000 so I will soon be maxed out on honor too.

Daily Fishing 9/1/08

Today's daily fishing quest had me heading over to the Pools of Aggonar (39,37) in Hellfire Peninsula to catch a Monstrous Felblood Snapper to complete Felblood Fillet. It took me 13 casts to get one and then I headed back to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest to hand it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. When I opened that up I didn't find anything exciting, I got 6g79s91c, 5 Sharpened Fish Hooks and 4 Motes of Water. The Motes will come in handy though. There are still a lot of good rewards to be had from this quest so I will keep plugging away at it.

Brieanna 9/1/08

I was questing on Brieanna in Redridge today. I got her up to level 18 and headed into Stormwind to get my training done. I got a new gun for her, more damage than the last one I had and also got one that she will be able to use at level 28. I am only 12 levels away from a mount now so I should be riding soon. I will finish up what I can in Redridge then head on over to Darkshire to quest there.