Brieonna - Level 60 Holy Priest

I got Brieonna to level 60 tonight and got her a Snowy Gryphon flying mount and 225 riding skill so she can fly it. That was a total of 275 gold, 225 gold for 225 riding skill and another 50 gold for the mount itself. That is not bad at all. It used to be 800 gold for the riding skill and another 100 gold for the flying mount. I did some daily's today and will need to keep doing them so I can get the Tome of Cold Weather Flight, so she can learn cold weather flying in Northrend at level 68 instead of 77.

I did a combination of questing and random dungeons to get the 2 levels I needed. I did one run through Lower Blackrock Spire, where she got her Worg Pup, and 2 runs through Ramparts in Hellfire Peninsula, in Outlands. In the Outlands you get really good XP from quests and of course you get good XP from doing random dungeons. I got a couple pieces of new gear and have a quest for Blood Furnace which will give me a nice pair of pants to upgrade the pair I got yesterday, a lot more spellpower.

Brieonna is moving along nicely and will be in Northrend in a few days I think.

Brieonna - Level 58 Holy Priest

I got Brieonna to level 58 tonight and am now in Outlands. The first thing I did when I hit 58 was abandon all my quests in Azeroth, I won't be needing them anymore.

I did some daily's on Brieanna tonight to get some gold together for Brieonna's 225 riding skill and mount. Ever since I got hacked I don't keep a lot of gold on hand, I earn it as I need it. Blizzard restored all my gold, with the exception of 1,500, but if I get hacked again I don't want them getting any gold, or very little.

I grabbed a few quests when I got to Outlands but haven't started to do any yet. I am not sure which dungeons I will be queuing into there, the top end Pre-BC ones or the BC ones. It really doesn't make a difference, there is good XP to be had in both.

I did a few runs in Lower Blackrock Spire tonight. Some were good, one was not. In one of them we had a Pally tank that could not hold aggro. On anything. I came into that one in progress, their healer had left. It didn't take me long to realize why. In the first fight I was the first to die. I threw a HoT (Heal over Time) onto the tank, a very low level, low threat heal, and all the mobs came off him and right over to me. He had no threat, he couldn't hold aggro. Usually in a wipe the tank is the first one to die. I went through 2 wipes with that group, which were only 2 fights, same mobs, before I bailed. In both wipes the tank was the last one to die, what does that tell you? They weren't interested in him at all, the tank, the guy that is supposed to be holding aggro...

I did have a couple good groups though, with good tanks and those were a breeze. We got the instance done and I got my achievement.

Brieonna – Level 56 Holy Priest

I got Brieonna to level 56 tonight. I finished up and turned in a couple quests in Un’Goro crater in Kalimdor then headed to Western Plaguelands to quest, and did a couple quests there. I would much rather quest there as it is a lot closer to the trainers when I have to train and a lot closer when I hearth back to Dalaran. When I was questing in Kalimdor it took me 10 minutes, or more, to get back every time I had to train or hearthed for any reason.

I did some random dungeons, I am up to Dire Maul East now. I did 3 runs through Upper City in Blackrock Depths and 2 through Dire Maul East. Those were good for a lot of XP.

I did a Priest quest in Azshara that was part of a chain. The end reward was, I thought, a nice wand. When I checked it against the wand I recently received, as a drop in BRD, it wasn’t as good. The final quest called for me to go into Sunken Temple, which I am kind of past now, so I dropped it. I would have had to queue specifically for that dungeon and it just wasn’t worth it.

I am now less than 2 levels away from Outlands, I am going to have to start doing daily’s again on my 80’s to get some gold for flying lessons and a mount.

Brieonna - Level 54 Holy Priest

Brieonna is level 54 now and I have done very little questing lately. I have been getting all my experience from doing random dungeons. I got 2 1/2 levels today doing them.

I am only 3 1/2 levels away from Outlands now. I am now pretty much only queuing into Blackrock Depths and Sunken Temple, although my days in Sunken Temple might be over now, I queued into BRD the last 5 times I queued. I stayed with one group through 3 runs in there. The part we are queuing into is the prison. The boss in there is not that far in and you can really get it done in 5 minutes or less. What we were doing after that is going through and killing all the other bosses we could kill at our level, spending another hour to an hour and a half in there each time. The XP is incredible doing that and that's how I got my levels and bars. I also got some enchanting mats from disenchanting items so all in all it was definitely worth it.

There is a scheduled shutdown, so after that I will be back to the dungeons and more levels. I hope to have Brieonna in Outlands within the next day or two.

Brieonna - Level 50 Holy Priest

I have been working on Brieonna and got her to level 50 now. I have been doing a combination of questing and random dungeons, mostly random dungeons. In a dungeon it is my job to heal and keep people alive.

I am up to Sunken Temple and Blackrock Depths now. I still have some good groups and some bad groups. I love the good groups and usually bail on the bad groups. I can not believe how under geared some of the "tanks" are that actually have the guts to click on the tank box in the dungeon finder. It takes more than being a plate wearer, or Druid, to be a tank. You have to have some gear and at least a rudimentary clue what you are doing. If you are grossly under geared don't pull 10 times more than you can handle, and if you can't hold aggro, don't pull large groups of mobs, this isn't rocket science people...

Daily Fishing - Blood is Thicker 4/25/10

Today Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, had Blood Is Thicker for the daily fishing quest, again... I did it on Gomorra.

This had me heading over to the flight point and taking a flight to Unu'pe in the Borean Tundra. Once there I flew inland until I found a Marsh Caribou to kill. The reason I need to kill an animal is to get covered in blood. Killing any animal in the Borean Tundra will do the trick, I just pick these because they are close to the flight point. When I was covered in blood I flew back to the shore and jumped in. This washes the blood off me and also creates a blood pool which will attract the Bloodtooth Frenzy I need for this quest. I fished in the blood pool until I caught 5. That doesn't take long as you catch them 2 or 3 at a time.

When I had my 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy I hearthed back to Dalaran and went to see Marcia. I traded her the 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy for a Bag of Fishing Treasures, which today had 6g49s39c, 2 Elixirs of Water Walking, a Velociraptor Skull and 3 Deviate Fish in it. Not a great day of fishing for Gom and certainly not worth the time it took to fly to Unu'pe, but I was in queue for the random daily heroic dungeon anyway so I needed something to do.

Cheese for Glowergold - Daily Cooking 4/25/10

When I went to see Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome, she had Cheese for Glowergold for me. I did this one on Gomorra today.

This had me running around collecting Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses people had left laying around Dalaran. I only got 2 in A Hero's Welcome today as opposed to the 3 or 4 I usually get. I got the others at the Cantrips and Crows Tavern in the Underbelly and One More Glass, the wine and cheese shop. I also got the piece of Aged Dalaran Limburger there too.

Once I had all the ingredients I combined them on the platter to make a wine and cheese platter. I took that over to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange, and exchanged it for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Not a bad haul for Gom today.

Halls of Reflection (Dungeon)

I did 9 runs through the Halls of Reflection on normal mode tonight, helping a guildie who was trying to get the shield to drop off the second boss. We also did one run through Trial of the Champion due to a mis-queue.

I ended up dying twice in Halls of Reflection mostly due to the healer not being able to keep up. Halls of Reflection is the hardest of the 5 man dungeons. As such, even in normal mode, you need to have a pretty geared group that has an idea what they are doing. In one of the groups we had a rogue with a gearscore under 3,000. He didn't last long. Very few of the people in there were well geared. I was one of the best geared ones on Gomorra with a gearscore around 5100. You don't need a gearscore that high to do normal HoR, that is more the gearscore for heroic HoR.

The way HoR works is, you get 4 waves of 5 or 6 mobs each, then a boss, 4 more waves and a boss. There is no time between waves, one ends the other starts. There is no time between the last wave and the boss. There is 30 or 45 seconds I think between the first boss and the next set of waves. The second boss is the one that drops the shield we were after. He dropped everything but that.

If you make it through the first 2 bosses, there is a mob you need to kill then you have to escape from the Lich King. He moves really slow and sets up 4 barriers as you are running away. He sends out mobs each time he sets up a barrier and when you have defeated them the barrier drops only to be replaced by another one a little farther on.

When you finally make it to the end it turns out to be a dead end and it looks like you are going to have to fight the Lich King. At the last minute an airship appears and fires rockets into the cave you just came out of and collapses it on top of the Lich King. That is it, party over. You board the airship, check the chest for loot and you are done.

All in all I had a pretty good time doing that, it is just too bad the shield didn't drop for the guildie that was after it.

Daily Fishing - Blood is Thicker 4/22/10

Today Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, had Blood Is Thicker for the daily fishing quest. This is not one of my favorites because it involves a bit of travel time. Other than that is it easy. I did it on Gomorra and Brieanna.

This had me taking the flight path from Dalaran to Unu'pe in the Borean Tundra. When I landed I flew inland and found a Marsh Caribou to kill. You do that to get covered in blood. Killing any animal in Borean Tundra will get you covered in blood, I just always kill a Marsh Caribou because they are close to the flight point which is close to shore. Once I was covered in blood I flew back to shore and jumped in which washes the blood off me and creates a blood pool. You need the blood pool to catch Bloodtooth Frenzy, which is what the quest is looking for. You need to catch 5 of them. You catch them 2 or 3 at a time so it only takes a couple casts into the blood pool to get them.

When I had my 5 I hearthed back to Dalaran and went to see Marcia. I traded her the 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy for a Bag of Fishing Treasures.

Today Gomorra's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 10g16s96c, 2 Elixirs of Water Walking, 3 Worthless Pieces of White Glass and 4 Deviate Fish. Not the best day of fishing for Gom.

Brieanna's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 10g79s75c, 5 Pygmy Oil, a Worthless Piece of Violet Glass and 2 Deviate Fish in it. Not a great day of fishing for her either.

Infused Mushroom Meatloaf - Daily Cooking 4/22/10

The daily cooking quest today was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf. This is a nice one that really takes no time at all. I did it on Gomorra and Brieanna.

For this one you need to head down into the sewers below Dalaran in search of Infused Mushrooms. They are blue and sparkle because they are a quest item, they are not hard to find at all. You need to pick 4 of them and you can easily get that done in under 3 minutes as long as there are not a half dozen people picking them at the same time. I got all mine in a couple minutes.

After that you will need 2 pieces of chilled meat to cook the Infused Mushrooms with to make the meatloaf. I always keep a good supply of all the meats the daily cooking quest calls for so I don't have to run out and farm them every day. So I just hit the bank and grab a couple pieces of chilled meat, then build a fire and cook them up.

Something funny happened the other day, a level 80 asked me how I had just made my fire. I assumed this was someone who had just bought their account through one of those websites or maybe a kid on their parents account. I told them to hit P on their keyboard to open their spellnook, then under the "General" tab they would see an icon that looked like a campfire, just click on that.

Once the meatloaf was cooked I took it to Orton Bennet, upstairs at Curiosities and Moore, and exchanged it for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag.

Today Brieanna's Small Spice Bag had 4 Northern Spices, 4 Old Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Not a bad haul for her today.

Gomorra's Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Not a bad haul for him today either.

Fail Tanks

I had a couple pretty bad runs today on Brieonna. The main problem was the tank, what's the hurry?

The first one was in Zul'Farrak. I zoned in and the first thing I saw was the tank had typed "I hope you're good at healing and dispelling Brieonna". The next thing I saw, when I looked up, was the tank was at 40% health and nowhere in sight... They had mounted and gathered up the first 3 groups of mobs. Not the first group of 3 mobs but 3 groups of 3, 4 and 3 mobs. That was 10 mobs. I barely made it to them in time to heal them before they died. When those were finally down they said "Do you see why I said that?", to which I replied "Yeah, because you're an idiot. This has fail written all over it, I'm outta here", and I bailed. I don't understand why these tanks think they need to set some kind of new speed record doing these instances. I had another one in Maraudon that was doing something similar, they were running on to the next group before the last group was dead. What do I do, stay and heal the people that are fighting the last group or run ahead and heal the tank that is fighting the new group? I have just been bailing on groups like that.

I had another group in Maraudon where everyone was a tank. The tank was pulling and tanking and so was a Paladin, Warlock and Druid. I was supposed to keep all of them alive... I bailed on that group too. What ends up happening in a group like that is, I end up getting attacked and take a beating or die because the mobs come after me when I heal.

When I am in a good group, and there were quite a few that were good, I can usually keep the tank healed with HoT's (Heal over Time) and an occasional flash heal. I rarely have to heal anyone else unless we are fighting something that has some kind of AoE (Area of Effect) attack that hits everyone. The other people that might need heals are melee fighters like Warriors, Paladins, some Shamans and Rogues because they are right there fighting full contact. That is the way it works. A Warlock, Mage or Shadow Priest, someone who wears cloth, should not be melee fighting anything. They are wearing cloth, they are not melee fighters, they are ranged fighters that should not come in contact with anything. I end up burning all my mana just trying to keep them alive and don't have time to take care of the people who really should be receiving the healing.

At the first sign of trouble, tank going recklessly fast, people other than the tank pulling, I give them a warning. If it's the tank I tell them to slow down. If someone other than the tank is pulling I tell them we have a tank, let them do their job. If they listen fine, we can continue on. If they continue in the same manner I tell them I am leaving and bail. I never do it during a fight or going into a fight, I wait until we are at a standstill or as much of a standstill as some tanks allow.

I realize that some of these people are on their first characters and don't really know what they are doing, although in the mid forties they should have a better idea than some seem to have, and try to give them some advice. Some take it but some already know everything there is to know. The ones that already know everything there is to know are the ones I usually end up bailing on because they are the ones that will not listen and continue right on doing what they were doing.

You can usually spot someone who has an 80 and is familiar with instances, they move along at a pace everyone is comfortable with, they don't pull anything if they are not the tank, and they seem to know what they are doing, those are the groups I like best.

Brieonna - Level 45 Holy Priest

I have been spending most my time working on my priest, Brieonna lately. I haven't even done the random heroics on any of my other characters in a few days.

I have been doing random dungeons on Brieonna as well as questing and that is leveling me up fast. Lately I have been through Scarlet Monastary Library, Armory and Cathedral as well as Uldaman, Maraudon, and Zul'Farrak. As the dungeon finder usually puts you into the dungeons at the earliest level there is a lot of experience to be had doing them, that helps leveling go quicker.

At level 40 I was able to use the Reins of the Armored Brown Bear, which I had purchased earlier, after training for 150 riding skill. Now that I am on a 100% speed mount questing is going even faster too. I am now 13 levels away from Outlands and once I get there, leveling from questing will go even faster not to mention all the dungeons there are to do there.

Spirit vs Spellpower

I ran into a little trouble on Brieonna when I got carried away stacking spirit. I was focusing on gear that primarily had spirit then intellect. I wasn't keeping an eye on my spellpower while I was doing that.

The end result of that is I found myself having a hard time healing in Dungeons that used to be easy. It seemed like I had to keep hitting the tank with full heals instead of just keeping a HoT on them and hitting them once in awhile with a small heal. When I looked into that I found that my spellpower had dropped almost 60 points. Big mistake.

Spirit is good for you in the fact that it determines how much mana you regenerate. Mana is regenerated every 5 seconds and the more spirit you have the more mana you are going to generate. Eventually you will get to the point where you will actually generate mana while you are casting. Obviously more spirit is good because it will take you longer to run out of mana. More intellect is good as well because the more intellect you have the more mana you will have.

But neither of those are good if you don't have enough spellpower to get the job done, which is what happened to me.

I regeared and got an enchantment on my staff which brought my spellpower up over 70 points. The difference was like night and day. Now I can primarily keep the tank, and everyone else, healed just using my HoT's. Enchanting my staff was tricky. Obviously I wanted to get the highest spellpower enchantment I could on it, but because it is a BoA (Bind on Account) item I was limited to pre-BC "Vanilla WoW" enchantments. I could only put an enchantment on it that had no level restrictions, one that was available pre-BC.

The highest enchantment available was +30 spellpower. There were 2 scrolls for that on the auction house, one for 375 gold and the other for 500 gold. That seemed a little pricy to me. I ended up having all the materials to have it done so I set out to find someone who had the enchantment to do it for me. That proved futile. +30 spellpower is a rare enchantment that only drops in Molten Core, one of the two pre-BC 40 man raids. No one on had it.

I ended up getting +29 spellpower, which I guess is a common enough enchantment, and had that done with my mats. I had to go out and farm one of the mats but that didn't take me long. I tipped the enchanter 20 gold to put it on Brieonna's staff and another 20 gold to put it on Breeonna's mace so she would have it too.

Now they are both performing better than ever :).

Brieonna - Level 38 Holy Priest

I have been working on my priest Brieonna lately and got her to level 38. I have been healing in dungeons, as well as questing, and that is going pretty well for the most part. I still get the occasional groups where the tank thinks they are better than they are and pull too much, or everyone thinks they are a tank, but not as often any more.

I have no problem bailing on those groups now. I bailed on a couple today in Scarlet Monastary Cathedral. In the last one the tank, who was a poorly geared Druid, pulled half the Cathedral. He really wasn't geared to take on more than 4 mobs at once. He pulled 15+ mobs. There is no use sticking around in a group like that because it will just keep failing, so I bailed. There was another group where I told the tank to slow down or he was going to wipe us. I told him I was out of mana so I was going to drink, then I was going to go back and loot all the stuff I didn't have time to loot because he was moving too fast. He told me not to worry about looting, it was all junk. I told him I was worried about it because I needed the cloth for First Aid. He decided to go ahead and pull another group while I was drinking so I bailed.

I am up to, and have completed the achievement for, Uldaman. I don't really like this one, too many corners for a tank that is in too much of a hurry to run around. I guess I will be stuck with this one for the next 4 or 5 random dungeons though. This one is pretty high for me so I get really good XP out of it.

Only 2 more levels and I can ride my Armored Brown Bear. I already have Reins of the Armored Brown Bear and am just waiting until level 40 so I can train 150 riding and ride it.

Brieonna - Level 31 Holy Priest

I have been working on Brieonna and she is coming along nicely. She is level 31 now. I have been doing my usual combination of Dungeons and quests to level her faster. I think I might stick with the healing, at least for now. I had some more bad groups but that is gonna happen, especially at this level.

I had one exceptionally bad group in Scarlet Monastary Graveyard tonight. It was basically a free for all. Everyone was doing their own thing, there was no teamwork and it was almost impossible to heal. There was a Warlock that was rounding up everything in sight, then using Hellfire to try and burn them down. Hellfire is one of the worst Warlock spells as far as I am concerned. Basically it creates bursts of fire around the Warlock, but it also damages the Warlock and everyone in the group that is in range. Try healing through that while everyone is being attacked by everything he aggroed on top of it. That is the first group I left before completion. It was by far the worst group I have ever been in, ever.

I think I have at least the rest of this level in SMGY before I get into the library, that will be nice. I always thought the graveyard was a nice easy place, but some of these groups have shown me how wrong I was about that.

I can't wait to get to level 40 now and get my 100% mount. As usual I will get the Armored Brown bear for her so I have to start thinking about how I am going to get to Dalaran. I paid a Mage to port Breeonna and will probably do the same with Brieonna.

Molten Core (Dungeon)

I did a Molten Core run on Gomorra tonight. I had never done it before and it turned out to be a really fun run. Molten Core is one of the original 40 man level 60 raids in World of Warcraft.

A couple days ago someone was looking for an attuned Warlock for Molten Core. Gomorra was not attuned so I decided to do the attunement on him. That took me all of about 10 minutes at level 80. Today someone was again looking for people to do Molten Core so I signed up.

The people in our group ranged in level from 64 to 80. Needless to say we didn't have 40 people in our raid, we started off with 9 and finished up with 5. We had no problem at all.

As usual people had to leave or just left for various reasons and our group got whittled down to 5 people by the time we faced Ragnaros, the last boss in Molten Core. He is a huge, Fire Elemental I guess you would call him, and it was a really fun fight. I can see how tough this instance would be in a 40 man raid where everyone was level 60. I won a robe just so I would have a momento of my trip through there. I also won 16 Void Shards that other stuff was DE'd into when we rolled for them at the end. That will come in handy for Brieonna's enchanting later on.

Here are some screen shots I took while I was in there.

Brieonna - Level 20 Holy Priest

I decided to roll a Priest and give healing a try, so I created Brieonna. I had a little opportunity to heal on my Shaman Breeonna on occasion and thought it might be something I liked. Whether or not I like it is still being decided... I started Brieonna Wednesday night and by tonight, Thursday night, I had her to level 20. I got her the 75 riding skill and got her a mount which is going to make leveling go even faster.

I have healed in a few instances so far and have not done too bad. Oh, there were some bad times, like in the Deadmines tonight when we had a tank that thought he was better than he really was. Actually that happened twice. They would pull way more than they could actually tank and hold aggro on which would cause mobs to break away from them and attack other players. One of them was so poorly geared, which caused his health to drop so fast, while he was making a pull of a dozen or so mobs (generally 8 or 9 more than he had to), that I had to spam him with full heals instead of HoT's (Heal over Time) and that was causing me to generate more threat than he was so half the mobs would break away and attack me. I couldn't heal him, or anyone else, while I was busy just trying to stay alive.

The majority of the groups I was in did have good tanks though and there was no problem at all. They did not pull more mobs than they could handle and I had no problem healing them and anyone else that needed it. People who wear cloth should not need much healing, they are not melee fighters. People who wear cloth are generally casters who stand back from the mobs and cast. With a good tank they can do that and not take any damage, or very little damage, if the tank is doing his job. If the tank is full of himself and wearing gear 10 or more levels below his level because "why upgrade gear when you level so fast?", and pulling way more mobs than he can hold aggro on, then you're gonna have a bad time.

So the jury is still out on whether or not I will stay Holy and heal or switch to Shadow and DPS.

Currently, in Holy spec, when I did DPS I was at the top of the damage list... I am wearing Heirloom gear, similar to what Breeonna is wearing, and it makes a huge difference. My Gearscore right now is around 1250. The Gearscore of most of the people I was in the dungeons with was in the 60-120 range. At level 1 I had a Gearscore of 1179. I am using 5 pieces of Heirloom gear, shoulders, chest, staff and two trinkets. It is called Heirloom gear because instead of being soulbound (bound to whatever character you equip it to) it is bound to your account. That means you can send it to any character on your account and keep passing it along after you reach 80 and don't need it anymore. As a matter of fact Brieonna and Breeonna are sharing the two trinkets because I couldn't see spending the emblems to get 2 sets of identical trinkets.

I will continue to heal and see if the majority of groups end up being better than some of the ones I was in tonight. I only healed for one night so it is too soon to make a decision.

WoW Account Phishing

I received an e-mail yesterday, allegedly from Blizzard Entertainment. It said that I was receiving a 3 hour ban on my account, this was my final notice. Not having done anything to warrant a suspension and not having EVER received a warning I was a bit suspicious. There were links in the e-mail and I was told to click on a link and verify my account information. Blizzard has all my account information, they don't need me to verify it. This is one of the many Phishing Scams going on to try and get your account information.

What these people are after is your gold. They will log into your account, steal all your gold and sell all your items for gold. These are the gold sellers. This is why it is very important to NEVER BUY GOLD. This is where the gold you are buying comes from, someone's hacked account. They will also message other players, from your account, with "Special Deals" or tell them they are "Lucky Winner" in an effort to get them to log into a website using their credentials so they can hack their account.

Make the game better for everyone, don't buy gold and never go to one of the sites that you receive in a message, in game e-mail, or any e-mail that is not from Blizzard Entertainment, you will end up with a key logger and a stolen account. E-mails from Blizzard will always end in blizzard.com or battle.net, accept no substitutes.

Blizzard will NEVER put "hot" links into their e-mails with instructions to click on it to verify your account information. Blizzard will NEVER ask you for your account information in an e-mail, in game e-mail or in game message, they already have your account information. And finally Blizzard will NEVER ask you for your password, EVER.

Here is the e-mail I received, you will notice a couple typo's, formatting issues and mis-wording. I am sure all Blizzards e-mails are proofed before they are sent out. I have removed the links for your safety. I highlighted the formatting, grammar and spelling issues in Yellow and the part where they are asking for my password in Red.

Greetings,

World of Warcraft -> Legal -> End User License Agreement
and Section 8 of the Terms of Use:
Blizzard Entertainment -> Legal -> Terms of Use

A 3-hour probationary suspension is pending on this account, awaiting confirmation from a specialist. A final warning has been issued. The investigation will be continued by the Account Administration team to determine the any further suspensions. If the account in question is found in violation of the EULA and Terms of Use, further action will be taken. Be aware that any additional inappropriate actions may result in the permanent closure of the account.

Thank you for respecting our position on this matter.
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** We request that you verify your legitimate ownership of the account here:

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Blizzard staff will verify your account information submitted in two days, please do not modify your account information during this time . It will not affect your game uptime.If you are unable to successfully verify your password . using the automated system, please contact Billing & Account Services at 1-800-59-BLIZZARD (1-800-592-5499) Mon-Fri, 8am-8pm Pacific Time or at ***Link Removed***.Account security is solely the responsibility of the account holder. Please be advised that in the event of a compromised account, Blizzard representatives typically must lock the account. In these cases the Account Administration team will require faxed receipt of ID materials before releasing the account for play.

Regards,

The World of Warcraft Support Team Blizzard Entertainment

Daily Fishing - Blood is Thicker 4/13/10

Today when I went to see Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, for the daily fishing quest, she had Blood Is Thicker for us. I did this one on Gomorra and Brieanna today.

This had me taking the flight path from Dalaran to Unu'pe in the Borean Tundra. Once I landed I flew straight inland until I spotted a Marsh Caribou. You need to kill one of the animals that gets you covered in blood. Once I was covered in blood I flew back to the shore and jumped in. What that does is wash the blood off you and also creates a blood pool which you need to fish from. Bloodtooth Frenzy love blood and all come to the blood pool so catching the 5 you need is pretty easy. That and the fact you catch them 2 or 3 at a time makes it pretty quick to get your limit.

When I had the 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy I needed I hearthed back to Dalaran and went to see Marcia. I traded her the 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy for a Bag of Fishing Treasures. A Bag of Fishing Treasures can have all kinds of good things in it plus gold, or just junk plus gold. You always get some gold out of the deal.

Today Brieanna's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 6g67s9c, 4 Pygmy Oil, 3 Worthless Pieces of Red Glass and 3 Deviate Fish. Pretty much a bag full of junk.

Gomorra's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 7g73s86c, 3 Pygmy Oil and 3 Worthless Pieces of Green Glass. Another bag of junk.

Like the daily cooking, you take the good with the bad. I have gotten some great stuff from this daily and there is still a lot of great stuff I need to get so I will keep plugging away at it.

Sewer Stew - Daily Cooking 4/13/10

Today Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome, had Sewer Stew for the daily cooking quest again. I am not surprised, the daily's never change after a shutdown. I did it on Gomorra and Brieanna today.

This had me taking the Violet Gate down to Crystalsong Forest to pick Crystalsong Carrots. The recipe calls for 4 and I got them pretty quick on both today, there was no one there as usual. That is one of the benefits of being on an Oceanic server while in the US, everyone is asleep or at work when I do my daily's. Anyway, once I had my Carrots I headed back up to Dalaran and hit the bank for the 4 pieces of Chilled Meat this calls for. I built a fire right in the middle of the bank and cooked up my Vegetable Stew.

Stew in hand, I headed down to deliver it to Ajay Green at the Cantrips and Crows Tavern in the Underbelly, in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag.

Today Gomorra's Small Spice Bag had 2 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it.

Brieanna's had 4 Northern Spices, 4 Old Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it.

They both made out pretty well from this one today. Brieanna still needs thirty something Dalaran Cooking Awards before she can get her Chef's Hat, so she is still working on that.

Sewer Stew - Daily Cooking 4/12/10

Today when Brieanna went to see Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome for her daily cooking quest, she got Sewer Stew.

This one had me taking the Violet Gate down to Crystalsong Forest. From there I headed over to the ruins directly beneath Dalaran to pick some Crystalsong Carrots. I love the way quest items sparkle now, it wasn't always like that. I got the 4 I needed pretty quick and took the gate back up to Dalaran. I hit the bank for 4 pieces of chilled meat then made a fire and cooked up my Vegetable Stew.

I took that down into the sewers, below Dalaran, to Ajay Green at the Cantrips and Crows Tavern in the Underbelly, and exchanged it for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices in it. Not a bad day on this one.

Mustard Dogs - Daily Cooking 4/11/10

Today Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome, had Mustard Dogs! for us. I did this one on Wranngar, Gomorra and Brieanna.

This had me heading down into the sewers to pick Infused Mushrooms, I needed 4 for the recipe. It didn't take long to get them today, there was no one else around picking them and that makes it go a lot faster. Once I had the 4 I needed I headed up to the bank and grabbed a couple pieces of Chilled Meat to cook them up with. Then I built a fire and cooked up my meatloaf.

I took the meatloaf over to Orton Bennet, upstairs at Curiosities and Moore and exchanged it for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag.

Today Brieanna's Small Spice Bag had 9g93s, 6 Northern Spices, 4 Baby Spice and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Not a bad haul for her.

Wranngar's Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices in it. He didn't make out as well.

Gomorra's Small Spice Bag had 5 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. He made out ok too.

Daily Fishing - Disarmed 4/11/10

Today Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, had Disarmed for the daily fishing quest. I did it on Wranngar, Gomorra and Brieanna.

This is the daily fishing quest that replaced Monsterbelly Appetite in patch 3.3.3. It is only the second time it has come up in the rotation since then. This had me heading over to the entrance to Violet Hold, you're fishing in the water right across from there. The story is one of the guards got his arm torn off by an inmate who then threw it into the water there. You are trying to catch a Bloated Slippery Eel. It seemed like it took a long time to catch one today, there were other people fishing there too and they were there for a long time also. I finally got my eel though and when I opened it up I got the Severed Arm I was after.

I took the Severed Arm over to Olisarra the Kind, (36,37) the Grand Master First Aid Trainer in the Magus Commerce Exchange in Dalaran. Like Monsterbelly Appetite, this is the only daily that does not get handed back in to Marcia. Olisarra is going to try to reunite the arm with the jailer who lost it, good luck. She gave me a Bag of Fishing Treasures for my efforts.

Today Wranngar's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 8g36s88c, 5 Pygmy Oil a Worthless Piece of Red Glass, and 3 Deviate Fish in it. Not a great haul for Wrann today.

Brieanna's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 9g24s36c, 2 Elixir of Water Walking, 2 Worthless Pieces of White Glass and 2 Deviate Fish. Not a great haul for Brieanna today either.

Gomorra's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 3 Elixirs of Water Walking, 3 Worthless Pieces of Orange Glass and 3 Deviate Fish. Not a great haul for Gom.

It is safe to say no one had a great day of fishing but with all the Deviate Fish I got today I was able to cook up 2 more stacks of Savory Deviate Delight which I sold on the auction house for 25 gold a stack. Not a total loss after all.

Cheese for Glowergold - Daily Cooking 4/10/10

Today Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome, had Cheese for Glowergold for Brieanna.

This is a pretty easy one although I think the Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses are a little hard to target. Anyway, this had me running around Dalaran looking for Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses. I got the first 3 before I left A Hero's Welcome and the other 3 at One More Glass, the wine and cheese shop where I went for the piece of Aged Dalaran Limburger this quest calls for.

Once I had the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses and the piece of Aged Dalaran Limburger I combined them on the platter to make a Wine and Cheese Platter. I took that over to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange and exchanged it for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag. Today my Small Spice Bag had 6 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it, a pretty good haul for Brieanna on this one today.

Daily Random Heroic Dungeon 4/9/10

I did the Daily Random Heroic Dungeon on both Gomorra and Brieanna tonight after taking a couple days off from them.

Gomorra ended up getting Utgarde Pinnacle for his. I like this one, it goes pretty quick and we usually don't have any problems in there. Tonight was no exception, we went through fast and smooth. I got my 2 Emblem of Frost and 26g46s plus a Emblem of Triumph for each boss we killed and, as we had Wintergrasp, some Stone Keeper's Shards.

Brieanna got Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom for her daily. I am not a big fan of this one. The only thing I really don't like about it is the last boss. He has this thing he does called insanity that makes everyone attack each other. They are actually mirror images that are attacking and they don't do much damage but it is still a pain. Still, we got through there without any problems, with the exception of the healer going AFK for a few minutes. If you are going to queue for a dungeon then have the time to do it I say. Someone going AFK holds everyone up. I completed that and received my 26g46s, 2 Frost Emblems along with a Emblem of Triumph for each boss we killed and some Stone Keeper's Shards, so all in all a good run.

Random Dungeons 4/9/10

I did some more random dungeons on Breeonna today along with questing. I got her up a couple more levels to 55 now, she is coming along nicely.

I queued into the same dungeon 4 times, Upper City in Blackrock Depths. That was the only dungeon I ended up doing on her tonight. I am so sick of that place. On the plus side I am now eligible for all of Dire Maul, Scholomance and Stratholme so hopefully I will be queuing into those tomorrow.

We had the usual problems of a couple of the groups falling apart and one of the we didn't end up finishing because everyone bailed, but I ended up with some pretty good groups in the other 3 after the quitters left. I got a couple nice items out of there tonight.

Mustard Dogs - Daily Cooking 4/9/10

When I went to see Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome. for the daily cooking quest she had Mustard Dogs! for me. I did it on Gomorra and Brieanna today.

As usual I headed to the courtyard behind A Hero's Welcome first to look for the Wild Mustard I was after. Today though there was someone back there picking Wild Mustard so I only ended up getting one piece from there. I got the other 3 over by the stairs leading up to the Violet Citadel. Once I had all 4 I headed over to the bank for some Rhino Meat.

That was when I remembered I didn't have enough Rhino Meat to do the daily on one toon let alone two. That had me heading out to Borean Tundra to spend a half hour farming Rhino Meat. I got a little over 2 stacks so I am stocked up again. I did the farming on Brieanna.

Back in Dalaran I cooked up 4 Rhino Dogs then combined them with the Wild Mustard to make a Mustard Dog Basket!, which I took over to Archmage Pentarus (68,41) at Krasus' Landing and exchanged for 9g93s, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and a Small Spice Bag. Archmage Pentarus is always pretty free with the Dalaran Cooking Awards.

Today Brieanna's Small Spice Bag had 6 Northern Spices, 5 Baby Spice and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it, she made out really well today.

Gomorra's Small Spice Bag had 5 Northern Spices and 3 Baby Spice in it, he made out well today too.

More Random Dungeons 4/8/10

I did some more questing and dungeons on Breeonna last night and got her a couple more levels, to level 53 now.

I got my quest done in the Temple of Atal'Hakkar, more commonly known as the Sunken Temple. I got a nice trinket, Enamored Water Spirit, out of it when I handed it in. That was worth it and was a pretty easy quest to do. I am at the level now where Sunken Temple is pretty easy, not that is was hard to begin with. I got queued into Sunken Temple twice last night but got the quest done the first time. A lot of times you will get queued into a dungeon because someone left for whatever reason and that makes it a little harder to get quests done, but I did 2 full runs.

I also did 4 runs through Blackrock Depths. I am at the level now where that is a lot easier than it was although there are still a lot of quitters that break up the groups. Out of the 4 runs I did manage to get the random done twice. In the last one I was in we lost a person, the healer, after we had killed the boss to complete the dungeon. We wanted to kill more bosses but we couldn't go back into dungeon finder for another person because it would have queued us into another dungeon as we had finished that dungeon's requirements. We decided to try 4 manning it and see how far we could get. I took over the role of healer and we did pretty well, we got 4 more bosses down and completed a quest I had before we wiped. I think we did really well considering we were short a person and had a DPS for a healer. I was alternating between DPS and heals during the fights so I was kept pretty busy.

Sewer Stew - Daily Cooking 4/8/10

Today when Brieanna went to see Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome, she got Sewer Stew for her daily.

This had me taking the Violet Gate down to Crystalsong Forest to pick some Crystalsong Carrots. You need 4 along with 4 Chilled Meat for this recipe. There was no one around and it only took me a minute to pick my 4 Crystalsong Carrots today. Once I had those I took the gate back up to Dalaran and hit the bank for the Chilled Meat.

I cooked the stew up at the stove in the little side room at Cantrips and Crows Tavern in the Underbelly, then delivered it to Ajay Green in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 5 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Not a bad haul for Brieanna on this one today.

Random Dungeons 4/7/10

I broke from my normal routine tonight and didn't do the daily cooking, fishing or even the daily random heroic dungeon on Gomorra or Brieanna. Instead I concentrated on leveling up my Shaman Breeonna.

What I am doing to level her up as fast as possible is a combination of questing and random dungeons. I am always either in queue for a dungeon or in a dungeon. I quest in between dungeons. There is a lot of XP to be had doing dungeons and the dungeon finder puts you into dungeons as soon as you are eligible for them. That gives you maximum XP and some nice rewards that are your level or a couple levels higher than you.

Using that technique I was able to level Breeonna 3 more levels tonight, from 48 to 51. She hit level 50 with 3 days 14 hours /played so she is on track to hit level 80 in under 10 days /played. I am doing this without using any leveling mods or helpers.

I was in 2 different dungeons tonight. The first one I was in was Sunken Temple located in Swamp of Sorrows. I got a nice cape out of there for her. The next dungeon I was in was Blackrock Depths. This one is a hugh dungeon and a lot harder than any I have been in so far. It took me 3 different groups to actually complete it once. It was a reminder of why I stopped doing dungeons in the first place, at the first sign of trouble the group falls apart, people leave and you are left without enough people to finish. Finally in the 3rd group I ended up with in there we completed the dungeon, by killing the required boss, then continued on to some of the other bosses. Altogether I spent 4 hours plus in Blackrock Depths with the 3rd group and we still did not get all the bosses down. The place is that big, we just ran out of time.

I got a Shaman quest to go back into Sunken Temple and collect some feathers so hopefully that will fall into my dungeon rotation tonight.