Daily's 10/15/09

I got on Wranngar tonight and did all my daily's. The cooking today was Cheese for Glowergold again, my least favorite. I have gotten that one the last 3 times I have done the daily cooking. The daily fishing was Jewel Of The Sewers. Neither took me very long today.

I did the cooking first. That had me running around Dalaran looking for Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses. I got 4 of them in the Inn and 2 more in The Legerdemain. After that all I had to do was run over to the wine and cheese shop and get the Aged Dalaran Limburger, I found it upstairs as soon as I got there. I combined the wine and cheese on the platter supplied to me and delivered it to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 4 Northern Spices and 4 Baby Spice in it. Not a bad haul.

I did the fishing next which had me heading down into the Underbelly, the sewers below Dalaran. I headed over to my spot in the Black Market and got my piece of Corroded Jewelry on the second cast. I think that is the fastest I have even gotten it. I headed back topside and turned it over to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran in exchange for a Bag of Fishing Treasures. Today my Bag of Fishing Treasures had 8g34s53c, a Glow Worm, an Unusual Compass, which I sold to a vendor for 2 gold, and 4 Deviate Fish. Not a bad haul I guess but I have certainly had better.

I headed over to the Shadow Vault after that to get my Knights of the Ebon Blade daily's. I got those and the ones at Death's Rise done pretty quick and turned in. These usually don't take me long and pay some pretty good gold. The ones I did were Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone and Intelligence Gathering. I finally got all the documents I needed so I could turn in Intelligence Gathering. Someone was doing Shoot 'Em Up when I got there to do that so I waited. It was one of those people that are all over the place, shooting harpoons in every direction. I just waited until they were done as they usually tag a bunch of them but don't kill them. Then when I kill them they get credit. It took them quite awhile to get the 15 they needed then I went and did it, it took me less than 2 minutes.

I took the public transportation to K3 after that and did Overstock, a really fast easy one that pays 12g93s. I try to never miss it when I am doing daily's, especially if I am doing The Sons of Hodir as it is right on the way.

You guessed it, I went over and did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir after that. I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. These don't take long at all and pay pretty well. All in all I got over 200 gold from these daily's today.

Daily Fishing and Cooking 10/13/09

I only had time today to jump on quick and do the daily fishing and cooking on Wranngar. The daily cooking was Cheese for Glowergold, my least favorite, and the fishing was Blood Is Thicker which is a pretty easy one if not a little time consuming with the travel.

I did the cooking first. It didn't go as fast as the last time I did it, it took me a little while to get the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses but I got the Aged Dalaran Limburger as soon as I went into the wine and cheese shop.

I combined the wine and cheese on the platter supplied to me, by right clicking on it, and delivered it to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 2 Northern Spices in it. Hardly worth logging in for that.

I did the fishing next which had me heading over to Un'upe. I took the flightpath out of Dalaran. Once I got there I flew straight inland until I found a Marsh Caribou. I killed that, getting covered in blood, then flew back to the shore and jumped into the water to wash myself off and create a blood pool. I fished in the blood pool until I had my 5 Bloodtooth Frenzy then headed back and handed them in to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran. She gave me a Bag of Fishing Treasures which had 7g15s9c, 5 Pygmy Oil and a Whale Statue in it. I sold the Whale Statue for 11 gold to a vendor. I only made out a little better with this one... I know there are still some good rewards to be had from this one so I will keep plugging away at it. Maybe I will be able to get on later and do a few more daily's.

More Daily's 10/11/09

I got on both Wranngar and Gomorra today and did some daily's. I only did the daily cooking, which was Cheese for Glowergold, and the daily fishing, which was Jewel Of The Sewers again, on Gomorra today but I did those plus my Knights of the Ebon Blade and The Sons of Hodir daily's on Wranngar.

Cheese for Glowergold didn't take long at all today. I got the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses I needed on Wrann right in the Inn and got 4 of the 6 I needed for Gom in the Inn also. I got the other 2 at the wine and cheese shop. I got the Aged Dalaran Limburger right away when I got to the cheese shop on both too. Once I had all the ingredients I combined them on the supplied platter, by right clicking on it, and delivered it to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange. He gave me 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award for Gom and 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices and 3 Old Spices for Wrann. Not a bad day for either of them today.

I did the daily fishing after that which had me heading down into the sewers below Dalaran, into the Underbelly. I headed over to my spot in the Black Market and got the piece of Corroded Jewelry pretty quick on both, 10 casts on Wrann and 7 casts on Gom. I turned them in to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran in exchange for a couple Bags of Fishing Treasures.

Wrann's had 10g24s76c, 3 Pygmy Oil and a Worthless Piece of Green Glass in it.

Gom's had 7g25s55c, 2 Elixirs of Water Walking, 3 Solid Gold Coins and 4 Deviate Fish in it. Neither of them had anything to write home about there.

I was off on Wrann after that to do my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. I got them out of the way pretty quick with the exception of Intelligence Gathering which I didn't even get a single document for today even though I opened 6 chests..... The ones I did do were Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise! and No Fly Zone. These don't take too long and pay pretty well.

I was off to K3 after that to do Overstock. As usual this only took me a couple minutes and got me 12g96s before I was off to do my Sons of Hodir daily's.

I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim for them. These went really quick today and I got some good gold from them. It is really starting to add up now so Blizzard will probably reset my password for someone who they figure needs the gold more than I do.....

I am going to try and get Gom more involved in the daily's again to recover some of the gold I lost when I was hacked but I really don't have anything I need to buy right now. There is another expansion coming and you never know what that will have to spend your gold on.

Daily's 10/10/09

I got on Wranngar tonight/early this morning and got my daily's for the 10th out of the way. I did the daily cooking and fishing first. The daily cooking today was Sewer Stew and the daily fishing was Jewel Of The Sewers. A couple easy ones.

The cooking had me heading down to Crystalsong Forest. I took the portal down and headed over to the spot by the ruins directly under Dalaran. There was only one other person there picking Crystalsong Carrots so it took me less than 2 minutes to get the 4 I needed. I headed back to dalaran, using the portal, and got 4 pieces of Chilled Meat out of the guild bank to complete the ingredients. I cooked up my stew and delivered 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 with another Dalaran Cooking Award and 4 Northern Spices in it. Not a bad haul.

Since I was in the sewers I headed over to my spot in the Black Market to fish up a piece of Corroded Jewelry for the daily fishing. It took me 9 casts to get it today, not bad. I headed back to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran to turn it in. She gave me a Bag of Fishing Treasures for my trouble. That had 8g9s85c, 4 Pygmy Oil, 5 Solid Gold Coins and 2 Deviate Fish in it. Not the best return on that one today.

I was off to the Shadow Vault after that, to do my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. I got my daily's there and headed over to Deaths Rise for those. Once I had them I did them all except Intelligence Gathering. I only got one document today. The ones I did do were: Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise! and No Fly Zone. These don't take long as long as you don't waste time trying to get all the documents every day. Out of all the keys I got and all the chests I opened I only got one document..... They need to up the drop rate on this one a little.

From there I headed over to K3 to do Overstock. This is a quick and easy one and as usual it only took me a few minutes and got me 12g96s before I was off to do my daily's for The Sons of Hodir.

For The Sons of Hodir I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. There is one more, Thrusting Hodir's Spear, that I never do because I think it is a waste of time and effort for the return. These didn't take me long either.

All in all I made over a couple hundred gold today, it is starting to add up again. I learned my lesson, if Blizzard can't, or won't, do something about their security I am not going to put a lot of gold in the guild bank because it is only a matter of time before I will be hacked again. I will put some gold in there weekly as needed.

Daily's 10/9/09

I got on Wranngar this morning and did my daily's before they rolled over. I did the daily cooking, which was Mustard Dogs!, but I didn't bother with the daily fishing, which was Dangerously Delicious, I didn't want to be bothered with that. Instead I went and farmed some Rhino Meat for the guild bank.

The daily cooking went fast, I got 2 Wild Mustard behind the Inn, one by the twisted sisters shop where I get my reagents and one over by the other bank. Then all I had to do was run back to the bank and get 4 pieces of Rhino Meat and make some Rhino Dogs. Once I had those I just combined them with the Wild Mustard in the basket provided by right clicking on it and I had my Mustard Dog Basket!. I headed over and delivered that to Archmage Pentarus (68,41) at Krasus' Landing in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices, 4 Baby Spice and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Not a bad haul on the cooking today at all.

I headed over to the Shadow Vault from there and did my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. I did Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone and handed in Intelligence Gathering from yesterday. These didn't take long at all today, Intelligence Gathering is the one that takes up the time. I usually only hand that one in every few days when I finally get enough documents.

From there I was off to K3 to do Overstock. As usual this one only took me a couple minutes and got me 12g96s.

I did my daily's for The Sons of Hodir after that. These didn't take long today either, there was really no one around while I was doing any of the daily's, I hit it at just the right time. I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim for them.

All in all these didn't take me long today and I made around 235 gold. I am going to try to get on again this afternoon when the daily's roll over and do them all again.

Daily's 10/8/09

I got on Wranngar for a while tonight and did some daily's. I actually had fun doing them, something I haven't had playing this game since my account got hacked. I did the daily cooking, which was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf, the daily fishing, which was The Ghostfish, along with all my daily's for The Sons of Hodir and the Knights of the Ebon Blade.

I got the daily cooking out of the way first. That had me heading down into the sewers below Dalaran in search of Infused Mushrooms. It didn't take me long at all to get the 4 I needed then I was off to the bank to get the 2 pieces of Chilled Meat I needed to make my meatloaf. Once I had the meatloaf made I delivered it to Orton Bennet upstairs at Curiosities and Moore in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag with 3 Northern Spices, 5 Baby Spice and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Not too bad a haul today.

After that I was off to Rivers Heart in the Sholazar Basin to catch the elusive Phantom Ghostfish. This also went pretty quick and I had my Ghostfish in less than 10 casts. I headed back to Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran to tell her I solved the mystery and pick up my Bag of Fishing Treasures. Today it had 9g37s5c, a Glow Worm, 3 Deviate Fish and a Sealed Vial of Poison which started another quest. Not a bad day of fishing either.

I opened the Sealed Vial of Poison and got the quest to deliver it to Alchemist Cinesra in the Black Market down in the underbelly. He gave me 13g23s for that and it only took a few seconds. I like getting this one because it is good gold for almost no time or effort.

Having that done I headed over to K3 and got Overstock. This is a really fast and easy quest and I recommend you do it every day if you can get it. It only takes a few minutes and pays 12g96s.

I was off to see The Sons of Hodir after that. I did Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim for them. These don't take too long and pay some pretty good gold. If you are unable to do the daily's for The Sons of Hodir check out this post to see how to get the rep you need: Unlocking The Sons of Hodir Daily's.

I did my daily's for the Knights of the Ebon Blade after that. These are some more that don't take too long and pay pretty well. For them I did Leave Our Mark, Vile Like Fire!, Shoot 'Em Up, From Their Corpses, Rise!, No Fly Zone and Intelligence Gathering. Unfortunately one of the Intel Documents ended up in the bank from when my account was hacked, due to Blizzards piss-poor security, and I was unable to hand it in, I will hand it in tomorrow or the next time I am on.

All in all I had a pretty good time doing them today and will probably start playing a little more.

Daily's 9/29/09

I finally got back on and did a couple daily's on Wranngar today. The main thing I was worried about was losing all my restored items I had in the mail. I thought I only had a couple days left but I actually had 39.

I did the daily cooking first which was Mustard Dogs!. That had me running all over Dalaran looking for Wild Mustard. Actually it didn't take me long at all to get the 4 I needed. I forgot about going behind the Inn to get some, that is usually good for 2, but I got them in the other places without and problems. I guess I timed it right and not too many people were doing it. Once I had those I headed over to the bank to grab 4 pieces of Rhino Meat so I could make the Rhino Dogs. Someone already had a fire going at the bank so all I had to do was cook them up. Once I had my 4 Rhino Dogs I combined them with the Wild Mustard in the basket that was supplied to me and delivered them to Archmage Pentarus (68,41) at Krasus' Landing in exchange for 9g93s, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and a Small Spice Bag which contained 4 Northern Spices. Not a bad haul I guess.

After that I saw that Goldshire was under attack so I took the portal to Stormwind to see what was going on there. When I got to Goldshire there was a Deathknight there fighting a hunter so I jumped in and helped kill him. From there I hearthed back to Dalaran and took the flight path to Un'upe to do the daily fishing which was Monsterbelly Appetite.

When I got to Un'upe I flew out to the icebergs and turned on fish tracking. I found a school of Deepsea Monsterbelly right away. It took me 4 casts to get my Bloated Monsterbelly which had the severed arm I needed. I headed back to Dalaran and turned the severed arm in to Olisarra the Kind, (36,37) the Grand Master First Aid Trainer in the Magus Commerce Exchange in exchange for a Bag of Fishing Treasures. That had 10g57s88c, a Glow Worm and an Unusual Compass in it. Not too bad a haul there either but it wasn't a Jeweled Fishing Pole.

I at least got everything that was restored out of the mail if not put away. I will work on getting it all put away in the days to come. It looks like all I really lost was the 1533 gold from the guild bank which is bad enough as it was Blizzards shitty security that caused me to get hacked...

Restored Items 9/8/09

I spent some time today getting the restored items out of the mail on Wranngar and putting them in the bank, some in the guild bank. It looks like they restored some of the stuff that was taken out of the guild bank too. I finally got it all out of the mail and put away, now I just have to do it on all my other characters. I haven't played in a week and really don't feel like playing. I will get all the other stuff put away before it disappears out of my mail then decide what I want to do. They did not restore the gold that was taken from the guild bank so I am out that 1500 gold.

This whole event has just disgusted me especially the fact that blizzard said I must have a key logger on my system. If I had a key logger on my system they would not have had to have my password reset. Also when they were restoring my account they thanked me for my patience as it was taking a long time due to the number of hacked accounts. You can go on YouTube and there are videos that tell you exactly how to hack an account. You can send a script to their auto-responder password reset bot that will send you the new password for any account, which is what I am sure happened with me, so there is really no way to make your account safe when Blizzard has such poor security measures in place. There is a step by step video that even gives you the script on YouTube. It has really turned me away from the game, I guess it might be time for something else. It's no wonder they are losing players left and right.

Dustwallow Marsh 8/30/09

I did some questing on my hunter Brieanna today and got her to level 37. I did a few quests in and around Dustwallow Marsh. I leveled when I handed a couple in.

I was running low on bullets so I went to buy some more. I couldn't find anyone on Theramore Island that sold bullets although I am sure you can buy them there somewhere. I headed back to Menethil Harbor to see if I could find some but all they had was the level 25 bullets I was using. I figured at level 37 I should be able to get something better. I looked on Thottbot, my one source for WoW information, and found that level 35 and up bullets are crafted and you need to buy them from someone who can make them or the auction house. I headed to the auction house in Iron Forge to see what I could find.

In Iron Forge I hit the auction house and found Hi-Impact Mithril Slugs which do almost twice the damage as the bullets I was using so that worked out well. They also stack in 1,000 instead of 200 so I can carry a lot more so that also worked out well :).

I am not sure where I will be questing next. I guess I can get my 100% speed mount at 40 now so I am only 3 levels away from that.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

World of Warcraft is getting set for a third expansion: Cataclysm. For the third expansion of the World of Warcraft series here is an excerpt from their site:

"Hidden away in his sanctuary within Deepholm, the corrupted Dragon Aspect Deathwing has waited, recovering from the wounds of his last battle against Azeroth and biding his time until he can reforge the world in molten fire. Soon, Deathwing the Destroyer will return to the surface, and his eruption from Deepholm will sunder the world, leaving a festering wound across the continents."

According to the press release they will be introducing two new races, Goblins for the Alliance and Worgen for the Horde. They will be opening up new, as yet unopened, parts of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms for exploration and questing. This will also enable players to increase their level to 85. There will be challenging new dungeons and raids, players will have be able to increase their powers as well as experiencing the new changes that will change the face of Azeroth forever.

Players will now be able to fly in Azeroth, meaning they finally finished the maps. There will be a new secondary (Like fishing, cooking and first aid) profession: Archeology where you will be able to uncover artifacts and earn unique rewards.

Players will be able to take on PvP objectives and daily quests in on Tol Barad Island, a new Wintergrasp like zone, as well as fight in all new rated battlegrounds.

There will be new race and class combinations too, Bloodelf Warrior, Gnome Priest or one of the other never before available race and class combinations.

For the full press release click here: Cataclysm: Full Press Release

Theramore Isle 8/17/09

I played my hunter Brieanna a little tonight. It has been a long time since I played her and it took me awhile to get back into the swing of things. Who am I kidding, I'm not fully back into the swing of playing her yet.

I did some questing outside Theramore Isle, I had a few quests there to finish up and I got a few bars XP out of it. Needless to say I have a lot of rested XP on her as I haven't played her in months. I think I am going to spend some time leveling her up and maybe spend some time on my Deathknight, Wrangar, too. I am still not really into playing again yet since my account was hacked.

In the Beginning

My first character in World of Warcraft was a Warrior named Durgan. I wasn't very good at him and just didn't really get into the whole physical combat thing. I chose a Warrior because I had played a lot of Diablo and Diablo II and the Warrior, then Barbarian in Diablo II, was the easiest one to play. I got Durgan to level 19 and that was as far as he ever got although I hung on to him for over a year.

I think the thing I hate most about starting a new character in World of Warcraft is all the running around. I realize that the purpose of all the running around is to get you familiar with the area but it seems like you're spending a lot of time running and not getting anywhere. It goes on throughout the entire game and I guess that's good as I can tell you by the time you hit 80 you really know your way around.

When I first started playing, before Burning Crusades came out, you could get your first racial/class mount at level 40. It cost a lot of gold to learn how to ride it, I believe it was around 80 gold to learn how to ride it and then another 9 gold for the mount itself. 90 gold is a lot of gold to a level 40 on their first character. Of course it was a lot easier for my second character because I already had a level 70 character to feed him gold. A level 40 mount gives you 60% increased speed and that makes A LOT of difference.

I started a Warlock when I saw someone riding a Felsteed. I didn't even know what class character it was, I asked someone at work "Who rides the flaming horse?" and they told me it was a Warlock. I didn't know what a Warlock was, or did, but I knew I had to have one. More precisely I had to have a Felsteed.

I started a Warlock (Gomorra) that night. I got him to level 30 in a few days. It was kind of tough at times leveling a Warlock solo but I did it. I didn't like grouping with other people because they always seemed to have their own agenda or were always going AFK. When you're in the middle of a 2 person quest the last thing you want to hear is "I have to go eat supper, be back in a little while". I ended up leveling him to 70 solo and then from 70 to 80 when Wrath of the Lich King came out.

Your first mount, level 40 back then, as a Warlock is free but you certainly pay for the second, level 60 (back then), one. For the second mount I had to do some quests that involved going into instances, buy a lot of goods that ran me hundreds of gold, and finally finish up in Dire Maul to actually summon the mount, the Dreadsteed. That was rough at the time. I hated it and said I would never go back. Since that statement I have summoned about a dozen Dreadsteeds. Once you have the materials you can summon one for someone else that did all the quests but didn't buy the summoning materials. This saves them around 250 gold. The level 60 mount gives you 100% increased speed.

I had a lot of fun with Gomorra over the course of the next year or so, I really liked casting and did a lot of PvP on him. I had him geared out in some really nice PvP gear. Gomorra has a little over 24,800 lifetime kills on him. A little after I hit 70 I met up with someone who needed a little help leveling so I decided to help her 'powerlevel' her Warrior. Her Warriors name was Axeelina and we got her to 70 pretty fast. After that we decided to level a couple more characters together from scratch, that's when I started Wranngar.

I leveled Wranngar with Axeelina's alt, Yonezoe, a Shaman, and we got to level 70 pretty quick on those 2. Back then level 70 was the cap. It took me 49 days play time to get to level 70 on Gomorra but it only took me 23 days play time to get Wranngar to level 70. A lot of the difference in time was that I knew where everything was when I leveled Wranngar but with Gomorra I was running blind.

I have since started, and deleted, a few characters but have a level 36 Beast Master Hunter I like that I am going to keep on leveling. I also have a level 66 Deathknight that I will probably level to 80 but kind of lost interest in, the whole physical combat thing again. That's what it was like in the beginning for me :).

Don't Buy Gold From Scammers And Thieves

I logged onto Gomorra for a little bit today and started getting stuff out of the mail that was restored and putting it back. The losers even stole and sold the 7 soulbound 20 slot bags I had in the guild bank.... That is sad. I am sure one of these places that you see selling gold all the time in game were behind it, I think they are behind almost all of them. I got a request from one of the gold sellers to advertise on my blog right before my account was hacked. One more reason not to buy gold, if they have no demand then they have no reason to need gold, therefore no reason to steal gold. There will always be losers out there though that are either too lazy or too stupid to make there own gold so they will use them, they will always be in business and always be a problem. It is unfortunate. I will probably get on this weekend and get all my other characters straightened out. I did find out today that they didn't touch my level 36 hunter, Brieanna, they probably figured there was nothing to gain there. I really don't feel like playing anymore. Maybe when this card runs out that will be it.