19 September 2005
Abject Failure
Well not exactly it was a gallant effort but ultimately I didn’t achieve my goal, yet another plucky English loser!
I manage 2 levels for Oromebstard and Theodread but only 1 level for Drogo and Arastar. I was hampered by some internet problems, Saturday morning the whole of Utrechts internet was down. Then on Sunday morning the internet was down again, this time it was due to the wireless router powerlead coming out – you wouldn’t believe how much effort it took to persuade someone to have a look at it (they didn’t know where the antennae was and got me to look at it anyway – lol). So there’s the excuses out of the way, what happened I hear you cry. Well Friday and most of Saturday I played the Shammy probably the reason for my downfall at the end of the day. Had some good fun and got to have a run at Ulderman which wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be – it was a bit boring as I was doing the healing which was fine except out warriors were not too good at holding agg on more than 2 mobs so when I healed at one point I got mobbed by mobs. I consequently couldn’t heal so we all died – we had a warlock fortunately and he soulstoned me (I haven’t got a rez rune yet – I will have to make an investment). So I started rezzing the others and we were resting when the mage (Magicman I think) wandered back into the mobs that had just killed us, I think he must have been a bit dazed from being dead – well they came back and killed us all again for good measure. We called it a day after that, it was a reasonable team though I didn’t get very close to completing any of my quests as everyone was quicker at looting than me – I much prefer round robin.
I then had a couple of runs in Arathi Basin which was OK, though I was a bit under-powered at level 42, we lost both games badly especially the 2nd one in which we were outnumbered 15 to 9. I spent most of that one trying to get out of the graveyard. I think I was bottom of the 2nd one and about a 1/3 up from the bottom of the previous one. Anyway I got past the 25 hk I need to have something count towards my pvp ranking and I am about 1/3 of the way to the next level. I could do with a few more levels before going back in I think. Hunters are a real pain in there, they always seemed to pick on me too (boo-hoo!), there is nothing makes you panic more than having that big red arrow over your head. I tried to get into WSG but no one seems interested in that anymore which is a shame. Well he is halfway to level 43 so maybe get him up a level this week.
Next I played the warrior who is in 1kN, managed 2 levels reasonably easily and have managed to get upto skill level 125 in mining which is important as I can now mine iron. I have a bank full of bars of metal at the moment, most of which I can’t use as my blacksmithing isn’t high enough Completed a fair few quests including Steelsnap for the first time which was great, I know now where he lives so he better look out for when my Rogue gets their.
Talking of the rogue, I was struggling finding quests I could complete at level 23 so had to grind out to level 24. I could then do the quilboar quests reasonably easily and will then go back to Stonetalon as there are a couple of quests there that I should now be able to complete which I had given up on previously. This is where things started going wrong though as I just plain ran out of rest bonus and I wasn’t going to play without rest bonus – what a waste
On to the mage then – well he was in STV and I had done the quests which were doable at his level (32) so I decided to go to Arathi. Tried to do the rod quest near Tarren Mill but the Yeti’s just resisted most of my spells even though they are the same level so I had to give up on that and head into Arathi Basin. Managed to complete 4 quests there no thanks to the alliance ganking bastards. I was ganked 5 times, I managed to get away 3 of those times, the 2 occasions I died was against level ??, I hope they enjoyed the 0 benefit they gained! I don’t tend to gank, in fact I have even stopped attacking one char when they didn’t do anything but with all the times I have been ganked it is getting increasingly difficult to carry on with this policy. Sometimes it goes fine and you just give a wave but othertimes they just attack you, some Gnome did that to my Shammy (I had 99hp at the time) in the Badlands, he had just done the same to another Shammy near there well when he was drinking to get his mana back the Gnome came after him again, I messaged the shammy and we both came back and blew him away – then had a conversation over his body – he must have thought we were camping – lol. Anyway he materialised and made a run for it. I couldn’t catch him but must have given him a fright ( I wasn’t too bothered). Funnily enough I had wandered the otherside of this hill and he came round from the other way still running, must have given him an even bigger fright – lol
Well the only char with any rb left now is the mage so it will be him tonight.
I manage 2 levels for Oromebstard and Theodread but only 1 level for Drogo and Arastar. I was hampered by some internet problems, Saturday morning the whole of Utrechts internet was down. Then on Sunday morning the internet was down again, this time it was due to the wireless router powerlead coming out – you wouldn’t believe how much effort it took to persuade someone to have a look at it (they didn’t know where the antennae was and got me to look at it anyway – lol). So there’s the excuses out of the way, what happened I hear you cry. Well Friday and most of Saturday I played the Shammy probably the reason for my downfall at the end of the day. Had some good fun and got to have a run at Ulderman which wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be – it was a bit boring as I was doing the healing which was fine except out warriors were not too good at holding agg on more than 2 mobs so when I healed at one point I got mobbed by mobs. I consequently couldn’t heal so we all died – we had a warlock fortunately and he soulstoned me (I haven’t got a rez rune yet – I will have to make an investment). So I started rezzing the others and we were resting when the mage (Magicman I think) wandered back into the mobs that had just killed us, I think he must have been a bit dazed from being dead – well they came back and killed us all again for good measure. We called it a day after that, it was a reasonable team though I didn’t get very close to completing any of my quests as everyone was quicker at looting than me – I much prefer round robin.
I then had a couple of runs in Arathi Basin which was OK, though I was a bit under-powered at level 42, we lost both games badly especially the 2nd one in which we were outnumbered 15 to 9. I spent most of that one trying to get out of the graveyard. I think I was bottom of the 2nd one and about a 1/3 up from the bottom of the previous one. Anyway I got past the 25 hk I need to have something count towards my pvp ranking and I am about 1/3 of the way to the next level. I could do with a few more levels before going back in I think. Hunters are a real pain in there, they always seemed to pick on me too (boo-hoo!), there is nothing makes you panic more than having that big red arrow over your head. I tried to get into WSG but no one seems interested in that anymore which is a shame. Well he is halfway to level 43 so maybe get him up a level this week.
Next I played the warrior who is in 1kN, managed 2 levels reasonably easily and have managed to get upto skill level 125 in mining which is important as I can now mine iron. I have a bank full of bars of metal at the moment, most of which I can’t use as my blacksmithing isn’t high enough Completed a fair few quests including Steelsnap for the first time which was great, I know now where he lives so he better look out for when my Rogue gets their.
Talking of the rogue, I was struggling finding quests I could complete at level 23 so had to grind out to level 24. I could then do the quilboar quests reasonably easily and will then go back to Stonetalon as there are a couple of quests there that I should now be able to complete which I had given up on previously. This is where things started going wrong though as I just plain ran out of rest bonus and I wasn’t going to play without rest bonus – what a waste
On to the mage then – well he was in STV and I had done the quests which were doable at his level (32) so I decided to go to Arathi. Tried to do the rod quest near Tarren Mill but the Yeti’s just resisted most of my spells even though they are the same level so I had to give up on that and head into Arathi Basin. Managed to complete 4 quests there no thanks to the alliance ganking bastards. I was ganked 5 times, I managed to get away 3 of those times, the 2 occasions I died was against level ??, I hope they enjoyed the 0 benefit they gained! I don’t tend to gank, in fact I have even stopped attacking one char when they didn’t do anything but with all the times I have been ganked it is getting increasingly difficult to carry on with this policy. Sometimes it goes fine and you just give a wave but othertimes they just attack you, some Gnome did that to my Shammy (I had 99hp at the time) in the Badlands, he had just done the same to another Shammy near there well when he was drinking to get his mana back the Gnome came after him again, I messaged the shammy and we both came back and blew him away – then had a conversation over his body – he must have thought we were camping – lol. Anyway he materialised and made a run for it. I couldn’t catch him but must have given him a fright ( I wasn’t too bothered). Funnily enough I had wandered the otherside of this hill and he came round from the other way still running, must have given him an even bigger fright – lol
Well the only char with any rb left now is the mage so it will be him tonight.
