Warcraftian Thought Process

I need to stop skipping posts on days when I'm playing.

Quick run through of the past week's gameplay:

- Nas finished all the Love is in the Air quests she'd ignored last year.
- it's actually kinda funny to see all the '09 achievements and then the three '11 achievements
- so yes, she is now a Love Fool

- helped Lyx get her black drake last week.

- helped Sal get [ Fistful of Love ] by rolling Tronzler the Gnome Warlock
- promptly rerolled him as a Death Knight. 
- I am pure win, okay

- Tronzler is now level 59

- hit Exalted with the Violet Eye
- and got to 12521/21000 with Keepers of Time
- I'm being lazy and haven't run the dungeons for it

- still haven't finished grinding for my spirit wolf mount from Tol Barad
- only need 15 more, actually

- killed Nyxondra enough times to get my Dark Riding Talbuk
- need to kill her 62 more times to get the Dark War Talbuk
- and then I have to grind 190 Oshu'gun Powder
- yay

- Octobre is sitting pretty at level 55.

- bunch of other boring stuff happened

- raided Stormwind. Died a lot.

- I need to respec my heal spec
- and play it more often so I don't fail quite so hard at it

- did my TB dailies. Now I only need ten more commendations for my wolf.
- did the Love is in the Air dungeon. Got myself a pretty little ooze thinger pet

- meanwhile, I'm also buying tron merchandise.

- gonna work on some more Keepers rep

- now I'm at 13900/21000
- so that's... 7100 rep to go
- roughly 459 kills in heroic durn
- ...I don't think there are that many kills in hdurn

- oh well, lets let Thrall die a few times and see what I come up with!

- 453 449 442 438
- now at 14234
- my previous calculation was done at 15.5 rep per kill
- I'm thinking it might be closer to 15.75 per kill. I'm tending to get three 16s and then a 15.
- if that's the case, then my new calculation would be...
- 21000-14234 = 6766/15.75 = 429.5873, or 430 kills. saved myself 8 kills there.

- not factoring in boss kills, of course
- or those stupid 3 rep dogs

- 424 420 416 412... killed lt drake... 386

- I find it kinda hilarious that even durnholde is decorated for Love is in the Air
- aw man I think I fucked up.
- no I didn't! awesome
- third time through now. sitting at 15498

- oooh Nas was just made an officer
- mostly because the GM wanted someone to be able to promote her alts but hey any reason is good
- totally shouldn't abuse my power to put stupid notes on my alts

- this is so utterly ridiculous
- but hey, I'm at 16632 now

- and now I am tired, so I will actually keep Thrall alive this time
- the captain is killed and I am now at 17461/21000
- that means I need something like... 224 more kills.
- kill all the guards around tarren mill, then set thrall off and... kill more guards!
- now sitting pretty with 17950
- finished off the heroic with 18370 rep
- I'll hit Exalted tomorrow. for now I need sleep.

night everyone

Did I post last night? I don't think I did.

So we tried to run Lich King. We failed. Repeatedly.
So we did Sarth 3D. Guess who got the dragon? That's right, Nas did~
And then we ran Magetherion's Lair.
Followed by me going to bed.

- Today has involved me running around trying to do achievements.
- and then getting distracted
- but hey, I got exalted with Bilgewater :D

- Sadly, it would appear that grinding rep in Utgarde Pinnacle only works with non-cata reputations

- oh well. back to the achievements.

- wtf
- aw man, apparently there's a time limit for how many dungeons you can enter in a certain amount of time.

- la la la

- okay, I can go in again

- booyah!
- after two years, I am now Elder Nastassja.
- yes it totally took two years
- mostly because I did zip all towards long strange trip last year.
- I haven't done ANYTHING for Noble Garden
- two achievements for Love Fool
- two for Children's Week
- five for Merry Maker
- and then I'll be done.

- quit running crypts half way through. It's ten to ten, I need to shower and go to bed.
- I'll be exalted with Lower City by tomorrow night, though. Only need 3.7k rep that's two and a half runs or so.

- and then it's just Keepers for [ The Burning Crusader ]

- and just bought my goblin trikes. Now up to 93/100 mounts.

Let's Grinding Rep!

Rep grinding is notoriously boring. What I've got right now are mostly dungeon reputations.

- working on Keepers of Time
- ground about 4k rep with full clears of Old Hillsbrad and the dark portal. Plus some trash on a little run back to OH in order to kick Don Carlos' ass.

- onto Thrallmar rep!
- Lyx is doing Free Pie Day again
- Ovan won a whole bunch of belf pets. One of each kind, I think.
- Nas got a pile of 8 items with "gold" in the name
- idefk

- And now Lyx wants to run Kara
- totally cool with this

- Yay reputation!
- We got our individual achievements for the kara run, but we're going to have to come back with a full group to get the guild achievement.
- aw, everyone has to go
- guess I'll finish clearing the trash by myself :3

- Got myself an extra 2k reputation clearing out the rest of the trash. Kicked me up into Revered :D
- and now to hand in some quests.

- "it's not an easy task to raise a whole dragon from the dead"
- yup, sure. that's why Arthas has an army of them. lol
- up to 2295/21000 now
- and now I must go kill things in Heroic Sethekk Halls and Heroic Shattered Halls
- how convenient! I'd only finished Ramps before the kara run, so now I can get some more thrallmar rep

- oh goddammit
- of course NOW my head would start pounding :/
- gonna bail on finishing the rest of Shattered Halls. Quick run to Sethekk to get the tome (and maybe farm a mount...) and then it's back to Area 52 for the turn in.

- cata has been spoiling me with the lack of fed-ex quests. I'd almost forgotten what they were like.

- yeah no patience + headache = definitely not full clearing sethekk.

- /sigh no mount

- SWEET MONKEY BALLS
- 3150 rep for one quest turn in? Holy shit.
- I am now sitting at 5707/21000 for The Violet Eye

- I do believe this is a good time to log and go to bed. What with it being midnight and all.

Well, it's day nine after the Shattering, and we're only five days away from Cataclysm actually dropping. Which means it's on to step two of the Great Nyxondra Plan: transferring her from my original WoW account, to my secondary account. (Step three is a faction change) Step two hit a snag in that Nyx had some mail, and now I must wait 20 minutes before I can finish transferring her. Oh well...

In the meantime, some more achievement fun on Nas. I did a handful of quests, and got some delicious delicious reputation. Thorium Brotherhood rep! I tried farming that by myself a few times, but seriously. Even shadow spec at 80, I couldn't get past the first mobs of Molten Core. And no one wanted to run it with me, so I was sitting at 5040/12000 for the longest time. And now I do TWO quests and I'm up to 7040! Huzzah!

But yeah, in the interest of getting Nyx moved over A.S.A.P., I'm actually going to work on one of my musical projects for the first time in... uh... well, awhile. I still don't have access to my video data, which as we all know has been the cause of several hissy fits over the last week, so it's going to be pretty shitty when I post it up. But I want this posted before Cata, and there's no way I can get Wrathgate, FOS/POS/HOR/ICC-10 footage, then edit it all before then.

Of course, this means I can get some in-action footage of Nyx in Worgen-form for the video... not that she's in it much, seeing as it is the Epic Ballad of Arthas (only not).

Alrightie, Nyx is in the approval process to get magicked over to my secondary account. Gonna book it over to my computer now, instead of dad's, and get some audio work done. As opposed to spending the last hour reworking lyrics that kept fucking me up the last time I tried recording things. :D


Ugh, four hours of editing, and I'm tired. Time to play some warcrack!

- Lunk is hilarious. "No kill! No kill!"

- "Lunk like to dance! Nastassja like to dance! Probably!"
- CONGA LINE QUEST!

- the problem with doing quests that you're 30 levels too high for, is the part where you can kill things that you're not supposed to kill.
- now I need to wait on respawn.

- ARGH soclose!
- 18560/21000 with Thorium Brotherhood.
- Hopefully there are some Thorium quests in Burning Steppes.

- I feel like I've been doing a lot of disguise quests lately...
- I'm using a Troll Halloween Mask to infiltrate the Blackrock Orcs.

- sitting at 20000/21000 right now. I just need 1k more! 1k and I'll have 30 exalted reps!

BOOYAKA!!

30 EXALTED REPUTATIONS, AW YEAH.

And it is now 10:30PM. I am going to BED. G'night!

It's another new day! Time to pull up my adventuring socks (they're striped) and dig into the new content.

Current Achievement Points: 5160.
I'm second in my guild (Yonko is first, with 5840, Lyxan is third with 4725), but I have plans to beat out Yonko for the coveted first place!

Okay, maybe I'm the only one who covets it. THIS MEANS NOTHING. ONWARDS, NASTASSJA! TO GLORY!

- I like that it's telling me when my rep increases with the whole of the Horde.
- It does kinda suck that it doesn't show Horde rep on the rep pane. Hafta go to the Armory to find out that I'm at 2720/12000 Honored. +37 for that last quest makes... 2757. I've got a ways to go...
+63+37+63+62+63+62+38+62+63+62+63+37+88+75+19+63+87+25+63+62+75+125+125+125+63+2+2+62+88+125+2+63+125+6+62+63+62+125+6+63+62+63+62+63+125+62+125+125+19+62+88+19+87+63+63+2+3+125+18+7+2

- pretty sure I missed a couple quests there. Oh well. I... don't really want to add that all together right now, so I'll update the numbers on tomorrow's post.

- Wolf Rescue time! The Razormane Quillboar have set the stables near the Durotar/Barrens border on fire.

- I kinda feel bad. There's a level 13 troll drood doing the same quests I am...
- so I buffed her.

- Kreenig chills in a cave now, instead of outside.

- caravan quest from farwatch to xroads. the lvl13 is standing there, so I'll let her run it while I go off and finish some other NBarrens quests.

- Southfury River Boat??

- Ratchet looks the same, just some added quests and new music.

- Oooo, the Inn in Ratchet is actually used for something now! I've always thought it would be good for RP, given how large it is, but no one ever stuck around Ratchet long enough... now there's a quest in there.

- Whoa, Merchant Coast has been taken over by the Alliance.
- dead alliance... someone's been questing here

- hahaha oh man, how many times did I kill Longshore for rep? Now he's a quest NPC.

- The great divide looks pretty damn awesome. Lyxan says it burns, so I'm not going to levitate down it. But man oh man...

- Verog is now summoned by killing his woman.

- Sunscale nests have moved. This should be totally obvious, since the last place they were has been taken over by MOLTEN ROCK. The nests are now where Stolen Silver box used to be.

- using Shadow Word: Death to kill things for quests. Apparently it doesn't kill fast enough, as my target just charged me despite dying before it could even target me.

- Stolen Silver is now up on the bluff overlooking Ratchet.

- OH HEY THIS COULD GET ME CARTEL EXALTED AGAIN. BOOYAH!!

- ...bwahahahahahahahahahaha oh god. I wonder what this quest would do if I was on one of my undead? Since it tells me that I need to consider where my loyalties lie... with the warchief or the forsaken. NAS USED TO BE UNDEAD :Db

- the treasurer is named GLOMP?!

MUTINY!

- oh hey, now I know what the boat is for. Bliz's new answer to fed-ex quests: driving you their themselves. Catching the boat leads me to... hey driver, don't say things like "This is where you'd expect something to go wrong on a beautiful trip like this."

- Sputtervalve moved fro Ratchet to Nozzlepot's Outpost. Much closer to the Samophlange.

- Sweet! I'm friendly with Booty Bay again!

- ...go back to do the caravan, and a level 14 troll drood just started it

- at 55/70 quests in Northern Barrens. It's been 2.5 hours.

- damn, Yonko just got 10 more points...

- oh THERE'S Mankrik.
- He's at Grol'dom Farm.
- only 30 tusks? Has your quest of genocide really killed off that many of them...?

- so I totally didn't need to wait for others doing the caravan quests. It's not like it used to be, this spawned a vehicle for me to ride and shoot from.

- new quest-mob, Tortusk. Wanders the camp where Kreenig used to chill. Ridin' a raptor named "Fez". heh.

- Just shy of three hours, and bam! Completed Northern Barrens Quests

- Time to try something ALL NEW!!
- Flyin' to Stonetalon. Only need 40 quests for the achievement.

- So many interesting new things seen in the fly-over! A couple quest givers among them ;)

- Wow, all the old quest givers in Sun Rock Retreat are gone. Even the old guy with the elemental on the hill is gone.

- Shades of the Highbourne!
- they have such interesting conversations...

- the charred vale is on fire. And filled with dragons.
- the water bubbles and boils where the lava meets it. It's awesome!

- MARCY!?
- ...there are tentacles comin' up out of the ground on the mountain peak.

- so far I have found 0 quests.
- I'm tired of hunting for quests.
- To Ashenvale!

- HOLY SHIT
- Zoram'gar is FORTIFIED. And it deserves the caps. Metal walls and spikes! That tiny little camp grew up!
- apparently it's a shipyard now? there is a half finished ship berthed
- oooo a light house~

- Let's Clear Blackfathom Depths!
- Starting Rep (Bilgewater Cartel) : 4836/6000 Friendly

- Skittering Crustaceans give rep, so don't forget to kill them!
- Ghamoo-Ra did not give any rep :(
- but the Aku'mai Fishers do!
- Gelihast did not give any rep
- heh, ran out of room in my bags.
- Old Serra'kis gives 60 rep!
- Kelris only gave 3 rep, but all the summoned beasts in the next step gave rep, too.

- Full Clear! Finished : 5513/6000 Friendly
- That's 677 Rep.
- Time to hand in those quests.

- lookin' at my stats. I've completed 4478 Quests
- now it's 4483.

- Tentacles in Ashenvale! Marcy gets around.

- hahaha I get to bomb Astranaar XD

- AHA! I have found my "in" into Stonetalon!

- GIANT FISH OF DOOOOOOOOOOOM!!

- I... I... what?
"Frightened Peon says: Oof! You touch naughty spot!"

- Malaka'jin grew up, too! It's not fortified, but there's more there. And a flightpath.

- Stonetalon is definitely designed to be a PvP zone. Not many people here now, but it's only day two.

- ...okay I kinda like Garrosh right now.
- He "relieved" a dude of duty by throwing him off a cliff. Which is not why I like him.
- Go do the Stonetalon/Krom'gar Army Quest line RIGHT NOW. It almost redeems him.

- I'm at 5999/6000 Friendly with Bilgewater Cartel right now.

Started the major Desolace quest line. I wonder where this one will lead me? Well, that's better left for tomorrow, as I don't want to start getting involved in a long line when I have to be up before the sun. So a quick run down of tomorrow's goals:

Continue (Finish?) Desolace.
Finish Ashenvale.
Start Southern Barrens.
Hope the maitenance/rolling restarts tonight will pop my dungeon quest achievement. I've done like... seven of them. And yet no achievement. I am a sad troll. Sad troll in snow.

Should probably log on to Octobre and see what's the what on the Alliance side of things.
Get Khyte to level 72. Maybe.

Night all!