Since I’m now Level 90, I’ve been trying to think of what to do. There’s still quite a few things that MoP added besides the continent. But some of them I just don’t wish to do.
One is gearing up. Mr.Robot hasn’t really been helpful in showing me what to get. Basically, it seems either I have to do a Heroic dungeon I can’t do yet due to my item level, or it doesn’t show where to get the item.
But what it has, I managed to get a few pieces. Two in particular, would make the fashion police arrest me, for being a violator. The chestpiece looks like someone threw up on it, and the pants without the chestpiece, I can see my butt crack. Ugh. What was Blizzard thinking when they made these pieces?! This just makes me not even bother gearing up. I want gear that is not only functional, it looks good as well.
So, Archaeology. Still boring as watching paint dry. Except they added a few twists. Every now and then, a Level 90 Sha (non-elite) called an ‘Ancient Haunt’ pops up and you have to kill it to get the fragment. The other twist, you may sometimes get your hands on a Pristine fragment, that has a quest attached to it. All you do is fly to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, and on the upper level of Mogu’shan Palace is the Seat of Knowledge. Is it here where you turn in your pristine artifacts and put them on display.
One last twist, is sometimes you’ll get a Daily, to turn in either 20 Pandarian or Mogu fragments. And they’ll happily compensate you for doing so.
This is also where Lorewalker Cho can tell you stories of Pandaria, if you search for them. I’ve found several during my leveling, but only one since doing his quest. And I never got his story. So I dunno what’s up with that.
I haven’t messed with the Pet Battle system yet. Don’t think I will. And as for the Order of the Cloud Serpent, it’s starting to seem more like Netherwing rep than Venomhide Raptor teeth. For two days, I haven’t done any quests for my hatchling; only for them. Day 2, when I finished my dailies, they said “you’ve done all you can for your hatchling”. I didn’t do anything for him! All I’ve been doing is dailies of helping the Serpent Masters do their job of helping the wild Cloud Serpents, kill the Saurok; the lizard guys.
Wowhead says that once you hit Revered, you’ll start doing more with your hatchling. So I guess that’s ok.
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And the last thing. Which is making me kinda sick and worried at the same time. I asked in the WoW Forum of why I’m lagging so bad when I turn. They say it’s possible my C drive is dying on me. And it could be, since that drive is one of the two things I haven’t replaced of my 2005 computer.
I did some asking around, and someone lead me to a site which you can download this tool called ‘Seagate SeaTools’, which can do diagnostics on any drive, any manufacture, to determine if one’s drive is really dying or not.
So I ran the Windows version on my C drive, and shockingly, it passed every single one of its tests. I’m very, very happy at this, as it will buy me time. I’m planning to someday get a one Terrabyte hard drive as a new C drive.
I’m also planning to get a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. You see, the version I got currently is… non-legit. And I know eventually, Microsoft is going to crack down on people like me. This is why I’m going to play it safe, and pay the $200.
That and, I’m unsure if installing my non-legit copy of 7 (even though my computer is calling it “genuine”) on the new hard drive, will work again. It’s not that my computer will “blow up” over it, it’s just, Windows may refuse to boot period if it, or an update I’m not paying attention to, detects a non-legit copy.
And without Windows, you can’t really access your computer. I’m of course, pissed off I even have to pay for a copy. $200 is a LOT of fucking money here, for a piece of software! And it’s not even Windows itself that costs; it’s the License Key. That is what costs. $200 for a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper.
Corporate Greed in the first degree.
But, I really have no choice.