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I’ve finally arrived in Northrend to follow the footsteps of Benie, as Horde. Quests so far have been completely different from when I arrived in Northrend as Benie. Dealing with Alliance forces (no PvP), to killing Wyrmkul.

Finally in Winterhoof Village, I’ve met the Taunka, a Bison-like Tauren race. Yet I’m feeling rushed. I had alot more quests to do on Benie than I did here. Very few quests, then go to the next area. How in the hell am I going to get to Level 72 at this rate?

I didn’t go to the north, near Grizzly Hills ’till I hit 72. And I’m already there at 70. It’s like I’m missing a few quests as I’m going places. Maybe more will pop up after I do these. Surely Blizzard wouldn’t keep me hanging here. If I got to 72 in Howling Fjord as Benie, I should get to 72 as Beefhunter.

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BTW. I got 10 days left until my Venomhide Hatchling is ready to be my mount. So it could be October 11th or 12th. Can’t wait to have another mount. 🙂

It’s about time I posted my progress. And I must say I’ve really moved. I went though the Dark Portal as a Level 60. And now I’m 67!
Right now I’m in Nagrand, sitting in a tree on my Wind Rider flying mount, getting ready to do the most… interesting quest in Nagrand. A Rare Bean. Digging through Clefthoof dung to find 8 Digested Caracoli. …Fun. I’m about to puke.

Once done with Nagrand, I’ll be ready for Netherstorm. What’s funny is I haven’t quested in Blade’s Edge yet.
The chance of hitting 70 before going to Northrend is very high, since I got those two places, plus Shadowmoon Valley to quest in.

The Horde quests so far are somewhat different than the Alliance side. The history of the ancient Orc race; Thrall’s people, the Mag’har, is shown in light. How they have been unchanged from the corruption that the Burning Legion has caused in Outland. It makes sense what they’re doing in Nagrand. It also tells you about this “Hellscream” person.

The “tank” that helped us in ST, his name is “Killforfun”, has joined my ‘guild’ a few days ago, and already he wants to turn it into a big guild and change everything about it. I have told him over and over that it’s for me and my alts only. So far he’s accepting it. But I bet he wishes why I like being alone.
He spends his day bragging about how hard he crits, how far he is to the next level, and getting me to tell him what quest rewards he should get.

As for my raptor mount-to-be, I’m on Day 6 now. It will be October 20th when he’s ready to be my mount. And I bet I’ll be Level 80 before that day comes.

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There’s also an issue. My lock up has finally shown up in WoW. Though it was only a one time thing. I was thinking it was a song I added in Winamp that caused it. No. It’s just my lock up issue resurfacing. Just weakened. Not as severe as it was.

First off, it looks like the need to buy gold has died. My Horde char is making more money now. Due to the fact of not buying gear at the AH anymore. Only relying on drops from soloing, and instances.

With that out of the way, it’s time to look forward. Attack bigger game. Follow the path of Benie, as Horde. My Tauren Shaman would be proud of the work I’ve put into my Hunter.

Anyway, he’s a 57 now. Closing in on Level 58, and starting to run out of places he can quest. This is not good if I want to get to Level 60 before going to Outland.

The “tank” that did ST with us awhile ago has been talking to me, trying to get me to go to Outland at 58, saying I’ll get double the XP, and get to replace all my gear.
He doesn’t know that I will tend to only do soloable quests and nothing else to “replace all my gear”, which I find unlikely unless I do a shitload of runs in Outland’s instances.

The reason I wanna go at Level 60, is because Benie went as Level 60. But that was before TBC was released. Now that TBC and WotLK are released, I may have no choice but to start leveling at Outland on the next level.
It depends if I run out of quests. I still have Silithus, Winterspring, and both the Western and Eastern Plaquelands to quest at.

Passing that, there’s something on my mind I wanna discuss. Not bad or anything like that. But as I was heading towards the entrance that connects Un’Goro Crater to Tanaris, I saw this Troll on a raptor mount. I remembered this troll when I was leveling Benie back then. He was hostile. Now I’m on the Horde side, I’m able to talk to him.
Due to the fact Blizzard fixed it where the faction can have all mounts due to the achievement system implimented, I was able to start doing these quests to get my own Venomhide Devilsaur mount.

I had to start by showing I can handle the venom they spit, shit, and sweat by allowing myself be attacked and spitted on 20 times. It was insane, but the things I’ll do for a free mount.
2nd, I had to steal four Venomhide Devilsaur eggs, where one of them will be my “mount”. But.. well, this is the thing.

It starts as a hatchling. You got to take it places it needs to go to grow and break off a baby tooth. Each tooth that comes out, is a daily quest that’s completed. So that means 20 RL days until it’s ready to be your mount. And 20 daily quests.
If that’s not bad enough, the quest giver wants me to find 20 Rugged Leather and Runecloth, and also pay 80g. Free mount indeed…

So far I got 3/20 teeth. And so far these quests seem doable. A day after I posted this I talked to an 80 who has this mount, and told me that I’ll have no problem getting it. No group quests. No instance runs. Just getting food for the little guy.
It should be less strenuous than getting Netherwing rep.

This entry is a follow-up on me running out of money on my Tauren Hunter.
During maintenance today, and the 3.2.2 patch being released which broke a few of my addons, I saw this thread in the Suggestions forum, thanking gold buyers.
More like attacking them for what they do. One person caused me to reply by saying “all gold buyers should be permabanned”.

Yeah I opened up my mouth, telling everyone I buy gold. So what I thought. Dammit, punish the sellers, not the buyers. Shit went downhill after this, with everyone agreeing to this person’s reply about I should be permabanned or uninstall my client and let “real players” play.
I eventually gave up when I knew I hadn’t a leg to stand on. So I continued to wait, my head being bothered by that reply. I found out about the patch and attempted to ask when they would fix Spirit Bond from healing you when you’re already at 100% health, when I saw something very scary.
A message that said “ACCOUNT BANNED”. Something about that I’ve been banned from posting on the WoW Forum for 72 hours.

I began to fear the worst. Did this spread to my WoW account? Have what I’ve been doing for years just got trashed all because I admitted to buying gold?!
Fortunately that wasn’t the case. But I still felt like it wasn’t over. That my account was going to go under review. So far it hasn’t.
So I went back to work on my Tauren Hunter. I was questing down in Shadow Hold, a cave in Felwood. Staring at this small round room filled with mobs.

I’m trying to figure out how to make this work so I dismiss my pet and get ready to pull, incase the pull goes bad and everyone gets aggroed and they go after my pet, and Feign Death won’t work effectively.
Fortunately I was able to get the pull right, tried to summon my pet as the mob was spanking me to death, but it said “Spell is not ready yet”.
After FDing, I attempted again. No message, but no pet. I was shocked to see Revive was working when I only dismissed. Fucking lag.

Finally my pet shows up. So, the room is cleared. I attempt to do the quest, and a humongous lag spike hits. I get the XP, but not the quest. Since I’ve been banned by the WoW forum, I cannot tell them what happened. I’m thinking “oh god.. they banned my account!”. But about 5 minutes later the Breaking News on WoW’s login screen shows that they know about it and are trying to fix it.

An hour passes and everything’s up and working again. But now I’m stuck down there. If I got on him, the mobs have probably respawned by now and they would rape me. That’s where Benie came to the rescue (had to hop on him to get him down there) and cleared the room out for me.

I finally escaped that cave, and was able to turn in the quests.
Anyway, before all of this happened, I got on Facepunch and saw others where talking about the downtime, and replied by saying I got banned by saying I bought gold and yadda yadda yadda. Again, shit went downhill as I tried to explain the way I play and why I’m the way I am, and how I don’t need friends.

Yet this whole ordeal has pretty much killed my desire to play this game. Maybe just for the night.
The thought that killed it was probably how I need to be more sociable. And how I’m emotional about it.

Duh, yes I’m emotional. There’s alot that has happened since I started playing this game. Joining a guild. Learning the basics. Learning about the boats, instances and shit. Then doing a raid, having it fail because of some tattle-telling rogue Horde, then having the guild leader quit and making you the new leader.
Then you quit because no one wants to raid where you want to, to get the guild to practice. You start losing friends.
Then you live a life alone, make a Hunter, and get him to 60 without being in a guild, and actually enjoying it. Then you get him to 70, then 80.

People question you why don’t you got good gear and why don’t you care about good gear. I’m too lazy and like doing things on my own.
No guild = No responsibilities = Me being happy. Yet, I’m not happy. I want someone to make me feel better, that it’s OK for me to do what I do. Usually I won’t turn down a good run in an instance. But I do my best to avoid looking for people, due to what hell I’ve went through in the past. I’m tired of depending on people. Needing people. So I rather just do everything myself.

And what’s wrong with guilds? I’m not a team player. I can’t stand being bossed around like I’m in the army. And ALWAYS being available when THEY do a raid. Again, why I like being solo.
I can’t stand seeing someone getting all the credit for making a badass guild and seeing myself in a pose for some guild photo with the guild leader all high and mighty.
Again, can’t be a team player. I’m a Leo. That makes me a leader, not a follower. Since I suck at both, I’m a rogue. Just a rogue Hunter.

Before you say “WoW isn’t the game for you. This is a game where teamwork is important”, let me just say there is NO game out there that’s for me! Not even Gmod. Not one game out there I will accept the rules and play the game as it was intended.
I don’t PvP. I don’t give a shit about having the best gear. I don’t fucking need an e-penis.

I just don’t give a shit anymore what anyone thinks about me. If Blizzard permabans my account over something so incredibly fucking stupid as buying gold, so be it. I’ve bought gold for YEARS, and not once did I feel ashamed for it. I still don’t. But this is the first time I’ve mentioned I have. If Blizzard ever used a tracking device, my account would’ve been banned a long time ago.

My Tauren Hunter is now a Level 54, surpassing my highest-leveled Horde char.
I finally made it to Winterspring today. Got to “my house” that’s part of Starfall Village. I then realized I needed to leave. Because if I do the quests here, I won’t have any quests to get me to Level 60.

When I wasn’t leveling, again using Benie to get Wyrmrest Temple rep. And also to go to Brewfest. I can also go there as Beefhunter.
So anyway, Brewfest is basically a celebration of the Autumn Equinox, or Fall in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s like Oktoberfest, except in September.
You get drunk ’till you can’t see shit, and also eat. But basically Brewfest is just another way Blizzard gets your coins. Sadly it seems to punish low levels from getting all the achievements, making them Level 80 only.
Of course this is expected. It’s been two years since I experienced Brewfest. We where all Level 60’s by then.

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I am facing a dilemma. Financial-wise when it comes to Beefhunter. I’m running out of money by trying to auction stuff I found out in the field. No one wants it, and it’s fucking pissing me off.
Not as much as trying to find better gear in the AH, finding something I need, and it being 230g or some ridiculously high value, when Auctioneer says it only goes for like 1-2g.

There’s also the thing of my Horde char needing quest items that can be bought at the AH. But the Horde AH is always bare. But the Alliance AH, has everything he needs.
It pisses me off having to ask someone at Booty Bay to put in items in for me in the neutral AH, so I can get on my Horde char and fetch them without seeing “You cannot bid on your own item”.
The Neutral AH is the only way both factions can trade items.

I’m in The Hinterlands, heading to do a quest when I get a PM. “ST?”. After some thinking I decide to go there.
As I’m going there, I’m noticing the lack of communication that makes a group bad. No “Who’s tanking?” or “I need to be summoned”. No nothing!
If that wasn’t bad enough, the group leader is having connection problems. She can’t stay on for longer than a minute.
When I finally landed in Stonard and headed to ST, I was the first one there. We had a Druid, who apparently was going to be our tank, that left the group, so I asked if we should get another.

No response until a few of them got there. One of them found a 52 Pally and got him into the group who had things to do, but we where able to summon him with the Warlock in the group.
Soon as we stepped through the portal, it was all-out chaos of some of them not knowing where to go or who to follow. We didn’t even have a true tank. I was pretty much doing off-tank duty because of it.

So we’re doing the lowest level of the instance. The room with the snake statues that have to be pressed in order. Again, the “tank”, who is now the 52 Pally, sitting there trying to hold aggro. But the mobs go after the others, making them tanks. Even I was a tank for a few times.

This didn’t get any better as we headed up to the troll section. Ohh god the frustration and the facepalming I was doing as I was trying to tell them “We got to kill all the mini-bosses to drop the shield”. The tank went his own way and the group was separated several times.

On the first troll fight, I advised the tank to take out the pat who’s walking through this group of mobs infront of us. He did not know what a pat was, so I had to explain to him.. what the fuck. He’s Level 52 and he didn’t know what a fucking pat was?!
You learn that shit by doing Deadmines!

The group thins to three people. Me, the tank, and the healer. I was the only DPS in the group. So we’re now in the dragon section. Once again all-out confusion of where to go. The healer’s getting sleeped, and I’m advising the tank to attack the sleepers. He never does.

Then we get to the dragon boss. And as I knew, she didn’t attack because we didn’t take down the mini-bosses. He was actually thinking it was going to attack, telling us to stay back. So I ran over and I was hearing “Get back here, Beef!” and just walked right over her. He was stunned that she didn’t attack.
After that, the tank said “I guess we’re done then”, and I convinced him it is.. for this group anyway.

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Worst….group…EVER!!! The worst group I have ever been a part of since I started playing WoW. That’s just sad.
The ONLY thing that was actually keeping the thing from falling apart, is because we had one hell of a healer.
At least I got some good XP out of it.

I can’t wait to get this char to 70. I’ll tear up that place.

I have been from here to there, and to hell and back. And I’ve gone from Level 39, to Level 49. A ten level jump in just a few days. Not bad.

I’m two levels away from tying my highest-leveled Horde char. My Level 51 Tauren Shaman. Last time I played my Shaman was, I think less than a week after TBC was released. When I saw the Blood Elf start zone.

As for my other hunter, I’m working on Wyrmrest Temple rep. He’s nearly halfway from being exalted with them and getting a 2nd dragon. All I’m doing is Defending Wyrmrest Temple and that one of bringing a Blue drake.

I still got alot of work ahead of me.

I thought I would never come back. But I did. 4 months. Wow. I got alot of catching up to do.
There’s been two patches. The 3.2.0 patch brings a plethora of fixes. Some useful. Some not.

Such as, you can now get a regular mount at Level 20, instead of 30. And you can get an Epic mount at Level 50 instead of Level 60.
Also, mount casting speed has been decreased to 1.5 seconds, from it’s original 3 seconds.
You can also now fly over Dalaran and Wintergrasp without being demounted, as long as you are at a high altitude. No more no-fly zones! You still get flagged for PvP for flying over Wintergrasp though.
Also, regular Druid Flight Form’s speed is increased to 150% instead of 100%. And speaking of Druids, Cat and Bear Forms now have a skin selector.

But what’s the coolest thing? Nether Drakes now have the same animations as all dragon mounts. Drago is now cooler than he was before. His head isn’t bent down as it was before.
Going to be fun attempting to build him in Gmod.

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There’s still an issue. I still can’t dual-client without the flickering issue in both windows… fortunately it doesn’t cause a BSoD when I try to close out one account.

A post on Facepunch says that there’s a slight bit of talk that Blizzard is starting work on another new expansion.
“Cataclysm” is the rumored name for this expansion. It’s world location is the Maelstrom — the hurricane-like thing in the middle of the WoW map that separates the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. According to Warcraft 3 Lore, it’s where The Sundering took place. The Well of Eternity imploded, and it became the Maelstrom.

Talk that the level cap will be raised to 90 is also a rumor.
And there’s also this that was found. Zones and Levels of the new expansion;
– Maelstrom Set

Gilneas – 77 to 80
Grim Batol – 78 to 81
Kul Tiras – 79 to 82
Kezan – 81 to 86
Tel Abim – 83 to 85
Zandalar – 84 to 87
Plunder Isle – 86 to 88
The Broken Isles – 87 to 90
The Maelstrom – 89 to 90

What’s also interesting is, talk of future expansions even after this one! Possibly seeing a Level Cap of 100… wow.
Imagine.. Benie, Level 100 Dwarf Hunter.

There also looks like with this “Plane Set”, two new races will be introduced into WoW. Just take a look here…

– Plane Set

Pandaria – 1 to 10
Hiji – 10 to 20

Wolfenhold – 1 to 10
Xorothian Plains – 10 to 20

The Green Lands – 88 to 91
The Dying Paradise – 91 to 94
The Emerald Nightmare – 94 to 97
The Eye of Ysera – 97 to 100

Deephome – 88 to 91
Skywall – 91 to 94
The Abyssal Maw – 94 to 97
The Firelands – 97 to 100

– Legion Set

K’aresh – 96 to 99
Argus Meadowlands – 97 to 100
Mac’Aree – 99 to 100
Maw of Oblivion – 100+

Does this mean we got a new expansion coming? Or is this all a joke? Only time will tell.
Something tells me they’re trying to compete with EverQuest, in the Level Cap department. Too bad EQ’s already way ahead of them. But EQ sucks. WoW doesn’t. 🙂