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Today has been the opposite of what you would expect for a Friday the 13th. I’ve had alot of good luck today.
It started as another round of leveling, slowly closing in on that ever-wanting Level 77. I’ve been questing nonstop in Dragonblight.
Soon, when I was like 99% into Level 76, I tried killing a few mobs to hopefully ding. Tried turning in a few quests… and then finally…
DING 77!! 😀

I ran as fast as I could to the drake awaiting me at Wrymrest Temple, paying him to take me to Dalaran. Once there I said “gimmie my Cold Winter Flying!”, paid for it, mounted up, and started flying outside of Dalaran, getting XP for discovering areas.
Anyway, I got this new quest from Dalaran, called “Where in the world is Hermet Nessingway?”… lol, Carmen Sandiego reference anyone? So I got into this flying machine and went though a portal that took me to this ohhh so beautiful place called ‘Sholazar Basin’, it’s for Level 77-80. As I was flying to find Nessingway, I was intercepted by some bomber that started firing missiles at me.
One of them hit me and brought me down into this jungle… it looks like Stranglethorn Vale and Un’goro Crater in one zone. A true rainforest. If only I had one of those sharp swords to chop through the brush.
To continue this, I found the old coot, Nessingway, at this base camp. Apparently he doesn’t remember what I did for him in Nagrand, and for his son at STV.
So I started scouting around this new zone, uncovering areas. One of the more interesting features of the zone is these 3 mountains with flat tops. They all have different-colored crystals on them and on the top, with this strange device hovering over them and making a hurricane-like design on the top of it.
So I decided to head back to Dragonblight to continue questing. As I approached Borean Tundra, I was also flying over a PvP zone called ‘Wintergrasp’. Now this zone has this thing protecting it from flying mounts, known as a “no-fly zone”. If you go into it, you have 6 seconds to leave or your mount disappears from under your feet, and you parachute down safely to the ground.
I flew over the rim of it, lost my mount and parachuted near that crashed Necro..floating thing, whatever their called, and got aggroed by a ghoul.

To make a long story short (too late), I finally got the nerve to head to The Nexus. It took time to get a group, but I finally got in. We got all the quests done, including “rescuing” the dragon who was going to be Malygos’ new consort, but I was too late to save her. It still brings pain to me that I had to kill her. But at least I stopped Malygos once again. And I also stopped him from tearing the fabric of time and space.

Malygos is more of a fool than he is an enemy. He will kill himself and Azeroth if he succeeds. Because he’s using too much power at once. And I was wrong about him using Mages for some kind of death ray. Instead of using them, he tells his Mage Hunters to kill all mages.
He’s using Azeroth’s “lay lines”, which is the world’s energy, connecting Azeroth, to the real world.
And that’s not the only threat the red flight have. The Lich King is also an issue. The scourge are invading once ancient dragon burial grounds, such as the Ruby Dragonshrine, and resurrecting the dragons as Emberwryms and Frost Wryms.
It now seems that The scourge are starting to become a bigger problem than the Blue Dragonflight. Which is actually good.

And so, here I am, typing while I’m in Goldshire, getting some much-needed R&R from what has been a very grueling battle to get just to Level 77.
Tomorrow I will head back to Northrend, and start to uncover all areas…hopefully Icecrown as well. Then I’ll finally be called “Benie the Explorer”.

I’m now Level 76! 😀 Just one away from getting my wings back, via Cold Winter Flying. I’m finished with the Borean Tundra, and the Grizzly Hills.
Now I focus my attention on the zone I nearly stopped leveling because of; Dragonblight.

So far I’m liking the quests. Killing members of the blue flight. Stopping the scourge for advancing. But probably the coolest, and I say most honorable quest I’ve ever done, was defending Wrymrest Temple.
What’s so cool about it? It’s not the fact that I get to finally live my fantasies as battling on a dragon and controlling him, but the fact the quest is a Daily. Meaning, I can do it once every day.

Why does it feel like an honor though? The fact I get to help against the blue flight, and be on a red drake, battling the blue dragons using my dragon’s attacks. Your classic fireball and stuff.

You really get to feel how bad the danger is if the red flight fails to defeat the blue flight, when you’re getting ganked left and right by enemy dragons. But at least you can heal your dragon and fight again.

And as an added bonus, if you complete this daily quest in 2 minutes or less, you get an achievement.

Anyway.. where was I? Ohh.. heh. Sorry. I just get in that “Ohh god that quest was sooooo epic.” mood. I guess the fact I’m one away from flying in Northrend, I could talk about the struggle I got here from Level 70.
I’m actually damn surprised I made it this far. I don’t feel any stronger though. I guess since most of the gear on me has been on me since Level 70. Haven’t found any upgrades. Except for my cloak, boots, wrists, and recently my shoulders.
Yesterday I did my first group instance since I quit WoW, which was in Dragonblight. Some instance called “Azur’Naub” or something like that(I’m currently typing all of this out of game right now. Trying to figure out why ChatThrottleLib isn’t showing up).
All I did basically was just solo quests, and kill a few straggling mobs here and there which helped me to ding.

I started in Howling Fjord. Did a few quests. Did a few more. Explored alittle, and finally got to Level 71.
As I got closer to 76, I began to get more aggressive at questing. Making sure I stick to them to get there as quick as I could.
Questing in general has been alot better than it was going from 60-70. At this time, 10 levels before, I was in Nagrand questing. And the hardest place to quest was Zangarmarsh.
Here, I’ve only been to Howling Fjord, Borean Tundra, and now Dragonblight. There was a few dull moments, but when it comes to the collection quests, they weren’t nearly as bad as in Zangarmarsh… ugh.
I had to pay someone to level my Druid to get to Nagrand… I couldn’t stand leveling at Zangar.

Anyway, I’m glad I pushed myself to get this far. If it wasn’t for my pet, Norb, I don’t think I would’ve had a chance.

Which is worse, I ask you?…
The way I’ve been following the quests in the Borean Tundra, it seems like The Blue Dragonflight is 10x worse than what the Lich King could do. And me being “They are so going down for this! Lets go! We have to win! I need epic music for this battle!” doesn’t help either.
My “little” dragon obsession / RPing is making it hard for me to concentrate on questing and getting to Level 80, since I can’t stop thinking on what The Blue Dragonflight will do if they succeed. According to what I read, if they don’t stop, Azeroth will be the next Outlands.

But how did it come to this you ask? Well, I’ve been following another quest chain that starts off as finding a key fragment from one of the dragonkin of Coldarra. It turns into a big key that unlocks a human from a prison deep inside The Nexus.. but not any ordinary human. Of course not. This one’s a dragon in human form(you can easily find that out when she calls you a mortal. Only dragons call you a mortal)
And she tells you that you’re ready to end this endless battle of Red VS Blue over Azeroth by ending Malygos’ life(he’s the leader of the blue flight), but first you must kill his consort. Anyway to make a long quest line short, after killing the consort in human form, she tells you to head into Coldarra and meet up with her in her true form, where she dumps the corpse of his consort that you killed, but he blames her, freezes her and tells her that she will be her new consort and they disappear.
So you run back to the quest giver, and he tells you to go in there and get her out… of course this means going into The Nexus, which is filled with elites and needs a group.

So I’m all in my RP mode “I’m sorry.. I wish I could save her. But I’m not strong enough” and abandon the quest, and it just keeps bugging me in my head that I should save her, making it hard as hell to focus on leveling. Plus there was this music playing in Pandora that just really set the “Dammit…why” mood.
But I have read in thottbot that she doesn’t escape. Infact I believe you have to kill her and Malygos, because the quest giver talks about “a great loss”, but then acts like any other quest giver by saying “thanks for your help. Take what you want and leave kthxbye.” and that’s it. And you’re just supposed to move on.

In a way I know it’s ‘just a game’, but my RPing brain wants to act like I have to win the fight for the red flight. Plus I have a tendency to grow attached to NPC’s(and… my obsession does NOT help).
But this is the thing that kicks me… have we all forgotten the real reason this EP was created? Why is The Blue Dragonflight so much more “OMG WE GOT TO STOP THEM OR THEY’LL DESTROY AZEROTH!!!” than the Lich King and the Scourge taking over Stormwind and Ironforge if we don’t stop him?!
I mean, we have our own battle to deal with the Lich King. He’s the reason why we’re in Northrend. To get to Level 80, go to Icecrown, and pwn that fucker! And I soooo want revenge for what he made me do as a Death Knight. But why are we meddling in the affairs of dragons?
When it came to Burning Crusade, defeating the fel beasts spewing out from Shadowmoon Valley, controlled by Mr “You are not prepared!!” was the ONLY thing that needed to be done, and that was it. There wasn’t no 2nd trouble.

It is good to RP. But I don’t like it when it gets in the way of me getting to at LEAST level 77 so I can get my flying mount back.

The only thing I’ve seen against the Lich King is just here and there, and it also seems The Bronze Dragonflight is trying to battle the scourge in Dragonblight.. somewhat. There’s a quest I haven’t completed yet where you can mount a swift snow griffin and rescue civilians from the scourge. But at the Wrymrest Temple, once again “Benie. It’s good you have come. We need your help to stop the blue flight!”. Actually it’s kinda more painful there, if you look up into the sky that is and see the dragons battling over power, and the loser gets a 1 way trip to the ground.
And if that’s not all, the queen of dragons herself, the all powerful Queen Alexstrasza(which is also the name of the realm I play) is also there.

I can only think and presume that this Malygos, the leader of The Blue Dragonflight, was made evil by the Lich King. But there doesn’t seem to be a official connection between them. So we’re pretty much fighting two separate battles. Both want to end all life on Azeroth as we know it.

I’m surprised I did it without angry’s help, but I made the move. I’ve decided to shut down the Dragon blog.
Reasons are I’m not active in Facepunch anymore. But now the fact I’m back in WoW, I’ve decided to make the switch of this old blog.

So. I got some time to move the many WoW posts I made in the Personal blog to this, and put the old dragon blogs in the archive, which I’ll let angry do, if he can.

I’ve seen some wild shit lately in WoW(and no I’m not talking about the Lupus Pupus quest), but none of that raised my epic bar higher than it has ever been in my life, than what I went through last night in the Borean Tundra.

In a neutral town, a base of the Kin Tor called Amber Ledge, lives a group known as the famous Red Dragonflight, the last hope of human survival. And the FP… is a dragon named Surristrasz(1 epic point).
Anyway, you do quests for the Kin Tor. But the one quest I wanna talk about is what starts off as pretty dull turns into FUCKING AWESOME EPIC. The quest being “Nick in Time“, who a gnome tells you she was saved by ‘Mages on the backs of drakes’.
As the quest goes on, you are told to find this key after interrogating this guy. First you have to get through The Blue Dragonflight, who is responsible for abducting Mages for some kind of thing to destroy all of Azeroth.
Once you have the key, you’ll realize it’s broken. And that’s where the epicness begins to come in! 🙂 The guy will tell you that he doesn’t want to disturb Lord Surristrasz, so tells you to do it. So not only you got a dragon for a flightpath, but you have a quest giver(1 epic point).
So you run up to the big, sleeping dragon, and talk to him. And he’s all “Why do you disturb me, mortal?”, and you got to tell him to forge this key.
So he gets up… and uses his own dragon fire to forge it(10 epic points). And that doesn’t stop there. He puts you in charge of his elite fighting drakes to rescue this Mage trapped on a floating platform(5 epic points).
So you walk up to this other guy, show him the now forged key, and then… you take to the air(15 epic points) with these guys called Warmages, and they get to the floating platform, you circle it, and then move in for the kill(50 epic points).
After you rescue the “damsel in distress”, she ports you back to the tower there. And after I got this quest called “Dragonspeak”, it took me 5 minutes to get the epicness out of my system.

That is probably the fucking coolest thing I have ever done in my life. Fighting along side those dragons… ohhh god. So epic.
And this is why I love dragons. 😀

Day… hmm. When did I start playing again? .. Ohh yeah. February 25th. So this is Day 6 I think.
Alot has happened since I first got back into WoW. But unfortunately, my depression from Wurm has also found it’s way in.
Alright. How to say all of this without it being a omgtoobigihavetoscrollformiles entry…well. I’ve finally decided to go to Northrend today. It wasn’t bad. Nicer than Outland, but also more difficult. I was going “HOLY SHIT I’M GOING INTO A CAVE!!!” when the boat I was on went into a cave to turn around and get to the dock.
First thing I realised is, no meat vendor.
2nd, leaving the area is VERY, very difficult. There’s these guys called “Dragonflayers”, apparently corrupted by the Lich King. They look like norsemen.
3rd. The quests aren’t really helpful in knowing where to go and what to do. But maybe I’m not thoroughly reading them. I believe it’s due to my depression.

We’ll get to that later. Now I wanna talk about my new pet. Dino. I went to Un’Goro after I visited Northrend, to get myself a Devilsaur, thinking that my pet wolf, Norb, just isn’t ready, and I need something more.. bigger, and less… un-nerfed. Which is 1 reason for my depression.
Anyway, I searched Un’Goro. I couldn’t find the bastard for the life of me. All I saw was King Mosh, the 60 elite, and an Ironhide Devilsaur. I wanted a red one. Tried to tame King Mosh, kept getting feared halfway of taming.
Tried the Ironhide, and finally got him. (to make a long story short…) after a long time I finally went back to Un’Goro after learning I can freeze the mob before I tame it, and it won’t use Fear on me. It worked, I got the Devilsaur I want, went back to GS. The person that showed me how to freeze the mob saw me and cheered.

And now, we go straight do the thing that’s sucking all the fun out I once had for this game… depression. Why am I depressed again, you ask? I honestly don’t know.
I have quests I need to do, but I’m not in the mood to. Hell. I’m pretty much not in the mood to do anything, and I wish I knew why.
I guess it’s just kinda hard for me to focus. It isn’t so simple as being overwhelmed as I was when I arrived in Outland as a Level 60, and I still do remember that. People everywhere, trying to get to Level 70, and I definitely did feel overwhelmed.
Now… now, it’s not so easy. I didn’t feel overwhelmed when I went in Northrend… I felt weak. Nerfed. Not feeling like I’m ready. And on my own. Also, Northrend seems like it’s 1/4 smaller than Outland.

I’m suffering from VERY low self-esteem. And I wish there was a way to raise it.
I probably need to join a nice, friendly guild. But I don’t wanna feel tied down, having to participate in their raids and what not.
All I really want, is guidance. To tell me.. I….am… READY! But with the “fuck off and don’t tell me how to play my Hunter” attitude I feel, it will not be easy.

Not playing in nearly 2 years does not help the situation. Before BC was released, I trained.. hard. And I felt ready. Now… I feel like shit. And I have dominated countless instances. But that doesn’t seem to get my self-esteem back. I lack the enjoyment of questing I once had.

After 12 patches, I FINALLY got back ingame and saw my Level 70 Dwarf Hunter who I haven’t seen for nearly 2 years.
I left him in the snowy lands of Dun Morogh, near Kharanos. After playing around with the settings, raising the graphics, and running the game in windowed mode, I had him set… sorta.
You see, the years of hiatus took a toll on him. I lost the fake Guild for one thing(maybe I lost it and never had it), and all of my Talents where reset, and I forgot what I used, where, and how much.
Not to mention the fact I have no addons, my HUD’s icons are scrambled in places, and it’s tough to bring them back to playable status.

And that’s not bad enough, I forgot how to play as a Hunter. I better relearn and fast if I’m going to go to Northrend one of these days.

Well, enough of my problems. Lets get down to the nitty-gritty. For the most part, nothing has changed since they released WoTLK, zone-wise. I’m not saying the UI hasn’t been changed. With a helpful hunter tracking icon by the minimap(also able to track important NPC’s such as Repair, Flight Masters, Bankers, and stuff like that), a calendar, a clock that can be set to your time, and has a built-in alarm.
Anyway, after running around with my existing mounts(still got my Great Blue Elekk I worked my ass off to get.. thank god), I started learning about the new Achievements system.
I then rested in Westfall and tried to set my HUD better, and then had the idea to do it in the quiet of Winterspring. So I ran through Wetlands, get to Menethil Harbor, and noticed the boat to Auberdine isn’t there anymore.
Instead it’s replaced with a boat going to Northrend. I wondered how in the fuck am I going to get there, and went to Theramore Isle, through the Barrens, up to Ashenvale, and finally to Auberdine. Finally saw the boat that would normally go from Menethil Harbor, and noticed it goes to… Stormwind??
Intrigued, I go towards the boat and board it, wondering where it will go. When it crossed the sea, I arrive at… Stormwind! “HOLY SHIT THEY GOT A HARBOR!!!” I yelled. I couldn’t, and still can’t believe I completely missed something so obvious!

So that’s basically where I am. The new area of SW is between Cathedral Square and The Park. Before it was fenced in, now you can go right through it.. and WOW is it awesome-looking.
That’s not all that is good and awesome. The boats themselves have gone though an overhaul. There’s NPC’s on the boat that you can interact with, repair your armor, and trade goods. And if that’s not cool enough, you can sit on the boat, while sitting on your mount!
That’s one feature I will truly love.

Was it worth going back to WoW? So far, yes. I can also do old quests I never had a chance to. Even quests that you can only get as a certain race, say like Night Elf quests. You can do them now.
I don’t know why, but I like the fact you have the option. It may have to do with the achievements.

I thought this day would never come. Or the source of the desire to come back wouldn’t come from a place I wouldn’t think would help me.
But… I’m BACK! 😀 Does that mean I’m done with Wurm? Hell no. I will still play Wurm.

Anyway, like I’ve been saying for the past few weeks, I thought about going to WoW, but was unsure about it. So, I finally had the balls to ask a forum I thought would laugh at me… Facepunch. But instead, they helped me. Not as much as I wanted, but it was enough to reconsider going back. They showed me pictures on how awesome the new EP was…and wow where they nice.
The real thought is “Just give it a try. Maybe you’ll luck out and find all of your old addons that will work again.”, and so I found my WoW CD’s and installed them. When it was time to set up a new account, thinking my old account surely has been wiped for not playing for nearly 2 years, I found out my CD key was already used…
“Does this mean my old account is still active?” I thought.
So I called Blizzard’s account support and explained the situation. They told me that they do NOT delete accounts. Only the credit card info…meaning my Level 70 Dwarf Hunter is STILL ALIVE!!!
The person retrieved my old account info, telling me my long forgotten account name, and resetted my password.

After getting off the phone, I tried to connect. After several unsuccessful attempts, I finally got in(due to when I copy/pasted the new password, I accidentally had a space in it and it treated it like an additional character. And that’s when I saw him… Benie, Level 70 Dwarf Hunter. I wanted to scream with joy. I thought I would never see him again after all of these years.
I also saw my Tauren Shaman. Benthetauren. Still Level 31.

I have already ordered WoTLK(Wrath of The Lich King; the 2nd EP), and the official strategy guide. They should be here sometime in early March.
I’ll take this time to get on Benie, see if my fake Guild is still there(surely it is), and start learning how to play after all of these years.
I’ll use the time it will take to get the new EP to start leveling my Tauren Shaman.

I guess it’s time for a status report of my new boat dock. Well. I say I got it about.. 20-25% complete.
I’m currently working on the Corbita’s parking spot as it’s bigger and requires more dirts. I currently have 3 out of the 5×4 rolls of tiles I need for it, and starting work on the 4th row. Once it’s completed I’ll dredge away the middle tiles to make the dock.
As for the Sailboat dock, it should be easier to build.

Though I cannot give you an estimated time when this thing will be completed. Because I slack off pretty easily instead of working. Mostly due to having to do this myself, and having to dredge and bring it back, then dredge some more.., and some more… and some more… (etc).
What would help tremendously is if I had my rowboat from Bearback Lake, here, as a dredger.
I can just leave it at the spot I got to dredge instead of use my main way of getting around Wurm(my sailboat) as a dredger.

But, there’s issues with that. The fact Mouchard is taking his time to plan and make the tunnel from Bearback Lake to at least the RC/West Coast tunnel.

With JK-H down for 30 minute maintenance, this gives me a chance to explain all the ‘exiting’ things that have been happening over the past few weeks.
First and foremost, I’ve moved to what was Anayysoan Point, which what was Devil’s Gate, North-Northeast of NH. It’s called “Dragon Haven”, due to where MD and Drago used to live(Drago still lives there).

2nd thing, I now know how to flatraise!… again. Thanks to Sneakeypete who helped me last night, and stayed there to make sure I remember how to do it everytime. I can’t thank him enough. 🙂
I’m using this… revived knowledge, to extend the dock to a 2×7.. or something like that. Maybe a 2×5. I dunno. Whatever is needed.

3rd thing, I got me a new toy. My very own Corbita! 😀 Bought it for a nice price of 6.5s. It’s called the Dragon’s Head. I took it out for a spin 3 days after I lost power. Which is the 4th thing. But it’s not Wurm related. Yesterday I imped it since it was at 11QL. Got it to about 26-28 I think.

And that’s pretty much it. Other than angry being a bastard and not giving me meals because I won’t appreciate what I did for Bennie Bay(which all I did was fund it). But that’s pretty much what has been happening.