I reached level 42 over the weekend, this is due to the fact that I had some extra time to invest into leveling and that I used Jame’s horde leveling guide on wow-pro.com. I do have to admit I don’t follow the guide exactly because there is a lot of grinding suggested, which is one of those things I don’t enjoy too much although it is a good way to gain XP.

Here is a pic of my progress so far…it is almost a race for me in a way to try to level this character faster than any other I have played. I try to keep time spent not gaining experience to a minimum, I do have mining and blacksmithing as profession and try to work on them every once in a while, surprisingly as I follow the guide I seem to find quite a bit of chests, ore and rare mobs throughout Azeroth. I don’t know if this is a coincidence but I am not complaining.

I respecced once again if you click on my armory link at the bottom of this page you will see I am still retribution, but changed a few things, I don’t have the blessing of kings, which isn’t a big deal, to me anyway. So far I am still enjoying my paladin, although I do miss the high dps of my hunter, the play style is just different, it is fun grouping and being the one saving us in the end with divine intervintion, I used it on a 60 priest who was running us in SM Cath and he didn’t know how to turn it off. I thought that was odd, but then again not every healer out there has grouped with a paladin and not every paladin uses or knows how to use that spell…

In any case the grind will slow down this week as I head back to the real world, until next time friends, keep on grinding…

And so the tale continues…last time when we left our heroin of the land she was at level 22. Now, after much bloodshed, sweat and tears she has reached level 30. I changed my talent build as well to mainly retribution…link is HERE

Basically I am going for all out damage, once I reach a level where I will be raiding, needed for healing I will gladly change my talent build. I found a really interesting post on The Holy Light, he writes about going protection build to take on many mobs at one time. The idea is very cool, I might have to look into that at sometime in the future.

Last night I was asked to join a group to go to the Scarlet Monestary, which I said sure, why not, but I didn’t realize I would be the main healer…since we went into the Cathedral, I had to cast Blessing of Salvation on myself so I wasn’t drawing all the aggro in the place…this also hindered my mana regen since I couldn’t use blessing of wisdom, so every single fight I had to stop and drink…everyone in the group was at least level 39, I was only level 30. We only wiped twice, and I didn’t roll need on anything since it was all way higher level than I could use. One thing I was getting irritated by was the warlock would lifetap after every battle, so here is the situation, everyone lives thanks to my expert healing, I am dry on mana, I sit down and drink, I am full on mana, at the same time warlock is life tapping, which means he was using his health to gain mana, we are all ready for the next fight except he is at 25% health…the tank says heal the warlock…after the 5th time I said I am not healing the warlock because he is using lifetap…the warlock says that is fine cause he can drain life…well, he never drained life and I only healed him when he was about to die in battle…so it is one of those situations where myself, as the only healer, have to choose whether to conserve my mana for the benefit of the group or use it all healing this retarded warlock…

Well, these past few weeks leveling my paladin has been a lot of fun, I really do enjoy healing, more than I like to admit I guess…but I also like being in the middle of the action. I ran SFK and WC multiple times playing duel roles of tank/healer, it wasn’t easy at times, but we always made it through. That was before I changed my talent build of course…now I am dealing a lot more damage, escpecially with a 2 handed weapon. Here is a pic of me doing battle in Hillsbrad yesterday…

I have a few people searching and come across my site looking for a Mirage UI screenshot, well here you go, I have it customized to how I like it. I also use healbot for healing, works out well for the most part and makes my job pretty easy. I ran into a little problem the other day when I had the quest where you have to control the robot to get the moonwell water, yeah I didn’t have my pet bar active, so I had to figure out how to find it, took me a few minutes but I got it working and completed the quest…now I have it right out in the open for next time…never know when you will have to control a pet…never even considered that when I hid the petbar…oh well…

Overall I am completely satisfied being a paladin, I love all the bubbles, the spells that counteract almost everything, the fact we get a free mount at 40 and it looks pretty damn cool…I will be a true blood knight in no time, and I can’t wait.

I have no reason to start playing another character, maybe someone can help me out with that…I started playing my Troll Shaman and wasn’t having much fun with him…so, I created a blood elf paladin, I really enjoy this toon so far. Spent the weekend leveling up knocking out quests in the ghostlands, eventually making my way to silverpine forest, next step is Tauren Mill. I reached 22 yesterday, did some Wailing Caverns runs, which didn’t get me much gear, just some XP. I have to say that I enjoy playing the horde more than the alliance, mostly because there are less people, and those who do play the horde (for the most part) are willing to help others out and not as greedy. As a gamer who has toons on both sides of the fence I see a big difference in the economy as well. There is less inflation on the horde side, but also less supply, which raises the price on certain items…so there is good and bad on both sides. Overall I do enjoy the skills and abilities of a pally, match those with the mana tap ability and it takes a lot to kill my paladin.
I joined a guild when I first started which is mainly an alt guild, but because I am putting so much time into this toon, it has temporarily became my main…so I had to find a guild with people on, more out of necessity than anything else. Finding other players for group quests and dungeons is difficult enough, for the most part, the other players are around my level, so I look forward to some good times in the future with that.
As far as alt or main goes, I don’t like to put a generic label on my toons, because I have quite a few on the 2 servers I play on, it kind of depends on my mood or what I feel like doing that day. I enjoy seeing the game from both sides, there are so many quests to do, and in a way it is like playing a whole new game. Silvermoon City is really cool, there are numerous mailboxes spread out all over, 2 auction houses, 2 inns, a translocation orb which takes you directly to the undercity. That saves so much time, for example, I joined a WC group, while I was quesing in the Ghostlands and hearthed to Silvermoon, orbed to UC, caught the Zep to Org, then just had to run to crossroads…total time took maybe 20 minutes. Compare that to the Alliance side of the house where if we wanted to go to WC, if I were playing a Dwarf, I would have to run to the Wetlands, catch the boat to Menethil, try to run all the way to WC…total time probably an hour…after the first run you get the flight path, but that first run is always the hardest…and without a mount it just adds to the time wasted. With the new feature of the Summoning Portal at instances it can save all that time if there are 2 people already there…
Transportation has improved a lot since I first started playing a little over 2 years ago, I just hope it keeps getting better.
As far an my alt’s and main’s, they are all creations of me, it is hard to say which toon’s I like the most, some I play part-time, some I don’t play at all, and others I play daily. Some would say it could be attributed to a personality disorder, or some other way of seeking out a path to something…who knows? But I do know I am not the only one out there with a lot of Alt’s, feel free to share your thoughts here…I am curious what other people think about this and how many and possibly why you play alternate toons in this great game of WoW.

The title best describes my Shaman. I decided to go with a build of 0/40/21. I do enjoy the 2 handed fighting backed up with the capable healing. It is hard to pick just one style and go with that when you have a hybrid class with so many cool abilities. But, after playing this week I have picked Enhancement as my main talent tree.
I reached honored reputation with Thrallmar last night, and I haven’t even reached level 62 yet, but I picked up 2 of these badass axes:

Brunt’s Waraxe.
And I am seeking some attack power and added strength and agility gear to replace half of my gear which is primarily for casting purposes.
It is funny how quickly the gear can be upgraded in the Outlands, I think I only have about 2 or 3 pieces left from the pre-BC days…
Of course choosing your talents is a big decision and I get a lot of visits from people who are looking for a template or maybe just get some ideas. All I can say is pick your talents based on your particular play style and how you play your character the best. Maybe because my first character I ever played in WoW was a warrior I am accustomed to the in your face action of a melee class dealing out the damage and taking the majority at the same time. Like I said in the last post I have retrained my shaman a lot of times, and I will more than likely do it again sometime down the road, but for now I will remain the melee caster wannabe witch doctor troll out there kicking ass.

Unlike my previous post stated, I haven’t begun my beast lord set grinding yet. Blame it on ADD or ADHD or whatever, but I decided to go back and work on leveling my long lost troll shaman, Drollam. He is on my original server, Blackhand and I have a friend who plays there part-time as well, so that is nice. The weekend primarily consisted of reaching level 61 and having fun with PVP taking over the stadium, the overlook and broken hill. I teamed up with a blood elf paladin throughout the day and learned some techniques which basically means we were playing hide and go seek… What do you expect when the Alliance outnumber the Horde almost 2 to 1?

Along the same lines I am wondering if I can get some suggestions on a good leveling build for my shaman, I swear I have retrained about 5 times throughout the life of this guy and my current build is 0/30/21, which is alright I guess, but my last build was PVP, focusing on DPS and I really enjoyed that, but it isn’t practical for PVE…I have read wowwiki and their suggestions are what I am using, anyone able to help me out here? Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment, thanks!

I have decided to focus on getting the Beast Lord Armor set. Since I started playing this hunter right before the BC release I figured I might as well start here instead of trying to go back and get the tier .5 gear it only makes sense…so here is a short summary of it with locations to find it as well…

Beast Lord Curiass drops from Warp Splinter, endboss of Botanica in Tempest Keep
Beast Lord Handguards drops from Warchief Kargath Bladefist, endboss of The Shattered Halls in Hellfire Citadel
Beast Lord Helm drops from Pathaleon the Calculator, endboss of The Mechanar in Tempest Keep
Beast Lord Leggings drops from Warlord Kalithresh, endboss of The Steamvault in Coilfang Reservoir
Beast Lord Mantle drops from Warlord Kalithresh, endboss of The Steamvault in Coilfang Reservoir

So, before I go through the trouble of getting attuned for Karazhan this will be the first order of business for Giznad.

It was a long hard road, but I finally made it to that magic number of level 70…all the quests after this reward me with vast riches and my wealth is bound to accumulate substantially from this point on…yeah right!
Well, as far as getting gold for quests, yes that is true, but after buying the flying mount training and the gryphon I am left with wondering, will it ever end? I mean I know this is a game with no final act where they say, thanks for playing, see you when the next expansion comes out, but man, they have mastered the art of sucking you in that you don’t even see how much of a stranglehold it has on you until it is too late. Grasping for air, asking the Dr. where you are…normal stuff for some people…but this is a game, I love it, is that wrong?
As far as the good side of the whole story, I really enjoy the freedom the flying mount affords me, quests are so easy to finish now cause you don’t have to manipulate your way through a whole bunch of mobs to click on one little thing, instead, just swoop in like superman, finish and off, off and away! Yeah, and pvp is more enjoyable as well…what little I do partake in that.
I picked up a level 60 boar from EPL this week with the idea that he will become my super tank pet, since blizzard hates hunters, this is the feeling I get, I can’t help it! They don’t have any pigs that you can tame in the outlands…why? I don’t know…so I have been leveling my pig, porkfatrules, and getting my skinning skill up there at the same time.
I got a valuable lesson in how to kite an elite boss yesterday, since I have only watched the hunter run out of blackhand’s room with rhen close behind I didn’t get much training in that part of being a hunter, so yesterday was crash course in kiting a mob without it killing you…which once I figured out the distracting shot, with aspect of the cheetah and cuncussion shot combo it was too late he had caught me and resisted my feign death…oh well, now I know, and that is half the battle
On a side note, over the years of playing this game and starting a small guild and joining a few others, making friends and losing them due to whatever reason, I have realized my rule of NOT LENDING GOLD TO ANYONE is a good rule to have. Because of the fact that there is no actual lending process set in a contract once you give someone gold you never know if you will ever get it back. So to anyone out there reading this, I don’t lend gold to anyone, don’t take it personal, it is my rule, if you feel like it is because I don’t trust you, then all I can say is sorry, but I don’t ask for gold and I don’t give it away…period.
Until next time I will be lost in the grind working on my reputation, my gear and my epic flying mount fund…good luck out there!

I’ve been working hard completing tons of quests and as of 6 p.m. yesterday I was at around 40% through level 69. The last upgrade of skills included snake trap, which is my new best friend when it comes to traps. The trap when set off releases close to 10 snakes, vipers, etc. each one inflicts poison effects on the victim draining hp and slowing the target, also they draw aggro off my pet and myself which is great in those close calls…
I spent the majority of the weekend in Netherstorm. It is almost amazing how quests there are to complete there, so many chains and various other group quests to complete add up the experience points very quickly. I tamed my latest pet in the eco-dome he is a lynx cat, was level 68 when I got him, named him Ira. I have been on this latin name kick lately, the name loosely translates to wrath, which I thought was appropriate for a pet, he has learned all the additional skills he can, dash is essential at times and growl a must for any pet in my opinion.
I plan to reach end level 70 by the end of the week if all goes well especially with rested XP giving me that extra little advantage. I got my skinning up to 315, I haven’t done much mining and actually am considering switching my profession, not sure to what yet, I have enough gold saved up for my non-epic flying mount, but that epic one is going to take some time to buy, with the 5800 gold cost that might take months to reach, who knows, maybe I can start running some instances and getting some good gear to sell on the auction house.
Quests in the outland on average will give you between 4-7 gold each depending on difficulty and if I can’t use any of the gear that is the reward I try to pick the most expensive and vendor it for gold.
I really enjoy questing because it makes the time go by so fast and the XP gained is awesome.
I am enjoying my new guild, HSOIW as well, spending some time on teamspeak I have got to meet a few people, I need to get a mic that works so I can join in some conversations.
I installed uniloader from rpgoutfitter.com it updates my character’s information automatically, which is neat to see, I will post a link for it in the future.
Until next time, keep on grinding, it’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it!

Yes, I have been hard at it as usual, so many quests, so little time, spent most of my time soloing the quests, today, I grouped up with a few different groups and knocked out some elite quests in Nagrand, which is by far my favorite zone in the Outlands. The scenery, the quests, everything a Hunter could want, Hemet Nesingwary is there, and he gave me a really nice gun for completing his long chain of quests.
I joined up for some PVP action as well, earned enough to get a new belt…I have a ravager and a windserpent as pets now as well…considering a raptor in the future, not sure yet.
With the elite quests, come the occasional nice blue item, finally getting some good gear, which is a plus.
I left the ABSOLUTION guild yesterday, basically the guild was dead, I feel bad, but I joined up with a guild called, HSIOW, from a George Carlin standup, Holy Shit It’s Only Wednesday! So far, things are going well, oh I haven’t mentioned the amount of gold you can earn, I purchased my elite ram and now am back up to 400 gold, I don’t buy much off the AH, occasional upgrade here and there…saving up for that flying mount once I ht 70…
If anyone is ever on the Sen’jin server alliance feel free to give a shoutout to me, Giznad I will be more than happy to hang out, quest, whatever….

It always comes down to that one word doesn’t it? That word is WOW! You know you see the little films and the youtube videos that weren’t supposed to be released…but when you finally make that trip into the dark portal for yourself it’s like starting the game all over again. Which in a way you are, by that I mean, this is a whole new world to explore and discover and kill and hang out and all that great stuff WoW is made up of…
Some advice from me would be to have your skills maxed out to 300 because at honor hold there is almost every profession trainer there to take you to the next level, and you want to keep leveling your professions believe me.
To get to the outlands simply go to the blasted lands just south of the swamp of sorrows, it is a short flight from Stormwind. There is a guy standing in the pit who has a quest to give, take it and step inside and make a left and turn it in, take the bird to honor hold and there you go…
BEWARE THE FEL REAVER!That mofo can come on you so fast that you don’t have a chance at surviving…He is a giant mechanical thing that wanders all over hellfire peninsula.

Thursday, the day I finally started playing there were a whole bunch of other people trying to complete all the same quests as me, but in a way it was good because blizzard has changed the spawn rate system so that the more people killing mobs the faster they respawn, it was to the point of nonstop killing these 2 or 3 mobs for me in one area where you have to collect the talismans…the drop rate was crappy as usual and nobody was partied because that would take away from your xp points earned, and that is another thing, with over 200k rested XP getting over 1k a kill is nice…
I hit level 61 with Tabeyus yesterday, he is my feral druid. alt or main whatever, I enjoy playing him as well as Giznad…who by the way hit level 58 yesterday, I am considering entering the portal, but hesitant, because I know how hard it can be in there, so I might at least level to 59 before taking the leap forward…
In any case from what I have seen so far Blizzard has once again outdone itself with the latest expansion…I couldn’t believe it when I heard there are people at level 70 already, I mean come on, are they freaking zombies?! Do they sleep? Until the next update, I will be lost in the grind.