Happy Australia Day!

Ah gotta love a day off work :)

I have RL things to do, but so far my day has been spent grinding Strath and Scholo lol.

Quick update on where I am at:

- Got the DK to 80. I have parked him in his permanent home of IF where I have no desire to move him untill the next expansion drops.

- Got Gadgetzan to Revered, Ratchet to Friendly and the other 2 factions to Hostile (Almost unfriendly.)

- Got 30-40 Darkmoon decks ready to go, I think I'll keep this up even once I have them at Exalted, as I'm making some good gold off them.

Insane grind update

Got Gadgetzan to Revered, and am now grinding pirates just south of Ratchet.
Got Ratchet to Neutral, and Booty and Everlook to Hostile.

I think that Blizz massivly upped the respawn timers of mobs in lower level areas, because I'm getting pirates spawning under my feet in the Barrens (which is awesome).

Subsequently, my Ratchet rep per hour is sitting on about 6k, whereas the spot I was grind in Tanaris was only getting about 4k an hour if there was noone else questing there. (There were always other people questing there).

So the good news is, after 4 months I can finally fly into Ratchet and not get attacked :)

EVE is complicated

I'm struggling a little to play EVE during the week, as the complexity of the game just does my head in a little at the end of a work day.

I'm slowly slowly slowly getting the hang of it, I've done most of the tutorial missions and have even sold a couple of items on the market. Still got a week left on my trial, but I think I will upgrade my account cause I quite enjoy the game :)

I'm struggling finding things to mine though, I checked about 10 asteroid belts near Ultra tonight and there was nothing in them.

Priorities

1. DK to 80 (he's 77 atm)
2. Grind Gadzetzan to Revered
3. Grind Shen guys to Revered
3. Grind Rachet to Revered
4. Learn to Dual Box

In between I will grind daily heroic for badges to buy heirloom and pvp gear.

JOY!!!

Looking ahead for 2010

I've put together a little list of the achievements I am planning on focussing on in WoW, for the first 6 months at least.

Title: 'The Insane'
I have decided to go for this crazy, crazy title. The main reason being the level of commitment required and thus reward, and the fact that I can do it all solo. Current status is:

Bloodsail Buccaneers:
Completed. I grouped with 4 other people, and we nailed this in an hour.

Steamweddle Cartel
Gadgetzan is 1/2 way into Honoured, the other 3 factions are about 30k into Hostile. Currently pissing people off in Tanaris atm as I grind the damn pirates there.

Darkmoon Faire
I think I am Honoured with these guys, spent another 5k yesterday on Darkmoon Card mats. I am slowly plodding towards these guys as I work on the other factions, and have been very surprised at how in-demand these trinkets are considering how easy it is to gear up post 3.3.

Shen'dralar
Been buying Librams and Pristine Black Diamonds when I see them on the AH. Done a couple of runs of Strath for the mount and Admoniable Stichings, I'm also trying to get the sexy piccolo from there too :)

Ravenholdt
Not started. I'm gonna need a rogue for this, I am thinking that I will dual box a rog to 60, then maybe level him to say 65 to make the farming of lockboxes easier. From reading wowhead.com it seems that BRD is the best place to farm these.


100 Mounts
I have been working towards this achievement for the life of my main. I'm currently at 86 mounts, here a possible list of mounts (that don't require RL money) to get me to the magic number:


1. Baron’s Mount

2. Sons of Ho 8k mount

3. PvP mount- (4 possibilites)

4. Winterspring Mount

5. Red proto-Drake- Ties in with Glory of the Hero achievement

6. Iron-bound Proto Drake- Ties in with Glory of the Ulduar Raider achievement

7. Oculus Drake

8. Swift Zehra Mount

9. AT mount

10. AQ40 mounts (Blue)

11. AQ40 mounts (Red)

12. AQ40 mounts (Yellow)

13. AQ40 mounts (Green)

14. ZG raid mount- Swift Razzashi Raptor (Bloodlord Mandokir)
15. ZG raid mount- Swift Zulian Tiger (High Priest Thekal­)

16 & 17 Halaa PVP mounts

I haven't included any of the AT mounts, as I have quit grinding those goddamn dailies.

Edit: Damn, forgot the Violet Protodrake, which I should get after the Elders grindfest.



Glory of the Raider
Ulduar is by far one of my favourite raids for the look, feel, lore and challenge. I'm part of a group that is going in on Friday nights to get the Hadrdmodes done done as part of the achievement. Sure we overgear it, but it's still fun :)

Curret status is:
I've got 3/4 of them, haven't got Pally open atm to check which ones :p.


Glory of the Hero
Another one I have wanted for a while, I am thinking of starting a regular group that spends a couple of hours a week on getting these done.

So there it is, be interested to see where this is at in a couple of months.

2010

Hi online diary, it's been 2 months, did you miss me????

Well, seems that 2 months is a long time playing a MMO. Quick rundown on what's happened since my last post:

- I took a 3 week break from the game (lol) prior to 3.3 dropping, as I was over the grind and over the guild.

- Came back the day 3.3 dropped, on a whim pugged a guild run of ICC. We didn't get Marrowgar down, but it was fun nonetheless.

- Left my guild the next day after the role following my demotion to trail rank. Fair enough I had been dropped from the raider rank as I took a break from the game and wasn't raiding, but to be dropped down to trail without a single word being said to me? Screw that, I want to play a game against the computer not a creepy old hag.

- Ground the new LFG tool pretty hard, got full T9 on my Prot and Ret sets now, only have 2 pieces of Furious Glad gear to get for my PvP set (and damn it's made a difference to my PvP survialbility).

- More grinding towards 'The Insane'. Currently have Gadgetzan 1/2 through Honoured, with the other 3 members of Steamweedle at around 30k into Hated.

- Got my DK to 75, I'm grinding him to 80 just to be ready for the profession grind come Cataclysm. Now to get my priest up to 80 LOL

- Hit 50k gold!!! Very happy with this, I made an assload off transmuting saronite into titanium with little to no competition until the last week. Gem sales have been amazing, and I have sold maybe 30k worth of Darkmoon cards as a byproduct of 'The Insane' grind.

- Played a Orc Rogue to 23, and experienced Durotar and the Barrens first hand :) I LOVE the rogue, and love experiencing the horde side of things given how much I have done on the alliance side. WTF is with alli raiding Crossroads though??? I can only blame small penis syndrome.


So there we are :) I'm enjoying being unguilded, and have no immediate plans to start raiding again. In fact, i am downloading a trail of EVE Online as I type this, looks like an interesting game.