Archive for November, 2005

My God! How much did the level twenty talents cost?!?

I’m really starting to feel broke now.

I read a web site that said my wind serpent was one of the very few bad pets in the game, so I got rid of it. Tried a few new pets, before deciding for some reason that it would be fun to tame a level three spider and level it up into something useful. Which basically means I won’t have a useful pet for a long, long time, which is a bit of a disadvantage, really.

Oh, and it took me thirty-six hours to get up to level twenty. That’s thirty-six hours in… has it been two weeks yet? I don’t think so. What makes it so compulsive? I wish I could tell.

Won’t let me name my new wind serpent ‘Norma Jean’.

Invalid name.

Stupid game.

Dunno if I’ll keep her, anyway. She only eats bread and cheese, both of which cost money. Meat and fish eating pets are much easier to keep happy.

Lots of good stuff this evening. I made it up to level eighteen and Pooh got up to level seventeen. We went into contested territory for the first time and found a bear that was so high level the game wouldn’t even tell me what level it was. Pooh died. I ran. That’s what pets are for. Learnt some new skills that might come in handy. Made myself a new gun.

Trouble was, the gun cost me a lot of money. I found the parts I could, but I ended up having to buy some parts, including some expensive leather to complete it, which really wasn’t cheap. I guess I could have asked the guild for the leather, but I don’t want to leech. I can’t contribute anything yet, after all. Anyway, the new skills and the gun parts cost well over 1G and my previously healthy balance is now looking a lot lower than I’d like.

It occurs to me that I probably could have bought a new weapon that was better than the gun for half the price it ended up costing me, but I like making my own stuff. And I have to get my engineering skills up somehow.

Gah.

I’ve been opening ports and forwarding ports and shutting down virus scanners and all sorts, but I get disconnected everytime I go somewhere with more than about three other people in it. Orgrimmar, Undercity, even The Crossroads, just disconnect after disconnected after disconnected. It’s just taken me about forty-five minutes to get from the gate of Ogrimmar, to the windmaster in Orgrimmar, to the windmaster at The Crossroads, to the inn at The Crossroads. Sometimes I was being disconnected before I could even walk one step.

Gah.

Not much fun.

Well, I thought I’d play it for an hour or so. My normal server seemed to be down, as did my alt servers, so I started a new alt on a completely new server.

So I now have an orc Shaman called Revdoc on Frostbiter.

Got him up to level three, but it took a while as everybody else seemed to be constructing alts on this server, so the low-level farming grounds were full of players and enemy corpses. Most of my time was spent waiting for respawns and trying to taf newly spawned creatures before any bloody hunters got in first.

First impressions are that Shamans seem pretty good, but it’s pretty much impossible to tell what a class is like that early. I’m wondering if I should create one on my normal server at some point and give it a good go. Seems like it might be possible to solo with one, though I’m never quite sure how easy it would be to solo without a pet.