Posts tagged world of warcraft

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.

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.

I have just had the single most annoying ninety minutes of my life.

I don’t want to talk about it.

But that lion was mine, damn it!

You must understand, the only reason I’m not playing right now is that I forgot to charge my mouse last night and it’s been flashing red at me for an hour or two. So I’m charging it up and feeling fairly hard done by.

Garak reached ‘Best Friend’ status so, of course, I shoved him in the stables and tamed a bear instead. Bears are meant to be be good pets, I think. I’m not sure why. Maybe they can take a lot of punishment. Anyway. I named him Pooh. Not very original, granted, but I wanted to see if the game would let me do it.

So, what we have learned have so far:

BAD WORDS: Nipple
GOOD WORDS: Invalid, Garak, Bob, Pooh

That’s pretty much America summed up in a nutshell, right there. Maybe I should name my next pet Janet.