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Naruto: Eee! Zabuza! *swoon!* But arg! The grey flashback dots of doooom! But huh, this is the first time we're seeing them? Maybe they cut out all the mega-flashbacks from the real eps to make room for commercials. (Nice that there's so much useless stuff to cut out.) One ep is such a short tiny piece of the story, I want to see the whole dubbed arc, all in one sitting.

RL: Another relaxing day! Got 8 hours of sleep for the second night in a row! *boggle* That's kinda nice, isn't it? Today's the last "fully off day" of my long weekend -- lots of FFXI stuff and RL (non-job) work to do tomorrow.

WoW: How's that saying go? The spoof of the Army slogan? "Travel to new lands, meet new people, then kill them"? That's about how my WoW day went. After puttering around trying to complete some quests (so annoying to only be able to have 20 active quests at once), I decided to work on skinning. (Skinning is a craft in WoW, which makes sense to me.) I was nearly at 5 gold, which is the cost of the last level of it, so I wanted to get my skill up to 200 (the other requirement for the last rank). I started the night at skinning 185 and ended it at... 185. Even though I was skinning green things. Bah. I wasn't close to 5 gold until tonight, so I hadn't been watching for skillups, but I guess they finally slowed down.

The new place I went to XP was Ashenvale, a very pretty zone (it looked like a cartoon version of FFXI's Sanctuary of Zi'tah). The music there was so pretty I kept getting distracted and forgetting to watch for aggro. :P I encountered totally new mobs: funky slime things (ha ha, love how they spit out things after they die) and elementals (seen only from a distance, but the FFXI part of me kept going "Kill them! Kill them! Get the clusters!" heh).

I was very amused to see white wolves in Ashenvale. Aren't they pretty? And big? And white? You can see the pretty forest in these shots too, but look how the white wolves glow compared to Fluffy! Anyway, this amused me because just yesterday I had figured that white/black wolves, white lions, and white tigers would be rare pets you'd have to work hard to get. Ha ha ha, joke's on me! This is WoW, not FFXI. In a few levels I'll be able to go back and get one for myself, if I want.

A small technical issue, for any Hunters who read this (eh, though they probably already know, but I just figured it out). Recall how I wondered why Fluffy was so slow to level after I did? That's because for some highly, highly, highly odd reason he doesn't get credit for any XP until I level. So while we were both XPing for hours as level 20s, he was at 0 XP when I hit 21. Only once I hit 21 did he start earning XP towards 21. *boggle*

And the last crafting bit: I tried fishing tonight. I feel like a broken record when I say this, but: It was easy as pie. I got to level 20 in it in about 15 minutes. Watching the water was sort of relaxing, but I really didn't like doing it much. (Before they ruined fishing in FFXI, at least you could watch TV while doing it. In WoW you have to watch for the, um, fishing thingie in the water to bob, then click it, so you can't really watch TV while doing it.) If my pet ate fish I would continue with this without question, but wolves don't eat fish so I likely won't do it again.

I'm hit the "bored with WoW" point again today, but FFXI would be even worse: I could "farm" on WoW (get drops and get XP) or farm on FFXI (get just drops), so on WoW the farming feels like less of a waste of time than doing it on FFXI does. At least tomorrow and Monday I have things I'll need to do on FFXI, that'll keep me busy for at least two days. (Yes, that sounds like odd logic to me, too.)

RE: Pet experience

Date: 2005-10-16 05:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daltontrix.livejournal.com
Note: This is totally conjecture.

The mechanics of the game won't let you tame a pet that's higher level than you are. My guess would be that, as a result of this mechanic, your pet cannot level higher than you are at any time, and therefore, will not gain exp to the next level until you are at or above it's next level.

Re: Pet experience

Date: 2005-10-16 05:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Yeah, that was along the lines of what I was wondering, too. Since pets need so much less XP per level than the Hunter does, I suppose a pet could quickly out-level the Hunter if they were permitted to gain XP the whole time.

Still, it seems strange they didn't give them a higher number needed to level or a slower rate or something, so that they wouldn't get "frozen" so often -- it was very odd to have been XPing an hour and find his XP bar empty.

Heck, they could make a Hunter and the pet need the exact same amount and gain the same amount per kill -- just have their XP bars be mirrors of each other.

Date: 2005-10-16 07:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] burgerdog.livejournal.com
Heya, you should download this mod, incredibly helpful:
http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=368
And if you want to look at other mods, check this site out.
http://ui.worldofwar.net/ or www.curse-gaming.com

Date: 2005-10-16 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Woo, thanks for the links! I do need more mods, I just hadn't gotten around to checking them out yet.

Date: 2005-10-16 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wazsgirl.livejournal.com
Fishing can be a good money maker. I say this only because a few alchemy recripes/reagents are fishes--firefin snapper and blackmouth whatever. And a lot of alchemy types don't fish but need those items. Yeeeah, I spent a lot of money in the AH on those stupid fish. ;)

Date: 2005-10-16 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Ah, huh. I haven't sold my rod yet, so I suppose I'll give it another chance! Thanks for the info!

Date: 2005-10-17 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loneguardian.livejournal.com
This is WoW, not FFXI. In a few levels I'll be able to go back and get one for myself, if I want.

Actually, there's a really easy one to get, if you want a white lion. The quest in the Crossroads for E-somethingIcan'tspell. It's a white tiger NM spawn and you CAN tame him, just abandon the quest once you do, get it again, and kill the new spawn for the hide.

He looks like this: My Troll Hunter Snoe with her white lion Eyce, and her little kitty. :3 (http://www.silverbuck.com/images/kitties2.png) And zomg they're chasing me {Run away!} (http://www.silverbuck.com/images/kitties1.png)

And a couple shots of some PVP raids and defending, since you mentioned you didn't get involved with the PVP stuff. Alliance was raiding Tarren Mill like 3 weeks ago and we Horde types were trying to defend it (I just happened to be there for a quest). We started out 1 alliance to 1 horde or so, but by the end the alliance easily was 4 to 1 over us. ; ; All are ReallyBigFiles. XD

Grouping up in FFXI = death, grouping in WoW = safety! (http://www.silverbuck.com/images/pvp1.png)
Mages = Hot Fiery Death From Above! (http://www.silverbuck.com/images/pvp2.png)
Mages also like to put the 'slip' on us so their rogues can backstab and stuff. It's really damn annoying. :3 (http://www.silverbuck.com/images/pvp3.png)

Date: 2005-10-17 02:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Hmm. All of those except kitties1.png were 404, but that one is cool! I've been sort of thinking about switching to a cat maybe (then I could fish to feed it).

And one day I'll dive into PvP! Seems like a fun thing to do. :)

Date: 2005-10-17 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loneguardian.livejournal.com
Yeah, I know, give 'em like 10 minutes from now. My connection is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOW tonight. ; ; Ugh. The 56k dialup at church is faster than this.

Date: 2005-10-17 04:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Ooooh! Silly me looked too soon. *goes to look now*

Date: 2005-10-17 02:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loneguardian.livejournal.com
Okay, all pictures are up now. XD Sorry about that. *smacks her connection*

Date: 2005-10-17 04:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
By the way: Eee! You have the kitty I'd get if I were going to get one (that's the black tabby, right? Not the silver tabby?).

Is green name/guild text the "flagged" thing people always ask about? (The defence channels are the only ones I really like listening to.) I know they mean flagged for PvP, but not how you can quickly tell that. And wow, those battles look fun!

Date: 2005-10-17 12:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wazsgirl.livejournal.com
Green = flagged for pvp. ;) And if you see a yellow enemy while you're unflagged, well.

PvP is great fun. But only once you're securely in your mid-20s. And if you accept that the Alliance will likely outnumber you in almost all things. Also the battlegrounds are freaking awesome. ;)

Date: 2005-10-17 01:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Ah, great to know! Thanks!

Date: 2005-10-17 03:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loneguardian.livejournal.com
Yar, what they said. Also, if you become flagged by healing a flagged person or attacking a flagged (yellow name) alliance, the yellow names will become red and you'll be flagged yourself. I think it's a 5 minute cooldown after a fight that the pvp flag wears off.

Date: 2005-10-17 03:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
I wonder how pets' Growl move works in WoW PvP. FFXI's Provoke makes you only able to attack that target, I wonder if Growl works the same. (It'd be annoying if I sent Fluffy to attack someone and they ran over and killed me because he couldn't hold hate against a player.)

Date: 2005-10-17 07:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loneguardian.livejournal.com
No, I don't think Growl works in PVP. At least, as far as I can tell. I just turn it off and put on auto-claw instead (I usually leave claw off 'cause it uses too much focus and then he misses a growl and I get hate, whee).

Date: 2005-10-17 08:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
I have to get Claw soon. Cower is worse than useless (at least in the situations that I'm in), but Claw would rock.

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