Avatar, WoW

[thistlechaser]

Avatar rec: therewolf has some amazing Avatar (and PotC) fanfic posted. She's one of those rare fanfic writers where I stop reading the story to admire some bit of wording or sentence structure. I really, really like her Long Way Home fic especially, though unfortunately it's not had any new chapters added since April, so I don't know if she's still working on it or not. :/

Man, Long Way Home works for me so well. I love lots of build-up and characters feeling each other out and working their way into each others defenses and such. Not to mention, 'wounded' characters (mmm Zuko).

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WoW: Boo. My 'do nothing but fishing forever after' plan hit a roadblock. I forgot that WoW ties crafting to level. >< So I have to get my character to level 40 before I can progress further in fishing. Bah. So I leveled all evening and got one level... yay... Hate XPing so much. Just five more levels to go!

The whole 'tie X to level' is rather annoying; I moved a mule to a city to buy me ammo... but a level one character can't even buy higher level stuff, no matter if they can use it or not. ><

Good parts of the night: While leveling I found those 'school of fish' thingies, so I stopped and fished three times. Got two boxes from them and one was jam-packed full of good stuff! The other had only one item, but still, that's nice!

Lastly, I had my first real interaction with another player: I had to find a rogue to pick some lockboxes for me. I had five of them stuffed into my bank, but I needed the room so it was time to deal with it. The person was really nice to put up with clueless me (I think I kept messing up the trades or something, it was the first time I traded anything) and I had no idea if I should tip and if so how much. :/ I ended up not tipping and the person seemed okay with that. (I'm still not sure about the value of WoW money -- would giving someone maybe 20-30 silver be an insult? I get really annoyed if I get tipped 200, 300 gil, something like that... I suspect that'd be about the same. But tipping 1 gold would be a whole lot (to me)!)

Comments

[animarelic.livejournal.com]

Most rogues will pick lockboxes for free and just -appreciate- tips for them - you are thanking them for their time/effort to come meet you when they could be out doing something else. If you had a bunch of boxes, a polite tip would be 50s-1g, which may seem like a lot (though if you're almost level 40, you should be sitting on way more than that), but in the long run is kind of spare change.

As for buying higher level ammunition with a level 1 character - you sure can. What level ammuntion are you looking for? You might be visiting a seller that just doesn't happen to sell that level of ammunition. My level 6 bank alt can buy level 70 ammo if she has the money. It appears red in the 'sell' tab, but when I right click on it goes directly into my inventory.