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[thistlechaser]

I miss my homepage! A handy little lightweight page with nothing but a list of links I use every day. It's so hard to get by without it!

New site is not up and running yet (they said it would take up to 24 hours for the DNS thingie to update itself). Hopefully tomorrow I can get it back into shape and get everything back online.

Unrelated: Gmail has decided that random LJ comment emails are spam. ~.~ I found a bunch in my spam filter that I never saw! I'll be going back and replying to them tonight and tomorrow, so if you never got a reply in the past and get one now, that'll be why.

I spent much of the day on WoW, which is related to my new record: Three levels in one day! The previous record was two in one day, but I only did that once ever. I hate XPing, so I'm not sure how I accomplished this (other than a crapton of rested XP). I'm 46 now! I thought there was a new mount thingie at 50, but I guess it's 60. I'll be lucky if I hit 50 before my month of playtime ends. :P

People are so amazingly rude on WoW. (Sure FFXI has some rude folks, but they're really rare compared to WoW.) In today alone I had one high level person (showed as ??? to me) follow me making rude gestures at me endlessly (I think he was on the other side and trying to get me to fight him). Another ??? followed me killing all my quest mobs with AoEs. c.c (I think he was on the other side, too. *googles* Yeah, okay, he was. Still, that was really rude. ) Then a group of three ??? people surrounded me and tried to stop me from leaving while making "rude gestures" (whatever the macro is for that, /rude?). Welcome back to high school! And I had one person who told me to move my "smelly cow butt", though that was more cute than insulting. :P

While it shouldn't, it still boggles me just how easy the game is. Rude folks aside, it's just so nice and peaceful. It's... non-demanding. Enter a new area? There's no need to worry about aggro, the game tells you without even entering a single command! Wonder if you can take on a mob? Just click on it and you get its level! The cartoon-like graphics add to the non-demandingness of it. It really is like a MMO vacation spot.

Oh! And I found a real elite mob! And I got lucky with it, too. It was the end of the night and I was tired, steps away from finishing my last quest. Lord S-someone or other was standing in my way. Grey fancy stuff around his name. He was the same level as me so I shouldn't have jumped him, but I just wanted to finish the quest so I could warp home and finish for the night. Oddly, he was even easier than normal mobs of his level. o.0 I guess I got really lucky. (And he dropped some staff for me, too.)

PS: I really like trolls. The hot adult fanart of them on wow_fanart doesn't hurt at all! NWS! Like this one (mmmm, belly!) or this one (love his hand! And the cowgirl is pretty, too!). Linked at their original sources, not on my site.

Edit: A queue to log onto your MMO server sucks. c.c

Comments

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

Due to the expansion, I think Blizzard altered the rate at which XP is gained in the lower levels, both from mobs killed and quests completed.

You can buy an epic mount at 60. It will cost around 600 gold for the training and the mount itself, I believe. Unless you're a warlock or paladin, then you get a special mount from your class trainer for much cheaper, but only at 61.

Cross-faction animosity can get a little out of hand even on PvE servers. It varies from server to server though. I haven't had much trouble on mine, Aggramar. But it's a pretty old mature server. So much so that Blizzard has been trying to get people to transfer off. I had a 300+ login queue last night around 7pm and others in my guild had up to 1000 when they logged in later.

You play a hunter, right? Hunters are known for their ease of levelling because of the pet. You are essentially a miniature party in one: tank, DPS and healing (Mend Pet). Especially if you are Beast Mastery specced. You should try a different class. I personally find it quite interesting playing all the classes to see their differences. You should try playing a druid :)

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the mob with the grey dragon around its portrait is actually just a rare mob. They non-elite mobs with better than average loot. Elites have a gold dragon around their name and they will almost certainly kick your ass. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Due to the expansion, I think Blizzard altered the rate at which XP is gained in the lower levels, both from mobs killed and quests completed.

Ah, that'd help explain it then.

Cross-faction animosity can get a little out of hand even on PvE servers. It varies from server to server though. I haven't had much trouble on mine, Aggramar. But it's a pretty old mature server. So much so that Blizzard has been trying to get people to transfer off. I had a 300+ login queue last night around 7pm and others in my guild had up to 1000 when they logged in later.

I'm on Feathermoon, which must have been around at least a few years (it's where I've always been), but I guess we're not mature no matter how old we are. :P

And ack! I was annoyed at having a queue of 70!

You play a hunter, right? Hunters are known for their ease of levelling because of the pet. You are essentially a miniature party in one: tank, DPS and healing (Mend Pet). Especially if you are Beast Mastery specced. You should try a different class. I personally find it quite interesting playing all the classes to see their differences. You should try playing a druid :)

Yep, Hunter! And that's why I like it. With my pet, I can solo just fine (though I've since been told that all jobs can solo...). My cat is darned stronger than me in every way -- especially tanking. Things that kick my ass barely scratch him.

Druid is the one that can change into animals? I started that one on another server (friends' server) but I don't really have time to deal with two characters. Plus he basically had to be the same race as my first character (grrr only some races being able to play each job), and I disliked doing the same quests over again.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the mob with the grey dragon around its portrait is actually just a rare mob. They non-elite mobs with better than average loot. Elites have a gold dragon around their name and they will almost certainly kick your ass. :)

Ah! Well that explains why I lived. :D

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

Druid has different forms, yes. Basic forms are bear, cat, leopard (moves faster for traveling), and sea-lion. There are two forms that you get from talents: moonkin (magic damage dealer) and tree of life (healing). The bear and cat forms are also known as feral forms.

You could play a night-elf druid. ;)

The new expansion also has death knights as a new class. They have their own special starter area in Eastern Plaguelands that has a very solid story line. Any race can be a death knight. But to create one you have to have bought the expansion and already have another level 55 character on that server. Your death knight starts at level 55.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Would you believe I already saw a ??? level Death Knight today? Sheesh. :/

already have another level 55 character on that server. Your death knight starts at level 55.

Oooooh, wait, that'd explain it! I thought people were just crazy-fast leveling.

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

I thought I recognized that first one!

The artist, kyoht, did a picture of Ambershanks once, which is here. (SFW, but sexy as hell if you're into taurens - and what kind of sick person would?!)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I remember seeing that one on the comm, too. I think she ended up selling it to his player?