Hallows Eve event! a pet!! dammit no mount!

I picked up a squashling pet on these toons so far:

server #1: druid + priest have it.
server #2: none
server #3: level 10 priest got it in her trick/treat bag. Now that was aweseome to see a blue pet in a lowbie's bags. This priest is leveling via the RAF aka myself and will be xfering to server #2 the extra 30 levels will be granted to the even slower leveling druid alt.

Okies a fast update here. I've be slacking off the posting here mainly as I don't have any new wow revelations. i'm an altoholic and once i hit the level cap i retire the character and repeat however since i'm a non-leveler it will take me a long long while to get to the level cap. Perhaps its the fact that I've been playing wow since 2005 and this is player fatigue. I didn't even read the patch notes and still haven't read it. 3 years time i've gone from a hardcasual>raider>super casual oh and it's been in the same guild so technically gosh these people are the same ones from 3 years ago! amazing some have gotten married, kids etc. Addiction is best when it is managed in yummy doses. There was a time where i actually believed that wowing 14 hours a day was a lifestyle and that i was taking a break .

Event: Hollow's Eve

woot free epics and even a mount to be had!! okies blizzard out did themselves this time with all the freebies

WOW Musings

i've come to the conclusion that 70% of WOW people are rude, obnoxious, and immature. I now ignore trade chat unless I need it otherwise it brings me to thier level if i respond and that annoys me. If you notice the more your respond the they up the rudeness and you do the same. Guess what? even if you started on your unknown alt . pretty soon you'll start acting just like the 70-90% of the jackasses on wow and then what's the point? youve become the enemy. 30% are the more mature crowd .. its a matter of finding them they exist on ever server.

Anyways there is always more stuff to grind etc rep, gold, gear, unique items etc.

There is a direct connection that the more wow time you do the more your RL falls apart.

Otherwise I have a rule that no wow until 9:30pm server.

WTB - ZA Bear Mount (completed)

Date: 10/12/08
Item: Amani War Bear (ZA Mount)
Price: 23,000 gold

So I realized at the last min that I did want a bear mount and that I'd need both level 70 and an insane amount of gold. Too bad there was another bidder some guy willing to pay 20k so instead of bidding him up 1k at a time I went and dropped a 23k bid. Good lord i didn't think i'd have to clean out the piggy bank for this but today is sunday and basically the last reset for this as tuesday is patch day and which will take this mount out of the game. Otherwise yes I just dinged 70 on my mage (main on server #2). Luckily i'm good at making wow gold so I could afford the 23k but it's still expensive. Otherwise I got no less than 4 tells asking if this was really my main and if i bought the gold. There's this stigma to being rich in wow it's like everyone who has a lot of gold is a gold buyer.

What I really wanted to say was... well you raid endgame bosses and I raid the AH so what's the problem but that would be rude and would have probably gotten me kicked from the raid on the principal of losing face.

The raid was very smooth and the basically carried me the 10th man through the instance and it was completed in under 20 mins.

How to buy a bear mount 2 days before patch.

Have 30,000 in the bank and be prepared to fork over 25k but dont tell em that just start with the starting bid of 8k

Whisper all the top 3-5 raiding guilds on your server asking very politely if thier guild would consider selling you a bear mount. Take down names and ask if they knew of anyone who is running it if their guild won't or can't do it.

I got 1 guild who said thier guild isn't the type to sell runs. So i whispered 4 other top guilds and they all referred me to the same person. a paladin from the server's top raiding guild.
Luckily as i was about to log off for the day i saw someone from that guild going WTS Amani Bear mount pst. .. so i whispered and got invited into party with the raid leader and the other bidder and we bidded in party.

Anywayz on any given server there is usually 1 guild who is capable and willing to take an extremely undergeared person.

Raid experience: 10/10
lol i've never "bought" a run through before so this was a bit nerve wracking but both parties came out happy as I got my mount and each raider got 1270g and 11.5k to their guild bank.

Lets see their raid leader supplied all my potion needs, i even got heals and rezzes when i died due to low stam, i didn't really dps much so much as trying to stay alive .. even resorted to using mana shield for myself. it was at malakazzar i died as it really was must have 8-9k hp. lol they did remark oh mage is still alive! of course .. i am a former raider and do have some memory of that boss.

Sigh there went my goal of 218k in game gold per character. Well gold is there to make the game more fun so instead of farming to get goldto buy pots to raid I get gold to have fun. I actually prefer to just stare at the nice gold coins coming in than spending it. Its always good to have alot of gold on hand just in case something of interest pops along and it's down to who's got more gold.


Btw the going rate for 23,000g Gold is: $458 USD. Sigh

Ding 70! Finally Mage is at level cap

Okies for the new peoples the word DING is used as a verb to say leveled. I finally hit the level cap of 70 today 10/12/08 at 5pm server time. I was doing a steam vaults run to clear out another part of my karazhan keying. Lets see 2 hours later I am a proud owner of an Amani Bear mount. Price 23k gold and I am now one of the average WOWer who can barely afford his or her mount.

Ah well i'm a casual AHer and an even more casual wow player with altitus .. so you see i have no interest in raiding but round 2 i will plan my epics buying a little better so i 'm not paying 3x the going rate.

gah i'm poor!! My fortune has dwindled to 2k hordeside and 4k alliance side .. that's 6k gee

Mount Collection

Okies I have a small menagerie of mounts. Yes these are spread out over 3 severs and 4 toons. Lets see .. i enjoy collecting gold, cute looking pets, cool mounts and even cooler enchants! Okies mounts and pets are like the permanent items of wow as you upgrade out of gear at every expac.

Lol okies i have plans to grind the bloodsail bucaneer's gear and captain's hat. but that's me. I like to have things that people go Ooo .. want!

SERVER #1 (RPPVP-Alliance)
Druid 70 got the Winterspring Frostsaber in January of 2006
Priest 70 got Fiery Warhorse's Reins in April of 2007

SERVER #2 (RPPVP-Alliance)
Mage 70 got the Amani Warbear (paid: 23,000g) in October 2008

SERVER #3
Priest 40 got the Zhevra Mount in September 2008 (refered myself)

*Collectors Edition pets: WOW, BC, WOTLK