I’ve always had this problem. Right from level 20 or whatever it was when you could equip shoulder pieces. I just couldn’t get enough. The problem is crap looking shoulders make your whole character look rubbish - imo - and following around a rubbish looking character is no fun. You can put up with it when you are a bit lower level, because those 3/4 length ripped up brown leather trousers aint doing much for you anyway. But later on in life you demand some dress sense satisfaction.
In all, I’m not too unhappy about how Lofgrin accidently looks these days. Chest piece, gah… its buried under the guild tabard anwyay. Legs, green’ish.. scaley… that’s fine. Boots, kind of knighty looking. Tick. Gloves, belt, wrists, check.. yep not too shabby.
Up until recently I was sporting a small pair or green flat shoulder pads. That sucked. Not very inspiring at all. So I am almost always looking out for upgrades, auction house, quests, dungeons, quatermasters, the armoury, everywhere. Now its not like I’ll always persue a pair. I mean, lets me reasonable. I’m no a dungeon hugger so I tend to ignore them most of the time (for now), and I look but CAN’T buy from quatermasters or PvP honor people because I’m not 70 yet. Leaving me scouring on the AH (normally a waste of time), having a look on the armoury (which normally is slow, and tells me that the best ones are dungeon based), and getting lucky with quests I’ve picked up.
Bah, I don’t really mind. I’m patient like that.
So, I got this quest during my 66 mash-a-thon. Essentially I had to drag down some 67 elite called Teribus. Not a big deal, I’m a hunter, I have hunter pride… I’ll solo the mofo.
I checked out the area and noticed that the task was preceeded by obtaining 20 skulls from the mobs in the area, then making sure some sort of landing pad was clear of yet more mobs, then calling down this beasty. Ok, its fiddly but fine.
I was very late on in level 66 so I thought to myself, instead of tackling this now, finish off another couple of quick quests, ding, then come back and pwn. So that’s what I did.
Unfortunately I may have built up the scenario in Guild Chat a little *cough* and so as I started clearing the trash in the area some fellow guildes came to witness my attempt. I wasn’t phased. I knew what I had to do. I had an agility potion cooking up, I’d stam buff’d my pet, my trinkets were ready for a 20 second attack power burn, and Bestial Wrath and Rapid Fire were available on cooldown. I’ll show these naysayers the power of this battlestation!!!
So, there they are standing on the sidelines waiting for epic fail. Gilamnbesh, a priest and RL mate offers to group in case things get sticky - so they can easily heal up, and get in on the kill. I accept, but I expect a speedy victory anway.
I call down this dragon, and prepare to layeth down the smacketh. I send pet and…. AHHHHH, OMEN error right in the middle of the screen. *click*. Target dragon, ERROR ERROR!!! *Click*. Target. Error screen. *click*. Error screen. ZOMGWTFBBQ!!! Target. Error, hit fire anyway. Close eyes. Pray. /shame
Fortunately my gun ho compardorades had decided waiting for me to down the beast was no-where near as fun and jumping it immediately and destroying it in mere seconds. So the battle report is something like this.
Engage DragonLofgin sends petLofgrin complains of weird omen errorParty engages dragonLofgrin complains of weird omen errorLofgrin complains of weird omen errorLofgrin fires one autoshotParty kills beast in < 15 seconds. I was decidedly annoyed. All that time clearing trash. All the talk up in Guild chat. All the promise of a epic fight and triumphant win. And what did I get. I got served an error while my party eat my dinner! Two things occured to me. (1) If I hadn’t be grouped with them, there would have been no omen error (I presume it was a version thing with someone else in the group). And (2) I’m glad they were they to vanquish the beast cos it was a lot of fun, and the easiest upgrade I’ve got yet! And these shoulders look cool. Spikey cool. I lost a bit of health from equiping them, but gained some damage and we all love more damage. I’m willing to trade health for good looks at this point, because I am not struggling with day to day PVE at all. So all happy in my spanky new shoulders (dedicated to each member of the party, respectively) I run off to the new area (Nagrand) and pick up a couple of quests. One is for a pair of shoulders. And they are an upgrade over the pair I had literally just got. And they look better. WOOT!!! Someone out there understands my obsession…
Hi! Long time no post…
Hello. So, I took a break from WoW for a bit. No particular reason, I just didn’t feel the urge to log in.
But I’m back (for now), and I’m really enjoying my time online. Maybe a little hiatus now and again is just the trick to get enthausiasm flowing…
Anyway! Status update.
Lofgrin is now at the heady heights of level 67! ZOMG. I absolutely ploughed through level 66 when I came back. Went from a fraction into the first bar to full level in a weekend. Now, that doesn’t sound particularly epic, but I must only have been on for a couple of hours maximum each day. So levelling that quick is killing it in my book. Level murder. Committed. Eh?
Er… where was I. Oh yes. So, 66 down - and already getting a 1/4 into 67. And most of that is down to the shameless time sink that is the quest lines for killing Tarbucks, Windrocs, and Clefthoofs in Nagrand. If I wasn’t a skinner I’m not sure how I would have got through it. Kill 30 of this, kills 30 of that… are you insane! Luckily I do skin, and I did skin, and I stand to make some wonga out of it. Woot. But what do I get when I hand those quests in, all pleased with my stamina and dedication… huh, huh? That’s right, “Ok, great…er, now kill 30 more of each.”
RAGE!!! Kill them yourself! I’m off to do something else for a while before I tear my own eyes out!
Apart from that, things are good. I’ve aquired a couple of new bits of kit of course, the guild has integrated some membership from another guild - meaning that at all times there are alot more people on. Awesome. And… that’s all for now.
But I’m back (for now), and I’m really enjoying my time online. Maybe a little hiatus now and again is just the trick to get enthausiasm flowing…
Anyway! Status update.
Lofgrin is now at the heady heights of level 67! ZOMG. I absolutely ploughed through level 66 when I came back. Went from a fraction into the first bar to full level in a weekend. Now, that doesn’t sound particularly epic, but I must only have been on for a couple of hours maximum each day. So levelling that quick is killing it in my book. Level murder. Committed. Eh?
Er… where was I. Oh yes. So, 66 down - and already getting a 1/4 into 67. And most of that is down to the shameless time sink that is the quest lines for killing Tarbucks, Windrocs, and Clefthoofs in Nagrand. If I wasn’t a skinner I’m not sure how I would have got through it. Kill 30 of this, kills 30 of that… are you insane! Luckily I do skin, and I did skin, and I stand to make some wonga out of it. Woot. But what do I get when I hand those quests in, all pleased with my stamina and dedication… huh, huh? That’s right, “Ok, great…er, now kill 30 more of each.”
RAGE!!! Kill them yourself! I’m off to do something else for a while before I tear my own eyes out!
Apart from that, things are good. I’ve aquired a couple of new bits of kit of course, the guild has integrated some membership from another guild - meaning that at all times there are alot more people on. Awesome. And… that’s all for now.
