You know the best part about being level 70?

The daily quests. Srsly.

I spent hours today running all over Outland and the Sunwell Plateau just for daily quests. I don’t have my MoneyFU addon installed anymore, but I kept mental track of my earnings and discovered that doing just a few daily quests yielded seventy (70) gold, right in my Druid’s hot little pocket.That money’s going to Isys, who doesn’t have her epic mount yet. =( Yeah, I know. I’m a little late on getting her the white swiftsabre that she’s been eyeballin’. Chalk that up to re-specing and re-gearing at level 45. -_-’

I do appreciate the rare moments of cross-faction role-playing on Sunwell Plateau — even if it’s only brief. Today’s CFRP came courtesy of a Blood Elf Rogue who helped me take on a giant, flapping demon in Sun’s Reach. I had taken on one too many and before I could run away in pathetic cowardice, she appeared behind my attacker and killed him. After I /thanked her, she gave me a /pat.

Oh yeah — I’m in kitty Form, I thought. Then I /purred at her and /cuddled her like a good cat. Had I thought about it, I would have given her a /lick too, but A] that would be creepy and B] I don’t know too many cats that lick for affection. =/ We said our good-byes and I went on my merry way.

Tomorrow begins another day of daily questing in hopes of getting Isys her new mount. Running around Hellfire Penninsula and Zangarmarsh with a rare mount just doesn’t cut it. >_<

Hurray! Kahlah made it to 40 and now has a lovely Emerald Raptor mount! Here she is with the mount in question:

Never having a Troll toon before, I have to get used to the ride. If I stare too long at Kahlah while she’s on the mount, the bouncing will make me nauseous. I like having it, I just need to balance my equilibrium. =P

I bought a few pieces of mail armor, and two new weapons. I have an [Ebon Scrimtar] and a [Furious Falchion] — unusual for me since my Hunters tend to stick to axes. I’m disappointed with the aesthetics of swords. Most of them either look too plain or look too bizarre. Scrimtars have a nice look and this Falchion wasn’t too bad either.

As for my new armor: a pair of [Steadfast Shoulderpads] aught to do me well for the time being along with a pair of bracers I received from a quest in Grom’gol. I should have bought mail armor earlier when I had OODLES AND OODLES OF MONEY, but I got a bit greedy and kept most of it. After mount riding, mount buying, training, pet training, and other shopping needs, I have about 18g left. =/ Yeah, I’m disappointed, but I hope to make it up. I’ve always made money easy with Kahlah, even being un-Talented as I am.

While I’, on the subject, did I ever mention how much I HATE Stranglethorn Vale? It’s a bit different now I’m playing from the Horde’s pee-oh-vee, but I still can’t shake that horrible feeling of deja vu. I still hate running up and down that road between Booty Bay and Grom’gol. I hate fighting with other players over the handful of Elder Stranglethorn Tigers. Most of all, I hate those damned jungle Trolls who seem to hang around like Visa — everywhere you want to be. Eventually, I’m going to have to kill the Bloodscale Pirates…who I hate too. The frustrating thing about STV is that there’s hardly a way around it. If you’re between the levels of 35 and 45, you’re going to go there. Sigh.

And now, it’s time to put Kahlah away for awhile while I work on some others characters, namely Iriannis.

I’m lovin’ this already.

I’ve been quite busy recently — so busy I’ve hardly had any time to play! Fortunately, I took care of that last weekend, seeing as it was an extended one thanks to Presidents’ Day.

I took this opportunity to mostly play my main, as he’s been quite neglected of late — BC’s been out for a year, and he’s naught but level 65! So, a little questing here and there in Nagrand…

…and of course it gets tedious and tiring, and I remember why I never bother questing much in the first place. So, I go exploring.

To Shadowmoon Valley Nina and I go, even though every step is wrought with terror, seeing as how most enemies in this place are huge, demonic, and about four or five levels above us.

Yes, I’m lighting up the horizon with my spells.

Not to worry — we quickly find out that we’re a bit stronger than we think we are, taking out giant snakes, nasty scorpions, and the usual smelly orcs that seemingly inhabit every square inch of eastern Outland.

After that, it was time to explore old Azeroth — well, it’s not really old, and I shouldn’t call it that, since I probably spend most of my time there, questing with my alts!

My alts got some much needed attention, though I have to admit that most of my time was spend updating UI’s and on-screen Addons, but I did manage to gain a few levels.

I challenge you to make a fierce-looking gnome. Go ahead, try it. It can’t be done.

After that, it was to Grim Batol, Emberstrife’s den, and a few other places I’ve always wanted to go. Hell, if I pay the money to play, I’m going to have fun, you know?

Grim Batol was… unexciting. Seriously, add a big giant skull, or quite a bit of blast damage around that huge permanently closed door, or… something. It was quite the damn struggle to get up here back in the day before BC, and you should be rewarded!

Until then — I’m actually going to go do something I probably haven’t done in ages: farm for cloth. God knows I need it — I’ve only been making the same Netherweave Tunic at a rate of about one a week for I don’t know how long. It’s getting sad.

Isys hit the level 60 mark over the weekend! I topped that off by getting her to 61 yesterday!

Among my travels and travails in the Hellfire Peninsula, I found an annoying level 70 Druid who, after buffing me with the requisite Mark of the Wild and Thorns insisted that I buff him as well:

Him: can u buff me plz?
Me: Um…buff you with what? I’m a Hunter.
Him: u don’t have ne buffs
[Long pause on my behalf since I was being attacked by Bleeding Hollow Orcs while he tagged doggedly at my side, waiting for this buff I was supposed to give him.]
Me: No. I don’t.

I thought about adding, “now piss off” to that last sentence because it was just so dumb. Not only was he bothering me while I was trying to kill and not be killed, but he was asking me a stupid question. Luckily, he buggered off after about five minutes of tailing me.

I also hit the roof when a tiny Gnome Warlock asked to group up after I had wiped out a colony of demons. Of course he wanted to group up then — I had done all the work! On top of all that, Isys had exhausted her mana pool healing Sleet so my Gnome counterpart got me at a real bad time.

But not all is lost. There have been good things to happen whilst playing Horde (and it’s always the Horde side that reminds me that decent players DO exist). For instance, a Tauren Shammy helped Kahlah and Maia out while questing around Windbreak Canyon.
Hurr hurr hurr. Windbreak Canyon. It’s funnier if you read it:

Whoever that Shaman was — thank you for helping Kahlah knock off some of those wyvrens that swarmed her. As we should know, Kahlah is a proud Troll who doesn’t like to ask for help too often. On her behalf, thank you whoever you are!

In other matters, I did start up my Dwarf and Tauren over the weekend, but they are currently resting in their respective inns getting a superb Rested Bonus. I hope to start up their pages as soon as I get their first pets.

Omaa released Slick into the wild and tamed a leggy Tallstrider named Tweel. It’s a shame there aren’t more Tallstriders around — I think they make pretty good pets aside from their picky eating habits.

Finally, Iriannis is becoming a snotty preteen. I’m pretty sure that she’ll reach level 20 before Omaa, since I am just itching to go back to the Ghostlands! I love the teen-level Blood Elf quests — they’re really challenging. I’m a bit disappointed that I won’t be able to clear Zul’Aman on my map without getting my tiny BElf ass handed to me. When I played as a BElf Paladin, Zul’Aman had yet to open up. Cappy and I spent about twenty minutes jumping around from ledge to ledge before the novelty wore off. Now, there won’t be any of that with Iri!

Good: Isys has gone up two levels and is now bordering on level 60 (a milestone still). I got my pet Frostsaber Matriarch and named her Sleet.
Bad: I have to call it quits on the Bloodlust set, for I am too high for it to matter. *Sigh*
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I can cross one more thing off my to-do list: Isys bought some Bloodlust Gauntlets!

I’m disappointed that Isys paid 12g for them — which is 10g more than the Allakhazam recommended price. Thing is, the gloves are level 50 and I don’t know when they’re going to be up at the Auction House again. She might not need them when she finally gets them, and I really wanted one complete set of something. So, she spent 12g in hopes that she’d make it up later on.

Currently, Isys is in Un’Goro Crater digging through Un’Goro soil, picking Bloodpetal Sprouts, and avoiding Devilsaurs. Two of them, Tyrant Devilsaur and an Ironhide Devilsaur, thought they’d get a drop on me while I picked off Diemetredons and Pterodaxes — but I managed to escape without them seeing me. Still, it was awfully creepy.

I’ve already planned out my next few levels: 51-54 will be spent in Un’Goro and Felwood; 54-58 will have to be the Burning Steppes; and 58-60 will be the Plaguelands and Winterspring. I did level up to 51 in Burning Steppes dying three times trying to kill Gor’tesh, I got frustrated and stomped off to the Crater. I like Un’goro Crater anyways — a hell of a lot more than I do Searing Gorge. *raspberry*

I have a few quests for Felwood right now, but it’s too hard to do alone right now. I’ll be back soon though to whoop some Satyr butt!

This is a non-Hunter post, but still relevant. *grin*

I’ve been running around Outland for the past few months (I’m a slow leveler) and I’ve come across only two monsters that have literally made my skin crawl. Only two because 1) that’s all I’ve actually come across and 2) I haven’t progressed much farther in the Outland to name anymore. -_-’

Xeleth: Yuck — we came upon this guy wandering around Zangarmarsh, rather we came across his corpse. He’s a level 70…uh…fish-like thing that has two rows of teeth and beady little eyes. Judging from the comments at Thottbot, this beast isn’t too hard to kill. That doesn’t stop him from being terrifying.

The Terrokarantula: Oh my god! No! Not a giant spider! I’m too young to be wrapped up and drained of my life fluids! We actually had to fight this thing — took up my entire screen! I don’t like spiders as it is, but this guy made the skin on my neck prickle. We survived and vowed never to piss him off again.