I started a Twitter account for my WoW-ing experience! Feel free to Follow me (I’ll probably Follow you back, too) and/or keep track of my recent adventures on the sidebar. *Points* By no means am I using Twitter as a way of getting out of blogging. I’m just using it to keep track of stuff I did. I don’t always remember everything that I do in the game, so Twitter’s job is to keep me organized.

Anyway, I’m taking Kahlah out questing and leveling since Isys is at an impasse until she gets her epic Tiger mount. This is great news, because I can explore the new content around Dustwallow that Blizzard added three or four patches ago. >_< It sure beats the hell out of questing around in Stranglethorn. Oh, I’m also missing several pages of The Green Hills of Stranglethorn. I hate that quest so much but I do it to satisfy the obsessive-compulsive in me.

I had to stop scavenging with Kahlah. It started off as a fun idea and I made it through level 30 without too many problems. By level 35, I was starting to struggle a lot. I could only find level 25 and below drinks and food and I never seemed to have enough meat for Maia. Now that I’m 41, it’s near impossible to just scavenge for food and drink. I hate deviating from my own rules like this, but I have no other choice. I can’t let Maia starve!

I also have to update my Characters’ pages, my blogroll, and my to-do list. I’m getting to that. =)

Yes, I’ve been AFK from the Warblog for a while. I apologize — I didn’t play much WoW for an entire month(!) but I had a marathon last week. It took us all weekend but…Mike and I FINALLY made it to level 70 with our mains!

Yes, it has taken me a long time to get to level 70. I’ve been playing the game for three whole years now and I don’t have a single character to 70 until now. Why has it taken us so damn long? Well, a number of reasons: First, my husband and I are casual players. We play when we have time and inspiration. Sometimes when we have the time, we don’t have the inspiration. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sat down at my gaming PC, turned on WoW and then immediately exited out. I just did not want to deal with the overwhelming amount of WORK that lay ahead of me. I hate that. I hate when a game becomes work. So I take occasional breaks that happen to be a month long.

And when I come back, I appreciate it so much more.

The other reason why it’s taken us so damn long to get to 70 is because we started the wrong characters. Had Mike and I been a Rogue and Hunter respectively, we would have leveled to 60 years ago and level 70 a month or so after we got the BC. But we didn’t — we chose a Priest and a Druid. When I played as a Hunter for the first time, I knew that it was the class for me. This is why I have so many Hunters in the first place.

But no violin-playing. We’re level 70! Yay!

And you won’t believe this. My dad (who’s now a retired OT in a major raiding guild) invited us to join his guild. They’re mostly adults who actually screen their members, meaning they don’t put up with whiny teenagers who OMG DIDNTGET TEH EPIX WTF. They also don’t have any requirements for joining — no gear requirements, no spec requirements, hell, they’re not even picky about Hunter pets. So I promised him that if I made it to level 70 and he was still playing, I’d join his raiding guild.

Well, he still plays and I keep my promises.

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Alrighty, alrighty. School’s done, I’ve had a week to rest, and now I can finally play WoW and write an entry here! Yay!

In my hiatus, I did some thinking about this blog. I honestly didn’t want to write any more “As Kahlah I went and did this” posts again. There are a lot of blogs out there, and there are a lot of blogs about World Of Warcraft. And of those blogs about WoW, there are a lot about playing Hunters. Unfortunately, with every new Hunter blog that pops up, there are ten old ones that are better and have covered the same topics already. I’m not trying to insult the other Hunter bloggers out there, but really — the market is SATURATED with Hunter blogs, especially Hunter blogs about how to play Hunters. There’s got to be something else to write about.

As far as the game is concerned, I am a BAD WoW player. I don’t play all the time. I don’t raid, so I can’t give enlightening tips about how to raid effectively. I don’t fight with any particular panache, so I can’t write about methodology. I am a girl that games, but I don’t call myself a gamer. My technique to playing the game is so elementary it would make bloggers like BRK cringe — I just stand there, let the pet tank and shoot. Sometimes I shoot Viper Sting, and other times I use Scorpid Sting. It really doesn’t matter to me. My theory of any game playing remains pretty gestalt: if I kill it before it kills me, then things are good. If not, I’ll have to res and try again. I’m not particular about any sort of science that goes into a game. I really just want to get the damn beastie dead so I can get my loot and finish the quest.

And then it came to me…why not change the focus of my half of the blog to role-playing?

A swell idea! From now on, I will be delving into the risky subject of role-playing (that is, in the game #^_^#). I’ll be talking about different role-playing areas, role-playing ideas, and role-playing techniques. Hell, I might even cover LARP-ing too. I think it’s a good way to use this college degree in English that I’m getting…

School = no free time = no WoW.

/cry

I will be back in a week or so. Love y’all!

In World of Warcraft, taming a pet is fairly simple. You blind/stun/freeze your chosen pet, click Tame Beast, and after 30 (very long) seconds, your new pet is yours. Though he’s Rebellious, he’ll fight by your side and even die for you. You can run away and leave him to fight your enemies for you, or you can stay and die with him.

In real life, it’s a bit different.
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Yes, I’m doing a live redesign as we speak. No, it’s not done. I’m not the world’s best designer by any means, so this may take awhile!

I found a nice thread on the Blog Azeroth forums, asking about we came up with our character names. It’s such a good question that I am going to blog about it. =)

Naming a character is my favorite part of character creation. I don’t have a set theme for names. A third of the time I make them up, a third of the time I pick them from literature, art, music and et cetera, and a third of the time I hit randomize and see what’s prettiest. If I had to describe a theme, it would be “whatever looks good to me at the time.” That’s all! I don’t do heavy research or dig deep into symbolism and irony. I think that’s a bit much, even for an RP’er like myself.

I did not create Isys — my sister-in-law did. We had a very in-depth story line for Isys and her Huntress involving family, love, betrayal, and murder. Very, very deep stuff! But she was already into her 30’s when I started playing and thus we didn’t get to play too much together, save for a few RP events here and there.

Kahlah came from my head. I wanted a really striking two-syllable name beginning with a K for a Troll it had to sound Trollish too. With all those provisions, I thought long and hard and came up with Kahlah. I like how it rolls off the tongue. It almost sounds like a curse (and for Trolls, that’s good)!

Iriannis was a randomly created Blood Elf name. Iriannis sounds regal and cold in my head, which fits her personality so well. It’s much better than my previous BElf, who had a name with more vowels than I could count. I learned my lesson to be careful with that name randomizer!

Omaa is a wonderful name for a Draenei. I wanted a calm, grandmotherly name for a calm, grandmotherly character — so why not name her “grandmother?” Omaa has an extra A tacked on to look more Draenic.

But that’s how I choose my names. I don’t have a set method for this, as I said. I just rely on what looks good at the time. =D