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. =)

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.

The Looming Gavel dropped off a troll in Stranglethorn Vale, if I remember correctly:

I sold it for 28g — enough to put Kahlah over the mount-and-riding threshold with a small chunk of change left over (and I do mean small).

[Side note: I've been waiting to post in case Wordpress 2.5 came out and it screwed with my current installation, but March 10 (yesterday) came and went with no release. So, here I am -- posting again!]

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!