35 Onwards

Ian said he wanted to see another blog post about Morcarli rapidly increasing in level. It's not because he thought my last post was exceptionally well written or anything. It's just that he wants a buddy to hit some of the higher areas.

So, as you can see from the header, I had a reasonable weekend. I hit level 35 on Saturday, and progressed half way to 36 on Sunday. I joined a raid group for a little while on Saturday and got four more honor kills - it will be interesting to see where Morcarli fits into the honour rankings this week.

I decided to upgrade my belt and my helm at the Auction House. I also picked up a nice new amulet from a drop in the Badlands. So although Morcarli now looks like he's taken a nasty injury to his head, my stats are looking a little nicer. I'm especially enjoying my increased Agility - I'm not sure why I neglected it for so long, but dealing lots of critical hits is lots of fun!

Speaking of good drops from the Badlands, I got my second solo blue drop yesterday - the Gloves of Old. Unfortunately these aren't any good to Morcarli, but I'm sure I'll find someone who's interested. Failing that, I could alway just put them up at the Auction House...

My Night

I was planning to use this image as a header, having a cool way to keep track of my level. But unfortunately the image is already out of date after the awesome session I had last night. I think it was probably the best session I've had - sure, I've had better moments in the game, but for a total session, this would be hard to top.

Morcarli is running around the Arathi Highlands at the moment. I had some time, so I thought I'd see if I could get into the battlefields. In the end I didn't make it because I kept leaving the queue in favour of doing other stuff.

Just after I logged on, an Orcish Hunter decided to have a go at me. I hadn't fought a Hunter before, and I was a bit distracted by some other things, so I didn't do very well. I'd hurt him a bit, but knew I was in trouble so decided to run back to the nearest human camp. The stupid orc decided to follow me, and got finished off by the guards. So after all this time running around in PvP mode, Morcarli finally got his first Honour Kill!

Shortly after in the same area he decided to have another crack at me while I was fighting two raptors. This time though, he wasn't counting on the level 60 Night Elf Rogue who was standing behind him. Orcs make a strange noise when the get splatted.

While keeping an eye out in case this guy still hadn't learnt his lesson, I spent some time killing random spiders and raptors. Suddenly, on the corpse of a spider, Morcarli found his first ever solo blue drop.

I seriously considered selling it, because the suggested starting bid at the AH was 90g - more money then I've seen in the game. But after a conversation with Woe, I decided to hang on to it. If nothing else, I'm much more likely to do critical hits now.

I spotted a message from a level 41 Warlock who was looking for help for some quests Morcarli had. So I messaged him, and we teamed up. Then a Warrior and a Mage joined the group, both 40+. Together we were fantastic. Since I wasn't the best tank or the best damage dealer, I swapped my normal two handed mace for the Jagged Star of Healing I picked up in during the Gomer run last weekend. It meant I wasn't doing much damage, but I was able to keep the party alive and healthy.

The run lasted a while, but in the end I finished three 3 red quests and picked up a shiny new cloak. If Morcarli didn't always roll so badly, I probably would have got a few more items. I only ended up with the cloak because I rolled "need" - and got a 4. The others joked called me a "dirty ninja!".

In 2 and a half hours I managed to get my XP bar halfway filled, and my money went from about 9g to over 16g.

So yeah, I had a good night.

Night of Warcraft

The Guild were hitting Gnomeregan last night, and since I had a bunch of quests, I tagged along. It was my first instance run with the Guild, so I was curious how it would all turn out.

The party consisted of:

• Oska, a Night Elf Hunter
  
• Rockbreaker, a Dwarven Paladin
• Petey, a Human Paladin
• Morcarli, a Dwarven Paladin
• Woebringer, a Human Rogue

That's right, 3 Paladins. Woebringer was along to babysit (being lvl 60), and the rest of us averaged out at about lvl 30.

Things looked like they were off to a good start when I found a green axe on the very first Gnome I killed - before we even got into the city. Plus, I won the roll for it. Of course, I figured that probably meant I wasn't going to win any more rolls for the rest of the night...

The green drops were coming often. We even had a blue mace drop pretty early on (which I lost the roll for). I accidentally rolled "Need" for some Banded Braces (I think they were these ones), so I won that roll! Otherwise, I think I picked up one or maybe two items. I even managed to roll a 7 for a chest. Fortunately I got some useful stuff from the Grime Encrusted Objects, including my first necklace, a ring, and everything I still needed to make another Shining Silver Breastplate.

Despite having 3 Paladins, we managed to have far to many TPKs. Which took forever to recover from, since the run back is so long. It didn't help that a few times various party members got lost by heading into the wrong parts. The two that stand out are when just the Paladins died, and the time three of us got caught on the wrong side of a cave in (dead, and beyond reach).

We ended up calling it a night after I'd only managed to complete 2 of the 6 quests I had. Still, it was fun, and I'd be happy to try again in a few weeks.

Day of Warcraft

I took yesterday off work, and so spent a good part of the day play WoW. A couple of interesting things happen.

I usually run Morcarli around with PvP active - I figure it makes things a bit more interesting. But since I'm not usually looking to pick a fight, he still doesn't have any kills to his name (unlike my Level 6 Warlock, who managed to go toe-to-toe with an Undead Warrior). Yesterday while I was running through Stranglethorn Vale, I passed an Orc Warrior. He was level 37 (Morcarli was just 32 at this point), and wasn't flagged, but something about the way he stopped, looked at me a few times and then backed up made me suspect he was going to have a go.

In hindsight I should have started buffing myself there and then, but with hindsight there are a few things I could have done.

Sure enough, he suddenly charged me. I was able to quickly stun him, and then it was on. I ended up loosing, but against an opponent who was 5 levels higher than me and could decide the best moment to start attacking, I wasn't too upset. In fact, I was actually pretty happy - I got him down to about 5% health, and if I'd either:

1. Had a decent healing potion
2. Had enough mana left for my stun
3. REMEMBERED ABOUT LAY ON HANDS!!!!

I would have beaten him. Looking back on it, I'm seriously annoyed at myself for not using Lay On Hands. It would have made the story much cooler.

New Helm!

It started bothering me last week that while Morcarli was around the level 30 mark, he still didn't have any form of head protection. So I spent some time boosting his blacksmithing until I could learn to make a Green Iron Helm:


Unfortunately, I then discovered that I had all the materials except for a Citrine


How very annoying. So on the weekend while I was hanging around Ironforge, I decided to see if anyone had one for sale. A friendly sounding Nightelf replied that he did indeed have the very gem I was after, and would be happy to sell it to me for 1 gold piece.

Hmmm. Having just spent a chunk of money on new skills, 1 gold was quite a large percentage of Morcarli's current cash reserves. So I attempted to bargin:

You whisper: How about 75s and I do a dance for you?

He was amused, but wasn't interested. We chatted for a bit while I was running around doing other things. He asked why I wanted the gem, and told me he was going to use it to make something for a friend of his. After about 5mins, he suddenly said:

Okay, if you come and dance for me, I'll give you the [Citrine].

I rushed over to him and started dancing. He was a bit disapointed that Morcarli wasn't an attractive female character, but my awesome dancing skills still managed to impress him enough. Or maybe bad enough that he gave me the citrine to get make me stop.

So Morcarli now has a shinny new helmet, thanks to the kindness of a random Nightelf.