Outland is Sweet !

Johnnypriest is now level 63 and I freakin' love being in Outland. My first two hours (after I dinged level 58 and went through the portal) I had new (and much better) hat, leggings, robe, wand and staff. The quests are very fun and the whole place just feels more vibrant.

I also seem to run into and group with guildies more often. Had a great time last night in Ramparts with Persica and Badcow, and picked up some great new leggings. Thanks guys.

Guild Fun

I thought last night was going to be another uneventful grinding and questing session, but it ended up being the most fun I've had in a long time. When I was about to hop on the Zeppelin outside the Undercity to head back to Stranglethorn Vale to grind, a call for anyone interested in a Scarlet Monestary run came up in guild chat. Thinking "why not, I'm only lvl 42, and it sounds like more fun than STV" I raised my hand. It ended up being a mixed guild/pug run.

We went through the Armory pretty easily (with a bit of squabbling over a drop), and I hearthed out to UC to avoid respawns and to vend stuff. We wanted to do Cathedral and Kamikiiro waited for me and Shadorath (a non-guildmate, soon to change I think) to return. (The two others had dropped out of our group).

While Kami was waiting, a couple of lvl 60-something alliance, flagged for PvP were in the SM lobby. She kept them pretty much continually sapped, while she called in the cavalry. Soon after Shado and I returned, Witchdocta, Fealty and Shyven arrived to give the alliance scum their due. It was great fun.

After camping the alliance corpses for a short time a raid group was formed, and all six of us went into the Cathedral. I didn't know it was possible to go with six, but in we went.

It was a blast. Thanks to our high level guildmates, it was easy too. They would aggro tons of mobs at a time and we (mostly they) would mow them down. I did die once, but Fealty brought me back from the dead quickly.

I wish I had taken screenshots during some of the action, but I didn't. I do have a few from our fun and frolicking afterwards though.

Thanks to all of you for the fun last night, and Shadorath, I hope to see you on the guild roster soon!! = D

Edit: Ha! I didn't realize until I read this that Shyven was one of those (Azure) that had dropped out of our earlier group. Or that Azure was being camped. I feel so dumb !! I do have vent, but don't usually use it cuz my wife is sleeping three feet away.
= P

Finaly Forty

It seemed like it took forever, but I dinged level 40 last night. Thanks to fellow guildmember Asmodiuss, who is a sixty-something warrior, that ran me through the Scarlet Monestary Cathedral. I was about to log out with about 10k XP to go before my ding when he gave me a pst, asking if I wanted join his group that power leveling the Cathedral. Even though it was already 12:30 am, and I work early in the morning, I went. Twenty minutes later I was there.


After choosing the dire wolf for my mount, I went to buy my new skills. When I opened up my talent window, that mortal strike was looking sweet, but was another 10 points away because I had put enough in Fury to get piercing howl. It only took a moments consideration (and realizing I've used piercing howl only a handfull of times) to decide to pay the 1 gold and re-do my talents. Now I am 31 arms with mortal strike, and I also maxed out axe AND two-handed weapon specializations. Can't wait to try it all out tonight.

3-Man Scarlet Monastery Library Run

Friday night I was looking for a group to run Scarlet Monastery or Razor Fen Kraul. Two of my guildmates were up for SM (Aquavitae, lvl 35 Mage, and Palatinus, lvl 42 Pally,), but we couldn't find anyone else (see my earlier post about trying to find groups at 3:00 am server time).

So . . . we decided to head out and maybe try the graveyard at least. Once the group was there, we decided to see how far we could get through the Library. Aquavite sheeped and DPS'd, I tanked, and Palatinus healed, buffed, sealed & judged, and jumped in with me to whack away.

It surprised me how well we did with only a three-man group. Even when we pulled three or four at a time, we seemed to handle it pretty well. We did wipe twice when we accidentally pulled a whole bunch or were surprised by a patrol (I'm not sure which).

After the second wipe, which was close to the end & Arcanist Doan, all the mobs in the Library had respawned, so we had to fight through them again.

We laughed about how all the mobs respawned, but none of the chests had (lesson learned: if the mobs have respawned, you should go ahead and reset the instance, so the loot will too).

We ended up making it to Doan and finishing him off. I died, because Doan sheeped the healer, but I watched from above my corpse as they finished him
off with great style. I was quickly rezzed and we celebrated our three-man victory.

It was one of the most fun instance runs I've had, and I was pleasantly surprised that three appropriate level players could pull it off.