Three Accounts Strong

My household now has three WoW accounts. After the transfer of two high level alliance toons, we all rolled alliance alts to enjoy some of the fruits. I stalled out at level 19 with my dwarf hunter because I'm having too much fun in Warsong Gulch. My son rolled a Pally and we've been having a blast. My daughter a priest, but since she's only level 14, she concentrates on healing in WSG. Since I hate level 19 twink gnome rogues so much, my son and I decided we'll both make one. So far they're very fast/easy to level.

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

Family party

Last weekend I set up a second World of Warcraft account. My kids have been creating and using characters on my account for several months (see this earlier post). While they were pretty good about sharing, sometimes they would argue about who got to play, for how long, etc. I, of course had thought about another account, but never even brought it up, thinking my wife would put the kaibash on it because of the subscription fee. However, the other night when the kids were saying (again) they wished they could play with me (or with each other), she asked why I didn't have another account. When I said because it would mean $30/month instead of $15, she said : "Just do it." By the next evening I had gone out and bought another copy of WoW and BC, had them installed, and the second account was up and running.

Now instead of HOTS (helping over their shoulder), it's PHIG (party/help in game). I like it much better this way. And they do need a lot of help.

My oldest daughter rolled a BE rogue, and I rolled a BE mage to level with her. She did okay at first, but when we got to the Silvermoon ruins, she was constantly running into crowds of mobs and either dying, or leaving me to die when I pulled them off of her. But while she's learning, we're having tons of fun. It's my first mage, so I'm leanring some things too. I think I'm going to enjoy these family parties.

So, if your considering a second account so you can play with family - I say: "Just Do It!"

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.

World of Warcraft Patch Day, Addons & Mods

Today is patch day for 2.1. Since February I've been using an Addon Compilation called MazzleUI, that I am totally addicted to and can't live without. I'm hoping that the patch won't affect my MazzleUI. The creator, MazzleFizz - pictured on the left, said she (he?) isn't spending as much time on it and isn't sure how/if it will be affected by the patch.

All I can do is keep my fingers crossed, and keep my eye on the Mazzle forums. If it doesn't work with the patch, I'll have to re-learn the general World of Warcraft interface. {:-(

Update: Some on the forum said it works pretty well if you download the Ace2 update.

Update2: June 2, 2007. At this point, Mazzle works properly on only my higher level toons. It has to do with bongos and how mazzle compresses the bars that do not yet contain spell/talent buttons. Because the low level toons have a lot of empty bar buttons, it screws things up. I don't mind no mazzle on my AH/bank mule, and the kids don't seem to mind playing their low-level characters without it. Hopefully Mazz will be able to fix the issue soon. From the forum, it seems this problem only happens with Macs. :-(

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.

The World of Warcraft that You Play !

I love this video!