You get it whether or not you’re Aldor or Scryer, you get it in the mail, you get it in whispers and general chat.

Now, you can get it on your very own instant messenger!

Smooch says (8:58 AM):
hi?

kullender says (8:59 AM):
hi

Smooch says (8:59 AM):
who’s this?

kullender says (8:59 AM):
This is a company serving for WOW players. Now we are looking for some cooperators in game. There is a world of good for our cooperators. do you have any interest in it?

Smooch says (8:59 AM):
i’m not sure what you mean

kullender says (8:59 AM):
We lvl for players and also,rent their accont if they have an idle account with a lvl60 char even naked.

Smooch says (8:59 AM):
…

kullender says (9:00 AM):
?

This person added me via MSN Messenger, which happens occasionally as I have my contact information on my website. After I allowed them to see my online status, we had the above conversation. The email address for ‘kullender’ is ipgfeedback5@hotmail.com — not sure who that is, but I’d love to know how they knew to IM me.

Anyone else gotten any ‘outside the box’ WoW spam?

The journey to 60 as Horde has been incredibly fun, but I’m not sure if it’s because of the faction switch or the class switch. Both made a huge impact on the game for me, and I’m very happy with where I’ve ended up as far as both of those things are concerned. I guess the big question for me now is PvP or PvE — where do I want to focus? Only time will tell.

We’re guildless right now because we just can’t seem to find a place where we fit, although our departure ends up being a matter of principle rather than personality (the first had leadership which made decisions affecting the guild as a whole with no discussion with guild members, which I wholeheartedly disagree with; the second decided that bugging out a ZG boss to beat him was worth a shot, and I have no desire to progress through endgame content with a guild who thinks that cheesing an encounter — IN ZG — for free epix is all right). I guess you run into that no matter what side you’re on, though.

Regardless, I’m Horde for good. The little challenge that Jonas presented ended up completely changing the way I see and play the game, and so I thank you. (You could work on that delivery a little, though.)

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/stabstabstabstab

WTF am I supposed to do at work all day?

We quickly realized that while Horde seemed to be trying for a live and let live approach (and we outnumber Alliance by a small margin on my server), every time we turned around there was someone in General chat being camped somewhere by 3 Alliance with a few levels on them. So, with a few general exceptions most people get killed on sight, no questions asked. This keeps us fairly safe. Granted, I have a shadow priest attached to my hip at all times, but that doesn’t mean we don’t find ourselves in sticky situations — but these situations are almost always a result of being ganked while fighting something else, and so we get our revenge as best we can. The two of us have been known to ride around a map for an hour mashing a /target macro to find someone who ganked us, and so far we’ve managed to find all but one or two eventually (and usually beating up on someone else).

I find it interesting how truly AWFUL most of the Alliance are that gank us and run away. When we catch back up with them, they’re absolutely horrible PvPers and it wouldn’t even be fun killing them if it wasn’t for revenge. Most of them don’t even want to fight a fair fight, which leaves us chasing after them, spamming SW:P hoping for a blackout proc or trying to get just close enough to dismount and finish a polymorph cast.

Last night we were on the final leg of the Tanaris mechanical chicken escort quest (dude, I would NEVER kill anyone doing an escort quest, and I mean that) and an Alliance priest waited until the last set of mobs spawned, and killed us while four or five guys wailed on us. High class, amirite? So we race back to our bodies, and of course he’s gone. I ask in General for his location, and he’s back in Gadget.

Everyone knows you can’t kill anyone in Gadget without the Bruisers tearing you a new one, but if you’re willing to eat the death you can certainly get your revenge. Which is exactly what we did — came back to find this priest inside the inn with an AFK tag over his head, planned out as much burst damage as we could before we got owned by the Bruisers, and got our revenge. So, so worth it.

I’m interested in hearing more from people on PvP servers — etiquette, stories, the lengths you’ll go to in order to kill that one special person. The closer I get to 60, the more I realize that levelling to 60 on a PvE server has not in any way prepared me for levelling on this one — it’s a whole new game.

As soon as we hit 29 we decided to do the BGs, and below is what I ended up with today starting at 238xp into my level, 0 rep, and 0 HKs for the day. My only complaint is our server is only two weeks old, and our battlegroup is composed of day one servers — so we’re facing a lot of twinks. It’s tough to kill a warrior with 2500 HP when you’re just a regularly geared group, but we managed to face whole raids of them time and time again and come out on top.

I’m sure these numbers aren’t astonishing for old-school Horde, but for someone who’s come over from the land of pointy ears and pally bubbles, it was astonishing for me.

Cross Server BGs? For the Horde? Yes, please.

It also has a search function, so if there’s 60 LFG/M requests in the list, I can search for ‘BFD’ and see only the instance I’m interested in running.

Best of all, it mutes the LFG channel for you and forwards the requests, so you don’t have to read any of the annoying spam but still get all of stuff you need. It’s tied to a simple mini-map button and scrolls incoming requests in small type near your mini-map. If you click the button, it brings up the entire list and you can search or scroll through. It also displays the class and level of the person advertising, so no more need to do ‘/who omglfgplz!@!’ to see that no, you don’t want to invite that fourth cloth-wearer to your group who probably also is on their tenth run to get the Robes of Arugal.

Well, I failed. In the midst of a new raiding guild, AQ40/Naxx and everything else, my little troll fell by the wayside and probably got kicked out of We No by Sean (which is okay, as I won’t be coming back to her). I was enjoying my five-day-a-week raiding schedule and my shiny new gear and all of the great people I’d met in my new guild on my 60 Alliance Hunter (Night Elf, too!).

About a month ago though, a few things happened: a very good friend of mine stopped playing WoW, and I started suffering from raiding burnout.

Considering I’d only been at it a couple of months, it leads me to believe that maybe a hardcore raiding guild wasn’t what I really wanted after all. I kept going to raids, paying my repair bills and dropping the occasional repair bot, but it wasn’t fun any more, even as we started progressing through Naxx and downing bosses in there. It could be because I missed my friend, or maybe I just wasn’t into it.

So I quit. I stopped playing WoW for about a week but I missed the game itself too much, so I rerolled a dwarf priest on Vek’nilash (my boss plays on that server) and played her to level 32. Just as I was really starting to get into the whole priest thing, though, my friend who had quit playing WoW and that I desperately missed decided to start playing again — but he wanted to reroll Horde (another Night Elf Hunter refugee), and he wanted to reroll on a PvP server.

Game on.

So last week we created an undead priest and mage (I’m the mage, I couldn’t stomach leveling another priest so quickly) on one of the brand new PvP servers and have joined the race to 60. As a pair we’re enjoying a lot of success questing yellow/orange and earning decent XP, as well as some great PvP survivability. We hit level 25 in SFK last night, and as I was thinking about hitting the ‘halfway’ mark of 30, I remembered the challenge from Jonas and how I’d never finished it.

Well, here’s to you punkin. I’ll hit 30 this weekend hopefully, and I’ll let you know how it goes. Let me just say two things:

1) Horde > Alliance as far as community and organization goes so far in both PvP and PvE. Now, there’s a lot of rerolls when the new servers come out, and I realize I’ve been hitting instances with groups that are probably comprised entirely of people who already have 60s but… I did plenty of grouping up AT level 60 that was much, much worse than the worst group I’ve had so far.

2) PvP > PvE server: Truth. I was never very good at PvP, but there’s something about having to GET good at it or spend your entire night corpse-running that really turns things around. I’ve been ganked a few times, but I can live with that as I’m sure I’ll be doing my fair share of ganking when I’m having a particularly grouchy day. Running with a group to do Deadmines was by far the most fun I’ve had in WoW since… maybe ever, and I keep having more ‘most fun’ moments the more I level. Running into a couple of Alliance parties outside of SFK last night at various points in the evening only made my fingers itch for when we’ll all be outside Strat or BRS later on down the road.

2) Paladins can DIAF. Srsly. I know that’s 3, but I really wanted to say it so I made it 2 as well.

This is dropped by a rare spawn in the catacombs named Lord Malathrom, who was a tough fight for my then 28 priest. By himself he’s not so bad but he spawns these crazy little adds that can eat up a caster if you’re not careful. However, I see any rare spawn and I’m gonna give it a go, and the felhunter that hung out with me for the next hour was totally worth the fight. You can heal him, so it was kind of like having my own little tank for awhile — even moreso in the sense that it was stuck on aggressive and attacked anything that moved. MINION SMASH!

I’ve always wanted to know what happens if Stitches actually made it to Darkshire, and apparently if you’re questing at 11AM on a Saturday morning you can find out. By the time he made it to town there was actually a little group of us carefully following him and asking people not to attack him so he could get there. Once he got to town it was out of our hands though, and some well-meaning citizens of Azeroth pretended they were uber and whiffed at Stitches while the Watch took him down.

I’m not sure what this is — it looks like the Highperch thingers or the wyverns that Horde fly around on… but there was no one on it. So I’m not sure if these just randomly fly around Thousand Needles or what, but trying to take a screenshot almost got me wtfpwnt by some grouchy named elite which is apparently for a quest I didn’t have, but he sure didn’t know that.

I must’ve been around the racetrack a million times and I’ve never seen this poor guy before. I like to call this one “it’s fine, lrn2fly”.

Anub’Rekhan went down first, unfortunately due to work aggro I wasn’t in the raid that night. Instructor Razuvious was next, and I’d like to share a little timeline, if you will, of learning the encounter…


Sometimes you just have to walk in and wipe for no good reason to really get the blood pumping.

And then wipe, and wipe… and wipe. And wipe.

And hopefully the lewt gods will anoint your trash with epix…

After the obligatory ‘OMG we just used all our consumables WTF!’ attempt, success!

Thank you, lewt gods, for rewarding the priests who make this encounter possible.

The real fun in the Instructor fight was listening to our priests on Vent. You could tell they were totally into doing something other than being healbots for once, and having a great time at it. Some of our priests had never played a warrior before though, so it was cute to listen to our tanks talk to them about positioning and taunting.

I say the real fun, because as far as my role as a hunter was concerned, it was pretty much:

strafe – pew pew pew – strafe strafe – pew pew pew – omfg priests are all dead wtfcheetahrun

Except for that last time, of course.

The Chain of the Scarlet Crusade set is finally mine, complete with Herod’s Shoulder, Aegis of the Scarlet Commander, and a nifty piece I wasn’t aware of, the Tabard of the Scarlet Crusade, apparently just reintroduced in 1.11 (it drops off of the crazy trainee zerg that comes after you kill Herod).

I’ve been working on this set since my very early 30s, and finally at level 39 it’s all done (just in time for plate, sigh). I’ll probably keep this one in the bank for special occasions (much like I’ve kept the Defias set for sentimental reasons on my 60 hunter), or maybe just because it’s a reminder that I never have to go to Scarlet Monestary again.

Well, we’ll see about that.

Mucho thanks to guildies Cynix and Fors for your help with the ever-elusive leggings, you uber SM-terrorizing fiends, you.