Well, the Lovefest is over. Didn’t manage to get the meta-achievement, but one of the funnest moments I had during the event was while out hunting yetis (be vewy vewy quiet) with a shammie partner in Lordaereon.
We were hell for leather on our way to… somewhere… in the Alterac mountains when what do I spy with my little eye but a… DWARF HUNTER! AHA! I doublecheck the achievement and sure nuff, he’s listed right thar on zee list.
Dig out the rose petals and take aim… (all this being done while on the run, mind, yetis and bears and whatnot all waiting to be aggroed otherwise)
…and fire.
Barely broke stride, snickering at what he might have thought, being showered in pink glowy petals out of nowhere (which keep falling for a minute or so), out there in the middle of the snowbound mountains, with only two Hordies rapidly disappearing into the distance to show for it.
Speaking of achievements: I finally got my Ambassador title today. I don’t think I’ve ever worked so diligently for such a pointless achievement in any MMORPG. I’m glad I did it, though; now I can return to leveling.
Yeah, what’s up with that? The calendar says today (Monday) was supposed to be the last day. It’s like they ended it a day early … sorta. All the decorations, questgivers, special items, etc. were gone within city limits, but as soon as I stepped out of Darnassus and into Rut’Theran Village, the hearts started popping up over guards’ heads (my pally still had perfume lingering from yesterday). Same thing in SW - nothing in the city proper, but all the guards in the harbor were still pinging. Of course, there was a bug all through the festival that made the harbor guards give you nothing for your efforts.
Add in the fact that Kwee Q. Peddlefeet still had Bolvar listed as the Leader of Stormwind, and that was an all-around bug-ridden festival.
I got mine by accident. I just wanted to get the last mount (mechanostrider) for my faction and poof instant ambassador. And all I wanted was a chicken to ride. Caution. Contains flash animation. Don’t watch near people who don’t like the beatles, or do not approve of wasting time watching silly things.
I couldn’t find a gnome warlock for shit all weekend. Finally I had to resort to BGing it (I HATE BGs, I am all about world PvP). Me and a shammy were holding down the gold mine when what crests the hill but a lone gnome warlock, thinking he’d take the node.
Beats me - I didn’t know the calendar showed specific start/end times for these things. It just showed the event extending through Monday as far as I could see, and I assumed that meant midnight.
Anyway, happy day for me: I found my first purple item! And it was actually something I could use — a one-hand sword for my pally — and actually had useful mods, too. I guess that was to balance out the fact that in my hunter’s early 40s he found three 14-slot bags in STV, while my pally hasn’t found any. The purple sword dropped off a Bloodsail Mage on the beach just north of Booty Bay.
My pally finished the Nat Pagle fishing quest, so she’s an Artisan Fisherman now
She also finished a very puzzling quest: the one to go into the Temple of Atal’Hakkar and retrieve 10 Atal’ai stone tablets for the old Explorer’s League dwarf in SW. She’d picked that one up a couple levels ago and it was listed as a lvl 50 quest. But as she was in Swamp of Sorrows anyway to catch a fish for Pagle, I had her pop into the Temple. I was prepared for the worst. She walked in, picked up the tablets, whacked a handful of lvl 45-46 mobs, and walked back out. “Okay,” I thought, “there’ll be something big and nasty waiting for me when I come out.” Nope. Nothing. Hauled the tablets back to SW and got 10200XP, +550 rep with IF, and a neato trinket.
On the other hand, after she caught the fish on the beach she popped over that little rise and back into the forest and almost walked straight into Somnus :eek:
Ah yes, that’s always an “interesting” experience.
And it was listed as ending at 6 am - way too short of an event for the randomness involved. I got up at 5:30 am for one last crack at getting the last needed items, no luck.
I learned last night that the guild my main is in is having a bit of drama. I was invited to join the guild after a team up with a few members shortly after I began playing. The guild is made up of pretty nice folks, casual players mostly and helpful if you ask for help but willing to let more solo oriented players solo if they like.
A few nights ago I logged in and caught the tail end of a guild chat argument ending with one guy being kicked. I asked why he was kicked and only response was “He was being a dick!” by the guild leader.
In the last few days I noted that very few of the people I had already met were on and there were a lot of new people in the guild. One new guy had a mid level character and kept sending me group invites. I was in flight and I kept asking him what he wanted. He responded “just join!”. I was put off a bit but he then explained he needed me to join so he could 'port somewhere or something, I didn’t actually need to go to him. I simply said “if you explained that first we could have saved some time.”.
Last night a character I had never met sends me a whisper that he is in a fact one of the folks that invited me to the guild but he quit. The guild leader let her boyfriend in and he systematically started booting founding members. So they formed a new guild and wanted me to join them. I did because these few guys are the ones that invited me to the first guild and I didn’t like what I was seeing in the other one. I don’t need the drama when I’m playing. They also told me that they raided the guild bank when they all left. I wasn’t real happy about that but it was mostly their stuff I guess.
I had a great guild on Cenarius, was fun, full of nice people … then the guild leader invited a hard core raaider into the guild, then he got his buddies into the guild. All my bank accesses poofed and vanished, then all of a sudden I wasnt good enough to go on raids any more, and somewhere in the middle of this that new guy got made guild leader because the previous one had family and real life issues … all of a sudden everything got political, and drama queeny, and only the raid guy and his buddies were getting loot and access to stuff.
I had sunk in almost all my elemental goodies, and was making gems and stuff for the bank, and was supporting the guild, yet suddenly i ws a second class citizen … then the guy and his raid buddies looted everything and left and made thier own guild.
I started playing EVE Online. I have a hell of a lot more fun, and ytou know 0 I havent heard any chuck norris fucks your mother jokes since then
My pally’s guild has recently implemented a weekly “tax” on players lvl 60+ to build up the guild bank. The main reason is that the guild founders started the bank out with more than 3000G, and that had dwindled to less than 1000G because people were taking and nobody was putting in. It’s worked out pretty good, but some members expressed concern at first. One told a story about his previous guild: the guild leader had convinced everybody in the guild to deposit 10G in the bank, and the next day the leader had an epic flying mount. That’s when pretty much everybody quit that guild.
My only problem with that guild’s bank is that all the truly useful items are on the 4th tab where you have to ask a high-ranking officer if you want something. The other “all access” tabs are full of low-level stuff anybody can find, like materials and potions. My pally had tailored a bunch of 10-slot bags and I wanted to put them in the bank for anybody to take if they wanted them (following the example of whoever it was in Burning Dog who put all those Netherweave Bags in the bank a while back [and Chimtahna wasn’t greedy - he only took one]), but I saw the leaders had all the bags on that 4th tab — even the 6- and 8-slot bags). I ended up just mailing bags to my lower-level toons and auctioning the rest. When I make more I think I’ll just advertise in guild chat and mail them to anybody who wants some.
Heh. Last night my pally’s guild leader actually kicked a high-ranking officer who was also her good friend. He’d gotten into some kind of argument with another guildie, which quickly degenerated into a back-and-forth of the two of them calling each other “fagget” [sic]. They wouldn’t knock it off or take it to private chat (not surprising - macho posturing is no fun if nobody can see it) after repeated requests and then orders to do so. So the leader finally got fed up and booted the officer, explaining that “officers should show more maturity than that”. Agreed. I was especially puzzled because this particular officer was one of the guild members who I thought was older than me - he’d claimed to be 69 a couple weeks ago when I was asking if I was the oldest player in the guild. Now that I look at that number and his recent behavior, I suspect he was just making a “heh-heh 69” sexual reference.
All that makes me glad that Burning Dog Legion is made up of mature adults
Oh, I finally wrote my first macro the other day after reading a tutorial over at wowwiki.com. It’s just a very simple one that I made for my rogue:
/cast Slice and Dice
/y Die die die you freak!
And I’ve come up with an idea for another one, for in town:
/y I can tell by the way you’ve parked your mammoth in everybody’s way that you must have a huge penis!
/point
/laugh
I’d probably get censored and or reported for that one, though.
You might want to change those /yells to /say. You’re not going to be very appreciated if you spam your flavor text zone-wide. And you might have meant to say “tiny” rather than “huge”.
I had hoped to spend Monday making last attempts to get the Lovely Black Dresses for my female toons. I thought it would be fairly easy, since my male tauren had gotten one and my female human pally had gotten three on the first day. But no such luck, and then the ability to try disappeared Monday morning. My pally had auctioned off two of hers before I realized they weren’t so easy to get.
But, my pally did get the Sweet Tooth achievement, and my human rogue managed the Be Mine! achievement. Both of them got Flirt With Disaster. My rogue hit all five of the Alliance race/class combos with rose petals, but she wasn’t high-level enough to try to get the Horde combos.
I gave up trying to get the Heartmender achievement. Too many people seemed to think the area in front of the bank was the only place to get mended. I’d be walking along and somebody would get their heart broken right in front of me, and before I could even click on them they’d haul ass toward the bank. So I tried hanging around the bank, where I saw one person after another run straight into the middle of the crowd and yell “Mend Please!” Morons! I can’t mend you if I can’t click on you because you’re standing in the middle of a bunch of mammoths/pets/voidwalkers! Hell, when you’re in the middle of a crowd I can’t even tell who is yelling!
Oh! And my pally managed to snag Lil Timmy in SW again last night and got another Cat Carrier (White Kitten). Since she already had one she packed off to the AH where she discovered the White Kitten was selling for between 170G and 300G. I posted mine up for 150G. Be cool if it sells for that!
Thing that bugs me in SW: if they can have a script that makes lanterns appear in all the guards’ hands after dark, why can’t they have a script that makes all the children disappear after dark? There’s just something weird about seeing the school mistress leading the kids around town at 1:00AM.
Just change the word “penis” to something that won’t get you in trouble. I suggest “unit” for general circumstances. But if they’re blocking the mailbox, maybeI can tell by the way you’ve parked your mammoth in front of the mailbox that you must have a huge package!would be better.
And it was actually something I could use — a one-hand sword for my pally — and actually had useful mods, too. I guess that was to balance out the fact that in my hunter’s early 40s he found three 14-slot bags in STV, while my pally hasn’t found any. The purple sword dropped off a Bloodsail Mage on the beach just north of Booty Bay.
