Azgalor Nights

I didn’t quite realize that it had been an entire month since I had written here, so I am going to post an update for all the toons I have been working on since the last entry.

The Warrior:
I ran Kara for the first time just a few nights ago. I never really got into Raiding with the Warrior, mostly because most people want me to tank and I don’t like tanking. At one time, I got very burned out on the Warrior, but lately since re-specing to ARMS, I have been enjoying him more. I plan to level him to 80 once WOTLK comes out next week.

The Warlock:
With the new patch, 3.0.3, that dropped 2 days ago, you can now get the Dreadsteed from the TRAINER at level 61! It cost me 510g for the riding lessons, something which I didn’t have to buy for the level 30 mount, and the horse itself was 17g. My goal is to get the Warlock to 70 before WOTLK drops. Last night I quested with him in Nagrand and ran Underbog, and finished the night around 65% through level 66. I will definitely hit 67 with him tonight and see how far I can get him.

The Mage:
The Made is at level 51 and I have put him on a temporary hold in order to spend time leveling the Warlock to 70.

The Shaman:
I have been running the Shaman for the last few weeks on the Refer-a-Friend program with a friend who has a Warlock. We are both around level 40 and it didn’t take much time to get there. It isn’t uncommon to get 9500+ XP for a quest turn-in at this level with this triple XP bonus.

The Hunter and The Twink:
These 2 names are the same toon. I started a hunter a while back, only because I didn’t have one and I wanted to see what they were like. In my opinion, there are too many hunters on the server. Anyway, after I started him and ran him up to around level 8, a friend on the server said that I should Twink him out and bring him into a Twink guild that he had. So we ran him through Deadmines and Wailing Caverns, getting some good leather armor drops and weapons for him and I started running Warsong Gulch with him last week. THAT IS FUN! He already has over 1000 kills and I have bought 2 new PvP pieces of gear with the honor I received. Our goal is to get them Exhaulted with Warsong Outriders, and then level them to 29 and start on Arathi Basin.

Yesterday I decided to go run the Daily quests again on Isle of Quel’Danas.  There are 10 quests out there that, if you do all of them, will earn you about 120Gold.  So each day, you can have an easy 120Gold in about 30-40 minutes.

However, yesterday evening was apparently when all the 12-yr old Allies, who aren’t good enough for Battlegrounds I assume, decided to start making trouble and attacking everyone out there.  After a few minutes the Peacekeepers finally got them and they split up and went elsewhere.

I’ve seen some good Allies in Battlegrounds before, so the ones who make trouble while doing daily quests.. do they just suck at BG and don’t wanna go get PWNED in there, so they come to Isle to cause trouble?  I’ll just have to remember to start doing my dailies either before school is out or after their bed times, from now on.

Last night a friend, who accepted an invite to join WoW that I sent him, and I ran quests in Stonetalon Mountains.  The recruit-a-friend program is nice because it gives you TRIPLE XP for any mobs killed, AND for Quest turn-ins.  So at levels 20-25, it is normal to get around 6000-9000 XP for a quest completion.

This also works well in Instance runs, getting you triple XP for mobs killed.  It is nice to have a 70 run you through quickly, a few times.

One thing that I noticed about the triple XP is that is apparently doesn’t take away from your Rest Bonus.  My rest bonus at the beginning of the night was 150% and after leveling twice from grinding and from quest turn-ins I was only down to 130% rest at the end of the night.  It seems to take away the NORMAL percentage of rest you would get from not being on the recruit-a-friend program, but it doesn’t take away triple percentages.  This is nice, it basically means that I could be rested all the way up to 60 when Triple XP ends.

Some nice features of the Refer-a-Friend promotion are:

Triple XP on grinding and quests

Summon your friend anywhere in the game, 1 hour cooldown
When your friend has paid for his first month, YOU get a free month
When your friend has paid for his 2nd month, You’ve earned an exclusive in-game mount.

Hi, thanks for visiting my new site.  I just wanted to take a few minutes and give a little background on who I am and on what this site will be used for.

First, I am fairly new to World of Warcraft, I have been playing for only about 5 months.  I started as Horde with an Undead Warrior, and since have created several new toons and played most of them up to higher levels.  My Warrior is a 70, but right now he is the only 70 I have.

I’ll be posting these posts under the name of Bluepumpkin.  Bluepumpkin is a Level 5 Troll Mage that you will see in Orgrimmar, running back and forth between the bank, the mailbox and the auction house.  He is on just about every day, so if you ever see how, PST me and say hello.\

But… as far as the rest of my toons go… I will not be giving any names.  Posts on this blog will be very opinionated, with my view of happenings in Azgalor.  Think of it as the daily news… (yes, I am on just about every day)

Your comments are welcome, especially if you don’t agree with something I say.  I am not writing this blog as a complaint forum, but at the same time, I will give my honest opinion about nearly everything I write, so there will probably be tension at times.

Also, if you want to trade links, feel free to comment in here, or PST Bluepumpkin in the game.  I will be happy to add you to the blogroll.

See everyone in Azgalor!