Lo-Quality WoW

Didn’t really plan on doing much last night. I put Keyalnon into Looking For Group for a couple of raids just in case. But otherwise, I felt a bit aimless. So I figured I’d spend some time puttering around Shadow Labyrinth for some Lower City rep.

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Now I’ve made a few large purchases in my life. My car was one. My apartment was another. Each time, I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as quite a bit of what I had either saved up had been gone in an instant. I get the same feeling each time I do something similar in WoW. The Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth comes to mind. And I did it once again as I spent most of my hunter’s savings to buy a Nobles Deck out of the auction house, which then became a Darkmoon Card: Greatness. Hey, I’m a survival hunter, agility is everything to me.

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Once again it’s been awhile since I last did a WoW blog. It started when I took a trip back in April and got sick, which put me out of commission for a while. And after that, I just was not playing all that much. Oddly enough, a lot of other hunter blogs I had been reading also seemed to disappear for a while around the same time. Generally for various reason but it just seemed a bit odd. However, slowly but surely I’ve been playing regularly again, so I figured I blog a bit more.

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Ever since Wrath came out, our guild has pondered the questions “how many do we need for Kara now?” It has always been rare to have anything like 10 of us on at any given time so our usual Kara runs had been 4 or 5 of us and the rest as pick-ups. But it would be interesting to see how few we needed now that we’re 10 levels higher. Some of my guild was thinking two, a tank and a high-end dps. I felt at least three because no matter how much damage that dps is doing, it wouldn’t be enough to kill something before the tank died. So my minimum was three, the regular configuration of tank, healer, dps. (We were both right in a way as you’ll see.) I also was thinking that Morose and Netherspite would be difficult even then with so few.

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Almost a month since my last writing. That’s partially because the computer that has all my web publishing software finally just gave up and it took awhile to repair. And once I got it back, I just wasn’t playing WoW as much. And when I did play, I didn’t really do much. My hunter is mainly at a point where he’s just doing the waiting game of well, waiting for something interesting to come along and do…
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Odd title since as far as I know, nobody reads this other than myself. Either way, things have conspired to make it difficult to post. One, work has been busy and I tend to write these things throughout the day at work as a break. Two, this computer, which holds all my web authoring software, has been acting up lately. So finally, a compilation of all the silliness I’ve done in WoW over the past few days…

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We are now up to patch 3.0.9 which my co-worker refers to as a “null-patch”. Not exactly but I’m also not really affected by any of the changes. The hunter ones are aimed towards BM hunters, which I do applaud. If a tweak allows those who love to be BMs to be BMs and not lose out on dps, then I’m all for it. Although I am hearing that it doesn’t quite make up the difference just yet. (This post is coming out a bit late because the system I do my web publishing from decided it needed a nap.)

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I’m not quite sure why but I could be online for a couple of hours, doing stuff like earning my 100 Dalaran Cooking Awards achievement and doing the odd dailies here and there for money and not get a single bite in the Looking For Group channel. Then I fly into Sholazar Basin and suddenly I get an invite. Usually for somewhere on the other side of the continent. I’m starting to think I’m hidden on the LFG lists until I enter Sholazar.
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After all the stress from the previous days instances and raids, I just wanted a nice relaxing time tonight. So I logged in and did a few dailies, but as usual, I put myself up in Looking For Group. It’s rather late so I doubt I’d get a 25-man anything but you never know. But after no bites for an hour or two, I remove myself from LFG. And wouldn’t you know it, I get an invite to an instance about 5 minutes later. Weird.

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Doing Pick Up Groups (PUGs) requires a certain flexibility and patience. You never quite know what you’ll get. Some will group you with guys who really know what they’re doing, who work well together and with you. Others are so dysfunctional that you just want to pull your hair out, where people just can’t get it together no matter what. Most fall in between the two extremes. And it’s very unusual where I get to experience all three in one night.
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