Back in the Outlands

Last night we ran Shattered Halls on Normal. We had planned to run heroics, but were able to bring along a guildie who was level 70 still and needed about 1000 rep to get to honored for the heroic key.

The run was good. We did let the 70 die once, but that happens. Only 4 of us were on the run.

This morning I was able to raise up my tailoring a bit on one of my alts. Am up to 190 but coming up against level issues.

Bernie was able to do some grinding last night. He made the trek below 120% rest so if I dont get on him for a couple days it won't be a bad thing.

Not a lot going on as I am still trying to get Caldmint's reps in order. Will probably do the full daily for KoEB this week and also a couple instances. Only 7000 points to go, but it does seem to drag. Need to get back on the SoH dailies as well. As you can see, it seems to really build in the amount of time needed for playing.

PVP Mondays and More

In our guild we run PVP on Monday evenings. Luckily for me they start fairly early at 5pm server. This helps me get in a little more than normal with those late starting everything else.

We only got three BGs in and then a quick loss in WG on defense. Out of it I managed with no quests, 4500 honor. It will help in the coming grind for better gear. I really feel like I've missed out by not playing for a couple months, but it was so worth it.

Tonight I am hoping to get some Bernie time in because he is back at 150% rest. Which really just wastes rest from that point. Luckily for me with the shoulders that 150% can go to zero very quickly.

That and I've got rep on my mind. I really want to spend about 10 hours one night grinding reps in Outlands instead of sleeping. Too bad this doesn't work out for me. I am into revered right now with both Honor Hold and Cenarian Expedition and would like to finish them up running heroics. With a group of 5 people you can run all 3 of each faction in an hour a piece. Two hours, about 8000 rep for each per day. Assuming the heroics in outlands still have a timer.

Having only 13 Exalted right now without another one very near (ie, tonight) is hard. I get more feeling of achievement from Exalted reps than I do from the achievements they give in the game. Many of which are a complete waste of time in my mind.

We'll see how tonight goes. But Bernie is my priority today.

Leveling Multiple Toons

So I am leveling 3 toons right now. Mostly with power leveling methods as I really am not feeling the same quests over and over. Of course I've made a major mistake.

I have a set of BOA shoulders. But I keep forgetting to mail them around my toons as I level. So only 1 is really getting the benefit. Luckily he is also the one with the most rest for this weekend as I blanked out the rest on the other two last night. But its frustrating to realize I've made it harder than it had to be.

So yes. All three leveled yesterday. Bernie got his out in the mountains of Redridge while the other two had guildie help in the Stocks.

I'm trying to make tracks to get Bernie to 80 before I get married later this year. We'll see if I can do it but it basically means doing a level every 3 days. And of course rest will only cover 45% of a level in that time period. So quests will come into account more and more.

On a side note, I highly recommend checking out the YouTube, "Who's the Tank"

Enjoy.

Back on the Rep Grind and a Revive

So yesterday had me doing very little in WoW. I basically ran Caldmint through half of the Ebon Blade dailies. I am about half way through revered right now so am slowly approaching the end of the grind with them. Yes I am still champing them even though I am so close so it'll end sooner than later.

After that and some bank/mail cleaning I was off to a little questing with BernieVonFoz. Bernie has been a whole new game for me. I still have to do the same old same old quests, but playing as a feral druid mostly in cat form has been wonderful. Adding fun to a game that was losing it for me.

I also did my first ever revive of another toon. Another druid many levels lower pulled too many mobs and went down before I could heal. So after I cleared out the area I ran over and did a revive and HoT.

Today may not be a big WoW day for me. Big things happening at home. But if I can get on, I plan on running others through some power leveling. The same old same old quests do get old.

Heroic Tanking

That's right all. I tanked a heroic last night. Ok Ok. It was only VH. But I had never tanked in prot spec before and it was quite the learning experience even in that short time.

We had a server reset coming in the middle. So when we wiped on the first boss, we all decided to hold off until the server came back up. That luckily was the only wipe we'd suffer.

After the restart we were ready to go. I had some help with what I was missing the first time and actually did a lot better. I know I had an all-star healer with us and kicking DPS. Basically the best of the guild old and new, and me.

But I did actually learn a lot and look forward to doing it again today.

After the Break

So I took a 6-8 week break from WoW. Real life was a lot of fun actually.

Now that I'm back I am still not running off to raid. I was taking the game too seriously and am happy to be having some fun with alts and rounding out toons.

I havent run a heroic in 2 months. I have only done daily quests once in that time. So yeah, I'm behind. But its not a big deal.

It seems these feelings have gone fairly deep within our guild. Many breaks, quits, etc. So there is a small growing group of us that are working on power leveling alts, doing rep grinds, etc.

I do eventually want to see the newest content and I will be doing all the old rep grinds when I can. But for now, I'm just having fun helping others and playing Bernie.