Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Cut Him Some Slack!

Poor Vagash...

Poor, poor Vagash. All he ever wanted was to sit in his little cave and eat mutton. But nooooooo... some meanie dwarf wants him to stop. Apparently, there were quite a number of others who agreed with her. Check out the screenie.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

A Black Day for All Gnollkind

I had the easiest experience dropping Hogger today. I had gotten him to about 75% health remaining, and then he keeled over dead. I think he got knifed by a level 27 rogue. Not sure. I found him later and tried to pick a fight with him again. Bad idea. He beat me pretty bad. Hooray for Polymorph!

Anyway, I then had to do the other gnoll-slaying quest, Riverpaw Gnoll Bounty. I only died once, but this quest still took a long time to complete. There were probably about a dozen other players running around the gnoll camps, chopping them down. One of them was a level 70 mage, who was getting happy with Arcane Explosion.

Gnolls world-wide will remember this day as their dark day of doom.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Awesome Addon: Altoholic

I just found a really great add-on: Altoholic. This add-on lets you manage all the characters in your account, regardless of realm. I haven't played with it much yet, but I'm pretty sure that it's going to be invaluable, if only to help me manage bag space and crafting materials.

Here are a couple of screenies from WoW Interface:

  • Bag management
    Bag management
  • Crafting recipes & materials
    Crafting recipes & materials

See ya, Single Digits!

Well, all nine characters have hit level 10. Kaliina actually hit level 11 last night. I didn't intend to ding, but I wanted to complete her Fire Totem quest. Little did I know that it's a seven-part chain, totaling 4230 XP, not including combat XP. Oh, well. That just means that she'll get less play time in Cycle 12.

By the way, poor Gleiara doesn't count in my assessment. She'll probably get leveled to 10, but not for a while, and only so she can disenchant higher level items.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

So... what's the plan?

It's all well and good to say that I'm going to level the Alt Swarm simultaneously, but what does that really mean?

Simple, really. I play one of the characters until it's time to train again. After training, it's time to move on to the next character. The characters will be played in the order listed in the Armory links on the left sidebar. Why this order? Well, that's the order that I created the characters in. No special reason.

So, you see, there is method to my madness. Occasionally.

Meet Gleiara

Gleiara, Dwarf Hunter

Gleiara is the character that will get the most logins, but the least amount of play time. She is to be my bank alt. I'm taking up Enchanting to be able to disenchant greens, since the enchanting materials sell for much more.

  • Spec: None.
  • Professions: Enchanting.

Meet Kaliina

Kaliina, Draenei Shaman

Kaliina is going to present me with a special challenge. I have started a couple of shamans before, but the class just doesn't do much for me. I don't know why. Maybe I just haven't played them long enough. I think my highest is level 23 or something. Perhaps I'll discover the draw with Kaliina.

  • Spec: Elemental.
  • Professions: Jewelcrafting and Mining.