Yeah, yeah, I know. It's been a while since I've posted. What happened to me? No, I didn't fall screaming from a burning building, breaking every bone in my body.
What happened is a lot simpler than that. I respecced my warrior main to protection and suddenly became really excited to play him again! As a result, the Alt Swarm has suffered. Sorry if you've actually been following my progress.
I'll get back to the Alt Swarm "soon".
I'm not sure why, but it seemed to take a lot longer to get to level 12 with Rilly than with the other characters. Sometimes, it seemed like I was dying more frequently. Certainly more often than I would expect with a demon pet soaking up damage. I don't know, maybe I'm just so used to melee combat that I want a warlock to blow things up quicker.
I'm rather curious to see how long it will take Rilly to hit level 14.
I spent too much time today just running from place to place. The zone is unnecessarily large. It's all well and good to make you feel like you actually had to travel to get somewhere, but if it takes several minutes of running, running, running without anything happening between point A and point B, then the zone is just too big.
On a less QQ note, stupid head Hogger didn't want to die tonight. Nobody else was fighting him, so I went toe-to-toe with him. Five or six times. It's hard to keep track of your death count. I got him down to 17% the last time I fought him. I died because my potions had one second left on their cooldown. One second! *sigh*
I had never really used the paladin's bubble, but tonight, I learned of its greatness. I was fighting Lord Melenas for the Twisted Hatred quest. He had one little friend. I smacked Melenas with Hammer of Justice and started whaling on the grell. All was well until the grell decided to run, pulling two other grellkin, one of whom was a rare demon.
Great. So now what? I finished of the first grell and turned my attentions to Melenas. It didn't take long for my health to become dangerously low. So, I bubbled, coincidentally right after Melenas kicked the bucket. It gave me enough time to heal twice without interruption, which gave me enough health to be able to squish the remaining two grellkin.
Not bad for a n00b pally. Four demons lying dead, one draenei standing victorious.
I found a pretty fun blog post today on WAAAGH!: The Ten Commandments of Altitis. All of the commandments are great, but here are some that I felt stand out from the crowd.
Characters usually need a running start before you get a good feel for the class — yet it’s easy, as a higher level player, to grow impatient with a lowbie toon who has only basic skills, few (if any) class-defining abilities yet, and not even a single mastery point to help differentiate your alt from the pack. Reserve your judgment until you’ve given that alt a fair shakedown.
Alts aren’t there to be carbon clones of your previous characters, stomping down the same exact path that you’ve already explored. Try something different — after all, that’s the POINT of an alt! Try new zones, new classes, new roles, and you never know what you might discover in so doing.
Don’t be ashamed of it when a guildie moans “ANOTHER character?” after you re-join the guild with an alt for the tenth time. Just grin, emoticon a grin so they know you’re grinning, and embrace the fun and joy of being diagnosed with one of the most enjoyable diseases an MMO gamer can have!
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.
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.
