Why Druids Make Excellent Passengers - 2010-02-06 18:54:43
First of all, I owe this moment of hysteria to the fact that my good friend Copperox is a collector of mounts. So we were doing a 5 man heroic, one of the newer ones where you can mount up and ride back to the area of your death - and I think I was grumbling something about not being able to ride on my druid in tree form, how annoying, grumble, grumble. So he, on his motorcycle of uber coolness, said "well, hop on and I'll give you a ride." And much to my amazement - the tree can indeed ride in the sidecart.
And I was snicker so much that - while I did remember to hit the mute button so no one else on vent knew how much I was gleeful - I totally forgot to take any screenshots.
But I did pester poor Copp for a few minutes in Dalaran to take screenshots the next time he was online.
And lo, a tree on a motorcycle. In a Beer Garden yet. This totally made my day. Or month actually, because yes, I am still amused by it.
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What We Don't Know About That Stormwind Barber - 2010-02-06 18:41:58
If you just drop by the Stormwind Barbershop to have a quick hairdo you might not notice anything out of the ordinary.
After all, on the surface Jelinek Sharpshear seems like any other goblin merchant. They all have that slightly creepy smile that is apparently normal. If you're a goblin.
But that's only if you don't go upstairs and snoop around a bit.
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Print Warcraft and Hunter Team Hooha - 2009-12-31 18:26:37
Thanks to the Mystic Hunter's post I discovered the joy of Blizzard's Print Warcraft site. Short version: make graphics of your characters, wearing whatever they were wearing when you last logged out. If you want to just play around with the creation online use the Mystic Hunter link - after viewing his it gave me a "create your own" link that didn't require me to log in or anything. But I do love the idea of having my hunter surrounded by all her pets, in a Hunter Team Hooha shot:
My problem was that I couldn't figure out how to decrease the size of the pets to fit them all into the shot. (Do let me know in the comments if you figure out how!) Also the site kept telling me that the images were outside the limits of the set area or something like that - so these are all screenshots instead of saves. Because I was impatient! But in the meantime I did have way too much fun twiddling with the site.
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Flamingo Hits 80, and Why I Love Hunters. And Tallstriders. - 2009-12-30 20:36:32
Because this blog started way back when I tamed this flamingo in the first place (March of 2008), it seems right to celebrate the fact that I finally got the bird to 80.
Course that was weeks ago, but I'm always a tad slow getting my shots posted!
Flamingo pet and mini pet
And looking back on it, I must say that I really enjoy all the changes to the hunter class Blizz has added. Because while once the flamingo was a pet that not only caused laughter but the knowledge that I'd gimped my character by choosing that pet. Now it's possible to really use just about any pet that you happen to like the looks of - and not have to worry about death as a result of that choice! That's something I really have to enjoy - especially since I know that there are a lot of other players also happy for the same reasons, and enjoying their own pet choices.
I wish I'd gotten a better screenshot of this - that blue bird is the hunter pet of someone on my server (not the tauren though, that's a druid) - also known as the
Strider Clutchmother. And they stopped just to chat hunter pets with me - which I always enjoy. But the more I looked at that great shade of blue the more I thought I really needed to tame that beast. In fact it inspired me.
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Pet Leveling in the Plain of Echos: Loving the Bouncing Rhinos - 2009-12-30 19:47:14
So even with the new, easier leveling of pets there comes a time when a hunter has several pets in their stable that require some leveling up. And there's still a lot of fun to be had doing it - especially if you're like me and every now and then enjoy just running around mindlessly killing things and gathering materials. One thing I always try to do when I'm doing this sort of leveling is pick an out of the way place to do it so I won't bother anyone who's trying to quest. So I managed to wander into this place called The Plain of Echos in the Storm Peaks that seemed to fit the bill. Since I still haven't done all the quests in Storm Peaks and Icecrown I'm sure there's some sort of quest that the Temple here is for - but I'll find that out later.
Oh I should add that I also try and do this sort of thing in the hours when not as many people are around. But then those are also hours when apparently the Evil Spamfolk are out and about too. So recently I had whispers like this:
and
I really hate this sort of thing. It's fairly obvious that these folk are
phishing - trying to trick people into giving up their login info in order to steal their character/gold - or perhaps just to trick folk into visiting a website that will install something on your computer that will have the same result. What I really hate was the trick of offering a free gift - especially around the holidays. That's when any younger players might easily be fooled into thinking that this is legit. (Though granted most younger gamers are more savy than many of the older ones.) I reported both of these whisperers for spamming and Blizzard dropped me a note to let me know that I didn't have to open a ticket to make sure they got the url - that just reporting spam allows them access to the whisper itself and all that information. I didn't have any idea how that worked, but had opened the ticket in a moment of "grrr, they need to get this jerk, they MUST have this url!" So in case you hate these spamweasels too - know that just clicking to report them for spam sends all that good info to the right folk.
Ok, rant over - back to the Plain of Echos. One reason I've kept coming back to this place is not only because the steady supply of rhinos and mammoths to kill - but the nature of those beasts, specifically the rhinos.
At first I didn't notice anything too different from other rhinos. Mostly because I was usually focusing on my pet and seeing how its aggro was holding. (And loving that I can
call any pet from my stable every 5 minutes - so useful!)
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Holiday Huntering: Seasonal Pet Names and Egg Gathering - 2009-12-24 11:06:30
I always mean to do more for the holidays than I usually manage to accomplish - both in and out of game, sadly. Anyhow, one thing I did manage to do was to rename two of my pets for the holidays. I love this idea (thank you, Inscription!) - especially since Hordefolk will be able to understand pet names and it's a sneaky sort of way to communicate, even if my Alliance characters can't speak their language.
I'd wanted to rename the sporebat (who was temporarily called TheJoke) anyway, and this seemed a good time.
The pumpkinhead is thanks to a friend who knew I was trying to take screenshots - ho ho ho, very sneaky! Anyhow the 'bat would be HappyHolidays but annoyingly that wouldn't fit. He'll be renamed after the holidays are over - although he does remind me of a giant Christmas tree light.
The rhino's name was named Roquefort in his pre-holiday form (it went well with him in his blue grey coat - he's the color changing rhino). And now he's...
...which is a holiday name, it just needs a little clue.
For instance, what is Bumble the rhino doing in this next shot?
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Log Ride Research: A Flamingo Sidenote - 2009-12-23 23:53:46
So I was doing a lot of research on the Log Ride (hint: it makes a great guild event if you put a warlock at the npc who offers the ride and just summon everyone). And so the flamingo, who only hit level 80 not too long ago, came along for company.
One of the humorous things that can happen sometimes when a hunter dismounts is where his/her pet decides to appear. Maybe this has something to do with my hunter using a
flying carpet. (What can I say, alts sometimes end up with odd professions.) In any case, suddenly I had a flamingo perched on my hunter's shoulder.
Since this is probably one of those "only really funny to other hunters" kind of things - I figured it deserved a post of its own.
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Grizzly Hills Log Ride: Another Must Try "Quest" - 2009-12-23 22:15:31
Every time I think I've bumped into every sort of amusement Wow has to offer then something completely new hits me in the face. At those times I turn into a little kid all over again, playing with something that has nothing to do with xp or loot or how uber I can become - and everything that's about the online experience of just having fun.
First let's get to the location. And this is a great time to have a thank you to Blizz for allowing us to purchase flying in Northrend if you're not lvl 77.
To do this simply have your level 80 character purchase the book
Tome of Cold Weather Flight from
Hira Snowdawn in Dalaran - who you'll find on a purple and turquoise dragonhawk flying mount near the Dalaran flight master. Just being able to fly over mobs is the best thing about playing an alt - and far from making the game "easy mode" (always a complaint), it actually saves you time you'd spend traveling and actually lets you play the game. Not to mention take a look at the scenery without having to worry about your next battle.
If you like giant pine trees Grizzly Hills is the place to be, by the way. It's up there with "in game places I'd build a summer home in" for me.
Ah but let's get to the details of the log ride. First a map:
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Season's Geetings! - 2009-11-25 06:17:33
Happy Turkey Day everyone!
More when I get back from family feastings.
And maybe then I'll get that darn RSS feed working again...
(Bear with me on that RSS feed. As you can tell this blog software's a kind of homebrew affair, cooked up by the programmer husband, so when I do the RSS it's all hand coded/written in, old school. We were discussing putting this in Drupal but that'd kill off all the old page urls, and so I'm not able to upgrade without killing off all the old linkage floating around out there. So until I REALLY need to do that I'm sticking with this version, though using Drupal on all new sites I'm working on.)
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