TIME FOR THE FIST!

Mar31

Blizzard, how do I love thee, let me count the ways:

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LOL  1

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LOL 2

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LOL 3, and the fact that Ragamuffins immediately swarm the bodies of the transients you are forced to kill and steal their shoes and stuff, is just precious.

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Pure awesome, seriously!  And it doesn’t stop!

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Alright back to other things, I didn’t realize you could pick up older pvp gear, and Leonz showed me a variation of my favorite armor, which is similar to what Bolvar wore at the Wrathgate.

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I also queued for WG a few times, and one of those times it was just Rexe and I to start with.  Been wondering where Stout has  been during this, too.  Last logon, 25 days ago, and prior to that, a month gap or so? Getting worried TBH.

Back to questing, I feed the homeless out in Westfall, and the “grocery carts” some of them have is a nice touch.

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I also get to see Ripsnarl in the stocks around the tower. This lady was bad assed, by the way, and she shoots 2 elite npcs guarding the tower you have to go into soon as they attack you, and whispers things like “boom headshot!”  and “not a chance”.

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This reminds me of when this tower was for something else, a rogue quest I believe, when I first started playing.  I came to this tower which was surrounded by very difficult mobs and got myself killed (on my mage).  As I was running around as a ghost, I decided to go up the tower, where two NPCs were having a discussion.  I remember freaking out first, because I had never seen a scripted event in Lineage 2 like this, and because I thought they could see me as a ghost and was expecting to get trapped or something.

Back to Westfall stuff, you find out the lady, Hope, who gave you the stew for the poor people is really Vanessa VanCleef and she ties up everyone and her black guards set fire to the area. She rescues Ripsnarl also.

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And, I can’t recall at what point I did it, but you also get to go into the Deadmines instance and view lower level versions of the bosses I have fought at 85.  You also get to see a recreation of adventurers killing Edwin VanCleef, only this time his daughter comes out and sees it.  Hm.  Boba Fett anyone?

Had quite the epic battle in TB today as well, I ran a few of them, but this one was a lot of fun and we did well on defense.

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Ran arena with Leonz, and this time we had a loss due to a pizza delivery guy, but had some pretty good, long fights that turned into wins.  I did get SMOKED once by a priest who kept me feared, silenced and burned down in mp but overall, was fun and we made good use of our skills.

Questing

Mar29

I’ll combine two days of quests here. I got to do battle with that giant turtle out in Hyjal

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and had a fun quest where I got to bop a Twilight member over the head with a black jack or something like that.

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A bit after that I get to talk to an outhouse, which made me giggle thinking of the one in Grizzly Hills, which is holding Ortell, some kind of spy. Anyway during some of the initiation rites, which included putting out the flames on other initiates before they burned literally to death (they will die if you aren’t fast), and killing detainees that didn’t hack it with the cult.

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I also get to put on my ogre disguise, this time in an ogre outhouse, to kill one of the cultists and make the ogres take the blame for it.

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I also get to fight a giant member of the legion, which I assume is the burning legion, from Outlands. Makes me want to kill that Pit Commander now.

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and give a speech, which is done based on the reaction of the crowd to rescue Jarod Shadowsong.

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and a show down happens between ah, this.. giant guy, and our giant ancient turtle friend.

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I only took one shot of this, because I was fraps’ing it, but we had a showdown between Cenarius, Malfurion Stormrage (who had pretty cool magic going on) and a third I can’t recall with Ragnaros.

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Then I went to Darkshire and did a bunch of quests, and a few things of note.  The quest with Stalvan Mistmantle, well he’s no longer just out of sight in his house, ready to pounce on your ass the second you walk in (aww).  You now summon him with a ring, and then there is a fight between him and his brother, who gets cursed into a worgen.  This is new to cata.

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also Abercrombie the Embalmer, is no longer in that shack by the Darkened Bank (I think that’s it).  He’s very close to town in a broken down tower, and I am quite sad-faced to report that now when you give the notice to the mayor about Stitches coming to down, Stitches immediately spawns just outside the city hall, with Abercrombie riding on his shoulder, and the town is ablaze.  Wahhh!!  I am just glad I got to experience the original version, which was when Stitches spawned at the shack, the guards of the town ran down the roads to meet him, and he took a very long pathing clear across the map to get back to the town.

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Oh how I remember seeing those yells and diving off the road when he came by! but but, he doesn’t do that now!  That whole sense of OMG SOMETHING IS COMING is lost.  However, I understand why they did it, any higher level in the area would kill Stitches way before he got to town and sort of ruin it.  But man, that was epic.

Also the bad assed house that held Morbent Fel, no longer has him, just his hat.  That was probably my most epic, first time memory, of getting close to that house, the very air going dark around it, running up the stairs, and getting rofflestomped by a wizard with a shield on.  Scared the crap out of me. Unfortunately for that guy, instead of a wizard looking fellow, he now has a lich model.   He still has the shield but it looks silly because it doesn’t quite cover him, and he’s been put down in the crypt and you have to pass a level 25 elite just to get to him, through a ton of other mobs.   So, um, I don’t really get that change.

Mor’ladim has stayed the same as far as I could tell though.

After that ran a Twin Peaks already in progress and won, then won a IoC. Lost and won TB a few times.

Ukko

Mar27

Ran a WG today and was disappointed to see I was the only alliance in the group but the horde already had 4/24 vehicles and had 4 people out and about.  How does that happen?  We had 4 alliance get in and then just leave?  I ended up running into a paladin named Rinni, who is a member of the team I am on Leonz with.  We fought against a hunter, a warlock, and a paladin for quite a long while, and when I mentioned the unfairness of the situation, Janusz joined.

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Things went better at that point and we ‘wasted’ the battle fighting 3v3 against Ukko, a shaman, a really bad rogue, and the warlock, until it was just down to the shaman and rogue against Jan and I.  We beat them down after that point.  We kept fighting for at least 20 minutes afterward just for fun and it turns out that Rinni knows Ukko. Small world. I mention that I’ve known Ukko since WG was the place to be and that I thought he was quite good.  Apparently he has a 2100 rating in 2’s.  We do some wargames, which I guess are like skirmishes, but get rolled every single time by Ukko and a paladin, who I learned are brothers.

Whitemane Transmog

Mar25

On my quest to pick up gear that looks like Whitemane’s, I do a literal quest and get to control a smaller Fel Reaver out in Shadowmoon Valley.  Fortunately for me, I had never finished these quests, or I would have thrown or sold the gear off long ago.

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I also do a quest, and, I can’t believe I totally forgot the naga where all over Outland too.

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and help rescue water elementals that they are torturing, along with some earth orc looking lady.  Why do I have to help horde sometimes? I don’t get it.   I pick up the gloves and bracers I need out here.

Then I head out to Tirisfal Glade, but before I get that far I am distracted by the Plaguelands, which I never finished before Cata, and pick up some quests from Thassarian, and end up fighting this guy, who is low level but still shows as ??? to me.  I get strangled up into the air, and Thassarian and Koltira come to save me.

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This is the guy back from the DK quests I did on my BE DK.  Rawr

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These two have some words about no longer being brothers as DKs and all, and he makes his stand as Alliance and Koltira as horde.  Then Thassarian whispers to me “You are not to speak to ANYONE about the agreement that was made today, Elleria.  Consider this an order from your direct superior.”.  Well, I’m not a DK, so really he’s not in charge of me.  But hey! I’d like to see two DKs fight again, like when Darion fought Orbaz.

This is why we lose

Mar23

Ran BH today, and I am SO GLAD I did not buy my Vicious mooncloth gloves yesterday, because they dropped today! I am now at 5/5 Vicious pieces, and have only around 3 blues left to replace. Woot. Oh, and this is often why we lose TB so fast:

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To point it out, I’m at Slag, with 1-2 other people.  There is NO ONE at Warden’s, and what looks like 2 people at icg.  And everyone else is in the middle, doing nothing.

Soulprince was bugging me again today to run a random with him which I said I could not, but agreed to queue up to make the run faster, though soon as we got Deadmines (AGAIN!!), the tank dropped, then when another came in I dropped, which booted him too. I forgot they fixed the queue cheating.  He also asked for money again to get gear and I said no, again.

Ran all 25 dailies today too.  First time I’ve done that.

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And those Onslaught guys, I still hate them. Soooo much.

Ran Deadmines, (again!!) and got enough valor to buy my gloves and I have a 2 pc T11 bonus now.  The robe is even more poorly itemized than the gloves, so I chose to go with those first.