Cabriella the Panda

Cabriella the Panda

I have fallen in love with the panda race. They are just too cute.

After finding myself loathing the cross realm zones, I saw a post on the WoW forums about a few realms being cross realm free... hey, I thought, that sounds wonderful! Of course, as always, with the good comes the bad. The catch? It is a PVP realm. However, it is a RP-PVP realm so it hasn't really been so bad.

I have managed to get Cabby to level 27 and she is questing in Arathi Highlands. Of course, you know I rolled Alliance. Horde areas are just too bleak to level in. It is almost like leveling in (Old) Desolace. It simply wasn't my favorite area.

Being on the CRZ-free realm is relaxing. That may change when I get into areas of more PVP. I plan to keep an open mind and try to enjoy the PVP aspect. Ganking is another thing all together. I hope there isn't that much of that here. I will see.

Are you looking for a CRZ-free server? I know Venture Company is one but I chose Ravenholdt.

So far, so good...

Cabby :)

Wow and Other Fun Things

It has been a while since I last posted. College is keeping me busy and so is the game. It has been a while since I did the battlegrounds and I have been doing those again lately. I do not know what it is about them that I love but I really do love going into the random ones. It beats dungeon running for me. Of course, we all know I hate dungeons!

I did get my death knight to level 80. Then they went and changed her spec to tanking. I don't like dungeons and I certainly do not want to tank! She is still horde and on the Zangarmarsh server. My daughter loves her priest but wanted to get back to the ally side of things. We have come back to Kirin'Tor and I am playing my hunter again. She managed to pick up the Headless Horseman's Reins... yay!

I am also leveling some alts in the battlegrounds. I still have my twink there but the queues never pop. Twinking I guess is dead for now. I hear it may be making a comeback in Cataclysm. Here's hoping on that one.

I have many alts and have been leveling different ones through the battleground. I plan to do some research on Arena teams. That may be a little more than I want to get into in the game though.

All in all, its been fun to start back where we left off on the ally side of things. There are many classes overpowered in the battlgrounds right now. The patch made a big mess of things. I was doing well until then. All of a sudden, rogues one shot you no matter how much life you have. I just go in to die now! LOL I figure Blizzard will get around to fixing everything and the game will be fun in the bg's again. I still have fun, I just die more often than before!

Leveling and Other Game Stuff

We changed the name of the guild back to Spirits of Retribution. Since all the old crew have come back together. We are steadily growing and have several new level 80's that have joined. Running dungeons shouldn't be hard to do from now on.

I am having to level Weelocke my gnome warlock. She was level 37 and I maxed out her professions at 300. She has alchemy and inscription. She has to get to level 50 to train those professions again. Sooo, I am on a leveling spree with her. I used to hate playing her. I have gotten her to level 40 so far. She has actually turned out to be quite fun. I am enjoying playing her. She does monstrous damage and her pet can tank anything! So maybe getting her leveled up might not be as bad as I thought it would to begin with.

Everyone has moved their mains to the new realm and joined the guild. We have I guess around ten to twelve level 80's. Hopefully we can do some ten mans soon. I have never done one of those. :)

School is going great. I still have my 4.0 GPA. I graduate in April of 2011. That isn't really that far off. Lol. Yay, me. I love my classes. It is hard but good. I can tell my memory is a lot better than before. Using my old brain whipped it into shape ... somewhat. hehe It's all good. As long as I learn something, I am not complaining one bit. Meeting new people in class and enjoying the daily life of being a student and mom. Can't beat it.

Finals are over... gaming begins...

I took my finals this past week. I do not know my grades yet, but nothing was absolutely too hard.

My friends have made new toons on a different realm. You know me, I am all over that! I made a new Cabriella. She is a Draenei Hunter. No Night Elf this time. I am kind of tired of the Night Elves. My friends Sinnadyn and Lethalor both made warriors. Sinnadyn made a Dwarf and Leth made a Draenei. These new toons are on the PVP realm of Arthas. This will be interesting. I have never played very far on a PVP realm. I hear ya have to watch your back.

My friend Sinnadyn started his toon first, so he lends me some cash to get started. Thank you Sinny, you are the best!

Cabriella is cute. She made it through the starter quests on Azuremyst or at the crash site rather. Here she is:




Yeh, I know, she is in Auberdine. That is the most recent picture of her. I didn't take a starter pic of her. :(

Anyway, she quested alone trying to get to level 10 to get the pet. I already knew I wanted a bear. I hear there is a Spirit Bear coming in Cataclysm. I want to be ready!

The quests in Azuremyst are quite different. I can't say I like that area much. This quest has to be my favorite. It is called the Totem of Coo I think. You get wings to fly:



I must say, Blizzard has certainly made the beginning levels easy. There are all kinds of things that pop up now to tell you what to do next. Little mini boxes that explain a lot of things that were not there when I first started this game. It is great. The starter areas have all been changed to yellow so nothing there attacks you anymore. It is great! Just what an altoholic loves. :)

Cabbie hits level 10. Yay! I can learn to tame pets now!




So Cabbie heads off to Exodar. She has to go talk to Kella Nightbow about how to tame a pet.

First tame a crawler:




Then a Strider:




Lastly a Cat:




Now, I know how to tame pets. Before I can tame the one I want, I have to learn to fish so I can feed it. I am not buying its food. And if I am going to fish I have to be able to cook. Buff food later on is the way to go!






Then I get to Journeyman Fisherman: I wanted to get this level in fishing so I can do the fishing quests in Auberdine because I plan to go there to quest after I do some of Westfall.



Cabbie also learns a couple pets that were waiting in the mail when I got to Exodar. I bought the Collector's Editon of the Wrath of the Lich King and I get a Frosty pet on all new toons!







Learning the Journeyman on some skills that I will need. The skinning will provide me with some cash to keep going. I also took Herbalism. I love flowerpickin!





Now I head to Auberdine, catch a boat to Stormwind and time for a new doo for the achievement:



Now First Aid needs to be worked on you never know when you might need a bandaid :)



Now take the tram to Ironforge and head out to the Northgate Pass to tame my bear!



Her Majesty







That is the bear I tamed near Ironforge. Mangeclaw, it used to be a level 10 but now is level 11. I was disappointed when I got there, luckily I only had a few bubbles to go to level 11. I just killed pigs and dinged and tamed. I named her, Her Majesty because she just is!

Then on to Westfall an quest. I have to have the Chicken pet. She looks so dorky doing that:



After Westfall, I head to Darnassus and do all the low level quests for rep so I can buy a Cat mount. I can get the "Going Down" achievement in Shadowglen. It is the easiest place I know to get it. I do it on all my toons!




Then I finish up there and head to Auberdine and start my questing there. That is where we are now, hanging in the inn in Auberdine.

I am all of level 17. The plan, to play tonight and tomorrow as much as I can. New classes start on Monday. "Research Writing" and "Psychology:Why we do what we do". Sounds interesting huh?

Thanksgiving: A Time For Family

Thanksgiving is almost here. I am cooking Thursday and my family is coming to eat. My kids, my mom, my grandmother and my uncle are all coming. I can't wait; it will be so much fun.

I have a 4.0 grade point average in my classes. I have the end of this week off for Thanksgiving and am off again at Christmas. I can't wait.

In the game, my daughter and I are leveling some new toons on a new realm. A friend of ours started a new toon on Vek'nilash and we followed to level there as well. As if I don't have enough toons as it is! It doesn't matter one bit, as long as my friends are having fun. I love anything going on in the game so it doesn't matter what I am doing.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and thank you to those that emailed me holiday wishes. I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving day.

Of Headless Horsmen and other things...

I have been playing the game a little more than before. I am playing more on the Kirin Tor realm instead of Nazgrel. I am leveling some of my alts. I started leveling my paladin (Cayelia). She was level 59 and is now level 63. My daughter is leveling her priest (Priestleigh). She mentioned that she wanted to level our Death Knights on Kirin Tor. The DK I was leveling earlier is on Nazgrel. We decided to level my DK (Tinette) with her priest and her DK (Elvira) with my paladin. My DK is level 60 her priest is level 62. Her DK is level 59 my paladin is level 63. I think it will work out pretty well with this combo.

I am still doing the school thing. I have straight A's in my classes. Guess I am not so stupid after all. :) When I am done, I will have a degree and will be able to find a decent paying job. I am finding I am enjoying school very much. It feels good to my brain to work hard and grow, even after all these years. My daughter is taking Criminal Justice and she is also making straight A's. I am very proud of her.

My camping time is over for this year. We had to close up and winterize the camper for the winter. I love going up there. It is so peaceful and beautiful. I cannot wait until May to go back.

Thanksgiving is soon upon us and I have much to be thankful for. I have love-from my family. I have health. I am happy. Christmas will also be here soon. I have winter break from school from 12/21 until 1/4. I see more game time in my future!

I do not know when the expansion will come out. There are going to be some major changes in the game when it does. I hope it is not too drastic, but I think with the starting areas being torn asunder it will be. It will be like playing a new game entirely though, and that could be nice.

I want to get my alts leveled and will be working on that as much as possible.

Camaryn has had her name changed back to Cabriella. It is just a pretty name and I like it. She has been camping out in the Scarlet Monastery and running Headless Horseman runs every night. We have a good, solid group to run it with. Once in a while, we have to find a fill in for someone who could not make it that night. So far, it has been fun. Cabriella has only run this once last year and we died doing it. This year we have done well.

I hope to get our guild into more dungeons later this coming year. She needs some gear. I hate dungeons but am slowly getting more comfortable running them. Our guild is great and works well together. I look forward to them clearing all that we can in the upcoming year!

More Adventures In The Game

I have gotten my death knight almost to level 71. I haven't played her that much this past week. I have been playing and leveling a new Cabriella. Instead of moving over Camaryn from Kirin Tor, I decided to start over with a new baby night elf hunter and do with her from the beginning what I didn't do with the original Cabriella. I will not be leveling enchanting that is for certain. I am also leveling a baby gnome mage along with her named Tikatee. They currently reside in the inn in Stormwind and are both at level 28. It is really fun and I am taking lots of screenshots to preserve the memories of leveling in Azeroth now as opposed to when the destructiveness of Cataclysm hits and destroys all the lands as we now know them.

I will be making a human hunter and a worgen hunter when they become available. I am in no hurry though. I may even try the goblin race on the horde side. I do not plan to do any faction changes at the moment. I may do a race change when that comes available. Not sure on whom :)

School is going great. I have 100% in all my classes for the last two weeks. I am going into my third week this week. It is really something I am enjoying.

Last night I played on Nazgrel with Sinnadyn. He played his druid (Layzerface) and I played another toon I am leveling Farrah (Draenei Hunter). We played around Astranaar for a couple hours and I gained almost two whole levels. She is now almost level 26. It was most enjoyable.

I have become the proud owner of a guild. I was on Cabriella leveling and someone invited her to their guild. I said sure why not. As soon as I joined I was promoted to guild master and the dude left the guild after saying C-Ya. I had to laugh and then I got to work on seeing what was what with that guild. I have about 9 members that haven't been on in nine months and they were immediately demoted to starter ranks. I opened a guild bank tab and ran some dungeons to fill it and opened a second one and it is now almost filled. I put all my alts in the guild, my daughters alts in the guild and some of my old guildies alts are now in the guild. It's like coming home. The guild name is Crafted Heros. We have a bright purple tabard. It's great! And it isn't a bad name really. Lol :) So once again, Cabriella's Corner now has a Cabriella toon that it can once again stand for. Grats to myself on moving on and letting bygones be bygones. I am a happy little night elf! :P

Well I have done it now....

I enrolled in college full time. I am excited about this move in my life. I will have an Associate of Arts in Psychology degree in about 20 months and then it will be on to my Bachelors degree. I start classes August 24, 2009. I also got my hair cut even shorter and also changed it to strawberry blonde in color. I love the cut, but am not crazy about the color.

As for Wow, I have been leveling some of my alts a bit and trying to get rid of some of those low level ones that I have strewn across many realms. I do not know how I got so many. I need to level my mage on up to level 80. She is currently at level 65.
I also have to work on her tailoring and on Camaryn's enchanting. Both are high in level on their professions but not maxed out.

I am trying to find time to play more and now with school I will have to get myself a routine going. I think it will be worth it :)

A Very Happy Birthday...

Today is my birthday. I am 47 years old. I am spending it with my grandsons. Family is very important to me. I promised my grandsons they could come spend the summer with me when they got out of school for their summer vacation. They had been looking forward to it since I got my own place way back when. I had told them I had to have my own place first since my daughter didn't have room at her place when I stayed there. We have been having alot of fun.

As for the game, I have played some, but not as much as I would like, since the kids have been here. I did manage to get my son interested and he has downloaded and installed the game and is in the process of creating a character. I see more game time in my future as I introduce Azeroth to him and his wife. I can't wait.

I have been playing my mage again and also playing my death knight. I love my mage, she is arcane specced and has been since I first started playing her. My death knight... is just ok to play. It isn't really hard to play her and I think maybe the melee kind of fighting isn't the best style of play for me. I love my hunter and my pet tanking is awesome. I miss that on my mage, but I love playing her anyway. I tried a warrior once and it wasn't for me. I also have a level 59 pally but like the death knight... I just can't seem to get it. I have struggled through the levels...But, I will keep trying and hopefully I will get an understanding for this playstyle. Or well, here's hoping.

I have alot of alts. I like playing them in the early stages, the leveling to me is addicting. I don't mind the same quests over and over. I actually like it because I know exactly where to go and what to do. I have too many alts though to fully get a good understanding on how to play them as well as I do my hunter. Since my hunter is level 80, I plan to take each alt to that level and maybe doing so one at the time, I will better understand that class. Playing this alt then that alt does not help the situation at all. So maybe this new game plan will work out for me. Again... here's hoping :)

I have not been updating my blog much lately but will try to do that more often with more playtime. I am looking forward to it actually. I have a nine day vacation coming up here soon and after that... game time is on!!!

More time to play so....Welcome Tessia and Cinnabar

Tessia is my hunter twink. She was created to stay in the battleground. She can only go into Warsong Gulch because of her age but she really does well there. She went in first at level 13 and didn't do too bad, even against the twinks who like the babies and kill them first!


At level 13 she isn't the top of the charts but she isn't on the bottom either!



At level 10, I took her all the way through the Plaguelands into Ghostlands and up to Silvermoon to get the dragonhawk pet. Wow, what a trip and sooo worth it.

I ran her through wailing caverns for the Armor of the Fang set, Venomstrike bow and a few other dungeons for some other gear and now at level 19 she is doing great.

A big difference a few levels make!



She resides on a roleplaying realm. I do not roleplay. But, I have met some nice folks there Barik - my favorite paladin and Aegiria - the sweetest warlock ever!

So I did it anyway....

I purchased the Wrath of the Lich King Collector Edition. I got the frosty pet. He is adorable. I was planning on waiting until our triple xp is up in December to get the expansion but that didn't happen. I purchased it anyway, took Cabby up to Northrend to look around and went right back to playing on our baby alts for the extra leveling. So basically I have no opinion of the new world yet. I really only took a peek at the first place I went to which was some little town actually. I am not even sure of the name of it Valience or some such. I do want to go to Dalaran though.

I did make a Death Knight so did my daughter. We leveled them to level 58 in the starting area and didn't get to half of the quests there. We put them on hold as well until we can level them without the triple xp. I have to say I like them pretty much.

We made a couple of horde characters and have leveled those up to level 40. We will continue leveling these alts until we have to choose which we want to work solely on after the December 13 when our triple xp bonus runs out. It will be a tough decision.

I am thinking since Cabby is level 70 she will be brought up to level 80 first. I have all the outlands quests to do since as soon as she stopped getting xp at 70, I stopped doing quests. My daughter will benefit from this when she can go to outlands at 60. We will quest together and then be able to go to Northrend. As for our alts, I guess we will level those when we need a break from the higher level characters.

On a side note, the grandbaby is doing great. He is growing like a weed and eats more than any baby I have ever seen. He is a very good baby, he never cries much and is a total joy to be around. He keeps me company and keeps my mind off my real life problems. I have not talked to my exhubby any more, I figure he is happy with his decision and I am still trying to move on from that. It is slow going for me but it will happen eventually. I am just taking one day at the time.