Dungeons- Oh Why Do I Hate Them

I have never liked dungeons. Since the first dungeon I ever did was Blackfathom Deeps (the scariest place I had ever seen) I have hated dungeons. I feel all closed in and feel like I am going to get lost (mostly I do) or make a stupid mistake and someone call me a noob or worse. Is there worse? LOL. Well, I like the lower level dungeons now, at 70 I can run those babies all alone and it works for me. But the one's you have to have a group for... those I hate. How do you get over this and learn to enjoy the endgame stuff? Is it the rush of a group that I can't deal with or just the fact that other people make me nervous? Hmm I don't rightly know.

That Danged 'Ol Fel Reaver

I have helped to kill him three times now and I still don't feel I have gotten my revenge. Anyway, about Outlands... Hellfire Peninsula - I do not like. Zangarmarsh- I like somewhat. Blades Edge - nope don't like it. Nagrand- I haven't quested there yet. Yeh I know, I'm level 70, I should be done with all that but, no I am not. Nethestorm- no I don't like that place either but have quested some there. But I do like the Eye of the Storm battleground. If I would do all the quests that are left for me to do in Outlands I would be a rich little night elf!

Daily Quests? Nope haven't done them. Any of them. I don't know where to start and with my aversion to Outlands I don't know if I will.

So what do I do with all my time?

1- I am doing the Winterspring Frostsaber Reputation Grind- for the frostsaber mount and boy is it ever a grind. Update: This grind is done. I am the proud owner of a new Frostsaber Mount! Pictures coming soon.

2- I help lower level guildies every chance I get.

3- Jay didn't have the expansion and couldn't get past level 60. Now he has it and I help him and Sinn with outlands (and they know it's not my favorite place) but I still help 'cause I like helping my friends.

4- I run lower level dungeons and bring along folks I find hanging outside the entrances looking for groups. Then I run them again on my own. And no I don't take money for this. If I don't want to do it out of the kindness of my heart then I just don't do it. I do not use it as a money maker!

5- I have done some battlegrounds. They are hectic places and not so good for my blood pressure. Not a good thing to do right before heading off to bed!

6- I am reading and practicing some of the skills recommended by "the" Mr. Big Red Kitty. 'Cause he knows how to be a hunter! "I will not melee, I will not melee, I will not oh heck.... whackup .... sorry BRK. But I only hit it once :P I promise I am working on it, I really am!


7- Making alts- I have altitus. So many I can't play them all. And I love them all.

My Fourth New Friend- Sinn

Sinn is one of the ones who left the "other" guild when I did. He isn't to level 70 yet and I enjoy helping him with his quests to get there. He is in Outlands and will give me a shout when he needs help. I introduced Sinn to Jay and they get to quest together some and that works good since they are both the same level. Or I just help them both :) Poor Sinn, that Fel Reaver loooves him too. I know the feeling and I hate it for him. I guess some people are Fel Reaver magnets? He is a wonderful player with a good heart.

Guild Drama

I had heard of it but never experienced it... til now :(

Everything is going well in the guild one day and then the next its like a bomb goes off. What the freak just happened??? One of the guild leaders from the past returns and all is well for a while. He is actually a very good player of his class. But, after some time I noticed that the guild chat channel was getting to be a not so good place for neither children (our guild had some of those) nor ladies (and I consider myself one of those :P). The more I read in the chat channel the more disturbed I became. It was quickly getting to the point that I wanted to know how to block guild chat. I was told you can't. Oh well.

Well now, Lethalor had become the Assistant Guild Manager and he spoke up in officer chat about the children being able to read the chat and one thing led to another and then it really got ugly. Over the next few days some of the members (the ones doing the ugly chat) in retaliation, started making new alts with X-rated names etc. and joining the guild and chatting about things even more. I finally broke my silence and said something about it not being suitable for kids or ladies in the guild anymore and was attacked by the (guild leader from the past). He said that there used to not be any rules in the guild and that it is going back to that way to just deal with it. I said well that works for you but not for me and quit the guild right then. It had gone downhill as far as I was willing to go with it and I would just go back to solo.

Well, poor Lethalor was in the battleground when it all happened and soon he was out of bg and jumped in it and to this day I am not sure what he said but I do know he ended up telling the guy he was an arrogant @$$ and he left as well. I got a whisper from another couple of people who left when I did and they said if we found and joined another guild to let them know and they would gladly join. So we recreated Spirits of Retribution and now have over 60 members. Yahh!!! us. Guild drama.... who freaking needs it? On a side note...Jay even returned to the guild so it seems I am right back where I started only better!

Cabriella Hits 70!

Leth hit 70 before I did.

I had a whole level to go to get there. So I did it in one day. How? I will tell you how. In Shadowmoon Valley, at the Wildhammer Stronghold, there is a quest to kill ghosties. You can't see them until the quest giver gives you some Spectrecles. Then you see them. They are yellow to you. No aggro! Wow... I can kill all of these I want with no outside interference. And I can hit 70 right here in this little town of sorts. You got a plan girlie!! So I start killing and killing and killing.. well you get the idea. I ran around that town, up and down the stairs in that stronghold killing ghosties in every nook and cranny I could find. And then... I did it! Yah Level 70 for me.

Flying Mount? What do you mean flying mount?

Lethalor- "I am going to buy my flying mount."
Me- Your what?
Leth- Flying mount.
Me- Oh just great, how much?
Leth- Alot
Me- Oh well, it will just have to wait. Enchanting has eaten all my money and I am one poor little night elf. But go I want to see yours!


Few Days Later...

Leth- You really should get that mount. Then we can fly everywhere.
Me- It don't look like too much fun. What's wrong with the ground? (this chicky is afraid of heights)
Leth- Oh but it is fun and fast!
With much prodding....
Me- Oh ok, ok.


Snowy White Gryphon
(Thank You Leth for being an awesome friend!)

Leth- Ok Follow me
Me- Ok

Up to the tops of the mountains outside Wildhammer

Leth- oh, by the way
Me- yeh?
Leth- you can just walk off and you will fly
Me- ok
Leth- lol
Me- I don't really like this much
Leth- why?
Me- I can't see where I am going!
after much explaining of that statement....
Leth- go into your settings and set the camera angle out farther
Me- ok

Sure enough, after a few days. I am flying pretty well.

Outlands- I Care Not For You

My first impression of Outlands was - oh, wow, yuk. This is the ugliest place I have ever... wait what the freak just stomped me?? Something really big and ugly and mechanical. Making a god awful noise that only a mother could love and that's a maybe. Fel Reaver... what the freak is that? Oh, well he looooves me. He thinks I feel good under his foot!! Ok, so my first impression of Outlands was not a good one. Looking at the underside of a foot is in no way at all a pleasant experience! Maybe having to look over my shoulder all the time was what made me hate the area right at the onset. It kinda felt like a pvp server if I understand how a pvp server works. That big, overgrown freak jumped me daily, sometimes more than once a day! And thats with me watching for him. Imagine if I hadn't been watching at all! LOL

It's Just a Regular Routine

Each night questing and helping my friends made the levels go by pretty fast. I was leveling at least one level per day. When Leth totally caught up with me quest wise at some point I stopped questing ahead and just focused on helping Jay stay with us. When Jay stopped playing, around the time I hit Stranglethorn Vale, I would then find spots to grind. I would level but without completing quests. I read alot and found that I needed to take first aid, cooking, and fishing to go with my professions. I had taken skinning and enchanting. Skinning is great. Never do I leave anything after a kill if I can help it and enchanting just ate up all my money. Man, what a tough profession to level up. I know tailoring goes with it but hunters can't use most of the tailored items and I saw no point in pairing the two. I found out that I would get mail armor at level 40 so leatherworking was out as a companion to my skinning. So I just stayed with enchanting. I had read somewhere you could do well disenchanting and selling the materials on the auction house, but I found out the hard way that you had to level enchanting to disenchant higher level stuffs. By then it was too late, I didn't want to waste what I had already done so I stuck it out. I was heartbroken to find out the master enchanter was in Uldaman. Hurray for the Burning Crusade. The first guy I went to see was my enchanter trainer in honor hold when I got there! Now, I only do enchants for people who provide their own materials as I neither carry any of those around with me nor keep any in my bank. It is so costly and I am not standing on some steps somewhere yelling that I will enchant for someone. I have other things I can do for money. I only keep my skill because it took so long to get it where it is and I don't want the money I spent to get there to be considered a waste. Plus guildies all know that I enchant if they provide the mats and so it isn't a total waste. Then, there are also my alts I can enchant for!