Category Archives: Rogue

Finally! Hehe, yeah Auslander hit 60 last night and I’m really happy about it. It’s one of those wow, this character has really grown up sort of milestones.

60 was the original level cap back before either expansion to WoW. It’s still kind of special in my eyes. It’s not just a time when the character is able to get a flying mount, but it also means that they’re really starting to show some of the power that their class has to offer.

For Auslander, that power is just how quickly she destroys things. That’s something that you just have to love.

Rogues also have the ability to pick locks. With each level they’re able to push that skill higher and higher. After hitting 60, Auslander could push her lock picking ability to 300. The trainer sent me to Tyr’s Hand out in the Eastern Plaguelands. A pretty funky place. Now the trick here is that it’s not the chests that spawn randomly that actually help you boost lock picking, nope, it’s the junk boxes that you pick pocket off of the Scarlet Crusaders that really help boost your lock picking skill. Not to mention the fact that only one or two of them held only coppers in their pockets. Evidently fanaticism is a lucrative line of employment. >.<

But I digress. I also snuck through Tyr’s Hand and out the other side. Know what’s out there? It’s the Death Knight noob land. It’s a totally empty ruin. I mean totally empty. I’ve explored a lot of places in WoW, but this is one of the few places where not only are there no mobs to bother you, but, there’s no one else either.

I’ll probably spend more time here when I feel like I need to get away for a bit and feel the need to do some more exploring. I really only made it through the mobs in Tyr’s Hand via my Rogue Stealth ability. Really this is what makes Rogues the coolest class in the game. I’m able to hit stealth, an pretty much, go anywhere I want to go.

Well, except for Orgimmar, found that out the hard way hehe, oh well, I’ll just have to wait until I hit 80 to try that one again. I’ll have to remember to pack my fishing pole.

The only real downside to the evening was that I just missed a friend when I logged over to my bank alt. Guess that’s what I get for not checking my friends list before logging over. Too funny…

Well later folks

Yeah I know it’s taking me FOREVER to get anywhere, but a lot of that has to do with stopping off to help others or just to have a good time. I know that supposedly the game doesn’t start until 80 and I should just race to the end game and have all of my fun there. Heh, that’s just not how I play WoW.

So how was this weekend? hehe, it was awesome. I participated in a tabard only run through Orgrimmar to the elder with 4 other guild mates and then ran through Rage Fire Chasm.

Safe to say that was a blast. Yeah it took forever to get to the Elder for me and one of the other member that have fewer hit points, but it was still just plain fun.

I also picked up the ‘Going Down’ achievement in Winterfall. I was dared to jump off the top by my Warlock friend Itsmemario (great name for a gnome Warlock, hehe).

So while I didn’t really get as far as I wanted to this weekend with Auslander, I have to say that the work I put into getting Teufeltanz ready for ‘Lowbie Nights’ paid off.

Now the only problem is that ‘Lowbie Nights’ may have worked too well. Now the officers are concerned that perhaps the lower level folks will end up asking the level 80′s for help every 5 minutes. Oy, damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

This whole thing started because the level 80 folks were off getting ready to start end game raiding and those of us that hadn’t hit 80 yet were still working our butts off just to get up to 80.

So yeah this is just what happens when folks hit 80, this is where their focus goes and it’s not like it’s a walk in the park to get set up for end game raiding. That’s why I set up Teufeltanz to help out with ‘Lowbie Night’ and also why I’m doing that with an alt. Some 80′s however helped me out with ‘Lowbie Nights’ and so the concern lingers. There’s some folks in the guild that have friends who are level 80 and are pushing those friends to give them a hand. Seriously, if these are the level 80′s that are whining about this stuff, then perhaps, and just perhaps, these level 80s need a little assertiveness to go with all that stamina and just say no to their buddies instead of hoping that an officer will step in for them.

Saur pointed out that it’s funny that I rolled a Rogue, since I’m always trying to help other people out. Usually I end up rolling toons like Rogues or Warlocks when I’m just friggin’ tired of helping other people out and sacrificing personal progress to boot. I guess I just get so tired of helping folks out. I’d like to have ONE level 80 toon. /sigh, there’s just no friggin’ way I’m re-rolling EVER AGAIN. I’m so sick of leveling that I seriously could quit playing all together.

Oy, I’m also really hoping that I can get a leveling partner soon. Rogues are awesome in tandem, but solo the can really bite. This is part of the reason that I haven’t switched over to a mutilate build from my current combat build. The combat abilities, at least so far, have helped me to take out multiple targets. Somehow the combat build is really starting to lose steam. My gear is ok, even if there’s more green in it now than I’d like, but somehow I’m just not killing anywhere near as quickly as I should. Then again it could be that I just need to remember that I’m not playing an ‘easy button’ class like a Death Knight anymore, and suck it up.

Heh, wow it’s amazing how cranky my blog posts can get after some wine. Yes I am old enough to drink wine. Yeah now I’m going for a second. Night all and hope the super-bowl thing was cool for those that enjoy that sort of thing.

-later

Sweet! Just three more levels until the Outlands! I’m sooooooooo excited. Today was also a pretty fun day overall. Running around killing Sayters, killing myself with some daffy elixer, and acting as a one woman population control for Ungoro Crater. Woo Hoo!

I do have some fun stuff that I didn’t get to last night because well I was totally about to pass out. First off the Lunar Festival. So I went ahead and went to a few of the elders for the Lunar Festival and that was pretty fun. Ok well the most fun ones where Crossroads and Camp Taurajo (they’re both Hordie, hehe). After those I got a little Achievement happy so I went for 10 Coins of Ancestry, The Rocket’s Red Glare, Frenzied Firecracker, Lunar Festival Finery, and Elders of the Alliance. There’s a couple more I want to get before the festival is over, but I really just did these to take a grind break, and it was sort of fun (that and Auslander looks pretty hot in the gray pantsuit, hehe).

I also completed the Nogginfogger quests. Honestly, most fun reward ever! Here’s a screenshot:

I’m totally stoked that now I’m going to be able to go back and get more of this stuff to goof around with whenever I want. This is actually the first time I’d completed the Noggenfogger quests so I’m really happy that I got the chance to actually do them. I’d heard about them and I’d heard about the resulting award, but I’d never actually done the quests before, yeah I know I’m such a noob.

Today was even a fun day in guild chat. I was pretty much on fire just bantering back and forth with one of the new Druids. Mostly on quotes from the movie “The 5th Element” love that movie.

Aside from that a good day overall. I am starting to enjoy some of the more back stabby elements of Roguishness, so I may pop over to mutilate here pretty soon, but not too sure about that. As it stands I’ve still got to save up for my epic mount /oy and that’s going to break the bank as it is. Oh well soon enough I’ll be 60, then 70 and then… finally… 80. Let’s just hope Blizz doesn’t drop 90 on me before I can finally get my kiester up to 80 . Ok well for the love of Blood and Thunder, I’ve gotta get my butt to bed and kick this cold (so I can get some work done at work and some leveling done in game).  Wewt….

And I’m leaving off tonight with a screenshot of an impromptu guild member meet up in Moonglade.

Ah it’s good to be back. I caught something very unfun, and I’m still working it off. My Rogue however made it to level 54 today. I’m one level away for being eligible for summons to Hellfire Ramparts and just 4 levels away from the Outlands. Oh boy it’s one heck of a grind. Yeah I know it’s not the same as it used to be, and oh I can tell you I’m quite glad about that. I can also say that getting one level per night in the Outlands was a quite a bit easier than it is in the old world. It’s kind of hard to start over again from scratch.

I did finally get to see Dire Maul today! Soooo exciting. I went in with Suar and wow what an instance! It’s got to be an herbalists dream. I have plans to go back with one of my other guildies at this point, but I think I’d rather wait a few more levels so that I’d be able to do some damage (well and recruit a tank). The downside of this instance is that there are mobs that can see right through my stealth abilities, and even popping vanish doesn’t work since they see through that too (heh). But we made it through the instance achievement and all.

Sad part is I was kind of nervous about getting the Achievement. Then my guild would know where I was at and that I was still running with Saur. He’s one of my best friends in the game right now, but he’d left our guild due to a rather unpleasant turn of events. I don’t want to get into it, but safe to say both myself and Saur are kind of caught in the fall out. We weren’t directly involved in anything that happened, we were just the closest to the folks that were a part of what happened.

Due to the events Saur chose to leave the guild. I can’t blame him, it seems like he’s seen a lot of guild drama in his WoW career and I think that really affects his perception of current events.  Being kind of a loner myself, I can sympathize with how he feels. I really just hope that he doesn’t let this one event affect the way he feels about Aftermath permanently and that eventually he’ll come back to the guild. Whether he does or does not, I hope I’ll be able to stay in contact with him and still be able to run with him once I finally hit the level cap.

I wasn’t too involved in the bulk of these events (mostly because I’ve been in bed all week recovering from this bug). I have however stuck with Aftermath. I was there to sign the guild charter, I’ve bumped recruiting threads in the forums, I’m helping the other re-rolling players, and I’m excited to level up and raid with this crew I’ve signed on with. There’s no way I’d leave that behind. I think everyone knows this, the folks that left, and even my guild members.

The last few days the guild has felt kind of strained, now at least it’s nice to know why, and it’s nice to put everyone’s focus back on having fun. For the most part, at least to me, that’s what WoW and the guild Aftermath are all about. Just having fun with other folks that want to have fun. With any guild there are times where members come in that just don’t mesh well with the guild. It happens with any guild. Some folks just tough it out so they can get loot. Others (like myself) prefer to run solo because they can’t seem to find a guild worth aligning themselves with. That’s not the way things are in Aftermath and that’s why I’ve stayed with this guild for so long. Why I’ve even been willing to switch from Horde to Alliance, to a new server, from a level 72 Death Knight to re-roll Rogue.

Yeah I’m tired of the leveling grind. I’d really like to have a level capped character. I’d like to just log on and do heroics or do daylies. I’d like to be able to just run lower level characters and guildie alts through lower level dungeons. Really, I’d like to be at the top of the food change, for a change. It seems like it’s taking forever. Then again, maybe I’m just REALLY cranky from feeling ill for a full week. Hmmm…… yeah that’s probably it.