Still Loading.. 10 hours later

Still loading the client. 16% complete after all night. Glad I didn't stay up with it. I read in the Cataclysm Forums that some people who get into the Beta better be ready for a loooong install time. I was kinda hoping to be flying around Ogrimmar by this time today.. but patience has to get you somewhere afterall!

I've been trying to debate other than see the new leveling zones for level 80s.. (Mount Hyjal, Vashj'ir,) etc.. I want to take a new toon through the new content but I'm not sure what to do. On the Live servers I created a toon named Boneshot so that I could create an Undead Hunter to take through the new content. So it has to be something that I would never ever play. And it has to be something so that I won't spoil too much of the Horde content.

So my choices are: Human Hunter, Dwarf Mage / Shaman, Night Elf Mage, Gnome Priest, or a Worgen -of just about any class except Paladin and Shaman.

The Cataclysm Beta

At precisely 10:31PM on July 30th, I was finally invited to the World of Warcraft Cataclysm Beta. Yeah I'm pretty excited about it! I haven't updated this blog in like.. Forever.. but since I got into this I'm going to finally update it with my adventures within the Beta.

I already transfered Damere to the Lost Isles PVE server. I think the first thing I'm going to do is get on a flying mount and explore. Then I will create a new character and test out the new ravaged Old-World. Wait. Do we call it Old-World anymore?

Guess I have some 'splainin' to do.

Horrible things can happen when you get bored and have extra money on your hands. As you can see on the bottom.. I used to be a Human Rogue. As you can tell by the blog title..

But then.. something very strange happened. I was trying to get into a decent guild this entire time.. to no avail. I was trying very hard to get instance runs. Nothing..

So I quit Damere. Again.

I was playing other toons.. I started a Tauren Druid named Thada. Leveled him to his mid 20's. Then the greatest thing in my Warcraft life happened. Patch 3.3 and the new LFG system. Using it I stopped questing entirely on my Druid. I ran every single instance available to my level in Feral Cat form!!! Groups were even quicker when I spec'd Feral Bear. I leveled him all the way to 33.

Then something else happened. I actually faction transfered my Human Rogue.. to the HORDE! With the new LFG I was able to run Heroics.. and am now actually decently geared. I have a Gearscore of 1969 and have three pieces of Tier 9. What a difference! I could probably two shot the old Human Rogue Damere.

So will I change the name of this Blog? No. Cause I wanted to remember how this all started out. This will still be the evasion fail-blog. But the subtitle will change. As a matter of fact. Let me do that now.

Halls of Lightning - Heroic

Finally hit my first Heroic which was loaded with Achievements earned and some gear upgrades. Would like to thank Dwarfinator, Shammiet, Rilli and Efil.

The End or Just the Beginning?

I've finally reached level 80. I have no clue what to do or where to start now. I'm not geared for heroics by no means. I can't do any raids yet either. I guess I'll start by getting all my tradeskills maxed out.

Sholazar Basin Down - Almost Level 80

So with Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Howling Fjord, Grizzly Hills and now Sholazar Basin in the bag, it's off to Zul Drak to get to level 80. Completing that will leave me with three more zones to go.. Icecrown, Storm Peaks and Crystalsong Forest. What will I do when I hit level 80? Not sure yet.. Hopefully do some instances and start getting some gear to get ready to raid.

I want to finish all the quests Northrend has to offer for that achievement and then head back to the old world to do those. When you hit the maximum level there is so much to do yet. I haven't even started the Crusader Coliseum yet. What to do, what to do!?

Brewfest and the Death of Onyxia

Today was pretty awesome. I've earned well over 200 achievement points since this morning. I've done all but four Brewfest achievements, netted myself a brand new non-combat pet (Wolpertinger) got my first two Purple Epics (the Brewfest Daggers, got two of them from multiple Coren Direbrew runs) ran Dire Maul with Rosellia and then kicked Onyxia's ass with just 6 of us. Thanks to my guild again - Gwena, Nightgirl, Imkay, Hex and of course Moderna.

Good stuff.. I'm about to go solo Mauradon to get yet another achievement.