Iron Pet Challenge

or:  Your doing what???

I've been working on the amount of exp you can get from pet battles and it inspired me to try an experiment.

Here are the rules.

1) I get exp from pet battles.

2) No quest exp.  i might need to bend this if I find one I HAVE to do but I don't think any zone is locked by a quest any more.

Though it will make getting around Cata zones..interesting.

3) No Kill/Grind XP.

4) Exploration exp is OK because I cant stop it.  More on this later.

5) No equipment upgrades beyond my starting equipment and Safari Hat WoW insists every character of mine might need.

6) Eventually I will be joining a guild, I dunno if they have the exp bonus or not.  Just mainly for guild invite blocking.

Some oddities.

I created my character and opened my statistics to take screen shots and found by logging in I completed 45 quests.  No really.

My assumption is those are the pet battle account wide quests.  So our zero point will be 45 I guess.

I've Acquired 4c form selling my staff.  So I wont kill something if I accidentally click on it.

I'm selling a few pets to get some capital for flight paths and flight training I don't know if that will alter the number.

I found exp went wonky at low levels.  I was getting 9-10 a kill and my pets ah somewhat more.  Mulling this over I decided exploration would be a part of my low level exp since at 10 exp a kill levels would be brutally slow to come.

But there is some light at the end of the tunnel...after a fashion.
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So how well did I do after the first evenign /played?  here you go..

Level 4!

Not too awful but it isn't rocket speed.

I'm to the point I am earning FAR more exp from fights.  though I'm also running through level 1 pets like water. So far Ive been able to stick to my stable but soon ill end up leveling wild ones just to get the exp.

Its a fun little challenge to work on.  If you want to give it a try let me know and Ill post your results here.

Special thanks to Redcow from red cow rise for giving me a bit of help in coin while I was waiting for pet sales.  She is amazing.

Ding 90 Monk!

In my much slower effort to get my toons all up to 90 my Monk finally made it.

Nightli was my effort to make realm first.  It was plagued with problems form the get go but I still only missed it by a couple of hours.  After that I just stopped playing her for a while because of that.  Then I found out about pet battle exp and just had to try it.

XP, Pet Battles, and You

I've been doing some exploration into the experience given by pet battles after a rather startling experience I had on one of my new hunters - leveling through Cataclysm in 2 days.  Mostly because of Pet Battles.

I didnt have heirlooms or any bonuses besides the basic guild + exp and a couple of days of rested exp.   Now I did do some quests, 41 of them, and all the dungeon quests.  Well Except Grim Batol.  Who can get those quests done in a hurry though?

The more I looked into it  the deeper the rabbit hole went.  In part I think because the code is years old and patched and repatched until its very..interesting.  But here are a few things I found out.

5.2 Hunter Gear (non raid)

I put together a list of gear for a friend of mine.  She avoids raids for the most part but we plan to do just enough to get a bit of rep for the assault in time.  I thought it might be useful for others so here is a lose guide for gearing up in 5.2.  Of course this also works for Shamans if your one of the sexy enhancement types.

Trinkets
Relic of Xuen 476 Darkmoon Fair Deck Crafted/Quest Trinket 1
Vicious Talisman of the Shado-Pan Assault 463 Rep: Shadow Pan Assault - Friendly 1750 VP Trinket 2
Malevolent Gladiator's Insignia of Conquest 476 PvP Vendor 1750 HP Trinket -

Wandering Thoughts: Steven Colbert and Poetry!

I've been out of the game for too long to have too much to say.  I've been following the recent changes as best I can but without actually doing something in game I don't feel like I should be babbling on about it.

So something I have been doing is watching Steven Colbert.  Even after his mistake of singing the Christmas Date Rape song I'm willing to watch and Chris Kluwe was on.  WoW was mentioned so that was my thin way of linking ti to Warcraft, the interview is great, check it out here.

Some of my hard drive was able to be recovered and with it my past writing.  so a small poem I wrote for a Vampire (V:TM) character to his mortal love.

Ill be there when your heart starts racing, 

Ill be the one to make your thunder roll.

Ill be there when you learn you can fly, 

Ill cheer when you make dragons fall 

Ill be there as the long summer fades, 

Ill adore you when your hair turns gray. 

Ill be there to remind you to still sing, 

Ill be the one to make you laugh again. 

Ill be there to hold you with love's touch,

Ill sing the last note of your song. 

Ill be there to kiss away your last breath, 

Ill cry as you fade into the night, 

And then...I will be gone.