The troll will play! Why are the cows away? I don't know, they're just gone. Which means that the troll can do whatever he wants now. What does the troll want? The troll wants to go shadow spec. This goes directly against my wishes, but he's a stubborn troll and so he's shadow spec. As you maybe can tell from the picture on the right, he's also in outlands. Which means questing in Hellfire Peninsula. Which means what? It means that annoying PvP quest to defend/capture those three points on the map. So what do we have? Troll Shadow Priest + PvP Objective = Face melting!

The original intention wasn't to melt faces, but we just so happened to be right near a PvP node thingy thing on the map when it was taken by the alliance. As a troll, curiousity got the best of us. I keep saying we and us. I might have multiple personalities. Who knows? Well anyway, went over and saw a human warrior standing there. Seemed to me that this was a perfect time to try out my face melting abilities.  Walked up, melted his face. Recaptured the thingyplace, and noticed that I had picked up that quest. So I might as well go get the other 2 nodes right? Right! Well this lead to more death for the human warrior. *I* had fun though! *grin*

It went a little something like this. (Name blurred to protect the face-melteded)

The troll will play. Just a little update to say I'm still alive and loving every second of leveling a priest.

A now a break from our regularly scheduled sleep deprived Role Playing fun. Mostly because I've only got time for a quick entry before work.

I got to thinking that eventually I should play a shaman.  I don't know why exactly, I just know that I want one. I've leveled one to 24, but I didn't really get into it and after that water totem quest...ugh. I've heard people say that if you don't like a class by 20 or 30 it's probably not for you, but me? I just grind through it and hate myself for it anyway. Case in point: My paladin. Hands down the worst leveling experience EVER. And the slowest. This was before all the Ret changes though, so I'm sure it's not so bad now. If I could make it through that experience though I'm pretty sure I can make it through anything.

Ok, so I'll start a shaman, play around a litle bit, and see if I enjoy it this time around. Usually when I make a new character the thing that takes longest to decide on is the name. Usually I go to a baby naming website and look at baby names and pick my alt names that way. I've done this with all of my characters except my first and my bank alt. And possibly my mage. I honestly have no idea where her name came from. There are other Aevisana's on the Armory, and her name isn't on the baby name website I usually use...so maybe it's a random name generator kind of thing, but that's not at all like me.

This time however I already know what name I want, and I have it "reserved." - The problem this time is that I can't decide on what race I want to be. Usually when I make a new baby character it's a fairly simple choice.

Am I going alliance? If yes, can dwarves be the class that I want to be? If yes, pick dwarf. If no, try gnomes. If still no, try human.

Am I going horde? If yes, can taurens be the class I want to be? If yes, pick female tauren and go! If no, try undead. If still no, give up.

This isn't working, because I'm up to my ears in female tauren alts now. I have my old hunter that is stuck at 63, I have Cowssa, and I have Asen. I don't want to be a MALE tauren though, because they're big and goofy looking and there are entirely too many of them. I like their combat animations, but not their idle or casting animations. I cannot be male troll, because the thought of being a male troll shaman (but not any other class) brings back horrible memories of the world's most dodgy and laggy pervert. I'm not explaining that. Ok, I might, someday. If I remember. Female troll would be fine, everything about them is good except for the fact that they all look the same because they only have one face that isn't horrible and everyone picks that one. They're fairly rare and I like the idea of playing something that there aren't many of.

Male orcs are out of the question because while they are big and intimidating and have excellent combat animations and great jokes, they're just...broken and wrong. I have issues picturing male orcs that aren't warriors. I think they look good as warriors and good in plate armor, everything else just seems odd to me. Write that up as "Naissa is weird". Female orc is fine, I like how they look, I like their combat animations, I like their jokes, but I don't like the fact that 4 years have gone by and their shields STILL hang on their back about 3 feet away from them.

And I can't do Draenei because I don't like them and am not willing to go alliance. (Sorry alliance friends! Sorry! And Draenei friends!)

But Naissa...What do you mean you don't like Draenei?!

Well I like when they're shamans and they give me awesome totems..But I can't PLAY one. I just can't.

So it looks like it's a choice between a female orc, tauren, or troll. I'm sort of leaning towards orc because I don't have an orc yet. I've never leveled an orc beyond level 24 to the best of my knowledge. Hmm. Well, it's something I'll think about and probably decide on today when I'm supposed to be working but am instead thinking about WoW because I'm an addict.

So now that Asen and Ayi have gotten to know each other, I can rest easier knowing that Ayi is in good hands...and I don't have to watch after him anymore. It's exhausting trying to teach a Reincarnated Sand Gnome how the rest of the world works.

I have faith that Asen will take good care of Ayi and teach him everything that he needs to know...Or die trying. Probably the latter. Just don't tell her that I said that.

As you can see in the picture to the left, they went to Scarlet Monastery and cleaned it out. They both got some fairly shiny items in there. Prior to this Ayi was still wearing Grey gloves and that's just unacceptable. Of course he didn't realize that, but Asen quickly explained to him that you can't be wearing greys at their level and how if you DO wear all greys people will probably laugh at you. Then she had to explain to him that it's not proper to go up and bite a chunk out of someone just because they laugh at you.  We thought we were making progress with him...and then he went ahead and bit a Scarlet Myrmidon's ear off. Woops! This is going to be a lot of work and require a LOT of patience.

Luckily for Ayi, Asen is supposedly one of the most patient druids around. This is good because I'm sure with some of the incidents we've already had, most other druids would have lost their minds, gone feral, walked up behind Ayi, pounced on him, and clawed/bit/maimed him pretty badly. I'm sure that thought hasn't crossed Asen's mind at all. Nope. No sir, not at all. >.>

What's that? The picture? Oh...That's totally just Asen sneaking up on Ayi to...hug him. Yes. Hug him. That's it. Hugs totally help with the learning and reformation process. Especially big feral bear form hugs. Totally.

Now that Scarlet Monastery is out of the way they've got their eyes set on Uldaman and will probably run it the next day I'm not working a billion hours and then being too tired to actually do anything.

See this fine tauren to the right of the text? This is Asen.  Well actually her name is longer than that but that's the pronounceable part of it and I imagine that is also what everyone will end up calling her anyway.  She's a tauren druid and is much the opposite of Cowssa. Cowssa is an albino. Asen is clearly not.  Asen also dreams of one day being a healer, where Cowssa doesn't exactly have that option, even though she's a grand master first aid ... person ... thingy. Asen and Ayiyi don't know this yet, but they're destined to become good friends and level together.

Asen unlike Ayiyi, is quite sane. She's also very patient. This is why they're being grouped together so that poor Ayiyi actually has a chance because I'm sure if left in the care of Cowssa he would suffer some unfortunate accident and be left with a mysterious hoof-print on his forehead. Asen is all about the Earth Mother and all that hippy druid stuff, so she's much nicer than a warrior and much more patient. I'm sure Ayiyi will be fine in her care.

I'm pretty sure these two will meet up the next time that I, the quite insane and sleep deprived writer of Naissa's Rage, am not either working or sleeping. Possibly tomorrow, but not likely. All work and no play makes Naissa...go insane and start crazed RP alts because I don't really have enough time to do anything constructive with my main? Anyway.

I learned something interesting today. I learned that up until level 40, and sometimes even beyond 40, Holy is a great leveling spec for priests. I think that this means that Ayiyi doesn't have to play around with the shadowy magic that has made so many of his people go insane and try to destroy the world or whatever the trolls in ZF/ST/ZG/ZA have been doing. I'd know if I ever bothered to read the quest text but I'm an impatient hippy so yeah. I mean...uhm. Er. Right.

This allows Asen to go Feral so that Ayiyi can stand behind her big  bear butt and cast his glowy healing spells while chattering on in undecipherable Sand Gnomish. I think it will work well. I should probably go ahead and have that talk with Ayiyi about taurens being friends not food. I forced Ayiyi to be a tailor, and he also learned how to pick flowers and sell them for money.  Well...He tried to learn how to sell them for money, it didn't go well. Perhaps Asen should hang on to all the money.  I have no idea what Asen should do profession-wise.  I'm going to go around to all my favorite druid blogs when I get a free moment and see what, if anything, they recommend for a leveling druid. I was thinking about Jewelcrafting, because I haven't really done that one yet...but then Leatherworking could be quite beneficial, with her wearing leather and all, and I've never done that one either.

Have I gone insane? I say no, but my magic 8 ball says that all signs point to yes...and it also asks that you send help immediatly.

See this handsome troll here to the left of the text? He's a Sand Gnome that has apprently been reincarnated as a troll.  At least that is what I got out of it. He doesn't seem to speak any language that I'm familiar with. Mostly just says "Ay yiyiyiyi yiyiyiyiyi yi yi yi!" and I don't know what his name is, so I just call him Ayiyiyi.

He's having issues letting go of his Sand Gnome customs and traditions. See, he's a priest  but when I found him in Durotar he was trying to melee scorpions and pigs. We've made some progress since then and now he's using Shadow Word: Pain, Smite, and a wand.

He's got some bizarre idea that he's going to be a shadow priest forever, but we all know that hasn't worked out so well for trolls in the past. Just look at all the trouble that has been caused by trolls playing around with dark magic. I'll let it go for the first several levels, but then I'm definitely pointing him in the direction of the light so that he can follow me around and cast some healing spells on me while I charge head first into large groups of several enemies, showing reckless disregard for my own safety and his as well.

I think it's a sign from a higher power. See, I was exploring Durotar for an achievement and, as a tauren, I've never been to see the trolls. When I got there I found this little troll priest running around whacking a pig with a mace and yelling what I thought to be random gibberish.  Just prior to this I was wishing I had a healbot, and now I have one! He just doesn't know it yet.

Yeah so I gave in to the urge to play with the Barbershop again today. I had just finished daily quests and had some gold to burn and I was curious to see if I could make my tauren look better. I'm not sure the new look is BETTER but I find it to be highly amusing. Are female taurens supposed to have ginourmous horns? O.o

Yeah... Looks a little weird doesn't it? I think so...but I LIKE it!

So this here is my latest warrior alt.  She's an albino tauren and she's completely awesome. Last night she did Karazhan with her guild. At this point in the game I'm sure people are getting sick of Karazhan, but I still adore it. I'm exalted with Karazhan on my Warrior and Warlock and I believe I'm Revered on my paladin. So I've done quite a bit of Karazhan.

Even though I've done it a lot, there are still things I'm discovering about it. I've spent a LOT of time in Curator's room, because we got stuck on him for a bit when I was first doing Karazhan. Just the other week though I noticed the ginourmous owls that decorate the sides of the room. I mentioned this in raid chat and it seems that quite a few people never noticed the massive owls on the sides of the room.

So anyway last night I ventured into Karazhan on my tauren as an off-tank and I walked out with some fairly nice swag. Moroes was kind enough to drop something very Drool Worthy for me. He gave me Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch.Which is totally awesome. A good time piece is a very important tool for an up and coming cow...As is a massive amount of dodge! She's a Dodgy Cow! >.> After that I got Fool's Bane for when I need to lay the melee smack down on something.  It looks awesome, it IS awesome, and its all mine!

Its definitely an entirely different experience from Naissa. Its kind of like when Naissa first ventured into Karazhan, before she was SuperWarrior (Shhh) and she had blue gear...It was...somewhat dangerous. Things could gib me. I was terrified but it was fun. I offtanked Moroes, and I tanked the humanoid in the Huntsman fight.  I tanked lots of trash and a couple other things in boss fights. I was a little nervous on Nightbane when our Main Tank died, but he got battle-rez'd and got the boss back on him. It was pretty awesome.

This is my kodo. Her name is Bob. She's awesome.

So just now I was trying to finish my last 3 quests in a zone and I got invited to a group by some guy that was killing mobs near me. I accepted the invite and he said "We're on the same quest." I looked in my quest log and discovered that we were NOT on the same quest. My quest was to kill ogres and I still have no idea what his quest was. I asked him, but he wouldn't tell me. I figured I'd help him anyway.

We're kicking ogre ass and we run into a cave and he says "Quest is in here." so I figured he had to kill a named ogre or get a drop off of an ogre in the cave. We kill all the ogres and finally we see a named ogre. We kill it, he can't loot it, or doesn't loot it and we continue the ogre slaughter. About 5 minutes later a green leather item drops. Of the whale or some such. My "questing buddy" here is a warrior but he rolls need on said item. This and his spec were making me think that he's a new player that doesn't really know how things work yet. Thats fine, we're all new at some point.

I have to admit I was getting a little cranky though because he didn't seem to know what quest he was doing and he wouldn't tell me. Every time we hit a dead end in the ogre cave he would say "wtf man" and turn around. He was using a [Ravager] for his weapon and every time it would proc he would say "Wtf I'm stuck I can't move." So we had to wait 9 seconds for him to be able to move again every other fight. *sigh*

Then he just left the party. I still have no idea what quest he was doing but I hope he got it finished. Thats really all I can say.

They say WoW is noob friendly and in some ways it really is. You can be pretty "bad" at WoW and still do well in it but the game doesn't do all that much to teach you how to play I don't think. It gives you the basics and some of us can figure stuff out on our own but for the most part with things like attack rotations and leveling specs and all that you're on your own unless you read the official forums, which most people don't seem to do.

I hope this guy learns his stuff because WoW is a lot more fun (especially as a warrior) when you know exactly what to do. I don't really know how to give people advice in game because every time I've ever tried, no matter how nice I thought I was being about it, I've been told something along the lines of "OMG Don't tell me how to play my class." /shrug.

For some reason this picture reminds me of Home Alone.

As I mentioned awhile ago I made a tauren warrior. I've been playing that character a lot recently. Exclusively really. I only log on to my other characters for arena and the daily fishing quest.

Naissa is on a PvE server, Moo Cow is on a PvP server. My undead rogue is on a PvP server and so I transfered it over to help with money and whatnot.

I'm trying not to piss off any alliance while I'm leveling because I'd like to level as quickly as possible. So when I see an alliance person I look at level, class, etc and if they're a big threat to me I steer clear of them and if they're around my level I don't go out of my way to avoid them.

I've experienced some world PvP a couple of times and I've been ganked 3 times. Level 70 druid in ashenvale, level 70 paladin in STV, and level 70 rogue in Arathi. My first world PvP experience was with a level 29 paladin in Ashenvale. I was killing Satyrs for their horns for a quest and I was completely ignoring this paladin when suddenly he attacked me. It was pretty close but I won that one. I was surprised because I was dual wielding at the time and he was a paladin.

He came back with a druid friend and they killed me. T_T The second time was in Arathi. There was a hunter 2 levels below me and I ran by it. Completely ignored it, but it stopped what it was doing to attack me. I'm really not sure why. Its pet was still attacking a raptor but the hunter just went for me and so without its pet and with only half of its mana it didn't really stand a chance. Weird. O.o

Leveling a warrior is a lot different than it was when I leveled Naissa to 60. Back then you either leveled as 2H Arms or DW Fury with most people going the arms route because of the miss rate with fury though some people swore by DW Fury. I leveled Naissa as arms. I was considering leveling this warrior as arms too because of it being a PvP server and all but from 20-30 I was dual wielding because I couldn't find a decent 2H. I did some reading on the subject and people now say that 2H Fury w/ Imp Slam is the best way to level. I was skeptical. I got a really cheap blue 2H mace on the AH, specced into Improved Slam and off I went.

I...like it. I shall stick with it. O.o