I have absolutely nothing to say other than … NEW PETZ!!!!
However, since a one sentence post isn’t really a post, have some screenshots.
No, Mojo! Please don’t eat me. I’m nothing but skin and bones anyway … well, mostly just bones.
Babysitters really do not get paid well enough. Why don’t we have a Union?!?
Fenris Isle is actually quite pretty … when you have the sun in your eyes.
See you after maintenance!
Titles. Now that they’re account-bound, all your alts have a list to choose from as soon as you roll them. So today I want to know – Who’s wearing what, and why?
Let’s go through my list (including links to back issues for those of you who are bored and want to clicky):
Horde
Vanicus is my main this expansion. Now, being the character that I do the most things on, you would think he would have a special title. But there just isn’t anything that sticks out to me. He cycles through titles depending on my mood. At the moment he’s wearing Savior of Azeroth because it’s the last achievement we did. But he didn’t get it when it was current, so it has no special meaning.
Arelin wears Defender of a Shattered World because he was the first to kill Cho’gall. Yes, I realize the title required killing the rest of that tier, but I finished the tier on Van, so Arelin gets to wear it as a nod to his 15 minutes of fame as Arv’s sidekick. (side note: omg I’ve been raiding with you bitches for two years?
Junahu, the first character I ever rolled. Who knew she would lead to this? She wears Loremaster because she was the toon who achieved it, BEFORE Cataclysm changed the zones and you had to guess where to find the quests you were missing out of the 700-some that you needed to do in Kalimdor.
Rozjin wears Kingslayer because he was the only one of my Horde toons to kill the Lich King before Cata came out. Granted, he was totally carried by the SR crew, but still … he got it, he wears it. Ok fine, so it was the night before Cata … it was still officially Wrath, bitches!
Dyle has done nothing but look fabulous in his transmog and get ganked repeatedly in Halfhill. But I’m quite fond of him. He alternates between Professor and Loremaster. I think it’s just .. priest, robe, undead male, he must be one of those smart guys so he gets a smart guy title. Whatever, they both fit him.
Why is Kalethos even in my sidebar, other than being 85? I don’t think I’ve even logged into him more than once since MoP came out. Anyway, he wears the Hallowed because he earned it at level 64 with the help of Averry, Khizzara and friends over on Kargath … and then I went and transferred him back off the server to help Stunnah get his guild on Firetree to level 25. But I’m making up for it now with my army of alts on Kargath.
Kirgra is wearing Dragonslayer, because it’s cool and she’s badass like Zaela of the Dragonmaw clan. Hm, she’s actually about the same skin tone and has the same hairstyle too.
Madorsa is wearing the Exalted, because she has a pretty high opinion of herself and thinks everyone else should, too.
As for my Horde babies on Kargath, the priest got Professor, the hunter got Tamer, and the warrior got Bloodsail Admiral.
Alliance
Kerick has worn the Noble since he got it back when he was level 61. It’s just a perfect fit for him. It embodies everything that he, as a paladin, stands for. Even though he and Van are both paladins, Van just … isn’t like Kerick. Kerick is a total good guy. I did the Operation Shieldwall quest the other day to purge the Sunreavers from Dalaran and … well, if I hadn’t been doing the questline to help out a friend who needed screenshots of the final cutscene, Kerick would have refused to do it.
Kalyon wears the Kingslayer because he was the first of my characters to kill the Lich King. That night is still the most memorable night in my entire WoW ‘career’. It was the end of not days, not weeks, but literal MONTHS spent zoning in to ICC. It was … truly epic. Nothing since has even come close.
Karius wears Guardian of Cenarius because (a) he’s the one who earned it and (b) it rhymes with his name, duh! I’m sure there’s a post showing him getting the mount, but I can’t find it and I’ve spent too much time on this already.
Ragle wears of the Nightfall in shadow spec, and the Hallowed in … um, whichever healing spec I put him in. He’s been both disc and holy at one time or another.
Sanbec is and will always be Jenkins.
As for the lower levels, Kriann the dwarf shaman wears the Explorer because … dwarf, Explorer’s League, duh. Kroy the rogue wears Bloodsail Admiral.
That’s it! At least for the toons that matter. If you’ve made it this far, you must *really* be bored.
Ok, your turn! What titles do you use and why?
No pictures today. Deal with it.
I’m curious about something. Alts. Which ones are people leveling? I don’t mean specifics here as far as classes or races that they like. I mean level-wise.
Let me explain my own situation. At the start of MoP, I had 11 max level characters and one level 82 that I never quite managed to finish. (She/he languished at 76 through the end of Wrath, also, thus has never actually achieved max level at any point.) Currently, I have 3 max level characters. The other 8 still sit at 85-86, the 82 has made it up to 86, and I’ve leveled the warlock from scratch up to 85. So I have 10 level 85+ now sitting around waiting for me to take them through Pandaria.
So what am I doing then? Rolling babies. Yes. I KNOW. I have enough toons. I had to delete toons to make new ones. But …I don’t know. I just *feel* like running around lowbie zones, happily licking flowers and capturing murlocs so old man Calston can have a pet. And I didn’t make just one. I made three. I know what you’re thinking …
‘But wait! Don’t you already HAVE lowbies that you haven’t leveled?’
Yes, yes I do. My panda hasn’t even made it off the turtle yet. I have others that are not so low that had hopes of getting leveled someday as well, like the shaman at 60+ and the rogue at 40+.
You others out there. I see you leveling the ones you already have. I see you gearing up multiple alts in LFR. (Of my 3, only the main is geared for anything other than MSV. The third … um … what is the ilevel for heroics, anyway?) I see you taking multiple toons to the Isle of Thunder day in and day out. And here I am, quietly puttering around on toons that aren’t even able to choose a spec yet, in a guild where only one or two other people are logging in.
Part of the reason I bring this up is because the PTR patch notes indicate a 33% nerf to the xp needed to get from 85-90 in the next patch. Are there others out there like me who just aren’t really motivated to finish off their high-level toons? Will this nerf get you to focus more on those characters to get them leveled?
I really don’t think it will make a difference for me. It’s not that I dislike Pandaria. I like it quite a bit. I like it even more now that I’ve seen everything and don’t feel like my alts that go there have to follow a designated path for leveling. Kirgra has been having fun just riding all over the countryside, hunting down rares and camping spawn points for the BoA weapons. I enjoy the leveling part. It’s just the other stuff that comes after it … especially LFR and Isle of Thunder. (The lock is hopefully the exception since she wants to see the green fire questline, but she has plans to level through Pandaria with a friend, so she’s in a holding pattern temporarily.)
There. Have I rambled enough for one day? Good. So tell me … what level are your alts and what have you been doing with them?
I really love the Darkmoon Faire. Everything about it … the games, the profession quests, the fairegrounds themselves … is such a huge improvement over what it used to be. I have all the pets and mounts, but I still go. I’m working on upgrading heirlooms next, I think.
The timing for this month’s Faire was just perfect for Madorsa, as she moved from Northrend to Cata. Her enchanting leveled right up with no issues, but I got bogged down on the tail end of Northrend tailoring. Seriously, just to get from 410 to 420 so she could do the quest at the Faire to finish it off, each recipe took 9 bolts of cloth from 410 to 415 and a whopping 12 bolts (plus 12 infinite dust of which she has a near-infinite supply) for each frostweave bag to get from 415 to 420. Averry helped out a lot, sending me every scrap of frostweave he could dig out of his alts’ banks, but I still ended up spending a good four hours over the course of three separate farming sessions on Kirgra to get enough to finish it. If I’d had to also get enough to get from 420 to 425 I think I would have had to break something.
And yes, you’re getting screenies of Dyle again because I am so in love with his transmog.
