WoW Journal - 6-August-2006

Having finished with the pirates in Tanaris, I remembered that I still hadn't done the last pirate quest in Stranglethorn Vale. So I went back to there and proceeded to kill the captains of the three pirate ships there. The quest and the mobs are level 45, but even at 48 this wasn't easy, because there were so many pirates, I often got 3 of them at once, they tended to run away and get more, and they respawned fast. But with some mind control tricks and some strategic retreats *cough* *cough* I managed to beat them and finish the quest. And the pirates continued to be good to me, one random pirate dropped an Underworld Band, an epic level 38 ring. First epic I find while soloing, I think. Third epic already that I see on the new server, but the other two were in groups and I didn't win them. But this character found an unusual high amount of bind on equip blues already, so money is good.

I also did some quests in the Hinterlands, but there aren't as many for the Alliance as there are for the Horde. So I started finishing some scattered quests involving a lot of travel, and even started the ultimate travel quest, the Legend of Zelda cameo quest for Linken, starting in Un'Goro. And I did a third expedition to Zul'Farrak, finishing all my quests there. With all this I dinged to level 49.

As my holidays end today, I'll spend today driving home. Started the holidays as level 36 and finished as level 49, a bit over half a level per day, pretty solid progress. Yesterday I ran another Censusplus and counted that of the 1552 players online, only 350 were level 50 and above and thus farther ahead than me. I'm in the top quartile, three quarters of the players are of lesser level than me. Others would probably interpret that as being leet, but I think I just overdid it. Well, inside the house was the coolest place during the heatwave we had on holidays, so I had a good excuse to stay in and play. But basically being in a leet guild just influenced me to hurry up, due to peer pressure.
- posted by Tobold @ 8:19 AM Permanent Link