Buying Cool Stuff on Ebay (I mean the Auction House)

Warcraft has it's own version of Ebay, The Auction House. After you accumulate silver and gold, you can drop in and bid on weapon and armor upgrades, and even things like cats and parrots.

You can also sell those things you don't need, or that you acquired from whomping monsters.

I never concentrated much on a weapon, being primarily a spell caster, but yesterday I picked up this staff. I was surprised how big a difference it made. When the monsters broke my root spell and charged in, it helped a lot to be able to take them down with a couple of whacks.

The staff in the picture is a Dwarven Magestaff of the Wolf. In addition to more clobbering power, it gave a big boost to intellect and spirit, both useful attributes for someone who spends a lot of time tossing spells.


Of course, as I mentioned before, upgrades may boost attributes, but at the same time they can also look really bad. What's with those gloves?

Cya,

Forest Cat

How Do You Sleep?

There seem to be beds everywhere in The World of Warcraft.

Why?

Though you can make your character sleep, it doesn't matter where they choose to grab some shuteye. Sleep doesn't have a significant role in the game.

The ships you can use to travel back and forth between continents feature these cool rope hammocks. I don't know why you need them, but your cat form can climb right in and take a nap.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Blasting Beasties

I have to admit, throwing green balls of fire, at big bad monsters, has a certain appeal. If only that worked on old boyfriends.

Cya,

Forest Cat

Watching the Fireworks

I think the best part about World of Warcraft is the wide variety of things to do. You can explore, go on quests, beat up monsters, spend your hard earned gold, or you can just watch.

Last night I watched a raid. Five level seventy characters attacked Menethil Harbor . Though they were defeated multiple times, they gave a good showing and it was fun to watch, if a little chaotic. Sadly, I don't have any good pictures, it was hard to capture what was going on. With all the spells being attempted, in many ways it was like the Fourth of July. And no, I didn't enter the fray, a level 22 amongst all those high level characters isn't going to help much.

The Horde attempts to take the bridge:

Cya,

Forest Cat

Better Stats, Ugly Armor

Sometimes you equip dropped armor because it has better stats than what you were wearing. This awful dress replaced my ripped pants, but thankfully the dress didn't last long.


Cya,

Forest Cat

In the Beginning

Armor at the beginning of the game is pretty shabby. Here is Keilakat back in the first few days after joining the game.

Love those worn out pants. This is a good reason to learn to make your own armor.


Cya,

Forest Cat

Pearl Diving

A few days ago while I was in the process of pearl hunting, and testing out my aquatic form, I started swimming farther and farther. The pearl hunt had been a bust, so I just decided to explore the ocean.

Anyway, without paying attention I swam past the Zoram Strand and kept going. Eventually you get to the point where to your left is nothing but impassable mountains. Occasionally you can go ashore into a small valley, but there are never any mobs, you are completely alone. This is a weakness of World of Warcraft in my opinion. Because these areas are time consuming to find, putting some kind of mobs in these valleys would add interest to the game. Some of them probably would have even been close to my current level.

Eventually I reached Sar'theris Strand which was out of my league. Before I knew it I was attacked by unseen creatures of the deep. They of course killed me off a couple of times before I made my escape. I'll try the giant clam hunt again sometime, but for now success at finding pearls using that method has eluded me.

There are big monsters under that water

That water is pretty muddy. Where's the crystal blue ocean?

Cya,

Forest Cat