A bunch of the peoples in my school have blogs! Uber! But they don't play WoW, although that may not be a bad thing O.o
On a different note, the family got into a rather... intense... argument about my dad playing WoW to much. Um, not cool?
Sometimes I resent WoW. But life isn't always perfect, right?
/cough, right?
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Bluefur's background
Bluefur was very young when his father, a Taunka fisherman, took him and the family pet, a grayish gorilla and her snow white son, out in the boat. It was a pleasure ride, skimming soundlessly across the water and watching the fish jump in the early morning sun. The young Bluefur was great friends with the little white gorilla, and they stuck together in the boat, every so often touching a finger into the icy water.
Suddenly a thick fog shrouded the water. Bluefur's father stopped the boat and sat silent, calm but alert. But nothing is alert enough to spot the bone-like horn and fin of an approaching threshadon, and the old Taunka was no exception. Only when it was too late did he notice the giant head and long neck of the beast and it rammed the boat, causing it to sway violently.
The grey mother gorilla snatched up her son and Bluefur, then jumped into the freezing waters. The taunka fisherman was quickly killed by the threshadon, but it had no interest in eating the body. It disappeared into the depths of the ocean and swam silently away, leaving the gorilla and her helpless burdens alone. She set a strong pace and started swimming southeast.
Twelve hours later the shivering, gasping mother gorilla dragged herself onto the orange shores of Durotar. She still carried two near-dead younglings, and the need to get them to safety was stronger than her need to rest. She struggled over the burning orange sands, fending off raptors and scorpids with desperate aggression. Finely she collapsed outside the gates of Orgrimmar, gasped once, and died. A guard found the body of the gorilla and, after a bit of searching, Bluefur and his young friend. They had moved out of the scorching sun and into the shade of a large orange rock, too young to look for help and too weak to move any farther. The guard knew that the younglings would soon die in the heat, so he carefully picked them up and took them to the Orphanage.
When Bluefur was old enough, he set off into the world to find a purpose. His "brother", named Utara, followed him at his side. That purpose was found when he heard of a land called Northerend, and about the Tuanka people that lived there. He fealt strangly drawn to the Tauren-like people...
(Bluefur actauly got Utara -Uhk'loc- at level 70. But thats not how I'm going to remember it.)
Suddenly a thick fog shrouded the water. Bluefur's father stopped the boat and sat silent, calm but alert. But nothing is alert enough to spot the bone-like horn and fin of an approaching threshadon, and the old Taunka was no exception. Only when it was too late did he notice the giant head and long neck of the beast and it rammed the boat, causing it to sway violently.
The grey mother gorilla snatched up her son and Bluefur, then jumped into the freezing waters. The taunka fisherman was quickly killed by the threshadon, but it had no interest in eating the body. It disappeared into the depths of the ocean and swam silently away, leaving the gorilla and her helpless burdens alone. She set a strong pace and started swimming southeast.
Twelve hours later the shivering, gasping mother gorilla dragged herself onto the orange shores of Durotar. She still carried two near-dead younglings, and the need to get them to safety was stronger than her need to rest. She struggled over the burning orange sands, fending off raptors and scorpids with desperate aggression. Finely she collapsed outside the gates of Orgrimmar, gasped once, and died. A guard found the body of the gorilla and, after a bit of searching, Bluefur and his young friend. They had moved out of the scorching sun and into the shade of a large orange rock, too young to look for help and too weak to move any farther. The guard knew that the younglings would soon die in the heat, so he carefully picked them up and took them to the Orphanage.
When Bluefur was old enough, he set off into the world to find a purpose. His "brother", named Utara, followed him at his side. That purpose was found when he heard of a land called Northerend, and about the Tuanka people that lived there. He fealt strangly drawn to the Tauren-like people...
(Bluefur actauly got Utara -Uhk'loc- at level 70. But thats not how I'm going to remember it.)
Thursday, September 4, 2008
A usefull (maybe) post
So lets say you are a level 51 hunter with a similarly leveled pet Bear, Kola. He's been at your side since level 11 and you would never THINK about letting him go, but you've noticed that he doesn't hold aggro very well any more. This bothers you, because you think the only way to get him better is to tame a different pet. The thought is pushed to the back of your mind, that is until some other hunter uses Beast Lore on Kola, then calls you a noob.
What do you do?
A. Keep Kola as is and ignore the people that call you names.
B. Abandon Kola, or stuff him in the stable, and tame a new pet.
C. Ask for help from someone else.
D. Get super mad and delete the character, moving on to play a Paladin.
E. Train your pet!
Correct answer -- E.
"Huh????" you may be asking. "How do I do that?" Well, you know back at level 10 when you had just tamed your first pet and it kept running away 'cause it was hungry? Well, in doing the quest to get Feed Pet you also get Beast Training. Most likely you have used it before, maybe training Kola growl or Great Stamina. Well, that beast training GETS MORE SKILLS when you go out and tame new animals that have higher level skills. Let me run you through this.
When you use Beast Lore on a wild beast of the tamable sort, you'll probably see something like this;
Diseased Bear
level 51 beast
100-155 damage
2427 health
Diet: meat, fruit, cheese, fungus,
bread, fish
Tamed skills claw rank 7
(note: the amounts of health/armor, plus the skill it has, are not correct. Sorry.)
See the tamed skills part? When you tame that beast, it will have said skill. If you fight with that pet for a little while, letting it USE that skill, eventually you will see something like "(your name) has learned Claw (rank 7) (or other)!" in the chat log. That means that next time you go into the Beast Training menu, you will see Claw (rank 7) as an option. Woohoo! Now you can let Smelly the bear run free, unless you like him, and go get dear old Kola out of the stables.
Now you know what to do. Use some of the training points that have been building up over the many adventures and train Claw (rank 7) to Kola. This will most likely increase his aggro by a ton. Job well done!
Note that there are more skills then just Claw. Maybe you want Kola to focus more on Growl. If thats the case, then think about getting Bite. It has a longer cooldown and does pretty good damage, plus it doesn't use all the focus that Growl depends on!
Note again that you do not have to have a bear named Kola. That's just an example of a pet a hunter might have.
Well, now that you know about training skills to your pet, maybe you want to know more about training points. (don't worry, this will be quick. Maybe. /grin)
There are two ways to get training points;
Loyalty levels,
and
Leveling up your pet.
Now, if you got your pet at a reletively low level, then near all training points will come from levels. Every level up for your pet gets him/her a few more training points. Squiggles the boar, gotten at level 5, will have ~3-4 hundred training points at level 70 if she is never trained anything. She will get very few points from Loyalty levels, as there are so many levels ahead of her.
But lets say HereThere the Warpstalker is level 70 already when you tame him. Now what??? He can't get any training points from levels! But thats where Loyalty comes in. At loyalty level 1, it's highly likely that HereThere has negative training points. This does not mean that you did something wrong! If a pet has negative training points, DON'T WORRY. This is just Blizzard's way of getting it to balance out when you get to loyalty level 6.
When HereThere increases in loyalty, you'll notice he gains ~60 training points! This is because the points he can't get from leveling, he gets from loyalty.
Get it now? SOrry if I did a terrible job of explaining.
(If you where wondering...)
Kola - Mangeclaw
Smelly - Diseased Bear
Squiggles - Bristleback Battleboar
Herethere - Blackwind Warp Chaser
Oh, but in a month or so all this will change to be talant tree's for your pet. I'll just have to post again >.<
What do you do?
A. Keep Kola as is and ignore the people that call you names.
B. Abandon Kola, or stuff him in the stable, and tame a new pet.
C. Ask for help from someone else.
D. Get super mad and delete the character, moving on to play a Paladin.
E. Train your pet!
Correct answer -- E.
"Huh????" you may be asking. "How do I do that?" Well, you know back at level 10 when you had just tamed your first pet and it kept running away 'cause it was hungry? Well, in doing the quest to get Feed Pet you also get Beast Training. Most likely you have used it before, maybe training Kola growl or Great Stamina. Well, that beast training GETS MORE SKILLS when you go out and tame new animals that have higher level skills. Let me run you through this.
When you use Beast Lore on a wild beast of the tamable sort, you'll probably see something like this;
Diseased Bear
level 51 beast
100-155 damage
2427 health
Diet: meat, fruit, cheese, fungus,
bread, fish
Tamed skills claw rank 7
(note: the amounts of health/armor, plus the skill it has, are not correct. Sorry.)
See the tamed skills part? When you tame that beast, it will have said skill. If you fight with that pet for a little while, letting it USE that skill, eventually you will see something like "(your name) has learned Claw (rank 7) (or other)!" in the chat log. That means that next time you go into the Beast Training menu, you will see Claw (rank 7) as an option. Woohoo! Now you can let Smelly the bear run free, unless you like him, and go get dear old Kola out of the stables.
Now you know what to do. Use some of the training points that have been building up over the many adventures and train Claw (rank 7) to Kola. This will most likely increase his aggro by a ton. Job well done!
Note that there are more skills then just Claw. Maybe you want Kola to focus more on Growl. If thats the case, then think about getting Bite. It has a longer cooldown and does pretty good damage, plus it doesn't use all the focus that Growl depends on!
Note again that you do not have to have a bear named Kola. That's just an example of a pet a hunter might have.
Well, now that you know about training skills to your pet, maybe you want to know more about training points. (don't worry, this will be quick. Maybe. /grin)
There are two ways to get training points;
Loyalty levels,
and
Leveling up your pet.
Now, if you got your pet at a reletively low level, then near all training points will come from levels. Every level up for your pet gets him/her a few more training points. Squiggles the boar, gotten at level 5, will have ~3-4 hundred training points at level 70 if she is never trained anything. She will get very few points from Loyalty levels, as there are so many levels ahead of her.
But lets say HereThere the Warpstalker is level 70 already when you tame him. Now what??? He can't get any training points from levels! But thats where Loyalty comes in. At loyalty level 1, it's highly likely that HereThere has negative training points. This does not mean that you did something wrong! If a pet has negative training points, DON'T WORRY. This is just Blizzard's way of getting it to balance out when you get to loyalty level 6.
When HereThere increases in loyalty, you'll notice he gains ~60 training points! This is because the points he can't get from leveling, he gets from loyalty.
Get it now? SOrry if I did a terrible job of explaining.
(If you where wondering...)
Kola - Mangeclaw
Smelly - Diseased Bear
Squiggles - Bristleback Battleboar
Herethere - Blackwind Warp Chaser
Oh, but in a month or so all this will change to be talant tree's for your pet. I'll just have to post again >.<
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Spock is an insanacat.
As any reader of mine might now, I have a cat named Spock. We got him from a rescue shelter, and his black-tabby charm got him a new home.
Well, the cat has had this pass-time hobby of jumping onto the counter and knocking everything off the counter. For a while, he had seemed to have forgotten about his uncanny ability because of Summer, our orange/white cat. She starting playing with him, and instead of the loud, annoying crashes of things falling on the floor, we would hear the louder, more annoying "CATHUMP CATHUMP CATHUMP" of two cats thundering around the house (and, you know how cats are supposed to be quiet and stealthy? Hmph, yeah right..).
But when I got home from school, I sat down with a bunch of grapes and tossed one at the cat, who was sitting on the counter reaching towards some milk. Instead of jumping off the counter, though, he just stopped reaeching towards the milk and pawed at the tiny grape. It rolled around a bit, and he found that immensely interesting. He pawed some more - his usual, 'if I touch it too hard I will get killed' paw - and it rolled more. He continued to do this until it rolled onto the floor, falling on our dogs nose, who quickly ate it. Spock was aghast! He couldn't BELIEVE it fell! He padded over to a little white med container and pawed, knocking IT over the edge. Crash! He was amazed!
This can only mean one thing;
spock has regained his uncanny ability to knock things over edges, then look utterly stunned and innocent.
Well, the cat has had this pass-time hobby of jumping onto the counter and knocking everything off the counter. For a while, he had seemed to have forgotten about his uncanny ability because of Summer, our orange/white cat. She starting playing with him, and instead of the loud, annoying crashes of things falling on the floor, we would hear the louder, more annoying "CATHUMP CATHUMP CATHUMP" of two cats thundering around the house (and, you know how cats are supposed to be quiet and stealthy? Hmph, yeah right..).
But when I got home from school, I sat down with a bunch of grapes and tossed one at the cat, who was sitting on the counter reaching towards some milk. Instead of jumping off the counter, though, he just stopped reaeching towards the milk and pawed at the tiny grape. It rolled around a bit, and he found that immensely interesting. He pawed some more - his usual, 'if I touch it too hard I will get killed' paw - and it rolled more. He continued to do this until it rolled onto the floor, falling on our dogs nose, who quickly ate it. Spock was aghast! He couldn't BELIEVE it fell! He padded over to a little white med container and pawed, knocking IT over the edge. Crash! He was amazed!
This can only mean one thing;
spock has regained his uncanny ability to knock things over edges, then look utterly stunned and innocent.
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