Leveling my Herb and punchin' out critters

Hello everyone, your friendly neighborhood Mio here. So I used to be a leatherworker and it was something I really enjoyed but once I hit 365 it became almost impossible to level it the final 1o levels. It cost me almost 100g to get it up 1 level and this was just not ok with that. So I dropped leatherworking and picked up herbalism instead. With inscription ontop of alchemy herbs are in high demand, plus I have one of the twins who just started out being the groups inscriber. Ok so I never relly talked about the twins, They're Uzumati (Uzu for short) who's a druid and Caedmon who's a shaman. Caedmon is the inscriber in the family so I help suppliment what he gathers. Right now since he's such a book worm he's a better scribe then gatherer *sigh*. Anyway, back to me. Also I decided to level my unarmed because it seemed like fun. So while I was out gathering or running around Nagrand I would just sick which pet I had with me at the time on something and punch the living bejeezus out of them. I think meat eaters liked it the most because the meat was tenderized when I fed them.

The first day I leveled my herbalism to 150 in about 2 hours. Pretty much I just started punching my way through the barrens. Now when I was a less seasoned hunter there was nothing I loved more then taking on the packs of roaming kodos and stormhides. So I couldn't help but run up and punch a roaming stormhide. It only took a couple punches to knock them out though. It wasn't much of a challenge after a while.
Then after a while I moved onto Stranglethorn because I had gotten too good for the barrens. I realized then that there was a big island off the mainland I hadn't been to yet and GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY! There was a giant gorilla out that way!! Even though he couldn't really do much damage I just decided to leave him alone. Though I think he'd be amazing to ride around on.
Anyway, I'm still leveling my herbs but I've stopped punching things cause it got boring after a while. I may just go wail on a clefthoof or two, that should take a while and I won't have to run around. I just hope I get my herb skill up to the max before I leave for Northrend.

My decision on pets

Hey everyone, Mio here and in much better health. I've taken some time while I was sick I took some time to run some tests and crunch some numbers when it comes to pets. I would have done it slightly more in depth but the numbers just spoke for themselves. I've decided that cunning pets just aren't for me. While some of the talents in the cunning tree sound ok the damage is just too reduced for me to take one as a pet. So what I did was setup recount and sent DPS pets at the practice dummy for 20 seconds each. Yay for the handy new timer. Anyway, my 70 cat average around the high 7,000s, my then 69 Core hound averaged around the mid 6,000s, I then respecced him and he jumped to the low 7,000s. Then I took out my 68 Chimera and sent him to attack the dummy, he averages in the low 4,000s. Wow, that was a drastic drop, I then respecced him to do the most DPS he could flat out and he jumped to the high 4,000s. At this point I could see that even with all the buffs with both the boss and him being at low health it just wouldn't do the same kind of damage my ferocity pets were, so I made sure he was well fed and let him go.

Now I had two free slots in my stable and I knew which new pets I wanted to try. I knew I needed a non AOE tank, Kimoni is amazing for multiple mobs but he just doesn't do well for single tragets. I had already decided that I wanted to pick up a bear and a worm. I just hve to say I haven't seen ANYONE other than me for a little while running around with a worm. I can kinda understand that because I'm waiting for Wrath to come out to get a nice pretty fluffy worm. The ones out in Northrend look amazing. Anyway, I sent Kimoni, who's at 69, after the target dummy and he only did about 4,000 damage. This didn't worry me too much becasue 1 tanks don't nessicarily do a lot of damage and B he's an AOE tank, not a single target tank. Anyway, I then sent the Worm I picked up from RFC, level 65, after the dummy and he did damage in the low 5,000 range! I was very impressed. I know most people think they're ugly but I find the worms cute in an ugly sort of way. Next I sent in the bear, now you should know there is a bit of a back story behind the bear.

I've always wanted a bear but with only 3 slots in the stable I didn't have the space, I had Kainda, Reptar (who has been let free back in blades edge) and a free slot to tame pets for skills. Now that I have 5 slots and don't have to train for skills I was gonna get a bear, and not just any bear, but a cute little black bear. The only place to find ones that aren't rare are in Dwarf and Gnome country....well crap. I really wanted the black bear though so I flew over to Kargath and ran back up into Loch Modan and promptly tamed myself a cute little bear. I was trying to think of a name when the perfect one came to mind and I couldn't stop laughing, so I named him Devon. Devon is an RL friend who's a bear so I just couldn't resist. Anyway back to the numbers.

I sent Devon after the dummy and he did just as well as the worm. So I plan on keeping him as well as picking up a new worm once wrath comes out. So my stable is full and I'm happy with my decision, I'm keeping my bear and it'll take another REALLY good pet to replace the worm slot in my stable.

All Hail Hallow's End!

Hi there, Mal here. I killed the Headless Horseman for the very first time last night, and look what I took from him! My first time and I get to take his horse! Amazing! Somehow he came back to life two more times, and we killed him two more times. I also got to take his ring, but I can't use it for two more levels. But hey, I'm more than satisfied with this gorgeous steed. I never get cool stuff like this! I've gotta say, Mio wants to kill me for getting it, but he'll get over it eventually.

Hallow's End has been half fun, and half a pain in my orc butt. Those zombies running all over the cities of Azeroth have been driving me nuts! I go to withdraw some important stuff from the bank or dump out the contents of my bags, and the bankers are dead. I go to auction off some useless green stuff, and the auctioneers are dead. I sit down outside the inn and stop paying attention for a minute, and I'm dead! What a waste of time.

But, there have been some fun highlights.

I finally got a studly new haircut. That double-ponytail thing I had going with my hair and my beard was just not working for me. At least they finally put a barber in Org so I could take the pumpkin off my head and look presentable for once.


I saw my first Devilsaur pet in the Scryers' Bank. You can barely see my ghostly little self down there in front of its right foot. I had gotten eaten by zombies and didn't want to come back to life while they were still taking over Shattrath City, so I was running around as a ghost. The Devilsaur is taller than the chandelier in the bank!





On our way through Underbog, our friend Lashmin died. *tear* Don't worry, the pretty priest Sybol brought him back to life... but in the meantime, there was a silver lining. The way Lash fell, it looked like he died choking on a fish! I don't know why I find this so funny, but I do.





Some kid at the refugee caravan out in Terokkar Forest gave me a remote-controlled Steam Tonk. Woot fun new toy! Who wants to race me??










And now for one last Hallow's End picture...for today, at least. I got transformed into a leper gnome (which meant Mio wouldn't even acknowledge me until I changed back!) and someone put a pumpkin on my head because they didn't like my new haircut. I didn't let that phase me, and played some good defense in Eye of the Storm. Standing here in stealth, I was one bad-ass little punkinhead!

Hallow's End is upon us!

Hey everyone, sickly cow Mio here. Sorry I haven't been posting as much as I usually do. I still blame the damn riding chickens for getting me sick. Anyway I know this post is a couple days late but Hallow's End is upon us! I wasn't quite sure what to expect but I've heard stories of the Headless Horseman and the awesome helm I couldn't wear anyway because it's plate. The one thing I've really gotten behind though are the achievements and the titles that come with them, the one the comes with Hallow's End is "the Hallowed". I think the title is sexy and I want it really bad. Because I haven't been feeling well most of my playing has been mindless busy work, I looked up what needed to be done for the acheivments for the title and decided to complete the Trick or Treats of Azeroth. I took me a few hours of really relaxing play but I got it all done. The one difficult part was finding the Lights Hope Chapel or whatever that place is called in the Eastern Plaguelands. I've never really been in there before and Cartographer wasn't working so I had to run around and find the stupid place. Anyway I've been taking down the Horseman everyday, I got the little Squashling pet and now I'm after the cloth helm. Also the other fun stuff is the hourly Trick or Treating, trying to get all the masks and the toothpicks, not to mention the candy you get that make you big and orange, a skeleton or a ghost. The Big orange part is my favorite because making a Tauren even bigger is funny to me. Esspecially when I have a pumpkin on my head.

I love pictures like this but I'm gonna throw another one up for actual size comparison. So Mal is a full grown Orc, and he just barely makes it to my waist lol. Now for the other extreme, as people who trick or treat often know, you don't always get a treat bag, in fact almost all of yesterday I kept getting tricked! Gah! I felt like I was gonna be smushed! I was smaller then a gnome! And that's just not right! On the other hand it was funny to run up behind people and scare them. All I have to say is thank Elune Kimoni is so well trained that he didn't stomp me into oblivion. Anyway I think that's enough for now. Hopefully within the week I'll be doing a post adressing what I feel are the best pets in the game now the patch has happened, but I still need to pick up a few more pets to try at my level and dicuss more with some lower level friends.

Welcome to the jungle

If you can't tell from the photo, it's time for story time from me Mio once again. I'm trying to spread out my experiences over several posts instead of one super long one. That way I can take my time since I got sick. I just really hope I didn't catch the bird flu from one of the chickens our friends ride around on, as it turns out I know a lot of Belfs, or it could have been when I got turned into a Leper gnome. Which despite being a leper made me feel super dirty just for being a gnome. Anyway, onto what I'm actually gonna be talking about this time.

So on the same night as the Onyxia run, the raid decided to do ZG as well, cause why not? We can. Anyway, Kiho dropped out of the raid cause he had a bloody dragon head stinking up his bag and I saw Sybol was on, so I invited her to come along. She was low enough in the 60's that she might actually get something she could use. We still had the same tank as last time and I stayed behind for a few more seconds to summon people then headed inside myself. As usual the tank is barreling ahead full speed, I'm trying desperately to keep up and I've lost track of Sybol, who I'm usually super protective of. Now it's not that Sybol can't handle herself, she's a big girl and can take care of herself just fine, I'm just really protective of my squishie healer friends. We get to the first boss and she goes down easy, I think some random squishie glass cannon mage got stomped but I didn't know him and he should have been watching his aggro anyway. I think this is where Syb got a cape she could actually use. If i remember correctly, Kiho told me that these raids were where you got the best loot in the game before the dark portal opened up.Anyway, we're chugging through, drop a few more bosses, there weren't any other deaths I could see cause no one in my group died and I made sure to check in with Syb every once in a while to make sure she was doing ok. We get to the last boss and great googly moogly was the guy ugly. He looked like he was the offspring of an arrakoa and a wind serpent. He was harder then I expected, a bunch of people died because they weren't prepared, my puppy along with them (he doesn't usually die this much I swear). Anyway we got done with him and everyone hearths out fast because someone who tried to run out decided to run back to us followed by a group of gators. Anyway, I'm outta here for now, I swear those damn Belfs better take those riding chickens to the vet to make sure I didn't catch anything from them. /sniffle

Daaaaang, that's a big mama jamma

Hello everybody, your friendly neighborhood Mio once again. As you may or may not know, the attunements have been removed from the old world raids which means people are doing them all the time now, it's super easy to find a group. So because I haven't been playing very long I decided to join a group that was off to take down the bad mama dragon herself Onyxia. I was super excited. So I join a raid, invited Kiho to come along and we head over to Dustwallow. We have a group of about 30 at this point. This was the kind of run where there isn't really any sort of strategy and it's just kill things. The tank is someone who I've been in a group with before and charges head long in situations without making sure everyone is ready. He's a good tank though, a really good one, so I can forgvie the short comings. Anyway It's at this point that I just start opening fire.
Sadly, something killed my new puppy pretty quick and it was sad. Fortunately though I was able to start my super DPS sequence (which involves bestial wrath) a couple seconds before he died so I was able to get a little more out of it. Anyway, Ony goes down fast enough, less the two minutes if I remember correctly. Loot gets passed around, and Kiho gets lucky and gets her head which starts a quest. Turns out it's still good for experience once we can get into Northrend. Anyway, I'm not feeling to hot as of late and I may not be questing too much, I'll mostly be trying to complete the achievments to get the title The Hallowed. Never you fear though. I have at least enough material for 3 more posts over the next couple days. Oh, and I told Leet I would mention him in tonight post, Hi Leet! /wave

On your mark, get set, GO!

Hello once again, it's Mio. Man I've been posting a lot lately huh? Well there's a lot to post about with the new patch. Anyway, I has an RL lady type friend who loves to play WoW as well (Yes, there are plenty of real women that play WoW, I have met some and heard others on Vent). She has two 70's and four or five 60's, she's a little crazy like that but it makes her super cool to me. Anyway, we were talking and I mention my 22 minute Blood Furnace run yesterday. She then tells me about running Ramps in 15 minutes!!! She also tells me that her group is WAY over geared and I think she said they were 70's but I may be mistaken. So, since I am a competive bull and all bulls love a good run I wanted to try to beat that time. So I whisper to Leet to see if he wants to do another speed run and try to beat my friends time, of course he's up for it but is with a group in Blood Furnace and will let me know when he's done.

I spend the time doing random quest for the Mag'har, helping people with their Nessingwary quests (They let me have the skinnables YAY SKINNABLES!) when Leet whispers me that he's ready. I have Kimoni with me, I had just recently repaired so I was set and had him summon me. Now, something he told me that I didn't know is that there is a new stopwatch everyone gets, so I start it up and we start killing things at a dead run. Now you should know that I was with Leet at 63 a 65 lock from the other day as well and a 60 and I think another 63, and they wanted the runs for the gear. We didn't start up to par with my friends group so Leet and I decided that breaking 20 would be amazing but we're gonna try for 15 anyway. We're going through and it's obvious we aren't gonna make 15 minutes but 20 is still doable. Kimoni is tanking like a proud and I'm so proud of my new boy /tear and he's pretty much the tank of the group even tough we have a Felgaurd and a ret paladin with a shield. We finish the run at 19 minutes 20 seconds YES!!

The group wants to do another run and I LOVE these speed runs so I'm up for it. The second run goes a bit slower, I dn't know why, but we finish at a respectable 20 minutes 43 seconds. I'm still happy with these times cause this group had some really low level guys and the best part is is that there wasn't a single death, which is a MAJOR accomplishment. I will be doing more of these speed runs as they are sooo much fun, but I will be taking Cerberus on some of these as well as he needs some action. I'm STILL gonna try to break that 15 minute time though.