Time for a dose of reality and change.

Today is the day for change. As much as this is a WoW blog this is a WoW blog based around the lives two gay men. This is the most important vote of our lives. Right now everyone is fighting for change and a better world and a few of us in the great state of California are fighting our right to marry and stay married to people we love. All I can ask of you is to get out and vote. As much as I'd like you to vote the way I'd like you to I really just want you to vote. It's the duty and privilege of all Americans to vote. Anyway, I'll get off of my high horse, you can tell who've I already voted for, just please go out and vote any which way you choose.

OMG 70!

DING!!!!!

(more later)

Caedmon's turn to post

Greetings one and all, the name is Caedmon and I'm the shaman of the group. Anyway, Mio thought I should start posting since I've decided to work on getting to 70 and then eventually 80. Can you even see me in the picture? That's cause I've jumped about 9 levels in a weekend and have gotten my ghost wolf form. Anyway, Leet has been nice enough to help me get my water totem and all I have to say that if it hadn't been for him and my scrolls of recall I might have just chilled at 19 for a while. Anyway I've been running around a combination of the Barrens and Hillsbrad trying to get things done. I'll be posting about shaman type things when I learn them but that's later. Anyway, back to work for me, now where are all those farmers?

Kicking it REAL old school

Hey everyone, Mio once again, just trying to kill time time until I can make my way to Nothrend. So when I hear over trade that people are doing AQ40 I jump at the chance. Until the most recent patch I had never been in the old world raids and it's been something I really wanted to do so I was really happy to e able to join. I think we only had about 30 people but most of them were 70's and all of them were over 60 so we were gonna be ok. So I filled my quiver, repaired, grabbed Kainda and waited for a summon. One came in a couple minutes and I was ready to go. Anyway, I guess I was one of the first people to get summoned because it took abother minute or two to get everyine there, we all hopped on vent but I decided to not talk because there were at least 25 of us and I didn't want to identify who I was everytime so I just decided to type out my response.

Anyway, we all hope on our mounts and charge inside, this place looked amazing! I had no idea what to expect except for lots of bugs, what suprised me is there were these big dog looking guys included them. They drop easy cause, you know, they're supposed to be for tons of guys 10 seasons below us. So we make our way deeper inside and woah.... there was a big temple inside.

Now this right here is a pretty sight, you know, except for the big bug in the middle. The bug goes down in about 15 seconds. After him some crystals start to drop, they were different colors and once people got em these bugs with saddles on them came to them. Apparently they are only for inside this place but they were cool and I wanted one. Anyway we're fighting our way through and after a particularly difficult fight, I finally get a crystal and a green bug ain't he cute? For a bug that is.
Anyway the funniest thing happened right before we hit the last boss. Now, this boss has the nastiest habit do do a chain attack, you know, the kind that hits each person harder with each jump. You aren't supposed to go past the doorway until you're ready and then go in single file along the walls. Anyway since we were ready we were all just in a group right in front of the door when I guess someone got a little too close to the door when this happened.That's right, we all died. Someone got a little too close to the door and we got chained. Someone actually got overkilled by about 17 million. You read that right 17 million, no exaturating, should have gotten a picture for that one. Anyway, everyone runs back and we finally go after the boss. Boy he was ugly. Though I do have to admit it was the most interested boss fight I've ever been apart of. We clear him easy and suprisingly he dropped some pretty cool loot. A ring I could have used now when my rings are already epic. All I know is that when Caedmon gets to about 62 I'm making sure he get in there for some interesting gear and a good time.

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!