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(Its such an awesome title how could I not run with it?!!? Probably should have been Monthly WoW Woes, but that certainly doesn’t roll off the tongue as well.)

DPS (Damage Per Second). The never ending quest for the all time highest damage output EVER. What is the DPS ceiling and how can I get there???

Since both of my World of Warcraft characters are DPS-centric, this question comes up for me often. My love-hate relationship with recount doesn’t help, as I can’t seem to get by without it, but playing with it is almost as impossible. Would I do better without it? Keeping track is eminently distracting. Though having such a clear display of ones performance (compared to everyone else) is highly motivating.

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Okay, so maybe not all woes, but all it is certainly time for my weekly WoW ranting. (Hmm maybe I should do this weekly, might be cathartic.)

Somehow I have gone from being mildly interested in raiding, to raiding consistently four days a week. Since the new dungeon came out, Ice Crown Citadel (ICC), I got invited to be a guest (Hunter) on a regular ICC10, which turned into semi permanent. Then my little guild started running an ICC10 (Warlock does guild runs) and we got invited as a guild to join an ICC25, which has been taking two days a week so far.

The guest gig currently has the best success rate, as it’s a more consistent set of people. Our guild is too small so we always have to pick up a few extra random people (same with the 25man run). But overall the challenge is exciting and succeeding is invigorating.

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This is something that has been circulating in some of the WoW Blogs I read occasionally. Even though I don’t consider this a World of Warcraft Blog (though it could easily become one!) I thought it might be a good way to pay my respects to WoW.

And respect it deserves. World of Warcraft: The Lich King expansion has probably been my favorite game of the year (2009). I know, it was actually released in 2008, but I played so much of the game this year, I think it fully qualifies. =)

I’m pretty sure that I played WoW more this year then I slept. And so I award WoW the “Better than Sleep” award. =)

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My warlocks run of fabulous mounts continues.
The Magnificent Flying Carpet!

As soon as her tailoring skill was high enough, I had to make this. Its far too awesome too pass up. Although there have been quite a few Aladdin jokes.

The description makes me chuckle every time. “This is a very fast rug.” Cute!

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My baby warlock finally made it. The challenge was made; my warlock and I rose to the occasion. The bounty was paid (although my husband used it as beer money).

In the end it took me four and a half months to make 36 levels; 12 days 8 hours total played time, much longer than I expected.

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After all that fan fare about getting my new flying mount, I took my little level seventy Warlock to Northrend (the land of undead and ice). Turns out that in Northrend you have to pay to learn how to fly in cold weather and that’s not a privilege you get until level 77.

So I will enjoy riding my more attractive mounts for another seven levels.

Nothing says screw you like paying a shit ton of gold for a skill that you don’t get to use. I should have just waited for Cold Weather Flying at level 77.

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Free mounts, that was part of the incentive package I was given for leveling my Warlock. (That’s right, leveling to eighty is not reward enough. I tend to lose interest in the monotony. Besides I already have a level eighty Hunter who is impressively distracting.)

The Hawkstriders are incredibly pretty mounts, and one of the main reasons I picked the Blood Elf race. Free and pretty, I had to get as many as I could. So I purchased all the ones I could from the mount vendor. =D

Four slow speed Chocobos (Hawkstrider: black, blue, purple, pink) and three fast speed Chocobos (Swift Hawkstrider: green, purple, pink). Banner shown in that order.

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Back in April, I was given incentive to level my baby Warlock to 80. Much progress has been made on my part. Sindel finally made level 70. Its a little slower then I would have liked, three months for 26 levels. Lets just say its light speeds faster then I leveled my hunter.

Level 80 is close, so very close. Where is my $20?!

In a previous post I had mentioned getting my warlock to level sixty by this past weekend. It was an ambitious goal to set, but great motivation to get leveling. Never the less we didn’t quite make it. My warlock made 53.5, which is actually pretty good, but still leaves me quite a ways off from eighty. Go go level sixty this weekend!!

It is possible that the leveling could have gone a bit faster if I hadn’t waited so long to get talents. Talent choice are challenging for me to say the least.

Once my warlock made level fifty my husband was so appalled that I hadn’t spent any talent points that he took matters into his own hands. Knowing very little about warlocks, he did some minor research at Elitist Jerks and found a simple leveling build, then forced me to stop leveling and oversaw the tedious talent selection process with indignant single-mindedness.

The kicker? Well the new patch (3.1) for World of Warcraft just came out today and all the talent points for everyone are being refunded. I am cursed!

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Back in the day Warlock pets used to come with a new name every time you summoned them. Recently it was pointed out to me that this changed, meaning the pets now keep their names. The comment was that my warlock was lucky to have gotten a decent name assigned to her Voidwalker Pet.

And so I present to you Grass Moth, my own personal Voidwalker Pokemon!

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