Thursday, February 28, 2008

Off Night & Vacation

I 2-box 4 daily Ogrila quests last night, and did some solo mining with 1.Lylefukinton around Blades Edge Mountains. I also started selling ores and primals to clear up alts.

The rest of the night was spent playing DotA 1.51, a Warcraft3 custom map.

I'll be going to Las Vegas this Thursday through Saturday. I will be taking my laptop along, but I will not have much time to play. I will just do some more alt-bank cleaning.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Played Log

A friend wrote me an WoW Addon that writes data into a lua file with basic info about my character, level, gold, xp, and server time.

Then I wrote a small executable that read the lua.txt into a comma-delimited text file which I import into Excel. I then added some columns and calculate the info I need.

Summary
Semirhage - Bloodelf Holy Paladin
Duration: 9 hours and 20 minutes
(rough estimate, since I added 5 minutes per sessions/game breaks)
Level 66 (28%) to Level 67 (31%) (82k xp / hour) +173 gold

Healmon - Troll Shadow Priest
Duration: 8 hours and 45 minutes (closer to actual time as continued data)
Level 68 (9%) to Level 69 (3%) (82.6k xp / hour) +149 gold

Session Details
Activity: Blades Edge Mountain Quest with 68 Shadow Priest and 70 Prot Paladin
Semirhage - 66 Holy Paladin
Mon 12.25.2008 12:30 @ 50 minutes
Level 66: 28.29 to 36.67% (74k xp/hour) +7.40 gold

Mon 12.25.2008 15:00 @ 1 hour 15 minutes
Level 66: 36.67 to 52.96% (97k xp/hour) +33.98 gold

Mon 12.25.2008 16:15 @ 40 minutes
Level 66: 52.96 to 60.98% (88k xp/hour) +11.90 gold

Mon 12.25.2008 17:15 @ 1 hour 30 minutes
Level 66: 60.98 to 79.25% (89k xp/hour) + 34.15

Mon 12.25.2008 19:45 @ 19 minutes
Level 66: 79.25 to 81.44% (50k xp/hour) +1.4 gold

Mon 12.25.2008 20:00 @ 2 hours
Level 66: 81.44 to Level 67: 0.44% (73k xp/hour) +22.90 gold

Semirhage - 67 Holy Paladin
Mon 12.25.2008 23:15 @ 55 minutes
Level 0.44% to 7.5% @ (58k xp/hour) +14.35 gold

Mon 12.25.2008 0:00 @ 80 minutes
Level 7.5% to 31.4% @ (135k xp/hour) +46.82 gold

Power Level @ Blackrock Depth

Over the weekend, I managed to level #1.Aszhat Shaman to 55, and #2.Joiya Mage to 54 (a few bubbles short of 55). I also spent some "break" from AoE grinding by leveling up Joiya's Tailoring to 300, and Enchanting near 275. I will need a few more materials to push to the 300.

I also started some initial BRD runs for the next batch: #1.Gemstar Mage 43, and #2.Azzhat Shaman to 43. I was helping with a 60 Frost Mage plus one other to get the group bonus.

That was the weekend. On the side, a friend wrote up an Addon (called Bio) that creates a lua table with some basic info I can use to track gold, xp and time played. I wrote an external executable the parses the lua table into a comma-delimited file that I can use to import into Excel.

Oh, and Monday night, I decided to spend time on Team Heroic. #1.Semirhage Holy Paladin is now level 67, and #2.Healmon Shadow Priest is now level 69. They are doing Blades Edge Mountain quests. I got some initial data from Bio. I still have to analyze it for my use.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Power Level @ Blackrock Depth

I am starting to get back in to the groove of doing BRD once again. I was definitely pulling more than I can handle without risking wipes when I was pulling with 2 level 40s in tow. So I decided to break down some pulls into 2, and also pull less mobs from the arena hallway. I also started to break down the cell area pulls into 2 so that there is less likely mob add from patrols.

I managed to get 1.Aszhat Shaman to 45, and 2.Joiya Mage to 45. I was also filling the other 2 slots with a 60 mage, and other level 40 players. Having the 60 Mage there speeds up kills. But I do not have a functioning add-on that displays exp per hour gain.

Tonight's plan is to level in BRD again, and plan to skill up Tailoring for Joiya to 275 Enchanting and maybe even up to 300 is I have 90 Rugged Leathers available. I also plan to set aside Disenchanting materials for my next batch of skill ups.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Power Level @ Blackrock Depth

I finished the run around shaman quests last Tuesday night which took longer than I expected even with a mage tagging along for portals.

I then spent more time cleaning up bank and mail on 4 characters that will be power leveled in Blackrock Depth (BRD): 1.Aszhat 40 Shaman & 2.Joiya 40 Mage; and 1.Gemstar 40 Mage & 2.Azzhat 40 Shaman. I also searched my various alts to upgrade some basic gear, some of which are level 5 boots with minor run speed enchants. Only Joiya was decently geared since I used this mage to power level in Shadowfang Keep at one point.

Finally, Wednesday night was more of a test run for Joiya and Aszhat. I managed to get them to level 43 with 1 trip in between to repair and sell. I wiped several times as I try to do some blizzard with the mage, and do some healing with the shaman. But then I was trying to 4-pull each instance reset.

Anyway, last night was just a first run of BRD with a Shaman + Mage setup and I was still tweaking my hot keys. I would need some addon for the shaman to give me some timer on the Totems.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

President's Day Weekend

I managed to level 1.Semihrage (Paladin) to 66, and 2.Healmon (Priest) to 68. Healmon is now a Master Transmutation. I 3-Box inside Shadow Labs and the healer type mob kept healing up and prolongs the fight. I need a mod that shows enemy cast bars, and a better silence cast sequence macro.

I spent a lot of time on 1.Tianak (Rogue) in BG to grind some honor. But I messed up big time when I bought Season 1 Gladiator Shiv with 9k honor, and Season 2 Merciless Gladiator Shiv with 900 or so Arena Points. Only after I enchanted both dagger with +12 Agility is when I realized they are both Off-Hand weapons instead of One-Hand. Needless to say, the season 1 Shiv was a complete waste. I had such high hopes in re-spec'ing to dual daggers and shadow step. Then drop Mace Smithing for Herbalism. Oh well, I'll see how it goes for the Merciless One-Hand dagger which is 2.2k Arena.


Ialso got 1.Aszhat (Shaman) and 2.Gemstar (Mage) to level 40 in SM. I finished the weekend doing a bunch of run around Shaman quests. Call of Fire for the Fire Totem. Call of Water for the Water Totem which is in progress. And Call of Air for the Air Totem which I will finish tonight.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Goal: Flying Epic, Primal Mights

I was to purchase a flying epic mount for 3.Sanctume (Prot Pally, Enchanter & Macesmith). I think my running gold total on all my 25 toons is around 2800 gold, which means I need another 2200 gold. When I got my first 5000 gold, I had to decide who will get the first epic flying mount.

I bought the first epic flying mount for 1.Lylefukinton (Warrior, Miner & Armorsmith) . I wonder if I should just spend the time mining and selling ores. But, I need ores still to skill up Blacksmithing. I have some banked, but I have not kept track of how much I have.

Daily Quest
So for now, I do at least 4 daily quest in Blades Edge Mountain with Sanctume and Lylefukinton. The 2 quest rewards about 45g each. The would be 90g per day for about 1 hour; 720g in a week.

Mining & Motes of Fire & Earth
Lyle can also do the flying Sketting bombing for another 12 gold if I remember doing it. Lyle also have Netherwing quests he can do. Most of the time, I fly Lyle in BEM to mine and kill some Fire Elementals for Fire Motes.

Honor Points, Primal Water, & Herbalist
Other than money goal, I also want to get 1.Tianak (Rogue, Engineer & Macesmith) grind 27k honor and buy 2 Season 1 Gladiator daggers. I plan to re-spec Tianak for Shadowstep; drop Macesmith; skill up Herbalism. Tianak becomes the Herb supplier for Healmon and possibly the Team Shaman for Alchemy skill ups. I also want to run Underbog and gather Sanguine Hibiscus to help raise Sporeggar faction on the Alchemist for the Transmute Earth to Water.

Motes of Mana
For now, I run Tianak for an hour at Wizard Row in Netherstorm and gather about 3x Primal Mana.

Motes of Life
I will just farm Motes of Life as needed in Zangarmarsh.

Motes of Shadow
I still have over 50 Primal Shadows from farming demons in Shadowmoon Valley when I was skilling up my Aldor faction. I can farm these again as I power-level 1.Semihrage and 2.Healmon.

Motes of Air
By the time Sanctume has an epic flyer, I will definitely add Primal Air in my routine when I start doing Netherwing daily quests.