Risso

A good idea is to check the AH late Tuesday night shortly before they shut the server down, and look for stuff with not much time left with a low current bid. That's how I got those L54 blue bracers for a pittance, looking forward to a big profit on those.

Mine's just installing now, I'm leaving it while I go out for an hour or so. The message boards on the official WoW site are full of people complaining about this patch.

How much money have you got Bicks?

How far off L40 Bicks?

That Elven treasure q was a brilliant find by the way, at least 10,000 XP for just travelling about a bit, and another 4,000 ish for the final piss easy fight!

My grand exploration continues apace! I opened up the whole of Hinterlands, Dustwallow, Wetlands and the Um Bongo crater last night! Nothing better than getting XP for discovering a new area.

Great another patch, marvellous!

Well the character was female!

Strayed a bit too close to the ally territory in Badlands last night, and experienced all kinds of new and interesting ways to die!

After a bit of questing with Dan and Bicks, I nipped over to Gadgetztan, and had the weirdest time. I was running around the camp, and a ?? ally night elf just followed me about everywhere, blowing me kisses, for 15 minutes. When I ran into the desert to grind a few scorpids, she followed me, and killed all the scorpids for me in a single blow!

I've got a virtual stalker!

It's already happened! We set up our own VT guild, only for the "splitters" Tarj and Si to bugger off after a week!

I'm Rissok

Bicks is, er, Bicks!

Si (Designer) is Siongest

Nayson is Nayson

Dan (ED) is Evildan

Tarj is TRL

Plus there's Vilajuju and Limpid too.

One big happy family!

Nice one Craig! See that thing packing its bags and walking out the door? That's your social life, that is!

What's your charcater name? You can expect a bit of a helping hand......

How did you happen to find that cove by the way Bicks, it's hardly on the way anywhere is it?! Good find though, even though I detest sea quests!

I'm up for Stromgarde, but probably won't be on until about 10. Hopefully by then a lot of the Ally clearings in the woods will have buggered off, it really pissed me off in there last time.

The 90G is the same for everybody Bicks, plus I got mail too this level. Very, very expensive, just glad I spent a couple of days grinding and leatherworking rathr than levelling. I suppose the end result is the same though. Need to start working the AH again to build my reserves back up.

If you haven't already Bicks, finish that Elven charms sea quest. It's fairly easy, and leads to loads of smaller q's for loads of XP. Go me nicely past L40 tonight, and I've got two q's in the bank as it were.

Why do I think that Taurens don't get mounts? I thought as they were so big they got Plainstrider skill instead?

It's only a month since Si and Nays were getting their mounts, and here we all are with ours too. Juju's already mid L20's I think. It's only now that I'm even beginning to get to grips with my character properly I'd say, especially in groups.

The ability tree is the key to a lot of things, Sometimes it takes me ages to decide where to put a talent point, and I nearly always end up thinking I've done the wrong thing!

It'll be ace now we've all got mounts, as we can try loads more areas than before.

BTW Riss, open up the WHOLE map by the weekend?

Easy peasy, just leg it round continuously. TBH I've got quite a bit already, as I went on a bit of a roam when I first got ghost wolf, even higher levels where I died continuously. I've already seen most of Azhara, the Plaguelands and the Umgoro Crater just from having a bit of a trot round.

They're all different Craig, all with strengths and weaknesses. We've got a good mix of characters in the VT "family" at the moment, so it'd be good if you chose something different as it won't take you long to get to a decent standard.

I'd suggest a mage, as they deal ridiculous amounts of damage from spells, although as they only wear cloth they take melee damage.

We've got a hunter, priest, tank, shammy, rogue, and warlock so a mage would be a good addition I reckon

I'm going to try and open up the whole map by the weekend. I love just wandering about picking up experience. I want a close look at that dam in he ally territory, the one on the loch you fly over on the way to Camp Garth. It's probably my favourite bit of scenery in the game, stunning!

I expect it seems a bit sad to the casual observer, but if you're into games at all, then this is the most amazing thing ever. Plus it saves a fortune. £8 a month as opposed to what you used to spend when you had friends and a life, brilliant!

Sounds like a plan to me Dan! Cheers for helping us with the last couple of q's last night as well, it was great inching further and further forward towards the L40 mark! I think this is a real turning point in the game, probably the last one before 60 that I was determined to get to. I got a mount and mail armor, but after this it just looks like I get increases to the spells I already have, and nothing that exciting new.

Haven't really had chance to try the mount out yet, as I got it at about 1am this morning, but I've got a few questions:

I assume you can't fight whilst riding? What happens if you get hit by an enemy whilst on your mount? Does it disappear instantly, or do you get stunned or whatever as normal.

I'm looking forward to having a chance of not being ganked now as much. (hopefully!) Last night I was legging it through Arathi when some ?? Ally chased me down on his mount, shocked me and killed me. At least I'm as quick as they are now. I imagine it's better for legging it out of Ogre villages and the like when you're done as well.

Mounts are ace!

Serves you right for being such an XP slag Tarj!

I'd saved up a few items of mail armor. Some of it was great, some shit, so I bought a couple of items in the AH too.

Going to go on a mad exploring spree on the mount tonight I think!

And then there were three!

Well I now have NO money! A small fortune levelling up, plus mount, plus new mail armour!

Ouch, back to grinding I think!

Hey, Risso, don't go bothering the missus for sex right now.. Women aren't stupid. If she thinks your now pestering her to keep you amused and you explain its because the servers down, I wouldn't like to see the results...

"The results" will be seen a week on Wednesday, when Risso jnr enters the world! The chances of any "how's your father?" for the next few months are very slim indeed!

LET ME ONTO MY GAME YOU ****!!

**** sticks. The night me and Tarj could probably get our mounts, and all the **** realms are down. Marvellous. The missus is asleep, so I could play to my heart's content with no mithering.

Blizzard, meh.

Stoopid game. Crashed in the middle of an ogre killing q with Tarj, and there's a 200 queue, meaning I'll respawn in a village full of pissed of ogres, with tarj long gone!

edit: So I get back on to find that not only has Tarj waited, he's also finished the q for me. Then 5 minutes later, I crash again!