Here's why I am not blogging at the moment. And hardly playing that is. :)

Yes, I know. I should post more frequent, more often, more everything. There are tons of things I could talk about.
So here's the very quick version: Loving Northrend.

I dinged 80 last Sunday on my hunter. Could have done it way faster, but felt it was too fast already.
Started reading out on factions. Have been already exalted with the Tuskarr for over a week or so as I started all three dailies at the second day of release.

Am into Sons of Hodir and the Oracles right now. Trying to figure out a routine that also includes the Knights of the Ebon Blade and the Argent Crusade.
This is were the quick linking comes in. Just stumbled upon this great great amazing summary at "altoholic's are us": Northrend Daily Quest List. Have a look, it's worth it.

Also, anyone got experience with their babies not turning into the right birth position? Any tips to offer? Any experience to share? I know, I know, hardly the right place to ask, but that's something constantly on my mind right now. :)

Okay, since the delivery guy hasn't been here yet, I can't resist any longer: I won't spare you my personal nostalgic looking back on almost 4 years of WoW-feelings.

Best way to get to the past? Consider the future ahead of you!

This evening, when Wrath will be successfully installed (at least I hope so), I will take my hunter and hop to the Howling Fjord with her. She took over to be my personal favorite in my hierarchy of alts during the last few months and now will be proudly starting as the official main character in Wrath.
And I will place my warlock and my rogue in the starting areas as well. These three are the ones I am most eager to level with again - and these three are also my collectors in professions.

Ain't it nice to see all the planning stretched out before you? To exactly know what you will be doing and with whom? Yeah?

Well, looking back to the day BC hit us I can't help wondering what will happen during the next weeks with my characters.

When I first entered the Outlands, I was sporting the rogue as my main. I was deadly convinced she would be my first level 70 character. I loved her. She was my best equipped and most cared for...

If I remember correctly, I had 3 other level 70 chars before she reached that goal... What had happened? I don't know. I just remember leveling with her to be extremely painful and slow. And no one needed a rogue.

So, my first level 70 was Anurien, the priest. The character I feel is the least likely to be played in any time soon in WotL. Crazy, huh. How fast things can change.

While I leveled the priest to 70, I also got hooked up on the warlock who was still level 9 when BC went live. Well, she grew up fast and in her demonic ways easily sneaked up behind Anurien to take the lead from her.
Which Algabal kept for almost all the time in BC.

Until a sweet little hunter named Nashtuk was born early this year. My last alt (all other classes were waaaay bigger already). My baby. Leveling was mad fun and dead easy - but still, she got me in a way none of the others did before.
She got me into theorycrafting. For the first time ever, I looked at dps-sheets and shot-rotations and the like.
And I started reading the BigRedCrazyKittyGuy and LovelyMania and so many others who tought me so much. Seriously, I am extremely grateful to all WoW-bloggers out there, because I have never know so much about class.

Never ever. Especially not when I first enrolled in WoW in February 2005. As lovely troll warrior Eryys. Still famous to many, I guess. Definitely not for her skills in game. Probably more for her chatty mouth.
Oh those good ol' times when I ran around Kalimdor totally clueless about what I was actually doing. Seriously, you have no idea how clueless I was. Mysteriously, I made my way to 60 and started tanking stuff. And liked it. Oh my... Those were days of serious commitment and engagement to the guild and the people in it. I probably don't need to tell anybody that long in the game that those were the best days and the worst at same. All the drama! And the leaving of said guild. And the forming afresh of a new one with only the closest people ingame. Which turned out to be the best decision ever! Can't wait to have good times with you guys in Wrath too. /hug

Anyways. I never made it to raiding. Neither with the tank nor the priest who was my second level 60 character and first twink ever. I got more or less totally anti-PvE and found my "home" in PvPing...

... and got my way back into the more social aspects of WoW in the middle of BC. And found my way into the nicest raiding group in the first addon's dusk. I am so grateful to have met them and finally get a foot into raiding - small as it is, it is still raiding.

Why does this sound like swan songs, you may wonder?

Well, the release of Wrath is not only a fresh start with new wonders and adventures for me. It is also a sort of "last time" for me. I can't help having the feeling that I will never ever feel the same about games, people and life in general in the future. With my baby growing inside me, I am changing a lot. It's not a bad thing, not at all. Even though I would consider myself a grown up in every way anyways, it is a sort of different growing.
And with this, I am not so sure I will actually make it to my personal 4-year-WoW-anniversary. Not at all.

But hey! WHERE is this delivery guy? Seriously! I can't wait any longer. Want. To. Level. Now.

/kiss to you all out there! :)

As I am sitting here, sipping my hot and oh-SOOOO-good coffee (there's nothing like a coffee after a night full of baby kicks into your bladder and hand cramps due to swelling through water - oh to lament!), I just checked my mails.

And what do my small reddish eyes see through constant blinking?

My goodness, excuse my use of words this morning, I don't know what's wrong with me, seriously. Well, perhaps it has something to do with being up since 5 am AGAIN. Did I mention the constant baby kicks into my bladder that make me run to the toilet like every 15 minutes?

Anyways, you're probably not here to read about baby stuff, so: What did I see? An email from amazon. Yup, the amazon I pre-ordered the one and only, the king, the Lich, Mr."I will freeze your ass" Arthas from. And it said: Your order has been shipped. YAY!

So. Now I am sitting here. Servers are down. The Lich is one day away. Or even more like half a day. And I just realized that it is very well possible I will receive our copies of Wrath t o d a y. In a few hours. Even right now, if Mr. or Mrs. Postman should decide to show up.
I did plan (some hours ago) to waltz my way to town this morning (when shops actually start to open which they apparently don't do at 5 am which actually quite sucks, because well...). But now. I am sitting here. And thinking: What if? Will it really be delivered today? Could I be starting to play TONIGHT? At midnight? Omfg!

OMFG! Why should I want to wait for a supposed delivery if I am dead tired already?

Now that my coffee is empty and I shared all of this totally serious concern with you, I start wondering: Will I be going too crazy over WoW? Again?
And I look at this post's headline and I realize that I totally missed the point I wanted to make. So I changed it. I always sucked at headlines. Even in elementary school when I won prizes for the writing itself and always starred with A's, the teacher commented: Your headline sucks!

So, originally, I planned to do the retro-thingy. You know, the post we all hammer out hours away from the next expansion in which we look back at all the good ol' times. Well. Early next year, I will be playing WoW for 4 years. That's quite some time. I guess that's too many memories to look back upon to squeeze in here.

I really think I ought to get a second coffee. And get sentimental. But... Baby will freak. So perhaps later.

Oh, did I tell you that baby is a BOY? We just found out two days ago (which is kinda late given that I am in the 30st week). It makes my eyes go shimmery every time I think of it. And no, this time it isn't due to the fatigue.

Have a nice day! :)

Since patch 3.0.2 last week, I stumbled upon three things I'd quickly like to share with you in case you too first failed to notice them:

1. If you are an alchemist, head to Thrallmar (resp. the Alliance place to go) and get your brand new Mixology spell! You can already train it at the teacher's. Don't miss it!

2. All bolts of cloth seem to stack up to 20 now! Free up some space in your inventories. :)

3. If you were getting grey hair over the Hallow's end achievement where you need to get the minipet and the hat - don't. You can also find them in the bags granted for trick or treat. With a bit of luck, that is. *sigh* I failed so far to get either one for Nash... But hey, I got the pet on my deathknight's name-keeping alt. *doublesigh*

4. G*N*E*R*D*S and the like now last for 14 days too (since today). So no need to worry about finishing the corresponding achievements. *g*

If anything else comes to my mind, I will share it with you. If you, in turn, have nice advice, feel free to share it. =)

First of all: Sorry sorry sorry, long time no word from me. Nowadays, when I am in the nets I am usually busy with baby stuff, stuff for babies and oh well, babies. And stuff that goes along with it.

Nevertheless, I am into WoW and the past week since patch 3.0.2 has been like craaaazy. I have been playing a lot. A LOT lot. I think I haven't been playing that much like in a year.

I love the patch. I really do. Even though stuff got "easy" and people start whining about that (unbelievable), I am sure everyone will be happy again when we all land in Northrend and realize that things won't be as easy and new skills are actually needed and coming in quite handy.

What I have been doing since the patch hit us? I specced some of my chars (four to go, two of which I am totally clueless about where to go - namely the priest and the warrior) and re-did some UIs. But there's still plenty to do with that.
I leveled up inscription on Nolah and made an unbelievable fortune out of glyphs: I count approximately 2500g plus since last week. That is... well... nice. But crazy, still.
I also got - as was to be expected - totally crazy over the achievements. One thing leads to another and there's no end in view.

And of course there's Hallows End which must be my very favorite seasonal event. So I am busy busy busy. And most of the time on my hunter.

Aaaand: Nashtuk got herself two new pets. And leveled them to 70. Which goes insanely fast. Really, piece of cake.

Tadaaa! Let me introduce you to Nash's triumvirat (though I like to think that two out of these three are female, so triumfeminat would be more appropriate ;)):



I got myself a moth - a pet I have been adoring forever and now finally could get. And it even is useful! I named her Shiimsa and she's my raiding/instancing pet. Yep, I finally got the chance to raid with Nash. I did Kara with her yesterday evening for the first time. Oh the fun!
I should have insisted on bringing her from the beginning on, but the warlock was what they wished for and, well, believe it or not I can be shy from time to time.

In the middle, you can see my lovely gorilla Suresh. Whom I already tanked the headless horseman with. Countless times. And it is working! Seriously, no problem at all. I am actually planing on working my way through BC's instances small to big and see how far we can get (my husband and brother-in-law would be accompanying me with their alts).

And to the right, the ever so sweet Shanti, who will stay my pet for all sorts of encounters, pvp, world, leveling whatsoever.

Seriously, I am even more crazy about the hunter than I was before. And now I have to log back in. Got some achievements to reach... See ya! *cheers*

Okay. Second day in the European Beta for me so far. First impressions are rare, because well:

1. Log in screen Wooooah I love that dragon. Love the variation of the musical theme. Love the color. Bluey. Icy.
2. Loading screen Love the different new backgrounds I have seen so far (Orgimmar, Shattrath, Undercity...).
3. Loading loading loading
4. laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag
5. picture per picture movement Oh. This. Looks. Nice. I. think. If. only. I. could. see. it. more. live. like.
6. laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag
7. lag lag lag lag
8. w00t! how did I get here? where did all these mobs come from?
9. lag
10. even more lag
11. disconnected
12. realm not available

The European realm (yes, there is only one!) is unplayable during the day. Totally. Absolutely. I tried to do my interface this midday. I did it three times and got rollbacks every two to five minutes due to disconnects. I got so frustrated. Don't ask.

Luckily, I seem to enter the period in my pregnancy were I can't sleep in the middle of the night. I am still terribly tired every evening and falling asleep at around 22.00, but I start to constantly wake up around 3.00 am. Last night was the first time I gave in after an hour of lying around bored wide awake and got up instead.

Well, what do you do in the middle of the night? I cleaned up the kitchen and than logged in the Beta and had a first look on the professions. Or more: On the costs of the masterskills of the professions and the first recipes.

I transfered/copied Nashtuk and Algabal so far, so I can only give accurate numbers for their professions, but I guess the rest should be around the same.

I tell you: Get money! Save money! You'll need gold!
Especially if you are like me and have almost all professions maxed out (I will get those last 5 points in blacksmithing, I promise) at least once on your 6 level 70 characters. And are, of course, planning to get going on as many as possible at once. *g*

Here are my first calculations:

First Aid: 50g plus 8g each character (will get this one only for Nash and Algabal at the beginning) --> 58g --> 116g
Furthermore: I am shocked to find out that the Heavy Netherweave Bandage is GREY! from the beginning on. Can anyone please tell me that this will not be the case in real?

Cooking: 35g plus all instantly available recipes 30g --> 65g

Fishing: 35g

Herbalism: 35g

Tailoring: 35g plus all the instantly available recipes 40g --> 75g

Skinning: 35g

Leatherworking: 35g plus recipes 170g --> 205g This is unbelievable! Perhaps I did double something accidentally tonight?

These are the professions Nash and Algabal cover up. I also plan to get masterskills and learn available recipes for:

Anurien: Jewelcrafting 35g plus ???
Adalante: Mining 35g
Engineering 35g plus ???
Malven: Alchemy 35g plus ???
Nolah: Blacksmithing 35g plus ???

This makes a total of around 700g. As I don't know (yet) how high other profession's recipe costs will be and as I also intend to get an Inscriptionist right away, I am (mentally) putting aside 1000g for professions. Just for the very start. Basically for the very first day in Wrath.
This is crazy! I am loving it! :)

I really really hope to have another uninterrupted glimpse on the Beta server tomorrow morning. It can't be as bad during the week in the morning, right?