Shifting gears

Since I’ve been all but swamped in theatrics for the last week I am taking a pass at doing much of anything with my druid this week. I did manage to farm up a few hundred fel iron ore so I could make my flying machine last night, but over a few days that didn’t amount to a lot of time.

Instead I worked on one of my various alts. I am currently sitting on 4 that are above 50 and a shadow priest who’s at 44. The list includes a fire mage at 53, a tankadin at 52, a demo-lock at 51 and a fury warrior, also at 51.

Last night I broke out my mage and went questing with my long-time questing buddy Cambrai, a 55 Spriest. Cam’s main is a 70 hunter and we’ve been playing MMORPGs together since City of Heroes came out a couple of years ago. She’s a co-officer in my casual guild and her son is the GM – eh – it works for us. Cam and I have leveled 2 toons each to 70, mostly together, though her main, Opharion (lvl 70 funter), was a level 60 when I started WoW.

Osrik, lvl 53 fire mage: What fun. I love melting stuff and blasting things outta my way. We are currently in Un’Goro and as big a pain as that is, I fully expect to hit 55 there within the week. I’m dropping out of a lot of other things this week in order to level my mage to Outlands so I can hang with Cam again. My raid schedule got so hectic that we’ve not had a lot of time together since I joined the new raid guild. I fully anticipate dropping raiding on Ag for a while as the other guild I run him in disintegrates – the way things are going, probably within a week or two I think I’ll be done with that guild and if that happens and our regular kara raid folds, I’ll park him for a while or maybe pug a kara once in a while.

Un’goro Crater, as many of you know, is home to lots of annoying ‘gather’ quests. So we’ve been spending our time whacking bloodpetals and dodging the giant T-Rex critters. At some point I’ll need to jump on Ag again to make up some mithril casings for the ape escort quest but for now we’re having a good (if repetitive) time crashin through all the fun stuff there.

As soon as I hit 55 we’ll bust a hump up to WPL and clear that, then cross into EPL and hammer out some Argent Dawn rep. I’ll probably need to head back to Felwood and finish those as well. I’m sure somewhere in there we’ll need to find a few dungeon runs, or maybe get someone from the guild to lend a hand.

One lament I have as a mage, I do sorta get tired of the constant requests for ports and conjured items. I really wouldn’t mind if the people asking were kind about it, or if they tipped, (reagents aren’t free ya know). But some of the requests are more like demands, demands that go unanswered for the most part. My M.O. has always been to show up for whatever prepared. Bring food, water, Band-Aids, bullets etc. Expecting someone else to provide for you is sorta needy and holds up the group.

I’ve taken to hiding out of plain sight at whatever area I’m currently in. I’m sure all mages have the same lament and I am probably spoiled since I’ve never had a toon that had so much to offer to other players. I’m hoping Cam can be around tonight as well, I’m looking forward to grinding out Un’goro and getting it over with.