Soloing the Lich King

Just found this video on youtube last night.  It is a level 85 Death Knight soloing the Lich King.  For those of you paying attention, I play a DK who is off-specialization is Blood.  But I have never even gotten close to a Lich King kill.  This has got me thinking that maybe I can gear up a bit and try this for myself.  I would love to have the Kingslayer title floating above my head.

I can see it now, Gluug the Kingslayer, has a nice ring to it.  Or does it go Kingslayer Gluug...

I began looking at videos like this because of a post on joystiq.com about a level 80 DK who soloed a level 85, 25-man raid boss.  That is just ridiculous.  Anyway, enjoy the videos great followers of mine.

How I WoW

I have written this blog post several time before, but I think it is one that is always relevant to my blog because how I play the game is always changing.  Sometimes I'm leveling my main, or an alt, sometimes I'm more focused on randoms dungeons and grinding for badges, sometimes I'm REALLY focused on making gold from farming minerals, herbs and playing the auction house, maybe even fishing.  I'm like a child in that aspect, I'm always looking for something different to do in game.  

This has been a problem for me in the past.  It took me almost 14 months to run my previous main, Chuckem (the Lord of Assets) from 1-80 and I didn't even finish before Cata dropped.  Then it took me another 4-5 weeks to get from 80-85.  Now when MoP dropped I finally had a chance to play with a max-level toon on launch day and I blew it.  I haven't really been playing with Chuckem lately and I was working on a different toon, on a different server, in a different guild and trying to get him to 85.  Again, I was about a month late to the expansion when I got Gluug to 85, about 2 weeks ago.  Since I wasn't playing a max level character I would not let myself buy the expansion until Gluug was level 85.  

I just wanted to discuss the journey I took to get there.  I always get board eventually and want to try something new.  But at the same time I always want to see everything in the game.  That is the main reason it took me so long to get Chuckem to 85, I would get distracted with an alt, or leveling cooking, or working on PvP for a week.  I just don't have the attention span to straight level a character from 1-90.  Lately with a new job and my daughter just turning six, I have had very little time for dungeons.  So I have been focusing more on quests and professions.  It is definitely a new way for me to play.  


I have also been trying to focus my play on just one character but when I get tired of questing I do something else like leveling my cooking and fishing.  I will eventually talke about each of these in more depth in future posts.  Just know that I play the game like an ADHD cat surrounded by tuna, lazer-pointers and catnip.  I'm always running a quest, stop to mine a node then I see a pool of fish and I'll work on that.  It takes me forever to get from point A to point B, but it has been a lot of fun.  Thanks for reading!

Lord of Who?

I'm back.  I started playing WoW again around the launch of MoP, even though I'm not really playing Chuckem anymore.  I did start playing on my DK on Earthen Ring who is a proud member of AIE.  I believe he was still level 71 when I pick it back up and I had to level him to 85 before I was going to buy the expansion.  It took me about 5 weeks to get there.  Now my DK is level 87 and currently my highest level toon.  More about this later.

So I have decided to start blogging about WoW again as well.  I'm not promising much at this point, but I'm going to try and keep it going with at least one post a week.  I also have some WoW themed artwork I'll upload in the next few days too.  So stay tuned and there will be some gradual updates.  Until then, keep on playing WoW.

Google's Robot Car

I don't normally post about this sort of thing but I didn't know anything about it and I'm really impressed with what Google is doing here. This is something that we have all been wanting for a long time and I'm excited to see this in the next 5-10 years.  I want one!

EDIT: Here is an article that NPR wrote about Google's robot car back in February.

Gibson's '88 walk-off HR

Spring Training

I'm so excited that spring training is here. I can't wait for the regular season to start.

Baseball, W00T!

2012 in 2012 February Update

Here is the February update for the 2012 in 2012 challenge. I'll start off with the table.

Name	Server	Class	Race	Level
Chuckem	Demon Soul	Mage	Blood Elf	85
Chuckita	Demon Soul	Paladin	Blood Elf	44
Tanadrenis	Vashj	Hunter	Blood Elf	4
Ottochuck	Kel'Thuzad	Death Knight	Draenei	8
Augustelly	Darkspear	Hunter	Draenei	1
Augustember	Kel'Thuzad	Shaman	Draenei	3
Shamary	Vashj	Shaman	Draenei	1
Lerrenz	Darkspear	Paladin	Draenei	1
Nochuck	Kel'Thuzad	Paladin	Dwarf	1
Oonoreen	Vashj	Paladin	Dwarf	4
Flintfoul	Darkspear	Shaman	Dwarf	1
Foghalnar	Darkspear	Priest	Dwarf	1
Fynevisock	Darkspear	Death Knight	Gnome	5
Gnowangie	Vashj	Priest	Gnome	3
Turpsterr	Darkspear	Warrior	Gnome	1
Huntermary	Vashj	Hunter	Goblin	4
ChuckMAN	Demon Soul	ShaMAN	Goblin	28
Kalchuck	Kel'Thuzad	Rouge	Human	37
Alkala	Vashj	Rouge	Human	4
Gwynstacy	Demon Soul	Hunter	Night Elf	11
Velyyindre	Darkspear	Mage	Night Elf	1
Gluug	Earthen Ring	Death Knight	Orc	71
Ottochuck	Demon Soul	Druid	Tauren	16
Calola	Vashj	Warrior	Tauren	2
Dachuck	Earthen Ring	Priest	Troll	24
Augustember	Earthen Ring	Shaman	Troll	2
Matington	Darkspear	Druid	Worgen	1
Earnwell	Darkspear	Rouge	Worgen	1
Denrowlez	Darkspear	Warlock	Worgen	15
Dunncan	Kel'Thuzad	Warrior	Worgen	1
			Total:	381

My first impression is that I added quite a few characters this time around (13 to be exact). It makes the list look a little longer, but ultimately more daunting when you notice all the level 1 character there. If you can remember back to last month's update I only had 17 toons represented, I now have 30 toons spread over 4 servers.

My progress has changed from 336 levels to 381 levels, and improvement of 45 levels for the month of February. However my goal is 148 levels per month to reach 2012 by January 2013. My percent complete as of last month was 16.7% and after February I am now at 18.9% to goal. The biggest change is that now I need to complete 163 levels/month to reach my goal. Ouch.

The other thing that I have been focusing on is getting 2 of each class and race represented. In my 30 toons I have 2 of everything except Warlocks of which Denrowlez is my only one. As for races I have only have 1 orc (Gluug) and no undead. So I suppose once I finish bring all of these toons to level 20 I need to go back and focus on the horde side a bit more. Here are some tables that show my breakdown.

My most improved characters over the last month have to be Denrowlez who did not exist last month but has now made it through the Worgen starting zone and into the Night Elf territory. Standing at level 15 he is not only my highest level Warlock and Worgen, but he is my highest level character on Darkspear.

An honorable mention should go out to Gluug my main DK who moved from 69 to 71. I know that doesn't seem like a lot but compared to the first 1-5 levels that I have been seeing a lot of; it took some time to move Gluug up 2 levels. I was also running a lot of random heroics with Chuckem to try and get his item level up to where I can use the raid finder. I want to see the end of the expansion before the new one come out and in order to do so I need to have a character with an item level of 371 to enter the raid finder. Chuckem's item level is now at 356 (and rising).

JD Kenada over at Amateur Azerothian asked the participants in the 2012 in 2012 challenge to answer a question in our updated post. It basically was about how the world events affect our leveling. Well, I’m a bit of a non-participant in the big events. I have yet to complete a single world event for the achievement/title. Although I try to incorporate some questing related with the events I usually just go for the low-hanging fruit of the first few achievements before I move on. Therefore they don’t really affect my leveling as I don’t spend too much time on them.

The first one I really tried for was the Noble-Garden one, but I was never able to get the “Shake Your Bunny-Maker” achievement to get the “Noble Gardener” achievement and title. I remember hunting eggs for hours, then eating 100 of them and getting frustrated when I tried to find females of every race to put rabbit ears on. That was in 2010 and sort of soured me on the events; I enjoy them but I never really get around to completing them.

Finally, if you follow the blog at all you will notice that there has been some changes. Lord of Assets is not just a WoW blog anymore. I'm not going to get into this here (as there are several posts already that do) but my interests are ever expanding and changing to I wanted to reflect that in my posts. I still play WoW and I'm still working on the 2012 in 2012 challenge, but I also do a lot of other things.