Last night I didn’t have alot of time to play but started into Outlands for some questing when I get another tell from my GM asking me about my rep with different factions in Outlands. After which we spent the next hour kissing up to many a furry creature in the forest.

   I’m learning more and more just how important Rep in this game is, not really for progression in the game but for weapons and armor you can’t beat it. The mysterious part of Rep is that some quest you can only get while friendly, but once you hit honored, that quest is gone. By finding the correct quest while you have the correct rep standing can give you that extra 800-1200 rep points you may need down the line. Last night by playing the Rep game, back and forth, partialy completing parts of quest, turning others in at the correct time, I was able to get the [Hardened Stone Shard] which is one kick butt dagger.

   The last couple days have made me rething all the faction turn in quest, instead of selling all the turnins on AH, I may start to see how they can help me in the long run.

   Noob Question, from Me, When in an instance and you die a couple times, just how do you repair? I had no idea, Sunday afternoon I’m in an instance with some of the guild mates and when you’re doing AQ20 with 10 people and not everyone is 70, and you have a noob like me, bad things start to happen. I probably died 3 times before anyone else so my armor was starting to turn red, I was wondering what I could do, but there weren’t any NPC close, so I shrugged it off and still played but kept my distance, yeah range shots with a rogue just aren’t as fun.. Suddenly we have 2 wipes in a row and I hear one of the guildies say over Vent, “hey is there an NPC close to repair?”, With my armor at ZERO! I listened! A reply comes back, no but I have a couple repair bots in my bag.. What? What is a repair bot??

   I guess at level 300 you can get a recipe to build a [Repair Bot] but many engineers didn’t create them because they were so expensive. Now after patch 2.3 the price has come down and you create 5 instead of one. As an engineer at level 250, this is one of the things I will make sure I always have created and in my bag once I hit that level. This bot could make or break an instance. Not only does it repair but you can also sell items to it and buy many NPC items including the highest ranking shot and arrows. With this bot you could easily become someones best friend.

   When hitting 60, it seems the only thing I could think of is getting my faster mount, At about level 50, I figured it was going to be around 600 Gold so I started saving. I would be at about 700G, buy some gear, food and things off the AH, but always kept my gold around 550+. So the day comes, I ding 60, YES time for my mount, Zone home, Fly to SW and make the run to the trainer. All the while broadcasting in guild chat that I had finally hit 60, I’m getting my mount.

   The trainer and I happen to be friends, she works for someone I’ve done some quest for and my rep helped also, so my total for training and the horse come to 595G, yes! I have 598G, I buy my mount and I’m happily on my way, riding around, faster than light (well faster than my other mount I named Light). Once I get tired of riding around, I figure what’s next, I’m 60!! oh yeah, skill training, I visit the rogue trainer and I guess he’s not really my friend, because for some reason he will not train me… What? Skill Training cost gold? I had totally forgotten, you get so use to just going up, clicking on all the training and not thinking that it’s taking your gold as you train.

   Fine, I’ll sell stuff on AH, go to the bank, pull out a ton of junk that’s been sitting in there.. I’m sure you see where this is going.. What? Gold to sell stuff on AH.. HELP!!! After many many laughs at the noob on Guild chat, a fellow guildie loaned me 100G to help me along.. I felt sooo stupid! (specially after writing about how can 70’s not have gold)It hasn’t taken long to remake that 100g but I may wait another week to repay him, I want to get a nice nest egg set before giving it back (which he said I didn’t have to but I will, even if it just goes in the guild bank). I guess this could be counted as Noobie Example #2 (see Noobie Example #1)

   Some like it some are totally against it, but the WoW Trading Card Game has the special loot cards. Get one of these cards and you end up with something special ingame that others can only dream of.. ok that’s a bit of a stretch but there are a couple nice things. Most are just toys, a dragon kite or a fishing chair but the one everyone wants is the Spectral Tiger Mount. With the odds of getting one of these loot cards so high, it’s probably better off buying one off of ebay, but I’m a lucky person so why not try.

   A month ago I’m at a mall and see the cards, so I buy 5 packs, sit down in the mall getting ready for my winnings, open them and find nothing.. blah.. Like I said the odds of getting one of these cards is completely crazy, so I tell myself, next time I’ll buy 5 more and that’s it. (I’m not a gambler at all) So this week I’m Christmas shopping and see the cards once more, buy 5 packs and to my suprise, I’m a winner. I may be lucky but I’m not lucky enough to get the tiger mount, I won the Turtle Mount, yes the turtle mount, the one that when ridden it only has walking speed, anyone can ride it, you don’t need to be level 40, but it’s something.

   Running off to Booty Bay to claim my prize Turtle, first you go to the card games site and put in the secret number you scratch off the card, they then send you to Blizzard who gives you an in game secret number, just for your server (if you put the wrong server, you’re screwed and might as well make a toon there now). So armed with my in game secret number I find the NPC in BB, click on him, choose riding turtle, input the the # and nothing happens No wrong number, No here ya go, nothing. So what do I do? Do I contact the card game makers? Blizzard? I found an email address on the card makers site and sent a brief rundown of what happened and asked what my course of action should be to resolve this. I haven’t received an answer yet (it was just last night) But as I was standing at the NPC after sending the email a level 1 walked up to the NPC and stood there for maybe 20 minutes, it had to be a GM because one they were level1 in BB but also when I tried to inspect them, I didn’t have the choice, I could point at her but when I tried to whisper, the whisper said there is noone logged in with that name. After her 20 minutes of standing there, she just vanished. So still no idea what I need to do, or what I can do.

Edit: Come to find out, I bought the wrong pack of cards to try to win the Tiger mount, but if this works itself out, I have Speedy the Turtle!

Edit2: The company just got back with me, they say I should try disabling my addons for everything to work, I can then reenable them. Have you seen how many addons I have?