Cooking, for the modern gnome..
Well I popped from 90 something to 225 or 250 in cooking this weekend. I really burned through the gold though buying stuff. Whoever stocked mats in the AH on Medivh realm this weekend made a FORTUNE off me. I farmed as much as I could stand (boring/lazy),then I utilized my money pouch for the rest. I’m sitting good now for supplying food to my younglings who have yet to brave much of the world.
Tomorrow I should be 48, and have soulfire (the warlock’s BIG bang). I anticipate this being more fun than I can imagine, just cause I miss the big bang of aimed shot, and fireball from my other toons.
My biggest headache is that i can’t get my head around how to play this warlock right in PvE. I mean I do well, really well. But its frustrating. When I was my hunter, I would send the pet, he’d do all the damage he could muster and I’d wail on the thing with my gun… I almost never pulled aggro (if you don’t know what this means google it). With my lock, I pull aggro all the time. My voidwalker (basic tank demon) just kinda hits/taunts the enemy, but does almost no real damage. If he did SOMETHING aside from be big, blue, and goofy lookin I wouldn’t get the aggro. Alas, the solution is the felguard. Problem is to GET this pet, I’d have to ditch all my other talents and go full tilt boogie into demonology tree. He is basically a same lvl warrior that is.. well.. huge and scary lookin. He seems to have most of the cool warrior abilities, except he has a nice warlock (me) behind him wailing on the other guy. I do not want to be a demonology lock. Most in my guild are, and most i know are.. but I guarantee I could whoop them. I’m awesome in a fight, and I don’t die very often at all. I kill reasonably fast (thanks to nightfall/curse of shadows/shadowburn), not crazy fast, but fast. I found grouping troublesome, and haven’t done much of it for instances. Mostly because, I seem to be useless. I mean, in the sense that.. my damage takes TIME to work its mojo.. and in a instance, I must attack just 1 person at a time. Which is the one the big guy (warrior) is attacking. Now if the warrior was lame, or poorly geared, I could really pour it on and save his butt… But I find that’s rarely the case. I have had my run in with the hunters that make ppl hate hunters tho.. “soulstone me man..” yeah.. sure I will.. I have found the LFG UI is almost always occupied wiht people that 1) can’t handle the instance they are LFG for, or 2) just trying to pop into a group and run in 5 minutes. I am patient with LFG, but it hasn’t paid off, not even once.
I want to do a few quests in Tanaris this evening, to get to 48, then pop off to ratchet to get trained.. then come back and LFG zul farrak. (gotta remember to get the carrot quest, just in case someone HAS the hammer). I can run around in tanaris (one of my favorite zones) for weeks without running out of things i like to do. Plus there is this place I haven’t been, that’s waiting on me.. a place called.. Un’goro crater. Anyway if you do PvP in Medivh realm watch out for me later this week as I’m sure I’ll ding 49 shortly in tanaris. Right now I have a total of +150 additional damage going towards PvP. With corruption I think this will work VERY well. So look for a small gnome.. if you’re Horde, you better look HARD..