Weekend GoalsFollow

Darkmoon Faire - dailies on my main. I should hit exalted with them tonight giving me 55 exalted reputations in the game. Yay!

Love is in the Air - dailies on several characters.

Raid - ICC25 on Saturday evening - continuation, I think - blood and frost wings plus LK if we have time.

I probably won't be hitting my non-wow games this weekend because of the grinding for the holiday mount. I have been spending my non-daily time just questing on alts and collecting charms through that.

Wow: Do some heroics with the guild, my new 85 bear is fun.

RL: Visiting/buying some foreclosure homes for investment in my neighborhood. The bank is ready to unload and make deals.

Golfing on Sunday with my wife.

WoW - I received a guild invitation last Wednesday that was a bit more personal and creative than most I receive. It was for a new guild just getting started. The person who invited me was very personable, but then said something I found a bit odd - "You can quit if you want." I don't get this: my friend told me about bonuses or something that guilds get for new recruits. Does that still count if someone joins and quits almost immediately? I would think that a guild, especially one that is just beginning, would want people to stay to help grow the guild.

At any rate, due to the friendliness of the inviter and being part of a new guild seemed like it could be more fun than joining a guild where relationships are already forged, I bit the bullet and joined. That lasted 24 hours. Basically it was just a matter of the core members being very young and me really not having a common frame of reference with them. Conversations that are sprinkled with "wut" and "wanna" just aren't my cup of tea.

(I realize that has nothing to do with weekend goals, except to revert back to not accepting guild invitations, but since I'd mentioned guilds in another post thought I'd throw this in.)

With the Lunar Festival drawing to a close, I am very pleased to have collected 41 coins thus far including all the Elders of Kalimador and the Alliance. I'm one Elder shy of completing the Elders of the Eastern Kingdoms (Elder Dawnstrider in the Burning Steppes). I had a lot of fun getting the coins in Horde areas using my get as close to Elder as possible with Pally protection on/die/rez/get closer/die/rez/and usually manage to get the coin by the 3rd death/rez then usually die once on the way out. Also doing this without my armor on so I don't have repair costs.

So, for the weekend I would dearly enjoy getting 9 more coins for the lantern pet, but I'm not sure I can pull it off considering I don't have Cata, thus no flying mount. That's what my main will be doing. My two alts got their 5 coins and purchased their "Festive Finery."

RL - Need to donate a lot of stuff to the Goodwill; begin seriously organizing my apartment (still have unpacked boxes since moving in almost 3 months ago ); the ever-present laundry - hmmmm...I really need to get out of the house and do something fun.

RL:
Friday evening wine & snacks, haircuts tomorrow morning, hopefully get my car in for an auto body damage estimate on Saturday afternoon. Not sure what we're doing on Sunday. Weather supposed to be all rainy again this weekend, so don't think we'll be getting for any long hikes.

WoW:
I still need to skin lots more skin Savage Leather and Dragonscales for my 80 human rogue to craft more i377 armor for 85 NE Druid and 85 dwarf hunter. I had gotten back to my lvl 27 goblin priest during the week, and leveled this ugly looking character to 30, so I should be able to quest another 2 levels before he needs some rest. Although I expect that I'll probably poke around on some other toons, and will be taking the following recommendation to put in a necessary addon.Thanks Mazra.

Enjoy!

Yup yup, sounds about right, a lot of people won't stay in a guild without decent perks these days. Even back last expansion though when I was running a guild, I'd say a good 90% of the people we invited when we were starting left without really much of a contribution.

Gee, I want to quest with you.....

I got all 84 coins with a single death (IronForge - I don't believe a Horde player can do it without dying). Bought stupid Richard Simmons pants suit for the achievement, loaded up on trail biscuits, still have about 30 coins that I have no idea how to use. Not doing Darkmoon or Lovefest. Finished my AT titles, now a Champion of the Horde and the AT, Exalted champion of Silvermoon and Orgrimmar. Running MF dailies at 20 or so a day.

For the weekend, besides the MF dailies on my main, I figure on running multiple dungeons with my L25 rogue, Bgs and dungeons with my L15 Prot warrior. Never played a tank before - should be interesting.....

One thing I love about my guild is that at level 25 or so, the perks are impressive. The 50GP/day repair line alone rocks. We're also big enough that we don't actually recruit. People ask us for invitations. The master just booted over a hundred people for inactivity - not contributing to the guild. We've still got anywhere from 12-50 members online most times. I know the automatic attaboys are no big deal, but its nice to get an achievement and have 5-6 congratulations messages pop up. One thing I'm going to try is to put together a group of guild lowbies for dungeon running - the guild pays bonuses for achievements like that.

Edited, Feb 10th 2012 9:14pm by Ollamnh

Gratz!!! That's quite an achievement! Trying to figure out a way around, in my case, Horde level 85 guards is the tricky part. I had not even considered trying for Org due to all the activity there but I think I will. Nothing to lose but continual ghost runs. Currently at 45 coins here and trying to figure how to get the last 5.




IMO, a guild worth joining should be one where people ask to join; even have to complete an application and perhaps an interview. I personally don't like guild-hopping, which is another reason I'm reluctant to join a guild out of the blue, recent experience aside. In my other MMORPG, during 10 years I've been in a total of 3 guilds. The first one for 6 years, the second for four years until everyone left to play two other new games that came out and the third is the current guild I'm in which I joined last summer. The whole guild set-up is so different in WoW, however (ie. achievements of members help the guild, etc.), so this whole "mass random invitation" thing was a bit strange. I'm used to it now and have my "No thank you" macro ready.

Eventually I would like to find a guild with whom I would "click" (not to be confused with "clique").

WoW: Just got my holy priest to 85, so attempting to get her geared up - hopefully I can get into some raid-finder action by the end of the weekend :D