Monday Random Thoughts

- I am alive, in case anyone was wondering.

- The storm that hit NY was pretty bad and is in part a reason for my absence.

- Hopefully in the real world things will be back to normal in another week or so.

- Some areas in NY are in pretty bad shape, as in extremely bad.

- I am not in one of those really bad ones so I am lucky, but still without heat, full power or the ability to get fuel with less than a 3 hour wait for it.

- But lets get to some random game thoughts.

- My luck is well known if you read here, I have none.

- Change that to a little sometimes.

- I went to turtle beach for the wanderers festival in hopes to catch one of the rare spawn pets there.

- They spawned, I tapped one, it was a rare.

- By the time my battle was over there were none left there.

- Yeap, they all disappeared that fast.

- I was so lucky to get a rare on the one I attempted.

- So finally I had a little luck.

- But it made me think there is something wrong with the system when it comes to rare spawns like that.

- People were starting a battle, not seeing a rare, forfeiting.

- All in an effort to start as many battles as possible to find a rare.

- This means they are taking away the chance for others to get one, even if it is poor, so they can get a rare.

- When you forfeit the mob disappears.

- So no one gets anything.

- And that one selfish piece of crap denies others their chance to get one.

- It did not mean anything to me, I got my rare, but I think of all the other people there that did not even get to attempt to get one because some jerk kept forfeiting to start another one.

- I feel bad for those people.

- They need to add a debuff when you forfeit, 5 minutes should be enough.

- So people do not start a fight and forfeit just hunting for rares when it comes to rare spawns.

- Every time you forfeit you should not be allowed to start another pet battle for 5 minutes.

- Simple enough.  Makes it so everyone gets a chance.

- If you want to fight a lot to fish for a rare, build a strong team so you can win the battle with the ones you do not want as fast as possible.

- I think this is one of the little things that needs fixing.

- Another thing that needs fixing is cooking.

- Don't get me wrong, I am a master of the ways on my main, have been for some time, but cooking really missed something this expansion.

- If you do not choose a way, you can not level your cooking outside of dailies and the monthly darkmoon quest.

- And there is no way to train cooking there.

- You can train the ways, but you can not train basic cooking to 600.

- Sure, upping one of the ways will up your basic cooking but why is there no option to just level basic cooking?

- Or even just to train basic cooking?

- You need to go to an old trainer to learn basic cooking up to 600.

- There should be some cooking recipes that are for basic cooking only, not part of one of the ways.

- This is a case of blizzard does not think ahead.

- Once the next expansion comes out if you level a fresh character through there and go to level cooking it will become a bitch for that short time.

- Some basic cooking recipes are needed, ones that do not require you choosing a way.

- Why does blizzard have a habit of treating each expansion as if it were the last expansion ever and never thinking ahead about what they will do with these things come next expansion?

- Cooking is one of those things.  They did not think about it long term.

- Love the chances made to archeology.

- Every dig gets you a skill point, making leveling it a lot easier.

- I still will never do it on another character.

- It is a profession that has no replayability.

- Do I really need doubles of the BoA items, most of which are completely useless?

- Do I really want more fun item on another character to clog up bag space I don't have to begin with?

- It is a one player profession, it is a profession that I can't see wanting to leveling on another character.

- Even more so with shared achievements.

- At least without shared achievement I could consider doing it, for achievement sake.

- Now, nope, it serves no purpose to level on another character.

- So while the changes are awesome for someone leveling it for the first time now I do not see them as enough of a change to level on a alt when you already have one maxed.

- I can really see this being the first account shared profession.

- Some day in the future, mark my words.

- No new 90s to report but now all but 2 of my classes, not counting monk, have entered the new land.

- Three are up to the farm.  My Rogue, Mage and Shaman.

- My guess would be my mage will be the next 90.

- Or my shaman, depends on the mood I am in.

- Do you use a crab for pet battling?

- They are survival machines.

- If you have a pet with no healing, you can not beat a crab.

- They might not hit for much but they don't go down either.

- I started to level my emperor crab and the thing is beastly.

- The fights take forever but I finish every battle at full health.

- Got him up to 22 now and he can win battles alone against three level 24 opponents.

- Even if one is strong against aquatics he can usually pull it out.

- One shell spell, one huge heal and one attack.  Makes for simple strategy.

- Shell, attack, heal on cooldown if needed, shell when buff is at one.

- Collect experience points.

- Might use him to help power level some low level pets.

- All I need to get one of every type to 25 is a mechanic and an undead.

- Not sure which one of those types I want to make my first 25s for them.

- Beasts seem to be the easiest to get to 25, for me at least.

- Of course I got my tiny sporebat to 25.

- Everyone knows sporebats are the best pet ever.

- They make rogues bleed from their anus.

- And death knights too.

- I tell you, that pet battle crap is addictive.

- I can't stop, or I would have 3 more 90s by now.

- Have a great day.