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Mages in WoW gain a great spell early on, Polymorph that let’s you turn enemies into sheep. It’s awesome - amusing and very useful. Well, as I was leveling my mage I heard that at level 60 there were ways to get Polymorph: Turtle and Polymorph: Pig spells. The turtle spell is rather hard to get, but the pig spell involves only a pretty simple quest.

I was so busy experiencing the Burning Crusade expansion content when I hit 60 that I forgot about my quest for the pig. But remember it I did, and with great excitement I completed the quest and got my new spell.

I was really disappointed to see what the pig looked like, though! It looks like it uses exactly the same model as the sheep spell, just with a different texture. Here I’ve got two shots of the same mob, first the sheep:

And the pig:

That pig doesn’t quite look right, does it? I expected it to look like all the pigs you kill in the game, but nope. Sad. Such disappointment.

The same night I ran my Draenei to level 7, I also started up a Blood Elf Warlock, Elyra.

I really enjoyed the Blood Elf starting zone. It was small and well put together. I never had any trouble finding where to go next, and I liked that they gave you a quest to introduce you to using your racial ability.

I took some pictures at the second little town I came to.

And, of course, I wouldn’t be me without some snarky commentary:

I’ve been running Aynaka, my mage, through the Badlands, doing quests in preparation for Uldaman. As this is not my first time in the zone, I found myself spend some time looking at the details. There’s a little gnome fellow who gives you some quests to kill earth elementals. All well and good, but the true excitement is in paying attention to his little robo-buddy, Servo.

Servo stands next to his master, Lotwil Veriatus some of the time. But most of the time you can see him running in circles around Lotwil’s camp. When he returns to his master’s side, he has a pithy remark. And there are quite a number of them. I found myself standing and waiting to see what he was going to say next. He opened with this one:

This gem is a reference to the tv show the Six Million Dollar Man. That piqued my interest, so I stuck around.

Guessing this one is a reference to C3P0, who was well versed in over 6 million forms of communication, or something like that.

The next few aren’t that great. I do like the “doothingies” one.

And then, the best for last:

There’s still so much new to see and I’ve been playing for over a year at this point. Crazy.

I signed on to World of Warcraft last night and was wandering around Orgrimmar running errands when I heard the distinctive pop of fireworks. No, they weren’t outside my window (though there had been some of those), they were firing over the front gates of the city. I ran to get a prime seat on top of the bank and sat down to watch. They were pretty neat, and they even had a big finale with many of them going off at once.

They must have been going off every hour or so, because I saw them at 10 pm server time, and these folks saw theirs at 6 pm. Nice touch, as usual.

I had one of the strangest experiences yet while playing World of Warcraft this weekend. I recently started a human priest to play with my Sunday night group. Our Crazy Cattle are about up to level 60 and we decided we’d switch off weekends, one week playing our high level Horde, one week playing newbie Alliance characters. So I’ve been leveling up a priest so we can run Deadmines.

I was running around Westfall when this level 60 Dwarf Rogue apparently took a shine to me. She started out small. First she just gave me some linen for no reason. Then she started attacking anything that aggro’d on me. She followed me everywhere, would wait until I got a few hits on a target and then kill it in one hit. Which sure helped me on quest kills but did eat away at my experience gain (instead of about 200 xp per kill I was getting maybe 50). Then she followed me to town and waited while I did some shopping. Oh. And then she challenged me to a duel.

Here’s the “duel” underway.

It basically involved me casting a few useless spells that bounced off her, then dancing until time ran out and she therefore automatically lost. Yup. I “beat” a level 60 in a duel. Come on, the game says so, it must be true!

She continued to follow me for a while. Finally I figured I should ask her what was up.

She didn’t respond. Eventually, she challenged some silly level 13 Paladin to a duel. While they were at it, I ditched her. When she realized I was gone she invited me to a group, I guess so she could kill all my foes some more, but I wanted to get some XP darn it, and I turned her down!

I thought that was the end of it, but the next time I logged on my mailbox was full of random items from her. Total cost of goods when sold on the auction house? Over 30 gold. Yes, my friendly stalker sent me over 30 gold worth of items just because. So thanks Airishah. You made me a very wealthy little priest. Keep up the good work and good will towards n00bs.