Long Time, No Post: Bucket Lists, Diablo 3, and Writing Stuff

I haven’t been on the beta much at all in the past month so there hasn’t been much for me to post about regarding that.  Usually towards the end of an expansion, I get this intense urge to finish ALL THE THINGS that I’ve been meaning to do for, like, ever now.

So I’ve been working on that in between working (like, at a job and stuff) and writing stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with Warcraft, etc.

Speaking of writing, a guildie pointed me in this direction.  I figured “Eh, why not?” and I’ve got a little something mostly finished.  Needs some tweaking though.  Azeroth doesn’t have many fairy tales, so I decided to fix that.

I want to go on record as saying that Diablo 3 only managed to distract me for less than a week.  Once I beat the game, I found no reason to go back into it.  WoW excluded (it’s the people), the story is what holds me to most games and Diablo’s story was… not very good.

Not very good at all.  I was told it wouldn’t be, so it wasn’t a shock, but I am a little disappointed.  I mean, angels and demons and nephilim?  OH MY!  That’s Kalil!crack you guys.  That is MY THING.  THAT I LOVE.  ENOUGH TO TYPE ABOUT IT IN ALL CAPS.  It wasn’t a bad game overall.  In fact it was pretty fun the first time through.  The level design in Act IV was absolutely stunning.  The demon hunter was a LOT of fun to play omg you guys machine gun crossbows and turrets and omgalsdkhfjaslhdga;lh.  But!  It really is just the same thing over and over and over and over… and when you’re playing by yourself, that gets old and tedious really fast.  It will, however, be my go-to “I need to make a lot of things go boom to make myself feel better after a shitty day” game.

But Kalil you have seven level 85 toons and over a hundred mounts and pets and all the titles and by the way how many times have you played though FFVIII and gotten to the end with every single character at level 100? — shut up.

Anyway.

I am not an organized person.  I want to make that very clear.  I’m even less organized in the game.  My bucket list consists of things like “Do this thing” and “level this guy” and “Clean out those things” and “gear that alt up” and “Don’t forget to use the dreamcloth CD because bags.”

That last thing comes once a week unless I have orbs.  I’ll let you guess exactly how many bags I’ve managed to make (hint: 1).

So it should come as no surprise that, when I actually sat down to figure out a bucket list (of sorts), it turns out to be really long.  I’m notorious for despising daily quests and farming, so it’s no surprise that a lot of the things I want that require me to do either of those activities are still on the “do want but don’t have” list.

So here we go. 

Kalil’s Big List of Things That “Should” (but probably won’t) Get Done Before Pandas

1. Level that EXPLICATIVEDELETED shaman to 85.  The shaman is the last class capable of healing that I haven’t maxed out yet.  I have a paladin (main) and the priest and druid are both geared enough for the raid finder – and to fill in for guild runs in normal mode stuff.  Ertek the Dorky Orcy (soon to be a Pretty Panda) is sitting in Outlands – where alts go to die.  He’s 65 oops 64.  I just need three four more levels.  *sob*
2. Once Dorky Orcy hits 85, get him some gears.
3. Level leatherworking on said shaman.  The end result will be a max level everything (and two alchemists!)
4. Rebuild the nest egg.  I made a mechano-hog for a friend and, uh.  Heh heh heh.  She deserved it, okay?
5. Replace all of Kalil’s 22 slot bags with 26 slot bags.  One down, four to go.
6. Replace all of Kalil’s 18 and 22 slot bank bags with 26 slot bags (hahahahano).
7. Clean out the gear in Kalil’s bank and void storage.  No, seriously, you do not need to keep the bunny ears.
8. Or the flowers.
9. Why do you still have the spring branch of bunny making?
10. It doesn’t have any charges left!
11. Finish gearing up Verandin and Kellidan.  They’re the last two 85 alts who don’t have the ilvl to run the raid finder.  I don’t know why it’s important that I do this.  It’s not.  I just want to.  Also, they both have tank gear in their DPS sets.  Fix that because no way, no how, am I tanking pugs.
12. Elliaesin needs a new bow and polearm.  Forget that Mists will take away his need for polearms because GIANT ELF COMING THROUGH.
13. Self, you should probably get around to leveling an Alliance toon all the way to level cap.  I know, I know, but seriously.  Pick one.  DO NOT ROLL A NEW ONE I WILL HURT YOU.
14. Acquire the following:
    • Originally there was a huge list of pets and mounts here.  I said screw it.
    • Pets to get are here.
    • And the mounts are here.

Oh. Alright then.