Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole

Got the Kalu'ak Fishing Pole today because I became Exalted with Kalu'ak.

This little puppy does 186+ damage per second(DPS).

Analysis

Maleee

Damage: 675-837 -> 730-961
Speed: 3.28 -> 2.81
Power: 1392 -> 1258
Hit Rating: 91 -> 91
Crit Change: 10.38% -> 13.18%
Expertise: 0 -> 0

Ranged

Damage: 582-725 -> 552-695
Speed: 2.09 -> 2.09
Power: 1478 -> 1344
Hit Rating: 91 -> 91
Crit Change: 15.74% -> 15.74%

Thoughts

The only real problem here seems to be the drop in attach power. My current weapon the Shark Fin Blade has a +134 attack power. This is what is dropping my ranged weapon DPS. The slower speed may be contributing to the greater critical strike chance.

What do do about the drop in attack power?

The WOW Insider has a nice article about on Rookie Weapon Mastery.

It looks like there are two things that I can do a weapon. One is a permanent enchant, but yout cannot do that with a fish pole :-( The second is temporary. Can I do this with a fishing pole?

The Way to His Heart...

This is one of the Kalu'ak dialy quests.

It took some reading on the net before I found all the information I need to do this quest.

To do this quest you must have completed the series of quest associated with Orfus of Kamagua.

Once you have completed these quest you can than talk to Scuttle Frostprow and get the Swabbin' Soap quest. If you have not completed the Orfus quests she will attack you instead of talking with you.

Once you have completed that quest you can start doing The Way to His Heart... daily quest.

PVP Pet Strategies

Possible PVP Pet Strategies

Petopia is a great site for analyzing your pet.

MesterBite- Do as much damage as I can in Eyes of the Beast and than when the opponent is frozen. Attack the second opponent.

Frosty - Send him to attack adding a hunter's mark if possible and just shoot like I would in PVE. I will have to play them some, but I think that IceDog might be better. Just have to see how much they slow the opponent down.

IceDog - Send him to attach just like I would Frosty. Have to see how much damage he can do.

Cat - The cat only gives an advantage if I want to be invisible.

Stubby - I don't know if Stubby will be of much PVP, but he may be useful in the battleground. His Stampede might be very useful for guarding the flag in battle ground. Also his other abilities might be good a protecting a priest or other player. However, the one minute cooldown of the Stampede might make him less useful in PVP.

Hunter Glyphs

This is a nice intro to Glyphs: http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/10/14/a-brief-introduction-to-glyphs/

The is a list that can be filtered for the glyphs: http://www.wowhead.com/?items=16

Use the "

This looks like an interesting Glyph. It is called the Glyph of Possessed Strength.

Surley at level 70 I can have 2 major and 3 minor glyphs. At level 80 I can have 3 major and 3 minor.

What glyphs should I get for Surley?

These are the major ones that look interesting from a PVP arena stand point. I can choose two.

• Aspect of the Beast - Increases the attack power of Aspect of the Beast for me and my pet by 2%. This would be really good if it was more than 2%.
• Glyph of Bestial Wrath - Decreases cooldown by 20 seconds.
• Glyph of Disengage - Decreases the cooldown by 5 seconds.
• Glyph of Freezing Trap - when the trap breaks, the victim's movement speed is reduced by 30% for 4 seconds. That is a long time in the arena.
• Glyph of Immolation Trap - This looks really nice. The time it takes to do the damage is reduced from 15 to 9 seconds and the amount of damage is increased from 1136 to 2272. This would be very useful outside of arena. I like to drop this trap and draw something towards me. This would do a lot of damage. What is the difference between my health and the health of a warrior? If I ran into this trap it would take away 20% of my health in 10 seconds.

I don't think the other major glyphs would help me that much in PVP.

These are four minor glyphs. I can use three.

• Glyph of Possessed Strength - Increases the damage my pet inflicts while using Eyes of the Beast by 50%. This is major. I could change the way I play. I would drop two freeze traps in front of the character. The use the Eyes of the Beast and use the Dash to increase my speed by 80% for 16 seconds. With 30% add from Boar's Speed I should fly. 100 + 30 + 104 = 234. The two freeze traps would give me a 20 seconds to help finish off the second guy. If I could last for an one minute I would also be able to drop the Immolation Trap.
• Glyph of Mend Pet - This might get rid of the need to have pet food and free up a slot.
• Glyph of Revive Pet - I don't revive the pet much, so this may not as useful.
• Glyph of Feign Death - I don't use this a great deal. This only changes the cooldown from 30 to 25 seconds.
  

My Journey from 70 to 80

Started Surley in Howling Fjord but was having trouble doing some of the beginning quest. I switch to the Borean Tundra and have not looked back.

Level 71 13/20 on Nov 21, 2008

Having all the daily quest for Kalu'ak. I am working towards getting their Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole. This thing does 186.5 damage a second, add +30 to fishing, and allows underwater breathing. However, I must be Exalted with the Kalu'ak to get it. You can get this at level 70 with a fishing skill of 300. So as soon as I get Exalted, which may take some time, I can get it. It is a

Too bad it doesn't have the buffs that a normal weapon would have (no critical strike, hit rating or attack power). There is a claim on the above web page that you get critical strike according to your skill points. (0.0.4 per point or +16 to 18).

For my main malee weapon I plan to get the Whale-Stick Harpoon also from the Kalu'ak. I must be 78 before I can buy. It does 156.1 damage per second and has +69 Agility, +103 Stamina, +40 hit rating (1.41 % @ 78), and +100 attack power. I am hoping that I can do well enough in the arena to replace it with something better. If not I will have to go through the battle grounds or buy something.

The plan is to get to level 80 as quickly as I can and than start doing the areas with gear that I have.

I also plan to get the Cuttlefish Scale Breasplate when I hit level 76. It has 1055 Armor, +56 Agility, +84 Stamina, +32 Intellect, and +82 attack power. Is a blue or Rare quality item.

Most of what I have is green or Uncommon epic quality, except to two item my nephew got for me, the Leggings of Beast Mastery and the Horrorblood Treads. The leggings are Epic and the boots are Rare. I don't know how much he paid for these but I know they were not cheap.

This site here gave a nice description of the item quaility and there colors: http://www.wowwiki.com/Quality

Victories and Defeats

Kills:

1. Enallekhaj - level 70 - think this may have been a priest. My pet was set on aggressive. Switch to beastal wrath when I realize that my pet was attacking something. I almost died even with the guards help. Took some healing potion right before I died and that just barely got me by. 20 points for an honorable kill.

Killed By:

1. Zarco - Level 70 - Not sure what she is. I could have simply attack her. But she attacked me after she was done. Sneeky.
2. PK- I have seen this guy before. Killed again. No honor for him. Engineer Horde. Didn't know.
3. Windroc (70) and Solarth (70) while I was fishing. Should be no honor when someone is fishing :-)
4. Gurgock
   

Riding in Iron Forge

Both of the guy are in the same location outside the city.

Exotic Pets and there tree

Ferocity Tree

Devilsours
Core Hounds
Cat

Cunning Tree

Silithids
Chimaers

Tenacity

Worms
Rhinos

Stan's Wall of Shame

October 2008

1. Edulg
2. Brilanic (killed my very low level priest. See this guy, go for it)

• More on this on
• Level 70 undead priest
• Could not track with my level 70 hunter
• Could not get on the roof
• When got her off the roof with a little help for the guards I was able to kill her
• She killed me 5 time.
• I killed her twice
• Same you you Brilanic picking on those level 30 Alliance player
  

1. Boroco Kill me at level 31. He was too high to see what he was. Shame on you Boroco
2. Casion Kill me with one hit. Probably a 70. Shame on you Casion picking on a little 31.
   
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Dailys

There is a set of dailys that I do.

Starting at 11:15

Picking up Shattrath dailys

Maintaining the Sunwells
Multiphase Survey 11:17
Sunfury Attack Plans 11:18
Gaining the Advantage
Revenge is Tasty (Cooking)
Crocolisks in the City (Fishing) 11:20

Porting to Stormwind 11:21
Cought baby Crocolisk 11:24
Heathing back to Shttrath 11:25
Turned in fishing quest 11:26
Flighing to Telaar
Started colledting for Mulitiphase Survey 11:30
finished 11:33
Picking up ammomm
11:35
mining 11:36
Multiphase done 11:38
Killed getting ore 11:41
fishing 11:5?
Stop to play with Susette

Steroscopic 3D Monitor

http://iz3d.com/landing/curse.html

Tyring to Get a Seperate Light Weight X Server

Is suppose to help with get out of the system when it is locked up. Also it is light weight and allows the game to run faster.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=699332&highlight=wow+howto


See the following link.
http://stanmanageslaptop.blogspot.com/2008/03/installing-lightweight-xserver-for-wow.html

WOW Under Linux Links

This is the link for WOW under Wine.
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=1922

This is a link for general installation of WOW under Wine on several Linux distributions including Ubuntu.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine

And there is this wonderful Ubuntu HowTo which contains some of the same information as the link above.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft

WOW LInux Cedega

This is a commercial package based on Wine and purports to work under Linux.


It cost $5 a month with $15 up front. Also there doesn't seem to be a way of testing without paying first.

WOW Under Linux

Still trying to get WOW to run under Linux.

There is a new driver for my ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 Graphics card.
http://stanmanageslaptop.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-linux-ati-driver.html

Here are some instructions for installing WOW under Ubuntu.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft

It seems that I need to have direct rendering.

The newest driver does not support DRI. Is DRI direct rendering?

DRI stands for Direct Rendering Infrastructure. It allows software to get around X11 and write directly to the graphics card.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Infrastructure

The current ATI driver does support direct Rendering.

glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes

I am going to assume that the one just released does also. It would make little sense if it doesn't.

OK, I am now ready to install the newest ATI driver on my portable.
http://stanmanageslaptop.blogspot.com/2008/03/installing-newest-ati-driver-for-linux.html

Talking with Daniel Mudd

My hunter can use sharp arrows at level 25.

I have learn other skills from different animal and teach them to my pet.

Darnases

In the realm of Boulderfist (PVP) Surley as level 16 hunter and his hunting saber work to improve in leather working and skinning.

Capture a rabid bear.

Killing 20 to cleans land.

Me and my Cat

Found out today that Ruth and Tod both play WoW.

Played with Joshua for a couple of hours before I realized that it was him.

Upgraded the armor of my warrior in Susette's world

Moving to Level 13

Realm: Boulderfist (PVP)

Surley - Level 12 Hunter

Darnasus

My professions are skining and leather working.

My craft? are first aid and cooking.

On the warriors tarrace there is a weopans master.
There are also some weapons I can buy and I can get them repaired.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

9 PM

Boulderfist (PVP) - Relam

Kalimdor - Continent

Teldrassil - Zone

Dolanar

Dazalar - Hunter Trainer

Seriadne - Stable Master

Keldas - Pet Trainer

Pelopidas (45) - Josh Cook

Radnaal - Skinning - can be found outside his home on the road to Darnassus.

Nadyia - Leatherworking - west to Darnassus

Phormio - Josh Cook


Darnassus - City in Teldrassil

Saenorion - Leatherworking Supplies - Sells skinning knife

Eladriel - Skinning Trainner

Telonis - Leatherworking Trainer

Exited in the Inn in Dolanaar in Teldrassil

Bro Of Susette

Playing with Susette and Callin.

The free account has expired. When and bought WOW for $20.

Doesn't seem to like my key.

The key worked the second time.

Quest

• Deputy Rainer
• West after a bridge over a small brook

Warrior Trainer

• Goldshire
• Lyria DuLac
• First building as you come in from the west
• nor far from the target outside the building to the left as you fast North

Quest

• Hogger huge gnoll
• Southwest Elwynn
• Marshell Dughan
• in Goldshire

Westfall

Jansen Stead

Westfall

Sentinal Hill

MMORPG

This mean Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games.

WOW is an example of one.

Just Started

I just start learning World of Warcraft. I have watch my children and sister play for years, but last Christ mas I played at my sister Susette's house. I have spent the last couple of nights playing. It is a little complex and at time frustrating.