Ald Demo

During my leveling process, i fell in love with Mik Scrolling Battle Text.  It uncluttered all my damage numbers and condensed them into one simple frame.  Since i like minimal with less clutter, it was a perfect fit for my UI setup.  That is until i started doing some raids and reassessing my UI needs and layout functionality.

I realized how much i missed seeing damage numbers on top of enemy heads.  This was even more evident on trash pulls and adds.  Being able to see all the mobs i have dots rolling on individually is a lot more visual and intuitive than having them all combined together into one area.  Of course this creates a massive clusterfuck on my screen when there's lots of mobs but i actually seem to prefer it for this specific situation.

The other issue i had was how much i couldn't stand the default floating combat text font.  Not only is it a boring style but looked quite pixelated as well.  Well hurray for Font Damage Changer which let me change the text to any one of the hundred or so fonts i happen to already have for Photoshop projects.  Now my problem lies in actually choosing which one i like more than the next and sticking to it for more than a few hours.

Floydian Normal

Levi Rebrushed

Shogun's Clan

Double Feature

After taking my sweet time, my frost DK finally hit the magical level cap.  I think i get the playstyle and overall requirements of the class to finally get into some more difficult content and, dare i say, raiding.  For now i think i'll run around Timeless Isle and gear up through the chests scattered all over the island.  I hear many deaths are awaiting me as i do that though so we'll see.  I'm rocking pretty much all quest greens so i have no doubts about that.  I also managed to snag a new mount which i'm assuming is the official "dk mount".  Onward to my treasure chests i go.

As I've mentioned previously, i'm a huge fan of desert zones in my MMO's.  It was no secret i couldn't wait to get to Uldum for the first time.  I was curious how WoW implemented and handled my favorite MMO climate.  What came as a surprise once i began questing there was entire Indiana Jones tie in.  It was completely unexpected but i guess I've been living under a rock for nine years.

Since i'm a huge fan of both Indie and deserts, it should be no surprise i loved Uldum.  Loved every second of almost every quest there.  I was bummed to see that the exp range for the zone only covered one level.  I managed to stretch it out to a level and a half by doing everything minus the dungeons.  I'll probably go back and mess with them later.  For now it's off to Pandaland, monkeys, and possibly snakes.  Why'd it have to be snakes?

I always play a human in every MMO since completely regretting not playing one for 6 years during my FFXI days.  It was obvious that to play one in WoW i would have to roll with Alliance.  Since i knew nothing of either side, i didn't even give it a second thought.  That was until everyone i know informed me of the error in my ways.  I was bombarded with "no one plays alliance!" and so on and so forth.  It seemed like lots of people play them from where i was standing so i wrote it off as faction pride.

Then i did the unthinkable - i rerolled from human!  It made me sick to my stomach at first to be quite honest but since everyone i know plays/played  Horde, it made the decision much easier.  I typically can't get into my characters if they're some funky race i can't identify with and Horde sure does have a lot of those. Fortunately for me, there are blood elves, which look as least close enough to humans that i can manage.

I went from the heavily Alliance server of Stromrage to the opposite spectrum on Area-52.  While it's still taking some getting used to, i can say that i am enjoying the blood elf combat animations.  I'm assuming they're different right?  They seem so to me at least.  Thanks to a generous loan i managed to get my flying license along with my first flying mount.  It's sure made a difference in the speed of which i can complete quests.  It helps being able to avoid aggroing everything like i tend to do!  I mean, who can say no to a flying lion?  I'm going to ignore the fact that i normally am not a fan of flying mounts.

Come say hi to Aldee on Area-52.  I'll probably be running back to my corpse after pulling one too many mobs.  It's hilarious playing a 9 year old game for the first time.

When i first began playing EQ2 and started looking for a UI replacement for the ugly default one, i turned to ProfitUI much like everyone else.  Ironically, this sort of went against my minimalist preferences when it comes to UI's in general.  While it eliminated certain frames such as the SoE bar, it also introduced many others.

Original layout

Updated layout

Current layout

• Profit UI
• EQ2 Map
• Wildsongs Target
• RickF7666 Casting Breath Windows
• DrumsUI Bag
• DrumsUI Maintained

Thanks to the holiday, i had a lot of time to get some leveling done in WoW.  It didn't take me long to obliterate my previous high level of 8.  It must have taken some serious dedication to get up to that stratospheric level a few years ago.  All jokes aside, i actually stuck with it this time and managed to hit 55 on my Hunter.  That was pretty much the goal i was trying to hit before the weekend ended.  Now i can retire Hunter for a while and concentrate on Death Knight til cap and beyond.  Hopefully it doesn't take me long to get used to the new play style after 55 levels of letting my pet do everything.