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My Hunter was my very first toon ever created on World of Warcraft, and bears a name I’ve used online for years in various capacities and has become my online pen name. Many people on the game still call me “Val” no matter what toon I’m on. Valdesta was born during the Winter’s Veil Festival in World of Warcraft, late in the year of 2005.

My hunter is the one featured fishing on this blog - with a guildmate warlock buddy who has way better gear than I do on my Hunter :)

Before the expansion pack came out, she hit 60 at the end of May 2006. By the time the expansion hit, I knew this Hunter wasn’t my priority, so it took her until September 2007 to hit 70 having done ZERO outland dungeons and only a small number of Outland group quests. She soloed from 60 to 70, never running out of quests but completely not worrying about “reputation grinding”.

This toon was never really destined for much, but gets some time here and there and has acheived some useful milestones.

Current Skills and Stats (Unbuffed)

March 13, 2008, 70 Hunter stats

Enchanting: 360/375
Herbalism: 375/375
Cooking: 375/375
First Aid: 375/375
Fishing: 375/375

Riding: 300/300 (using the Reins of the Veridian Netherwing Drake to call my epic flying mount and the Horn of the Frostwolf Howler for my epic land mount)

Reputation Standings - Outland

I was originally going to list the non-standard recipes I have for Enchanting, but I really don’t have many that are worth mentioning, and the process was looking more tedious than I wanted to deal with for a blog post.

So, instead, you get a summary of my Reputation levels:

Reputation Maxed At Exalted

Frostwolf Clan (Alterac Valley battleground)
Netherwing

Reputation At Revered

Nobody in Outland!

Reputation At Honored

Cenarion Expedition 11446/12000
Ogri’la 1635/12000
The Consortium 4860/12000
Thrallmar 3113/12000
Lower City 243/12000
Sha’tari Skyguard 1630/12000
The Scryers 6555/12000
The Sha’tar 4487/12000
Keepers of Time 9309/12000
The Violet Eye 1610/12000

Outland Keys Obtained

Heroics Keys:

Other Keys/Parts:

Current Gearing

Gear is what I expect will start to change on this toon more than anything else - if there’s a second Karazhan group that goes through in a week and my Mage is already tied up in a RaidID, then I go along with Valdesta instead.

Head Earthwarden's Coif
Neck Expedition Pendant
Shoulder Beastmaw Pauldrons
Back Crystalweave Cape
Chest Felstalker Breastplate
Wrist Bracers of Maliciousness
Hands Gloves of Quickening
Waist Felstalker Belt
Legs Beast Lord Leggings
Feet Outland Striders
Ring #1 Conquerer's Band
Ring #2 Violet Signet
Trinket #1 Commander's Badge
Trinket #2 Riding Crop
Melee Weapon(s) Sonic Spear
Ranged Weapon Emberhawk Crossbow
Ammunition Blackflight Arrow

Goals For The Future Of This Toon

This toon is still mainly a “farming” toon. When I don’t have much time to actually play, I may log into this toon to fly around on my Netherdrake and pick herbs for a little while. I much prefer getting my own materials for the endless stream of Super Mana Potions I go through on my Mage during raid nights!

That being said, I don’t expect to do a lot with her because I’ll use my Mage as a priority in raids and Heroics, and I’m advancing my Priest and Rogue to get to level cap before the expansion hits… whenver that is!

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Now that I’m actually PUGging with my Hunter and running some of the Outland instances, I’m getting some neat gear upgrades here and there and am probably pretty close to being able to properly hold my own in Heroics, and maybe even get into the early parts of a Karazhan raid.

One of the recent gear upgrades I got was that of a Crossbow that dropped in the Arcatraz, the Emberhawk Crossbow. I’ve gotten a lot of nice compliments on it from others in my party, she’s a pretty snazzy looking bow.

Hunter gets new Emberhawk Crossbow

I’m a bow-user, myself. Having started out with a bow, I didn’t realize that I was a bow-user until I played with a Tauren or two in my dungeon groups and realized just how insanely loud the guns were compared to the bows or the crossbows. I’ve tried to use guns myself when they’ve been higher DPS than my bow, but I inevitably find my way back to a bow as quickly as possible just to avoid the noise.

Heck, when I’m partying with friends who use Guns over Bows, I find myself strafing and relocating where I do my DPS or heals from just so I don’t have to stand there right beside all that noise.

Gearing Up Without Focus

This toon is doing pretty well for gearing up without really even worrying about what dungeons and bosses I’m “supposed” to be hitting - the upgrades have slowed significantly, but I still run into cool upgrades that I didn’t even know were there, enough that my random attempts at daily dungeon quests or keying stages are fun and progressing well.

I even got my Beast Lord Leggings the other day, replacing one of my last bits of Leather gear that I had around due to the better stats.

Too bad my PvP/Gladiator shoulders and gloves are so bulky and, like, sooooo don’t go with the rest of my outfit…

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