The Naked Troll Project

Naked Troll gets hacked!

2010-11-23T15:58:00.006-05:00

This is a very special post. I recently received an email from Blizzard stating that my account has been suspended for 3 hours and my password reset due to suspicious activity. Apparently someone managed to get my username and pw then start making chars to spam on various servers. Lucky for me my characters don't have anything of value anyways to steal. So I proudly scream to the heavens HAHA SUCKERS! YOU JUST HACKED THE NAKED TROLL! Enjoy your lack of phat loots!

I'm still doing this sorry for the lack of updates I've been continually swamped at work, we are in crunch time currently so all my efforts are being spent there.

And to my friend who sent me a skype message, "Jubbles has not been online in 29 days" CURRRRSSEEEES!

Interesting facts.

-Still working insanely hard on personal projects so I haven't been on recently.

-I've become addicted to a mage character I rolled before transfering my naked hunter back to lightning's blade.

-Must finish work so I can play WoW again!

Return to the ancestral home.

2010-11-14T16:57:00.003-05:00

After taking a several year sabbatical from World of Warcraft I recommit myself to completing the challenge I set forth previously. This time I am going to go all the way to 85. It's going to be slow going because at this point in my life I am a super busy man.

The big news is I've returned to Lightnings Blade my ancestral home. A few of my old friends from the time of the original NTproject have come back with me to aid my insanity. Unfortunately my name was taken and I've changed a third time to Jubbles. Yep Jubbles on Lightning's Blade. Chunkasaurus however is still his pudgy pink raptor self.

I'm going to attempt to clean up the spam posts and it's time to kick some ass.

This time will be different than the last where I just didn't have the motivation to complete the journey to 70 since everything was same old. Blizzard did major changes to the game and hunters since I've left including creating a bigger emphasis on armor than ever before. We'll see if I can plow my way to the top again and I'll keep everyone up to date on my exploits.

Different Approach

2007-01-26T16:22:00.000-05:00

This time through I'm going through the quests and actually enjoying it considering its new content. This will drastically slow my progression from 60-70. I am just about two bubbles away and after I level I'm going to be heading into the swamplands.

I just got a new videocard and ram that I am extensivly testing to make sure its fine so I dont have to return anything again.

I can't play much today due to stress testing my system and work.

Burning Crusade Day 1

2007-01-24T16:16:00.000-05:00

I logged back in for the first time in about a month, I patched up and was really excited to go. I select Mal'Ganis and am immediatly greeted with the familiar queue. I immediatly make a blood elf paladin because I can't resist trying out something new for the first time since I've started the naked troll project. I lasted about 10 minutes in blood elf newbie land. Its a complete acid trip, theres constrasting colors everywhere. I saw a big floating angry face, brooms sweeping around, flying mana fish and a plethora of anime styled characters running around screaming profanities. It was a frightening and strange technicolor place, I know I will have to return there someday. Then I made a Draeni shaman, it was much more grounded in reality and less the madness created after the artists drop acid and yell at each other for a while about what they saw. I'm gonna have to say I love the feel of the Draeni characters more so than any other mainly because they are so different. They even have their own accents which I thought was a nice touch. The area had kind of the same look and feel that the undead starting area did with the same journey down a hill into civilization. Except with giant purple crystals from their space ship or whatever these guys slammed into the planet. Luckilly the starting zone is filled with what can only be described as tiny tiny mothras.

So now that I was done with a brief trip to try out the new races I decided, screw this I'ma get to 70 and then try out these new wonderful things. I log on Juffowup and start wandering around to my usual hunting spots and then I realize, wait a minute... where are the outlands? So after about an hour of asking people how to get to the outlands they tell me that I have to go through the dark portal in the blasted lands. I really should have known that but I thought it would be too obvious. So I approach the dark portal I have a sinking feeling in my gut as I come closer to the whirling vortex of terror. I enter and through it lies a blasted destroyed world, and a gigantic staircase. I wonder why blizzard loves putting decents in their artistic and thematic choices. So I go stumble around and see this massive fight between the largest things I've ever seen shooting fireballs and things everywhere, but then I notice that there is quest givers and just ignore the fracas in front of me. I babble with them for a while and get sent off to the first town in this new wretched place. On my way there I fly over gaps that lead on forever and I look up to see a glowing ring pulsing through space. Dont know what that stuff is but it looks cool. I'm really hoping they have really impressive environments like they did with the rest of the game. So I arrive at the next town and go stumble around getting quests and killing monsters which gives me an interesting feeling since 60 is the new 50. I don't have the all powerfull feeling I had before and I feel like I need to be sheltered and protected in this hostile environment. Another thing to note is I'm pretty sure level 70's will stomp the shit out level 10's I fear for the lives of newbies everywhere. So I'm fighting things and lo and behold this crazy penis beast lunges out of the ground and starts bashing me to death. So I immediatly send some paniced message to guild chat along the lines of, "SHIT GUYS I GOT ATTACKED BY A FUCKING PENIS! WHAT THE HELL!?" Nobody responded. I think my guild has really died down in fun levels since I left, I dunno. Either way I got attacked by a giant phallic critter and I feel violated. I'm 2 bubbles into 60 now.

Interesting Fact:
-I think I am actually going to enjoy this.
-Is there going to be a vagina monster too?
-That creature in the image is the legenadry penisarus.

GOD DAMNIT WHYY!!!

2007-01-21T21:36:00.000-05:00

I was wandering around in my local gamestop and I started talking to the clerk about videogames and why command and conquer kicks ass. It turns out that he saw me in massive magazine and said, "Wait a minute, you are the naked guy?" So he freaks out and goes, "GIVE ME YOUR SIGNATURE!" So I do because I'm an egotistical fucker and can't help but stroke my ego at every turn.

So here is the recap: Up untill moments ago I was planning to leave WoW forever in favor of one of their new competitors Vanguard. That all came crashing to a halt when I got a taste of local fame. Which gives me enough of a high to want to continue playing WoW in order to feed my addiction. I know for a fact that people have stopped reading this blog as the counter on the bottom left hand corner has stopped moving. I can hopefully re kindle this with my triumphant return to World of Elfcraft.

I'm currently updating and hoping my guild hasnt booted me for a month of inactivity. Cause well it turns out wow might just be serious business. What I would love to happen is to get sponsored by someone so I can be like... Yay I dont have to pay 15 a month.

FUCK.... Back to the grind!

Interesting Facts:
-Jake will be happy that I've come back
-I want to die
-Please somebody stop blizzard from making more of this shit.

Naked Troll Project

2006-12-23T02:28:00.000-05:00

Going dormant with sporadic posts till the release of Burning Brusade.

Regular posts will return after that date.

Naked Troll Project in Massive Magazine, I'm on page 22. Go buy your copy today... Its 6 bucks or so.

Thanksgiving Mega-Chowdown-Post

2006-11-23T10:54:00.000-05:00

This post has LOTS of bad language so its more fun.

Alright it took me longer than Sunday to post because I am still reeling from camping out in front of Best Buy like an idiot. I think I've developed a allergy to chocolate and a fear of the cold. Luckily I was able to chronicle this event with all the paper I brought to do my homework on, which I clearly did not do. If you want to read my analysis on the Wii just skip right on down to the end of this post. I was camping out with my two buddies Tim and Elena.

Friday 2:51 PM

It is fairly nice out although slightly chilly. I showed up at 1:00 PM and I was the first in line until Tim and Elena showed up. The reaction from the sales staff is fairly encouraging. They said they would party with us tonight. Tim and Elena left about 15 minutes ago thus securing my place in line. The tent is comfortable and kinda cozy though I do not believe we will actually have to camp out for this thing. Supposedly the news will be back here again, I hope for irony's sake that Tim and Elena miss it. The public reaction seems to be fairly nice though Tim's mom showed up in a boiling rage and threatened to call the police. I believe this is an idle threat and I would not like to be here alone for 3 days. I am afraid of being robbed, however I really have nothing to take. They can have the tent and the useless crap Tim brought. The Pepsi will be useful in ensuring that I do not go mad and lose too much fluids in this ordeal. I have brought plenty of paper to record this event and will be taking pictures. Supposedly there will be a meteor shower tomorrow, I am very excited for this. As a side note children cry for no reason aside from the need to cry. Since I am a horrible person I thought this was funny so I took a picture of it.

Friday 8:00 PM

People keep asking about the PS3s and I keep having to tell them that we are camping out for the damn Wii. Also something interesting to note is that weird scene goth kids hang out at best buy. I find it fairly comforting and calming just watching people go by. Sometimes I talk to them and it ranges in topics anywhere from why the hell I'm camping out to politics. Fox news showed up and interviewed the people who waited in line for the past 3 days. They ended up buying 3 PS3's which the immediately ebayed. I love the feeling of being inside the tent with the doors up and hearing them comment as they walk by. The cops never showed up from that threat before. I cannot wait for this to be over, already I am going to be sexiled tomorrow. I wish Tim could have found someone other than Elena to bring. Or say if I had a buddy or a companion, but alas I feel like the third wheel on a bike. This is the third time today they have abandoned me. I think I rightfully get the first Wii due to the psychological trauma, plus I've never left the post and have remained ever viligant and untempted. I wish there was someone here with me those sons of bitches. I am unsure when I will sleep tonight I already tried but realized I have to record the events of what happened. Dinner was a bagel with ham. My little cousin is going to spot me some money in order to buy a bunch of crap on Sunday. I do enjoy the solace. I need to write more frequently in order not to forget what happened earlier. There were a lot of funny moments today.

Saturday 8:00 AM

Last night I ended up meeting up with Sam who ended up hanging out with me for a while. Tim and Elena left yet again so I decided fuck it I'ma go get a drink. So Sam and I went to John Harvard's to get some booze. When we returned Emily was in the tent with Tim and Elena suprisingly they weren't pissed at all. Emily had brought two pizzas from papa ginos. We ate about one and a half pizzas all together and shared the rest with people wandering by. Sam put on his wizards cloak for warmth. Don't ask me why... But he did have a wizards cloak. Eventually Slade showed up and started yelling things. That eventually ended with me in a shopping cart being pushed around. Slade/Sam/Crew ended up leaving after a good time. Emily remained in the tent with us for a little while. The best part of that evening was Emily freaking out whenever a car came by. She would open the tent door and poke her head out at each passing car. I compared her reaction to that of a dog's. Whenever she poked her head out I would start making barking noises to make fun of her, "WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!" Eventually she left and it was just the 3 of us again. There was an aftermath from Emily though. She is the worlds fucking messiest eater, there were chips everywhere I don't know how she could miss her mouth so spectacularly that a potato chip ended up on the opposite side of the tent as her. I ended up going to sleep around 1 AM. The lights were on the entire time so I could not sense the passage of time from within the tent. Sometimes I woke up and could hear Tim and Elena talking. My response to it the first time was to raise my hand and flip them off so hard that it hurt my hand. The second time it happened which was around 6:00AM I just started screaming obscenities because that's just the way I am. I started yelling about aqua pods and how I must quench my unending thirst. I decided if I were to get another dog it would be named aquapod. Before this though the best buy crew showed up around 4 Am. They were talking about how we are a bunch of dumbasses and I whole heartedly agree. Shortly after they entered the store they started doing cheers and shit. Best Buy is secretly a band of guns for hire. Back to 6 AM some guy showed up and started asking about selling us a PS3. And we were asking if he was selling it for $250 to which he responded no $3. Around 6:30 is when I got up to go to the bathroom at starbucks. As I'm returning some jackass with a leaf blower who is just wandering around blowing shit in random directions because there are no fucking leaves on the ground. The guy is a public nuisance and just stands by our tent for a while with the leaf blower going. At 6:45 a second group of campers show up we officially have neighbors. The guy's name is Oliver and he's pretty awesome... He brought his Nintendo DS so we can metroid battle. Tim and Elena leave once again cause they are tools I started calling people and nobody picked up. The other guy leaves me to watch his stuff and everything is good. The next event in the best buy training session is beginning. A bunch of employees exit the building and a couple start babbling about how they need to constantly drink in order to be happy. About 5 minutes later the rest of the store comes out and lines up.. They keep making jokes about lining up for the wii. Everyone is getting into it and yelling, "WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" I hope Tim and Elena come back soon so I can go get cleaned up. I am alone again.

PS. I went to go to the bathroom in best buy and after I had finished I overheard some guy talking about, "Some guy destroyed the bathroom and I almost vomited" I felt so good after that.

Saturday 1:26 PM

My friend George offered me sexual favors and 60 dollars to cut in front of the Wii line. I said no deal because it would be unfair to the rest of the campers and I don't roll that way. The issue currently is somewhat resolved with my offer for him to spend the night with us i the tent. Tonight is the night of the comet-storm I cannot wait I was also told that drag racing is held in shoppers world late at night. Two things to look forward to tonight. Tim and Elena have entered a relationship like I guessed would happen earlier. Sam made good on his doughnut offer. Oh GOD DAMNIT my pencil just and out of lead this is an unfortunate situation. I may have to go to office max in order to fix this. People keep harassing us over why we are here so Tim crafted a sign using a weird near unreadable flowery font. This sign in-fact stops NOTHING everyone walking by still asks. More crying children appear on the scene, I think children just hate best buy with a passion. My boss bought us lunch today because he is a fucking super hero... Best boss ever. It is colder today than yesterday and it will be significantly colder tonight. I heard its going to be 30 degrees tonight. Its definitely in the upper 30's right now. My neighbors all seem nice. Someone else just moved in next to Oliver.

Saturday 8:30 PM

Holy fuck we are almost done! Thank sweet god! My Esophagus is melting inside of my body. This guy named Mickey bought us 1000 pizzas to feed the troops. 26 People showed up and George (that dirty bitch) did not. Everyone made fun of Tim and Elena in the tent. It was hilarious. It hurts to be alive right now, I think I ate too much. God Damn for the sake of tradition I should puke next to the mansion tent. (Illegible scribbles)

Saturday Night

Since that last entry is so confusing and incoherent I need to fill everything in after the fact. People started showing up at around 6:30 ish and we had a line of about 13 people by then. I met this kid named Mike who had camped out for the PS3 and was running on about 8 hours of sleep for 5 days or so. We started saying completely bullshit answers to the people walking by as to why we were here.

Here is a list of what we said.
-We are camping out for the Xbox
-We are camping out for the Nintendo 64
-We are camping out for the Turbographics 16
-We are camping out for the 3DO
-We are camping out for the sale on Friday
-We really like Best Buy
-We are urban campers, it's a new fad.
-We are time travelers making a pitstop in your time before continuing further into the past. We need to hunt some dinosaurs in order to ensure that an oil pocket will form in this area to make us rich.
-We are here for the revolution
-We are here for the charity
-We are a religious group
-We live here
-Why are you here?
-Do you hear the voices too?

Anyways continuing on with the story this tent of people from Brandeis showed up. They had the biggest tent of them all with three rooms and a patio. We immediately made fun of them and called them the mansion tent, "Yes go back to your mansion and drink your champagne." Also around this time this guy named Billy showed up because he works at best buy. He signed the glorious list that we had made and set up his crap. Which was an air mattress and a sleeping bag, we worried for Billy and the fact that he probably wouldn't survive the night. Next to show up was this guy named Mickey, he asked us if we can reserve a place in line for him if he bought us pizza for the first 3 tents. We said, sure but if you don't come back were gonna cross you off the list. So Mickey leaves and we are unsure of whether he is coming back or not. Slade shows up again and brings the much missed homoerotic tendencies back into the fold. Wow... Anyways Mickey showed up again and brought us about 12-13 pizzas which is way more than we could eat in the first 3 tents. We had our fill and then extended the offer to the rest of the people in line, which they gladly accepted. Even the mansion tent got to eat with us. While we were eating a kid showed up that looked really familiar. I thought he looked a lot like this kid named Chris I used to hang out with.
He responded with, "No its Stephan"
"Oh my god... I used to make fun of you 8 years ago"
"Really?"
"Yeah its Costas you tard!"
"OH SHIT!" and then Stephan basically is in a state of shock and we high five and whatever else people who haven't seen each other in a long time do. So he ate pizza and we talked about the old times of playing Star Fox and how we were neighbors. A bunch of people were hanging out and me and one of my other old friends decide to go to starbucks for hot chocolate. So we did and it was good... Till about half an hour later when the horrible pain started. I couldn't move without hurting. I did the only thing any red blooded American would. I went into the best buy bathroom and started puking like a motherfucker. It went on for like 10 minutes and I was wondering what the people in the other stalls were thinking with this going on. So I end up coming out of best buy again with an empty stomach and the feeling of death is slowly subsiding. I end up talking to some people about it and this guy named Tuttle said, "That was you?" which I responded with, "yeah". He said that I sounded like an ogre in there. Which made everyone laugh which is equal to mission accomplished. So the night went on and the madness started to set in. The sixth tent in the line which was the one right after the mansion tent was filled with Stephan and his buddies. They were the thugs of the line. Some little kids who thought they were gangsters showed up and started yelling things about the ps3 is awesome and the wii is for faggots or something. To which the 6th tent came out of their tent and started talking to them. The little kids started threatening them and I point out the fact to them that the little gangsters are a full 3 heads shorter than the 6th tent group. Fracas avoided! At around 8:06 pm the sixth tent starts glowing and the first 30 seconds of trying to understand what was going on was laughing about pot heads. Then we realized that in order for the tent to glow that much there would need to be an obscene amount of pot. So we went over because the dumbasses had lit something ablaze in their tent. We went over there and told them they were going to die from lack of air or carbon monoxide poisoning. To which they tried to douse the flames by dumping Pepsi on it. This made the fire worth and we heard... Uhhh FUCK and they threw the box out of the tent. The guy from the mansion tent that turned out to be really cool started throwing dirt on the fire. We all laughed at the 6th tent and called them dumbasses, from here on their tent was lovingly called fire tent. So later on Tim of mansion tent decided that it would be a good idea to get tanked so I joined them in going to TGIFridays. I only participated in the first round because I had vomited earlier and didn't want to upset my stomach further. The next big event was fire tent part 2. The dumbasses lit their box on fire again and we came over and told them, "What the fuck is wrong with you guys?" we started laughing and Stephan brought the blazing inferno of a box out and started stomping in it. Luckily his shoe got stuck in the box and almost lit his clothes on fire. So he got out of his shoe and pulled the damn thing out and just used dirt. My little cousin's friend got dropped off and hung out with us in the line. He was number 28 in the list. My friends showed up and set up a vague rave by parking their car next to Mickey's which was on the sidewalk. They opened the trunk and started playing techno. Also they partaked in free pizza which was still available from earlier. Around 2 am I decided to crash for a couple hours. So I went into the tent and fell asleep and I woke up around 4-5 am. I was hungry and in the full state of madness, I talked to Mike who was also suffering from the same thing and decided we needed to go get food at Dunkin Donuts. So we went there and used the bathrooms and got food. I got a bagel with the most butter I've ever seen. It was literally soaking with it through and through. Its like I had more butter than bagel. I'm gonna have to order this again sometime... Anyways we get back to the best buy parking lot. Not much happens of note till around 6:30 ish again when the leaf blower guy shows up and a best buy representative starts talking to us about what we need to do in the line. To which the leaf blower pauses as much as possible near us when the best buy dude is giving his speech. Everyone thinks leaf blower man is an asshole, which he is. At around 7 AM which is an hour before we get the tickets for the Wii people start packing up tents and things and Mickey starts barking out orders for people to get in line. This is why we think Mickey might be some kind of ex military esque guy. Anyways Mickey gets everyone into line and yells a lot and its kinda scarry. I start making jokes about well now hes going to go down the line and execute every 10th man. Anyways we get our tickets and the line disperses. I'm saying, "Well fuck that I've been here for 3 days I'm staying in the fucking line god damnit fucking shit" So me and a bunch of other people sit in line for the last 30 minutes and I call Tim and Elena cause they are lazy fucks and went into their car for warmth. It is really fucking cold out. So best buy opens and this short guy dressed as link comes out and is having way too much fun with his job. The line re forms and starts snaking around in best buy. It was like that snake game where you have to eat the food but not intersect yourself. It was really kinda cool I wish I had taken a picture. I mean I took pictures of absolutely everything else that happened. So this was the moment of truth I was first in line and when I got up to the accessory table my mind blanked. I turned around and asked Tim, "What do I need?" Tim responded with, "You have a bag waiting for you he asked you last night." "Oh." So I with my mind blanked wandered over to the counter and bought my package. I was the first one to get a wii and I stumbled onward to "CONGRATULATIONS!!" and "GO FUCKING TAKE A SHOWER!!!" it was absolutely glorious. When I crossed the threshold of bestbuy into the cold November air. I realized something beautiful, I could leave best buy for the first time in 3 days.

To this day I have not returned.

The Wii is absolutely amazing the games play really well. Wii sports is incredible and you scream bloody murder when someone bowls better than you. Red Steel is also amazing but its harder to learn the controls. People cry and whine at first because they don't know what the hell they are doing but once they figure it out they say that this game is badass. The controls are beautiful once you get used to them and its the best console shooter experience I've ever had. Theres super power moves and sword bashing which add complexity to the game and the ability to glitch out once I figure those out. So I can be totally lame and headshot someone while running across the map. I also got the Dragon Ball Z game which I refuse to spell out fully because I don't know what the hell it means. I scream internet memes while playing it and it doubles the fun. The controls are intense and you wave around in the air while pulling off the super moves. The game gets more fun and entertaining and complex once you learn how to play. I still barely know what I'm doing because the computer completely tools on me. I unlocked 2 characters so far. Only 118 left to go. If you are thinking about getting the Wii or have a friend who has one. Go play with it. You will be converted. I have not had such a good experience with a console since... Ever.

PS.

Pictures will be up once I find the damn cable for the camera.

Large amounts of news for a lack of posts.

2006-11-16T22:37:00.000-05:00

Again I am sorry for the lack of posts recently. I have not been able to play WoW for about 3 weeks because I've had an incredible amount of papers to write. Good news is that I'm not failing any classes. Bad news is however I need to fix up my website before this magazine article hits store shelves. I'm going to be in the december issue of Massive Magazine. Theres an interview in it and I hope I got portrayed in the way I had hoped. Which is a goofy bastard who writes things about a videogame that he played naked.

So heres the bad news. My graphics card shit the bed, which means its artifacting heavilly and I can't get any work done in my regular life or play games till this damn thing is replaced. I won't be able to play wow this weekend till sunday afternoon at least. Which means no posts till Sunday night.

Here we go... heres the reason I wont be able to post till late sunday night. My friend has convinced me that he and I need to sit in front of best buy for three days. By sit I mean camp out for the Wii. I actually couldnt care less for the Wii I mean I'll buy it if it turns out I get paid tomorrow. However if I didn't I'll camp out anyway for the social aspect. I'm a nerd for sociology and I want to know what makes this mass insanity tick. There will be pictres taken and I will report my progress. You get to see me become grungy and creepy over the course of three days.

See ya sunday!

Interesting Facts:
-Naked Warrior is now 18
-I think the other naked projects crapped out...

Artifacts in the posted image:
-My bicep is missing
-One of the verticies from some tree is warped and placed somewhere out in the distance.

RAARRGG!!!

2006-11-08T10:03:00.000-05:00

MUST WRITE MORE PAPERS!!!

BLASPHEMY!

2006-11-03T03:12:00.000-05:00

Well... I had to attend to things in real life and I'm glad I got a little break from WoW. You know... dealing with the physical world is excellent, theres food and things to be had. Oh yeah and papers and midterms and things thats what happened.

Along with dealing with my education I also got to appear on a podcast put on by All Games.

Here is a link to the radio stream.

Its defenatly worth a look because it gets goofy as hell towards the middle of the actual portion I'm speaking in. We get so far off topic its incredible, I love how absolutly crazy that interview was. They have this thing going on where they talk to a MMO corrospondant and I was on last thursday. This thursday was everquest and this guy was serious business. I'm intrigued by the stark contrast between our personalities with myself being this goofy guy whos really playful and doesnt take the game too seriously where he seems to be all about the serious business aspect of this.

Do I count as a hardcore mmo gamer? I mean I don't really take this too seriously but... I did beat the game naked.

Interesting Facts:
-Naked Warrior is now level 17

Naked Troll Project Raids Ony!

2006-10-24T21:47:00.000-04:00

Today was my very first raid as a naked troll. It was a pick up group and nobody bugged me about my lack of armor. I think mainly because I was lost in the sea of people and nobody cared. My DPS was better than a couple other hunters but my survivability lacks something. I made it to phase 3 and then I got the crap feared out of me and I died on one of the cracks cause nobody explained it to me. All went well and good I never got yelled at and I'm sure the next run will go much better. ANYWAYS ONY DIED AND I"M HAPPY!

I decided to capture this wonderful moment on video so I get to edit it and put it on youtube!

Speaking of youtube... I watched something so utterly hillarious that I could not stop laughing for an hour. My ribs hurt so bad after I was done. I normally don't do this but heres a link. About 50% of the people I showed it to found it funny. Elephants are funny.

Interesting Facts:
-On the Ony run I got the black dragon sinew.

Lol this is my raid gear.

2006-10-23T00:54:00.000-04:00

So I finished up the ony key and killed Drak, and now I decided to go on a uhh UBRS run with a bunch of people from my guild. Cause they are drunken awesome mofos and apparently this is the fastest UBRS run I've ever been on. It was some very good times, lots of swearing lots of random bursts of rage. Some people in my guild said something along the lines of, "I knew you were naked but I didn't know you did this all the time."

In all seriousness I think rings and necklaces might be a good investment for me, I don't really know why I never wore them before aside from the fact that they are equippable. These things can really add to my crit chance and make me somewhat more usefull. So I get to twiddle stats on jewlery to get the most dps output possible. Or I could just go for fire resistance cause that stuff is sweet.

I switched to marksmanship to increase my awesome DPS, and HOLY CRAP did it make a difference. Now instead of hitting from 100-200 now I hit for 300-400 with auto shot. I crit for 1k off a multi shot which was pretty crazy. I also crit for 2.2k on a aimed shot, I assume that I can probably get a higher crit out of that.

Ony... I'm callin you out!

Interesting Facts:
-The Beast always kills me.

I killed a few dragons!

2006-10-21T02:29:00.000-04:00

So I'm 2/4's of the way done with the world dragon portion of my onyxia key, this damn thing takes way too long to finish its been a week. I've been told that I'm gonna hate UBRS after running it so much, I'd have to say that its actually one of my favorite instances in the game. I love the giant monsters and the amount of teamwork that goes in to the fights. I think I'm gonna love raiding when I get into it.

I got to level 16 with my warrior, things are getting vaguely easier now because I just got higher level skills.. I might get to 20 this weekend on him but I have a bunch of projects to work on. You know projects outside of the naked troll project.

Interesting Facts:
-EMILY ITS ME COSTAS
-I've listened to paniq almost exclusivly the past week.
-"Screen Captured!"

Gotta kill a buncha dragons!

2006-10-18T23:39:00.000-04:00

I'm at the wonderful part in the Onyxia Key quest chain where I get to hunt down and kill 3-4 dragons. However the real point is tonight I have gained acceptance among a raid group, I gained their respect as opposed to being called the noob without armor. They didn't boot me from the group which is really awesome of them, probably because I am the only hunter. They didn't actually notice I wasnt wearing armor till the ninja costume wore off which is probably a really good thing. Thats what I assume secured my ranking among them because they didnt get a chance to descriminate against my lack of armor. I need to load up a DPS meter on the computer I've been working on for the past week or so because I havent been able to keep tabs on how I rank against my peers. This I went through UBRS (upper black rock spire) we went the whole way, the biggest problem I faced was The Beast. He was gunning for me for some reason it was really odd. Anyways I managed to kite Drak sucessfully which was a great experience. In fact I managed to not take any damage during that.

On the second front of this war I got my warrior to level 15 because I'ma lazy punk, hes a pain in the ass to level because he constantly dies. If you see a naked tauren warrior out in the barrens running from green mobs... Thats me. Its pretty spectacular to see the massive differences between a hunter and a warrior in regards to this. I think my hunter could actually take more hits than my warrior is at this level. The major difference aside from class is race and I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it. I use warstomp all the time and I would not trade it for anything. That racial is my bread and butter, I use it in any fight with multiple mobs and it saves my ass. Right now I'm using a mace and a sheild. Even with the armor from the sheild I get trounced. Hell I tried using defender stance for a little while, I just got my ass beat worse. I cannot wait till I get dual weild. That will probably be in a couple days.

Interesting Facts:
-Dragon Eyes are fun to collect!
-I'm a hero!
-New Naked Rogue project started.

A new beginning

2006-10-16T20:41:00.000-04:00

Round Two of the Naked Troll Project has begun! I have infact been building a warrior while I've been tooling around trying to get an onyxia key. I've made it to level 14 so far in order to keep up pace with the Naked Priest Project. I'm noticing some big differences already and the big idea of is this possible keeps popping up in my head. I don't know if you can actually do this one, I've never played a warrior before so I really don't know what I am doing.

My current thoughts on this are that levels 1-20 are going to be the hardest because from what I know you don't get as many offensive skills as you do post level 20. Dual weild is going to make this a whole lot easier. As of right now the hardest levels I've faced have been 5-12. 14 so far seems like a breeze but then again I went to the AH and bought a green weapon and things have gone much better since then. As I go along this time I will be releasing a map of the world that will update as I reach grinding spots so people can follow in my footsteps. Screw paying for a grinding guide. You've got a free one right here.

Interesting Facts:
-Naked Tauren Warrior resides on Mal'Ganis and the name is Greenhammer.

The Naked Collaboration

2006-10-16T16:08:00.000-04:00

Apparently the nakedness thing is enough of a problem for someone to make a note of it in LFG. "be good or be geared"

Alright so I'm noticing theres about 2 other people working on these naked projects. My current plan is to actually use this website as sort of a hub to information on all of these naked projects.
Yes the goal is that every class needs to be done. At least three are in progress right now. Send me an email or drop a comment if you are interested in joining the project listings. (community?)

Project...............Status

Warlock.............N/A
Hunter...............60 Getting Attunements
Mage..................N/A
Priest.................13 Active
Druid..................N/A
Shaman..............N/A
Rogue.................N/A
Paladin...............N/A
Warrior..............11 Active

I have infact started a warrior, and although he is not a troll I will be posting his progress on this blog. There will be a more indepth post later tonight.

Interesting Facts:
-Operation Tinfoil armor is sucessfull.

Operation Tinfoil Armor

2006-10-14T17:26:00.000-04:00

Well now that I'm 60 its getting much harder to get into groups without wearing armor. At this point I really have 3 options.

1. I could lie and say that I am the victim of a keylogger. This has worked every time I've used it, which happens to be once. I don't really like lieing to get a group, it feels so immoral.

2. I could stay armorless and gain infamy and get even less groups, and stick to groups of friends or guildmates. Hopefully the damage isnt completely done here and I still have a chance to redeem myself on this server.

3. I could put on level 1 gear, like tattered leather armor and stuff like that to give me the look that I am actually wearing armor. Infact I went to durotar today and bought clothes off the newbies backs for 1g a peice. Or... I could get high level gear, and break it and just not take it off.

Personally I like the third option the best, I think its absolutly hillarious. If this was LB I'm sure I could easily get a group but instead I'm on Mal'Ganis which doesn't know me and I don't really have anyone to vouch for me. If you attempt a project like this, make friends early and try to stay within their range. Also dont switch servers because you will lose your "street cred".

So now I have the auxillary tinfoil armor. Technically its as effective as being naked. Doesn't add armor or statistics, I'm still golden. Although I have yet to use it, with the last rend run going sucessfull and nobody bailing or discriminating against me for my lack of armor.

Interesting Facts:
-Oh god I hope nobody who groups with me that hates me reads this.
-If you do group with me and are one of my supporters don't let this out.
-Rend run completed!

50th post I hate LBRS

2006-10-13T22:11:00.000-04:00

Lower Black Rock Spire(LBRS) is the most mind numbing, buggy, obnoxious, terrible instance I have ever run. I hate it more than I hate Maradon, and I really hate Maradon. To define this hatred you basically need to take everything you like about something and then pervert it just enough that its annoying. This is what LBRS is like, a steaming pile of crap that used to be a delicious pie. I can't be saying all this stuff without anything to back it up can I? Here are some awesome reasons why LBRS is a festering diseased wretch of a dungeon.

1. It has a massive bug. There is a hole in the floor where you can fall into, and then you die. This is a pretty easy hole to fall into also. This isnt the problem, the problem is that when you die this way you have to go back to the instance and then you get teleported back to the graveyard. Then you have to run back a second time.

2. The later parts of the instance are actually easier than the beginning. We wiped 3 times on the beginning area unlike the later areas which we just tore through like a fat kid on a cake.

3. The dungeon takes so long that quite literally the only two people in the group who remained from the original set was me and the other hunter.

Good news however, my group prevailed over the 400 hours that it took to get through that damn cesspit. I hopefully never have to return there for my very soul will shatter if I do. Now I get to go kill rend for the third part in the glory and wonder of the Onyxia/Drakefire Amulet chain.

Interesting facts:
-Its the 50th post just incase anyone cares.

Plans for the future are currently being drawn.

2006-10-11T21:24:00.000-04:00

I love LBRS I haven't sucessfully ran it. Or hell I have not even started the instance. It seems like a pain in the ass to get considering It took me around 4 hours to get a full group. But wait thats not all just before we enter the instance its collapses into itself like the death of a star or like. I need to get this damn Ony Key so I can raid.

I must discuss things with my cohorts as to what my next big goals should be. I obviously can't leave the 400 billion newcomers to this website hanging. I need to plod on with new firm ideas that will shake the very earth off its orbit. What I need is a plan which I am currently drawing up. Some of the ideas I am toying with right now might be impossible goals.

The most probable ideas what I have right now and am currently working for is:
1. Kill Onyxia
2. Get as high rank as possible in battlegrounds before BC comes out and borks the system.

In other news I snuck into stormwind, and rode the Deeprun Tram while waiting for LBRS groups. Bringing a smile to the faces of alliance everywhere. So I compiled a video of me dancing with a bunch of alliance and basically tooling around in aliance territory.

Interesting Facts:
-Initially I was too lazy to install my video editor. But after about an hour of dicking around with Windows Movie Maker I deemed it trashy and was forced to install an alternative.
-Hopefully posts from here on out will be more normal and less to do with the internets reaction to my project and more with the project itself.

WoW... word spreads fast hyuk

2006-10-11T00:04:00.000-04:00

I'm creating a list of websites that I had to search down that actually have a mention of me on them. Here is the list as of now in the order that I found them. Please note that none of these are actually directly responsible by me. The digg article came out of nowhere and it exploded from then on. I give my greatest gratitude to you mystery person who placed my article at digg.com Without you none of this would have happened.

digg - Guy Gets to Level 60 in WoW...Naked

Naked Troll Project reaches its goal - World of Warcraft News - QJ.NET

One naked Troll, a dream, and a lot of free time - WOW Insider

Paladinsucks.com

0 to 60 in Skivvies - Kotaku

This forum post is pretty sweet.

Apparently now NTProject spans cross cultures. (dutch website)

The post over at worldofwar.net

Interesting Facts:
-Promote the promoters?
-Allakazahm data fixed.
-Tired and weary from two nights of paper writing.
-Got booted from a BRD group for not wearing armor.
-Mysteriously the blog unpublished itself. I hope this doesnt happen again.

I had a chat with a GM after I leveled.

2006-10-10T18:10:00.000-04:00

Here is approximately how it went. The order of some lines were altered in order to make it flow better for reading.

GM : ::The ground rumbles beneath your feet and a bald head thrusts upward, dirt spraying in all directions.::
hello
GM : *Cough* *hack* *cough* Greetings, Juffowup. Game Master here! How are you doing today?
Juffowup : I love your flair for showmanship
Juffowup : Well I went from level 1 to 60 without wearing armor and I want an official response to this
GM : Aye I had a chance to check out your website, Nice work =) thanks for petitioning about your great feat, what can I help you with?
Juffowup : I have many questions to ask :P
Juffowup : Was this supposed to be possible from the beginning?
GM : Well I'm not a developer, but I would assume that since you achieved it then it was made to be possible, only extremely difficult and time consuming

Juffowup : so I've talked to two previous GM's and I asked them if they knew what I was doing and they made reference that they have. Is this true?
GM : That the developers knew, or that they personally knew? Because I personally had no idea it was quite a surprise =)
Juffowup : yeah if they actually knew about me and is the reaction you had a good or bad one?
Juffowup : I've noticed some interesting changes for burning crusade that would actually effect me they are changing the way pets work in regards to equipment it feels like a direct response to what I have done. Especially considering the timing of it.
GM : I cant speak for what the development team is aware of. But my reaction was positive, its quite impressive to me
Juffowup : Thankyou
Juffowup : The whole thing about it being time considering my /played is only 14 days 13 hours which is actually faster than what it took most of my friends to get through the game
GM : I would think the idea is to make it hard, but not impossible to achieve goals in the game through more than one method or playstyle.
As for your time taken, I do know of many players who have been able to go to 60 in about 5-6 days played
Juffowup : Alright would there be a way for me to talk to the developers about this? Or can you pass the word on so at least someone that deals with balance knows?
GM : Well we have no direct line here =) the best way to communicate with them would be through our suggestions forum, which is specifically read every day for feedback and ideas on topics like this
Juffowup : alright thanks
GM : I'm sure what you've done would garner a response from the community team which may be able to give you some information.
Juffowup : Alright I'll let you go thankyou for your time

In addition to this I just want to get this out of the way so all the content that I had set up for level 60 would be in one post.

I have to bring a couple weird events up which probably does not have anything to do with me and pure coincidence.
1.) I mentioned earlier multiple times that the blizzard was waiting for me to gain level 60 to release the hunter talents. The day after the level the hunter talents are released.
2.) Hunter class changes in regards to pets seem like a direct response to what I was doing. They changed the pets so that they would scale up with bonuses from the armor.

Interesting Facts:
-Well I lost my wacom pen a few weeks ago and have been too lazy to order a new one. I tried to draw a picture for this post but I couldnt get anything that looked good out.
-If I had a picture of a GM that would be awesome.

Naked Dance Party

2006-10-09T23:56:00.000-04:00

Well its not exactly the one I described earlier. But it is drunken and people are naked. Theres no GM's though but its still awesome.

Holy crap the internet found me!

2006-10-09T19:52:00.000-04:00

I have two new goals. I'm gonna get as far up the PVP ranking as I can before BC hits so I'm not permenantly labled "Scout Juffowup" and I'm also going to get ready for raiding.

I got 2000 hits yesterday. I guess that final forum post really hit its mark. And today... I got 14000 hits.

I've figured out what I want to do as a temporary fix for not grinding my naked ass up any more levels. Well it can be considered a form of grinding, I'm gonna see how far I can get up in the PVP rankings over the next few weeks.

Also I've talked to my guild about letting me raid naked. They actually seem to be ok with it. They are going to help me get the leaf from Molten Core so I can actually have a decent weapon to raid with. Over the next week I will be trying to get the Ony Key so I can properly raid.

Oh uhh two other important things happened.

About 3 people sent me tells that they saw me on the internet. The first one saw me through the blog and the forum post. But now these two new people saw me through Digg.com Holy shit... I'm on digg. Thats all I could respond with.

Speaking of which one of them is helping me get MC attunement at this very second. Thats what is in the image for this post.

This is a link to the Digg post

Interesting Facts:
-Holy shit I'm on digg
-I wonder how long till slashdot picks up on me.
-I did not actually post this on digg. I just found out about it.

THE FINAL POST!? I think not!

2006-10-08T16:19:00.000-04:00

Level 60 baby!!!

Now for the lengthy recap of the situation and the progress I have made up until this point.

In late june I was coerced into playing WoW again by my cousins. I decided I would play again because they all happened to be on one server and I had nothing better to do with my life. My reason for quitting last time was that I was bored with the game and questing had become very tedious. So something needed to be changed or else I would not be able to play the game for a long period of time. So I looked at the game for some time, trying to figure out a way to make this interesting to me again. Some kind of challenge that I could do to make the game difficult. My biggest complaint was that the game was too easy. So I really wanted to make the game hard so I could not get bored while playing.

I chose to play through the entire game without armor. But what class and race would this be remotely possible with? My first instinct was shaman because they are a really beefy class. They can heal, deal burst damage and tank fairly well. The swiss army knife of classes. This idea quickly passed as I realized the incredible amount of armor dependancy they had. They needed armor for their mana pool and to protect themselves from harm, they are a melee class after all. Next idea was a mage but that wouldnt really be that difficult considering all they do is sit in the back and cast some kind of missle. Here we go I decided to pick the class that I think this would be the most possible with. A Hunter because the pet would take the hits for me therefore I wouldnt have to take damage. I could dual weild so I could get a bunch of stats on my weapons and basically be good to go.

Next up was the choice of race, It was between troll and orc really. I really had to weigh between stun resistance and regeneration + berzerking. Stun resistance is great for PVP but berzerking is good for all around awesome. 10-30% increase in attack speed is pretty great this is including casting, melee, ranged. I am fairly sure most of my characters from now on will be troll. I also really like the 10% regeneration in combat for health. Thats a huge bonus if you have a ton of spirit gear. I want to try making a spirit warrior at some point and see what happens.

My first hypothesis was that I would not make it past level 25 so I needed all the help I could get. I decided to wear gloves and boots to help me out. As I continued to level things just got easier and easier. I kept pushing my estimate of ending forward by 10 levels each time. By level 40 I had gotten rid of anything that I wore aside from trinkets (which didnt add any stats). So I was then fully naked and continued my endless grinding. Infact it was more entertaining to me to sit there grinding in one spot than to actually wander around doing quests. I also enjoyed being alone so I can talk on AIM or listen to music. It was actually kind of soothing to just wander in circles annihilating enemies. Althought this does not mean I didnt go on any instances. Instances are where I met most of my friends on Lightning's Blade.

Some where in the 50's My friends started playing again on Mal'Ganis so I did a character transfer and changed server. My name changed from Jumba to Juffowup which is unfortunate but a decent name none the less. CURSE YOU MAL'GANIS JUMBA I WILL FIND YOU!

Anyways back to the story closing in on 60 was the most frustrating experience I've had in this game. Level 60's were almost constantly farming the spots that I deemed decent to grind at. Infact many places were really terrible places to grind. The exp did not ramp up with level past 55. I may have been grinding at the wrong spots but it was just terrible and obnoxious in the amount of time you had to spend to level. EPL was the worst. I basically spent level 46-60 in Azshara. Which was pretty nice considering that there were alot less people there than in EPL.

I'm actually kind of nervous as to what I do now considering I finally made it to 60. Do I wear armor? If so should I restrict myself to specific kinds? I've been BGing and I'm doing average. I just need to get used to this dealing with people who have insane gear thing. The future is uncertain.

I do know some things. I want to raid.

Forum post
/played 14 days 10 hours Level 60

607 xp to 60

2006-10-08T03:16:00.000-04:00

I'm retiring for the night. I want to have a drunken party with the GM's and also I want to take some BG PVP footage before I get into the 60's zone where I will most undoubtably get constantly stomped.

FUCKING SHIT I'M LEVEL 59!!!

2006-10-07T02:22:00.000-04:00

Anticipation is quite litterally threatening to tear my body apart like the vicious angry anus of a black hole. Taking what was once beautiful and churning it into billions of particles and spewing it forth as a gamma ray burst. The longing for being able to just dick around Orgrimmar is excruciating. Alright all previous level 60's before me... I'm calling you out. I fucking hate you stop camping the damn spawns I need to gain exp off of. That is the largest problem with this project and its not even a problem based on armor. Its the excruciating grinding at the end its just boring as hell. With the addition of people jacking my monsters it makes it a grueling boring experience. I long for the times I can just be alone while I endlessly mill about an area searching for glorious glorious exp. I have some respite due to the fact that its all about to be over soon.

I am still unsure of wether I will continue not wearing armor at the end. I have conflicting ideas of what I should do. One of my friends pointed out a interesting fact that continuing to not wear armor is like refusing to stop running after finishing a marathon. The problem with this is I dont know if I will actually be done with this project. Do I need to go through the raids and get epic weapons? I need to find a proper point of closure for this project because I cannot possibly sustain it the way I have past 60.

To this date. I have not suffered a single issue because of my lack of armor aside from descrimination from fellow players. However most have given me positive feedback there are some who hate me for unknown reasons.

Things I can do to potentially salvage a secondary goal aside from leveling to 60.
1. Getting high ranked in BG.
2. Collect the teir sets and put them in bags for safe keeping
3. Create a second character to do this with.

/played 13 days 20 hours

Interesting Facts:
-Players to Bot Ratio on Mal'Ganis 1:100
-There will be MUCH more profanity in the 60 post.
-Level 60 is going to be a huge post.
-Gonna fraps getting level 60

57!!!

2006-09-30T01:13:00.000-04:00

Alright 3 levels left to go this is going to be incredible. I've already started making plans for what I am going to do at 60. Hopefully these will be realized once I reach that level.
1. Get raid gear and put it in a bag
2. Get high ranking in BG
3. Get people to eat bugs with my vast sums of unused money.
4. Get Engineering up

My god... the grinding is becoming mind numbing. It just... hurts to play. I'm gonna get 60 this weekend I'm sure. Hell yes.

/played 12days 22 hours

Forum attack!!!

2006-09-27T21:37:00.000-04:00

Level 56 posting this in the general forums.

"In advance I apologize for the long post.

Alright to catch people up who don't know of my quest. I'm leveling from 1-60 without wearing armor. I'm playing a hunter class. So far there really hasnt been a difference since the beginning of the game. I'm completely able to tank a mob while my pet and I are focus firing on a second. I don't think armor really matters in this game especially for pet classes. Yes some of you are going to immediatly say, "Durr hurr this is no big deal because you hide behind your pet" I'm now going to break down why it is infact a big deal.

1.) The lack of armor in PVE does not seem to factor in with survivability at all I can take a good 10-20 hits from mobs around my level. Throughout this entire time it has been a steady scale. The game does not infact get harder as you go along which is incredibly suprising considering with most other MMO's soloing is not possible past level 20.

2.) Economic factor: Repairing my gear is about 15-30 silver. This is an incredibly low number for this level. Along with this I can sell practically anything I pick up aside from quest items which generates an incredible amount of income. I'm not really sure what the average gold of someone around my level is but I have 370g and this is with buying a mount, and decent weapons on the AH along with enchants. If everyone did this the economy would be drastically different. Inflation would be out of control.

3.) PVP is a huge deal with this whole no armor thing. I've beaten the crap out of plently of level 60's out in world pvp and in battlegrounds I dont do too badly. Although I've chosen to play as a defender most of the time so I don't really get out there and get kills. But when I do fight in BG I don't seem to do badly I kick a fair amount of ass. I'm not sure if its actual skills or the class being way to overpowered. I prefer to main humble in that regard so I'm gonna say its the hunter class.

I know the "epic hunters" are going to immediatly whine and tell me to play a warrior class but I know this is because I threaten pretty much everything the class has to offer in a huge nerf. Such as getting rid of our rediculously high base DPS and how badass our pets are.

Also in answer to the inevitable question of "DO U GET GROOPS?" Yes I get tons of instance groups, all I gotta do is explain myself and perform excellently.

Once I reach 60 it is by no means the end of this project. I have plans to start up a mage or a warrior. Not really sure what I feel like playing next. Either way I'd rather have constructive criticism than random attacks on my person. Thanks in advance...

On a final note yes we are totally broken but blizzard is fighting people like me with the BC update. Hunters armor and statistics will scale the power of your pets. This also includes other classes with pets such as warlocks. "

Here is the post

Jumba enters the witness protection program.

2006-09-24T11:56:00.000-04:00

What I mean by that is I did a character transfer so I can play with my real life friends who randomly decided to play again. Unfortunatly my amazing name of Jumba doesnt work on this server so now I am known as Juffowup. Any Star Control fans out there would get the reference. For those who arent an explanation at the very end of this post will explain. So... this might wreak havok on the allakazahm account. So I get to deal with that... and gaining infamy on this server so I can get groups.

An approximate excerpt from guild chat as I left:

Jumba:"I'm leaving for mal'ganis"
guild:"What? Wait? Why?"
Jumba:"Because you are gay"
Jumba has been removed from the guild

So now that that is done with. I need friends on Mal'Ganis if any of you people who actually read this are on MG send me a tell. My name is Juffowup and I'm still the naked troll hunter.

The guild I joined on the new server seems to be one of the most badass on this server for multiple reasons. It makes me feel like I am back in Risen, well a more organized version of
1.) It's ok to say things like this to higher ranking people, "Shut up you god damned tree fucker"
2.) This guild is filled with alcoholics.
3.) My best friends happen to be in it as well.

On another note I finally made it to 56, Leveling is becoming extroardinarily boring... GRRRIIINNDDD

/played 12 days 4 hours

Interesting Facts:
-Havent tried getting a group on this server yet.
-I cant find a good place to grind that is my level.

Juffo-Wup is the hot bright light in the darkness. Whatever is not Juffo-Wup is The Non, and The Non can become The Void. And what the Non doesnt become is what Juffo-Wup can become. (dont yell at me if I didnt get it right... its confusing as hell)

Level 52 and Blizzard is putting on the crush.

2006-09-15T17:46:00.000-04:00

Eyonix posts,

"Alright, I will provide you and everyone else with two tidbits of information that we've not yet revealed through any source. Both of which I'm personally very excited about, and hopefully you will be as well. First, when the Burning Crusade launches, healing over time (HoTs) spells such as Rejuvenation and Renew will stack for every player casting them. For instance, if there are three priests in your group, a target could potentially receive three renews as one time. Second, we're going to be scaling Warlock and Hunter pets come expansion so that they become stronger as the player gains more statistics through itemization.

Now you can't say that I've never given you anything, you know, besides Lightwell..."

Alright so now blizzard is doing something about this naked thing... I gotta get to 60 fast. Well unless it just means my pet is gonna be more badass with gear... which makes me obsolete... As it stands now I kick the crap out of other armored hunters...

Interesting Facts:
-Lol Blizzard

Fifty Forum Fun

2006-09-11T15:31:00.000-04:00

Here we go an explanation of what I have done up until this point. Sometime late june I was convinced to resubscribe to world of warcraft by my cousins. I started playing again but this time I had to do something to keep me from getting bored. I thought to myself what would make this game as hard as possible, so I looked to the later levels for inspiration. Theres 3 teirs of end game armor and apparently the next teir is so much more powerful than the last. I assumed that this game was extremely armor based for just about everything, dps, damage reduction, mana pool, especially since the accumulated stats through every peice of armor is in the hundreds.

My original goal was to reach level 60 with only wearing gloves and boots. I thought I would not make it past level 25, boy was I wrong. I made it to level 40 and decided to stop wearing armor entirely and I even removed the jewlery.

I am now running around at level 50, with nothing but a polearm, a gun, and a couple trinkets that dont add to stats. I've been accepted to an end game guild and I can't wait to see if I can actually raid.

So here is where I answer the common questions aside from "Why don't you wear armor you freak?"

1. "Put on your damn armor your DPS is gonna be low"

Actually my DPS is equal to if not higher than hunters of equal level with armor on.

2. "You can run instances without armor?"

Yes sir I've run many many instances, I'm becoming fairly infamous on lightningsblade because of it.

3. "What happens when you get to 60?"

Not sure I think I'm gonna have to get to level 70 for burning crusade and then decide what to do.

4. "What are you gonna do with all the raid gear?"

Keep it in a bag so I can still be tier 2 but not wear it. They ask... I show them my tier 2 gear.

5. "Roll a warrior"

Gonna do it once I get to 60.

General Forums

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20316190&postId=200850141&sid=1#13
Hunter Forums

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20316200&postId=202346595&sid=1#0

10 levels left... 25 more than the original hypothesis...

2006-09-11T02:25:00.000-04:00

Well... I made it to 50... This calls for another milestone post in the WoW forums. I mentioned it in LFG and the reaction was good. So this time I'm closer to my goal, which is well within reach now. I feel unstoppable now in more than just completing this challenge but also in pvp. A group consisting of a 43 rogue, 42 preist, and I managed to demolish two groups of 5 level 45's. I would set my pet on one... they would be done within 30 seconds even if they mounted, bestial switfness is a godsend. It was a lop sided battle... you know me with no armor, and two low fourtys fighting decked out alliance groups.

I'm going to reach my goal I have no doubt in my mind. The question is before or after the hunter burning crusade talents are released?

In other news... Being naked is a gold mine, It costs around 60s to repair everything, and the loots I sell on the AH rake in the dough. I have single handedly driven down the price of mageweave to 1g per stack on lightingsblade. It is now cheaper than wool which is a pretty magnificent acheivment I think. I spent 10g on just AH fees putting up what I found today, which I hope will be payed back in spades tomorrow.

/played 9 days 13 hours

Interesting Facts:
-I'm really tired right now... and I dont care enough to spell check.
-The screenshot is of my health bar after fighting 6 harpies non stop.
-I will make sure to fraps the event of me acheiving level 60 and put it up on youtube.

49 and standing tall

2006-09-09T01:04:00.000-04:00

So today I ground off ogres in ferelas to 48 and then I went to searing gorge and did quests... which was an alright idea cause most of the quests were kill everything in this area for a while. I got like 70% to level and then went to tanaris to finish it off with a couple quests. Quests in the grinding area seem to speed me up... If not for those quests it would have taken me an extra hour to level. Although random 60 alliance kept running by, dismounting and then proceding to gank the shit out of me. I dont know what the hell about this gets them off... killing a naked troll? Or one shotting someone they dont even get honor points for? I joined some random guild my good buddy zeath hooked me up with... But they are not alcoholics and they dont swear enough or make fun of people for my taste. So I decided its finally time to apply to get into the guild I joined the server for. Nightmare on Elf Street... a bunch of friends and family are actually in that guild.

Alas poor Risen... you will always hold a special place in my heart.

People keep telling me to put some damn pants on... I wonder if this is going to progress to threatening to cut my legs off soon.

Along with the whole clothing thing do trinkets count? Cause I have like a sponge or something that removes a bleeding effect. Luffa the wonder sponge. Its more like a secret extra spell than anything else... Doesnt add stats, doesnt add armor... its a spell remove bleeding. I'm gonna consider it that.

Oh something interesting to talk about is the talents I've been picking. I've basically gone down the beast mastery tree. Making my pet as much of a DPS powerhouse as possible. I havent spent points in that tree aside from making my pet hit harder. It is incredibly usefull in pvp to do a bestial wrath so then the damn warlocks and mages cant do crap to it. Also bestial wrath makes my pet giant, red, and deal +50% damage. Intimidation is another good one, a 3 second stun that can easily change the tide of the battle. I recently added +30% pursuit speed which came in handy when a elf tried to run a way... Too bad for him chunkasaurus recently got his running legs on. He chased him down into a river and mauled him to death. So aside from that I put points into marksmanship. The talent that reduces mana for my shots and the one that increases crit chance by 1% for each point. My build works suprisingly well in pvp as well as pve just make sure you hit the mage hard and fast.

In other news, the game is still just as easy.

/played 9 days 4 hours

Interesting Facts:
-I miss Risen
-WoW is my anti-drug
-I wonder if this could lead to a job as a game tester for mmo's?

13 levels left (47)

2006-09-06T00:17:00.000-04:00

Thirteen levels left... I am so close to level 50 I can taste it, but that wont be for a few days at least. School started again so I'm gonna be very busy with my classes. Good thing all of them are entertaining... lighting design and intro to philosophy! I am retracting my statement of the game getting harder as I get closer to 60. It was just a specific hunting spot that I was having difficulty's with because all the damn spawns were invisible and it was just a huge pain in the ass. I got a polearm which is absolutely amazing I hit for 150-200 with it.

Now heres the really important part...

I talked to a GM yesterday and what we basically said is that hunters dont need armor, however I should be able to deal more damage with armor on because of the stat bonuses. The real kicker though is that although I do not have armor I regularly out damage my hunter peers by about 10%. (DPS meters are nice) the GM's response to this was, Your increased damage may actually have to do with skill. Which got me thinking that if someone trained naked... that they could increase their damage output by 10% at least. Then put the armor back on and get like 10% more. A massive 20% damage increase in total ***(THE PREVIOUS STATEMENT WAS PURE ASSUMPTION)***

Interesting Facts:
-I've spent over 100g in the past day
-Banana Chunks

Level 44

2006-08-30T00:00:00.000-04:00

I made it to level 44 in like... 2 days. This is the bonus of school not starting till after everyone else leaves for college. Grinding is probably gonna slow down again because uhh school starts. Yeah so I've been getting better at pvp where I can take out like 3-4 levels higher than me. BUT!!

BUT!!!

The most important thing to ever happen to this project.... EVER

Its getting harder...

I dont know if the hunter class gets more balanced later on or what, but it is getting harder for me to fight groups of 2+ monsters. I'm down to fighting only one at a time and if a second comes in I have like a 20% chance of dieing. Also I can out DPS a hunter fully geared of equal level by about 10%. DPS meter for the win!

Aside from the recent increase in toughitude of the monsters, the players have been getting worse at pvp as I go along.

/played 7 days 8 hours

Interesting Facts:
-I'm on a vent server with a bunch of people I like them
-My guild is completely awesome... If you like alcoholics... Risen

Level 40

2006-08-24T18:13:00.000-04:00

As you can see I have a gigantic pink dinosaur, I got pink for two reasons.
1.) I can claim that this dinosaur is infact chunkasaurus
2.) It matches colors with my good buddy chunkasaurus

Level 40 Forum Fun! *sorta*

The forums were updated so everything got wiped. This means you cant read what happened with my post. Basically the gist of it is that people love to criticize anything that they possibly can. So the good points that were gleaned from the shit that was thrown is that the hunter class is very imbalanced.

Forum Points
-people want me to roll a warrior. I think I might take them up on this offer
-I will no longer wear boots and gloves
-I will no longer wear jewlery

Things that are on the table
-No longer use talents at all. (this is a big one)
-Use weapons 10 levels lower than I should.

I'm gonna start a new special addition to the usual posts. I'm going to try to stuff in building up a naked warrior. With screenshots and the like... We'll see how far a warrior lasts, I think I'd be able to go all the way armor dependancies can suck it!

Jumba Level 40 Played 6 days
OrangeHammer Level 2 played 3 minutes

AAHHH

2006-08-22T00:31:00.000-04:00

I AM CHICKDAWG!

39 is the lonleyest number

2006-08-21T02:42:00.000-04:00

I want 40 so bad it burns. As I am writing this right now I must grind more. Theres Yes... thing... dont worry everything is fine... People are starting to ask why I dont have armor... and I respond with I'm going to get leve 650 without armor. Dont worry everything is fine I'm the best hunter in the world. I am a super hero of wow. Like the world cennot conceive. You know what? fuck spellcheck I am a hero. heroes done tneed spellcheck. U wwoned if I cka ntowq Stfuruoop dont worry th... fuck

inteorosting facts_
shit:
fuckbean s:

Level 38 and rising

2006-08-18T16:58:00.000-04:00

Alright I'm almost 39 and I need a mount. I have about 40 gold at my disposal and theres about 30 left to go... I'm gonna be dirt poor after this but I'll at least be able to move fast. I've been playing alot of diablo II recently so I picked up a bunch of heal potions and chug them randomly. I've been getting into the mentality of killing everything in my path and its really helped me get back into the mindless killing portion of the game. As I am writing this post I am currently firing arrows into some troll's face. Stranglethorn Vale is pretty excellent aside from the random attacks from ?? alliance. I tend to go afk while pveing alot... Mainly because its more entertaining than the actual fight.

So I've learned a few new tactics to fight the alliance with.
1. They are kinda like bears... if you just dont do anything while they are attacking you. They will eventually leave you alone to go find less boring prey.
2. Gold farmers are frightening because they will find you no matter where you are and constantly camp you. Dont fuck with the chineese!
3. If there is a rogue just hit it in the face alot and it will drop easy.
4. Mages are afraid of hunters they just run even if you are attacking them or not.
5. I tried to have a conversation with an alliance I just kept talking to them and they eventually stopped swinging at me in which they responded back in their own language. We had a tea party it was pretty great I set down a campfire and we danced and talked of times past.

In other news I'm gaining notoriety by doing instance runs. I'm "that naked guy" now. I've done RFD a couple times and all of SM a few times. I have the gear... but I cannot use it. Its as if the armor gods are taunting me. My will to not put on the phat loots will not break, as I face the gods and laugh! At 40 another post gets thrown down in general and hunter forums I need to make this a little more public and hopefully blizzard will take notice. I can forsee 3 options that blizzard could take. The first one which is the most reasonable is just to ignore what I am doing as a problem and continue doing what they are doing in regards to balance changes. The second is more drastic it would be a huge nerf to the hunter class in regards to how strong the pet is and how much agility affects critical hits. The third would be my character getting outright deleted and this website shutting down because blizzard not wanting this idea to get out. Cut off the tumor before it spreads...

My first attempt at a SM run was with a member of the guild my cousins are in. He was the only one ever to not group with me because of my lack of armor. It was fairly pitiful that one of the high end guilds on the server are so stuck up and rude that I dont think I can join them later on. Mainly because of the way I keep getting treated when I talk to their members. I'll have to talk to them when I get to 50.

Interesting Facts:
-A massive post for a triumphant return!
-I threw a dance party in goldshire with a couple guildies
-I'm in a new guild "Risen" they are pretty cool they always have something interesting to say.
-I'm afk playing wow right now.
-These posts are being written well in advance now.

Level 36

2006-08-16T14:17:00.000-04:00

Well I'm back into the swing of things with WoW. I just forget to post on this blog, although theres not much new information to be had except for the fact that I've leveled. Its basically the same old stuff since the beginning. Armor seems to have no affect on anything really my natural armor is up to 298. Weapons are important that I cannot stress enough. Weapons are what makes this game. If you want to win you are going to want to buff your weapons and get the best ones you can possibly get. I win more than I lose in pvp although I have no armor which is fairly disturbing. I'm hoping that I reach 60 before burning crusade so I can be one of the first hunters to 70 while naked. Burning crusade also seems to be giving you alot more choices for PVP especially the new arenas and the removal of the honor system somewhat. I cannot wait for this to happen although I would love to be 60 before burning crusade. So I will try to post every day starting today... Next post will be after snakes on a plane.

Interesting facts:
-Keep forgetting to post because I havent done this in a while.
-Its hard to play in the summer because theres friends running around wanting to hang out
-Snakes on a plane at 10 pm tomorrow

I called blizzard...

2006-08-07T15:11:00.000-04:00

Well I called technical support since thats the only line commoners have access to. I told the guy on the other side about my project and that I've made it to level 34 and he responded with, "I've never heard of anyone attempting this before and you'd have to talk to the developers" So basically he said I have a fat chance in hell of actually getting blizzard to listen to me. So I'm going to post again on the forums soon. Lets say when I get level 40 since I'm riled up it'll get me to play consistently until my goal is reached.

Blizzard... I'm calling you out!

Interesting facts:
-I asked the guy if I could fly down there and schedule a meeting
-Technical support is very nice. If you ever eff up your system you should call them

Wrassling with linux.

2006-08-07T02:05:00.000-04:00

So... I bought a new computer from newegg. To store files... and render... and it turns out its leaps and bounds faster than my desktop. Got it for $633 and it can run anything ever made with ease.

Pentium D 805 2.66 ghz (can be overclocked to 4.0)
2 GB cheapass ram
x2 120 GB harddrives not gonna be raided cause I'ma dual boot linux and windows
Geforce 7300 GT
Asus Nforce motherboard of some kind

Anyways put it all together and you get an incredibly fast rig. The problem is I've been fighting it to the death for the past few days and I got WoW running for a total of 12 seconds... well on linux anyways. I dont have an extra lisence of windows yet so I cant get it to reliably run my games or rendering software. But my god... dual core linux runs like a dream and the games I can play on it *quake 4* runs leaps and bounds better than I've ever seen it play... Max graphics with multiprocessor support... HOLY HELL...

Gimme a few more days and I'll be back on WoW killing whatever it is that I logged off next to.

Interesting Facts:
-The computer is named Shark in honor of shark week.
-The computer's case looks like a refrigerator
-Shark week kicks ass.

Rushing to find a screenshot for this post.

2006-07-28T14:08:00.000-04:00

Alright so I have been back in the game. However I have not been posting as often. I guess its because I'm rocking out so hard again. I'm 33 and its taking about 3 hours to level which is a pain in the ass. I really dont like sitting in one spot killing the same monsters for about 3 hours. So I havent been posting because I've been playing. Recap of the past few days: I humiliated many many higher level alliance players by beating them without armor. The easy kill turned into a badass dinosaur shooting machine of fire. That doesnt make sense. Anyways I'm struggling to get back into the rhythm. So much crap is going on in my life that its hard to get into this whole mentalitiy. I need to pick a day that I can just go in and not worry about people.

Interesting Facts:
-I'm too lazy to go for multiple levels a day but I know I can.
-If I go for multiple levels a day I'll feel like an addict.
-I'm very un addicted to WoW infact I have to push myself to play.
-LOL FORGOT TO POST A FEW DAYS AGO!

Still naked, still a troll, still a hunter...

2006-07-24T15:11:00.000-04:00

Alright I'm back in the game! I'm going to try to post every day no matter if I play WoW or not. Mainly to force myself back into the grinding mood. I made it to level 32 last night and I'm about halfway to 33. I'm going to post another publicity post on the WoW forums today. I think one in general and one in the hunter forum so it doesnt get buried as fast. I did get 200 views in the time it took me to get a soda on the general forums.
Its still just as easy to level as before and desolace is a EXP goldmine. I have never seen an alliance there, its like they avoid the place for some reason. I go there and hunt to my hearts content and theres no jackhole trying to kill me for their family's honor.
However now I'm in Arathi highlands for my exping pleasure. Theres alot of smacktards around trying to keep me from my glorious EXP addiction and I need to figure out a way to stop them from logging on their 60's and ganking my ass. I need bodyguards... Anyone want to help?

/played 3 days 16 hours

Interesting facts:
-I became 21 recently so thats what I'm using as an excuse for not being on.
-Its sad that I need an excuse not to play
-Apparently at 35 I can join the guild with the people I came to play with.
-35 ETA 4 days

Its been a while...

2006-07-21T15:34:00.000-04:00

So I havent been playing WoW lately because outside forces are at work. I tried playing again today and noticed how slow the damn exp bar was moving. It takes about 4-5 hours per level now and its really bringing me down. I'm still 30 and I'm not feeling that this is hard enough or rewarding enough. If I make it to 60 what am I proving? I can play a pet class without armor or many bonuses. PVE is just as easy as it was before and its starting to bring me down. I cant go on grinding this long per day I just dont have enough time to invest in this game. WoW has some major flaws that this project has pointed out. You lose nothing when you die so there is no risk. The reward isnt very good either because you just level up and theres another level in front of you. At the end game instead of more levels there are actually pseudo levels initiated by the players themselves. There are multiple teirs of armors and such and raiding becomes a job. So you raid for DKP which turns into gear which just becomes another form of grinding. If I did make it to 60 the game would effectivly stop there because I would not be equipped well enough to go on raids. Guilds would probably only want me for novelty factor and the hunter class or all classes might end up taking a massive nerf.

Interesting Fact:
-I am thinking of starting up a warrior and trying that naked
-I am thinking of removing all armor and rings and seeing if that makes a difference
-It takes way too long to level.

Level 30 and livin it up

2006-07-13T00:16:00.000-04:00

There comes a point in every mans life... Where he realizes that hes halfway done with something. That point is when he says to him self, "I've climbed halfway up the mountain the rest cant be so bad" Little does the man know that past the halfway point the incline gets much steeper. Also theres bears up in them thar hills. So now the man must fight bears for footholds in the perilous rock. Thats how it should go right?

So far getting to level 30 has been a cake walk. I log on play for a couple hours and I level and log off. I've mentioned the project to some people I know and they said, "But you are a hunter of course you can do it" but they dont know that I can still solo mobs without my pet. PVP has actually become more of a challenge. I've been getting my ass kicked more often than not at this point so I generally try to avoid combat. Unfortunatly the zone I need to head to to build at is highly contested all the time Hillsbrad! I need to go there till 34 or 35 and then I can head to stranglethorn vale. Basically I think the hardest part is going to be dealing with other players ganking me repeatedly trying to break the armor that I am wearing. Now my new limit I think its going to be in the 45 range. I dont know if I can make it there because I'll be in gank central and will be fighting it out with the big boys. The level 60's

If I didnt lag so horrendusly I would have a /played. I think I'm up to 3 days 4 hours

Interesting facts:
-Still havent gotten up off my lazy ass and called blizzard to ask them about this.
-Friends get in the way of WoW
-Might be getting a mactop
-Bit torrent lags my system too much to play WoW

Titan Quest

2006-07-07T19:39:00.000-04:00

The fact that I have friends really slows down this project at times. I could have been much further along except for the fact that people keep bothering me. I am one of those people who actually puts people ahead of videogames, although what I do with other people is play videogames. So its like some kind of cycle of lame where I avoid one thing by doing the same thing but slightly different somewhere else. Long story short I purchased titan quest and I'm 2/3rds of the way done thats why there havent been posts.

/Played 3d 4h 53m

Interesting Facts:
-Titans Quest is extremely buggy however it is an amazing game.
-I need to get to level 40 to catch up with my friend who is moving his character to lightningsblade.
-Another one of my friends is building up an alliance warlock just to kick my ass because he hates my idea.

29 halfway to 30

2006-07-05T01:39:00.000-04:00

I went to warsong gulch and all I saw was glory. I was the top of my team both times I went to the gulch. I fought for the horde and did very well too well infact. I must be some kind of PVP god considering the insanity of the equipment I was up against. There must have been hundreds of gold spent on their enchantments alone.

Interesing Facts:
-The project is continually getting easier with every level.
-My pet is a death machine.

Artwork like I promised... Except on monday!

2006-07-03T23:49:00.000-04:00

Level 28 rocks my socks!

2006-07-01T23:10:00.000-04:00

I'll post the picture of me dancing with a night elf when I get back on my desktop... Cause right now I'm roaming. I'm almost done with my stay at Ashenvale and I'm about ready to head to Stranglethorn Vale. When I get around 38 or so my friend is going to start playing again so I can have someone to duo with to tide off the tedium of grinding solo. I got some new armor and weapons at this level because I just like to get nice things. This post is also the first one after I've gone public on the WoW forums. For any of the new people I say welcome and there is going to be a recap at level 30 which will include a foreign language section. On monday I am going to call blizzard tech support and ask them why this is possible and if they intended for this to happen. In all honesty when I started this project I never expected to get past 20.

Interesting Facts:
-The image will be up tomorrowish
-I didnt go to dinner with my co-workers cause I'm lazy
-Titan Quest is actually a really buggy but really good game.
-I havent shaved since I've been in public.

27 is such an awkward level

2006-07-01T01:29:00.000-04:00

PUT SKULL ON HEAD!!!

I'm almost 30 but I dont get any new skills which makes this level the "almost there but not yet because you are hoping too much" state of the experiment. I can still take 3 same level mobs at once without breaking a sweat. I'm now devestating in PVP because I have two stun skills and although I dont have armor I havent lost one fight today. I beat the crap out of a fully geared enchanted druid and warrior it was very close though. What I've realised in this is that its more important to disable the pet than it is to disable the hunter. My pet is actually more badass than I am so you need to eliminate him first he doesnt have as many skills as he can but he can still solo a player in pvp... which is frightening. Blizzard if you are reading this was this intended when you first created the game?

I am seriously considering adding more restrictions to this project such as:
-No stat boosting at all only damage additons this removes all armor and weapons that are magic.
-No weapons just go unarmed or maybe a 10 level cap on weapons (if I am 30 I can only use weapons up to level 20)

/Played 2d 16h 39m

Interesting Facts:
-Nerf Pets hps and armor I dont think they are supposed to replace your character.
-Boost armor levels 1-30 this should be more important than it is
-Boost monster damage 1-30 make the game a little harder
-Boost weapons 1-20 those were the hardest levels
-Give wing clip a longer cooldown... I just dominate with that.

Doing instances are about as efficient as standing next to a lamp.

2006-06-28T00:04:00.000-04:00

For the past day I spent countless hours trying to get the damn wingblade. It has prevented me from leveling for quite some time. I'm getting it because I really like the stats and how its an actually decent weapon. I've been trying to do this quest off and on for about a week and I absolutely loathe it. I finally got the thing and I should get a nice weapon for the offhand as well. So now that I'm 26 I'm about to start upgrading everything again. Every 4 levels or so I do this to keep fresh.

Ok enough of this damn WC crap and on to the meat. Today I did not die a single time in pvp against a hunter, a warlock, a druid, and a fully decked out warrior. Most people ended up either running or just getting their faces punched in by my raptor. I just keep getting better at this naked thing over time. I don't take hits and I bring the noise to the party. Engineering is a nice sidekick if you have a flair for the dramatic. One of the fights I was in I started off with a stick of dynamite from the trees and swooped in and had my raptor flank them. Yes I planted my raptor off in the bushes for an ambush and yes it was amazing. The elf was just in a state of shock when I jumped on her and it was absolutely amazing. I'm still scared to crap of battlegrounds because they are geared up specifically to own my ass.

Engineering is starting to take time away from owning crap too. I'm not getting much of a payoff from it especially with the time spent mining and then the time spent crafting stuff. Its a waste of time and money at this point.

/played 2 days 11 hours 56 minutes

Interesting facts:
-There is a trinket that makes you dance... and I must acquire this somehow.
-I don't know if the wingblade was worth it.
-I couldn't upload the image for this post because of an error.

Hmmm weekends eh?

2006-06-25T02:26:00.000-04:00

Although the weekends seem like the best time for grinding it doesnt work out that way. For some strange reason I hang out with my friends mostly around these isles of refuge from work. Therefore no grinding gets done and I'm left to post random filler text on saturday and sunday. Since I am technically fully trained as an artist now I'm gonna start posting random animations or artworks on these two desolate days. I want to make peices related to events that take place in the game and an example would be a drawing of that damn gold farmer leaping off a cliff and into oblivion. So next week I'll get this stuff ready for the weekend and post it then. Feel free to comment and tell me my work sucks.

Interesting facts:
-Yesterday I was told by one of my friends that I am starting to sound like a babbling 13 year old. So the rest of the posts will be much more professional (I'ma spell check!)
-I'm 21 next month
-I'm majoring in Animation/Video for a bachelor in fine arts.
-When I am out of college I am gonna be broke off my ass and probably trying to scrape a small animation/videogame company together with my buddies.

HOT DAMN I BOUGHT A SNAKE!

2006-06-23T02:22:00.000-04:00

Oh man I've got a snake. This is the coolest ever... I can have two pets out at once... I am the freaking beast master! Anyways on to the point, Ive done a few important things today. Level 24-25 have been the threshold of a new phenomenon. I'm missing like crazy I dont really know why. Its on specific enemies I think its a warrior skill but I dont really know because I never really played a warrior up to the 20's. Just like my previous post I can still tank like a mofo but now I'm about 10x better at mob managment so I can effectivly fight 3 creatures at once and the beastslaying enchants are actually noticable. The second thing of note that happened today is that I met either a bot or some guy who cant speak english. I was doing a quest that involved killing a bunch of things so I wouldnt feel bad about not grinding and this guy invites me to a group. So I go along with it thinking hes helping me out but instead the guy is a machine, he just wanders around killing shit and coming close to death every time. A ring drops and since I think rings dont count as armor since they dont actually add anything to armor I roll on it. This guy also rolls on it and he gets it. So I tell him I'll buy it for 5g because I have money that isnt really going anywhere and I should use it somehow. No response so I raise the bid to 10g... still nothing. So I'm thinking anyone in their right mind would trade a trashy ring for 10g. The guy then quits my group and runs off and off a cliff. So now I'm thinking to myself... wtf just happened? Did I fall victim to a gold farmer? So I did the thing any warm blooded american would do... talk to a friend who knows how to speak chinese in order to swear at the person behind the computer. So if you ever find yourself in this situation send them a tell with "wang ba dan" which means bastard. See this blog is educational now, it spreads culture and language to the masses.

Interesting Facts:
-In the image at the top of this post are my guildies Hoovesnhorns and Vorath we have a ton of animals.
-My snake is red.
-"Wang ba dan" = Bastard
-I'm slowly going crazy with all this grinding I might need to take a break with questing for a few levels.
-I think I can make it to 40 without problems
-I really suck at being a hunter in PVP terms
-This is the special edition of NTProject its a sandwich.

Rested Exp is like CRACK

2006-06-22T01:05:00.000-04:00

So things have been going fairly easy except for ranom gankage by the occasional pack of 5 monsters that spawn on you at once. I'm pretty sure most people are susceptible to that bullshit. I finally got to level 24 I think I'll make it to 25-26 tomorrow or so. I dont know depends on whats going on. My armor is still super low... I can still tank orange mobs... and my pet is now classified as a wmd. All in all the project is still rolling along pretty damn well and I'm almost at the halfwaypoint numerically wise... I need to have a special post then with cake and nachos or something. This whole global barrens chat thing kinda pisses me off because nobody is screaming "GAY" all the time where I am building... and I get lonely.

Interesting Facts:
-Thanks to rested exp getting a quarter level took 10 minutes.
-The game is infact getting easier as I level which is frightening.
-The friends who were gonna play with me still havent started up while I'm almost in the 30's
-I'm about to reach the range where I get to go to stranglethorn vale, ashenvale, stonetalon mountains and thousand needles.
-I did infact spend the day with girls instead of playing WoW.
-We played tennis and I'm really bad at tennis.
-I'm worse at bowling.

Hurray for patch day!

2006-06-21T00:54:00.000-04:00

Yaaaaayyy I havent been able to get in because blizzard effed up the patcher! Thanks! So instead I'ma animate some shizz! Yes thats right... I'm an animator! I did this in about 15 minutes not including the coloring. Here is the link to the animation

Almost got 24 tonight

2006-06-20T02:27:00.000-04:00

4 bubbles away from 24 too tired to post anything coherent so you'll just have to deal with this shit. Anyways I got a wailing caverns group today with a couple of my guild mates... something magical happened. Everyone tore off their clothes. I think Im starting a cult here. I dont know how many people are reading this blog but if you all post a comment on this post I'll have a decent idea. Anyways I grabbed engineering and mining and thats been actually coming along well I am getting very decent at it. I yelled at Aedak and told him he is not a man unless he takes off his clothes and tanks ragnaros. I'ma bout to crahs and thing. I dont understand what is wrong with this game... as I level up its actually getting easier. I can tank orange mobs now... although its less efficient to kill them. I thought I would be completely dependant on my pet by now but I am not. I can effectivly kill things in melee combat. Really really weird. I almost made it to my next milestone in a day which also makes me think that 25 isnt a good milestone and I'll push back the next recap till 30.

Slow goings to 21 but 22-23 should happen tomorrow.

2006-06-19T01:47:00.000-04:00

So not much happened today because its fathers day and I spent time rocking out with my dad mainly because he is the man. I got him one of those things that connects the tivo to your wireless network. (So you can watch CSI on the toilet.) So far its pretty sweet in that regard.

Anyways on to WoW news I finally got into a WC group and a Battlegrounds. When I was grouping for wailing caverns a couple people were asking about my armor and they didnt seem to care much. I was DPS so I didnt need to tank. The only issue we ran into was actually not my fault... We had some dumbass warrior who just randomly quit on us which made the preist ditch us. Which then collapsed the group and I just said, "fuck it dude... lets just go battleground." Then the guy called me a loser and I went to BG alone. Since I had leveled to 20 I forgot that I was going to be the lowest level in the 20-29 area of warsong gultch. I entered warsong gultch some guy asked whe the mage had no clothes and I responded with, "I'm a hunter and NO PANTS FOREVER!" Surpisingly I offed about 3 people. They happened to be the only two close to my level range and not super twinked for battlegrounds. If I didnt have to go against a gnome rogue with two fiery enchants and batshit insaneo gear I'd have done fine. Infact if I wasnt the lowest level possible for that BG I'd have done much better. Basically I just got thwomped by everyone but my peers (who I never lost a fight to) untill I quit.

I'm thinking I will be able to make it to 25 or 30 without noticing a difference without armor. I can still tank mobs fine although I've been picking stamina heavy gear to make up for lack of armor. I think everything I have adds like 3 stamina at least. I bought a couple beastslaying enchants to add a little more damage to the creatures I have been grinding off of. It seems to help alot and my weapons are all glowey now. I like the glow it makes me look tougher than I am. Maybe those are +5 to damage buffs... you dont know... I'm dangerous!

Interesting Fact
-I've managed to drain my funds signifigantly to 12 gold on nothing more than boots, gloves, and weapons.
-I use a gyration air mouse which uses the same technology in the wii controller and this is totally badass.
-I have delusions of grandeur when it comes to PVP especially since I've been doing pretty well while naked.
-Its hot as balls over in swampsville so a polar bear like myself cannot survive in this climate for much longer.

Crossing the threshold to 20

2006-06-17T14:04:00.000-04:00

I finally made it to level 20 without clothes so its time for a recap on all I've learned. So far I have seen little to no difference between actually wearing armor and not. I can tank even monsters fine without armor. The problem is when two or three mobs add on me I just get ganked. The most important thing for a level 1 - 20 is a good weapon thats pretty much the only thing that matters. There were some times where I wasnt doing so great without upgrading my weapons but once I did it was smooth like butter from then on. The pet has been a great tank most of the time keeping things off me while we are fighting. The fact that it levels up with me and that it scales up to fit current armor standards is a godsend. Chunkasaurus and I go way back to level 12 him we are currently rocking out in the barrens if you wanna find us. The grinding actually makes wow feel like a different game. I no longer feel like I am one of many just going through random quests because now I have control over the way I want to level. I just find a place with a good spawn rate and just tear through them for a while and move on. Reminds me of the good old days of the first generation MMO's. WoW has actually become fun again because of this. Try it and you'll see what I mean, its a completely different game.

Interesting Facts:
-I still have yet to ever battleground with this character
-I have yet to get into my first instance group mainly because the groups always turn into a random chat room involving gay porn and shooting semen in peoples eyes.
-I am thouroughly addicted to WoW again.
-I need to catch up to my level 60 buddies
-I've reached my first milestone that I thought I would not be able to.

Phew!

2006-06-16T21:56:00.000-04:00

I had to do alot of work today which seriously hindered any and all attempts at jumping on WoW. Sorry for a second day with no progress... But I can leave you with another humorous image. Since its made using "adobe photoshop image manipulation tool" I think its considered art and therefore fair use comes into play. If not I'll take it down and also if I get on wow tonight and something happens I'll replace this post.

Interesting Fact
-Work eats up lots of time.

Today blew ass

2006-06-16T00:12:00.000-04:00

Look at me! I'm playing diablo 2 and getting gang banged by a pack of monsters! If you cant see where I am... I'm that ball of flames within the pack of zombies and assgoblins getting raped.
Too much personal crap is happening today to play. Mental health day... off WoW

18 is better than nothing

2006-06-15T03:13:00.000-04:00

Well its time to hit the hay because its 3 Am where I live... and its... 3 AM... Tomorrow I hope I get to 25 to cause I'm playing catch up to a friend I made yesterday. Hes a freakin leveling machine. Damnit why do you grind so much better than I!?!? So I leave you with this scene of a troll and his dino.

Interesting Fact:
-You dont need pants to make friends
-Most of these posts are done twice because of image size and getting it to look the way I want for the final version
-I need to edit the web page aspect of the blog to change it from a generic template to something more my own althought it actually fits quite well
-I think these facts are going to become a standard thing.

Crap forgot to post today

2006-06-15T00:06:00.000-04:00

Holy crap long post and I thought this was gonna be a short one.

I missed it by 3 minutes. Apparently I've met a bunch of other people who grind... and one of em lives near me. I'm gonna go hang out with him at some point. I've had multiple people send me gold as of now. I should be level 17 by the time anyone actually reads this. My progress ground to a halt because I couldnt find somewhere to grind that was decent untill a couple hours ago. My boots are actually wearing down which means although I dont wear armor I still get repair bills... And those... are extremely cheap. I have made 3 gold which is a fortune for this level and I still havent noticed much of a difference with the armor thing. My biggest challenge has been publicising this Blog. I started giving out cards at work today with the link on it.

The way I am building currently is attacking one guy... sending my pet at it then changing targets to another guy and killing that while my pet is on cleanup... its very fast and efficient and I kill 2 targets in about 15 seconds. Grinding is much faster than questing currently.

In pvp I completely slapped the crap out of a mage. It was pretty fun he called me the coolest guy ever because I had no pants.

Oh a notice out towards people... I almost always have an insane amount of cloth but I need a ton of meat to feed my fatass pets... I will trade cloth for meat just whisper me in the game and I'll hook you up.

Interesting facts:

-I roflpwned a mage today in pvp 3 times
-I've tried to battlegrounds on 3 seperate occasions and never have I gotten in.
-I had to shave today because I went to work.

Checkpoint at level 15

2006-06-13T23:41:00.000-04:00

Gaze upon the devestation unleashed by Jumba and his buddy Chunkasaurus

It is just getting easier and easier as I level up. I'm grinding like a mofo and its getting faster and faster to level. I've met a bunch of really nice people in my guild and I'm about 3 levels ahead of my peers. Barrens chat is still amazing. hopefully I can hit 20 tomorrow morning.

I have some fears about not being wanted in a group although I seem to do fine solo. Having no gear isnt a problem right now but soon its going to be a very big thing once people are supposed to have all green sets. While I have my two green items of gloves and boots. My pet better kick ass for me.

Interesting information:
-I've joined 4 guilds since I've been on the server
-I've played for 12 hours in total
-I like naming my pets chunky
-People call me turok

Level 10 and going strong

2006-06-12T22:30:00.000-04:00

Here is a picture of me at level 10 with my pet crocolisk "Chunkerton"

I'm about halfway through level 10 as I am typing this. I am going to stop playing WoW for the night. This project seems to be working in the fact that I'm actually having fun while playing.

I chose the hunter class because I thought I'd have my pet tank for me so I can still be viable DPS in a group. So far it seems to be working well where I pound the crap out of things while my pet tanks. At these low levels I have not noticed a difference between wearing armor and not. I have a hypothesis that this is actually going to get easier as I go along. My pet will level up with me and continually get more badass so I dont have to considering pets are balanced in the fact that they are supposed to tank mobs around their level range.

The way people have been reacting to this have gone two ways so far. Most people are cheering me on and going, "YEAH NO PANTS FOREVER!" while some other people are calling me a moron or gay. Well sometimes the people who cheer me on also call me gay. I think its the fact that I'm naked.

Naked Troll Project

2006-06-12T18:52:00.000-04:00

Ok... I'm really bored with WoW and I was finally convinced to come back. Since I am so bored I decided to make my ascension to level 60 more interesting. WoW is regarded as easy by MMO standards and I'd like to make it hard. So what can you do to nerf your character completely? Take away the armor.

As it stands right now the only armor I will wear are gloves and shoes because not even total badasses wander around without shoes on.

Something under debate is wearing cloaks and helmets because you can hide them. I'm not sure if that would be considered cheating or not.

I'll make my next post when I hit level 10

The Naked Troll Project

Naked Troll gets hacked!

Return to the ancestral home.

Different Approach

Burning Crusade Day 1

GOD DAMNIT WHYY!!!

Naked Troll Project

Thanksgiving Mega-Chowdown-Post

Large amounts of news for a lack of posts.

RAARRGG!!!

BLASPHEMY!

Naked Troll Project Raids Ony!

Lol this is my raid gear.

I killed a few dragons!

Gotta kill a buncha dragons!

A new beginning

The Naked Collaboration

Operation Tinfoil Armor

50th post I hate LBRS

Plans for the future are currently being drawn.

WoW... word spreads fast *hyuk*

I had a chat with a GM after I leveled.

Naked Dance Party

Holy crap the internet found me!

THE FINAL POST!? I think not!

607 xp to 60

FUCKING SHIT I'M LEVEL 59!!!

57!!!

Forum attack!!!

Jumba enters the witness protection program.

Level 52 and Blizzard is putting on the crush.

Fifty Forum Fun

10 levels left... 25 more than the original hypothesis...

49 and standing tall

13 levels left (47)

Level 44

Level 40

AAHHH

39 is the lonleyest number

Level 38 and rising

Level 36

I called blizzard...

Wrassling with linux.

Rushing to find a screenshot for this post.

Still naked, still a troll, still a hunter...

Its been a while...

Level 30 and livin it up

Titan Quest

29 halfway to 30

Artwork like I promised... Except on monday!

Level 28 rocks my socks!

27 is such an awkward level

Doing instances are about as efficient as standing next to a lamp.

Hmmm weekends eh?

HOT DAMN I BOUGHT A SNAKE!

Rested Exp is like CRACK

Hurray for patch day!

Almost got 24 tonight

Slow goings to 21 but 22-23 should happen tomorrow.

Crossing the threshold to 20

Phew!

Today blew ass

18 is better than nothing

Crap forgot to post today

Checkpoint at level 15

Level 10 and going strong

Naked Troll Project

WoW... word spreads fast hyuk