Dumb Ass!

I finally got to log onto Nostik last night. He's the level 69 Hunter. I tought him his talents, got my training, and leveled Inscriptions to about 120ish (ran out of mats). I just checked The Armory for a more precise number, but the data is out of date.

Since it was more of a maintenance night as opposed to a leveling night I decided to level guns up to 345. Nostik has had a bow since he was first conceived, and was 1/345 in guns. I got the gun from the hunter camp quest in Nagrang, and never equiped it. It was time to get that gun and its 11 more DPS onto the toon.

I took the time to empty my bank of lower level ranged weapons, get an ammo pouch, and vendor the weapons I no longer needed...including the bow I have been using for the past level or two. I bought the cheapest ammo the Org vendor had because I knew I was about to waste a lot of bullets on the practice dummies near the mount vendor in Org, so why pay more than I had to? I have a flying mount to buy, after all.

I dismissed my pet and unleashed a hail of bullets onto the wooden practice post with a smile on my face. "Thank you, Blizz" actually came from my lips when I started this task. It is very nice of them to allow one to level skills like this instead of killing random mobs for no benifit.

I wasn't getting any skill points. Hmm. What am I doing wrong? I whispered other toons doing the same thing with their ranged and melee weapons to see if there was something I was missing. They indicated that they had no success either.

I noticed the practice post was grey when I was shooting it, and decided to level my guns elsewhere. I had been clued into mobs just south of Swamp of Sorrows (SoS) that never die. Once you got them down to 1% health they take no damage. I had used these mobs to level other skills before on GHOSTKID, so off I went - catching a bird to Ratchet to catch a boat to Booty Bay (BB) to catch a bird to SoS - you know the routine.

When I mounted the bird from BB to SoS I made a mental note to buy back my bow from a vendor in case anything "bad" happened.

Then it did. Something bad did happen. I got kicked off of the server.

I know Blizzard's servers are smoking hot with activity right now, and the occasional disconnect (DC) is to be expected. I spent 20 minutes trying to log back on before I was finally successful.

20 minutes! My bow was no longer at the vendor for buy back. Shit!

Oh well, off to the immortal mob I go...Son of G-something I think is the name. I'll be fine since I'm never going to equip that bow again.

I entered the camp where the Ogres that surround the immortal mob. My pet did all of the killing on the level 45 mobs with me behind firing miss after miss. The occasions that I did hit a mob yielded very little damage (lowest bullet rating and no skill level at guns).

After clearing the area to get to Son of G-something I sent in my pet, fired a shot, got a skill point for the shot, and relaxed because everything seemed like it would be OK in an hour or so (see old post for exactly how long 1 to 350 takes on a level 70 Hunter).

Everything was not OK. Once the never-ending mob hit his minimum health level I stopped getting skill points. Blizzard fixed/nerfed/fucked-up my immortal mob!

I am now a level 69 Hunter with about 25/345 in guns and the weakest ammo in the game, parked near an ogre camp that I will be clearing for the next two hours of game play. FUCK!

Does anyone know what's going on with my situation? Are things broken right now, or are they fixed to be permanent?

Please help.

I know the handful of readers I have are either another classes (mage, etc.), my family (non WoWers) or people that don't play anymore; but I'd like a nugget of knowledge if you have it. If not, just comment about how utterly NOOB I am for such a boneheaded vendor move in the first place.