tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18331915298002751642024-03-14T10:01:38.939-07:00Waiting on an EclipseA blog that used to be about ten man raiding, druids who are not animals, and complaining.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-18223209648317350882014-11-25T11:34:00.000-08:002014-11-25T11:34:10.250-08:00While I am playing againWhile I am playing again I might as well blog. I am incredibly interesting and everything I do is fairly noteworthy. It would be pretty selfish of me not to blog about my various adventures. I mean, who doesn't want to read about me getting lost in instances and not knowing my abilities.<br />
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So I got tired of spending 20+ hours volunteering along with my 40+ hours of work and then dealing with the rest of life which refuses to be pleasant for very long. So I scaled back the volunteering, I'd prefer to scale back working but that causes other problems. I then decided I had time to play wow again.<br />
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After taking the last three years and two months off I logged back in and was still in Ambivalence, the guild we joined at some point in the past. All my friends have gone elsewhere, where I don't know. I am friends with a couple of them on Battle.net. I don't know how it works though. I can't find them anywhere in my wow interface. I can't find a lot things there.<br />
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So far I have been leveling in Panda Land. It's pretty empty, it's like a newer expansion came out recently. I am leveling my druid of course, as balance of course. I have done some random instances as a healer. I figure faster queues and I can just follow the tank and heal. It's not like I have any idea what any boss does. I also didn't know where my revive ability in case someone dies, at least my first run. I could find battle res though. Last night I was in an instance with pretty secret staircase, which I couldn't find until someone came back for me. I know daily randoms aren't for thinking but, don't run off without your healer. If you see he is wearing three year old gear (I doubt time was taken to observe this) don't assume he knows his way around either. It appears that the gear that I get in instances is not better than the stuff I have from Firelands, even the ilvl 430 stuff. If someone hadn't stolen the gems out of my gear, it would last even longer. Maybe someone who reads this knows what happened to them.<br />
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I pretty much have no plan other than getting to level 90, I don't the have latest expansion. There should be enough going on in Panda Land to keep me entertained for a bit. Even if it just leveling, professions, and questing. This blog post is boring, and I have excuses, but I don't want to use them. I am going to save them for a worse post. That's all.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-2318568202690482662014-11-20T20:07:00.004-08:002014-11-20T20:14:17.356-08:00Where's Insect Swarm?I can't find it on my action bar, I don't like it.<br />
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That's allLakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-79783567646013030082012-03-16T21:41:00.001-07:002012-03-16T21:43:55.810-07:00Closing up ShopSince it has been six months or so since my last real post this shouldn't be a surprise. Now I have quit blogging a few times, and I'm not really blogging at the moment. This is the end for this blog. I may start a new blog tomorrow about how cats shouldn't have front claws or about how old people shouldn't be allowed to drive in the left lane. Or about how Peyton Manning is an idiot for thinking Seattle is too far from home but San Francisco is not. Seattle is 2729 air miles from Miami, San Francisco is 2588. That last 141 miles on an airplane must have been the deal breaker.<br />
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Anyway some parting comments and thoughts. I can't go to school at night like I would like. Something about my second grade son not being able to take care of his five year old sister by himself. Hopefully when my daughter starts kindergarten this fall my wife can just work during the day (miracle required). <br />
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As far as gaming goes I don't play anything. I do dominate at Wii bowling and Super Mario Bros from time to time. After six months I have found a game that works for me. I am not huge fan of demons or their friends I will be playing Diablo III. It will work on my computer, I can make a character (named Lakini) and kill things. As far I can tell I don't need anyones help to finish that game. I see that I could get the game free for subscribing for a year to play WOW. No thanks, I'll just buy the game.<br />
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You can e-mail me at Csjones29@msn.com if want to bug me. I even figured out how to have my phone tell me when I get an e-mail (fancy I know). If any of you are playing Diablo III e-mail me and we can fail at some co-op stuff. Thanks all.<br />
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I just looked at my first post, I was 28 when I started this thing, I wish I was 28. Stupid last five years.<br />
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Love (not really) Chadwick Jones.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-7277157277393472932012-01-13T21:37:00.001-08:002012-01-13T21:37:16.303-08:00I'm not locked out my Blog Anymore!That's pretty much it, maybe I'll make a real post someday.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-27782475036744885082011-09-26T21:07:00.000-07:002011-09-26T21:07:43.884-07:00Moving onLast week there was a death in my family so I was out of town all weekend and put no thought to what was going on with the game. Which I would have thought would help me make a decision that wasn't motivated by the frustration I was feeling last week. That failed, I am really more irritated than I was before<br />
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As I posted last week I am quitting wow. I will not be returning. My return back in January was based on a flawed premise, that I could come back and not do end game pve. That clearly doesn't work for me or I would keep playing. The pve does not need to be competitive like it was in Wrath, but it needs to exist and not be terrible.<br />
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Right now, I regret coming back at all. I spent money moving toons, time leveling them along with professions for nothing. I accomplished nothing. I didn't even get tier 11 cleared much less tier 12. I had some fun, but mostly wondered why we sucked when we used to be good. Then of course once we didn't suck we quit.<br />
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I doubt I will play an mmo again, I won't play one anytime soon. I'd like to work towards getting my bachelors. The kind of endgame pve that I would be interested in doesn't mesh with that, full time work and a family. <br />
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I'm not sure how to end this and not sound like a jerk, but when have I ever done that? I want say thanks to the guys I played with in case I don't get a chance to talk to you again. I hope nobody takes this as indictment of them or how they play. I should have known that it wasn't going to end well, that most of us have played this game too long. Good luck to you guys in stwor and try not to offend all the Star Wars nerds, they are more sensitive than regular nerds. That's all.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-21530896874298353002011-09-20T19:30:00.000-07:002011-09-20T19:31:52.115-07:00About the Reality of QuittingI'm back at the point I was in Wrath when I quit. I'm tired of doing nothing because people get bored and leave. There is talk about playing the new Star Wars mmo amongst the group. I just don't see it. It requires me to buy a new game and new operating system (no mac support). We are gong to end up on an east coast server raiding at 6:00 to 6:30 my time when 8:00 to 8:30 is what I really need. There is also the fact that we will at some point stop whatever progression we are at because people will get bored. Doesn't sound worth it to me. Maybe I'm just cranky, that's all.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-67002855138361635862011-09-15T21:30:00.000-07:002011-09-15T21:30:15.247-07:00About the possibility of QuittingTo put it simply if there is no end game, no raiding, no rated battle grounds there is no reason to play. I haven't really blogged about the guild I am in, but I'm not nearly elite enough to get an invite to rated bgs. That doesn't bother me, they are pushing 2500 rating, I'm not that good. The bottom line is that I don't get to do them and druids that are not feral are pretty bad in arena. So pvp is dead for me at this point.<br />
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Despite the facr we are progressing we are when we raid we rarely do. We one or two shot (l2tank Beth Rob) three bosses in 90 minutes and quit because someone has to go. Then we don't raid again for a couple weeks. That isn't enough for me to justify the $14.99. Anything I do with alts is based around making life easier for me on my druid, if there is no endgame there is no point to leveling my alts.<br />
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Speaking of leveling alts must one dps in a low level random think he should pull? As long I have played I really don't have patience for people who are don't have a clue. Pulling mobs on your own as dps is stupid, I left my last three randoms after some moron starts pull stuff. In one a druid would take a pull off then go bear and pull his own set of mobs, on another a druid went pulled a pack while the tank was pulling one, I left both so I'm not sure how that went. Then there was the Mara with a prot paladin and resto shaman who were both dps. I have a headache.<br />
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Back to the topic, if we can't recruit and the 14 of us can't raid twice a week I'm done. Rated bg's will not happen, that's all.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-8712240841346300662011-09-10T21:51:00.000-07:002011-09-10T21:51:39.850-07:0010/2/11This is when my subscription runs out, I'll need something more to do than level alts and get pummeled in 2's to play beyond that. More later, that's all.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-79092258658892890282011-08-22T20:26:00.000-07:002011-08-22T22:14:01.634-07:00My Journey to my Burning Treant (Long Edition)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIn0yFCkf4AulQdL_tfAkAn5FsxzlDjAN9V3krg9eR3Kd1DDc789fWzVs0ADfJSu7jzi42D2aE-HkOzOfO3I8CEWO4WPY3A4O3A9pyBdl9eOg_UqeAcQcMaKjDpM2gvMj1GBW_n_EtFoi5/s1600/Firetree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIn0yFCkf4AulQdL_tfAkAn5FsxzlDjAN9V3krg9eR3Kd1DDc789fWzVs0ADfJSu7jzi42D2aE-HkOzOfO3I8CEWO4WPY3A4O3A9pyBdl9eOg_UqeAcQcMaKjDpM2gvMj1GBW_n_EtFoi5/s320/Firetree.jpg" width="218" /></a>The tier 12 two piece set bonus for balance druids summons a burning treant, which is everyone's dream come true. So naturally when I saw that it was within reach this week I did something I had yet to do the this expansion. Queue up for a random (alone), these have been out of style amongst those I raid with for a week or two.<br />
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I decided that regular randoms would be the way to go as I need dream shards and they would be easier to pug. I queued up for both damage and healing and to my surprise I was in Grim Batol as dps in about three minutes. It was going really quick and easy, I looked at the dps meters and was doing 20k to 30k on trash pulls while the other guys were doing 5k. I just figured they sucked and this was easy. Later I realized that I queued for a regular and not a heroic, which explained why it was so easy and the dps was lower.<br />
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Fresh off that success I did two heroics as a healer. I hadn't done a non-troll heroic since April and it was noticeably easier to heal. I did a couple of the Uldum ones, I don't remember what they are called. The first one went smooth other than the tank for getting to participate in one of the boss fights, we killed him anyway. The second has a couple of folks who like to afk and a tank who didn't notice, then he got mad and left. His replacement was adequate and we cleared the place fine.<br />
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I did two more heroics in the morning and which kinda of run together for me. I healed people, we won. Then in the afternoon I saw that I could get <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; white-space: nowrap;"><b class="q7" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=69903">Satchel of Exotic Mysteries</a> </span></b></span> for healing a troll heroic. Things became a struggle here, the shadow priest in the group was pretty bad, and the overall dps was a bit low. We still made it through with only a couple of wipes.<br />
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At this point I only needed to one more for my gloves and set bonus. I really didn't feel like doing another one, I shouldn't have. I queued once more and got Stonecore, which I hate. The tank immediately left, to be replaced a minute later with a guy in mostly greens. After a couple of trash pulls I could tell where it was going and shut down WOW to go watch TV for a half hour or so. When I returned I was still in Stonecore and the game told me I need to leave the instance or I would get saved to a cleared one. I chose poorly (not to be saved) and requeued. I got the same group which had wiped their way through some trash with the same awful tank, I immediately dropped group and killed 15 more minutes.<br />
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I knew I should call it a night, but I had to queue again. I got an in progress Blackrock Caverns. The group seemed fine and we pulled to the next boss. I don't know the name of the boss I just know you need to move in and out of beams or adds turn into big scary guys. First attempt I failed to move in time as did one other person and we wiped. Second attempt I forgot to move out the second time and my add got scary. The tank never taunted him (don't know if can) I survived quite a while with thing on me but not long enough for us to get a kill. That was the end for me.<br />
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So Sunday night I logged on just before 11:00pm server time to give random heroic another try. Just after I queued I got whisper for the gm asking if I could heal Ragnaros, I said yes. This is the only fight in Firelands I haven't done any studying on and had know idea what happened in the fight. I jumped in vent and the fight was explained to me pretty quickly. I guess raid time was supposed to already be over or supposed to be ending any minute. In phase one it was my job to make sure the group was topped off for fire traps, which would kill people if I didn't. Phase two I need to stand in the green marker he put on the ground and move with the group when told. We would move to a point together and there was massive aoe damage to the group, then move back to our spots. Phase three had giant balls (for real) which would fixate on people and had to be kited and it with a dps spell before they hit you, if done wrong you would wipe the group.<br />
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The first attempt I burned through my mana pretty quickly as I wasn't in position and paranoid about letting people die. The other two healers stayed on the tanks and healed themselves. In phase two I moved to the wrong spot at one point, I tried to move to where I belonged which meant a quick run through fire, not a good idea. If I had understood the fight better, I would have waited five seconds and gone back to my spot alive. I got battlerezzed and got my mana back. We wiped in what appeared to be the transition from phase two to three. Which was the fault of the dps and not me, which was good for me.<br />
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The second attempt went more smoothly for me. By the end of phase one figured out how to best get my people topped off and still have mana left. Phase two I didn't get lost, or intentionally walk into fire. Phase 3 started and the giant ball fixated on my pretty quickly. No travel form allowed so ran until it got close and moonfired which sent it backwards. Now if I or anyone else sent one back towards people they would die. When the boss was at 13% (you only take him to 10%) two balls came at me and killed me. I don't know if they got knocked back at me or just both hated me, the important thing was the boss ran away and left loot. I also didn't pop heroism on accident at any point in the fight, just throwing that out there.<br />
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I don't know they how they do their loot but I wasn't going to roll on anything. They didn't use master loot one person rolled need on the tier 12 helm and someone greed an a nice caster weapon. Right after the I headed back to Stormwind and picked up my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; white-space: nowrap;"><b class="q4" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=71107">Obsidian Arborweave Gloves</a></span></b></span> and my friend, who doesn't proc nearly enough. That's all.<br />
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</div><div>We have killed Shannox twice and killed Beth something once. We seem to have learned how to not stand in traps and not be between Rageface and crystal prism traps. The only issuse we had with the spider boss was she was consuming one of the little spiders when she came down for phase 2. They were spawning right before she came down as she was getting one even when they really far from her (which was fixed). The first attempt we were able to kill them all we killed her. Our last failed attempt I did 1 million more damage than I did on our kill, thanks for nothing Blizzard, no one looks at failed attempts when you have a kill. That's all.</div><div><br />
</div><div>We are doing that tall guy with the legs you drive tonight. Don't think I'll won't put another mean post on here if we fail. I'll name names. That's all, for reals.</div>Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-1584718810277438012011-07-08T21:37:00.000-07:002011-07-08T21:37:53.524-07:00Time to be the bad guy againI thought these posts were behind me, it's been quite a while since I have raided with people who gem spell pen or people who put +resist gems in their prismatic slots. Bad news is I need to, good news is I really excel at them, so here we go. The following is a message to the raid team I am part of. It will be filled the various insults and offensive language I never use, until now. The entire blog post could really be summed up by this, Hey guys why don't we try raiding without our heads up our asses? That would be your head NOT up your ass. It will be easier to do your job and probably be easier to breathe.<br />
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You are all big boys and girls so you can handle this, in fact you will soon remember this blog post as the beginning of us not sucking anymore. Remember when we used to be good, remember when we cleared heroic content? We went from being first five on 10 man achievements on our server to wiping for hours on bosses that aren't very hard. How did this happen? I'll start this with me.<br />
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As you may remember I quit last summer. I didn't come back until the end of January, six weeks after Cata came out. My plan was to be an alternate raider, while the raid team went on as did in Wrath. I thought I could go along for the ride, do decent dps avoid fire and do encounters the group had on farm. It's obvious that hasn't happened.<br />
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I never really got into any kind of dps rhythm, I never felt comfortable on the boss fights. I swapped between healing and dpsing, I raided once a week and my dps was not good. Even once I geared got my dps was still not up to par. My dps rotation changed from Wrath and I was so worried about boss mechanics I was screwing it up pretty much anytime a boss did anything special. When it wasn't I was forgetting to use Starsurge and letting my dots fall off. In wrath I didn't have starsurge and dots were something to cast when your were moving because their damage was fairly pitiful.<br />
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During my little break I took last week I realized that I wasn't having fun playing the level I was at in pve or pvp. I did some research and decided I would watch videos on raid encounters. I figured that if I knew the mechanics before I started I would be more comfortable. It paid off in the raids I did this week, I wasn't as good I as want to be but I was able to keep dots on three targets provided they were in range and keep my rotation going better than I have been. <br />
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We are better than the results we are getting, way better. So are you guys fine with this? Is wiping on bosses for hours what you were hoping for? My guess is you know what isn't working for you and you know why aren't playing at the level you were in Wrath. I have no desire to be hardcore or really care if we are clearing heroic raids, but wiping all night on bosses that pugs kill is ridiculous. So, lets all at together remove our heads from our asses (you should probably wash your hair) and start killing bosses again. That's all.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-56940958097497978662011-06-27T09:33:00.000-07:002011-06-27T09:37:23.887-07:004.2!!!As you may have heard patch 4.2 is coming out tomorrow, which means among many things that a new tier of raiding and new arena / rated bg seasons are coming. I will not be around for this, until the weekend anyway. Went of out town last weekend and will be helping at my church's vacation bible school all week. Anyway this seemed like a good time to make a blog post about my various adventures and complaints.<br />
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</div><div>We came up one boss short in pve, Nefarion. The fight itself is easy in my opinion, as long as you don't mess something up. Miss an interrupt or face a boss the wrong way and your probably dead. Getting phase 3 down has been tough because we tend to find a way to wipe before we get there. Patch 4.2 will nerf this and every other non heroic raid fight by a lot so we should get this next time we try.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Arenas have been up pretty good. I have played a two specs and a few comps, it would have been nice to play Lock, Shaman, Druid since it was apparently awesome, but that didn't work out. We ended up with balance druid, frost mage and holy paladin. I thought we did alright considering I'm not that good and they weren't that well geared. I did feel like I improved as the season went on, hopefully next season I'll "get it". Of course the changes being made to balance druids will require me to change how I play, which is fine. I wasn't real attached to <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=93402">sunfire</a> spam. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Rated battlegrounds were the most fun thing I have done so far this expansion. Reminds me of the bgs teams I would play with back in vanilla wow. I ended up going 14-5 with 888 rating and around 2300 mmr. My frustration is not being able to play more games. I'm not sure what you do to get guild invites to rated bgs. I appear to be doing it wrong most of the time. This is in fact my inspriration for cancelling my account for a week or so. One night of being on for three hours while rbgs were going on and never getting in pissed me off. The theory with me is when I don't play for a bit I remember that how many raid bosses I kill, the gear I wear and such doesn't mean anything in real life isn't that big deal. </div><div><br />
</div><div>It worked for raiding, in the past not getting Nef before the 4.2 nerf would have really pissed me off. I may have drawn some pictures to show how not fail. Having people still unable to figure out how to avoid tornadoes in phase one on Al' akir would have caused my head to explode. Now I don't think it's a big deal that we'll kill Nef post nerf. If we were going to do Al' akir again I probably would draw some showing how to avoid the tornado with wind burst though (for fun mostly, I tempted to do it anyway).</div><div><br />
</div><div>Also, leveling enchanting from 375 to 425 is stupid and not fun. Leveling leatherworking from 375 to 425 is really easy (assuming you can skin). I hate Shadowmoon Valley, how long it takes to get to Dalaran, and frost dks. I'll be back Friday night, when mods will hopefully be fixed and being passed over for rbgs for 3 hours will be like wiping on raid boss for three hours, not my favorite, but not a big deal. That's all.</div><br />
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Raiding once a week I have been able to gear up well and are now two bosses from clearing all raid content in this tier. I have also successfully avoided caring about how quickly I get valor points. My only complaint is the horrid drop rate of leather with int on it.<br />
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I am back in my familiar role of healing if needed dps otherwise. I feel like I have a handle on healing, now that I think about about I haven't researched anything beyond on how to spec. Maybe I am doing it wrong, it hasn't been wrong enough to give us trouble so it must not be that wrong.<br />
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When it comes to dps, I feel like I'm not the powerhouse of incredible fury and dominance I once was. I mean, I used to make rogues cry, and reroll. Now I hope to not get 5th out of 5 dps. My gear isn't an issue, it is as good or better than the other folks in the group. I know I still haven't totally adjusted to the changes that have been made. I still occasionally forget to use Starsurge and to refresh my dots when I should. Maybe my dps is about where it should be, research might help with finding that out.<br />
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The world of PVP has been okay I guess. Rated battlegrounds are what I hoped for, I just haven't been able to many of them. The ones I have done have put my MMR over 2k, which would be bad if I went with a trade chat pug. Arenas are arenas, I feel confident in my healing abilities, but my efforts have basically been for points and with different comps every week. Which is fine, I should be able to do a steady 3's team next season. Regular bgs are to the point where 3 or 4 of us can smash folks and we win most of the time, which is nice.<br />
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As I said before I am trying to get my alts and professions in order. I hit level 85 Friday night on my hunter, mainly so the guild could get the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=5156">Classy Draenei</a> achievement. Level 84 is fine for farming leather and ore. I have my shaman at 44 and priest and 22, with all the heirlooms the hardest part leveling is keeping the professions. I went from level 15 to 21 on my priest doing three instances the other night.<br />
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My plan is to have leather working and enchanting on my druid. There is no real benefit to having jewel crafting on a main character and alchemy benefits other than the epic trinket aren't that great. If your raid group has one making a cauldron and guild perks you just end with a four hour flask instead of a two or three hour one.<br />
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Our raid group currently only has one enchanter and one another person has it on his alt tank. That has made for many vendored boss drops. Having leather working would enable to get those deelys for crafting instead of passing on them and I would be able me to make gear for my hunter and shaman. Of course this not only costs time but gold and there is legendary staff calling my name that will require much gold if I am to get it. I am not sure of what getting the staff entails but I know lots of gold is part of it.<br />
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Maybe I'll blog more often, or less, or the same, or something else, that's all.<br />
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</div><div>I had to pack all my stuff and any mats I would want for new alts in one characters inventory. If anyone out there knows why the number of bank slots you can get has not increased in seven years please let me know. I'm sure there is a logical reason we can't get more bank tabs but bag sizes keep growing. Anyway, lots of stuff, one guy. I also decided to revive my level 76 hunter, which has been napping for years now. He has 350 skinning and mining and was $30.00 cheaper to transfer.<br />
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I ran out of things to say about this, which means this blog post is over. That's all.</div>Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-68251614186314101442011-03-26T13:18:00.000-07:002011-03-26T17:44:19.965-07:00Time to Move<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRBNYvUjTSCk-XxWPp211H9yGM_ohxK7g8dmZxteiq2aiIBWlm-tuxILGY7-A7A-dZb5cOmSviebBObSCP5iVw9PnznIv-RA5DMNr-gfKcZEG_6Dk9-SKBBz8M7zh1Hv9XgtpteMx5GCtV/s1600/Message.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRBNYvUjTSCk-XxWPp211H9yGM_ohxK7g8dmZxteiq2aiIBWlm-tuxILGY7-A7A-dZb5cOmSviebBObSCP5iVw9PnznIv-RA5DMNr-gfKcZEG_6Dk9-SKBBz8M7zh1Hv9XgtpteMx5GCtV/s320/Message.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaNYjYOHNTMNh0f3CAIlecr-rkxvRrJk22a2NkZ3nVeMAlzMl47RRJ_VFhFUQsmjWovqtlcSXQflb_UIZdmXTJSC8he36_jnAKcuWCmt6YUdqzFLADUQw8cPozo0tyHaDvv4_z07xkg7AA/s1600/Before.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaNYjYOHNTMNh0f3CAIlecr-rkxvRrJk22a2NkZ3nVeMAlzMl47RRJ_VFhFUQsmjWovqtlcSXQflb_UIZdmXTJSC8he36_jnAKcuWCmt6YUdqzFLADUQw8cPozo0tyHaDvv4_z07xkg7AA/s320/Before.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie6hGlvD3M7Iny_fjvQtE6eBq7zokstRWa6IcVsvIpo7otKMoZujKSVMcTyPfTLpZm2FcLE-VpSzsgD-naVyIj3jg0nMIJEm122Y3204Rylln5-obtlM9QccRbn_PA2xoN971Q0BPM1uyr/s1600/After.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie6hGlvD3M7Iny_fjvQtE6eBq7zokstRWa6IcVsvIpo7otKMoZujKSVMcTyPfTLpZm2FcLE-VpSzsgD-naVyIj3jg0nMIJEm122Y3204Rylln5-obtlM9QccRbn_PA2xoN971Q0BPM1uyr/s320/After.jpg" width="291" /></a></div>Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-84440152820299272802011-03-20T17:09:00.000-07:002011-03-20T17:09:06.499-07:00Worst Post Ever (this year)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFBkC6QV-iyAv5LMUAMSSH7QE9VWscMcC-Stcnh5-uvqXQFIso74MfkYudKHH1NoR2kxrZ17xpAav1wvP2wnBLuC4Lvx_vUWeTakoO518b-t3RSrFEJ4X9EcYgz2dF15rrCkuOAx9vRngo/s1600/Pony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFBkC6QV-iyAv5LMUAMSSH7QE9VWscMcC-Stcnh5-uvqXQFIso74MfkYudKHH1NoR2kxrZ17xpAav1wvP2wnBLuC4Lvx_vUWeTakoO518b-t3RSrFEJ4X9EcYgz2dF15rrCkuOAx9vRngo/s200/Pony.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Hello everyone, it has been a while since I have posted. You probably noticed, sorry to any of you who have been staring at your computer for weeks eagerly anticipating a post. I put a picture of a pony on here to make up for it. Anyway, I have done many exciting things in the last month I remember some of it.<br />
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PVE<br />
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1. Finished every Cata heroic and screwed up quite a bit while doing so.<br />
2. Killed some raid bosses<br />
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PVP<br />
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1. Learned that balance druids are still bad in arenas.<br />
2. Learned that 2 vs 2 with a healer is never ending<br />
3. Got purple gear.<br />
4. Got Isle of Conquest twice in a row queueing for a random bg<br />
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Alts<br />
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1. Turned Homerjay into Greenlakini<br />
2. Leveled mining on Greenlakini<br />
3. Accidently unlearned mining when unlearning blacksmithing on Greenlakini<br />
4. Died a little inside<br />
5. Leveled mining and jewelcrafting on Greenlakini<br />
6. Leveled Greenlakini to 82, Deadlakini to 84, and Magelakini to 59.<br />
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NCAA Bracket<br />
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1. Fail<br />
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Make a decent blog post<br />
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1. More Fail.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-16779980945782927652011-02-23T21:59:00.000-08:002011-02-23T21:59:21.940-08:00My PVP Cataclysm Goals1. Battleground Achievements<br />
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<div> It would be nice to at least get the achievements I did before the achievement system was put in. I'm not sure how I got exalted with in AV only winning 11 times. I'm not worried about the ones that require luck or killing 10 people at every base, just the ones that actually help the team win.</div><div><br />
</div><div>2. Rated Battlegrounds</div><div><br />
</div><div> I'm hoping the guild will be able to put together a group that is able to compete at high level. What that means I 'm not sure yet. The main objective is really just to be doing these on a weekly basis at some point. </div><div><br />
</div><div>3. Arenas</div><div><br />
</div><div> I'm not sure what my goal is here. If something works out that is fun that's great. If it doesn't, I'd at least like to get some points if rated bgs aren't going on.</div><div><br />
</div><div>There you have it, three goals. Those might be the worst goals ever. That's all.</div></div>Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-88548906112531209122011-02-21T14:59:00.000-08:002011-02-21T14:59:31.187-08:00Life at Level 85<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTcw3_9DTmlk9F7MNgBwZLQ9462YvtvlYutd_L2Ysi-KyOEnwJIu4ozEDLN5t4KmX-6ia_7mTr2JbwM81AtU98CnPvUbNPoYpxmuN61Yz_HqS-qTzJhn26uN1j2SxWYlvsA5kle09mYo0H/s1600/BarredOwl-by-A.-J.-Hand-talonsclose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTcw3_9DTmlk9F7MNgBwZLQ9462YvtvlYutd_L2Ysi-KyOEnwJIu4ozEDLN5t4KmX-6ia_7mTr2JbwM81AtU98CnPvUbNPoYpxmuN61Yz_HqS-qTzJhn26uN1j2SxWYlvsA5kle09mYo0H/s320/BarredOwl-by-A.-J.-Hand-talonsclose.jpg" width="320" /></a>Well it has been nearly two weeks since I hit 85 and it has been interesting. My idea of being casual is working well. I have been able to log in and find something to do without getting frustrated. With the exception of the stupid long by queues if you are in group of four or more for bgs.<br />
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PVE has gone better than expected as far what I have got done. While the content is harder getting gear was easier. In my first week I did five heroics in four days, and none since. Bad timing and not reading guild chat has cost me there. I made it into a raid last Thursday and got a weapon. The couple of bosses we did seemed fairly easy as far as the mechanics go.<br />
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The guild has only one boss down other than Tol Barad boss. The guild as a whole is more casual than it was in Wrath, which is bad timing. We should have been casual for the easy expansion. I don't have much to say other than that on the state of the guilds raiding. I only went on one raid and I was more worried about my rotation and where my innervate button went than what other people were doing.<br />
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Healing is not all the same, which I do not appreciate. My attempts to be more casual do not mesh well with the healing changes. Wrath of the LIch King taught me that I should heal all the time and that mana was infinite. Cataclysm is pretty much the opposite, thanks for nothing. I mean, I think it's a change for the better, but after two years of spam spam spam, is hard to change.<br />
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PVP hasn't gone as well, I'm behind the gearing curve and moonkins are still at a disadvantage against most. I'm optimistic that once I get some gear and some experience with my new abilities as well the ones other classes have gained I'll be fine. It doesn't look like there is a ton of interest in rated bgs right now. I'm torn on whether to pursue getting on an arena team, other than the one with Blue's level 80 priest. I haven't decided if arenas are something I want to spend my time doing seriously, but playing some games would greatly improve my pvp gear.<br />
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As far as alts go I always wanted two. Due to the faction change I ended up with just my death knight for Wrath. I have started leveling my stupid mage, which is stupid because it is a blood elf male. I'm too cheap to for a faction change, and the thing was already level 41 so no turning back. So I figure that I'll keep alchemy and jewelcrafting on my druid and enchanting on my dk. My mage has herbalism and inscriptions, once he level 83 or so I'll switch from herbalism to mining on the dk and I will be happy.<br />
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Also thought I should point out that my journey to Heroic Grim Batol had five wipes (or six) all of them were my fault, which is record for me, I think. That's all.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-81436491071845670132011-02-09T17:31:00.000-08:002011-02-09T17:31:28.328-08:00Level 85 Ganks my GoldSo now that I'm level 85 I'm not nearly is wealthy as I used to be. Not being prepared at all for a new expansion and having jewelcrafting without mining doesn't help either. Thanks to my sons fever I had a bit of extra time to play and level yesterday. After which I started doing research, which I used to love, which now is fairly boring to me. It is far less boring than flying to quartermasters and seeing what gear to buy and much nicer than guessing wrong on how to gem.<br />
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After much flying and buying I got my item level high enough that I'm allowed in heroics, which I haven't had time to try yet. Then there is this thing called reforging that is new and exciting. This guy switches some stats around for you and takes your money. So I asked the internet what stats I need and I was pretty far below the hit cap. I then reforged every piece of gear I could to add spirit (spirit = hit for properly specced moonkins) or hit and got within .29 of the hit cap.<br />
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I cut a good chunk of mastery with a little haste and crit, which I am already questioning. I was at the hit cap for heroics, so my dps for those just took a major hit. What I get in return is increased dps against raid bosses and some mana regen. I'm not real sure how useful that is going to be since I'm not a part of raid group. It'll be great if I can pug that new Wintergrasp like boss, whoever that is.<br />
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I suppose heroics and getting smashed in bgs is in my immediate future, with guildmates as much as possible. I just need some mod so I can watch my dots and I need to figure out this wild mushroom thing. I have abandoned the healing gig for now. I'm much better at dps than I am at healing and it's confusing not looking like a giant walking owl or tree while I play. It throws me off, that's all.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-54127468240655923372011-02-08T09:23:00.000-08:002011-02-08T09:23:48.427-08:00My PVE Cataclysm GoalsI thought I should have some kind of goals for this expansion, I did for the last one and they kind of worked out. I'm going to list the goals I had for Wrath and see how they compare to my goals now.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">1. Complete every 10 man raid.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">This goal is the same as it was for Wrath.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><s>2. Progress at a better than average pace.</s></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">This one is out. I hope the guild moves at this pace, but for me personally it doesn't matter. I want to complete the content anything beyond that is great but not important. I don't have the time or drive anymore to worry about it. Doing hardmodes and getting raid achievements is something I would like to do but is not something I'm worried about. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">So I only had two PVE goals for Wrath I have a couple more for Cata.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">I'd like to pick these up, I can fly anywhere and with questing improvements this doesn't sound horrible or painful. I have always enjoyed the story behind wow and doing the quests is a great way to be a part of it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">3. Level alts</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">This is something I hurried through in Wrath. I leveled my rogue to 80 and discovered I didn't want to pvp with him and never used him again. The only reason I leveled my dk was to have an alt for professions without paying $30.00 to switch the rogue to horde. I have made a night elf druid and worgen mage on a pve server just for leveling. I'll eventually make a goblin on aos so I can see those starting zones. I have no endgame plans with any of these, I doubt any of them would make it to 85, though I would like to have a third level 85 for professions.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">So you can see I have gone a little casual. I still want to raid, it's the most fun thing you can do in this game in my opinion. It's just the not only thing anymore, that's all.</span></span>Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-38899319784453482392011-02-03T16:58:00.000-08:002011-02-03T16:58:02.709-08:00My Ears! (Off topic)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0HFMofSRMfG0SFbDNtidjhEZ1JTqgFlooKUh8qwyuah-5T-iYwg4U9VYgPjA99s4e9rc3_RzcjDbZsT78bSTVnZNG3bZ3Kt1H2z1YSg3Fv4TqCBNoV2RXUUnvXfr5OP4eGtpwmT8Eekq/s1600/400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0HFMofSRMfG0SFbDNtidjhEZ1JTqgFlooKUh8qwyuah-5T-iYwg4U9VYgPjA99s4e9rc3_RzcjDbZsT78bSTVnZNG3bZ3Kt1H2z1YSg3Fv4TqCBNoV2RXUUnvXfr5OP4eGtpwmT8Eekq/s320/400.jpg" width="320" /></a>People should not be allowed to play country music anywhere really, but really not at work where I cannot avoid it. After 3 days of it I become hostile and start making poorly thought out blog posts. They could have played the same five songs over and over again, they all sound the same. I don't want to party at your barn, I don't want to kick off my shoes, I don't care that your heart has been broken by some girl and I hope you tractor falls on you and crushes you. Why don't you try something new like wearing pants that leave something to the imagination or a new hat or dropping the fake accent.<br />
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I don't know about you but I feel better, until tomorrow unless I find a way to make that music go away. Turning it off when no one is looking and taping my ears shut isn't working. Well, I need to make dinner, that's all.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833191529800275164.post-19356100513775752112011-01-27T21:18:00.000-08:002011-01-27T21:18:41.412-08:00Blog PostWell, in my last post I was going to do something better than what I did. I'm not sure what exactly that was, which means I'm off to a bad start here as well. That's okay, because I say it is, mostly.<br />
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So I have done a couple of instances, hearing that crowd control would now be in vogue and not knowing anything about these places I have gone healer. It's a little unnerving having no idea what bosses do and not having real raid frames.<br />
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My first instance was with Honorshammer the retired blogger. He is a hunter now, which means he isn't really Honorshammer anymore, which does not really need to be said but I did anyway. After much flying around, getting the deserter buff because we ended up getting a Wrath heroic first, and watching tv, we did Blackrock something. It seemed pretty easy, Honors was the only who died and it was his fault. I got some new gear, it's blue colored rather than purple.<br />
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Then I tried Throne of Tides, the first boss was dead already. So they killed the first boss and the healer vanished, not a situation I like in a place I don't know. The instance went by quick and without a hitch. I healed a lot and turned a very tall tree at one point. I'll have to read the tooltip to find out exactly what's going on with that.<br />
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So far leveling is pretty great, not feeling any pressure to level is nice. I'm about one third of the way through level 82 and just hit 81 on my dk. I'm pondering switching my rogue to horde for amusement and professions, they want $30, no wonder I leveled a dk rather than transfer him before. I'm not sure what I'm going to be doing at level 85. As long as I'm going it alone, I'll stick with healing and gear that way. Raiding isn't on my radar at all right now. Which is fine, there is plenty to keep me entertained at 85, for a bit anyway. I'm also looking forward to leveling in the redone zones. I'm tired of this post, that's all.<br />
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Remember everyone, there are no subliminal messages or hints being dropped here. All my messages superliminal, in case you forgot.Lakinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04668120666561210976noreply@blogger.com1