still sick…sorry…
If, like me, you missed the Running of the Bulls (for a VERY good reason, I’m sure,) you can catch up on all the Bovine Goodness you missed over at Rats.
May
02
It did, honest. (If you’re still planning on doing the Children’s Week quest then go away and do it. Don’t read the following SPOILER.)
Running around different parts of the world wasn’t all that but at the end I got a total kick out of taking the blood elf kid (sorry, got a thing about blood elves) to the Caverns of Time. Zaladormu calling off the guards was a lot of fun and I’m just gonna admit to going all awww…how cute…oh you silly thing…when my Egbert runs all over the place.
I’m going on an overnight canoe trip on Saturday so have a great weekend and see y’all next week!
Apr
30
For some reason, I thought there wasn’t any drama going on in my guild. Call me clueless if ya want cause that’s what I’m calling myself. I’m not gonna go into details cause…I don’t know…dirty laundry…public…it’s not my thing.
Suffice it to say my guild split last night. It was ugly. Mostly because those who were left were hurt and you know how humans are when we’re hurt, we’re evil sons of bitches. I had to just log off cause I couldn’t take what people were saying about people who had, minutes earlier, been our good friends.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do. Our GM is away right now (although he does know what’s going on and the people who left spoke with him beforehand,) and I don’t want to make any decisions without speaking to him first.
I’m sad, unhappy, missing my friends, frustrated, a little angry…
Job: (raising his voice to the heavens) Why me Lord?! Why me?!
God: (A voice booms from above) Because sometimes you just PISS ME OFF!
Apr
29
Don’t you just hate it when you go to log into WoW and discover that it’s Tuesday? I mean, I knew it was Tuesday, that’s not a surprise and if I thought about it I’d rememberr that it’s Maintenance Day as well but I guess I just don’t like to think about it cause time after time I log on expecting to do a few dailies or fish for golden darters or some such nonsense and…/sigh…oh well…
In the meantime (that time between when you can’t play WoW and when you can ;p) I ran into something called WowKu this week. It’s a craze I tell ya, a craze. Did Fim start it? I know Anxi turned me on to it.
Leaves shimmer with droplets of
rain while I sit, poised to wait
once again
hmmm…not really the ending I wanted. Oh well, what about you? Leave one in the comments!
Edit: This is better
Leaves shimmer with droplets of
rain while I sit, once again,
poised to wait
Apr
26
Forgot to say what I learned from the frustration of dying too many times in the CAVE INs! This is pissing me off just thinking about it but gotta get clear - OF THE CAVE INs! arG! Told you I was getting pissed. /taking a moment
There…What did I learn from Gruul:
Change to Bear when being pummeled. I already know this but for some reason I haven’t been doing it in raids. I’m fixated on thinking that I’m suppose to keep healing. Note to self - in a raid I’m suppose to keep living.
Having Swiftmend accessible without it’s macro to Rejuv is a good thing. I’m using it all the time.
Keep a constant eye out for the f*cking CAVE INs! Constant. They happen more often as the fight goes on so don’t stop looking.
It’s a fact - Good Guildies are the really phat lewt.
Apr
25
Problems with getting images on the site using Mac’s Safari browser for some reason. On a hunch I switched over to Firefox and viola! Hot little GearMaMa me!
Apr
24
Somehow, while I wasn’t quite looking, I turned into a raider. Ok, a very, very nOOb raider, but a raider nonetheless. It’s what I kept saying I wanted to do ever since I left my old guild cause they were only doing pvp. Want to see end-game content, I said and playing with groups of people cause hey, we’re humans, that’s what we do.
Well lookie, lookie…that’s exactly what’s goin on and I’m lovin it. I don’t seem to have time for anything else. I’m either running to Kara, Gruul’s, Magtheridon…if Gruul goes down tonight we’re slated to head into Magtheridon or SSC. Yea, I know! This has all been going on so fast. Gotta hold on to my knickers.
Update since a week ago: Got my first piece of Tier 4 Tuesday night from High King Maulgar. Wasn’t gonna bid on it cause I’d joined late in the evening after work but two of them dropped so…Pauldrons of the Fallen Defender…the goddess continues to stuff my virtual pockets. Went and traded it for Shoulderguards of Malorne. BBB thinks the “gods of loot karma” are rewarding me for studying. I like the sound o that since I plan on continuing the practice. I don’t ask the gods a lot of questions. Too busy thanking them for getting BBB to stop by =)
Let me ask youse a question…why is everyone shocked that I read up on shit? Don’t most people? I know a lot don’t but most people do…don’t they? (Sorry, word fun, I can’t help it.) I’m too embarrassed to go into these fights without having *some* idea of what’s about to go down. Even reading up only helps so much.
In Gruul’s I worked on remembering to move my bloody feet…roots…whatever. Took me a few Cave Ins to get good a getting out of the way. Moving! Gonna get the Boar Enchant on my boots when I can but meanwhile I’m gonna try shifting outta form. Taurens are slow too but faster then the Tree and can keep healing on the run (stop laughing, we’re bovines, we’re bigboned ;p)
Looking around is still a bitch too. My tank died one time on Gruul cause I couldn’t freaking FIND him. He ran one way, I ran another and by the time I tried the other direction…bones littered the floor. Makes a healer feel bad.
Did pretty well overall though. Learned what I was suppose to and then it was just that we didn’t have enough dps to down him anyhow. Think we were at 13 growths and his health was still way too high. Makes me want to nuke him myself.
Slated to finish the sucker off Thursday and we will. Started *GASP* reading up on The Void Reaver (who sounds pretty easy actually /knock wood) and The Lurker Below (who sounds like I’m gonna wish more people would read up on it LoL!)
Like I said, no time for anything else really. Run on at some point during the day to do the fishing daily cause that alone pays my repair bill. (Btw, will everyone please stop bitchin about repair costs! Unless it’s hitting 60g or so I don’t really want to hear it. It’s so ridiculously easy to make gold these days, come on.) Trying to level up my cooking so I can do the Cooking Daily as well. Should probably get into running some dungeon dailies cause the cost of gemming these pieces is costing me.
Spend a little bit of time fishing for golden darter so I can make my own fish sticks. A guildie and the GM have been wonderful about keeping me supplied but I like to come with my own. Doesn’t take long. Just fly that loop of river southeast of shatt and boom, stack o 20.
Here’s an update from tonight (Thursday): GOT THE BIG BAD DOWN! It was very sweet since we had trouble with Gruul for so many attempts. I got down on myself cause I kept getting killed by the Cave Ins!! Arg!!! Folks were incredibly supportive so now I’m not feeling so bad about it (was moving but not enough stamina to take a few hits while I got out) and, oh yeah…my personal relationship with the goddess is still good. My guildies convinced me to get one of the drops - Cowl of Nature’s Breath - even though I felt like I hadn’t earned it tonight. It’s a learning and gearing curve. My skills may not be increasing as fast as I’d like but I am improving and the greens in my gear are disappearing faster than I ever imagined they would =)
Apr
15
Yea, that’s me…embarrassed…rich…cause last Sunday I was in Kara and all kinds of lewt dropped! Right into my ’still in a bunch of greens’ lap. wOOt!
Where to start…well, since last I typed (sorry, busy, warned ya) my guild took me into Kara cause, you know, after that Gruul raid everyone was pretty clear that if they wanted extra healer help they needed me to gear up.
I’ve been doing my share of the gearing, although truth be told - not a lot of time available. Which also explains why I haven’t posted. The small amount of playtime I’ve got has gone into playing! LoL
Enough of the explanations, let’s get into the phat lewt that is MINE! Mwahaha!
Things started off on the right foot when this little pretty dropped off of Attumen. A just reward for hanging behind a horse’s butt, don’t you think?
Gloves of Dexterous Manipulation
I was wondering how I was gonna get any feral gear while healing when our Raid Leader asks me if I want this. Nobody else needed it so…purr…
(Sorry no pic but the new WordPress Dashboard isn’t letting me upload =p)
This part of the run went fast. Knew where we were going (a big problem for me is getting lost in there. Gonna study maps today cause it was embarrassing after a while.) Moroes went down easy and, oh look, more pretty kitty love…
On to The Maiden and she’s another easy fight, especially once ya know where to stand. The first time I had been in Kara I only got one drop so I’m thinking, two drops already, sweet but not expecting much anymore. When wOOt!
So this is when it started to get a bit embarrassing. Not only have I gotten a drop off of every boss so far, but I haven’t had to pay more than 1 DKP per piece. Generally though, people were happy for me, just a little surprised. Hey, noone more than me. I’m happy and more than satisfied with my lewtings. Sharing the wealth is a good thing so, onward! Let’s kick some ass and get other folk in on the goodness.
We wiped once on Romulo and Julianne, cause someone aggro’d the audience! Kind of a funny way to die. Ran it again with no problem and no more lewt for me. But that seemed fair. It was my turn to be happy for everyone else. Curator was fun. I think I like the voice over during it. I don’t know. Maybe it’s his color…/shrug. Aran, Illhoof, Netherspite. We do the Chess event, no biggie, the group is sailing through and most everyone has forgotten how kind the lewt goddess has been to me. Oh! By the way, just a shout out to my fellow Kara noobs to take control of a pawn piece at first. When it dies you can run down and control another piece, if one’s available, but move those pawns out of the way for the more experienced players which one day soon you too shall be ;p
It was all good. No more lewt but badges galore. It’s starting to get alittle late but I’m feeling really good about my contribution. People are pleased and surprised that I’ve studied for the encounters (that made me feel REALLY good) and I’ve even managed to get Honored with the Violet Eye running this thing so I can repair inside. We find a really good safe spot at Prince (by the door) and even he goes down without a lot of fanfare. There’s time for Nightbane, which I haven’t done so I’m really excited. We wipe once, I learn to notice when I’m standing in Charred Earth and great goddess of greedy gear goodness!
My mouth is hanging open…I can’t believe it, this is soooo incredible. I’m so busy staring at the stats and relishing it’s newly mineness that I don’t notice the other item Nightbane drops…
At this point I kinda lost it. I think I was screaming a bit…my kid wakes up and stands there berating me for being so loud and waking her while I try to pay attention to her but its hard cause I’m still screaming a bit… It was surreal. I had some guilt cause that’s just a lot of epic love but hey, it wasn’t MY fault. Much guilt, much LEWT! What can I say? I’m still a little embarrassed…
Mar
29
You know, I’m TRYING to do the right thing. I’m WILLING to go through a progression that turns me into a better player. I’m COMMITTED to gearing up properly to go into Kara instead of having it handed to me by other people who did it the hard way…but DAMN IT ALL! How many HOURS is it suppose to take to get a group together?!
I spent ALL DAY at it and…sorry…I’m alittle bitchy right now…
Mar
28
I can tell this is going to cost me some gold but I don’t care…I’m not happy with my build yet. This is what I’ve been using - a 1/14/46 build. It isn’t doing it for me in terms of killing anything when grinding/questing. I thought I’d get some kitty love out of it but it’s not making much of a dent in anything but my patience.
Thinking about switching the extra points into the balance tree with a 20/0/41 build. I’m hoping that it gives me enough nuking power to actually kill something before my mana runs dry. Right now it’s damn near impossible to do dailies unless I’m teamed up with some dps. My budding raiding fun is gonna cost…I need fundage.
I’m also hoping that this build will lend itself to the 3rd Healer/DPS spot in the raid cause I’m still a Wannabe MultiRole druid ;p (That spot seems to have my name on it.) At the moment though, I’m mostly concerned with being able to kill something! HeLP!
