Been raiding a LOT lately, and I am quite happy about that!
Our guild [Adaptation] has made an alliance with another guild called The Commonwealth. We've been doing Naxx-25 pretty successfully with them last week. I say 'pretty' as it was filled with many wipes, but that was to be expected. =)
We almost had a full clear but some PUG ninja'd our raid ID and killed Kel'thuzad. We will have to be more selective about who we group with in the future, unfortunately.
In the meantime, we hit up 25-man Flame Leviathan in Ulduar and downed him. Got some people loot.
I've gotten a break from tanking, and have been playing my shaman, which was very nice. I missed DPSing - it is so mindless. Just keybind + faceroll and you're good to go!
Tonight our guild is heading back into Ulduar-10 for the first time in weeks [hopefully!], so I will be back to tanking again. Hope I'm not too rusty.
In other news, I got Manatee her Crusader title - FINALLY - so I am all set for patch 3.2. Bring on the new looooots! She's also got 3/5 of the tourney pets. Just need to save marks for an Elwynn Lamb and an Ammen Vale Lashling now. I guess I should get my Horde priest levelled up some so I can start working on grabbing the Horde pets, too. In due time!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
This and that
-I have gotten my warrior, Clive, to level 70. This means I've now officially levelled each class in the game to at least level 70. /asspats for me! Next stop: 80!
-In spite of my last post QQing about PUGs, my guild has made a successful incursion into Naxx-25 with a mostly-PUG. Lieke lead the raid and though she said she doesn't want to do it again, I think she should keep at it because she's pretty good at it.
-We may have a guild alliance in the works based on said PUG. Our guild's officers will be meeting with their guild's officers tomorrow to chat. If all goes well, it will make gearing up members for both guilds involved a hell of a lot easier, so cross your fingers! DO IT.
-My shaman, Rasputina, cleaned house in Naxx-25. Seriously. She outgears my warlock, now, and is catching up to Snooky... Geeze! I really need to work on her hit rating, though. Her DPS is depressing. I'm trying, where I can.
-Based on that, next step is to farm up some honor for a PVP caster cloak to tide her over 'til she gets a proper PvE replacement. Tomorrow is another day.
Happy WoWing!
-In spite of my last post QQing about PUGs, my guild has made a successful incursion into Naxx-25 with a mostly-PUG. Lieke lead the raid and though she said she doesn't want to do it again, I think she should keep at it because she's pretty good at it.
-We may have a guild alliance in the works based on said PUG. Our guild's officers will be meeting with their guild's officers tomorrow to chat. If all goes well, it will make gearing up members for both guilds involved a hell of a lot easier, so cross your fingers! DO IT.
-My shaman, Rasputina, cleaned house in Naxx-25. Seriously. She outgears my warlock, now, and is catching up to Snooky... Geeze! I really need to work on her hit rating, though. Her DPS is depressing. I'm trying, where I can.
-Based on that, next step is to farm up some honor for a PVP caster cloak to tide her over 'til she gets a proper PvE replacement. Tomorrow is another day.
Happy WoWing!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The ups and downs of PUGs
Pick-up groups, or PUGs as they are more commonly referred to as, seem to have more downsides than upsides.
Fortunately, being in a great guild like my own, my PUG experiences are usually minimal. But therein lies the problem! My guild's faction is the Alliance, and the most recent toon I've been investing time into is my little Forsaken warrior - Horde side, obviously.
So, I've been in a whole lot of pick-up groups lately, from Hellfire Ramparts to Mana Tombs. And, honestly, up until today, they've been awesome!
Sure there were wipes and the usual "whos tank lol," but we actually completed the instances, and I added some people I'd definitely group with again in the future to my friends list.
Today was the opposite. We were three pulls into Mana Tombs, and our group apparently could not decide who the tank was. We didn't even make it to the first boss, and tempers flared. I was fine up until the warlock said something about people with DK mains being "failures" and how they were "lazy." Of course it would get to me, being that my main is my Death Knight! And I invested a lot of time into her! Argh!! And -- hey wait, hold on a second. When exactly did I stop having fun here?
So, I came to the conclusion it was time to let my little warrior build up some rested experience again, so I can stop taking everything so seriously! Phew!
And my advice to you reading this is, if you find yourself getting too wound up with WoW, take a deep breath, take a step back, and take a break if you need to. It's a hobby. Those are meant to be fun, right?
[Oh, and, yes - ranting always helps me feel better too. Just an idea!!]
Fortunately, being in a great guild like my own, my PUG experiences are usually minimal. But therein lies the problem! My guild's faction is the Alliance, and the most recent toon I've been investing time into is my little Forsaken warrior - Horde side, obviously.
So, I've been in a whole lot of pick-up groups lately, from Hellfire Ramparts to Mana Tombs. And, honestly, up until today, they've been awesome!
Sure there were wipes and the usual "whos tank lol," but we actually completed the instances, and I added some people I'd definitely group with again in the future to my friends list.
Today was the opposite. We were three pulls into Mana Tombs, and our group apparently could not decide who the tank was. We didn't even make it to the first boss, and tempers flared. I was fine up until the warlock said something about people with DK mains being "failures" and how they were "lazy." Of course it would get to me, being that my main is my Death Knight! And I invested a lot of time into her! Argh!! And -- hey wait, hold on a second. When exactly did I stop having fun here?
So, I came to the conclusion it was time to let my little warrior build up some rested experience again, so I can stop taking everything so seriously! Phew!
And my advice to you reading this is, if you find yourself getting too wound up with WoW, take a deep breath, take a step back, and take a break if you need to. It's a hobby. Those are meant to be fun, right?
[Oh, and, yes - ranting always helps me feel better too. Just an idea!!]
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
A Midsummer Pet Collector's Dream
Happy Canada Day, fellow Canuckistanian WoW nerds!
I told you I've been busy!
Well, the Midsummer festival is winding down on Azeroth, and that's okay with me. I have, in the past week-ish, gotten:
-A Scorchling pet for my warlock
-A Captured Flame for ALL my toons
-The "Flame Warden" title on my warlock and mage [the warlock being the toon I am working on the "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been" meta-achievement with]
But wait, there's more!
I also:
-Fished up Mr. Pinchy, FINALLY! On my hunter. Got the Magical Crawdad on my second wish! =)
-Completed the "Lil' Game Hunter" achievement [75 mini-pets on one toon] and earned myself a fawn pet
-FINALLY got the Green Proto-Drake Mount!!! After getting the mount, I promptly switched Snooky from Oracles to Frenzyheart. I love those Wolvar. I really do.
While that doesn't sound like so much in text, it's a lot of work running 10 toons around honoring/extinguishing fires all over Azeroth and Outland! But it was well worth it. The quest experience leveled a whole bunch of my toons, and I had a great Indiana Jones-esque escape from Orgimmar on my mage that I will remember for a long time. haha.
My guild has started alt-night Naxx runs for the time being [til 3.2, I'd surmise] and I opted out this week so my husband could join in. We haven't had the healers for Ulduar lately, but we'll get back in there soon. My friend Lieke - the girl I mentioned in a previous entry, recruit from wow_ladies - has been working very hard to gear her paladin for healing, and she cleaned house for upgrades on the last Naxx run I was in with her, so she'll be Ulduar-ready in no time.
Also, the pally Lieke was supposed to "replace" so-to-speak recently returned to the game, so that's great too. It gives a couple of people who rolled healers for the sake of the guild when they had other "mains" initially a chance to return to a class they actually enjoy playing. =)
I told you I've been busy!
Well, the Midsummer festival is winding down on Azeroth, and that's okay with me. I have, in the past week-ish, gotten:
-A Scorchling pet for my warlock
-A Captured Flame for ALL my toons
-The "Flame Warden" title on my warlock and mage [the warlock being the toon I am working on the "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been" meta-achievement with]
But wait, there's more!
I also:
-Fished up Mr. Pinchy, FINALLY! On my hunter. Got the Magical Crawdad on my second wish! =)
-Completed the "Lil' Game Hunter" achievement [75 mini-pets on one toon] and earned myself a fawn pet
-FINALLY got the Green Proto-Drake Mount!!! After getting the mount, I promptly switched Snooky from Oracles to Frenzyheart. I love those Wolvar. I really do.
While that doesn't sound like so much in text, it's a lot of work running 10 toons around honoring/extinguishing fires all over Azeroth and Outland! But it was well worth it. The quest experience leveled a whole bunch of my toons, and I had a great Indiana Jones-esque escape from Orgimmar on my mage that I will remember for a long time. haha.
My guild has started alt-night Naxx runs for the time being [til 3.2, I'd surmise] and I opted out this week so my husband could join in. We haven't had the healers for Ulduar lately, but we'll get back in there soon. My friend Lieke - the girl I mentioned in a previous entry, recruit from wow_ladies - has been working very hard to gear her paladin for healing, and she cleaned house for upgrades on the last Naxx run I was in with her, so she'll be Ulduar-ready in no time.
Also, the pally Lieke was supposed to "replace" so-to-speak recently returned to the game, so that's great too. It gives a couple of people who rolled healers for the sake of the guild when they had other "mains" initially a chance to return to a class they actually enjoy playing. =)
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