Archive for October, 2008

Ding 68! /flop

Last night was an epic run of quests, instances and finally a ding. And somewhere in all of that mess, I took an hour out of leveling to switch to Siana, grabbed a level 60 hunter guildmate and another level 70 hunter guildmate, and we had a 2.5 Hunter Ramparts Run. Most. Fun. Ever. Wish I had taken some screen shots but ah well. If nothing else, I had fun hopping backwards with the Disengage button.

So tonight, my lockette takes her first tenative, yet excited, steps into Kara. Tomorrow, I’ll prolly take the mage to another Kara run to get a few more badges for the heck of it. And maybe, jsut maybe, I’ll ding the big 7-0 by Sunday night.

/dies

Yeah, that’s right. I’m fried. The weekend was a little on the hectic side. Kara Friday, ZA Saturday, Slave Pens, Underbog and Molten Core Sunday (wooo go achievement AND two pieces of Felheart for the lockette), ZG rampage last night and squeezing in some leveling on the lockette. Oh and I went to Ramparts and Blood Furnace on her but god help me if I can remember when. o.O

End result? A bunch of new gear, a lot of shards from disenchanting, and ding level 65.55. Not quite 66, but after a while, I had to take a break. The hope is that I can get to 68 before Friday, when the Friday night Kara run happens. Would I prefer to be 70? Yep. But I can live with this. Just occasionally twitch and mutter about not doing it “proper”. /sigh At least the group is only badge running and the instance was nerfed to the ground.

Tonight? 66, and hopefully halfway to 67. We’ll see what happens.

I swear I was joking around. It was just me being silly, chatting to other bloggers in comments. I swear I didn’t mean it. It was a JOKE!

Breana? Why are you looking at me like that? And why do you keep saying “Brainnnnnns?” Hey… hey! HEY! Back OFF! GAHHHH!

Yep, I has a flaming pony of AWESOME now. Thanks to The Boyfriend and 2 other guildies, Nyte and I got our flaming ponies last night. This time, there were no server burps, no problems, no mistakes. Everything went about as flawlessly as we could have hoped. Afterwards, Nyte and I raced around Honor Hold in celebration and drove everyone in the vicinity insane. After a couple of hours away from the computer to do important things (like eat and watch House), I logged back in to work on one more thing. Mission accomplished, because when I went to bed, my lockette had dinged 61. Heehee. And contrary to Chris’s suggestion in the last post, mine will NOT be named Steve. Our lead hunter has a ravager named Steve and I don’t want her getting any cute ideas. Instead, it will be named Tenka - fire caused by lightning.

Tonight, Siana is going with the rest of the guild that’s signed up and we’re going to pwn AQ20 for rampant silliness and fun. Oh and achievements too. And the mage got respec’d back to frost. I think I heard her sigh in happiness. We’ll see if that does any better at this week’s Kara. Fun times!

Right after I post about the pain in the rump that was last night’s epic fail on getting lock mounts for my lock and a friend, The Altoholic posts this.

Cue screaming and gnomeonarampage…

Blizz? Thanks and f**k off…

/grumpy mode engaged

So yesterday, I dinged 60 on my lockette, and merrily taunted the bloggers’ chat room with it. There was much cheering and Breana cackled at me as always. I was giddy. Not only had I finally hit 58 and gotten to Outlands over the weekend, but I’d managed to claw my way to 60 and was prepping for the insanity that is the warlock mount quest.

Let me jsut go ahead and say this now: I’d rather give someone 600 gold and get a mount in return than put up with this crap again.

That’s right, I dissed the lock mount quest. I have reason, though. Every time I’ve ever helped someone out with it, something’s gone horribly wrong. I should have remembered that this time. I should have remembered that it would most likely by multiplied since there were two of us trying to do it this time. It ended up with the other lock and I scrabbling to get to Dire Maul (it ended up being easier for me to summon her), a healer patiently waiting and gently teasing us, The Boyfriend sighing at us locks and teasing us, one horribly patient shammy DPS waiting for a summon, and a time deadline. The Boyfriend and the shammy DPS were both scheduled for a Headless Horseman run at 7pm server. It was 6:45 server when we all finally got in the zone. But between the server lag (and deaths from server lag) and the time pressure, I was semi-freaking out. I don’t know why I got so worked up over the whole thing, but I did. The person who was running the HH run was sweet and held their group waiting for us.

The rooms were finally all cleared and we stood in the circle to start the summon. Everyone was ready and eager to kill things. Then it hit me and I whispered my lock friend, “Um, did you buy the mats from the goblin before we left?” “Erm, no?”

I hadn’t either. I’d just wasted 3 people’s time for 45 minutes when two of them had things they were committed to. So I apologized over and over for 5 minutes, thanking everyone for coming and watching them hearth out before I hearthed. The other lock was also apologizing for the screwup with me. Then I logged and did something girly: I went to the couch and cried. Yeah I’m woman enough to admit I got so upset over the whole clusterf*ck that I went and cried on the couch. Not cos I didn’t get the mount. Nah, that I could handle. It was me wasting people’s TIME that made me upset. I hate it when my time is wasted in-game, and I LOATHE doing it to others, apparently to the point of making myself sob. Personal humiliation FTL.

But from the looks of it, no one’s too upset with us, cos I posted this morning, asking if we can have Mount Attempt #2, with more epic and less fail. The shammy DPS has volunteered again, and I’m pretty sure The Boyfriend is in to tank again. There’s one healer that said if she’s online, she’ll help, plus another two healers in guild and in our Friday night Kara group guild that would most likely offer help as well. But it still doesn’t quite salve the sting in my head of “YOU BORKED IT UP!”

As it stands tho, I’m hoping that tonight I can take a victory lap around Honor Hold on my Epic Flaming Pony of AWESOME. Because when the servers come up in a little under an hour, my lock butt is going to be online and buying those mats from the vendor and moving towards Dire Maul. Like hell am I going to let this happen again…

Damn that was a busy weekend. When last we left the warlockette, she was 15% into 57 and whimpering about quests and wanting to get to Outlands where all the cool kids are. Saturday brought one Scholo run and a lot of giggling. At one point, I looked over to The Boyfriend and asked, “What’s a really appropriate way for a warlock to ding?”

“I don’t know. What?”

::smile at him and click the mouse, which accepts the quest reward and makes the lockette ding 58:: “By trick or treating.”

Yep, the lockette dinged from racing around and trick or treating. All that yummy xp, and then I went and finished getting all the Azeroth ones to get the achievement. The Hallow’s End theme just kept coming, as she finally stepped through the Dark Portal…

Somewhere along the line, she ended up with a pumpkin on her head. Between the trick or treating ding and the portal crossing with the pumpkin, it all seemed highly appropriate to be playing the lockette this weekend!

Siana and the mage got in on some of the event action, though. Both of them went and got the Headless Horseman quests and killed him over and over. No mount drop, and only one Squashling was seen. I did manage to get the cloth pumpkin helm and one broom, but other than that, nothing that made me go “Wooo!” on them. The main thing was still playing with new specs and seeing how those ran. The Hunter spec I’m pretty happy with. The mage? Oh she’s so getting changed. I’m not happy with hers at all. I’ll do some investigating and see what I can find for her spec change again. Bleh, I hate respecing. :/

The rest of the weekend? Friday night was the Kara run. Rampant silliness and since we were finished so early (wow that went fast), I asked nicely if I could get help taming a core hound. Our hunter class lead had already gone off that evening and gotten one (she’d forgotten I was going to be in Kara, oops!), and named it “LootMe”. The Kara group cheered and we all went to Molten Core. After a little wiggling, reading and “oh crap, kill it. ><", I finally got a core hound of my own. Meet... Fwuffy.

Yes, I said Fwuffy. Back in another game, The Boyfriend and I had a friend who was a druid. He was in wolf form so much, I jokingly told him for Christmas he was getting a collar with the tag “Fwuffy” on it mailed to him. He thought it was a great idea. I never did it, but Fwuffy lives… sorta… again.

After we got done getting Fwuffy, the rest of the raid asked “Hey, that Jenkins title, anyone want to do it?” Everyone thought it was a GRAND idea and we all plowed into the whelp room. We did it twice, since we had one person that had to sit out. It didn’t matter. Everyone giggled too much AOEing everything in sight when the tanks called for the kill. So Siana is now Siana Jenkins. Silly, but it amused me.

The ZA run happened Saturday night, even with the amazing vanishing instances and horrendous lag. I can see why they took the bear mount out. It was the first time we beat all the timers, and we had 14 minutes to spare. o.O There was a lot of giggling and cackling from various people as they tried out new specs. Me? I found that the worry and fear I’d had over Siana is completely gone. Trashed. Destroyed.

Yesterday was more lock leveling, including a run through both sides of Strath, and Siana and the mage hitting up the Headless Horseman again. Today, it’s a short list to work on: finish getting the lockette to 60 (she’s 59.75, sooooo close), get prereqs done, then see if I can get some guildies to help me and another friend get matching epic flaming ponies of dooooooom. If the mage continues being uncomfortable for me to play, even with yet another new spec, I’ll be setting her to one side and trying to figure out if it’s Siana or the lockette that I want to level to 80 first. I’m really enjoying the lockette (shush Breana), but Siana’s my first and my main.

For now. >.>

First things first: Matt, you know how to make a Night Elf blush. Rowr.

Last night, I braved the server wonkiness (well, once it came up, I braved it) and added a new addon to my pile: Livestock. I’ve really enjoyed this, since we have 5 billion mounts and critter pets now at our fingertips (and not stuffed in the bank). It did what it said it would do and did it well. Even better, it was not giving me the addon dance headache. You know the dance: hop online, take two steps, have a addon yell what’s wrong NOW, hop offline, lather, rinse, repeat. -.- Ahhh patch week… /sigh

And like I’d said yesterday, I was thinking about respec’ing Siana back to BM. I love the idea of some of the mechanics with the new MM talents, but after 3 arrows, the mob’s coming to chew on me, and that’s not acceptable. I was an aggro whore. So, out came the BM spec. My current spec? Right here. 51 points into BM, 10 into MM. I’m sure there will be those that will ask “WTF? Why did you put points THERE?!” with some of my choices. My spec. Deal. (Yes, I have a headache right now and I’m cranky, so consider this the apology if you are offended.)

I’d also said yesterday to some of the other bloggers that I was kinda scared to play Siana. Yep, scared. Why, I wasn’t sure. I think it’s from lingering issues with specs, talents, new abilities, and the dreaded viper/hawk dance. The one thing that I LOATHED on Siana prior to 3.0.2 was having to stay in Viper mode or pray that my potion cooldown was done by the time I needed more mana. Or even better, that I’d stacked enough pots to begin with. Now? Well at least on the testing dummies, I was very very VERY pleased with the viper/hawk dance. Less viper, more hawk. Thank god! At last! So I’m actually looking forward to playing her again, and with any luck, I’ll be able to go along on the corehound taming run tonight.

The mage? She’s going to Kara tonight with the regular Friday night crew. New spec, Arcane/frost. We’ll see what happens.

The warlockette? Well she finally dinged 57. She’s a little into 57, not all that much, and I have NO idea where I want to take her to level. EPL? Mostly all dungeon quests left there, and no one to take me. WPL? Again, dungeon quests. Blasted Lands? Dungeon quests. Wait! Silithus? …gawd I hate bugs. /facepalm She’s going to run out of rested shortly, so I really need that experience from questing. Anyone have any brilliant ideas where a warlock and her voidwalker to go to get some xp to get to Outlands?

Matticus over at World of Matticus poked everyone to post their haircuts. And other than spec’ing my hunter, mage and warlock, that’s about all I did: get a haircut on Siana. So, for Matt, here’s Sia’s haircut:

I like to think of it as “feminine with a ready-for-killing” look. Oh the mage also got a haircut and dyejob, but I didn’t take her picture. The gnome? I liked the buns too much. >.>

Was that really all I did? Spec and get a hair cut or two? No not really. I ended up hopping onto the lockette for a few minutes and testing out her spec. Then giggling. A lot. To the point of concerning my household. I checked some other stuff and found out that I’m an aggro whore, even with a tank pet. Sooooo I’ll prolly be respecing again, at least til I hit 80. ::growl:: Tonight? MAOR WARLOCK! I needz gigglez.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be off in the corner trying to get rid of my headache. /sigh