Archive for the “Paladin” Category

Wow that was some serious downtime. Friday night’s Kara raid with Aerye on her first raid went well. We had a bit of a rough patch at first with Moroes, but he eventually died. All in all, her fears of wiping the raid often were mostly put to rest, since she only did it once, and that was with help from The Boyfriend. ::grin:: She got a lot of new gear out of the 4 bosses we did do, so that was all good.

I didn’t play much Saturday, having a afternoon out with a friend to do lunch and a movie instead. But Saturday night was the followup to do the second half of Kara. It went okay… right before my connection died. I did my usual shifting of routers and cables with no luck before getting the wise idea to check the TV. No TV service. After waiting around for 20 minutes or so, I gave up and went to bed.

Sunday was still a no go for online events, with no cable. They finally got it back up late Sunday night, too late for me to get online and do anything. Monday evening tho I managed to get online and get a little bit accomplished for my pally, finally getting the last bits of Sunken Temple quests done, thanks to Aerye escorting me and pulling the whole damned graveyard in Western Plaguelands, much to the annoyance (don’t care! pbbbbt! you jerks kept taking my kills! I’m looking at you, lvl 67 Rogue!) of the others there. She giggled gleefully and had much fun slaughtering things. I was just happy to get things off my lists. All that’s left now is the actual ST run. Hopefully this weekend that can get done.

Yesterday I logged in briefly and did more daily quests on Siana. I finally hit revered with the Netherwing, got a decent amount of greens, a crapton of leather, and of course nice gold for my troubles. Problem is, I seemed to have missed the announcement that we were raiding SSC last night, so I never logged back in after my afternoon dailies romp. :;headdesk:: Times like this, I feel like a total twit. Eh, it was the holidays, and I was thinking we were still off raids. That’ll teach me.

Tonight is Tidewalker in SSC, and yes, I WILL be going. Tomorrow night I’ll hopefully be wandering around in ZA, and if not, I’ll crank out a few dailies before attempting to get some sleep. Friday is more SSC, then Saturday and Sunday we go old school: Molten Core and Blackwing Lair. It’s been so long since I’ve been to either, and I’d barely raided there before work ate my lift for a while, that I’m going to have to go back and read up on the fights. it’s sure to be amusing, no matter what.

We don’t need no stinkin’ plans…

Yeah those “I’m gonna be a pally!” plans went to high hell. I logged in later than I was thinking, got up to Western Plaguelands, talked with The Boyfriend while I attempted to kill undead and get minion stones for my pally 50 quest, and got royally irritated at people. While I was there, there was one group of three people that apparently decided that -every- mob there was theirs and theirs alone. I’d be killing a mob, they’d race past me, gather up every other mob within a 1000 yard radius and start working on killing them. I’d sigh and move to an area on the opposite side of the graveyard from them to make sure I wasn’t in the path of their destruction, and the annoying twits would finish killing their group, then come to ME and kill every other mob in my new area other than the one I was fighting.

It wasn’t paranoia. They did this over and over. At one point they tried to train me with about 5 mobs, but they caught a face full of ticked mobs when I bubbled. I didn’t stick around to laugh, cos I wasn’t amused. I had just wanted to kill my quest mobs and get on with things. I didn’t need their grief. So I walked off, leaving them dealing with the group of undead, and dying messily themselves. Karma sucks, don’t it?

Then there was the mage 8 levels over the mobs that was AoE killing them all. If I couldn’t find a mob to kill from the first group of idiots, then I couldn’t find one from this twit. She ran around collecting every single mobs she could find, until she too picked up one too many and died messily. Once again, no sympathy. She pulled targets off me, waiting until they were running for me to tag them. Once again, very deliberate.

However, even with all the massively annoying people (a few others that ran through and aggro’d everything before dying, others that /slapped me when I picked up one mob while they grabbed 4… and died messily, etc.) there was one bright spot in my short time in the grave yard. One warlock, a level higher than I, was there when I started. I looked to see which side of the road he was on, then when to the opposite side to start my kills. After he’d finished his kill, he started to run to my side, then saw me, stopped, waited a sec to see that I was doing just fine, thanks, then went back to his side of the road and kept going through mobs. We never said a word to each other, just politely stayed out of each other’s way. When he finished his mob kills, he mounted up, ran near me, bowed, then ran off. I waved to his retreating back, and went back to trying to kill undead.

I think I was there for 30 minutes before I got disgusted with the whole thing and logged for the night. I’ve now been working on the scourgestones for the pally quest for 4 nights. I have 12/20 stones. At this rate, I’ll be there for another week. :/ Oh and all those people? Opposing faction, right? Nope. All Alliance like me. Yeah I could have sent them tells, but I’m 99% sure I would have gotten either ignored or sworn at.

At least tonight I get to run Kara on my Mage again, this time with Aerye in the group for her first Kara raid evah. Yey!

So last night I was going to work on my pally. I had all good intentions, had run up to Western Plaguelands, and was headed to smack around some undead, when I got a begging whisper, sent from a level 36 Warrior that was having it’s butt kicked around by a quest mob. I sighed, sat there a minute, then thought “what the hell” and went to help them. Turns out they were supposed to kill a level 40 elite mob, which is why they kept getting ripped to shreds. I healed them, they eventually beat the mob down, and I got a good giggle out of them thanking me over and over, while bowing and kneeling at my feet. I think they were a bit stunned when I turned down the gold they offered as a thank you.

Right as I was about to get back to killing undead, The Boyfriend had logged in and gotten tackled by a friend of ours that was asking if we wanted to go a-instancing with her, her usual questing companion and another of their guildies. So I switched over to Siana, The Boyfriend got his boomkin druid, and off we went to heroic Slave Pens, the heroic daily quest instance of the day… and proceeded to get owned. Often. And painfully.

Sadly, our bear tank wasn’t quite geared for heroics. We left SP and went to Mechanaar, where we had slightly better luck for a bit, then it all went to hell, so we went outside and reset it to normal. Right as we were getting near the first sub-boss in Mech, the group that I was supposed to go to Mech and Botanica with from OUR guildies started trying to get going. Thank heavens our other friends understood I’d previously committed to the guild group and TB and I went to join the guildies. I still feel bad for leaving, especially as we spent almost 90 minutes flinging ourselves against instances and never got anywhere with them.

On the other hand, our guildie group tore through Mech, and that was with a tank that’s still getting geared to TB’s satisfaction and had never been to Mech. Then we went to Bot. Oh my lord. I forgot how long that damned instance is. By the time we left there, we were all starting to get tired, and it was past when I’d normally be logging and going to bed. Then the other warrior in the group said “Hey can you guys help me with a quest up here?” Turns out several of us had stages of that quest, so we plowed through it, got everyone caught up, then killed out the end mob for the questline. Yet one more group quest out of my logs where it had been permanently engraved…

Tonight? Tonight is “I’m going back to pally, pally, pally” night (two points if you get the lyrics reference) and hopefully get caught up on the level 50 pally Sunken Temple quest. Man I want to get all those quests done…

Yeah I spent 90% of my time this past weekend on my baby pally. Although, she’s 48, almost 49 now. She’s not that much of a baby. More like a pre-teen. I ended up getting sucked into a Sunken Temple run for a friend, and was amused that I had none of the quests. I now have one of the quests, and will desperately try to hit 50 to do the pally quest. And since I have a list of quests that are prereqs for other ST quests, I think I know what I’m doing tonight.

The biggest thing I’ve been “fretting” over is spec. I’m Ret with a smattering of Prot right now for leveling purposes, but my original idea with her was to take her Holy. But now, Prot is sounding kinda nice, since the times that I’ve tanked, I’ve enjoyed. But Holy = healing, which is something I enjoy and have missed since my days as a cleric in another game. I’ll probably keep building up the Prot/Ret side with a healing set of gear til mid 60s. At that point I’ll probably end up huddled in the corner, rocking back and forth trying to decide what to do. maybe by then I’ll have a better idea.

Raid on Saturday didn’t happen. Ah the holidays!

Tonight it’s Kara night, but on my mage. Since I pretty much got all the gear I really wanted out of Kara for my hunter, I’ve been trying to get my poor mage geared up. She’s a frost mage right now, and with only one piece of the Frozen Shadowweave set on her, she needs all the gear help she can get. I still have to get her 5 more points in tailoring before she can make the second piece, not to mention needing to farm the materials and make the shadowcloth. I’m not sure that I can get those points tonight, but we’ll see.

Before I go bouncing around in Kara with her tonight though, I want to  spend more time leveling my paladin. she’s getting close to the point of needing/wanting to do instances like Maradon, Uld, and Sunken Temple. I meant to do more with her last night, but the Boyfriend needed a run on his baby shammy through Deadmines and I was drained from the day.

Saturday, the guild runs back to SSC for it’s first attempt at Morogrim Tidewalker. We got a glimpse of him, but weren’t able to engage. Well, our main pally tank raced in to get smacked by him, but most of us were hearthed by that point. Poor poor pally: turned into a recyclable by a giant.