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Tonight I went into TK and helped slap down Void Reaver. That was fun. What was even more fun, but totally on a personal level, was seeing this:

Aww yeahhhh…

Once we got done with VR, the guild leaders did some chatting and decided that since they didn’t have the raid makeup they wanted, we’d go on and beat up Gruul instead. Beatings did occur, and while the High King and Gruul did drop lewts for their guild, I had my humbling moment early on in the High King fight.

See, back when my guild was doing the 25 man stuff, I was one of two hunters that Nature resist tanked the shaman. It got to the point that the Class Lead and I were doing it in our sleep, and on good nights we could get him almost dead with just the two of us before the raid came to kill him. This guild we’re running with now asked me if I could help NR tank, I said sure, watched where they were going to tank him, put on my gear, buffed, ran in… and died in 10 seconds.

I sat there with my jaw on the floor, blinking, then started swearing at the computer. The Boyfriend glanced over to see what was going on while he was tanking something else and said “oh, I think your healer got feared.” Oh joy. So for 4 minutes, I chatted in another channel while the rest of the raid went and killed the High King. End result of the evening? #3 on DPS and Damage Done. Still a good evening.

Ah WoW: you know how to humble us right when we start to feel good about ourselves, don’t you?

Real Life has been a mess. We’re still trying to get my house sale done, the store is slowly coming together, my Mom bummed up her knee, thus necessitating scope surgery on it, etc. It’s just been one thing after another. So what so I do to take off some stress?

PLAY WOW!

I couldn’t join the raid last night, because after 11 hours of going over art materials and ordering them from a vendor (even if he was a very nice man) fried my brains. So I came home and collapsed, sighing somewhat over the fact I couldn’t get into raid right before I fell asleep.

But today… mmm RAID! TK Raid too! But instead of running to Loot, erm, Void Reaver, the Powers That Be said “Hai guyz! Go read up on Solarian and Al’ar!” Gah. One hour of frantic reading later, off we went to TK.

Al’ar? Owie. Mucho pain. Fire bad. But we now have food for thought on the fight. Solarian? Well we only got one shot at her before the repops started to hit for us. Ah well. But ah man it was nice. #4 on overall DPS and #3 on Total Damage. :;happy purrs::

Tomorrow night? More TK. The rest of this week? Who the hell knows. I have more Real Life stuff trying to chew on me, so we’ll see what happens.

Tonight I did something that I haven’t done for a while: a 25-man raid. Oh god it felt good. The working with a large group of other people to take out part of an instance. The “oh crap!” moments follow by the “oh damn we’re good!” butt-out-of-the-fire moments. The silliness in chat and Ventrilo. The group the boyfriend and I went with is a group he was introduced to by some friends of ours. They raid with this other guild on occasion and they seemed to be amenable to having guests along for the ride. Seeing as how they’re about at the point (or slightly behind) our guild was at before all The Mess happened, this seemed like a good fit.

So I finally got a sign-in name for their raid calendar, signed up for Tempest Keep tonight, signed into WoW, then promptly went to Ironforge, closed my eyes, hit the “relearn talents” button an respec’d Beast Master. Why? Well my old guild was fine with me using a Markman spec. I did decent damage with it, knew my role, etc. But taking Siana out to a new raid group? Yeahhh I wanted to show to the best of my abilities on the damage charts as well as “okay yeah she knows where to step and where not to.”

I wasn’t sure if I’d be going, since there were more than 25 people signed up by the time that raid time came around. Eventually tho, I got a whisper asking if I was ready for a raid invite. 30 minutes later, I was up to my ankles in dying or dead Blood Elves and DAMN it felt good! Oh wow, have I missed this. Kara was good, don’t get me wrong. But those 25 man raids…. ::happy sigh::

At the end of the evening, The Boyfriend and I had helped the other guild get their first Void Reaver kill, and while he took the #2 spot on the tank lists, I took #3 on damage done and #5 on DPS. Not too bad for someone that had respec’d all of 3 hours previously and was holding back, trying to make sure I was following the raid correctly. ::pleased purr::

Did they do things differently than our guild did? Oh yeah. Some of it was good, some of it was just different. They’re enough like what I’m used to that I have no problems dealing with them. So tomorrow, it’s (hopefully) back to SSC for the first time in a while for me and seeing if we can help them get their first Leo kill. Whee!

Friday night, the guild met up and went into TK for the 3rd (or is it 4th?) time. We haven’t officially raided 25 man content in over a month. We were there to kick some serious ass.

I don’t think the poor (ha!) mobs leading the way to Void Reaver ever knew what hit them. The guild was there for blood and phat lewts. There was a lot of good-natured ribbing, a lot of really bad jokes, and a LOT of laughter: just the way we like to have raids go.

Then we got to Void Reaver. He’s still borked up with his globe attacks and the non-announcements by addons. There was a bit of adjustment to that, then the guild started chewing away on him. We had one more shot before things would respawn in bad places (we took more time than we liked. there were too many jokes involving “balls” and “face” and we were all being too damned silly) and then…. Boom. Dead Void Reaver.

So the guild went to TK, we saw VR, and all I got was some shoulders. Such a nice WoW birthday present, even if it was 3 days prior to my actual birthday! (Yes, my birthday’s today, like Fimlys posted earlier on his blog. Sing away. ::grin:: )

Forget what we got on the first, 17% on the second attempt. And 3rd attempt? Void Reaver down. Go us. And because I promised Aer but missed getting them up cos of all the insanity earlier in the week, here’s a few shots of us stepping foot into TK for the first time last Saturday night.

About to charge in and take on the first group of Blood Elves.

Such a pretty bird. Hate his trash so much.

And the kill shot. Yey team!