Archive for the “Warlock” Category

No, not the frog. I have him too. I’m talking about my WoW gaming mojo. I’ve rediscovered it, and it’s all thanks to one person: Khatlyn. (Yes, I pointed the spotlight on you, deal.)

Khat is one of the leaders of the “Friday night Kara run guild”, aka the Runtz. Exar and I stumbled across them back when we were doing raids with another guild for 25 man content after our guild had essentially stopped the 25 mans. Khat and her hubby, Woeb, were also part of the raid crew, but in a separate guild. Somewhere in there, I found out they were moving to the same city I was in, only I was leaving pretty damned soon after they showed up. /facepalm But one ren faire trip later, and we had found out they are just as much fun in Real Life as they are in WoW. Exar and I grouped more and more with their little guild and have been having a damned good time on their runs.

Cut to yesterday when I’d logged in on the work computer to help Aerye with a Winter Veil quest. A few quests later, with me on Wrenn autofollowing (damned crappy frame rate work machine!), Khat mentioned one of her toons was Wrenn’s level. She’d read (and commented) on my “BLEH!” post a couple of days ago, and hey, getting Wrenn up in levels so I had two toons to cycle through my guild and her guild’s 10 man content is a good thing. So we made a “play date” for last night.

I was eager again to get home and level. I logged in, there was a mutual pouncing between Khat and I, then we gleefully wandered to Fort Wildevar to scour the landscape of living things. One gnome warlockette, one gnome mage chickie, one voidwalker, one water elemental. Add matching black Bunz o ‘Doom. Add chocolate. Shake.

Result? Play date scheduled for this afternoon (yey short work day), lots of giggling, sighing from Exar (a LOT of sighing), and a bunch of quests knocked out. I can’t remember how far along I am in the level, but I know I was having a lot of fun, and honestly, that’s what matters.

Sadly, around 8:30 my time I had to stop playing with her to switch to Siana and get ready for the 5 man group last night. I’ve now seen Culling of Strath (on heroic), and done Nexus on heroic for the daily. My first heroics. Wooo. Tonight? I can bounce around with her til she needs to go do Runtz stuff, then I’ll be trying to figure out if I want to see if anyone in guild is running some instances or if I just want to flake on the couch and watch TV. But right now, I’m just happy to be enjoying WoW again. /happy purr

Yeah yeah, this last level I’m taking my time with. I mean, I know I’ll be 70 by the time that Lich King rolls around. I made my goal of running in at least one Kara with the lockette, and looks like I’ll be in again tomorrow night. (Note to self: bake cookies for The Boyfriend as a thank you for sitting out and letting me go instead.) However, I’m still going to try and ding 70 tonight. Why? Because I have a nice clump of rested xp right now, and dammit, I want the joy and giggles that come from using Seed during the Illhoof fight.

Last night, I logged in for find that the random carnage was going to be more “Rawr kill undead!” Fine by me, so I grouped up and everyone went rampaging onward. Lots of giggles were had, “Suicidal Gnome” status was maintained, and epics were gained. See, that’s the OTHER reason I need to ding 70: all these new shiny epics I can’t wear yet! However, I’ve got a date tonight with another guildie to smack around Durn and the Ring of Blood. Between those and some other quests, I’ll get there. Then it’s back to Siana to do dailies to get money! Mmm money…

This weekend was fairly successful for my little lockette. Friday night, I had her first Kara run. Other than a bunch of epic miss (including the Curse of Doom on the Curator /sob), I didn’t do too badly. I was still lowest on damage, but I put that down to two things: not really knowing what a warlock does in a raid situation as opposed to leveling her butt off, and still being 68 with 0 +Hit. It lead to a lot of me sighing and watching “miss miss miss miss” on my screen. Ah well. Hopefully that will all soon be a thing of the past, because I walked out with a ton of gear.

Saturday I took off, since I wasn’t feeling well. Sunday I got back into the swing of things, did Steamvaults and Shadow Labs, and randomly ran around killing undead. THAT was fun. I went first on Siana, and when I showed up at the site, I asked what I should do.

“Kill undead.”
“Um, duh. Any specifics?”
“Yeah, if it’s undead, we kill it. This circle is OURS! MWHAHAHA!”
“Ohhhhhhhh one of THOSE! Okay! ::proceeds to run around tagging everything as soon as it spawns, and dragging it back to pally consecrate::”
“Wait, who’s that trying to take some of our kills?!”
“::zoom::”
“…Sia?”
“Yes?”
“You take the kills?”
“::giggle::”
“Gooood hunter. Good good hunter.”
“Rawr! ::scampers off to round up all the undead, breaking the respawn timer, then dragging back gryphons cos other wise the killing groove would break::”

Lather, rinse, repeat. Then I got Wrenn and DoT-tagged/body pulled everything in sight. To anyone on Doomhammer that our crew plowed over, I’m really really sorry. ^^; But the blood-frenzy got to me, they were egging me on, and honestly, watching a gnome warlock get pounded on by 12 undead mobs while it bounces back to the pally… isn’t that humorous enough as it is? Proud to say I never died. I was great bait.

Tonight was supposed to be more instancing/undead killing, but after running around most of the day, I’m tired as hell, so no gaming for me tonight. Instead, I’ll be turning into a lump on the couch and trying to figure out when I’ll be going to vote tomorrow. Wish we had early voting here, but alas. :/ I just know there’s gonna be lines. ><

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.

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…

It’s been… oy. I’ve been delightfully not at work since last Friday. Granted, I’ve still been doing work stuff, but at least half of my time has been occupied playing WoW. Friday night was the usual mixed-guild Kara run that’s become a nice tradition, with my mage picking up a couple of last items to play around with. Saturday was the very odd (and off) ZA run. At least we ended that laughing, even if we were disappointed in our performance. Sunday morning started with a ZF run given by another guildie for his wife and I, which I was thrilled to be able to take my baby lock on. Sunday evening was another Kara run, this time on Siana (mmm badges). Today? More leveling the lock, more dailies on various toons, and more cleaning of the house.

…hey, where did that come from? I know I didn’t put that on the list of things to do!

Anyway, the lockette is now a grand level of… 44. I’m about halfway through it on the way to 45. With any luck, I can get to 50 before the weekend and see about an Sunken Temple run on her. ::plotplotplot::

So far, the get up and do dailies before work plan seems to be going well. If nothing else, it’s helping me actually get out of bed. This morning, I groaned when the alarm clock went off, shut it off, and lay back down. Two minutes later, my brain whispered “Daiiiiily quests. Moneyyyyyyy. Easyyyyy. No one’s on the Isleeeeeee.” That got me out of bed and moving. With that, I’m pushing 600g on the hunter (most broke hunter evah), and over 1200g on my banker, thanks to selling epic gems. My god, I might have money when the xpac comes out, yey! ::grin::

The lockette is still working her way up in levels. I came close to hitting 40 last night, but jsut couldn’t do it. I’m around 10-15% to dinging, if not less, but I was amazingly tired last night. Well, that and distracted by the boyfriend playing more Force Unleashed. And Mythbusters. And Bones. Damned TV. So today at lunch it’s get in a little more time on the lock. I might just find some mobs and chew my way through them to ding 40 and go train, rather than find a quest I can do quickly. We’ll see how out of it I am when I log in.