I finally got my winterspring tiger mount!! HURRAY! I guess there is one advantage to having a crummy connection at work - Winterspring has been one of the only places I don’t get constantly D/C’ed in and I was able to finally finish my quest for my tiger! YAYYY
it is insanely late considering I worked a 14 hour day and have to get up at 5am…. woot sleep is for the weak!
Here is the pic of everyone in front of FathomLord Kathress. I’m a goober who apparently can’t manage to hit control Z before taking a pic. I am also very very tired so this is all ya get for now.
As Oaks was listening to a pod-cast by BRK earlier I remembered the other thing I wanted to complain about. MAGISTER’S TERRACE SUCKS. Yep that was it. Our little stalwart group (Asgara, Sand, Chlorii , Oaks and I) have done all the 5 mans, and all of them on heroic. Except Magisters terr. We can’t get past the last pull before the boss. It really irks me that they have made it so you basically HAVE to have a certain group make up to be successful. We are a pretty creative group - we’re used to not quite having what is needed and making it work anyway. But it seems nigh on impossible with that last pull. That irks the bejesus out of me!!!
I have kinda been avoiding writing much lately for a couple of reasons. First off - since Asgara and Oaks seem to be too busy with work lately to write much, I was beginning to think this was becoming “Mostly Cynn” instead of “Mostly WOW”. Hopefully they will both have stuff to say soon. Also, we have had a bit of guild drama lately and I am always hesitant to write much about it even though it obviously effects how I think about things a lot. I don’t want to exacerbate anything by what I write here, since I know many of my dear guildies read it. Oh well - I’m half awake after a long prog run last night and even later hours farming… so I’m just gonna babble a bit and see what happens… you are forewarned! Read the rest of this entry »
How come I’m the suckiest suck…
Let see, where to begin…
Yesterday started off okay, went to work, was told we could leave 2 hours early for the holiday; life was good. Got home to an empty house, this is a rarity because my wife runs a daycare out of it… She had taken the kids to the Boston Children’s Museum for a field trip for the day.
Then my day started to SMEF; I received a call from my wife all in a panic because the vehicle she had borrowed was pissing transmission fluid all over the highway. So being the kind husband I found another vehicle and went and picked up the vanload of kids while she waited for AAA to come and tow the vehicle. To make a long story short, I made it home with 12 minutes to spare before the progression raid was to start…
Made it into the game and to Coilfang Cavern with a couple of minutes to spare, the stars were lining, up got my invite and we started. I was doing well, only screwed up and clicked the wrong button once (managing to get myself killed in the process). I even managed to walk off with an off-spec thrown weapon (the Serpentshrine Shurkin) and a (n) on-spec tanking trinket (the Spyglass of the Hidden Fleet). I even managed to survive the encounter with Lurker (which has never happened before), this was fantastic!!
Then the first proverbial shoe dropped (this happened just before the tussle with Lurker)… My eyes started to burn, this usually happens to me under rare circumstances which consist of a) lack of sleep and b) my allergies (this time of year in Massachusetts the ragweed and golden rod start to bloom and it makes my life a living hell (burning eyes, nose starts to run like a leaky faucet, and seemingly endless sneezing fits), because I happen to be one of those fortunate few who are extremely allergic to those two plants).
Then the second proverbial shoe dropped (this happened as we were fighting the trash mobs right after Lurker (I can’t remember where we were going) I started doing touch and goes, I was literally falling asleep at the computer… We were only 2 1/2 hours or so into the raid… WTF!!!!
I felt like the smallest night elf on the planet… knee high to pond scum… as I whispered Nigel to tell him I couldn’t continue. And I know when you sign up for a raid it is a minimum of a four hour commitment. Which made me feel even smaller… knee high to a knit… :-/
I wouldn’t be surprised if this pretty much crippled any future chance of me going on any future raids ever…. Even the Kara farming raids….
This is why I’m the suckiest suck whoever sucked….
No good deed goes unpunished is the overriding theme of my life - both in and out of the game. Those who know me in real life know that this is not baseless cynicism on my part, and it carries over into all aspects of everything I do. My biggest problem - an overwhelming need to help people, usually to my own detriment.
So Tuesday night when we got home from a family birthday party, the computers were fired up as usual. Oaks and I were both doing random things since it was late and we had no specific plans. I got a whisper from a former guildmate begging, pleading me to go to SSC and help his guild take down Leo. I didn’t really feel like it - but they had tried a couple times already and were loosing people…. I felt bad for them. So I ask when does SSC reset (here is the NOOB part) because I’m a loser and wasn’t sure. They assure me that it resets every 72 hours just like ZA - hence their desperation. So I go, I help, we down Leo, I get 2 badges. Everyone is happy.
I look up stuff on SSC for this weekends raid shortly after getting out of there… I realize that I am now saved UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY.
ARGH…… I promptly freak completely out.
Granted - my weekend was going to suck anyway -because I have to work Saturday night overnight…. but my Friday and Sunday are both hosed too.
For helping an annoying twit I felt bad for…. and 2 badges.
SIGH
When will I learn? 
ZOMG! Oakshorn doing a post!?!?! Inconceivable! Yeah, yeah I know I haven’t posted much lately - but here’s one I just had to beat Cynnialuna to the punch on :-) Tonight we finally brought down Tidewalker after many a wipe against him using several different tanks (and types of tanks). Tonight’s tank was Rosa, a druid tank (the recammended tank type). I feel confident Nigel (warrior tank) could have done it, but it just happened everything clicked and we had enough people that had done the fight before. Anyway, here’s the pics:
Yeah, his head went into the wall. LOL.
I give a quick hand to the AOE’ers while I get healed up after a watery grave (that’s some crazy boomkin lightning!).
PHAT LOOTZ!
Tidewalker gave up some nice loot for us too! Our buddy Bill picked up the Serpent-Coil Braid and Asgara walked away (well she was bouncing around and jumping for joy really) with a new wand - Luminescent Rod of the Naaru a very sweet wand indeed! (maybe if you’re nice she’ll post a pic of herself “wanding”) hehe.
Grats guys!
Oh, and to see the crazy DPS we had going, here’s a link to the WoWWebStats report .
PS - here’s what the previous attempts looked like:
I have been thinking a lot lately about my alts and where I should go with them. I have a 45 level Mage named Alialunas - the first toon I ever made in fact. She has been leveling agonizingly slow - mostly because I just don’t spend the time on her that I should. Her quests are a disasterous mess because I have spent so much time going to help other people with her… and yet they are now way higher than her and she languishes in the 40’s…. It’s not that I don’t like the toon, rather she is like a tangle of some really cool yarn that I have…. it will be worth it to get it untangled and knit something cool with it… but looking at the tangle you think it will never come apart.
Then there is Caseopia - my 20 something dranei shaman. I have her resto… I adore her and want to get her to 70 so I can have a raid healer (Shammies ROCK!) BUT I made her to level with Oaks…. who has made 3 diff toons since and can’t make up his mind which one … so she is in the same spot Cynn was for a very long time, running back and back again over the same boring quests to help someone else and never getting anywhere herself… not that I mind - but it gets frustrating.
I feel like I need to just grab one or the other (I won’t even go into my Hunter, warrior, rogue or either of my priests) and just work on her on the rare occasions I don’t play with Oaks. But I can’t decide which one… and I get frustrated and think things like “I could be herbing on Cynn for raid pots.. ” or “I could be doing dailies since Cynn is broke..”
So here is my ghetto Poll :
Shammie or Mage….
I am TIRED. But this past weekend was almost worth the lack of sleep - I say almost because had we taken down Morgrim then I would have been happy not to sleep at all! But we didn’t. 
Friday night we started on the trash clears and farming runs - very fun because Sand and Dafin were able to come. It was a bit more chaotic than usual though unfortunately. Just was one of those nights were it seemed everything was loose ends. Nigel was raid leading and it must have been like herding cats for him! On the upside - Dafinnster downed his first raid boss - Hydross!
The rest of the time was chaotic and we had people coming and going like a freaking revolving door! I suppose its all a matter of getting the bugs out - last week was much the same. It was ironic - we took Hydross down in no time (we had about 10 tries on him last week!) this time but had a hard time on the Lurker below…. which we took down like nothing last week. We ended up not taking him out till Saturday. Funny how that happens. I got a GREAT offhand too - I was so excited! Fathomstone is an excellent addition to my dps gear! Unfortunately it doesn’t shoot fire like the Talisman of Nightbane did… but I’ll keep it regardless!
Saturday’s raids started off a little slowly too because we were waiting on people and finding more people that sort of stuff… which gave the Druids ample time to do what druids do best… be wierd! Druid train on grobnar! There also may or may not have been some line dancing that took place but since the screen shot didnt come out, it didn’t happen ;P!
The really disturbing thing was that we were all breathing in tandem… It’s pretty much becoming a raid tradition that the druids have to pile on, train behind, dance around or do some other form of silliness spontaneously on a non-druid member of the raid. Well, that makes it sound more reasonable… ‘tradition’… really - its just that druids are goofballs by nature. Any druid who tries to tell you differently is lying…or denying their true druid nature!
Anyway - we went on to Lurker and took him down thereby clearing the rest of the way for Morogrim without worrying about respawns as much - I definitely like this part of things - gives us more time! I just wish we could get rid of ALL the stuff. We did the first couple of pulls before Morogrim and in true JS fashion = wiped on the trash. We got rid of it though and went on to Morogrim. I have to say - I am developing a full on HATE of this green-bubble-fart-sniffing asshole. HATE HATE HATE. It’s so frustrating - because honestly we have the fight down to where it is purely a matter of luck whether we are successful or not. I HATE that! We got so far both Saturday and Sunday…. Saturday we got him down to the 20’s…. Sunday we got him down to 9% & 6% and then an unlucky confluence of earthquake, waterygraves or critical hits would wipe us. We stayed up SOO late on Sunday - I don’t even remember what time it was when we got to bed - we went back and RECLEARED the trash to have more time on it because we were so freaking close! Next week we will get it - we just have to!
Saturday night after the raid we did an impromptu Kara run until about 430 am. That was a blast… until I realized I was falling asleep whilst fighting LOL. It was a great crew though and more fun than serious… I felt bad having to say I couldn’t go back on Sunday night - but it is hard when you are on Server time and realize that you will probably only get about 3 hours sleep before you have to get up for work in the morning. My butt was DRAGGING yesterday!
So this weekend - Morogrim is going down…. Kara is on wed/Thursday so hopefully Oaks and I can actually make it in! and all will be right with the world.
One of the things we have been working on lately is getting newly-made 70 Dafinnster geared up to raid. He’s a warrior tank and I think he could be quite good one with the right gear. As it is now, Critty-Critty-Boomkin*, and Oakshorn-force-of-Destruction have a hard time letting him do his job. I’m getting better at not tossing all his carefully constructed aggro out the window with the first spell, but its hard! I actually just had an idea while I was typing this - maybe I should pull some of the lower ranks of my spells out of the spell book for when I’m instancing with him…. hmm that might help. Actually -part of the reason that I am sure he will be a good tank is that he can actually get it back after I’ve tossed his aggro table and started boomkin-tanking by mistake. Read the rest of this entry »