RAWR!

sry… just finishing this

so last tuesday was the new 2.4 patch! yay! no more attunement! i haven’t had a chance to finish my attunement quests to get into kara because I have been busy PvPing (i love it) and getting my pre-Kara tank gear. however, as of last tuesday i was kara bound. so i found myself being an offtank for group 1.  all i got to say is “this is awesome!”  I feel the same way about healers when I say this.  Why do people hate to heal and tank so much?  I loved being a vital part of the team.  Knowing that if I died or if I didn’t do my job, a wipe was most likely to occur.  I love being wanted.  I love being able to take a beating from 2 or 3 mobs at one time.  It was very exciting saving hunters that had their trap resisted and/or broken.  Charge and growl!  It was amazing.  I feel the same way when I heal!  I healed with my Priest for awhile and I love it.  That is why I’m slowly leveling a shammy along side my wife’s priest.  I’ll never understand how people can hate being such an important role.  I like seeing big numbers too, but tanking is my preference!

it’s so good to be home… thats why i’m leaving

why can’t people be content?  why must we want more?  these are questions i ask myself quite often being a gm of a guild.  i see people come and go and have come to the realization that no matter how much you offer, some people will never be satisfied.  i try my best to help and offer help to as many guild members that i possibly can.  i try to schedule quest nights, pvp nights, retro instance nights, give me all your gold nights!  just kidding about that last one. :)  however, to some, its not enough.

something quite funny occurred over the weekend.  i had a fairly new guild member tell me that he/she was leaving.  the reason was that he was going to a friend’s guild to help them grow.  it was fine by me, i want people to be happy and if you’re not happy in my guild, i want you to go where you will be.  the funny thing was that it was only a couple of days ago that he was telling me how much he enjoyed my guild.

well i went on helping a guilde quest.  a couple of hours have went past since the departure of the guilde when i get a tell from them.  they told me that the other guild was so awful and that he was so sorry and wanted back in because my guild was so awesome.  i will admit that this kinda made me feel good about myself (stupid pride for making me feel good).  of course i let him back in, people make mistakes, people will adventure.  the guilde was a nice person.  people deserve at least a second chance, depending on what they did to get that opportunity for the second chance.

i just find it funny how say how good their life is and still it’s not enough.  people… go figure

Don’t ruin it for me quite yet

So I have been on this trek of getting my druid to level 70. The main reason is because my guild needs another bear tank and I can also heal if I ever need to. Well, the journey is almost over as I reached level 69 over the weekend. Now I have decided to do some PvP to try to save some honor so I can get some welfare epics! A pre-Kara tanking set is not that hard to get. I’ve followed a good guide from my bear mentor Big Bear Butt (read druid goodness NOW!) to get most of my items for my tanking set. The bad thing is getting a good healing set is more of a pain. So if I PvP, I can get some good healing gear fairly easy while I tank.

With that in mind, I had my 1st PvP match yesterday. It was an AB BG. Of course, the Alliance lost, but I did really well, and I had tons of fun. I played mostly defense, but I ended up 3rd on the Alliance. I got 8 KBs, only died once (I got ransacked), and had about 30 HKs. It was so much fun sneaking up on people and murderating them. I love healing others in a pinch. I love CCing people. It’s just all around fun.

My question to you is… are Druids any count in PvP? I don’t PvP much, so I’m not sure.

The pain of the learning process

Well, it’s Tuesday and Kara resets!  All I can say is “Thank Goodness!”  This past week we brought several “new” people with us, which means I didn’t get to go, to Karazhan.  This included a new offtank, a semi-new healer, and a couple of new DPS.  I heard over vent all of the chaos.  The first day they burned down Attument like it was nothing and made quick way to Moroes.  Then, they got stuck!  Try after try, Moroes and his minions took them down.  They tried at least 5 times with no success.  They got stuck with some awful adds though.  They had both the ret pally and arms warrior, so when a priest got aggro, they were toast right away.  They had numerous problems from trapping to trap breaking and Moroes aggro.  They soon called it.  Later the next day I gave some trapping tips to help with trapping, and they tried again on Thursday.  Again, doomed at Moroes!  Trapping went well, but still other issues.   Trap breaking and not cleansing Blind were a major issue this night.  This week was one of those weeks you want to forget.  I’m going to try my best to come this week and lead my troops to victory!

long time…

for the three readers (ok, so i over-exaggerated by three)  that were actually wondering where i was, i’m back… well sorta.  these past few weeks have been hard, but i will prevail.  work has been crazy and i’ve been feeling down and not really felt like writing much of anything.  however!  i figured that i need to get this back up and going and who knows… it might even cheer me up.  being able to lay down thoughts and stories, getting things off my chest.

i have some ideas i’m going to write about soon.  i’m also going to try my best to write a post at least every Mon, Wed, and Fri.  my hopes are that i can get some sort of feeling of accomplishment out of this, you know, to help me get out of this funk i’m in.  if anyone by chance stumbles upon this blog and has any idea or wants to know anything about how messed up my head can be, let me know.  my muse for finding things to write about is missing.

anywho, stay tuned (like that kinda suspense is going to kill ya), and i’ll have some stuff to say.  as for right now, my nose belongs back on that grindstone.

klaki likey!

being an alt-o-holic, i normally don’t do much PvP because I’m busy leveling my next toon. however, a friend of mine introduced me to arenas! i know it’s nothing new, but i only did battlegrounds because i normally didn’t have a partner to do such with. well, i lovez me some arena now. it’s my warlock and my shadow priest friend in a 2v2 matches. i made tons of n00b mistakes, but i had a blast doing them.  killing two people so quickly feels so good.  the quick thinking, the spontaneous actions, the thrill of the hunt, it’s so sweet!  if you haven’t tried arena yet, i recommend doing so soon.  find the right partner and you’ll enjoy it.  trust me!

i caught a fish this big :\

don’t you just dislike people who play the 1-up game. you know the people and the game. you are really excited because you did or got something that was really cool in your eyes. then when you tell said person, they have to 1-up you and say they got something or did something better. they do this to make sure you and everyone around you knows about their fake-awesomeness. they lie so they can feel better by crushing your achievement into the ground. even if you got the highest score in a game possible, they are a great hax0r and achieved a higher score. even if you did three head shots in a row, they did 2 head shots with one bullet then back flipped off the building only to donkey punch another baddie. the fact that someone is so insecure about themselves that they must intrude on other peoples happiness and try their best to steal your thunder is beyond me. i also love the fact that you can’t argue or 1-up them either because their lies are endless. it will get to the point where they caught a whale using a stick and string. its pointless trying. it’s a sad time.

lets get ready to rumble!

with this raid week being our 4th raid ever in my guild, i’m proud to say that we will be hoping to down prince tonight.  we will float like butterflies and sting like alcohol being poured over severe wounds.    we have worked hard and have had tremendous teamwork to take care kara as well as we have.  our group is not the best geared group in the world, but we are taking to each challenge with personal determination to want to get through this.

last friday, we continued our march by taking down shade and one shotting illhoof.  both fights were fantastic with 6 people surviving the elemental onslaught of shade and with everyone left alive when illhoof met his bloody demise.  we had great healing, and great listeners.  we all played our roles, and we supported each other in fights that we didn’t think we could get to this quick when we started raiding.  we are rotating people the best we can so that all can experience some end game content.

so, i say to all…. RAWR!

on another note, my druid dinged 56 and is continuing it’s path to the top.  i’m still not sure if i’ll go resto or tank.  i suppose it depends on what we need at the time.  which way is more fun?  i got some tanking experience and i enjoy that.  i love taking the beating and being able to serve as a meat shield for those behind me.  i healed part of ZF last night on my priest and I enjoyed it, however the PuG was what it was, a PuG.  people couldn’t stick to their assignments and i was mad healing 3 or 4 people at times.  a lot of drinking i had to do.  all in all it was a blast.  i will keep you updated soon.

ode to doom

with all the comments that doom makes about poop, i thought i would write a poem about it. now i’m no poet by any means, however i will try to write of poop and the man that loves it, doom!

ode to doom

stealth, silent, tensions are high

waiting until the time is nigh

looking around, poised with grace

then boom! it’s time to lay waste!

…

unload fast, unload slow

dropping bombs, the killing blow

hemorrhage explodes!

…

the deed is done, it’s time to swab

cleaning up, getting the loot

but as everytime i drop trash mobs

all i ever get is poop.

your opinion: what’s the funnest class of each type?

so, being the alt-o-holic i am, i have tried all the classes to various different levels.  now there are some classes that i love to level, and others that i dread like the plague.  the excitement of my hunter and hunting down my pray while doing the whole aggro management is simply fun!  now on the other end of the spectrum, i love the abilities of my pally, but leveling is so grueling that i would rather poke my eyes out with hot pokers.  now i want to ask you all… what are the funnest class of each type?  DPS, healing, tanking, and just overall?  tell me which you think and why your class is the most fun to play!