Hallow’s End

Once again it’s time for Hallow’s End!  Everyone’s favoritest holiday.  It could be the pets, it could be candy, it could be the achievement, but mostly, it’s the Headless Horseman and his mount!  Elgar got his mount last year and has been making certain people envious ever since.  However, he never did the Hallow’s end holiday achievement.  Troutwort was surprisingly close to getting the things done.  I think he’ll be able to make it!  The hardest thing to finish up will be the transformations, sure I could have spent 10g a wand already from all the people selling their wand transformations, but instead I organized a guild event on Friday evening so that we can all transform each other as needed. 

I started doing the candy basket quests as well and managed to get both Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor done already.  Outlands should be a breeze.  The funny thing is that I didn’t realize just how much gold I could make from all that running about.  Of course, it was only afterwards that I realized I could have been finishing up my exploring as well.  Meh, it only would have made the whole thing take longer.

Due to all the life..we’ll call them ‘adventures’ and the holiday I haven’t done much of anything else.  I haven’t been in the mood to play many evenings which is too bad as there’s so much to do, I want to get Kalinnikov a few more levels here and there, but more importantly, I want to keep working on Rossini so that I can keep working on his enchanting.

Okay, that’s all the news for now, hopefully more Hallow’s End stuff coming up, Troutwort is going for the achievement, it shouldn’t be too bad.

No Winner

Well this thing most certainly win the WoW pumpkin contest, but still looks okay to me.  Tonight, week 2 of fail-arena.  I still have 0 resilience.

If I had any skill, it'd look like Elgar.

Autumn Came, and Conquered.

Holy F.

I feel like someone decided it was time to crap on me.  After being sick in late September, then going through some crap at work, this week continued the trend with a confusing break-up, and the cherry on top is being rear-ended yesterday. 

Life has been less than generous to me, and as a result I haven’t really been in much of a mood to play WoW.  And even when I do it’s been less than fun.  Our guild generally was pretty drama free.  But now there’s all this hidden tension between players because of raiding.  We started raiding, but we don’t have enough for 25s, which is okay, our Vent only supports 15 right now anyways.  So I set up some 10s and a really skilled member of our guild has been setting up ToC raids with other players and some guildies, it’s working great.  At least, I thought it was.  But because our usualy raid group only has 10 people there’s not enough room for everyone.  We completed Naxx and went on to Ulduar.  I’ve been trying to set up a second raid night with different people so that everyone gets a chance, but finding a time and someone to lead that group has been a challenge.  Unfortunately, some of the more geared players who are currently doing 25-ToC have viewed the Naxx-10 and Ulduar as a waste of time.  The trials of being a guild leader have me worn pretty thin at the moment with all my other stuff going on.

Of course there are the people now that are upset that they don’t get to come with on the raids.  I’m trying as hard as I can to set up another group, but our shortage of willing tanks and healers again has us limited.  Trying to merge this extremely casual guild into one with a casual raid schedule has been a challenge.  Hopefully we’ll find a second time that will work and people will kinda start running it on their own.  It seems like these things shouldn’t be that hard to figure out…but oy!

As for other news, I haven’t been playing much, but I did my first arena matches last Saturday.  I had 0 resilience and died in every match.  Our team name of ”Kill Priest First Please” seems to work…because I died first every time.  I’m still not sure what any of the arenas look like and I’m pretty sure for some time, until I get a PvP set I’ll be eating dirt.  Like this:

That's me dead, LOL.

So I have to give a shout out to the Jahafil and Karius for helping me and being patient with me.  I’m sorry I’m such a failpriest at arena. 

I hate this week.

Ding 74!

Rossini the warlock hit 74 Wednesday night.  On his way back to train after forgetting to for a few levels, I stopped by the target dummy just to take a few swings.

It then dawned on me that I should have been playing a warlock years ago…

Without DemonForm it was about 1400 DPS.  But still for level 74, Rossini is pretty much rocking and rollin!

It’s been a week (Part 2)…

It’s been a week since I last posted!!

I have been terribly busy at work with a hideous project, and I had company all weekend which meant that there was almost no WoW time.  However, there was still Tuesday night raid.  We continued from where we left off last week, which was having Military cleared (with an awesome one shot of 4 Horsemen) and 3/4 of Construct.  We started this week with Spider wing to “warm up” and then moved on to Construct to finish Thaddius, it took us two attempts, but still for the most challenging fight in there, I’d say getting him down on the second attempt is pretty damn awesome!!  We zipped through Plague Quarter really fast and a quick Battle Rez on me after having both healers wipe on the first dance (d’oh) we managed to pull it off.  Quite awesome.  It was then on to Sappharion?  Is that even right?  Anyways, the frosty bone dragon dude.  I think he only went into air phase 3 times and on our first attempt ever, we had him down!  There was much rejoicing.  After that it was on to KT.  We did surprisingly well on KT as well and one-shot him as well!  We lost our main tank sometime during the last 40% however, another quick battle rez and we were back in business.  It was an awesome recovery. 

We achievement spammed our guild and set up the raid time again for next week.  Since the group is pretty well geared and ready to go, we’re going to attempt to start with at least Flame Leviathan from Ulduar and we’ll see how much of that we get done before heading back into Naxx for more practice, clean up, and badges. 

It’s Wednesday, so not much game play again tonight, but after last night’s excitement in Naxx-10, I feel pretty good.

It’s been a week…

Well, outside of WoW has been pretty much awful this week.  Long nights at work and I find myself pretty much on the verge of quitting my job.  It’s been the first time in a long time that I’ve actually started looking for something new…maybe my New Year’s resolution to get a new job by the end of the year, just might come true.  I hope the Powerball is big this weekend. 

Anyways, back to more WoW related things.

The Naxx-10 on Tuesday went well.  We completed the Military wing and one-shotted our first attempts at both Gothik and the Four Horsemen.  I was totally impressed with my guild mates.  Four Horseman does not usually get executed so excellently.  We proceeded onto the Construct wing as we haven’t finished up that wing yet.  We got to Thaddius again and one attempt before raid time ran out.  We decided to extend the raid and continue on next week Tuesday, hopefully we’ll be able to finish up Thaddius quickly and then onto the Plague and Spider wings, we have been able to burn through those quick.  Then if all goes well we should have some attempts at Saph and KT next week as well, we’re also hoping to attempt some Onyxia next week as well. 

In other news, the second account I had is cancelled as of October 7th.  So I have transferred both Kittykat and Floy over to my active account and the others, Wingra, Monona, Tygerlily, and Linus will be suspended, possibly, forever.  It’s a little sad when I look back at screenshots that include this gang created by my friends.  But I just cannot afford to have an account that isn’t being used. 

Floy the gnome death knight and Kittykat the human warlock remain.  As an additional part of the transfer to my active account, Kittykat had some major changes.  She is now a man.  Named Rossini.  Sticking with the theme of classical music composers (Elgar, Schubert, Kalinnikov, Sibelius) and bad facial hair, this warlock is pissed and ready to slay.  The wicked witch hat that he has, will stay for a bit, and possibly until I find a piece of headgear that I’m happy to wear, because that thing…well, it just looks too awesome.  I have to say, I had forgotten how fun a warlock can be.  I do love that demonology spec, so there might be some new adventures of Rossini and the felguard as they head towards 80.

Another Weekend of Fishing

Alas, I was gone all weekend again fishing.  The Naxx-10 was supposed to continue on their progress on Friday, however it appears that not many people logged in and some of which are too geared for Naxx-10 anyways decided to head on over to 25-ToC with a PUG.  Apparently the Friday night 25 ToC is going to be a more regular thing so we’re going to leave Friday raid free for now and just do hopefully a quick OS this week on Thursday instead and then hopefully next week have an attempt at Onyxia-10.  I’m not sure where Onyxia falls into “progression” though.

We are going to attempt the military wing this week though instead of just doing the two “easier” wings.  Hopefully we’ll get some experience on the 4 horsemen and even get them down. 

Unfortunately, being gone fishing for the weekend means that I don’t get much play time.  I have transferred Kittykat over to my own account and have been leveling her, mostly for the DE materials from the quests.  But I had forgotten just how much fun a Demonology Warlock is, she hacks and slashes through everything!  It’s pretty awesome.  She’ll only be Kittykat for a little while longer.  After this Friday’s paycheck she’ll get a gender and name change and will become something a little more male and a lot less ‘kat’.

The fishing trip was a success though, and probably the last of the season.  Wisconsin is chilling down now, and the fish are readying themselves for winter and lake turnover.  Fall colors were not quite in yet, only some of the maples, the oaks, birch and others will come in a few weeks no doubt.

Here’s a picture from a couple years ago:

Click to enlarge!

4 Mounts, 3 Tankards…

We’ve been running the brewboss pretty consistently.  I’ve seen one of the two mounts drop FOUR times now and haven’t won.  Boo.  The Tankard has dropped three times in parties that I’ve been in, I did win that.  And that stupid egg thing seems to drop everytime.  We did see the shanker once, but we didn’t have any rogues with us.  So we just sold it…a nice chunk – 18g. 

One week left, and this weekend I’m gone fishing, so I’ll have to make sure I stick to it.  Seeing the mount drop three times last night alone was encouraging.  There is a person in our guild trying hard for the 100 mounts though, if I had won one of the times last night when she was in our group, I had throught that I would trade the mount to her.  It’s like Repgrind is always telling me, “You already have the Headless Horseman mount, that’s the coolest one in the game!  You don’t need any other mounts!”  I suppose…but a Kodo?  I know it doesn’t fly, but it’s still pretty cool.

Brewmaster

Schubert earned his first title ever as part of the holiday event.  Brewmaster Schubert.  Not too bad. 

Our guild also had two of the new Tankards O’Terror drop as well.  So our enhancement shaman were pretty happy about that.  We’ve been collecting up the trinkets but mostly hoping for the mounts.  I think we’ve only seen one of those so far.  But brewfest is still young.

With it being Tuesday our Naxx-10 reset and we had scheduled a group to go.  I was part of that group, but just prior to stepping out the door for work yesterday, I got a call and my volunteering night was to be moved from Wednesday to Tuesday night this week.  That meant I wouldn’t be able to attend the raid.  Aww crap.  I was mostly worried about being able to find a replacement healer, but we did and apparently they did very well.  The group has been learning quickly and for only their second week raiding they did much better than last week, DPS was up across the board, and movement and such went much better.  Heigan takes more than two weeks to learn though.  Apparently 7 people died on the first dance.  Oops. 

I’m so proud of them though.  I was happy to hear it went well and with much improvement.  Again, a special thanks to our two main tanks as they really help lead and probably have nothing to gain from doing Naxx-10.  We appreciate their efforts and spending a few hours to help the guild.  It’s not all about gear, the skills that everyone is learning and the teamwork that this group is generating is wonderful and will later be very valuable in more challenging raids.  But you have to start somewhere, and Naxx-10 is as good a place as any.  2.33 wings down, they will continue on Friday, which I already know I will be missing as I’ll be gone on one last fishing trip.