tinydancer the hugewhore

So Whimsy hit 80 a little while ago. I got her in tier 9 and ICC heroic gear pretty quickly. There's not much else I can do for her except to get her into ICC, and since my guild is only doing heroic 10 man now, there's no chance of that.

But tonight, we did a guild VOA 25. It's always better to do things with the guild than to pug, right? WRONG. Josh and I both brought our warriors...the only warriors in the raid. The leader forgot to set it to master looter. Well, two pieces of warrior gear dropped. Everyone passed (including us) because that's what we always do in guild when they make that mistake (which doesn't happen often.) So as Josh and I are discussing which piece we each want, we see, that Tinydancer has decided to hit the disenchant button. EVERYONE in the raid passed, and she effing DE'ed it! I am seething right now. Two pieces of gear that could have been used, and that stupid whore disenchanted them both. She was one of the last people to roll. She saw that everyone passed. It was obviously very much intentional. God I hate her so much. I hated her before I was in the guild with her, but my hatred multiplied exponentially tonight. And she tells us, "Oh just open a ticket." Um no, you retard, YOU have to open the ticket. If we open a ticket, they're going to tell us, "Sorry, you're probably lying, and she actually doesn't want to give it to you." I know this from experience.

On another note. I got a beta invite, but I really only played once. I don't wanna play too much because I don't wanna spoil it. I don't know. Josh has been playing it a lot. Part of me wants to, and part of me doesn't.

I also got a new graphics card today. It doesn't help immensely, but it definitely helps. (I have a four year old Dell that was in the upper-mid range when I got it, so the card I had was....not great, at least not compared to what you would get if you bought a computer for the same price now.) Thunderclap looks so pretty. I can't stop casting it. Haha.

Oh well. I think I'm gonna go to bed since I'm not raiding tonight. Last week was the first time in a long time that I raided with the guild. I signed up for LK25 tonight, but then tinywhore decided to ruin my night, and since our GM didn't even acknowledge that it was a problem, I'm not gonna help him out by going to the raid. He never addresses problems like that because...I don't know...he's afraid of hurting people's feelings? He clearly doesn't believe in the philosophy of losing one person for the good of the guild. He won't reprimand anyone for fear of driving them out, even if it means he loses five other guild members because of that person. Stupid stupid stupid.

Oh! I also forgot to mention....I got hacked last week. It was pretty weird. But it all got resolved so fast that it didn't even cause any kind of problems for me. In fact, it worked out only to my advantage because they gave me double my gold and frost emblems back on three of my toons. Of course they didn't give them to Whimsy, the only one who needs them, but...meh...it's whatev.

whimsy the warrior

Man, it's been a long time. My bad.

I've been playing very, very casually lately. Between work and school, I just don't have the time to commit to anything. I signed up for one raid, and I ended up getting called in to work. I thought I'd be home in time, but then Josh got called in to work, which meant I had to stay there till nearly midnight waiting for him to get done. I couldn't even unsignup for it because I had no access to the computer. So I haven't signed up for any more since then. Next week I'm only working 20 hours, so maybe I'll jump into a raid or two. Maybe.

I have been leveling my warrior. She's almost 79, and she only has four bars of rested xp left. I think I leveled all the way from 72-78 rested because of the way I was playing, so that was pretty awesome. I don't know if I should just quest until I run out, or if I should let her rest to build some more before I continue to 80. I think I'm just gonna head straight for 80.

I did both Operation: Gnomeragon and Zalazane's Fall. I have to say, I definitely like the horde version better. The one thing that bothered me was that it seemed like everything was a lot more spread out than it was at Gnomer. At Gnomer, you were basically standing in the same spot for the whole thing, whereas, in Sen'Jin, you were running all over the place. But Zalazane's Fall was a lot more fun for me. Maybe it's just because I'm a Horde trapped in an Ally body (or four), and I like everything Horde better. hahaha. Speaking of that, I got a horde insignia tattoo a few days ago.



I love it.

I'll probably go back to horde for Cataclysm. And as soon as they allow it, I'll most likely make Whimsy a blood elf. Maybe.

faked link death...whoops?

The calendar invitation I got to the MS raid said the raid started at 8:30. I logged on at 8:00. Very shortly after, I started panicking and remembered that I'm incapable of raiding (with a guild; pugs don't count) when there's no one in the raid that I know. It sounds stupid, I know, but I was getting super nervous and freaking out. By 8:45, I still had not received an invitation to the raid, so I assumed they had deemed me not good enough and found someone else. All the while, Stevie and Kyle were trying to get me to come to their 10 man. I would much much rather do that, but I knew I couldn't bail on the MS RS run or I'd be out. Finally at 9:15, I got a raid invite. I was disappointed, to say the least. I flew over to Dragonblight, and on my way there, I realized MS hasn't downed Halion yet. I completely forgot that KoT is one of only three guilds on The Scryers to have killed Halion 25. (And we've done it a few times now.) I wanted nothing to do with that wipefest (since I HATE HATE HATE RS anyway) so as soon as we pulled, I pulled the plug on my router (so that Vent would disconnect at the same time as the game.) I waited a few minutes and then logged onto my shaman.

Stevie asked me if I could bring my tank instead. That hadn't been what I was hoping for, and I'm not geared well enough to go past lower spire, but I agreed. We had two baddie pugs, but the rest of the group was people we know, and it went well.

We had the most epic Deathwhisper fight ever - I wish we'd frapsed it. Within about a minute of the mana shield being popped, our MT goes down. Both our battle rezes had been used, and both the druids were dead. I was solo tanking a two tank fight from then on out. I thought it was impossible, but apparently not. It was me, one healer, and two dps for at least 50% of the fight. It was absolutely incredible, and I still can't believe we did it. I mean, Deathwhisper is certainly no Heigan...

Anyway. Right before we headed upstairs, I got the warning that my account was expiring in 30 minutes. So we headed up there and did that, and then we killed Saurfang with 1 minute to spare on my account. I had just hit friendly, and I went downstairs to grab my ring before it was over, but it wouldn't let me! I was so mad. I could click on the dude to turn in the quest, but it wouldn't let me choose a reward. Oh well.

I'm definitely glad I chose that over wiping on RS/LK all night, even if that does mean I got kicked out of MS. (I'm too scared to check the armory. lol.)

back to school break

Loihi ended up getting into MS on a trial period. Unfortunately, it's all really bad timing. My account time ends tomorrow, we go back to work on Saturday, and we go back to school on the 23rd. It's not a good time for me to be joining a new guild because not only am I gonna be broke for awhile, but I'm going to have too much going on to be worrying about being online at raid times. Once I get settled into a routine, I should be fine to start playing again. But since I'm only a trial in MS, I seriously doubt they'll keep me through my little break. I'm signed up for a raid with them tomorrow, but I'm not even sure I'll get to go. Blizz decided to be awesome and not tell you when your account expires anymore. I love how they keep changing battle.net every other day...NOT!

I have to say, I'm not at all sad that I'm being forced into this break. I'm getting super bored with it, and I know that once I kill LK (which MS does regularly; KoT still has not on 25 man) I will be like, "k I beat the game cyabai!" I've never gotten to the very very end before. Forget Kil'Jaeden (It was KJ in Sunwell, right? So many Kils and Kels; I can't keep them straight.) No one on my server even killed Illidan till after the nerf. I, to this day, have not laid eyes on Illidan. I have, however, laid eyes on The Lich King, and that's honestly close enough for me.

*shrugs* Hello, Cataclysm?

aggro whore

Last night, I had signed up for KoT's 10 man with Loihi. I go to it every week if I can, and I really enjoy it. I hadn't signed up for anything else this week because the rest of the week is 25 mans, and I can't bring Loihi to them.

So I log on and join the raid group. I'm in Krasus landing, summoning my drake to fly to ICC, when I get a whisper from someone in MS (the guild to which I applied), asking me to come to LK25. I said (aloud), "ohhhhh shit!" I had no idea what to do. I couldn't say yes because I was already in a KoT group, and I love KoT (just not their new policy) so I couldn't bail on them just minutes before the raid was going to start. But I couldn't say no because that was probably my one and only chance to prove to this guild that they should bring me into their guild. I thought about it for a few minutes and then told the guy from MS that I was very sorry, but I had just joined a ten man and wouldn't be able to join them for LK. My heart sank as I sent it, knowing that I had probably just given up the opportunity to be in that guild. But everyone in our 10 man quickly raised my spirits, and I had fun like always. I posted a comment on my MS app, explaining the situation. I still have heard NOTHING from them. Someone who applied after me has already been accepted, but they haven't told me anything. It's really frustrating.

Anyway. We had a tank shortage last night, so one of our trees went bear. He never tanked ICC before and hadn't tanked much before at all. I do pretty awesome in my new demo spec, and, well...lets just say I was sitting at the top of the death meter by the end of the night. I pulled aggro so many times. I realized toward the end that my omen warnings had gotten turned off somehow. Our bear also realized this morning that he had messed up a macro, and he hadn't used mangle once the whole night. We still got 8 bosses down in three hours, despite all our mess-ups and losing a dps to lag.

We had a lot of trouble on Blood Queen, and we shouldn't have. Everyone has seen the fight on 25 man, if not 10, and people were just acting stupid. I was the second person to get bitten on our first attempt. My target and I met somewhere, and I bit her. I was dpsing; everything was going great. Then came the air phase. Just before I got out of the fear, it was time to bite again. I tried to run to my bite target, and he ran as well. But did he run towards me? Oh, no, of course not. He ran away from me. Everyone who was close enough to me had already been bitten, so I got MCed. On the second attempt, the same person who I had been supposed to bite, failed to bite someone else and got MCed at the beginning of the fight. He blamed it on lag, but I don't know if I believe that. That was our last attempt cause it was time to end it.

I did get a wand out of it. I had the 245 wand, so it wasn't a huge upgrade, gearscore-wise or stat-wise. But it did raise my gearscore ever so slightly. I think I'm done with 10man now. I'm not sure. The only things I have below 251 are a trinket and a ring.

new alt vs main policy

Last week, (well, the last raid week), I signed up Loihi for ICC25 farm night. Our GM never had a problem with bringing alts to farm night, assuming they were geared enough and could pull their weight, and assuming the entire raid wasn't alts. Well, things got switched around, and they ended up going to RS on farm night, so I unsigned up, like I mentioned here. They switched farm night to Thursday, so I signed up for that. Well, they ended up doing lower spire after RS on Wednesday. Then Thursday, they continued RS and Upper Spire. That's not what I signed up for, but that's what I ended up bringing Loihi to. She got three pieces of gear (that no one else was remotely interested in, and it's not like I wasn't spending dkp on it), and the main warlock in the guild said something to the effect of, "damn, I'm bringing my alt next time." The GM commented, "Aww, DD, you don't have an alt!"

A few days later, a post pops up on the forums from our GM. We're no longer allowed to bring alts to 25 man (even on farm night) unless the alt is NEEDED. (His caps, not mine.) And they'll take main character offspecs before they'll take alt character main specs. Which doesn't make sense to me because my shaman's (my main) offspec is far less geared than my warlock's main spec. Anyway. I was invited on a whim. I never submitted an application. I never chose my main. Because my shaman was the first one to be invited to the guild, she was automatically my main, even though she was my least geared character at the time. (And she wasn't my main the first time I was in the guild.) There's now in place a formal procedure to switch mains, and I don't qualify for it.

I have little desire to raid on my shaman. My warlock has always been my passion, and I way more fun with her than I do with my shaman. It frustrates me that I can't break a certain dps on my shaman because it's the nature of elemental shamans, and it makes me not even try to dps hard. So what do I do?

I applied to another guild with Loihi. I haven't been accepted yet, but I think I have a decent chance. But I'm really on the fence about whether or not I'm going to go. KoT's policy is that if you remove your main from the guild, all of your alts will be kicked out. Well, Adelaide is listed as my main, but technically Loihi will be my main. It's kind of just asking for trouble, I think. I don't want to burn any bridges in KoT because I did that once, and I don't want to do it again. I love that guild, but I want to play the character that I want to play. If I'm forced to play a character that's no fun to me, I'm just not going to play. Aside from all that, though, school will be starting back up in a couple of weeks. The guild to which I applied ends their raids at midnight my time, whereas KoT ends theirs at 1:30am my time. Midnight is much more reasonable for me. But the other big problem, aside from pissing off people in KoT, is that Josh likely won't be able to come with me. They only have two warlocks in the guild, but every other class is overfull (though they are recruiting...). Even if he were to get accepted, his rogue is the only geared enough toon he has, and it's his main in KoT. And KoT only has two rogues (including him) so it wouldn't make sense for him to leave.

It just doesn't make sense. Loihi is <100 points lower than Adelaide gearscore wise (on wow-heroes, not sure about the addon) and she does more dps than Adelaide. Why can't I bring her to farm night?!

Bleh. It's a much more difficult decision than I'd like it to be, and I just wish I hadn't been put in this position in the first place. >.>

and i'm back

I haven't been raiding lately. I haven't been doing much of anything wow-related lately, except trying to make money. I stumbled upon the money-maker that is fishing, and in about two weeks (though really only maybe 4 days actively) I made 6k gold. The most I've ever had before was 12k, and that's when I sold a hilt I got. I gave half of that to Josh, so 6k is the most I've ever had for myself. As much as I'd like to get my little Whimsy epic flight training, I'm going to wait till I get 10k just so I can see that much money in my bag =P I tried the same tactic on Scilla, but they just don't value fish the way Scryers people do. I've only made about 2k on Scilla in the same amount of time.

Whimsy has finally hit 70. I am definitely not as good at warrior tanking as I am at pally tanking, but interestingly enough, I find it a lot less challenging. Everyone says that pally tanking is the faceroll, but honestly, I think warrior tanking is. I'm just not good at tanking at lower levels when my groups are full of noobs who think it's cool to pull aggro and then continue to beat on the mob so that no matter how many times I taunt it, it can never get back to me. Whatever.

I haven't been raiding because we get finished at 1:30am my time, and I had class at 10am. I wasn't getting up on time, so I had to stop raiding. Now I only have a few more weeks before it's back to school full time and work, so hopefully I'll get some raid time in. I intended to take Loihi to 10 man ICC tonight, but our server was down for the 24 hour maintenance. I signed her up for the 25 man farm night tomorrow, but that got changed to RS, so I unsigned up. I hated OS, and I have absolutely no desire to do RS. When we ran Diabolical, OS was something you pugged. Not just in our guild, but in all guilds. And I have a hard time looking at RS differently. To me, it's a waste of my raiding time. So I guess I'll just have to pug a raid this week since I couldn't get in any 10 OR 25. Sigh.

Since our server was down, though, Josh and I, along with two guildies, went to the B L O G refugee party on Shadow Council. It was pretty cool, but it did get boring after a bit.


Look at all those gnomes!!