http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/ A class site dedicated to Warlocks in the online game World of Warcraft. en Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:31:15 GMT vBulletin 1440 http://wowmb.net/forums/images/warlocksden/misc/rss.jpg http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/ http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gnomeobie/678-i_dont_do_25s.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:04:13 GMT STOP, before you get in a huff this post isn't some dissertation on 10s vs 25s, so untwist whatever undergarments you're have on and if you don't have any on well that's just nasty, lol


Hey there guys....its been a while. I actually had a blog post about taking the summer off, but left it in drafts so...yeah that didn't work so well.


Well first get your blankie...or AC depending on where you've been. I'm on the east coast US where we are being slowly baked till we're all nice and crispy.

Anyway.....First lets ripe the bandage off the and get the bad stuff out of the way. The guild is dead. Short story My RL went into a tailspin that lasted till july and I just stopped playing wow. When I mean stop i didn't log on for 2 months. Right before this everyone left my guild and started a new one where they had the same problems I had with attendance and players.

Someone eventually decided to try and take over the GM position and thats what brought me back.

So I have a guild with a a nice bit of gold, 4 full bank tabs of items, and no guildies.

Now that life is stable, rather than rush in and start rebuilding I took a look at what brought it all crashing down before.

I'll save the replay of my couch time for another post , but essential I was giving up RL for raiding and GM. I was not doing family stuff or going places because of wow and when life happens..it happened in a big way and I just stopped cold turkey.

So I know I want to raid late night, and I want to be a GM and I want some kind of casual/hardcore raiding. By that I mean required attendance to progression raiding and doing other older or whatever raids other nights, but we'll see.

I've been back for a week or more and working on some of my personal wow goals, LOTS of gold before Cata, leveling a horde, leveling a tank, figuring out what to do with my tree.

So I'm sure you're thinking you can level a horde tank...well here goes. So i started an undead warrior and strangely it reminded me of my 'lock. There are ALOT of things that need to happen and that whole rage thing...dude seriously...once I'm on a roll I was fine, but going from Zero is a pain (i learned some tricks, but yeah I'm going to complain needlessly hear) . Also I rolled on another server so no heirlooms. Anyway so I ding 16 and think ok time to tank. I did RFC once, but it was worse than the first time I did a 5 man with my lock, or healing on my tree. I have an entirely new respect for tanks. I also have a whole new view on playing the threat game when running in a group.

Anyway, i ran it again and it feels like it something I need to work on. The problem being is my warlock is my masterpiece, managing dots, pet, soul shards, being squishy, watching threat, mana management, do I have my amour up, can't heal myself..My very needy ball of chaos and destruction. Alot of this is second nature (although after almost 2 months off it took me about a day to realize I couldn't make a fire stone because I had no soul shards) I'm not interested in dedicating the time and attention to learning to tank properly as a warrior. I'll do it eventually, but not this go around. So my Warrior will be my sight seeing guide through horde territory. I still want a tank so I rolled a pally (on my server, heirlooms ftw) and I should be 16 this weekend. I'm not saying it will be easier,but I wanted to try. Not sure why but I'm not interested in a bear tank.

Its also hard for me to pick up a class at 80 and learn it. I know it can be done, but I would rather level it. I feel like i know my tree pretty well now having leveled it. Since I didn't level at all as balance I'm having a hard time with it.

I leveled a blood elf to 13 and stopped because the starting area made my head hurt. Love the Forsaken area, but is it me or is it way harder? I didn't see a green for a while...

Pally is level 7 and rolled a dwarf. I see they changed the starting area, so you don't see "red" mobs till you leave...and how annoying is the new noobie tips? Dude this is like my 100th toon...I got it..

My tree is at 4.9 gs (I am guessing GS is here to stay, I remember when I refused to acknowledge it..oh well) and not really sure what to do with her. I haven't healed HOR yet, I've gotten half way and had mana issues, which makes me worried about healing any kind of ICC. I should have enough for a frost piece this week, so we'll see

I am just starting to play my lock, kind of warming things up. I don' think there is much left for me in terms of gear.

And here is the pay off...how I got to the title of this post. I told a friend I would like to raid on my tree and he said well you just need to jump in and do it. At the time I was helping a former guildie with a naxx raid. It was the weekly and they wanted key for EOE. Anyway, friend said get in this 25s its where the gear is at.

I replied I don't do 25s. period.

The point here isn't really about 25s or even my growing altoholic addiction which we will deal with in future posts, but more my decision to say no and do what feels good and right.

We'll see how long it lasts. lol

I do miss being GM pretty badly so after the Labor day(American holiday, which signals the unofficial end to summer in the states). I'll be back to recruiting. recruiting what is the questions. Yes, I know its the nd of the expac, but we'll see.

So my lock....tonight I pug and thinking about transfering to a pacific server. We'll see.

So Cata....thats the new hotness right now. So are you trying to get all the info you can get? Are you avoiding most if not all info so you can experience new and shiney for yourself?

I've let myself see bit and pieces, but for the most part I want to experience everything when it comes out for myself. I did see a video of the maelstrom and thought it was Awesome


The wall of text ends here. Hope everyone had a good summer or whatever season you had.


A rolling Gnomie Gathers no Moss ]]> Gnomeobie http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gnomeobie/678-i_dont_do_25s.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/669-rhiadana_what_lot_balls.html Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:28:45 GMT Purple balls, that is. Our 10 group managed the Blood Price Council last night. Took a few tries but we got there. I, of course, was on ball... Purple balls, that is.

Our 10 group managed the Blood Price Council last night. Took a few tries but we got there.

I, of course, was on ball duty. Collecting the balls, and keeping dots up on my boss. It's not too hard a fight, just gets a bit complicated with everything thats going on.

We everntually settled on having the tanks hold whichever boss up on the stage while I kite mine around the room whilst trying to avoid the vortexes.

We had a comple of tries on the Blood Queen before we ran out of time. Looks promising so far, we got her to 17% at one point. A bit more DPS and we'll have it.

This is a fun fight too, shouts over vent like "I need to bite someone! Stand still" and "Red line, Red line, Don't run away from me you F&*^er!"

Fresh run tonight for the frosties - I need 4 more Saronite for my deathfrost leggings. I'll be sorry to lose the T10 bonus, but hey, thats progress.

Oh, and note to self. Get a damn belt buckle you noob! Thats another 23 spell power. ]]> Rhiadana http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/669-rhiadana_what_lot_balls.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gallrock/668-what_keeps_wow_being_more_immersive.html Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:04:51 GMT I love warlocks. Anything and everything about this class is just pure concentrated awesome to me. The scheming, the deception, the evil. It all... I love warlocks. Anything and everything about this class is just pure concentrated awesome to me. The scheming, the deception, the evil. It all makes for a very devious character, if you have a good enough imagination that is.

After leveling the polar opposite of a warlock, The Paladin, It's become glaringly obvious. In World of Warcraft, no matter what you do, you are 'The Hero'. All of the quests involve you doing good deeds for people in need. While this may be all well and good for good do'ers, I'm not supposed to be a nice guy. I'm a bitter, angry, undead, shadow and flame infused instrument of destruction full of malice and spite. Why do I waste time collecting materials for people to craft things, or play delivery boy across the world. I'd sooner kill you and take what you have then help you. As in the Matrix, the problem is choice.

In WoW, there is no choice. You're the hero, you go do your good deeds and get your XP, loot, w/e. This is where games like Star Wars - The Old Republic are going to have a HUGE edge over WoW. Blizzard better pay attention here. I can understand fetch quests, and minuscule tasks while you're still a young warlock, but by the time I've killed Illidain, vanquished Old Gods, and brought the Lich King to his knees, I should be powerful enough to rise above collecting x amount of y so you can build z. Hell, the stats on most of those NPCs are ridiculous, I'd just as soon eat you for breakfast if I could.

It's the one thing that keeps the true full evil experience of being a warlock from being fully realized. There is no option to collect what they need, but isntead hold it for ransom until the people in need can afford your services. Not enough money? Awwwe, to bad. I guess you don't need these animal guts to make a cure for your sick village.

Sadly, the only evil you can exact upon the world is on other players. But seriously, wouldn't you laugh to if you caught the object of your fears and nightmares helping build an orphanage? ]]> Gallrock http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gallrock/668-what_keeps_wow_being_more_immersive.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/664-rhiadana_im_not_sayin_im_just_sayin.html Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:20:31 GMT Hooo... well, don't you just love guild dramas?

Now, just to set things out, we're not a hardcore raiding guild. We're not even a medium core raiding guild. We're basically a social guild with a number of people who like to raid.

There are also a number of people who like to PvP as well.

Unfortunately there are also a few who just love to run the first 4 bosses in ICC for the emblems, get their gear and then leave.

Now, I don't know about your guild or how it works, but when a guild member who has only just joined the guild says something like "If I don't get a raid spot I might as well go find another guild" my instinct is to reply "Don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out".

The situation last night went as follows:
ICC 10 normal fresh run.

14 people signed up.

Priority was given to those people who have been there, every week for the last 3 or 4 months.

The other 4 people.. well, I can understand being disappointed, but hell, where have you been the last 3 months? Not here raiding with us, is the point.

We don't have enough tanks/healers to run 2 10-mans at the moment.

If that was me in the sidelined 4, sure I'd be disappointed, but can't people see that reacting like a spoiled 3 year old doesn't accomplish anything?

gah...drives me upthe wall.

In the end we did our usual, 7 bosses in 45 minutes. Rest of the week will be Putricide and Blood Princes.

I hear people on vent saying "oh we can't do this, it's too hard" on Putricide, and yes, it's a pain in the bum, but so was Fester and Rot when we first went in there. Hey, our first night in ICC we wiped on the circling Val'kirs before we figured out the Spawned Essences were heailing it.

That's what progress is all about... ]]> Rhiadana http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/664-rhiadana_im_not_sayin_im_just_sayin.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gallrock/662-you_stupid_stupid_felguard.html Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:43:02 GMT Recently, I've decided to go after loremaster. I'd like to polish all there is off before it's destroyed forever. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Like many people chasing the loremaster, I'm very quickly discovering there was good reason I skipped most of these quests. A great deal of them are just terrible traveling quests. I haven't been questing so much as I have been putting frequent flyer miles on my Air Miles. How a Gnome in the middle of the badlands is good friends with a Goblin in Winterspring is beyond me.

All of this though can be dealt patiently with, since it will eventually get done. I even get the bonus of touring the world a lot before most of it gets ripped up and covered in lava. No, what's killing me is my felguard. I'm doing much of the really low to mid level content right now where the enemies are low enough to fall from one swing of my muscular friends axe. This is all good and well, but when you've got a nasty habit of chain pulling with corruption, important drop items are now robbed from me.

I'm all for the idea that you shouldn't get loot from enemies you let your demon do all the nasty work on, but damn. It's tot he point I've got the guy on passive half the time, just so I don't wipe out an entire species, only to get half the drop items I need, and have to sit around waiting for them to respawn. It's slow, it's frustrating, and not much fun at all.

I think they need to review these sort of mechanics. I mean I did cast a spell on the enemy, it's not my fault he's so eager to charge in and cleave everything in sight before I can get a tick. Most of the time, that's the kind of guy you want on your side. Right now though, he's just pissing me off

TLDR - My Felguard is to pwn, can't loot quest items from low mobs for loremaster cause they die to fast ]]> Gallrock http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gallrock/662-you_stupid_stupid_felguard.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/661-rhiadana_taking_names.html Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:25:25 GMT Ok, well, we're doing better. Chucked out all of the +20 haste gems and put in 12 sp+10 haste (reckless Amterines). I'm sorta broke now.

Everyone is certainly noticing the demonic pact buff.

Our 10-man group is reformed and working well. 50 minutes clear Marrowgar, Deathwhisper, Gunship, Saurfang, Festergut, Rotface and Dreamwalker. No whipes.

And I'm seeing 7k raid average.. ranging from aound 3.5k on Marrowgar (I got spiked 3 times) to a rather pleasant 10k on Deathwhisper (I get shield demolition duty).

Supposed to be a 25-man tonight but not many sign ups as of last night. Who knows? they may call it and carry on with the 10.

I am certainly feeling more comfortable in demonology now and I'm putting out at the very least comparable DPS to my old destro and Affliction buils. ]]> Rhiadana http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/661-rhiadana_taking_names.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/660-rhiadana_quite_capable_doing_my_own_work_thanks.html Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:02:44 GMT So, since our gloriousguild leader has decided that we will do no more 10man runs and only do 25-man from now on, I decided that I could once again... So, since our gloriousguild leader has decided that we will do no more 10man runs and only do 25-man from now on, I decided that I could once again try out the Demonology spec.

I've gone for a standard Meta/Ruin build.

One thing all this spec-swapping has told me, is that I probably Suck.

Joined a 25-man ICC pug last night, decided to stay Demo, just to see how it worked.

Not entirely sure I'm doing it right, but hey.. basically, on trash multi-mobs I'm using SoC just like I would as Affliction. getting more-or-less the same dps.

Now, for boss fights where it counts.

I do this:
Life Tap (i have the glyph)
Shadow bolt
Immolate
Curse of Doom
Corruption

Then I just Shadow bolt until Molten Core, then incinerate.

Once the health dops to 35%, Shadowbolt /incinerate until decimation, then Soul fire.

Also keeping Corruption and CoD up as well.

Is this right?

because I'm getting pretty much the same DPS as I was as Affliction over a long fight.

Which brings me to my point about me sucking.

I'm averaging about 4500 dps.
Another Warlock in the raid ended up averaging 6000 or therabouts. And I have better gear.

So The only other variable is me.

Next run I'm going to record the combat log and put it up on world of logs or wow web stats and use the help me, I'm broken feature.


Unfortunately the armoury hasn't updated since the 6th, so it's not reflecting my spec change or new gear yet.

basically, I got a new dagger so I'm using that and the Scourgelord's baton I got a while ago.

Lost a heap of hit, which is good sicne I was vastly overcapped, but also lost quite a bit of haste, which is bad.
Going to replace a Crit gem with 20 haste tonight. Not sure why that was in there in the first place.

I know that I'm not keeping Demonic Empowerment up as often as I could, and also not using Metamorphis every time it's off cooldown. I have to set Power Auras up properly.

Is there a better addon for this sort of thing? I find PowA a bit frustrating.

I use Forte, and the cooldown bar is very good, but I really need something more immediately visible.


Loving the demonic pact buff though.

Hopefully I can record a 25-man run this week and see what's going wrong. ]]> Rhiadana http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/660-rhiadana_quite_capable_doing_my_own_work_thanks.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gallrock/657-behold_awesome_power_demognomegy.html Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:41:59 GMT

After 3 months of cancelling my subscription, I've come to a realization. I do rather much enjoy playing WoW, more specifically, playing a warlock. I think I may be a closet RPer, but that's another tale...

The decision to return was not a light one, and to the dissaproval to many of my friends, I've reactivated my account. My undead warlock main will always be that, my main, but the days of raiding and guilds are numbers for me. I'm going to retire to the more FUN parts of the game, and be a casual warlock. If wrath has shown us anything, all the fancy top tier gear comes eventually anyways

While I was showing my girlfriend all the new stuff for Cataclysm that originally got me interested, she to expressed her interest in returning to the world. We have a bunch of free time right now, and with nothing else to do, why not level some characters. As a Horde for Life player, I was curious to see the world through the alliance side, especially before it gets destroyed. We settled on gnomes for a few reasons, most of which is just the simple fact that you can never take a gnome seriously. Just being a gnome is enough to keep it all for fun, and never srs bsnss. That, and I've always been curious what kind of lives my favorite snacks lead when I'm not killing and cooking them. :Sly:

So me, a warlock, and my short lady friend, a mage, set forth into the world. I'm not in any rush to level, I'm not worried about specs, gear, ect. I don't have to deal with guild losers who have an over exaggerated sense of worth. Life is good ]]> Gallrock http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gallrock/657-behold_awesome_power_demognomegy.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gallrock/654-sirens_call_grows_stronger.html Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:35:09 GMT Well, never thought you'd see me posting another blog, eh? I'm here because I can say with all honesty, I'm somewhat intrigued by what I'm starting to see with Cataclysm, with all the Alpha/beta footage coming out. I had zero interest in Cataclysm, and an overall resentment for the game itself leading to me eventually cancelling my sub, but the videos rolling out from TotalBiscuit on youtube have grabbed my skeptical attention. Specificly this one, the arial tour of Org

YouTube - Cataclysm Beta - Orgrimmar from the Air

I'm starting to see Cataclysm for what it is, a reboot of the series. It seems Blizz is finally coming to terms with the fact that the bulk of the games older content is just terrible. Wiping the slate clean and giving the world a fresh start is just what this game needs. Now if only they could make endgame raiding not so soul sucking, that would be perfect.

In any case, I'm considering returning. I ran into some snags attempting to sell my account, so my Warlock and compadres are all still there. I remain firm that I have retired from any sort of progression guild situations however. IF I do decide to start paying Blizzard again, I'm just here for the scenery. I miss exploring, and by the looks of things, there's going to be a lot to explore.

That and I'm curious to see how Worgen taste BD

So, you can post you're 'I told you you'd be back' comments now if you must get that out of your system. Not that I've decided anything yet, I'm just curious ]]> Gallrock http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gallrock/654-sirens_call_grows_stronger.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/648-rhiadana_moar_dotz.html Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:01:19 GMT Wow! That was fun! Definitely staying Affliction.. and may even drop Destro for Demonology. Fresh ICC-10 run last night. Swapping DPS positions... Wow! That was fun!

Definitely staying Affliction.. and may even drop Destro for Demonology.

Fresh ICC-10 run last night. Swapping DPS positions with the destro Lock all night, so no loss of DPS, and I figure it'll get better as I get used to the extended priorities.

On Deathwhisper, being left alone to DPS the shield I settled into the sequence:
Shadowbolt, Haunt, Corruption, Unstable Affiction, Curse of Agony.

Then just refresh Haunt, UA and CoA whilst throwing Shadowbolts, as they come off cooldown.

~7k average on that fight.. sort of a target dummy with adds.

I need to get haste up a lot then crit. When raid buffed i'm just on 3k Spell power, so I figure that'll do for the moment.

1 hour and 40 minutes, first 4 bosses, Festergut and the Val'kir boss.

Tonight we'll go for Rotface and Prof and maybe Dreamwalker if everyone turns up on time.

good times. ]]> Rhiadana http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/648-rhiadana_moar_dotz.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/647-rhiadana_benched.html Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:48:22 GMT Oh, well.. our raid leader has sidelined me... not really. Seems that we are short handed due to the aforementioned ball-chasing events. So our... Oh, well.. our raid leader has sidelined me... not really.

Seems that we are short handed due to the aforementioned ball-chasing events.

So our progression group is postponed till Sunday and the midweek 10's are just doing the first 4 bosses. I could do with the frosties but honestly, I'd rather give up my spot to someone who needs the gear more.....

.....and not have to run the first 4 over and over and over :)

Not only that but we don't have enough bodies for our 25 runs either.

Still, at least I get to do the holiday stuff.

And yes, I mistook.. it's the Violent :) Protodrake for the Long Strange trip achievement not the red.
Which is OK, because that colour is THE warlock colour, right? I still use my Violet Netherdrake.

I really wish Blizzard would put in a proper Warlock flying mount though.

The My Little Pony mount just doesn't work for a Queen of Destruction, Dissolution and Damage. ]]> Rhiadana http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/647-rhiadana_benched.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/646-rhiadana_afflictionating.html Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:21:34 GMT Well, wish me luck.
After having Destro as my main spec for 6 months, I'm bound and determined to try Affliction this evening in ICC10 if we actually run. Was supposed to be last night but evidently some people like to watch other people chase a ball for some reason.

They might still want to watch said people this evening, so it's anyone's guess.

Anyway, slacking off work to read Aff strats. And post here, of course.. ]]> Rhiadana http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/646-rhiadana_afflictionating.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/645-rhiadana_flaming_lovely.html Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:26:06 GMT So, here we go, starting the Long Strange Trip once again. Since I changed my Main, I decided to start the Meta Achievement for the Red protodrake... So, here we go, starting the Long Strange Trip once again.

Since I changed my Main, I decided to start the Meta Achievement for the Red protodrake again.

I hadn't got very far on my previous main, just Noble Garden, Children's Week and Respect your Elders so It's no great hardship to start again.

Decided to get up early yesterday and go do the Stormwind and Ironforge flame stealing because they're the hardest when there's a lot of people on.

Went about as expected, got pwned by the guards in Stormwind but nothing problematic after that... took the tram to ironforge and got that one very easily.

The Darnassus flame is a joke, sitting outside the city at Rutheran Village, and the Exodar is almost as easy.

Did the Azuremist and Bloodmist islands ones and the exploration ones while I was there.

Then in the evening went and did the Outland flames.

Tonight is one of our weekly 10-man ICC runs, so I won't be able to do much.. except maybe Torch Juggling.

Tomorrow I hope to finsh off the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor flames and that only leaves Northrend.

Also running Ahune every day for the two extra Frost Emblems.. Amazing variety of skill and attitude in the PUGS, much more so than usual.


And on top of all that, pondering whether to make Demonology my 2nd spec rather than Affliction.

Reading lots but it looks like Demo has the nice raid buff...kinda swinging it in that direction. ]]> Rhiadana http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/645-rhiadana_flaming_lovely.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/643-rhiadana_bring_baitch.html Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:29:52 GMT So the guild is settling in after a .. er.. unsettled period. One thief found and ejected.. removed about 1000g worth of mats from the guild bank... So the guild is settling in after a .. er.. unsettled period.

One thief found and ejected.. removed about 1000g worth of mats from the guild bank and sold them on the Auction House under a supposedly-unknown alt.

Some people.

The current raid strategy is:
We suck at 25 man ICC.

well, actually, not quite.. see, we have a really good 10-man team.. 2 of them in fact, though my team is , of course, a lot better.

So the idea was we'd combine the two teams and grab five 'volunteers' from the ranks and go do 25 man.

Well, we did the first wing ok, and then ran into the brick wall that is fester, Rot, Putricide and Dreamwalker.

Since a few of us decided we'd really rather play alts our overall dps is no longer sufficient for 25 man or even for anything past the first wing, really on 10.

So it's decided. we will run 10-man as our proression group and 1 fresh run on 25 a week just to gear up.

Still, it's great fun on 10 , all the same. We ran through the first 4 bosses in under 1 hour last night which gave us 2 tries on Fester. Why two? well, as I alluded earlier our DPS is not as good as it could be. We were running into the enrage timer. So a new strategy. All the range now stand 10 yards out from the boss and both spores run to the melee group. This minimises running, confusion and panic.

Consequently, we upped the dps a bit and downed him with 5 seconds on the timer. No fuss, no muss. No deaths.
Amazing what difference in dps it makes not having to run around so much.

After that we did the weekly (I LOVE it when the weekly raid is Marrowgar and the ICC Weekly is either the Frost Giant of the Slimes - it was the Slimes this week) So a quick wipe on Rotface and we came away with 20 Frost emblems for the evening.

I lost the roll on Muradins Spyglass but got a reasonable off-hand for when I replace the staff I have. ]]> Rhiadana http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/rhiadana/643-rhiadana_bring_baitch.html http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gnomeobie/635-life_happens_gone_fishing.html Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:03:54 GMT So its been almost a month since I posted and ALOT and a little has happened...weird....of course its gnome's blog...lol


So first to give you some perspective.

I told my ex we can't hang out.

which eventually lead to ....

I told my ex fiance we can't be friends....this was after much emotional upheaval...yet again.

while at the same time
I had a favorite family member in the hospital and eventually passed away.

and all along

Summer is here.


I'm not looking for sympathy or anything else, but I'd like to give you a context for the stuff that's happening.

I think sometimes you log into warcraft and people fail to realize that you're someone other than the character on the screen.



So I after the first upheavel I didn't log into WOW for a solid 7 days. I didn't check wow.com. I didn't ready the forums. I did check wow-heroes.com...NO warcraft for a solid week. I also kind of didn't do anything in RL. The week consisted of reading in the bookstore and watching stuff I have on the DVR.

A by product of this was that I felt strangely free in terms of WOW. Up until now I was on pretty much every free moment I had at home, either weeklys, raiding, helping people, leveling alts. When I was online I was researching roles, gear, patches, specs, ....it was endless.

After 7 days the only thing that brought me back was the guild. I missed them and wanted to see how they were doing. I didn't miss anything else...not really....

So I got back on and decided we only raid one night a week. We're essentially a guild for people like me, casual older people who just want people to hang out with.
During my 7 days gone, no one left that i really cared about or had been in the guild for a while.


So I started recruiting, in a good place. raided a little, leveled some alts (more on that later) and life was generally good.


The then the second set of upheavel happened...and I didn't take a break so much as just wasn't able to be on. I let my second in command know and he could do whatever. Death sucks...lets leave it at that...and Exs are a pain in the butt.

So I just logged back in and the guild is still intact. My second made someone an officer, which is fine.

Now its June and while this isn't vacation for me, I have things away from the computer I want to do...so raiding, warcraft...not sure how this will all shake out.

I realize looking back I am not a big wow player during the summer and its just a game. I like it, is fun, and it has helped distract me through tough times, but during the summer I don't really want to rush home to raid...it just isn't me, or let the game dictate my schedule.

So as of right now I am basically on WOW vacation till Sept when life calms down again. I'll do some raiding and leveling, but priority right now is real life and having fun. I think the guild will be fine.

So......WOW life...ok....once I took the emphasis off raiding ICC I think things just relaxed. We raid just for frost badges. I have 100+ and wondering what to do with them, but not pressed.

I was talking to my master warcrafter and thinking about leaving my Lock out at 80. I do have some deep desire to see Arthas dead, but I'm a little unsure about going through the next raid cycle. It might be interesting considering we all started in so late this time around...we'll see.

The tree is 80 and has a 4k gear score. I healed a weekly raid (NAXX) and didn't suck. I know it was only naxx but it was very rewarding. I think my biggest issue is learning to heal when I'm not the only healer. I hotted everything and blew through my mana, but as I was running the pug I was paranoid about people dying.

A guildie and I are leveling toons together on horde. I have a blood elf paladin and have intense burning desire to burn down the blood elf starting area. It just makes my head hurt....Way too much running around. This will be my tank toon and after this I don't see much interest in alts. As always we'll see. I went with the pally because I wanted to be able to heal myself leveling.

I still have my secret mage which I level only when it had a full level of rested bonus. I'm going to faction change her to Undead this week.

My 15 year old cousin just started leveling a horde lock on a PVP server (Balnazzar). I was going to help him, but the whole pvp thing makes my head hurt. If I started a toon on his server it would be a tree or a rogue....Advice...thoughts?

My master warcraft is also of the "I want to play when I want to play" so he's been pugging iCC on his horde priest and leveling a shaman on alliance. I think he's also of the "its summer I'll revisit regularly scheduled warcraft after summer is over". He likes being able to log on whenever pugs and log off. He joined a guild, but i don't think its hardcore for what he's used to. He was server first or second on his old server.

I think thats it in a nutshell. Just wanted to let you guys know I'm still around.

Hope everyone is having a good summer, or whatever season it is where you are. ]]> Gnomeobie http://wowmb.net/forums/blogs/gnomeobie/635-life_happens_gone_fishing.html