OMG where did the week go?

I hate having Monday off. Having Friday off is so much better.

Brief update before we head into the weekend that is fast sneaking up on me.

It felt like I got nothing done over the past few days, but I’m finding screenshots of all sorts of stuff I forgot.

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We continued on Uld.

I would like to say that we progressed on Uld. But that would be a lie.

Unless dying in new ways to new bosses is progress. Because we did do that.

Half the people that accepted decided to not even log on. And our MT was starting a VoA on an alt 15 minutes before Uld was supposed to start.

Which means that we were late getting the raid going and that pissed me off.

We almost had Kologarn, but somehow one of the patrols from the room downstairs decided to come on up and see what all the commotion was about… our best attempt was ruined by a fluke.

We did go poke at the Iron Council but they poked back hard. Actually there was lightning and big, sharp weapons involved, not so much poking on their part.

Spent a couple hundred on repairs and called it done.

Click me!

This is a test of some embedded code…

 

There should be a pet involved if you register, according to MMO Champion.

/gquit in Naxx, all the cool kids do it

Last post I went off about the ineptness of the guild that we’re allied with, our 15 minutes of drama, and a somewhat resolution to the issue.

It’s a game so I really can’t get bent too out of shape about it.

With a fresh view of the situation I returned to the game Thursday night.

Ran some dailies, ran my husband through an instance for his first-ever tank run on his DK. Really wasn’t a challenge: 4 of us geared through Naxx 10/25 and some Uld, with an 80 DK tank running amok in normal Utgarde Keep. We slaughtered the place. No one died, we only pulled aggro off the tank twice that I know of, and he got some things figured out for placement on action bars and such. I think he even got a drop. We’ll do something a little more challenging next time. Or the DPS will strip down to holiday outfits so we don’t kill everything so damned fast. My brewfest outfit hasn’t been used in months and that keg is getting lonely in my bank.

Two of our guildies were running Naxx 10 with the allied guild. Not really sure why… I think the lock needs one or two drops and maybe the druid was looking for tier pieces for off spec. Who knows?

Couple hours later, they are still running Naxx 10.

How’s it going?

“Have spider down.”

And…?

“Just spider.”

Failure to launch

For not being in a serious raiding guild, my calendar is full of raids.

The priest that runs the guild we’re allied with has invited us to something almost every day for about 3 weeks now.

Sunday was supposed to be OS 10 with 1 drake up, VoA if we controlled WG, followed by EoE 10. The whole mess was going to start at 6 server (4 local) and we were going to move from one right to the next.

I’m standing in the checkout lane of the store just before 4 local time freaking out. Nothing quite went according to the original timeline for the day.

Didn’t I just do a post about not showing up to raids on time? /facepalm

OK, call a friend that’s also in on the raids.

We’re going to be late, if they can fill our spots, please do so so no one is waiting for us, we’ll pick it up next week.

What?

The priest isn’t even on?

OMG.

Holier than thou

Saw the new Star Trek movie over the weekend with my husband and a good friend of ours. I’m sitting between them and our friend happens to look over at me during the movie as I’m frantically pawing at the front of my shirt.

He looks at me quizzically and I explain, I’m losing Nerds in my boobs!

The movie was pretty good, loss of Nerds aside.

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My husband and I are both leveling priests.

We are having incredibly different experiences.

My bank alt happens to be a priest and due to some bad information was leveled to 10 prior to being transferred to a new server with the rest of my characters. (For the record – you can transfer a level 1 toon.)

I hated it.

I don’t know if it was the name (hard to get behind a character with “bank” in the name), the fact that I rolled my bank alt to be female (if I want to look at boobs all day I don’t need the computer), maybe because I felt forced to level her and level fast (OMG I need to get all this STUFF transferred with my toons before they close the transfer window), or if it just wasn’t the *right* time for me to be playing a priest.

I only know that I detested getting her to level 10.

Naxx 10 is srs biznz

I don’t want to be in a “serious raiding” guild

I just want to be in a guild that takes raiding seriously.

If the calendar says Naxx 10 starts at 6:30 server, I expect that people will be at Naxx at 6:30 buffing up.

I also expect that people who accepted the calender invite will actually show up.

And I have this silly expectation that people will have their own consumables. Don’t depend on some other guy to bring the fish – have your own food and your own flasks.

I want to raid with people that have fun, but can also efficiently get a raid done.

Chit chat is all and good, it’s what can make a mediocre run great. We have some great running jokes about setting the tree druid on fire.

But if you’re standing there chatting away, I expect that means you are ready to go.

Miss Manners won’t say anything if you are talking while your character is eating. Honest. Sit your ass down and start chowing on my strudel. (If you know what I mean.)

Looking For Group

For PONY!

The second piece in the Web Comic sharing!

• Author: Ryan Sohmer
• Artist: Lar DeSouza
• Rating: PG-13
• Updates: Monday and Thursday
• URL:http://lfgcomic.com/

Enter a slightly-familiar fantasy world and follow the exploits of a well-meaning elf called Cale’anon, his not-so-well-meaning companion Richard, Benny the green-skinned gal, and Benny’s adoptive father Krunch.

This comic pulls heavily from the standards of the fantasy genre (LotR, WoW, Wheel of Time, RA Salvatore, D&D, etc.) and manages to squish it all together in such a way that it all fits. The more familiar you are with the basics, the more you will get out of it, but it was extremely enjoyable to me even before I started playing WoW.

LFG is a linear-style comic, you would be best advised to start from day one and enjoy it all. A bunny gets FWOOMED! on page one! The plot is often serious – can’t be a true fantasy story if the world isn’t in peril and all – but it is balanced very well with Richard’s complete lack of morality.

The art work is crisp with vibrant colors and the observant reader is rewarded with subtle humerous details in the background.

Their store has plenty of goodies to collect. I ordered this shirt and love it.

Rumor has it there is a full-length animation being created from the comic, here’s a musical number released as a preview:

Enjoy!

I want to put it on my body, won’t you help me please?

Now that I have your attention…

I need help and it does, in fact, involve putting something on my body.

Over at Forbearance, home of the illest ret pally ever to grace WoW, we discussed a player by the name of “Pwnyoface” and what the implications of his name truly were.

The conversation spread into the comments on this post of mine and I decided it was time to take action.

That’s right, the design work has nearly concluded for a “My Little Pwny” T-shirt.

Now I need a screen printer.

Quick perusal of the vast interwebz shows that the majority of companies will only make a minimum of a dozen shirts and will charge me an arm and a leg.

Does anyone know someone who knows how to do T-shirt screening?

Back to the basic

Remove Curse

Arcane spell, removes 1 curse-type debuff from a friendly player, costs 8% base mana.

Trainable by ALL mages at level 18 for about 20 silver.

So why aren’t mages fucking using it?

 Yes, this is another rant about utility, and I am spewing venom specifically at fucktard mages that refuse to sacrifice a GCD to keep their tank, their healers, and THEMSELVES alive.

That’s right.

I’m talking about the mages that have been told they need to decurse on Sapph, they themselves get cursed and they DIE before they will stop pewpewing long enough to remove the curse off their own fucking self.

Sapph is NOT a DPS race, it is a survival test. It is a don’t-stand-in-the-blizzard test. A get-behind-the-ice-block test. A keep-the-raid-alive test.

His enrage timer is 15 fucking minutes. You don’t need everyone at 3K DPS to pull this off. Maybe if you’re epeen is too small.

WTB Weekends

So I can recover from my weekends. It’s the whole, “need a vacation to recover from the vacation” sort of thing.

 

Warning! If you have not done the Wrathgate event, I have some screenshots in here. Nothing too spoiler-ish, just a few random shots. You probably already know what happens since everyone babbled about it right after doing it.

 

Friday night we tried to get a Naxx 10 off the ground but that never happened. Just needed 3 people… no one in LFG. No one in our allied guilds that wasn’t already saved. Bah.

I can’t even remember what we did on Friday night and I have no screen shots. I may have just said fuck it and went to bed.

Spent most of Saturday morning not wanting to do anything since we had a Naxx 25 scheduled for 6:45 server (4:45 local). The instructions were to log in at 6:30 so we could get the show on the road at 6:45 sharp.

My people were either there or let me know ahead of time that they would be late and asked that their spots be filled.

The other two guilds… where the hell are all your people that accepted?

We ended up PuGing way more people than we had anticipated.

My time stamp shows that the first boss we downed, Instructor Razuvious, took a dirt nap at 8:19 server time.