Accckkk!

And that is how the 4.1 patch was ushered in.

Not with an exclamation of joy or frustration.

Just an off-guard “Accckkk!”

As always, I forgot to load the out of date add ons and was shocked to see the default UI upon logging in.

And as we all know, the default UI is just so… so… so… default.

After a few years of playing with add ons, sometimes I forget what the developers intended for me to be looking at.

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Anyway, “Accckkk!” is also the sound many players that don’t read patch notes might have made upon entering combat and discovering that their spells casts acted a little off, a bit odd, something was different and they might not have been able to quite put their finger on it…

And one more makes 12

Some of my more astute (or sober) readers may have noticed that the achievement I posted about  yesterday on the 20th was actually earned on the 15th.

I wrote the post in the middle of the day on the 19th, set it up for release the next day and didn’t think anything of it.

Funny how later that very night, we got this one:

Since we are on Central time server and we had actually gone past raid time Tuesday night, it counted it for the 20th.

Which is actually the day that I’m writing this post.

Aren’t time zones fun?

And if it weren’t for the fact that apparently that bastard drops a mount, I would vote to never step foot on Al’Akir’s platform ever again.

Kill Count: +1

“Pulling in 10″

10

9

8

Dammit, Jag! Where did you learn to count?

Got to get a shield on him before he’s out of…

Target out of range

Dammit, Jag!

Stupid tailwhip.

Add kiter is in range, got to get a shield on him before he’s out of…

Public Service Announcement

*Ahem*

Many of us have spiffy trinkets that can be “stacked” prior to an encounter beginning. This allows us to begin combat (or healing) at a higher level and reduces that pesky ramp up time.

In question is the trinket Darkmoon Card: Tsunami.

This little baby stacks Spirit by 80 up to 5 times for 20 seconds.

(That’s 400 Spirit at its peak for those of you without a calculator handy.)

Stacking procs as a healer is often easier than stacking them as a DPS, particularly if there are no critters in the vicinity. As a healer, I can cast heals, proc up, eat real quick, and be at full mana for the pull, ready to lay down some serious heals with augmented mana regen.

But alas, not all heals are created equal in this regard.

Then and now and again

I suppose the benefit of a busy life is the constant reminder that at least I’m alive, even if I’m tired and ready to collapse.

My poor little mage got to do a very little bit of raiding and can now claim a Magmaw kill. I don’t remember why, but we had to use the “OT tanks the maggots” strat… eh, it was a kill. Of course, nothing tasty dropped for clothies, but it was still a Cata-raid cherry pop for the mage.

Over the past few months, almost all my in-game time has been devoted to raiding. Our roster keeps sliding around as people are coming in and out of school, moving, and hitting the personal limits of frustration. Thankfully, I like raiding. I would prefer that we could keep a consistent roster and that the ones that do stick around were a little less on the “WTFDOYOUTHINKYOU’REDOINGSTANDINGINTHEFIRE” side, but (most nights) the kill makes up for the frustration along the way.

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Funny thing happened the other day in guild.