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Damn it’s coming around quickly isn’t it? Only five days until we start leveling up again - I can hardly wait!

I find myself not really wanting to do anything on my 70s at the moment as I don’t really see the point now, so I’ve been spending the past few days tweaking my UI and the n52te’s configuration on my numerous characters. I have 18 characters spanned over two accounts - that is a LOT of tweaking to do, so I figured I’d better get started on it so all is ready for thursday. Also trying to figure out the world of macros - I’ve managed to get through 3.5 years worth of wow without delving much into macros at all, something I’m determined to rectify.

So, on a complete tangent… who thinks we won’t actually get online on the 13th at all? I’m beginning to wonder whether I should have bothered to get the 13th booked off at all, especially since I have a Noob at home who can upgrade everything to Wrath for me while I’m at work… what do you think?

… you play less so you can catch up on your favourite wow bloggers posts.

… you yell NOOOB at the phone after dealing with an ignorant customer at work, and then tweet it.

… you like posing for screenshots.

… you get upset if you’ve forgotten to take a screenie in a whole evening of playing wow.

… your guildies start to realise they have to be careful of what they say around you in case it gets out!

Thankies for the idea Fim!

I now have 2 level 10s and 2 level 7s (one set on Stormrage and one on Bloodhoof) who I have been dualboxing. Yet to take any pics of them, but I am enjoying myself with them!

Today I managed to book off work as a holiday. Having woken with a helluva migraine last night I didn’t really like the thought of staring at a computer screen and taking calls for 9 hours, so there we go. Day off for me (but I had to take away two of my days that I’d booked for the release of Wrath, nevermind!)

Instead, I spent a couple of hours in the afternoon setting up my Belkin N52te with the help of Phaelia’s newest guide . Thankies Phae! I got all the basics done (I think!) but have yet to try it out properly - I guess I’m a little wary that I’ll end up screwing up if I went into too much, and so far it’s only configured up on Softthistle - so here’s to an evening of testing that out.

I think after NaBloPoMo is over I’ll try to get into the habit of writing to more of a schedule. WoW posts on a Sunday/Tuesday/Thursday and posts over on my ‘real life’ blog on the other days. I need to keep more of a balance, but without letting anything get left by the wayside.

Oooh, also… today officially marks the 1 year anniversary for my start in the blogging world. Not on my wow blog, but still… a year later and I have 2 blogs going - I’m not usually the type to actually stick to something for so long so, happy blogday to me!

So we’re in day 5 and I’m already struggling with what to write about on this blog. I need more play-time to actually, y’know, HAVE something warcrafty to write about?

I did actually get on last night though, for about an hour. I decided to invest in the Refer a Friend goodies to level up some alts - we all know how I love my alts, right? So there I was, attempting to dual box my new little gnome rogue and her dwarf pally friend, and I realised that I didn’t exactly choose the best of times for it now, did I? Not online much, Wrath out in a week (yes I have thursday and friday booked off by the way!), and… well, anyhoo. It’s done now I suppose, so I’d better make the most of it eh?

I have been kind of at a loss on what to do with my wow-self recently. I know I could be farming gold and such, or having fun with the achievements, but I just feel like I’m waiting for the expansion to arrive. I don’t really see the point in slaving my butt off for BoJ’s that will be useless in a couple of weeks, or to make gold that I’ll no doubt spend on frivolous things that I never really needed. I haven’t been stockpiling mats, or doing anything in particular to ‘prepare’ for the release of Wrath because… well, because I can’t be bothered to be honest! At least doing some dual-boxing has given me something to focus on.

What have you been doing to prepare for the expansion? Have you decided who you’re going to level first? [I've decided it'll be the boomkek that I'll level first after all.] Are you going to start over with a whole new character?

Answers in the comments please!

Thanks to Syd from World of Matticus for inspiring this poll.

What do you mean WHERE’S the poll? Look over to you’re right there missy! (Or mister… not being gender-biased here, honest!).

So I guess you want to know why I rolled a boomkek, right?

Well, I like being a caster - the one thing you may (or may not) have noticed is that my high level characters are all ranged. Pew pewing is what I am good at, and I don’t like getting all dirty and messy like some people might.

I love the look of the moonkin. I mean come on - everyone and their mum was feral while leveling back in the day. I was the odd one out. The amount of people who never knew it was possible to BE a boomkek back when the spell first came out was insane. What can I say - I like the attention!

Also… MOONFIRE! Moonfire, IS, wrath - oh look, it crits… mob dies. Wahahahahaaaaa. Sorry, ahem, should control myself, right?

*cough*

So anyway, I guess I chose a boomkek initially because it just fitted with my playstyle to be honest. That’s it. Pretty boring… guess I should go play for a bit now so I’ll actually have something else to blog about tomorrow.

Edited to add: The DANCE! The dance! How could I not mention the dance! I love the boomkek dance!

Ahem, that is all.

Jumping onto BRK’s time-travel bandwagon, I thought I’d share a little insight to my wow-life from two years ago…

This is Softi in January 2006 to be exact, so really… ALMOST 3 years ago now. At that time her name was Marylin, because I was oh so imaginative with my naming of her originally. Although by that point she was already Softthistle in my head. 

Here’s something else you might not have known.. she was… RESTO specced. An Innervater. At the time it was the only feasible way to get into a raid pre-TBC. In my guild at least. You know what else? I was actually GOOD at healing! I was one of the best druid healers they had, but as soon as the pre-TBC patch came in with the balance changes, I was right back in there - raiding, as a Moonkin. I was in my element! Raiding, and as my favourite spec, rather than one I ‘had’ to be. 

When I was healing, it was mostly MC, and ZG. OH Zul Gurub… that place still fills me with painful memories. I loved it, but I hated it. Loved the place, didn’t even mind wiping on our way to the bosses, ON the bosses… but the one thing I hated. I was raiding for over a year and still hadn’t seen the Will of Arlokk drop. You know, the BEST staff for a healing druid end-game that I could get to? Yeah, that staff. OVER A YEAR PEOPLE!! And ya know what happened the One! and Only! Time! it dropped? I won the roll!! I freakin won it!

Then the master-looter gave it to the other, newbie druid, by accident. I checked, and I double checked… and then just to be sure, I triple checked what I’d just read in the chat log. Yep, he had indeed managed to assign it to the only OTHER druid in the raid. A new druid, who’s gear was slightly lacking, and for whom it would be a much better upgrade than it was for me at the time. 

So what did I do? I let him have it. It was only pixels after all, right? And he needed it more than me, right? I played the nonchalant card, and just said hey, let him have it, it’s a better upgrade anyway! I was an officer, I wanted to make a point to our raiders - that it wasn’t the end of the world, and I stuck to that.

Ya know what really gets me though? The guy left about 3 months later - he was a right sod the whole time he was there, and to be honest, he didn’t really deserve to have got the staff. 

Maybe the next time something like that happens I’ll take the low road and demand a GM get involved… at least if it’s a new player. On the other hand… it’s only pixels, right?

The druid, the hunter, or the mage. I have 3 level 70s who I want to get to 80 at some point, but bearing in mind how little play time I have at the moment, I’m going to have to narrow it down to one to play through, and so far? I haven’t a clue which one!

On the one hand, I have Softthistle. My main. My first ever character. My first 60, and 70. I’d love for her to be my first 80 as well really - boomkins do rock after all, and I feel connected to her character more than any of the others. Well, we have been together for almost four years now, what do you expect? 

She’s also in the most awesome guild of awesomeness with another certain blogger who is, funnily enough, also pretty awesome. I love playing with these guys, although I haven’t had much time recently, it is by far the best guild I’ve ever been in, with some of the best players I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. 

Zackii The Mage is also in this guild, but he’s not really in the running for first to 70. He’s a fun alt, but still ‘just’ and alt all the same.  

Then there’s Maryliin, my hunter. That there is Manson that she’s with. He’s a strange little monkey, but damn he does some awesome tanking! Maryliin was created when Noobiewan was. We leveled these characters up together, and had a blast doing it. I re-moved Maryliin from Bloodhoof where Softi et all are back to Stormrage so I could play with the Noob. I figured since I wasn’t playing her much on BH anyway, at least she’d be back where she belongs and, hopefully, able to level up again with Noobie when the time came. 

Oh, and the new hunter changes? Awesome!

So the time is almost upon us, and I am still unsure of which character to make my priority with leveling to 80. On the one hand it *should* be Softi, at least in my mind, she is my main after all! At the same time I want to level with Noobie like I always have in the past, like I did when TBC was released. Therein lies the problem. 

Maybe I’ll get a pros and cons list of my options here… I don’t want to just up and leave my Lightwalkers buddies, but I also miss playing with Noobie!

Damn you limited play time!!!

Anyone got any insights on this? *sigh*

[note: I realise I used the word awesome way too much in this post but, well, I couldn't think of anything else to be honest! It's my word of the moment - sue me! ]

Well, I have been a little absent for the past 2/3 months haven’t I? Sorry about that… needed to curb the addiction, plus I got a new job, which leaves very little time for WoWing. Tis a good job though, and I’m enjoying it, so that’s a plus, right?

I’m going to attempt to blog every day this month - doing NaBloPoMo this year, so we’ll see how it goes eh? I had been going to try NaNoWriMo but it’s just too much to take on at the moment!  Anyone else taking part?

I guess you’d like to know what I HAVE been up to since I last posted. The answer is not a lot really, or it doesn’t feel like a lot. I’ve had to stop raiding because I just didn’t have the time to dedicate to it anymore, or the energy since getting my new job - these days I’m lucky if I’m on for 30 minutes in an evening during the week, and maybe a couple of hours here and there over the weekend. I guess I’ve gone from being obsessive/casual to casual/casual, which I’m thinking is a good thing. It is a good thing, right? 

Aaanyhoo. Softi had a haircut from the new barber shop in SW, but she didn’t like it, so she changed it back to normal - although it’s a little darker than it was before, and we like it that way. Zackii’s grown a beard and changed his hair colour from pink to green (because it’s “less girly” so he says), and Maryliin has let her hair grow down, so everyone’s had some changes since the pre-wrath patch came in.

I managed to go from never having set foot in the Black Temple, to clearing the whole thing in one single night - now that was an awesome achievement, even though it was post-patch! I NEVER thought I’d stand next to Illidan, never mind a DEAD Illidan.

My hunter has taken a red gorilla under her wing, Manson, and they’re flying through his levels - gotta love the gorilladin tactics from BRK! She’s moved servers to play with Noobiewan again. Since I’ve been working again it’s a good way to spend time with the hubby that doesn’t drag him away from the little time he gets at his PC these days (how are you liking being the stay-at-home-parent there honey? ).

Last night I invested in a second account - Refer-a-friend baby, oh yeah! The kids are currently almost lvl 10, which is pretty damn cool considering there’s only like 1.5 hours of played time there so far. I’m amazed by how quickly it’s going by, although so far I’m not really dual-boxing, just running around with one char on follow. I will find out how to sort that… any tips anyone? 

Oh, and feel free to run bets on how long you think I’ll last with the everyday posting in the comments!

That’s stupid, right? I log off cause real life comes first, of course. I have two beautiful children who insist on waking up at crack-of-dawn times every morning, so it really is stupid for me to stay online past about midnight. Although that hasn’t stopped me in the past, it really should… right?

So I’ve been putting wow on the back-burner a bit. Not because I want to, but because I have to. Real Life Comes First. I have to keep reminding myself of that these days… a sure sign I’ve been getting too absorbed in the lands of Azeroth and Outland.

Obviously with less playing, I am only raiding occasionally at the moment, and when I am online I really just chatter and do a few dailies. Not really much to report on, hence the quietness on the blog.

Why do I cry inside when I log off? Because there are so many things I still want to DO. So many things, and no where near enough time. *sigh*

Real Life Comes First.
Real Life Comes First.
Real Life Comes First.
Real Life Comes First.
Real Life Comes First.
Real Life Comes First.
Real Life Comes First.

Looks like WoW have released some prizes in memory of the Olympic games starting today. In order to get a tabard, you just need to enter the BG, to get the lil dragon pet, you WIN the BG. No quest pick up, they just arrive in your mail. Awesome, huh?