Archive for the “Softthistle” Category

Oh I hadn’t realised quite how much I missed my flight form until I had it again! I finally got to 77 last night and the first thing I did was hope over to dalaran to learn the cold weather flight. Then I went all over Northrend discovering every nook and cranny I possibly could, earning myself the Explore Northrend achievement and a purty new tabard to go with it.

That’s about all I’ve been up to recently. I’ve not been on much during the week due to work (how dare it get in the way!) and family life (not so much of an inconvenience since the boy loves to “have a shot of your character” *cue cute little grin* every now and then ).

I keep wanting to play other characters -the whole altaholism is showing its ugly head it seems - but so far I’ve (mostly) been able to resist the urge!

Ah, I did re-arrange my UI a bit, what do you think? It’s still a work in progress, but I’m getting there - doesn’t help with all these alts to configure!

Right, time to go level some more while the littlies are at nursery and having a nap respectively! XD

Ooh, and for all you US bloggers out there, Happy Thanksgiving! Hope it was a good one and you don’t spend too much money today!

So yeah, NaBloMaHo whatever is out the window - what can I say, I had a busy weekend!!

I managed to get Softi up to 73 by last night, and I swear, I’m already feeling burnt out from all the wow-ing. I’m used to just playing snatches here and there without too much direction, now I’m seeing so many people leveling uber-quickly, and I would love to be one of them - damn the whole needing a job time-sink thing!

So far, I’ve almost cleared the Tundra, and I’m about halfway through the Fjord. I’ve done some quests in Dragonblight, and I’m ITCHING to get to Grizzly Hills - the music there just makes me melt, I loves it! Ooh, and Sholazar Basin… that place just looks sooo cool!

Bit of a place-hopper aren’t I? I just can’t stay in one place for too long… never have been able to - that’s why I had 3 level 70s, that way I got to see all the content eventually, right?

I am trying SO hard to just concentrate on Softi for leveling at the moment - I want her to get to 80 dammit! Then I can relax a bit and level my other chars as I see fit, but there’s a problem with that. Me trying to keep to one character that is. The problem? I can’t do it! I JUST can’t! There’s a reason I have too many alts to count - my attention just doesn’t stay for long enough. *sigh*

Oooh, and can I just say - who needs a gorilladin when you have a boomkin!! I can grab aggro from like 5-7 mobs my level and aoe them down with a combo of Starfall, Barkskin, Hurricaine… freakin AWESOME!

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?

Softthistle’s stats (unbuffed) are now as follows:

HP: 8427
Mana: 9489

Spell dmg - 1030

Spell hit - 153 (1 over, I know, but it was the closest I could get!)

Spell crit - 15.31% (that’s minus the 5% that Moonkin form gives me)

MP5 - 131

All I need to do now is get the Amani Punisher from Akil’zon, and another 25 badges for the Fetish of the Primal Gods and I’ll be happy, for the next wee while at least!

Also?

Aurik is teh awesome! Kthxbai.

Don’t say I didn’t tell ya now!

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You know when you just don’t know what to write, but you don’t want to *not* write something? Yep, that’s what’s happened to me today. For the past couple of days actually!

Last night was MH, 4/5 were downed, hopefully the archibutt will go down on sunday (*fingers crossed* come on Lightwalkers, we can do it!!), and I might get to see BT sometime soon too.

I got me some t6 gloves from Ass galore (woot!) so I’m officially rockin now. Or is that hooting? Must check that out…

I’ve been attempting to get some gold together, I think I’ll be getting Maryliin (the hunter) her epic flying mount after all since it’ll make mining (and therefore farming) much easier, but at the same time… epic flying for a farmbot? Will it really be worth it? Ok… another thing to check out. Hmm.

Zackii has been trying to get rep, grinding up his enchanting and tailoring, AND grind gold at the same time. Needless to say that’s not going too well, but he’s getting there! I’m having much more fun getting him geared up than I did with Maryliin, she’s just kinda been left to it really, I just can’t seem to get that ‘into’ my hunter state of mind these days.

I tried a fire spec with him, I *really* tried, but he was just! too! squishy! Plus he kept burning himself, so he’s back to a deep frost build. A really deep frost build. Uh, ok… and ALL frost build. Don’t hit me Mages-Who-Know-Better-Than-Me, please? I mainly solo with him at the moment anyway, unless I’m in an instance, but, but, I just like him specced that way ok?

*sigh*

I know, I know… I need to sort it out right? I’m workin on it, I just love my non-squishy frost spec so much though, and I don’t *really* know what I can do that will increase dps but still let me have my ice barrier. I *love* my ice barrier! I feel so safe inside my ice barrier. Did I mention I like my ice barrier? Well, I do!

You’d think, that with all these level 70s (three!), I’d be contented with trying to gear them, doing dailes and such, but… just a short while after dinging Zackii, I am already getting that leveling itch again. I know  I *should* level my lock if anyone, she’s sitting at 57 and wants to see Outland before the expansion after all.

My stupid brain keeps thinking *shamanshamanshaman*. I swear, the altitis is a hard thing to kick, especially when you like the process of leveling - it’s an addiction!! Gaah!

So, I guess really I have been doing quite a bit in wow recently… off I go to do some more!

/hugs!