Entering Arenas

Last evening saw my first foray into arenas. 5v5. I played 3 games to get my time in and we went 2-1. Not bad I guess. Although, our team rating is only 1400 (my personal is 1483) so there’s nothing to brag about there. It made for a completely different play experience. I don’t do battlegrounds so my experience in PVP healing is quite low. I have to say that I did enjoy it and want to get better at it. Our guild teams are basically for grinding arena points. We have a few guys who are serious PVPers, but for the most part, we’re just having fun. I was expecting to be targeted more than I was. For the most part, it seemed that no one was even after me. Perhaps they saw my noob PVP rep gear and assumed I was of little threat. Anyway, I still have a lot to learn.

New Warcraft Figure

A class and a race we haven’t seen yet in DC’s Warcraft figures is now on the horizon: A Tauren Hunter. Where is his pet?

http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=10&itemid=12803

Speaking of hunters, I rolled one the other day and finally got her pet last night. The grind to level 10 is so hard with a hunter, but once you get the pet: wow, what a difference! We’ll see how it goes. I’d like to have a character for gathering, especially skinning, so that I can have Gillir take up another primary profession, possibly Tailoring. But that’s all speculation right now. I do enjoy playing a hunter so far (and I have gotten one up to 28 before and I enjoyed playing that class then too), so maybe I’ll stick with it. I’m just a little ADD when it comes to alts, I’m afraid. Luckily, I’ve been keeping good discipline with Gillir’s epic grind: he’s up to 1700g now, so it’s going a little faster than I thought it would.

Madness! Then Harmony.

So I get out of an MGT run and what do I find but utter anarchy surrounding Smith Hauthaa.

Boulderfist unlocked the Sunwell badges vendor last night. It was impossible to talk to her at that time, but I returned this morning around 10:00AM and got Shroud of Nature’s Harmony (which upgrades me from Stonebough Jerkin).

I was torn between it and the uber-healing mace, but could not part with the +55 Spirit on my Nightstaff of the Everliving.

Epic Flight or Bust

So I have finally motivated myself to get the epic flight form. I had been dillydallying around, spending gold as I make it, and not doing regularly any questing or dailies. Last week, though, I got the epic flight bug and have been making a more disciplined endeavor to save gold. Thus far, I have a little over 900 gold. I’m figuring that if I maintain this rate, I can get to 5,000 in about two months (maybe faster if I get more time to quest and farm). Gaining the Advantage has been very helpful since I can farm leather and heavy clefthoof to sell on the AH. And since I now have my cooking to 375 I have been doing that daily. Additionally, I still have a ton of Netherstorm quests to do, so bringing in the gold shouldn’t be too much of hassle: I just need to practice patience and restraint (i.e. only spend gold for raid-related expenses). By the way, Keredria has a good article on doing some of the new dailies, go check it out here.

Compilation of 2.4 Changes

In case you haven’t seen it yet, MMO-Champion has a compilation of known 2.4 changes.

 http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=5548.0

Looking at it all together, you can get a sense of how huge this patch is. For Gillir, I’m saving up my badges to get the Gavel of Naaru Blessings (about halfway there right now). Shroud of Nature’s Harmony looks tempting too, and a little cheaper as well. For Tsoai, it looks like the reputation PVP gear will be a convenient way to gear him up. The Kara attunement change will get him into Kara a little quicker (although my guild has been very good about getting its members–mains and alts–attuned). And the easier-to-obtain Jewelcrafting recipes and gems will be a welcome change.

In general, I’m glad to see some new content. The Skettis and Ogri-la dailies have grown tiresome to me (I hardly do them anymore). The dynamics of the Shattered Sun Offensive should spice things up. I’m looking forward to getting into Magister’s Terrace, too.

Hopefully we’ll see the patch tomorrow.

Go Heels!

Carolina is in the Sweet 16.

San Antonio or Bust!

Happy Blogiversary

I’m going to go ahead and post this today because I won’t have time to do so tomorrow.

One year ago, on March 24th, this blog started up. In the past year, this blog has moved from Blogger to WordPress, then changed its name and address, and has documented a resto druid’s journey from 1 to 70 and through the bosses of Kara.

Here are what I count as my favorite posts:

Guide to Outland Healing Gear 58-63 : Put a lot of time and research into this one.

Outland : Going to Outland for the first time.

The Big Seven-0 :Dinging 70.

L2P Treeform : Not mine, but it got a lot of attention.

Wild Leather Quests Guide : Another one I put a lot of time and energy into, although not as relevant as it maybe used to be.

While this blog has fallen quite silent the past little while, I’m still glad to have it to preserve the otherwise ephemeral events of this game.

One year and still going: not too shabby.

Nalorakk Down

We finally got our first ZA boss last night. Granted, ZA has not been a high priority with us and we’ve only went in a few times, so this accomplishment has been a little longer in the waiting than it should have been. Nonetheless, Nalorakk is finally down.

And here are some screenshots from Tsoai’s journeys:

Gate to Burning Steppes

Honoring Uther

In Outland

Not Much

Just putting up a post to say I’m still around, still playing, but don’t have the time to update the blog on a regular basis. Briefly, I’m glad that stupid Lifebloom nerf got changed to affect the bloom portion only and the Regrowth buff looks promising.

In other news, Tsoai has hit 60 and is questing in Outland. His Jewelcrafting is at 350. So, not much going on otherwise.

Happy Birthday, Gillir!

One year ago today I started playing Gillir. I had been playing about a month when my neighbor told me about his guild. I then created a new character on Boulderfist to join The Olde Guard. In one year, this guy has gotten to 70, gotten fully geared in epics, and has seen Kara fully cleared. Not a bad first year. So, Happy Birthday, Gillir!