Closing up shop and moving!

To here!

May the Heavy Breathing Begin!

I spent last evening thrilled to bits. Why, you ask? Because, thanks to Darthregis, we now have Vent for our guild family! Hearing our friends’ voices sent me into fits of delightful giggles and even though I could only respond through guild/party chat I was having a great time. I squealed with joy when I heard my sister hunter, Chawakanda, for the first time since oh...2007?  I’m equally looking forward to hearing our New Zealand branch on Vent!

Then everyone died in Heroic Forge of Souls while I was healing and that was a bad time. I was quite confident that I had healed it on heroic before and I think this was merely a matter of some poor timing/positioning on my part. I tend to run around needlessly and I still have to practice on calming down. Our second attempt proved easier and we all survived (yay!), plus a few of us got some nice upgrade from the run (double/triple yay!).

I’m looking forward to going to our next peek into Ulduar with people on Vent. It’s going to make the encounter easier to explain (hopefully) and I think it will be a lot of fun!

Oculus and You

I'm actually starting to like not hate Oculus but I'll be the first to admit that it is not my favourite - it's confusing, it's loud and the boss mechanics are ugly.  Even with the nerf people still drop their LFD groups when they end up there. For sticking it out Blizzard is going to give us a chance at getting nice rewards and even a mount – how kind! 

 

I've never attempted to tank it because when it comes to the dragon mounts a) I don't know where I'm going and b) people don't know where they are going.  After doing it a few times with the guild and in LFD I've learned a simple solution to make your experience better in Oculus for yourself:

 

Follow. The. Leader.

 

Look for the red dragon and target it.  Look at what they are targeting and target that dragon.  Mount when they mount and land when they land. Don't wander, don't stray and don't make the tank chase you because it's annoying. This should sound familiar, as in it should sound like what you would do in any dungeon and since Oculus is now an instance worth doing you may as well make it as enjoyable as possible. 

 

Thank you!

 

For Christmas I gave my husband what would be one of the geekiest gifts since the TARDIS cufflinks: The Mechano-hog!

My original plan was to switch my priest's jewelcrafting skill to enginnering so I could do it entirely in secret, but thanks to a very generous rogue in our guild all I had to do was grind a bit of gold :)

Here we are taking a lovely drive through Dalaran! I do admit that one of the reasons I wanted him to have it was so I could ride in the sidecar - something that I have always dreamed of doing in real life.

Devastated

We just finished watching Doctor Who: The End of Time (Part 2) which was also the end of David Tennant as the tenth Doctor.  I've never been good at goodbyes and Russel T. Davies milks them for all they are worth.

All I can say is that I'm devastated.  Some of the saddest tears are also the nerdiest tears.

Happy New Year!

As a follow up to yesterday's post regarding ugly PuGs (puglies?) we did have a nice experience last evening in LFD.

Four of us were on and wanted to run a dungeon (DK, Rogue, Mage and me on heals).  To make things easy we popped into regular Forge of Souls and ended up grouping with a nice paladin from Stromreaver, who was talkative and responsive and overall, very nice.  After a successful run we decided to continue onto to Pit of Saron which was new to both the paladin and our rogue (and to me - healing wise).  Even with one wipe, it went well and a few people got upgrades! (yay!)

So there is hope that out there in the big WoW universe there are players who are courteous and pleasant and play the game to have fun- people like the Zug Initiative! It was a nice way to end 2009.

Happy New Year to all!

LFG? I'm Fine Thanks

Just when I think that I might try to queue for a random dungeon I read horror stories of players being generally nasty in every which way in PuG's and I opt to wait for a guild run. 

Say you're at a wedding and you're sitting with four or five people you've never met.  You wouldn't eat your meal in silence and then vote to remove one person so there would be an extra dessert.  You would make poliete conversation and then comment about what they were wearing AFTER they left the table.

(Okay, maybe the dessert analogy is a bad one, because I can get ruthless when it comes to sweets - but you guys get the point.)

I'm sure they are not all that bad, but no one ever says "best pug ever!".  The "best" pugs now seem to be ones where no one talks and you don't get kicked out before loot drops.  That still seems very ugly to me.