"wna heal brd, gt grp"

When I am playing on my Shaman, I can enjoy the silence, only being whispered by gold sellers. Which is really annoying, starting with "hello", which gets them a response like "No, I don't want to buy gold.". Report'd. But still, it's nice and quiet. Not because no one wants me to heal for them, but my guild has the reputation of not liking to PuG. We didn't know at first, until people mentioned that when they applied. But there was a time that I got spammed to go everywhere.

Nice, people begging you to go with them, to heal them. Problem is that they manage to whisper me when I am Enhancement. One of the Shamans from the top Horde guild at that time asked me to heal for him in Heroic Slave Pens. "No, I can't, I'm Enhancement", was my reply. No problem, he went to find a healer again. Next day, I get the same whisper from him, asking if I could heal Heroic SP. Again, I told him that I was Enhancement and that I didn't want to heal. Next day, he asked me again!

Now, forgetting something trivial like some stranger's spec is one thing. Forgetting it four days in a row, meaning that you don't listen is another. So I declined again, only to get the question again the next day. Now I was getting annoyed. After letting him off by declining to heal again, I started to think of a scheme I had on my mind a long time before those whispers.

When I thought of that plan, people were taking the healers for granted, only the raid leader and class leaders actually knew who was a healer. This was painfully obvious when a co-op raid between #2 and #3 on Horde side, both with MC on farm, wiped on Sulfuron Harbinger, due to setting an Enhancement Shaman on main heal duty (it wasn't me). Basically, the plan was to sign up as healer, while being specced differently. That never happened, I launched a "Healers are awesome" campaign instead.

So when I got whispered the next day, which was as expected, I told him that I'd heal. Unfortunately, they caught me before I managed to wipe them, which was probably a good thing. Enhancement gear looks alot better than healing gear.

But as our guild is known not to like terrible PuGs, people don't ask us for everything anymore. Exept for KZ pugs ofcourse (New guilds really need to talk to each other, not try to get the T6 guilds to help them). But on my paladin, I don't sport the Phoenix Legion tag yet. So, whenever I play, I'm bound to get asked to heal Sunken Temple (so awful... never again... hated that on my Shaman) or Blackrock Depths, which are both not the greatest instances. Added bonus: I'm playing Retribution.

But when I play World of Warcraft, I usually take the time to type out my sentences, often even using punctuation and proper capitalization. I don't like 13375|>34|<, nor do I like people that don;t take their time to write out their question if they want me to help them. When I ask someone to help me, I don't write "help plz". When I help someone with questions about the guild, I use proper grammar. Others don't. So if you ask "wnna heal brd, got grp", I'm not gonna come.

Just our luck

So, we're attempting Bloodboil. 17% on our first ever try, we're getting the hang of it and.... We get lag. ALOT of lag. Then the realm dies. Wait, the entire battlegroup is dead! It's a shame, we would have gotten him down tonight, netting us a 3rd (!!!) first kill this week. Damnit. Now we're just making Gnomes on Bladefist, all named Bob, or Bób, or Bobthebuilder, Bobcheese, Bobjaws etc. etc.

Wrath Beta and me

I am not in the Beta. And I'm happy that I'm not in the Beta, I don't like having things spoiled for me. So all that I know, when avoiding the nice parts of the news (meaning that everything but mechanics, nerfs and blatantly obvious things are passing by me), are what I can't miss or won't spoil it for me.

The first thing I heard was: Death Knights will be awesome. The second was that greens will look shiny. Then I heard that downranking got removed. I fell off my chair laughing. Simply because everyone is making/going to make a big fuss out of it. Exept for me, although I'm a healer at the moment. I'm one of those people that just plays the game, not worrying about nerfs and fixes. My Class Leader, on the other hand, doesn't. He is already trying to figure out the best DPS rotations in Wrath, etc. etc. So he is really bummed about it, while I am laughing my @ss off.

But that's not the part of the news which I like most. Neither is the fact that Agility is rumored to provide Shamans with AP instead of Strength, making Strength a stat for Paladins and Warriors. No, I like that Blizzard is looking into making unique items, like tabards and pets, retrieveable.
I like this because I was hacked a year ago, losing many tabards (I am a tabard collector) including the Argent Dawn one, the Dark Portal opening event one and the WoWTCG Tabard of Flame.

The chance to get those back is one that I'd love to take. The rest of the news: Meh.
By the way, I need to start inserting pictures again.

Teron Gorefiend is DEAD!

Yeah! Phoenix Legion killed him on the first try last night and thank DAVE I wasn't picked for construct duty by Teron. It was tense and Cowl of Benevolence dropped. Nice for the priest that got it. Nice, on to Gurtogg Bloodboil.

Archimonde is dead. Yay?

Last night, my guild killed Archimonde. Only downside: I wasn't there. While I was playing Magic at a friend's place, they killed him. WoW and a life don't go together.

WoWjutsu hasn't updated yet, so we're still 21st on realm and 6th on Horde. Speaking of which, apparently I'm still Enhancement. I wish.

I can has Guest Post?

I've written a basic shaman guide for BBR over at Random Ravings of Warcraft, it's over here.

Larger post coming later today.

Victory (sorta), broken computers and spamming

I've been playing my Rogue deck again, after a long time and I actually won 2 out of 4 rounds at the local FNM. Which is nice, considering that I have never won a round before, let alone with a deck of which I forget half the abilities (I have to stop forgetting to put counters on my creatures... +1/+1 ones are good. Very good).

And now some bad news: My little brother's computer is broken. This means that I cannot play arena matches with him, cannot level our alts together or do dailies together. He wasn't too worried when it comes to viruses, even when his computer composed several songs solely by the antivirus's BIOS driven soundeffects. His computer didn't want to start anything other than his wallpaper, task manager is unavailable. The easy solution is to reinstall Windows ofcourse. Problem is that his version has some legality issues and that he lost the CD. Problem two is that he is too lazy to fix it.

Also, I went to Hyjal yesterday, with a mission: Get 1000+ Chain Heal casts. A raid usually lasts 3 hours, but this was an extra raid, which lasted 2 hours. I managed to get 821 casts in, landed higher on the healing done, percentually less on the overhealing one (higher on absolute numbers though. But then again, I did more healing), so I'm satisfied. If it was a 3 hour one, I would have had around 1400 casts, so... I think I pulled it off. I've got a guest post to write now, so I'll stop here.

Since my last real post, I've almost only worked, eaten and slept. Exept for Saturday evening, when a friend of mine invited us all to play Magic at his place. I got to test my new and improved "milling" deck. I won all of my matches, exept for one against one of the newer players. He claims that he got lucky, but I made some stupid mistakes, like casting a huge milling spell opposed to playing a creature for defense, which killed me. He had 14 cards left.

It's quite humorous though, to see the person sitting across the table getting more nervous as time passes. The entire group is scared of my deck, which isn't something new, as they get scared of strange things easily. Before this, they were scared of an infinite combo deck... Which was stupidly easy to counter. Tuesday, I'll have a good chance at winning the tournament, aslong as I don't fall asleep or get mana screwed. If I do well, I'll be going to the FNM with the same deck on thursday aswell.

I've finally gotten my mining back to level 325, which I neglected for a year, it's so boring. Yay!
Also, there is a scammer on Eonar, whispering guild officers with the "guild master's" fake bankalt, trying to empty the guildvaults. He tried that on our guild aswell. Problem is, he asked his girlfriend, he was sitting next to her and he was tanking Zul'Aman on his paladin at the time.
Also, goldspammers are taking on whispering people. Instead of just firing a selling spam, they start with "hello". So when a level 1 Blood Elf whispers me like that, the only response he gets is "no, I don't want to buy gold". If it was a player, he'd respond, but they remain silent.

A cardboard terrace

I work at a supermarket, it's a job, I make money with it, so meh. So I often see things that you wouldn't see everyday, both in costumers and what we sell. Often I wonder, who the h3ll made this up? I've seen all sorts of strange things, like the homebrand of our store's coffee on sale one week and the really expensive one the next. It makes me wonder, do you even sell something that week? I mean, I've seen people taking enough to last them atleast a month. But the one thing that puzzles me the most are the cardboard boxes.

Some people think that it's just a box and in many cases it is. But from some companies, they send us the craziest boxes. Paturain has one of those boxes. Instead of a normal box, it's made of flimsy cardboard. And it tells you to pull this flappy up and then these 2 to the sides an- Damn. All of the stuff lies everywhere. That happens once. Then you've learned to just rip through the box, instead of following the instructions.

Magister's Terrace is one of those boxes. Each boss is a smaller version of an earlier/endgame boss, like Curator or Warlord Kalitresh. And as such, they have similar tactics. The tactics can be seen as the instructions. You wipe once on them and then you realise that you can also nuke everything just as easily, like ripping through a cardboard box. Which makes me wonder, is this how Blizzard designed it?

Just My Luck

After a failed Zul'Aman attempt, which didn't get off to any start at all, due to the lack of a tank, plans were being made for a Karazhan run. Since I still needed to do my dailies, I asked if I could be Enhancement for that instead of Resto. That was no problem, so to KZ I went that night. After a record-breaking amount of items recieved (Shard of the Virtous, Pauldrons of the Solace-Giver, Boots of the Incorrupt, Cyclone Gloves, Emberspur Talisman, Cord of Nature's Sustenance and Light's Justice (imo, Light's Justice is a bit better, but hey, Ii'm not an expert theorycrafter.)) in a raid that lasted till almost 2 o'clock in the night, we actually still tried to get a Zul'Aman group together. At 2 in the morning/evening/twilight zone. Needless to say, we lacked a tank.

The next day, as I was doing my dailies, someone in my guild needed a healer for Heroic Old Hillsbrad. I could go, just needed to respec and I can use the badges. In theory, we had a good group consisting of a Shaman (me), a Mage (the guildie), two Hunters and a Tanking Druid. Lots of crowdcontrol, so it shouldn't be a problem. It went reasonably well until we actuall reached Thrall. We started the escort and started fighting the first group of mobs, just outside of the inner keep where Thrall was imprisoned.

One mob got sheeped, two mobs got freezed and the rest was tanked. I kept spam-healing with Healing Wave to keep the tank up, until I saw my own health go down. I generated enough healing aggro to pull a mob off the tank, even with the Healing Grace talent. I died. Once the dust had settled, I used my ankh to get up. We tried again. Exactly the same result, just with us running in again. And we tried again, this time we did it! Only I had to use my ankh mid-fight to keep the tank up. After the combat, I was out of mana and needed to drink. As I was drinking, the tank started on the next group and I saw his health go down fast.

I got up with about 90% mana and tried to heal him. Alas, Nature's Swiftness was on it's 3 minute cooldown and he died as I tried to get a heal in. Wipe. After running back to Thrall, the next 2 tries went like the first 2. One to add to the list is: Reincarnation is on a 60 minute cooldown, 40 minutes if specced for it, if it wasn't there already. One of the hunters had to go, so we replaced him with a hunter from our guild. After 2 more identical wipes, the other hunter and the tank called it aswell. We managed to replace the hunter with a shadow priest from our guild, but we didn't manage to get a tank.

After a lucky KZ run, I must have used up my luck for this week.
Going to try to do my dailies as Resto now, I've been respeccing so much lately that the cost went from 15g to 45g in the last few days. I need a good twohander, trying to hurt things with a 1h and a shield doesn't work that well. I'll trade the actual shield for one that heals well and leaves me a free hand to use. In other news, We have Super Smash Brothers: Melee now, more on that later.

Zzzzz... grinding.

Grinding is boring, so I usually cba doing so. Dailies are boring too, and I can't get my little brother to do them for me (he is 15, but if you ask him something you won't get a normal answer, he runs away without daying a word or he acts like an idiot). But... I'm going to try. Why? Because I want a Netherdrake, damnit!
However, this will require alot of dailies and grinding, since my mining isn't on an Outland-ish level... yet. So now I'm grinding Scryer rep items and netherweave and random items that pass by... Zzzzz...


Current status: 1364g

IT'S FINALLY HERE!

Yay! I has got my Belkin Nostromo n52. I am happy. It feels more solid then I thought, it stays put if you try to slide the thing and the buttons actually need more force than a normal keyboard. My arms can rest on a normal height now and no odd mouseclicks when playing anymore. I think I'll be using the many buttons more for Hellgate: London or some FPSs, since I'm a clicker in WoW. Anyway, I'm happy. And to quote Quincey:

"Someone's going pro :O"

A friend is coming over tonight to check it out and wish me a happy b-day, so it should be fun (he can play HG:L for once too then :P ). Now: Mistery Raid.... I wonder (seriously, I has no idea). Might post pictures of the thing later ^^.

Al'Ar, Take III

22:25 - Al'Ar on 0.0001% Enraged, then killed us all on flame buffet.
22:50 - Al'Ar down! 24 manned it!

Finally, after 3 days of consecutive raiding, we finally slayed it.
*omnomnomnom* Phoenix Wings taste good. It dropped good loot, [Netherbane] for me! Also [Talon of Al'ar] and [Mindstorm Wristbands]. We 24-manned it, so even more impressive imo. (if you count 25 on the picture, Bjellis the DPS warrior joined after we killed it. He joined the raid after we engaged.) I put Mongoose on the axe now and it looks sooooo cool. Still a bit hyped from the kill. We finally got it!

And grats, Mindcontrol for getting your T5 shoulder from Void Reaver. Skipping T4 and going straight for T5, as one of the first to get any T5.

EDIT: 19th of January now, my birthday. ^_^

"PHOENIX LEGION AND VALHALL ARE ATTACKING!"

The title also is a phrase taken from the Alliance's chat, according to a guildmate of mine. We attacked SW, led by Helldozer, but we failed a bit. Last raid killed Magni and the gnome boss, and this one failed to kill any. Nothing spectacular, exept being noticed by druids in the summoning process, so no screenshots of this.

I forgot to mention that Big Bear Butt Blogger has me linked. <3>EDIT: C₂H₅OH FTW and I hate how my touchpad on my laptop is screwy. Random mouseclicks FTL. It selected half the post when I edited it. Then I accidentally saved it.

EDITv2.0: Remind me too checkout my laptop, I has no sound on the left side of my headset or earplugs.

I spoke too early.

Not only does my Nostromo n52 come in tomorrow, on my b-day exactly, but we didn't kill Al'ar either. Still, we got her down to 7% last night and as far as I know we are going to try again tonight. The flame patches are what kills us, because it is so hard to see whenne it's on the transparent part of the arena.

Still, my guild leader had a recipe for Phoenix wings:
"First, find and kill a phoenix. You may need some help on this one. Then add some seasoning, phoenixes are self-cooked. I heard they taste great with lemongrass and thyme."

My father is going sailing (he's in the navy) and he just (litterally, he called while I was writing) asked me if he could borrow my laptop. Is no problem, I'd love to lend it to him, but it's my only computer. If he asked me next year, I would have a desktop too and he could lend it for as long as he needs. And: no PC -> No WoW -> Unhappy me -> no blogging. But it really sucks that he doesn't have a temporary replacement for me to borrow during that time, so he could lend mine.

Also, I installed a sitemeter, which tracks the amount of visitors. I'm off to do my dailies now, so I might get my epic flying mount next december... I hope.

PvP Mojo

If you have Mojo, you might be in for a surprise. Today one of my guildmates pointed out that when you kiss Mojo whilst you have PvP on, the owner of Mojo will have PvP too.
The frog spell breaks when you are attacked, so if you are any good, you get a free kill.
If everything goes well, I'll be back with a long(er), more well written post. Something about a phoenix or something.

I are not amused.

My birthday is in 2 days and I want to have a Nostromo n52 as my present from my parents. However, this will not reach me in time for my long weekend of WoW goodness, I think.

This news bringing me out of my happy mood, so I start to notice the gold spammers again.

[hfsjgvxzcvjhbxzv] yells: OMG! BUY GOLD NOW, JUST $0.22 PER 1KG! BUY NOW! BUY NOW! WE AREN'T THE CHEAPEST, BUT WE ARE THE BEST! BUY FROM US! BUY! BUY! BUY!

[2. Trade] [dfkhsdjvgasd]: OMG! BUY GOLD NOW, JUST $0.22 PER 1KG! BUY NOW! BUY NOW! WE AREN'T THE CHEAPEST, BUT WE ARE THE BEST! BUY FROM US! BUY! BUY! BUY!

Oh, just sod off. If you really think that spamming and harassing people is going to get you costumers, then I don't know. I report all goldsellers I see, which doesn't seem to have any effect on it. Getting bored of WoW, noone is online, cba with my dailies, so I go and play Hellgate: London.

[trade-234][fklhasdfjasdgf]: BUY PALADIUM NOW! WE HAVE MANY WEAPON, ARMOR, MODS AND FAST DELIVERY SERVICE!

WHY?! Apparently there is no escape whatsoever from ads, gold sellers or such. Which does not amuse me.

Shiny.

Not alot of bosses look pretty.
Al'ar does though. Tonight was our first ever Al'ar attempt, and we got him (her?) down to 50%... on phase 2. He is in our pocket! :D And I could fly....I like flying.

In all seriousness, we did great, in my opinion. Even though our Teamspeak decided to quit on us during the transition on one of the tries, 4 people DC'ed and I died alot, made huge progress. I am happy to be in Phoenix Legion. Irony, slaying a beast after which you are named.

EDIT: Our SSC run of today (17 jan) is changed into TK so we can kill it :D

First Real Post (and why I am not resto)

Hai.

Pre-TBC I was Restoration, but gave up on that because healing wasn't appreciated at times by others. Second reason is that when my guild (in which I am) disbanded for a short time. No problem there, but I joined a friends's guild for the time being.

Since they were friends of mine and were in the same guild, I had fun. Untill, ofcourse, drama struck there. Which revolved about me.

The Shaman CL (class leader) was (read: is) my friend and the one that learned me how to raid, but... There was a second one and to be honest: She is a backstabbing, sneaky, not nice person.

She is a druid. Always has been. but then she got herself a Shaman alt. And she is an officer there. So she began to whine that she should be the CL. She works around the back of people.

For example: I had a hybrid spec, so I could do some stuff when soloing. There was no spelldamage on healing gear yet, so... yeah. The CL was fine with it. The "2nd CL" wasn't.
Behind his back, she went to me and demanded that I would spec 0/5/56. Instead of being kind and polite, she yelled at me. "Spec this way or you don't raid" etc. etc. So I gave in.

Later in KZ, she saw me using chain heal. Ofcourse, the CL wasn't there. "Stop using chain heal in raids.", she said to me. For the ones familiar with it: It is efficient raid healing. This shows the total lack of skill/brains for her to be a CL. Also, she doesn't talk to people, she yells and whines. When some people asked her to be a bit more kind, she logged off crying like a big baby.

So... Guy with lots of experience with all 3 specs, even was enhancement back Pre-TBC > annoying girl that only has a mere alt. Which was enhancement, if I recall correctly.

All was well, I don't bitch against people about it, I go with the flow, etc. etc.
"Cya all later, guys, be back in a hour.", I said. I returned to find me guildless.

I went to talk to the Guild Leader and apparently I have:

1. No respect for officers.
   
2. No healing skill whatsoever.
3. I don't take advice.
4. I have an alt on another server.
   

Okay.... and this is the truth:

1. I always have respect for officers, even the ones I don't like.
2. I was one of the better healers in my guild.
3. I always take advice, if you bring it in a decent and normal way.
   
4. The "alt" in question was a lvl 43 hunter on Thunderhorn that I haven't touched in ages, which used to be my main, till I took a break from WoW.
   

I asked him what advice I got.
"I don't know, but Serpentined* gave you alot.", he responded. In reality, I never spoke to the ->PRIEST CLASS LEADER<-. So, since I was kicked already, I told him that the dear "2nd CL", the spec-nazi, only commanded me to stop using vital spells.

"So, I was kicked because you all are nothing more than incompetent leaders.", I said to him. "Indeed, he replied."

Then I went to Serpentined. "I have nothing to say to you.", he said. After which he blocked me on Xfire, ignored me in WoW etc. etc. (Soooo mature.)

By pure "coincidence" (they just wanted to screw us over) all of my friends that went to that guild after the disband were kicked too. The only one that wasn't got a warning.

Luckily, my old guild reformed that day and I'm still raiding there happily, as Enhancement.

*all names are fictional to avoid more idiocy.