Poor Lorienne....

I went and bought an Epic Flappy, but NOT for Lorienne. I gave it to Sephirot - well, he's a miner and a herbalist and it's so SLOW doing them with normal flappies, even with normal birdie form. He got a blue one to match his blue hair.


Lorienne is a bit cross, but like I told her - she just instances, gets a summon there and a portal home - she doesn't really need an Epic flappy just yet. She can wait a bit for Sephirot to bring in the cash and then have one!


Then Sephirot went and started the quest chain for swift flight form. OMG! He had to kill some stuff. Very strange. I'm kind of pleased I have another level 35 druid that I've had to use all the forms a bit, but you can see why people who Ebay characters have trouble knowing how to play. I think the quest chain will be good for me - help me to learn all the forms a bit more - I think I'm going to have to fight things in each form as I go along, before going back to that hateful Sethekk Halls place! The number of times I've helped other druids get their swift flight form, it will be good to do it for myself!

I think I might hoard stuff a bit much....

I was sorting through my banks the other day and decided to send all my cloth to one bank, all my herbs to another, all the miscellaneous stuff to my banker with it's own guild bank, etc.

Do you think I might be keeping a bit much cloth?


I think I might have to do some selling - I kind of quite fancy starting a mage and need the character space, so if I can clear this bank out I can use that space. I think maybe having 3 bank characters is a bit over the top, but hopefully with WotLK I will have some more room once I get rid of all my pets, mounts, tabards, etc. Please Blizz - can we have a wardrobe too? I need somewhere to keep my clothes.

I hate PVP, but ... anything for a pet!

So - new today - new pet for the Olympics - all you have to do it win a BG!

OMG - PVP - I hate pvp. I dig my stuff out of the bank - actually I'm not too bad - 346 resilience, but I lose all my mana regen stuff.

Where to start - try a WSG - lose - get a tabard though. Find some guildies and try a WSG - LOSE. Try an EOTS - WIN! No mail - no pet. Sad bunny. Try an AB - lose. Why are Alliance so BAD at PVP? They run around like headless chickens after anything red and leave everything free for Horde to pick off. One more WSG - going OK - I'm with the warrior with the flag - keeping him alive and killing all who come in. He gets bored though and drops the flag for a druid, who runs into a million horde and dies. Argh - we lose.

Give up for a bit and have some lunch.

Back in - sign up for everything - get in WSG - horrible looking group - AB pops up - dreadful, completely dreadful - we can't even keep bloody stables. GUYS - I'm HEALING - keep me alive and I keep you alive. Jees - how hard is that as a concept?

AV comes up. I join. I have NO CLUE where to go in AV, so I tag along behind a crowd and a guy called Mayhem something who seems to know what he's doing! I find myself by a graveyard somewhere and we seem to take it. See something about Drek - kind of remember he is their bad guy we need to kill. Also see something about Vanndar needing help.

Wander into a bunker - Ooooh! There is their bad guy. People seem to be getting ready to attack. I heal my little butt off (which is being bitten by wolves) and all of a sudden WE WIN!

OMG - I won an AV and I have no idea how - LOL - what a total noob. (Top of healing though).

Get out of BG and I HAVE MAIL - YAY - I have my medallion! New pet, new pet, la la la la la la!


Don't I look mean in my PVP gear btw?

I can haz Durid

Well, what a turn up for the books! Yesterday our guild was holding a druid only Karazhan run. I was a little sad that I could not take part.

Barkie (my husband) was busy working, so I came up with the great idea of re-speccing him to be a healing priest-like druid so I could take him to the run. I spent half the morning sorting through his bags and banks and making him into a tree.

Son (the darling) muttered to me (he's at that grunting age) "You can have my druid Mum". OMG! I can haz level 70 durid! I quickly binned one of my low level characters and transferred his druid (stupidly called Dunnomyname) to my account. OMG! OMG! I have a level 70 druid - I never thought I'd have a level 70 druid - my little baby druid is only level 35. The only down side is that it's a BOY druid. I've never played a male character. Good job I can spend most of my time as a tree to disguise this. This tree is very nicely geared - son did a bit of BT and MH with it before he got bored of healing and went back to playing his Orc Warrior. I think I've got about 1850 plus healing. /flex.

Barkie came home early and was a bit less than pleased that his lovely feral druid had been transformed into a tree. But we were short of healers anyway, so he joined the raid too. With my Dad in there as well, we had almost half a raid of my family!


So here we all are at the start of the raid. We had 3 trees, 2 moonkins, 2 mostly bears and 3 mostly cats. I say mostly because some are better geared to be bears than cats and some the other way round.

Having the possibility of 10 innervates, 10 battle resses, 10 hurricanes, etc. was amazing! We quickly swept throught he stables and saw off Attumen. Moving on to Moroes gave a wealth of choices - we could Prowl past a lot of the mobs. Sadly, some slightly less than cautious cats pulled a few, but we sorted out our hurricanes and healing and stuff and kicked butt. Who needs mages? Well, we could have done with some water for our Chickens actually, but...


After celebrations on the way we moved to Moroes, who was "interesting" - we ran out of Mana a bit fast because of the draining, and then died, but rebirth gives some mana back, so problem sorted. Moroes died.

We stealthed the whole corridor to Maiden. We thought we could heal through the Holy Fire. We could, all was going well - then BAM! All our melee died. I think we got the bad side of a Holy Ground. We decided that Maiden was a bad idea and thought we'd go and see the Opera instead.

We sneaked past all the stupid backstage mobs and straight to Barnes, who kindly started the show for us. We got Romulo and Julianne (kind of relieved it wasn't Oz). The hardest thing we found was her healing. Feral charge seemed to be about the only thing that would stop it. We had rushing bears all over the place. Lots of people died and lots of rebirths were used, but in the end (it was VERY long fight) they died!

I rallied the troops round and with a resounding FOSHIZZLE, we called it a night. (No comments on the messy UI - not had time to tidy it up yet).


We had no teleport Shattrah, so we used the only teleport we had, and went for a party in Moonglade!


I was a bit pleased with my healing - son had given me a few tips before we raided and it seemed to have worked.



So - the name... I could not spend my days playing a druid called Dunnomyname, so I searched for a new name. I looked up "Tree of Life" and one of the things I found was "Sephiroth" - this looked good to me - I can still be called Seph, which is great. Sephiroth was taken, so I read about a bit more and found simply "Sephirot". It was done! Seph, the healy druid is born!


Now - to sort those bars... and to work out how to kill stuff if I need to... and to FLY! Yeah - instant flight form - I can pick flowers with ease.

I'm never going to be able to play properly again ....

.... with this little addition to WotLK.

Wrath's Fetch Ball lets you play with your pets

I've got so many pets to play with - it's going to take me ages to watch each one. Arrrgh!

Sephrenia's Solo Healing Karazhan run

Get yourself a cuppa and some chocolate - it's going to be a LONG story.

Well, Sunday came. I had all my potions, elixirs, food, oil, bandages ready. I had a chat with the Paladin who was going to tank for me and he said that his game card had expired and he didn't want to renew just for my run and then hang around doing nothing for the rest of the month. Fair enough. Cries. OK, so - Barkie (my husband) could take over tanking and the other Paladin, although dps spec could off-tank. Sorted. Found a replacement. Another shadow priest.

I log in to start up the raid - get some apologies from my rogue who has to take his Dad somewhere. I'm being whispered left, right and centre with people offering various characters for spaces if there are any. I have 2 SP, 2 Mages, a Lock, a Druid tank, a Shaman and a Pala. One space. There is a mage who really, really wants in for rep and a lock who has expressed interest. I'm in agony trying to work out which to take. Finally decide on the lock as he can heal himself a bit and the extra SS might come in handy.

The mage is cross, but I'm sorry - it's my run - I choose. He is left waiting outside (even though I whispered him to tell him I'm full) because my SP has brought a character that was not in the guild and, seeing only 9 guildies in Kara he thinks he might get in. Argh! All the way through the stables I'm trying to explain and heal at the same time.

Anyway - on with the show - here I am, all prepared, buffed, potted, etc.


The run turns into one of those "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" sort of evenings. We pull 2 packs on the way to Attumen. Normally this is OK, but when a horsie charges the only healer it's a bit tougher. People aren't quite alert enough yet. Maybe they are too full and drowsy from their Sunday meal.

Attumen. Let Pala do horsie, Druid do the man. Sadly, it's been a while since my hubby has played and he misses Attumen when he arrives. Being as gorgeous as I am he charges straight to me and kills me in a rush of affection. OK - this is silly - let's try again. Maybe the Druid can tank them both - someone has read about it. He can't. Third time lucky? Actually, no. Third time, we get respawns. LOTS of horsies don't like us.

So - half an hour gone and back at the start. I'm kind of feeling a bit low at dragging all these people to indulge me and we have a wipe fest at Attumen! People tell me it's not my fault - my healing is doing OK. One of the SP comes out of the shadows and we call it a "normal" raid and set off again. Actually he does hardly any healing and goes purple again as soon as I've calmed down. We clear, we get to Attumen, people back off the pew pew a bit and let tanks get aggro, Boss dies. Now THAT was better. I did solo heal the boss.

Feeling a bit brighter we move on to Moroes. Things clear well, we have a little wobble when we go into the room because at that point I'm distracted as a new guild applicant decides to whisper me. Note to self - put DND on when solo-healing a raid. Note to others - DON'T whisper people when they are raiding.

Moroes. Oh dear. Try number one - shackle breaks and runs to me. Of course it's the big hitting guy, who chops me down with a single hug. I use my SS, but it's all looking pear shaped, so I run out. It resets and the rest of the raid are a bit miffed because apparently Moroes was almost dead. SORRY guys.

I'm now feeling completely and utterly dreadful. But these guys are great. They are happy to indulge me some more, even though I'm a guilt-ridden wreck.

We have another go and Moroes dies with ease. Some days I think we like to do things the hard way, just so we can revel in how easy it is when we do it again! I solo-healed Moroes (and even got garotted in the process).

Clear to Maiden. Moderately uneventful, except we get the group of elite dancers just before the hallway - I think we were a little too keen to pull the last group opposite the archway!

At Maiden. Someone was a bit over-awed at her obvious beauty and with memories of my last picture of her, peaked to soon and pulled. We almost recovered, but it was very frantic, she AOEd me and we wiped. Regaining composure we re-grouped and killed her properly. She went down very fast (I think 1 minute 20 seconds someone said), fortunately, so we only had to survive through 2 repentances. One I managed to get myself out of, the second I think someone may have sneaked a heal in for, but it might have been the Druid's frenzied regen or something. Anyway, she died and I had healed my group all by myself.

On to Opera - we lost a mage cos it was getting a bit late, but managed to get another. I think we did OK on the trash to Opera - by this time all the dying had blurred together!

We got Big Bad Wolf. Sadly Barkie had never tanked him before so died, the Paladin picked him up and ran about a bit. Then suddenly the curtain came down. I have absolutely no idea why. I think that he must have known it was one of those nights, or something! We rallied round and tried again. Success! Still NO trinket - of course - I mean that would have been too much to ask of a night like that! Fortunately I didn't get turned into red riding hood and managed to heal all those who did really well, so had achieved my goal here as well.


It was late - we'd died enough, so we stopped. I'm guessing that my Spirit Healer counts as another death and with the SS then die again I did a lot of lying flat. My repair bill was 27g or something, but had fun!


So - I did "most" of the healing. The other priest helped a bit while I regained my composure at the start, the Druid was his own inbuilt heals, the Shaman chain healed a bit after they wipes, but I think you could basically say I managed to solo heal the first four bosses, which gives me enormous satisfaction. I'd like to try it again some time and maybe even do further. I think if people chilled a bit and weren't competing for the highest dps, rushing to get it done and if we had 2 "proper" tanks we would be great. I'd like to thank all those who came along for giving me a night of indulgence - I hope you had a bit of fun too in amongst all the dying!

Looking at the information a bit more, most of my healing was flash heal - I know it's inefficient, but when you're on your own you've got to be quick. I'd really tried to get the most mana regen I could and I don't think my mana dropped below 50% more than once. I only used my fiend after I had died and SS - and the same for mana potions - I only used one! I ate a fair few elixirs though, and munched on lots of blackened sporefish. Time to go flower picking and fishing again.

The great thing is that some people seem willing to try it again and I think having done it once, I'd be a bit more relaxed and manage a bit better.

A rogue and 4 cats

We had another interesting Karazhan run the other night. The aim is to do some lower Kara to gear a few folks up to move on to other things. This week we had 5 Druids (2 resto, 3 feral), 1 Rogue, 2 Shaman (1 resto, 1 pew pew), a Hunter and a Warlock sign up!

We killed Attumen no problem - my annoying Dad won the [Gloves of Dexterous Manipulation] over my amazing roll of 1. Yes, my Dad plays WOW - he's actually OK at it (his main is a Holy Pala, but he was being Druid tank in this run). He does have his moments (like deleting all his feral gear on his Druid because he was going Resto), but it's fun playing a game with 3 generations of my family involved.

We had a few interesting moments on the AOE trash, but we did OK. Moroes - no shackle and only one trap (which got resisted). We nuked all the adds and then Moroes and he died. YAY!

The Warlock and Pew Shaman were competing for the best number of deaths and the leather loot was interesting to almost everyone!

We decided that with no dispellers Maiden might be a tad tricky, so moved to Opera. We got Romulo and Julianne. We had one of those annoying she's dead - KILL HIM - moments, where sadly he didn't die quickly enough and they both ressed. Our turn to die!

The pew pew Shaman decided that 10 deaths was enough for his poor character and brought in his feral Druid instead. The Hunter brought his imba Warrior to tank so one of the Druid tanks could go kitty instead. It was an amazing sight - playing Sephrenia so much I've got used to standing back and watching the action, but with Lori it's all up front and personal. Me and 4 kitties REALLY showed Julianne some loving :) We won this time.


All the cats needed some beauty sleep, so we called it a night. Death count for the Warlock and Shaman stood at 10 each, but it was all the Hunters fault anyway - he won the blame roll. Did I mention our "blame roll"? At the start of our raids / instances we have a roll which decides who is to blame for all the bad (or good) things that happen in the raid. It's a wonderful idea because it takes away the pointing fingers, the guilty feelings and all that sort of stuff that could get in the way of some serious fun.