At last - another ZA kill

Well, it's been a while coming but my guild finally has another ZA kill under its belt. A group went to play on Wednesday, which I sadly could not attend and they made good progress and learning on Jan'alai. Keen to continue we managed to get another group together last night and after a few unlucky tries we managed to kill the dragon hawk boss.


It's a fun fight, very mobile as you have to move about a lot to dodge the fire breaths and the fire balls. I was a little concerned that my priestly healing didn't match that of our druid and paladin, until I looked at the dispel list, where I saw that I managed to rack up 80 odd dispels on our paladin tank. No wonder I didn't have time to heal much - I was far too busy clearing him of his nasty buffs.

We moved on and tried Halazzi, which is harder, but apparently do-able without a Hunter (wanted - hunters for our guild). We got him to 25%, but sadly had a wipe, at which point people were getting tired and it was getting late, so we called it for the evening. I feel sure that this boss will succumb to us soon as well.

It was a fun evening and nice to see us moving forward again.

Not so much Guild stuff of late

I realise I've not been posting so much guild stuff recently. I think it's because most of my guild know about my blog and so I kind of lose my chance to vent because guild drama spills over into my blog or I get whined at for saying how I feel, even in the comfort of my own space.

We've had some drama recently. Over the past few months we've grown quite a bit and taken on almost two other guilds that have died. It's interesting to suddenly find out that there are (or were) other similar guilds to ours on the same server. I thought we were kind of unique, but it seems not.

People have left, people have come back, people have vented their emotions - I thought in an adult guild we would get away from all of that, but it still happens. Sometimes I really have to sit back and remind myself that this is a GAME. We play for fun. We play to escape from the real world.

I play for friendship - playing, instancing and raiding to me is like going out to the pub. Some of the people I play with I have known for 2 years in the game. I'm actually going to meet some of them soon because 2 guys from Sweden are coming to visit us next week - it's very exciting.

Anyway. We've had some settling in issues. It kind of reminds me and ties in with my kids going back to school and settling back in after the summer holidays. We've had to do the same. We're back to generally filling our 25 man raids (with a little bit of begging on occasion). We downed Lurker, had a go at Morogrim and ventured into Mount Hyjal. It's feeling good.

But now that the new patch is on it's way people are getting edgy about what it may bring, or rather what it might take away. The selfish gene is raising its ugly head again. It's hard in a casual guild to do all the things that please all of the people and often as a Council member I find that whatever you do will annoy some people. It's a delicate balancing act.


Things are going to change - about the only thing that is constant in life is that change will happen. We're going to face a lot more changes as WotLK hits us, but I'm hoping that all the hard work we've done in the past and the experiences we've been through together will guide us through and the guild will emerge stronger from it.

Screenies - love them

I've been going through my screenies to put as many boss kills as I can find on our new, shiny Guild website and I came across this one from last Christmas (or whatever it's called in WOW - I forget now). Ahhh - the lengths some girls will go to try to get new pets :)


It didn't work - all I got was a letter telling me to delete the one kit I had so I could get another. Not quite what I was hoping for. It was a little disappointing - I hope Blizz do better this year - a third snowman kit would not go down well with Sephrenia. Yeah, I know, it's still September, but I'm cold and being cold makes me think of winter and winter means Christmas....

Toys and why I now want a mage

More messing in Dalaran... Saves time faffing about re-doing bloody talents every time I log on. I keep doing my talents, burying the paper on my desk, digging it out again, updating and then running out of time... Time, never enough time (that's a line from a film or something somewhere, hmmm - have to google and check - nope, can't find it).

Anyway. Shopping in Dalaran got better. The toy shop now has the following...


The car shot off before I got chance to screenie it, I forgot to do the zeppelin, but the gorilla looks like this.


Basically they are one use things, but fun all the same - I can see races with the car and lots of Zeppelin throwing before raids - more fun than a happy rock or leather ball - you actually see the plane fly. (Will try to screenie the others some time).

I went shopping some more and found something else that made me want a mage - as if Polymorphing bears and penguins weren't enough (as well as the turtles and piggies)...


It's a shame I completely suck at playing a mage. Wonder if we can have something to nice for priests to make our shadowfiend look a bit sexier. A bunny rabbit (with nasty, big, pointy teeth) might be nice (look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide; it's a killer). Ah, a good bit of Monty Python always makes me smile :)

Twas a peaceful day in Dalaran....

.... so I went exploring the sewers again.

There's potions lying about.


If you drink them they do this... hee hee - Tuskars... I like it.


As a Tuskar you can sit down..... you shuffle up your pants and sit... somewhat dejected looking, but very cute....


... it makes you want to sing and dance...


... Tuskars are also hungry, so it increases your fishing skill by 50 for the 10 minute duration of the buff.

Another potion and everyone looks different...


Pretty...


these are sewer guards (usually orcs I think - can't remember).

Finally, I found a shady dealer type down there who sells another pet...


With so many fun things to do it's no wonder I'm not even level 71 yet is it? Ah well, one day... maybe... when I can stop fishing, buying pets and their toys, mounts, doing cooking quests and such fun things.

More completely useless Beta stuff for a Friday

Well, I had a little time to play beta today and of course rather than go quest, I wandered around Dalaran and found out some more useless but very fun and interesting things :)

You can now fish in Dalaran. There is a wishing well where you can fish up coins thrown in by people of old....


Next I went to the sewers to see what I could fish up there. I got some magic fishies...



They do lots of things to you....


and...


I bet you've never seen an emerald whelp fishing before :)

and...


The last one gives you a good view of the sewers - which has lots of arena people, shady dealers and it's own bank. It did have target dummies, but I think they've been moved somewhere else.

Finally I found the new mounts. A bear...


Reminds me of my very own husband, Barkie...


*Insert random smuttiness about riding my own bear*

And, just in case I ever get to level 80, I bought...


They DO look very cool.


Oh and how could I forget - I need to research where I can get me one of these little cuties.


Ah well - have a fantastic, fun filled weekend dear reader. I'll be back with more random nothingness next week.

Birthday Crocs

Well, it's my birthday today, so I thought I'd try it on a bit when I saw it was the crocodile fishing quest....


I got a speedy response....


Not what I wanted, but hey - you can't blame a girl for trying :)

Sephirot was lucky - he won an [Eye of the Sea]. Lorienne was even luckier and snagged her second croc - she got a [Snarly's Bucket].

He's an agile little devil...


I just wish I could swap them over to Sephrenia....