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Nov18

Flew around herb-ing today, first through WG, then to Scholazar and accidentally slipped into the Borean Tundra and got that exploring achievement.  Didn’t know I was missing it.  During this WG ticks down to queue time and I queue up for it at 14 mins to go.

and watching protodrakes kill elementals is kind of epic.

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The queue comes up for WG but it tells me I’m not called yet. SIGH. I’m like, RIGHT THERE so I just fly over to see what’s going on. I get thrown back out. I crab about this in trade and someone else says they also did not get called in. I head back to WG and ask how many are in raid but no one answers, and I get thrown out again.  I get in after that point and there are 13 people in myself included.   We have a breach at west already with 19 mins to go. Shortly after they have 5 vehicles beating on the front door. Those are busted up quickly and they are down to 0/8 vehicles then shortly after up to 4/12.

The west inner wall goes down. Fortunately for us everyone is communicating well,  and the tower team gets the towers down and we win it.  The balancing I am not complaining about, only the fact that WG was never meant to be run by 10-15 people per side.

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One person is setting up a VOA 10 and needs healers, so I PM them but don’t get added.  Another person does the same and I get in on that.  We do all the bosses and I get the 10 man achievement on Emalon.  There is a mage in here named Cann (symbol over the a) which all heroic sanctified gear and he pulls 14k dps.  Wow.   He asks for Power Infusion which I oblige when I can. The other priest healer drops at the last boss but I single heal it just fine.

I get in again later around the time WG is active and queue and get the please wait thing. I get in shortly after and we have nearly 5 full groups.  I’m in at 23 minutes and the horde already has 9 vehicles, and by the time I’m finally taken down by several horde just outside of the west keep, and by the time I rez back up, they have taken the fort and won.  Well, it was quick at any rate.

Later on again I queue for a bg before our guild events are supposed to start and get IoC. Half of us run to docks and get wiped OUT.  I head back that way and get flattened by two horde and no alliance around to heal. The battle quickly turns into a, why are we even bothering kind of fight. We make zero progress and get rolled and I make out with a whole 35 honor.

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We get together for the weekly with is Malygos and I have never done it, on any character.

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It takes 3 tries to get the flight part down and it throws me because I cannot see the drakes hp bars, and my interface doesn’t show their damage.

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I swear the last phase is seizure inducing though.   We get it!

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We then run VOA 25, and like usual nothing for priest drops.  We do a full clear. Well, I give up and just buy my T10 pants for my 4 piece set.

I run a IoC, again, we lose, again. Next is AV and we get to the boss guy, everyone runs in and I die straight away.  So yeah, that was good. I get nowhere near there after that, but we do win. 139 honor.

After that is EotS and these NEVER go well and we get steam rolled at DR. Then everyone deserts me at FRR so I leave too. Then it’s all “why is no one defending it?” Um because everyone left?  We DO win it though! 89 honor on that.  I’ve had enough for today.

Queued, please wait? Since when?

Nov17

Logged in and I still have zero add ons and not even the add ons tab.  I try to queue for WG and it says something about how I’ve been queued and please wait, which I’ve never seen before.  When the battle starts it gives me the please wait again.  I dequeued and queued again, same thing please wait.  I went to the WG npc and tried to queue, and please wait.

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Well, that guy won’t let me queue so I run off the fly there, only 2 mins in the Horde already has 5 vehicles, already has 2 walls down.  Rexe pm’s me and asks if the battle is going on and I say yes but the queue isn’t working and he says he’s “OMW”.  Shortly after they take the fort since we had roughly 10 people in raid.  Total, BS.

There is some discussion in trade about who makes Goblin Rocket Fuel and, thanks to Arashikage who gave me the recipe, I link it from Alchemy.  Apparently there is none on the AH, so I take the required Fireblooms out of my bank, then head to Stranglethorn Vale to farm the Volative Rum needed to make it.

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the drop rate is abysmal, I killed at least 20 mobs with nothing.  I get around 3 after switching to the other beach area but that still takes around 30 mobs. Ugh.  It’s like farming in L2 again.

I notice one of the rifts out here, for  some reason, and iI see a Bloodsail Swashbuckler start attacking the mobs.  Kind of funny!  I have to AOE the mobs to kill them all at once to break the rift.

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which then leaves behind a Mysterious Device.  After farming the booze for a while, I head back to SW and see it’s selling for 1g per, which totally isn’t worth it.  Upset at my add ons I delete all the add ons and reload everything, and now everything is happy again and loading.  And Quartz is remembering where I saved it last.  Awesome!

Now that WG has been made even on both sides now, no one will have tenacity any more.  To prove this I kill a blood elf paladin named Sevuf (ooh, another handsome red head)  and shortly after, a horde priest whose name I did not catch, solo.

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I get myself killed multiple times making stabs at breaking down their vehicles, disc spec or no, and healing up other Alliance.  East is a bad place to be and I die oh, many times.  I mention this horde death pit in raid.

Unfortunately even though I said East was a bad place to go, Alliance rolls several sieges through there which are busted up by all the horde I said were there, and the breach clear through to the inner CY from west that someone else announced, is totally ignored and we LOSE.  I foresee us losing a lot.

Later I run my dungeon which is CoS, AGAIN.

The NSA

Nov16

Today I grab some quests I missed last night, then head to the front of Stormwind where I’m in charge of checking over citizens papers.  The announcements by the guards, and the comments by all the people remind me quite a bit about the security fuss we’ve been going through in the US (and other places I’m sure) for a while now.

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Once in a while people get escorted out. I search my 5 people, while the other citizens continue to complain and the guards threaten with time in the stockades.

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and this guy turns up a Suspicious Note and gets carted off.

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and the NOTE!

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I also read my decree from the King to the annoyed people,  about trying to protect against dangerous cultists. I love this game.

I head back to the Recruiter and now I get to arrest people, awesome!  I nab my first one who was in SW in a stealth mode by a purple candle. Now hilariously followed by 5 of them,

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I set off to the Stockades.

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Then I head in to question them.

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They just backsass that there is nothing we can do about any of this. I put on my disguise again and use the book at the altar, which opens the portal to summon the elementals on the city.  Well, no wonder it was so bad last night! I then get sent out to read the word in the city, which the cultists were doing when I arrested them earlier, but I get to read them BADLY. Excellent! 😀

Back in town the raid I did last night is in full swing again. I get my ass handed to me by the elements and die. I really don’t think I want to rez right now.

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I healed for a while but after a point I ran in an abandoned building to wait it out. When the NPCs returned I head out to do some interrupting and bad reading.

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After I turn in that quest it’s back to the tram to IF.  What is Haggle doing digging through the trash, by the way? I go turn in my quest and take a break.

Later I log in and my add ons are all not working.  I need them to heal, well, I mean I can heal WITHOUT them but it makes life harder.  I try out the default raid frames on a EotS and it’s ok but I really want my x perl working.  We win! I log out.

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My de-friended friend Soulprince messages me and asked if I want to heal a ICC 25.  I already have one scheduled, plus my raid frames are broken so I say I can’t.  This guy never messages just to say hi, it’s always to go do something, so I guess the friend removal was a good idea.

Invasion in Stormwind

Nov15

Logged in and WG was just starting, hopped on that right away.  Horde were overpowered as usual with their bullcrap tenacity, and I had another Alliance player point out that they were getting killed by a rogue and I just healed the “other guy”.  I was like uh yeah we had 2 people fighting a OP shaman and OP spriest, so at least one of you were going to die.   The person commenting had TWO funny symbols in their name so I pretty much ignored them after that.

I help kill a blood elf paladin by the name of Garrspally and blow a kiss before they hit the ground.  Later this same paladin runs into me and smacks me with Avenger’s Shield for 5k, fury for 1k, but he dies again anyway. The guy is running around in blues, at least according the wowarmory, so that explains some of it.  We win fairly easily.  I go do the Fueling the Demolishers quest.

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Bored, I head out to farm herbs but it seems a lot of people are doing that as well, so I pick up a quest in Scholazar Basin from the Mark’s Overlook. I return the key to the chest, get my reward and 12 g.

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WG is up again and the horde are determined to get it, both by throwing lots of people at Sunken, and defending their vehicles the entire way. I do VERY little healing and mostly spend my time trying to kill vehicles. I show up as ending with 817 for dps even!

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We win, barely.  Next fight we’ll probably lose it.

Later I get in and queue for for a BG, and get WSG.  The horde, I’m sorry (not really) are really, really bad.  I even get a chance to dps a bit.  I run down the tunnel to our base and resist 3-4 horde, then survive a run through the flag room….

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then all the way down the other tunnel, outside, and ’round and ’round until I nearly run out of MP, without dying at all, and we win! I have top honor as well.

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I even had a killing blow, that’s hilarious!

Afterwards I put on PVE gear and ask if anyone in guild needs their daily dungeon.  No response. Sigh. I PUG that.  I get VH which I try to liven up by DPSing a bit. During the water boss someone acts stupid and throws the switches when the bubbles AREN’T out causing the party extra unnecessary damage.

Someone in guild begins complaining at the Call to Arms winning battlegrounds aren’t giving enough exp.  I say it should give 2-3 bars and they say that doesn’t seem like enough.  2-3 bars for not that much work at 77 is plenty.  Gosh people are spoiled.

Queued up for WG and saw the Westpark spam, and went to find a shadow priest named Antigank there. We whomped on each other for a while until she runs off and flies away. She says something in orcish which is “throm’ka” but I don’t believe there is a translation for that.  Either way, I made HER leave.

I run WG and run into Rexe and Nilvana.  The horde have something like 16 stacks of tenacity and are 2 shotting people, but we end up destroying them back to their base anyway and win big time. I haven’t been able to get a VOA 10 all week and tonight seems like no exception.

Before I log I head to town where an invasion is supposed to start.  The guards yell for people to flee the town.

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You can barely see the streets for all the people there. It indeed turns dark and stormy, my screen nearly goes white from the lightning and storm mobs start spawning. We’re supposed to place sandbags around the town, and kill the portals and elementals spawning.

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Once that is over, which was pretty cool, we queue up for the fire boss which I missed the quest on, and didn’t get close enough to screenshot.

Then the water boss.

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Then some dragon.

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and air. And yes the King of Stormwind fights in two of these, prrrow!

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All in all, REALLY fun,and a bit of a challenge as far as healing goes. I get complimented on my healing on one run even, because these guys dished out a lot of damage and had some troublesome freezing skills, tornadoes and such.

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Oh and yes, I love Varian Wyrnn XD

Horde spies?

Nov14

Today I log in and no friends are on, and only 2 in guild. I run WG and we defend it and win, however we have what was probably a horde spy yelling out invalid incomings and incorrect breaches. I wonder if you can report for that. A few people are being negative saying we’re going to lose, but I point out we’re doing just fine. People that don’t do this often should keep quiet.

I get on again later and run WG again, find Rexe this time, and we win. Nothing too eventful other than I’m finding I need to heal like I’m in Lineage 2 again, which means casting a heal before damage is even incoming in the hopes that the person may survive the next strike. It is difficult this time to out-heal the damage horde is putting out.

Half of the guild is in the ICC 25 that started too early for me to join, so I pick my daily dungeon and end up with CoS, which is boring me to tears by this point. The paladin tank is very slow and the DK seems to be tanking for him. I think back to when items in here were upgrades for me, and wonder if it’ll be like that come Cata. Obviously that is a dumb question because it will be like that, but it feels like ages since I needed anything from a 5 man dungeon.

Kind of bored I queue up for some BGs and get Arathi. We lose massively, destroyed all the way back to Trollbane and can’t even leave. Sigh. I wish I had an add on that would tell me how terribly out geared we are compared to the other team.

Next one is IoC and we lose terribly again. I get sapped at the docks and another priest shields me and then starts spamming Holy Nova trying to knock the rogue out of stealth. I thought only I did that. I was about to thank them when the battle rudely ended with our loss.

Last one is a Strand and at the beginning someone is calling out orders. We capture the titan relic, then the horde does, and they win. I really don’t get this bg. I have top honor for our side. Bored, I log out.