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So, we all download the patch yesterday, wait for it to install, and the servers aren’t online. And they still aren’t. And they still aren’t.

They had just come up when my GF came over around 8pm to study for a Literature exam, but I didn’t get a chance to log-in before I had to start down the list of essay topics.

At one point, I went to my roomie’s room to see how the weather looks and see what Furious was doing, but he was playing on Uproar.com because the server had only been up for an hour before doing down again.

So I lost one night of playing. Why am I mad, then?

I had over 50g in auctions posted with over 4g in deposits. When I signed on this morning before work, only one auction was successful for 33s and some change. I had to re-list everything. We should get our deposits back for ALL of yesterday’s auctions because no one had a chance to buy them. They must have made tens of thousands in gold yesterday in auctions that expired at their hands. I realize that things may truly have been bad with the patch, but good companies don’t screw ALL of their customers like that without making ammends.

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I’m not so sure I like BGs as a priest. In my first minute out of the keep, I get a whisper from a warrior asking me if I know how to heal. The answer to that, as you who read all the time is, “yes.” However, at the time, I had my ClickHeal buttons all mushed up over the raid indicators and I couldn’t heal ANYONE. I tried moving each group over, very unsuccessfully because of ClickHeal, until I realized I could move ClickHeal to the left side and let the groups stay where they were. I pretty much told him it was my first minute in BGs with this toon and just look at my Honor if he wanted to see how much time I’d spent there.
So, scratch WSG 1. Next fight: 2 minutes later. We lasted a long time on this one. That would be because the Horde wasn’t all too interested in getting the flags because they were toying with us. They knew they could get it 3 times in five minutes. And that’s what they did…23 minutes into the battle.

The high point of my day came when I opened my mail and found this gem:

Suprisingly, I bought this for 1g 20s in the AH from some poor sap that didn’t have a clue what people would pay for it. I also made some nice coin off of 2 lesser nether essences. Things are going OK in the AH for now.

It’s about time I got out of that joint. It was too crowded over at Gitr’s WoW Blog for both of us. This is Priestr central from now on. No more Gitr talk around me, and no more Priestr talk around him.

For those of you just tuning in, here is the weekend update:

Here’s the current status of the guild:

Guild: Bloggers

Server: Sen’jin

Faction: Alliance

Members: 13

loaded 2 (16%)

Level BreakDown

Lvl 01-09: 4

Lvl 10-19: 3

Lvl 20-29: 6

Lvl 30-39: 0

Lvl 40-49: 0

Lvl 50-59: 0

Lvl 60-60: 0

Class BreakDown

Warrior: 2

Druid: 2

Paladin: 1

Hunter: 2

Rogue: 1

Priest: 1

Mage: 2

Warlock: 1

(The banker does not count as a second rogue)

Saturday morning was our usual guild run. We were ready for SFK in Thousand Needles. Our sleepy hunter never awoke to many, many phone calls to get his butt online, so we decided to 4-man it. In attendance, we had:

Aeigelus – Druid 20/21
Vorenis – Paladin 22
Sideburns – Mage 25
Priestr – Priest 26

Let’s just say the action was fast and furious with silencing and shackling, sheeping and shielding. I don’t think I got more than 2 screenshots all morning, but I’ll check when I get home. We had a real battle with the undead paladin boss who kept silencing everyone. Poor Aeigelus was the first and only to die before our last attempts because he’d be tanking the boss while we were fighting the others. I’d get silenced, oops, no heal on Aeig, and he’d die. The silence lasted just long enough for him to go down, then I’d get a heal or bubble on everyone else, and we’d finish the fight.

We made it all the way to the Wolfmaster before Arugal. He had too many protective adds and summoned horrors. The problem with the horrors was that the sheep only lasted 5 seconds on him, before we could get another on him, he summoned a horror. Being the healer, I was #1 on the hit list. So they’d come after me in the middle of a heal. It’d take 5 seconds to get the heal off, my bubble was already gone, and someone would die. I’d put my bubble up, smack the horror, and the boss was back again. We tried twice and realized we needed a rogue, hunter, or another mage to beat that room. We’ll get him next week. All told, I think that 4-man did very well to get that far. It was a great time of getting to know each others’ skills and tricks.

Priestr got in trouble for getting too far ahead of his guildies this week, so it was:

1. Play BGs
2. Play AH
3. Roll and alt
4. All of the above

So far, it’s been an alt and AH, but BGs will come this week. I’ll play tonight to get on the charts for next week. It was a very good weekend for AH. Gold is flying in now that I’ve built Priestr up with enough capital. Of course, that means his enchanting skill has flatlined. I buy a gold or so of silk every now and then to make some headbands or bags, but now they are yellowed and not guaranteed to be worth the gold.

I took a lot of people for a ride on AH this weekend. Like the guy that had 4 Spider’s Silk up for 16s and I sold them for 1g60s. The Scarlet Bracers for 20s for 4g45s. There were even some 2s items that sold for 80s in minutes. All told, I think he has over 20g in auctions and has a good chunk in the bank now. In a couple of days, I can pay for the guild tabard and get one for everyone once they hit level 10.

My alt…right. I created a new dwarf warrior in the shadow of my original toon, Grimr. His name is Gunr. He’s being bankrolled by Priestr’s AH action for now, but Gunr is a skinner/miner, and has no trouble earning enough on his own for now. He has the best gear available in the AH for a level 8. My goal is to hit at least 10 tonight and get him a scorpid and a bear. I think he might have to hit 11 for a scorpid in Loch Modan.

Here’s the current status of the guild:

Guild: Bloggers

Server: Sen’jin

Faction: Alliance

Members: 13

loaded 2 (16%)

Level BreakDown

Lvl 01-09: 4

Lvl 10-19: 3

Lvl 20-29: 6

Lvl 30-39: 0

Lvl 40-49: 0

Lvl 50-59: 0

Lvl 60-60: 0

 

 

Class BreakDown

Warrior: 2

Druid: 2

Paladin: 1

Hunter: 2

Rogue: 1

Priest: 1

Mage: 2

Warlock: 1

(The banker does not count as a second rogue)

Saturday morning was our usual guild run. We were ready for SFK in Thousand Needles. Our sleepy hunter never awoke to many, many phone calls to get his butt online, so we decided to 4-man it. In attendance, we had:

Aeigelus – Druid 20/21
Vorenis – Paladin 22
Sideburns – Mage 25
Priestr – Priest 26

Let’s just say the action was fast and furious with silencing and shackling, sheeping and shielding. I don’t think I got more than 2 screenshots all morning, but I’ll check when I get home. We had a real battle with the undead paladin boss who kept silencing everyone. Poor Aeigelus was the first and only to die before our last attempts because he’d be tanking the boss while we were fighting the others. I’d get silenced, oops, no heal on Aeig, and he’d die. The silence lasted just long enough for him to go down, then I’d get a heal or bubble on everyone else, and we’d finish the fight.

We made it all the way to the Wolfmaster before Arugal. He had too many protective adds and summoned horrors. The problem with the horrors was that the sheep only lasted 5 seconds on him, before we could get another on him, he summoned a horror. Being the healer, I was #1 on the hit list. So they’d come after me in the middle of a heal. It’d take 5 seconds to get the heal off, my bubble was already gone, and someone would die. I’d put my bubble up, smack the horror, and the boss was back again. We tried twice and realized we needed a rogue, hunter, or another mage to beat that room. We’ll get him next week. All told, I think that 4-man did very well to get that far. It was a great time of getting to know each others’ skills and tricks.

After several failed attempts to be able to invite a 5th person into our group, Priestr and Sideburns got to run Stockades last night. For some reason, it kept giving us errors that our group was full with only 4 people.

We decided to go in with 4 and someone on my friends list came online, so I told the leader to invite him. Instead, I became leader, to much glee between Side and me. Freedom to kick is great. What’s also great is not needing to kick. We didn’t have any ninjas, super-pullers, or over-nukers. We had 2 mages, a hunter, a warrior, and me. No deaths, or anything close to one. At the end of the left hall, everyone but me got feared, but I had planned ahead this time and warded everyone. That was the one and only reason I picked dwarf for priest, and maybe the main reason I wanted to make a priest. I’m so sick and tired of getting feared into things. I’ve only seen a handful of dwarf priests in my days in-game, and I can’t figure out why.

Priestr dinged 26, got Holy Fire, tons of gold playing the AH, and finished the Defias questline that ends with Lady Prestor…ahem…Onyxia. I think there are just a couple more quests in the Sven questline in Duskwood. I need to go to the inn in Goldshire, one other place, and then go after the man himself north of Darkshire. I’ll probably need help, though, because I seem to remember him being a 30 or 31.

I’ve got the kill quests in Duskwood now, and will take great joy following up Monday’s wolf killing with pygmy spider killing. My gf should join in on that fun. Besides, we can sell the spider’s silk from Duskwood for 75s-1g each.

I did some last-minute shopping last night to make Sideburns some clothes. Most everything I wanted to make him included leather or pearls and such, so I only got around to one Lesser Wizard’s Robe, which has Frost spell stats. I figure the better equipped he is, the better I’ll survive when we go questing together.

Time to go think about those spiders some more.