Gitr

The grip that WoW may have ever held on me is gone. There are still things I want to do, but doesn’t seem like there will be time. I’d like to get good gear and see BWL and Onyxia, but who has 4 hours a night to play? I used to. I used to come home and get on around 4pm and get off around midnight, give or take. Some nights were out, but those that I was home, I was on WoW.

Gitr, what’s changed? Several things changed recently. First, I moved out of my parents’ house. Now I can watch TV when I want, I can read where I want, and I can play computer as long as I want. My roomie has the entire Firefly series on DVD. I have been watching those. Then I’ll watch the movie. Then I want to watch the entire Godfather set. I’ve never seen any of the Godfathers. *blush* We have HD cable. There is a pool and a weight room.

I have a girlfriend. I believe it takes more time to have a girlfriend than a wife. I know that seems wrong, but here is the simple thought in my simple pea brain. Sleeping is considered quality time. If you go to bed at 10pm or something reasonable, that’s a good 7-9 hours of time “together.” Dinner together is a given and never inconvenient, because you’re both there. No one ever has to go home, so there’s travel time cut out of previously wasted time. Watch some TV together, maybe a movie, find something quiet that you want to do alone, together, and you’re set. It’s not that simple with a girlfriend. Sure, it’s easier after a few years, but the hours we are together have to literally be together. When get my own time, it’s not like it’s automatically WoW time.

Since I can’t just jump into a MC run or fly down to ZG and start fighting, my schedule needs to coincide with others’. Since I don’t belong to a large, hardcore raiding guild that can let me just log in and take down Onyxia, Gitr has been sitting around IF while Priestr gets going on Sen’jin. The only thing that keeps me from playing Priestr more is a lack of funds. Sometimes I just want to wait for my auctions to sell so I can train or buy mats to train skills. Sure, I could grind or quest, but there’s Mythbusters, Numb3rs, and Law & Order. I have 3 books I want to read, along with one that I’m reading for fun, one I’m reading with my girlfriend, and more that I want to buy.

I could save $15/mo and just stop playing, but then I wouldn’t have anything to blog about. I love blogging. Maybe it’s time to start a Priestr blog. Grimr’s lonely, too, but Kargath is getting to be such a pain to log in to. Anyway, enough rambling for now, but I just don’t want to be at work today. 🙂

Priestr hit level 20 and went on a Deadmines PuG spree. It took 3 attempts until I was able to get into a Van Cleef-ready group and didn’t have anyone decide to log off to go eat, sleep, etc.

In the early evening I got into a group that was suprisingly good considering there were 2 players in there who’d never been to DM. How that still happens today, I don’t know 🙂 It was a 16 warrior and mage, 18 mage, 19 warlock, and me. Four squishies and a tank. To my credit, no one died. Ever. Well, at least until the warlock decided he wanted to eat and hearthed 2 minutes before fighting the room full of goblins and the shredder elite. We wiped and I called it, because we weren’t going to make it too much further with that group composition and experience.

After 9pm, I tried again and got Gnomicidal to join me with a group of 3. Again, it was 4 squishies, but this time it was 2 priests instead of 3 dps players. The other priest was level 23/24, so I handled healing while he did damage. Our stickiest non-wipe was against the shredder. It got all the way down to me, without mana, and the goblin driver being at 27 health before my stave whacked him across the nose and killed him. It’s quite fun to rez an entire party after saving the wipe. /chuckle

We wiped going down the spiral ramp when we accidently aggroed the boss goblin while taking out the dude under the ramp. We proceeded to Van Cleef without incident after that and Priestr was honored to be allowed to hit Need on Cookie’s Stirring Rod when others hit pass or Greed. Apparently being a healer gives one a certain amount of respect in a group. Actually, we took down VC, and then everyone but Gnomicidal died. He made it to the wheel to reset. On the way back, I died from a patrol. On the next attempt, we grouped and ran together. I kept falling asleep and running into walls. If it wasn’t for the rail in the spiral ramp room, I would have fallen all the way down. Next thing I know after passing into the cave with the ship, I’m in the water. I aggroed some murlocs on shore and died under water. They couldn’t find my body. On the way back in the 3rd time, EVERYTHING had repopped. I never got VC’s head or note. That means I get to do it all again! Go Staff of Westfall!

I suppose I remember the groups with a good healer not because of the healing itself, but a lack of corpse runs and never needing to watch my health. In good groups with Gitr, I’m usually watching my rage and the priest’s mana more than anything. I think that being a warrior first makes me a better priest than I’d be otherwise, because I know what I liked and need as a tank, which is bottom line: never worry about my health. I need to know that I can aggro 2-4 mobs and stay standing because if I get that many mobs on me, the priest only needs to heal one person. That sure did make my job easier last night, until we started nuking too much to get done. Then it was multiple flash heals and a big heal on the tank, bubble the mages, heal the tank, and so on.

I’ve updated Priestr’s RPG profile.

Our 4,000th visitor came to us from Cheyenne, WY by way of Hogit’s blog.

Thursday night, I’m in Stormwind, and I get a /whisper “Hello fellow Tampanian.” Now if that doesn’t get your attention in-game, nothing will. A few exchanges later, I find out it’s a guy who reads my blog almost every day, and I even guessed which of the 2 companies he works for because of the SiteMeter logs. It was pretty cool. He put up a blog so he could join our bloggers’ guild. His toon is Gnomicidal, and we’ll give him props up on the link list when he gets some game content going for this toon. Glad to have you on board.

I logged in Saturday morning and started to grind to get some levels in before our guild run. I hit level 17 in Redridge and 18 during the run.

Backtracking a bit, I was in Redridge on Friday and noticed a Call To Arms post about a mage wanting to go to DM, so I answered with my lvl, class, and interest in going. I joined his group, and 3 seconds later, he said, “nm, I’m going to do BGs instead,” and left the group… of 2. So there I am on a grif to Westfall for nothing. I get there and decided to take out some gnolls to finish my paws quest, and he invites me and, lo, there is a lvl 27 warrior in the group. Hot ding dog, I started running for Moonbrook. I met up with the warrior and we ran in to start killing. Here is where it gets good.

We get a  /whisper from the mage saying to wait until he got done with the BGs to go in. I mouse over his profile and saw that he was in WSG. Smithey replied that we were just going to clear the way to the instance. I made out pretty good on the loot and greens. He said he was the guy’s guildie and that this was a 5th request to help him out. After Smithey told him twice that he only had a few minutes before quitting on the mage, I told the idiot to be more considerate of this group and hearth out and get his butt down here. A minute or so later, he left the group, so I asked Smithey if he wanted to continue, and he said he was so pissed, he wanted to take it out on the elites in the instance. I was all for that. We killed the goblin shredder and into the spiral goblin room before he decided to get on with his life. That was sure fun, because I actually had to heal him and he had to rip agg back off me when I would crit heal on him.

Back to Saturday, we had a bit of a hiccup in forming the group. There were 6 of us online; less than 2 groups, but more than we could take in. It became quite the “hmmm…what do we do to be fair” discussion.

More in the morning.

Well, folks, sorry about the lack of posts about Gitr’s adventures. I’ve been getting sicker most of the week, but have an appointment in the morning, so maybe after Priestr hits 20 tonight or tomorrow, I’ll bust Gitr back out for some action.

Priestr does have some nice gear already, without having set foot into Deadmines yet. My estimate is that he’ll have more mana than Lockr at level 19. I’m going to go Holy as soon as I can get back on track. I took a 2 point detour because of a flinch when I was hovering over a skill. Then I decided to at least go for 2 points there.

I spent most of the night in the quarry in Westfall helping the others that were a little behind get even with me in the Van Cleef quest line. No one was ready for the 3rd set of mobs yet, so it was easy farming for greens and linen. Unless too many repopped in the cave at once, that is.

I’m really enjoying healing and I’ve been bubbling more than healing because it’s an instant cast and with a group of 4 or 5, no one takes enough damage to need a heal before I put up the next bubble on them. It worked pretty well, but I’m not sure how common of a technique it is. I tend to be unorthodox in most of my gameplay.

 

We had quite a few people on yesterday. I got Priestr up to level 14 and fully trained and equipped using a few stacks of linen I farmed in the mines and the quarry of Westfall.

Gitr has really been taking a back seat this weekend and so far this week for the cause of starting a new guild. I am an officer in the new guild and very much looking forward to growing it for bloggers everywhere. Officers need to be higher level than the others, in my opinion, so they can help everyone else.

Josh did a great job putting it all together and getting a forum up on his domain over the weekend. Some of my favorite blogs are represented already. It’ll be great fun. Tomas got on last night as a level 4 rogue. That should be interesting for him. I haven’t taken a rogue past level 24. I can only give him tips for so long 🙂