Gitr Knows WoW

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.

I found this link on another blog and found it to be an interesting topic:

More than a Pretty Face

I find it interesting because as a noob, most players assume if you come across a female toon, the person behind it is also female. It’s only natural to call someone’s RL personage by the gender you first encountered them as.

FoA has one notorious male player with multiple female avatars. In my mind, that’s just plain wierd. The only good explanation I’ve heard for it from a guy is: “If I’m going to be staring at a butt for 6-8 hours a day, I’d like it to be a nice-looking one.” At least that makes sense, even if it is brash and immature.

I can also see it for women under the condition that they want to be left alone from males with the rude, sexist comments, etc. that some guys seem to like receiving as female toons. I know several RL women who’ve had problems with guys in chat and TeamSpeak that probably wish they could turn their toons into guys and erase people’s memory that they ever knew their true gender.

Anyway, neat write-up and an interesting topic to me.

I don’t want to write about WoW today. Priestr hit 25 last night and went into Stockades and was group leader. It went very well.

What I want to talk about is spiders. Particularly the ones that freak my girlfriend out. I have good news for the whole world: she killed her first spider yesterday… in the car.

She got in the car and as she was leaving the parking lot, it started to dangle and sway from the top of the windshield, on the INSIDE of the car. That’s how she said it. Like it was the worst thing that could happen that day. So, she is trying to get her sandal off to get it as it scurries back and forth, but then it disappeared. She was so freaking out that she had to pull over at a Publix store and wait for it, thinking the whole time that it could start crawling on her at any second. Then it reappeared and she grabbed the very bottom of the sandal and squashed it with the very top. It was an amazing tale to hear.

I was able to manage my composure clear up until the VERY end and totally lost it. It was the funniest story I’d heard in months and I laughed and coughed for about 2 minutes. 21 years old and never killed a spider. She always ran to her dad, brother, or me to get them. That just cracks me up.

I guess now’s not the time to tell her that I can’t find the spider that I saw in my bathroom this morning.

Fellowship of Azeroth took down Garr on our first attempt ever. Because of my schedule on Sundays, I can only join in on the second leg every other week. Well, this was the day to go, and it rocked. The A-team took down Luci and Mag, which was something we couldn’t dream about the last time I came on a run. Now it was time to go for Gehennas and Garr.

I’ve got a good Priestr update, but that will just have to wait until this account is over. We actually started within 5 minutes of target time with 38 raiders. I noticed several of our long-standing members have joined other guilds, but remain in fellowship with us. My favorite paladin got a great upgrade tonight, too, even though he’s with a raiding guild now.

Unlike the last 2 MC runs I was on, I didn’t die in the first fight, nor were there ANY bad pulls. That was a nice change. I died in the 2 boss fights, and that’s it. I would have been fine in both fights with better armor, but that will come.

In the 3 attempts on Gehennas in my only run with a shot at him, we wiped every time. This time, most of the group was battle-hardenend and we took him down on the first try. He dropped some nice stuff as I drooled over one of the Warrior pieces.

We made our way to Garr for our first attempt ever and it took FOREVER to set up. It was just a bunch of hunters grabbing the leader’s assist to mark each add, then the warlocks took the assist to banish the other 3. I kept falling asleep. Worried that I’d run into Garr, I folded my hands over my stomach to take a nap with the headphones on. After about 30-40 minutes, we initiated combat. My job was to follow our epic-geared rogue from add to add and take them down. Every time they exploded or whatever the do, I’d be thrown back 50 feet and get knocked down to about 30% health. After about 2 minutes, we started chopping away at Garr.

This was going along just fine. Everyone was alive and at full health and Garr’s health just kept dropping. 67%, 54%, 30%, and on down. Being a melee class, I have no idea what happened around 24%, but I got thrown twice as far as before and was dead. Gitr died a spectacularly fast death, along with half the raid group. At that point, I think all the adds had exploded or something, because those remaining were just going after Garr. Tank after tank died as the healers tried to keep one up as they gained aggro.

25k health, 19k, 12k, 6k… “go, team, go!!” There were about 5 people standing and Garr stood at 6k for a very long time. Next thing you know, he exploded and everyone started shouting. We looked at the groups, and EVERYONE was dead. No…wait. Shinryu has a soulstone available. With the whole raid dead, Shin rezzed, and started to rez the healers, and in 5 minutes we looted the body.

Loot from MC 3:

Gehennas:

Lawbringer Gauntlets
Sabatons of Might 

Garr:

Nightslayer Cover
Lawbringer Helm
Brutality Blade

OK, people, there are obviously a few things you need to know about grouping. I know this is preaching to the choir for most of you, but good grief, save everyone in the group trouble and don’t accept an invite if you’re going to do stupid stuff.

Last night I tried for 15 minutes to get into PuGs for Stockades to get going on the Defias questline after killing Van Cleef. I had to talk a hunter into letting me in. He was level 24 and had a level 25 rogue with him. I got one good mage I’d grouped with before into it at level 25, and we sent an invite for a 31 priest who was on her way.

There are standards to 5-man groups:

• If you are a n00b, at least let the leader know, if not the whole group. Then they can advise you on what happens in that instance. In most cases, the rest can even adjust and be ready for your n00bishness.
• If you might have to leave, say that up front. Nothing is worse than spending an hour going in and not being able to finish everyone’s quest because of one person. If there’s a real-life issue or emergency, those are understandable and the group will just be disappointed, not pissed.
• If you see a green drop, hit Greed unless you want to wear it then or within a level or so. In the case of equipping, select Need and let others know the first time to feel out the group. 99% of groups will tell you that’s fine and keep the extra info to yourself.
• No looting for friends or alts unless you ask the whole group before making your selection.
• Use people’s names or shortened versions of them. Don’t keep calling people warrior or healer.
• Don’t pull without people being at full mana!!
• Don’t pull too many mobs or be stupid with your positioning so you do a body pull from pats in the middle of the fight.
• Pull mobs off the squishies ASAP. Don’t make them cry for help.
• Don’t keep asking the healer for healing. Over and over again. Here is an example:

My leaving came after telling them 3 times that they don’t need to ask for heals. I told them that I’d either heal them or I was out of mana. All they have to do is look, not type an idiotic request for healing when that is impossible. In this case, Lorenna is the other priest, more than capable of fading, bubbling, or killing the 2 mobs she had on her, but the others were too busy working on one mob than come help her. This also came after my repeated requests to not pull until I was at full mana. Brenie could confirm I asked about 10 times in the course of 15 minutes. The last response I had in this hallway was, “priest, we ARE FINE.” Fine. Die then. Idiot. Hearth. /ignore.

It took 8 rooms for us to wipe. Now was that becuase we were fine, or they were just dang lucky they had someone to heal their numbskulls? I’m not saying I’m the best priest out there for my level, but no one dies when it’s even a moderately bad situation. All hell has to break loose before any group I’ve been in wipes. In 10 DM runs, I’ve been in 3 wipes and all were because of bad pulls. In those runs, how many have died? 16. All of us 3 times and a level 11 pet that had 2 mobs on it. I have the Lavishly Jeweled Ring, Cookie’s Stirring Rod, Corsair’s Overshirt, and the Emberstone Staff from Deadmines. That’s all the blue drops from all the bosses in DM. And someone thinks they need to tell me they need healing? Get out of my group. Oh, it’s not my group? C’ya.