After a brief sojourn playing my squishy priest, I decided to finish levelling my death knight – trying to get as many instance groups as I could rather than slog through more questing.  I think I had worn myself out a little bit going so fast through the 60’s and low 70’s that I needed a break from the class to refresh me and remind me why it is so enjoyable to play!

To that end, my third character hit 80 this evening – completing my trinity of Heals, Tanks and DPS!

I dinged handing in a quest from a Gun’Drak run  I’d just done – unfortunately because it was so random and I hadn’t entirely been paying attention to my XP bar I completely missed getting a screenshot. /sadface

I’m starting to see more dual-weilding death knights these days – until the last few weeks most of the DK’s I’d run across hd been using the biggest phallic symbol they could get their hands on, but it seems more are converting to the idea of the faster-paced dual-weild specs.  I could just be noticing them more, though!

Not more than an hour or so after dinging I was in Vault of Archavon.  I’d gone off to have dinner, came back and jumped right in when a guildie mentioned it.  Here I was scuttling along in half greens, no food buff and feeling incredibly guilty – even more so aterwards when I also realised I hadn’t even trained my level 80 skills! Still, although I was low on the meter I was still pulling over 2k dps and we managed to 22 man the boss well outside of his enrage.

I know I’ve been terribly slacking on the posts at the moment – but I’m not one to constantly repost patch notes  just to have something up here.  I am working on a post about professions which might get up sometime soon but more regular posting might not resume until I am doing something more interesting in game!  That being said, I’m having a wonderful time outside the game at he moment, too, which probably doesn’t help either! *ahem*

/hugs

This week, when I have been bothered to play, (which isn’t much) I have been playing on my baby priest – Ahnara.  She’s spent six levels grinding red dragon whelps, with very little questing (around 3 quests which happen to be on my way to-and-from the whelp spot).  I have found my tolerance for grinding levels has grown and, even though I very quickly run out of rest xp, the extra 10% of rep from killing critters from my spiffy heirloom shoulders makes for rather reasonable xp per mob.  No luck with getting a whelpling yet, but the mobs are still green for another level so here’s hoping…

On hitting 30 I, of course, went to pick up my new mount – it’s so nice to be able to run the length of Wetlands that little bit faster – going between Menethil and the whelp grinding spot was the only tedious part of grinding there!  A lovely black stallion to go with with my Haliscan set (which I’ve thankfully not gotten sick of looking at yet).

I am enjoying the priest ‘experiment’ – as I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve never really been a cloth-caster player but playing my shaman as elemental has been a nice bridge to that – I’ve learned how to play ranged caster without being stomped into the ground all of the time.  Also, priests are hardier than I could have hoped – with shield, renew, piles of dots and the odd holy nova I have taken down about 5 same-level mobs.  I do have the advantage of extra hp through my twinky enchants, though (around 26 extra stamina overall at the moment) but I still feel more comfortable playing my priest than I had imagined I would.

Still, I’ve not hit the dreaded mid-30’s Stranglethorne borefest yet, so we’ll see how long I last! hehe.

Tonight was a pleasure – a nice calm raid full of people ready to get out there,  do their thing and slaughter Sartharion and all of his cronies.  We weren’t sure at first if we were going to do three drakes tonight, but we had the right group with the right mood so we decided to give it a shot.  From the outset it looked good – the usual ‘warm up’ problems occurred, with people taking voids and flame waves who never usually do and then things started to gel.

Most of our issues were not real issues, even – just a matter of the tanks and healers settling into the ‘feel’ of the encounter – it actually felt a lot simpler than the transition from one to two drakes had been.  It was also nice to have that really cheerful ‘we got it!’ feel to the raid which has not been there for a while.  I had, honestly, expected to take more than a few hours to get this down – several nights of attemptes at least…

So, a big thanks and congrats to all Lightwalkers for their efforts tonight!

Gleeful doesn’t describe it, quite.  Big props to Myze’s guide without which I wouldn’t have even thought to try soloing him!