Aside from the rampant pet collecting suggested by my last post, I’ve been storming through a number of other achievements…

Argent Tournament

First and foremost I’ve been keeping up with my Argent Crusade dailies – though after I had gotten all of the pets I wanted I gave myself a break and stopped doing it on three characters at once.  So, when I did my dailies for today I grabbed five achievements at once:

Champion of Gnomeregan > Exalted Champion of Gnomeregan

Champion of the Alliance > Exalted Champion of the Alliance > Exalted Argent Champion of the Alliance

As much as I do enjoy the dings and titles brought by these dailies I can’t help feel that it’s a little ‘too much for too little’.  I guess that, though, might be because I was already exalted with all of the alliance factions and the argent crusade – if you factor in all of those, the time taken is a lot more.  Still – 6 titles in the space of a few weeks is a pretty big haul!

Now that Avarix has what he wanted (I’m not really that interested in the current mounts – I love my Kodo on Avarix and my Raven mount on Jhai) I am gong to go back and get Jhai the [Silvery Sylvan Stave] and Yjin the [Claymore of the Prophet].  I may also pick up the [Dagger of Lunar Purity] for Jhai but, with the offhands available to me it’s abit of a sidegrade to my [Sulfur Stave], despite that being a dps weapon… /sadface

I keep meaning to do a small video tutorial with various ways to do the jousting since some people seem to still be having trouble doing it – I use several methods based on what I’m fighting and which computer I’m on (the laptop is a lot slower).  Gotta get off my lazy rear and add those before people stop doing it altogether!  I’m also considering a small grid tutorial specifically aimed at shamaning after helping the guild’s other (awesome) resto shaman set it up and failing miserably at explaining in text.

Shamaning

On that note, I’m really glad to finally have another shaman in the guild to talk to.  Whilst I am always wary of new healers (it’s hard to judge if they’re ‘doing it right’ compared to other  roles),  I am very glad to have Sci as my co-shammy healer. He and I have slightly different play-styles and having another resto shammy around means I can be free to tank-heal a bit more!

I think I may do another look into LHW / HW / CH like I did just post 3.0 – I feel that, even in 25 man, LHW and HW are taking a much larger part of my healing quotient and are, in fact, the better way to heal some encounters.  Riptide glyphed and with 2-pc T8 bonus is wonderful, by the way, I’ve become a big fan of the spell and keeping this up on multiple people is really nice in 25 and wonderful in 10-man.  Shamans are not hot healers, I know, but I can’t help but enjoy keeping people topped off or instantly bringing them back from the edge of disaster – though it doesn’t half eat through your mana.  I would like to be able to use the bonus on Hodir but 4pc-t7 boosted Chain Heals are just too nice!

Speaking of 2-pc – I was lucky enough to grab the legs and shoulders (t8 and 8.5 respectively) these last few weeks and have been playing about with them in my tank-healing set.  Whilst pootering about in Dalaran, though, I was amused to note that both my new shoulders and my new weapon were bigger than a gnome is wide – wonderfully modelled here by Grav!

Other Rep

The day before, too, I spammed guild chat with another few milestones hit at once, though these I had not even realised were so close:

The Kirin Tor > Northrend Vanguard / 25 Exalted Reputations

I’m now also working on Ogri’la and Netherwing Rep (hence the orcish nature of the last post!) and, to be honest, I’m really enjoying the old Burning Crusade landscapes – I guess when you don’t have to play it all the time you can look back with rose-tinted glasses.  It’s been fun cruising around Netherwing Ledge looking for eggs and abusing Far Sight to check the mines, and after three days I’m now almost 6k into revered – it’s a lot easier to level when there’s, at most, 3 people grinding the rep /eggs and usually only me by my lonesome!

Priest-let

With her current gear I like to think of my priest as some sort of holy-ninja-priest.  White face mask r cool, k?

I’m now at over 13 levels of grinding whelps and no luck with drops (I’ve had a world-drop epic, but no pet) – I’m working on the dark whelp at the moment – killing circuits of them in Badlands. I figure I can stay there for another few levels before they become so little xp it’s not worth it.  After that it’s ooze time…

I am enjoying my wee priest, though it’s very different to any of the classes I normally play – dotting things up and being generally a little more mobile whilst casting that my druid or shaman ever felt.  I am now considering a second spec, though.  Personally, I’ve always loved the idea of discipline but I intend to try and get as many instances as I can on my way through Outlands / Northrend and was wondering if it would be more worthwhile for me to be holy for those – if it would be a bit easier to ‘learn’ priest healing as holy then switch to disc or whether disc is good enough to do with not-so-great levelling gear and as a newbie priest?  Any help and hints here are appreciated.

Druid

When I’ve had a spare moment from the above I was slotting in runs of UBRS.  Why there?  Well, I wanted to grab myself an [Ace of Beasts] so I could make a [Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon] for Jhai.  She had two pretty poor trinkets (a green borean tundra one and one of the brewfest ones, if I remember right) and had some trouble with regen in harder instances.  One of the guild’s resto druids, Qain,  had mentioned how nice this trinket could be so I figured that I’d collect my cards.

Despite quite a few runs, I had no luck getting the Ace.  However, Indigo came to the rescue and used a few mats she had to create [Darkmoon Cards] with inscription and lo and behold… an Ace!  So a big thanks to Indi for getting me my first darkmoon trinket!

On that note – I have finally tweaked my druid’s grid to be actually useful for her – with timed hots á la Keeva.  For some reasons poisons and curses aren’t showing, though, and I can’t get wild growth to go where I want it, so further poking of grid is required.  I may post at some point of the length I go to to abuse grid. /grin The new setup is also helping with regen – I’m not clipping my hots as much as I was and tracking lifebloom is so much easier when you can see stacks and time.  I, personally, love the lifebloom changes as they suit what I like abusing lifebloom for – a short, sharp heal which is slightly time delayed – there are so many times where that can come in handy if you’re used to pre-emptive cast healing.

Raiding

Lightwalkers has been progressing through the content at what I think of as a ‘decent’ pace for us – we’re having major trouble with Bloodhoof’s ‘Thursday Fail’ – wherein the server always seems to lag, dc people, fall over, stutter and all of those lovely things even more than usual.  I am sure we’d have gotten further, too, if it wasn’t for Kologarn’s pissing annoying habit of continuing to ‘Grip’ people after they’ve been freed.  Buggy encounters are pure joy…

Still, we’re up to Mimiron on ten, now and have Thorim and Mimiron left on 25 out of the watchers – we haven’t tried Thorim yet due to time constraints imposed by said buggy Kologarn but I don’t think it’ll take us long to down him on 25 given our practice on tens (which has really helped for all boss kills, in my opinion).  We’ve also now completed FL +2 on 10, which was amazingly fun, if a little frustrating at times.

One boss we were having issues on where we should not have is Freya – wtb people who understand STOP DPS, pst. *ahem* It only takes one nuke happy dps to screw that encounter up,  annoyingly, much to the chagrin of the other 24 people.  We got her down eventually, though, and I don’t really consider her a ‘hard’ fight – though it is interesting and I imagine the reason she’s so ‘easy’ is because she scales up so much with the addition of her adds – much like Sartharion +0 is extremely easy for his ‘position’ in the tier hierarchy.

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