Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

I heard the invasion started from wowhead on twitter so I got on as soon as I got my son to bed.  There was an insane number of people in the cities, I must have just missed the invasion.  The bosses were down, I didn’t even know about the bosses until just tonight.

Since I missed the invasion I went ahead and did my Argent Tournament dailies and even a ToC for my complete seal run.  I even ran into a few of the elemental invasions while I was out doing the quests.  I dispatched the elementals to do my part!

Today was the big day for my mount.  I finally got another 150 seals and purchased the Silver Covenant Hippogyph!  It is a nice pretty white one

Just after I finished all that the invasion started in IF.  I managed to get over there and help some people and kick a little elemental butt before it was all over with.  It sure didn’t take long for everyone to end this puppy!  It is quite an event and man are there a lot of elemental boddies after it is all over with

I then ran around and did the quests for the 4 bosses.  The bosses were pretty intense to heal actually.  I guess because they actually put out pretty decent loot.  Not that I think I can use anything from them.  I still haven’t looked at the loot tables.  The only thing I could use at this point still is a new neck   The fire boss was the worse because people kept standing in the fire   Will they ever learn?   Where is my life grip when you need it!

Anyways it was a pretty intense night all sorts of cool stuff going on.  The suspense is really building up to Cataclysm.  I heard patch tomorrow so we’ll see how that goes!

Didn’t play as much today as I did on Saturday but I did manage to get on and make a run through my Argent dailies.  I really slept in today and everyone was coming back some time was limited   I came out 4 short of buy the other Argent Hippogryph.  I logged and went to eat some lunch after that.

When I got back on I saw someone shouting for 25man ICC and it was far enough a long that I could join it.  So I got in the group and then went to WPL to farm my Ooze pet some more   They eventually got together and we started. So I FINALLY got exalted with the Ashen Verdict.  As a bonus I picked up a few more achievements while I was there with them.  I finally got to seed Professor Putricide go down which was nice.  As a bonus he dropped a Priest token that I rolled on and won!

My wife and son got home though so I had to cut the raid short.  We were doing ok still but eventually ran into some trouble with the Bloodqueen.  My son wanted to play anyways so I bowed out at that point.  I used my token to buy my Robe upgrade as I left.  I figured it was as good as anything.  Now I need to gem my Robe and my upgraded Ring now too.  Oh well at least I have something to spend the JP on again because I maxed them out again already.

All in all a good evening.

The wife and kid went out of town for the weekend so I got to play as much WoW as I liked.  That I did!    I continued some of the Phase 3 quests I hadn’t finished yet.

All the people standing in front of Stormwind was kind of funny.  I only searched the ladies! >:)

I then joined up with a group doing PvP kill the faction leaders quest.  You don’t seem to be able to do it for the Aliance though because Thrall is gone right now.  When we got to thunderbluff the guy was already dead too   I got two of them out of the way though and it was pretty fun.

I ended up doing some PvP after that in random battle grounds.  I actually had a good time most of the time.  Without PvP gear all it took was a stun and I was dead pretty damn fast but hey I’m wearing a bath robe   I played enough till I had enough honor to pickup another one of the faction mounts.  I didn’t remember about this and Inien reminded me.  I had enough to buy two almost 3.

Inien got on and then we ended up doing ZG for mounts.  Then his buddy from work got on and we just did all of ZG for his benefit

It isn’t too hard and didn’t take that long.  We broke for lunch and when we came back we got in an ICC run.  It took a while to get started because it was suppose to be fresh but some how they got it stuck with 7 bosses down.  After finally reforming we were good to go.  The leader knew absolutely nothing, so another guy took over.  Of course everyone left after doing the first 4 easy bosses and I was left 168 freaking rep from exalted.  Sigh….  After the ICC we took care of all our Argent dailies and doing a ToC run real fast for seals.  Still mounts to get after all   We broke for dinner after that.

After coming back we decided to do ZA again, Inien still had the quest he wanted to finish.  On our way over we did a quick UGP for the mount Inien never gets, then off to ZA. We had a lot harder time completing it this time.  I think by this time we were completely worn out.  WoW is like anything else, you are nearly as good when you are rested   After struggling with the Lynx boss we decided to head to bed.  Always another day after all!

Was a very enjoyable day in WoW though I must say   That is why I’m posing this at noon the next day lol

This week has been crazy for me!  I’ve been going into work early(even for me!) doing some upgrades to prepare for a big upgrade next week.  So even though I was stressed and could really use some WoW time I was too tired usually to play   I got on tonight though and played a little, talked to Inien on skype.

I did my random first thing, Inien had just finished so I went alone and ended up in someones already started UP.  It is interesting how you get dropped right on the group now, I don’t know when they changed that but it is convenient.  I’m going to guess the other healer left because they couldn’t deal with healing the tank.  At first glance I couldn’t tell who was the tank by HP because we all had about the same amount.    It turned out a really poorly geared Feral DPS Druid was tanking in a Cat spec, and Cat gear

This of course made things interesting to heal but I didn’t have a problem keeping him alive, I am after all awesome   The Shaman in the group was asking me if it was hard to heal him, and I just said it was “interesting”.   The Shaman seemed impressed with my healing ability and kept asking questions about my spec and gear.  We made it through the instance though, no one died and I got that out of the way.

I then went to my Argent Tournament dailies which I’ve started doing again.  Inien was doing them too and we did some of them together.  I was able to get enough seals tonight to get my 25 Talbard and get that achievement!  I found out after I did that one of the guildies has been trying to catch up to my achievement score, I have the second best in my guild and the only reason I’m behind is because I don’t raid as much   So now I’ve got to step it up to hold my 2nd place   Going to have to try and knock out some of the easy ones I still have in general and maybe PvP and Fishing.

Ok,  now onto my big worries.  Inien kept reminding me nothing is close to being done, and I realize that but I see too much thought behind the new Disc tree to not be worried.  It looks to me at first glance they have refocused the tree back towards PvP again!  You can see the talent preview over at MMO-Champion.

I’m talking of course of Atonement, Penitence, Evangelism, and Arcangel.  They are great names, and even cool talents they allow you to do some damage and be healing as well. It is unclear to me if this is thought it will work in PvE or not?  It could be interesting but I don’t think they have ever mixed those two things for PvE before.  Atonement could be interesting letting you heal the tank and melee dps with some of your damage.  The more I thought about it after talking to Inien the more I began to see it as modeled after the damaging healers in some of the MMOs that have come out recently.

So basically now I’m more fascinated than stressed out about it and wish I had a beta invite to try it   With the changes to Disc and Holy, it is possible to get all the new Damage talents in Holy and Disc, all the way to the increased range.  So now I’m thinking you could go with a Disc build that looks like this and it might be an interesting PvE build where you would be tossing out damage and heal/shields.

BETA, where art thou!

I’ve been working 12 hour days lately on a big project at work, and time and energy for WoW just hasn’t been there   So sad too with so many interesting things going on in the community right now.  I did do a 10 hour day today, downed a Monster and went home with the hopes I could play tonight.

I got on and noticed that the Heroic Daily was ToC.  So I decided to grab that and go out there and do the dailies and try for a group.  I got a group in a short time and got started.  We lost one of our DPS then gained a tank, so our DK that was going to tank went DPS and he was happy   The new tank was saying he just ran from a group that had a healer in all blues, must have died a lot.  Of course he really shouldn’t have talked he was quite terrible.  I had both DK’s standing in the damn poison, and the Tank had 5 stacks of the crap on him the whole time, and the DPS one had it on him the whole time too.  To top it off it took them forever to kill the 3 and they left the rogue up the whole time   I barely made it through that one.  During the run I got a tell from thewaterboy from Texas Mercenaries to see if I wanted to raid with them.  I thought i got on too late so I figured I missed out.  They still hadn’t got another healer so they waited for me to finish and off we went.

We were too healing it this time, just me and Redfive.  Redfive is an exceptional pally healer.  He is a bit better geared than I am but if you county my mitigation with my healing I keep up I think.  Of course I hadn’t two healed this instance before, and I hadn’t played in like 2 weeks so I was a little rusty.  We got through the bosses no problem though.  On the twins I got a little flustered and lost my tank, but it was the very end, so we powered through and got them both down before anything bad happened.

The last fight was by far the hardest one to two heal.  Especially phase 3 was totally brutal!  What I found when two healing this dungeon was I actually ran out of mana.  So I think I still need to get a little more geared before I can do this truly well.  We lost two people at the end but that wasn’t too bad.   The amazing part was more that we cleared the whole thing in 1 hour

We tried hard mode after, at first just to mess around.  We actually were making progress through so we stuck to it for a little bit.  We were able to get the first beast down in time before the worms came out once, but sorta lost it after that.  We still don’t have enough DPS, and one of the tanks wasn’t geared enough yet.  It is a fun challenge though, I like trying to do the hardmodes

I gave up though shortly before midnight they were going to go do Ulduar but I had already been up since 3:30 and was exhausted so I had to go to bed.  I had a fun time though finally getting to play!

I had an evening of Dragon Slaying today.  The Heroic Daily today was the Nexus so I started off with that.  Nice easy one to do, and we did a speed run which is fun.  Had a good DK tank and told him to sprint   This I did earlier in the day when when my son was napping.

When I got back on in the evening I was bound and determined to do Onyxia.  So I started doing some Argent tournament dailies while I waited.  I eventually got into a 25 man Onyxia group and was summoned over.  They had already been wiping so I was scared.  It turned out they were all quite terrible and we eventually gave up.  While I was standing there still I saw another person was starting a Onyxia 25 and joined up.  I mentioned it to Randorf and he joined and I saw Kymer did too.

Eventually we started, it took a bit to fill the group and we were successful.  I apparently didn’t take any screenshots last night.   We wiped once I think on the 25 man.  I decided to try for a 10 man so I went back to questing.  This time I went for some old world quests and while I was doing that I eventually got into a Onyxia 10 man group.  That was a little rough to start then it went well too.  In that fight the DPS Priest had dropped, the Coronet of Transcendence. If only it had been the healing one!  They gave it to me anyways since I was the only Priest.  I’m not sure if I’ll gem it for my DPS set or not.

It comes to the real problem with the hat I’m trying to buy.  I think I like the Helm of Clouded Sight best it is a lot of badges.  Though the Circlet of Transcendence and Halo of Transcendence are both good hats. Though I was lucky on teh Coronet, I highly doubt I will be as lucky for something I actually want.  So I think I’m going to spend the 75 badges for the Helm of Clouded Sight and just not worry about it.  The stat distribution on it is more to my liking anyways.

All in all though it was a good day.  If I get the chance tomorrow to do the heroic daily, then maybe get in some VoA action I could have my new hat

I got on a bit later after getting all those nifty Achievements, and did some Argent Tournament Dailies.  My gold supplies haven’t been increasing lately, and there is still a pet to be had   While I was out on the island doing some quests I notice they added a new quest with some new object in the cave where the oracle guy is summoned.  It looks like it is informing us about some sort of attack by these guys so this may have something to do with 3.3.  Interesting anyways, I still haven’t done the other quest they added to Dalaran to begin the lore for Night Elf Mages in Cataclysm.

Shortly after finishing my dailies I joined up with the Texas Mercenaries for my Friday raiding fun.  We did really good this week in ToC10 completing the entire instance again.  I picked up the Binding Light trinket while I was in there.  I didn’t remember seeing that one when I was looking at the drops.  I rolled on it because it didn’t seem like anyone wanted it, the other Priest that came with us did roll too.  I wish I had let him have it because I miss read the tool tip, it wasn’t much different than the energy siphon I was using, some argue it is worse even   A nifty belt dropped off the last guy too, and I felt compelled not to roll to because I had one won the trinket, though the belt wasn’t a huge upgrade either.  I’m still debating on getting the Triumph ring or waiting to get the helmet, decisions!

I got on and did my Brewfest dailies, completely exhausted again (yay for 12h days + family outing + trash day). After completed the defend Brewfest, Brew barking, and Beer runs I was a mere 4 short of doing the rest of the achievements.  Inien however managed to have enough (grats!) and got his done.  Unfortunately though he missed a few achievements during the year that prevented him from getting his Violet Proto-Drake at this point

Tomorrow will be the day though, I should be flying on a 315% mount! Woot!  I had looked him up on wowhead yesterday, he is actualy pretty cool looking.  I won’t mind I guess him being probably the only flying mount I’ll ever use again LOL  It is kind of nifty too because proto-drakes are not terribly common because the only way you can get one is by luck or hardcore raider   Also to have a 315% mount is pretty uncommon too, so this will be neat.  Anyone who says that this was catering to casuals needs to be smacked too because being dedicated enough to get in and do all these achievements in some times a very short period of time was not easy, and it takes a year   I’m not sure people feel that way anymore though because I don’t see it so much now, but you used to see that a lot when they first did that achievement.

Before bed I went and did some argent dailies so I could get a new pet.  I happened to get that one daily that was always broken for me before.  Well they fixed it finally in the last patch I guess   Well sort of I should say.  I managed to actually summon the guy, but in the middle of fighting him and phased out and was still hitting me but I couldn’t see him.  I kept running around in the area and then some how got phased back in and was able to fight and kill him for the first time, yay!

After I completed enough dailies I grabbed my NE pet   He is such a cute little tree.  His idle animation is sleeping but for some reason in this screenshot I caught him with out the Z’s over his head.  So instead of sleeping he just looks sad.  Don’t worry he is just super tired like me!  So now the only Argent Tournament pets I need to get is the Dreanei and Tauren.  I saw someone put like 7 of the Tauren pets on the AH for 1800, was going to wait and see if he lowers the price at all.  The one guy who keeps trying to sell the one for 2k is either successful every 2 days or is not selling it.  I know I am not paying that much for one so I have been waiting for a slightly lower price.  I have been paying 1500 gold for the horde ones.

Well tomorrow is another day, hoping for some raiding with the Texas Mercenaries again.  This time I plan to not pass out hopefully!

I got on too late for much again but did get a chance to do much, I quickly did the fishing daily.  No pet though just the antique silver bracer, a little money anyways

After that I went looking for ToC because I grabbed the daily yesterday before I left.  A tank teamed up with me and that went well we finished with no deaths.  Before the summoned me over though I stopped to look at the pets in the AH.  I was very tempted to drop 2k on the tauren tournament pet but decided to wait for it to be lower.  I got my sheep today but I forgot to take a screenshot of it too.

After that I did a big round of dailies before decided I should go to bed.  Looking forward to hopefully raiding Tournament of the Crusader tomorrow with the Texas Mercenaries.  We managed to beat it last time so it will be cool if we can get through all 5 bosses again.  I would also request the first boss drop me a new wand, thank you very much!

BTW my screenshot should have been cooler, she didn’t agro and I was pelting her with my Elune candle (yes I still have one) and I thought I got a screenshot of that and not her just standing their

I started off the day by going back to outlands to do the fishing daily.  This story ends great with me getting one of the pets Toothy, finally after so many attempts over the years   What ended up happening was the daily was the croc in stormwind, so I go there.

While I’m fishing I notice a quest in my on my low level radar.  I talk to the guy he says he dropped his work he was suppose to turn into nethergarde in the swamp when a plant attacked him.  So I go to the swamp and start killing some of the moss guys.  It seems like it is taking too long so I consult lightheaded(wowhead in game) to make sure I’m not going after the wrong thing.  I was right but they say the droprate is horrible.  I stick with it though and eventually get it.

While I was heading over to the portal to back to outlands I run into a guy who wants me to kill stuff.  I go ahead and start doing that.  Then I run into that new Dreanei camp they put in and it has a bunch of quests so I finish the killing one that sends me on another one that was conveniently near the others I just got.  To make a long story a little shorter I ended up doing every quest I hadn’t done in the swamp.

Inien and I tried very hard and failed to get a Heroic ToC going so we decided to mess around.  I wanted to see if I could get the 48 Brood rep I need to get exalted.  So we tried out AQ20 which went fight until the first boss.  Between the weird pulling thing he does, and the silences from the sand we just couldn’t kill him.  Mostly because of his healing debuff.  We wondered if AQ40 mobs would give me rep, nope so we were going to try the first boss.  Then we got reminded these guys come in 4s and while we did the first pack, the one before the boss was too hard to even get to try him   So that was out, have to come back with just one other person and we’d be fine.

Before a very early log thanks to an event at work I did manage to do both dailies in guild.  Some guild tanks finally got on yay!  I swear I have no idea where all the tanks were yesterday but they were certainly hiding.

I had a fun day anyways and got a lot of oldworld quests done and a new pet!!!