Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

Did some AH stuff and then got on Cosain for a bit more questing.  It isn’t hard to level when you are low especially in my gear   I am now level 12 now through no fault of my own really!  I’ve been enjoying the revamped quests in Dun Morogh.  So far I think everyone has been changed, a few vaguely the same modified to fit the story of the zone.  The music is all changed it seems, more somber with a hint of the original scores   All awesome of course!  I hate when people say, “wait you listen to WoW when you play”, because WoW is both playing the most appropriate music and sounds for what you are doing

Those pesky trolls are up to no good that is for sure and I do so enjoy cracking some good ol’ troll skulls   Every the protector I was saving everyone I could.  I’ve rescued quite a few newbie as I’ve been running around as well.  I am now spec’d into Protection to boot!  I should be able to modify the site soon as Cosain should be in the armor now.

Of course the Gnomes invented yet another way to throw us large distances that doesn’t hurt…Much

And finally I ran into my first rare!  Bjarn was quite mean actually, but gave up a REALLY nice pare of pants for me!  After that I decided it was almost time for bed so I just did a bit of exploring to open up the map in a couple of places, mainly around Gnomeregan and to mine a bit too   I also put up a few JC items on the AH to make me some dough!

Ok so I finally remembered to request the race change BEFORE I got on today.  Apparently you can’t have been logged in for 20 minutes before a race change.  I wanted to change Seun to a Dwarf!  Woot!  Dwarf Mage, oh ya!  Yes I like Dwarves   I went for an old Dwarf Look for this guy, he has been studying the arcane arts for many years!

I volunteered to clean out the Guild bank for Cataclysm.  We have a lot of crap in there and I figured we were going to need room for all the new crap   PLUS I was plan on making a generous donation of bags for all the coming alts   Today I made good on that promise with the delivery of 44 Frostweave bags!  Worth about 4K on the open market I might add   I have been saving up frostweave for some time though so it really only cost me $300 gold in thread to make it all

The Guild bank had about enough cloth to add 12 or so more to that so I’ll be putting those in tomorrow as I clean out more stuff.  I can see why poor Tue hasn’t had time to do this, Auctioning stuff is very time consuming.  I found the Auctioneer addon which has made it a bit easier thank goodness.  Also helped me out on Seun as I try to make a few gold selling Glyphs to the public.  Of course they are free to any guildie

Anyways I didn’t really do anything but work on the auction house this evening and farm a bit of herbs to sell some Mage Armor glyphs on Seun   Glad to have another Dwarf in the my family!

I spent a little time again yesterday playing with my alt.  Trying not to do a lot of serious questing so I don’t get too ahead of Inien when he makes his worgen, but I figure I have to get to where he will be when he pops out of the starting area   So far the questing has been great.  Awesome stories going on with the whole cataclysm so far.  Almost every quest in the starting area was different.  Well they were all different but only one was really close, picking up the gnomes tools   Of course this time he dropped them because of the earthquake while he was on his way to the newly liberated gnomeregan.    There was a cave in and the only way out of the area was by plane, how cool is that

After I got to Kharanos I got reminded about Pilgrim’s bounty.  So I decided to see how many of these I could get done this year.  Without portals or Inien around it was a little harder but I made good use of the time moving between cities by site seeing, fishing and training trade skills   It is silly how much cooking skill the holiday gives you, I feel really guilty! I got really close to the Turkyinator achievement but being level 7 the mobs slowed me down too much too often

Enjoying Cosain so far, of course he is outfit with the finest heirlooms, pets and gold   I keep leveling even though I’m not trying though just because of running into things and the PB quests hehe  Going to have to make talent decisions soon, I’m level 8 now, and man did that come easy.  Of course my heirlooms helped   I intend to duel spec him when I can and learn to tank.  After all Cosain means “To Protect” in Gaelic!

Well the world was shattered today, and what a shattering it was!  I spent some time running around a good part of the eastern kingdom and saw so many changes.  First off everything just looks more amazing.  You can definitely see the texture work done here.  It seems to have been done game wide because even Dalaran was looking more spiffy.  There were the obvious changes like the Loch Modan damn has broken and all the water leaked down into the wetlands.

While walking around you notice there are tons more flight paths which should make things nice for the newbies as we start all creating alts I noticed tons of quest hubs everywhere and quests all over.  I heard many people talking about the very detailed stories being told in each zone.  The leveling experience is definitely nice it seems.

After running around some of my old haunts I decided yes I wanted to go with a Dwarf Warrior not a Worgen.  Not to mention I’ll have Cataclysm a little late so this gives me something to do still   So I created him as you see here.  He is the great Cosain, the mighty Dwarf Warrior and Protector!  He of course benefits greatly from his much older and friendly rich Uncle Dwarf Laneer.  So he was outfitted with the finest weapons and armor, bags and of course some gold to help him on his way   There is something very satisfying about laying this big ass axe into a trogg

So he is on his way now, already has two achievements, for getting over 15 pets already of course   Tomorrow is another day!

I started the day off right with a PUG run on Ruby Sanctum!  It was a pretty interesting fight and took us only 1 try to complete.  They had already done the mini bosses but those are a non-event I guess anyways.  Was glad to see that once though at least.

I followed that up with my first complete run of Black Temple.  It was pretty fun actually and that place is massive.  That must have been quite the raid in its day.  I managed to get some good rep in too!  The Illidan fight was neat, especially nice to hear him tell us we were not prepared.

The rest of the day I mess around doing various things and getting on my mage a few times.  To finish off the evening Inien and I ran some pvp randoms for some honor.  We have mounts to get still after all!  I had a good time but couldn’t settle on a pvp spec, I was just messing around and ended up trying shadow in the end.  I haven’t messed with Shadow much in 4.x.

I teamed up with the Texas Mercenaries again tonight for another round with the Lich King.  We were so close last week when they invited me I was excited when I was asked to come again.  As usual I love raiding with them and we managed to pull it off tonight.  Our defeat of the Lich King followed a FLAWLESS attempt.  No one died, everyone did exactly what they were suppose to and brought him some major pain. I was even the first person to be pulled into the sword, I wish I had a screenshot of that!  I was too busy trying to make sure I did everything right

I of course put aside my pride again for this run and spammed the HELL out of Power Word: Shield.  I had read that Disc Priests are very effective against the Lich King.  I typically won’t just spam one spell even if the masses tell me that is the most effective because it isn’t the most fun   But for the sake of getting the Lich King down I made an exception   I don’t think I would have been able to keep up with the shield spamming though after the 4.x changes without my Archangel.  I was able to use that to recover mana each time the Valkyrie would come I’d assist, then pop archangel, BAM I got 5K mana and 15% more healing.  Plus atonement is healing the whole time anyways.  Atonement was severing me well with the ICC buff smite hits pretty hard

I found the cut scene which I had watched before from the fountain, so much more satisfying coming after the fight.  I also found it very satisfying to kill the end boss of the expansion, DURING the expansion.  Though this of course is at the very end of things but still an accomplishment none the less.  I believe most people are trolling when they say he is easy.  It takes 10 people in perfect unison to get him down.  Perhaps in 25 man it is easier?  It has always seemed to me in 25 man you can stand to loose a few people but in 10 man unless you outclass the content you need all 10 people.

Other than that most exciting moment, today I spent most of the time playing my Mage Seun.  The one that was named Laneir I renamed recently.  I plan to race change him to a Dwarf when the expansion hits   I was just running around doing the cataclysm quests for gold and fun plus queuing for dungeon runs.  I also managed to do all the event bosses but I haven’t got any gear from it yet.  Maybe tomorrow?

I also hope to make some attempts at some Ulduar or BT this weekend, Still have achievements to get there!  This was a completely awesome ending to the day though.  I thank the Texas Mercenaries for inviting me.  I really enjoy raiding with them!

I did some more runs of the bosses to help out Inien tonight.  Before we did it though I decided I had to help out with Stormwind because I hadn’t saved it yet.  Since IF is bugged it is over pretty fast, but Stormwind actually takes work to save

One thing I noticed while I was defending was Atonement which specifically says group or raid member was jumping to anyone regardless.  Only Inien and I were grouped but it was healing the stormwind guards and anyone else.

I had a pretty good time defending stormwind.  I just kept alternating between smiting and holy nova depending on my mood   All in all not a bad night!  Got Inien the gear he was after anyways!

So today I got on with a mission, get my new neck!  Of course I had to wait for the invasion to come so I went around and did some dailies and such.  I made a stop over at the to grab an egg for that green protodrake I never got.  I got dismounted flying over dalaran a little too low and snapped a nice picture of the crystal forest and I floated to safety

About the time I finished all my tasks, including running a quick ToC the invasion happened!  Inien was on and tried to find his rifts, and after it was over I went ahead and invited him and we went to run Grand Ambassador Flamelash.  I kept doing him the whole time it was open and the Pendant of Burning Spirits dropped 3 times.  The first time I thought, wow finally I got it.  Then the boomkin DPS rolled need on it and ninja’d it from me!  I wasn’t expecting him to roll on it so I was quite annoyed.  After all it is a healer item and if the guy doing that role rolls need on it, you are suppose to yield to him/her.

So the next time the pendant dropped was when I was with another Mage and Warlock besides Inien.  Both of them stood in the fire and died at the beginning.  I cannot save someone who stands in the fire… So basically it was the tank, Inien and I doing the whole run.  Then after the pendant popped up I was like “yes!” then the stupid Mage and Warlock both rolled need on it!  Inien rolled need on it too this time to try and win it for me.  But the stupid Mage won it instead.

The last time it dropped, again we had a boomkin in our group and Inien and I were joking about him rolling on it.   Sure enough it dropped and he rolled need on it, after I clearly tried to claim it! No one has any respect anymore I guess   Inien rolled need as well again this time and he managed to get it and gave it to me yay!  So tomorrow we are going to farm the wind guy and try for the DPS neck for Inien.  Guess we’ll use the double role method there too, turn about is fair play!

I heard speculation the world is going to be shattered on WoW’s anniversary, I do hope they do that!  It seems like a very fitting day to bring about a change of this magnitude.  It is all very exciting.  I heard they shattered the PTR but I didn’t have the client installed anymore.  Plus I think at this point since I was never in beta even, waiting till live is prudent

So this is what happens when you have a lot of people in WoW waiting on something   I got on close to the time of the next IF invasion.  I wanted to try and farm the fire boss Grand Ambassador Flamelash because I found out he had a neck upgrade Pendant of Burning Spirits for me

I took part in the invasion which doesn’t last very long with that many people in IF   The elementals are out maned and out gunned.

Did the fire boss a bunch with Inien.  Did the earth boss a few times with a group to be fair as well.  Continued to do it till we ran out of time.  My neck dropped once and it got swiped from me by a DPS! I was so annoyed!  Oh well hopefully I can get it tomorrow or something   The fire boss happens to be the more annoying boss to do of course.  That had to be the boss more likely to drop my neck lol

Had a almost as fun time waiting with people in IF and I did doing anything else tonight.  We even did a mammoth parade around the bank area

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!