Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

I had the day off today so I started off the morning right by finishing all the questing I needed in Zul’drak.  Well before I went onto raiding the only thing I had left was a Gundrak run.  I enjoyed the remaining quests, and I earned about 400g and tons of enchanting mats too.  Doing the Tiki quests really made me want to buy the Troll Argent Tournament pet, they are so cute

After that questing run I ended up doing a 25 man Naxx.  The funny thing was the raid leader was a guy Inien kept teasing me about who stole my name.  It is a DK named Lanaar   I never said anything to him about it hehe  It started off a bit rough, we wiped to Patchwork whom we started with 3 times before we beat him.  We lost several people in the process.  I never did understand why that happened.

After we beat him we one shot everything else quite easily.  Again I have no idea why we did so badly on patch ;P  We stayed with mostly the same core group loosing a dps here and there along the way.  They had sort of complicated but fair loot rules.  Taking into account Tier pieces, main and off spec rolls, and how many epics you got.  Basically though they said make sure if you are rolling on something you really want it.

So a few upgrades dropped here and there for me, but they were supper minor.  This paid off well for me because something I really did want dropped.  One of my guildies had got it earlier in the week, a staff called Damnation. This is a perfect staff for a Disc priest I think   It is the baby brother to another staff I liked in Ulduar called Rapture   I rolled on the staff, and won based on my luck, but because everyone who rolled against me had already won something I would have got it anyways   I haven’t had a staff since Classic WoW.  All through BC I used Mace/Offhand combo.  It is kind of refreshing to change again.

We continued to do well through the rest of the content and I actually got the few 25 man bosses down that I hadn’t got yet to finish out my 25man Naxx achievements.  So hurray for finishing!!!

After we finished I decided that it is unlikely I’ll get another great weapon for a while so I threw the best Staff Spell Power enchant on my new staff.  It is quite glowy now, in fact it almost hurts to look at lol  I finished off the evening by doing a Heroic Gundrak to finish that last Zul’Drak quest.  So now I can either pick Storm peaks or Icecrown to work on next.

Thanks to those of you who clicked on my mountain dew banner and signed up I appreciate the extra points.  I’m putting them in for the Blizzcon tickets just in case   Also remember by signing up the rumur is you will get this in game pet.

I’m not going to lie I’ve been fairly down lately.  I haven’t been playing much so maybe it is just stress build up.  WoW is really my only release at the moment.  I got on tonight with some reasonable play time available and went off questing but what I really needed to do was heal.

I had put myself in LFG for Heroic Azjol-Nerub because I’m still after the silly wand that drops there. There was like no action in LFG channel so I had little hopes.  I got invited to a group though eventually that was full and ready to go.  Thank god it actually had decent people in it, because though I wanted to heal I didn’t want to repeatedly wipe because people suck.

We tore through Azjol no problem, of course the stupid belt dropped again and we headed out to Utgarde Pinnacle.  That went pretty fast though we did the silly spear farming method, I prefer to just run the gauntlet myself it’s more fun but whatever.  No mount from the guy, never seen that mount it must have a stupid drop rate.

Finally we headed over to Gundrak.  I considered going to bed, but this enhancement shaman really wanted to go and I figured I’d be fast.  It was a quick run too.  The shaman didn’t get what he wanted though.  He was probably the best Enhancement shaman I’ve seen.  I almost thought there was no such thing, he was pushing around 1800 dps and he just turned level 80 so apparently there are a lot of bad shaman around.

We ended up with 10 dream shards, and 2 crystals which wasn’t a bad hall.  I must say I was a bit rejuvenated by the playtime.  I’m glad I found that group and got in some fun stress relieving runs.

We got back from a family outing and my son was down for a nap so I got on to see about finding some elders.  Right when I got on someone was calling for a healer for Heroic Gunrak.  I thought hey that instance only takes like 20 minutes and there is an elder in it!  So I joined this group, as usually I regretted it.  I think only one of them had ever done it   Here is a shot of the guy we wiped on when we attempted the second boss.

We wiped on him several times because people felt the need to stand in the purple goo.  They whined when we went to Eck, but that is where the elder is   It took several times to down him because their DPS was so bad he enraged and insta gibbed us.

When I got on in the evening I ran around and found all my Northrend Elders while I waited for Inien (who is feeling better thankfully) to get done with his Nexus run.  We got together a group for H UP which was the daily.

The tank told me before we invited him he had never done the instance before but he turned out to be really good.  In fact all of them were very good.  I also enjoyed having the boomkin along We downed the stupid guy on the mount really easily.  Man how I waited to kill him on Heroic.  Why do I have such a hard time finding quality people!  I hugged everyone after we killed him lol

The elder was just after the mounted guy and before this guy.  He was of course super simple   I think having Inien along was lucky.  I should make him wait for me and the daily more often!

After that I logged on Laneir and did some inscription work with Inien’s extra herbs   Then I was heading off to bed.  Then Inien apparently gets a tell from the tank we had in H UP wanting to know if he wanted to do Heroic Vault.  Inien tells me and I end up logging back on and joining too but I’m thinking it is only going to be like 20 minutes.  Well it took 20 minutes just to start and we wiped once   So I ended up going to bed later than I wanted.  It was sad too cause the PvE Priest robe dropped but it was the shadow priest version!  There were 2 other Priests besides me but they were both Holy.  I left though didn’t care about it, if only it had crit instead of hit