Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

I had a bad headache this afternoon and ended up lying down for a while.  I was up so I thought I’d try to do something entertaining.  No raids going on or anything so I ended up continuing my midsummer fun.  I finished collecting all of the northrend flowers(and gold) and that put me over the top!

When we esentially got to double our flowers due to the reset I figured I’d be able to afford both the Captured Flame and the Brazier of Dancing Flames.  I didn’t have any interest in it till I actually looked it up on wowhead and saw how cool it was.  Not only does it look nifty, she responds to your emotes.  I needed another item to keep track of like a hole in the head but she was just too cool to pass up.

Right when I logged in I threw myself in the 25man OS LFG and got an immediate invite for a raid that just wanted one more healer.  Why I don’t know they always take way too many healers to OS.  We tried one drake up and to my disappointment we didn’t get to do it.  One of the guys I knew was in the raid and he was telling me our DPS was just too low.  After we killed Sarth he dropped a staff I had never seen him drop before.  It was the Staff of Restraint, and I was currently using Damnation. Now I haven’t made many big mistakes on loot in my life, but I rolled on the staff because when I hovered over it I read rating buster shows a small loss in HP and crit, but a gain in mana and regen, I read the regen number wrong though.  I thought it said 20, when in fact it was 2 :\  I didn’t notice this till much later in the evening, after I enchanted the thing too.  Funny thing was, under the old regen model it probably would have been that much of a difference.  I was the only roller, but an offspec might have been able to use it.  Just so I feel better I’ll assume no one wanted it I’d say they are pretty close to even, but to be honest the Staff of Restraint looks more priestly, less evil   Oh well you live and learn

After that I did my fire dailies, I almost have enough for the braizer now.  I also watched some horde make a run at our fire.

Then I talked a few guildies in going and doing Ahune.  It was just 3 of us, so we got 4 attempts but no pet of course.  Curse him!

Didn’t do much exciting tonight.  I wanted to do some healing but there was just nothing going on when I got on.  I dunno if people are already in a holding pattern for 3.2 or what?  Maybe it was just an unusually slow night.  I ended up continuing to pursue my gold running around to all the fires for a second time.  I’m just about done with the old world, then I just have to take care of northrend.  I am also hoping to get in a few more Ahune kills but Inien hasn’t been on lately either, and no one is running him anymore.  I think I’ll have enough flowers by the end of all this to get me the fire dancer.  Just another thing to use inventory space but it is pretty cool none the less

I continue to follow the discussions on the healing forum about all the changes in 3.2.  Particularly the Nerf to Penance which really sucks.  I’m not sure if anyone is changing GC mind or not.  A lot of them are playing right into his hands, others have good aruments.  I don’t think it is the right change personally.  I would rather have seen the spell left the way it was, and the glyph changed to something else.  I liked the idea of it giving crit, but GC is saying we are generating too much shielding so they probably wouldn’t want it to do that.

I hope to squeez in some raiding this weekend.  I’d like to run Ulduar if possible.  After I finish up my Midsummer stuff I need to get back to my Argent Tournament stuff.  I’m sitting like one set of quests away from having the gnomes done so I can start working on the next race, probably Dreanei.  I’m still debating on if I should save up the 100 tokens for the squire upgrade, or if I should get my next pet.  It sounds like there will be more opertunity for tokens in 3.2 but I still may way on the pets because the squire thing is too cool

I haven’t had much time to play lately.  I did get on for a bit last night and was farming a bit of gold out of the fire event.  Since they reset the event after I had done nearly all the tributes/desecrations I was able to go back and do them again   Still have quite a bit left to do, but I did redo outlands and about half of Kalimdor.  I need some more gold to make up for my recent pet purchase.  I bought the Emerald whelpling recently, which completes my collection of them.

Speaking of pets I managed to pickup the spirit of the fire pet the other day but never posted it.  Given my level of time lately it is doubtful unless I am really lucky that I will end up with the other event pet   However my collection is still growing strong!  I am up to 77 pets now, hopefully will be getting more of the tournament pets when there is more ways to earn tokens in 3.2.  I’ve purchased one of the horde pets, I’d like to get the Broom next.

Speaking of 3.2 I’ve not logged onto the PTR yet but it looks like it is shaping up to be an interesting patch.  I am excited at the opportunity for new 5 man adventures   The only sucky part of 3.2 is them nerfing Penance.  They are really really trying to force me to respec, but I’m not going to do it!  I just find Disc more interesting, of course they are making it less and less interesting.  I’ll wait and see how things play out I guess.

Oh and since it looks like all my chances to get Blizzcon tickets have failed this year I went for the online streaming option.  I like to make myself feel better by reminding myself all the money I’m saving but watching it in a browser instead of going there

Got on late tonight, but wanted to get some stuff done.  For the dailies that work for me I did them, apparently they haven’t hotfixed the issue if you did something last year you couldn’t do it this year yet.  I expect they will probably be doing the hotfix tomorrow during the regular maintenance time.  I was doing some of the fires south of stormwind when Inien got on.  I needed to kill Ahune and so we decided to do it together.  We went ahead and even did it on heroic because we are that good.

After we finished Ahune we went ahead and finished slave pens because Inien needed that for his BC dungeon achievements.  It happened to be one of the ones I actually had already.  I still need to finish quite a few of them, and pick up some of the enchants I missed along the way   Speaking of which I got Ahunes enchant, yay!  We downed the rest of SP pretty easily.  We do make a good team, most of the time I go fully healing mode, and Inien does all the damage.  I can keep him alive pretty much through anything that doesn’t one shot him   PoM always comes in handy bouncing between us when we are duoing crap like this too.

I managed to almost finish the fires, and hope to complete all the midsummer achievements tomorrow.  Then go around to all the northrend fires and get enough for the pet, gota have the pet!

I logged on a few times through out the day in between things to start working on my midsummer achievements.  Inien was already ahead of me and but I managed to do all of outlands and Kalimdor anyways.  By the end of the evening Inien joined me for making a run at the horde capital city fires.  I didn’t take any screenshots like a goof but it was good fun.  The Bloodelf one was by far the hardest, I had to make several runs to get close enough to get it.

If your looking for info on the even wowhead has a great guide up.  If you are wondering like I was how in the world you juggle 40 torches in 15 seconds this video I found in one of the wowhead comments should clear things up.  It looks like it is easy, and here I thought that was going to be the hard one

I hope to have everything fished tomorrow or the next. I also hope I can get enough flowers to get the pet before the end of the event!