Adventures of a Dwarf Priest

My wife and son went out of town today so I came home from the airport with a good half a day on my hands.  I took some time off work to go with my free time so I will be getting a lot done around the house, and some fun in WoW   Also part of my goal this week through the weekend is to avoid all news, so much bad news I need a break!

When I got home I got on and was doing some questing while LFG for HoL.  I had both dailies and it turned out to be the heroic daily again anyways.  I got a good group and we did it really fast, probably as fast as I’ve ever done it.  No wipes, the hunter did die from the exploding rocks, not much I could do he didn’t get out of the way fast enough lol

After that we all hearthed but no one dropped group.  I was like man that went so well and so fast we should have done HoS.  So everyone agreed and we went back and did that one as well.  No one died, no wipe!  During that fight I asked if anyone wanted to do anything else after as again it went fast.  The tank wanted to do Old Kingdoms so we went off and did that one.   The warlock with us had to go though so we needed a new DPS.  The warlock was a great guy, but not that great of DPS, though I haven’t seen one in WOTLK yet, I think they broke warlocks.  So the tank grabs a ret pally.  Sure enough he probably found the most annoying, bad ret pally ever   The silly ret pally spoiled my good no deaths records by constantly getting himself killed.

After that we decided since we were there we might as well do AN as well.   I encouraged the tank to accidentally replace the ret pally but he didn’t want to be mean.We had our first wipe on the the first boss (no one unwebed me).  We had our second wipe on the last boss, the pally and DPS Warrior (who was very good) both died to Pound.  Since the DPS warrior was most of our DPS we lost in the end.  We got him the next time around though.  It was a good 4 instance run though.  What was worse in the end was the ret pally said he was adding all of us to his friends list!  I totally teased the tank for exposing us to him

After I finished that I went to eat dinner and came back to finish the last of my quests in Grizzly hills.  I really enjoyed all the quests relating to the Dwarves.  It prepares you to hate loken and such as well seen here talking crap.

I tried to get a few more instances to finish off argent crusade rep.  I managed to get a Violet Hold group and that was well and fast.  We were going to do something else after but the tank backed out at the last second and we broke up for the evening.

So to finish off my Argent Crusade I went ahead and did some questing in Zul’Drak.  I finished off the quest helping this giant and it was soooo awesome.  You get to ride him and smash a lot of scourge and stuff.  It completely rocked!  I also helped Inien to that 3 person quest where you kill the stupid really mean walrus guy.

I was in a mischievous mood when we did it.  A hunter grabbed him just before me because Inien had to get an herb.  It was just the hunter so I knew he would die, it took him a while though I was impressed, his pet could heal himself and he was healing it too.  There was a group of horde watching him fail too and I knew we both were going to try and snag it.  So just when his pet died I threw pain on it.  After the hunter died it was mine! >:)  Of course that was kind of mean but he took it from me, and I didn’t want to wait for it to respawn and fight the horde over it

Was a good night though, lots of achievements and rep to be had.  I’m not working on Ebon Blade my last talbard rep.

I got on this evening after having a VERY rough day at work.  Things are not going so well economically and a lot of cuts and bad stuff happening so everyone is pretty down.  Needless to say I needed a good WoW session badly (my stress reliever).  Amazingly the WoW gods saw fit to smile on me this evening blessing me with many great heroic PUG runs.

I started off doing my Wyrm Rest daily while looking for a Heroic CoS.  I had both the regular and heroic dailies so I thought it would be a good one to do.  I got invited by a tank who then found all the DPS.  It was an entirely melee group with a DPS Warrior, DeathKnight, Feral Druid, and the Protection Warrior.  It was even more amazing that the DPS warrior was good! I don’t think I have ever seen this before, he was actually beating the Deathknight or staying about even!

We were trying to do a speed run for the drake.  If you get to the guy fast enough, I think it’s 20 minutes you can get the Bronze Drake you see me flying on earlier in the post.  I got the drake on my second attempt, you really have to be fast.  We were good but not good enough.  We didn’t make it to the spawns fast enough I think.  It was a good group though and I always enjoy complete melee groups.

After that I thought I’d try to get over my fear of bad PUGs and do a Heroic HoL.  I really want the epic pants off the last guy and as I was telling Inien they aren’t going to just fall out of the sky.  Not only did I actually find a good PUG, but it was a great PUG.  We had a truly exceptional Pally tank, and Boomkin.  The Deathknight was sub-par but it didn’t matter.  The pally started off with the first boss “anyone need the achievement” and ran in when the guy was buffed.  We owned the guy easy and I got the achievement, the first of many for the night.  Then when we got to the last guy they asked if we wanted to run or stand, I didn’t think I could heal it so we ran, it didn’t go according to plan and we got hit a lot by his thing but Holy Nova saved the day.  I do believe I could just have everyone stand there and I could use it to keep everyone alive.

After that the awesome Boomkin asked if I wanted to do Heroic Nexus.  The same tank was coming so I figured why not.  We needed DPS so I got Inien to even come.  It was a really great group and a lot of fun.  Again we went for all the achievements, but we were not successful on the split personality one.  Guess we didn’t kill the mirror images fast enough, almost inconceivable.  We did manage Chaos Theory but that one was so crazy hard, and also got Intense Cold.

After we finished that Inien realized he only needed 5 more badges for the Mage set Robe.  So we started up a group for Heroic Violet Hold which was the daily for that day.  There was a tank waiting for us practically and we started pretty quick.  We got all the easy bosses (again thank you WoW gods) and finished what’s her face easy.  She even dropped her Epic mace which I gladly took.  I call it my Epic Mace of not Screw Mace.   So tired of every mace I find looking the same!

Inien looked pretty spiffy in his robe.  I do believe that is what I’m going for next, of course mine is the Priest Robe

Lastly I finished out the night with some of the exciting mini game of inventory management.  I thought I’d throw out a shot of what my bank/bags look like these days

All in all I got 16 badges for the evening, a bunch of shards, a new Mace, over 8k rep had fun with no frustration and in only a few hours. Great end to a really really crappy day.

There was a huge queue again today on Doomhammer, I went ahead and logged in ahead of time and managed to get in almost when I wanted to.  I saw a group looking for a healer that was doing a heroic Azjol which was yesterdays daily that I still had.  So I joined up with them and almost regretted it.  The leader of the group was a enhancement shaman and I have still yet to see one do good dps.

We had a warrior tank which are not so common anymore.  Of course with my luck we wipe on the first boss about 4 or 5 times I don’t remember how many, too many.  I keep getting agro, and sure enough everyone blames me…  This happened to me the last time when I was with this pally tank that couldn’t hold agro.  He admitted he kept forgetting to do consecrate but hey it was my fault.  In this case the warrior kept seeming only hold agro on skull while the others kept running around attacking me or the DPS.  I am a healer, and I have silent resolve (30% less agro) if I get agro either someone isn’t doing their job, or everyone is dead.  I was just about to give up on them when we make it past and blow through the rest of the instance.  On the last boss I got too many adds and too much poison on me in the last phase and died but the enhancement shaman stayed alive long enough to keep the tank up long enough to finish the 12k left on the boss.

After finishing the daily I left that group and saw someone shouting they only needed a healer for Heroic Violet Hold.  I figured what the hell I had time for that it is short and joined that group.  We made short work of the instance, it was kind of a weird group but it worked out.  We had a Warrior Tank, Feral DPS druid, Enhancement Shaman, and Ret Pally.   There was one death, the tank died in the last few seconds of that ethereal guy, he summoned everyone and two of the balls exploded on him and killed him before I could even react.  The boss died in nearly the same instant.  It was weird the bosses little summoning spirals got bugged and stayed around after he died.

Nothing good dropped for me in either instance, some healing boots dropped that were fairly nice but I didn’t want to give up crit.

Oh and so you can see, this is what I look like now.  I took over my original name Laneer on this server, it was annoying the way I had to do it taking 90 days to get my name back after renaming my mage I had on this server.

My mage on this server has become my new main alt.  I retired Fesster (now called Fesstir) to a bank alt.  I enjoy the Mage much more.  In fact I’ve taken up the new Arcane talent spec and it is pretty fun.  You get to be a little machine gun and have some neat things like instant invis!  So I have been playing him a lot too, he is 72 almost 73 now.  I had him abandon alchemy since Inien is an alchemist on this server anyways.  So he is now an inscriptionist.  I just got him to 400 today and he now has a nifty shoulder enchant.  I wanted to do this so I had easy access to vellums which people seem to think they need to charge an arm and a leg for.

As far as site news I’ll probably be looking to update the look of the site, and restructure the category system as it is a bit dated now.