tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58946953437631061172024-03-05T03:28:25.946-06:00Frost and ClawsYou can reach me at Tyledres@gmail.comTyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.comBlogger259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-67979460618725232492016-04-07T17:36:00.001-05:002016-04-07T17:36:12.512-05:00I've seen better daysJeez, time flies when you least expect it. I keep swearing I will be a better poster but than I let months go by. But those months definitely weren't the kindest to me either. <div>
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My last post was shortly after my gallbladder surgery and probably around the time I was just starting a new treatment for my wegner's. I was also started on an antidepressant to help control the mood swings that the prednisone was giving me. At first, things seemed to be going alright but after a few weeks I was feeling really tired and my stomach was getting upset. Than, I noticed that I was looking a bit yellow. A trip to the emergency room and they confirmed that I was jaundiced. They didn't want to treat me at my local hospital but sent me by ambulance to the University hospital. I was there for almost a week and got to celebrate Thanksgiving at the hospital. It was definitely memorable. The doctors decided the jaundice was caused by one of the two medicines but they weren't sure which one so they stopped them both.</div>
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I then had to wait several weeks before I could try any new medications. I was given another medicine to try for my mood swings but after less than a week, I was heading to bed and felt really lightheaded and then my legs began to twitch and than my arms until my ankle bent and I fell down. It was really painful. The next day, my mom insisted that I get my ankle looked at and it was broken. The doctor decided that it would be best to put a plate on my ankle so that it could also be put back into the correct place. So, January 15th, the day before my birthday, I had surgery on my ankle. </div>
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Last week, I was told that I no longer needed to use a boot for walking. It's nice to no longer have a cast, crutches, or the boot.</div>
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I've three weeks ago, I also started my newest treatment for Wegner's. It's a drug that's given though an IV. It requires a long three hour wait at the doctor's office, but I've found it's a good place to get a good bit of cross-stitching done and I get to watch a tv that has more than 3 channels. </div>
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I have not been playing much WoW recently. I feel rather worn-out. Even though this stuff has happened a few months ago now, I'm still meddling though each day, trying to keep functioning with all these different chemicals working their way though me. I'm also taking classes part-time. I'm really glad I'm not full-time because I've been tired quite a bit and my ability to focus is still really shattered from the prednisone I'm taking. </div>
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Sometimes I feel like I blog more about all the health crap I'm dealing with than about WoW. But that's alright. This blog is, first and foremost, for me and I'm not currently concerned with my favorite game so I don't have much to say about it but that can't be said about my health. </div>
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Either way, I'm still around. I might feel like curling up into a tight ball in a corner and building a wall around myself to keep everyone else out, but I'm trying to work though it. Just one step at a time.</div>
Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-90789242268062799572015-11-07T15:16:00.002-06:002015-11-07T15:16:54.088-06:00Still hereIt's been a long few months. I've mostly been out for medical reasons and I even had my first and second hospital stays. So a bit of a convoluted explanation about what's been up.<br />
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I had mentioned two years ago that I had some pain in my side and at first the doctors thought the problem was my gallbladder and it should be removed but later decided that my gallbladder was fine. Well, this summer my side was hurting again but only if pressure was put on it and I also wasn't eating very well. There were quite a few foods I couldn't even think of eating without feeling nauseous, although I did regret that hamburgers were on that list of foods I didn't want to touch. I had touched base earlier that summer with my primary doctor and mentioned the pain in my side and she thought it could be my gallbladder and asked if I wanted to get it checked out. I declined at that time because it wasn't really bothering me. Unfortunately when I was at another doctor's office to get the ringworm my cat so generously shared with me checked out I threw up in her wastebasket. I agreed to go get checked out because it's not every day that I manage to have two nurses and a doctor all worried, although they did thank me for at least keeping my mess contained. Anyway, tests came back, and the doctor was confident that I had gallstones and my gallbladder needed to come out. Oddly enough, I think everyone else was more worried about this news than I was. I think it's because I had come to terms with removing my gallbladder two years ago. I will admit that I was skeptical about if it really would come out because I had been down this path before. Anyway, saw the surgeon and surgery was scheduled for about two weeks later on September 15.<br />
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That was the rather ordinary news. As the date for surgery came closer I noticed that I was having trouble breathing at night if I shifted a certain way. Eventually I couldn't lie down without gasping for air, so my mom insisted I go to the emergency room on September 10. What they found was some swelling around my heart and a bit around my lungs. I was admitted to the hospital and at first they thought it was pneumonia but the other doctors quickly ruled that out and brought in my rheumatologist who keeps tabs on my Wegener's. But since my breathing became better after getting painkillers, I think it became less important than making sure I was ready for surgery on the 15th. That mostly meant keeping a watch on my vitals, vitamins, etc. My potassium, which I have had trouble with all summer, was rather low so they gave me some by IV, which stung like hell. Anyway, the surgery was rather anti-climatic. Went well, no problems, healed well, and since it was laprascopic, only had a few small cuts, of which only one really stung and of course it was that cut that the cat would insist on stepping on whenever he wants a cuddle.<br />
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I went home the 17th, but I was only home a few days when I began having trouble with my breathing again so I went back to the emergency room where they ran the same tests again and found the swelling around my heart and lungs once more. So I got more painkillers. Anyway, my rheumatologist told me that they suspect that my Wegener's was returning and rather than attack my sinuses and joints like it had before, this time it was after organs. So back on high dosages of predinsone and a new drug, called cytoxin.<br />
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But things have been pretty good since than. I did have to withdraw from school for the semester because I had missed so much class because of my illness but it's probably just as well, since I don't think I would have been able to deal with classes since I was on a large dose of predinsone. Basically the predinsone causes mood swings, lack of focus, ravenous hunger, among other things. I've basically haven't felt up to writing anything, or reading anything that requires too much attention, or really much of anything. I have been playing a little bit of WoW, mostly just logging on for raiding. My guild has progressed to heroics and killed about half of the bosses. I would really like to get Archimonde before legions. I know there's plenty of time, but I wonder if I should be looking for a group that would take me. I do worry about finding a group because my monk is a tank and I don't really know how to dps or heal with her, which could make getting into a pug group rather difficult. But I'm sure I could do it since I feel more focused since my prednisone dosages has been cut down quite a bit since September. I think I was on 60 when I left the hospital and I'm currently on 20. It's still quite a bit but I'm excited about having it cut back.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-16182222971817925392015-08-12T19:41:00.001-05:002015-08-12T19:41:41.421-05:00Raiding and Other GamesLast I wrote, I was a holy pally just starting raiding with a new guild. The guild has been a good fit for me but I found I was becoming more and more unhappy with being a healer. Luckily for me, we needed a new tank. Our guild leader took over tanking until the end of Blackrock Foundry but since he really didn't like tanking, so he was really looking for someone else to tank. I had just finished leveling up my brewmaster monk and was having a blast with her so I got permission to switch from my pally to my monk at the start of Hellfire Citadel. <br />
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We're working our way though normals but we have killed the first boss on heroic and we have plans to make the transition from normal to heroic. <br />
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Outside of raiding, I've found myself not wanting to play WoW that much. After a bit of thinking I decided that I just needed to play another game for a bit. I thought I could hold out until WildStar was ftp but I've been feeling really restless now. I decided I needed to try something that had caught my attention years ago but I've never felt motivated to actually play the game before. Now I felt a need for change and nothing seems like a larger change than to head into space with Star Trek Online!<br />
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I'm not very far along in the game but it's a beautiful game. I love all the customization options that are available. There's also two different kinds of combat, ground and space. Ground is pretty easy to understand but space combat is both really awesome and while it's easy enough to understand, the fact that you're battling in 3-D space while moving along at warp speed makes it difficult. I'm definitely looking forward to exploring more of the galaxy. Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-72454866412775395722015-08-06T16:58:00.003-05:002015-08-06T17:05:55.829-05:00Summer is no time for restSummer vacation, should be a time of rest, relaxation, and fun, right? That's what I thought, but it seems Summer had some other surprises for me.<br />
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I started the summer with two classes. I think one of my professors compared a week of learning to a month from a normal class. After surviving my two summer classes, I figured I wanted to actually go somewhere for vacation and the only place I could think of that I really wanted to go to was Kentucky because of the Mammoth cave.<br />
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I have been wanting to see Mammoth Cave since I first learned about it in the fourth grade when my class was learning about the different states and my group had to make an alphabet book about Kentucky. Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world with over 400 miles having been measured and the end hasn't yet been found. I was really excited about finally seeing a small part of this cave. <br />
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It was definitely a memorable trip. I told my parents my plans and they wanted to come as well. The weekend we choose to go was unusually hot. Our first day in Kentucky we wanted to recover a bit from the drive so we choose not to tour the caves but instead went to see Dinosaur world. Dinosaur world has an outdoor walk with over 100 sculptures of life size dinosaurs. Even with the heat and the sweating, it was an amazing tour.<br />
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The next day we went to the cave. We had signed up for a tour the day before after visiting Dinosaur world so we knew that we would be able to see the cave. It was significantly cooler inside the caves than outside. Unfortunately, as the tour took us further into the cave, the worse I was feeling. I usually love cave and the Mammoth cave is one that has been well traveled, with stairs and paved paths. But by the time we stopped at a rock formation called the giant coffin, I felt miserable enough to ask one of the guides if I could abandon the rest of the tour. Thankfully, it seems that people have to turn back all the time and they were happy to lead me and my family back to the entrance and let me go at a pace that I could handle. Oh well. At least I got to finally see a small part of the cave and I have a new goal of one day returning to see more.<br />
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When I got back from vacation and still felt really tired and a tad bit sick so I went to the doctor and after some tests, it turned out I had a potassium deficiency. I was surprised at how much better I felt after just the first day of taking potassium supplements. <br />
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I currently plan for my next post to be an update about what I've been up to in WoW.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-86221642713693861762015-05-30T10:28:00.003-05:002015-05-30T10:28:50.896-05:00That Face<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Zeetai's definitely not going to be winning any beauty pageants with that face. I love the Drakuru quests and figured I'd see how the ghoul disguise worked with the selfie cam. That's a face I won't be forgetting anytime soon.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-47442188307296675782015-05-28T14:45:00.001-05:002015-05-28T14:48:07.197-05:00Settling into the new guildI've been pretty happy with my new guild so far. They raid two nights a week but they don't raid too late since they finish at 11 pm for me. It's not a hard-core guild and we've been working though heroic content. Currently 7/10 and have to finish Blast furnace, Kromog, and Blackhand.<br />
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It definitely feels odd to be a healer, there's so much stuff to watch out for, along with healing everyone! The other day, I actually thought about my raiding history and realized that I haven't had a main healer since Ulduar came out. There's only been one raid that I mained as a healer. Since then, I've either tanked or dps. I've done some dabbling with healing and I loved being a holy pally during dragon soul lfr but I mostly just stood still casting my aoe healing. I'll admit that I have quite a learning curve to adjust to healing raids now. It's also really different from healing heroic dungeons. I have to remember that I don't have to do all the healing. I can rely on those others healers, especially that disc priest. Ugh, Disc priests and their bubbles make my heals almost unnecessary. They are the only healers I can't beat up on the healing meters, except on the trash pull right before gruul when there's lots of aoe damage, the group pops lust, I use my wings, and just go to town with the aoe healing. Bwahaha, so much healing. I might be too competitive to be a great healer.<br />
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When I haven't been raiding, I've been working on my newest obsesssion. Zeetai, is a warrior. One of the only classes I've never had at max level in any expansion. There are several guildies with warrior alts and they have made warriors sound fun, so I figured I would try again. So I made Zee. Zee is currently level 75, the highest level warrior I've ever had. I've been having a lot of fun as a fury warrior.<br />
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I've also been spending gold. Not on tokens... although I probably should. But on things like mounts and pets. I didn't expect to ever have enough gold saved up for an onyx panther. I was planning to get the yellow or green one... but the onyx one was at a really good price on the auction house... and so I made it mine. I've made several rather large purchases lately. It seems whenever I start building up gold, I find something on the auction house that I have wanted for some time and can now actually afford to buy. Not only did I get the onyx panther, I also picked up a sandstone drake, and a crawling claw. No more crying because after finishing yet another tol'var artificate I still haven't gotten the pattern for the claw! Nope, I broke down, I bought it and I have named it Thing. Sigh, I swear, the next big thing I'm buying is a token... possibly.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-42436615553480365552015-05-08T19:16:00.001-05:002015-05-08T19:16:24.034-05:00Finally Summer!I have finally had my last final! At least for the previous semester. I can't believe that I made it. I had moments where I was convinced I would never make it though the semester, let alone do well. At least, I think I did well, I won't know for sure until next week when grades are finally posted.<br />
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I haven't done much with this blog for awhile because I have been obsessed with school. The weeks of classes that I missed because of dealing with my health required that I spend most of my time trying to catch up. I wasn't entirely convinced I could do it and I am so relieved to have this semester over with. But that now means I can focus on other things, such as getting some updates on my blog.<br />
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So what has been happening? I have recently changed guilds and this past week was the first time I have run with my new group. It's a trial period for both them and me. I had been contemplating leaving Spoiled Milk for awhile now. Everyone had seemed so excited about new content at the end of Mists but after the expansion released, people began to slowly disappear. This past month, I realized I was the only active player left in my guild. I suppose I could have tried to recruit, but to build a new team from nothing? I didn't have the time because of school, the energy because of school and dealing with other problems, and I didn't particularly want to lead either. I figured once school was done, I would begin looking for a new group. <br />
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That was my original plan but last week, I saw a casual raiding group looking for a holy paladin. They were partway though heroics and they sounded like a group that I really wanted to be involved with. I know by now, that I am not particularly interested in being in a top-end raiding guild. I just want to see the content and continue to improve. I had also noticed that while many groups were looking for healers, very few had been looking for holy paladins. I decided to take a chance and respond to the person recruiting. We had a great chat and I warned him that I wouldn't be able to start for two weeks because I needed dead week to prepare for finals. He told me that would be fine and I got a guild invite.<br />
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This last week was fun for me. I haven't raided in quite some time so I was rusty. I also had some internet issues Thursday night which caused me to eat more lances and bombs than I should have. I love my family and I love being on a farm, but, sometimes, the internet drives me insane. I suppose I should just be glad that I actually had internet because we had lost it earlier that week and it had been slow since. First-world problems and all of that. Anyway, they were pretty understanding, as far as I can tell, and I hope next week to show them that I won't eat as much damage when I have a better internet connection. Hopefully things will continue to look as good.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-35885656144323430912015-03-01T22:36:00.001-06:002015-03-01T22:36:51.036-06:00SELFIE!<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="447681bf-99f3-4b01-9f98-463752a3d6f2" id="64482094-e223-4d2d-968a-84645d035d0a">Hortis</gs> got the quest for the selfie camera today. And she's already mastered the fine art of making funny faces. Her new Fragment of Desire doesn't appear to be approving.<br />
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I'm really happy with the new blood elf models for females. I didn't notice the change on my <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9507f46f-bca2-485d-99a3-eb019410f69e" id="d5a0afa7-b216-4cdd-834e-51cb70e313c3">paladin</gs> at first. Which is awesome. She moves the same and it's not until I really look at her face and hair that I finally see the changes. I don't like the hair though. The colors all seem off. I spent some time with <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4c3f71a1-7d6c-48cf-9ad6-f3ae27414465" id="5cfd9937-118b-4a4b-8bb8-099b35ff6299">Tyle</gs> to see the changes <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4c3f71a1-7d6c-48cf-9ad6-f3ae27414465" id="6f81982e-b257-480a-8d74-509808b0dcf3">for</gs> her and she now looks really pale... Ok... <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e24a346c-8a99-4a79-b31b-e37817f2ee4f" id="69faaf6c-a9f2-44cb-9706-3c269f7622dd"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e24a346c-8a99-4a79-b31b-e37817f2ee4f" id="69faaf6c-a9f2-44cb-9706-3c269f7622dd">she's</gs></gs> always been pale. Maybe I've just gotten used to my <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="57bcf364-4bd3-45c6-b659-8c7319cfa917" id="f9f47cc3-0654-4f00-8a1d-580acbcb1223">pally</gs> who has more color. But the hair really bothers me. It just doesn't look right on either of my blood elves. Oh well, Hortis thinks she looks great. She thinks being able to take on all the raids I'm sending her to for pet gathering means she's strong. I'd hate to disillusion her, silly healer.<br />
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<br />Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-79727728945043319812015-02-28T19:21:00.005-06:002015-02-28T19:21:56.796-06:00Always ChangingRegular updates. I don't have them. I had some accomplishments that I was excited about. I finished making Shadowmourn on my death knight, I switched to playing a <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fc996722-2fa9-4f44-89cc-dbe0ce753675" id="328a32c9-adf4-4798-aad2-a859ac32cc57">paladin</gs> for raiding because we needed healers. Raiding... <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5d26b054-0e9c-40cf-8e77-ace3b6d93210" id="25f973ba-257e-4951-b5d5-1960ccfdf660">well</gs>, the people who used to play stopped, the people who said they were coming back didn't, so the group slowly changed to entirely new people. Good people. I have peace with <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b79fe539-e236-41ad-af55-bc14565e4bbe" id="584d7902-1f76-4e94-b8a6-dc2ddcfb50da">that but</gs> others didn't. I wonder what it takes to get a group to hold together.<div>
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I wish I knew a good way to give her a thanks for such <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9436bf5d-ba24-4feb-a587-9a4510592803" id="8e68f08c-e6b5-4c31-9297-bda9d44d920a">care</gs>. I shall have to think about it carefully.</div>
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I still can't believe that I have Radar again. When my family told me he had escaped the house and couldn't <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="167becca-b5dc-44fa-8be0-869402f1f2d0" id="53b548d5-f5d8-4c51-8aa1-50a547f3e8b3">find him last</gs> August, I thought I would never see him again. The day in Novemeber when I saw him standing outside, peering <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d5552e6c-4349-41c4-a253-444e05370c2f" id="1a221137-db90-4bff-9561-b4e777b40d1d">though</gs> the glass doors, I thought he was one of the new barn cats. But there was something about that long <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="62246dde-8010-47fb-ab6d-a394b470e255" id="3ed365ec-8697-42dc-8834-7a6dd319417c">grey</gs> tabby cat that I had to check out, so when the cat ran off, I followed and called for my family to help me. It was Radar. We managed to catch him and bring him back inside the house and it's almost as though he's never been outside. Definitely my moment of good luck.</div>
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I had gotten my <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1660af68-a9c7-488c-9766-201514df2c21" id="41f0d2a9-0231-47fc-bbef-fb33194eccfc">pally</gs> <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1660af68-a9c7-488c-9766-201514df2c21" id="5567abbc-4ce9-4e36-b107-85d7ca0a390c">Hortis</gs> to level 100 this week and have been working on gearing her and last night I was excited to realize that I could actually run <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1660af68-a9c7-488c-9766-201514df2c21" id="58aa4142-d99c-4d4a-a48c-aebe4db6db18">lfr</gs>. And the night got even better. The group had killed the twins and after half the people left and the system quickly pulled in more people. And I noticed that the new monk tank's name was Aimei. The name seemed <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="51c6a9fd-e578-4569-bf22-a41755734f7a" id="2968d9f7-b9d2-4b10-8e1d-6490d404b8cf">familar</gs> but I couldn't figure it out. I also noticed a <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3d9bb2b1-fb78-49b9-9597-58541a1006a9" id="f8394d4e-f9f9-4010-8d5d-09642d277823">druid</gs> on my frames who's name was <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3d9bb2b1-fb78-49b9-9597-58541a1006a9" id="1f501282-e00a-4b95-916d-e6722238e7a0">showing</gs> as Navi. My raid frames only show the first four <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6da6fd0a-4f38-4a3e-9f29-99bb8acea4bb" id="0a3a0b93-bb0d-47bb-9c26-611b0eddbc31">letters but</gs> I didn't think it was Navimie. I mean, what are the odds of that? But, I wanted to know and saw that it was indeed Navi! I definitely had to squeal. <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ef8467f5-85b6-4637-800f-4427f59dff71" id="914c2cdf-fd65-4370-813d-1f30b8cbf519">Frostwolves</gs> in my <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ef8467f5-85b6-4637-800f-4427f59dff71" id="58221b3a-1ae4-483e-87d7-0f03d8312e88">lfr</gs>! <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2807beb5-de12-4234-964a-7d9b3007de0c" id="f2933d2c-3b98-4fa7-931b-f191ef60901b">Now</gs> way!<br />
You never know what you'll see in <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fcf1ffa4-a619-4193-9883-87cb60655e5c" id="79430335-a245-4b1f-8a4b-eaa62382e4e9">lfr</gs>.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-52696429045228799592014-12-14T15:09:00.000-06:002014-12-14T15:09:09.985-06:00Horray! Free Time!<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d64a21fb-ef3c-48c5-b2ec-8a017ebd8af3" id="b5d68c27-151f-4cc6-8590-a0348f57e46a">Horray</gs>! Finals are over! And boo to Blizzard releasing both Warlords and Goblins vs. Gnomes at such a terrible time of the year. But, I suppose it probably isn't so awful for anyone not in the final weeks of school. Although, I can't figure out why the week before finals is called dead week. Everyone I talk to says it's because that's when all the studying, projects, etc. <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b759d674-bde9-4c24-bd06-261156d091f1" id="245cd5f2-11c0-402c-aa0f-10cfce6981ed">goes</gs> on and everyone is so rushed that they are dead to the world. I think it should be dead month then. Because every class has a big final project that they want to get in before dead week. <div>
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Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-1496425463821739822014-11-13T01:12:00.002-06:002014-11-13T01:12:27.900-06:00mental wonderingsI was reading Navi's post about creating a Facebook account and it brought about this rather long line of thinking, none of which really relates to Navi's Facebook account but it's what got me started. See, I've had an account on Facebook since 2005, back when only college students were allowed in the cool people's club. Anyway, I was thinking about how my guild made me join their Facebook group and discussion and then gave me crap later for never, ever <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6d03d9c7-0ea5-472f-bdca-e29d378d2892" id="a99c4ffd-7568-482f-a22d-cfd5372e14c4">being</span> on Facebook, posting anything, or using Facebook, ever. I've improved. I now check once, maybe twice a week to catch up on what they've been discussing. But for some reason I found myself considering why I don't use Facebook very often. In the end, my issue is that I like my privacy. When I took the Myers-Briggs personality profile test, I discovered that I was an INFP personality. Basically, I don't open up to others very well. I prefer to keep myself to myself. I don't use Facebook because I do not like the idea of having all these people knowing things about me. I was then hit by the thought about my blog, do I let people know me though my blog? I don't really think that I do. I don't post very often. Usually only when there's some achievement that I completed. I'm more likely to talk about what I do rather than what I think. It's not a bad thing to talk about what I'm doing in game. But I haven't really been doing much in-game and there's not really much to write when all I'm saying is that I managed to complete some task. I'm not too sure I have a point. I know I keep people at a distance. I would like to try and be better about being more personal. This blog is important to me and I would like to be more consistent about posting. I know, I keep saying that and then I'm not, it's about <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1d99bd7d-fae9-4bf2-a445-1a53004fd799" id="3fb313b4-d86d-4471-8a0a-800d3c6efdf1">actual</span> doing that rather than wishing that. I'll just say that I'm working on it.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-70854120112142894332014-11-05T21:37:00.001-06:002014-11-05T21:37:38.883-06:00School - Working things out in my mindI've been pretty distant from WoW lately. But I also know that I've been fairly busy with this thing called a college education. I still can't believe how long it took for me to become an English major but I love it. <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7b537456-ad84-4748-af0b-0b069dd3a799" id="7e22aad9-4128-4e8e-ad9a-7bb6c31e43f5">Sure it's</span> a lot of writing... <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="975c1998-6f3b-4ad4-8c22-a521e4ce4c3c" id="f2ff8a29-ffc7-4588-8666-05aef25ae6f7">and</span> more writing... <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6845c0fd-49b6-4862-806d-68567f7f4406" id="a2055798-7d0b-49a9-8975-af1d76cc4162">and</span> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6845c0fd-49b6-4862-806d-68567f7f4406" id="e886b662-fbbf-4971-92f3-6991ef73e63e">research but</span> this semester has been a blast. There's a literary conference being held at my school this year and I've been selected to present two papers! One is an analysis of a production of Shakespeare's play <i>The Tempest</i> that was performed at a local theater and the other is a piece of creative fiction. I'm so excited and so nervous about it! But school, in general, has been awesome. I'll admit that I haven't always been the best student. I have struggled though semesters and classes while trying to find the right fit that it still seems so odd to be doing great. I've been working on the school paper and the professor in charge is determined to get me to return next semester. While it was a fun experience, the idea of returning makes me cringe. My advisor told me to feel flattered that this professor thinks I'm <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d4852ccc-e4ca-4f4b-b19e-d5ead39cfc0f" id="4e04a486-4806-410f-aed2-ae3df24954dd">doing well but to</span> not feel any pressure to join again. I've also been thinking about the courses that I have to take next <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="df84b127-cace-4343-97f9-3a74dd85e501" id="dcb85530-ae74-48ce-945c-ff5156873c3f">semseter</span>. The one is dependent on passing this lit crit class that I'm currently in. My advisor tells me that I have no excuse not to pass it. She's <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="36ea4f96-d781-47f7-b423-6e7ea2d606a1" id="bda60776-ab67-4b5e-b21b-1a4445e8b5b5">right but</span> I still have that feeling that I'm going to fail. That I'm going to wake up and this semester will have just been a dream. And it sometimes seems so unreal the amount of support that I have. I no longer need to make a regular appointment at the learning center since I've long since gotten off of academic <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3e426102-5693-49a3-b95f-aafb046fa061" id="5ac35553-e0d2-486d-8840-290f1f2edcce">probation but</span> it's a net that I don't want to let go of. And I think it's something that more students should be pushed to do! Maybe not all the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1d2bea2b-4780-498f-8db3-f8bb207d3dfb" id="ab89abe4-ed91-46cd-9d1b-835baf81757c">time but</span> for big projects, having someone who will discuss stories, help clarify thoughts, go over processes, proofread, encourage, and demand that you meet deadlines helps tremendously. There's a student that I'm friends with who, I sometimes get the feeling that she resents my grades. She's always asking what I got on papers, tests, and whatnot. It's no secret that I go to the learning center once a week. But when we had to peer-review papers and the student who read me handed my paper back and said it was awesome this other student said "of course it is, she took it to the learning center." I don't know how I'm supposed to respond to something like that. It almost made me feel like I had done something wrong. But the learning center is a resource that all students can utilize. But I don't think enough of them do. I think, at first, I didn't like going to the learning center because I thought it made me seem stupid. But <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="08a3e632-b693-4f38-84fa-b3debf3c42a1" id="b31c3e3f-7d41-4a2c-87b5-75945f76d7f0">than</span> I realized that my terrible grades definitely didn't help my case either. It's hard, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6f0acb21-9aaa-4d98-8211-b75b324b757e" id="8b12c4d4-a9ae-4c20-bb15-1bf5f9040e66">sometimes to</span> not be concerned with what others think. But I also know that what I'm doing right now works for me. I love living on campus, in a single room, even if the dorm I'm in is supposedly haunted. I like being able to just roll out of bed, throw on my flip-flops and walk to class. I should enjoy this while I can. This won't be what life is like outside of college. I only have another year of enjoying this. As to what I'll be doing next. Goodness, I have no idea. It took forever before I could decide on a major, how in the hell am I ever going to figure out life after college? <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="84a3eb8f-8a55-4314-848e-708e14c65c01" id="a8882b41-4fa5-4159-981d-b3ffef7ecc50">Heh</span>, but I have learned how to accept when something isn't working and to keep looking until I find something that does.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-19639946228668058112014-10-14T03:14:00.001-05:002014-10-14T03:14:29.075-05:00Down to the WireThis weekend my <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="518e238c-d923-416d-b318-613d7b385f1f" id="414a700c-f856-4116-aa53-779da1826855">guildies</span> were struck with the realization that challenge modes would be gone soon and since they wanted the phoenix mounts, we had better get to work. We had planned to space them out over three nights. 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First on my list of recently acquired pets are the celestial tournament pets. I managed to snag the last one I needed this week.<br />
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I also finished crafting my two engineering pets: Rascal-bot<br />
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One of the regulars who raids with my guild has a guild that completed the challenge modes and I was allowed to enter the guild on an alt, level up, and buy the thundering serpent hatchling for which I'm really grateful.<br />
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And this last pet is most definitely not the least pet. I still can't believe I have it. One of my guildies is obsessed with battle pets and he and I have been helping each other out. I ran to booty bay to help him get gold from the horde to the alliance side, ran all over to get the alliance vendor pets, and nagged him into leveling his toon so he could get rep for buying the thundering serpent hatchling. Anyway, I found a small surprise waiting for me in the mail the other day.<br />
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SPECTRAL TIGER CUB!!!! I don't think I have enough caps and exclamation points to express how excited I am to have this pet. He's just as gorgeous as I thought he would be. Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-91775847588239894052014-08-28T16:19:00.001-05:002014-08-28T16:19:34.018-05:00Start of classes and raiding bluesBack at school and the first week of classes has begun. It's going to be an exciting semester for me. I'm taking Lit, more Lit, and just a little more lit. I'm also taking Spanish, of which I no absolutely nothing. <br />
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Anyway, while I don't mind the late nights too much because I don't have early classes, one of the healers from my raiding group has quit raiding with us because he didn't think he could balance the late nights with his early morning classes. While I can't really begrudge him that, it does leave the raid group scrambling to find a replacement for him. It sometimes seems that every time we get a dependable replacement, someone else leaves and the group is left to struggle until another replacement can be found. <br />
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We've also had some dissatisfaction with how slow our progress has been. There had been a plan to raid 3 nights but our tank could never make the last night which left us pretty much with just 2 nights of raiding. Considering that the earlier fights take a giant chunk of time to clear, we've had been trying every other week extending the lock out but that hasn't worked to well either. So, last week our raid leader had everyone tell her what bosses we needed and she concluded that for the most part we didn't need anything before Jug. But there were a few who did want some pieces off the earlier bosses and was asking how we felt about just clearing everything on normal up to Jugg and I suggested maybe having a roll before the raid and the winner could pick which extra boss they wanted to attempt. We thought it sounded fair enough and we're going to be giving it a few tries. <br />
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Fun times indeed.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-65609771170478648212014-08-03T18:36:00.000-05:002014-08-03T18:37:57.440-05:00New Hunter Pet!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I've been giving myself goals of small things I'd like to accomplish and one of those goals is to finish leveling alchemy and herbalism on my monk. I had reached a point where I was in Northrend and the next area that the leveling guide told me to go to pick herbs was Sholazar Basin. I've spent some time out there on my hunter in the hopes of seeing the ever elusive but much coveted Loque'nahak but have never had any luck. I figured there was no way I'd see him yesterday either. As I flew around looking for herbs I didn't even have my rare spawn addons on. I was in a bit of a daze, flying from one yellow dot to another when something strange caused me to take another look at the mobs around me. And than I couldn't believe what I saw. There was Loque'nahak walking calmly though some gorillas. So I did what any other hunter would do. I promptly logged off, logged onto my hunter, threw some pets in the stable so I'd have a spot for taming Loque, made sure I was in beast mastery spec, and booked it for the Northrend portal and to Sholazar Basin while muttering under my breath "please, please, please, oh God, please." When I reached Sholazar I realized I had no idea where I had seen Loque, so I quickly switched back to my monk and verified where the spirit beast was and noticed a warlock was flying near-by. Since he didn't seem to be interested in Loque, I hopped back on my hunter and made a beeline for where Loque was and promptly set about taming him. Right as I was partway though the tame the Alliance warlock noticed me and proceded to land and begin casting. Luckily for me, I managed to finish my tame right as the warlock hit me. Loque and I then proceeded to grind that Ally warlock into the dirt. I was rather excited at the time with my close Loque tame and I had to quickly log onto my death knight for a run though ICC but later I began to wonder if the warlock was trying to guard Loque for someone else. I suppose it was rather mercyless of me to just drop out of the sky and "steal" Loque out from under him but than again, I had seen him first, made it there first, and got the tame off.</div>
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<br />Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-60844130837940089202014-07-30T18:51:00.000-05:002014-07-30T18:51:40.733-05:00Accomplishing goalsI guess I don't have to worry about posting too much. Whoops. I kept thinking about stuff but thinking isn't doing.<br />
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But I've gotten several of my nebulous, unwritten wow goals accomplished this past month.<br />
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First off I've managed to figure out how to level pets on the pandarian trainers. I have no hope I'll ever catch up to others who have been pet battling for much longer. But I'm enjoying it now. I also managed to get the many pets leveled to complete the celestial tournament. This week has been my third week beating it. I'm pretty stoked about it. I did a lot of prep work for the tournament, making spreadsheets of the pet teams used by different strats from different guides and than piecing together the teams that I had the pets for and than making a list of what pets I still needed to level. I than checked to see what trainers were up that week and made sure all the pets I needed for that strat and the celestial bosses were leveled first.<br />
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And I was really happy to finally get my first celestial pet. It was the cat one of course.<br />
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I've also done some hunting on OpenRaid for a group on Saturdays to try and get my infusions. I've found a group that gets all achievements and will do infusions but my connection was spotty the first night so I didn't want to waste the groups time trying to get the blood infusion and last Saturday I wasn't able to attend. I'll have to keep trying and at least it's a really nice group. And I did get the last achievements I needed for the 25 man drake.<br />
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My level 70 twink druid has been doing pretty well. The guild has just been running Kara because they're still trying to build the rosters. When I first started with them there was maybe 3 people running Kara but there's usually 6-8 people in the raids now. There's hope that we'll soon be able to start on the next raid.<br />
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I'm at the point where my druid has all the Kara gear she could want. There's only really two pieces she needs but what she has is fine. When I was recruited the guild had plenty of people to be healers and tanks so they were just looking for dps. And feral dps is pretty decent but now they are starting to look for tanks. Unfortunately the guild leader decided that guardian druids weren't going to be allowed because that spec didn't exist back in BC. Instead druids will have to tank as feral. I've done some tanking and I have to say I'm a squishy and the crits those bosses make are no joke. So I'm working on leveling up a paladin. But in the meantime, my druid is looking pretty sweet though.<br />
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Spoiled Milk's has been plugging along with our raiding. Last week we downed Dark Shaman and Nazgrim. It's still in a muddle about what we're doing. We wanted to raid Tue, Wed, and Fri but unfortunately there's many who can't make it on Fri so we've been finding pugs to finish the runs on normal. There's some fuss about not continuing to work on heroics on Friday but it doesn't work out. It has been decided that every other week we'd extend our lock-outs and try to get more work on bosses instead of wearing ourselves out trying to make it back to our starting point. There's been some grumbling about that but there's only so much that can be done. I don't know how it happened but I've found myself promoted and put in charge of the guild bank. /sigh. Oh well, I have some ideas but I need to get the guild leader and other officers in on them before I mess around with stuff. But I did remove and vendor any grey items I found in the guild bank and organized it. I've only kept track of all the gold that's gone in and out of the bank. It's been fascinating to see who is using the repairs and how often. As to what I'm going to do about that... who knows. I think my role is one that I'm going to have to carve out myself. Scary thought that.<br />
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Finally, on a last, note. I've gotten a new mount! It's one I've wanted since Wrath. I was very excited when I realized I had the gold to finally get the final pieces for the crafting of my brand new Mechano-hog! Horray!<br />
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<br />Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-38954569102603428722014-06-28T17:12:00.001-05:002014-06-28T17:12:26.950-05:00What I've been up toI'm going to put a break in this post because yesterday I got invited to the WoW Beta and I'll save my little bit of discussion about it for after the break.<br />
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So I'm still raiding with Spoiled Milk. There's been no new boss kills. We've been having small issues with our kills, but those mistakes mean wipes, which means more time killing bosses. Immerseus is probably the worst one. It's the boss we've been killing the longest and yet... each week we seem to have some issues with the fight. Last week was particularly rough with and we eventually gave up on Galakras because we were having issues with people in the towers being teleported back to the ground. After some research we learned that this was happening because of getting aggro with the mobs on the ground. So this week we did eventually get Galakras but we were still having so many other issues. And we didn't finish the raid on Friday. I think I'm going to have to search open raid for a group that could use a hunter. I really want as many chances to get more heirlooms as I can get.<br />
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I've also been working on the cape quest on my shaman. I've really been able to take advantage of the two buffs. She was working on the valor part of the quest when there was the valor buff and now I've been enjoying the rainful of extra runestones and secrets.<br />
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My level 70 twink druid is getting some better gear but I really need to give her some love. She doesn't have any professions and her gear is unenchanted and ungemmed. And I can't look at her bracers. They really need to be replaced. The guild she's in has strict rules about what I can and can't do and what I can use and can't use. Sometimes the rules seem silly but the guild leader has his reasons.<br />
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I've also done some pet battling. One of my guildies in Spoiled Milk is obsessed with pet battling. He's still fairly new to the game so he doesn't have an incredibly large collection yet, but he's getting there. He's also really good at leveling pets and has even leveled a few for me. I felt that since I now have these level 25 pets I should try to pet level and battle the trainers. I finally managed to beat all the tamers in Pandaria and my friend has even given me advice on how to use the battle against Aki to help powerlevel some pets. I know that there's methods for all the other trainers but I'm still working on figuring out how to do so. My friend is working on the Celestial Tournament. Occasionally he wants to use a pet that he doesn't have so he's been borrowing some of my pets. It works well for me because when I get them back they've been leveled.<br />
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I have mixed feelings about the new models. On the one hand, they look really amazing, but on the other, they are a bit different. It's a bit jaring. I had planned to just make some instant 90 Alliance characters and see the questline from the Alliance side. But I also wanted to see all the new features. When I logged onto my new night elf monk, I saw this announcement about some of the new features, including the toy box. I wasn't sure where to find it so I began opening up panels. It's on the one with the pets and mounts. But the premade characters don't have any toys. They also don't have any pets but they do have close to every single mount. I enjoyed running around on a spectral tiger. Anyway, I copied Awoi, my hunter, and Arita, my night elf druid. I figured my druid would be a good choice for finding toys and she had some fun ones. But I was surprised by some of the items that weren't toys. It seems Arita will remain my only toon able to play with Dartol's rod of transformation.<br />
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I looked at her gear. While her healing gear didn't add agility when I switched her specs, it did turn off her intellect. The gear on the premade toon had agility, intellect, and stamina and switching the spec would turn the agility and intellect on and off. It was pretty cool. Than I realized that my druid's cape only had a total of 6 armor. Yikes! I took a look at my hunter's gear and while her legendary cape had more armor, it still wasn't as large as the numbers I'm now used to. But the gear's item level remained the same. And you really don't notice it except to notice that the numbers are different.<br />
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I than realized that my action bar seemed empty. I was than reminded of the ability prunning. It's really different to see the results of it rather than just read about it. But my hunter's rotation didn't feel any different, even though there no longer was serpent's sting. I ran her though the dark portal event and I had no trouble with any of the mobs. But thinks look different. The selection system has been changed a bit and something is wrong with the fire sounds. I have the sounds down low but whenever I went by a fire or had a warlock casting rain of fire nearby I thought the sound was going to make me deaf.<br />
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Overall, I'm really looking forward to the next expansion. I still have some more beta to explore but I have to say it's looking good. And I'm really looking forward to what Yrel, the female dranei that I rescued will be up to.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-85718691986152258992014-06-16T20:28:00.001-05:002014-06-16T20:28:53.073-05:00Herald of the Titans!I've managed to get my paladin to have two decent sets of gear for Heralds runs and have been signing up for runs on OpenRaid. Today I was only a reserve but I dutifully logged on and I received a new friend invite and asked if I could possibly tank. Yay! I had been running around practicing healing so I had to make sure my tanking gear was up to snuff and that I had my flasks. Then it was off to Ulduar!<div>
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Anyway, one of our guildies saw the iron horse and absolutely had to have it. He put up a hitching post and the whole raid spent several minutes parading around on horseback, before being reminded that we should stop wasting time and start working on Iron Juggernaut.<br />
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We went on to work on Dark Shamans and our closest attempt was to 4%. So very close. But it was getting close to 2 am so we had to admit defeat. We'll be going back on Friday night to finish the raid on normal. I think the finish up is interesting because last week there was only 3 from my guild and one had to leave before we killed Paragons. I'll be curious to see who will turn up on Friday and if I'll be tanking on Tyle or dpsing on Awoi. I'm hoping for dpsing because I'd like to practice using my Beastmaster spec. I felt awful about the raid this week because we didn't have a bloodlust. There were several members who had drums which worked fine and I did have a mastery buff on Tues and spell haste last night... but I feel like an awful hunter for not being able to switch. But my guildies were good about it. They didn't really expect me to switch because they know I don't know how to play bm and they claimed my dps was too good for me to switch to something unfamiliar. But I still think I should learn it, just in case.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-4734050098616345612014-06-07T13:36:00.001-05:002014-06-07T13:36:35.567-05:00Good Week Of RaidingThis was the first week of raiding with our new times. It still feels like half the group is full of pugs which is a little annoying but since most of them are ones that we've raided with before it was still a fun.<br />
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Tuesday night we started late because we had to track down a tank. After locating one we were finally able to get started. And we had a really terrible start. I have come to realize that Immerseus is a weird boss. We can either one shot him or spend hours trying to get him down. But after a few attempts we finally managed to pull things together, figure out the problems, and got Immerseus down.<br />
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Then we found ourselves facing Protectors. We have made attempts on Protectors but haven't had much success. Our biggest challenge has been handling He's desperate measures. It's been a challenge trying to remember who to throw to, who's already been thrown to, and who can't be thrown to. We've tried to put together a throwing list but we've still had trouble with it. This week one of our warlock's suggested we have the dps throw it in alphabetical order. We figured it wouldn't hurt and for some reason it worked really well. We had one attempt that was really close but the enrage killed us. We were determined that we would get this boss the next time. We got the tank to keep He closer to the other bosses so that we could have more cleave on He and things were going really well. Than we had one of our dps disconnect but we kept going. We were getting close but so was the enrage timer. Unfortunately we hit the enrage timer again but there was enough dots on the bosses so that they were killed with one dps left standing. It was not a beautiful first kill but a kills a kill!<br />
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The rest of the night went well with one-shots on Naru and Sha. Since it was late we called it a night there.<br />
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Wednesday we continued with Galakras. While they had gotten heroic galakras last week it was still rough. We had to adjust who went up to the towers and had to do some work getting the waves of adds killed correctly. We finally managed to get a good attempt and called for galakras to be shot down when we realized no one was manning the gun in one of the towers. Oops. We couldn't get the mobs under control for another attempt at shooting down galakras so we had to try again. I volunteered to go to the tower since I could stay at the bottom and help with killing and than use the rope to get to the top when the waves have been thinned down. The attempt went well and we got Galakras down and the fight was so much easier after that. We had our two groups and we killed Galaras without any trouble.<br />
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We spent the rest of the night attempt heroic Juggernaut. We didn't get the kill but we feel pretty good about attempting it next week.<br />
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Last night we finished up the run on normal. Neither of our tanks could make it so I volunteered to switch to Tyledres and tank. I was really happy at the end of the night when we killed Garrosh because it meant I had the kill on TyleTyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-8771008557609959932014-06-03T16:31:00.003-05:002014-06-03T16:31:37.313-05:00Things have been looking upI know I've been trying to figure out what to do if worse came to worse and Spoiled Milk couldn't turn around their slump and get to raiding again. It's been a worry for all of the raid team but things have finally managed to turn around. We have been slowly filling in our ranks with regular pugs. I'm not certain how I feel about pugs. On one hand they have no obligation to our guild but on the other hand...<br />
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I'm not certain Spoiled Milk has ever been concerned with having full guild runs. It's more about a good group getting together, killing stuff, and having a good time. I came into the raid as... well...not really a pug but they were perfectly happy leaving me out of the guild but still having me be a regular member of the raiding group even if I was raiding on an alt. And there's been several other members that were pugs for some time before becoming guildies. One of our warlocks was part of another guild for months before someone finally asked if he wanted to be part of our guild.<br />
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But it's not just filling in holes in the raid that we've been attempting to fill. We've also attempted to make the guild a busier place and to try and recruit raiders from our server. The one downfall with that is most of us don't need anything from normal bosses but if a raider is looking for a guild for heroics there are so many more attractive options. But we've hashed out some ideas about things to try in the future. How well it'll work will be interesting to see.<br />
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But we'll have new raids times. I'm excited by that. They won't start at such a late hour for me and we have plans for raiding on three nights a week. But the news that has me most excited is that we're going to attempt progression every other week for a bit. We have new guildies who we would like to raid with but they aren't geared. So it's been a bit of a struggle to try and decided whether we should spend time gearing them or keep pushing with pugs for heroics. Maybe it's not possible to have the best of both worlds but we're going to give it a try.<br />
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But the news I'm most excited about is that there has finally been progression. The last week of school when I didn't raid because I was panicking about studying and getting things ready for finals, the group had it's first heroic sha kill. It's been a few weeks since then but two weeks ago I got my first heroic sha kill.<br />
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Last week we put some attempts on Protectors before calling it quits and killing them on normal but we were able to get heroic sha again without any trouble. Saturday night the internet on the farm disappeared so I couldn't raid. I was informed that they were able to kill heroic galakras. They also teased me about a heroic bow dropping but they were just joking. I'm starting to see a pattern though... they kill stuff when I'm not there XD.<br />
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Here's hoping that things stay strong.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5894695343763106117.post-3064497953088240482014-05-22T18:00:00.001-05:002014-05-22T18:00:47.036-05:00Booty Bay RunThe following story is being recreated from my memory, because I'm awful at remembering to take screenshots:<br />
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I was attempting to get some flex runs on my shaman healer when one my my guildies, let's call him T asked for a favor. T knew that I had alliance toons and wanted to know if I could get the Blastmaster Bombling on the Alliance auction house since it was only 4k gold there while on the horde ah it was 8k.<br />
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"Sorry, my Alliance toons are on a different server." I replyed.<br />
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"Oh, ok, do you know if it's possible to get gold from horde to Alliance?"<br />
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"Well... yeah. But it's not going to be easy." After explaining the details for the only 2 methods I knew for getting gold from the Horde to the Alliance, I said I'd help and would meet his Alliance toon in Booty Bay.<br />
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T replied with "I've got a lvl 9 worgen. The worgen are so cool. The Horde should have gotten them. Do you know how I can get him out of Gilneas?"<br />
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I should mention that this is a newer player. This level 9 worgen would be the first alliance toon he's probably ever attempted to level. And he's absolutely obsessed with pet battling and is able to make the gold to fund his craving for more pets. Yes, I have some envy. I'll just believe that he's gold making ability is a midas touch and that he doesn't have to share that gold among 11 toons. Anyway... back to the story.<br />
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"You can't get him out of Gilneas until you finish the quest zone."<br />
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"Ok, well... forget it than. Maybe I'll just wait for R to get back and hope the pet is still there."<br />
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"Well... I could make a human and run him to Booty Bay and we can try the transaction that way."<br />
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He tried to talk me out of it. But I'll admit, once the idea was in my mind I had to do it. Just how long and how hard could it be to get a level 1 to Booty Bay?<br />
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For the next hour, I sent him a play-by-play, of sorts. Thankfully, he didn't mind, it was late enough I needed something to keep my mind busy. He even seemed to think it was funny. Probably went something like this:<br />
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Woohoo! First corpse run!<br />
OMG! That worgen just appeared out of nowhere!<br />
It did! It just unstealthed, stunned me, and killed me!<br />
I hate worgens.<br />
I really hate worgens.<br />
OMG! Why are there so many worgens in Duskwoods?<br />
New spirit healer! Horray! I just traveled half the zone in one death<br />
Finally Stranglethorn...<br />
And killed by a panther<br />
and another one<br />
damn, that was the same panther<br />
I hate panthers<br />
They are worse than worgen<br />
Still another panther<br />
Where are they coming from?<br />
OMG! There's murlocs in ST? I was running and saw a murloc appear behind me. But he reached me and ran off.<br />
Pftt... lol. and while I was typing that, a tiger came up and killed me.<br />
Oh! I forgot to grab the flight paths... oh well<br />
Panthers, so freaking annoying.<br />
The raptors aren't scary at all. They dash up and don't actually manage to hit me.<br />
OMG, more panthers.<br />
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Anyway, managed to reach Booty Bay 58 minutes and 27 deaths later. I thought it was a respectable time. So it was now time to post something on the ah and I had even completed a quest so I had some pumpkins and 58 copper. Unfortunately those 58 copper weren't enough to post my pumpkin and there was no way to get any cash for a level one in ST and I didn't want to make that run again. So I made another toon. T sent his worgen's meager supply of silver but since we aren't in the same guild, we weren't sure how long the mail would take. So I figured it wouldn't hurt to make a new toon, complete some quests and gather some silver. After half an hour I had 6 silver. What? I was starting from scratch. I sent it all to my level 2 in ST and was finally able to post a pumpkin for 5k gold. That's one overpriced pumpkin.<br />
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T was laughing about spending so much on the pumpkin, claimed it was the most expensive one he's bought yet. It was probably 2 am at the point. And than, because it was so tempting, I attempted to punch his level 90 toon with my level 2 one. I missed and got flattened by a booty bay bruiser.<br />
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With that mess figured out it was time for me to get my level 2 to Stormwind. That was actually easy. I hearthed back, cried a bit about all the flight paths I didn't pick up, and started running. I got there before the gold reached my mailbox, by almost an hour. I spent a fair amount of time waiting. I also took a peek at the AH, to see if there was anything else interesting there. 6 Soul-traders. 6 of them! Can you imagine? And the cheapest was 130k. Anyway, the gold finally arrived and the goblins took 750 gold from the 5k, so only 4250 actually made it though. Definitely not a cheap method of transferring gold. But there was enough to buy the 4k bomb pet and I was the proud owner for all of a minute before turning it over to T, who tried to pay me but I told him to keep it. I did try to punch him after all.Tyledreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05127426680444385232noreply@blogger.com0