Re-try! What now…A Drooood?

Ok I don’t know why the post about my druid has comments turned off. Everywhere I can see in the settings claims that they are on

Anyway an update on the Druid is that she is now 76, she did the quest chain for Swift Flight Form, though the Raven Lord mount is yet to drop. She is currently in Sholazar Basin, mainspec feral, offspec resto.
I did try healing in Mama Tombs when I was in my 60s and it went fine. I even healed my 2 lvl 80 guildies when we did sethekk halls and it was fine.

Went to try UK normal, we wiped on every trash group, didn’t even make it to the boss. I dunno what I was doing wrong

Hopefully comments are back on though I haven’t done anything cos as far as I can see they are switched on anyway…Very odd, but thanks to Zaralin for pointing it out to me.

Comments

Ok so I was wondering why you guys weren’t commenting and it seems comments are turned off…even though when I go to edit the post the “Allow Comments” box is checked. so I can’t figure out how to turn them on when the setting already state that they are!

I will try to fix this asap!

What now? A Droooood?

Hello!

Yes here I come stumbling back but where have I been…yet again?
Well I’d like you to meet someone who I met not last Friday but the Friday before. Her name is Fì. She has come on leaps and bounds since her creation as a level 1 character, in fact in the space of 9 days I got her from 1-61!
She’s now pottering about in Zangermarsh with the *hope* of being 70 by the end of this weekend.

Funnily enough I started this Druid before I knew about the changes to look of cat and bear forms. I am currently leveling as feral, which I am very much enjoying.
I have a silly little plan to dual-spec as feral and resto when she hits 80. Having said that, I have only EVER played a DPS class. I do not have the confidence to take on vitally important roles such as tanking and healing. Not that DPS isn’t important, don’t get me wrong, however usually in a group you’ll have at least another 2 DPS to help you out. In my opinion, if you’re a healer or the tank then you’re usually on your own. I don’t like that kinda responsibility, but we shall see how it goes when the time comes.

Thankfully my guild of 4 RL people and a rather healthy stack of alts are quite happy to do 4-man guild runs of various instances. We even did 4 man Nexus the other day…not heroic of anything crazy like that but it was fun, and at least I know I can use that time to practice my healing when it comes.

I have no idea about healing, nothing, gear, mods, nothing. I assume spell power, intellect, maybe some spirit? So yes I need druid healing advice. What to cast when, what gear to wear at 80, what mods might be useful etc. Pour your fountain of knowledge on me people!

I have not neglected Eresin, oh no no no! She has been a busy little bee at the Argent Tournament. Champion for Silvermoon, Undercity, Orgrimmar and Thunderbluff, currently still working on the Valiant for Sen’jin. I did manage to get Exalted with all 5 so I got the Ambassador title and also got the achievement for having 15 exalted reputations!

Eresin also does the cooking and fishing dailies, and the Crocolisk in the City daily whenever she can. She fished up the Giant Sewer Rat randomly one morning which was a delight. She is now 3 pets away from the 75!! She did pick up the Enchanted Broom and the Tirisfal Batling, whilst also purchasing the Elwynn Lamb on the AH. I got Eresin through Deadmines a couple of times in order to get the Green Wing Macaw, and found a lovely engineer to make me the Lifelike Mechanical Toad. I got exalted with the Kalu’ak and therefore grabbed myself a Pengu and a new fishing rod. I do indeed play to get all of them for Eresin, it’s just a darn shame she can’t have them all out at once.

Oh how I hope for a glitch one day when you can just summon all of your companions at once. Just imagine the screenshot!!!!

Even my mage Panache had a little outing, it was to the previously mentioned Nexus. My b/f is leveling his paladin and had quests to go , so we did a guild run. I was gonna go with Eresin but we had 2 lvl 80 DKs so I tagged along as my 71 Mage. I was terrible, died so much. When I logged in she wasn’t specced into anything (that’s how long it’s been)! I forgot my rotation too. Doh! Did manage to get her some nice gear though it was painful to replace my Belt of Blasting

And 2 final notes
1. There is still time to sponsor me for my Zip Slide!
2. Big GRATZ to Guntitan who hit lvl 80!

Been Tagged Tagged.

So Davlin and Guntitan have tagged me for the latest meme:
1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random… Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to “Random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

Here is what I got, which by the way i think is VERY cool.

I believe everyone else has been tagged, but if you haven’t then consider yourself tagged!

Zip Slide across the Clyde

Hey Everyone,

It seems to be the season for doing charity events!
On June 20th I shall be doing a sponsored Zip Slide across the River Clyde in Glasgow to raise money for the Beatson Peddle Appeal. You can google more more pictures of the River Clyde and if you find the Clyde Port Crane, then you’ll be looking at where I start my Zip Slide
There is a link to the work they do on my sponsor page which you can find here!
Please help me raise £200, any donation will do not matter now small!
And I encourage you all to go and sponsor Davlin too as he is raising money for MS in a sponsored Epic Dwarven Bike Ride!!

Can’t Think Of A Title

Well I could spend a paragraph apologising for not keeping up with the blogging etc etc, but I’m not gonna.

Eresin has been very much enjoying the new fishing daily quests when she manages to get around to them. I’ve yet to have any great rewards from the Bag of Fishing Treasures, and I’ve also yet to fish up the Turtle mount, but my time will come.

Noblegarden came and went and Eresin managed the whole lot pretty quick. The only thing that really peeved me was the fact that Mages could get Polymorph: Rabbit from the vendor in exchange for mere chocolates. I did not find this out until after Noblegarden had finished. It has been a while since I have played my mage, but had I known about this Polymorph: Rabbit sooner, I’d be out there turning people into bunnies.

So my mage has missed out on another polymorph spell. I’ll remember next year though!

Children’s Week was just as I thought it would be. Easy peasy apart from the battleground nonsense. I honestly feel sorry for clothies and healers, it mustn’t be easy for them to get some of these achievements. AV and AB were quite simple straightforward. WSG took me a few attempts because I wasn’t quick enough on the clicking, but I had the help of someone else who very kindly deliberately left the flag for me to return since they had gotten it just a few moments before. ETOS was the real pain for me. The first time I managed to get the flag there was not a single hordie there to help defend or heal me. I was literally screaming at the computer with rage. Thankfully the next one I went into I shouted in /bg “I’m going for the flag, keep me alive ffs!!”, and it worked! Voila!

I’ve been trying to keep up with my daily cooking quests in order to obtain me a Chef hat! I don’t have that mange awards so it’ll still take a while but it’ll come J

What else…oh yes…the Argent Tournament. *sigh* It was all very well and good until I got to be a Valiant. I suck at mounted combat, I mean *really really suck*. For me right now there are a couple of dailies which require me to do mounted combat and I just cannot do them. Granted I can still get 25 valiant seals without doing these quests but I know I’ll have to do a battle before I can become a Champion, and when that time comes I will cry because there will be no way I can do it. Just to get to valiant took me endless attempts and it was really just luck that got me there.

I have read countless guides of what order to press things, watch countless YouTube videos people have made but for the life of me I just can’t do it.
I am glad I’m not the only one who hates this mounted combat, but it still doesn’t help get me past it.
Does anyone know if you can group up to do this quests? Like 2 or more people against 1 NPC?

If anyone out there is really good let me know. When the time comes I will give you my password and you can do it for me. Ok so I can’t really do that but I’m not really sure how else to get around this obstacle.
I need those companions for my achievement (helped much by Children’s Week and the Noblegarden pet rabbit) and indeed the tabards too!

I have not even set foot in Ulduar yet…naughty Eresin. I shall need to pug it perhaps at a weekend when I have time.

I have delved into the Alliance side */spit*. Actually it’s kinda nice to see new places. So I made a Draenei Shaman (Female), Dwarf Hunter (Male), Dwarf Priest (Male), Human Warrior (Male). I am sure there are others but I can’t remember who they are. But that’s just me, when I make an alt, I make 10 alts. All of these alts are on Ghostlands EU. It’s a pve server rather than my usual PVP, so I’ve gone CareBear style for the alliance.

Talking of PVP, I know I moaned about the PVP achievements for Children’s Week, but in all honesty…I enjoyed them. I even ventured into Wintergrasp for a wee look (if you remember I have NEVER set foot in Wintergrasp apart from fishing), I joined a raid group and jumped through the portal. I have NO idea what to do, I saw lots of vehicles, but they scared me so I stuck to running around. We did win…I have no idea how or why we won but we did so I was a happy bunny. I should really go look up a proper Wintergrasp guide or something.
The only problem I have is that I have no PVP gear. I don’t even know what the most recent set is. I wouldn’t go for the arena stuff. I maybe have about 20k honour points right now, not sure what I can get for that but there you go.
Eresin may dabble back into PVP. Of course I may wish to save up some gold for the dual-spec and think about what I’d like to do for PVP. Previously when I PVP’s I stayed as a BM hunter and I enjoyed it, but we shall see. So far I suck because of lack of gear and a non-pvp spec.

So I’ve rambled a fair bit, I’m gonna go now. Byes! *wave*

Oooh I Say Matron

Battlegrounds were not fun… It’s been too long since I was pure pvp. I have no pvp gear, but with a little patience and a lot of screaming (if the two can possibly go together) I made it.

Shake Your Bunny Maker

Oooh yeh, managed to get the title within 4 hours of starting

Mr. Pinchy

I got Mr Pinchy. So far he’s only given me some healing and mana potions…fingers crossed I get the companion.

What else I been doing?
I got my Explorer title
I got the Shadowforge key and the Workshop key so I have now completed the Keymaster Achievement.
I did the To All The Squirrels I’ve Loved Before achievement.
It’s Happy Hour Somewhere
Run a few dungeons: Strat (no Baron mount), Gnomeregan (got achievement for that), Underbog (for more Sporeggar stuff) and Slave Pens (cos for some reason even though I’ve done it lots of times my achievements list says I had never done it).
Here are some nice screenies for you too

Champion Eresin The Busy Bee

Today I
Explored:
The Hinterlands
Western Plaguelands
Eastern Plaguelands
Tirisfal Glades
Dun Morogh
Loch Modan

Obtained:
Mechanical Chicken companion.

Dungeons Completed:
Hellfire Ramparts x2 (boostin b/f’s lvl 60 paladin)
Blood Furnace (boostin b/f’s lvl 60 paladin)
Underbog (farming Snguine Hibiscus for Sporeggar rep)
Last boss of Occulus (last one I needed for…

Titles Obtained:
Champion Of The Frozen Wastes.

TADA!