tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66652275206404394412012-02-16T09:53:53.374-08:00Zully the Holy Troll Out of Character, Away from KeyboardZulwigahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16137555904568489477noreply@blogger.comBlogger1771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-85091287907046272452011-03-18T15:45:00.000-07:002011-03-18T15:45:43.738-07:00

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Why yes, I did roll an alt when the Cataclysm hit.  It wasn't one of the  new combos though.  I decided to re-roll my lvl 28 Orc hunter, and I'm actually really glad I did.  It all started in the Valley of Trials. I have rolled about a billion Troll alts on and off throughout the years, so I know the Valley of Trials like the back of my hand.  I got to the point where I could finish it in 20-30

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I've been pretty successful over the last few weeks in getting myself set to go for Cataclysm.  Yamira is 80 and about 3/4 geared.  That was made possible by the roaring success of my glyph business after 4.0.1 hit.  I must have been making about 5k a day once I got my addons straightened out.  It has dialed back to about 5k per week, even with that bastard Woodwitch camping the AH all day long.

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I guess I know what I'm doing for the next week.  Overhauling my interface.  Major updates are not good for the addons.  I'm going to try just turning them all off temporarily.  No, really.  I mean it. I'm betting half or more of the addons I'm using right now won't work anyway.  I would like to simplify my game, and the only way to do that is to see what I can do with the default interface,

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That's right, I have an auction boy.  He's making me money RIGHT NOW. I've been mentioning on and off that my new game inside WoW is playing the glyph market.  I switched over to Quick Auctions for batch posting and did the 1c undercuts and turned a nice profit.  I bought my chopper and vendor mammoth, upgraded all my gems, and wasted gold on my alts.  All was well for a while until one of my

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No raids?  Tired of dugneons?  Here's what I've been doing to pass the WoW time when I'm not in the mood for Starcraft. #1- Auctionhouse PvP I've purchased my chopper and my vendor mammoth, and am almost up to my next 10k gold.  I'm still fighting with two or three glyphers for market dominance, but my profits have bounced back after crashing the market a few months back.  The spreadsheet

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Yet another installment in the unfinished posts series.  What the heck was I rambling on about here?  Yeah, if it has Spirit it's good for holy priests, but did I really need to say more than that?  I think I see where I was going here... PlusHeal Topic: What Makes a Ring a Healer or DPS ring? Maybe I'm taking an overly simplistic view of it, but holy priests are really easy to gear.  Does it

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Part Two in my series of "Blog Posts I Never Finished" is about Wrath not being as "epic" as Vanilla.  In a nutshell, not in terms of having to work hard for your gear, but in terms of scope and storyline Wrath wins.  This one even has links!  Why didn't I finish it?  It's missing the transition paragraph, I generally don't write my paragraphs in order.  Here you go! WoW.com Breakfast Topic:

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OK I've had enough of having 5 unfinished drafts hanging out in my post bin for months, I'm just going to clean them up and post them.  Here's a photo I took back in Feb when we did BRD.  That would be me in my ghetto Shadow gear, which was really just DPS PVP gear.

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I have no less than four posts sitting in my "draft" bin right now.  I get started writing them and I'm on a roll and then... I disprove my point, which isn't all bad because I learned something.  Or I realize I'm telling the SAME STORY of my WoW life that I feel like I've told a million times before.  I think a lot of it is just that the game is stagnant right now as the build up to the

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... but I haven't had a lot of time to play lately.  I've taken WoW breaks in the past, but usually they're self-initiated or self-enforced.  I tend to get grumpy when I'm forced not to play.  This time has been a little bit different, because I've been able to log in and do my auctions, say hi to Mal and Sil, do a few chants, etc and a half hour here and there to mess around. Surprisingly, the

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I finally pulled Yokanolu from Dalvengyr to Alterac Mountains.  I've been debating it for a month now.   Nobody I really wanted to talk to was online the few times I logged in to Dalv, and by the time I prepped my final transfer I had been demoted.  I don't blame them, having inactive characters is a real bank risk.  I'm curious who actually pushed the button, but it doesn't really matter now

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Are boss mods cheating? In a word, yes.  Post over. Just kidding.  Late April Fool's and all that.  The following is a picture of my UI in action in Halls of Stone (where I'm not going to wipe the group taking screen shots).  Don't laugh too hard, it works for me.  I'm a multitasking fiend. As you can see, there's a lot of junk there.  Got my VuhDo on there with the health and debuff status,

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I think everyone agrees that once you've reached max level, getting gear is the new game.  Players stop counting dings and start counting gear score.  In reality, gear only gets a character 80% of the way to being able to raid or PvP competitively, without factoring in the Gear vs Skill debate.  Considering that gear is essentially non-obtainable using gold, that leaves 20% for the gold sellers

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Seth popped back into existence again. He has a habit of doing that. One minute he's there, the next he's gone. Well, he is a rogue after all.The updates here have been a little thin. Partially because I've got serious writer's block on my series, but mostly I just haven't had much to talk about. Things were pretty status quo until yesterday, when that crazy rogue popped out of stealth.The

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"Welcome to SusanExpress.com we have the greatest deals $15 for 5k gold..."  "Level 1-70 in seven days!  Safe, Discreet, and Fast" How Can Developers Combat Secondary Loot Markets? How many of these have you ignored or reported in the last month?  One? Five? Twenty?  Have you seen that pile of 200 Level 1 Tauren on the ground outside the Auction House?  It's annoying and common, but Blizzard

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WoW.com Breakfast Topic What intangible qualities do you bring to a raid? My raid superpower is multitasking.  One of the things I've always been able to do, in gaming and in life, is step back and look at the overall picture, then focus down on what I need to do to meet that larger goal.  This usually requires me to queue three spells up in my head while I strafe left out of the fire and yell

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So I went and got myself promoted to officer.  It's been 6 months plus since I was an active officer.  Apparently I didn't learn my lesson the first time. I'd be lying if I said I didn't see the promotion coming, but it's still a surprise when it happens.  Like getting engaged, without the bling.  I'm happy about it, but unlike last time I wasn't asking for it until I already knew it was going

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I was talking to the Twins yesterday and they were asking me why I like my priest so much.  Holy has always offered variety and challenge as a class.  There's so many different ways to approach it.  healing in general is more about planning and prediction, as opposed to twitch reflexes.  You kids and your FPS make me look like a slug when I'm trying to DPS.  When I told them I was a healer at

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This was a bit of a down weekend for me, but I did get to raid (sorta) and I'm optimistic about getting my tier pieces a LOT faster than last time. In general, I've been a little burnt out on Zully for the last few weekends.  I think it's probably because I'm stuck doing the same heroics I've done a zillion times already or working on Loremaster, which is going VERY slowly.  Combine that with my

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A few years ago, I started this blog as an outlet to talk about WoW because my social network friends didn't understand what I was talking about.  It has jumped from private to public and back again a few times.  I've talked about my past and my future, my successes and failures, my guildmates, myself, and the state of the game in general. Lately I've been struggling to build up an audience. 

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Things have been stirring in the guild the last week or so.  I can't really talk about it because it hasn't come completely out in the open but as they say, the winds of change are blowing.  Personally, I think in a good way. Tonight we got together a 10 man ToC run with 6 guildies and 4 pugs.  It went really really well.  We actually one shot every encounter in there, finishing the whole thing

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Every once in a while I get on a "red pen" kick where I want to edit someone else's work.  I've found that doing this to the family Christmas letter or a coworker's big presentation are generally not good outlets for this urge.  That's where wikis come in. When I started editing the in house wiki here at work, I got over the fear of "doin it rong" and started to "Be Bold".  I did a little bit

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Every once in a while the new LFG tool comes up with a really stellar group.  I've had a lot of success with my dungeon achievements, maybe found myself an arena partner (finally), and I just want to kick every dwarf I see square in the teeth. I got to my computer a little earlier than normal this morning, so just for kicks I stuck myself in a random dungeon group.  The servers were restarting

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I was out in the Badlands working on Loremaster, and I got a whisper out of the blue asking if I wanted to heal Ulduar. I figured what the heck, might as well. I haven't really done much in Ulduar anyway, and it's Sunday so I doubt the guild is going to do it. I joined group, got the vent info, and couldn't connect because it wasn't set to Speex, and thus not Mac compatible. I let them know and

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During all 99 days of Zully's playtime there's been one thing I've been adamantly against.  Shadow Spec. It always seemed cheap to me.  "If I want to be a mage I'll roll a mage" I've said.  And I've tried, several times.  I just can't seem to get past those first 15 levels or so without getting frustrated and hitting the delete button.  I tried an ele shammy.  She's stuck in Thousand Needles.  I

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Old content is old.  Yet somehow, the achievement whore masochist in me goes back to it again and again. My playtime this weekend was mostly spent in Un'Goro Crater, Burning Steppes, Searing Gorge, and the Badlands.  I went to visit Goblin and his family on Sunday, and we did LBRS and UBRS.  He didn't get much experience, but he got two pieces of Tier 2 gear LOL. I also had a really funny random

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Pixels and Policy: How Online Gaming is Changing Parenting Let me say first of all that I'm not a parent.  I haven't gone down that road yet, and have no idea when/if that will happen.  People tell me I'd be a good mom, maybe I would, but not right now.  However, I have been part of a guild full of families for two years. One of the goals of inSiDiouS is to be a family friendly guild, and

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I'm a fan of the new LFG tool. It has been a very long time coming, and I'm glad Blizzard finally got it right. However, I fear this may be the final blow in the death of questing. Maybe it's just my embarrassing RP tendencies showing, or vanilla nostalgia, or just my play style, but it makes me sad that questing has become almost completely unnecessary.  I find it a little funny too that

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I'll stick with pretty pictures to sum up the weekend. Yamira is Level 70, and healed for a full PuG for the first time! inSiDiouS did what Pex called the first successful all-guild VoA run

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I haven't had a ton of time to use the random tool yet, but I was very pleased with it on patch day. I do see there will be some looting problems, especially with people from other servers.  There's less chance of it getting back to anyone who matters.  Fortunately, you can blacklist people from your groups with the ignore list, or kick them if they do it early in the instance.  It stills

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-88594657737996716422009-12-10T10:06:00.000-08:002009-12-10T10:06:28.799-08:00

With the new patch, it's time for yet another gear upgrade post.  This time, I can just be lazy and link the Wowhead profile.  Yay! http://www.wowhead.com/?profile=18935797 Yoka's list hasn't changed: http://www.wowhead.com/?profile=17970075 Yamira's still a bit too young to worry about it.  Once she gets around level 77-78 I'll have to decide what her main spec's gonna be so I gear correctly

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I wanted to QQ about how fail this weekend was, but I guess it wasn't all bad. Yamira hit Northrend after Jaqu did some lowbie runs with me and the British Twins. I quested with her on and off, she's sitting at 69 now. Haha sitting. 69. Oh never mind. Didn't really do much with Zully. Wasn't in the mood. I'm irritated that I still haven't found an arena team. Looks like I get to raid

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Yep, that's Anub'Arak there, along with my achievement (thanks to AchievementScreenshotter) I was able to get home early on Tue and Wed so I could do a little raiding. And what do you know, we were able to do all of 10 man ToC in two days! Tuesday afternoon we started with VoA and Onyxia.  Knocked them both out one shot, not surprising.  Then we moved on to ToC.  We were able to get all

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This warranted a separate post, I didn't want it to get lost in the last one. Jake apparently decided to quit playing WoW. He logged in and deleted all his characters without a word to anyone. The only reason I know it was him and not a hack is that Brett happened to ask as he was deleting his last character. So now we're down to three. Me, Brett, and Psycho. Psycho is going to try and spin

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I spent all weekend in my computer chair and still didn't finish everything I wanted to do. Sometime last week I finally finished all my faction champion quests. Thank god. I'm saving up for the Argent Pony and the Argent Tabard. Still working on the Oracles as well. Friday night I did some heroics. I'd been drinking though, so I don't remember exactly what we did. Probably H ToC and the

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I agree that heroic content is too easy now. Partially because gear is more easily attainable. You can’t increase the base difficulty of existing dungeons without making them impossible for their intended audience, the fresh 80. Until they do something like tune the dungeon based on what badge you want, heroics will continue to be a snoozefest. The death of crowd control and trash has taken a lot

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I've decided to go ahead and put my character names on the blog. I've been posting for quite a while now. I would really like to start sharing some screenshots and custom content so I can add a little more "substance". I've also gotten to the point where I'm perfectly willing to talk about my posts if someone I know comes along and wants an explanation. And, it will make my "gear upgrade"

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My poor little warrior's DPS is horrible. And no wonder, every thing is wrong. Terribly wrong. I need a new game plan. Here goes... Talents and Glyphs Wowhead 18/53/0 Stat Caps (Try to hit with gear, not gems): Soft Hit - 164 (Extra hit is OK) Expertise - 214 Weapons Edge of Ruin True Aim Long Rifle Armor Majestic Silversmith Shoulderplates Durable Nerubhide Cape Breastplate of the

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I did a bunch of raiding this weekend. I didn't really log in till Saturday evening. Did my daily Triumph dungeons, then Eye wanted to continue their ToC from earlier in the week. It seems some of the people who are there during the week are not there on the weekend, because I got an invite despite not being saved to it. They were on encounter #4, the twin Valkyries. Unlike that crazy

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I've been spending most of my time leveling my Druid again lately. I'm still having a hard time being enthusiastic about WoW after my work incident and questing is my default no-brainer. She's at two bars to 65 right now. Getting to be time to blow money on Northrend and epic flying. Maybe I should divert some of my questing into dailies. Edit 10/6 - Apparently I'm not the only one thinking

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I got to do ToC with Eye last week. It was fun, but incredibly chaotic and demanding. Chaotic takes practice, demanding takes gear. I do the best I can without raiding, but I get lazy when I'm not challenged. I'm close to finishing up my Conquest badge gear, and I'm on my way to a nice Triumph piece. If I don't raid, I don't really need the Triumph gear, and if I do raid, I'll get it. Thus,

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I don't like to mix my work and my WoW, but it seems to have gone and bled together without my permission. Something happened at work and I suddenly became the WoW expert, and it was not fun. I'm having a really hard time getting myself right at this point. I did raiding and stuff yesterday, so I don't think it's completely wrecked my fun, but the triviality of online gaming is very apparent

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-44978220690625297702009-10-23T08:45:00.001-07:002009-10-23T08:45:34.314-07:00

This was inspired by my ToC run on Wed

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-53480004348705511602009-10-23T06:21:00.001-07:002009-11-29T21:14:51.604-08:00

I moved Zully over to Eye on Tuesday. I ended up doing my first ToC 10 man on Wednesday. It was a little frustrating because not only was I thrown into a new raid with no preparation, but I didn't know who was talking in Vent either so they would say to run toward X and I'd have no clue who they were talking about. But, we got the Beasts down and made good progress on Jaraxxus. Yesterday I

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-56389910757422757562009-10-16T16:11:00.001-07:002009-11-29T21:15:11.940-08:00

I changed my mind about transferring. I know, Zully can never make up her mind. Sometimes I think she's more tusks than brains. Two things happened to change my mind. I realized that I had 6 of 12 friends online, and was talking to three of them, plus guild chat. Since when do I have friends? Mal introduced me to a great warrior. He's easy to heal and dual specced PvE tank / PvP. A tank

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-20174352770435250602009-10-09T09:31:00.000-07:002009-10-09T09:31:15.813-07:00

I want to hit outland on my Drood. That's 3 and a half levels. I think I can pull it off, especially since I'm off on Monday. I wonder if I should still do 58-60 in BGs like I planned, or just suck it up and do Hellfire Peninsula. Zully got Exalted with all the Horde cities this morning. Now what am I going to do with those 20 reputation scrolls I have sitting in my bag?

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-91823113049474042132009-10-08T09:07:00.000-07:002009-11-29T21:15:54.448-08:00

tl;dr - Spent a lot of money and tokens and leveled my drood like crazy. Zully Finally got my new robes. Pugged a 25 Naxx recently and got a whole bunch of badges. Spent a whole bunch of badges. Spent a whole bunch of honor too, I realized I was maxed or almost maxed and didn't want to lose points. I don't know exactly how much my stats improved, but I'm finally getting back up to speed.

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-82613579581017567232009-09-28T06:41:00.001-07:002009-09-28T06:41:52.427-07:00

I was in the most epic 25 man raid on Saturday. I was a little worried because it was a PUG and the raid leader and his two guildies didn't seem very organized. I had trouble getting a summon so I met the group at the stone. Once I got there I realized this other guild of 15 was there. They were really pro. The guild master and two of his buddies were just tearing up the dps charts. The

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-30794063466241316102009-09-25T08:56:00.000-07:002009-09-25T08:58:58.537-07:00

A thread over on PlusHeal got me thinking about my PvE healing style. One of the reasons I have trouble as DPS is the notion of ability rotation. There IS no rotation as a holy priest. Well, after the inital tank cast. It's like as series of IF... THEN statements. I lean heavily on shield/renew to prevent damage and keep people topped up. In the current patch, I've been stopcasting GHeals

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-70709703467277972009-09-18T10:27:00.001-07:002009-09-18T10:27:30.831-07:00

Level Faster!

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-45906877516886041242009-09-16T07:48:00.000-07:002009-09-16T08:31:53.674-07:00

So I think I've finally kicked a lot of my unhealthy WoW habits. Yay for me! Now I just have to not backslide when I have a few more nights a week open.1. I have started going to the gym again just like I did when I was on my last WoW break. Like not saying 'I'm going to go' going, actually moving my arms and legs going.2. I tend to get excited when I have extra WoW time, like this week.

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-68849771233178598682009-09-15T08:21:00.000-07:002009-10-09T09:33:01.800-07:00

I actually had to check Zully's achievements to see if I did anything with her this weekend. I did H ToC for the first time (what?), got champion/exalted with Thunder Bluff, and finished punching furlbogs in the face for my knuckle sandwich/master of arms achievements. I spent some time on Yoka as well, H Nexus and a whole bunch of Isle of Conquest games. I also did the first "boss" of Ulduar.

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-65645600064849275432009-09-11T08:11:00.001-07:002009-09-11T08:19:41.643-07:00

You know what I hate the most in WoW? Stranglethorn Vale. I refuse, utterly REFUSE to quest there any more. Even now I can't run through there without getting attacked, even on my F'ING LVL 80 PRIEST! Stranglethorn Vale single handedly caused me to abandon my first priest because it was impossible in Vanilla.Probably a strong #2 in things I hate about wow is that damn troll ziggurat in the

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-74321477990354023732009-09-09T08:53:00.000-07:002009-09-09T09:10:34.504-07:00

I was mostly AFK this weekend, but I have quite a bit of WoW to talk about as well.I've polished off all of my "easy achievements" list, you know annoying ones like explorer, squirrels, and northrend gourmet. I dropped some gold on the Gigantique Sack to get that out of the way too. Now it's back to grinding rep. I don't have Krom to back me up on the heroic Outland instances anymore :-( so I

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-63053369195028736022009-09-04T08:59:00.000-07:002009-10-03T10:07:56.279-07:00

I wasn't going to do one of these this time, since it looks like most of my upgrades are pretty straightforward: Farm, farm, farm the Heroics. Wowhead's profiler makes this process a WHOLE LOT easier. On a girly note, everything matched quite nicely. Except the gloves :-( This is going to be painful: 75 Emblems of Valor, must be downgraded from Conquest 162 Emblems of Conquest 25 Emblems of

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-16048166275323496632009-08-31T09:59:00.000-07:002009-08-31T10:12:13.895-07:00

I'll make this part short: Drama did not improve. Whatever, it'll shake out eventually. I just need to start recruiting.Went and did a bunch of easy achievements with Zully. I finally finished off those three critter quests, Pest Control and the two Squirrel achievements. Went to the Alliance part of Kalimdor and got my Explorer achievement. I also got exalted with the Ebon Blade, finally

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-32367015368222658202009-08-25T15:24:00.001-07:002009-08-25T15:36:39.479-07:00

Your personal trainer tells you to stand on the balance ball and think about something else, and the easiest way to stay upright is to pretend you are casting a flash heal.In the same thought, you think it might be easier if, like a troll, you weren't wearing shoes.You spend over an hour looking for just the right bumper sticker or license plate for your car to proclaim your WoWness... and reject

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-1627115269055164592009-08-24T09:18:00.001-07:002009-08-24T10:46:02.099-07:00

So far, things have been relatively drama free over on the new server. Having said that, I'm going to talk about drama. Heh.I've had a little bit with Goblin over the 'loot incident'. We were running some low level newbie run and from what I can tell, he accidentally hit 'Need' on a cloth item he couldn't use. Creeps was kind of rude, which isn't surprising because he has a low noob tolerance

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-30237552720048272332009-08-21T13:43:00.000-07:002009-08-21T13:51:24.583-07:00

I was going to just edit that last post, but what the heck. I haven't had a multi post day in a while.I've been mulling over the ideas behind the Cataclysm expansion in the back of my mind while I've been crunching my spreadsheets. I'm kind of excited about it, the same whay I get excited about anything new, but at the same time...I can't help but feel like Blizzard has sold out. I think I'd

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-34436379135536261212009-08-21T12:11:00.001-07:002009-08-21T12:13:49.551-07:00

It's the end of the world. Quite literally.Looks like Zully better dance her little voodoo troll butt back to the old world before it happens. I was actually making a list of achievements earlier, and I think the old world ones just got bumped up higher on the priority scale.I'm sure this will all be phased, and I'm sure our current 80s will be starting with the new content.Time to start saving

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-6824971996805821302009-08-19T11:38:00.001-07:002009-08-19T11:50:51.442-07:00

There's an article on Wow.com today about sharding etiquette. I was interested mainly because of the pug I did for ToC the other day (my first on Alterac).I did 2 runs with mostly the same people. The first run it was just everyone greed, and it was hunky-dory. The second run, magically after the first boss when everyone had already rolled, I won the item and, as I usually do to preserve bag

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-8589120187704170162009-08-18T13:04:00.001-07:002009-08-18T13:26:38.840-07:00

So I keep hearing rumors about Troll Druids. This brings up a bit of a dilemma for me. I'm loving my druid. If it takes a year for the next expansion to come out, I'm sure she'll be 80. But...Will I reroll Troll? Right now every single class I play could potentially be a Troll. As it is, all my "best" toons are either Troll or Tauren. I suppose I have a Tauren warrior, not a Troll, and now

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-82690248486363653142009-08-17T09:28:00.000-07:002009-08-17T09:52:32.489-07:00

I have a vision. A vision of the future.I see EnM starting 10 man raids in a few weeks, maybe a month. I'm really excited about being able to raid again. Anyone who knows me knows I'm about the content, not the gear. We'll probably have to PuG a few, but at this point that may be a good thing. The five of us rip through instances like nothing, so I think anyone who PuGs with us will consider

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-90222796207504069412009-07-31T01:09:00.000-07:002009-07-31T01:10:02.845-07:00

Zully is now a member of Alterac Mountains. It's going to take a lot of getting used to. I was sad no one was online to welcome me, but it is pretty late.

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-65852147204300860872009-07-30T17:57:00.001-07:002009-08-17T09:54:57.783-07:00

I did something at work today that I don't think I have ever done. I stood up for myself, even though I knew it would rock the boat. Among other things, I can thank WoW for helping me along.This whole turbulent guild switching drama I've been complaining about forever is almost over. I'm prepping Zully for transfer and Px or not she's going tonight so I can wake up and do dailies tomorrow. I

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-57615798024820325052009-07-24T07:25:00.000-07:002009-07-24T07:45:23.318-07:00

The longer I'm away from SDS the more I realize that I miss it. But not in such a way that if I go back that will go away. I miss how SDS used to be. I miss Huggy's escapades, which are toned down now. I miss talking about Fanta. I miss hanging out with Tran and Krom in TeamSpeak. I miss riding to the rescue with four other people when someone is getting ganked. I miss doing the Island

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-86070456778227778352009-07-16T08:25:00.000-07:002009-07-16T08:49:22.299-07:00

Finally!!The item search is really slick. This is going to save me a ton of time. Sorry WoWHead, I think your day to day usage is going to drop significantly for me. The armory was always too slow to look up items. The app is speedy. I'll still be using WoWHead to find drop rates and stuff but the "What the heck is Primal Tiger Leather used for?" Off to the iPhone.The achievement interface

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-40512815717219841742009-07-14T12:59:00.001-07:002009-07-14T13:09:23.535-07:00

Things have been going pretty well on my "new" server. I'm still having a hard time taking the final jump over from my long time home.I've been having a blast with my little druid. All that shapeshifting just never gets old. I've always been fascinated with the RP concept of changing form. The one and only time I ever played DnD, I played a half-elf ranger that could change into a panther.

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-31679726250454387932009-07-05T00:20:00.000-07:002009-07-05T00:28:50.436-07:00

When the guards in Booty Bay get drunk and pass out, leaving a whole city to play with the Allies in. I Spent about 2 hours in Stranglethorn tonight. Bashed some faces with Yoka for a while, then switched over to Zully when things started getting hairy and I needed to bring someone with real gear.We were camping and running around and killing until about quarter to 12. The Gurubashi Arena

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-39363550435374141452009-07-03T20:54:00.000-07:002009-07-03T20:58:29.282-07:00

I logged on to my shammy to do my minor glyph for the day and I got a whisper from Aeth asking if I wanted to do an 8 man Naxx with him. It sounded like fun, since I haven't raided in FOREVER, so I went with it. They needed DPS so I grabbed Trig. Psycho, one of the guys I used to group with occasionally was raid leading.Everything was rolling along great, I was having some "raid juice" and

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-38738386158094302342009-06-28T09:05:00.000-07:002009-07-02T20:58:06.634-07:00

Now that Mal is back (a million smiley faces) I've been working on some characters on a new server with him. Having a fresh start has worked wonders on my "WoW stress" level. I'm actually having gameplaying fun again, not just "working through challenges" fun. I want to spend some quality time with my new toons, and I didn't want to feel like I was taking advantage of my rank by not playing

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-78362733091577966592009-06-26T07:57:00.000-07:002009-06-26T08:13:33.561-07:00

I popped in on Zully last night just to see what was going on. The second I logged in I got a whisper from Px asking if I wanted to come to H Naxx. They were on Saph, so I figured I would join them. I got beamed in, everyone was ready to go, and off we went. There was just one small problem:I was still in Disc/Shadow PvP spec when the fight started. Oops.Fortunately, I was "sixth healer"

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-83706786319798831942009-06-18T15:58:00.000-07:002009-06-18T16:50:09.921-07:00

Well, they're trying to make PvP better. Some of the changes confuse and frighten me, but at least they're trying.Let's see now...BattlegroundsExperience in BGs? Well, I guess that was coming what with Warhammer and some of the other RPGs having ways to level purely through PvP. I think it's only a small subset of people that will do this, and they made it possible for twinks to turn it off,

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-52070434245260285782009-06-17T18:26:00.000-07:002009-06-17T18:30:40.994-07:00

I managed to do some more arenas with Crav the other day. We lost. A lot. Miserably. We managed to win 1 game out of about 30. Despite that, we actually increased our rank by 45 points. That confuses me, but I guess that just means that we were up against teams that were winning more than us? I don't really care, as long as we keep at it we should have better luck.I got myself a new

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-47436698118773146982009-06-13T22:06:00.000-07:002009-06-13T22:13:49.576-07:00

Well let's see:There haven't been any gear update posts, because I haven't done any raidingThere haven't been any shaman posts, because she's been parked in Silvermoon City since the trade cartel postThere haven't been any warrior posts, because there's nothing really exciting about leveling from 78-80. I did unlock Hodir.I have a lvl 20 Druid now on my friend's server. It's fun, and the people

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-22631837120788765092009-06-05T20:43:00.000-07:002009-06-05T20:55:05.160-07:00

I logged on to Photobucket to use the image editor and this ad popped up asking if I wanted to see stats on my photos. I was thinking yeah, what the hell. I posted this picture of me doing that turkey achievement as the Happy Thanksgiving picture for the guild. It's cute, but it's nothing special.Apparently it's had over 1500 views from Myspace. What? I don't even have this posted to Myspace

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-21106461456552813362009-06-01T23:00:00.000-07:002009-06-01T23:05:43.428-07:00

Arenas were a bust, because apparently I put the wrong time on the calendar and everyone showed up at 8 server not 11 server like I thought the calendar invite said. Stupid time zones, Blizz needs to be more clear on their calendar.However, Crav the PvP monster lock was still on so we decided to do 10 games as 2s, just to get some points. Some is better than none right?We went 10-9. Over 50%

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-70582366573382240302009-06-01T11:45:00.000-07:002009-06-01T12:05:39.476-07:00

I didn't have a whole lot of playtime this weekend for one reason or another, so I didn't accomplish much in-game. However, last night while I was hanging out in front of the TV I grabbed the laptop and started thinking about ways I could optimize the trade skills of the characters (now maxed out) on my main server. I decided to back this up by buying a two tab guild bank for my 7 minor alts to

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-71542470637821103302009-05-28T11:46:00.000-07:002009-05-29T12:14:00.502-07:00

I had an unexpected block of time to play WoW yesterday morning, so I leveled Yoka to 77. I can FINALLY take her out herbing and exploring for XP. I'm also going to start doing any rep dailies I have available. It shouldn't take too long for her to hit 80 now.I brought back Guild Arena Night. The first one is coming up on Monday at 10 server. I'm looking forward to it, and am happy that some

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-34594890136502116842009-05-26T07:15:00.000-07:002009-05-26T07:19:15.803-07:00

I had a warm fuzzy WoW moment this morning.I logged on to my bank toon and had a short /say conversation with the bank toon of a friend. What do bank toons talk abaout? Their auctions of course. It was like NPC flavor text, except real. A little RP now and then isn't a bad thing.Then I switched over to my warrior. She's in Grizzly Hills right now. It almost felt like I was waking up on a

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-51933323189119589852009-05-25T13:12:00.001-07:002009-05-25T13:13:53.687-07:00

I saw this on Penny Arcade and it made me laugh. I just had to share.

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-1776721256691015732009-05-21T10:39:00.000-07:002009-05-21T10:48:26.756-07:00

Wow, has it really been almost a month since I posted? I was on vacation and didn't really have anything profound happen WoW-wise so I didn't bother posting. I did reach lvl 76 on Yoka. I did another Ulduar raid with Meat, finally picked up a purple helm to replace the blue one I've been wearing FOREVER. Flame leviathon is confusing. I hope I never have to drive, I make a much better

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-22297656937928275062009-04-30T08:00:00.000-07:002009-04-30T08:05:20.044-07:00

Raider: "Do you want me to measure it?"Raid Leader: "Yeah do a measurement"Raider: "Let me see here..."Me: "Do I want to know what you're measuring?"PauseSnickersRaider: "Yeah, my cock is 40 yards long..."

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-68299340839284689122009-04-28T14:56:00.001-07:002009-04-28T15:07:55.396-07:00

After the Malygos incident with the huge lack of variety in classes, I think it's time to try and gear up some of our newer 80s. I was reading a thread about it on PlusHeal and I think the best way to do it is to set up a run specifically to gear new folks, and possibly to help some of our less skilled tanks get some experience. I picked twice a month because I have Monday nights available

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-81536885095312549442009-04-26T21:43:00.000-07:002009-04-28T15:04:45.764-07:00

I wanted to flesh this post out. Really badly. But work has been kicking my ass this week, so I'm going to release the shorthand notes as is. If I get inspired I'll come back to it, but most likely something more exciting will happen and I'll forget all about it.Same thing goes for the April Gear Post. I just haven't had the time to devote to it, as I can't do it on my iPhone properly. I

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-48439848080310426992009-04-24T09:16:00.001-07:002009-04-24T09:29:17.033-07:00

I woke up at 3:30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, so I logged on to wow intending to do some fishing for the raid tonight. My favorite absentee GL was online and doing BGs so I decided to join him. The games didn't go so well but I had a good time playing with my new pvp/grinding spec. We also had a good chat. I miss having him around, he's such a nice guy.After he logged off I

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-78705002788503715422009-04-23T07:12:00.000-07:002009-04-23T09:00:23.157-07:00

I think maybe it's time I took a WoW break. A real one, not just a week with my Twitter going off all the time and checking up on WoW Insider twice a day.I've been thinking about this since we started our raid alliance with the Meat. I think one of the reasons I was playing so much before was simple sense of obligation to my guildies. They're great people, and fun to play the game with, but as

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-24836485010620228572009-04-17T08:31:00.000-07:002009-04-17T09:01:10.273-07:00

I was a true casual player once. I probably don't qualify as a casual player anymore, based on the sheer amount of blood sweat and tears I put into WoW both inside and outside the game.I didn't know anyone when I started playing WoW. I had heard a lot about it and decided to graduate from college before I started playing (which I must say was a very smart move on my part). I rolled in as a

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-25249741087062410182009-04-16T08:29:00.000-07:002009-04-16T10:51:24.985-07:00

I wasn't much of an opportunist when the expansion came out. I was too busy hitting northrend to spend time thinking about money. I thought that my enchanting trick would still work, but it really didn't the way they changed chanting and my money source dried up. Well, this patch I'm ready to make some cash. I think my little scribe is going to be worthwhile after all, even if it's only for a

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-13418932993104368382009-04-14T19:28:00.001-07:002009-04-16T10:06:37.622-07:00

Turns out my IP address changed at some point and my port forwarding was not going through. I've been behind a firewall this whole time.*facepalm*

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-57944837780790193962009-04-14T11:14:00.001-07:002009-04-14T11:54:11.563-07:00

As with every other WoW blogger out there on the interweb (ha, I called myself a blogger) I have a whole bunch of opinions on the 3.1 patch. Of course, I didn't print out the patch notes using a work printer, and I would never spend 45 minutes with a highlighter going through the 50 page printout on company time. That would be outrageous!On that note, as much as I'd love to write an epic novel

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I had another old world weekend. There wasn't a whole lot going being a holiday weekend. Krom and I ran five BC dungeons over the two days. The only one that gave us some trouble was the mind control boss in Shadow Lab. Essentially, having a green plate wearing ball of fury coming after me does not end well. I also knocked out 50 or so quests in Netherstorm, giving me yet another batch of

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-76702776429611577142009-04-06T08:21:00.000-07:002009-04-16T10:06:21.383-07:00

We finished up the 10 man Naxx by 8p on Saturday, so I had some time to do some old world achievements this weekend. I got exalted with Argent Dawn and Sporregar, and I ran all the Heroics in Hellfire Citadel and Tempest Keep. I made a decent amount of money from disenchanting the green/blue drops, enough to toss Krom and Tran some gold for repairs this morning when I collected all the AH

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-73713810525741518412009-04-03T09:02:00.001-07:002009-04-16T10:20:45.641-07:00

I had a total nerd moment while I was doing a ski lesson in Colorado last week.The instructor was trying to teach me to keep my arms in front of me while I was turning, and had us doing this exercise where you push your arms out while you make the turn.He mentioned that it was like martial arts or Tai Chi where you push the energy out. It looked just like "Hadoken". You know, from Street

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-45334947083695209712009-04-02T08:09:00.000-07:002009-04-16T10:03:57.718-07:00

The re-install seemed to do the trick, and most of my add-on settings carried over just fine. When I popped into TeamSpeak on Tuesday the guys were just moving over to the Meat's vent so I went over there. Turned out they were doing their first night of 25 man Naxx. So I let them know I was patching up and it finished up just in time.There were 6 healers in the group, and I was healing around

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-66337633674335297662009-03-31T14:17:00.000-07:002009-04-16T10:03:29.315-07:00

I went on vacation, both from work and from WoW. I needed it, though I can't say I was completely offline. I did log in for about an hour one day and ran a few quests with Yoka (now 73), and another hour or so to craft a frost resist set, make my 4 day cloth, and research some gems. I also had Matticus spamming my Twitter with WoW stuff like crazy, so it never completely slipped my mind. It's

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-19953354737341522672009-03-24T18:44:00.003-07:002009-03-31T14:17:14.115-07:00

We've been working up to this for a while and this weekend we finally took out Kel'Thuzad. We still wiped pretty hard on Grob, but Gluth and Thaddeus went pretty well. Saph was an interesting fight with no frost resist gear, but that only took 2 tries. Kel on the other hand wasn't that bad until phase two. Then it was OMG massive heals right NAO! But we got him, finally, after three days

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This post is about my Warrior. Surprise!Yoka is having an identity crisis. I think her semi-recent name change is a nice metaphor. A while back on advice/pressure from my guildies I moved her over to Prot. I have been having an easier time with not dying that way, but it's still taking forever. And honestly, I already play the OMG I NEED A _______ role with my priest, so I would really like

Zulwiganoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665227520640439441.post-18018499792318971562009-03-16T07:38:00.000-07:002009-03-16T09:19:26.080-07:00

My OS +1 raid didn't go on Saturday afternoon. Not even close. I wasn't really feelin it anyway, so I wasn't entirely sad about that. Actually, I didn't end up running OS at all this weekend. I probably should check the loot tables one more time to make sure I'm not missing anything. I did miss out on the tokens though. I think rather than do the 10 OS +1 maybe I'll start a 25 OS + guild

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