Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Deathwing is coming to town...

You've probably (maybe) noticed that i've been absent of late. I don't blog on Blogger much anymore, i've mostly been converted to LiveJournal (gasp!). There was a while that i was taking a break from WoW, too, both to let go of some baggage from my old guild, and because of financial reasons. But i've been playing again for about the past six weeks and several developments have ensued.

  • Lui finally got into ICC, one shotting everything in the first wing (not my usual raid style, i'm used to working for everything and wiping repeatedly, then kicking the boss' a$$ against all odds)
  • i FINALLY managed to get an Azure Whelpling to drop in Azshara after farming on and off for about a year
  • i got a Brewfest Kodo (but alas, not a Ram)
  • Lui is 3k gold away from a mechano hog.
  • Fyreanjel dinged 80!  She's been healing up a storm in dungeons.  Having three heirlooms really helped her get from 70-80, as only having one was making it take forever and was very discouraging.
  • i've tried tanking on Blanche a bit (she's at 67 atm), but i'm really not into DKs, and blood is my least favorite of the trees
  • i got on Invy for a while the other day, because if she dings twice she'll be able to open a bunch of lockboxes that are filling her bank. A draenei shammy 8 lvls above her ganked her. I came back and got the shaman to 5% health before missing a kick (couldn't remember the hotkey, it's been at least six months since i was on her) when she was going to heal, and then snuffing it. She left me alone after that. I felt pretty good about nearly killing her (i mean, come on, EIGHT levels!).
  • Last night i gave Estelril (my fledgling tankadin) some heirloom shoulders and blew through 13-20.  She was one bar from 21 when the servers went down this morning at midnight PDT.
  • Last night Estelril healed in RFC, gradually losing three of the group members.  And then the rogue and i (the only veteran players in the instance) 2-shot all the content that stood between us and that satchel, with me tanking and healing and her stunlock OTing.

I know, last xpac i had a bunch of screencaps, but once again i was never offered a beta key (the opt in was always glitched for me, after multiple downloads, it would never send the info to Blizz), and when i tried to download the PTR, it was glitched, too.  When it tried to patch it would freeze and never download past the same point repeatedly.  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and nothing would work.  So i have absolutely no idea what it's going to be like to dps with focus, heal with triage, or tank with holy power (or whatever it's called, i didn't even know about this change until last night when i saw the patch notes).  I think the druid eclipses sound pretty sweet and am planning to roll a Troll Druid and a Warrior Goblin.  I doubt that i'll take the Goblin past the starting zone, much as i've never got my DK to 70, but maybe i'll enjoy druids more this time around.  Unfortunately, i've heard tell that kitties are broken.

And that's about it.  Patch 4.0.1 is installing as i type, and i can hardly wait for class to be over so i can get on to this computer and start to see what changes Deathwing has in store.  Unfortunately, i also need to study for a midterm tonight.