hmm, much better :P Still not great, but better. I went & did all of Panacea's training I'd been neglecting from 70, which helped a lot. :PP I also did some reading and have started trying to pick my upgrades better. My spell rotation I think is ok. I just need to gear up.

Panadoll meanwhile is doing awesome. :D I have almost full t7/7.5 now (except for helm) and my spellpower unbuffed is now over 2k, which I'm very pleased about. I actually recently replaced my t7 robe with Heigan's Putrid Vestments. I didn't actually roll on this robe when it dropped, but nobody else wanted it so it was looted to me for disenchanting. After the raid I had a proper look at it and was like 'o_o this is better than my t7' lol :P So I kept it :D I'm kinda glad to have some hit finally, mostly because there are a couple bosses in 25man Naxx where I need to MC.

Delusion has been attempting 25man Naxx this week. I think it was a good experiment, but I don't think we're quite ready for it. Arachnid went down ok, as did Plague (Heigan was fun as usual but there was a lot of fail there.. I tried to yell at people for not helping to cleanse but my mic decided to fuck up right at that moment -_-). Last night we got Patchwerk down and proceeded to Grobbulus, where several people were just too nub to figure out what they were supposed to do. People got angry and yelled (which was amusing to me at the time & helped me get over my own anger). This kind of fail should not be happening at this point - having to sit there while the fight is explained yet again is so frustratingly tedious. We have told people to read up on strats before they come to Naxx, but I get the feeling some of the dps just expect to be carried through. doesn't work that way! ><

Anyways, there was discussion afterwards with several core members on what to do about the bads. I think we decided in the end not to do anymore 25mans for a while, and instead try two 10man Naxx groups this week. We have enough heals, hopefully enough tanks, and I'm pretty sure we have enough non-retarded dps to fill two groups. I'm actually hoping to get Panacea into the second Naxx group if possible (she's 79 right now, planning to try to get her to 80 today).. obviously her dps will be terribad at first but at least I know all the fights.

It's been a pretty fun week. :) There were no raids scheduled til Sunday (today) so I spent a lot of time neglecting dailies completely and working on achievements instead. I got my For The Alliance! achievement and black war bear mount early in the week, in a pug raid over several hours, and also got Wrath of the Alliance at the same time. As I mentioned in my last post I got some PvP achievements on that night I got a bit drunk, and a couple days later I went into AV with Yuge and got Damage Control (we went to a secluded area, and he kept removing his gear - cutting his health by half - and I just healed the crap out of him. :P) I went into WSG after that cos I wanted to get the daily I'd picked up ages ago out of my quest log (just needed the mark of honor). I managed to not just get the mark but also Capture the Flag. Disc priests make good flag carriers!

Mostly though, I've been working on Loremaster. I've got up to about 570/730 Kalimdor quests done so far. But when I passed by the furbolgs in Felwood, I thought "hmm, maybe I'll take a break and work on Diplomat instead!" It took me three days to do it. I started on the furbolg rep, (started from about 3000 through Honored, as I'd already handed in a shitload of beads when I was working on my Frostsaber). That took me the first day. The second day I worked on Kurenai, which took roughly the same amount of time, even though I started from about 2000 through Revered (I had been working on their rep pre-Wrath). And on the third day I did Sporeggar, which was the quickest - I started from about 500 through Revered (while levelling I ground up their rep in order to get a wand from them). Now I have The Diplomat and 10 Exalted Reputations, plus a talbuk and a tiny sporebat. :D Afterwards I flew over to Netherstorm, bought some of the exotic pets, and got Plethora of Pets :DDD

Today I went to a pug 25-man Naxx run (started by Twelvians) which was pretty fail.. I was only there for downing Gluth, and we wiped on Thaddius many times before it was called. Afterwards I went to Delusion's 10-man Naxx. It started in the late afternoon, aiming to clear as much as possible. The run went really, really well. Delusion has been heroic farming all week (personally I only went to one heroic - I don't like them much! I did get an epic upgrade to my wand though :D) and everyone is a lot better. This time I was last of the three healers on the heal metre most of the time (the other two are resto druids) - which is how it should be imo! We don't quite have Naxx on "farm" status yet (except for, perhaps, the Arachnid quarter) but it was still a lot easier, with minimal wipes. We managed to clear Arachnid, Plague and Construct quarters by around 10:30pm. :D Tomorrow we're going back at 7:30 to work on Military, which a lot of the group has not seen before. As such it will probably take us a little longer, but I'm looking forward to it. We might even get up to Sapphi! ^_^

I've decided my favourite boss in Naxx is now Heigan. xD I am loving the Safety Dance, now that I know how to do it. Someone in the raid discovered a "safe area" bug thing though, so I found myself the only one actually doing the dance, while the rest of the raid hid in a corner. >< I've been wanting to fraps Heigan (not sure if I can, cos I lag horribly whenever I try to turn on fraps in that fight for some reason) and make a video putting it to Safety Dance (a song which has been stuck in my head badly lately) but if people are going to cheat and hide in the corner.. bah! lol. We didn't even get the Safety Dance achievement despite their cheating ways.. next time gadget. xD I tried to play Safety Dance on vent when we got there, but it didn't work well.. I just held my mic up to my headphones, and it didn't come through well apparently. :P



I decided to change Panadoll's hair. I don't change it often, as I don't really like the idea of changing her much from how I rolled her - she just wouldn't be Panadoll. :PP I probably won't ever change her facial markings. But yeh, I decided to go back to her original style and a lighter blue (her first colour change). I think it looks pretty cute. :3

Over Christmas I took a little break from WoW, which was kind of refreshing. I got Animal Crossing for my DS, which I've been playing a lot, but since it's designed to be played with other people who also have it, there's only so much I can do with it. It's fun & relaxing, anyways. :)

Tonight I planned to have a relaxing evening of just catching up on dailies and maybe completing some more Winter Veil achievements. Got my first Dalaran Cooking Award :D and did a bunch of other dailies, but I also went along to an impromtu guild Ob Sanctum, and later to an aquaintance's (hunter Djinn) 10-man VoA. In both I topped healing metres. :O That.. really shouldn't be happening with me as disc. Ideally I think disc priests should be last on healing metres (since - as I know I've said a billion times - disc focus is on damage prevention). But both runs went well regardless. My spellpower is a lot better these days.

Later on, around 10pm or so, Verd asked me if I wanted to come heal the Construct Quarter of 25-man Naxx. Leth had asked me earlier if I wanted to come to 25-man Naxx and I'd declined, due to wanting a relaxing night off. I joined Verd's group anyways (thinking it was just one quarter, how long could it take?), and realised it was the group Leth was in also. Apparently they're both in the same guild now, Gamers Council. It was a guild run with a few PuGs - one from Twelve, and another from Tsunami (top guild on our server) and a couple others from other high-end guilds.

I hopped on the Gamers Council vent and over the course of the run found out a bit about the type of people they are. They reminded me a bit of Twelve, but a bit more - if that is possible lol - immature. :P I only spoke on vent once, and that caused a bit of a commotion when they realised there was a girl in their raid. >< Anyways the run went... alright. Lots of people in the raid weren't even familiar with 10-man Naxx, so the boss strats all had to be explained in detail.. there were wipes. Many wipes. But we got up to Thaddius in the end. We did the worst on Thaddius - people just couldn't get their heads around the strat, or something, and after a few wipes the run was called because it was just too late at night (it was almost 2am by this time). They're picking it up again tomorrow - Thaddius, Sapphiron and KT. I'm hoping to get in for the remainder, if they don't start too early for me.

Leth and Verd were whispering me a lot during the run. Leth wants me to join Gamers Council, he reckons he can get me in no problem. It's.. really tempting. I mean, I really want to do 25-mans, and I have no idea when Delusion will start doing them (they won't even resume 10-mans til the new year). I'm not sure whether I wanna join this kind of guild environment though.. being the only girl in the guild is half errgh and half intriguing, lol >< But at the same time I don't wanna just up and leave Delusion, mostly because my brother and Death are in Delusion and I really would like to raid with them both (it's fun being Team Awesome Heals with Hannika especially ^_^). So.. I think I will put off any decisions til the new year when Delusion raiding resumes and I can find out where I might be heading with the guild in the future. And hopefully in the meantime I can get a few opportunities to do more 25-mans with Gamers Council. :)

I've been really busy with real life stuff lately (preparing for a huge gathering at my house on Christmas day - there'll be 20 people there all up, and I'm doing most of the cooking o_o) so I haven't been playing WoW as much as usual. Guild raiding seems to have wound down a bit too with lots of people away doing holiday stuff. Despite this I had a more productive evening than usual, for a non-raid night. I usually don't like doing heroics, but I'll go if a friend wants me to come heal. So I went to heroic Nexus for Verd tonight. I was struck by how much easier it was than the first time I healed heroic Nexus. It was pretty much cake, though the rest of our group was kinda rude and a bit noobish. Anyways, I frapsed us killing Telestra, just.. cos I can xD



A while afterwards, Yuge got me into a 25-man VoA. It was the first 25-man I've done. I'm a bit undergeared but it was still easy with lots of other good healers. It was fun, though I was at the bottom of the healing metres.. to be expected due to my gear and discyness :D