So... Patch of Doom! Yays!

I've been having fun with all the changes, after I sorted out my UI anyways. When I first logged in yesterday, all my addons were broken (obviously) and it took me a long time to download updated versions, and replace obsolete ones, and add some new ones. My new UI is now working (and in a lot of ways better) but there are still some addons I'm missing (no updated version of my five second bar QQ). I had some trouble at first with my cast bar, which was completely missing, preventing me from going & trying out my new specs. I have now installed Quartz however, which is all sorts of goodness. :)

So the first thing I did yesterday, when I still didn't have a cast bar, was to change Panacea's hair. She now looks like this ~



It's similar to her old headband hairstyle, and the same colour, but it's like she's straightened her hair. I also changed her horns slightly to make them look a little more delicate. I'm really loving the change. ^_^ I didn't change Panadoll's hairstyle/colour or facial markings at all, because honestly I hate all the other nelf hairstyles and I've always quite liked her look. :)

I also spent my cast bar-less time levelling Inscription on Panacea. I dropped Herbalism for it, and very stupidly didn't go out and farm low level herbs beforehand. >< I do have a lot of higher level herbs stockpiled though. I managed to get her Inscription up to 100. Glyphs are selling quite well on the AH at the moment, which is good because my toons need all the cash they can get. But it's kinda negated by all the monies Panacea had to spend on the herbs, bah. ><

Tonight I perfected Panadoll's UI (well, as perfect as it can get until some more of my favourite addons are updated). I've still got a few kinks to work out in Panacea's UI. Here's a pic of Panadoll's at the moment ~ ( under here )

The most annoying thing at the moment is the lack of updated FuBar plugins, but a couple of my favourite ones (FactionsFu and MoneyFu) still seem to be working after the patch, so I'm content for now. I also installed MikScrollingBattleText (as you can see in the screenshot) and a couple of other nice mods - in particular I replaced the obsolete Bongos2 with Bartender 4, which I'm really liking. I was getting a little sick of my Hello Kitty buttons anyways. :P

I have new lists in my head now of things I want to do on both Panadoll and Panacea before WotLK hits (Achievements are fun!) but it's late so I won't list them here now. Mostly they revolve around Panacea grinding up heaps of gold for both toons (because she can do it a lot more quickly and easily than Panadoll can :P).

In other news, my brother got an albino drake! :O ( screenshot )

I has.. ( hello kitty buttons! )
I'm really liking my UI now.. it's uncomplicated and uncluttered, and I've become really familiar with all my keybindings. Eventually I suppose I might add things to it when I raid more.. but for now everything is working really well for me. :)

As you can see from the screenshot.. I finally got Yuge (and a couple of other people) to help me with the final couple of quests to unlock Ogri'la dailies (and the Skyguard dailies up there). One of my big goals at the moment is to get a netherray mount. :3 So I am pleased to finally be getting some more daily Skyguard rep (I am only about halfway through friendly with them at the moment :P).

I'm also getting closer to my next primal mooncloth piece (Primal Mooncloth Shoulders). I've already learnt the pattern, now I just need to collect the mats (damn you mooncloth cooldown :P). I hate farming primal life so much, lol.

My brother, who rolled a nelf resto druid called Hannika on my server to play with me (and who is a much better WoW player than me, with many 70's on different servers) told me earlier tonight that his heals are almost at 1600. :O He levelled at the same time as me and I can't believe how quickly he's overtaken me.. my heals are only at 1062 at the moment. :( I really need that primal mooncloth set.. and better gear in general. It doesn't help that my guild is far too advanced to bother coming with me to the instances and things I wanna do :P At least I has Yuge. :)

I updated my UI.. again :P Because I got a widescreen monitor tonight. :D round buttons ftw ^_^

( UI )

So I have been neglecting this journal, and posting WoW things on my regular journal.. but my friends are probably getting a bit tired of it. :P

Panadoll has been level 70 for about a week or so. :D My guild (which is far more advanced than me) ran me through Kara on Friday night... I was terrified as I have very little instancing experience (my partner ran me through most instances as I was levelling) and no raiding experience. But since everyone else in the raid was way overgeared it was really easy and lots of fun. :D We got Wizard of Oz for Opera and I got Trial Fire Trousers :D Other Kara loots I got ~ Shining Chain of the Afterworld, Pauldrons of the Solace Giver, Boots of Foretelling (plus another pair of purple boots for my healing set - armory is showing my dps set at the moment), and Signet of Unshakeable Faith. I can't wait to go again. ^_^ I was terrible with overhealing last time around - we had an extremely overgeared healer with us (my irl friend who plays a priest called Lutzi) who could easily heal the entire raid alone.. almost every time I went to cast a heal he would beat me to it and I would overheal.. ^^;

I have Healbot installed now though. I love it so much. It makes healing a billion times easier. So perhaps I could possibly even be useful in Kara now. :P Last night I ran Shadow Labs with my partner (who plays a gnome warrior called Yuge, he's been 70 for a while now & is much better geared than me) and really used Healbot for the first time. I was nervous as I always am with an instance group (because I have so little experience and I don't want my noobishness to wipe the group) but Healbot made it so insanely easy to heal people and keep buffs up. :D There are lots of other instances I wanna do at the moment - Black Morass, Mechanar, Botanica, and Arcatraz mainly - and I'm actually confident I can heal them now... in normal mode anyways :P

Anyways this post is getting kinda long. :P So I shall leave you with a screenshot I took yesterday of someone I saw flying through Shat on the phoenix mount :O

( phoenix mount! wanty! )