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. :)

Panadoll has started including more dailies in her daily tour of Northrend, namely Knights of the Ebon Blade dailies in Icecrown. I only recently discovered that Ebon Blade has a rather nice healing belt that I want (need Exalted to get it), so I finished up the small quest chain to start the dailies. There are 6 of them, and a lot of the mobs you need to kill drop frostweave cloth and greens, which is great for my finances/tailoring/enchanting. I'm making over 200g a day from dailies now, which is not too shabby. Meanwhile I've only just discovered the awesomeness of armor vellums. Why did nobody tell me about these before?? lol. So much enchanting mats wasted before now. ><

Bored in the evening (Yuge got into a h UK group) I logged over to Panacea and pottered around a bit. Questing is less annoying because I know all the quests and I'm just doing whatever ones I come across that are fun, since I'm not going for quest achievements, but they're a little boring as well. So I decided to go to UK. Xan from SotM came along (she's 76 now) and we pugged the rest - a ret pally, a t6 geared shammy healer, and a little 70 DK tank who admitted at the start that they didn't have much tanking gear. Awesome heals made up for that though, even though the shammy was a bit full of himself. Panacea got an upgrade to replace her Kara helm & a nice quest reward ring. And omg. I've missed dpsing instances. >< Sooo much less stressful. The DK wasn't too bad with the dps either, and I was second after him on the dps metre. I think I'm actually much better at dpsing than healing, at least in 5-mans.. and I enjoy dpsing 5-mans so much more. But I far prefer healing in raids, so.. beh. I <3 both my priests. ^_^

So things with Panadoll have settled down into a comfortable routine of dailies - Wyrmrest, Kalu'ak, Oracles (just switched over from Frenzyhearts after I got their dailies achievement), Sons of Hodir - followed by levelling professions and a normal instance. Yuge and I just need to do Utgarde Pinnacle, Oculus and CoT Stratholme for the Northrend Dungeonmaster achievement. I'm looking forward to getting the achievement because then I will be able to learn the tailoring pattern for the Wispcloak, which is an awesome epic healing cloak.

Professions are progressing pretty well.. the other day I sold off heaps of enchanting mats that I don't use anymore, and made about 600g. I promptly spent it all on levelling my tailoring and enchanting. I managed to make myself a couple of tailored upgrades, and learnt patterns for an epic frost resist set which may come in handy in the future. I can now make a Magnificent Flying Carpet, though I'm still getting the mats together for it. I can also make Ebonweave, Moonshroud and Spellweave, which is fun - I like going down under Icecrown Citadel to make the Ebonweave. xD It seems that tailoring specs have carried through - Panadoll is PMC specced, and was able to make 2x Moonshroud and only 1 of the others. Meanwhile, levelling enchanting is hard. :( I'm over 420 now, but I can't wait to get to 430 so I can buy the really good enchants from the shard vendor. ><

Anyways, since I'm not going flat out with Panadoll anymore, I've been playing around with Panacea a bit. :) Guildies seem glad to see me back, which is gratifying. ^_^ I took Panacea to Borean first, levelled her to 71, then headed to Howling Fjord. I'm not hanging around zones this time around to finish quest achievements.. instead I'm just doing all the quests I find the most fun. :) I'm also not levelling Panacea's professions right now. This is because I want to drop her tailoring and pick up herbalism again instead, to go with her inscription. But I don't wanna drop tailoring until she's out of her FSW set (because she can't wear it if I drop it now). In other Panacea news I changed her hair colour from black to white - same hairstyle (cos I love that hairstyle). I also changed her horns from the delicate turned down ones to the delicate pointy ones. The changes are taking a bit of getting used to.. I forget about her hair colour when she's in shadowform so it keeps surprising me when she pops out, lol :P

Yesterday was a busy day.. In the morning, Panadoll ran heroic BM with my brother and his friend (Hannika and Soffscia). It was my first ever heroic. Panadoll went as DPS, lol. xD It was ridiculously easy. :P Then afterwards, Panacea ran heroic Slabs with them, which was also ridiculously easy.. we 4-manned most of it. :P I am quite liking these nerfs! Gives me more of a chance to see content & loots. :D

Verd was getting a Kara group together after that, so I joined up. We had the whole group together & summoned, but we couldn't zone in to Kara.. all the instances were down, which meant everyone got stuck trying to get through the portal. This had also happened earlier when we'd been doing the heroics, but the instance servers came back up after a while. The Kara group stuck together for a bit hoping the instances would come back up, but eventually fell apart. I got my Swamp of Sorrows and Blasted Lands exploration achievements done, then headed back through the Dark Portal. :P

There was horrible, horrible lag in the afternoon. This lag really did not like my mind flay and mind blast spells for some reason. Still, I had to go do my Isle dailies, so I persisted through the lag to get them done. If I didn't know better, I'd swear the Horde wasn't lagging at all. -______-; After the dailies, I headed over to Nagrand to farm up the last of the primal waters I needed for my FSW robe, then flew over to Terrokar to gather the last of the netherweb spider silk I needed. Then - finally! - I made my Frozen Shadoweave Robe!! :DDDDD

( screenie of the making under here )

yeh I did actually stop right there, among the spiders, to make the robe as soon as I got the last of the mats :P Anyways, Panacea looks like this now :)



I took her to the Dark Portal to take pics of her in her FSW set, like I did when Panadoll got her PMC set (hence new icon ^_^). Panacea doesn't seem to like having her picture taken as much as Panadoll though.. maybe she feels naked out of shadowform :P

Later on in the evening I logged onto Panadoll to do her Skyguard dailies. I wasn't planning to do much else (cos it was late), but after I'd finished them I got kinda caught up in doing exploration achievements.. in the end, I finished up all of the Outland exploration achievements, and got all the Outland Hallow's End candy along the way, and went to bed way too late. xD

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. :)