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

I'm calming down a bit from the "must be awesome right now!" mindset I had when I first hit 80 and didn't know wtf I needed to do next. Today I did Wyrmrest, Frenzyheart and Sons of Hodir dailies, then Soffscia, a friend of my brother's and prot warrior in Twelve, asked if I could come heal the last boss in heroic Utgarde Keep. I went along - thinking heroic UK shouldn't be too bad - and although we wiped on the first attempt, we managed it on the second. It was hard though. Afterwards we went to do heroic Nexus. It was also pretty difficult. Not in my "comfort" healing range.. but we did manage to clear the whole thing, eventually. From the beginning the hunter in the group kept predicting that we would definitely wipe on the boss that flings you up in the air & creates copies of herself, so I was really nervous when we got to her. But I worked hard at it and managed to keep everyone up - we one shot it. We wiped several times on the last two bosses, but it was mainly due to people not keeping to the strategy I think. The final boss was the hardest. We only finally managed it when I really concentrated on dispelling the frost debuff on the tank as much as I could, as well as keeping myself debuffed & alive and everyone else up (cos everyone takes damage) - not easy at all. I'm still undergeared for heroics. Need to do more normal instances first I think, and maybe get some rep gear. I did get several good things from h Nex though.. Amulet of Dazzling Light, Gloves of the Crystal Gardener and Cleric's Linen Shoes. I won the boots with a need roll of 100 and got the Needy achievement. :D

Later on, I went to normal Violet Hold (first time there) with Death, Yuge and Verd (+ random). It was super easy healing. Afterwards Verd left, but we decided to continue on to normal Gundrak (my first time there also) with a couple of pugs. I was within my comfort zone of healing there.. it wasn't too easy or too hard. But Yuge was "facerolling" as he puts it and our pugs weren't the best. So I'm pretty sure I can find the same comfort zone in higher level instances, if that makes sense. :)

I played too much WoW yesterday. >< Yuge was home from work, so I took the opportunity to spend almost all day on WoW. I did a couple of heroics on Panacea with Twelvians (UB and Crypts), then did Mags and Kara with Twelve on Panadoll, then BWL on Panadoll with more Twelve, and finally Onyxia with Yuge, Lutzi and a few other people (including Leth). Panadoll got her classic raider achievement! :D I was pretty exhausted by this time though. Took a little break to eat & watch TV, and I was just going to go to bed & read, but I got lured back in. >< I spent an hour or so before bed on Panacea grinding Kurenai rep in Nagrand, and finding out about the guild drama that had been going down earlier in Panacea's absence.

Recently there have been a lot of new people joining the guild, and a lot of them are youngens. There have been a few jokes in officer chat about the guild turning into a creche. I haven't really been paying all that much attention to guild chat lately, but I have gotten some people whispering me about the nublets. Yesterday a new recruit was gkicked because he was swearing at everyone ("fucking noobs" I think was the term he used) because nobody would come help him in STV. There is one particular new guy, called Tigerbum, who gets picked on a lot because he doesn't know much about the game and has a way of talking that makes him look kinda stupid. Yesterday he was apparently getting bullied mercilessly (one of the top offenders is another new recruit who I don't like much due to their bad attitude and general rudeness) when his brother came online and informed the guild that Tigerbum is only 11. If I'm online and see any more bullying towards Tigerbum, shit is gonna go down. I'm thinking of asking Indi to create a new 'sin bin' type rank to demote people for a set period of time if they behave like idiots. There's an officer meeting tonight, so I might bring it up there.

Panadoll healed heroic Mech tonight, with Yuge tanking and Death dpsing (I've missed her lately ><). and a couple other dps of course :P Panadoll's new heal bindings are Awesome. :D I'm still getting the hang of them, cos they're a lot more complicated than I'm used to. But I feel like I have heaps more control this way. I wish I had realised the usefulness of Prayer of Healing before now. :P

Earlier in the day Panacea went to normal Slabs with guildies. It was normal because a few people hadn't been there before, and I found myself explaining the strat for bosses & pulls on Vent all the way through. It was good practise for raid leading I think. That stupid spellcloth pattern still refused to drop off Murmur though. ><

I need a new mic, I think mine (which I've had since the late 90s o_o) has finally died. A headset might be nice... :)

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