So Sanguinary.. isn't really working out. Raids starting at 9pm are definitely good, but ending at 1am.. not so much. I think 8-830 is still my ideal raid start time, with 12 the ideal finish time (or earlier! :D). My daughter has just started school, so I have to get up early Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, which means late night raiding on Sunday/Monday is no good for me anymore. Sanguinary has only been doing Ulduar on Wednesday & Thursday nights, and 25man Naxx on Monday nights, purpose being to gear up people for Ulduar. They are very pushy about people only bringing mains to the Naxx runs so that they can smash through it fast, which didn't end up happening the one time I went (I declined the invite to the one this week, using the excuse of computer issues, which is partly true). I really don't want to be obliged to go to Naxx anyway, I've done it so many times that I hate the place (apart from Heigan, which is always fun :P) and I'm not gonna get any upgrades from there.

Also.. the Ulduar raids with Sanguinary are painful. Horribly painful. I joined the guild thinking that I would be the only disc priest & was looking forward to a refreshing absence of holy pallies. So I was slightly horrified when I turned up for my second raid with them and saw three holy pallies and another disc priest in the raid group. Do these people not understand that holy pallies & disc priests are tank healers & ideally you should only have two of them? I suggested I go holy for the raid, and was told to stay disc. Cue much eyerolling. We proceeded to wipe on XT several times, and I just respecced anyway. Nobody actually noticed until later when somebody posted the heal metre, and the raid leader (or someone, in this particular raid there was nobody really "leading") said "oh, you're holy". >.> I rock that heal metre as holy. xD

I was impressed when we managed to down Auriaya, using a very bad and drawn out strat (only just beat the timer). Auriaya is as far as the guild has gotten through Ulduar. We made several attempts on Thorim, which failed miserably. I asked the other disc priest to help me shield spam in the arena, they ignored me. I tried to give suggestions on what we could do to improve our strategy (for starters, more healers in the tunnel than out in the arena is a terribad idea), I was ignored. This pissed me off. I don't mind being in progression runs, in fact I really enjoy them, but not when I can see that we're doing stuff obviously wrong & when I point it out I'm flatout ignored, and we continue to wipe over & over with the same bad strat.

I had PC issues last week (overheating & switching off in the middle of boss encounters), and hence couldn't raid, which was refreshing. I played around with my alts & had much more fun than I would have had in Raid of Badness. I think I decided then that I want to go a bit more casual for a while. I'd still really like to raid occasionally (I'd love to see a Yogg kill & try some hardmodes) but not so scheduled, and preferably not with bads.

Meanwhile, I'm having so much fun with my alts. Dollfase the mage is currently level 71 and questing in Borean Tundra. She's cute, she looks like a little bee on her yellow & black striped mechanostrider. xD Mages are a pretty powerful class I've found, but a bit boring to level. All I do really is spam frostbolt. :P

Zkay the DK (named after my DK friend from Cabal, Tkay) surprised me by being extremely fun to play. I adore playing her cos she smashes through everything so fast! :D And for once I don't have to run & hide from horde, lol. :P I'm still bad at PvP but at least I have a fighting chance now. ^^; The playstyle is so different from other classes I've played (casters), which makes her more fun & interesting. I kinda wanna tank on her. :D At the moment she's level 70 & in Howling Fjord.

I'm levelling mining & jewelcrafting (both around 350-375 currently) on Zkay. While levelling mining in Nagrand I noticed I was getting a lot of Kurenai rep killing ogres in the caves, and after I finished levelling mining in the area I decided to continue on for a bit & get to exalted. I got Zkay her tan talbuk today. xD On Dollfase I'm doing herbing & alchemy (I've got her herbing up but haven't invested much time in alchemy yet). I spent a huge amount of money levelling Zkay's jc. >.> But hopefully I will eventually turn it into a profitable profession. I made a lot of money levelling inscription on Panacea recently, farming all the mats myself. I'm still saving for Panacea's epic flyer so she can farm herbs faster.. but after the amount I spent on Zkay's jc it's gonna take a while I think. :(

p.s. in other news, I broke up with Damager. We're still friends. :) He's going to take a break from the game I think.. boo. :(

Naxx tonight was a little bit fail. We didn't have our full regular core group - we had Xan (hunter, Death's aunty, my friend from Spirits of the Moon) with us, and a DK from the guild who was in Naxx for the first time. We got Arachnid down alright, but then did Construct and wiped on Grobbulus numerous times - many times when he was on under 5%, which was really annoying. I do not like that thing that DKs do which looks a lot like the poison clouds. >< We started a bit late also.. the raid was called at around 11:30pm. Not sure if we'll go back tomorrow, as Kitty has to work in the evening, so we might continue on Monday.

Panacea is level 77 now & has her cold weather flying. I'm enjoying questing in Zul'Drak at the moment, cos I'm up to quests that Panadoll never did. But, Panacea's dps is so crappy. -_- I did a couple of instances (Old K & DTK) with guildies, and my dps was always on the bottom of the metre - above heals but below the damn pally tank.. so embarrassing. -_____- I always topped metres doing heroics on Panacea at 70, so I am not used to this failness..

typical dps in 70 heroics ~


dps now :( (I only overtook that DK right at the end, because he went afk for a bit) ~


I blame crappy Northrend greens. Too much haste, not enough hit & crit. I replaced my FSW robe a while ago and I'm not quite sure if I should have.. maybe I should have kept it for the set bonus. The only reason I still have my shoulders and boots is because the gems make them better than any of the upgrades I've come across. I do want to get rid of them soon though so that I can drop tailoring and pick up herbalism (to go with her inscription) since you can't wear them if you don't have shadoweave tailoring. :-/

WoW has been so fun lately. I think I'm addicted to my friends in game and guild more than anything else. It's been a pretty productive week so far.. Panadoll did a couple of 25man VoA's, and in the first one (organised by Damager, with a lot of guildies) she got t7.5 pants. :D In the second one, which I did this afternoon (I was invited by Leth) she got t7.5 gloves. :D So, so awesome xDD~

Mostly I've been levelling Panacea lately. At first, I was hating her mana regen.. I had the same problem in the early 70's levelling Panadoll. 0 regen while casting? badness. But I had been playing Panadoll for so long that I completely forgot about my dispersion for a while. >< Mana regen now is ok. Not as good as Panadoll's obviously (Panadoll never ever needs to drink) but a lot better now that I'm using my shadowfiend & dispersion a lot more, and since I put a point into Meditation. Panacea is level 75 now, almost 76. I'm working towards this build at 80.

need more instances for Panacea. It's so much harder to find groups as dps. >< I get heaps of whispers all the time asking if I'm heals, if I will respec heals (no goddammit, if I wanted to heal I'd play my disc priest) etc. beh :P

I spent the afternoon today doing allll of my dailies, which I haven't done for ages. This evening I was kinda hoping we might have another bash at Sapphi before shutdown, but not enough people from the raid group were on. So I logged onto my poor neglected Panacea, and after some deliberation decided, finally, that it was time to leave Spirits of the Moon and take her over to Delusion. I've been thinking about doing this for a while. I have had no motivation to level Panacea til now, mostly because I don't wanna be left out of the Delusion gchat loop, and I'm quite aware that Spirits of the Moon isn't going to be raiding anytime soon. I would really like to get Panacea into some future Delusion alt raids, because dps is fun. My first raiding love will always be healing, but dps is definitely a bit more relaxing and I enjoy the competitive aspect of it.

Anyways, I explained how I felt in ochat, and Shar and Indi were very understanding about it. I gave Shar my admin password for my vent, because SotM are the only ones really using it atm and I want them to be able to kick/ban people, create new channels etc without me. I'll probably continue to pay for it, because I do like having my own vent, but the payment is yearly so I guess I'll see how I feel about it in the far off future when the next payment is due. Shar has told me that guildies have been volunteering to chip in for it, so handing it over to them entirely shouldn't be a problem.

So Panacea gquit, and joined Delusion. Already I am feeling big motivation to get to 80 with her. I levelled her up to 72 tonight, and I'll be focusing on her a bit more now. I've lost the motivation to work on Loremaster with Panadoll at the moment, so I'll probably just do Hodir/cooking dailies with her (and raid of course!) and spend the rest of my time levelling Panacea. :D

It's been a crazy week of levelling. >< I was aiming for a level a day, which I managed to do, and last night Panadoll finally dinged level 80. ^o^ ( ding screenshot )

I'm pretty pleased that I managed to get to 80 in just over a week. I really would like to secure a raid spot for myself. Twelve has already started raiding, but I think it's just 10-man raiding.. I'm still not familiar with how the end-game raids work, but I assume there are 10-man & 25-man versions of all the raid instances, a bit like AQ? I'm also not familiar yet with the level 80 instances, or the higher level ones like Gundrak. I've only done Utgarde Keep, Nexus, Drak'Tharon Keep (probably my favourite so far), Azjol-Nerub and Ahn'kahet (which I wanna do again because I didn't finish a quest in there). I was so focused on questing that I didn't do anymore instances after that. The way I quested was Borean - Howling Fjord - Grizzly Hills - Dragonblight - Sholazar Basin - Zul'Drak - Stormpeaks. I was trying to get all the questing achievements in every zone, but gave up in Zul'Drak, because I was 79 by then and wasn't getting good xp from that zone. Stormpeaks was fun :D But my favourite zone is probably a toss up between Sholazar and Grizzly.

The first thing I did after hitting 80 was head to SW and respec. I respecced disc to level, which was fun & definitely made things a bit easier. But it did make healing a little more difficult (I had a bad experience trying to keep up with healing a death knight tank ><) and I like being a holy priest.. so I respecced back. I did some reading first. I'm not particularly fond of a lot of the standard holy builds that are out there.. and I also don't like all the crazy specs I found (shadow/holy.. hmmm). I still like the idea of being holy with some points in disc, although I've heard that DS isn't as important anymore, and impDS isn't worth speccing into at all. I decided to create my own build, and this is what I came up with. DS and CoH.. lol. xD I've never actually used CoH before, but it seems pretty OPawesome. I replaced my healbot click for Prayer of Healing with CoH.

Panadoll looks a little different from this now (slight change in the pattern of the robe & helm :P) but this is how she looked through most of the levelling ~



a few more ( random screens )

oh yeh.. finally bought my epic flying so I could use my netherray. xD It was actually one of the very first things I did when I got the expansion, and realised that the cost of epic flying wasn't being lowered. :P

I found it pretty boring levelling through Terrokar, Nagrand, and Blades Edge Mountains, because it seems like such a short time ago that I did all the quests on Panadoll. I got through all the quests a lot quicker because I knew what I was doing but.. after I finished BEM, at level 68, I was kinda not really into the idea of going on to Netherstorm. So I decided to go level in Shadowmoon Valley - Panadoll never did any of the quests there, besides the Netherwing ones. Since I moved over there I've been enjoying myself a lot more. It's a bit slower going, but everything is new and interesting. You get to know a place a lot better when you're limited to a ground mount. :P

So Panacea is halfway through level 69 now. So close to 70! I believe I will ding this weekend. :D Running a bit low on quests though. I hope I can ding in Shadowmoon. I've also been helping out guildies a bit, running UB with Deatharra and her 70 holy priest partner (who is up to the same raiding content as Panadoll, but a bit better geared) with Yuge tanking cos tanks are still so hard to find on our server. :( Also tomorrow night I've got to do a run of VC for lowbies in the guild, which will cut into my racing-to-70 time, but people were begging and I want to be a good guild officer. :P

( Shadowmoon shenanigans )

( tonight's UB run )

There's another shadowpriest in the guild, called Helpfulness (also an officer), who I've been sort of "racing" to 70 since we were level 64 or so (he's level 68 atm). I quite like this guy.. he knows what he's doing even though I think it's his first toon, and he levels at a pace similar to my own, unlike most of the other people in the guild who generally level a lot slower. Would be good I suppose if he was planning to turn holy at 70 (cos we have no holy priests) but he's pretty set on staying shadow I think - already getting together his FSW set, which is ahead of me (I haven't quite got my tailoring up to speccing shadowweave). Two skilled shadowpriests in a guild is a good thing to have though right? :D We do however have a severe lack of tankage in the guild. :( I'm hoping once all these 60-somethings hit 70 we'll be better able to entice more 70s into the guild for endgame content though.

After levelling Pantsnake to 10, I suddenly decided to delete & reroll him. Mainly cos I didn't like the colour of his hair. I almost instantly regretted it. But then later on Yuge rolled a nelf priest to level with me. :D So it wasn't quite so painful doing all those starting quests again. Also, it's kinda fun levelling with someone else. ^_^

Faybelle & Pantsnake ~


It's quite interesting having the warrior & priest roles reversed! I am not used to running around after mobs and Yuge's not used to standing at a distance. :P We are both pretty skilled at our respective classes so we can give each other good advice. :)

On Friday night Yuge tanked Blood Furnace for Panacea. The run was kinda messy (I was half dps-ing, half healing most of the time) but I got 2 out of 3 of the drops I was looking for and got my quests finished, so it was a success. I'd never been into Blood Furnace before (though Panadoll has been in to see Magtheridon, heh) so it was interesting too. :)

Earlier this evening I half-heartedly looked for a group for Slave Pens/Underbog, but I wasn't really into Panacea today for some reason. A group invited me to help them finish off the last boss of UB, so I did that & got a quest item I needed at least. I'm planning to tackle all the boring boring Terrokar quests tomorrow. The sooner I move on to Nagrand the better imo...

Panacea's been doing billions of Zangar quests today. I've almost finished them all, in fact.. just got some Sporeggar ones to go. Tonight I was waiting around for ages for Twelve's Black Temple raid to finish, in the hope that Yuge would tank Blood Furnace for me. But he went offline at some point & I didn't notice. >< Probably went to sleep. Anyways. I flew over to Hellfire to see if I could do the PVP daily, and someone was asking for one more for Ramps. I thought "what the hell" and joined the group. It's a rare thing to see a group that already has a tank & healer. :P

This PuG was really, really awesome. :O The group leader was a warrior tank who seemed quite experienced with the instance.. in fact everyone seemed to know what they were doing. We breezed through the trash - not quite as easily as with Yuge tanking, but still pretty fast. :) On the first boss though, the boss died just after the whole group wiped, and we didn't get any loot. Which sucked! I wanted Pauldrons of Arcane Rage. Oh well.. the druid in the group left & we got in a hunter. For the rest of the run this hunter and I competed for the top of the dps charts. :P The mage in our group wasn't so great with the dps but he was good with sheeping. :) A neck dropped off the second boss that the warrior needed (I've already got my staff from him) then we continued to Vazruden and Nazan. On the first attempt we killed the ogre but wiped on the dragon - the tank died from his fire damage. The second attempt, the warrior died from the dragon's fire damage again but it was closer to the end of the fight and we managed to dps him to death. :D The ring I was looking out for didn't drop, so I didn't get any good loots out of the whole run.. but I think it was good practise and I'm glad I got to be part of a successful PuG of the place. :)

A screenshot of Panacea melting face in Ramps.. taken when I'd just overtaken the hunter in dps, heh. :P ( under here )

Panacea dinged 60 today :D

( ding shot )

She also got herself a swift ram. ^_^



it was so expensive >< Herbing brings in a lot of monies for her though. So I'm hoping it won't take too long to make it back up. Panadoll's funds are pretty severely depleted now though. I didn't want her funds to ever go under 1000g again, but she's down to only about 700g now. :( Gotta do some dailies at some point.. but now that Panacea's in Outland I kinda can't stop playing her. :P I want her at 70 now! It seems so close...

Panacea dinged level 50 last night. :D Not long til Outland!

Over the last few days I've taken her to ZF. The first group I was in was quite good and they let me dps. But we only ran the first couple of bosses, twice, because our tank wanted something off the first boss (which didn't drop). I was a little disappointed cos it was a pretty good group. The next group I joined looked like it was shaping up well until a 70 joined. I am trying to level up Panacea without any help from higher level characters, or being run through things, so this was annoying. But I stayed with the group because they needed the mallet and I was the only one with it (I got the mallet by myself. It's so much easier now that getting it doesn't involve killing elites :D). So although the run was very fast and I got a couple of quests out of the way, it didn't do much for my instance skills.

The last group I joined was pretty good. At first I thought I was going to have to heal, cos there was another priest in our group with higher shadow damage than me. But they went offline and didn't come back, so we had to get in another person, who happened to be a resto druid. :D The run went quite well, and I was always at the top of the dps charts, which made me happy. Our tank (and group leader) was a bit obsessive about the dps charts though and kept posting them and berating the lock in our group who kept coming last.. I felt sorry for her, cos it was obvious she was kinda new (she didn't know what AOE was, and we had to ask her to take her imp out for blood pact) and she was trying her best. The tank was also annoying because he never stopped to let us drink. The healer was almost constantly at below 30% mana.. if it had been me healing like that I would have yelled at him, as it was nobody said anything and just tried to drink whenever they could. I think the tank thought he was invincible or something - a couple of times when we were all sitting and drinking he'd run off and start aggroing the next group of mobs. Annoying. And then at the end, he asked if anyone needed Gahzrilla and when nobody said anything after like a second, he said "well I'm out" and ran out. We were all left standing there - we wanted to do the last boss. He told us we could do it if we wanted to.. er, without a tank? no thanks. Anyways, I got all my quests finished up, so no more ZF for me. :)

I wasn't quite sure where to go to quest after that (since I'm trying to avoid Tanaris/Ungoro). I went to Felwood to have a look around, but most of the quests were a little too high for me at level 49. Then I remembered Searing Gorge. :D I haven't been there since my very first toon, Jeski the hunter, who I played a few years ago and only ever got up to level 55. So I took Panacea over there and had lots of nostalgic fun.



I'm quite liking mind control now. :P I'm still getting used to it, but I think I should learn how to use it properly as it's my only form of CC. Instances are usually so fast paced and people forget that priests can mind control, so I'm not sure if I'll need to use it, but if I'm asked to use it it will be good to know how.

( some random Panacea screenshots )

Panadoll got to go inside BT tonight! :O lol, it was only because Konstantine had respecced CoH, which left Panadoll as one of the few, if not only, divine spirit specced priests left in Twelve. I just got called in to buff everyone, then leave. But yes now I can say I've seen the inside of BT! :P

Panacea spent some time today levelling in Feralas. I've decided I want to avoid Tanaris and Ungoro this time around, and level up in Feralas and Hinterlands instead (moving on to Burning Steppes and Silithus later on, rather than Winterspring & W/EPL like I did with Panadoll). I actually don't mind Tanaris but I really don't like Ungoro.. it's pretty there but the quests are annoying. ><

Anyways, I got into an epic PVP war while in Feralas, while I was trying to do the ogre killing quest. An undead frost mage, slightly higher level than Panacea, kept following me around and ganking me (always while I was attacking mobs). After he killed me for about the fifth time I got pissed off and logged over to Panadoll, and brought her out to Feralas all the way from Shatt. I camped the mage for like half an hour - I was that pissed off. :P Needless to say he didn't bother me after that.

Panadoll to the rescue!


Panadoll mourns the corpse of Panacea


On the way to the ogres in Feralas, Panadoll was randomly attacked by a low level rogue and their level 70 resto druid friend, who were doing the chicken escort quest. I didn't realise the druid was level 70 at first and it wasn't until after I had killed the rogue and was trying to get rid of the druid that I thought "hmm? Why isn't this guy going down? Oh.. he's level 70" :P I managed to get the druid down to about 10% health (myself at 100%) before I ran out of mana. I didn't have any pots on me unfortunately.. and so the druid (with some help from his sappy rogue friend) managed to kill me. I was pleased though.. I've never actually engaged in PVP with another 70 before, and I know if I'd had pots I would have got him down, so it was actually a bit of a confidence boost. :P