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. :(

Wow it's been ages since I updated this journal. I think I stopped updating because I became very busy with raiding with Delusion for a while. Panadoll geared up heaps, became one of Delusion's top healers & priest class leader, and cleared all 10 and 25 man content - with some difficulty, because Delusion was never particularly organised and had a lot of bads. Actually, I don't think Panadoll has actually gotten the 10 man Maly achievement yet. 0_0 (I did eventually work out my problems with third phase Maly btw.) She's pretty much as geared as she can be now & ready for Ulduar, almost full tier 7.5, with the exception of helm, and she looks like this:



Unfortunately, I had a lot of problems with Delusion, and I wasn't the only one. There was heaps of drama, mainly caused by the terrible way the guild was run and the actions of the guild leader and her boyfriend, and after finding out something particularly nasty I finally gquit. Damager - the mage and raid leader of Delusion I mentioned before in this journal and who I'm now in a relationship with <3 - left soon after, throwing the whole guild into turmoil because he was really keeping the whole thing together. Lots of other people also gquit. Damager and I applied to join Twisted Faith, a much more organised & progressed guild on our server. Damager was accepted into the guild almost immediately. It took me a little while longer, because although I was told my guild application was excellent it took a while for the heals leader to find time to talk to me. Finally he asked me to log on to their vent to have a chat. The first question I was asked was, "why disc?" Twisted Faith wasn't actually looking for disc priests, they were looking for holy priests, and they asked me if I'd be willing to respec. I think I managed to convince them to give me a chance to show them what I could do as disc, because I am extremely confident with my heals as disc - raiding with Delusion I was often second or third on heal metres despite my single target healing discness. They seemed to like me anyway and offered me a raiding spot with their guild, which I very happily accepted. Shortly therafter, I was invited to their 25man Naxx as a replacement (usually people in the guild have to sign up in advance for raids). I was very nervous because I wanted to impress them, and I don't think I did too badly. Their healers were much better than Delusion's healers though and although I kept up with them through most of the raid I started losing concentration a bit towards the end and dropped down to 5th overall on the heal metre. I was extremely happy though, to clear 25 Naxx in one night - Delusion only ever managed it over two nights. I also got my tier 7.5 chest out of the run. :)

Today I was logged onto an alt I've been levelling with Damager (and occasionally other friends' alts), a little 20-something mage called Dollfase, when Twisted Faith's raid leader whispered me to ask if I'd be interested in taking my shadowpriest to the guild's 25 Naxx alt run that night. I told him I'd really like to but Panacea is hardly geared for 10man Naxx. He said that he didn't really care about gear, he just wanted someone experienced who could MC on Instructor (which I had successfully done on Panadoll the night before). So I told him I'd give it a go. I think I was even more nervous than I was raiding with them on Panadoll, because Panacea's gear was so bad, not gemmed, not enchanted, no glyphs, and a really bad rotation that I'd been meaning to work on for ages. So I fixed everything I could, worked out a new rotation which I tested extensively on dummies & dueling Damager, and ended up going to the raid semi-confident but still nervous. I actually did far far better than I thought I would - I never actually realised how powerful my aoe (Mind Sear) is. I think I ended up 6th or 7th on dps overall. I really enjoyed myself too - dps is much less stressful than healing (though I will always love healing the best ^_^). Panacea also got three new awesome pieces of gear - Digested Silken Robes from Maexxna, Touch of Horror from Gothik, and Mantle of the Corrupted from Four Horsemen. Panacea now looks like this:



We stopped the run after the DK quarter, because it was 1am and the raid (being an alt run) had gone on for far too long already. We'll be picking it up again tomorrow.. should be fun ^_^ I'm liking gearing up again. :)

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.

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

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

SotM officers met at Honor Hold tonight for a meeting.. long overdue, because I think we've been waiting for officer Iamleo to come back online (he's recently moved, and has been without internet for a while). Lots of stuff was discussed, including my idea for a sin bin rank to demote idiot nublets to (Indi's setting that up, and giving officers the power to promote/demote), a set of rules for people who want to be run through instances (they need to go read these rules if they want a run, otherwise they don't get one), creation of a gbank toon to deal with the issue of people using the gbank to empty their bags, and what we're gonna do come the xpac. Basically we're going to remain a relaxed levelling guild in the expansion, with plans to raid at 80 eventually. I let everyone know that I will be levelling Panadoll exclusively when the xpac hits, and that my plan is to raid with Twelve at 80. I want to learn the new strats so I can eventually come back to SotM and lead their raids at 80 on Panacea. Raiding with Twelve on Panadoll will remain my priority however. I don't see that being a problem as SotM is so relaxed with raiding - they're not trying to get through all the content as quickly as possible, we don't have many regular raiders at the moment, and I think they will take it slow at 80 to get a better feel for working in a raid team.

Death also came to the meeting with stuff to say about how my Kara raids have been run. When we did Kara on Sunday night, many people who had signed up never turned up for the run, meaning I had to invite backups and we spent a while looking for an OT. The run was scheduled for 7:30 but we didn't start until almost 9 because of this. I thought the run itself went quite well, but it did go quite late and Death was very tired by the end of it and in favour of continuing the next night. The majority of the rest of the raid (including myself) wanted to continue on and get it done. So we didn't finish up until almost 1am. In the meeting Death seemed very angry about this, saying it was ridiculous that it took so long and people shouldn't have kept going for breaks, chatting etc. Personally I can't remember us taking that many breaks - Yuge did have to go out and get his urn for Nightbane, people took a couple of bathroom breaks (as you do when raiding for a few hours), and Hannika was explaining the strat before each boss because we had a few people new to Kara, but other than that I think we got through relatively quickly. Although Kara's been nerfed, it's a huge place and does still take a while to get through, particularly with new people and people not completely epicced out. 4 hours wasn't that bad imo. But Death seemed really peeved.. I feel bad, because I really want to be a good raid leader, and it seemed like an attack against my RL style.. I might be taking it too personally, but I still feel a bit crappy. :(

With WotLK so close, my priorities have shifted a bit. I'm trying to get as many Outland raids and old world raids as I can done on Panadoll, and gear her up as much as possible. Unfortunately my horrible luck with rolls has been hampering me. Today I did AQ20 (fun, fast raid), then finished off Hyjal (the servers never came back online last night - not quickly anyways). No tier stuff dropped for me in Hyjal, legs from Archi didn't drop, and I didn't win the only other thing I wanted (bracers to replace my crappy Shattrath Wraps) which was disappointing. Twelve won't go back there again, so that's it I guess. No legs of awesomeness for me. :( I'm hoping they'll do BWL sometime soon, and perhaps Onyxia, so I can get the old world raiding achievement.

Tonight I logged onto Panacea to do ZA with SotM. Half an hour before we were due to go, Lutzi asked me if I wanted to go to Gruuls. So I went and did that, and got Leggings of the Fallen Defender - finally, something! Not quite sure yet if what I can get for it will be better than my gemmed Kara legs, cos I had to log over straight afterwards for ZA.

There were only a few people invited who still wanted ZA. :( So we had to PuG most people. It wasn't too bad though, our PuG was pretty good, despite only managing to get three bosses down before we ran out of time. Better than other PuGs of ZA I've done on Panacea anyways. But I didn't win any rolls for anything (of course ><) and we didn't manage to get the last boss (Zul'jin) down, mostly because people were unfamiliar with the fight I think (move out of fires, first rule of WoW ><) and our awesome healer Pelor going down early most attempts. I'm not quite sure what he was doing wrong. He most often went down in Phase 3, and I know HoTs are better to use in that phase cos you get damage if you cast in a tornado.. but yeh. Our group was a bit melee heavy which may have had something to do with it.

Today's been interesting. Did my dailies and mucked around with Panacea a bit, went & did Mara with Leth for luls & achievement, then got a few battle tokens in Halaa. Tonight I was supposed to heal Stratholme for Death and Xan, but I pulled out at the last minute to go to Tempest Keep with Twelve. I feel really bad about it but.. seeing as much content as I can & progressing on Panadoll is always my main priority. Death if you're reading this, I'm really sorry I bailed. >< There's just so little time left til the expansion and I really want to do as much as I can with Panadoll before it hits.

TK was cool :D It was great to get a a chance to see it. And my new Healbot bindings are so win. I'm doing heaps better and really enjoying raid healing now.. more than instance healing. I know I shouldn't watch healing metres because they really don't mean much, but I can't help liking seeing my name crawl closer to the top. >< The only depressing thing was the amount of awesome healy stuff that dropped, and my crappy crappy rolls. Leokadia got just about all of it - which is awesome for her, and she looks so cool now. :D I did get Talisman of the Sun King from Alar though, so at least I came out of there with something. :) I wonder if there's a chance of them going back again before xpac...

After TK, the raid reformed a bit and we went to do Hyjal. I enjoyed myself a lot more than my first time there, since I wasn't flailing about so much not knowing what's going on, and my healing style is decidedly better. But the server announced it was going down just as we were getting to Kaz'rogal. We were in the middle of fighting him when we were all kicked off. Right now we're waiting around to see if the server will come back up again so we can finish the run off. I really hope so... I really would like some more loots.. particularly those legs from Archi ><...

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... :)

After the SotM Kara being cancelled yesterday, Verd tried to find a PuG. He managed to get into a fail group that wiped on Attumen, but did eventually get him down. No other bosses though. So today he really wanted to go back and finish it, cos today was the second last chance we had to do Kara before the xpac, and he really wanted some loot from Moroes. So I agreed to come with on Panacea. At first, it looked like we wouldn't get anywhere, cos we couldn't find healers (at least, healers that wouldn't scream at us to start moving and then suddenly leave without warning). We hung around for ages in front of the new boss (Tenris) looking for healers, with me and Lethrblaka getting impatient for us to give up & disband (Leth & I were both there because we felt we had to be for Verd - I felt guilty for cancelling Monday's Kara and Verd had run Leth's alt through SM earlier). Finally someone said they'd log over to their holy pally, Verd respecced resto, and Yuge decided to grace us with his presence as main tank. So we were ready to go. :D

It was a speed run because the servers were going down. I thought they were going down at 8, so I wasn't expecting to get far since we started at about 7:30. But they actually went down at 10, so we managed to get through Moroes (Verd's loot dropped for him ^_^), Maiden, Opera (got Romulo & Julianne, which I hadn't seen before), Nightbane (I got Robe of the Elder Scribes - not sure if this is really any good for me & I probably shouldn't have rolled on it ><), Curator (got my T4 gloves, woot ^_^) and Illhoof. We ran up to Aran with 5 minutes til shutdown. o_o Someone moved during flame wreath in the beginning, and although we fought pretty hard (well, not me so much, I died early) we didn't manage to get him down. Impressively though, the other spriest managed to chuck a bubble on Yuge near the end, and he was able to hearth back to Shat. :O The rest of us only had just enough time to res inside the door before the server kicked us out. xD

I've been really, really burnt out on WoW lately.. haven't really wanted to play that much. I've been getting a bit depressed about things.. I have problems with both of my toons' guilds.. and problems with the way I'm playing. Like I wish I wasn't so focused on trying to play awesomely and get awesome loots. I just end up feeling like crap when I don't play awesomely and don't get awesome loots. :P I really enjoy raiding but I often can't get past competitive feelings. I guess that's the main thing making me feel bad, cos I don't want to feel that way at all. I want to just be excited about seeing content I haven't seen before and reach my little personal goals. Not be comparing myself constantly to other players. :(

Anyways, I've been doing a fair bit of old world raiding with Twelve lately, on Panadoll. We've been to AQ40 (though we didn't down the final boss, and I wasn't online when they went back & did it ><), MC and ZG. I did really enjoy seeing all this stuff :) But I'm pretty crap at the 40-man raiding. Heals go where now? lol. ZG was the most fun I think, though I did really like AQ40 also. I've been wanting to see AQ for ages. I'm just annoyed I didn't get the achievement of completing it :(

I'd organised a SotM Kara for Monday night, but when I logged on Panacea I had all these mails from people cancelling. It ended up that only me, Yuge, Verd and Cretton were still keen to go. The two main people I'd made it on Monday for, Cy and Indi (guild leader) weren't able to go. Cy at least sent me a mail about it but there was no word from Indi at all. Slightly pissed off about that. Anyways I cancelled the Kara, since Yuge wanted to go off and do old world raids with Twelve anyway and Verd is adept at pugging such things. I wasn't into the idea of pugging Kara. Death has organised a ZA later this week, which should be interesting. :)

I haven't logged onto WoW for the last three days, because I have been making a Panacea costume. :P It was for a party I went to on Saturday night that had a "games" theme. I made the costume for very cheap and over a very short period of time, so it turned out a bit crappy and I didn't have enough time to include all the details I wanted. My frozen shadoweave shoulders turned out particularly bad, lol xD But I had lots of (drunken) fun! And I also won the party's costume competition. ^_^

psychic scream lol


( another silly pic )

After talking about running a guild Kara for ages, and repeatedly asking people - in game, on the forums - if they were interested, and getting hardly any response, I finally decided to just make a Kara event on the calendar and invite people as they logged on and were interested. Immediately almost a full group was keen. This group, is made up of nothing but warriors, druids and priests... but since Kara's been nerfed, I think we can run with that.

Anyway, I changed the guild announcement to let people know that a Kara was being organised. What I did not realise was that our guild leader was interested in coming along. I've always been under the impression that Lilac wasn't particularly interested in endgame raiding - stemming back from around the time when I first joined the guild and I heard her say that she wasn't really looking forward to hitting 70. She just never really seemed that keen on anything other than soloing.. I never saw her asking for instance groups, and I had never, ever seen her express an interest in going to Kara. Now Lilac is currently level 68, and today she asked me if there were any minimum gear requirements to come along to Kara. I told her there weren't, but unfortunately all the spots for the raid had been filled bar one, which had been reserved for a geared healer. She told me ok, but then Cy (another officer) began whispering me & telling me that Lilac had been working really hard to level to 70 for Kara, and that she felt that she was being left out of guild events which wasn't fair since she is GL. I was like wut?? This was the first I'd heard of her even being interested in Kara. I apologised to Lilac in guild chat for not sending her an invite and confessed that I didn't know she wanted to come to Kara. She answered like she was pissed off and I was like O_O! I grovelled for a bit but slowly got angry. Why should I be made to feel like I've done something wrong when Lilac never gave me any indication previously that she was interested in coming to Kara?? Also Cy seemed pissed off that all the raid spots had been filled too (I didn't invite him, as he's still level 66) as he has been rushing to level up so he can come to Kara. Why should I be made to feel like crap because I invited guildies as they expressed interest? And Lilac always knew that I planned to organise a guild Kara - if she was interested in coming, she should have told me directly.

Lilac also told me that she could not set up Vent, because of her computer being in the middle of her house where her sons were around.. Personally I don't get this, because she could quite easily plug in some headphones and just listen to us on Vent, she wouldn't need to speak at all. And the detailed screenshots I have posted in the guild forums should make it extremely simple for even the most computer-illiterate person to set up Vent. So her Vent excuses aren't really valid at all. When I tried to explain to her the need for Vent in Kara (especially for first timers) she eventually said that she's not ready for Kara then, and she will wait until she can get her computer away from her boys. Hunh??? I really don't get her aversion to wearing headphones in front of them?

ugh, stupid guild drama is stupid.

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

my lists of stuff I wanna do before Wrath hits (from most important to least important)

Panadoll

• Finish getting to Exalted with Sha'tari Skyguard (by doing preferred 5 dailies every day)
  
• Buy epic flying mount training, and Netherray
  
• Make a full set of Primal Mooncloth Bags
  
• Try to get into a few more Karas/Gruuls/Mags
  
• Max out cooking, fishing & first aid
  
• Do as much of the Exploration achievements as possible
  
• Buy/grind more minipets
  
• Try out a BG, at least once :P

Panacea

• Grind as much gold as possible, by:
  - Doing all the Isle dailies, every day
  - Doing Outland dailies
  - selling glyphs
  
• Level tailoring to make Frozen Shadoweave Robe
  
• Max out tailoring
  
• Max out inscription
  
• Finish getting to Exalted with Kurenai
  
• Try to get into enough Halaa raids to get 100 battle tokens
  
• Buy either regular or Black War talbuk
  
• Continue getting to Exalted with Sha'tar (running Mech, mostly)
  
• Try to organise guild Kara!
  
• Max out cooking, fishing & first aid
  
• Try out a BG, at least once :P

..it doesn't seem like a lot here, but it really isn't that much longer till the xpac so this will definitely occupy all my time. >< I actually doubt that I'll get it all done (getting enough gold is the most worrying factor) but we'll see how it goes. :)

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 wasn't planning to do much on WoW today.. kinda wanted to have a bit of a rest from all the instancing, and just do dailies and farm rep. I logged onto Panadoll to do the Quel Danas dailies. While I was there Lutzi (on Fuzo) began organising a Kara raid for Leokadia, who had just dinged 70. I remember back in the day when Panacea was just a little level 11 running around Loch Modan and ran into Leokadia, then level 42, and thinking I'd never catch up to her. xD /nostalgia :P Anyways, I asked Lutzi if Panacea could come along to the Kara run, and he said ok. So I logged over to Panacea, and immediately got the nervous shakey adrenaline feeling I always get whenever I raid with Twelve - partly of course because they are all so much more experienced and awesome at this game than me, and partly because this was to be Panacea's first time in Kara.. my first attempt at DPSing in a real raid.

Kara was awesome fun! I think I did pretty well, though I had a little trouble in the beginning with targeting mobs, as my usual way of doing it in instances is to just click on the tank's target, next to their name, but in a raid my frames are different and don't show the mob the tank's attacking unless I target the tank first. I got used to it after a while though. Of course I was way down the damage metres, usually in about 6th spot, but I did manage to get up to 4th a couple of times. :D I shackled my assigned mob like a pro on Moroes, and did quite well on the other bosses too, except for Nightbane and Shade of Aran. On Nightbane I died early on because I didn't have my visual settings set high enough and couldn't see the charred earth, and therefore died cos I was standing in it. >< Shade of Aran remains my most hated of Kara bosses; I have died every time I've done it. I thought I had the strategy figured out - move to the outside of the room on Arcane Explosion, and stop moving completely during Flame Wreath. But I got aggro somehow near the start of the fight, and died from it pretty quickly. One day I'll do it and actually survive.. ><

I got some good gear from the Kara run. :) Bands of Nefarious Deeds from Maiden, Wicked Witch's Hat from Opera (we got Wizard of Oz again.. I've still never seen Romeo & Juliet :P) and Adornment of Stolen Souls from Prince. :D And a whole lotta badges. :)

Later on, I logged on Panacea again planning to just buy up some mats and make my Frozen Shadoweave Boots finally. But Verd was in a Magtheridon PuG, and asked in guild chat if either me or Help would be interested in joining it, as they needed a shadowpriest. I was dubious at first as Panacea is not really geared for Mags, but Help (who is less geared than Panacea, mostly in PvP gear) was starting to look like he was keen so I jumped in before he could. :P I was summoned into Mags - they'd cleared the way through up to him already. We wiped on the first attempt after getting him down to 25%. A couple of people left, and I got Yuge invited in to tank. On the second attempt, I was assigned backup clicking duty, which made me a bit nervous. But I worked my ass off, managed to stay alive through the entire fight while running back and forth to check on the clicker, getting out of fires and trying to stay in range of Mag to dps & put my all important VT on him. We managed to get him down. :D And then, amazingly, I managed to win the roll for his head with a roll of 99. xDDD So now I have a shiny new Band of Crimson Fury!

Afterwards I went back to my plan of buying up the mats for my boots (I farmed the netherweb spider silk for them though, as they are going for 11g a pop on the AH at the moment ><) and eventually made my Frozen Shadoweave Boots. ^o^

So yeh, a very successful day! 5 new epics, yays! xD Panacea is fast approaching Panadoll's gear level now. I am so glad I got to take her through Kara before the expansion.. and I never even dreamed I'd get her through Mags as well. :D