Shut the F*&ck up Lady.

I don’t think I have ever been spoken to like that before on vent.

All I said was that if he stopped swearing so much then people may not be leaving his raid group.

It was a GDKP Ulduar run,  and I was going to see if I could pick up some healing offset gear cheaply because I had been rather slack at even having a basic set. ( am slowly fixing)   We wiped on Leviathon,  and I knew it was going to go bad when I tried to explain  ( over vent)  that I needed pyrite because a Pst didnt get a response.   So I tried to explain ” See this blue thing on our left.  I need you to pick that up with I think its a 4 or a 5 ” No response.  So Leviathon comes out in hard mode and no one has pyrite,  so no stacks.  Fun.  More people leave.

I am noticing in my pug runs that I am doing, the distinct lack of females vocal in any form on vent.   Come to think of it,  I have probably pugged 5 or 6 raids that used vent, and I have been the only girl who even says boo.  Pugging has been fun to see who and what is out there,  but it can’t be all rainbows and lollypops all the time. .

 

When a Healing Helm is a better BIS

Just to show you I am actually wearing this thing.  ( see pic of Armory below.)   Shadowpriest.com ’s  Best raiding gear available list  places it at # 6 BIS and its a healing helm.  What I was wearing before was #11 Conqueror’s Cowl of Sanctification  and the actuall DPS Tier  9.5  ( 258)  is  # 14  and 9.25 # 19  It’s a joke!

* Yes I know I should have taken the Socket bonus,  but I need to fiddle round with some of my other socket bonuses  and if you work it out  +23  V +12sp+9sp + ( 0.34 x 10 )  = 24.4  I lose 1.4 Shadow Priest Psudo power  based on the stat ratings.  I am not too worried about that.  

My carefully hoarded trophy and my 75th badge from a GDKP run for my next piece of Tier Gear bought me  the  Velen’s Cowl of Triumph  ( 245 item level)

As soon as the 25 GDKP finished, and I was halfway through my 2nd flask  (the bidding took a while on some fights)  I found a 10 man Ony run to pug, and guess what.  I was the only priest and the Coronet of Transendence dropped. My  # 4 BIS.

So it’s really only a 4.6 odd Dps bonus on what I just paid /chanted and gemed for so it can stay in the bank untill 3.3 when I am sure the haste on it will make it a lot more higher rated stat wise.

Curses to the Loot gods!

Over a week on a PVP Realm & and some Misc stuff.

I’ve been on Blackrock now for over a week, and my main has not been ganked once.    ( I am good at avoiding such things – even If I might be able to take them down)

Sure they have tried.    I spawned ontop of a Shammy after taking a COT portal, and he was in shock long enough for me to mount up.  He did some frost thingy thing that froze me in place.  I hit disperse and rode away – bike engines purring, and him eating my exhaust. 

Then a Warlock killed the Alliance flight master at Gadgetzan when I wanted to take it to Ony, and he tried to dot me up,   instead I rode away healed/dispelled and went back to find him dead.   Such a disappointment.

I’ve not gone hunting for foes either,  but I have managed to fish, do dailys,  some farming,  get to and from instances, and raids  – mostly in my Pvp gear – and people are leaving me alone.  Maybe it’s that I am not on peak time when I play, or my shadow form doesn’t mark me as an easy target like I thought it would. 

Maybe I should go hunting.  LOOK!  Up the Sky!  It’s a SHADOW PRIEST!  * and they all flee in fear.

/slaps myself out of the dream.

It will probably go more like.

LOOK!  Down the floor.   Its a squished Shadow priest.

I also have a new header.  Made it myself.  I don’t have any illusions of being an awesome graphic designer,  but I think I do ok with the free tools I have.  Imagine what I could do with an expensive design studio package!

and because I wanted an excuse to put a picture my legs on my blog.  What tights/socks should every self respecting Shadow Priest wear while raiding?  These ones!  ( credit for  that excuse to  Razz because I couldnt come up with a valid excuse that wasn’t too far fetched from warcraft related.) I got these from http://www.sockdreams.com  in which I am totally in love with practically every thing on there, so my family can expect to get some socks for Christmas  ( but come on – these have to be the least boring of the socks out there!)

New Cranius : The Story

See Facebook is good for something  – Cranius  updated his status with a  new video

New Cranius and Legs Video The Story  on Youtube

and because im doing a semi plug  you can buy his Ep / Album through Itunes and Amazon,  so check out his site http://www.cranius.com/  for how to get it. 

I got it.   I’ve been listening to my Ipod at work singing.. ” I’ve been kicking ass since the dawn of time.. ” getting weird looks.  I am such a fan Boi  Gal.

/ends plug.

Shared Topic : Relationships In Azeroth

Relationships in Azeroth  is this weeks shared topic,

I think Vent or Teamspeak if you like plays a massive part in the building of any relationship in Azeroth.  

Its one thing to have all your communication done by text chat,  but to be able to speak to the person and instantaneously communicate Ideas, or events makes the interaction more ‘real.’  When the person has a voice,  and are not pretty green or pink lines on a screen your interaction transcends that of being pure avatar based.  They have a Pitch, and a tone and inflections in a voice that  beat any   or    ><  symbol you can type in chat.

It means that you can hear when you make that person happy,  and when you make them upset.  ( I’m really really sorry for falling asleep on you!)

I am not sure how much I want to reveal, but that I have become quite fond of a person on which the entire relationship was built  on that I commented on his sexy Kiwi accent over vent once.  At the time I didn’t think much of the comment,  it was one I wanted to say and that I meant,  but nor did I ever expect anything to come of it.

Instead I now know that a flight to get to where he is is  3h 10 mins. Even if I have yet to take one.  I’ve been thinking on it!

How did it cross the line of becoming something more than just someone to chat to?  I really don’t know. I am not sure where that line is,  or how to define it,  or what will happen – or if its silly or serious or fun.  It’s just not definable in a conventional sence.   It just is.

 I blame vent. Mmmm blame is not a good word,   but I cannot see how it would have crossed that line in the sand if not for that we have been able to communicate in real time on a regular basis.

Someone jokingly called a relationship like that a ‘wow boyfriend/ Wow girlfriend’  we have decided it is a rather corny label and shall never speak of it again.  

The loose statistic ( Not quoting a reference because none of them seem to be verifiable)  is that 1 in 8 marriages in the US ( I am not sure what the stats are in oz )  are people who met online,  now I wouldn’t want to rely on this stat,  but my brother married someone he met online,   I have another two close friends who met online back on the IRC days and are now happily married,   I’ve met Wow couples who met playing wow,  one marriage that I know of,  and a couple of others where they are considered to be in serious relationships – just that circumstances have meant that they have not been able to move countries to be together yet, and I can’t mention this topic without dropping  the well known – and documented Temerity Jane of who which bloggers have followed the developments and upcoming marriage of  to someone special she met online

It happens…

I wonder if each country had their own dedicated Wow servers cross the globe,  how many people would not have met, its easy to be close to someone when you spend so many hours in game, or online with them.   I say this flippantly…    What would be the consequences if  mail order brides were given MMORPG accounts.

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The Sad Side of Server Firsts…

An ex guildy that stayed on my home server logged into the vent channel we were  hanging out in to share the news that he and his new guild just got a server first. “Death’s Demise : Participated in the realm  first defeat of Yogg- Saron without the assistance of any Keepers in 25 -player mode”

Regardless of how many other guilds on however many other servers already have it, it was still an awesome achievement for them.   With a realm first comes the World Spam – and thus the entire realm knows that a server first had just occurred.

He said after the spam came the whispers and the congratulations,   and then the ‘haters’ came, not just publically attacking their achievement in trade channels,  but personal whispers at the members of the guild saying that ” they had no life.  That they didn’t deserve it  Ect.   It wasn’t just one person, it was a few. 

He was so happy to be part of this achievement,  and then to get so many people trying to belittle it, and bring them down, made it a real bummer,  souring the accomplishment.   We have the phrase  Tall poppy Syndrome  here in Australia and used elsewhere and taken directly from Wikipedia I think  it can apply to this.   

” in which people of genuine merit are criticised or resented because their talents or achievements elevate them above or distinguish them from their peers.”

 It can be hard to see people achieve when you do not.  ”It’s just a game”  gets shoved down our throat often enough,   but most people will agree, that’s  it’s a little more then a game to a lot of people – as people get different things from the game.  An achievement in game can be worthy of genuine celebration,  and   I find it horrendous that these ‘haters’ took the time to go out of their way and whisper personally the members of the guild who reached that achievement negative remarks. 

Moan in public – still bad form,  but that they thought their opinion was valid enough to try and ‘cut them down’ personally.  That really reeks to me  – it’s bad sportsmanship – and makes you a really nasty person.

 

 

Where to Farm Eternal Fires / Crystallized Fire

** Credit to this spot  goes to my good friend Razz who helped me farm Eternal Fires to fund my Merlin’s Robe.

While not intending on making this a  ” where to farm” blog  I thought I would post where a good spot to farm Eternal Fires and Crystallized Fires are because they are worth about 30 gold each on my server,  and  there is also gold to be made from the greys, and greens that drop.   The mobs are called Wailing Winds and are found in a cave at the north east of Storm Peaks. They have a bout a 26% drop rate of  Crystallized fire, and  I find if I stand right near the entrance I can pull the Wailing winds  pretty constantly as they spawn.    The cave can  support 2 people farming it at a time as long as one stays deep in the cave, and the other near the entrance. 

They do stun for 2 secs,  so as  a dotting and shielding class I was fine,  they are  apparently not fire immune,  and they do have a very quick reaction time when the respawn.  It can get quite overwhelming sometimes when they suddenly appear on top of you, and stun you.

 

And yes thats me Farming in my PVP gear,   I am now on a Pvp realm, and If Im going to get ganked, I would rather put up a fight…

Realm Cultures

I did my 1st Heroic Instance run on Blackrock  today for the daily.

On the 1st pull a green dropped, and I greeded it.  I then saw that the other 4 needed it.

“Oh” I said ” you guys need your greens on this server”

“Yeap”

“What about Orbs?”   Need too.

We went merrily on our way.

On Dath’remar   we Greed on greens, and Need on orbs.  There was a post on the Dath’remar forums recently that we are one of the few realms that need on frozen  orbs, and a horde pipped up, and said it was only Alliance that needed on orbs  – So not only are there realm cultures to learn, but faction cultures too!

My 1st GDKP run & Gearscore

A TOC 25 Run was in LFG looking for one more Dps for a hosted Gold DKP run.  I didn’t have a lot of gold on my main,  but I wanted to see what it was all about,  get a handle on how it worked – even if I didn’t end up bidding on anything.  I’m the type of GDKP person you definitely don’t want on the run – they want people to spend gold so people get a decent share of the pot,   but in my defence I told them -

“Shadow Priest 2882 Sp 5108 Gs  – Just after badges. “

They didn’t have a shadow Priest on the run, so I was welcomed, and it was relatively simple  – someone got hit by Icehowl ( noob!)  but it was tranq shotted by a on the ball hunter, and we wiped once on Anub.

I made over 1k gold on that run on the splitting of  the loot pot. Which was a poor pot but still free gold, and got easy badges.  No caster trinkets dropped, which would have driven up the bidding, and I would have emptied my coffers trying to get,  but it looks like they go for a lot of gold, so I better get saving.  Most of the gold came from people bidding on the trophies for just over 2.5k,  Orbs sold for 300 which could be resold on the AH for round 380-400  – There wasn’t even loot that dropped I could roll for cheaply for offspec.  We needed less geared cashed up people on that run.

From a performance point, I was sitting 5-9th for the 1st 4 bosses, and 11th on Anub.  Which was a much better place to be in comparison to the 10 man Toc I pugged and got top dps/damage the night before.

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I worked out why I got rejected from an a run I tried to get into the night before last,   everyone wants you to link your achievement,  stats, and gearscore.   

“Shadow Priest 2882 Sp  2727 GS”

The catch phrase on some of the LFM messages are No reply = No thankyou.

I didn’t get a reply.  I was a little confused.  According to Wow – Heroes  and their Gearscore by class and realm  I was around 13th Alliance side ( 42nd Horde and Alliance    /cry)  so given most of the people higher then me where in raiding guilds I couldnt understand why I was rejected for a pug.

I asked one of my ex guildys that had transferred  “  What do they use to work out their gearscores?”  

“It’s an add on?”
“Ahhhh” 

So I downloaded Gearscore from Curse to find out my gearscore was  5108 – a massive difference to the 2727 Score I was quoting – So no wonder  I was rejected.  ( and that score is with 2 ilevel 200 trinkets)

Loot dealing and Wheeling.

Onyxia 25 was forming – I joined,  we were doing well untill the 2nd phase of whelps.   Raid wiped  – raid leader Dc’s  people start leaving,  someone starts to reform.  Thinking I might be able to salvage it, I stick around.  The raid leader of the reform then whispers me wanting  to know what loot I’m after – I tell him helm,  he says he wants the cloak.    

 He was checking to see if I was going to roll on the cloak before we had even got 25 people in the raid.  My brain ticks.  Guildless raidleader, with master looter wanting loot bad enough to check with a dps that they don’t want it before we even formed.  Ninja warning ! went off in my head.

Maybe I was being overtly paranoid – I didn’t know this person from squat – it’s just purple pixels blah blah , what do you expect from pugs ect.    I was getting a clear impression that he wanted me to say ” I will not roll on that cloak”

We still see people in pugs though not wanting to stack the raid with more than one of their class/spec so as to get better loot chances,  what was going to stop him from kicking me if he thought I was a threat to his loot, even if he was a boomkin.  Didn’t want to risk it, and so I left the raid with a . ” “I don’t do loot deals sorry”  If I told him I didn’t want the cloak if it dropped and I rolled on it then he would loot it to himself because I said I didn’t want it, and if I said I wanted the cloak then he had the power to remove me – as I owed nothing to him,  he owed nothing to me

It’s early in the raid week – I don’t think I will have many issues picking up at least the base of the 10’s and 25’s – the TOGC’s because I haven’t fully cleared them look to be a problem  4/5 for TOGC 10 and  3/5 for TOGC 25  - the Pst achievements seem to be essential to get an invite.