Quick Update

I've been working a lot lately and I know there's at least one holiday I need to write about (Lade is a Pilgrim and Kady missed out on the rogues, but since it doesn't apply towards the Meta, I really don't care), not to mention our failed attempt at Trial of the Grand Crusader, but I wanted to do a quick post on Warcraft's Anniversary.

I noticed when I logged into WoW today that there was a section of the website dedicated to their anniversary. I'm sure this web site's been up for a while and I'm just now noticing. But what I liked was they're working on a mosaic of people and their "battle cry" (horde or alliance sign). So I played in Photoshop today and came up with a picture I submitted for the mosaic, enjoy :)

Garaba is a lush

Just for you ;)

The Headless Horseman is a Hoe...

Getting ready to summon the Hoebag Headless Horseman.

When I first started playing WoW last year, my first toon (Ladelyia), was only in her teens and low 20's, so there wasn't much she could do. I was able to pick up candy from several inns and get a couple of the easy achievements but not much. It was also very annoying to go to the main cities and towns that had waterfronts because there were plague crates that would turn you into a zombie if you got too close. It was for WOTLK and once you were a zombie you could infect other players. Being a lowbie, I found this very annoying because it was an interuption in my questing, I couldn't turn things in or I couldn't get things done in town because I was too busy either avoiding plauged players or trying to find the antidote because I had been turned.

This year, the Hallow's End festivities were way more enjoyable. The one and only thing I had trouble with (on both Kady and Ladelyia) was getting the Hallowed Helm to drop. My hubby (who I love very much) had it drop while trick-or-treating one or two of his toons and I hated him for a while. His lowbie Shaman got Sinister Calling through trick-or-treating, freaking ticked me off. I was running HH almost every night with Lade and Kady for a chance at the helm. I cared about the possibility of the mount too, but mostly the helm. For the people in our guild who semi-cared about the acheivements (there are a few who absolutely refuse or simply don't care at all), they ended up getting the Hallowed title before Garaba and I (who are actually working on the violet protodrake). It got to the point where Garaba was offering money to whoever's summon won him the helm. I managed to get the helm and finish the achievements a day or two before the end of the holiday, thankfully.

Finally, on HALLOWEEN, the LAST day of the entire two week holiday, Garaba finally got the helm. It took an extra summon, but he got it. The first group of guildies to go didn't manage to get the helm to drop. So Super and I got on our other toons (his hunter for him and Kady--who didn't have it yet--for me), Darwe had come on his Warlock so we each got summons, which was awesome. Super summoned first and that helm showed its vindictive little face after a relatively quick downing of the HH. I looked over at Super and asked if it would be mean if I rolled need on it (we'd been rolling need on anything that we actually needed, that way if the others got greed-happy we would still have a chance at looting the helm for the acheivement) since Kady didn't have it yet. That was when he told me that it had been his summon and he'd split the money with me. I'll take in-game money over an achievement on my non-achievement toon, heck yes. I knew how much Garaba was offering too, 500g, so I definitely did that. Since Kady hadn't done her summon yet, I went ahead and did it since we were all there anyway. That damn helm dropped again. Nobody else in the group needed it, Kady was the only one. So now both Ladelyia and Kady are sporting "the Hallowed" titles and Kady got 250g out of the deal!

Ladelyia dressed as a pirate (with a weird tabard glitch) and a weighted jack-0-lantern.

Shift-click does not work in real life...

I was in Best Buy today and attempted to shift-click a movie in my head to see if I had it already. I think I've been playing too much...

Brewfest & Downing Onyxia

Got a lot done in the past week, despite working a heck of a lot of hours (two jobs will do that to you!). Both Kady and Ladelyia are Brewmasters. Kady got it the hard way and Lade got it the easy way (returning the clothes and using the refunded tokens to buy the membership), but they both got the achievements and both pets so I'm happy with that. No mount for either toon, although one or two members of the guild did end up getting the ram I think. I'm thinking by this time next year both Kady and Ladelyia will have violet proto-drakes, I'm hoping anyway, we'll see. I may say "screw this" and just do the achievements I want or skip the ones that are ridiculous. Meh. It's whatev.

So Ony...

I was on an alt getting ready to get a group of guild lowbies together to run Gnomer, when Nayana asks if anyone wants to do Ony-10. Since we hadn't defeated her in our guild run last Wednesday, none of us were locked and she was tired of her Super Fail pug group that she was already in (they died on trash). So we got a group together (Nayana's really good at finding good pugs), got in Vent and away we went.

We only wiped a couple of times (although one shouldn't count because 3 of us got hit with a wing swipe running to the back of the room and died), and while we were discussing things before we started our last, and successful, attempt, I said in vent, "Enough practice, let's down this bitch." Apparently, I should have said that sooner because it seemed to be just the boost we needed to defeat her ;) I didn't pick up any gear, but we got 3 triumph badges, so that was nice. 4 of our guild members went, so that makes more of us who are now familiar with the fight and succeeded at killing her, which will make our next guild attempt that much better.

Now all I need to do is get all the way through ToC-10...Super did that in a pug last week while I was sleeping, the bum. Hasn't stopped talking about the gear he got either... :-P

Gates of Dawn: Now With 34% More Fail...

Pretty much all I've been doing lately is attempting to get slightly better gear to make raiding slightly easier. I haven't had much interest in doing anything else in the game, I may need a break...

Today we took on all new bosses for the guild and failed miserably. All we got for our troubles was repair bill after repair bill. We attempted Beasts of Northrend and only got to the worms, who proceeded to kick our asses. After we realized that ToC10 was a bust, we moved on to attempt the new Onyxia, which was also a fail. I did Onyxia once on Lade at a low level, and even then I lagged out when all the whelps were released and by the time I got back in Onyxia was dead. Wipes are frustrating enough as it is, it also doesn't help when our more experienced players say who failed at what every time we wipe. Every new boss is a learning experience and most of the time all we actually need is practice, especially practice in dealing with the random things that could kill you if you don't act quickly enough (like fire on the floor or whelp eggs--I'm guilty of both).

The only thing I'm really doing besides raiding (and Brewfest, which I'm almost done with anyway) is leveling a druid and her professions. I love the warrior, but it's really tough to level her without a healer. The druid fights in a similar way to the warrior but she can pop out of bear form and heal herself, which is really nice. I get the dps cat form in another level, very excited about that. :)

Girls of Gates - Slumber Party Edition!

So, Nayana, Alindras, and I have been trying to have a slumber party for a couple of weeks now. Tonight, we're having it. I'm currently slightly intoxicated, just barely buzzing, but I'll write more as I get progressively worse (I hope). We started watching Tropic Thunder, but got to the point where we were talking over the movie more than watching it. Next we did the nose strip things, which I have never done before, so that was interesting, I've attached a video of me taking mine off below.

*video goes here*

We've paused the movie now and are listening to music on YouTube, apple bottom jeans with the furrrrr...Nayana is braiding Alindras' hair.

We're fairly intoxicated now, Alindras is describing a music video she wants to do, but it's highly inappropriate. We had been chatting with Darwe via google messanger, but he's wussed out and gone to bed (it's only 12:30am).

Me: "The Amish don't appreciate nudity."
Alindras: "Well, Pittsburgh does!"


It's morning, about 10am now, Nayana and I were up at 7, blech. We've been sitting and talking in the living room (also enjoying "Best of Craigslist" ads). Alindras came down and made us bacon and toast for breakfast, yummy!

It's also Pirate Day and I'm off to get some achievements :)