Meatgrinder

Last night I did some more quests in Hellfire Peninsula with my shaman. The always so amusing walk-the-felhound among others.

 Then I suddenly got an invitation to Hellfire Ramparts. I accept the group invite. Then the inevitable question. “Are you resto?”

Yeah. Like I level from 60 to 70 with a resto shaman. If I wanted to spend large amounts of gold to repair my stuff and spend endless hours trying to complete one quest, I’d go back to LotRO. But when I said no, the rogue just pulled a holy/disc 62 priest out of his ass, and on we went.

After playing healing classes for most of my WoW career I wasn’t really prepared to play a enchantmentshaman in a instance. I pulled aggro. A lot. I spent so much time watching the combat text with all the numbers, I forgott to place totems. But with a good tank and a good priest (I can count the times i had such a good pickup-group on a clumsy fan inspectors fingers) we pulled through. Wiped a couple of times, but no-one really cared.

Problem  is I’m having so much fun with my shaman that I’m forgetting to play my new druid. Oh, well. My vacation is coming up so there will be plenty of time for that later. Right now I’m like a kid who found an old favorite toy.

Nostalgica

Last nights venture into the Black Morass made me miss my guild. We’ve taken a break from raiding during the summer since a lot of the members will be out in the sun drinking beer instead of playing.

And there have been signs of raiding fatigue. We need people to fool around with new speccs and/or alts. PvP. Annoy the n00bies in Elwyn Forrest. To rember how to have fun again.

If we don’t pull that of, we will start loosing key members of the guild. Either to Real Life (gasp!), other games (Lord of the Rings Online already stole a hunter, shaman, priest and a rogue) and other guilds (no raiding means no epixx and thats bad for morale).

We start over again in a month and a half. I don’t think we’ll get everyone back, but I kow that those that choose to stay will have a blast. For I’ve never been in a guild like this before and I love everyone in the drunken mob I call a World of Warcraft guild. Except the Norwegians. They scare me.

Aftershock

Today I’ve mostly been playing with my old Shaman. He was the first character I got to 60 and the one I’ve been raiding the most with in the “old world”. It felt very nice to wipe the dust of him and take the old fellow out for a run. Did some quests in Hellfire Penninsula and tried out a maximum-dps enchantmentspecc.

Even without my totems out (stuff dies so fast there’s no point in putting them up) he’s going through the mobs like a hot knife through butter. I might start playing with him a lot more in the future, if I can find the time.

 A full time job, relationship and a large circle of friends leave precious little time for gaming. Especially when you’re like me and have several characters going, when in truth you should be concentrating in getting better gear for the main.

I helped out my old shaman Class Leader with a quest today. He needed a dps for the Black Morass part of the Karazhan key quest, and asked if I could bring my shadow priest.

Now, I hate Black Morass. I spent a LOT of time there while I tried to get my own key. Tried both full guild groups and pickup-groups with completely insane combinations of classes. Nothing worked. Eventually we made it by just grinding the damn thing four or five times in a row, and finally we completed it.

But this has left me with a rather large debt when it comes to that instance. So I’ve promised myself that if anyone asks for my help in that quest, and I’m not doing anything terribly important, I’ll help.

And when my old CL asks, there’s not much else to do than do grab the old shadowgear and head into the swamp, guns blazing (or is that Mindblasting?) We failed once but got it on the second try. Mostly due to people forgetting chrono-beacons and the dps beeing a little slow. My fault there. I reinstalled World of Warcraft a little while ago and haven’t gotten around to download my addons. Nor did I have my macros ready. So things didn’t go as smoothly as it usually does.

Mind Flay wasn’t even on my action bar when I entered the instance…

Language

Ah, the written word.

 I will ask anyone who reads this (anyone? hellooo? is there anybody out there?) to take into consideration that english is not my first language. It’s not even my second one, although it comes close.

So if there is a spelling error, (I hope not, I really hate taht) or more likely, a sentence that sounds  odd, don’t hesitate to let me know. I’m a spelling nazi myself, so I dont mind. And if I’m ever going to get this right, i need to know what mistakes i’m doing.

So flame away!

Prioritize

I blew my second college entry test because I was up all night playing Asheron’s Call.

But I still don’t know what I want to become when I grow up, so it does’nt make any difference. I wouldn’t have been able to use it anyway, as you have to redo it after five years.

Status update: Druid

Level 26. Hiding out in Ashenvale but taking quick detours to Thousand Needles when the trees start getting on my nerves.

That’s the price of playing on a PVP server. The forest do have eyes. And ears. And bows, pets and stealth skills.

MMORPG’s

I’ve been escaping to virtual worlds as long I’ve kown about them. My parents got internet access in 1999, so I missed the entire MUD-train and most of Ultima Online, but a friend of mine got into the Asheron’s Call beta and showed it to me.

I was hooked instantly. I’ve always been a sucker for computer RPG’s, and finding one that I could play with other people was amazing.

Me and a couple of friends once used an entire night talking about how cool it would be to play The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall in multiplayer (yes, we are nerds. Why?). And here it was. The promised land. Here we could be knights and rogues, wizards and barbarians and fight monsters in a LIVING, CHANGING WORLD!

Me, myself and I

I play World  of Warcraft.

I’m a Druid. And a Priest. And a Shaman. And a Hunter (but then again, who isn’t?)

 This is me. Semi-raiding healer on a european PVP-server. Horde (For, like, life).