I guess I should have expected something this to happen. I really apologize for going so long without a post; I got rather caught up with several things that seemed to suck up all my time. Yes yes a lot if it was WoW—I knew I was going back to school so I wanted to get in as much time as I could before I had to be responsible again. So far I’m doing pretty well. I got on to raid last night, then logged off and read some for my Operating Systems class :) It also just occurred to me that today is maintainance, as I haven’t even tried to log in yet. *falls over from patting back too hard*
Anyways, to catch anyone up who cares, I finished my Texas trip and came back home, started making some preparations for the fall like lining up scholarships and filling out my FAFSA (DEATH TO FAFSA D:<). I’ve got my part time web development job set up as well, so I should be making some extra cash while I schools mahself. While I expect to leave much of my available time during the day for homework and the part time position, I should be able to arrange some time for teh blog *blows dust off the sidebars* I will first be picking up my class guide that I left off at Shamans because I don’t want people thinking I’m that vain about my class >.>’
In WoW News…
In case anyone didn’t go to Blizzcon or read MMO-Champion lately, Blizzard has announced the next expansion—Cataclysm. Apparently Deathwing (o_O’) is back and has torn Azeroth asunder. The premise of this expac is that they’re planning on redesigning the Vanilla zones post-Cataclysmic style and allowing the much sought after old world flying capability. Class/Race combinations are being updated, along with the addition of two new races: Goblins (H) and Worgen (A). It sounds nice and all, but I still don’t know how I feel about it.
Currently on Argent Dawn the instance server issue is it’s worst. Starting about 5pm server you have trouble getting into level 80 heroics ( i.e. it takes 30+ minutes of portal grinding to get in), which is absolutely ridiculous. Apparently after 5 you have to either raid, PVP, or run around aimlessly if you want to play World of Warcraft. What if you want to do non-heroics? Or old world content? Lol….
I made two level 60 characters for an experiment on our realm called Years Behind. A handful of individuals started this guild to see if there was any interest in raiding at 60 legit by turning off exp gain. The maiden voyage was three weeks ago when we had a ZG raid lined up for a Saturday. We had 15 60s show up to enter the instance and 20 level 60s in the guild at the time. Unfortunately after several members of the raid spent 3 hours (yes… hours) trying to get into the stupid instance, they called it. We tried again the next saturday only to have the same result. It was extremely disheartening.
Then one night a friend and I were trying to get into Onyxia’s Lair at 1am. We spent an hour without getting in. In the middle of the night… That’s when I first read the post on MMO-Champion and it really infuriated me. Blizzard is announcing that they’re basically planning on removing ALL the old content and making it level 80/85+ content. So not only will the content we made characters especially for be going away, but we can’t even run it right now because of the stupid instance servers.
Honestly I’m to the point that if they release the next major content patch before the servers are fixed I might stop playing. It’s frustrating me that much. Why should I pay money every month if I only get to do end-game raiding? I’m sure some people don’t have a problem with that, but I like playing more of the game than that. That doesn’t even mention all the people who have recently started playing the game who can’t get into ANY of the instances to level. That’s a humongous chunk of experience, gear, and lore that they’re all missing out on. It’s really frustrating, and I’m almost fed up with it.
On the Brighter Side of News…
I got my priest to 80 this past weekend as the product of some mysterious leveling obsession I found. Probably has something to do with the fact that I got her epic and cold weather flying >.> As soon I leveled and went to go train spells, another guildmate of mine who had also just hit 80 asked if I wanted to come heal naxx with him. Heh we tried to two heal it at first and that was a disaster XD Then we brought in a tree from the guild and all was well. I actually went shadow for most of it. I went in with blues and greens and came out in all epics but 2… not bad for a night’s work <.<’
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Come to find out I had level 60 and 70 rank healing spells on my bar because I always ended up training in my Shadow Spec so the Holy Spec bars didn’t get updated >.>’ Priest healing is much easier now XD
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My ultimate goal for this character is to get her looking like the image to the left—full T6 with the Etherium Life Staff off Solarian. I basically leveled this character to be able to wear T6. OCD? Maybe, but then again if I were, it would have to be CDO to be in alphabetical order o.o
I also swtiched Audrae from Spellcloth to Mooncloth tailoring because I figured Moonshroud would probably help me out the most right now, and I don’t even use my spellcloth CD anymore. I got my warlock up to 68 for Alchemy Transmute Mastery and started xmuting epic gems with her <3 I will probably work on leveling her up to 80 next, but I won’t push too much for a while. My priority for the next week or so is making sure I have my classes taken care of and my schooling in order :)