Guild Mum

I took the plunge and went Human again. It amazes me how much more at home it feels.

The only shame now is that I can’t have my real spelling – but I guess you can’t win them all.

Should I be Night Elf, or should I go back to being Human?

I’ve been mulling this over for a while. When I came home from my Horde holiday, I decided to go NE because I’d been BE and quite liked it. Also, my first real character had been a NE rogue and I liked the look of her. I fancied having Shadowmeld so I could hide from Horde, which I don’t need to do any more on a PVE server and to help if a raid was wiping, which I always forget I have and so rarely use anyway. Plus NE get to do somersaults when they jump which is quite cool, except I’m not a teenage player idling in SW and don’t often jump for effect.

Since then, I’ve not felt right completely. Seph used to be Human. All my memories of her are as a Human. Now, I do love NE, but I’m kind of missing being Human.

Here are the then and now pictures…

What do you think guys? Should I go back to being human? I know the outfits aren’t quite comparable, but… hmmmmm.

I think human characters suit skimpy clothes a little more than NE – their bottoms are rounder and perter. I am wondering this because I am mulling a mogging outfit that would match/fit in with the rest of the tarts ladies in my guild.

This is the definition of Stir Crazy from Wikipedia….

Stir Crazy – used to refer to anyone who becomes restless or anxious from feeling trapped and even somewhat claustrophobic in an environment, usually a confined space, perceived to be more static and unengaging than can any longer continue to hold interest, meaning, and value to and for them. ‘Stir crazy’ could be classified as a more specific form of boredom, but combined with elevated and often increasing levels of anxiety, frustration, agitation, figeting, manic depressive type mood swings, and accessory episodes of acting out violently or otherwise antisocially on those feelings, the longer the unengaging non-stimulating environment is persisted in.

Now that is probably a bit extreme, but having had 3 weeks with no raid and only a couple of PUG LFRs it’s kind of how I am feeling. I don’t want to feel like this. I want to raid with my friends and have a laugh. I feel like I’ve been stuck at home for weeks with little human contact.

I love the people in my guild to bits, but am bored of archaeology (I got my Professor title), bored of Loremaster (7 areas to go), bored of waiting for rares to spawn. I have maxed my VP every week by Sunday. I have levelled a Shaman to 20.

None of it has the same appeal as raiding….

…. come back guildies – stop this real life / Star Wars / other game stuff and let’s kill some internet dragons – well, one in particular and some Firelands stuff as well so a certain Warlock can get her staff and I can have a cute dragon pet.

Well, I did my daily every day. I even did it for a few tries on an alt in desperation. I got 5 mini zeps, another clockwork rocket bot, 3 rag dolls, lots of gorillas and racers but NO LUMPY.

It really makes me sad that pet (and mount) collectors are treated to such randomness. For everything else in the game some persistence gets you rewards. To have something available on a random roll for only 2 weeks a year is pure torture. I have little doubt that I will still be playing next Winter Veil (I have bought my season ticket), but the thought does not excite me in the slightest. This year I was all excited at the thought of a new pet but became more and more despondent every day. I am left feeling hollow and very miserable.

So I turn my thoughts to the Darkmoon Faire. I managed to catch the reset in the early hours so have a head start on my collecting for this month, but with 2 of the quest items currently bugged and one extremely rare drop (I’m NOT paying 12k gold for it on the AH) it looks like I will only have enough tokens for one pet this month – welcome to my collection Darkmoon Cub .

I can cope with the collecting though, I know it WILL happen if I keep going. I don’t mind the grind. It took me almost a year of perseverance to get the Green Proto Drake (back in the days when you got an egg once a week rather than the current 3 days).

Ah well. Happy New Year to everyone who still reads my whines and drivel. Have fun in WOW. I hope I can find some again.

Lady RNG is no Lady. I am despondent and not enjoying the Winter Veil season. We’ve returned to the days of Ahune. This sort of thing has bothered me for years. Most of my thoughts have been incredibly well put by Quintessence of Perks and Peeves.

I have done every seasonal event in WOW for many years. I even repeat them with Seph because I enjoy the fun, the novel things. I have done the new Greench, I have worn my jumper and sung my Carols in the Horde cities, but the sparkle has gone for me this time with the introduction of the pet for this year – Lumpy.

I know there are other cases where RNG happens – like the headless horseman’s mount and in all honesty they really bug me. I don’t mind farming, I don’t mind a rep grind. If I wanted to I could get “The Insane” title, but when you can ONLY get something on the roll of a dice, once a day for 2 weeks of the year, something feels wrong.

I am quite happy that it will take me months to get all the Darkmoon Faire pets – I know that I WILL get them eventually. I don’t HAVE to do something every day and hope.

This time round, even if I do get Lumpy I will feel dreadful for those who collect and did not get him. I’ve not tried on any alts because I know that if he dropped for them I would be devastated that he didn’t arrive for Seph. I have got 2 Tiny green Ragdolls, which have a comparable drop rate, but no Lump of Coal. My only hope is that he may be added to the Satchel that as a healer I can get (not that it would help any dps collectors so again would not be fair) or to the Molten Front Daily loot bag thing.

I suppose Blizzard’s excuse is ‘they are only vanity items’ but when you think about it really isn’t everything in the game a vanity item – isn’t your Tier chest piece a vanity item? You don’t actually NEED it to play the game. You want it because it makes you feel better in some way. It’s not essential to playing the game.

How would you feel if the only time you could get it was on the roll of a dice (a 300 sided one according to the stats, but that is irrelevant), once a day, during a two week period once a year? That is how a pet feels to the collector – pets are why I continue to play the game. Pets and my friends – hugs to you all who support me in my whining and obsessing.

So keep your fingers crossed and your thumbs held for me for the next 6 days as I try again for my Lumpy and good luck to all the other collectors out there….

Meet Lieutenant General Andorov

He is the character on my page-a-day calendar for today, and looked very manly with bits of chest hair, six pack and burly muscles.

Actually, I have met him before because I remember he was the dude you had to keep alive and stand near when attempting General Rajaxx in AQ20. I just don’t remember looking that closely at him! I never wanted any of the blacksmithing patterns he sells once you kill Rajaxx.

So – I went searching for more information about him. I found a bit on Wowhead along with another screenie.

Now then – is that a tattoo on his lower regions? Hmmm – interesting…

The quote on WOWwiki about him is ..”Many guilds joke around that he would probably survive in battle longer if he wore a breastplate, maybe a shield. Many guilds affectionately refer to Andorov as “Captain No Shirt” or simply “No Shirt”, due to his choice in battle garments.”

It makes me giggle how folks (read ‘guys’) think it’s perfectly fine for women characters to go killing things in their bikini bottoms, but you come across a bare chested male and they get all uppity!

So here I am all mogged and happy. Healer Seph is healer

This is the full Devout Dungeon Set 1 of old which isn’t possible to get any more, but will become available with some Darkmoon Fayre purchases. The only alteration is the head piece which is the Heroes Crown of Faith from a token off Kel’Thuzad in Naxx (which we discovered can be done by a DK, Hunter, Priest trio – thanks guildies ). Added to it is my Anathema staff, also no longer in game.

Full Devout Set and Anathema

Ohhh – other news too – new guild and I killed Ragnaros last night – was the first time for them (and ‘real’ first time for me) AND as a bonus I was still alive at the end. It felt incredibly good to contribute and I am really looking forward to facing new 4.3 challenges with them all – they are a truly lovely group of people and I could not have found a nicer new home.

I love sunsets. Now I have more time and am riding around the World of Warcraft a bit more I have seen quite a few. If I had time I would have taken part in the Screenshot posting thing, but I’m not into signing up for that much commitment to post or anything at the moment (and it’s lovely being that way). But if I had then these are some of the screen shots I would have posted. Enjoy your weekend and these images of calm.

In the Hinterlands while camping a rare for a dress to use for mogging….

The Hinterlands

Theramore – you can see why Jaina must like it

Dustwallow Marsh

Not sure if this was a sunset or a moonrise in Desolace, but it’s gorgeous anyway.

Desolace

Thousand Needles was beautiful too.

Thousand Needles

And even though there is no actual sun in this one of Uldum, the sky was a gorgeous colour.

Uldum

And for this one I think there was a reason why the sky went reddish, but he missed me this time! Ha ha – gonna get you one day Mr Deathwing and I have a warlock friend who is out to fry you to a crisp

Missed me Deathwing!

And finally – for Alquiel and Xethi – my boat! It’s lovely fun for pottering about Thousand Needles in

River boat for use in Thousand Needles

Some days I read blogs and smile.

Some days I read blogs for information.

Today I read a blog and it made me cry.

Orcish Army Knife is a wonderful read. This post containing a letter from Grimclaw was beautiful.

Sometimes I wonder why I blog at all – I could never write anything like that. I blog to share things and sharing that post was something I just could not NOT do