What a week! StarCraft, Beta and new guild…

Well, it started with me getting the StarCraft Collector’s Edition. Yay, another new pet!

I know – I said I didn’t agree with it. I said I didn’t really want to play. But – I’m a woman – we change our minds when we want to.

Next up came my Beta invite. I’ve not done much with it yet. I flew about in Stormwind and visited the new AH and Bank and did the fishing daily. All the controls are all over the place – it’s like starting a whole new game. I copied a pre-made character over because I thought I’d get a high level one to play with, then read you can on only go up to level 83 and the pre-made characters are level 80. So I have 2 level 80 priests there :/

Then, in a fit of general fed-upness enhanced by PMT I finally put in an application to a new guild.

I know! Me, who hates change. Who prefers 10 man raiding. I have been watching this guild for 4 years – ever since I moved to Kor’Gall in the first place to join Shadowforge. I almost applied back then, but Hubby and Son wanted a PVP realm and it’s on a PVE realm. Then it wasn’t possible to move from PVE to PVP so we went for the PVP choice.

I hate being on a PVP realm. I hate being killed as I fly into a raid instance. I hate being killed as I fish, pick flowers, chat to NPCs.

So I wrote an application. Actually I re-wrote an application I had made 9 months ago when my guild were going through a ‘bored of Ulduar’ lull, but I had not sent it. I sent my application in a private message to an Officer of the new guild. I chickened out and deleted it before he read it.

Then I found a bit of courage and re-sent it. I noticed they had just turned down a Disc/Holy priest so I think I secretly imagined they would turn me down. They didn’t. They accepted me, but warned me that I might not get in many raids to start with because they have a lot of active priests.

So. I got Seph ready. Crammed my bags full of things I could sell, spent some gold so I only had 20,000 left (stupid Blizzard rule about gold transfer) and set her moving.

I feel dreadful and happy all at once. I need social. I need to be raiding. Logging in to 2 or 3 people online and hoping we get enough to scrape together a raid is not good enough, even if it is summer and a lot of guilds are having hard times. I wanted to be in a guild where summer and completing stuff on easy then stopping don’t happen.

Also – my old server is dying. There is a 70:30 Horde:Alliance ratio or something. When I checked there were 10000 auctions on Kor’Gall and 25000 on my new server. Practically everything I could buy was cheaper on the new one too.

On my new home I had to rename myself because Sephrenia was taken, so I am now Sephrenya (they didn’t fancy me using any unusual letters in my name, so I didn’t go for Sephrenía).

So I logged in last night and was invited. I offered my services to heal if they needed a spare. I sorted out most of my add-ons which had all got lost and corrupted. I was invited to join the raid group and asked to spec Holy (AMG HOLY! It’s been so LONG since I was Holy…).

They did some clearing while waiting for more people who had actually signed to raid to come online. I listened on vent and flew about in the lag caused my more people than I’m used to and too many add-ons. Someone disconnected and they invited me into the raid. OMG again! I am not prepared….

So – I got my first taste of ICC 25. Marrowgar Heroic! Ofc course I died in the burny white stuff, but was ressed and managed to carry on. I wasn’t sure if I was actually healing for a while and all my bars were messed up, but we got him down. Hurrah!

I was pretty rubbish I think, but not total fail.

We moved on to Deathwhisper where half the healers went dps because we were going to do her normal. I stood in the middle and tried to heal my socks off. I didn’t stand in stuff I shouldn’t, didn’t die. Phew.

Nibelung dropped. It’s so cool. Even if I very very rarely do dps it’s still such a cool thing to be able to have Val’kyr come and protect you. I secretly lusted over it and kept quiet. Then – they offered it me because nobody else wanted it – I think they all have it. I told them I rarely dps, but how could I say no if offered! They gave it me! OMG! Loot on my first raid. I felt a bit bad.

Then another priest whispered me and told me it wasn’t a healer thing. I felt completely awful – I’m not a loot whore but I felt like one But who wouldn’t take something like that if offered it for nothing? Surely to let it be dissed would have been worse. I think with the stats on it it’s possibly better than what I have even if I don’t dps with it. So now I need to get it gemmed and enchanted and try it out. Maybe it won’t be. But it’s a fun thing anyway.

We moved on and did Heroic Lootship. I didn’t die there either – phew!

They decided to try Saurfang on Heroic and replaced me with the priest who had disconected, which I think was probably very wise given that I was still shaking like a leaf, getting used to being holy again, getting used to 25 man raiding again and having issues with my bars and add-ons and stuff.

I’m on and off for the next couple of weeks with family holidays (nice timing eh Seph – d’oh) but then the kids will go back to school and hopefuly life will settle down to normal again. I’m not sure I will last the 4 hours my new guild raids for and have warned them about this. I don’t think getting over tired would be good for my MS, but they said they have people who come on late and can replace me, so we will see how it goes.

I feel dreadful and ecstatic all at once. I am a bundle of nerves and stress, but I think (and hope) that I have done the right thing. Finally I have done what I always tell others to do and am playing the game how I want to play. I’ll keep you posted

Farewell everyone on Kor’Gall – it was a wonderful 4 years and Seph will miss you all. But – Delphia is level 74 and will hopefully soon be higher and be able to heal you all in Seph’s absence.