Bitter Roots

My WoW is currently made up of Noblegarden, Argent Tournament and Peggle.

Argent Tournament is the first thing.  I do the Champion and Valiant dailies every day, I'm Champion of Darnassus and Gnomeregan so far on my druid.  I've found that the easiest way to joust is...

1. Put up full shields.
2. Engage competitor  (I actually find the Horde ones easier than the Alliance)
3. Stand behind them and get the first charge off.
4. Quickly spin around and jump to turn faster.  Hit shield break as you run back.
5. Make sure your shield is full.  Every time the NPC runs away, repeat 3-5.

I have the Teldrassil Sproutling so far, it's so cute!  I'm hoping to get all of the pets first.

I also discovered that I look like I'm having more fun if I joust as a tree.

This is Eilthredon.  Say hello, Eilthredon.

I'm currently staying at my boyfriend's house.  He's a WoW player, I've mentioned him before.  Today we both logged on to get ready for a raid, him on his desktop and me sitting on the bed with my laptop.  When he got up to go to the bathroom, I sat down and said some things in his guildchat about him liking ponies and left him on the balcony of the purple parlour, dancing with no pants on.

In revenge, when I got up to go out, he left my warlock in Goldshire with no robe or pants, dancing on the mailbox.

I consider this an unfair escalation of revenge.

He's at work all day Weds.

The war is on.

Saw this over at Typhoon Andrew's blog and decided to steal it!  He got it from other people so it's only fair.  ;)  I do like RPing and my main character all have their own personalities, I just don't get to express them very often.

Read his here: Eye of the Storm

What is your name and where did it come from?

My name is Eledith.  My parents gave it to me.  I think it means something profound but i forgot what.

How old are you and what is your birthday?

I am 245 and a half!  My birthday is in the same week that we help orphans, isn't that weird?

Are you in love and with whom?

Don't tell ihim!  I have a biiiiig crush on Eilthredon, he's so cute and all heroic when he bashes nasty things with his shield and keeps them away from me.

What is your favorite mount and why?

I love my horse!  A man that I helped to heal gave him to me.  I also love my bronze drake friend, Taladormu.  We fly all over, sometimes he flies and I fly with him as a bird and sometimes I go on his back.

Do you have a preferred type of Azerothian meal and where do you get it from?

Mmmmm berries!  Berries berries berries.  i used to think ones from Darnassus were the best but then I went to Dalaran!

You know those giant mushrooms in Zangermarsh?  What is your theory on how they came to be and why they are so huge?

I think it's a natural process of evolution whereby the spores of the mushrooms retained the best genetic code and grew taller because the mists and other plants were preventing the sun and rain from getting to them.  Either that or the draenei did something!

If you saw the Lich King walking toward you, what would you do?

Hide behind Eilthredon.

as there a more controversial holiday?

I don't do the holiday achievements.  I don't have a lot of playtime and I'd rather do other things than try to get the achievements.  Not to mention that I'd never decide what character to get them on.

My boyfriend, my guildmates and various other friends have been doing them, though.  I spent a while on Sunday logging onto my boyfriend's character to try and get him the last achievement.  It was ... take a guess ... Be Mine.  He did everything else, got just about everything out of the presents that was possible ... except for bags of candy.  The first one that I did while he was at work got a bag and pulling the candies out left him with two candies to get.  Five presents later and no more candy.  He got home and did the next one himself, got a bag, and managed to get the last candy pieces he needed.  This was Sunday night.

A guildy has got the achievement on three of his four characters, and that's from focusing insanely on it (and his last character needing one candy).  I know other people who didn't even get it on one.  I think I got the candy achievement on one character, just from opening candy bags for a giggle to fill up the boyfriend's mailbox.  ;)

I do think that they should consider taking the candy achievement off the meta, or perhaps making it "get 20 pieces of candy" and it not matter which ones they are.  It's not very fair to make it such a random achievement for a week-long event.

In my own mini-test, I had two pieces of candy left to get on my warlock and three bags in her inventory today so I decided to go ahead and pull them out.

Here's how many it took:

 

Today has been a day of luck and warlocky goodness.

Firstly, I did some questing and some auctions sold and I finished raising the money for my epic flying.  I'd already made myself a new carpet.

Then I went to 10-man Archavon with a random group.  A month or so ago I went there on my druid and three hunter pieces dropped in 25-man, the sole hunter got them all.  I'd never really forgiven the place for that ... until today!  Both the gloves and the robe for warlocks dropped and I was the only one!

After that, I went to Strathholme in Caverns of Time and although we were a few minutes off getting the timed run, I finished getting revered with the Kirin Tor and got the badges I needed, so I picked up the Flameheart Spell Scalpel and the Ward of the Violet Citadel.

Pretty Screenshot!


It's a pain that I won't be raiding with my usual group anytime soon though, as I have to stay up way too late to do Naxx with them.  I got sick last week, I think because I was so tired and cold so I'm waiting until the weather improves and I have time off work before I do anymore raiding.

I'm trying to find a good afternoon raiding group on AD but had no luck so far!

Short post, I'm off work sick and feel pretty bad.

What's going on at the moment?

- Working on getting my warlock's epic flying.  I'm at about 1500 gold, with maybe 2000g worth of stuff on the AH that may or may not sell.

- Working on some random achievements, I'm hoping to get some more books for Higher Learning after the rolling restarts today.

- Instancing on my druid and my warlock.  Did CoS again a few days ago, managed the timed run for about the 4th or 5th time with some friends, and got my drake!  It helped that three of them already had it.

Obligatory pretty dragon picture:

A little while ago, around the time that the billionth person died (and released) in Naxx and had to run back and make us clear the slime room again, I decided to level my 70 warlock up to 80.

Last night, I hit the ding!  This makes my third level 80 character.

It's not Sapphriron.  It's not Kel'thuzad.  Nope.  It's not even frogger!

It's lag.

My raiding group started a 25-man Naxx last night.  We went in and started on spider wing with no problem, got to the Grand Widow and we had some lag issues but nothing too too bad.  The priest had a little trouble MC'ing the adds with his lag but we did it.   Maexxna - We had some lag issues but again, not so bad we couldn't do it.  It got a little hairy at times with spells taking too long and such.

On to finish the wing and then hit Patchwerk, who we've downed before. 

WHAM.  Terrible, terrible lag.  My Quartz casting bars were virtually full red for latency.  DPS couldn't use special attacks, healers were just guessing as to when the tanks' health bars went down.  I just alternated between regrowth and nourish, and kept up a rotation of sorts.  We got him to 10% when he enraged.  I snuck back into a corner and shadowmelded.  We tried him again but it was the same thing, so we decided to call it a night.  The only times when the lag cleared up at all was when we had several people dead. 

It was terrible!  According to the forums it's a known issue, so here's hoping it gets cleared up, because we're stuck until it does.