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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.

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.

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.

With my druid being 80 now, I've been working on gearing up.  I've done Naxx (25) once now and I'm down for 10-man on Thursday.  I'm well over the minimum gear requirements, so now it's tweaking and upgrading with shiny shiny purples. 

I usually enjoy PUGing.  I like meeting new people and testing my skills.  However, today I joined a PUG and I left after the first wipe.  Why?

Point 1: Get to the stone with two other people and do my usual /inspect because I'm nosy.  DK with mostly greens.  Warrior with blues, but all the gem slots empty.  Uh oh.

Point 2: I finally get around to looking at who's in the group.  Two warriors, two DKs.  Uh oh.

Point 3: DKs disagree on who tanks.  One says "Frost DK should tank" and the other (unholy)disagrees.  Frost one ends up tanking, has a bunch of abilities bound to /say macros.  Spam ensues.  Uh oh.

Point 4: Almost die on trash because I get aggro and something runs up and whacks me in the face.

Point 5: Then we wipe because I get killed in the room with all the proto drakes (we're in Utgarde Keep).  Tank had been skipping a bunch of them.  Didn't see what happened as was too busy healing everyone, not sure if it was cone breath or aggro.

Made excuses, left before getting locked to it (daily heroic).

Was I too fast to leave?  Am I getting to be a healing snob?

When I hit 80, I did a round of CoS, UP, Occulus and got some gear, along with some reputation and AH stuff.  Only then did I start doing heroics.  I got enchants and gems, although I do have my own enchanter and jewelcrafter, so I admit it's easier than for some people.  I just think that not having at least the common gems in your gear is sheer laziness, as they aren't expensive and can just be grabbed from the AH.

It's lovely to be able to post one of these.

It's not really a Christmas story, persay ... it could have happened at any time.  But it happened on Christmas Eve, so I'm claiming it as one, goshdarnit!

I was out questing in Scalawag Point on my druid (newly respecced to boomkin, which is a lot of fun - going back resto once I hit 80) in Howling Fjord when I saw a yellow dot on my radar.  Ore!  Getitgetitgetit!  I raced around the hill and up, to get the precioussssss.

There I saw an orc death knight fighting a trio of bears.  I jumped into boomkin and helped him finish them off, then we did the good ol' emote communication.  He took some whacks at the ore, then I did.  Nice and sharing and I rode off with a smile.  I hate when people ninja nodes off me, so I try not to do it to others (occasionally I just don't see them, but I make an effort not to do it on purpose).

Doesn't end there!

A few minutes later, I get a whisper from a very flatteringly-named lowbie and we have a short conversaton.



That was so nice :D

I've not put his (or her) name in here in case they don't wish to be named, but I'll be pointing them in this direction.

Thank you again!  It was a really nice gesture to go to the trouble of making a toon, and it was good to share the ore.

So that's my cheery story for the day.  Happy holidays everyone!

Well, creaky old Argent Dawn is down again, so I may as well do a post that I've been meaning to do.

This is sort of a "for me" post, as I don't think many other people would be interested in it.  I want to catch up my characters' stories to Wrath.

Alyviel has continued her work with the Argent Dawn, continuing on to Northrend to join the ranks of the Argent Crusade as a scout.  She fights against the Scourge as she always has, travelling with the other members of the Agents of Stromgarde, sent to the frozen north to aid the Alliance in this troublesome time.

Firstly, I apologise for the lack of posting recently.  I just started a new job and it's cut out a lot of the time I used to have.  I'm still playing and reading, though!

One quick piece of news: We changed <Stop Whining> to a more RPish and less controversial guild name.  We're now <Agents of Stromgarde> and I'll try and get the background story up and written soon.

In the meantime, here's a quick video I threw together about what it's like being a restoration druid.

Time to introduce my second 70, and currently my character that raids the most and has the best gear.

 

   

Name: Eledith Leafstalker

Age: Around 500.

 

Background:

 

Eledith is the younger sister of the huntress, Alyviel.  Born and raised while her sister was away, Ele was always told tales of her brave and daring older sibling, and often dreamed of being like her.  During the Third War, so many druids were losing their lives that Ele was taken into training as soon as she displayed an aptitude for the healing arts.  Under the watchful eye of her father, she swiftly developed her abilities.

 

Ele was an impulsive youngster and often found it difficult to be, as she saw it, held back by the stuffy elder druids.  Although her training was not yet complete, she left the safety of Moonglade and travelled to the Eastern Kingdoms with her sister.  It was there that the both of them joined an organisation known as the Shadow Walkers, and fought together against the Burning Legion.

 

Eledith joined the Cenarion Expedition against the wishes of her parents and sister, travelling to the Outland and battling against the Burning Legion.

 

The half-trained druid met and befriended a human warrior by the name of Maxinos.  When he appeared one day at a guild meeting with a patch over his eye, she was concerned.  On learning that Max had been severely beaten by his own brother, a dark magic user named Megawatt, Eledith transported him to Moonglade where she healed his wounds.

 

 

 

Maxinos has been beaten by his cruel brother for warning him away from Eledith and her sister.  On discovering that Eledith had healed Maxinos' wounds, Megawatt sought out the young druid, believing that her strong abilities in a field that he could never touch would be of some use to him.  Telling the impressionable Ele that by allowing Mega to oversee her training, she could better watch over Maxinos, Megawatt bound her soul to himself in a dark ritual.

 

 

 

Well-meaning but naive, the young druid never realised that this would put her into the warlock's service.  Both Aly and Max have suspicions that something has happened, but neither of them has had confirmation yet.

 

 Personality:

 

Before the ritual that bound her to Megawatt, Eledith was a happy-go-lucky, care-free sort, always running around and laughing.  Since travelling to the Outland and battling the demons beside the other druids of the order she has calmed down, and then the ritual dampened her previously effervescent personality, leaving her quieter and more focused.

 

OOC Background:

 

Eledith was my first character created, but my second 70.  For a long time I was the only active druid healer in the guild and so I went along to a lot of Karazhan raids.  Now that we're getting some more geared up, I'm getting the opportunity to play my other characters in there, but Ele remains my best-geared and most common raiding character.  

 

I adore being a restoration druid.  In fact, one of my favourite sources for restoration druid news and tips, Resto4Life was a big inspiration in starting my own blog.  Ele has one piece of Season 3 gear from the arena matches I've taken part in, both in 3- and 2- man groups.  She's hopefully going to get her second piece tomorrow.  She also has the Season 1 headpiece.  Her gloves and chestpiece are both Tier 4. 

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