Bitter Roots

Can't talk. Must Peggle.

2009-04-29T21:05:12Z

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.

I've also been working on Noblegarden, on and off. I'm not going for the violet proto-drake so I'm not usually worried about holidays too much but I've always liked Noblegarden so I'm having fun getting eggs and getting the items.

I've mostly been hanging around Dolanaar, having fun with pet biscuits and noggenfogger while I camp and run around.

It makes me want to be a purple tree even more than I did before.

The other big things in my WoW life:

PEGGLE.

So addictive.

I've also been part of an interview in a small podcast that nobody's ever heard of. ;)

Can't talk more.

Must Peggle.

Revenge, Part 1.

2009-04-17T11:44:07Z

This is Eilthredon. Say hello, Eilthredon.

This is my boyfriend's main character.

He's about to go on a little trip.

I was going to do it naked but he didn't have enough bag or bank space.

>.>

He did, however, get his hearthstone deleted.

Stage One: Log onto Eilthredon in Dalaran, then jump through the portal to Ironforge. Then we took a little flight to the Burning Steppes.

A little bit of creative jumping later, and he's in the area above Elwynn Forest, the waterfall camp that can be seen when you fly North. I know for a fact that he's never been here before.

When he logged in, he discovered this fact and had to find how to jump down (he didn't die!) and got the boat and a flight to Dalaran to replace his hearthstone.

I was especially amused by the fact that his guild gave me suggestions for other places to leave him, instead of trying to discourage me from doing it. Buahaha.

I think he has some ideas brewing for what he's going to do to me next though. Uh oh...

And so it begins...

2009-04-13T21:24:11Z

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.

RP Questions

2009-03-06T08:09:39Z

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.

Dragons do not like picnics

2009-02-16T21:03:21Z

Sartharion didn't want to come join our picnic. Maybe he doesn't like sandwiches? He tried to burn the umbrellas down and everything!

We decided to go try somwhere else.

Apparently Malygos doesn't like picnics either.

Oh well!

More sammiches for the rest of us.

<3 <3 QQ

2009-02-16T20:51:11Z

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:

Luck!

2009-02-07T00:27:26Z

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!

Dragon and Stuff!

2009-02-03T13:23:40Z

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:

Raiding: Went to Naxx 25 and Sarth 25 this weekend on the warlock and did spider and plague wing. I failed my first Heigan dance. Summoning is so useful.

Have now seen 4 horsemen, Sapphiron and Kel'huzad, wiped on the last with the group I was healing but I've now seen almost every fight in Naxx-25.

Currently am farming in Azshara, because azure whelps sell for lots of gold and I can do something mindless while I listen to some All Things Azeroth.

Ding to the Third Degree

2009-01-31T10:43:54Z

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.

Questing in Zul'drak is what did it. I really like the questlines in that place, between the Ebon Blade, Argent Crusade and the trolls.

Beside me you can see my levelling partner (who hit 80 a couple of hours later after a Gundrak run and another quest). He also happens to be my lovely boyfriend who I met through WoW. Maybe more on that at another time, it's all still pretty new.

Through the wonders of tailoring and jewelcrafting, I had made myself a handful of nice items so the moment I hit 80, I geared myself up. The ebonweave gloves and robe look rather nice.

Here's how the warlock looks now. Anyone who's read this blog for a little while or that looks through the older posts will notice that she's undergone some changes in hairstyle/colour and her piercings are different.

I am enjoying affliction, although there is a heck of a lot to keep track of. I actually have DoT timer but I tend to just watch the Quartz bars instead. I like the new summoning mechanic, even if it does look like a demon flasher but I hope they put single-target summoning back in as an option for spot-summons. It's silly having to summon the stone for a 5-man group when only one person needs it.

Hoping to take Emelyn to Naxx tonight, watch this space.

The worst boss in Naxxaramas...

2009-01-16T11:51:23Z

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.

Am I a healing snob?

2009-01-14T19:45:19Z

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.

Nice Christmas Story :D

2008-12-24T20:16:46Z

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!

Postcards from Naxx

2008-12-22T10:10:04Z

I got to got to Naxxaramas 10 for the first time on Saturday, and despite being up until an ungodly time of the morning, I had fun! I did Archavon 25 the other day in a PUG, and that's all the Wrath raiding I've done so far.

I got some nice new gloves from Naxx. I like the place, nice trash:boss ratio (that is, not much trash!). The gargoyles that heal themselves if you don't burn them down quickly are irritating (especially at 3am) but on the whole it's a fun place. I'm looking forward to doing more there.

Here's some screenies. I did miss getting screenies when we killed Grand Widow and Noth the Plaguebringer, unfortunately.

Ding!

2008-12-11T11:40:59Z

I managed to catch the moment on screenshot. I dinged as a ghoul, which I find quite hilarious. I enjoyed the whole questline. I managed to get my level, the Drakuru achievement and the Ultimate Triage achievement all in the space of an hour.

It's been a nice journey to 80. I've not been powering it, as I just don't have time with work and everything. While I'm off over Christmas I may spend some time on my druid but I think she'll be waiting for dual specs, so I can level as a boomkin but still heal instances without having to spend a lot of gold.

I also picked myself up a new pet. Very pretty kitty. I do love my devilsaur but he's just too large for instances. I hope they introduce some more high-DPS exotic pets that aren't huge. The only one is the spirit beast, and that's very difficult to get.

...

2008-11-26T21:10:53Z

That's how stunned I am at the Wrath Gate event and the cinematic.

Wow.

I wasn't even expecting it, as I had no idea when in the questline it was, or even if I was on that particular one.

That was amazing.

I need to go pick my jaw up now.