I went to Ulduar!!  I know for some of you that’s no big deal, Ulduar is old news.  For me, Ulduar is new as I’ve never stepped foot inside the dungeon until last night.  Summer school being what it is, my WoW time is pretty darn minimal right now, but I happened to be online at raid time last night.  We’ve been short on people this week thanks to the holiday, but they decided to brave Ulduar anyway and I got an invitation.  I’m a casual, so if there had been enough raiders online, I’d not have been able to go.

I had no idea what I was doing, Loveth was giving me play by play instructions, but I actually had fun!  We only managed to do Flame Leviathan and…er… Razorscale?   Fun was had, but I can’t help thinking that I had fun because I’m not a raider anymore.  I had some flasks, didn’t need to bring food thanks to an awesome fish feast, but I didn’t have enough mana pots.  All in all, it seems my DPS has taken a substantial slide since my t7 days.  It could be the case because I’m actually still wearing t7.5.  I’ve no t8 at all and not enough badges to get it when 3.2 comes out, even after the badge change.  I’ve two emblems right now, thanks to the two bosses we killed last night, but I got some great achievements!

Going to Ulduar made me realize how very much I miss raiding.  It also made me realize how little time I actually have for it right now.  Part of the problem is that I’m stuck in the casual loop.  That’s what I call it, it’s not something I ever really understood completely before, mostly because I’ve always been a raider.  Since we started Kara and Gruul, way back, I’ve always been a raider.  Now, I’m seeing things from a slightly different perspective.  I don’t have enough DKP to get gear unless no one else wants it,  I don’t have enough badges to get the gear I need because I haven’t been raiding, and I don’t do enough DPS to be viable because I’m lacking in upgrades to t8.  So, even if I wanted to start raiding again, it’s a bit futile in the gear department, as upgrades will be few and far between — though I would be able to get the badge stuff.

Part of me argues with that point, it’s not about the gear, after all.  The rest of me tells that part to shut up, it’s not about the epics, but raiding is competitive and being able to do competitive DPS is important for a shadow priest.  I was being seriously shown up by an awesome holy priest, who was there as DPS last night.  When I expressed my concern about it to Loveth he said, “She has some awesome gear, she’s been coming to Ulduar since day 1.”  Can’t argue with that.

Then, of course, even if gear wasn’t an issue, how long are people really going to be doing Ulduar after the Coliseum opens at the next patch?  Is it going to be onto something new?  Or, will it be more like SSC & The Eye, mutual raiding experiences.  I just don’t have enough current raiding experience to know.  What I do know is that I’m not well enough geared to worry about it one way or another because if I’m doing subpar DPS in Ulduar, the Coliseum isn’t going to be any better as it’s t9.

I suppose I feel a bit like I’ve fallen into a circle I can’t find my way out of.  I could go raider and start raiding, but with my DPS the way it is right now, it’s almost a matter of embarrassment, especially with other shadow priests in the raid.

So having heard my concern, I wonder if you might offer me a bit of advice about how to proceed?  I would be most grateful.

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I was making the rounds, reading some Warcraft Blogs the other day when I started to notice all this stuff about the Battle Bot pet available through the Mt. Dew promotion.  I had heard something was going on, that Mt. Dew was doing some sort of World of Warcraft thing, but I had no idea that it involved a pet until I stopped by Desdarii’s blog.   Come to find out not only does it involve a pet… it involves a FREE pet!

So, I hurried over to the Mt. Dew site, clicked the little pet icon, and got my pet.  I did have a little mix up, I got the pet before realizing that I had to merge my WoW account with Battlenet to actually get the pet in game.  Then, once I got the pet, I wasn’t sure how to go about getting fuel for her (yes, my bot’s a her).  I figured it all out.  Turns out you can just go back to the Mt. Dew site, click the pet picture again, sign in, and it gives you your choice of fuel.  I’ve gotten 3 stacks of fuel, but only blue so far.

Isn’t she cute!!  I’m thinking I might get some red fuel at some point too.  Loveth asked me if my pet has battled another bot yet, the answer is an unfortunate no.  I told him I didn’t think I knew anyone with one and if I did they probably had the blue fuel.  I think he’s going to merge his account to Battlenet later and get his pet, too.  Maybe he’ll get red fuel so I can see the pets fight!

Oh, there was one more thing before I go.  I chose the above screenshot from all the ones I’ve taken of the pet because it has a hidden shape.  Do you see it?  If not from the screenie above, maybe from this one…

I put a blue circle around it.  It’s a heart made of the swirls in her shadow form!  Don’t you just love it when little, unexpected things like that happen?!    So anyway, thanks Desdarii for bringing my attention to the pet.  It brings me one step closer to getting the Fawn!

Two updates in one week, I’m on a roll.

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Would you believe I’m still here!

A lot has changed since last I wrote.  My gosh, I can’t believe it’s been so long.  I wish I could say that I never meant to neglect this blog, but that wouldn’t be completely true.  It wasn’t intentional, but everything WoW related sort of fell by the wayside. I’m a college student and am trying to finish school, I should graduate in December.

WoW has taken some serious turns for me.  As a matter of fact, I recently canceled my account.  I had resolved to quit playing as I have no time to play right now.  My account was turned off for three days before I tuned it back on.  I’ve been playing so long, I felt really uncomfortable with my account off.  I like it to be there if/when I want to play.  Since turning it back on, I’ve found that my desire to play is seriously increased.  Now, instead of playing for a few hours every two or three weeks, I play for a few hours a night, or every two nights.  Summer school is keeping me busy, but my husband got a new job and is keeping busy so I have more free time, as he’s not here as much.

Still, it was never my intention to come back to writing this blog.  Play the game, yes, but my time is so short, I wasn’t sure I could keep up with everything.  Prioritizing is not my best thing.  I really didn’t think anyone was still checking for new posts or reading here.  I found, however, that I was wrong.  I got a very nice comment from someone asking me where I was.  I couldn’t get that comment out of my mind.  Someone still checks for posts here and that makes me want to produce posts here.

I’ve made some changes to the look here, not for the first time and probably not for the last.  I’m trying to simplify things down.  Please let me know what you think, feedback is always nice.

In game, I’m not raiding anymore.  Right now, school and all the things I have to do to finish school have to come first.  I regret that I’ve never seen Ulduar, not even 10-man.  I miss it.  I’m considering going back, if they’ll have me, in the Fall — it really depends on how my classes are going.  If I mess up my classes in my last semester, I’ll never forgive myself.  My guild, however, is doing amazing.  They’ve killed every boss in Ulduar except for Yogg Sarron and are currently working on him!

Otherwise, I’ve finally started the Argent Tournament stuff and I’m having a good time with it!  Majeste is an Exalted Champion of Exodar and I’m working on Darnassus right now.  My goal is to get all of them done for the Crusader title.  I got a new mount, the Albino Drake, for getting 50 mounts!  I’m going to start working on old world rep (as I did with the Kurenai so I could get the Talbuk) and get the Nether Drake and Nether Ray mounts.  I’ve been doing dailies like crazy, trying to finish my reps with Sons of Hodir, Kalu’ak, and The Oracles.

I got the Flame Warden stuff done!  I just have two holidays left between me and the Violet Proto-Drake, Brewfest and Hallow’s End.  I can’t wait to have it!

My last few days in game have been so productive.  I’ve gotten a ton done and I’m happy with myself.  Doing the Argent Tournament is putting the fun back in the game for me right now.  I did the Flame Warden stuff with a guildie and that was terrible fun!  She has the mount from being Darnassus’ Champion, which is how I chose Darnassus to go next.  I can’t resist the purple armor on that cat!

So there you go, that’s my update in a nutshell.  I hope to write here more, as I have time.  I’ve missed it.  So, how’re you?

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…..`·.¸.·Maeleigh