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Pondering a Change

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Long time no see. So I’ve been raiding the Steam sales, getting all excited for Guild Wars 2, and in the meantime I’ve got back into WoW. I had a random urge to play a lowbie Warrior, so I did just that and enjoyed relaxing with an alt and guild chat so much that I picked my Draenei Mage back up. Now I have offered to help Mr. Reliq recruit some and I’m yet again considering moving my Priest over. The Priest who has been a Blood Elf since early TBC. Who I’ve done almost everything with since then. The idea of race changing her is a difficult one because she is a Blood Elf Shadow Priest to me, but the only place I want to be is Harvest Moon which is where my friends are. ((Incidentally, if you’re on EU servers and interested in joining a relaxing, cheerful little guild with plans for casual raiding and achievement runs and such, do get in touch!!)) I had a little think and I checked out how she might look. It’s looking like Human would be the winning race for Seithir if she joined the Blue Team.

See, I don’t RP with her. She has no backstory. But even so I have an idea of her. She’s a Blood Elf, and we all know what Blood Elves are like. Vain.. Obsessed with magic.. Perhaps a little up themselves and bitchy? That’s the idea I have of Seithir anyway. Well then she’s most definitely not a Draenei, as much as the waggle is the sex, and she is also firmly a Shadow Priest so doesn’t particularly suit Night Elf either which leaves Human. I think she could suit Human.

My last problem is that I’ve always played her with Dan’s Paladin. My first guild on my Priest was Capo, where the first guild instance I did was with Dan. If I separated my Priest from his Paladin, I would not enjoy playing her. From the moment we met and he called me an idiot, we’ve played together on these characters. We were on these characters when we decided to meet, and when we moved guilds together. Sure, we’ve been in separate guilds before, and the changes in Mists will mean we could still play together cross-server but not cross-faction. So while I believe I have made a decision on which race she belongs in on the Blue Team, it still kind of depends on what Dan decides to do in the next couple of weeks. I’m keeping my fingers crossed because I’d really like to put her in Harvest Moon. The first guild I’ve felt a real sense of loyalty to.

Changes and Decisions

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I’ve been running around hoping to get a Death’s Choice or Deathbringer’s Will for so long (not gonna happen if I’m not doing 25 mans, I know!) that I didn’t stop to think that perhaps the Whispering Fanged Skull could possibly be an upgrade on my Greatness Card. I ran the numbers through Female Dwarf (I don’t have access to Excel, and I don’t like Open Office, this is why I can’t use the spreadsheet) and found it to be a roughly 100 dps upgrade if I replaced Greatness with the Skull. I actually took this trinket for Survival, as the Runestone isn’t going to be much use as a Survival hunter, so it’s been sat in my bank for a couple of weeks, I felt a little stupid!

While I was there, I checked a few more things. Would it be worth switching my Chimera Shot glyph to the Steady Shot glyph? I’d seen a few Marksman hunters doing this. If I need to use the hit talent as Marksman, why was I using Improved Barrage instead of Improved Steady Shot in an Arcane Shotless spec? Little things like that I’d neglected to check before, as it turns out, I had a few changes to make. Sometimes on a boss fight my fps will drop to about 4, mostly just high AoE fights, Razorscale is one with all the fires on the floor. Currently, our internet is lagging, has been since Monday afternoon. My latency ranges from 120ms to 4,000ms, with people teleporting around, my shots having to be queued while the game freezes for 10 seconds at a time, it actually makes me glad I’m not currently raiding.

So, I’ve hopefully upped Fae’s dps by a little, though there lies another question, another decision.. Do I transfer my hunter? When the latency is better, I’d love to be able to raid 25 man instances again, and I quite miss Terenas Alliance, but I don’t want to reroll again, Fae is my main. So, it would have to be a transfer – faction change deal, and I want to do it because I want to move over, NOT because some smelly druid is pestering me to /glares at Elsen. The decision might possibly be the right one, but I have to choose the right guild for me too. I’ve already decided what race she would be, come on, female Draenei are too awesome.

Relationships Within Azeroth II

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As you may have noticed, but probably haven’t, from my armory profile in the sidebar, I have rejoined my last guild, Dice. I’m going to keep the reasons I originally left between me and a handful of friends, but it’s now under new leadership, and I have a lot of faith in these guys to make Dice a decent guild.

Really though, I miss my friends, and of course I love raiding with Dan. We always used to have our 10 man groups, in TBC we ran Kara on a Friday night, in Wrath we always did Naxx 10, moved onto Ulduar which essentially in the end I lost my place in because I moved over to Terenas to play around a bit, and when I came back we got a Trial 10 group going. The problem with Trial 10 is that just before they released Anub’erak, I needed to take a short break. I can’t remember if this was my Aion break or my LotRO break, but either way, I obviously lost my place in the group which I expected and since about that time I’ve not only been really desperate for a new ranged weapon, but have felt rather dejected in the game, which lead to me mostly farming achievements.

Now, I really really want to give raiding a crack. I’ve rejoined Dice under the premise that there will be changes, and I know the new GM (who is a lovely fluffy cow) and the other officers want to see the same changes as I do. This makes the going back a hell of a lot easier. Already I’m noticing changes and I really think these guys can do a great job with the guild. I’m joining as a trial, I want to make sure I’m upto it, if last night was anything to go by, I think I’ll be able to stick around for a long time.

All I need to do is remember to disable a few mods before raid because 5fps is not good enough for DPSing.. remember to keep farming those mammoths in Storm Peaks next to the Brunnhildar Village, the drop rate on mammoth meat is pretty good, also get a bit of chilled meat and some leather, on top of this their respawn rate is awesome. Oh yeah, there goes my tangent. Basically, I need a little gear and practise to catch up with the other guys again because I’ve been out of the raiding loop for so long, I’m trying to keep up with my reading and I’m very interested in checking out a few of the blog posts on cooldown management, forcing trinket procs and so on, though I have been respeccing, regemming and fixing up bits of gear where I can. I’m getting there, if I can manage 7k on Jaraxxus in a pug, I’m sure I can get there while in a guild raid.

What is the ‘Relationships Within Azeroth’ bit about you ask? Well, having fun with friends is after all what this game is about for me, and I love it when things look to be coming together. So here’s to messing about in Orgimmar at silly hours.

Orgrimmar