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A Week’s Worth of Updates

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I wanted to report on these little updates in separate posts but what with a couple of non-update posts and blog downtime ((sorry about that by the way, trying to move servers from my current to Reliq’s and there’s a combination of it having a strop and me being inept, there will be further downtime at the weekend)) I just haven’t had chance so here’s what I’ve been upto recently!

Main Who?

First and foremost, I’ve decided not to reroll. I’ve been back and forth a lot over the past few weeks, but as it turns out I’m still too comfortable with my delightful little Shadow Priest who has been my (on/off) main since early TBC and is the same character I played when I met Dan and Kait (who is my new boyfriend apparently). Also, when you’re trying to eat mid-Terrace of the Endless Springs LFR and it just happens to be the single worst LFR group you have ever been in ((no joke)) and you still have issues with the new flat laptop keyboard and the fact that 3 is next to w and Frost Orb is next to w and despite standing miles away it still heads over to the boss regardless while people are eating up after yet another wipe and then the finger pointing starts.. ahem. I do love her though, I just can’t reroll right now. Shadow Priest is just my thing this expansion. Blizzard have really fixed not only the dps, but also the playstyle. If you spec and glyph right, the playstyle becomes a lot more bursty and just so damn fun. Plus the self heals are amazing for soloing things.

The Cutest Little Rogue

In my Project Insanity post, I mentioned I’d started up a baby Rogue. Well here she is:

Isn’t she just adorable?! I have completely fallen in love with Lady Pandas and their [spazziness] ((I really tried to find a better word but this one just encapsulates what I’m trying to say so well)) , it really suits me down to the ground so when the option was between Human and Panda, and the unanimous vote fell to Panda (and one Gnome /shoo!), I didn’t put up any arguements. The name was a struggle as I’d been holding on to ‘Kalithe’ for my Rogue which is literally ‘Kali the’ and that just doesn’t scream Panda to me so I asked and Dan said Khili and it stuck. I love it! I slowly but surely worked my way through the Panda starting zone. I’ve done it before but found myself incredibly bored and just trying to make it end, so this time I soaked it in and found myself thoroughly enjoying it this time around.

I adore yaks. The yak cart gets me every time!

Insanity All Around – Hip Hip Arr!

We’ve also been trying our hands at the Love Dungeon but short of a couple of neck upgrades for my shiny 90s there hasn’t been a lot of luck. Plus I keep forgetting to do it because ugh effort. Still, it’s worth it purely for giving us the ability to say, “Anybody fancy the love dungeon? Space for two!” *giggle*

Along the lines of Project Insanity, we gained a fourth person – Flaps, a healer. So with our nice little farming spot in the Blacksmith hut in Booty Bay, we got ourselves up to friendly pretty quickly. With a couple other.. erm.. side events.. along the way. Not too long before we get honoured and can move on to the next part.

Hip hip… arr…

The Reputations That Need More Love

Last but not least, I’m back working on my Priest’s reputations. She was getting pretty close with Brood of Nozdormu and Hydraxion Waterlords so with any luck those two will be finished within the next few weeks finally! Mine and Rel’s foray into AQ40 was a lot of fun as well. As for the others, I’m doing my best to get my dailies done. Kait really helped keep me focused today by doing Shieldwall and August Celestials with me and prodding me to go do Anglers as well! Then I only had Klaxxi and Shado-Pan left so off I went and ta-da!

It’s taken me a long time but I’m so so happy! I adore this tiger mount model and I’ve been desperate for it since the first time I saw it. Sorry Swift Alliance Steed, you’ve been replaced.

Heroic Transmogging Achievement Runs

Oh! I almost forgot to mention the transmog runs we’ve done recently. My Hunter finally got her Illidan bow!! Squee. It suits her transmog set so nicely. And Monday night, 10 of us went off to do Bastion of Twilight HC and HC Dragon Soul. Bastion was cleared, netting us a guild achievement for Sinestra and the title ‘Dragonslayer’ which is awfully nifty. I do like dragons. Dragon Soul we got up to Spine before folk were itching to head off to bed. Hopefully we’ll have some fresh clears for transmog kit, further achievements towards the drake meta, and fun. I’m dying to get the heroic version of the Time Lord set for my Mage, I adore that set and missed out on the white version from LFR. I’m also really really hoping for the heroic tier 11 chest for my Priest’s transmog. I’m pretty sure that is my favourite robe ingame, or at least way up there.

One of many things I missed from not raiding in Cataclysm

So yes, we’re all up to date now. Back to business as usual and apologies for future downtime. We should be good until the weekend but the server move is going to go through. Ta-ta!

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.

Then and Now: Seithir Edition

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Oh you guys are mean. Like.. I was about to go read and then you all had to come up with this meme that lets me show off some of those old screenies of my Priest that I was looking through the other day? Think I could just walk away from that? Well.. I blame Vid. Jus’ sayin’.

So, Seithir. She’s not my first character.. my first character would have been much more interesting, actually, considering the race change, but Seithir is definitely my longest running character, and has been my main for the longest amount of time of any character.

TBC

Yeah. I did a lot of Aldor bank afking in TBC.

Oh who left that there?! That’s not me with that Gnome that’s.. err.. yeah okay, me and Imnotshort may have had a short stint. But it really meant something, guys! And don’t tell him but he was, in fact, rather short.

So, the earliest known screenshot I have of Seithir is thus:

This must have been around level 20ish, looking at my gear. RFC robe, shoulders (zomg), and the staff from the end group quest in Ghostlands. What I’m doing in The Barrens remains to be seen but I’m sure I was quite smitten with my new main actually having flesh on her elbows.

And at level 70:

She looked liked that for a large part of TBC until she finally got the full BT/Hyjal set, of which I can’t find a screenshot of her wearing, oddly enough, but I did always like this screenshot of me in my healing gear and Lew (the friend who hosts my blogs) playing around with Holy Nova.

And you really want to see my TBC UI? Are you sure? *cringe* My UI is constantly undergoing change. Even back then. But here’s an action shot from a BT run…

The worst part? I didn’t see what the problem was!! At least my bars had the right spells on them I guess. But why I had 2 raid frames is beyond me. I guess I hadn’t discovered Clique yet.

Wrath

This is the best screenshot from Wrath that I could find of my Priest.. hmm..

But here is my UI:

At least I understood it was messy this time, but I was cool with it! I kind of miss those profile bars. They looked cool.

And just for funsies:

Oh Steve, I miss you. ((Steve is the rhino.))

Cata

We all know that I have played WoW a lot less in Cataclysm and calmed down a lot but I’m still going, and looking back on these screenshots has only reminded me of why I loved this game. It has always been the people, and once you remove the people and replace them with people who could quite happily called trade chat their guild.. well it takes all of the fun out of it. So I play a lot more casually these days and here is my Priest currently.

Transmog has changed a lot for me. I’m so much more comfortable playing around with different pieces of gear. As you can see in the picture from TBC, I was a Tailor and that gear was irreplaceable until Tier 6. I didn’t get to run around in Tier 4 because it just wasn’t good and Tier 5 was hard to get, so I’m finally using the Tier 4 I’ve always loved and that gorgeous halo. I do have further ideas for this set, but you shall have to watch this space for that!

And my UI currently.. this is the best in combat screenshot I could find. I wish I had better but apparently I don’t screenshot my UI so much these days. I do use Quartz though and I’ve lessened how much Forte shows once again. I’ve always liked having the information I need in front of me, which is why my action bars are always full.

Well I think we can all agree that not as much love has gone into it as my Wrath UI but I REALLY hate designing my UI. REALLY. Spending the time on it makes me tear my hair out and when it goes wrong I just want to scream. Perhaps it’s reminiscent of how my love for the game has waned, or perhaps it just shows I’d rather put my time into playing. I couldn’t say, but that’s my ‘Then and Now’ for Seithir, who I didn’t play as much in Wrath as I thought I did. But I can assure you that she will always be the character that I am most attached to.

Whether I’m still playing in a year or not is beyond me, I might be, I might not be, but in retrospect, I don’t regret a single one of those days that I was playing. I thought I might when I eventually come to quit, but I’ve had some wonderful memories with this game and if I never played and took a chance, I wouldn’t be with my wonderful fiancé now who I have been with for over 4 years now. World of Warcraft will always mean a lot to me.

My Priest’s Transmog Set

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As promised, here is a little post detailing my Priest’s transmogrification set. In some slots I have included other options, these are mostly other choices for slots in which I’ve used items unavailable to non-Priests and also cloaks and weapons. I personally prefer her helmless without the tier 7 halo but I shall be using that when I get one!

I recommend checking out the ‘same model as’ tab so that you can get the item which is easiest for you to farm. Do keep your eye out in trade though, as horrid as it is, there are usually pugs going to various places with some fantastic hidden gems!

My biggest ‘bleh’ about transmog is that unless your weapon has an inbuilt enchant effect, like the staff pictured below, it will show your current weapon enchant and I can’t stand how you can’t see the weapons through them but hey ho. There are ways around it you just need to choose a weapon with an enchant effect already or something that carries the enchant well.

Head:
Tier 7 – Kelthuzad in Naxx. Either 10 or 25 versions work great
Hallowed Crown – Harbinger Skyriss in The Arcatraz
Mana-Etched Crown – Aeonus in The Black Morass

Shoulder:
Tier 4 – (as pictured) Maulgar in Gruul’s Lair
Hallowed Pauldrons – Grandmaster Vorpil in Shadow Labrynth
Shoulders of Ruinous Senility –  Professor Putricide in Icecrown Citadel 10 man Heroic

Chest:
Soulcloth Vest – (as pictured) Crafted by Tailors, Karazhan pattern

Wrist:
Ether-Soaked Bracers – (as pictured) Rotface in Icecrown Citadel 10 man Heroic

Gloves:
Tier 1 – (as pictured) Gehennas in Molten Core
Tier 2 – Blackwing Lair
Prismatic Mittens of Mending – Commander Sarannis in The Botanica

Belt:
Cord of the Patronizing Practitioner – (as pictured) Lord Marrowgar in Icecrown Citadel 10 man Heroic
Astralaan Belt – BoE world drop
High Councillor’s Sash –  BoE world drop

Legs:
Kilt of Untreated Wounds – (as pictured) Festergut in Icecrown Citadel 10 man Heroic
Soothsayer’s Kilt – Quest reward from Blast The Infernals!

Boots:
Icecrown Spire Sandals – (as pictured) Deathbringer Saurfang in Icecrown Citadel 10 man Heroic
Silent Slippers of Meditation – Murmur in Shadow Labrynth

Cloak:
Drapes of the Dragonshrine – Trash drop in Hour of Twilight
Mantle of Desire – (as pictured) Quest reward from Elemental Bonds: The Vow
Shadow-Cloak of Dalaran – Moroes in Karazhan

Staff:
Anathema – (as pictured) Priest only and no longer available as of Cataclysm
Staff of Infinite Mysteries – The Curator in Karazhan
Chelley’s Staff of Dark Mending – Trash drop in The Bastion of Twilight
Crystalfire Staff – Omor the Unscarred in Hellfire Ramparts

Dagger:
Voodoo Hexblade -Dragonhawk’s chest in Zul’Aman
Jaded Crystal Dagger – Selin Fireheart in Magister’s Terrace Heroic

Mace:
Reign of Misery – Brutallus in Sunwell Plateau
Scepter of Azshara – Queen Azshara in Well of Eternity

Offhand:
Eerie Stable Lantern – Lord Walden in Shadowfang Keep normal
Star-Heart Lamp – Temporus in The Black Morass
Book of Blood – Crafted by Inscriptors

Shirt:
White Swashbuckler’s Shirt – Crafted by Tailors

I hope this is helpful to you guys – enjoy!

That New Content Feeling

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Patch 4.3 couldn’t have come at a better time. With NaNoWriMo over and done with on Tuesday and my most recent book review written and published (that’s important because it took me a few hours to get right), I logged into my Priest happily to play around with void storage and do a few of the new 5 mans with the manface. Aren’t they great? While I was waiting, I got myself a Glyph of Shadow, which is awesome, and played around on my new horse. I was accused in guild of liking boys because I like the Tyrael’s Charger but I of course slapped that down with a great big, “Yes, I do like boys, and why does it matter?” And then continued to enjoy my pony.

The new instances gave me a distinctly familiar feeling. I’m awful at remembering the names because it has been so many months, but the first instance reminded me of one of the mid-level instances in Rift, the last part reminded me of the desert zone, and the third one reminded me of one of the later Rift instances. No, not being all, “They clearly copied Rift!” Just an observation. I loved them. They’re new content with new gear and the storyline is interesting. What’s not to love? Plus that second one has really made me appreciate Night Elf Shadow Priests…

And something seems a little off about Tyrande…

And how could I not include this one? Possibly my favourite of the new bosses and it looks freaking cool.

We did a few with the same Rogue and healer who we met in a pug and were both competent and friendly and that’s a pretty rare event. It’s always nice when you do get those kinds of pugs. I may have awwwed a little when the healer left with, “Nice to meet you.” I thought that was a little adorable.

I got myself a new wand, finally netting myself Cataclysmically Epic after a year.. though it did put my achievement points back into the 5s! And my first pair of dropped non-blue shoulders, and a helm, 2 rings, an offhand, and the tier 12 chest, getting me upto 369 ilvl from 361. I’ll be good for the raid finder in no time! Then today I picked up the staff from the last instance so I can finally use Anathema *squee* (and knock my ilvl upto 370 but that’s less important, right?). *strokes the pretty*

After, we ran through Black Temple with a friend and another guildy (the non-douchey variety, hooray), not only did I gain about 1,000 gold from that run but it was fun. We just finished a little later than hoped but oh well. I transmogged my gear fully and went off to bed.

I am absolutely in love with this set. I never got the chance to wear tier 4 when it was current because I was a Tailoring Shadow Priest *grumbles* and for those of you who weren’t around in Burning Crusade, the Shadoweave set (shoulders, chest, and boots) you made with tailoring was best in slot until tier 6. Obviously that’s just the shoulders but I do also have the robe in void storage.

How are you enjoying the new content? Or are you perhaps disappointed thus far?

Seithir’s Dream

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This is a little something I wrote a while ago, thought I’d post it. Admittedly, it was never really going anywhere, but hopefully one day I’ll stick an ending on it. Go easy on me!

In the pale twilight she waited, but for what she was unsure, she was just aware that whatever it was, it was desperately important. Her bright, chestnut hair fluttered in the breeze as she stared into the distance, watching the birds dance through the sky. The glow of her green eyes pierced the horizon.

Every evening she would sit here, in Eversong Woods, watching the sun set, waiting for the night to fall waiting for something to happen. It never did.

The moment the sky would turn to purple, she would mount her Ram, Cern, and start heading back towards the lustrous Silvermoon City.

“Back again are we, Miss Seithir?” The heady Innkeeper shouted over the din of the bar noise.

The young Blood Elf girl simply rolled her eyes and sat in the corner, shortly after a glass of pinoit appearing in front of her. This was the regular order of her day. She had no time for these drunks and maniacs, she had a dream to chase and she wasn’t about to stop until she’d caught it full pelt.

Once upon a time, this bar, this city in fact, was fairly strictly full of Blood Elves. No Alliance would enter any more, no Horde could enter without losing their heads. These days, the races of the Horde seemed to quite happily mix, or at least, attempt to, with the Blood Elves of Silvermoon City. Seithir watched as a red haired Troll hit on a curly haired, blonde Blood Elf just across from her. She found this amusing, they always received the same answer. Smack. “Sorry t’ bother ye..”