Dragon-palooza! -by, Mula

First some soul news: Less than 400 souls to go!
And some emblem news: 45 more for the helm.
And some citadel news: Raided with Silva and his gang again. Got to Prof.Putricide.

I was just getting done with the raid in the citadel and just about to put my feet up for the night, when I overheard that there was a raid being formed to take down Sartharion in the Obsidian Sanctum. Feeling rather confident, I signed on. We took out the mooks and prepared ourselves and jumped right in. It took us about 3 tries but we did it! When I saw the loot that dropped, I then knew why they wanted to do it. There were some reigns to a black dragon mixed in with the rest of the loot. We all rolled. I rolled an 8. There would be no dragon for me. But, it was a great experience, anyway!

Halfway there, -by Mula

The collection of souls went from a little more than three hundred up to 500 last night in a 25man citadel run. We blew through the first four bosses, but when we went up against Rotface, we got pelted by slimes and ended up having to run. I feel that this could have been prevented if the person who was carting the slimes did a better job keeping them out of the middle. But, overall I was pleased. I almost got my hands on an upgrade for my chest, but my dice luck wasn's so lucky. The guy that got it needed it more anyway.

Sreng, our guild master is having bouts of nakedness. I was trying to talk him out of it, but gave up in the end. One just has to avert their eyes in the end. Looking forward to the 10man citadel run tonight. Just need 65 more frosty emblems for a helm. Still needing 5 primordial saronites and a bunch of titansteel for the legs. I'm gonna check the auction house to see how much those are going for nowadays.

Healing Time, by Pyaara

Was in a dungeon down in Tanaris. I signed up to be the healer. Was going pretty well at first. Then the rogue says to pull more than that. So, that's when things got crazy. It was all I could do to keep the healing up. And so we're doing pretty good, for a bit. Then, one of the dps leave. (And the rogue disconnected.) So, I put forth a vote to kick the rogue. >:D We got rid of the rogue and picked up a warrior. Things are still kinda crazy. And now, people are scooby-dooing. Finally, we get the group together.

Here's how it goes: The tank, who is also a paladin, gets up on his charger, runs around the area picking up mobs like crazy, and I'm sweatin' trying to stay in range and keep him healed. And then we loot the dead bodies. And then...he would pause for a bit in between fights. Maybe he was waiting on a cooldown, who knows. It was driving me crazy, though. Could have done 1 group at a time just as easily.

So, then we got to the area with the graves. And the warrior and the tank both start digging up the graves. Next thing I know, there are zombies every where, attacking everyone. And I'm trying to keep the tank alive. Then the warrior starts taking a lot of hits. So, I'm trying to heal the warrior before he dies. And then I see the tank go down. And then the mage. And then the warrior. And next thing I know, I've got zombies all over me! And somehow the hunter survives. Heh. I wish I could've pretended to be dead and fool the bunch of zombies attacking me. And we get resurrected. And the warrior has the nerve to ask what happened. And I tell him, that it's a lot easier to heal the party when the tank has all the aggro.

So, thankfully, nobody ditched me after that fiasco, and we made it to the end. And, after that first wipe, everyone did a good job letting the pally keep the aggro. I would have liked to take out Gaszrilla (or however it's spelled), but by that time everyone was pretty tired, so we called it.

A little late introduction

Ever wonder where those crazy names came from? Well, I'll tell ya:

Mula- means female mule in Spanish. Yep. She's my workhorse. And my main.

Lottabruski- lot of bruski, or beer. She's a dwarf. No reflection on me btw.

Rincewindy- ever read the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. There's a character named Rincewind. Probably one of my favorite characters in the series.

Sixxissix- I think we all can figure that one out. Made her after reading Stephen King's book. Whichever one made all the references to 19 and 1999 and etc.

Beetovon- Famous composer Beethoven reference. (Actually had trouble typing his name correctly.) My favorite composer.

Karask- Named after a character I created for a novel. Means demon in elvish (D&D reference) He's got a pet named after a demon as well. btw, if you're looking for demonology stuff, "The encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology" by Rosemary Guiley is a pretty good source.

Sangnoire- means "black blood" in french. She's a death knight, so kinda fitting.

Mulamula- based on a nickname I got from a guild member. Kinda cute. If I do transfer a toon off of silverhand, this will be my Tauren pally.

Darthfail- Death knight meets Sith meets fail. Aaaagh. He's a tank. And I've already had one person leave b4 I could prove that I wasn't a failtank....

Pyaara- roughly means lovely in Hindi.

Squigvicious- taken from warhammer and Sid Vicious. Squigs being the little critters that warhammer goblins push around.

Nottatauren- my druid tauren. play on words since druids change shape.

Malacowa- "Bad cow" a play on the "Bad wolf" storyline in Doctor Who.

Epicfail- The first of the fails.

Artamise- Artemis- greek goddess, also Artemis, from R.A. Salvatore's books.

Angrypoopoo- I get the two mixed up, but either Rotface or Festergut, says "I think I made an angry poo poo...it gonna blow!"

Littlebruski- A little version of lotta- i.e. a gnome

Imdeadagain- a parody on warlocks and how they're so easy to kill. I should put her into pvp. heh.

Karishna- A variation of Krishna - a Hindu diety

Deadlady- undead warrior

Annoyin- mage gnome- another pvp candidate.

Faithfail- one of the younger fails. Shadow priest.

Poppoppoppop- shaman. Sound of the 4 totems when she brings em out.

Wulfengar- Another R.A. Salvatore reference- Wulfgar added to wolfen. :)

Nutt- another discworld reference- Nutt being the goblin in the book "Unseen Academicals"

Easy come, easy go

So, my collection of "fail" characters was getting out of hand. I mean, there were: Epicfail, Darthfail, Failbear, and Faithfail. In addition to that, there were: Angrypoopoo and Huntaard. Too much! So, I took out Failbear and Huntaard. Huntaard died by a backfired arrow to the skull. Failbear got mauled by a bear.

Replaced one with "Imdeadagain" - an orc'lock. Been levelling her up as quick as I can. I need to get back to doing quests. But I hate having to be interrupted while doing a quest for a dungeon. But, the better gear, and the xp are in the dungeons.

I've been thinking of converting Nottatauren into a tauren paladin when cataclysm comes out, but I dunno. Been wanting to level him up so that he can live up to his name. (i.e. tree form). And with Squigvicious being converted into a goblin, I'm not sure how much more money I'm gonna want to be spending.

I've been having the same problems with all of my characters that are between 20 and 79. I've hit a rut. With Nottatauren, Pyaara, and Malacowa - all healers - the frustration is that questing is much more difficult, or perhaps just more tedious. Since they are set up to heal, I'd have to move a lot of buttons, (And now I just remembered about that secondary action bar - Gah!) ... and spend more time healing because I'd be dying faster since my dps isn't as high...and the queue for dungeons is still pretty long, even for healers. For the dps - it's the waiting in the queue for the dungeons, too. I hate having to repeat quests that I've done in the past with other characters, so I'm stuck. And it doesn't help that my main character is fairly high maintenance. Gotta keep doing dailies to get the moolah, gotta keep doing the daily dungeon to get the marks of frost, gotta keep trying to get into raids for the marks of frost and to upgrade Shadow's edge. But, as you can imagine, doing dailies gets tiresome, and can't do dailies while having to sit around in the cities waiting for raids...hmmm. That gives me an idea...I could sell stuff on the auction house, or even upsell stuff...[begins to rub hands together greedily and develop a wicked grin on face]. Ok, I probably don't have the patience for that, either. Actually, it's been a good chance to chat with my guidies!

2-man moot- by Rincewindy

I can barely believe that only two people showed up for IST's weekly moot. Me and Aracna were the only ones. We talked mostly about my memory issues and spoke about the last few weeks. I did remember one thing from before the ... surgery?...so I believe there is still hope. Several people were on before and they all left just before the meeting started. One person was trying to get there, but got sucked into the void and wasn't able to make it. We moved the moot to the IST beach with hopes that sun and sand would bring in more bodies. Lucinther showed up and nearly scared the pants off of me. I've been finding it difficult to get back to my old life, the memories of the past that were regained were so vivid, it was difficult to transition back to my daily life. Seems like everything's been on hold. I am now wishing that I'd never regained my memories, and the price I paid - my memories from after that day in the woods - seems almost too high now. I am determined now, to rebuild my current life, and not let the past get in my way anymore.

Mr. Wiggles Shoulders, -by Mula

Ok, you might be wondering what that's supposed to mean. Ok. I'll tell!

Yesterday, I was hanging out in Dalaran, hoping for someone to invite me into a raid. I get invited to a raid, and as I'm heading over I get another invite. I ask the person who was trying to invite me, and he was also inviting me to a 10 man raid on the Citadel. Well, I said my good-byes to the group I was in, since I knew the guy who was inviting me, and had raided with Seventh Seal before. (Actually, I'm hoping to get in their Sunday night raid, too.) So, I head into ICC (Icecrown Citadel) and talk to the blacksmith in there. He's got some nice shoulders that I could buy for some frost emblems. I'm debating to either get the shoulders now, or to wait until I get enough emblems to buy a new helm. Well, the shoulders won out. I purchased them, got them gemmed up, stopped at the Sons of Hodir and bought an enchantment for them. I also finally got my mace enchanted! Thanks to Rincewindy for the mats!

So, I donned my new shoulders. If ya take a look you can see that they have piggy faces! So, I thought, I need a matching pet. Out came Mr. Wiggles!

Down and out

So, yesterday, around noon, I'm checking my email, (something I don't do often), and I notice that there's an email from the guys at Blizzard. And they're telling me that the payment didn't go through, and so, first thought that goes through my head is that "I'm broke! Oh crap!" but the second thought replaced very quickly: "Oh crap! When I got my debit card replaced, I forgot to update it with WoW!" So, I go to the battle.net and click on the my account button, and I get a message that the website is under maintenance and that it will be fixed soon. So, I try a couple hours later. Same thing. So, I try to call them, and I get this recording that the queue is full and to call back later. Apparently, I wasn't the only one having problems. So, I decide to wait until I get home. I go online again...same thing. So, now I'm wondering what they're considering as "shortly." 6 hours? heh.

So, I think, "well maybe I'll play a little Conan." Bring the game up. Oh crap. It's got a bunch of updates. Gah! So, I have my husband call the Spanish help line for WoW, since all the English speaking people are hogging up the queue. He gets a representative and turns out that she can't do anything since the servers are down on their end, as well. And to try maybe in an hour....and Conan's now got a 50 minute wait. So, I crack out Lego Harry Potter and decide to take care of things later.

...Later, I try again on the website, and I'm able to get to the part where you choose what kind of payment method you're gonna use to pay the bill, but when I click on the continue button it puts me back at the same page. So, I have my husband call again. This time, he tells me that they're saying that the servers probably won't be up until tomorrow. ...Well, actually first he said two weeks. Then he said just kidding. Anyway, that's what Lego Harry Potter is for. And my husband got to play Conan. So, everyone was happy! And maybe I'll be able to get my raid in tonight, since I was able to update my credit card information this morning. :)

Another day, another gold piece, - by Mula

I missed the rest of the raid last night...by 2 hours. Who knew that they were gonna start it so soon. It's probably for the best. It would have been a heck of a repair bill. Hopin' to be able to get into a raid tonight. Maybe get more souls for my axe.

Got about 300g doing dailies. That will buy one more gem. I'm hoping to have enough to enchant my mace tonight. I gotta check my mats. I'm 5 primordials away from getting a pair of pants. Been buying 'em off the Auction house. Got the red gem, just need an orange and purple. I've been wondering how beneficial it would be if I traded all my reds for Armor penetration instead of strength. I hear it's really good. Also, been wondering if I should just go straigth down the line with all reds, instead of worrying about what color gem is supposed to fill the socket. I see that a lot, too. Is losing a little bonus for having the right colors socketed worth the gain of having all armor penetration gems?

The real question is: Should I save up for a new helm or just buy out the shoulders, right now? I'm tempted to get the shoulders first that way if a helm drops...yeah, yeah, I know--Wishful thinking!...there's a chance that we might make it to the ... I think it was the Vampire queen ... and manage to take her out, then maybe...ah heck, who am I really kidding. I'd probably end up in another raid that bids for stuff, and it's doubtful that I'd actually win with only 300g. Gah!

So, the real plan is this. Get my shoulders, legs, and helm replaced with better stuff. Then, save up and buy slightly worse armor, that can be upgraded to better armor than what I currently have. It may sound a little bit crazy, but it might just be crazy enough to work!

Maybe I should think about getting a mammoth-sized mammoth next.

Three times the trek, -by Mula

After getting some dailies done, I found I couldn't do anymore. Sometimes I wish there wasn't a limit. So, I decided to knock out one of the quests that I'd been hangin' onto for a while. I was supposed to stab this blacksmith in Blackrock spire with this pike and grab the armor that he'd stolen. I got there and forgot to grab the pike. So, back to Dalaran I went. I then went back to Blackrock spire, and one of the goblins at the flight path said she still needed a frozen egg sample and would I go and get it for her since I was headed there anyway. She said I'd told her I'd do the quest quite some time ago and why was I taking so long. I said I'd get it for her right away. Back into Blackrock Spire I went again. I got to the chamber with all the eggs and realized that she hadn't given me the Egg freezing gun - what ever she called it. I went back to her and said she forgot to give it to me. She said that in her log, it showed that she'd given it to me a long while back. It then dawned on me that the item was probably in the bank. Back to Dalaran I went, again.
Indeed the item was in the bank. I grabbed it, made sure there wasn't anything else I was missing, then headed back, yet again, to Blackrock Spire. Froze the egg, and went back to the goblin. She then hands me a completed version of the test version that she'd given me and told me to get her 8 frozen eggs. I wanted to tell her "Why didn't you just give me the completed model in the first place?" but I held my tongue. Got the eggs, got the blacksmith's head on the pike and the armor, went back to the goblin. She said, that's great, now go Eastern Plaguelands and deliver it to some guy at the chapel. Grrrr! So, I went to the chapel, gave the guy the eggs, and you know what? Now, he want's me do something for him. Went into Scholomance, and realized that I must have failed to get the quest from him. So, hearthed back to Dalaran, took the flight from Orgrimmar to Winterspring. Turned in the armor and head to the demon guy at the ruined temple. Done! I'll deal with the goblins and argent people later.

269 souls and counting, -by Mula

That's right I'm over 1/4th of the way to the 1000 souls that Shadow's edge is craving. Got all the major raids out of the way for the week. Woo hoo! Just gonna work on dailies and getting monies. Already spent the money I got yesterday on primordials. Just need 6 more to make some nice legs. I'm actually trying to avoid having to buy them with my frosty emblems, so that I can work on getting better armor that can only be bought with frosty emblems. Actually only need 10 more for a nice pair of shoulders. I've been wanting to replace my chicken-helm, but I'm hoping that the helm that dropped on Tuesday will drop again in a future raid on the citadel.

I've been slacking on my dailies. I havn't even done the cheese cooking quest. And that one is super easy. The dragon riders will probably be wondering who I am next time I visit them.

Bidding for our lives, -by Mula

So, I found myself pacing back and forth around the guilde hall, with no hopes for anything to do. I'd already done the weekly dungeon quest and was getting antsy because nobody was looking for anybode to do any dungeons. And then someone says they need more to kill Nefarious in Blackwing Lair. I couldn't believe my luck! And then I realized that we weren't getting anymore people to join us. So, we ended up going our separate ways. And so I found myself pacing, again.

Finally, I heard that someone was asking for more damage dealers for Icecrown Citadel. I signed up right away and we all headed over there. So, they said they did things on a bidding system. If you wanted a particular item that dropped from one of the bosses, you'd have to bid for it. Well, I'd only brought 160 gold with me. And the minimum bid was 200 gold. I shrugged my shoulders and figured that I wouldn't need anything that dropped.

Shadow's edge was busy eating souls. Only need 830 more! We were cruising right along, and it was fun watching the bidding. I kinda chuckled to myself when a one handed mace dropped and the bidding went up to 8500 gold! These guys were rich! So, we had a little bit of trouble with Professor Putricide. So, we went over to the vampire lords and staked 'em to death.

In the end, I came out with 1500 more gold than I had in the beginning. Yep, all that money that people were spending on the weapons and armor went into a pot that got divided equally among all the group members! I might just have enough money to buy my dragons from the dragonriders. I just need to do a few more tasks for them, and then all will be good!

Shadow's edge, at last! -by Mula

It's been a long road, but I finally managed to get enough primordial saronite chunks for my new axe! I got the final two from the guild, they are so nice! I grouped up with some guys for Ulduar, and snuck into Icecrown Citadel to trade the saronite for the axe.



You can check out the axe at the armory and now that it's all over, I hardly know what to do with myself! Although I still need to get both my weapons enchanted. Will need to also start upgrading my armor. It seems like a never-ending battle. I will probably start with trying to get a better helm. Mine looks like a chicken hat!

Soooo close, by Mula

I'm just two primordial saronites away from attaining Shadow's edge. I'm hoping to get just a little bit of help from the guild tonight at our raid, but there has been no word of any scheduled raid! If worse comes to worse, I'll have to wait another week before I get my hands on the weapon. That's all for now, will keep y'all posted.

Does this make sense?, by Rincewindy

I feel that I've been focusing on the wrong types of spells. When I'm fighting, I tend to keep it pretty simple. Arcane blast x4, then arcane missiles for single targets; blizzard for groups. I felt like I was not doing enough damage. Especially considering that my gear is becoming halfway decent. I'm really not sure how much damage I should be doing compared to other mages with similar gear levels to my own, but the way I had it (talent tree) set up before was continually putting me at the bottom of the totem...if you get my drift. So, this is my current focus. I didn't think that arcane barrage was really helping me achieve the quantity of damage that I was looking for. I could probably swap a point from cone of cold, which would be about 10% less damage, for something that does about 1/2 of the damage and only to a single target. My real concern is how quickly my mana is becoming drained...or should I say the slowness with which it is being replenished. That would mean taking points from damage and putting them in mana regen. So far, it hasn't been a problem.

I also just realized that I can still get a few more glyphs! I can't believe I've forgotten! --Don't you dare say anything, Mula!--

Raidin' the citadel, by Mula

So, the guild didn't have they're regular raid this Tuesday. I felt like cow stuck in a tree. So, went with some strangers. Wow, I can now really appreciate the fine tuned beast know as Ironsong Tribe (IST) raids. We barely made it past Saurfang, and then the big doggie - either Festergut's or Rotface's - Stinky, I think, had us running with our tails between our legs. How is it possible that we are able to kill Saurfang and not some big pooch? Anyway, I suspect that some of the healer's weren't as good as the IST raid healers. So, the group high-tailed it out of there. (Seriously, no puppy dog tail puns intended.)

So, then I joined up with a smaller group, yesterday. And, we did pretty good. The raid leader was amazed at being able to make it past Saurfang. Said that none of the teams he'd gone with had made it that far. I'd assume that that was mostly due to our elite healers! They were fantastic! No puppy problems there! Unfortunately, several of the raiders had to leave, so we were not able to test our mettle against the pestilent pus-bags known as Rotface and Festergut.