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Project Slow Down

2012 March 6 by Glea

There has been something weighing on my mind recently. I am disappointed with my mage. Now, don’t get me wrong. I love my wee Dwarven lass. I love the huge fireballs she throws and her red pigtails; I even enjoy flirting with Arcane (once I stop grumbling about the lack of excitement). I love raiding with her. Despite all the love I have for my mage, I am still disappointed with her. After thinking about it I think I have figured out why.

I miss the adventure. I miss seeing the world through fresh eyes. I miss the sense of exploration I had when I was first leveling my rogue. Everything was new. There was no real pressure to level my character as quickly as possible to play the “real” game.

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March Update

2012 March 1 by Glea

I apologize for not posting for a while, but sometimes life sucks!  I’ve had several things crop up in my out-of-game life that just happened to take precedence over my blog. Between moving, celebrating my sister’s divorce, and being a care taker/chauffeur for my sister as she recovered from surgery (malignant melanoma) – yeah, game involvement kinda took a back seat.

Recently, however, I’ve been able to spend a little more time outside of raiding to look at exactly what I’ve been up to in game. So, here is my WoW update.

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Searching for numbers – LFR rant

2011 December 12 by Glea

I am not a theroycrafter. Just because an equation says that I can get x amount out if I do this or enchant that, does not mean that I can actually get x amount out. This was in fact driven home yesterday when I was in the LFR taking my fire spec out for a spin. I was one of four mages in the raid. The first fight was fairly easy and I found my DPS at the end of the fight was enough to place me into the top 5. The second fight saw my DPS drop to the middle of the pack (around 13th), and the third boss I did not complete (although by then I managed to scrap together enough to make it back into the top 10) because of two game disconnects and they were starting to kick folks if they were wearing PvP gear or had dps numbers for the fight that was below some arbitrary amount.

 

As a pure DPS caster, I get it. Okay. You have to have a certain amount of consistent DPS on the boss and the oozes to win the fight. But the manner in which this particular PUG was acting and venting the frustration of wiping three times on a boss was not very conducive to getting more DPS out of the group if everyone was to remain. Of course, since they were actively kicking people out that did not conform to their idea, well – I would be surprised if all but the top 5 (from that fight) remained in the group by the end of the run.

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Just a Note to say hi.

2011 December 2 by Glea

Wow. Has it really been nearly two months since I posted anything? I guess time really does fly when you’re having fun.

I’ve had a busy two months. I’m moving into my own place (well sharing the rent with my sister, but still my own place), relearning how to budget my spending, and trying to down anyone besides Shannox in the Firelands (it’s not looking good for me getting my legendary – le sigh).

Admist all this I have had several things I’ve wanted to write about, but I keep getting trapped by the details and blind alleys. Who knows, maybe one the ideas will make it out from the smoke bomb and show up with completed paragraphs and everything. And to top things off, 4.3 dropped on us on Tuesday.

Intial reactions? I am having a blast with the new 5-man dungeons and getting a chance to see the mechanics of the boss fights via the new LFR.

Hopefully things will quiet down and I will manage to do something other than move pixels and throw boxes around this weekend.

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Zone Impression: Southern Barrens

2011 October 4 by Glea

 

I’ve recently been leveling my Alliance Protection paladin in the Southern Barrens.  This is one of the zones in Cataclysm that has active Horde versus Alliance conflict as the central theme of the zone. Like the Redridge Mountains zone, it is a fairly active place with a series of events that is seen completely different by the factions involved.

Note: This reaction to the zone does have an Alliance bias. The Alliance character that went through Southern Barrens does not have access to the Horde faction quests. At this time I can only speak from the Alliance point of view.

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Zone Impressions: Redridge Mountains

2011 September 12 by Glea

Gwendora’s first stop was at Goldshire. The troops from Stormwind patrolled the roads of Elwynn Forest more often.  In her early travels, she did simple recon missions. Goldshire became an active place to repair her equipment and drink a cold glass of milk. After skirmishes with Murlocs and Kobolds, she was sent out to Westfall.  After seeing the hardships of Westfall, she was called into action in Redridge Mountains.

 

Redridge Mountains is one of the two early Alliance leveling zones that have had its storyline advanced. For human Alliance players, you will have just finished the mystery quest line in Westfall after getting acquainted with Elwynn Forest and Stormwind. If you had to make a choice about which zone to fully complete as you level, I highly, highly recommend Redridge Mountain. The whole reason I say this is easily summed up in two words. Bravo Company.

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Lost Photos Are Not Lost?

2011 September 5 by Glea

My Tent

 

A couple of months ago I had some issues with a software update that resulted in the loss of some data (turned out to be some bad memory).  I thought I had managed to completely backup my photos, but when I was finally able to restore everything the photos from my last vacation could not be found. I finally accepted that those waterfall photos were lost in the nether-space of electronic media.

Or so I thought. At the end of August I had a family reunion and of course my camera was present. Toward the end of the day, I was reviewing the photos on my SD card and I found myself looking at photos from my vacation. Rejoicing commenced and I was turning cartwheels in my mind at my luck. Somehow I neglected to delete the photos when I originally imported them to iPhoto. Yay failure!

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Le Sigh

2011 August 25 by Glea

So it has been a while since I last actually posted anything. I have several things started, but nothing at a point where I would release it beyond my own hard drive. Sad excuse really.

Outside of the normal workings of life and work, I have tooled about in WoW. However, I haven’t really felt excited about logging for the last week. When I do log in, I look at my character screen. I see my first max level character languishing in Stormwind, waiting for me to try out the new spec that I logged out with. I take a deep breath and proceed to log into the mage to do Molten Front dailies or work on one of my low level alts that I am using in family dungeon time with my sister, nephew, and brother-in-law.

I think that this may be the root at some point for my lack of interest this week. My rogue was my first character to reach raid worthy level and she has now been surpassed by my mage… /sigh

 

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Lessons Learned in Tanking

2011 June 12 by Glea

the Sunwalker Tank

As mentioned earlier, I have a Tauren Protection Paladin. At level 17, he finally ventured into the world of LFD and tanked his first PUG. As a first tanking experience it was a little lacking. I do not know if I did a decent job at pulling; I did, however, manage to maintain and keep threat. The rest of the dungeon was an exercise in bad DPS practices. At least on my part ;o)

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First Dungeons as a Shaman Healer

2011 June 9 by Glea

My Shaman finally hit level 15 this weekend. I spent part of the weekend looking at maps to the available dungeons, mainly because on a computer screen I have a horrible sense of direction. On Sunday, I felt that even though I would probably be under geared, I was ready for the trial by fire that PUGs can represent.

The first two dungeons went fairly smoothly. Only one death and no wipes. And the one death was a rogue that wanted to try something without a healer nearby. He left the group before I could get to him and attempt a res.

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