WoW Trotter

Fellow ladies in LFD

Bear Pelt — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:55:09 +0000

I didn’t think I’d meet so many fellow ladies in LFD willing to reveal their genders, but I did. There were 3 of them who started it off by mentioning their significant others. The first thing I could think to type was:

Me: Fellow ladies in LFD?! My god!!!

Fun dungeon! The lone male healer mentioned he felt like a pimp, and there was plenty of friendly banter about.

Hope to have more fun runs like that :D

Would like a celestial dagger!

Bear Pelt — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:38:37 +0000

At this point, I became extremely confused with timelines…

Fun times in ICC~

Ninja-jumping Saurfang the Younger with a 2-headed ursine.

Losing the mind over in Ulduar.

Yep. Lost it and died in Yoggie. Interesting view nonetheless.

So preeeetty~

I want one of those star daggers!

Never liked the Grimtotem. My death knight was happy to oblige me there.

Loved this mini-event.

I know my stomach hurt after laughing at these two.

A triumph in LFD

Bear Pelt — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:10:31 +0000

I’ve been queuing up for Heroic Zul’Gurub, Stonecore and Vortex Pinnacle as DPS for slightly over 2 months in a bid to attain the coveted mounts. I also queue for normal Stonecore and Vortex Pinnacle. Someone as geared as myself would understandably pull off poor 82s on the first hit so I tend to go to normal instances in my hybrid tank spec with my PVP gears.

Once, I got into heroic Stonecore with a very rude tank who immediately started calling us a ‘shit group’ after the first pack despite the fact no one had died or done anything stupid. The tank (who was embarrassingly enough from my realm) continued his spat of verbal abuse throughout the dungeon. At some point I told the group that I simply wasn’t with the knave so please don’t lump us together. We tolerated the tank’s behaviour until the healer accidentally wandered too near a side pack and pulled it. The tank refused to taunt off the healer till a long while later. After we downed the pack, this exchange happened.

Tank: I wanted to wait till you died before taunting.
Me: Then I would have taunted off the healer because I am in tank spec.
Healer: Hah!
Tank: You go tank the boss then.
Me: Sure.

I immediately pulled the boss without waiting for the tank to switch specs to DPS. The boss went down without incident despite us being 1 DPS short. After the boss died:

Tank: … damn
Me: Heh.
Healer: This is a classic case of good triumphs over evil!

So don’t put yourself on some high pedestal, tanks.

Retbull and wings

Bear Pelt — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:27:22 +0000

Favourite spot in Howling Fjord.

I still try to revisit the old places even now.

Fweeeeeeeeeeeee

Another attempt at HM Professor Putricide.

I fed Mr Chilly a biscuit~

My short-lived attempt at shaman. This guy was deleted at level 8.

Dat back~

But I like our feathered friends :(

My disgruntled death knight suddenly finds himself in a sickeningly warm and bright place.

Raiding updates

Bear Pelt — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:24:53 +0000

Ragnaros is on farm and is a kitty’s DPS wonderland.

Heroic Shannox is cake.

Going to try Heroic Beth’tilac this Wednesday.

25man raids are epic. 10mans are–for some obscure reason–dreadfully boring despite having even good friends/ core raiders from the 25s in them.

I adore my raid leaders.

4pcT12 was attained last Wednesday and I currently stand at ilvl 376 in feral DPS gears alone.

According to WowProgress.com, I’m the top geared feral DPS druid on my realm; either cats are rare or I’ve been lucky with lewt.

A bit of Outland.

Bear Pelt — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:07:01 +0000

Pukey sky D:

It’s beautiful in some twisted way.

Behold… Sparkle bear!

Love being a wolf over at Howling Fjord!

So peaceful and snowy!

An old quest from the Plaguelands.

Bear Pelt — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:58:44 +0000

This zone creeped me out.

Yet I felt morbidly drawn to it on occasion, as if determined to overcome my fear.

Had to take this quest on before Cataclysm hit!

Though this is one of the most touching questlines players reference, I did not feel especially connected nor moved.

Still, I cannot deny that it was a very well-written story!

Even now I use my sparkle pony.

I miss the Tree of Life form! These days if ever our healers have to need to use it, the raid -shouldn’t- be looking at them!

Note to self

Bear Pelt — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:25:53 +0000

Next time, prepare yourself mentally when looking through old screenshots; the memories of players who have moved on or vanished can be too overwhelming. Remember how lucky you are to have found a bunch of players you enjoy spending time with online now.

It’s a little like looking through my blog links. So many blogs are now inactive. I do not blame the bloggers–of course, but it’s still a little sad to see that somehow Cataclysm was not the hit many were expecting.

I shall comfort myself with the possibility that players may one day return to Azeroth…

I’m an NPC!

Bear Pelt — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:28:33 +0000

Would’ve made some pretty good sashimi.

My transformation into an NPC is complete!

Now I can stop farming Burning Crusade raids…

Yay~

My RL used to run laps around Dalaran while forming raids. I’d toss him a Baby Spice and hop on his mount!

Readying for the pull…

Resilience.

Bear Pelt — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:11:55 +0000

I honestly can’t believe so many months have passed since I left this blog to collect dust. Seems only yesterday I was writing about patch 4.1. Between juggling officer duties, recruiting and trying hard to keep things together on the real life front (which is unfortunately more unstable than a 25 man raid connection), I’ve also begun to take on PVP.

Ahhh PVP. How you’ve tormented me so. The days of being ganked by Alliance and feeling no way to retaliate. When the new rated battleground mounts came out, I got annoyed that they were beyond my skill reach. Then stopped and decided I would get it somehow.

I farmed the gears through battlegrounds and my feverish grind attracted a bit of attention from the guild; we’re primarily a PVE guild, but many of the old-time raiders PVPed at some point. This was an opportunity for them to hop back in with some communal support. Even managed to get a guild rated battleground together!

Still, the greatest satisfaction came from a single incident. I was at the Molten Front doing my dailies at the underground cavern unlocked by the Druids of the Talon. My hostile player detector warned me of an Alliance druid somewhere in the vicinity, so I switched to my PVP gears and hybrid spec, went into bear form and went to get my quest at the NPC.

Sure enough I was ambushed by a Night Elf druid from the most notorious Alliance PVP guild.

The fight lasted 10 minutes.

I won with half my life intact. And danced over his corpse.

This–my friends–is the greatest victory for me in PVP.