Epic

Because I was egged on to blog about this:

Epic is duoing the normal utgarde keep first boss and not even breaking a nail.

Epic is chasing down the only dwarf hunter in Alterac Valley all the way to the alliance starting zone (I pity whoever followed us, haha) and eventually doing a surprise rose petals shower on him as he tried to hide out by Vann’s room.

Epic is staying up probably too late to chase down troll rogue bank alts and trying in vain to get particular gifts of adoration.

This holiday is win.

Achievements and fishing

A quick update on what Yas has been doing recently:

- Been steadily leveling up my tradeskills. Made my moonshroud robes, and am steadily getting gear upgrades. Most of my gear is above level 187 and my spellpower has reached 2055 self buffed. My mana regen is where I’m working on and I’ve been enchanting away.

- Rep grinding – got exalted with teh Kirin Tor, new spellthread and some nice mana-ful robes for a rainy spirit-less day.

- Finished the Elder achievements. An impressive duo-ing run through normal Nexus got me the title.

- Working again on fishing and cooking. No particular reason, I just like having things to do when I can’t instance.

C'mere my fishies...

- My healing confidence is mostly restored. I can sometimes heal and alt tab like I used to . Hooray well geared groups! I still have a handful of heroics I have yet to do. Some day.

- I invested some real life money to get Yasura a facelift. And since then, she’s become a bit addicted to the barbershop. Being pretty takes so much money! :O

Cuteness squared.

Until next time, happy lunar festival!

A merry…

Have a happy and safe holiday and enjoy your day off, folks.

Snowgal Yas tips her hat off to you.

Wrath Recap

So I haven’t written here in a while. That’s totally my fault, and of course, WoW’s fault.  In the land of Yasura, I finally got to 80. With a boomkin leveling partner, we managed to mostly AOE and blaze through most of the zones. I have to say, Blizz really outdid themselves on this expansion. Every time I’d finish a quest line and say, “Oh my geez, that’s the most awesome chain ever”, I’d stumble across another chain that’d have me saying the same thing and squeal unabashedly.

Quick notes:

- A Disc/Holy build is great for leveling. I never ran out of mana and I was a decent healer.

- Holy Nova is a great way to mitigate the health losses of an AOE-hungry boomkin while still dishing out some dps.

- The Levitate glyph is very handy for leveling especially in quest zones with a lot of water to get across. Also, you get the added bonus of looking like a special diety with your own special water walk. (It’s too bad this goes away next patch, now everyone can be special. Boo! )

Speaking of the next patch, I can’t say I’m entirely surprised that priests got COH nerfed and otherwise lackluster updates (in the holy department, anyhow).  I really wish they would give Holy just a slight boost in mana regeneration and a few more tricks to make Holy stand out more as a raiding build. Guardian Spirit is nice but it’s been situational for me so far. Divine Hymn is really poorly scaled and I mostly use it for my gimmicky “Change is here!” macro. I’ve heard a lot from priests regarding the COH change from praising it to bemoaning it. I’m actually a bit lukewarm, as I’ve been consciously trying to wean myself off using it as much as I used to. Prayer of Healing has had a bit more bang for my buck with scaling. I haven’t tried to raid with my spec yet so I can’t say anything regarding that, but I’m hopeful that holy priests are still pretty viable in raids.

My current project is mostly trying to finish questing in the zones I haven’t finished for the tailoring stuff I need (as well as instances). I am also attempting to finish leveling my professions. I am really awed at the people that got realm first achievements with their professions. That is some insanity.

Speaking of insanity, I’m currently also powerleveling cooking and fishing to get the Merrymaker achievement. >.> …Yea. I’m not all there, I suppose.

Patches and achievements

So I’ve been busy these few weeks catching up on WoW-related goals and generally trying to not go insane from my wonky work schedule. My paladin, Delenitha, dinged 70 (alas, I forget to get a screenshot, as is tradition with my 70s) and I am really enjoying the AOE tankadin life on her.

Due to the holiday and achievements, however, my priest has seen a resurgence in playing time. Who knew that achievements could be so addictive? With the help of a friend, I got enough pets to get Stinker and I’m slowly trying to get through the achievements to get the Hallowed title. Earlier this week, I got the ubiquitous Jenkins title but then I thought, Yasura the Hallowed has a bit nicer ring to it than Yasura Jenkins. Maybe.

As for healing, I can say that despite my earlier protestations, I’m really digging the changes. I thought I would miss downranking a lot more but I’ve found the transition easy. I also did something I thought I’d never do and respecced to include “lolwell” in my healing arsenal. I’m still trying to train my party and raid people to actually *use* it but I’m hopeful it’s worth the point since my mana is a lot more valuable now than it was with mana pots freely available. As for raiding,  I can’t say much about that at the moment since my schedule has thrown advance planning out the window. I have heard raids are easy as pie now but that’s no surprise to me considering that the pre-expansion patch always shakes things up, if only for a little while.

Now if only maintenence would end soon, I have more random instances to do and places to explore for achievements. I’m not obsessed…really.

Meow!