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!

I still don’t get it.

So I did some instancing after my failed runs and a heroic Nexus run on Thursday night. I didn’t lag at all. I’m wondering if there’s some weird kind of lag I get during peak hours because I usually never get to play during the peak hours. If so, this is disconcerting because if it’s a chronic thing, I’ll only have to settle for late night/early afternoon pugs. On the other hand, I researched for similar issues on WoW’s technical support forums and found that there were quite a few threads about bad latency and lag in instances and Northrend in general.

Another reason that living in the Northeast United States (not on Comcast though, I’m at least somewhat lucky) is fail. On the plus, my boss told me that I’ll likely not have to close so much soon (crosses fingers) but my new slightly earlier schedule probably still won’t mesh with my guild’s times. Woe is me. I’m still job hunting. And still sick! Okay, I’ll stop complaining now. Here’s a link to tide you over for now.

Meh

Some days I really doubt whether I should be playing this game at all in a role that’s as pivotal as a priest. I just had the lag day from hell whileI was running some heroics. My first heroics even. I’m already sort of conscious about my  healing ability and the lag just amplified it more. Tons of tank deaths and deaths of mine. It was just not very prettty. Sure we actually finished both heroics, but I came out feeling like I had to apologize to everyone for wasting their time. 😦

On the bright side, I got some upgrades and the number of items that I have that are still subpar and pre-80 is slowly diminishing. I’m still sorely in need of items with crit, int or mp5 as I feel like I go out of mana way too fast. Northrend heroics are really brutal. With inexplicable lag, it’s half throwing away almost all motivation for continuing this game. What fun is healing when you are not even sure if the heal lands and you’re constantly trying to catch up because each new lag spike makes you more and more behind in healing. BAH.

I have a bevy of alts that I like to play. They don’t hold a candle to my main though. I hope it’s just a matter of 1) I have crazy bad internet luck today (I sincerely hope my internet isn’t *that* adverse to instances now) and 2) that maybe I’ve prematurely guessed that my gear is up to par and I really need to finish getting gear upgrades so that I can keep up even if there’s lag.

Anyways, I am just feeling like the worst healer ever right now.