So I'm playing my DK, at 66.5 or so and ready to start Nagrand and motor on through to 70 tonight like a madwoman, when my FPS drops to 10 (from 35-40) for no reason. I'm like hmm ok whatever I'll just close WoW and open it again!

Bam, queue for 800 people.

Sigh, sometimes I fail.

What do you do when you're in a T6 guild and it's brewfest?

Run every single one of your alts through the event, obviously.

I had: feral druid, resto shaman, holy paladin, shadow priest (who healed), hunter and mage
Group had: warlock/feral druid, warlock/rogue, tankadin (who also healed)/mage/warlock and mage/holy priest

We ran through every single daily in that group and got 0 of the caster trinkets. However, my druid got his kitty one, my shaman got her healy one, my paladin got her tanking one, my priest got her healy one.. and we fought over the rest for altspecs.

Oh and one of the locks got the kodo and I got the ram. /flex

So I just pulled aggro on Illidan (didn't get my salv, didn't notice, blah blah blah, I suck). However, the funniest part is... I'm in two pieces of Spellstrike. And it took until 70% for him to peel off and kick my ass. (In other words: WTF BOOMKIN THREAT.)

Needless to say, I got a lecture for it and was told I fail. I agreed. And now I get Salvation on every attempt instead of whenever our retadin feels like it.

Dear Kael,

DIAF

Sincerely,
A tired boomchicken

Maulgar (2 wipes, 1 kill)
Gruul (1 kill, T4 pants for kittendrood with a 99)
Hydross (4 wipes)

Oh it was fun. :) Though wtf is up with no +defense on the Malorne set! I'm still uncrittable (over by 0.2%) but that's one hell of a drop. And if I somehow stumble into Mag and get my chestpiece from him, then I will be crittable. So I guess that means I should get the Vengeful chestpiece and the T4 gloves from Curator. Cursed side-grade Tier 4, with your delicious 2 set bonus. :(

I feel pretty bad for having shelved my main server toons for now. I'm bored with them.

. The druid is as geared up as he's going to get at my current level of progression barring T4 gloves and T4 leggings.
. The priest is really boring and just brought out when I feel like being a mana battery, which is never as she's unguilded for some peace and quiet, therefore never dragged along.
. The hunter is sporadically brought out for another PvP push for more gear, even though it's cheating and I do my best to only fix what I know are problem slots throughout Karazhan (ie. legs).
. The paladin is level 64, beginning Terrokar. My Outlands burnout drags her down, though. I got her Herbalism up to 300 (now 301) though, which was satisfying. I look forward to the numbercrunching of getting together her tanking set (much more interesting than the druid's "well I have way over the defense cap due to my resilience, now to uh... stack agility, I guess?").
. The warlock is stagnated in the low 50s, as usual. She's stagnated since level 45, so it's not really surprising. Her next destination is Un'goro. I don't want to get another 70 for a while, though, so she's going to be lounging in an inn for a while.
. The mage is currently in the lead out of the rest, since I'm trying to get her to the 30 bracket so I can PvP with my friends' hunter and paladin.
. The warrior is lagging below 25, due to me not knowing what I am doing. At least the mage is simple 'hit 2 in fast sequence until mob hits your face, frost nova, run away, then hit 2 until mob is dead'. Warrior I still haven't gotten the hang of.
. The shaman is waiting for another session with my druid partner, wherein I stick to heals and interrupts and he is a cuddly bear mauling them. I like shaman. I really wish I had an extra shaman to level on my own, but I have some strange block with them despite loving the concept.
. The rogue is still the bank alt.

I did, however, scurry around with my little draenei hunter and get her to 12. The boar's been following extremely well, due to the new patch. I'm tempted to make the extremely long and painful ghost run all the way to friggin Eversong Woods for the red lynx as well, but I'm short the gold for the third stable slot. I should run around with the night elf hunter (who did the run for the lynx, but who runs like a girl) and mine stuff and AH it until I get enough funds.

Yes, my solution to burnout is to roll the opposite faction on a different server. :)

So today I had the wonderful joy of speaking to our top DPSer. A mage. I loathe mages.

This mage? He stacks JUST +crit gear. His hit rating is 18.

/sigh. At least he stacks scorch. (One of the other two specced out of it because she thought it was a "pvp thing".)

This account isn't big enough for the two of us.

Especially when I've got three 70s and I am trying to raid more and get more consumables etc. while he tries to gear up and key up his first 70.

Project Kick My Brother Off My Account must be put into action soon.

In other news, I got my warrior to 24 yesterday. She is much much more enjoyable to play than my mage, who is still 23. Hopefully I'll use the boyfriend's account to run them through Deatholme and SFK, but I need my brother to gtfo so I can do that.

I want to get him to level our duo, but I don't really sync well with him when I'm struggling through the 20s. I hate the 20s. Barrens and Stonetalon and Ashenvale and just blech. Once I hit the 30s and STV it goes so much better. Still though, I think I would really enjoy having a 70 shaman to heal with.

Ha! Time to go do some run throughs!

Ha, our little PuG got Gruul down today. :) Only took three tries, too.

And on the kill, my baby was #1 and I was #2. It was awesome. :D

My brother got his BE mage to 70 today and flew around on his new mount making fighter plane sounds. I keep badgering him to get more hit (he's currently at 18 hit). Should be neat to see if he'll get his own account now.

I got my warlock to 50 yesterday and kept trying to hit Hunter's Mark (hotkeyed to 6) and therefore wasted a lost of time half-casting Immolate. Affliction is tolerable now with the new leveling speed. And UA is nice, though I think the real change came from finally putting points in that +% damage to shadow spells and life healed by shadow spells.

It was also really nice to fight green-level mobs so I could just throw all my DoTs up (2-6 on my keybindings) and then go get something else while my voidwalker held aggro until about 5%.

In fact, I plan on doing Hinterlands next time I play her. :) Yay for non-elite Jintha'alor (I think, I only did this once back when Mes was little) and being way too big for the zone.

Now I need to steal one of my boy's characters and run my warrior and mage through the final Ghostlands quests so I can get them moving through the 20s.

And kick my brother off the server so I can try to level a rogue. I want to learn how to stunlock! (Because I hate it when they do it to me, grr.)

I got bored, so I made a hunter alt on another server. She's actually on my Alternate Server of Alliance. They're all below level 12. :) And she's my second hunter on there.

Anyway, she's a draenei named Eleck. And I got her to level 10, then ran all the way to Elwynn Forest to tame Princess, because that's my favourite pig skin. So now I'm happy. :)

Aka: Blizz please give us hunters more stable slots!

Then I went to Gruul's, of the PuG variety. My guildies dropped out or didn't show for our four slots, so I was the only one who went. I was nervous, as I'm still kind of a noob when it comes to dps. (Heal? Sure. Tank? Awesome! DPS? Uhhh ok.)

And I was #2 according to my WWS Report. Which is awesome. We'd buffed the #1 (fire mage) via boomkin, so I really didn't stand a chance. I did have >2.3K attack power and 41.41% crit chance, without totems. With totems I think the crit got up to 45.37%.

And that's with no tier gear and only two Karazhan drops for my kitty set. :D Yay pvp gear!

Oh and I got to (emergency) hateful tank. In cat gear. I had 14K health, he was hitting me for 13K. Our RL shouted out "woah mes!" and people frantically healed me back up. Too bad the OT (turned MT) went down soon after, so Gruul turned and crushed me for 9K, then hit for 5K. And then I died. Yay for wipes!

The closest we got him was 4%. We had major vent lag, though, which sucked. And I tried to be optimistic and say "don't worry we'll get him next time" and then had someone say "yeah but we have cooldowns now" and went over every. single. cooldown. It was kind of a dampener for me.

And I really really wanted a certain friend there.

( ding shot! )

There's my baby hunter hitting 70. I wanted to get the last 1.5 bars from discovery xp, but ended up giving up and killing four things before going on my second SV PuG of the day. :)

It's also the first time I've gotten a proper 70 ding shot. My main hit 70 at 13K latency and my shadow priest was MCing a naga in SV. So yay!

I ended up doing four runs today: one pug SL (took an hour and was awesome), one pug SV (was awesome, even though my bow broke halfway and I was horribly embarrassed by having forgotten to repair), a second pug SV (was ok, I was afk for the first boss and the tank always pulled before my traps were ready) and a third SV with my guild (was awful, took forever, the other hunter kept breaking my traps).

All in all, though, it was a good day for baby hunter. Now to get her leatherworking up those last 25 points. :)

SQUEE!

I got my Vengeful Gladiator's Dragonhide Helm AND Vindicator's Leather Belt today. :D

Now to find someone to cut me a Relentless Earthstorm Diamond and I will be one happy kittycat.

And after that, I am farming up the mats for a Shadowprowler's Chestguard. I have half the bolts, all the nethers. Just need to go mangle some elementals for the 12 11 Earths and 12 <8 Shadows. (Oooh, and we have over 10 bolts in the gbank. I just need 8 more. Want want want.)

New tank stats: 60 hit, 407 def +140 resil (.: still uncrittable), 1013 stamina and 24486 armor.

Once I glyph and gem my headpiece, my hit and armor should go up. And this is all with green quality gems as blue quality gems on my server are about 20x more expensive.

I should work on my scryer's rep too. 11605/21000. I want that exalted dps shoulder-glyph to put on my Merciless. Just 38 turn-ins, so 19 stacks. Not that bad.

Kitty hit is now about 132. :D :D

Oh being feral again feels awesome.

I respecced my druid back to feral last night for Gruul's Lair. I was told I'd only be dps, but I ended up tanking Kiggler. My tanking gear is not very good. I'm barely in blues, still crittable, and only at 13.5K health unbuffed.

Head: Stylin' Purple Hat (upgrading to S3 helm on Tuesday)
Neck: Strength of the Untamed (should look up getting a Necklace of the Deep)
Shoulder: S2 Shoulders (passed on T4 last night)
Back: Thoriumweave Cloak (next upgrade is from Illhoof)
Chest: Heavy Clefthoof Vest (will upgrade to S3 chest after upgrading helm, or make Shadowprowler's)
Wrist: Umberhowl's Collar (Kargath in Heroic SH has better)
Hands: Verdant Gloves (should really switch to wearing my Dextrous Manipulation for that, but they are gemmed for DPS not tanking... so that means I should save myself a second pair if I see them drop)
Belt: Manimal's Cinch (this really needs to upgrade, either the PvP belt or the belt from Heroic Ramps)
Legs: Heavy Clefthoof Leggings (best I can get pre-tier)
Feet: Heavy Clefthoof Boots (will switch to my PvP boots when I next log in)
Rings: Shermanar Great-Ring and Delicate Eternium Ring (I am 1K from exalted with VE, at which point I will switch to the Violet Signet of the Great Protector)
Trinkets: Badge of Tenacity and Romulo's Poison Vial (I am short on hit, hence the second trinket, but plan to replace it with the Pocket Watch should I ever get the damn thing, or I should run Heroic Underbog for the Argussian Compass off of the Black Stalker)
Weapon: Earthwarden (next step is SSC/TK drops)

So I just need to get my S3 helm, slap that +def +dodge enchant on it, then push to make my Shadowprowler's Chestguard (without ninjaing the Soul Essence from the guild bank) and then turn my Heroic Badge focus to getting new bracers, rings and trinkets.

It's really hard to keep three sets of gear up to par, especially when avoiding rolling on Tier gear (which would take care of two sets with one item) in order to allow our tanks to gear up.

Gruul's WWS

I am a pathetic pinata. Kept getting hit really hard by Kiggler, blech. But at least on the final attempt, he stopped polying the other tanks. That was no fun. And then my healer went oom and the pinata went smoosh, but they downed him.

Oh, and the hunters were accidentally dispelling Krosh's buff. QQ.

I gquit on my paladin and my priest the other day, after my Kara blowup.

Then yesterday my priest got to ride on some coattails through Karazhan (at 11% of the damage done, fail) where we downed all but Prince and Nightbane in three hours. It was awesome. The group was quiet, we pulled continuously, had no untimely AFKs. I loved it.

We also had defensive plate drop off of just about every boss. We could've geared up a prot warrior/paladin in half epics. We had no warrior. So one holy paladin got some loot in case he goes tanking.

We only had three deaths too. I kinda caused all of them. Two were warlock deaths on an AoE pull (both at once) which I believe was because the healers decided to keep me alive (as I got aggro from shielding a lock) and I wasn't in LOS so they had to scuttle and then the locks died. And the third was myself to a void hole during Netherspite. Black on black ftl. I hate desktop gamma.

We did wipe once on Curator, but had a DI. Why did we wipe? Arrogance and not clearing that last trash mob first, hehe.

All in all, it was awesome. The raid leader whispered me afterward telling me they could use another shadow priest. I told him I'd let them get settled in first.

I'm not sure if I want to raid with the shadow priest. She bores me to no end. On most days, all I do with her is the bombing dailies. I don't solo with her, because I hate it. She's still got some green gear and whatnot because I'm too lazy to PuG with her. She just doesn't bring me joy.

So I'm hoping I can prod them in the direction of picking up my hunter instead. Of course, this means I need to finish those 15 group quests clogging up my log and hit 70 and get my blues and do my heroics and grind my rep, but that seems doable with her as she can actually kill things. Hopefully I'll be able to call in some favours for the runs and the quests. :)

Got my hunter to 66 tonight and am working on her leatherworking. She's still stuck at 255, so just starting the Rugged Leather grind. Hopefully it won't be too horribly painful. I want to get her to Outlands mats so that I can use the stuff I've been picking up, instead of sending it to my main or bank.

A friend's guild (regularly raiding 25mans) is trying to poach me. Or, rather, poach my shadow priest. While I'm flattered, I'm not so sure what to make of this. I'm not a good shadow priest. And I'm really too lazy to go out and farm all the mats for her Battlecast right now.

Still working on the Primal Air transmutes for my druid's Windhawk set. Getting there. Need 19 now.

Oh and druid hit 1400 +healing unbuffed thanks to getting his delicious bracers enchanted. This would give me the warm and fuzzies if I wasn't in a "want to go feral" mood lately.

Hopefully I'll hit 67, go to SV successfully and rally my army to get my wolf sometime tomorrow. If not, then Tuesday or Wednesday will do. :)

So I bit the bullet and dropped my tankadin's BS for herbalism. Am currently at 117 or so, running around Stonetalon to my hippie delight. This, of course means my shadowy alchemist might actually *gasp* make stuff again.

Also fun to get revenge on those rarespawns that had fun kicking my ass on various alts.

And I run into lots of trees.

Hunter baby also hit 63 today without touching Zangarmarsh. I'm waiting on some plant parts and a lack of burn out to play her more. I really want the scuttlewolf.

We'll see if the guild can get together a Kara tonight. We're all very burnt out lately. I'm gonna try to nudge for something fun and silly and old school if we don't want to do Kara, though. :)

EDIT: I have to say, having a friend from a PuG whisper you and order you to level up so the pair of you can instance together is totally awesome for the ego and anti-burnout. :) Go go Underbog!

So I'm currently working on my newest 60, a hunter, in Hellfire Peninsula. Which, naturally, means a ton more Ramparts runs than is healthy.

( this one however takes the cake )

And I added two to my ignore list.

So with my darling hunter up to 61 now, I've started using the word "we" when referring to hunters. This amuses my bff a lot, as he knows I've only had my darling for about three months now. But whatever, he can suck it up. I know how to chain trap, how to dps and I have two damn cool cats.

But there's the problem. I want to tame EVERYTHING. And I seriously mean everything.

So far I've had (for more than just skills):

The white crab from Durotar (named Crab). He was my first "official" pet, as I decided I didn't want a red raptor or an orange tiger this time. (This is, after all, my billionth troll hunter. Just the first to make it past 28.) I got lectured by a level 11 warrior as soon as I walked into Barrens about how "the best pet" for my level was a boar. So I kept my crab until level 18, and easily out-leveled the sucker.

Then I got my Ghostsaber. Yes, flavour-of-the-month, but I've really wanted one since I came across it on Petopia a while back. Took me about two hours of taming crabs and plainstriders to help me with the naga around the statues and then not getting a proc from the statues, but my baby came to me. It took me about a week to finally figure out a name for him and then another week to get up the guts to name him permanently as Deimos. The best part, though, was when I flew down to Mulgore to show him off to my bff, who got jealous. Na na, I have a better pet than his uber hunter.

Then I didn't use any other pet other than for skills. I kept an Ironfur Patriarch in Feralas for a while because he had a cute butt and because I didn't return to the stable master for a while. And I played with a Winterspring Screecher for a while, again due to the stable master thing.

And then I dinged 60. Beautiful, beautiful 60. Know what else is level 60? Shy-Rotam. Gorgeous blue cat. And since I'm a blue troll, I decided to get my blue cat. I wasn't prepared for her fear and I also summoned her at half health and mana (dur) so she was a PAIN to tame and actually took about 10 tries. Which made me even more determined to have her. So now I have her and she's beautiful. I plan to name her Skeira, but I'm not entirely comfortable with it, so I'm waiting a bit.

For my third, I am stuck.

I want a colour-changing Ravager, because they change colours and they're mean little mofos.

I want a white and purple (non-caster) Warp Stalker, because they're the coolest tank pets.

And I really really miss my crab and want a blue STV crab, but in my heart know they aren't the most useful pets on the planet.

It's a very conflicting world with only three stable slots. :(

EDIT: Since the challenge of getting one is so damn cool, I am totally powerleveling Zee's butt to 67, getting her run through SV, then going to get a pretty wolf. Should be able to save some cash by crafting the gem myself then hopefully having Sneaky cut it. I should be fine with just 'zerking and the gem, but I could drag Shocker or 'Less with me to help. Maybe convince Wulf or Bleu to help. OH THIS IS EXCITING. Only six levels to power through before the hotfix, lol.