The blog post... OF DOOOOM!

Okay so I was SOOOO close to being done with this blog post when I tried to upload Jbean's request to the site when it refreshed the freaken page and I lost it all. Thanks Jbean. -_-; Hopefully I can remember what I put the first time.

So this post is long over do by days... unfortunately with work and sleeping a good 15 hours one day, it kind of pushed this back and back and back and back... But I am here now typing this out (again...) I am sacrificing precious sleep time for this too. >< But any who onto the updates!

Almirmiel
My level 85 Priest just hit 85 on April 19th 2011 and within 2 hours was already doing Heroics. I put myself on a 2 week deadline to get her ready for raids. Its progressing really well, even though I am still wearing 3 pieces of pvp gear I am already at an item level of 345. Thanks to Evo, I have great confidence in my healing skills even now when I still believe they are craptasic. Other than tweaking my spec a bit she is doing really good for being fresh out of the gates of 85. I refused to make the same mistakes I did with Ignasia and wait to till the last minute to do my reputation grinding. I started RIGHT when she turned 85 and hit her first dungeon. I already have Guardians of Hyjal almost to Exalted, it's so close. And she is currently working on Dragonmaw Clan which is a little through Revered.

Ignasia
The one. The only. Iiiiiiiigggggnasia! Okay so she's not that awesome, she gets an introduction. Yet. I'm becoming very impressed with this character. She is now pulling on average 12-15k dps in Heroic Dungeons. She is becoming top on the charts for anything she runs. And speaking of runs. -smiles- I finally managed to find a group that was capable of downing a raid boss. With 8 other strange players, Magiere and I finally managed to down Magmaw. I unfortunately didn't get anything out it except the experience of being able to take down the adds with only 1 other person to help. Magiere on the other hand managed to get a small upgrade. It was very fun and really exciting due to it being my first raid boss that I've done in Cataclysm. I managed to finally prove myself as being a skilled player to others, which was the biggest loot from that experience. (Now if only Damage Control could see it.)

Requests

Omg I have blog requests (that hopefully does not refresh my page again). This means people actually read my blog. -holds hand over mouth gasping- Its so amazing! I love requests so if anyone has anything please let me know and you may see it up here. This one is from Jbean, an officer from Damage Control. His first request was to buy a shirt that said he was awesome, but I refused only cause I didn't want to buy something I may only wear once. So he agreed on just a picture on my blog. And here it is: 

"Jbean is awesome!"

Unfortunately for him I know someone who out ranks him in my books. This guy has helped me out so much in the last few days I thought he deserved a sign as well. So here it is:

"But Evo is better"

Thank you again Evo for everything you've done for me and the countless hours of sleep you sacrificed for me. Even now I still crave to hear that sweet Aussie accent. -smiles- You make running dungeons worth it for me, again. I can't wait to get back online and do it all over again... night after night after night after night.

Kat
So I want to wish every one Happy Easter! I hope everyone is getting fat off of candy and chocolate bunnies. I will be going to my family's house here in less than an hour and I still haven't slept at all since I got off work. Wish me luck. I will have been up 24 hours come 8:30pm. I'm really hoping I can make it through dinner. I will see everyone after the holiday.

The Come Back

Okay so for those like two people that were reading this blog. I'm finally updating again. The race between my Rogue and Priest still continues. However, my Priest is now sitting at level 83. While my Rogue has stopped short at level 60. Just for the record, I would like to note I really hate Burning Crusade questing. So for some reason I can't bring myself to level much more by myself on that character.

Almirmiel: 83 Holy Priest
The journey to being Raid Ready has begun! I'm not making the same mistake twice with rep grinding. I'm getting all my tabards now so when I hit 85 I can start going for my epic items. Some of my Horde Cities are already exalted as I try to work towards my 50 Mount achievement. I wonder who will get there first Almir or Iggy? Lol. Iggy is only 6 away too. As for healing right now, OMG is it difficult! I feel like I've been nerfed to nothing. My heals are currently complete crap. I'm deeply considering not doing any dungeons till 85. Shadow spec I must say is amazing though. I blow through quests. I'm very glad I picked this class to be my second to 85.

Ignasia: 85 Fire Mage
So all the while, Iggy has sat on back burner. HOWEVER! I have been doing her daily heroic to get her... dun dun dun... her second piece of Tier 11, the chest piece. Now I'm working towards getting Haunt of Flies. Which shouldn't take me long at all to get if I really set my mind to it. After getting my chest piece I sat on Rawr twinking my gear. I upped my dps alone (unbuffed) 400 points. This was only after gemming and reforging so that I was again hit capped. Yes, you heard me... hit capped. -sticks out tongue- I was VERY proud of myself tonight, I did a BH pug run and was number one dps at 15k. I thought getting second was good but now its even better. I can't wait to get the rest of my gear. UGH I hate Hellscream's Reach though. I hate it with a passion. I need to stop putting it off though.

Guild Updates
Damage Control is currently recruiting skilled raiders. And for those of you reading this blog not in Damage Control. Understand... even after all this -points around to the progress through the blog- I am still not a raider for them. Yeah, so you better be good if you think to apply to the guild.

However, I have started raiding with University of Suramar (Remy's guild). They have unfortunately not been able to down the first two bosses in Blackwing Decent. Hopefully though, this weekend we are trying for Bastion of Twilight to see if we do any better. So also on that note: University of Suramar is always looking for people to run with week after week to hopefully down these raids. You don't have to be in the guild, they are just looking for good consistent people. Please send tell to Voenyzhena in game if you are interested.

Kat: The Player
So work is getting better. Next week I get three days off, which I'm greatly looking forward to. I've had more time to play World of Warcraft recently. It probably shows with how quick Almir leveled. I am still very depressed with Iggy though. More than anything right now I wish I could be raiding with Damage Control. I just got my shirt I ordered in the mail tonight.

It reads from top to bottom: Damage Control, Ignasia, Blood Elf - Mage, Surmar

 

 I saw the shirt advertised through Blizzard and figured I was so happy to get into Damage Control I might as well get something as a memento and so I did. -smiles- I will probably buy more, maybe one for Almirmiel when she hits 85. 

Less QQ more Pew Pew

So I figured out something most horrible just now. When I reformatted my laptop, I forgot to save all my screen caps from World of Warcraft. I literally lost everything I took for a year. I had thought it was in one of my picture folders... but it wasn't. I haven't literally cried yet. But as soon as I look for a picture I thought I had and realize its gone forever... yeah I think I will start then.

So expect more pictures on this site. I will probably use this place to immortalize my screen shots now. Mwuhahaha. Also, huge thought and I will start doing this as soon as Remy (the bf) is not asleep in the next room, video posts. I don't want to turn this into nothing but a Vblog but maybe some here and there. So look for them coming soon. -big smiles-

Almirmiel in 3 pieces of Heirloom Gear. FEAR THE EXP!

As for game updates: I started playing my highest level Priest again. (Almirmiel - 85 Holy Spec) And I have come down to the conclusion that I know much more about my Priest than I do my Mage. I would only figure really because I have two Priests nearly identical. (One at 66 and the other at 75) So I'm going to start and level her up to 85 and hopefully get her raid ready as soon as I can. However, on a side note, a few of my friends and I play together on Thursday nights. I'm going to try and keep Almir's levels then around theirs so the four of us have no problems running together. So while I can't play her I will play Zechti, my level 44 Combat Rogue. She currently has one piece of heirloom gear and is leveling REALLY fast. So its going to be a race to see who gets to 85 first.

Zechti with 1 piece of Heirloom Gear.

Creeto-cation

One of my first meeting with Creeto, in Orgrimmar dancing on the mail box. Very young Iggy in this picture. XD

Fun outside of Orgrimmar. (Creeto went Alliance) And we PVPed with Fishing Poles.

Where's Iggy?

Creeper.

He comes in all sexy shapes and sizes. -drools-

I wouldn't still be playing World of Warcraft if it wasn't for Creeto. We met about 3 months into me being introduced to the game. (Aug 2009) We've been friends ever since. <3

I love you dearly, Creeto. AND GODAMNIT COME BACK TO HORDE!! XP

11k DPS

So after taking a hour and a half to read the replies and actually on my Raider's application I was able to log into World of Warcraft for the night. After regemming a few things and reforging, I started working on my DPS. And wow I must say, I can see a huge day to day increase.

Back to my friends the Training Dummies, today I was able to pull 15k DPS.

After a little while I teamed up with Kewi, who was able to show me a bit more of the finer details. (Thank you again! ^^)

This was us simulating the time of a boss battle. I managed to make it all the way to the end with 11k.

This was my DPS in the middle of Lost City Heroic. I ended the dungeon out at 11k.

I'm personally amazed at the progress. At this point, within 4 days I am to the point of where I was when I was doing great for Arcane. -does happy dance- Now all I need to practice is attacking a few mail boxes. Lol. In other words, movement. Once I get how to move and cast, as well as kite. I'll be golden. With Thursday being my day off. That will be my project for tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Fire Spec Mage

 

(Writing this at 6am, so bare with me.)

Okay so for the last week I have been racking my brain to try and get down the Fire Mage Class. It has been one hell of a process. When Cataclysm first came out all I heard was how good the Fire spec was. At the time I was specked as Arcane. From what I read and researched for Wrath of the Lich King, they were 1337 at the time. At the birth of Iggy (level 1) however I was specking for Fire. It wasn't till late 70s that I had people telling me if you want to raid you have to go Arcane! Keeping in mind I refused for quite some time and wanted to stay Fire till the end. Well I broke down and listened to them. I soon after mastered the Arcane spec (granted its not THAT hard to do, it just takes timing) coming into Cataclysm. I didn't want to go back to Fire because this whole time I had pushed it aside to learn Arcane. Well now after months of throwing that spec away, I'm coming back to it.

My progress: To start off with A LOT has changed in the Fire spec. So much so what I knew before wasn't even valid anymore. I've been doing countless numbers of research trying to find the best rotation for me. Well, tonight I think I figure it out a lot more. I was in Orgrimmar practicing on the Training Dummies, when I had peaked at 23k DPS. Before when I was trying to use them for my DPS my peak was only at 10k, which I must say was HIGHLY disappointing. However, tonight I managed to stay at an average 15k DPS and ended the fight at 14k.

Also another update:

I applied to Damage Control as a Raider. I know as a Fire Mage I'm a little lacking but as you can see, every day I'm getting better and better. Really, all I need is someone to show me the ropes (because no one really has yet besides a few pointers here and there and me researching the same things over and over) and I will be great.

 

This is a screen shot of me resting after the Dummy test run and of course gloating about my DPS.

Damage Control

Welcome to Damage Control!

I'm so excited I was accepted to Damage Control, Sunday the 27th of February. So far it's been a blast and even more fun than I had in Clarity. OMG PEOPLE ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING! It is such a rare thing and now I can see why you need to apply to DC.

Yesterday, for the first time I was able to get all the way through Stonecore Heroic. I had dealt with countless groups who just kept wiping on the first boss. Thanks to DC, Mag and I made it through to the end. ^^ Woot! I have made several friends already. -smiles- I plan to stay here for the rest of my Warcraft career.

Update on Clarity: Well what happened was when I applied to DC, Fd (Raid Leader a.k.a. Jared Wade) got upset (I think jealous from the way he was acting) and wanted to be GM. Well for many reason I didn't think it was going to be a good idea. 1. Raid Leaders should NEVER be GMs. 2. He had stated before that he didn't want to be GM cause all his past guilds he GM failed. (And I see why now) 3. Power goes to one's head and you can rarely find people it won't effect. He WAS NOT one of those. 4. I knew once Ignasia left guild if I didn't stay as GM there would be many who would leave. 5. He just was not. I repeat WAS NOT guild master quality. It was funny though cause he became an immature little child when I wouldn't give him guild so he left guild and took me off his friends list. (Ooooo I was sooooo hurt. -puts back of hand to forehead-) Which then 2 of his friends left. Lmao. So after cooling my head, I was like well screw it. He wants guild that badly, he can have it. Well, the joke was on him because after he became GM, 8 I repeat EIGHT people left guild. (8 compared to 2, sorry bud, I see I was loved more, oh wait I'm not sorry) ALL BECAUSE he was the guild master. And ever since that night Clarity is rapidly losing its members because they had rather played with Kat and Remy than Jared.

SO JARED WADE HOW DOES IT FEEL NOW? And now everyone shall know that Clarity has fallen apart because of you. Yes, YOU. Because you wouldn't listen when I said it would be okay and nothing would change if I had just stayed Guild Master.

R.I.P Clarity, Unknown date of birth - February 2011