WTH am I Doing?

I don't post here very often.  There was a large amount of time where I was not logging into WoW, or really doing anything of note.  Over the Christmas/New Year holiday I started playing again.  I rolled a Blood Elf Paladin (I should really post pictures, my toons are cute) some time ago and was having fun with her but just lost interest.  We had left Union of Lost Souls (ULS) and had created our own guild consisting of three people.  That is fine and dandy, but then WoW went and did this thing where you get perks for being in an active guild like faster mount speed and increased experience in leveling.  So again, I got her to about 72 and lost interest.  When I started playing again over the holidays it was here I went to.  I should have said she is on our old server (since I seem to feel the need to populate more than one).  Wow this is kind of all kinds of rambley!  Anyway, so I'm on our old server and playing a new toon.  Hubby has leveled his main toon (handsome Tauren shaman) to 85 and is looking to raid/run dungeons.  Long story short, we find ourselves back in ULS!  The thing I need to remind myself, guilds are ever changing.  People come and go (and I wish there are some people that would GO-but I think we are ok) and truth be told I really missed playing with some of the friends I (we) made in ULS.  Thanks to the bonus to leveling I got my Paladin to 85 over the holidays and have been PVPing with her to get some gear.  I just have to figure out now hat I want to dow tim her.  She is designed to either tank/off tank/heal.  I'm really really apprehensive about tanking, and am not really interested in healing with her.  I'm getting some gear so she can at least get into dungeons, but again I have to figure out her role.  It's been really good getting to talk to the guild friends again.  There are lots of new people I'm still trying to figure out, and I'm trying to not let it take over my life like it had before.  I like getting things done around the house, or not having to scarf down a dinner.  Balance.  I'm going to strive for balance this year.  (And figuring out wtf to do with my paladin)

Regression?

Now that I have one of my hunters on the other server at level 82 (I think), I'm playing a character back on my old server.  Yes.  I'm back on my old server.  Hopefully I have learned from all the past crap and won't fall back into the same patterns that made me want to leave the server in the first place.  I did roll a new character that I've been leveling (no, it's not a worgen or a goblin).  It's been nice to experience the new content with my husband.  We'll see how long this back on the old server lasts.  I've proven now that I'm fickle and flighty when it comes to playing wow.

My Path of Destruction Continues...

So, here is my newest "I'm a WoW jerk" story.

I better set this up for you a bit, before I go into the dialog.  I was in an area that has the tendency (not as much now with the expansion) to be a bit camped.  People farm the area for reputation related drops so it can be hard to get quests done because people are trying to get the items for the reputation trade in.  So that means it can take forever for the things you want to kill to appear, or they can appear too fast.  Anyway, so I'm in this area, trying to complete a quest when my most recent encounter happens.  I am at a specific spot, trying to complete a quest when a mob spawns close to me.  I am playing my hunter, and I have my pet out.  It appears close enough that it aggros my pet and my pet attacks.  It was also close enough that it interrupted my quest completion so I help my pet kill it.  I also have a quest to be killing a mob like the one that attacked, I am supposed to stick a banner in the dead body (ha ha, sounds neat, huh?).  I go to stick the banner in my kill and another player, Rennu, beats me to it.  Not.  Cool.  I don't say anything, but instead I wait for a chance to stick a banner in one of his/her (we'll say his) kills.  I don't follow Rennu around, I finish the quest I was trying to do before getting attacked.  I notice he has a few dead around him so I run over and plant a banner in one of them and then go in another direction (so as not to compete) to finish my own killing and banner planting.  Now the conversation:

Rennu:  Really?
Me:  you planted one on an ogre I killed
Rennu:  I was casting on that ogre when you siced your pet on it
Rennu:  not my fault I can't instant attack
Me:  it was my kill, I didn't realize you were going for it

Rennu:  I was a boomkin facing it and casting spells what else would I have been doing

Me:  you know what, get over it.  I wasn't doing it to be rude.  It was my kill-you should have known because you couldn't loot-yet you still planted your banner.  I didn't harass you about it.

Rennu:  no you just went out of your way to charge up a hill and grab a mob I was clearly killing

Me:  just like you planted a banner on my kill

Rennu is ignoring you

So, thinks I didn't get to point out/say to Rennu:

1.  Boomkin do have an instant attack, it's called MOONFIRE.  I have a boomkin, I know this for a fact.

2.  I don't target all the people around me to see what they are attacking to make sure I don't attacking some thing they are before I attack; the mob spawn on my pet and it attacked-I didn't SICK my pet on anything.  I wasn't trying to run around harassing them.

3.  I wouldn't have "charged up a hill" to plant a banner on a mob they killed if he wasn't a casserole and planted a mob on my kill in the first place.

I hate people. :(

Did You Know There Was a Looking For Group Channel?

I have not played my druid in ages.  There have been several patches, and my talent points have been refunded and unspent for a while now.  A friend sent me a cute little baby moonkin pet to cheer me up while Elfy was away.  So, I finally spent those pesky points so I could get my moonkin form back and chill out with my lil pet.  Not even 10 minutes later I get a whisper for a raid invite.  Elfy tells me to mess with him.  It was one of those nights where that sounded like just the thing to do.  This is how it played out:

Vaniash:  dps for kel thuzud 10?
Me:  please tell how to wow?
Vaniash:  wth
Vaniash:  how to wow
Me:  please how to wow?
Vaniash:  wth did u messga me that?
Me:  please wow?
Vaniash:  do u need help?
Vaniash:  like ar eu mental
Vaniash:  stop messaging me
Me:  please help wow?
Vaniash:  why the hell would i wanna help wow the peopole who fricken lure u into like what 15 bucks a month

and that is where it ended.  I think Vaniash was more mental than I was!  I know I could have just said no, or told him to try the looking for group channel, but this was soooo much more fun!  It is a pet peeve that people still whisper random people for groups like that.  If I wanted to be dpsing something I would be in the looking for group channel.  I should have told him how to wow!

~Emily

/DND rl wtfpwns WoW time

Yeah, that title probably won't make sense to anyone who doesn't play WoW... sorry.

It's been a while.  I haven't posted any WoW news or stories.  I'm still enjoying my new quiet server.  I have a level 58 character, and a level 52 character.  This is good, as I am able to farm things that sell for more and then I can get cool stuff to amuse me.  I haven't really been playing much.  It's the time of year where real life sort of has to take priority and I have to actively be an adult.  Having said that, you can still catch me holding down my chair running around pew pew pewing things with my hunter.  I want to get my higher lever characters to 80 before the new expansion comes out, in December.  :(  Yeah, that's not going to happen.

Oh well.  I'm still here, still doing my best to stay away from people and if they won't leave me alone I ruin the game for them.  I guess I do have a gift!

Moved

After finally being done with the SSDD (any Stephen King fans out there?) on Silvermoon I have started over on a new server.  My characters on Silvermoon are still there.  I have not deleted them, or moved them.  Yet.  I'm not in a guild.  I don't have anyone that I'm questing with.  It's just me, doing my thing, and enjoying the peace and quiet.

I haven't decided what I'm going to do with my characters on Silvermoon.  I guess I will continue to just let them sit there.  I'm going to keep chillin on my new server.  I'm already level 41.  If you can find me, I'll friend you. ha ha ha!!

/Sigh

So if you read this blog you know this is where I like to vent my World of Warcraft (WoW) joys and frustrations.  I seem to be more inspired to write the frustrations, perhaps I am a cranky writer.  I generally vent about really stupid people here, and this post is no exception.  Hey, I don't see any point in trying to be nice anymore (ha ha, was I ever nice?).

History
My main character (the one I prefer to play), Chala a Tauren Druid, has been in 5 1/2 guilds.  I have been playing this character almost from the beginning of the game coming out.  I started out alliance but after frustration with the age range of players we switched to Horde, we were told it seemed to be more mature than alliance.  So needless to say, I have been playing Chala for years now.  The 1/2 guild is a guild merger, which I'll cover below.  All my guild endeavors have been shared with my Elfy, of course.

Counsel of Redrum (CoR).  We started out and remained un-guilded for quite awhile.  One day on a blimp we say another character with a really cool tabard.  We asked to join the guild on the grounds of the tabard.  What is really funny is they actually invited us!  CoR was a decent bunch of people.  They were friendly enough, and we got to do our own thing and enjoy some friendly conversation.  We made some friends, which led to our next guild.

Requiem (Req).  Req was a newly forming raiding guild.  We just happened to be classes they needed (Elfy, aka Elfbite, an Orc Hunter) and we were interested in seeing raid content.  It seemed like the next logical step.  We had not hit the level cap yet, so we hurried through the last few levels and then started running dungeons to get gear to start raiding.  It started out fun, it wasn't a big guild and we all got along pretty well.  As we started building up our raid skills we started adding more members.  This began the long road to me feeling really bad about my skills.  I suddenly had people telling my my bonus healing wasn't high enough, that I needed to be faming for better gear and that I was healing wrong.  No one was dying on my watch, I didn't understand what the problem was.  But it seemed that my numbers weren't good enough, and I guess that was more important than if I kept my group alive.  It got even more confusing.  I was asked to pass on loot for other players, even though I may have rightfully won the piece and regardless of what a huge upgrade it was for me.  And weren't they telling me how bad my gear was?  That was also the beginning of the elitist attitude that crept in.

Evolution (Evo).  Req built up a decent reputation on the server, and were progressing well.  Then our guild leaders and officers decided it would be a good idea to merge with another raiding guild so we would be bigger, and progress further and faster.  Bigger is not better, I believed it then and I believe it now.  So we merged with a guild called Bloodpact of the Chosen (BToC) and became Evo.  It all happened very fast, and I think it surprised most of the members of both guilds.   

Evo lasted only a few weeks and people quit to go back to what was left of their original guilds.  After that, Elfy's and my days in Req were numbered.  Peoples attitudes were very elitist and it was becoming very had to like some of the people we were raiding with.  Tempers flared, egos and attitudes swelled and it was starting to take the fun out the raiding experience.  Instead of a fun game, it was starting to feel like a job.  So, after thinking about if for quite a while, and crying about it just as much (hey, I am a girl) Elfy and I decided we would be happier if we left the guild.

We left and went back to quiet, un-guilded life.  We still talked to friends in the guild, there were still some good people that all the nastiness and pressure had not gotten to yet, but it was only a matter of time before a lot of them left too.  We weren't ready to answer all the "Why'd you leave" questions so we left Horde side for awhile and went back to Alliance.  We leveled a Priest (me) and a Shamen (Elfy).  Elfy had friends from work Alliance side, and we joined the guild he was in.  That went bad, they were not very open and were quick to push those they didn't know as well out.  But I'm not going to go into Alliance now, this is all Horde.

Union of Lost Souls (ULS).  After the frustration Alliance side we came back Horde side and joined a friends guild, ULS.  Elfy really enjoyed playing a Shamen, so we power leveld a Tauren Shamen named Scritch for him to play Horde side.  Chala and Scritch became the healing team for ULS and it was great, while it lasted.  While we were running with ULS, Req was falling apart.  People were leaving for various reasons, some came and joined ULS (much to my dismay) and eventually Req turned into the guild Minion.  Meanwhile, some of the people and reasons why we left Req in the first place were coming back into our gaming world.  So, after a bunch of really snarky frustrating crap happened, and rules that were put in place to be fair seemed to not matter to everyone we left ULS.

Current
Everything we have been though has just about killed the game for us.  We took some time off, and after a nice break we started playing casually again in our new guild that we formed with one of our friends from the early Req days, Pocket Full of Hate (Pocket).  In the peace and quiet of our little guild of three we have found our quiet place.  We are no longer obligated to run with people because they are guildies.  In a way, we were free.  We started running heroics (dungeons where you get gear and badges for gear) with our ULS friends and life was good.

ULS started having more personality conflicts (not unlike why we left) and we found our ULS friends recovering Alliance side.  So we switched over to Alliance for awhile and ran around with them over there.  Talk of forming a new raid group came up, and Elfy and I were recruited to heal.  We were all for it, with a few conditions:  we would not participate if certain people were in the group.  The guild master was not planning on most of the people on our list being invited.  There was one, but I was prepared to let the one slide.  I was firm in regards to everyone else.  It seemed like everything was on track, and then someone stepped in to help the guild master get the group rounded up.  This opened up the door for the people on our list and caused Elfy and I a lot of frustration.  To prove my point about how much I will not run with anyone on the list I actually left a heroic because one of them was invited to fill in an empty slot.  If that didn't get my point across, along with me saying I would not run with these people I don't know what would.

So today, I log in and find there is an invite for the first bonding raid with the new forming group.  Can you guess what happened?  /sigh  Yup.  The person at the type of my list was invited, so I declined.  They can find another healer.  I have put in my time and had to run with this person through most of my raiding life in this game.  I'm done with him.  I have earned the right to say hell no, and I wish my "friends" would understand and respect that.  All the had to do was tell me from the start they wouldn't tell him no.  I had a feeling in my gut.  But you know, I hoped that just this once it was wrong.  I hoped that the guild master had finally heard me, and understood where I was coming from, that I had earned her respect enough that she would respect my views and be honest with me rather than try to sneak me into a raid with him or bully me into doing it.  I am DONE being a doormat.  And I'm really cranky.