Friends and guilds

Yesterday I was talking with an old friend (Theriarina) from the first guild I was in on Hellscream, (Eternal Equinox). I have to say that I was in a great mood from having such a wonderful conversation about old times and players. She then proceeded to tell me about an eventual proposition between EE and Unfriendly for raiding, and I told her I left it. I really do hope the best for Unfriendly and EE, one was a home and another has a lot of people I call friends in it.

I have to say there is a handful of people in Unfriendly I absolutely care for and enjoy: Eliseo, Anati, Tom, John and Sara are the main ones that I know and the reason I joined up with them. Which I will do anything in game to help them along when they need it...and Tom's little Gnome Warrior will always be my priest's favorite tank to date.

I am at a place now, being older then when I was in EE....that drama and friction comes with any guild. Guilds change and so do the attitudes and instead of trying to change it, I can change me. I am not going to cause more fights and friction within the guild. I have said my peace that the above are real gems, most of the others I really do not know. I do believe that a joint effort from Unfriendly and Eternal Equinox will be an amazing thing that will get much content scene and done. Which I hope the very best for them both and will gladly help in anyway I can.

Puggyness

Last night just reinforced myself to why if you want things done you have to do them yourself. I logged on to do any type of dungeon for experience, since Gun'Drak gives me two bubbles and Utgarde Pinnacle gives me three-ish. My first group somehow melted down while my wife was watching my character and I was putting groceries away. I got a second group going and decided not to "take charge" since it is nice to just go with it sometimes. Never again unless I know the people. The tank was making rules mid run, was bossy and the run itself just had no energy for me.

I ended up going afk to eat and come back and see the Rogue that was with us making rude gestures at me and having me on ignore. It is funny how argueing with people can turn into friendships and such. Long story short I made a mistake following the tank's advice on shards, so I sent him an extra shard. He thought I bailed because of not winning a roll, for a dream shard which I have 19 now in my bank. I left the group afterwards because the dungeon was done and my hearthstone was on coold own, so it was a free teleport. Plus it was time to eat.

So one of the rules was roll on the shards till the end of the run, which okay I cans ee how that speeds up but I like to get it done with and not have it lingering. Second it was one roll and then the three highest got the goods, where normally instead of one chance you would get three chances to win. I wasn't going to argue, didn't have the drive too.

Utgarde Pinnacle

Slight progress was made last night, only logging on for one dungeon. I found a warrior tank in LFG for Utgarde Pinnacle, so that is where it started a tank and a priest. We soon found three DPS, with a couple of people leaving but we were on our way until I got a whisper from the tank. He was asking me about it being heroic or not, which I explained I found him in the regular LFG and not the heroic one and asked him what he wanted to do. Which he said he preferred Heroic and I said he could but he tanked it anyway... We did end up having me, almost all Disc and a Disc/Holy hybrid priest which was great to my surprise. I was expecting it to drag, but really didn't and it was nice to have a back up healer ons ome parts (even if he did die a few times) due to lag or my lack of skill.

As far Utgarde Pinnacle, I didn't get to spend as much time looking around as much as I would. It is the second dungeon I have done once before and didn't get any achievements for it. Which was fixed in this run. Mob wise I wasn't too impressed with the graphics, would like to look more at the background though. I did LOVE the music, which I believe is a highland type theme. I did catch myself a couple of times just listening to it and then running into walls. The king is by far the coolest room, just reminded me of the king in Two Towers sitting there all uninterested and then to life. Would have been nice to see a more of a monologue from him though with some LOTR jokes or references. I did get three upgrades: a cloak, helm and chest piece; which adding in the three bubbles of experience was a great run for the hour time. It was fast paced, sometimes a little too fast but that is what happens when the tank is over geared and the priest needs mana.

I played a warrior in the closed beta, open beta and most of my first two and a half years of WoW. I like to think this is what really makes a good healer or a good tank....knowing first hand the other role. I do have to admit that I am enjoying the healing even if I seem out of practice and sluggish at times; but I have recently been missing my warrior tank. the bond between a tank and a healer is something that is amazing. I am a bit partial to those I have ran with before, and will always heal for them if they let me. I think I need to make it a little more known how much I respect and enjoy those big (or small) balls of armor in my Priestly life.

Only 78

Current level: 78

I did not make much progress into leveling this weekend, which my personal goal was a gigantic failure in my own eyes. I had set my eyes and hopes up with reaching 79 as a minimum, but only got to four bubbles into 78. Which would not be as much dissapointment but the fact it was a three day weekend. I only did two runs this weekend, a Gun'drak and a Drak'Thron.

So my Drak'Thron run was with a good friend of mine, Landon (78 Protection Paladin). We then got three other DPS: DK, Warrior and a Rogue. For some strange reason my cable connection was hating me most of this weekend and especially during this run. I disconnected close to 11 times, and we manages to have no wipes. I am rather curious on the sucketh of our warrior. The first alarm came when he was using a two hander when specced with Titan's Fury. The run ends, and somehow the little disconnecting healer manages to only be 3% below the warrior for total damage.

When I did the math of the average of some quests when I was 72 or 73, I figured it would take me 100 quests to level. I do believe this to be the case now, since it seems to scale of quest experience reward to experience needed to level to factor about the same. So really doing 100 quests verse 10 dungeon runs.

Last night after much debate on the weekend events I finally left Unfriendly. I do have some really good friends in that guild, which I absolutely love. I feel it was easier for me to change then to have them all change, or try stand in the way it currently is flowing toward. I am but a rock, and instead of being in the middle of a river I can find the bank of the river with like rocks somewhere. So the future is open to Kitha, which I have had some offers but not sure on those offers. Maybe I will be a Healer for hire....I need the gold anyways.