Warcraft Update

So I finally got my account upgraded to WoD but I didn't get the deluxe like I normally do. I did use my boost to get level my warrior. That is the only class that always seem to bore me the most, I've never gotten one past level 10. So that puts 6 level 90s. Leaving still 2 level 85s to do and 3 below level 60 to finish. Still haven't gotten into the beta. Sucks too cause my husband and mom are both in it and I'm bored with just leveling and farming to get professions done.

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My First Thoughts on Mist of Pandaria

I received my BETA key for World of Warcraft's new expansion, Mist of Pandaria, a couple of weeks ago. I logged in long enough to create two premade characters and transfer two of my characters over. But according to my mother, I haven't really given the BETA a fair shot. So yesterday I made a fresh female panda hunter and ran through the starter area. 

I've said it once and I'll say it many more times, PANDAS HAVE NO BUSINESS IN WOW!! You can argue with me all you want, but the facts are facts. Fact: Blizzard used them as April Fool's pranks. Fact: THERE IS NO LORE ABOUT PANDAS. 

I was a dedicate WoW player up 'til a couple of months ago when I got screwed over by my guild of two years and then the new guild I joined two months before, and let's face it, if your not raiding your not having fun. I started playing in 2007 at the start of Burning Crusade, and within the year Sean was playing and we both were in a hardcore raiding guild. I'm getting a little bit off topic here, but I'm just pointing out I'm not some noob that thinks they know everything about WoW having only played only a couple of months.

From the moment  I logged on and started creating this .. panda all I could thing about was "I'M NOT FIVE YEARS OLD!!" Every bit of it, from creating the character to playing through the starter area I was annoyed, bored, and angry with how childish it all was. The whole area is nothing but Kung Fu Panda and I can't stand Jack Black. The story line was like it was started out of one of the movies, which made it even more disappointing to play. 

I will do as my mother ask me and save my decision to either continue or stop playing after I play through the new starter areas and reach 90.

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Sean Has Quit WoW

Sean decided he is over World of Warcraft and uninstalled the game and suspended his account, giving everything to his guild bank. Neither of us really planed to continue our venture when Mist of Pandaria came out, and we both agree that Cata's raid have been really disappointing. But unlike him I don't plan on just saying I'm done, at least not yet. I want to at least give MoP's raids a shot. And in truth I think he's over reacting to one bad night of raiding, not on the guilds part but on his own. He's always been the one that has to be perfect and if he can't be the best he thinks he's loser and doesn't should be playing. But I have seen a change in him, instead of arguing with me to bring the dogs in, he just gets up and does it. He also doesn't seem to be in a bad mood all the time, which he was all the time between the pressure at work and then the pressures he put on himself to be the best in game. It is a little weird that my long time gaming buddy has decided to leave the game, but he's happy and that makes me happy. I don't mind him giving everything away or suspending his account, just as long as he doesn't try to sell it again. I want him to be able to play it when or if he thinks of coming back. But now instead of spending all day playing WoW, he has moved the PS3 to his room with our smallest Tv. So he is finally playing all those games we have been buying but not finishing.

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Get a Job or Quit School

So a lot of things have been happening and I’ve been very busy the past couple of days. My Gi Bill ends this year, but we started the paper work to transfer Sean’s Gi Bill over to me. But it wasn’t approved. They said he has to have served 6 years and re-enlist for 4 years. He has served 6 years and a couple of years ago he had re-enlist for 4 years. But they claim he has to re-enlist for another 4 to transfer the benefits. For some reason this just sounds like a load of BS.

So now I have the option of quit school or get a job. I have been trying to find a job off and on for 5 years. And I am about 2 years from finishing my BA, so no matter what I’m not quitting. There will be no point to just give up now.

And once again I’m back out hitting the pavement and filling out applications to find a job. It’s to pay of my classes so I’m fine with losing a couple of hours of my WoW to do it. Going to be a pain to keep my raiding schedule until I get use to the work schedule. Along with finding the time to do my school work, but I will just have to put that over the game for a while.

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It's Always Nice To Be Ignored

So I took a break from WoW while Sean was back home in September. Before I left I talked to the GM about switching to my Rogue so that we had a Rogue that could make every raid.

I have been geared and ready to raid for two weeks, was just missing epic shoulders and the enchants. Well I had talked to the GM about her starting raiding without the shoulders as long as I was enchanted, he said it was fine.

Well, on Monday I finished her enchants, even dipped into my 10k savings for her legendary daggers, just be able to raid that night. Well I waited and waited and never got an invite. I saw people start going into Firelands and thought well maybe he’s going to whisper me and let me in on Tuesday. Raid starts at 7pm so I wait and I wait, 7:30, 29 people on and didn’t even get a whisper. So glad I waited just to waste my time.

So tonight I’m sitting here, waiting and waiting. 7pm comes along and no invite and no word. I’m sitting in vent waiting to hear anything, anything at all, and nothing. So I wait a little more, then I see people in Firelands and switching vent channels. I see the second group forming and I know for sure they are the group going into Heroic Firelands, switch I wasn’t even going to bother to even try to get in, but still no word, not even an “invites going out” in guild chat.

Really nice that I wasted my time to do all this just to be ignored. So yea I’m a little ticked off about this. The least I can get after he said I can start going and after I let him know I was enchanted to go this week, is freaking whisper letting me know that I’m not and a reason. 

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My Thoughts on Mist of Pandaria, The Next Warcraft Expansion

Ok so the next expansion the Alliance and Horde are back at war with each other trying to gather resources to survive in Azeroth, or so Blizzard says. But I see nothing that says that from what they have announced and shown.

The new complain pet systems seem to be more of a mini game for a smartphone then for something in game.

The new dungeon challenge is great but who really wants to deal with pugs and try for something like this, gearing 5 level 85’s is a pain as is. Now as a guild group this could be really fun, but as a pug group I don’t see it being that fun.

The new talent tree, is well, more balance but I think it is more for making it easier on them then it is for us. They don’t want us to depend on the same build to raid and pvp with, and be just like everyone else. But the one and only question I have is the EXOTIC PETS!! They are in the current BM tree only, with the new talent system that is all gone, so what are we not special anymore and every hunter can tame them and use them no matter what they are!?! It took me years to tame my Loque and I’ll be damn if I’m going into a raid where every hunter has him too when they aren’t even BM.

Last by not least…. pandas….PANDAS!!... FREAKING PANDAS!! Blizzard said themselves that the panda in Warcraft 3 was a joke and it was because they had a designer that loved to draw them. There is no actual lore in the game about the Planarians. So they are shoving all this new lore onto us and the only way we can figure it all out is by actually playing a panda. Now I’m 25 years old and even though I love the Asian theme, but really I’m not 5 and most likely will never play a panda outside of the beta or the beginner area and only to learn the lore. I mean really if I wanted to play Kung Fu Panda I would by the game for the Wii. The only thing I like about them besides the fact that they have the best racials now, is that they are the only race that is playable for both fractions and they start out neutral between the two, at level 10 you choose your fraction.

I hoped and prayed that the rumor about Blizzard trade marking the name “Mist of Pandaria” was just a rumor or for another game. But they said they have wanted to add pandas into Warcraft for 12 years, and they were supposed to be the Alliance race in BC but they didn’t fit. And in truth they still don’t fit to be a playable race even now. Being a race that is just there like the wolvars in Northrend is a better role for them then to be a playable race.

But I am not going to make a big deal about this, unless they actually take back what they said and let Jack Black do the voice over for one of the Panda leaders. Because it will be another year before they even take it to beta, and by then Diablo 3 will be out and I will most likely spend all my time on it. Since I have always loved that game and can’t wait for it to be finished and on my computer. 

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Been A Very Busy Month

This month has been really busy for me. Fist Sean came home for his R&R, which btw was the first time in his 4 deployments. And then we completely cleaned the garage, which still had boxes full of stuff from where we moved in here 3 years ago. And then we had to set up a guest room for my baby sis, Steph, to stay with us while Sean is gone and she tries to figure out what’s going on with her life. Not only that but I have been working off and on, on my final project for this graphic design class that I am in, which is due today, and I still have a lot of work to get done on it.

My two weeks with Sean was great and I loved every min of it. He would get up early and stay up late to play his little alt Rogue before I got up and cooked and we started cleaning. Btw my husband isn’t one of those WoW addicts that level alts, he spends all his time on his main, Dlog (85 Worgen Rogue). We went and got the car done; he talked me into letting him get a tablet so he won’t have to take his laptop through security, there is a really funny story to this. He also wanted to go to the movies a couple of times and out to eat. But the best night we had together was the one right before he left where we went to the fair; my sis was here for that too.  He left the 21^st.

My sister got her the 19^th, she was originally going to be here til Sean got back and spend most of her husband’s deployment here so she didn’t have to deal with his family. But then he pulled something and she was talking divorce, but now he claims he doesn’t want a divorce and wants her back. But he won’t emit to doing anything wrong, even though she has proof. I could understand them getting back together if he would just emit to the wrong and apologize so that they can take a step forward. But as long as he is not willing to do that then there is no reason to take that step. Of course it won’t mean much if someone has to tell him.

Now that Sean is gone and my sis is settled in post will become more regular again. 

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Don't Tell ME How To Play MY Hunter!

For a while know I have had this annoying bug in my ear trying to tell me how to play Jaylyne. I have been playing World of Warcraft since Jan of '06, and all but 7 months of that time I have been playing my hunter. I feel in love with my hunter since I first made her and was sad when I switched to Jazlyne, my Death Knight, during Wrath. Now normally I would welcome others advise about things. But telling me how to do something and offering advise are two different things. When your hunter becomes your main and have played it more then I have Jay then you can tell me what to do, until then keep your mouth shut.

And at first this didn't get to me and I didn't see it as being told what to do. That all changed the night this person started telling me how to spec for a fight... I mean really 5 years and you don't think I know how to spec. I know how to spec and if I can't remember I'll go to WHU, before I let a non-hunter tell me how to spec. And I am such a nice person I didn't say a word but it not only annoyed be but a few others in the raid too.

But this is not what I am pretty much bitching about today. Today's topic is about two crossbows. Everyone knows that the BOE Lava Bolt Crossbow is the way to go right now over BOP Arbalest of Erupting Fury, why? Let me tell you. First off they both have the same speed and damage. Second the difference in Crit is 3pts. Lava Bolt Crossbow has Haste where Arbalest of Erupting Fury has Mastery. No matter what spec you are Mastery is the worst stat you want. When looking at gear you want Agility, Hit, Crit, Haste, and then Mastery. Now this bow is fine if you low on hit and need to reforge but if you not you waste alot of Haste because you had to reforge Mastery for it. And really when it comes to that, that 3 extra Crit isn't worth it.

And for those that want to argue let me get this out there, I am a BM hunter, my mastery increases my pets damage which should be pretty big right. But it's not it actually lowers it by not having that Crit or Haste.

(Right now I'm spec for SV, because I am having alot of frame issue and that causes my DPS to drop even more.)

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