Secrets of Shadowbolting

Too much traveling and leveling…not enough posting…
Anyway, the boxing teams are going well. I currently have 3×62′s (shaman and mage team and druid half of Druid/Death Knight) and 1 63. Vuur herself is almost 74. I’ve been swapping between toon groups to take the best advantage of rested xp so yesterday while leveling Vuur in Grizzly Hills i run upon Holynutz….who promptly proceeds to make fun of me.

After this he invites me to a group in where the exchange is as follows:

Holynutz invites you to a group
You have joined a group
H: Hey what’s happening?
V: I only quest with nice people.
H: Fine
V: lol
Your group has been disbanded
Holynutz invites you to a group
You have joined a group
H: haha

we’re so mature….

i have not posted in a while and that is all my fault. I could use all sorts of excuses about being busy and having a lot of work but i know people would laugh and say tough..give me my updates…. so at least for starters, heres some pretty pictures of what the latest patch has done for me. It has allowed pugging of Hyjal with a mediocre group to take down Rage and almost Anetheron. It has made me grumpy with the new destro warlock build and has made me happy with priest healing but sad for mana regen.
I still do not have my spell rotation down for Vuur. It makes me quite sad and grumpy. To pass the time I’ve started boxing teams of 2 and power leveling. It has kept me more amused than fighting the DPS war to get the perfect rotation. No more sbolt spam, no more dot and sbolt. Now I have to mix fire and shadow and keep an imp alive. Lots of options….

It has also allowed silly people to attempt to attack a flight master in shat to much giggling of others….

Someone was running around shat with their phoenix mount. It was nice, pretty, sparkly and reminded me of fire. I want one….

I mean I know they are doing upgrades and everything…but where’s Exodar????

Whoever said Doomguards couldnt play chess was sadly mistaken.

Here’s proof that they can, and they do. AND they’re pretty good at killing pally tanks too.

In happier news, Vuur rocks as a pirate….and flagging pvp and taking out all the horde in Booty Bay. That was just fun.

This weekend I had the pleasure of running with some alts as they had finally made it to 70 and were geared enough to attempt heroics.
We go in with a pally tank. He blows a simple pull by tossing an avengers shield and pulling multiple groups that mop the floor with us.

Joking around I tell him to l2pull.
I must be a nerd because I’m pretty sure he was serious.

Anyway, a few pulls later we get into a big discussion over vent about kill order. We usually kill Skull – X then whatever the pally focuses on, no big deal. Well in bot there are those nasty plant guys who hurt you. They were being marked with a green triangle so following the default kill order, we left them up. This started a huge debate about 4 pulls later.

This has been documented as proof. Transcript below:

Pally: Why aren’t we killing the plants?
Mage: Because you never specified kill order, we’re killing skull
Pally: But i marked it as skull because I’m tanking it
Mage: that’s great but that’s why we’re killing it
Pally: But I want you to kill the plant!
Mage: You never said kill the plant
Pally: But (real MT who is hunter in this run) you always mark it with a green triangle, not a skull
Hunter: But I tell people to kill the plant first

It was entertaining

Slightly off topic yet not at the same time…Last night was a happy hour for the office. Somehow karaoke was a part of this fun and one of the guys decided to give me a stage name.

Vuur was known as Tiffany Stardust for the remainder of the night. I was told it was very fitting. In turn I named a certain pally tank Oscar the Grouch which I was told was also fitting.

“Tiffany Stardust and Oscar the grouch present Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar on me….”

yeah.

In other news, Vuur’s mini wow-vacation is basically over and she will be back soon to terrorize the masses.

I was doing my daily troll through blogs and stumbled upon a few new ones today that were pretty fascinating.One of them had a somewhat older posting about mmorpgs and leadership skills gained that I found fascinating.

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“True, leading 25 guild members in a six-hour raid on Illidan the Betrayer’s temple fortress is hardly the same as running a complex global organization. For starters, the stakes are just a bit higher in business. But don’t dismiss online games as mere play. The best ones differ from traditional video games as much as universities do from one-room schoolhouses. In fact, these enterprises are actually sprawling online communities in which thousands of players collaborate with and compete against one another in real time within a visually three-dimensional virtual world—one that persists and evolves even while a player is away.

“A number of our conclusions about the future of business leadership were unanticipated. For one, individuals you’d never expect to identify—and who’d never expect to be identified—as “high potentials” for real-world management training end up taking on significant leadership roles in games. Even more provocative was our finding that successful leadership in online games has less to do with the attributes of individual leaders than with the game environment, as created by the developer and enhanced by the gamers themselves.”

*cough* *cough* I know someone who fits that last one…. KY…

Warcraft is a funny game. It’s one of the few that I have found that allows you to walk into almost any situation, drop a few key words and watch a few people’s eyes light up like Christmas trees. Example…. I recently started a new job and was out socializing with my new co-workers. After we finish dinner and drinks we decide to go out bowling. I drop the line “well I have a kara raid starting in 10 minutes but bowling sounds fun too. There’s always Kara next week.” This starts off one of the guys who has been silent all evening saying “karazhan? I’m supposed to be in a raid too soon!”

Well then you go through meeting a fellow gamer 101…

“whoa, you play too? Alliance or horde? What characters? What server?”

You know…all the important stuff. Imagine my luck when I find out the guy is a t5/6 alliance pally tank (with a healing set) and a fire mage. “yeah I’m not so sure I really like my guild…and my mage used to be on exodar..”

So of course us nerds discuss warcraft the entire night throughout bowling and in the car ride home and I’m just saying “transfer servers, we need tanks! We love tanks!” the entire night. Today we find out how persuasive I can be and if I can get the other 5 guys that play to transfer over as well..

May be needing some shadowbolting to knock people to their senses…

shadowbolts rock. they do a lot of damage and today i was critting over 7k in kara. It was very very nice. I’d write more about the fact that one of our top DPS warriors had to respec to prot and one of our healer druids was tanking….and the reson this happened was because our MT had no power and was struggling on battery backup until the battery died before maiden…but that’s just how it goes…and I need some sleep badly…
Web stats… go Vuur