what happened to may? >_>

So...I'm still depressed, although i'm happy to say I have thought a bit more about by stories.

Time away has given me a bit more perspective and it been easier to see connections that i wasn't ready to incorporate before. ^_^

In other news i'm playing WOW again.
Current character levels are:
Paladin: 86
Druid: 86
Priest: 85
Death Knight: 73
Warrior: 57
Mage: 50
Shaman: 40
Monk: 36
Warlock: 35
Rogue: 26
Hunter: 17

Right now i'm working on leveling my cooking on my shaman, and doing a bit of farming(at the farm in halfhill) for cooking ingredients for my mom.

Smooches, and well see how things settle out in the coming 2 months. ^_^

Ooops...I disapeared. ^_^

So, I've found that i haven't posted anything in a month. I'm currently in my tub, and thought now was an appropriate time to reach out to all of you out there in La La Land.

I've been a bit busy being depressed. Plus, I've been tentative about posting anything in my Writing Supernaturals series for fear of treading on the toes of possible guest writer contributions. However at this point I say "Fuck IT!". If someone does decide to contribute and chooses a topic i've already written on it'll just be another perspective, so there! lol

Anywasy, I haven't been on WOW, haven't written or recorded anything, so noones missed anything i don't think.

Upcoming: WS: Xenophillia

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving.
^_^
It's been about 2 weeks since my last post, so i thought i'd stop by.

I haven't been playing WoW (although I'm still paying for it every month) since my mom hasn't been playing and i'm a bit over playing panderia even though i haven't even gotten past the starting area, since i kinda worked myself into a corner with my alts.

I haven't been working on any of my books, since i've been a bit preoccupied with other RL things like being crazy. lol

I've been recording a bit, but i haven't done anything i think i'd want to release.

I might be moving soon and going back to school so i've been thinking a lot about that, tho.

Anywasy, i'll be stopping in again soon.

TTYL!

Procrastination FTW! ^_^

So I've been putting of doing stuff for a bit, since i''m recovering from household dramas.

>_<

But I've decided i need to do stuff so i've been playing a bit of WOW althought i haven't done that much since my moms not playing at the moment.

I need to start working on my books again. I really want to make some progress on "Heart of Stone", the book i started for NaNoWriMo event hough it's not gonna be finished in time for the end of the event.

I really wanna write an epic world series, so i wanna get started on the Omaria series.

Thats it for now. smooches!

Frostweave Cloth is EVIL!!

..and expensive on the AH.

Today I spent like a thousand gold on frostweave cloth cause i needed like 450 pieces to get my way up to embersilk on my DK.

They need to fix that, the economy on wow is stupid, and stupidly out of wack.
I still think they should make it impossible to price things on the AH for more then 3x the vendor price.

Anywasy i think i'm gonna go run dungeons on my paly or something i need gear for my alts.

So WOW, then?

So I'm still playing WoW new expansions, i think specificly onee where new alts are involved like Cataclysm and MoP, always cause me scheduling problems since i don't neccessarily want to level my main right off the bat.
So i've been working on getting my monk and shaman up, and let me tell you low level duengeouns are bullshit right now. People think that they can just roll need on everything and the other half don't even care! But those item are going for 100's of gold on the AH. Just cause it's not important to the people gold hording doesn't mean that the rest of us can afford to lose out on every item. Dicks...

SO yeah leveling Shammy and monk they're at lvl 18 right now, both healing specs. I'm thinking my mom should go healing spec on her monk instead of dps..at least until 30. we'll try it and see how it works...

WoW is going DOWN!! MUAHAHAHA!!

So here's where i'm at on WoW.

Preist- 85 - Doing some of the intro quests to panderia and focusing on my Jewelcrafting and dis-enchanting stuff.

Druid- 85 - Playing with my mom, we went to panderia but were trying to focus a bit on her Alchemy.

Paladin- 85 - woot woot! I hit 85 and went of to panderia. ^_^ Slightly behind my priest in questing, and slightly ahead of my druid, but i'm haveing a great time using gathering materias with mining and herbalism. Sooo awesome. SQUEEEE!!

DK- 69 - Still working on getting my tailoring up to 425. I still need like 650 frostweave cloths. Our guild bank has like 1000+ Emberweave it's almost taking up a whole page..>_<

Warrior- 54 - On hiatus a smidge, cause i started working on my paly instead.

Mage- 50 - On hiatus, cause it was irritating me...

Warlock- 35 - On hiatus, cause i don't wanna. lol

Rogue- 26 - Energy literally makes me wanna kill my own character.

Hunter- 14 - I got a dragonhawk a while back, took me 2 hours to get to eversong woods from darnassus. Never again.

Shaman- 12 - Holding pattern while me and my mom figure out who's gonna be paired with her.

Monk- 12 - Holding pattern till we dicide who'll pair with her, and if i like playing a monk.

WoW Pet Battles!!

SO yey i get to do pet battles even though i don't have MoP. wooohoooo

Now I just have to decide on my team. ^_^
I'm thinking i'm gonna have to have more then 3 though. and i can't seem to find one that has good attacks versus beast type pets.

anywasy smooches

It's alive!!! O_O

So yeah MoP is out today, or well 9hours ago. I couldn't afford to buy it yet so i don't have it. The good news is that pandas are playable even if you don't have the expansion so i made my Shammy panda. yey me.
...
Although since i want to do the starting area with my mom i have to wait till she wakes up and gets online..hopefully before i go back to sleep.

In related news i've decided to go with the following proffesions on my shamy:
1) Cooking- Cause pandas get a bonus, yesss sir!
2) Alchemy- take the buffs from cooking and add them to the buffs from alchemy and i'll be buff-tastic.
3) Inscription- So i can buff every one else!! yey. also staffs are a good thing for healers so i'll be able to do that

You'll also notice that bothe primary profs use herbalism. My paly is a herb/miner so i can just go round up all my herbs and send them to my shammy every couple of levels.

As far as my monk goes, my expectation when i get MoP is that i'll take enchanting and tailoring on it. the reason for this is that i have insane bananas enchanting stuff but getting high end ones is a pain because i don't like playing end game stuff on my priest who has enchanting. Also tailoring will benefit said priest since getting gear is such a compettiotion on the AH, and since i'm going healing i should be able to level pretty quickly and surpass my other to tailors (my dk 68, and my warlock 35)

Sounds like a plan.

Updated alliance levels are as follows:

Priest- 85
Druid- 85
Paladin- 80
Death Knight- 68
Warrior- 54
Mage- 50
Warlock- 35
Rogue- 26
Hunter- 14
Shaman- 1
*Priest- 1 <- but only cause its a place holder for my eventual monk charachter. I like me my names. lol

that's what i got so far smooches!

Pre-Mop time.

The new system is getting hotfixed left and right...rolling restarts have happened almost every day this week.

Right now I've got my:

Priest 85- not doing to much on her, waiting for theramore scenario to open. although i did do the deathwing half of LFR and i like the new system. Healing is a problem unless i'm very responsive, due to cast times.

Druid 83- Still gotta get her up to 85. best Healer i've played so far with the new patch.

Paly 79- Almost up to 80, trying to hit 85 before MoP sonce she's got mining and herbalism. I've also switched her to tanking since it seems to be working much better right now.

DK 66- working tailoring so i can compress all the stacks of Embersilk that we have in the guildbank. Also trying to raise reputation with the Aldor, just hit honored. Tried tanking and it was a hot mess, holding threat is a huge problem.

Warrior 52- Tanking is a problem though slightly better then DK tanking. Leveling with my moms Shaman (51-DPS), which is her new main.

Mage 50- Leveling based on rested-ness. Got inscription high enough to thin out all the WLK herbs from the guildbank. Alchemy is falling behind though.

Warlock 35- Pretty much on hold for now, haven't played since before the patching started. Paired for now with my moms Priest (35).

Rogue 26- On hold, but paried with my moms Paly (19) for now.

Hunter 13- been on hold for a long while. lol

*Shaman 1- currently acting as a place holder for the name i want. when MoP launches I plane on making a Pandarean Shaman.

*Monk 0- Don't have a monk yet, but plan on making a Human monk after MoP launches.

*** Now you maybe wondering why i'm not making a Panda monk. the reason for this is that I expect after the launch to see 2 things happen, lots of people making panda characters AND lots of people going to Pandarea. These 2 things will most likely cause me a ginormous amount of lag.
So in order to avoid lag i planed on making a human monk and playing that for a few days until i felt enough people had gotten the whole PANDAS!! thing out of their systems. Then i planned on making a shaman panda and going to pandarea. ^_^

Lots of wow, i guesss.. ^_^

This week i did the Sunwell raid, I also changed my paly to a prot/holy spec. (I'm mainly running prot) ,

Updated levels:

Druid 83
Paly 76
DK 65
Mage 44

yey me! ^_^

For the Alliance!! but not really.. >_<

Today I killed Lady Sylvanas, who is in my minda gigantic pain in the ass..she kept moving around and dissapearing and stuff. She's super badass. ^_^

Also killed Bloodhoof in Thunder Bluff and The dude from Silvermoon City who's name i can't remember. lol
 People were "/yell" out thing like "For The Alliance!" and i was, like, "Seriously why don't you let all the horde players know we're here? what part of stealth don't you understand?" lol

Anywasy I got's me a bear, and here i am in Dallaran riding it and waving at you:

Smooches!

WoW update and thingies..

kk so my druid is 82, my paly is 72, my dk is 64, and my mage is now 39. yey me. ^_^

Today I was part of a group on my server that got the achievement for killing Garrosh in Ogrimmar. It was okay, i guess. i just know that killing Sylvanas would be a major pain..she's so far underground it'd be a hassle...

I other news i made like a bazzilion white smoke flares for engineering and since i didn't really need them i used them to draw stuff in Ironforge..

we consume content too fast?

This is the blog post i did on the battle.net forum ( http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6147826878 ) about WoW...

hmmm.. I've been catching the blue posts from that thread for weeks over on mmo-champion, and I think Dratzel has a point.

I notice too, that there arn't any blue posts on the subject replying to posts from the "other side", since i'd assume there must be people who "enjoy/experience more of" the game because of the "nerfs"

Personally, I had a hard time when Cata came out because of lag (which is still a problem for me in SW, and certain raids & 5-mans) and because my one and only 85,and main, is a Priest. I ran 5-mans for a while after i hit 85, but i could barely heal Vortex Pinnacle with my play style so i wasn't even gonna touch heroics (I still don't do them for the same reason), Then they released the Zul's and HoT/WoE/End time ones and they were easier to heal, in the sense that i could actually heal them without causing wipes. Then they released the Raid Finder and i got the chance to do DS (which i still can't do well).

I'm in 381 gear, I've got major enchants and high end JC (trainer taught) gems, and raids and what not are still difficult for me, i feel, cause my healing output isn't what i'd like it to be.

I've played for a little more then 3 years, and honestly my progression is Normal 5-man, Heroic 5-man(depending on difficulty) and LFR once a month (if that). In addition I play some 30hrs a week. My mom (whom i joined me in playing wow) just hit 81 after almost a year and a half of play time. She's out dps'd in groups by characters lvl 70-71, seriously we ran Blackrock caverns and she did like 5% of the damage for the entire instance, and so she feels uncomfortable playing in groups, BUT she, like me, would still like to see the instances, collect the pets and mounts, gain tittles. She plays the same amount of time as i do every week and i don't see why she shouldn't get the oppurtunity? 

Now what do I mean by oppurtunity? Well this post is about "consuming content to fast", right? Well, I agree content is consumed to fast, and why?
Because the developers put in things like :

~ quest givers right in the 5-man instance, that reward blues.
~ the AH combined with increased gold caps, which result in economic inflation.
~ and, most importantly, HEIRLOOMS.

Taken at face value each thing has made it easier to progress.

~The in instance(5-man) questgiver make it easier to take quests and turn them in for rewards that progress your character through both gear and experience, considering blues in questing normaly come at the end of long quest chains.

~The AH gold thing has made it harder for new people, and people who don't "play" the AH, to use the AH as a way to progress their characters. Seriously, where is an entry level character supposed to come up with 20g for a stack of peacebloom? And don't say guild or friend or whateves. are they supposed to panhandle in the streets? cause i've seen people do that in SW. 

~Heirlooms sole purpose was to make leveling an alt a faster experience.

The problem, as I see it, is that there seems to be a number of people who believe that these features are the "minimum" when in fact they're very large and tangible "buffs" that benefit only some of the players of the game.
~Don't run 5-mans? don't get blues regularly
~Don't have massive amounts of gold or "play the AH"? You farm everything yourself and what you sell you get vendor price for.
~Don't have an Alt who can buy an heirloom piece or pieces? Again you have to gear yourself.

So I look at these players I group with in 5-mans (lvl 15-80) who are wearing heirlooms or all blues, with northrend gems in their lvl 45 relic, and BC/WLK enchants and then i look at myself or my mom or the low dps/healer/tank that's being called out in chat for not rushing through a 5-man in 15 minutes, and I think :
~"Do these people not realize that this 5-man was made to be 35 minutes long at our level?"
~"Do they realize that a healer/tank that's lvl, say, 30 in a 30-40 instance isn't actually supposed to be capable of doing it that fast regardless of skill level?"
~"Why do they call me a n00b healer/tank/dps when i'm more than capable of playing the game appropriate to my level?Just because the person who filled my role with you before me was OVERGEARED doesn't mean i'm undergeared, or a bad player, or even 'casual'. Since when did n00b mean anyone who isn't a twink?"

...
Lost my train of thought, anyways my point was, yes we may be consuming things to quickly. So maybe instead of nerfing DS (which honestly i could care less about since i have no intention of ever moving past LFR) or making things "harder" how about we do something about the other things that make the game easy at endgame like macros? add-ons? craftable- saleable epics/blues? heirlooms making it easier to lvl? heirlooms that overgear you in pvp(since i was lead to believe pvp isn't actually about leveling, although you can use it to level)? quest givers in 5-mans?
why don't we bringing back gold caps? Or put mark up limits on the AH(i.e. you can't put a buyout of more than 300% of the vendor price)? Or make heirlooms equal to greens in some slots? 
Cause I'll tell you right now there would be an outcry among "some" players if the devs tried to take those things away, even though i'm of the impression that those things make the game easier for the people who have them, and that those people don't seem to realize it..or maybe they feel entitled like that's just what you should have?

I'll leave this with a RL metaphore since people seem to love those:
If you spend so long eating primerib that you've forgotten what hamburger tastes like, and NOW prime rib is like hamburger to you, are you the one with problems when your primerib gets cheaper? or when people who couldn't afford prime rib now get to eat it? or when peta burns your house down and you have to go on the run attacking unsuspecting cows in the middle of the night with your bare hands just to get your fix?   

But that's just what I think...not exactly sure why i added that part about PETA....lol

WoW Pet Battles!!! ^_^

Been on the beta the last couple of days, the pet battle system is still buggy right now, but it's actually kinda fun. There's a bit of a grindy feel to it though, especially for someone like me who is used to turn based rpg's where your team has to be on point. lol
I'm sure they'll fix thing with it soon. ^_^

Also, My druid is now level 76. yey me ^_^ I also got my engineering on my DK up to BC level and my druid is now at CATA level, so i can make things yey ^_^

KK Bye!

My World Of Warcraft.

I play World of Warcraft (WOW) a lot. My main is a level 85 Draenei Priest, discipline and holy spec at the moment since i prefer to act as a healer when i'm not soloing old content.

I'm currently working on getting the Frigid Frostling companion pet that drops off of Lord Ahune during the Midsummer Fire Festival.

My main realms are :

Alliance- Elune (US)
Horde- Teranis (US)
[I'm also in the Mists of Pandaria (MOP) Beta, although i don't play it that much]

My hope is to one day have one of every class at max level. ^_^

Currently i'm focused on my Alliance characters:

Priest-85,Draenei, Female, Disc/Holy, Jewelcrafting/Enchanting
Druid-74, Night Elf, Female, Restoration/Balance, Skinning/Leatherworking
Paladin-67, Daenei, Female, Holy/Retribution, Mining/Herbalism
Death Knight- 61, Draenei, Female, Blood/Frost, Tailoring/Engineering
Warrior- 50, Night Elf, Male, Fury/Arms, Mining/ Blacksmithing
Warlock- 35, Dwarf, Female, Destruction/ Demonology, Engineering/Tailoring
Mage- 30, Daenei, Female, Fire/Frost, Inscription/Alchemy
Rogue- 24, Gnome, Female, Combat, Jewelcrafting/alchemy
Hunter- 13, Worgen, Male, Beastmaster, Skinning/Mining
Shaman- 1 (She's acting as a place holder to save her name for MOP when i make her a Panda. ^_^)

So that's what i do. lol