GnomeDruid

To jump on the bandwagon, or rather, to scramble up using a step-ladder (that’s a gnome height joke, folks), my quick thoughts on the expansion:

I like the shared loot. It means more time for development of other things. I like the shorter raid instances. I’m not too keen on the shared raid lockouts for 10-25, though I do understand them with the change to the loot tables.

Right now I run 10’s with my guild during the week (taking the gnome or the druid as needed) and then a 25 man on the weekend with friends with the druid.  That’s going to change come Cata, and I imagine it’s the Sunday raid that will change/get dropped as most of the folks in it do run the 10’s during the week with their normal guilds.

I’m not up in arms, or “this is a horrible change”. It is A change, and we’ll deal with it like we did the transition from 40s to 25s and we’ll find a balance again.

This gets a little ranty, rambly and LONG.

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Well, I had a nice long into post written, then my net connection died just as I hit “publish” and it vanished into the ether. My ISP must have a bunch of gnomes … er … troggs, yeah, troggs working for them today.

That should probably have taught me to write these posts in a text editor then paste them in, but here I am typing it into the web interface again. As I said in the first post, this blog is pretty much an experiment. I figure it will let me work on my non-creative writing, as well as get me learning the ins-and-outs of WordPress at the same time, and help with my web design.

First Meetings generally warrant introductions:

About Me

I am a thirty-something geek who is currently going back to school for his master’s degree. I have two cats, a strange sense of humor, and a need to get out of the house more. I like the Muppet Show, Harry Connick Jr, JRR Tokien, Monty Python, Babylon 5, Steven Sondheim, crunchy fall leaves, cheesecake, stormy skies, stormy oceans, and curling up with a good book.

MMORPG stuff

I started out in EQ, and ended up playing a Beastmaster. Then I heard about WoW, and bolstered by recommendations from a close friend, got into that at the start.

My first toon was a NE Rogue, with whom I raided everything from classic WoW. My guild got through MC, BWL and AQ with the exception of never getting C’thun down. We were working on Naxx when TBC broke us up.

When TBC came out, I switched my “main” over to my gnome warlock (and never looked back).

I leveled in a friend’s guild, and was able to get into my current guild shortly after hitting level 70. They were working on Kara and getting into Gruul’s and Mags. I love my guild. Despite being “casual”, only raiding for 3-4 hours 3 nights a week, they got all of TBC up through Illidian done pre-nerf. And they got (Kael and Vashj down pre key-requirement lift).

They are also very nice about me only being able to raid one night a week during the semester, tho it does mean my DKP is low and I didn’t get much out of BT, sadly.

At some point, I leveled my NE Druid to 70, and started running him as an Off Tank. I still feel my Tank-Fu is weak, though the last patch definitely made things easier.

Pet Obsession

I am lucky enough to have both the original and TBC Collector’s Editions (and if GameStop doesn’t short me, I’ll have the Wrath one as well). Somewhere along the line, Caliban, my gnomelock main, developed a pet obsession. Even before patch 3.0.2 gave us the pet tab, I had something like 35 vanity pets in my bank. I usually carried 5-6 with me at a time to pull one out.

Now, the pet tab just makes it that much easier to have an extra pet out all of the time. I have 62 of the standard-game pets. (i.e. none that require code redemption), and none of the BOP engineering pets, since I didn’t want Engineering as a profession. I’m working on the last 20 or so.

Here’s looking to more adorable vanity pets in Wrath!

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In the grand tradition of programming classes everywhere, I shall leave this post titled “Hello World.”

Just as those simple programs are a foray into a particular programming language, this blog is a foray into … well, blogging. I am not sure I’ll have anything great or important to say or shake the gaming world like some of the other bloggers out there (or heck, even update frequently).

This will be a place, probably mainly for myself, to post things WoW related, to figure stuff out, and to rant.

In the spirt of the simple “Hello World” program, I shall conclude ths post thus:

WoW gneeds more Gnome Druids.

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