I’ve been tagged!

Littlebark over at The Tree Unleashed tagged me on 12/18 with a 2009 Review Meme. I unfortunately did not see it until today.

So here goes.

(See what happens when finals are over? You get posts every day!)

What did you do in the World of Warcraft in 2009 that you’d never done before?

Heal! No really. I’d done DPS, I’d done tanking, but I’d never healed seriously before. So 2009 was the year of learning how to heal. I’m still not sure I’ve got it down, but I’ve actually had in-game folks asking me for advice.

Are you scared? I know I am…

What was your favorite new place that you visited?

Hard one. The WoW dev team did an AWESOME job with Northrend. I remember being blown away by so much. The visuals, the music. I think the thing that absolutely blew me away the first time I saw it was the planetarium room in Halls of Lightning. It’s just beautiful. The constellation statues, the planets, it’s gorgeous. I just wanted to wander around and LOOK at it all.

What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?

Affliction DPS be a viable spec! No wait, Santa brought that one early … hmm. More time to raid? Unfortunately that’s not realistic with school. You know, 2009 was really cool.

I’m gonna say: Violet Proto Drake. I’m only one achievement away (unfortunately it requires PVP…)

What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Getting Sarth+3d down. That was awesome.

And everything under “what did you get really excited about.”

What was your biggest failure?

I think I documented that one pretty well.

That was more of a personal failure than a game failure.

What did you get really, really, really excited about?

1) The night I topped the healing meters in TotC25. I know healing meters are only what you make of them, but when I still wonder if I’m doing this healing thing “rite” some times, it was a nice little reinforcement that yeah, I am.

2) When doing Utgarde Pinnacle and we butt-pulled all 3 packs in the room before Ymiron .. and no one died. THAT felt good.

3) Getting the last of the Outland Crocodiles.

What do you wish you’d done less of?

Whine? I don’t know. I can’t really think of anything. I always cringe when I look at /played, but if I wasn’t doing this, I’d just be watching television. Or writing the next Great American Novel. Piddly little stuff like that so… yeah.

What was your favorite WoW blog or podcast?

I don’t really listen to pod casts : \

I appreciated the Ulduar boss posts that Averna had up, I like Keeva’s blog for her good math’s and insight, and Littlebark for a good mix of wow how to and wow life.

Tell us a valuable WoW lesson you learned in 2009.

Slow down and breathe. There is SO much to do, especially when you’re juggling two characters. And school. And work.

This is a game. We play it for fun. (Well, I do, at least.) Let it be fun once in a while.

Raiding and getting bosses down and getting loot is fun, in one way, but it’s also stressful.

Go run instances in your pirate hat.

Jump around naked at the start of the raid.

Soulstone yourself and jump off the top of Naxx.

WoW is srs bzns. Srsly. That doesn’t mean they can make you wear pants. ^_^

In other news:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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