Sleepypete's Pillow

Hmm. I may well be listening to somebody shepherd me through the Molten Core at that time :-(.

It is with great pleasure that Her Majesty invites you to the first Royal Blog Party at Craziequeen’s Palace on Thursday 13 April, commencing at 10pm BST (British Summer Time).

(massive grin) That pizza barely touched the sides … I don’t have them too often nowadays (weight watching) but the shop around the corner always makes high quality pizza.

Is pretty much what I’m doing at the moment. After another day of trying to avoid work wherever possible, I was rushing home to play WoW again. More organised raids, this time taking on (and beating this time !) the big dragon Onyxia and then after that, being the only warrior in the Zul’Gurub jungle place for quite a while.

We did darn well tonight, Onyxia was a little stubborn but was tamed in the end. Zul’Gurub went really smoothly and my new blood drinking specification for my warrior worked really well. We didn’t have that much time in there but still managed to take out a couple of the bosses.

Me happy. But I’m going to have trouble calming down beforegoing to sleep tonight. Time to put on some calming music and get a book out. Nahhh – calming music and shopping for weapons for my warrior !

I miss pizza. We’re budgeting again:-(

And Easter Eggs. Although I’ve managed to resist temptation so far on the Easter Eggs, despite going into Big W to pick up a card for someone and scissors for me.

Currently waiting for me pizza – it won’t be long hopefully, I have to get back into game to get into Molten Core for another raid. Which means I have to eat the pizza before the run. Somehow, I don’t think that will be a problem :-).

I was on there until about 4.30 am last night … I’ve managed to avoid doing that for a little while but it was a little bit too tempting to play with the new toy picked up on a raid. It’s the kind of toy that makes the allies go “what on earth just hit me !”, including an ally paladin who attacked me earlier. I’ve never seen someone ride away so quickly when resurrecting after returning to their corpse. (Death isn’t very permanent in World of Warcraft).

Anyway … hope that pizza comes soon 🙂

ME WANT!! 🙂

Watch out for news at the palace about the BIG blog party…….

cq

But busy having fun. As it should be.

Had a morning of trying to avoid work, although I still did my part. Various people wanting stuff done, an annoying git who I’d quite happily pound into the floor and finance work to think about. So I went home at lunchtime.

First up, got a call for help from one of the guild and I have trouble turning those down. So in the afternoon, it was off to one instance when I should have been farming stuff to help me out later ! It was a good run, I got stuff to sell and I got a shiny new toy which will help my warrior out with tanking. Except my warrior isn’t set up for tanking any more. Hmm.

Quick break for dinner 🙂 and then into the Molten Core for some severe hitting of big things. We had a few times when we got wiped out but I managed to keep my job done well. Died more times than I would like though. It’s a bit dangerous up close in there … (I was playing with my warrior instead of the long range mage) Anyway, we got inspired to a rather fast run through and I felt as if I played a full part. I even outdamaged several rogues, which I’ve got no business doing. Rogues are supposed to be the best at doing damage against single targets, which is what we’re hitting in the Molten Core. Oh yeah, I outdamaged 3 of the other warriors as well, despite following all of the damage discipline rules we use. I’m doing ok.

Currently happily chilling in front of the golf because my brain always kicks up a gear when playing the warrior. You have to keep aware of more stuff as a warrior, so the concentration kicks on.

In honour of what I felt like when I was ill, this is now my MSN picture as well !

We took Guildlink into the Molten Core again today … but with a difference !

Because things had reset when they weren’t really supposed to, we couldn’t make the attempt on the big fiery fella Ragnaros like we wanted to. So we took a beginners group in to get more people some experience in there. Which included me … I took in Bashara as the second main tank. Big responsibility … I learned stuff too.

How did we do ? Not too bad. I saw some things that I’d never appreciated before, mainly that the tanks get bounced around a bit again. Bashara is only a slip of a troll, so she gets bounced a fair amount. I was the first one to die – my own fault really, I dragged the giant back to where the healers had to be on top of the second mob in order to be in range of healing me. My bad.

We steadily made our way through to the first boss, Lucifron. Took us about 3 attempts here, which was what it took to get the decursing and dispelling sorted out. Also needed a crash course in how to keep Lucifron’s guards attention as my job here was to look after one of those while people hit it. Didn’t do as well on that as I’d like. But we still got the snakey guy tamed.

Next step, core hound packs – I learned something else here – you need to hit your mob to keep it ! Was pulling the mob off someone else who started the combat, so I needed to manually start hitting after taunting in order to get the rage I needed to keep the mob on me.

After that, the big dawg Magmadar, who makes everyone run away roughly every 30 seconds. So the job of the tanks is to make sure they are ready for that with an ability that stops them running away. We struggled on that early but pretty much had it cracked on the attempt where we took him out. And the big dawg Magmadar is a boss that’s given us an awful lot of trouble in the past …

We didn’t take out any more bosses than that, people needed to start leaving. Hell, I’m pretty tired too after being in tank mode for 3 hours … We did good in there though. Good enough to get two bosses tamed 🙂 And good enough to truly earn the loot that they had on them.

We’ll be back in a few days, not sure if I’ll be tanking again but I hope so. I have a lot to learn and the best way to learn is by doing. Need some better gear for my warrior though.