Spring Flinging

Not that kind of spring fling. Geez.

First, take 2 characters.



Add a couple of Spring rabbits and a motorcycle...



And presto!


Have a happy Easter/Noblegarden/Whatever holiday you happen to celebrate, everyone!

On Cats and Things...

Omygolly an actual RP post? *Gasp*

Kidding aside, I've been meaning to try and get this done for... well, weeks now, and never seemed to find a good time for it. Tonight, opportunity struck!

Rheugan's been having some thoughts on his cat, but wasn't sure whether they were good ones or not. Pitch's cat is way different than Rheu's, so he couldn't be much help. But he did think that maybe Shad could help, since Shad also has a cat that's rather... independent-minded. XD

And honestly, Rheu's been under so much stress lately (not really bad stress, but still stress) that it was a relief to get this off his chest.

And last thing? Shad is one of the awesomest people I know. :D

So! Conversation between Rheugan and Shad. Enjoy!

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Rheugan says: Pitch tried to explain Era to me, and we thought maybe you'd have the best opinion.

Shad tilts his head.

Shad says: On Era, or...?

Rheugan says: Is it possible for the cat to... control parts of yourself?

Shad says: Absolutely, yes.

Rheugan looks thoughtful.

Shad says: Have you been having trouble with that?

Rheugan says: No, actually

Rheugan says: I.. I hadn't felt anything from the wolf since I came back from Northrend. Before then, even

Rheugan says: I was wondering if the cat had anything to do with that, but when I asked he wouldn't answer

Shad says: ...-Interesting-.

Rheugan cocks his head.

Shad says: And you still have had no answer?

Rheugan says: He seems to like being mysterious.

Shad grins. "He is a cat."

Rheugan nods with an answering grin.

Shad says: I would not be at all surprised to learn that it was him doing this.

Rheugan says: It would be.. something of a relief if it was. I trust him more than I do the wolf.

Shad says: Was the wolf a struggle for you?

Rheugan says: At first. After Tal'doren it got better... but when I was taught the shape-shifting it came back

Rheugan says: It was like... they were fighting over me, or something

Shad says: Fighting like cats and dogs?

Rheugan gives a -very- dry grin.

Rheugan says: Something like that

Shad says: Sorry.

Shad is not really terribly sorry.

Rheugan says: When Pitch started teaching me it got better again, mostly.

Rheugan says: Most of what he taught me involved control, so

Rheugan shrugs.

Shad says: And if I recall, you were able to control the wolf, but not the cat quite as much?

Rheugan nods.

Rheugan says: Even now, I wouldn't say I control him. It's more like a.. a partnership, I suppose

Shad says: To be honest, I find that to be the ideal condition. I think you have done it right.

Rheugan blinks, then looks immensely relieved. "You think so?"

Shad nods.

Shad says: I may be biased, but...well, are we supposed to command nature, or be part of it?

Shad says: It is a very practical philosophical question.

Rheugan nods.

Rheugan says: Pitch seemed happy with it, but he tends to be.. more than a little biased

Rheugan gives a crooked grin.

Shad chuckles.

Shad says: I happen to agree with him, my own biases aside.

Rheugan nods again. "That is a relief."

Shad says: If he is doing you the service of controlling the wolf, then...I would say let him, and relax.

Rheugan nods.

Shad smiles.

Shad says: Is that your only concern?

Rheugan says: It was, yes

Shad nods. "Then, if you do not mind, I think I will head back inside."

Rheugan nods as he gets up.

Shad says: I am glad you are doing well with it all now.

Shad smiles.

Distracted...

....by BETA!!

Yep, got my invite a few days ago. Also got an invite to the Diablo 3 beta, which is kinda late since it'll be released next month, but oh well. XD

D3 looks like fun, and I think I'll be playing a good bit when I'm not busy with WoW, but at the moment it pales in comparison with the MOP beta.

I will be trying to keep my beta posts as spoiler-free as I can... but I don't know how well that's going to work out. So, for anyone that isn't in the beta and wants to keep things a surprise, I will be tagging those posts with "MOP beta"- so you can skip them if you want to. XD

And I'm still playing the actual live game too. In fact, sis and I and a buddy have been farming MC for transmog drops (our buddy just got his last piece of druid T1 :D) and have recently added BWL to the list. We're thinking of hitting up the AQ raids, and eventually might move on to some of the BC raids (I hope I hope). Fun stuff!

So. I'm off to do more beta stuff. Til next time, Happy Hunting!

Beta stuffs, Take 1

There's... actually not a whole lot to do just yet, since it's still early in the beta, but I have made a pandaren monk already, and just got her out of the starting zone today. Still trying to decide where I want to take her next for leveling, though with all the bugs it looks like my choices will be pretty few. Westfall and Darkshore are both bugged and have no quests, for example. Dwarf land looks like it works for pandas, but I'm thinking of running her to Draenei lands first and see if they have any quests for her.

And yes, that means I chose Alliance side with her. Eh, all my other toons there are Alliance, so why not?

Besides pandas, I've also rolled a Pitchmonk, but then found out that the Nelf starting zone has no quests for monks after level 3.... Still deciding if I want to try grinding him up to 5 or so and seeing if he can get any quests from the next hub.

The toons that I copied have all gotten their new talents and stuff, which I'm liking so far though still getting used to. Turron might be getting a respec, since warriors can use Whirlwind in any stance now which makes Bladestorm kinda superfluous, and an arms warrior with Shockwave just sounds too cool to pass up. Pitch has his kitty spec, though after seeing a couple bear-tanking videos I may take him down that route instead. And Lark's BM spec is all set up, though her stables are so bugged that it's kinda sad to even look at it. She still has Komah and Halia and Tuah, at least, though Quiloe's been lost in the beta-nether, along with a few other stabled pets.

Not all the hunter bugs are bad, however. I am hoping so bad that this one might stick around, however unlikely it seems...



It seems that all hunter pets have reverted to their pre-tame size. I would've taken a screenie of Arcus, except all you could see was his feet. XD

The first new zone is pretty, with lots of new mobs and scenery to gawk at. I've run through a number of quests on a couple toons, but haven't done that much cause I've been too busy staring at things.

In fact, I'm not going to say any more about it. Instead, have some screenshots! The first 3 are from the Pandaren starting zone, and the rest are from the new 85 zone. (I fail at remembering names, sorry!)

I HATE spiders...

So how in the holy flip did this happen??



I blame outside influences...




On a slightly more serious note.... The tame was a TON easier than I thought it would be. Looking up how-to videos on Youtube helps. >.>

Sis's troll Rajji had actually just tamed Kirix, with help from Booggah and a randomly-tamed core hound. We were on our way back to the Hyjal portal when my NPC_Scan went off for Solix- who I had been thinking about taming for a while now, but hadn't convinced myself yet. It still took several minutes of standing there staring at him in his little pool of lava before I finally decided heck with it.

His name is Speedy (thanks sis!), in the hopes that having a cute unoffensive name will convince me to keep him. And he is actually pretty cute... so long as I'm not looking at him. XD

Some day, perhaps, my arachnophobia will fade......

'Nother ding!

It was the grindiest grind ever, but I finally worked out the last few bubs he needed. Alanon is finally the same level as his brother. :P

I'm not totally sure what the problem with leveling him was, unless it was simply that he isn't feral. I do like boomkin-ing, but for some reason I just lost all enthusiasm for questing and dungeons at the end. He has a resto spec too, but healing for PUGs generally made me just wanting to be done and out of the instance long before it was over. Which is funny, because I like healing in battlegrounds and when I'm grouped with friends.

Regardless of my healing qualms, I'm attempting to get his healing gear in order first.... so yes, he is DPSing in resto gear for now. Good thing is that a lot of stuff actually works well for both specs.

I had several pieces of gear already for when he dinged, plus he had enough JPs to get his t12 chestpiece. Those and a few PVP-crafted pieces from the AH were enough to get him ready for the "timeroics," and I got some friends together to run through those last night. He got all his quests done and picked up 5-6 upgrades in the process.... and somehow made it to the raid finder ilvl, roughly 24 hours after hitting 85. O.o

What is this I don't even....

I don't think I'll be hitting the raid finder just yet, he still has one wimpy trinket and I'd like to replace the crafted blues. But at least now I can feel like I can PUG the heroics and not get vote-kicked for lousiness. XD

Meanwhile, Rheugan will go sit in a corner with his little ilvl 333 staff.....

(Just kidding, he'll still be running Well of Eternity as well. Although I'm beginning to think that staff doesn't actually exist...)

So about that dragon....

Last week Lark and co. were getting so stinking close to finishing Deathwing, we went ahead and extended the raid lockout after we finally called it quits. So this week, there was nothing standing between us and a Really Big Dragon, and without having to deal with the other bosses, we were all fresh and ready to go. And in fairly short order...



Rawr! Felt good to get him down, too, no matter how many times we've killed him in the Raid Finder. And Lark has yet another shiny title to boot.

It was still fairly early, so we decided to go knock out Baradin Hold while we still had it. Rheugan got to come along on that, since there's nothing there I want for Lark or Pitch, but no druidy stuff dropped. Then we decided to go poke at Rags. >.>

We'd never gotten him down before Dragon Soul was released, so it felt a bit like unfinished business. So, since we were (much) better geared and had a nice warm-up, we went to tackle the Firelands once again.

The other bosses were almost ridiculously easy, even with several raid members switching to alts. Once we reached Rag, everyone got back on their mains, and we started in on him. Took us a few tries, just because it had been so long we all needed a refresher on what to do, but we quickly got back in our normal groove, and...



So now we've officially cleared all of Cataclysm! Woot!

On top of that, I got Pitch the ilvl for the raid finder, so he got to participate in an In-Character run last week. So that's 3 toons that have killed Deathwing, and Rheugan's only 2 points off from joining them.



* * * *

Other than raiding stuff, I haven't been up to much lately. Still afflicted by the Tired As Heck bug, and daylight savings just starting has NOT helped. I'm starting to wonder if I should just buck up and go see a doctor... ugh.

I have still been playing Roebar quite a bit. He's up to 43 now, with a new, speedier horsie. And yes, I know his brown one would be fast too, I just like the black one better.



He's also got company now. I felt like starting a leather-worker, but didn't want to change Roe's professions, since he's my gold-maker on Arthas. So....



That is Disappear. She has a bit of history herself- I actually rolled her on another server ages ago (before I even had a blog!) but had Stuff happen and wound up deleting her and leaving the server. I've suddenly been missing her lately, and this was the perfect excuse to go ahead and recreate her.

They both started out in a level 25 guild, but a few friends decided to start their own guild, so Dis and Roebar went with them. Best guild name ever, IMO.



Unfortunately, no one else liked the name, so it's going to be changed to something stupid. But I have that pic at least. Also secretly hoping Blizzard won't allow the name-change, for whatever reason. *fingers crossed*

Dis has been questing for the dwarves so she can get a ram, and while she was out in Loch Modan I came across a certain somebody.



Arthas is a PVP server, so I had to debate with myself for a bit first. But it didn't take much debating before I switched over to my troll hunter Narzabeki, and trekked her across the unfriendly Alliance lands to catch herself a fox. It was actually a pretty uneventful trip- hurray for most low-level zones being deserted! She got a bonus wasp, too, as Nix was out. I was tempted to look for Lord Condar too, but she only has 2 pet slots open right now, and the stable master was pretty far away. >.>

That about sums up what I've been up to lately. I kept meaning to scratch together a blog post before now, but the Blahs are not conducive to blog posts. There's been RP stuff as well, but the Blahs have also kicked up my writer's block, so yea. I will try to put something together for Rheugan, who's had so much stuff going on that it's beginning to make my head spin, so stay tuned for that.

And that's about it for now. Til next time, Happy Hunting!