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Last night, the guild decided to raid SSC. We all got together and headed to the instance and got all buffed up and ready to go. On the first pull my computer decided to hate me and I ended up restarting WoW. After that, things were going smoothly… till we got to Hydross. We had a couple wipes. The first wipe, people were trying to run away and "reset" the boss. Dudes… do you think you’re really gonna make it up the 2 elevators and out before he smashes you to pieces? No… no you’re not. So stand and die and the rest of us and run back. This really pissed Vamrick (and a lot of the rest of us) off because it’s such a waste of time. There was a huge group of people that had to stand outside the instance because we couldn’t zone in or else we’d get into combat because there were STILL people trying to run away. *sigh*

The 2ndtime, the GM was saying, "All dots off! DoTs off. Take DoTs off." And after being in raid after raid and hearing people that don’t know what they’re talking about say that (because you cannot "click off" your DoTs) and getting frustrated for people yelling at Locks and Spriest for DoTs, I said, "Dude, stop saying ‘Dots off’ you can’t click them off." He says, "I’m not stupid I know you can’t click off your DoTs. I mean stop putting them on. If you don’t know this fight, you need to go and watch it on YouTube." Ok 1st, I wasn’t saying you were stupid at all. 2nd, think about how you’re wording things. Next time just say, "Stop casting DoTs" Because to rest of us, it sounded like you were telling everyone to "take their DoTs off" in other words click them off. So it’s not a big deal, just a miscommunication. It’s understandable, and I’m sorry I said what I said (especially in the tone that I used).

But what I’m not sorry for was Alt+F4′ing out of WoW when you told me to go watch the fight on YouTube. I’ve probably killed Hydross more times than you’ve blinked your eyes in the past week. So I don’t need someone telling me to go watch some shitty YouTube video. I’m sorry and excuse my language…. but fuck that.

I have no issue with Vamrick (the GM). But I do have a problem with the rest of the raid that was wasting everybody’s time. I know that Vamrick is working hard to get this guild geared and ready to push through more of Hyjal. I know that Vamrick was getting a little ticked off during the raid because people were messing around and not paying attention. The tank wasn’t kiting Hydross back over the line when he was supposed to. Or there were tanks randomly walking into the elly’s that pat around Hyross’s platform and pulling before we were buffed and ready to go.

I don’t really understand something… we did awesome in Hyjal. I mean, I was really impressed. But.. we walk into SSC and people instantly become children that don’t listen and can’t walk without Vam holding their hand. To be honest, I don’t think that a boss fight should ever have to explained during a raid. If you don’t know the fight (checking out BossKillers or something of the like) already, you shouldn’t be in the raid. I don’t care if you’ve never been in SSC before… you need to open up a web browser and go do some research. It’s easy to do, just read a few paragraphs and watch a video or two. Don’t waste people’s time, please… you end up losing healers for your raid that way

Maybe that was a bitch-tastic thing to do… but to be honest, it was either that or say things in vent to the guildies that would have gotten me kicked from the guild. I really do like this guild and the people in it. And I have mad respect for Vamrick for doing what he does. I know it’s not easy leading a raid… especially leading a raid with people that don’t listen or know what they’re doing. And even though I like the guild and the people… it still blows my mind that we can get all organized for Hyjal and make progress but then step into SSC and fall on our face. *sigh*

Anyway, that’s my rant for today. Bleh.

Jesster

So Sunday… we totally kicked Kaz’s ass =) That made me a vurry happeh chickadee! See (^.^)  <– That’s how happeh! Took us 4 attempts. We wiped twice on the waves and then once on the actual boss fight. Which really isn’t too bad. After waiting like.. for-fucking-ever to even step foot in Hyjal (without playing on my private server) it felt awesome to down a first boss on my first night in! I just wish that Robby was there to share it with me… how bad is that when you want to share Hyjal with your other half… pretteh lamez hehe.

Monday night, we attempted Azgalor. We just weren’t able to get that 6th wave down in time for the 7th. We would still have mobs left from the 6th wave up when #7 was coming out. Not every time, but about 75% of the time, that was the case. Our healers were getting killed way to early. And some of the tanks were dying before a healer even realized he was getting low on health. Two shots, sometimes. It was crazy. I was tanking a frost wyrm thingy for a bit at one point lol. I thought that was kinda funny. Those things suck =( I still think we did pretty good, though. I could definitely tell that we were making progress towards the end because we were getting the waves down quicker and less people were dying. I’m willing to bet that just a couple more attempts and we would have had it… well we would have at least seen the boss anyway hehe.

I’m still getting a feel for the guild. The guild master, Vamrick, seems to have good ideas for leading raids. I mean hey, he’s gotta be doing something right if they’ve gotten this far you know? It’s not easy running a raiding guild, he gets props for that. There are a couple things I’d do differently, but everyone has their own ideas and they own ways. The people are nice enough. A couple people have really gotten my attention as far as personality and game play. I’m sure as time goes by I’ll experience more of that. These guys aren’t afraid to try and they have good heads on their shoulders. I’m happy to be in <Shinigami>, truth be told.

I decided to disband the other guild and I’ll tell you why (not that it really matters). Basically, the guild was dropped into my hands with zero notice, everyone was leaving for another server anyway. The guild was down to about 15 accounts and those people hadn’t logged on in a while and every day more and more people were leaving. To be honest, I was hoping that I could bring it back together and get people to join up and maybe make a small casual raiding guild out of it. I tried to recruit people and get people that were already in the guild to get interested and to log on more often but that just wasn’t going well. I gave it a week. Granted, that’s not really that long, but when you’ve ran guilds before, you’re able to see early on when something just isn’t going to work. I didn’t want to bother with it if I’m going to try and focus on this new guild. I’d really like to get back into raiding again. I could be happy without it. But if I have the chance, I’ll take it without hesitation.

My WoW playing seems to keep going round and about and up and down. Like, one minute I’m doing my own thing not really into a guild or anything like that. Then I join a guild that’s alright and I like some of the people in it. Then I’m running said guild. Sitting here saying I’m happy doing Kara… then I’m posting blogs about downing the 3rd boss in Hyjal. It’s nuts. *shrug* I kinda like it that way though. God only knows what the hell I’ll be doing in 3 months from now lol.

Well quite honestly, I didn’t see this happening any time soon. I was standing around in Orgrimmar messing around with my mods and someone asked what my +healing was and after I told him 1801 unbuffed, he’s like, "We need a healer for Hyjal, but you gotta be a guildie." I thought about it for a minute and though I like the other guild I’ve been trying to get into a raiding guild that’s past SSC/TK for a LONG time (as you guys know). We left our last server in search of one. I hope this works out.

Decided to make my Warlock GM of the other guild again… not sure what’s gonna happen with that. More and more people kept leaving anyway. I might just liquidate the guild bank and move on *shrug* Dunno yet. I guess we’ll see. Anyway, I’m in a group to do Kara for badges(which I need like whoa) so I’ll write more later. I’ll make sure to post after the raid tonight

Jesster

**NOTE: This post may be a little hard to follow since my mind is going 20 miles a minute and my fingers can barely type fast enough to keep up!**

… And the new GM is me. Most of the players (all the higher levels) decided to re-roll on another server because "the economy sucks and there are too many kids playing on this server!" Um… guys what guys? There are kids on EVERY server. There are going to be children (or even adults in their twenties-thirties) that are going to harass you, beg you for shit, harass you some more, ask you to help them to quest even though you’re level 70 and they’re level 5… you can’t get away from this. You cannot escape the stupid people and you can’t get away from a fluctuating economy. Ghostlands is a newer server. It’s going to be a while before it reaches any form of "normal" so your best bet is just to sit back and relax and enjoy the game. I was talking to a guildie about all this. She and her husband play together and have made a few toons and share a lot of the same views as I do on the game. I’m basically gonna say everything I said to her Tuesday night. A guild master is only as strong as it’s lowest level-noob player.

A guild master is nothing with his or her guildies. The guild members MAKE the guild. So all these guild masters who treat their guildies like crap can go suck a nut. I’ve been in a lot of guilds in my (almost) 4 years of playing. And I’ve met a lot of GM’s that think they poop marshmallows and pee sweet tea and that the world revolves around them. It was all about loot for them… and power I suppose. "We have to be top guild!" and all that crap. *rolls eyes* They decide to treat their guildies like shit, treat them unfairly and such… they had rude awakenings when they found themselves with no guildies left to raid with because they all left for other guilds. Then when they didn’t have enough people to raid with, whined and begged people to come back because they couldn’t get anymore epic lootz yo! Kiss them bye bye, boo hoo, whatever.

I don’t want to be one of those guild masters. When I had my guild over on Turalyon, it was awesome. We all enjoyed playing with each other (heh.. hehe… that sounded dirty *giggles*) and we had fun doing 5 mans. We all completed each other rather well in instances. But when it came time for Kara, we just couldn’t get it going. All of our schedules were out of whack and we just couldn’t get the right classes on at the right time, so we disbanded and joined other guilds. I loved being guild master of that guild. I miss it a lot. We had a lot of fun.

With this guild, I’d like to be in Kara by the end of the month. That’s a reasonable goal. I’m not in a huge rush to get to 25 man content. We’ll get there when we’re ready. But until then getting everyone keyed and ready for Kara is my focus… but I want to enjoy the ride. So many people just rush to 70 and the game becomes almost like a job to them. They spend so much time worrying about gear and money and mounts and whatever the hell else. Yes the game is about that stuff… but that’s not ALL it’s about. I don’t want to play a game that seems like work. Quite honestly a lot of the people I talk to in raiding guilds, like the hardcore guilds, they make it sound so shitty to be there. It’s nothing but having their GM yell at them about "getting geared, killing this boss, better gear, grind this rep, more gear, grind this much money for the guild and blah blah blah" I can’t take that shit.

I pay $15 month just like everyone else… I’m going to play how I want to play, not how someone else wants me to. I take my time leveling my toons. I’m in no rush to get to 70 on my lock. Yeah it’ll be great once I get there. But I enjoy doing the quests, reading the story line and crafting and meeting new people and talking time to talk to them. I’m addicted to making alts because I enjoy the leveling aspect of the game the most. So many people just speed to 70 and don’t enjoy the ride. I’m one of those people that do the grey quests because they want to do every quest they can. I get so far ahead of myself in XP I end up with green and grey quests and so many people say, "Oh just skip them, it’s not worth it." Well, it is to me. Rob tells me, "It’s a waste of time to run around turning in certain quests because you do more central quests and get quicker XP." I like running from one continent to the other to turn something in. This part is gonna make me sound like a total geek… but I kind of like role playing with WoW. Not as most RP’ers do, though. I like thinking of myself as a message carrier that could get totally ripped apart by hiyenas taking a package from Crossroads to Ratchet. *shrug* I don’t think like that all the time. But sometimes it’s fun. It’s a game. And this game to me, helps me keep my imagination in good shape =) Sounds totally retarded to most of you I’m sure *sigh* Blah.

Anyway, I’ve rambled on long enough. I just need to end the post now lol. Bottom line, I’m gonna keep the guild going at a casual pace and we’ll take it a step at a time until we get to where we all want to be as a guild… working together, not against each other. Good night, y’all.

Jesster

P.s. Right now, I’ve got Amedeah in the que for transfer. Apparently they are having issues with transferring toons to other server *sigh* So it might be a little while before I have her. Let’s hope it’s not too long of a wait.

Last night, Rob and I managed to completely clear Dustwallow Marsh. We did most of the Princess Trapped chain over in Arathi; all we have left to do is kill the Princess now. We both hit 42 last night which is awesome. We did 4 levels in one night. I felt accomplished lol. We both got our mounts last night, so that’s cool (yay for mine being FREE! Lol). Tonight, I think we’re going to tackle Badlands and see how that goes.

I changed around my talent tree last night. So I’ve only got a few points in Affliction now. I decided to more of my points into Demonology. I really wanted the Imp Voidwalker. I find it harder and harder for him to keep agro. I can pull him off me pretty quickly with my DOTS and Drain Life. And Rob has been trying to lvl his pet up. He tamed Echeyakee back when he was in The Barrens. He got him up to lvl 20 something and then picked up a turtle as a pet so his cat fell behind in levels. So, right now, I really need my blueberry to tank for us and not suck lol.

I think I’m going to keep putting points into Demonology. I want to be able to summon a Felguard =) I just think that would be neat. I’ll be losing a lot of my dmg, though, since I took almost all my points out of Affliction. I’m not even sure I’m going to like Demonology. But I guess we’ll see.

Jesster

I ordered yet another shirt from J!NX. I swear, it’s a sickness. I think it’s the fact that my boobs just look really good in their shirts *shrug* Dunno what it is haha. Check it out, y’all. (Clicky the piccy)

Jesster

I was hoping to be able to transfer my Priest over to Ghostlands tonight. But it was a no go; I didn’t get to the bank in time to put the extra cash in my account so I couldn’t pay for it. I know, I’m lame *throws tomato at self* Bah! Boo! Hiss! Maybe Monday lol.

I feel kind of accomplished this week. I got the new front page up and even though it still needs some tweaking it doesn’t look like total shit which is awesome. It was quite a feat making everything look even REMOTELY how I wanted it to. Joomla was being a bitch, so I had to throw down *tough look* I also got my new guilds forums up and running, woot woot!

I plan on hitting 40 this weekend with Baellatrix. She’s sitting at 37.5 right now haha. So I don’t have much farther to go. I didn’t really play much yesterday or today. I hopped on today to turn in the quest for some blue robe that looks pretty nifty. But other than that, I didn’t do much. I was busy watching scary flicks with the hubby.

Anywho, I’m actually gonna try to squeeze some time in now, maybe see if I can’t make the push to 38 tonight at least. The hubby is sleeping (and snoring I might add) so I think I’ve got at least a solid hour or so. *cracks knuckles* Time to get to work

Jesster

Ok ya’ll, the new WoWChix front page is up. Click here to see it! Please bookmark THAT page instead of the blog link. The new front page will feature WoW news, screenshots, links of the day, etc. You’ll miss out on a lot if you’re only reading the blog

Jesster

HOLY HELL I’M BACK! And damn does it feel good! I was going crazy not having my site. Our server got fried and I’ve been down for about 2 months now. But I’m back and in a blogging mood so look out people!

Rob and I made toons over on the Ghostlands server because right now I’m SO sick of Turalyon. I have a couple good friends there but I just can’t stand playing there anymore. I can never find good groups. So many of the people I find there have either bought their accounts and don’t know how to play… or are 14 year old boys that once they find out I’m a girl lose their heads and turn to mush. *sigh*

I made a Warlock, Baellatrix. I named her after Rob’s pally on our other server, Baell. She’s Affliction so far. More than likely gonna stay that way. I likey the DPS. I liked my other Warlock that I had (also Affliction) (currently sitting on Duskwood at lvl 42) so I decided to make another one. Rob made a hunter, Rofocale, since he’s never had one past lvl 10, which is sad because lvl 10 is when it all starts for a hunter lol. He’s lvl 37, I’m lvl 33 (will be at least 35-36 by the end of the night). We found a nice guild there… let’s hope this one lasts.

<Sovereign> has nice people. A large handful of 70’s and loads of 60’s working their way up the food chain. The guild has proven to be totally member oriented (i.e. making sure everyone has mats for skilling up, always getting groups together for quests, instances, etc.). I’ve noticed that the higher lvls and 70’s really don’t mind taking time out of their day to help lowbies with things or to donate items. That’s something you don’t see every day. I’m leveling up in chanting on this toon and someone asked if anyone needed stuff out of the guild bank. I told them I’d take any lower lvl chanting mats if they weren’t needed. The next day my inbox was bombed with mails with mats lol. My bank alt has so much crap that needs to get donated to the bank it’s not even funny. Like 2 bags full of stuff lol. I keep forgetting to do that *makes mental note* But so far there’s been no issues in that guild. Good sense of humor and helpfulness =) I likes.

Anywho, I’ve got some more server crap to deal with. My other sites are still down and I’m not too happy about that. So I suppose that this is all for now. I’m sure there will be yet another blog at some point today/tonight.

Cheers,

Jesster

WoWchix.com has returned! I hope to see all you good folks back and enjoying it.

-Jesster