WoW Chix

It is SO good to be back in my own home and with my own things and around my babies (my 3 kitties and my doggy) and in my own office in my own leather recliner. *sigh of relief* I love my home haha.

I’ve been a busy little beaver since I’ve been home. Working on my jewelry site, making new stuff for the winter carnival and buying all the things I need to get my table set up tomorrow has kept me busy. I’m a little nervous, what if no one likes my stuff? What people scoff and laugh because my stuff sucks balls? *psssh* Fuck that, my shit rocks and I know it *whew* I’m gonna kick ass tomorrow and make some mad cash…. *whimpers* I hope.

Anyway, in actual WoW news, (or at least in MY WoW news) for some odd reason I had an urge to make an Alliance character. My hubby has some friends at work that play on the Alliance side of Muradin, so he made a character there and I decided I would make one, too. I gotta say, my little gnome Rogue, Limeonade (with green hair of course), kicks some ass. She’s only level 7. But I didn’t realize that I would like playing her so much. I do have a lvl 41 Nelf Hunter, but I have never had the desire to go back and play her. I really like playing Limeonade, even though I hate the lower lvls, I can see myself playing her more often. I know that right now, Greg is mentally kicking me in the shin and cursing me for not playing my priest more. Let me explain how I feel about WoW right now:

I love WoW. I love WoW probably a lot more than a girl should love a video game. It makes me happy. If I’m stressed about RL shit, I can log onto my fantasy world and play my little people and make them do what I want them to do. I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to. But lately, I find myself not logging on… because, I feel so stuck with my Priest. I’m so pressured to do anything and everything. Raid this, gear that, rep here, and grind there. For the most part, when I play Amedeah, I’m sitting around doing nothing. No one wants to get a group together for anything I need because they are all off doing their own thing. No big deal though, I can always go grind my Netherwing Rep… which is pretty much all there is for me to do unless I get a group for badges. I’m tired of people telling me what to do on my Priest. I love my priest, a lot. I’ve spent so much time on her. Same goes for my mage, but I feel the same with her. There is only so much I can do on my own.

My guild is nice and all. But a lot of them are rather hypocritical and/or condescending.  Don’t get me wrong, there have been times (like when I first joined) where people made time to help me out with things, go on runs with me, whatever. But now, I can say something in guild chat and I’m ignored. *pssh* Whatever. I’m not the only one it happens to either. I’ve seen other people get ignored or completely looked over. So many times I’ve been told, “Oh Ame, just let me know what you need and I’m there,” or “Hey, just let me know where you need a run through and I’ll go.” But when it comes down to it, I can’t count on any of them *sigh* I’ve gone way outta my way, spent MY gold and MY time to help others. Even if it wasn’t on some big scale. But I’ve sat through many a raid with my raging headaches and my even worse back pain… just because they were short a healer… even though I had only planned to be on for 20 minutes or so. Bah. Whatever.

TBH, only a few people come to mind when I think about those that have helped in me in the game. My hubby, of course, has been the biggest help to me. I can’t even put into words how much. I wouldn’t even still be playing if it weren’t for him. Helel (Matt) has always helped whenever needed, was always down for a run. Shadowlife (Tony) was the same. These two were in my first guild, Crimson Tears. We just kinda stuck together after that. And then of course there’s Thurlarn/Peiyotee (Greg). A smartass to say the least (it’s part of his charm haha), but has never said no to helping when he can.

It’s kind of funny really, Rent to Pwn, that I joined with my Shaman right before Christmas, has been more supportive and is always offering to help with whatever I need. I’m always sure to get a good bunch of laughs and I always feel good while playing with those guys (and girls!). I’m not trying to bash the guild that Amedeah is in. Not by any means at all. I’m just saying that I feel more comfortable and appreciated and… I dunno… wanted. I feel like when I log into Amedeah’s guild, no one gives a damn. But when I log on to Koos or Thread, everyone says hi and what not.

I don’t think I want to try and raid right now. It’s just not working out with my current schedule. And I find it really boring anyway. It’s not worth all the gold I spend on pots, food, etc, only to die a million times because people don’t know what they are doing (and won’t listen to those that do). Right now, I’m happy logging on to Koos and doing a few quests here and there and now, possibly playing my gnome a little more. We’ll see how things pan out. But raiding just isn’t an option for me right now.

*Note* I really don’t want anyone in FL that might be reading this right now to get the wrong idea. I don’t dislike the guild or anyone in it. I just don’t feel that FL’s plans are for me, at least not at this time. If they wish to remove me from the guild, that’s ok by me. I would like to remain in the guild with Amedeah, but if the GM’s feel that I shouldn’t be there, ok then. I’m not trying to bitch about it or anything like that. I just wanted to make that note.

Ok *deep breath* enough of my whining about WoW for tonight. I still have things I need to get done to get ready for tomorrow morning. I have to be at Violet’s school by around 11am I think, possibly even a little earlier. We’ll see how things go.

Cheers,

Jesster

My little vacation is going well, I guess. I’ve gotten to eat some hella good food (people of the South always have good food) and spend more time with the hubby’s family (which isn’t all that bad). Only thing I would have changed would be having more time to have been able to spend on the site. I did get the writer forums up and running for those that will be submitting content to both sites. But other than that, nothing has really been done.

We are leaving really early tomorrow morning so that we can by home in time for Violet to go to bed early enough for school Thursday morning. I wish I would be able to work on the sites on Thursday and Friday, but because of that Winter Festival thing at Vi’s school, I have to spend those 2 days getting ready (i.e. shopping for mats to make the jewelry that I’m gonna be selling there and actually making the jewelry.) Then on Sunday, I plan to just hang around with Vi and Robby most of the day lounging around watching movies and playing XBOX and what not. So Monday will be my “back to work” day haha.

I did have the chance to log onto my hunter a couple times since I’ve been up here. I didn’t have much time but I worked hard with what time I had and I was able to gain a half a level, so now I’m half way to 63. Yeehaw. The poor Belf is still running around on a normal speed mount haha. I don’t think she will have the money to get her Epic any time soon. When I try to farm for money I just get so ticked at the game and decided to stop. Though all the money that I HAVE farmed on Ame has gone into her enchant that she’s saving up. *sigh* Enough of my bitching about the game now haha.

I’ll try to squeeze in another post before the end of the week. See you guys later!

Jesster

It’s effing cold up here in North Carolina. We left yesterday afternoon from Florida to come up there for Rob’s business trip. Violet and I decided to come along for the ride. Took us about 9 hours, but all in all, it wasn’t a bad trip.

Anyway, I posted a couple of things on the WoW Forums looking for some writers for both my sites. I got a mailbox full of people that responded; I honestly didn’t expect that many people to be interested. I got some negative feedback but the positive feedback and support was enough to overcome it *smiles* So, within the next week I am going to be a very busy girl (and by that I mean I’m going to working my husband to the bone with this site haha, just kidding *winks).

I am going to find a way to make it so that all my writers can have their own log in to the site to be able to submit their writing on their own instead of them emailing it to me and posting it myself. Also, I’ll be installing more themes so that my writers can have their own blogs on the site to use as they wish. Their actual articles and such will placed on the main news page. *cracks knuckles* It’s gonna be a jam-packed week for me *giggles* I’m a little worried that this won’t work out like I planned or that something will go wrong. But I’m sure that with some great writers and with the help of my handy-dandy hubby, all will be fine *smiles*

As for WoW, I haven’t played in a few days due to getting ready for the trip and such. I had planned on raiding one night last week, but I was sick and stuck in and missed it *cries* What crap. I’ve still got 8 Large Prismatics to farm for *sigh*

Ok kiddies, that is all for now. Keep your eyes open for updates and junk *winks*

Jesster

I’ve starting my Netherwing dailies and so far they are proving to be a little problematic. The quest where you are supposed to kill all the "tainted" (heh… heh heh… taint… anyway) wildlife in order to get their Fel Glands and then use it with the mutton to poison the peons is a pain in the ass. I sent like an hour farming the glands (horrible effing drop rate) and then went to go poison the peons. I was all excited, thinking to myself, "Alright! More NW rep and monies!" But noooo, I had started out with being able to poison 12 camps (because I had 12 glands, which is what the quest calls for). So I walked around to camps and were "poisoning them" one by one. After the first 3 I was like, "Ok this is cake, Thur was wrong! Ha!" See, Thurlarn had told me that I shouldn’t even bother because the camps will bug out and not let you poison them. I said, "Yeah, yeah. Whatever, I’mma do it anyway." God what a waste of my time Should have listened to Thur; somehow he always manages to be right. (And I know you’re reading this Greg, and I hope you know that I loathe you for being right all the damned time! Haha)

Luckily I found a rather nifty way to do the other quest. The one where you are supposed to gather those relics from the Transponder guys or whatever they are called. It’s not so bad if you know where to stand. The first time I did this quest, it was with Thur (because I had no effing idea what I was supposed to do for any of those quests). We stood at the little dock thingy where those big elite guys are. That went ok for a bit. But when I went back after a couple days to do the quest alone, there were like 15 people waiting in the same spot. So I flew over to one of the floating rock islands and stood there waiting for the guys to fly by. Worked like a charm. You can start to see a flying pattern. You can do this on any of the larger flying rocks between SMV and the Netherwing Shelf. I was able to get my relics inside of 10 minutes. Cake work

As far as the other quests go (the gathering quests and finding the egg) are pretty easy. Just have to keep an eye out for the egg. It likes to hide So it might take some time to find it. But don’t give up, it’s there

Jesster

Well aside from working out a new theme for the site. I have also been working on my other site from time to time. Apparently, the current theme I’m working with isn’t… working =( So I have to look for a new template. It seems as if every time I start to think that I’ve got something under my thumb and ready to go, something else goes wrong haha. But I learn to deal with it (thank to the help of my genius hubby of course!)

So, the past few days in WoW, I’ve been farming for 8 Primal Lives, 8 Primal Waters, and 8 Large Prismatic Shards. Yeah you guessed it: I’m farming for my Major Healing to Weapon enchant. I need that +81 healing like I need something sugary after sex… and that’s one helluva need. The extra +27 spell dmg isn’t a bad bonus either. I DO have a DPS gear set that has a few extra +spell dmg pieces instead of my +healing stuff. At the moment, I’m using the Shard of the Virtuous as my healing AND as my dmg weapon as well because the last dmg weapon I had only had like +75 spell dmg, but the Shard has +116 AND mana regen AND better stats. So Shard=win! I do some pretty scary Holy dmg. Right now, my Holy dmg is at like 635 or some shit. My fire mage’s fire dmg… 529. Haha I just think that’s funny. Then again Thread is nowhere near as geared as Amedeah is. But still… my priest doing more dmg is kinda funny *giggles*

I’ve gotten all my Primal Waters, thanks to Exdingo (a guildie friend) giving me his last Motes of Water. I am still 2 Primal Lives short and I haven’t even begun to gather the money for the shards that I’m gonna need. They are going for about 22-25g on my server right now. I just recently got my epic flyer and because I ninja’d a couple of my hubby’s blue Jewelcrafting designs from his bank, I’m paying him some extra money on the side to make it up to him, I’m broOoOoOke. But thanks to Thur (another guildie friend) I’ve been able to start my Netherwing dailies over on the Netherwing Ledge. So I’m pretty much able to fill my quest log between my daily cooking quest, Skettis, Blade’s Edge Mountains and Netherwing. So if I really wanted to, I could be pulling in around 300g a day or so (even more if I would bring the mage over to BEM and Skettis daily as well). Just gotta get off my lazy ass and do it haha.

On a more personal note: Today marks 2 years together with Rob!! We met on January 20^th, 2006. We went out and had breakfast this morning and enjoyed each other’s company. It was quite nice =) Smiling at each other through mouths full of food haha. I kept seeing old couples having Sunday breakfast together and thinking to myself, “Gee, I can’t wait to have lived my long and full life with my hubby… and still be grabbing each other’s asses in public!” Haha. I really do wanna be one of those old couples that walks though Wal-mart or Publix going shopping and feeling each other up at the age of 80 haha. I think it’s hilarious.

Well I hope everyone is having a good weekend, I know I am See you on Monday!

Jesster

There are so many things I want to blog about that are negative tonight. So I will try and focus on the positive instead. It’s not worth it to me to sit here and get even more frustrated by writing about it. So let me talk about some other things.

I bought my epic flyer last night FINALLY! After selling every single thing that had any value at all and scrimping and saving every last copper for it. It’s worth it =) Now I just have to kill Zuluhead the Whacked and I can move on into the next part of my Netherdrake quest chain. A friend tells me that it shouldn’t take too long with all the daily quests and stuff I can do for the rep with the Netherwing. I think tomorrow I’m gonna try to get Rob and Thur to help me out with the group quest. We might need another to help out. Maybe Tony can help. We’ll see.

I went to Kara tonight with Amedeah. We downed Morose, Maiden, Nightbane, and Curator and almost had Shade. But I ended up having to leave early from the raid. I’m not sure if they gave it another shot or not. The Maiden dropped my Shard; I’m happier than a pig in poo. I’ve hoped that stupid thing would drop every time I went there. I had seen it drop just about every time on my mage. But when I brought my Priest along it was never to be seen. So this was the first time and I got it =)

I played Koos a little bit today. I rather hate being Beast Mastery specc, but then again I’m just not used to it and I don’t really think I understand how to use it to my advantage. Not to mention that I just tamed Creep (my Ravager from Hellfire) about a week ago and he’s only seen about 5 hours worth of play time with me so she is only lvl 2 when it comes to how much she likes me. She’s in a pretty nice guild right now. I fit in overly well. Kind of reminds me of Crimson Tears a bit, I’m able to be myself and not worry about getting yelled at for saying the wrong things in guild chat/vent.

I’m thinking about trying to find a way to set up the RSS Feeds for the WoW News to update directly to the site. I need to get together with Rob and see if there is a way I can just make a whole new page for it to auto-post on. I don’t know. We’ll just have to see how that works out.

I think I’m only going to try to raid one more night this week and that will be only to finish Kara. If we don’t finish Kara, I’ve decided that I’m not going to raid the rest of the week. I have other things that I need to focus on and when I make plans in WoW my “other things” never get done =( I’ve been trying to keep up with posts on this site along with posts on my other site (don’t forget to check it out btw! Link is to the right!). I just need to set aside a set time every day where I make a post for each site and do that at least 3 days a week. So that would be 3 updates a week for each site. Not bad I guess.

OoOoOoK then, I’m gonna get going for now. More tomorrow hopefully

Jesster

I think I’d like to move my warlock over from Duskwood to Turalyon. My Shaman is in <Rent to Pwn> and I love it there. The guild master is a fucking comic genius and the people are too much fucking fun to chat with and what not. So I’d probably put her in that guild. I’ve talked to them about it and they seem to be ok with it =) I really like playing her. I love having minions to do my bidding She’s only lvl 42, but I’m hoping to lvl her up so she can play with Rob’s rogue on our current server, he’s 50 atm. Imagine how much ask kicking we could do =O It seems that every duo of character we’ve made have been fucking awesome. First there was the Mage/Shadow Priest combo and my god, we rocked so hard. But then we played his Druid and my Shaman together for a few lvls they were good but not as good as his Druid and my hunter. They were able to take on a lot of mobs with minimal damage. But then came the EPIC Holy Priest/Feral Druid mix and I swear, I could just wet myself from thinking about how hard they effing pwn everything in the game together. We basically did ALL the group quests with just the two of us. We were even able to do most of the 5 man group quests =O Loved it. I love playing with him in the game, we can just tear through so many mobs in such a short amount of time. It’s great fun.

Rob talked about moving his Druid to another server to find a guild that needs a raid tank. Because in our current guild, they don’t need any more raiding tanks and that’s really what he would like to do. But then we wouldn’t have the Holy Feral goodness =( Makes meh sad. I’ll have to bribe him so he won’t go

Jesster

Ok so after lots of though and consideration, I decided to keep WoWChix.com as a site. My whole idea for WoWChix.com was to keep a blog of opinions and observations on all things related to WoW and I am going to keep it that way. I am still going to work on ZomgItsAGirl.com and it will be my “main” project I guess you could say, as WoW has sort of been put on a back burner. But since I am still active in the WoW community, I will keep this blog =) I’ve come to like it, anyway hehe. But for those of you that keep up to date with me in this blog, please make it point to check out ZomgItsAGirl.com

Anyway, onto the real post:

So I have managed to save up enough money to get my epic flying mount on my Priest (atm I’m about 250g short, but I can make that in a day, so I’m not worried). It’s a huge thing for me *shrug* I’ve worked really hard for every copper

I need to respecc my Priest because apparently I am what they call a… oh damn what is the word? Oh yes! An aggro whore! I throw a heal and BAM! I get two shotted by some pissed off mob *angry mad face* I could be all bitchy and just blame the tank, but when I’m in 5 mans with my hubby on his Druid, I still pull aggro. We are able to kill about 10-12 (sometimes even more) lvl 70 mobs and I will never get hit once, that’s just with the two of us. We have also been able to take on anywhere from 2-5 same lvl Elites at the same time without me ever getting hit or pulling away from his threat. So I don’t know what’s going on but I’m hoping that a 20g respecc will do the trick

I had planned on raiding last week, but every time I got ready and all set to go, something came up and I couldn’t. Or I’ve waiting in the raid group for close to an hour and then all the sudden we aren’t able to go because we are missing 2 freaking people. So yay I wasted my time yet again waiting in a group for nothing. There have been a couple things that have bugged my about the current guild I’m in, though I understand that the things that bug me are “necessary” or whatever… let me explain (oh yes, I’m going to rant):

I get so effing aggravated about group invites, for one. Just today, a guildie was putting together a raid group for ZA and Rob was invited to go on his Shadow Priest. So Rob stocked up on all things needed for the raid (potions, spell dmg food, Wizard Oils, candles, etc) and headed on down to the Ghostlands. He got there, and waiting about a half hour for the raid to start while the group leader was “working out the class make up.” Rob was patient because he was excited to go into ZA for a second time. After waiting all that time, he got booted from the group to make room for someone else. This isn’t the first time it’s happened. It’s happened more than a handful of times to him. He gets ready to go and waits and waits and then gets kicked to make room for some random class. Wouldn’t you know a little sooner than a half an hour if he was going to be needed or not? I think it’s a huge waste of people’s time.  I think it’s rude to make someone wait only to kick them from the group right before starting because “Oh hey this person needs it more than you,” or “We need a (insert blank here) instead of a Shadow Priest.” If it’s the latter, then people need to make up their mind BEFOREHAND about what classes to bring along; if Shadow Priest wasn’t on the list, DON’T invite a Shadow Priest. On the guild forums, people were saying that’s it’s giving everyone a fair chance at having a go at the raid. But that’s a crock of shit! You don’t invite someone to the group just because they asked to go. If you don’t need them, don’t invite them. Don’t just invite them because you want them to think that you are going to give them a chance. I dunno…

The second thing… well, maybe it’s just me… but I get the feeling that everyone has their own little niche and the people within them don’t want “outsiders” fucking with that. There are different groups of people that stick together when it comes to getting 5 mans together, there are people that ALWAYS get invited to the raid no matter what class make up is needed and there are people that ignore other players within the guild completely. It bugs me that when someone needs a healer, they aren’t shy at all to ask me to come a long or when they need a tank they’ll ask Rob to hop on his Druid. But when one of us is the one needing a group for somewhere, you can hear crickets in guild chat/Vent. People are so willing to take but hesitate to give. Don’t get me wrong there are a choice few in the guild that I hold in VERY high regards. But I can’t help but to feel so left out and disregarded at times. I can never, and I do mean never, get a group for anything. There have been so many times that I can get one or two people to go (which is usually Rob and Thur) but can’t get enough to actually do anything so we don’t go, everyone just ignores the fact that I’m asking in guild chat (same thing happens to Rob on his toons), or everyone is “busy.” Gee, I wonder how pissed people would be during the day when they can’t get that group for what-the-fuck-ever instance they need for so-and-so item just because they are short a healer. *rolls eyes*

Lastly, I’m always being told to “gear up” and shit. There is only so much I can do by myself. The only upgrades I can get right now are either from heroics, turning in badges from heroics to the dude in Shattrath for gear, or raids. This kind of takes me back to the second issue. How am I supposed to gear myself up if I can’t get groups for Heroics for badges or if I’m always asked to sit out for raids? Yeah that’s great that I’m racking up the DKP by sitting on standby… but if I never get to see the drops what good does my DKP do?

I dunno, I’m touchy about certain things in WoW. Those three things are my biggest pet peeves. Like I said, maybe it’s just me and I’m paranoid about everything. And don’t get me wrong, I’m thankful for the times that I DO get help, no matter how seldom the help comes. And I’ve gotten pretty awesome gear from the times that I HAVE gotten in on the raids. I’m sitting on 2 pieces of Tier 4 gear right now (gloves and shoulders), plus a robe from ZA that I’ve been told is on par with T4 (thanks to Thur, who took me along on his ZA run), plus a few other mixed pieces of great gear. So honestly, I should shut my mouth and deal

Soooo, that was my post of the night, sorry it was so… bitchy haha. Maybe I’ll have a happier one next time

Cheers,

Jesster

So another year has come and gone, and I must say, it was a good one. Lots of different things went on in the gaming world. Some great games came out like Halo 3, Assassin’s Creed, Zelda: Phantom Hour Glass and Boogie are some of my favorites. I won’t waste my time listing the ones that came out and sucked the big one. But if you must know, you can see them here. Quite honest one of the biggest bunch of crappy games ever released… ever. Moving on…

I hope that everyone had a good and SAFE New Year! The hubby, kiddobean and myself spent our NYE sipping sparkling grape juice, eating ice cream and setting of fire works and then we watched the ball drop =) It was a good night. The little one didn’t even end up in bed until around 3am, she was happy about that lol. She slept til 11 the next morning haha.

At the moment I’m not playing WoW. I have been trying out *looks around the room for anyone holding a shiv* EQII *bloodcurdling scream in the background* I hate to say it, but it’s not half bad. There are a lot of things that I would change (tacking more than one quest, mini map option and easier crafting) but then again there are things in the game that we have been waiting for WoW to do that Blizzard just won’t even think of (more than a handful of classes and races to choose from, more in depth crafting and gathering, more involving quests). The people aren’t half bad either. I did join a guild that I like quite a lot. The people are very helpful and friendly. Since I am such a friggen noob in the game and don’t know where ANYTHING is, I’m always bugging people with questions and they don’t mind helping =) I’ve got a lvl 21 Fury Druid. It’s kinda nice. I can kick ass and heal all at the same time. And get this, I don’t have to shape shift to heal myself! Score!

Meh, I suppose that’s enough of an update for now. I have another post I want to make tonight, but I don’t want to do it all in the same post. The subjects are kind of unrelated. So give me a few minutes to whip up the other update =)

Jesster

So, last night, Needlles and I went to Kara with our guild Winter Myth. I was actually a bit surprised that after being gone almost a month, we were still invited to go the day we came back to the game ^.^ We just have a really awesome Guild Mistress haha.

Anywho, we didn’t get to down any bosses, Romulo and Julienne gave us some problems. We came kinda close a couple times though. I had fun even though it was mostly killing trash mobs =) It felt good to be part of a raid again. I know that Needlles was happy that we were able to go again. Apparently, the guild had downed 3 bosses the night before and were hoping to get the “two star-crossed lovers” down and move on to The Curator. I wish me and Needlles could have been of more help. I wonder if they are going to go back to Kara again tonight? *shrug* If anything interesting happens, I’ll let you know =)

 
Cheers,

Jesster