I just wanted to give one last round of thanks to everyone who helped me with my questions and concerns over the past few months. You girls are all really talented and you all know what you're doing better than anyone I ever encountered in-game.

Unfortunately. I'm giving up WoW. The boyfriend (who got me into the game) broke up with me about two weeks ago, and he did it in a very cowardly, very hurtful, and very horrible way. I posted about it on my personal LJ, if anyone wants to know the details. We had been together for two and a half years, and I never saw this coming.

Since then I've been trying to avoid everything that could possibly remind me of the time we spent together. Sadly, this includes WoW, at least for the time being and probably for the long run.

Good luck to all of you, and once again, thank you for all your help.

I'm leveling a very baby priest right now and discovering just how squishy they are.

This character was created as a way to play while talking to my old MT to keep him company on his new transfer server before raids so I'm without heirloom gear or any high-level or leveling buddies (since he's busy). He did send me 10 gold to help out a bit (I commented to him that I couldn't afford to train cooking yet, lol!).

I've already discovered that I cannot take on more than maybe 2 mobs and that killing Melanas is just not something I'm going to be able to do yet. Drinking after every kill is also very annoying. This is the first clothie I've ever leveled - all the others have worn mail/plate or been a druid.

Does anyone have any helpful little tips for a baby priest? Obviously I'm still low level (8), but from what I've heard it doesn't get much better. Am I just going to need to get used to the spirit healer or being OOM and hoping for enough mana to regen to heal in time? Or will talents help a ton? Should I be spending that 10g buying some starter gear from the AH?

i now have hot pink and gold feathers! and i have some more yellow, orange and green (among other colors) in the shop.

We keep posting about this and mention this, but I thought I would just put it out there once again. DotH is in need of more tanks that can make our raid times, especially regarding Ulduar. Our progression raids are every second weekend, 1 pm and 10 am respectively, and we're currently 8/13 in Ulduar. However, we have only 2 main-spec tanks, Sawyer and me, and one off-spec tank, Skirting, who are currently tanking in Ulduar. We need more.

Since our last recruitment wave in wow_ladies, we got exactly one tank out of the bunch, which would be Sawyer. We are looking for fresh raiding blood in general, we want to get more of you into our raids. We are predominantly looking for new main spec tanks, not the tank alts of some of our current raiders.

If you are interested at all, talk to me. We can get you geared through Naxx in off-weeks fairly quickly, as all the main-spec tanks are already pimped out. With the next patch, we additionally have the opportunity to get you up to T8 level through heroics. All it takes is regular availability in our raid times, preferably a dual spec with DPS as second spec, and willingness to work with the other tanks when it comes to gear improvements and strategy to kick some butt in our raids.

ok guiz, time to admit it. jae's on hiatus.

i've been resisting posting this for a couple weeks because i thought, "as soon as i do, the problem will be fixed, my compie will be fine, and i'll be back in the game." then today i realized.... i should post anyway! that way, i'll either ACTUALLY be on hiatus, or i'll manipulate sum fate and this problem will solve itself and i'll be peachy-keen all good and back in the game!

but i'll probably be gone : <. at least until i either ACTUALLY remove this malware (i can see it in my msconfig box but neither AVG paid, kaspersky free scan, nor spybot search&destroy have found it, wtf), or bite the bullet and wipe/reinstall..... *cries*


so i may pop in from time to time to try to keep mail from disappearing, or I may be on Len's comp doing stuff that I can do with 10 fps, but that's pretty much it.

hope you all are having a good summer. kick some butt in ulduar etc.

I'd like to thank everyone for their opinions and advice on my last Death Knight thread. So many people were recommending female orcs, but I tried a few of them in the preview window, and it just didn't work for me. But the other suggestion I received was for a tauren. I'd never had a tauren anything before, so I began to think that it was time.

So here is my newest character:
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I don't know why it is that my characters seem to become more and more unhappy over time. First character -- cheerful and flighty. Second character -- still cheerful, but much more pragmatic. Third character -- gentle-natured, and constantly distressed by the violence of the world. Fourth character -- ruthless, joyless, revenge-driven and power-mad. Now this one. I'm almost afraid to think what the next one will be like...

So last night I had my first successful raid with my guild, as well as my first session using Ventrilo. My primary toon is a male tauren druid, and generally speaking I play male characters for many of the same reasons I'm sure other gals do - case in point, "Hey, are you a fattie? My friend is into fatties."

Me: ¬_¬....... No.

That said, though, this is the third time I've startled guildmates in an MMO. What made this time especially amusing though was the double-whammy... a long time friend of mine who also plays a high-ranking male character in the guild also participated in the raid - also using Vent for the first time.

The conversations essentially went as such:

"Okay, got it all set up? You on heals, Hal?"
"Not a good idea, I'm balance, not resto."
".... what the crap, Hal's a girl too?!"
(random other femme guildie) "Whoo, more estrogen in the raid!"

Yay for Gamer Girls! And on the upside I managed to keep all but one idiotic DK alive for the raid, since our Raid Leader was made of awesome.

I was looking at some of the old discussions on DKP, and various loot roll systems and am looking for new input on the subject.

Currently my guild teams up with another guild to do 25 man content. We've pretty much got Naxx on Farm status and are gearing people up from both guilds. 

Currently, the system we have is  main spec, off spec and greed rolls.  If you win an item, it counts against you on your next roll.  Basically anyone who wins an item defers automatically to the next person down who has won less items regardless of the /roll value.  If I have 2 wins, Jill has 1, and Pat has none, Pat wins even if their roll is the lowest.

Its GREAT for gearing the most amount of people quickly.  The problem we're running into is, a perceived unfairness when a pugger comes in at the end because someone has to leave.  We apply to Puggers a penalty of 1 roll each for coming in Late so to speak. But they still have a good chance of picking something up.

But it Irks folks who have been IN the run for 6 hrs, when someone new comes in for 1 fight and walks out with a tier piece.

Anyway, its been brought up that maybe we need to start doing a formal Loot System like DKP, or SWAP, or something in order to compensate the folks who have been there consistantly for run after run and put in the time.

My problem is, my experience with DKP is 5+? yrs out of date, as a guild I was in, back in the days of Everquest used it. And it was a HUGE hassle keeping track of points.

Does anyone have any suggestions on Add-ons, that will track peoples presence in a raid, AND allows that data to be shared between two guilds?

Any other pointers/suggestions on Loot Systems would be greatly appreicated.

I've been 80 since sometime in May and gotten myself what I thought was half decently geared. I can do normal instances quite well, I was actually proud of my healing abilities. Then I tried 2 heroics and am feeling completely inept. I tried heroic AN a month or more ago and wiped on the first room with the constant pulls several times until i gave up and told them I was sorry, but this wasn't working. Then the other night (having got a bit more gear since then) I decided to try heroic Nexus, which I heard was the easiest of the heroics. It was a PUG (which may have been my first mistake, who knows) and my tank would regularly drop from full health to 1/2 - 1/3 and I would have to spam greater heal and OOM regularly. We wiped so many times the tank got disgusted and called it.

I would completely appreciate any constructive criticism towards my spec or gear. Also, is there any way I can get my crit up without sacrificing any of my good (spell power, spirit, intelligence, etc) stats? My armory

For those of you whose SOs play as well: do you ever get annoyed at how often they play, leading you to wonder if you're one of Those girlfriends?



*Inspired by being a bit annoyed that the boy is running Ulduar again tonight, after he said last night that he wasn't going to, seeing as how he has raids scheduled for Tues, Thurs, and Fri and ran one for six hours last night. I really don't want to be one of Those girlfriends who get all huffy over a game, but I can't help but feel a bit bothered--though I do admit that part of it is because since he joined this raiding guild and quickly became their top tank, he hasn't been playing with me very much. My main is only 74 and he has an alt that he plays with me on. I want to get up to 80 so that I can raid with him and stuff, but seeing as how we've run the past 70 or so levels together (without RAF--we've been leveling these characters for over a year, now), I really don't want to start doing quests on my own because that just takes half the fun out of it for me. I'm not really sure what to do, though, outside of being demanding and bitchy and making a fuss over him raiding all the time (which isn't going to happen cos I'm not in the practice of telling him what he can and cannot do).*

 Hi there ladies and lurkadurkin gents!  
I've been commenting a bit but never posted.  

My problem is that my DPS varies WILDLY and RANDOMLY from fight to fight, without me changing anything.  I'll be sending out 2100 one fight and then the next barely be able to break 1k the next.  My boyfriend says it might have something to do with my crit chance...so here is my  armory www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml   (yes, the leather belt [and the belts enchant was me playing with my engineering tinkering...not keeping it when I get a new belt] and chest are not ideal, I know.  I'm working on those)  I'm wondering about when I DO have better gear (maybe you can help me on best places to be working on getting more/better gear...right now I am running heroics...I am afraid of raiding because of my insanely random dps and getting laughed at!  Help at all would be appreciated!  

In regards to my spec, I play BM when I am alone and my Devilsaur (Reptar) keeps me company, and with groups and in instances I play survival.  I'll take criticism on my spec too if you have it cause this is only my second attempt at the survival spec. 

Thank you all so much in advance!

Hello ladies and select gents!

I am Tomine, a Shadow Priest. I melt faces in Ulduar at the moment, but what I am really after in this post is learning how to heal faces.

I can't say I have ever healed a serious raid on my Priest. I always just switched to my Holy Paladin if healers were needed. But, now, with dual-specs, I'd like to be an effective healer on Tomine just in case our group make-up isn't right for certain boss encounters. The other Shadow Priest is always asked to change to his Disc spec to heal, and I feel guilty that I am not as versatile!

I come here asking for advice and help with learning how to be a kick-ass healing priest. I am open to anything and everything about Discipline healing and healing as Holy. I haven't decided which one to try yet, since when I do- I want to dive head-first into learning its ins and outs.

So, some things I'd like to know about healing as a Priest are your major spells, glyphs, play-style, stat priorities and why you love being one. Discipline and Holy spec advice and comments are both welcomed.

Thanks! <3

Please leave a comment here to sign up for Naxx this Friday, July 17. The raid will start at 6:30 ST and last approximately 3 hours. If we still have bosses up, we will finish the following Monday.

Thanks!

I was playing on my little Troll priest on Wyrmrest Accord, when this happened:
xposted on wyrmnet.
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Just dinged 80 for the first time! I am excited!!

I am a little sad about how it happened though... my entire guild was online and we were all in vent and literally the second I turned the quest in that pushed me to 80, the doorbell rang and I had to get up to go answer the door so I didn't get any GRATZ because of the pizza guy's poor timing. T_T

BUT!!! I do want to say thank you to whoever posted the addon for auto-screencapping achievements, because without your tip, I wouldn't have had a picture of this moment AT ALL. Thank you, whoever you are!



Now that I'm 80, I want to respec. The only guildie who really knows hunters took a look at my spec and yelled at my brother for sending me such a horrible spec to copy when I first started playing a few months ago. Right now I'm BM because I wanted the ability to tame exotic pets. I want to get some hella DPS going on now and have been looking at Survival... but my main concern is, if I respec to Survival... I assume I lose the ability to tame exotics again, yes? Will I also lose any exotic pets I've tamed since before going Survival? I am about to head out on a pet catching safari to get all the beasts I've been coveting while grinding through to 80 and I don't want to lose any of my babies! I mentioned to the guild that I might just dual-spec so I can have the Survival abilities, but won't lose the #1 thing I wanted from BM and they all thought that was a bit of a waste of gold... thoughts?

Also, speaking of respecs can someone recommend a good build for me? Is it possible to spec something that will help me manage my mana better or should I be looking for gear for that? I know it's not possible to be some kind of hunter god who can tame exotics, wield uber DPS, all while maintaining full mana while in Aspect of the Dragonhawk... What should I do to get the best of both worlds?

EDIT: feel free to lolz @ my current build here — http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormscale&n=Zanbon

So, my baby priest, the only ohter toon I leveled by myself from 1-80 (with RaF - me hates leveling), became 80 this saturday!



I have a 80 druid, my main and first ever played toon, and a 80 lock, but that was my brother's old main and he got sick of it and gave it to me. So, i was super exciting about my guild, everyone is great, we were spanking hard modes (and getting spanked too - sigh) and overall i was having a great great time... but last week....GL decided to xfer his toon off somewhere else, another GM tried to rebuild...and last night, she called it quits. Now i don't have a home :( And i come to you ladies: Any guilds looking for a resto/balance druid or a lock or a very bad geared priest? Here's the armories:

Drood

Lock

Priest XD


I'm a team worker and I play very focused. I'm a friendly person, and I'm more than willing to help people. I'm looking for a guild working on Ulduar, better if hardmodes, ok if just on regular. I know all fights and as a hybrid, in some fights i heal, some i pew pew, so i'm willing to do both. I don't mind apping or xferring, so if any of you know of a guild looking for a druid (she's the better geared toon i have), please let me know :D

Thanks ladies!

Looking for more to fill out our little raiding group – Bronzebeard, Alliance


On any given night, our guild & the guild we do a fair amount of running around with has up to 10 people who are geared & can go to Ulduar – problem is, we’re not all on at the same time.

To make things more complicated, we lost two people (one of them the RL) on Friday who left to go app to another guild, meaning that they will soon have raid IDs associated their new guild – which is to say that as far as I can tell, they won’t be raiding with us anymore. Another key member is in Spain for the month.

On the brighter side, we totally have cookies!

And also, we’re Pretty Nice People, as well as Good Sharers (which is to say, we have super simple loot policies). & did I mention, we’re fun to raid with? ‘Cos we’re fun to raid with. Also, we won’t poach you from the guild you love but aren’t raiding with.

We would like to resume raiding, shooting for 3x/week, likely Friday night, Saturday or Sunday afternoon, & Monday night, 3-4 hours a stretch, but we can often be flexible to accommodate schedules.

You come play with us too? Please let me know if you’d like to come along – we’d like to be back in & killing monsters in the coming lockout =)