Sunday, March 28, 2010
Finally!
I was able to log into Castassia, finally, after many failed attempts. I was taking a huge risk because when I got DC'd I had just teleported to WG in the fortress next to our guards. If the horde had it, I would be dead in a number of seconds while everything loaded. But luckily, we had WG!
Anyway, I wanted to get my black war mammoth and decided to take a picture of that as well as my pink/purple proto-drake.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Update
Things have been rather busy around here. School has been kicking my butt, and I'm getting more hours at work here and there, and taking on a little more.
In Azeroth, Castassia hasn't been out to play too much. Being a dps is hard enough, but on my realm, there are still enough other ret pallies as competition, so getting into raids can be difficult. And with the 20 or more minute wait to get into randoms for emblems, it has put Castassia on the back burner while I play my healer. I get into randoms fast and have been through the first five bosses in ICC10 with my healer, so at least I'm still playing and learning. I'm just sad that my favorite toon, and main, now has cobwebs on her because of the lesser need for her on my realm than my healer. Someone from an old guild put it quite well: "dps toons are like STDs; they're everywhere."
However, yesterday I brushed off some of those cobwebs and joined a WG battle. Apparently the Alliance had the zone for most of the day, because we lost it in less than 10 min. and the Horde had vehicles coming at us left and right. With all those vehicles and people coming at us like that, the lag was absolutely awful. And my system is not bottom of the line. But on the bright side, I managed to gain 20 more stone keeper shards and when I get a chance to get back on, maybe tomorrow, and we have WG again, I'll get that Mammoth. I've been working on the 100 mounts on Castassia for some time. This will bring it up to 56 or 57, I can't remember off the top of my head. I got the purple/pink proto-drake from the world event achievements in February. I'd love to have the one for the 25 man Ulduar hard modes.
I'm thinking of doing the loremaster achievements with her as well. She has become the toon I'm doing the most achievements on, so might as well. Plus, it's a great way to beat my husband in our little competition on achievement points. Anyway, to make the loremaster stuff easier, I found out about this armory addon that you use with wowhead.com, and it shows you a list of all the quests possible. I filtered the list to get only Alliance quests and the ones I have done have a check mark next to them. This should help in the loremaster endeavor a ton.
As for the latest patch, aside from the constant log on issues that plague everyone after a new patch, it seems pretty good. Being able to use frozen orbs again is great! The changes to the PvP system is completely awesome. Now I don't have to play Warsong Gulch to get those other black war mounts. Horde owned that battleground every time I went in there. The extra honor from honor kills will also be nice. I'm sure there are some pretty happy tailors out there, with that new flying carpet mount. The paladin didn't receive any real changes to the class; only tooltips updated and such. Since my healer is a Shaman, not much was changed with them, except the way flame shock works a little, and that will be useful in PvP for her and the times when I'm bored and dps/healing. All in all, this was a pretty decent patch. Now if only they could fix the issues caused by the hot fixes to issues caused by the patch, like usual.
On a side note, I'm excited to see the Ruby Sanctum. Can't wait for that.
In Azeroth, Castassia hasn't been out to play too much. Being a dps is hard enough, but on my realm, there are still enough other ret pallies as competition, so getting into raids can be difficult. And with the 20 or more minute wait to get into randoms for emblems, it has put Castassia on the back burner while I play my healer. I get into randoms fast and have been through the first five bosses in ICC10 with my healer, so at least I'm still playing and learning. I'm just sad that my favorite toon, and main, now has cobwebs on her because of the lesser need for her on my realm than my healer. Someone from an old guild put it quite well: "dps toons are like STDs; they're everywhere."
However, yesterday I brushed off some of those cobwebs and joined a WG battle. Apparently the Alliance had the zone for most of the day, because we lost it in less than 10 min. and the Horde had vehicles coming at us left and right. With all those vehicles and people coming at us like that, the lag was absolutely awful. And my system is not bottom of the line. But on the bright side, I managed to gain 20 more stone keeper shards and when I get a chance to get back on, maybe tomorrow, and we have WG again, I'll get that Mammoth. I've been working on the 100 mounts on Castassia for some time. This will bring it up to 56 or 57, I can't remember off the top of my head. I got the purple/pink proto-drake from the world event achievements in February. I'd love to have the one for the 25 man Ulduar hard modes.
I'm thinking of doing the loremaster achievements with her as well. She has become the toon I'm doing the most achievements on, so might as well. Plus, it's a great way to beat my husband in our little competition on achievement points. Anyway, to make the loremaster stuff easier, I found out about this armory addon that you use with wowhead.com, and it shows you a list of all the quests possible. I filtered the list to get only Alliance quests and the ones I have done have a check mark next to them. This should help in the loremaster endeavor a ton.
As for the latest patch, aside from the constant log on issues that plague everyone after a new patch, it seems pretty good. Being able to use frozen orbs again is great! The changes to the PvP system is completely awesome. Now I don't have to play Warsong Gulch to get those other black war mounts. Horde owned that battleground every time I went in there. The extra honor from honor kills will also be nice. I'm sure there are some pretty happy tailors out there, with that new flying carpet mount. The paladin didn't receive any real changes to the class; only tooltips updated and such. Since my healer is a Shaman, not much was changed with them, except the way flame shock works a little, and that will be useful in PvP for her and the times when I'm bored and dps/healing. All in all, this was a pretty decent patch. Now if only they could fix the issues caused by the hot fixes to issues caused by the patch, like usual.
On a side note, I'm excited to see the Ruby Sanctum. Can't wait for that.
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