More Progression news

Well, tonight we were finally able to down that ungrateful beotch Auriaya. Initially we tried using snake trap pulls and having me and the other two hunters misdirect on the tanks. When that failed to work out the way we wanted, we changed strats and had a DK lay out Death and Decay, then hunters misdirected the various cats to other tanks..After a few tries we were eventually able to get her down. Gah, she is a jerk.

After her, we moved on to Hodir. Initially I had a lot of trouble with the boss, my damage was pretty low because I was unsure of myself. After a few attempts we were finally able to down Hodir as pictured. I got this beaut off of him. I was surprised that I was able to roll on it and surprisingly I rolled ok at first..Then there was a tie with another player and we had a roll off. The Raid leader said that the lowest roll won, like golf rules, and knowing that I would always roll terribly, I won! So, tomorrow I plan on getting that thing enchanted and gemmed.

We moved onto Freya and had trouble with trash pulls, wiping a few times. Eventually we were able to down her, which was pretty exciting. So, all in all, I think we are doing a good job of progressing. Oh, I also got a new neck piece that I purchased with emblems of conquest. I was finally able to rid myself of that 10 man Maly quest reward. Yay!

Tomorrow we go back and I hope things continue to go well. On another note, I cannot wait to see what kind of fish I can fish up in Ulduar including the BOE ring. hmmmmm....

New Helm, my favorite mount and more

Well, last night I was able to acquire this super awesome helm. I finally got to replace this piece of crap-ola Personally I think Julienne looks super sexy wearing it.

Before and After!




















I also wanted to show my favorite mount, I cannot stop using it despite the fact I have spent thousands of gold on other mounts (ie chopper, traveler's Tundra Mammoth). I just feel that I look super scary when I use it.


Look how intimidating I am, sitting there, waving. eeek!

But seriously, as long as it took me to farm it, I have to love it.



In other news, I am working on my dissertation on DWI prisoners and I have gotten pretty far on the first paper. Hopefully, with some help I will be able to send it out to get published, I am keeping my fingers crossed!

Raid Progression and so on

Well, to start things off, I changed guilds with my husband to be in another guild called Kind of a Big Deal. There were several reasons behind the decision and while I was pretty sad to leave the people I had grown so close to, I knew it would be better to leave. So, my husband and I joined KOABD and it has been pretty interesting to say the least. Within the first week of joining we were able to down 3D Sarth 25 man, thus giving me the Twilight Vanquisher title, which was pretty cool.

After waiting in anticipation, patch 3.1 finally came out and we finally began our journey through Ulduar. Unfortunately because of server trouble, raiding the night of the patch and the several days that followed did not work. I mean players would die and not be able to zone into the instance again. Finally, as things were put in working order we were able to raid and have been doing so pretty well. I got this staff last week, which i am pretty excited about, and i got the best enchant in game for it. The only thing is, I am having an very difficult time dumping all this hit. Unfortunately I will have to live with it as I have already reenchanted and regemmed several items in an attempt to lower my hit.

As far as my PvP goes, I decided that I just do not have much fun in arena. I enjoy BGs a lot more as well as WG. I guess I am not that into PvP as I thought. =/ But I think I will continue to pvp on a smaller scale, when I feel like PvPing and doing WG and the dailies there to get all the Deadly gear that you buy with honor. Maybe I will change my mind, but arenas usually leave me feeling annoyed and uncertain of myself. Ah, oh well.

I also have to add that the Noblegarden event is kind of cute, but the whole camping eggs to get the chocolate is pretty boring and shitty. I mean I had to start doing that to do the daily which was a huge pain in the ass. It is going to take like a million years to collect 100 chocolates for the pet bunny..I want it, but should just read a book whilst "playing". If sitting there and watching things respawn over and over again can be called playing, it is about as much fun as fishing.