The real estate of my paladin’s screen and keybindings appears to have been shat upon by the collective anus of the Internet.

Please take a moment to look at the entire UI, including where I have my spells placed and bound, before moving on to the rest of this entry. Please appreciate every eye-gouging detail, and reflect that it is the interface I have used on her for the past 3 weeks while raiding heroic ICC-25. I’ll wait.

If that isn’t gross enough, please click this picture and be in awe of my amazing healing prowress.

last stand > 15 seconds of non-healing

Ahh…. I’ve missed this blog. Perhaps I’ll revive it along with my guild and post more funny stories. I need a place to unwind and laugh at my own/others’/mostly my own stupidity.

So I’ve been levelling another priest on my friend’s server, with the goal of hitting 80 and raiding as disc with them (their hours are after Summit’s). I’m stuck on the RAF account until the 6th, but in my infinite boredom, I PuG a lot for the money. (And 300 tailoring/enchanting! Woo!) The run that got be exalted was fun as hell.

Wee! We pretty much 3 manned Stratholme and had a gay old time with the LFG system doing nothing but letting trash respawn and making sure everyone got their quests completed. We exchanged server info and e-mails, and I feel guilty to admit I haven’t contacted them yet. (Been sleeping… All. Day. Long.) I know anyone that stumbles upon this blog won’t give a damn, but the feeling of “warm fuzzies” was just overwhelming.

Coming soon to a blog near you:

1. An analysis of shadow’s t9/t10 bonuses and how they affect our gearing (if at all), &:
2. My UI.

Sick. In pain. In the hospital. No internet because Comcast is terrible. Gimme a few more days.

I had a huge falling out with a very few members. I dislike making rash decisions when I’m pissed (you’ve no idea how badly for 3 straight days I wanted to gquit), so I decided to take a 1 week break, even though I knew the patch would be hitting this week. The guild has apparently had a gquit from another healer while I was gone, too. This leaves the guild with 2 shamans, a holy priest, and a disc priest. I should probably log on for the sake of the guild.

I don’t think anyone knows (cares?) how stressed I’ve been. The fact is, I’m taking a break in the middle of drama. Am I unreliable? Some former members left because they believe Summit doesn’t reward loyalty or past contributions enough. I can’t bring myself to agree, since I’ve always believed in the present more than the past, but will I finally see it differently if I turn out to be one of those former members?

Am I making any fucking sense?

I guess I’m wondering if Saveena will fully take over my officer duties and if I’ll be recruited out in the course of a week. Will the two years I’ve been here matter in the wake of my absence?

Ungh. The nerd rage is building. My friend wants me to transfer to her server to raid with her. Truth is, I’m not guaranteed a raid spot, and I dislike loot council (don’t post just to argue with me). That, and I don’t have $55 to go horde on another server. Will the current stress be too much though?

Why do I insist on publishing my incoherency?

I am sick and tired of these motherfucking assholes in this motherfucking guild.

So, I just made my second /gkick ever of a ‘lock who is the reason why the pseudo-word “douchebaggery” exists. The issue was, he took advantage of the free speech rule we had. He purposely said the worst things imaginable just to bait people and try to control them. As much as I hate violating free speech, it disrupted guild activities and had to put a stop to it.

I plan to get more active on the other blog I have and open it up to the guildies… Well, guildies I trust. Some I don’t see sticking around for long or pulling stunts out of spite.

Stressed out. Sorry for the unannounced hiatus. Be back in a bit.

Sorry for no Crash and Burn post. I have one all set and ready, but I’m not sure if I should publish it or not.

In other news, Ony is hard. Here are the possible things that can all go wrong during an Onyxia attempt, despite how long you’ve had her on farm:

1. Melee DPS and healers can stand in front of Ony and get cleaved or breathed on. In the same vein, the melee can be tailswiped into the whelp caves.
2. The tanks can completely fail to pick up whelps and watch the hilarity that ensues when the healers drop one by one.
3. The initiates should do their best to die to Deep Breath. It will definately go over well in officer chat.
4. When Ony lands, tank her right in front of the whelp caves. Nothing bad can come from this.
5. Obligatory #5.

Summit’s suffering from the pre-patch blues. And “this patch is bullshit” blues. And the lack of applicants blues.

I don’t really remember why, but for some reason, we were talking about the female form, I think either in art or lesbianism. But still I <3 Ege.

Sticking to the subject of lesbianism, I was speaking with my guild leader about my makeout session with a girl. I’m not convinced he knows what a lesbian is.

Mmm. White spider meat. It’s *that* good.

During Yogg attempts, when speaking of a raider who continuously walked into clouds. The mental image made me smile.

And finally:

I recently made one of the biggest mistakes of my gaming career. I had my friend apply to the guild a few weeks ago. She’s actually the best holy paladin I’ve ever known, to be perfectly honest. But there was a serious personality clash, and she came from super awesome hardcore guilds to our little wanna-be casual guild. Things didn’t smooth over well.

First off, she and one of the officers had a terrible cat fight. Me and my friend were under the impression that the officer was treating her unfairly to somehow “convince” others or herself that she wasn’t treating friends special, and she believed that I was letting her off easy because she was my friend.

Then, she had problems with our raid leader. More specifically, he didn’t call anything or anyone out. That’s a post in itself that I’m stalling at the moment, but point being, she hated not having immediate feedback. She also hated how nothing was called, but if any raider dare speak up, another officer (not the raid leader) would snap and tell them they’re not the raid leader…. who never calls things out anyway.

She transfered back to her horde server this weekend. I’m happy she’s happy…. but I kinda miss her here. I worked my ass off to get her her ToC crafted bracers. I saw her do brewfest from my bed on my desktop. I was there when she got her first piece of loot from the guild. Loot she earned. I also miss her as a raider. Like I said, she was the best holy paladin we’d ever seen. Now we have to recruit to fill her spot, and one of our holy priests may be going disc to cover until then.

Something good came from it though. The current officers are getting a second comb-through because of this mess. We as a guild lost both an excellent player with a great attitude, but an intelligent human being who brought new insights to our raids.

C’est la vie.

Edit: due to the loss of two exceptional tank healers, I’m now forced to stay on my holy priest… for now.

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I covered this topic a bit in All Apart of the Game. To sum it up, when we were progressing through t7, I switched from holy to disc to holy to shadow to holy.

This time, the name of the site might be changed to “selorinne.com”. To put it simply, I hate the priest class right now. Tons of people would disagree with why I do and try to convince me I’m just bad at the class, but I’m not. I may gear differently than you do, but holy is very ambiguous like that. You have a lot more options than other healers do in your gearing and spec choices. Granted, there are still stupid choices, but I performed well. Dare I say to my class’s potential.

And yet, I think both holy and disc is boring.

I left the decision in the hands of my fellow officers. I gave them a choice; let me main switch to Selorinne, my resto druid, or let me change spec priority on my priest to shadow. They know that I am skilled at both and just have to spend little more than a week outside of raids to gear up either.

Officer 1: Shadow.
Officer 2: Resto.
Officer 3:
Officer 4:
Officer 5:

None of that “whatever you want to do” shit. If I knew, I wouldn’t be asking.