An end to almost nothing

I will truly miss you guys.

Being linked by Saund was probably my high moment, even coming after at least a few months of sloth like qualities, if not outright sluggishness from me. I'm afraid to say I'm leaving the blogroll for now.

I GOT A JOB!

Yes you hard it here folks. Homegirl got a job.

This is making more than my last position (which was a managerial thingyamajig) yet the new one is considered "Entry Level" and believe you-me.... if you saw one of my trainee buddies in a grocery store.... lets just say he'd have a hard time discerning between condensed, and regular milk........

I can't spare too much time to blog with my shift being back to 1st and night-time outgoings, ramblings, and freedom policy being somewhat less open than previously.

I'll take a moment to 100% thank Saund for including me in his posts and not discounting me as a PMS endorphined homicidal freak looking for an outlet in teh intarwebs. And even thanking Ambrosine for including me in her blogrool until I disappeared about 3-4 months ago. I completely understand the maintennance and that my removal was my own fault... it's just easier to read blogs lately than to post something coherent.

I luff you all and hope I see you in the expansion.

If I post here from now on.... it may not contain WoW like material anymore.... so be warned.

P.S. I has guild cruise pics (see last post) if you ask nicely... ROFL.

Bah I'm distrac.... ohhh Shiney!

I've been distracted lately and not posting regularly.

I have an excuse, not only has my guild suffered a major /gamequit loss, but we have a cruise coming up in less than a week.

One week from today I'll be.... hrmm drunk off my ass on a big ass boat headed to the Bahamas.

Our Guild Mistress quit pretty unexpectedly (though looking back now I see she was cutting her raid time down) and handed the reins to her husband. Since he used to be the guild leader before she was, there was no issue with the change except the loss of an exceptional healer, and the only other reliable healing lead.

*FUCK*

Now I'm the sole healing lead for the guild and I have to get someone trained up *FAST*. Luckily I have at least one person interested in the role. If healing chat has become a little more... less detailed for the first 5 or so bosses, well it's because we should all know this fight by now right?

Heh wrong-o mighty Paladin... your first Night 1 run after her quit, what did you get? Three new healers!!!! Some of them being ALTS at that!

(You can see my thoughts on us allowing Alts in a previous post.. I was told "NO ALTS" therefore you should be told the same thing you twat-waffle.) <-- I figured it'd be tacky to steal Cock Garage from Amber.

So I get to be stuck on all night 1's from here on out with next to no reward until I get another healing lead trained up... oh fucking joy.

Ruby Sanctum

There are a few things you need to do before entering Ruby Sanctum.

1.) Make sure you have food/water or a mage for both.
2.) Have flasks at the ready, a stack of at least 5 should do.
3.) Make sure you repair.
4.) Find out if someone on the raid has Jeeves/some other way to repair, preferrably at least 2 people.
5.) Go out to the local sex store and buy generous amounts of KY.
6.) Lube yourself < 5 mins before raid time
7.) Stick your entire computer up your ass. It'll feel better. (this applies to PC's as well)

OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW

Job status

Just don't ask... still out of a job, and getting closer to financially more fuckered every day.

Oh and the prepaid vacation starting in < 4 weeks that I've told every interview about has had nothing to do with it I'm sure....

Guild rant

We have had one of those DPS "AFK a few" moments that turned into at least 20 mins... while he proceeded to buy gems in dalaran for the piece that he had just won on the previous boss.... (huntard). It made me want to cry, but I held my breath and slogged along like everyone else when he finally finished... albeit a few more LIVID TELLS to guild leadership later.

Then we institute a "no alts" rule for ICC. Seemingly at the same exact time that I'm "done" with my holy Paladin in ICC.

-Aside- I would never *dream* of using my guild to level my alts in the place of using my main for "progression" runs.. but night 1 shit... (IE up to Saurfang... maybe one boss more) I do not see me taking my alt for a change of pace as an issue. Loot -in my guild- is distributed to mains first anyways, so it's not like I'm taking loot that would go to someone who's been doing ICC consistently for months.

Ok- I have no issue with it. My Shadow Priest found another guild and I'm struggling to fit in (typical), until this week when a known IDIOT warlock decides that it's OK to take his alt mage to ICC.

Now I realize that we have a large guild. We're consistently flirting with the 500 cap Blizz imposed if you want the IG UI to work... So I in no way blame my raid/guild leadership for what could honestly be a one-time fuckup.

But this douchebag brought an alt, when I was basically told that if I wanted to raid on my alt, I had to do it elsewhere???? To make it worse I KNOW FOR A FACT... that he was on the raid where we were ALL TOLD... NO MOTHERFUCKING ALTS......

Huge fucking slap in the face. I seriously considered quitting the raid, and logging for the night. I in fact considered hiatus... again.

I'm sick of this. My guild leadership likes me alot... yeah I'm not an officer, but I think I'm starting to understand why.... I'm a hothead at times... those times being typically when I have alcohol in my system, or when I'm extrodinarily pissed off, like that night (last Thursday night).

I'm bound to say something disagreeable I'm sure, so I haven't been awarded the coveted "officer" status, even though I've had it in 7th in ANY FUCKING GAME PAST EQ1...

Erm... tangent.. yeah.

Mrs. Guild Mistress has told me that I'm irreplaceable.... yet with our raid makeup lately being 3 HOLY Paladins on night 1, with the other two out healing me (don't get me into meter numbers and thuroughness right now... I know numbers aren't all), and me being done with loot...... I'm tempted to make her prove it by taking another break.

-------On the plus side I did get a direct apology from the raid leader (said guildmistress's hubby) about the fact that someone was allowed to take his alt. Not something you get everyday. Still upsetting that loot can get awarded to an alt, and we have that alt come ONE TIME, they do less DPS than a healer in some 5 mans on their main, and the people that work the hardest for EVERYTYHING.... STILL GET SCREWED.

Urgh.. Argh..

So I'm dragging my sorry ass away from the pity and self loathing that is my life right now in the hopes of reviving my interest in doing this.

The long and the short of the past few weeks;
I lost my job. I knew it was coming, the whole damn office was closing for fuck's sake, but I am still unemployed and I now get to watch my husband freak out more than normal... oh joy.

I *finally* upgraded my boot slot, by far one of the worst I had.

I begged hubby to loan me money to buy a hilt. I now have a moar awesome weapon, and have completed what has to be one of the best quest chains in the game.

I seem to have made at least two friends in what is arguably the number one Alliance guild on the server, but do not fear friends! I am not leaving 7th any time soon. I just can't see dedicating the amount of time that these people do to raiding, much less going to a DKP or similiar system *shudder*.

I now regularly stay up until 2-4am and get up between 10 and 11.

I'm levelling a Warlock...

Our guild is losing interest in raiding even though we have made progress. We can now kill Uncle Fester, hopefully with the buff going up just this week, we can down Rotface too. We're regularly having to fit in 5 bosses, plus VoA, and sometimes plus the weekly in two days due to lack of interest.

I think the saddest news of all is, I'm out of rum, and not due to get any more until I'm back in the daily grind with the rest of the working world. If nothing will light a fire under your ass that sure should... *sigh*

/end Hiatus

So I'm back to raiding full time, or at least as full time as my guild gets which is 3 nights a week.

Part of what has drug me out of hiatus kicking and screaming is Tweak signing me up to raids. Now luckily he's not signing me up to raids that he's leading, and they're 10 man ICC. I don't have many upgrades in 10 man ICC, but the badges make it worth it to some degree. Which if you count these, makes it 4 nights a week raiding.

Tweak has also decided that he is gods gift to raiding... well guess what.. even the developers know that DPS warriors are OP and you're getting a nerf. So while you may have passed judgement on yourself as the gift that keeps on giving, we all have decided that you're full of hot air and in need of several enema's.

I attempted to knock him down a few pegs in his self satisfying opinion of himself. I thnk I did pretty well, but I'm astonished that other people haven't told him he's a piece of shit... even if they only mean personally.

Luckily he's noticed to some degree, he posted recently that "some people" think he leads raids with an iron fist... No thats not the problem, you're a douchebag, thats the fucking problem. You're so full of yourself you can't see that other people do contribute to raids and that your leadership style of calling out names of people who fuckup DOES NOT FIT.

Most people put up with it since they don't have the balls to do otherwise, and that I think is the worst thing of all. When you are uncomfortable and don't speak up to rectify the problem.

This is why I needed a fucking break to begin with and it hasn't let up... I'm getting sick of his shit to the degree that I'm being more vocal about him being an ass. I hope that others notice, and at least speak up to the leadership privately.

In better news, he won't be able to make it to our yearly gathering... oh darn. I'm absolutely heartbroken over it... see the tears?

In RL news I've had an interview at a major lender, and I had a 2nd interview for the same position today. Hopefully I'll know something better by the end of the week.

Comeback

I'll be making a comeback soonish... I'm about to be out of a job in the next 30-45days and I'll have ALL this time on my hands....

The powers that be decided my office was hemmorhaging money and since we have two other operations centers, well why keep the 3rd open.

My work can DIAF. Douchenozzles.

Well except like 3 people... I'm getting letters of recomendation from them.

Go-fuken-figure

So I take my hiatus.

why? I'm sick of banging my goddamn head against the goddamn mob that is Marrowgar. We beat him ONCE before my hiatus, and that was after I told the guild I was taking a break... suddenly everyone is interested and we kill Marrowgar... WTF.

So for the next resets that we reset ICC (had one continuation week) of course ALL during my hiatus, we not only kill Marrowgar, but the bitch behind him and the gunship battle... I swear to god I can't fucking win for losing. To be fair I've run one week with them... the coordinator raid-leader guy clipped the note that said "I'm a backup only" in his Excel spreadsheet somehow and I was a main healer for one of these dealio's.

I'm still taking this week and probably next off.

I'm coming back to full time raiding when we do the Uld Achi runs at the end of the month. Till then... it's Dragon Age time again bitches!

Comments on the Encidia Ban.

Of the things linked in the wow.com article I did take a peek at was the novel that Muqq wrote on Encidia's website. It's definitely not safe for young eyes.

In it he specifically states a few things;

1) They knew it was an exploit.

The tactics used are provided by game mecanics yes, BUT they completely trivialized a stage of the encounter. An end of expansion encounter. Think about it, back in the MC days, or BC days, you had to work for it, for every last percentage of health on that damn boss. Even Encidia took time to clear this stuff back in the day. Every single one of them knew that stage 2 or whatever it was, was basically turning out to be nothing more than a walk in the park for an end game boss. When you can kill the boss in the first 24hours from it's release, you're not doing it right using fucked up game mechanics, you're fucking exploiting.

2) They didn't care that they were using an exploit.

They found a way to avoid one of the hardest stages of the encounter, and it was like like putting candy in front of a hungry child, they used it so that they could be the first. They do get paid to do this thing we call raiding, and they get paid well to be the first and arguably the best.

3) This stage of ICC was not beta tested or on the PTR.

Simple proof of this is in the pudding so to speak, with the death of Arthas cutscene only recently being leaked and that from game files once the patch downloaded. You can't throw something like that on the PTR without it getting leaked all over the world, so they (Blizz) chose not to. Do I blame them, yes a little bit. The cutscene could have been left out of the PTR and the encounter could have been fully tested. This group of developers working on WoW right now scares the hell out of me. Especially Ghostcrawler.

4) Muqq has cancelled his account.

My only comment is good, one less asshole in the game after the 21st (the day his subscription runs out). This is after all the guild that talked about transferring to other servers an entire raid team and "stealing" any missing server firsts that are as yet unaccomplished, and then transferring back.

They should have permabanned them. Maybe I'm jealous about the getting paid to play thing, maybe I'm not... but you do not have to be a complete and total dick to be good at playing the game, Encidia has accomplished that and more. Now you would have to pay me to raid with people like that, and pay me very fucking well. I'm talking 6+ digits here people.

"Turdhead" vs. Us.

So once again "Turdhead" has been at it recently. Lets call him "Tweak" from now on... it fits, and it's fucking shorter.

So two weeks ago Tweak decides to speak up on a 25 man. On the second attempt at Beasts in ToC. This was not a Guildleader/Guildleader-Hubby run, and he is oh-so much worse on the ones that are sans them.

Don't get me wrong, we very much HAVE progressed past this stage of ToC, we just still run it for shits and giggles, and gearing alts much to my dismay... I have yet to be able to take Toire on one of these runs, yet we'll let someone in FULL blues and greens go? Damn at least Toire had a few pieces of purple shit.

Anyway. Tweak gets pissy when not everyone is on the Snobolds. Typically he says something, but never calls someone out by name. Second attempt, he calls someone out by name, one of our newer members no less. Midfight hubby speaks up in voicechat telling the ACTUAL RAID LEADER to replace him. Tweak not being the ACTUAL RAID LEADER needs to be made very clear here. Now me healing, yes I'm sure that they could replace me, but he did tone it down after that.. in fact I think he might have even gotten the message (*finally*) in a way other than a blatant /tell "Hey dumbass tone it the fuck down ok?"

So he proceeds to spend the rest of the night not really commenting too much and I stay on to let the other healers know what happened. We have a channel, and no I'm not going to type it out here, we don't need strangers in it TYVFM. Anyway, hubby drops and I get slammed with "Is he ok?" and variants of, because at this stage we're maybe 20mins into raid time. One of our healers that night knew what was going on (she's been suffering through our bitching about Tweak for months) and told them, as well as me.

Basically, no he's fine, he just hates Tweak. Tweak is being an asshole on point tonight and he won't put up with it.

This is the first time I admit to a channel of people (with humbers greater than say... 5) that Ian -hubby- and I have issues with Tweak. To my absolute and utter surprise, most of the inhabitants of the channel either sympathized or bitched right along with me.

Now around this time I was coming to the realization that my mental health was being taxed by the consistent failed attempts on Marrowgar (25), Tweak's attitude, and my usual 6-9month raiding burnout period. I decided that it was time to step away from the raiding portion of playing for awhile in lieu of other ways to... I dunno actually have some damn FUN in the game.

Raiding can be fun, when it's not treated like a goddamn job. Luckily I even had the opportunity to say this in guild chat directed at Tweak. Yes folks, I actually got a chance to smack him down a little bit.

Yesterday I got pulled into a supah secretly organized through texts ubah 10man raid. Our weekly this week was Marrowgar, and damned if I was going to see him go down again in 25 this week. We've killed him... one time. Notably on my last ICC raid before my hiatus... Irony much?

So I went on 10 man. No Tweak, only people who actually wanted to have fun. I got to talking to Guildleaders-hubby and to my astonishment... even our very fogiving, lovable Guildmistress has noticed Tweaks attitude and mentioned it. From the gist of the conversation, she's wondering if he has a mental condition that requires him to be an asshole when he sits behind the keyboard... no that was just me. She did wonder openly if something was wrong with him. The other was me projecting what that "wrong" was.

Ian and I have met Tweak IRL... along with 19-20 other people from our guild for our annual get together and get shitfaced drunk vacation. OK thats just me, but there are usually copius amounts of alcohol involved, especially when last year took us to Dallas, and one of our Guildies owns a tequila bar there.

Tweak is not an asshole in real life... I'm not going to say he's a fantastic guy, but he's certainly not the asshole IRL that he is in game. I even joked with said Guildleader-hubby that his mic must be faulty, adding the asshole factor to his voice in raid chat.

I don't know... I've ben slated for ICC 25 this week. I just couldn't pass by the signup without saying I'd be happy to be on standby.... I guess I had honestly hoped that they wouldn't need me. Which is both good and bad I guess. Good for my ego, bad for my hiatus, and bad for us progression wise until others get better damn gear.

And there is your long ranty post for the next week or so. I'm sure I'll have more fodder after Monday's raid.

So I don't post often... deal with it

I post when I can.

Now that hubby is on an entirely different schedule than me, I'm staying up hours later than him and I can post in peace, without the "Whachadoooooin? Wachadoooooin?" every 5 minutes.

We're not having kids for a reason folks... because we never damn well grew up ourselves. At times like this it's most evident.

Karma fail part 2?

Not entirely sure if this should be labeled part 2... but "Wiley" is at it again.

Now he has decided that his DK will no longer be his main character, but his Tank/DPS Paladin.

Oooooook... it's happend from time to time, but I notice it more with 2-3 "certain" people in the guild.. most likely for a manners issue, instead of a *real* emergency issue.

To quote another blog I read;

/headdesk
/headdesk
/headdesk
/headdesk
/headdesk

I look and we have 3 Pallys in raid... I can count two aura's runnin... I switch mine, ok no duplicate, one of our other 2 pallies switches his on and off... bingo! I know who it is... recalcitrant little bitch.

If I didn't have to deal with telling the paladin in a raid to turn on ANY FUCKING AURA BESIDES CRUSADER.... well it might have been a better day.

Karma Fail

So karma came and bit me in the ass, sorta.

This all started before the winter break of raiding. I was especially drunk during one of our raids (not falling over, but well buzzed) and one of our loyal healers was sending me tells that they were considering quitting the guild altogether if they were assigned to heal "Wiley" again.

To give some backround on "Wiley" he is a tank, or supposed to be. As a DK you can have two spec's, tank and DPS. He had been "tanking" for our raids using Unholy spec, and this was a hge point of angst among the healers in the healing channel. None of us understood how he thought Unholy was a decent tanking spec, he couldn't hold aggro, he ran out of hit points faster than we could heal him, and overall the sitution was a mess. Even our leadership had noticed his fail tanking ability and I had at least one conversation in which one of our main tanks, not only cussed about him but highly adminished is tanking skills (or lack thereof).

I've looked through the spec he had at the time, and it just made me shudder to think that "Wiley" thought this was an acceptable tanking spec. On top of that, one of our top healers threatening to quit the guild, and my drunken state, I decided to take matters into my own hands.

Without remorse I told him very, very bluntly (I seem to have missed school the day they taught tact) that we all thought he was a moron for tanking in Unholy spec. It made "Wiley" harder to heal, he didn't generate threat as well as any of our other tanks, and just seemed silly.

I got hubby involved by telling him that I said this to "Wiley" and he flew off the handle at my exact wording, he said we'd be lucky if this didn't blow up in my face. He proceeded to play good-cop to my bad-cop and tried to diffuse the situation.

Meanwhile "Wiley" tells me why he thinks Unholy is an acceptable tanking spec........

Wait for it....
Wait for it....

"Bone Shield"

That statement made me want to cry and put my head through the desk.

I then, with slightly more tact, I proceed to try and relay the benefits of Frost spec, while admitting that none of the healers (or leadership apparently) had the balls to say anything to his face sooner (a valid question of his).

So here is where Karma decided to bite me in the ass.
I logged in one Saturday recently, focused on doing my daily for frost badges before doing our RL running around. I get in within a very short timeframe (healers FTW), and I get HHoR... yay.

Now I've done this successfully a few times and this was pre mini-nerf. With a druid tank and DPS that seemed kitted out, we proceeded. The tank decided to alcove tank, having done this a few times both ways I have to say I prefer non-alcove tanking, as it's slightly less stressful on the healer. I set my mind to this being a difficult one, and have my fingers ever ready to cast Hand of no-aggro, bubble and pull all my tricks out.

Even with all of this we wipe. Why? The DPS over aggroed before the tank had everything focused on him, I healed the DPS, and had nasty things proceed to chew on my face. I get called out in group for just "standing there doing nothing" and retort that if things hadn't been munching on my face, interrupting and fearing me that I might have been able to heal. I threw in the assmunch directive to the person who called me out..... who happened to be the tank.

We settle down after recouping and me saying that it might be nice if you approached the situation nicely instead of accusing the healer of twiddling their thumbs, and yes he got me back in the name calling dept, and I did let it slide since I started it.

We go again and wipe for the same reason again... I say in group "*sigh* stunned" within 30 seconds I was groupless while still heading back to my corpse.

I had suffered a votekick all because the DPS couldn't wait two or three seconds before going balls to the wall.

Needless to say I was pissed. I didn't run my daily for a week fearing another HHoR.
I also appologized to "Wiley" for how hard I broke it to him when I helped him kill Hogger on an alt.

I'm not so fond of the PUG system now.