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Sorry for the lack of posting, things in the real world have been a bit hairy, and I honestly haven’t gotten to play much WoW outside of the weekend the last two weeks.

One thing I have been doing though, is making some money. And wow. Really, it is so retardedly easy to make money in WoW vs. FFXI. I’m just talking about crafting here btw- we already know dailies make making money into easy-mode.

I’ve been putting Esa to hard work the last week- farming herbs like crazy (Sholazaar to get Adder’s Tongue, which Binya uses for Inscription, and Storm Peaks for alchemic purposes). Of course, the mass amount of herbs I get for Inscription seem to disappear way too quickly, and the last 4/5 Darkmoon Card of the North attempts have been fail (1 Nobles Card- which is good, the 1 Chaos and *3* Undeath. Blargh). Been making circles around Storm Peaks though, and I seem to have found a fairly reliable way to make money.

Yup, I changed Esa’s Alchemy spec to Elixirs (again) and have been cranking out Flask of the Frost Wyrm’s. Once- sometimes twice- a day, I’ll throw up 5 at a time on the Auction House. I keep the buyout the same as whatever’s on the top of the list (organized by price, least->most expensive) and will list the opening bid as 1 copper less than whatever’s on top. I’d like to throw up more than 5, but I don’t want to flood the AH and ask for some jerk to undercut me, so 5′s been a pretty workable number. Plus, they sell for between 29-35 gold a pop on Ner’zhul-A, so I am making an easy 150-300~ish gold a day doing this. I’ve got about 1500 gold across all my toons again (after cleaning them all out to purchase Esa’s epic flight) and that’s without doing any dailies regularly. If I can suck it up this weekend and do dailies on both girls, I’ll have a nice chunk of change.

I have to admit- not wanting for money in WoW has definitely made it more enjoyable than FFXI. For me, anyway. I can spend an hour here or there, and make enough gold to get me through a weak of raiding repairs (since I don’t need to purchase any consumables- I can make them all myself). It definitely means there’s more time to play the game and do random stuff than to have to spend hours and hours farming to be able to afford say, a stack of shihei (I think I spelled that wrong).

Anyway. Moving on~

Last weekend I got asked while on Binya if I wanted to run ToC10 with the guild one of our officers has an alt in. I said sure, since I didn’t have that achievement on Binya yet, and emblems and possible gear upgrades are always a good thing. Well, there were a few bumps in the road (and wow, I don’t like Anub’s p3 as a healer- not being able to heal people kind of sucks) but ultimately we were successful. After that, we went along to Onyxia10, which I have yet to do successfully on *either* toon.

After 2 wipes, what happened is, once again, why I will always be asked to be a healer. -.o Basically, once her p3 hit, everyone died except for 4 of us- the Warrior tank, myself, a resto shammy, and a hunter. We 4-manned her, but the Hunter died (I have no idea how- he just… died). We managed to 3-man her to the end after that, with me keeping SW:P and Devouring Plague up (lol) and I think the shammy was DPS’ing too. There was a snide comment over vent about me having full mana (Hi, I have 25k mana UNBUFFED as Disc. I know how to make my mana pool last a loooong time) and that was why people people died. -_- However, I shut them up once I got under 50%, popped Shadowfiend and Hymn of Hope and was back up to full again. ~.^ We won, it was crazy and stressful and fun, and I’d forgotten what that was like.

No fab drops for me (I got a neckpiece in ToC10 which was a decent upgrade for my Disc set), but I got invited back again for the two raids tomorrow, so I’m glad.

Normally, I’d save Binya from getting saved to stuff like that, because the guild will usually run it. However, the GM has been kind of MIA the last week or so, and we’ve lost pretty much all our tanks as a result of not raiding. >_< We *do* have pallys we could use, but we’d be a losing well-geared Hunter and Mage as a result (the pallys are their alts). We lost our 2nd Pally who served as off-tank to lack of raiding (his Warrior is also my Arena partner), and two other tanks we’d invited a few weeks ago left this week too. Kad will be back online in about two weeks, but he’s said he wants to focus on his Hunter when he comes back, since he has the most fun playing her.

So… I do have two options on what I can do to help the guild. Both involve Esa, and both involve re-spec’ing.

Option 1 – Esa becomes Arena-capable as well as a raid healer.
Yep. I’ve been planning to spec her feral tree to resto once I’d built a PvP set of gear anyway, but this would give the guild another option as a clutch healer (and would make it worthwhile for m to keep bringing Esa for gear upgrades, since they technically wouldn’t be losing a healer) when we’re in a pinch. I’m sort of not so thrilled about playing a healer on *2* toons though, and it would require me to build up another gearset form scratch, since hit doesn’t help heals, and most of my boomkin stuff lacks a bit of spirit.

Option 2 – Esa’s Feral-hybrid build becomes a straight bear build as another tank.
I’m actually kind of leaning toward this. My cat set is decent (I could probably do okay in Ulduar10 with my current build and gear), and I have a slightly better than okay bear set. I’ve done a little bit of tanking, and honestly BadKitty makes it kind of idiot-proof in which debuffs and buffs I need to keep up. At this point it would a matter of slightly upgrading my gear a bit more (I currently do have the BiS neck, though, for bear at least XD) and getting a little more experience. I need more Stam though, that’s for sure- I only *just* pass the 30k mark with self-buffs. It’s a good start though.

Or I can just leave her as she is- a Feral-DPS/Balance-DPS character. I put out solid numbers as Balance, but the guild is in a bit of a pickle and I’d like to see us get back into the swing of things.

Besides, I’d like to see at least *one* of my toons clear Ulduar JUST ONCE. I’ve gotten as far as Mimiron. I’d really like to see at the very least Vezax and Yogg and maybe someday… Algalon.

I meant to update this yesterday, and get back on schedule, but due to an insomnia attack, my day got a bit effed up. Oh well.

Was a quiet week, though we did get a lot done.

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So first things first, lets see how I fared on this past week’s goals!

- Druid to at least 77.

Achieved! I pushed it to 78 yesterday, because I had enough rested experience to get there. Got my Cold-Weather Flying and now my slow bird-form arse can chug along through Northrend.

- 300 Herbalism on my Druid.

Failed. D: It’s still at 150. I totally meant to do it last night after my buddy logged, but then I got sucked into a regular Oculus run on Esa… and then they wanted Binya to heal a timed Culling of Stratholme run soo… yeah.

- Save as close to 5000 gold as I can for Esa’s Epic flying.

Failed~ish. :S I’m at 2500 across all toons, so halfway. I need to suck it up and start running Hodir dailies on Binya again, and maybe today I’ll start the quest chain to open them out on Esa. I’m hoping, if I suck it up and really make a push, to maybe have it done before I go out of town at the end of the month. I need to buy a whole bunch of mats though to get Esa’s boomkin stuffs made so I can pretty much start running Naxx not long after finally dinging 80 (if I can get everything I want to get crafted, crafted, then I should only need to run 3 fairly easy heroics for some stuff :3).

- Do either Ulduar-10 or 25 this week, and Naxx-25.

Achieved? :s Didn’t do Naxx-25 this lockout, BUT my guild teamed up for an Ulduar-25 (we’re continuing tonight, actually), and we did do Ulduar-10 up to Kologarn. So that’s 2/3 on that one, so I think it counts as achieved. :3 I did get a smexy new wand though- 3rd best in slot, and probably the best I’ll be able to do in that slot for Shadow for a loooong time.

So now… this week’s goals!

- Druid to 80. Yes, I am being *very* ambitious, but the last two weeks I managed two levels/week, so I think I can do it this time around! If I can get to 79 by Thursday/Friday, I *know* I can pull it off over the weekend (especially since I have no real-life obligations this weekend!).

- Herbalism to 300. Third time’s the charm?

- 30000 Honor on Binya to snag a PvP ring. The only purchases for my PvP set that remain are a backpiece and 2 rings, then it’s all about finding an arena team. Yes, I’m going to try some arena. Discipline ftw! I’m only at 1500 honor right now though, so this will be a bit of a push.

- Get 2-3 pieces of Esa’s 80-Boomkin set made. I’m aiming for finishing her Ebonweave Robe, and 2 Titanium Spellshock pieces. I still need to buy 4 Ebonweave cloth and 6 more Dragon’s Eyes though. So much for saving for Epic flying.

Okay, now that that’s out of the way (this week’s goals are going to be a real beast to tackle, too), onto my ridiculous luck.

I’m sort of a fishing nut in WoW, in case you haven’t noticed. :3 After snagging my Sea Turtle on Saturday, I thought my luck ran out.

I was wrong.

The one thing I’ve wanted *SO BAD* from the Dalaran fishing dailies is a Jeweled Fishing Pole. It’s pink. It’s sparkly. It looks like something out of Cardcaptor Sakura, one of my all-time favorite anime/manga.

So imagine my shock to be running through Dalaran after turning in (once again) the luckiest fishing daily EVAR, Monsterbelly Appetite…

Oh the squee’s and girlish glee that erupted from me at seeing that. So of course, I threw on my PvP stuff (Ner’zhul horde like to gank fishing people, I like to be prepared), my fishing hat, and my shiny new pole and took it for a spin.

Yeah, even though my Kalu’ak pole has 30+5 fishing, and my Bone Fishing Pole has 30+3 fishing… they’ve been officially retired.

I need to start giving the fishing tournament a try again. “Salty Binya” would perfect the ensemble. ;3