Was running through Karazhan in a somewhat melee-heavy group the other day, four warriors and one rogue, with a shaman, shadow priest and hunter keeping at range while me and a tree was healing.
The run went fast and smooth and without a wipe (well, we did sacrifice our shaman once in a while to keep the raid gods happy, but other than that we mostly stayed alive).
We rolled through the place and were about to call it a night after Aran when one of the warriors asked if we could try killing Illhoof as well.
And who were we to say no to such a request?
Down to Illhoof's chamber we went, starting off with an accidental pull of the roaming imps at his doorway, but we killed them off without a hassle and charged into his room.
The first one who got sacrificed to the Demonic Chains was yours truly and I went down faster than a snowball in hell! Poof, angel form billowing up! Luckily, our imba tree was on top of things and threw me a combat ress after my angel form expired and we went back to doing business as usual.
The warriors were thunderclapping like crazy to keep the imps on them and when the odd one got away and started trying to get intimate with me I did what every girl is supposed to do in situations like that, I screamed.
And that was basically it. Illhoof and his pet imp was down after 3 minutes and 54 seconds with the whole raid still standing.
So, who needs a warlock? ;P
Friday, June 27, 2008
So who needs a warlock anyways?
Midsummer!
Have you been doing the Midsummer's quests?
I am thinking especially of the quests where you desecrate the Horde Midsummer flame or honor the Alliance one (or vice versa ofc :-)
There is a Midsummer's Fire outside all the alliance or horde settlements in both Azeroth and Outland, and there is a fire inside every capital as well.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Looks or stats?
This here is Jools in her current healing gear, wearing the Gladiator's Mooncloth Robe and Mantle, complete with Teardrop Living Rubies in all sockets, a +15 spirit enchant on the chest and a Greater Inscription of the Oracle on the shoulders.
Its ok gear, but I do not like the look of it. It looks like some crummy old khaki desert uniform from two centuries ago with blingblings and epaulets and stuff, and it does definitely not set of Jools' blue braid and bluish complexion ;P
So I am working on getting her something new to wear, and with my usual luck in drop rolls I 'd better aim for something thats not totally dependent on having the gods of fate smile upon me.
Monday, June 16, 2008
...where many have gone before
Aerie Peak is a highly populated pve server and Jools' new guild has a lot of members. SW was more crowded than I have ever seen it.
I was pretty nervous when I logged in for the first time here, and whispered the recruiting officer of the guild for an invite.
Was a bit like going to a new job for the first time, you are really careful not to make an ass of yourself, like laughing at the wrong things, saying the wrong things or generally put your foot in it.
Well, I was invited and heartily welcomed by them all :-)
To boldly go...
This day Jools moved to the Aerie Peak realm.
She spent the last weekends' mornings doing some heroics with some of her friends on Vashj, getting her Exalted with the Sha'tar, concluding with a quiet come-together around a bonfire in Elwynn Forest before she packed her bags and transferred. 
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Turpster's Dingstravaganza
The day was bright and clear on Sporeggar (EU) as the gnomes and dwarves started gathering in Dun Morogh to join in that once-in-a-lifetime-event-Turpster-Dingstravaganza, the killing of the Turpster (lvl 69 undead Priest) by the armies of the Turpies!
Some were more prepared than others...
And looking stylish is no excuse for not gearing up!
Some were trying to deter us from our goal by a pitiful attempt at annihilating us before we got started...
But we laughed at them and gathered up outside the cave of the Turpster, forming an orderly line...
Some were taking the opportunity to try and score more than a boss kill though ;P
And even as we waited we had to clear some trash respawns...
... and the gnome ghost train was running back to the cave.
When the event started we were 175 members in the guild the Turpies, none of us above lvl 6, + an assorted bunch of trial account raiders who could not be invited to the guild. We were easily more than 200 people waiting to assault the Turpster.
Time to go! We ran into the lair of the Turpster!
NOT a good idea to press CTRL-V!
I had my healbot configured to my two healing spells, Lesser Heal (Rank 2) and Lesser Heal (Rank 1).
Under the massive onslaught of the Turpies the Turpster was going down!
After this unique world first kill (SK Gaming eat our shorts! ;P) we all headed to IF to watch the Big T ding 70.
Some confusion arose as to where the actual ding would take place, and sadly I got to the SW tram station only in time to see the newly dinged Turpster hearthstone away :-(
Gratz to the Turpies for downing this imba boss, and gratz Turpster to your 70-ding!
It was a great event, and I would not have missed it for the world!
For more pictures (including one of the actual ding) visit Yet Another Warlock Nerf, or for a video of the event itself check out the Dingstravaganza at YouTube.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Dingstravaganza - beta test
This here is Tessytoots, prepping for the Turpster Dingstravaganza on Saturday night. Prepping is easy in this case, all she has to do is ding lvl 6 and be ready for the appearance of the Big T.
I created Tessytoots and logged in on Sporeggar Friday afternoon, and to my delight I found out that there was a beta test coming up!
The Turpster showed up, dressed in rags, and the valiant members of the guild the Turpies immediately set upon him!
We gathered in numbers and the big ugly was soon overwhelmed by our determination and skillful attacks on him!
He was going dooown!
But the cunning one had a few more trick up his sleeve! He summoned an add! And ouch, Holy Nova hurts!
But in the end, the Turpies emerged victoriously!
The Big T showed up for a few more tests, and the main event is to take place tonight, Saturday June 14th, after the LIVE WoW Insider Show (3:30pm EST/8:30pm GMT), at around 4:45pm EST/9:45pm GMT.
When I logged out last night, Tessytoots being lvl 5,5, the Turpies had 70 members, none of them above lvl 6. I have no doubt that the Turpster will go down bigtime tomorrow and it will be a spectacular event!
Be there!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
20 k Curse of Doom!
So last night I was in Karazhan again. Was a fun run, we started at The Curator and worked our way up to the Prince with only a few minor glitches.
The Curator dropped a token for the imba warlock gloves, but I passed on them since I was wearing my own imba gloves, complete with sparkling stuff and a nice enchant, while my fellow warlock in there only had some blue crap on.
Anyways after the big ugly mofo was down my newly be-gloved fellow meddler in the dark arts asked me about Curse of Doom crits during the mofo's Evocation.
Well, truthfully, I am usually to busy to check how much damage I do while in the middle of a fight, but after everything has settled down I am likely to head over to WoW Webstats and take a peek at my performance and see what things I can work on to improve my damage output, especially since I recently went Destro and am still trying to work out how to handle this fiery spec :-)
So I headed off there and looked. Idd, the Curse of Doom does some very serious spike damage when it goes off!
20 902 damage!! Too bad it is on a 1-minute timer, eh? ;P
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Yay! Finally
After having commited full-scale war on the Furbolgs and Giants in Winterspring, I finally got my sweet pink-ish tiger! (Ok, its more lavender than pink, but still...)
It was one happy gnome that went riding around Shattrah that night :-)
The grind to Exalted with the Wintersabre Trainers was a long one, but not that painful. The worst part was waiting for the mobs to respawn, since they are the quest mobs for another q as well.
I had company a lot of the time too, a paladin friend (Crusader Aura ftw!), and a sweet mage I met there who also wanted that cute tiger.
So, now its lvling time for Dizzie!
