The Egotistical Priest
An irreverent and opinionated discussion of the many classes
in the World of Warcraft gaming universe.
Lets play a game…
by Vonya
I do try to keep my “What’s Going on in the World of Ego” posts to a minimum. Ego was and is intended to be a place that people (healing priests especially) can come to learn about the class and the game. It’s awfully hard to do that when every other post is talking about a boss we’ve downed or a piece of gear that’s dropped - some of you are past me in progression and some are still in earlier level content. I wanted a blog that appealed to people regardless of their in-game advancement or level.
That being said, sometimes it’s nice to know just what the blogger behind the blog has been up to.
Guild
A bunch of old guildmates and friends from our guild on Kirin Tor got back together to form a new guild, Vanguard. To kill time between now and the expansion, we’ve been doing Karazhan runs for badges and running Zul’Aman as often as we possibly can, trying to get a full set of Amani Warbears for our guildmembers.
Bearwatch 2008
The recent announcement that the expansion is coming in November, and that the pre-expansion patch will spell the death of the Amani Warbears has kicked us into even higher gear. It took two weeks for us to get our ZA runs up to speed (we had some folks who needed gear, and all of us were very very rusty) but ever since then, we’ve been cranking out two bears a week. We’re on bear 6/10, and everyone in the guild is holding their breath, wondering whether we’ll have time to finish before the patch.
I may be one of the only Warcraft players hoping that the expansion gets pushed back just a tiiiiny smidge.
One of our guildmembers (he comments here under the name of “Shatter”) has been creating a lot of movies for us - recording some of our runs, creating some recruitment videos (we aren’t currently recruiting, but they’re a lot of fun anyway) and basically just tickling all of us with his creations. My favorite of the ones he’s done was a monologue by Zul’Jin, inviting us to “play a game”, and complaining about a certain giant-headed, near-sighted gnome.
RavenWatch
Still no Anzu mount for me. We’ve run that blasted thing every day for well over a month now, still no raven mount. When I get that thing, I am going to spend hours, every day, just walking in circles around Shattrath.
Also, whoever made the decision to nerf fear ward because it “won’t be a significant mechanic in BC” can bite me. Anyone who has run heroic Sethekk Halls knows what I’m talking about.
I was going to tame an owl on my hunter, and now I hate the bloody things on sight. One more football rush by one of those birds while I’m in the middle of a critical heal, and I’m going to be chunking bricks at any owl I see in this game.
“What do you mean, you didn’t do anything? Tell that to your cousins in Sethekk!” *waves a brick around menacingly*
Brewfest
Brewfest this year gives Alliance folks one of the very very few chances we ever have to acquire a horde mount - and as a self-proclaimed kodo-hater, I feel it’s significant when I say that the brewfest kodo looks AWESOME.
I prefer my sleek, sporty rides, personally. But if you’re looking for an SUV, there’s nothing hotter than a brewfest kodo.
Vanguard’s been running the BRD alt-swap game since the start of Brewfest, getting as many attempts at the mount as we possibly can. We’ve gotten one ram and four kodos, and enough trinkets to send Ikiss into paroxysms of joy. I hope he chokes on them.
I love this holiday boss idea. Direbrew and the Headless Horseman both take people back to old world locations, and they’re doable by normal groups. I felt that the frost boss was a little too difficult for the average group, but I feel that Direbrew’s fight has a lot of fun and just enough of a challenge to keep it interesting.
Plus, there’s nothing funnier than a beartank druid running around with a giant beer barrel on his head. And any fight which requires players to open their inventory and chug down a mug of beer is aces in my book.
Kudos to Blizz. And Kodos to us. <3
Magister’s Terrace
Oddly enough, despite a TON of heroic Magister’s Terrace runs (everyone in our guild and their alts has the trinkets from there now), we still haven’t gotten another white chocobo or a baby pheonix drop. It’s becoming something of an in-joke - we won’t get any more vanity toys until the raven mount drops for me.
I will say that I hope Blizz takes note of the incredible outcry of disgust at the Delrissa fight in MrT. Any fight THAT incredibly difficult, which can be rendered laughably simple just by bringing a warlock, is stupidly designed. If I wanted to PvP, I would do so. A difficult fight that takes skill to overcome is fabulous. A chaotic fight with no aggro and which requires luck or a specific group makeup to overcome is an insult.
I am both looking forward to and dreading finding out what instances and raids are like in Wrath.
TreeDrood
One of the players that joined us for Vanguard has spent the intervening time leveling up as fast as his little treeDrood heart can possibly level. He’ll be healing Kara with me this week. Wish him luck!
*grins ferally* He’s gonna need it.
Summary
And that’s what we’ve been up to! New guild, Kara badge runs (when we run with ten people instead of seven, it goes much faster), ZA bear runs, heroic farming, Anzu runs, Heroic MrT runs for pets, trinkets, and birdmounts, teasing a tree, and financing a fleet of kodos.
How are YOU spending the time between now and the expansion?
September 23rd, 2008
I have my dead horse. I am content with that, for now.
You spoiled kids and your vanity pets! *fist shake*
How am I going to spend time till the expansion? Slowly, painstakingly making my way to outland. It can’t be nearly as bad out there as people make it sound.
Right?
Maybe I’ll just hide in the battlegrounds…
September 23rd, 2008
lol, for some reason the video of Zul’jin reminded me of youTube’s “The Guild”. Have you ever watched it? It’s priceless!
September 23rd, 2008
All that’s left on my personal list is the epic belt from Black Morass. The Girdle of Valorous Deeds would complete my Paladin’s D3 design set and give me a nice proud sense of accomplishment. My shaman’s upgrades require too much reliance on a skilled tank, or patience in the Arena’s entry level points-for-losers program. The warrior is fine, and kind of a disappointment. Luckily he’s still fun to play solo. My druid sits pretty and my warlock needs maybe two Auchindoun runs to finish his Battlegear set. Honestly, I’m more interested in polishing the alts of my friends and helping the casual mains in my guild.
Luckily, Brewfest allows me to help upwards of 15 people in a single evening. Three days into the event and nearly 14 individual toons are “done” collecting the trinkets to their primary and secondary spec. Only ~30 more to go.
September 23rd, 2008
I was running BGs for my War Kodo as my little 60 shadow priest…
…but then I got into the beta. Ran two death knights through their starting zones, and rediscovered the joy of my Nelf hunter (who was shelved because we run for the Horde now).
And since then I haven’t really had much interest in doing BC stuff. We’re trying to get a couple of friends into the Outlands, on both sides (Pally-trio and a little moo-kitty who runs with our spriest and tankadin), but that’s been a scheduling nightmare.
September 23rd, 2008
You’re not the only one hoping that the patch comes sooner as opposed to later. The guild has been running Amani War Bear runs since June, but most of the people who have been there that long have yet to get their mounts. As a result, a lot of people who have joined in a handful of runs have their mounts while we don’t. It’s not a bad thing nor something to complain about, but I’d love to have one!
September 23rd, 2008
Bah! Later as opposed to sooner! Later! Later! Silly me.
September 23rd, 2008
If you guys are that busy now, I shudder to think the calories you’ll burn when the Wrath is released. Good deal!
I will agree that a boss fight that depends on luck is definately a huge letdwon; however the Delrissa battle has always been a wonderfully refreshing pain in the keester for me. I know that Tank’em, Heal’em, and Hurt’em is the galactic core of everything WoW, but a fight that deviates from that and literally forces everyone out of their comfort zone has been kinda neat for me.
Good luck to you, and the bear you’ll ride in on.
~V
September 23rd, 2008
Kil’jaedan * must * die.
that is all.
(that and I just want to slap a paladin atm, but that’s another story)
g/l on your bear mounts.
September 23rd, 2008
Running as much 25-man content as I can. Over these last two weeks I’ve enjoyed my first kills of Hydross, Lurker, and the Void Reaver.
Weekly Kara clear to train and gear new tanks, stock up on badges (spellpower changes may require some gear adjustments to get the most out of lvl 70 epics), and to get to know new guild members.
Oh yah, and dailys/dailies (theres something for you Ego … which is it?) - first to payback the guild bank for the thousands of gold borrowed to build - almost instantaneously - a shadow priest set of gear (debt is down to 500g, yay), and second to get my Netherwing Dragon (only hitting revered now).
September 23rd, 2008
@Hildi
I smell another guest post from “another story”!
September 23rd, 2008
@Iratio
It’s dailies.
September 24th, 2008
Me? I’m grinding for a Wintersaber mount.
What more classy way to enter the frozen wastes of Northrend in November?
September 24th, 2008
@Agiel
I’ve seen a few episodes in the wake of the Dr. Horrible popularity explosion. =]
@Urthona
Agreed! Brewfest is helping satisfy my desire to help people on a larger scale than I’m normally able to, I love it. Although egads, we’ve only got about twelve people in our guild and we’re spending hours doing resets. You have a stronger constitution (or stronger coffee) than I!
@Gauntlet
Arg, scheduling with friends. I feel your pain. Also, hunters are quite possibly some of the most FUN you can have in this game, solo. Love ‘em.
@Cynra
*laughs* I know what you mean! We’ll hope really hard together, and maybe we’ll both have bear mounts before the patch! *grins* I expect a full report, come November!
@Vendric
If only Warcraft burned actual calories. *wistful sigh* I’d throw that gorram elliptical out the window.
But yes, I’m super excited about the expansion. I’ll probably see the quests on my hunter and the instances on my priest. Best of both worlds. That, and TONS of sightseeing and photo (screenshot) taking.
@Hildi
I’m rooting for you!
@Iratio
You know, I hadn’t thought of that. So many raiding guilds bemoaning the drop in enthusiasm - what about those people who wanted to raid and are only just now getting the opportunity? I love hearing that people are still doing content.
Also, Khol is correct, it’s ‘dailies’. For some reason, ‘dailys’ means ‘newspapers’ to me, even though I don’t think it’s right there either.
@draiggoch
That might possibly be the best answer yet. You are going to look AWESOME on that mount in Northrend!