So, Level 80 showed up this weekend. Did I respec resto and go heal a ton of dungeons? Did I pug my heardt out and grind out some heroics? No… No I didn’t. I quested as Moonkin some more. I made lots of money and got absolutely nothing accomplished.

Well, that’s not entirely true. I got some pants and bots made, but I didn’t do anything else to gear myself up for Naxx-10 tonight. Is 1225 SP unbuffed enough for Naxx-10? I doubt it. Is 12.7k health enough? I doubt it.

So last night I respecced, figuring It’d save time tonight and I could get a heroic in before the big show, but I started rearranging my bar and I realize… I forget how to do this.

What heal should be where on my bar? I usually use number keys for my spells and the most commonly used ones go on 2,3,4,5. What if I have more than 4 commonly used spells? I haven’t even used Nourish yet. is it as good as people say it is? Should I put it on spot 5? Should I add Alt-2, Alt-3, Alt-4, Alt-5 and put things there?

I don’t know. Tree Druids. Snow me your UI so I can see how you set up your bars. How do I do this? I forget!

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I did it I did it I did it Yay!

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A few days ago while questing in southern Dragonsblight, I came upon the loveliest creature whom I had ever seen. She was practicing her cliff diving, and I was mesmerized. So much so that I almost missed my chance to talk to her. I was floored by her beauty and elegance, and as she prepared to take her leap, she looked over at me. She smiled and waved, but being as shy as I am, I was frozen. I could feel my face flush, and I turned away in embarrassment and almost fled.

It’s a good thing I didn’t.

See, Cliff-diving is a pretty dangerous sport, and she miscalculated the jump and hit the cliff face on her way down. She was pretty banged up and I had to jump in after her and administer first aid. We got to talking and as I overcame my shy nature, I decided a guy only lives once so I asked her out.

Of course, just my luck she already had a date planned with Ratshag, that insufferable Orc. And, the classy lady she is, she didn’t want to set up two dates. I can understand that, but for her to choose Ratshag? I just don’t know. I tried to convince her that he’s just no good. He’d drop her like a bad habit. I told her how he did the same to Lady Jaina Proudmoore. While disguised as a dwarf no less. No matter how I tried to persuade her otherwise she would not relent, so I let it go. I only asked her that if things didn’t go well with Ratshag, would she consider me?

Well, as luck would have it(for me), last night Ratshag (that cad) left her in the lurch. She was all dressed up and he cancelled on her, last minute like. She called me, crying and when I offered to comfort her, she asked me to head right over. Now, seeing that I am a gentleman who doesn’t kiss and tell, I can’t give you any details of our date other than this. She’s invited me to the Cliff Diving Championships in Nagrand later this month. I won’t get to see her until then, due to her training regimen, but I have a very good feeling about this.

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Ok, this goes out to all of the bloggers I know. Post fun, silly, cool…. Screenshots. I have a few that I just can’t help but share, so… Share yours! May the best screenshot win!

What’s the criteria? How does one win?

I have no idea! it just sounded like a fun title! Someone come up with a criteria and a judge or two and we can make it a contest. If not, it’s still fun to post and view neat screenshots. Even if you’ve posted them before, post away!

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Proof that Resto Druids are the best ever…

Dead Boss. Dead Tank. Dead DPS… Live DRUID!

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I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I have had my fair share of silly chat macros. The first started when my guild was running MC, and we were trying to tell people what to do on some of the trash mobs. There was one type where you had to all stack on the mob, and strangely enough the hunters never wanted to do that, so they’d ALWAYS get charged and die, and the tank would have to run around and pick up the mob again… How annoying?

Well our Raid leader at the time described it as hugging the mob, so I, being the good officer yelled “HUG IT LIKE IT WAS YOUR MAMA” because someone yelling that from on top of a mob might make you think it might be a good idea to be where the yelling guy was, right?? So, after the first night, I macroed it and would yell it every time we had to stack on a mob. I retired that macro until Hell, I don’t even remember when. When in BC did you have to stack on mobs? It wasn’t Attumen, we never used the stacking strategy(we were dumb) I think it was Gruul trash that you have to stack up behind to stop them from charging. nobody ever listened to the tank so one night I pulled up the macro and added (yes this is a MC macro) to the end. It went over well.

/yell HUG IT LIKE IT WAS YOUR MAMA!!! yes this is a MC macro

Remember when every weapon on the planet was “HUNTAR LOOTS!”? Yes. I do too. We used to make fun of huntards all the time in my old guild and at one point I had to miss a few raids, and when I did, Resto Druid loot dropped. Like a TON of it. and it all got sharded. So, each item that dropped the ML posted “MAERDRED LOOTS” to guild chat. Whenever I missed a raid, or whenever I was in another group, and an item that I could use dropped, he’d post to guild chat, “MAERDRED LOOTS!” so, I macroed it, Three lines of “MAERDRED LOOTS!!!” and I spammed it each and every time we killed a boss. for about 2 bosses and then it got old. Then, whenever I DID win loot, I posted my Macro, and it became either Classic, or Annoying as hell, depending whether you liked me or not.

/g MAERDRED LOOTS!!!
/g MAERDRED LOOTS!!!
/g MAERDRED LOOTS!!!

So, once we started SSC we had a great time rezzing people who either lost to the ElevatorBoss, or the Crack Boss, or just plain couldn’t figure out how to stand on platforms. Well, after about a month, we had gotten over much of it and One night the raid Leader is telling us how NOT to fall in the water, and how falling in the water is BAD. Our good pal Platanum goes AFK and puts Maash on follow. When he gets back from his AFK… Well, he was dead, in the water. Maash had listened to the diatribe, and fell in the water anyway. It was hilarious. A week or so later, Tamerin, one of our Boomkins fell off the platform right after Hydros. So, I had this macro, for Plat and Maash, and Tamerin, and after about 3 weeks of farming to Vashj, I guess Lurker was just too easy, so I… Yeah. I started posting my macro a few times a night in SSC.

/ra PLATANUM SAYS “Why am I in the water?”
/ra MAASH SAYS “Um I fell.”
/ra TAMERIN SAYS “I just fell in the water…”
/ra MAERDRED SAYS  “I think I just healed Lurker with Seth’s Graphite Fishing Pole equipped.”
What are some of your silly chat macros? Hmmm?

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Last night I logged on to find a few guild members looking for an instance run. As they were two of my buddies from the Ally side of things, I jumped at the chance to spend some quality time. So as I finished up the quest I was doing I hearthed to Dalaran, sold stuff and repaired. By the time I was ready the group of Grish, Drew and Maer had added Zaven and a PUG pally healer I didn’t know. So, it was almost a full ex-RD group.

We all decided we’d hit up the Old Kingdom, which I had never done before, so that was fun! I must have spaced my way through there because I have no specific memories of the place other than we went through fast. Grish is 80, and a tank, so that kind of made things easier. I took some screenshots and this blog is fail because I never copied them to my thumb drive to transfer them here to work so I could write this post…

After we finished Old Kingdom we went to Zul’Drak which i had also never been to before. It was awesome. I want to farm it. Drew won an amazing Staff there and I wants it. It’s better than my current mace and offhand, or will e if I enchant it. It is sick. Also, I took Screenshots, but…

I dinged 75 after the first boss in the instance, which our healer didn’t even know was a boss. I didn’t realize it until I saw DBM pop up that we had started a fight. We just pulled him like we were pulling another trash mob. he was simple. Other than that the entire night kind of blurred together on me. My favorite part of the night was the stairs event. Is this the new ZF? haha!

After we were done there I took some me-time and did some achievement hunting. I got my first Dalaran Cooking Award, I finished my 50 daily quests, and I got one step closer to finishing all 5 of the Outland Fishing Dailies.

So, last night I completed 2 new dungeons, dinged 75, got my first Dalaran Cooking Award, Fished up a croc in Org, finished off my 50th daily and I have not a pixel to show you… Fail Blog is Fail.

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Wow it’s been a week since my last post. I don’t even have anything of substance to write. I just wanted to update that Maerrakech is now 74 and slowly heading to 80, while my alts have finally taken a back seat.

I got most of my Charger quest line done on Fohrbin this past weekend and if I can find someone to run Strat I’ll get it finished soon, but that’s a back seat. I have got to get Maerrakech up to 80 ASAP. we’re planning on running some raid or another on the 16th, and at this point I don’t know if I’ll be 80 by then if I don’t buckle down.

Is it just me or is solo leveling one of the most boring things on the planet? I just want to die. I hate it. Give me 24 of my best friends and a raid instance any day!

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