Not a good week

I'm having a decidedly bad week. Lots of stress at work. In spite of that stress I had to take a day off yesterday, so Dell could come and take the second computer back. And, you guessed it, they didn't come. Although I don't usually shout at people, I guess I was rather unfriendly to a hapless Dell representative on the phone yesterday evening. Well, at least they promised to come today, after work hours, which they don't usually do. I don't know yet what to do if they again don't come.

My virtual life isn't much better. Our guild continues, in spite of all officers having left or resigned, but obviously there are now even less people available to group with. Yesterday we joined with another allied guild to do some Arathi Basin battles, but unfortunately we lost all 4 battles we tried. Anyone got any good tactics for there, which would allow you to win against a bunch of unkillable paladins in epic gear? Well, at least I got enough honor points to keep my Sergeant's rank.

It isn't exactly a consolation to me that my French speaking friends from my D&D group had even worse luck with their guild. They had found a guild not unsimilar to mine, large, but friendly. But then that guild merged with another guild to form an uber-guild, going on raids every day. For a while that was great, they killed up to 9 bosses in Molten Core on a single Sunday and got 25 epic items. But now there was some internat conflict, and the uber-guild dissolved. So now the members of the large but friendly guild are going to start a new guild on a new server, PvP this time, and restart from zero. They asked me whether I wouldn't want to come, but the problem is that due to different family situations they rarely all play at the same time, and as they play different numbers of hours per week, they tend to level at different speeds. Maybe I'll create a character there and at least have a look.

The alternative would be continueing to level my priest, who just hit level 35. At level 35 I discovered that while I now was able to visit the master trainers of tailoring and enchanting to lift my skill cap from 225, that visit isn't that easy. The master enchanting trainer is *in* the instanced dungeon of Uldaman, a you need to kill lots of level 39 to 42 elite mobs, and hordes of scorpions, to get to him. A friendly level 60 guild mate guided me there, through the Uldaman back door, but I died a couple of times. And while I now have no more skill cap, I will need to go to the trainer again to learn his recipes. Other than that the priest is fun enough to play now, fully shadow specced. Soloing most of the time, but sometimes I meet people somewhere hunting the same mobs as me, and it's easy to persuade them to group when you are a priest. I can see me leveling Kyroc, the priest, slowly to level 60, always using up the rest xp. I don't think I want to play him all the time, and level without the xp bonus.
- posted by Tobold @ 12:46 PM Permanent Link