Many Many Accomplishments!

Phew, it's been a very interesting evening. After I got home from work, the heroic instance bug bit the hubby pretty hard. So we hit up Heroic Violet Hold and kicked its tail, with a couple of interesting moments due to encountering a couple of bosses I'd never tanked before. No wipes, though hubby died once and almost couldn't get back into the instance!

Once that was done, we got a group together for Heroic Utgarde Keep, which was the daily. Again, we rocked the kasbah, finishing up the entire instance before my buffs ran out! Since we were doing so well, we headed up to Utgarde Pinnacle, and wiped that place clean as well. No drake, but also no deaths.

Hubby and I were on a roll, so after dinner I decided it was time to conquer my fear of the timed run of Heroic Culling of Stratholme. We grabbed some DPS and headed out. It was messy, but we got through the first two bosses and headed for the inn. We destroyed the dragons in there, and moved on to the part that made me the most nervous... the gauntlet. With about 8 minutes left. I have to say that I could not have managed it without hubby here. He was my cheerleader and my hero. I kept asking him, am I doing ok? And he'd say yep, you're doing fine, just keep pushing through, as long as I'm at half mana or so I can keep up.

And suddenly, we were through it. With six minutes left on the timer, we rushed the boss, and took him out! Mal'ganis was basically an afterthought, I tanked with one hand and cleansed sleep with the other, and he was a goner. And at the end of it all...

Some screenshots :)

Noob.

The Big Bear Butt has asked us WoW bloggers what sort of experiences we're having in Wrath, whether it be dealing with asshattery, or someone who goes above and beyond to be courteous in the face of the mass exodus to Northrend.

Hubby and I spent a good portion of the weekend in Borean Tundra, and really didn't have any completely extraordinary experiences with other players. There were a few things that came to mind though, and I will share them with you.

There was the player on the Brewfest kodo who saw my new Rhino pet (named Rocksteady, kudos to anyone who gets the reference), and yelled "OMG Rhino!" while running in gleeful circles around me and my pet. Good for a giggle :)

There was the player who eventually ended up on my ignore list thanks to a problem with a bugged quest. He decided that rather than just put in a ticket, he would grill General chat about said quest. It started off innocently enough, he asked if anyone else had encountered the same problem. A few other people had, most of them just skipped the quest line and moved on, so they advised him to do the same. Some people said, open a GM ticket and see if they can fix it. For the next half an hour he kept asking in General about this quest. He wanted to know if the rewards at the end were good, or if it was just XP. Look it up on Thottbot, dude. Seriously. DO something productive to figure this stuff out, don't ask a bunch of people who maybe have or have not done that quest line what the rewards were, when most of us have already been inundated with so many quest rewards we couldn't tell you what one in particular came from any specific quest. I have no problem with people asking questions. That's really what I figure general chat is for. I DO have a problem with people who refuse to accept advice after their question has been answered, and persist in question after question about the same stupid thing.

That's odd. The fun thing only took me one sentence to explain, while the bad thing took an entire paragraph. I will have to think of more fun things, to make up this imbalance. Unfortunately, I am having trouble thinking of them. I can remember several times laughing out loud at things that happened in game, but I'm at a loss for the actual stories behind them.

Oh! Here's one. A bit of a personal embarrassment, but hey, I don't mind sharing with y'all. I ran the Nexus with a group of guildies. It was my second time in there, hubby's second, the healer's second, the other hunters' second, and the tank's first. Thankfully hubby and I had a knowledgeable tank the first time, so we had a pretty good idea where things were. We made our way to the first boss, across all the floating platforms and whatnot. We got to the boss, and started up the fight.. everything was going well until I discovered a problem with the way I had arranged my action bar. I had Disengage in between Arcane Shot and Bestial Wrath, and at one point in my rotation, I missed Arcane Shot.. and guess what I hit? That's right, the button that launches you backwards 15 yards. Right off the edge of the platform. I quickly released and ran back, and tried not to make a big deal out of it. Hubby of course, asked me what had happened. Did the boss knock me back? No. Did I accidentally run off the edge? No. I finally told him, and he had a good laugh at my expense.

Disengage is no longer on my button bar.