Ever get that…weird feeling?

Like someone is trying to take advantage of you….sexually?

A little background on this Screenshot Story.  I was in Outland at level 80.  I’m not entirely sure why, but I certainly wasn’t there to run any instances with anyone, especially people I didn’t know.

All of a sudden I get a party invite from some guy that is standing next to me.  As you can see, my response in /say is “What?”.

His response?  “just follow me plz”  Um, no way buddy.  I’ve seen this movie, it doesn’t end well.

Obviously curious…I ask what he wants.  He can’t turn my skin into a Randul suit if I’m flying away right?

And of course, the best response ever.  “instnince”

To which I gave a fairly straight forward reply.

What’s the moral of the story here, kids?  Random WOW players are like the folks you might find in this van.

You are better off just leaving them alone.

Apologies

I must give a heartfelt apology for my lack of activity of late.  The truth is, I can’t say for certain when I will become active again.  I want to write and I still play and enjoy the game very much, but other issues have kept me from blogging.

I have been extremely busy at work lately, which limits my time for writing considerably.  I’ve also been missing work lately because I’ve had to take my baby boy to the Children’s Hospital way more times than is convenient.  (FYI, O times is the only convenient amount of times to have to take your child to a specialized hospital)

Having said all that, if I do manage to get the time I do intend to keep writing.  My guild is active in Icecrown Citadel, so we’ve been trucking along on the raiding front.

I’ll depart with a few thoughts.

1)  My guild wiped on Anub last night.  It gets worse…we wiped not on Anub’arak, but Anub’rekhan.  Yes, the guy in Naxx.  Shameful.

2)  Since I can’t be as active as I’d like, I’ll direct you to a couple blogs that are active and very worth reading.

Clearcasting – Updated daily.  I enjoy this blog a lot and I think you will too.

Reputation Grind – Updated daily as well.

Brain Needed Space – Not updated daily, but I love this blog.  Not WOW either, but hawt.

I know I’ve lost some readers, and for that I am bummed.  However, life happens and can’t always be helped.  Hopefully Monday I’ll have something for you.

Oops! Here are your achievements!

I logged in after church last night just to check mail and see who was on.  My wife decides to get on Facebook for a little bit, so I think to myself, “What the heck, I’ll run a random.”

I log onto my Death Knight Kered and queue as DPS.  I just didn’t feel like tanking last night.  I sit in the queue for about 3 minutes and a dungeon pops.  Hey, that was fast!

I zone into Drak’Theron Keep and I have to admit, I’m pretty happy with the situation.  No, there isn’t anything I can use in that dungeon, but it should be decently quick and stress free.  Turns out I was right.  We had good dps, a good tank, and no one died, so I’m assuming the healer was solid.

I get the Consumption Junction achievement and the Heroic Drak’Theron Keep achievement.  Who knew I hadn’t run DTK?  I certainly didn’t.

I zone back into Dalaran and the wife is still on her computer so I throw caution to the wind and run another random.  I zone into Halls of Stone……..AGH!  I hate this instance.  It’s not that it’s that hard, it’s just annoying to me.  I feel the same way about Occulus.  Not hard, just annoying.  I’m not the type to zone in and drop though, so I decide to give it a shot.

The tank, healer & ret pally were “ok”.  Nothing exceptional, but not bad either.  The mage there was actually geared appropriately, so they could use stuff from the bosses.  I have no problem with that, it’s what Heroics are for.

We wiped a couple times on stupid things.  The ret somehow managed to aggro the rock boss from half an instance away and he walked over and owned our faces while we were fighting trash.  The warrior tank didn’t los pull a couple groups of adds, so we ended up with 3 groups of adds casting chain lightning at us, wipe.  I’m pretty sure there was another one, but I can’t remember how it went down now.  On the last one the wife had gone to bed and I was seriously contemplating dropping group, but I decided to stick it out.

We down the Maiden and I get the achievement.  Nifty, I was surprised I hadn’t got it already.  We do the Brann encounter and get the achievement.  Cool.

We get to the last boss and everyone dies but the healer, and yet we somehow manage to drop him.  DING DING DING DING DING!  Uh, what?

Apparently I had never run HoS before either.  I get the regular HoS achievement, the Heroic HoS achievement, the Northrend Dungeonmaster achievement, the Looking for More achievement AND the Champion of the Frozen Wastes achievement/title!  Pretty sure I got a stonekeepers shard achievement there too, there was some sick achievement spam.

So grats to me, for 1) actually playing my DK and 2) sticking out a mediocre group to get some unexpected achievements.

Bad Blogger is Bad

I was going to post a screenshot of my new sword today, but I’m forgetful and I forgot my jump drive with the screenie on it.

Sooooooo, I will give you a screenshot of a much less exciting nature.  The achievement page at wowarmory.com!

Yes, I now have Quel’Delar.  To be quite honest, I felt a little bad about rolling on it when I found out that it didn’t offer a tank sword.  Then I remembered a few things.  First, I am a lore nerd and the quest to get the sword is really amazing from a lore perspective.  Secondly, I pvp and this is a huge (200 top-end damage) upgrade over Reckoning.  Lastly, why the heck not?  It’s a unique weapon that has history, I deserve a shot at it just as much as anyone else.

For the stat freaks:

Quel’Delar, Might of the Faithful

• Two-Hand Sword
• 769 – 1155 Damage
• Speed 3.6
• 262.2 damage per second
• 164 Strength
• 164 Stamina
• Improves Critical Strike rating by 99
• Improves Haste rating by 91

How do you get Quel’Delar?  You have to loot a battered hilt out of the Heroic version of any of the new Icecrown 5-mans.  Once you loot it, you can start a quest chain that will take you to Quel’Delar’s Rest, south of the Argent Tournament Grounds.  After that you will be kited around from Wyrmrest to Dalaran to all three of the new 5-mans and finally to the Sunwell.

At the end of the quest line, there is a plate dps 2-handed sword, a hunter 2-handed sword, a 1-handed Agility sword and a caster sword to choose from.  If your class can’t use swords, there is a melee 1-handed mace, a 2-handed melee mace & a caster mace to choose from.

All in all, it’s an awesome item with some awesome lore and a fun questline.  If you have a chance to roll on the battered hilt, do it.

I won’t be blogging until 2010, so enjoy your holidays and a hearty Merry Christmas to you if you are so inclined.