Coming back...

Coming back.... but not as hard core as I was before.

Since I stopped playing WoW it always felt like I was missing something. I know that sounds dumb but it really was a game that I spent most of my time playing. It played as a therapeutic outlet for me a lot of times. I used it as an outlet when I wanted to escape reality and shitty life and the things that were happening in it. When I got dumped, it was there for me. Friends I made ingame mattered more to me then they will ever know.

I have a boyfriend (Jeff) now that does not play video games and didn't really want me getting back into the game because he knew how much time I have spent playing it. I have tried to stay away from everything WoW. This includes buying Blizzcon live streams, watching trailers, reading my WoW Blogs, Reading a couple old WoW books that I bought but never read... 

But what broke me.... a couple days ago I went on my kindle because I wanted to start reading, not necessarily WoW books but just my kindle books in general, and a recommended book popped up... "Before the Storm" I bought it, and I'm just a couple chapters in and that was it... That's all it took to open the flood gates. Everything came rushing back to me, ALL my toons, my guild with all my gold, the Horde cities I saw everyday and I could give directions to anywhere you asked (I cant even do that in my home town), My friends I left with no notice I was quitting, all my screenshots on my hard drive, all my WoW blogs which I took so much pride in... All the money I spent on Mounts and pets from the Blizzard store. Everything!

Seeing me miss it so much Jeff told me to start playing again....

When I left the game, my built PC died. This ultimately was the deciding factor. I was in need of a quick fix for a computer and didn't care what I was getting. My main goal was to get one that I could use to pay my bills, surf the interwebs, and stream my Hulu and Netflix. I knew I was spending way too much time on WoW and not really having a social life outside of it. Jeff knows how much this game consumed my life, I also don't want him to regret letting me play again. I have set ground rules, that include not gaming all night!, limiting myself to a certain amount of time to play a day, not getting into raiding, Not caring how shitty my gear is... oh geez those are painful rules already. But if I want to keep the boyfriend happy as well, I must do these things. Besides the most things I miss is just getting on my toons, farming, working the Auction house, getting my screenshots, making up stories, just having fun. I was never one that was interested in End game content. I liked to wait till things died down, get better gear and go in and crush it solo... WAIT! NO!!! Im not going to focus on gear now on. dammit RULES!!!!

Alright now to end this entry. In a couple of days I will be getting my prebuild gaming PC, I will just go out and buy a bigger, nicer monitor. I am super excited, the whole download time will be torture for me. But until then, I think I'll take a look at my old screen shots and see if I can make stories out of some of them for now.

Deadskully is coming back Bitches!!!

Many Many toons (5/24/216)

It's been a while since I've written anything. That doesn't mean I haven't been playing. All I've been doing is playing WoW. No surprise there actually.
My plan was to get 2 other servers equal with Hyjal. This means Maxed 100s, maxed professions and all my toons is in my bank guild. Lothar was going to be my Alliance server but I'm having a difficult time either deleting or faction transferring my 3 Horde toons on Lothar.
But I haven't been spending any time on Lothar anyways. Alexstrasza on the other hand. Besides my 4 100's, I've actually been very good at leveling my other toons at the same pace. Non maxed toons are all now 68 and in Northred.
I've been told I'm crazy, nothing new. I'm fine with mundane repetitiveness. I've taken the same route and zones to level each toon. I could do it with my eyes closed. And majority of my toons are Locks. I'm comfortable playing Locks and I think no one will ever beat me at leveling a Lock. I'm not talking about playing a Warlock to it's fullest potential and having the best damage going. That was my focus in Cata and MoP. Topping Recount and Skada meters, doing raids and dungeons, caring about my item level, making sure I get into a group to down world bosses weekly. I have a terrible habit of taking pride in leveling my toons faster then others I see in zones. I'm very mindful of others waiting for spawns, invite to group because I have an exp boost ticking down and I know I'll tag a target before anyone on my locks. If they decline, well then sucks to be them.
WoD brought alot of things I still could do solo. With the introduction of Garrisons, all my time was spent in there doing my own shit, to the point I don't even notice my chat box. Playing or even talking with others took a major backseat to my focus on jumping on every single toon, doing all my daily profession CDs, all my garrison missions, etc.
I know this is terrible but I choose to not level with friends. I've tried, but I find no one I know plays like me. I sit down to play and nothing distracts me from my game time. I can't stand the "BRB"s and "sec"s... And I find myself waiting around for them to get back and thinking I could have done 10 fuckin quests in that time. It seriously annoys me to no end. I'll help with advice, but I try not to physically help unless it's to kill something with a maxed level toon. Goodness I sound like a fuckin bitch. Oh well.

"I know my constant toon switching can be annoying and I understand if you want to delete my Btag. I won't take it personally <3"

That was my Btag message apologizing for the toon hopping. No one deleted me, and I personally wouldn't get annoyed if anyone else plays the same as I, but I did leave the option open. I do delete people off my friends list but it's not because they are on constantly, It's because they're not. Nothing hurts anything by just leaving them on there, but I delete them anyways. If they decide to reconnect with Blizzard games, then I'll add again, but if not, no worries. Everyone on my Btag, I know through other means of communication anyways. 

(written 5/24/16)

I will get you one day Invincible!

I wanted to do this for a while but until recently, maybe the last 2 months I actually searched how to solo ICC as strictly a damage dealer. I never thought it was possible for me to get past one stupid part. Dreamwalker. I'm sure other DPS without healing spec can get past it without a problem, but sadly, I'm not one of the savvy players. But I can't figure it out, I'll take shortcuts IDGAF. hehe. So help showed me a way to skip over Dreamwalker. Goblin Glider after Blood Queen... Easy peasy!!!.
Anywhos... 0.89% drop rate for the mount... WTF!?!??!?
It takes me about 45 minutes to get through ICC 25man Heroic. It's been the only thing that I've really been doing in-game for that long of a time on one specific toon since getting my gobby lock on Lothar to 90. 
Invincible...
With Prince Arthas from the day he was born, until the day he got hurt in the cold snow and Arthas having to put him out of his suffering. Buried at the farm he was born and finally being brought back by Arthas the Death Knight as his undead steed.
Aside from Invincible being an awesome mount in game I loved the story of Arthas and Invincible. While reading the book, I cried when Invincible got injured and Arthas has to put him down. Yeah you know he's gonna be brought back, but still. lol
The following is just some screenies.

Game time present for Skully

Argh!!!!

Go read this entry: Game Time for Gold (link) before you continue reading...

I was so excited for not spending RL money on WoW for a bit yeah?. Weeeell. What's even better then that is when a friend gives you a game time code for 1 whole fuckin year!, yeah you heard me... a YEAR! I was leery about it. many questions came along with it, Where did you get it? why are you giving it to me? is my account gonna get hacked after I enter in this code?

It was just a friend being nice. He said he knew I'd get the best use out of it. And y'all know, sadly he wasn't wrong there. I just got done telling him I'd only stop playing when I'm dead!
So I will NOT be buying anymore game time tokens for gold, or dipping into RL money for a whole year. But on a serious note this was a nice thing an old friend did for me considering I stopped talking to him for a long time.

Game Time for Gold

It's been just under 2 months since this feature came out. I think It's awesome!
Blizzard is now giving the option for us to buy game time with ingame gold. I read in trade a while back that someone said they have enough gold to pay for WoW until the year 2018. That's just crazy.
I decided to buy one and see how it worked.
Went to the auction house last tab is specifically for game time. I bought one and it comes in the mail. Click on the wow token and it's uses the item.

Then it adds 30 days on top of when your renewal was going to come up.
So I bought another one this morning. I'm saving $15 a month when I get the Tokens. Until I'm broke in WoW I think I will always buy my monthly Sub like this as long as Blizz keeps this feature active.
These are 26k a pop so I had to calculate how much months I could buy with the gold on all my toons combined. I can get 18 months worth of WoW time if I went broke today. But I won't do that.


Edit: Unforeseen (pt 2)
link: Game time present for Skully

Warbringer farming with douches

OK so once in a while if I'm in the mood to just log into WoW and sit somewhere, just because, I go to Pandaland and camp Warbringers. I don't wanna do my research as of late so I don't know if they changed it, but last I checked the Warbringers on the specific color Direhorns are the mounts they drop. Slate, Jade, and Amber.
I already have Slate and according to my personal farming statistics, I see Slate the most. I've seen Jade and Amber only a couple of times. And I've had Slate drop for me 3 times. Jade is easily discernible but Slate and Amber are harder to tell apart until you look closer, but usually by that time I've already engaged in combat and I feel like an asshole when I just want the kill not caring if another Slate mount drops.

Yes there are quite a few people still farming these mounts but I've noticed that majority of them are actually courteous of the ones that are doing the same and camped out their spots. We see people there and just move to the next spawn site. And then there are assfaces like this douche. I pride myself to be an awesome clicker, I can tag things pretty fast. This druid landed and started to cast Hurricane at the spawn spot. What a fuckin asshole. I'm clearly standing right there. I let several minutes go by before I decide to fight for my kill.

Alright you bastard, lets see who tags it first!.  I start casting Hellfire right on the spawn point. Warbringer pops and I get the tag first. And this cry baby has something to say. It's not luck fucker!! that skillz!!! sooo kidding. haha. Clicking something to cast and waiting 10 seconds to click again isn't very skillfull. hush! Still, I'm good at it. :-P
Aaaand it's a Slate... poops! My next move would have been frowned upon by most. I rewarded this douche for being an asshole pretty much. I should have just finished my kill and if the mount dropped just rub it in his face. But I decided to be nice and give it to him. I told him to come back and by his response, he had no idea why. Who in their right mind would give up a Warbringer kill, even after his derogatory comment. After getting the Warbringer down half way I demonic lept off the cliff and meteored safety down so I was out of range and the Druid's spells could resume the tag on target. I mounted up and flew away. then he whispered a thanks. My main objective for what I did was show that some people are nice in this game. As pessimistic as I am about the morality of most players, sometimes me included, I do hope kindness goes a long way.

Lock Help

The first time I've ever accepted help for Deadskully.
Yeah after all this time playing this game I was willing to accept help from someone. I usually go to Icy Veins, Noxxic or just trial and error my roto and talents myself. In Draenor I knew I was doing something wrong, I knew my gear isn't bad at all and my talents weren't where they were supposed to be. Joined a new guild and got help. Damage went up so much and I didn't even get the roto perfect.
Practiced a bit more and it's been getting better. Same thing like all the other times before. My talent to keep Dags out full time isn't the best. I was a bit embarrassed when I was about to explain to new guildie as to why I refused to talent out to Grimoire of Supremacy.
Eventually did tell him, and he understood and tried to come up with ways to work around it. But I gave in and figured if I ever was asked to fill in for a guildie, I could just retalent. Not sure why I never thought about it. I probably did but didn't care, because the tweaks in my rotation and the impact of my damage in Panda was sufficient for me and the things I did. I never actually raided and I slowed down tremendously on the dungeons and LFRs. 
But anyways I'll work on Deadskully and try not to cry when I have to keep out my Terrorguard instead of Dags.