Legion hype!

You may think I'm a bit slow getting on the band wagon with this but not so. I've been reading the opinions of fellow hunters and have come to the same conclusion that I had when I first read about it all.
I'm dubious about it.

There is the bonus that the social segregation that is the Garrison will be a thing of the past and the ship yard can go and sink into the watery depths of Shadowmoon for all I care.

Dalaran is back (yay!) I like neutral city's. Dalaran holds some mystical power over people as even now it's still more populated than the major Alliance cities. And it's prettier and more compact than Shattrath. Everything you pretty much need without it being a sprawling mess of empty terraces or 'fake' buildings.

However, Garrisons might be gone but we're only half way back to everyone being under one roof. Class halls.
That's right people, we're so close to having everyone together again, where you and your guild mates adopt a particular area of a city as your own and you know that's where someone will be to chat shit with and make new friends.

RIP Macbook

I love my Macbook.
However, it's gaming life is coming to an end.
The plastic base has melted and bubbled, to the extent it's peeling away from the casing at the side.
I've spilt juice on it. Got nail varnish on it.
I've generally 'loved it' more than it was designed for.

Three months ago it started doing crazy things on the screen if I played wow for three or four hours. So this pretty much happened at the tail end of raid nights when I was crabby anyway.
Somehow, through the lag and the disco screen I'd still be able to cobble together some form of rotation.

One evening (while I was questing) my screen went again and I took some snaps and sent them to Francis.



Over ts I was greeted with "Omg how long has this been happening?"
"A while"
There was silence for a minute or two...
"Ella your screen is fragmenting. That means your graphics card is about to die. We haveto get you a new laptop!"

This did worry me slightly. Whenever wow its running the fan is going like crazy and judging by the visible external damage, I'd cooked the insides.

I did get a laptop ordered. And there were three of us sat in ts while we were discussing the options.
Francis was telling Marvv about the graphics cards I could have and the processor, Marvv was 'ooh and aah-ing' like it was fireworks night.
I don't computer. So this meant absolutely nothing to me but considering Francis has a 'battlestation' that is so quick it seems wow loads by thought alone, I trusted his judgement.

Scroll along to yesterday. Hellfire Citadel normal and we were on Gorefiend. This is a new boss to us (this might seem slacky but considering we have been struggling to get enough healers to do anything, then needing to teach them because they're completely new, it's hampered progression slightly...) anyway, after failed attempts due to mistakes, my screen went into disco mode.
"My screen has fucked up"
"Omg I don't know how you play like that..."
"I'm used to it now"

My raid frames were flashing random numbers instead of the names and colours, my portrait was a blank flashing mess, I couldn't see the number of deterrence I had left, the boss health bar was flashing between 100% and around 60%... not only all of that but the mechanics and shit on the floor don't show up very well as things like massive purple and blue doom shit on the floor also flash in and out of existence. So I have to be so, so careful.
I never know what exactly I'm stood in and have to rely on dbm to tell me to move, which means I take avoidable damage, which wastes healers mana... I'm also looking more at the floor than at what's going on so if something in targeting dies, I'm caught in the horrible position of trying to reposition carefully and not actually shooting anything.
Which means my dps was below standard and I was feeling miserable and I did something I've done once, perhaps twice in my entire time raiding, I left the raid.

I did get a pep talk later from Chris, who informed me that I was doing the mechanics and I talk, which was good. I'm just hampered by having only switched spec two days ago into something I haven't played for two years (FUCK MM, HOW MUCH I HATE IT) and playing on a potato.

I am looking forward to getting the new laptop. £600 ish well spent if it means it makes up for my missing dps. If it doesn't, then as Ketod says "just delete the damn character..."



Maybe I can use the flashing on my mini map as an excuse as to why I always end up lost?

I've been very quiet...

The blog posts have been scarce. It's not to say things haven't happened but I don't think five posts on us trying to get kilrogg down would have been that exciting.

So it's time to have a little round up.

We've had our moments as a raid team. From charging into Hellfire Citadel with not one single clue what we were doing to struggling to get down Kormorog with five pugs and once they left, one shot it with room to spare.

The one liners have been epic.
On Kormorog we had an accident. That mechanic where the tank gets big and then explodes? *snigger* well we had that happen next to us while we were in the grasping hands.
Jolly then says over ts "I'm so sorry guys for exploding in your hands"

We then delayed starting a boss to have a good giggle at 'finding a unicorn' which was some sort of random code phrase for making a woman orgasam.
This lead to the topic which we have been going on about for days. Sexual innuendos via pokemon.
Squirtle and Starmie being obvious ones. We then had some epic down time going through the pokedex to find some others.
Diglet cropped up as a given, there was also Jinx the sex doll.
Onyx was named. The quick reply being "everything is a dildo if you're brave enough!" Stunned silence from those who were taking that comment in and loud laughter from those who got it immediately.
There was another crude comment, to which Jolly replied that there were ladies in the ts channel.
"Danue is the only lady in this channel..."

Then there's the obvious hilarity at taking the piss out of someone's char name...




There's been the pathfinder achievement, of which I've only just completed.
Sat with some of the guys in ts, they were taking the piss out of my awful sense of direction in wow.
The thing is, in Draenor, I was so busy just zooming through to 100 that I didn't take any locations in, or study the lore, or finish any quest lines. So when I looked it all up I had the following quest lines to finish:
Shadowmoon = 1
Gorgrond = 2
Talador = 3
Spires = 4
Nagrand = 5

Starting with the lowest I went through and slowly started the grind. Yet again, I didn't read any quest text so I wouldn't be able to tell Thralls arse from Yrels elbow. (Oh how I hate her,  but that's another story)
I worked my way through up until my last one was Nagrand. Lots of "finally" gz messages would come in from my team mates when I got the quest line achievements.
Off to Nagrand and I wasn't looking forward to this one. I'd literally spent two quest lines here. I hadn't even built my outpost even though I was stood next to its wooden carcass most of the time (The pain of trapping in Nagrand was very real and I was really glad to get rid of my barn).
As I was going through, I had managed to miss a quest line in the middle of the series, but carried on regardless. I was at the pivotal moment where Yrel (urgh) and I had to 'deal' with Garrosh. I wasn't really paying much attention to it all until the cinematic. I didn't have sound or the subtitles on so I only had the visual to go on. Watching Thrall and Garrosh beat each other about the head but not end up with a scratch on them. Then Thralls eyes went all red and my immediate thought was OMG THRALLS GONE BAD!
Then he used his shaman magic. Garrosh was clamped in a hand and then electrocuted.
Wait what?
Hold the front page!





I've spent the entire time from launch (and when I dinged) to now thinking that Garrosh was still alive and well, causing mischief somewhere.
Frank then said that ages ago they were talking about lore and he said then that Garrosh was dead, wasn't I listening?!
Clearly not!
The fact that everyone else was 100% aware and my obvious astonishment at what I'd just seen made the situation ten times funnier than what it could have been.

Better late than never though!