The End of My Love for Blizzard

HER: Let me count the ways I love HATE thee (in reference to both Blizzard and it's Midsummer Fire Festival)… You're too hot (in the middle of summer, though technically I love summer, but I digress), fiery (aiming for the braziers aren't too hard but boy does it get tedious after a while), full of drama (the kabooms from all my misses from torch catching), and full of world domination angst (stupid scorchling, teasing me, acting all cute, and making me want to earn one).

Actually, I just love the little Scorchling and want wanted one for myself. I was so excited about the festival since that meant more opportunities to get the pet. Unfortunately I DO have a life and couldn't farm Ahune 24/7 for two weeks last year to get him. Now, I HATE Blizzard for removing the pet (thereby rewarding those who are slaves to WoW) and I'll say that a million times until they put him back!

Nor does my boyfriend really seem to care since he was annoyed listening to me vent. =.=. Truthfully, he's very sweet. He does all the annoying torch throwing and catching for my characters. *Kissies to him.*

[This was going to be an upbeat, silly post until I found out that Ahune's pet is this new consolation prize, Ice Chip.]

Once Upon an Oculus

HER: This post is dedicated to Mister K. Thanks for the comment. We don't play too much, hence we don't write too much. If we had started this blog earlier in our level 80 career, we might have had more posts. :>. (*Whispers.* There is one draft... waiting on Luxe. -.-. God, I have too much patience with him. ;P.)

So it's been a while... Yesterday started the Midsummer Fire Festival, ugh. (Luckily it's only two characters instead of all three of our "main" characters. We each have three level 80s, that we consider mains.) So today we logged to try Lord Ahune on all our mains. Uneventful, though it is kind of cool (no pun intended) that we also received two Emblems of Frost from him. So yay to two weeks of uneventfulness...

HIM: I find it kind of cool the new system Blizzard has implemented into the Dungeon Finder for the festival bosses, which makes it a lot easier and faster to find people to kill the festival bosses.

HER: From there, we considered one daily heroic. (Dailies, and weekly to an extent, are really what has killed my enjoyment of WoW: how they feel like chores that I must do, else I miss out on a day I could have earned Frost Emblems. And tch to one of my boyfriend's main, who was being considered for a guild, since now he doesn't need them any more. <.<.)

HIM: Baby!

HER: Well, it's not fair. XO.

But trudging ahead, we decided to "collect" our two daily Frost Emblems and queued up... for The Oculus. Meh. Once upon a time, it was my dreaded daily too. It was extremely confusing (I don't do well with 3D/non-linear maps... o.o.) and it seemed we were required to be sacrificed at least once before a successful kill of Ley-Guardian Eregos. Theses days, I am much better with the map. (I still get confused sometimes... Does that make me bad with directions. ^^'.) And the players know tactics better so it's a much easier kill. (Until you try for achievements that is; people still don't understand how to use the Bronze Drake. =.=). Your turn my sidekick. :D.

HIM: Today in Oculus I was doing the daily HC on my priest for the first time in a long time. Oddly enough my discipline priest had no trouble at all healing regardless that it's been many weeks since I have played on him. Like usual we were breezing through Oculus, and yeah Oculus has become extremely easy as nowadays everyone is familiar with the dungeon and overgeared for it. Just before the final boss Ley-Guardian Eregos, I asked if anyone wanted to do the Amber strat to make it more interesting. As usual our group was the strong silent type. So we did it normally. Now as it appeared no one wanted to take the ruby dragon role, I did it instead. Normally you'd expect the tank to do it but he may not have been familiar with it. We downed the boss smoothly with no trouble. I proceeded to loot the chest first and received my bag first as well. And oh lah lah I found Reins of the Blue Drake in my bag. /cheer

HER: "Oh la la?" When have you ever said that. On a different note, I missed a friend's whisper while zoned out here posting. >.<.

HIM: I've used it often... you just haven't heard it because... It's all in my head. :P.

HER: *Rolls eyes.*

Luxa vs Grocklar

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HER: Nothing really brings me to WoW these days. For me, the addiction is finally calming down and I'm enjoying my time doing other activities. (Thank god...) However, my boyfriend still plays it fairly consistently and is even on his trial period for a new guild. Thus today, he was out roaming (on his other 80) and saw a rare, Grocklar, lv 74, and suggested I log in to kill it for the achievement. And quickly, before he loses his dkp. It was bland. Not a hard fight for two above average geared level 80s so he was down in no time. (Felt like we were ganking him. o.o.) As for the loot (Rock-Giant's Pinky Cover of the Marksman and Abandoned Adventurer's Satchel with 18G 6S 3C, 20 Frostweave Cloth, 5 Crystallized Air), I "won" both: the hand from the roll and the satchel because it was my turn to loot. :P.

HIM: Today, Thrones had his first trial raid with EA. As it so happened I had about 15 minutes to prepare for the raid. I noticed I was a bit low on food buff food, so I went to Grizzly Hills to gather some Worg Haunch. It so happened I crossed paths with Grocklar. I called out to Luxuran and proceeded to wait for her. Sadly, I was running out of time as raid invites had started. But once Luxuran had safely landed in the Grizzly Hills, I asked the raid leader if I could temporarily leave the raid to kill this rare elite with Luxuran. Soon after the kill I received my invitation to the raid again and proceeded to leave for Icecrown Citadel.