Friday, April 24, 2009

YRL

Phew, my goodness the response I got from that post below.

First off welcome to the new Authors (co-writers) of YRL! I have posted an introductory post on the new site.

Now this site, will be open for a bit longer, but to keep up with the new authors and myself, you should IMMEDIATELY go and bookmark the new site :)

http://yrloot.blogspot.com


YRL will be designed and finished by this weekend so forgive the blankness and clutter! Now, hop over, and get ready to enjoy the BRAND NEW YRL!!!

(Can you tell I am excited? So are the new writers!)

<3 Ory

LF> Team Member & Random Musings

First of all, I have playing around with an idea in my head, and I would like to see it through. I have been blogging on "You Receive Loot" for nearly a year now, and I have gotten quiet a few hits on my site, be it from guides, my friends reading, guildies checking up on me, or even the random people who come across my site. I love it, nothing makes me happier than to log into my e-mail and site tracker telling me I had 500+ hits in one day or someone asking me a topic to cover. Now I know I'm not the best at, say being a DK, but I get my job done. I also put my own personal sweetness and abilities into everything I do in WoW and Blogging. I also blog on a variety of topics, Pet collecting, guides, alts, etc, and I would like to see more!!!!

Oh, woops anyways, back on topic. What I am looking for is a Team Member, someone who is willing to blog occasionally about their class, be it a Hunter discussing shot rotations, a DK tank (*wink*) discussing DnD and threat, a Warlock talking about the new destro changes, or just about anything. I don't want someone to come on here and be all business, because "YRL" is not ALL business! I want the "OMGAH LOOKIT WHAT I GOT" posts, the rants, the screenshots, I want it all!!!

And yes, It doesn't matter if your horde or alliance! It would be great to have the horde side of things! (even a little "war" in posts!)

So.. do you have what it takes to become a "team member" of "You Receive Loot"?

Requirements:
~Gmail account to log into Blogger
~Willingness to blog semi-regularly
~General Knowledge of How to Blog, Blogger makes it very easy, but knowing is good.
~Most importantly, you MUST play World of Warcraft!

What you get:
~The ability to blog about topics you want to discuss on a pre-set up blog.
(I mean look at this place, I've done pretty good ;) )
~Showcase of your characters with Armory links
~Bragging rights! ;)
~The joy of your words, your musings, to have no less than 50 hits per day!

I am opening this up to my friends, Ellanoar, Shigan, Rozalie, Deb, Ahysion, Seren, Bowflexa, etc, but I am also opening it up to my readers. I'm not asking for perfection, I am asking for fun :) Because that is what YRL is all about :)

If I get someone or even a couple people, I am going to redo the site, which I have been planning to do anyways. For now on the site will just be "You Receive Loot" or YRL as some of my readers nicknamed it. I have plans for the site to have its own domainname/space soon, but that will take some work.
Edit: Already got the site name changed, no more Lalarwow.blogspot.com, I present to you...
"http://yrloot.blogspot.com/" (Don't go look I haven't even gotten started designing yet!)

Please, if this is something you would be interested in, please let me know!
tierajewels@gmail.com

<3 Ory :)

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

"True daughter of the Horde"

So.. I was running into Ashenvale last night with a good friend of mine ;), and came upon a questgiver.. Took the quest, ran to a Night Elf town..

And started killing them!

Part of me felt so dirty.. the rest was life, "phew, stupid Nelf witches, payback for running me back and forth all over this blasted land.."

LOL

Secret project going good, that was a little taste.. a tiny taste..

How's it going for you Striploin? ;)

In other news.. well, lol there isn't any! Logged Ory for a few minutes yesterday everyone was doing dailies and randomness, logged back in later.. they were doing Ulduar.. srsly? *bang head on desk*

Oh well.. I still had a blast yesterday!

Today is Ory day, which means dailies, and hopefully a PUG of Naxx, as I am going to try my damndest to get better geared. Maybe the guild will want to go, we'll see.. *crosses fingers*

I noticed no one really missed me, as when I logged in there wasn't an outpouring of "OMG ORY WHERE HAZ U BEEN", meh oh well.. pity party :P

Hopefully I can get all the dailies I need done, get into a pug group and then go work on Secret Project. ;)

Anyways, more later!

<3 Ory & Kat*

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Cause my carebear side..

Feels guilty for the past two posts...

Wish List:

So, without Ulduar, I still need some Naxx upgrades, mainly Tier gear. Only problem is, the guild I am currently in, does not do guild run Naxx anymore.. I would go PUG, but my main concern is "IF" the guild decides to go, I'll be locked out.. and they are DKP.. which means even if I do go, I'm screwed on loot.. fantastic.. Someone shoot me.. either way, this is what I "wish" I could get..

~Valorous Scourgeborne Battleplate Drops from Archavon from VoA, I could very well PUG for this, at the offchance to loosing it.. gr
~Valorous Scourgeborne Helmet Kel'Thuzad himself drops this.. token shared by Rouge, Mage, and Druids...
~Valorous Scourgeborne Shoulderplates Lotheb and Gluth drop the tokens again shared by Rogue, Mages and Druids...

That would give me a full set, which would be very nice, but meh..

PS: There's enough druids on this server that I could pug and see like 5 druids.. all rolling for offspec because what they have is BiS but OMGAH with Duel-spec they could "SO TOTALLY USE IT FOR OFF-SPEC OMGAH GIMMIE" ...DPS IS MY MAIN SPEC, MY ONLY F*ING SPEC... GTFO MY LOOT!!!!!!!!!!! g-d-i... fml....

Also there's
~Aged Winter Cloak Zone drop inside Naxx.
~Fury of the Five Flights Sartharion, BiS trinket.. doubt I'll see it..

I'm geared fairly well, but I want my Tier bonuses... Otherwise there's my "Wish List" now to decide if I want to face the music and pug a Naxx and Sarth, or PRAY that my guild decides to go even though they are too busy with Ulduar..

PS: The rest of the guild.. isn't..

BTW: Does it seem I'm touchy? Meebee? A lil?.. nah.. not at all..
*kills a seal from Borean Tundra*

< / 3 Ory

Dear Whoever:

I want to go to Ulduar. Kthxbai.

That was my QQ rant.. all I'm gonna say, I can only do so many dailies and farm for pets while watching everyone go to Ulduar without getting touchy.. I respec'd, regemmed, and rebuilt my rotation.. What else do I gotta do? Hmm?

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In other news I am working on a new project with someone... it's a secret project..

Super secret for realz ;)

Homogenized *giggle*

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PS: I gotta start doing my Argent tourney dailies, but the melee mounted combat eludes me.. wtb someone to do my dailies for me ;)

<3 Ory

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Best weekend ever! <3

To be honest the weekend started out crappy, but thanks to a very persistant sweet guy, it all turned out pretty awesome. Soo, incoming wall of screenies!

First off, Bowflexa strikes again helping me and making me smile, I was farming my Dark Whelpling and I just look over and notice another alliance farming, hover my mouse over and see the name, Bowflexa (with a symbol B).. I died laughing. Within minutes he got the Dark Whelp and passed it to me. Keep in mind, that whelp is usually 2k+ on the Auction house. <3 <3

Then he stayed up ALL night trying to farm the Emerald Whelping..

Either way, here is my new baby!!


Now, I did go back and try to get the Emerald Whelpling.. and I did.. O.o

Oh then I figured, what the hey, let me try for my Firefly.. mmhmm, got it too!



Ohh, and let's not forget about the mount in Kara dropping.. who got it? Mmhmm..



So yeah, awesome weekend, 3 pets, and a mount, NOT counting the turtle mount I got earlier in the week! :)

PS: Eat that Aveza..


<3 Ory

PPS: ty Bow ;) My hero as always ;)
Tra lala lol....

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

OMGAH *SQUEEEE*

Look what I fished up today!!!! ;) :D :D <3 <3 <3





I don't care how slow he is! He is the cutest! That lil face makes me wanna go awwwwwwwwwwww... <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

PS: Eat that Aveza!


<3 Ory & Her New Turtle!!!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

/emo

/emo /emo


Patch drops, I try to PUG VoA to see new boss, dk raidleader kicks me (didn't want me to get his gear).. try to pug Ulduar.. group falls apart..
-Ory

PS: It doesn't help that the servers were down every freakin' 20 minutes, so I didn't get to do much of anything.. I give up, I'm going to bed.. WTB Raiding guild asap...

/emo

*gasp* EDIT! ITiS UP!!!

One... more... hour.. cannot... wait... OMGAH!!!!!!!!!!!!


*deep breath*


3:50pm.. I get off at 5.. I am ready.. so ready to log into WoW and pray I can get into a raid group for Ulduar (*COUGH*shigan<3<3<3*COUGH*), I am so majorly excited... I have been on the WoW_Ladies IRC chat all day discussing and I tell you.. I have butterflies.. one hour CANNOT POSSIBLY pass FAST ENOUGH!

Gonna go home, check the patch, make sure it's done and pray the servers are back up. Feed kiddo, get a movie started, get him a bath and hop on!

*SQUEE*

MURKIMUS HERE I COME HONEY YOUR ALL MINE!!!!!

*deep breath*

K.. more later ;)

<3 A Very EXCITED ORY!

Dear Ulduar,

Hello, and thanks for coming so soon! Just some basic info about myself, I am a level 80 Draenei Death Knight, currently Blood/Diseaseless Spec.

I must admit when I woke up to load WoW and saw the Patch downloading, I felt chills. I am very accustomed to Naxxaramas 10 & 25 Man raids, and the prospect of a new area makes me a very happy raider! Now, compared to other Death Knights on my server, I can honestly call myself a capable raider. I provide survivability (Dodging colored circles, flames, etc), an eagerness to learn, and preparedness. I do come to raids supplied with, for myself, raid flasks, potions, bandages, buff food, for my fellow raiders, fish feasts, access of healing potions, and my own knowledge to keep myself alive.

I have kept up with theorycrafting on the Elitest Jerks forums, and I am fairy certain that I will have my duel spec set up tonight to the best of my abilities.

~Unholy 0/10/61 Tons of AoE Damage, Ghoul, Etc.. aka: Trash

~Blood 51/2/18 Blood Caked Blade, Worms, Hysteria, etc.. basically what I am running now

I have been watching the EJ forums and the Deathknight.info forums, and so far both are viable raiding specs.

So, Ulduar, I believe I am prepared for the raiding aspect of you. Now as for the fun items, Oryanna will be dusted off and returned to my main as I work on getting her the Argent Tournament Pets, the pretty girlie fishing pole, and work on various other reps.

Many changes coming up, so consider me somewhat prepared.

CC: Shigan (raidleader *winkywink*)

Signed,

Oryanna, sexiest Draenei in the raid imo ;)

Monday, April 13, 2009

More randomness...

#1.. Blizz needs to hurry and get this patch going, I want my Armored Murky nao! #2, Calla hit 45 ;D, probably would have hit higher, but I helped Shigan and Aen's lowbies with SM (including escorting them from IF to SM *sigh*), and ran SSC, annnd sat outside Obsidian Sanctum in a buff party, putting out fish feasts and cheering for morale for the guys trying the Sarth+3 zerg. Fun fun :D they better appreciate me, fish feast, cheer, random moan.. mmhmm I do so much :P

Someone even offered to drop to bring me in, but my DPS was/is terribad compared to what they need for the Zerg. (BTW, zerg means to kill someone quick and hard, aka shit tons of DPS on one target while ignoring others lol)

Either way I do what I can for my friends, I wanted to see them get the achievement, even if I wasn't there to get it as well, but I'm not an achievement whore in the raid sense. I have made some friends too from running around in BC raids with Shigan and I have to say, some of the folks from High Tech are pretty awesome, but I don't see Ory leaving Impact anytime soon. Calla is still my main priority.

Now, I did respec Ory, Shigan was discussing a diseaseless spec for DKs, mainly a blood spec, and this boggled me, so as per his request, I looked it up, and am currently trying it out. 51/0/20 Pretty nice thus far, weird not hitting like 5 buttons in order and not watching the target disease ticks so I can keep dps-ing.

I wanted to try it out so I went to SSC with Shigan an a few others last night, but it didn't go so well, A) I had storms so my power kept blinking and B) there was a certain person with an Ego in the group and he was annoying the heck out of me in vent. So, I bowed out gracefully and went to bed.

Woke up this morning and logged onto Ory to check my mail and possibly do my Walrus ppl quests (need Pengu nao) and I noticed a LFM Heroic Arch going out over trade.. thought to myself "Hmmm, I could go and test out my dps with ppl I don't even know" so I joined up. Made it to the big ugly stone man and was obliterating, heartstriking, and deathcoiling him like crazy, until the enrage timer hit and I promptly was one-shotted...

I take a look at recount and nearly choke.. I was #1... 4,234 dps.. omgah..

Under me was a Paladin at 3.2 and under that no one got over 2.5.

I was very pleased.. so we grab some more dps (low members left after having the pali spam recount and QQ about noobs, thank goodness I respec'd) and we try it again. This time I am at 4.1k dps (we died again, the tanks weren't talking to each other and were taunting off each other and dying when he picked one up.. *sigh*)

So, we start again.. I am whacking away at BigUgly when all of a sudden.. instadeath.. why? My 11k threat pulled off the warrior tank.. srsly? I checked Omen, the tank barely had 10k threat. Locks were shattering, mages we're freezing themselves and dps went WAAAY down. Warrior was too busy talking in raid about if such and such dropped how he wanted priority on it because of course, he is "main tank" instead of watching his threat... w/e.. luckily the boss enrages and thanks to multitudes of lock dots, Arch goes down.. thank goodness.. Nothing good dropped, I don't really need anything from there anyways (minus a mount *giggle*) and I notice, oh wow, no master looter. Another DK clicks need and all, wins all and walks away why everyone is fighting over DPS and Heal counts.. w/e... I hearth back to Dalaran giggling.. idiots..

So.. basically I topped DPS until I died with a new spec, looks like its a keeper, now I need to eyeball my enchants and gems and make sure they are up to par, and then maybe, maybe someday I can be in a raiding guild and not be embarrassed about my DPS lol.

Calla is sooo close to 50, I am getting more and more excited about her. 58 will be outlands and 68 Northrend then onto 80! I seriously can't wait!

When duel specs come out, I am going to set Ory to Disease Unholy Spec, and current spec, and Calla will be main spec Resto and Enhance DPS if possible, but I mainly want to heal.

Oh and I want MY MURKY!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

<3 Ory & Calla

Friday, April 10, 2009

Carebear has returned!



Cuteness!

YAY! =D

That's it, I'm trolling...

So, one good thing about having a WoW blog, is I can insult and demean people as much as I want, and no one can do a thing about it.. So.. guess what, you post a topic in your "wanna-be guild forums" about how my friends and I did you wrong with a freakin' piece of loot (that you flat out lied claiming it was an upgrade..wtf/e)...

So, here goes ladies and gents, my troll post..

Here, let me single her name out so she can google herself and find her way here..

Aveza, "Aveza", AVEZA, aveza

First of all, congrats on making a complete fool of yourself during Black Temple. I normally am pretty caring and mother-like to younger players and their mentality (or lack thereof in your case) but you pushed the limits.

See when I transfered to Kel'Thuzad and they were "discussing" you in vent during Seren's and my interview for the guild, when they said "Oh btw, Aveza is here Seren" and I heard him groan, I thought maybe they were being too harsh. See, I am a carebear, I accept everyone with open arms and I try to understand them.

They filled me in on the things you do to annoy people.
~Vegan.. ok, so you don't eat meat, surely that won't come into play during gameplay or guildchat.

Wtf.. it did, and you brought it up. Someone without even thinking would say BRB Food and you would ask them what they were eating, and by God if it involved meat you were all like "EWWW MURDERER, FREAK, NASTY, GROSS, STUPID.. etc" I saw that at least twice.

~Your 15.. ok, age doesn't matter as long as you act appropriately in guild chat..

Yeah, no, you whined, complained about certain topics because "you're too young", and acted like a "12" year old, if that..

K, so I could deal with that stuff, a simple /ignore Aveza came in handy a few times, hell I even had it macro'd for the longest so I could hit it once and then shift click it again to unignore one I saw guild chat had died down.

My issues.. personal issues..

I collect mini-pets.. I love them, I work hard for them so that weekend I got like 6 in a row, I was happy. And we hung out and talked about mini-pets for the longest and we were (*gagme*) friends.. but something in that brain of yours snapped (lack of protein from red meats IMO) and you started to make a big show about it.. and at the most random times.. raids.. general chat.. trade chat.. wtf? Why do ppl in trade chat need to know you have more pets than me?

Wait I know.. it's because your jealous.. before I came you "thought" in your mind you had the guys after you, running you through things for pets and mounts, then I came. Better, prettier, less whiney, and *gasp* they wanted to help me.. I didn't have to whine in guild chat for hours just to get a run through Mag T or ZA..

Sure you may have more pets than me, but you have no life. I do. I don't sit in WoW whining and farming non-stop. I do something called raiding, you know its where you kill big things and they drop shiny purple things.. oh wait, your still in blues, sorry you don't understand that concept eh?

I mean c'mon, take a look at that ZA, we had a total of 6 ppl there, 2 of them, were collecting Hex sticks.. for me.. yeah.. My boyfriend and Bowflexa, both who hate you very much btw..

Oh and lets not forget, who got to go on raids?

Who got gear?

Wait, here's the kicker, WHO GOT THE SHOULDERS FROM BT?

Btw, Gronnstalker's Spaulders look FANTASTIC on my hunter..

Sure blame Claudia, she of course was the master looter, but try to use that juvenile brain of yours to wrap around this.. your level 80, my hunter is level 73.. who's gonna use em? Yeah that's right.. me... sucks for you though.

Ohh even funnier, when you had your brother vent bomb us while we were in Black Temple, omg that was a riot!! Didn't do a damn thing but get you banned.. who's laughing now?

Oh and when you attempted to Misdirect on Claudia while doing the council fight, AFTER you had left the raid group and sat there like a noob, yeah that was priceless, cept' no shock, you failed.. the doors closed before you could fire a shot.. *sigh*

So basically Aveza dear, I have come to this conclusion, no one likes you, and those that do, sadly don't know you that well. I tried being your "friend" but you ruined that with your obsessive "OMG LOOKIT ME I AM SO MUCH BETTER I HAZ MAOR PETZ!" or "OMG I SO DESERVE THOSE SHOULDERS BECAUSE THEY ARE AN UPGRADE FOR ME AND ORY SUXXORS"

So enjoy your days of World of Warcraft, your on ignore to me. But go ahead keep flaming away, you'll soon realize I don't give a damn.

<3 Ory, Calla, and Innaura
(Gronnstalker's Spaulders)
(Gronnstalker's Spaulders)
(Gronnstalker's Spaulders)
(Gronnstalker's Spaulders)
(Gronnstalker's Spaulders)
(Gronnstalker's Spaulders)
(Gronnstalker's Spaulders)
(Gronnstalker's Spaulders)
(Gronnstalker's Spaulders)
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(Gronnstalker's Spaulders)

Sorry for the troll post guys, I'll return back to my normal carebear stage in just a bit ;)

<3 Ory

As promised!

Last night.. was a freakin blast! Granted it ended kinda bad with nerves fried and people sleepy (like myself) but before that it was great. Shigan (<3) asked me to log on Ory and do Naxx 10 with some ppl from High Tech, Ahysion, Dekadense, and a few other awesome ppl I know. It was great we were downing bosses and laughing over vent over the craziest things.

Well... I am known for crying when I got the "Betrayer of Humanity", but now I am known as the distracter.. lol.. We were playing around in vent about a week ago and the girls were fake moaning, well aperently mine.. erm.. effects ppl, so Shigan was raiding and spouts (in the middle of the run mind you) "Ory you should totally moan for us".. lol.. Now it's just for fun, and I try to make sure people don't take it the wrong way and consider me a sloot. So, I did.. lmao the men all take in a deep breath and we move on. I get a whisper to do it in the middle of a boss fight.. so I wait.. then I let out a small moan and keep dpsing. Vent goes silent.. It was great! LOL Poor guys...


Anyways, I was telling Shigan about how sexy my new UI is.. yatta yatta, so I am posting a new pic here for all to enjoy. It works soo awesome for me :)




The bar above the recount is my exp/rep bar, and I need to think of something to fit into the bar above my healing/decurse spells. The empty box beside recount will hold omen. I imagine when she hits 80, I'll have heal box/decursive up there in the middle, but only showing during raid time.

Anyways, there it is! UI of hawtness!

<3 Calla

Thursday, April 9, 2009

The way I are.. =D

Most people who know me, know that I don't play WoW for loot, (although it is nice), I don't play for recognition, & I don't play to kill ppl in PvP. I play for my friends, and in doing that, I have become the "best friend", "little sister", "guild momma", "therapist", and any other name I have been referred to in WoW. And I do love taking care of my friends, heck I feel lonely when no one is online.

So anyways, things have happened, people who want to raid are moving to bigger raiding guilds, people are going where they have other friends, or people are staying where they are and just feeling left out. And I sit, here in the middle, with my friend venting and feeling generally miserable about themselves because they did something for themselves instead of sticking with friends. And I can understand that completely. But here's my two cents for my friends..

1) Who pays for your gametime? Your or your friends?
----A) You do.. which means you play the game how you want to play it, whether raiding, leveling, achievements, or pet/mount collecting. Sure, you can feel bad for not spending time with so and so, or even leaving a guild of friends to raid with a bigger guild, but if it makes you happy, then please do it. Trust me, your friends, at least your real friends, will want you to be happy.

2) "I would feel awkward talking to my friends unless we're doing stuff together"
----A) Why? Wouldn't your friends be happy for you? I've noticed when people leave on good terms from a guild of friends to join another guild, they suddenly become so distant that it's nearly painful to speak to them? Why is that? Mainly due to the basic mentality that "Oh I don't want to seem like I am bragging" or "I don't want them to know I am doing better now".. Right there, stop.. real easy solution.. ya ready?

Type this for me:

/w (Insert Friends name) Hey friend, I miss talking to you, how is (insert something here)

It works, trust me!

Just because your not in the same guild, doesn't mean that you cannot talk to each other. For instance, when I left Iudicium, I went with Shigan, Seren, Ell, and Ahysion, but, on a daily occasion, Dekadence & Hearthzone still talk to me. We're in different guilds, and heck we even left Iudicium on not so great terms, yet we're still talking. Why? Because I took the time after we left to say, "hey, I know we left, but I value our friendship, if you want to talk, feel free to whisper me at any time!". And they do. Really simple.

Now what happens when you do drift apart and are so cautious to talk to each other because your afraid you may strike a nerve?

You can expect to see:
~Loss in friendship, maybe not completely, but if you don't talk to someone for a very long time, they tend to (and not purposely) let you slip from their mind.
(Note: In rl this isn't much of an issue, but in WoW-world, it is different IMO)

~You begin to loose any chances of a friendship coming back after a while. Sure, you can hang back and not talk to them for a few days, and /w them to test the waters. But try to contact them soon. If not they may think you are avoiding them, thus causing for issues.

Now, what happens if you do /w and keep in touch.

~You keep your friendship! What's not wonderful about that?

~You can still run things with them, set up pugs, 2-man low level instances, help each other with quests, and talk non-stop if you want. Only difference is the < Insert Guild Name Here > tag over your head.

~ You will be able to keep an ear on the guild (not in a stealthy bad way), think about it this way. You move from Friend Guild A, to raiding guild B. Raiding guild B gets you in say, 1 raid, and they acted horrible to you. No loot, rude on vent, you notice its a ton of 12 year olds, and basically you do not fit it.. what can you do?
Well first, you /w your friend, and let them know, they'll /pat you and /comfort you, and then, I can nearly bet you they'll welcome you back into Friend Guild A with open arms.

Now if you weren't still friends, you would have to find another guild, and you can't guarantee you'll find one to take you. (Unless your heals or tank lol) You could /w your friends to see if they have a spot open, but since you haven't been talking to them, and have been pretty distant, they may be cold to you.

I realize this is a wall of text, but I have seen so many friendships in WoW fall apart because someone did something that they thought, and in actuality, is better for them and they either let a friendship go down the tubes, or they are too nervous to speak up.

DO NOT DO THIS!!

Simple, easy method to prevent this.

/w your friends daily.

Trust me, it's wonderful..


/end Carebear post

<3 Ory

Sorry for wall of text but I think this was needed =D

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Goals!

Yesterday was a good day. #1, I n52e Gamepad came in! It's so awesome! I set it up immediately and was running around on Calla using it in no time!

#2, Calla hit 40! Granted I feel like I cheated. I was feeling a lil discouraged because I had nothing but RED quests left in my questlog and when I tried to do them I would get mobbed and killed. Well, my sweet Seren offered to run me through Zul'Farrak. So, the last 4 1/2 bars I had left, went quick! She dinged 40 in the middle of the instance and by the time we were out, she had gained nearly 5 more bars of experience. So yay! Ty baby!

With 40 come Dual Weilding and the ability to wear Mail. Luckily with friends happily running me through things, I have acquired nearly a full set of mail items with the right stats STR and AGI. I also have a new Blue mace drop that works well for dmg alongside my BoA Mace which is more for spellpower.

Now, I have pretty much decided, as long as I enjoy healing on Calla, she is probably going to become my main. I know with Ulduar coming up I should be working on Oryanna, but sadly I'm not as happy with her as I used to be. Her DPS is not where I want it. It's good, don't get me wrong, but I was so used to doing DPS while standing back on my hunter, that sometimes my movement on Ory was slow and jerky instead of moving around smoothly.

With Calla, I can sit back and heal effectively, or later on switch to Elemental and DPS effectively. Either way, thus far she is a ton of fun to play. So, I have decided to make some goals for her.. as follows :D

~Reach Level 80 (duh)
~Get a decent Restorative Set, and a decent back up DPS set if needed.

Those are a given, here are my fun/random type goals.

~Earn Major reputations with her, Hodir/Kaluak/Etc.
~Also earn fun reputations, Sporeggar/Skettis/Aldor/Netherwing/Etc
~Collect pets.. going to be fun since Oryanna has 62/63 at the moment, farming again will take work.
~Get together fun groups and get lower level Shaman Tier peices. I am so jealous of people that have full or nearly full sets of lower Tier. AKA: Teir 5 & 6.

-Oh and work on her herb/alch LOL

Now, blogwise, I need to update. Make Calla a tab in my characters section, add a Shaman links section, and I make a wishlist type section.

I have lots of plans for this character and honestly, I can't wait til she hits 80, but that's 40 level away! 20 til Outlands lol.

Well more later ;)

<3 Ory/Calla

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

P.E.T.A In WoW? Srsly? GTFO!

This was posted to WoW_Ladies and I had to put something here about this INSANITY! Srsly, PETA has gone tooo far.. WAY too far.. This is majorly laugh worthy!


Help Battle Seal Slaughterers in World of Warcraft

Posted at 03:56 PM | Permalink | CommentsComments (15)

The following blog is a guest post from peta2's Ryan.

The fight against the Canadian seal slaughter has gone digital!

That's right, gamers, get ready: This Saturday, World of Warcraft (WoW) players will have the opportunity to combat a team of four Horde seal killers. We need your help to stop them from bashing in the heads of any more seals!

Thrall refused to ban the slaughter of seals, despite multiple requests from the Alliance to do so, because Orgrimmar stands to make a large profit from the fur.

Activists from across the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are banding together to put a stop to the atrocious seal slaughter. Anyone who slaughters baby seals for their fur must surely be in service to the evil Lich King.
World of Warcraft

Here's what you need to know in order to battle:

* You must be in the WhisperWind realm in order to fight. Visit WorldofWarcraft.com if you need information about how to switch into this realm.
* Once in the WhisperWind realm, go to Northrend, where you will find a zone called Howling Fjord, where the baby seals live on glaciers and boats float in the fjords. This will be the battleground to stop the slaughter. (Note: You must be at least a Level 70 player in order to enter Howling Fjord.)
* The battle will take place on Saturday, April 11, at 1 p.m. EST.

Make sure to check out videos about the upcoming battle here, and use our Facebook event to get all your friends to join you in the fight. Be sure to check back for the battle coordinates.

Think you can stop the seal killers?

Posted by Ryan Huling

(Did all this WoW talk go right over your head? Don't be embarrassed—maybe you should just sit this round out and stick to helping seals on Facebook!)


I just.. can't wrap my mind around this?


K, so here are the obvious mistakes..

1) Whisperwind is a PvE server.. feel free to get on there PETA, have at it, and then sit there and WATCH Horde and Alliance players destroy those PIXEL seals, UNFLAGGED while you do nothing but emote to them. Nothing you can do about until they are flagged... genius..

2) Sure, go ahead, get all your members to get on there, HELL even let them transfer to Whisperwind server, that's $25 more dollars to Blizzard for each person.. mmhmm that'll teach em! Let's pay them more and they'll stop clubbin seals! OMGAH!!

3) Oh just a note: I just looked at the server list, Whisperwind is a FULL server, as in HIGH capacity.. according to their server forums, your going to enjoy watching the queue window on your screen while people are clubbin more seals! WOOT!

4) If you knew anything about WoW, you would know that it already has a D.H.E.T.A (Druids for the Ethical and Humane Treatment of Animals), srsly, we don't need anymore P.E.T.A...

5) And this is personal, why do I see Avesa from Kel'Thuzad leading something like this.. it's mind boggling the stupidity people will go through! IT'S A GAME! PIXELS! OMG....... People read your "fearless leader's" "Unique Will" she wants to be chopped up, COOKED ON A BBQ, skinned, and that's as far as I got without feeling sick. Yet, people in World of Warcraft are bad because they kill pixels? Wait wha?

All I can say, is maybe they all need to go to Scholizar Basin and play with the Softknuckle apes..

Another P.I.T.A "wonderful" moment... leave WoW alone srsly..

Signed,
Oryanna, HAPPY SEAL CLUBBER KEL'THUZAD US (come club me.. I dare you..)

Reposted this on WoW_Ladies who are also shaking their heads at this, and on the P.E.T.A site, if the blog owner will even allow it..

For the record and not that it really matters as to my own beliefs, but for your info: I eat meat, I love it. I used to hunt.. omgah... Don't shove your ideals down our necks, or I'll shove a thick deer steak down yours..

*steps off butcher block/soap box*

*clears throat*

<3 Ory ;)

One year, wow...

So, if you haven't noticed, I have a tracker on my blog. Tells me who comes onto my site, when they came on, how long they stayed, and whether they came by a Direct Link (bookmark) or searched on google (and what they searched for). I mainly use it, to see how many people are looking for what subject such as, I see a lot of folks searching for DK Gems and Chants and finding their way here, and hopefully, my blog helps them! I've seen a lot of people come for the Northrend Hunter Rewards, as well as the various pets in the game. Weirdest one I have ever seen searched and directed to my page was "sexy Draenei how to play one".. well.. if I do say so myself, Ory & Calla are two very hawt Draenei! LMAO!

I've noticed a few lurkers on my blog, with locations I recognize, and it made me remember things I have gone through, so here is a wall-o-text post, about my life thus far in World of Warcraft!

*turns back WoW time clock*

Queue me being talked into buying World of Warcraft by my best guy friend (at the time Daniel, AKA Sereniara) by coming to my workplace, hanging out and telling me how great it was, almost every Friday. I loved seeing him, and I even went out of my way some Friday to look especially nice lol. So, he peaked my interest in the game, during the week on my lunch break, I would take the World of Warcraft Beasitary Book and Guide books and read them, over and over, until I got a fill for what the game was about. So, I decided to do it, downloaded the free trial, and created a warlock, because Seren was a lock, surely it was easy right? PFFT.. I died so many times.. of course I barely knew how to play. So, Seren logs on and I make a hunter, and name her Lalar, Seren helps me a little and I think she hit level 5 or so by the end of the night.

*giggle* I remember running to the Night Elf town Dolanaar and being absolutely freaked out by the Giant Walking Guard tree, I thought it was going to kill me. Seren must have been rolling in his chair laughing at poor little noob me.

Anyways, I basically got addicted in the first night and thought what the heck, I want to play. I bought the game, loaded it and went on. Seren and I hung out, but he was in a raiding guild and didn't have a whole lot of time. He was always in these fancy named places (I remember thinking Isle of Queldanas sounded so awesome) and finally learning how to Inspect him and being in complete AWE of his pretty PURPLE gear.

So, I learned to play the game on my own. Slowly of course. I knew nothing of talent points, I only learned the skill I "thought" I should know, and I was melee-ing as a hunter (rotfl). I was pretty bad, but somehow I made it to level 30. So, my faithful feline and I were running around Stormwind, (and let me tell you, getting to Stormwind back then was a bee-atch, no ship ftl...) And I saw this Night Elf Rogue name Msdrakkus. She was SOO pretty, and also dressed in Shiny purples! Oh and the had a cool thing over her head, it said < Guildfellas >. I was intrigued! Seren had one, but I never thought to ask, but this was truely cool to me. I asked her about it, and she invited me to join! I was excited! They all welcomed me, we chatted here and there, but a lot like Seren they were all doing their fancy level 70 stuff. (dailies, raiding, etc) So, I continued to level on my own. Around 35ish, I'm in Ashenvale, trying.. TRYING to finish a quest, but completely lost. I had no add-ons, Thottbot was how I was finding my way around but I still couldn't find this mob I needed! I was asking in guild chat when this Shaman named Myanis answered me and offered to help. So, he invites me to party and he helps me by running around killing the mobs I need. After that, he mentions that he has a warrior alt around my level and that if I wanted someone to level with, he would be more than glad to come along.

So, we struck up a friendship, Chuck (Thechuck/Myanis) and I. We leveled together exclusively, he helped me learn what talent points were, helped me explore Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms, taught me about professions, and we were inseparable through til 70. It was great. He was my hero, and still is.

Anyways.. Guildfella's begins to have drama, Chuck doesn't raid on his Shaman because he is helping me. Chuck is always with Lalar.. jealousy ensues.. Chuck leaves the guild.. I follow. Shortly after, we're invited to < Not The Face > and I fall in love. So many sweet wonderful, helpful people. A real family. We started going into Kara, doing raids and instances, Pvping in battlegrounds together. I learned SOO much from them.

At this point I also notice an influx of Horde players. I was getting ganked constantly. Seren's guild either moved off or fell apart and he joined me in Not The Face and we ran together more and more. More ganking, less fun, more drama. I was getting frustrated. Seren tells me its because its like 15 horde to 1 ally.. those numbers were disheartening..

So, he tells me about a friend of his who transferred to another server. How he still talks to her and tells him how great it is over there. So, we move to The Forgotten Coast. Decent Ally to horde ration, decent guild, and their raiding in more content. Coolness.. pfft..

I made good friends there don't get me wrong. But TFC, Seren and I both admit was not a good move. It was at first, until we met someone who ruined it for both of us. Someone who thought he was Gods gift to warcraft.. w/e..

*giggle* Funny how I was such a noob when I was there apparently and now, I am very well geared and loved, and actually told that I do a fantastic job.. How's 10man Naxx going for ya?

Anyways, I digress.. Lich King comes out, and omg, my computer can't handle it.. I was upset, so I stayed out of Northrend.. Lalar went on a shelf and I made Oryanna. Leveled her fast, and by the time I got my new RAM for my computer.. Oryanna was ready for Northrend. Lalar stayed on a shelf.

Oryanna raided hardcore (well if Naxx10 was hardcore lawl) and got pretty well geared for the level group she was in. Then of course, there came drama.. During this time, Seren's friend Zammis (from Blood Furnace, now Kel'Thuzad) was asking/begging him to consider transferring. With all the drama and bigotry going on on TFC, I began to see that moving would be ok. Granted I had and still have friends on TFC, but Zammis (now Shigan/myhero/bestguyfriendinwow/best raid leader EVA/and awesome music guy) was offering us a chance to get into 25 man content.. that.. blew.. my mind....

So.. we moved! (duh)

Oryanna gets geared very well, learns how to play for once, becomes a pretty decent guild member, and even gets a BEST IN SLOT WEAPON (eat that hater).. yeah ya'll read that post.. I cried.

So, of course, drama ensues again, (when does it not), and we are now in Impact, a small casual guild of friends, we raid old BC instances, and are awaiting Ulduar. In waiting, I decide to make me a new toon, so I make Zythi, a hunter. I begin to miss Lalar, so.. I fork out $25 and move her happy lil butt over to Kel'Thuzad. She is now Innaura. Decided I really wanted to heal, and made a Shaman, aka Calla.

Who is now.. level 39 ;)

I have had a long and not so long history in WoW, actually I started playing in April last year. So, wow, it's been a year I just realized. I started blogging shortly before Lalar hit 70, because I was frequently reading BRK blog and wanted to do something like that myself.

So wow, how fitting, one year played really and I post about history. I didn't plan this lol.

So, I officially have 4 awesome toons. Oryanna (main raider, lvl 80 Death knight), Innaura (alt, lvl 73 Hunter), Calla (main alt, lvl 39 Shaman) and Innaura (horde alt, lvl 48 Preist).

This was going to be a bashing blog, about my old guildmaster who is lurking on my blog being nosey, but I just realized with all this history, and how awesome WoW has been, and how many friends I have made regardless of his stupidity, that I don't even want to waste the energy typing. Not worth my time. He know he's bad and if not he'll know someday.

Well, here's to one year ya'll! Wish I could find out exactly what day I started then I would make a big post, but I think this works amirite?

And in traditional blog fashion, I want to thank EVERYONE who I have known and has helped me during this fun-filled year.

-First and foremost.. my love.. my baby.. my rock in RL & WoW. The man who got me addicted to this fantastic game, and has gotten me addicted to him. I love you baby and thank you.. (Sereniara, Valgarth, Moovinon, Salvantez, & Murphyslawl)

-John & Jen, ya'll took me into Guildfellas and made it a happy home for a long time, you taught me so much!

-Chuck.. wow what can I say, you are the reason I kept playing. Our friendship means more to me than you will ever know. <3 Lala (your little huntard 4 eva, wait, what Chuck? That's an elite? Oh crap I'm out of ammo, you keep him busy I'll brb!!! *runs)

-Anabelli, Paul, Reynissa, Chuckie, Anklebitter (forgot your main :( ) Scroffulas, and everyone else in Not The Face, you introduced me to raiding and showed me what a family guild can do. <3 Lala

-Distortion.. Deb, Roz, Rohall, Jutters, Riskk, Zopato, and the rest (MINUS 2 ppl) you welcomed me as Lalar, and accepted me as Oryanna, and helped me realize that I can do good DPS and that I can make myself a better player. <3 Lala & Ory (oh god, can't forget flowers.. rotfl)

-Rozalie, you and Deb in particular. You became like sisters to me in Distortion, it was us, and the men lol. We stuck together, had sexy time, talked about pets, kept the group together, and always had fun. I miss ya'll the most :( *hugs*

I still maybe new to Kel'Thuzad, but I do have a thank you list...

-Zammis/Shigan, well duh you tempted me to join, and of course, I dragged Seren along for the ride. You welcomed me, helped me learn a lot about the Death Knight class, and trusted in me enough to let me raid 25 man's with you. I know I was pretty failboat at first, but you were patient, thank goodness.

-Ellanoar and Ahysion- you two are the craziest and sluttiest ppl to hang with ;) But you two are quickly becoming my best friends and family :D

-Dekadance you are a doll <3 we need to keep doing MGT!

-Claudia, even though I have just met you, your are still one awesome wow chicka, you are truely the sweetest, funniest girl eva! <3's the Master Looter for T6 shoulders.

-Bowflexa, even though you can't play with me anymore :( your still a sweetheart (shh don't tell anyone) You lost Betrayer to me and still spent all night teaching me the ways of DK DPS and helping me get an awesome title. I miss you so much *hugs*

So yeah there's my long list of friend thus far, and I know I'll be adding more. =D

And again, thank you to my amazing boyfriend, Seren for introducing me to WoW, and getting me thoroughly addicted ;) <3 ya baby!!!!!



Happy 1 year I guess :)

<3 Ory, Innaura, Lalar, Calla, Teleri, Talalar, & Zythi