Gobble…Gobble!

If she was at the first Thanksgiving, think we would all be wearing moccassins today.

There’s alot I’m thankful for.

My family first and foremost, they are the wellspring from which I come from. My Friends for they keep me sane, and they keep life fun and interesting.

My guildies for they keep me rollin in the fat loots, and keep the game interesting even in the bad times.

Last but not least, I am thankful for you the reader. You read this drivel I pump out, day in and day out and that never ceases to amaze me. Thank you.

Have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving, and may all your lootz be PHAT!

Free Cooking Skill.

Oh my God! I took two toons from 0 cooking to 300+ in like 30 minutes. It’s a Pilgrims bounty for sure. For my Pallie it was a little rougher, but for my Mage, I got it done Toot Sweet.

I think this is a freebie to prepare all the alts, and casuals for Cataclysm. Do I mind it? No…but if I took the time and hard work to level cooking the hard way, I might be a little peeved.

The Culling…

I’ll be going over my extensive blogroll and removing those that haven’t posted in a while. If I erroneously removed you, feel free to contact me and I will put you right back on. Thank you.

For the Horde!

I was Horde for a long time, as I dwelled on Garona Server, though I don’t regret my decision leaving the Horde side, because there are some wonderful people I met on the Alliance side, there are a few things I do miss on the Horde side, and a few things I do NOT miss on the Horde side. Now this is simply my experience, your Horde experience may be something completely different.

Things I miss about the Horde

1. Camaraderie - More so before BC, there was a real sense of us versus them. We worked more closely together. You knew alot of your side, as opposed as seeing an alliance person once a month that you knew. I would run into some fellow hordies everyday, and mess with them in Org.

2. More Pride – When your part of the Horde, it really felt like I had more pride. Probably because as they said back in the day. Being Horde was WoW on hard mode.  When someone shouted, “FOR THE HORDE!”  your chest would swell with pride

.3. Seller Market on the AH- When you sold goods, you made a pretty decent coin cause not alot of sellers means less competition. Less competition means higher prices, higher prices means more coin in my pocket.

4. Less Asshats - It felt like more people knew what they were doing on Horde side, less 13 year old boys borrowing their dad’s account just to gank someone Horde..  If there were asshats the whole Horde side knew about it really quickly.

5. More Friendly – It seemed like those of the Horde were more willing to lend a hand. Maybe because they knew you would return the favor, or that we had to rely on each other more, because there were so few of us.

Things I don’t miss about the Horde -

1. Never able to Pug anything – It seemed like to even run a 5 man was like pulling teeth. Alliance it’s like Dungeons on tap.

2. Trying to buy stuff – The ill gotten gold to sell stuff goes quick if you need something, that’s if it actually on the AH.

3. Lack of Ambition – Seemed like the Attitude of the Horde was more laid back. Alliance is all about getting shit done, and no tolerance for slackers. Cause if you slack theres 80 more people waiting to take your spot. With some possible exceptions of some awesome Guild leaders on Horde side Garona, like Auriellien aka Bitaken of Phoenix Ascension and Phoenix Aegis, Foe of Oppress, and Kalye of Purgatory…but for the most part the Horde seemed like they didn’t have that much ambition.

Weekly Lagout

Well this week went by fast…..

WoW -

Got rid of that pesky old blue wand, got me some new T9 Shoulders too, all I need is to look for some nice pants, not many I saw with Haste that are tasty. Also went back to a Frost Spec for my second spec…getting ready for my Deep Freeze love I hear that is coming.

Some things are coming down the pike about Icecrown, I’ll comment it next week, but I’m not liking what I am hearing.

Also talk about burnout, and raid lulls got me a little bummed out.

STO :

Gearing up for this game, I started another blog site for it, but I want to keep that website more for theory talking, and fun klingon stuff, and nuts and bolts.  I’ll still talk about the game as a whole here.  I decided to leave a trail of Blogs from all the games I play like breadcrumbs on the internet…but this place will always be home base.

Other Notable Games :

I really haven’t had time to check out Dragon Age, though I do want to.

Other News:

I dropped the towel on Nano, and feel good about my decision. Everyday I’m feeling a little bit better, and didn’t need that much more stress.

Some Link Love:

Jong was one of my favorite bloggers, and now Meg has joined him from Out of Mana fame to make for more lovely posts on the blog site. I urge you to go check them out, funny, entertaining and informitive. Oh and I was wrong Jong doesn’t pee sitting down, and Meg actually DOES use the washroom. Welp I’m big enough to admit my mistakes. Go check them out, at Forbearance

Something Funny for the Week.

Me being Italian-American thought this was funny as hell.

From Geek to Guido.

Ok with that….

MY PING SUCKS!!!! I’M OUTTA HERE!!!

It’s raining men!

Well everyone lately in my guild is talking about burn-out, and other fun things. A couple people have gone disappearing, and all I hear is complaining lately.

Last night as is our Thursday Night, we head into our continuous Ulduar to head deeper into Yogg-Saron.  I had a feeling it was going to be one of those nights….so I start flying straight up into the air, and falling, trying to see how close I can get to the ground before hitting Slow Fall. Well one time I thought it would funny to strip naked. Well I just got my Dress, and helm off. SPLAT. Right in front of people. Well I got rezzed, and I looked at myself it looked like I had a cape on. I loved the look. Someone said I looked like a gay superhero…Bah, I looked Cool as hell.

 Unfortunately Freya was giving us issues. I did get a little peeved, I hate when people pull a pack of something, and I’m doing a job for that pack, and they don’t check if I’m ready. All you need to do is look at my mana ba…..oh wait I’m a mage, no one cares about our mana bars. Silly me.

So again tempers get frayed abit, people discouraged. Oh well I had some fun, and it’s a game. People taking it way to serious. As for me,  I think I’ll don the superhero outfit, and fall on some horde tonight. They should change the lyrics to “It’s Raining Mages!”

STO: The Klingon Academy

Yeah I’m getting to hyped up, and I was a little bored. Tell me what you think.

The Klingon Academy 

It’s not the size of the wand.

I’ve been sporting this blue wand for longer I can remember. The Wand of San’layn.  Why? Well I have been wholly unlucky in wand drops, even the spider heroic place.  I think the handful of times a decent wand dropped from somewhere I would get beat out. To tell you the truth it wasn’t a bad wand. It had haste and it served me well.

Last night The Rod of Imprisoned Souls dropped from Icehowl in ToC 10.  Which tell you the truth is the only thing I really truly wanted, besides the Merlins Robe pattern, and a decent pair of pants.  Well I rolled my roll. Shitty roll of course. Lysandre aka Amber beat me on the roll fair and square. But I was sour, as many times I did ToC and this is the first time I even seen it drop. I don’t remember but someone linked their wand in raid chat I think to say what a poor wand. I was like oh yea, check my whopping blue wand. Though if anyone knows me, especially from my Warhammer days, they know my awesome luck where it comes to gear, 100+ runs of the Bilerot dungeon, and I still never got my shoulders from that place.

So I was prepared to just swallow my anger, and move on. It’s just purple pixels, and I’m use to it. But the odd thing happened, Amber said she would give me the wand. I was like…What? Really?  I was touched….and this time not in a dirty way. It’s acts like that earn my loyalty, and respect.  I want to personally thank Amber, it was a nice thing to do, and it will not go underappreciated.

As for the rest of the Raids last night as a whole still had a problem with Anub. Those little adds adding too much poison to us, and killing us.  Personally I think I did rather well. I was right under DPS wise with the other Mage in our guild, but he has some better gear then me.  The only thing I did screw up, are a couple orbs landed on me wrong. I missjudged the direction they were floating because they were behind me, and they intersected right on me almost. Other then that everything went good, and we killed the Ony 10 loot pinata last night too.

Oh yea Strat run 1123 Still no Barons Mount…….I hate that guy…I really do.

New Banner: Just sooo wrong

Yeah that’s my hot bank toon with a mohawk head. I had to make it my banner for a bit. As an extra bonus theres a gnome back there too. It’s so stupid…but ya know what it’s kind of funny too.

STO: By the Blood Of Kahless!

Ok now I’m getting hyped….

Would Gevlon be Mad?

I follow Gevlon alot. Thanks to some of his tips, and others I have made bit of gold. Whenever I am about to do a grand endeavor that costs alot of gold, I ask myself would Gevlon do that. Would he spend alot of gold to buy a bike, no he wouldn’t and neither will I. Sometimes though my discipline wanes, and I become my old drunken sailor self and start spending gold like it’s water.

Today was one of those days.  I needed bracers,  I haven’t seen any drop in a long time. I came across a recipe on the AH.

Bejeweled Wizard’s Bracers (Sorry can’t link)   But they were nice. Lots of Spellpower, and Haste, and some Crit to boot, plus a socket.

Recipe – 800 gold

4 Crusader Orbs – 525 each

8 Spellweave – I had 2, Other 6 I had to pop for at 175 each

Eye of Zul, Majestic Zircon, and Cardinal Ruby at 150 gold each.

Grand Total for Bracers – 4400 gold.

Was it worth it? I like to think so.  But I still cringe a little when I saw my gold down to about 2k. I am now below my little cushion of gold. It’s back to the salt mines with me to build my gold reserves up.