Bring protection to Ulduar... and more guild sillies

Part of why I love running in my guild is that I'm surrounded by peeps who are just as sarcastic and silly as I am. A couple of recent funnies from the last week or so to share:

1. In reference to the fire buff that jumps from person to person leading up to Ignis:

Jess: This fire buff is like a venereal disease. It jumps from person to person and it burns.

Oh really Jess? Hmmm.... so apparently protection in Ulduar refers to more than just a certain type of pally and our little white ponytailed warrior is not as innocent as Jess would like for us to believe. Who knew?

2. We had one very brief first try/look at Kologarn the other week. We didn't expect to be seeing him when we did, so no one had really read up on the encounter. So we had our hunter Chachi explain the fight since he has tanked it on another character. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but the combination of Chachi talking about arms and bellybuttons, along with a lot of guild chatter around lint and arm pits made for the funniest boss explanation ever. Everyone was rolling in hysterics. Or maybe boss explanations are just funnier when they are given in a Canadian accent. Ya know, Eh?

Anyways, the guild message afterwards? "Death to the bellybutton!" Because yeah, you gotta watch out for the bellybuttons!

3. A couple weeks ago we were doing an easy run through Naxx with a number of alts. Chachi's holy priest alt, Brbafk (I do love his name!) was healing along with yours truly. So there we are getting ready to start Heigan. The gist of the vent conversation:

Brbafk: Wait, I need a bit.
Jess: Huh? What's going on?
Brbafk: Hold on, I just have to fix something.
K: Like what?
Indigogo: Um, so Brbafk doesn't know how to dispel disease.
Entire guild: What?!?!
Indigogo: Yeah, I'm trying to tell Brbafk to find the spell and put it the spell bar.
Brbafk: Shut up guys! I know what to do!
Entire guild: (much much mockery and laughter)
K: Oh gawd... should I just overheal when we run back up on the platform?

Poor Chachi. I really love the guy, but he often gets a lot of crap from me. How can you resist though? He's a hunter!

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Emoting

I've become a big fan of emoting. I stuck with only the standard emotes for a long time, until I learned that you can /em anything. Anything! Our king of emotes is our gnome mage Nkm, pictured here with Buns. I made them stand for a pic because they are so freakin' cute.

Anyways, here's an emote "conversation" from a while back with Nkm when we were waiting to start a raid run and I had my Seb (Magical Crawdad out):

Nkm is sad because he really hates fishing and he'll never be able to get the Magical Crawdad and then he won't be able to get the 75 pets achievement
Keredria is thinking that is a long ass emote

Seriously though, Nkm really has the funniest emotes, which I think I expressed as an emote. And just as an update, he did get the Magical Crawdad. :)

However, Nkm is not the only emoter in the guild. Our rogue Terrondris is a big emoter when he isn't busy teabagging anyone who has died (which is another post all together). One emote that he has somehow reserved strictly for me (I'm touched T, just touched) is:

Terrondris pats Keredria's bedonkadonk

Its funny because I was in IF one day and a lower level stranger who I did not know at all emoted patting or pinching my bedonkadonk! I immediately knew that it was one of T's alts and whispered him.

Another reason that I love emoting is that it allows you to talk across factions. When I encounter asshat Hordies, I am a big emoter. But when I run across Horde who has helped me in some way, or waited their turn to finish some daily, I emote thanks to them as well.

Now the other day when the fishing daily was to get the Terrorfish in Wintergrasp, I get there to see this:

Whoa, holy crap! I've never seen a concentration of so many fishers outside of the fishing tournament. Anyways, we're all working on getting our fish, when I notice that a Horde rogue (I forget his name) was stealthing around flagged. He was kind of going from person to person, standing behind them and emoting a number of things. I'm not sure if he was trying to start something or what. But it seemed that everyone else was just ignoring him. However when he came to me:

Keredria wonders why "Hordie rogue" has nothing better to do
"Hordie rogue" laughs.
"Hordie rogue" agrees.
"Hordie rogue" wishes Keredria luck and bids Keredria farewell!

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Level 4 of WOW geekdom

Level 1 - You play WOW
Level 2 - You play WOW and you blog about it
Level 3 - You play WOW and you blog about it and you are thinking of going to Blizzcon
Level 4 - You play WOW and you blog about it and you are thinking of going to Blizzcon and you are thinking about blogging about going to Blizzcon

/sigh. I am trying to see if some guildies/friends will meet up with me there. Anyone been to Blizzcon? Anyone else thinking of going? FYI, first tickets for the August 21 and 22 event in Anaheim go online for sale this Saturday, May 16.

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K as a young sapling...

Averna tagged me to talk about what I remember about being a newbie, a post idea that originated from Miss Elf. I must say that I don't remember a whole lot from those sapling days. Did I just repress those painful memories? Or is it due to my standard habit of forgetting a lot of stuff? Anyways, here's what I can remember being a young sapling:

- I did notice when I first got my first talent point, but spent them with no method to the madness. I think I was some crazy combination of all three trees until level 30 or so.

- I had major issues with just plain old navigation. Yeah I was that toon who you saw getting tripped up on every door frame and knocking into sides of buildings. Repeatedy. Poor K ran around most of Darnassus and Darkshore with two black eyes. The worst was that huge tree in Darnassus that circled up and around. I think I fell off that path (and died) several several times.

- I was kind of scared of other players. Sounds silly, but its true. My first ever party invitation to do a group quest came from Adamas, someone I still talk to and raid with to this day (crazy). I remember being so nervous and scared that I was going to screw up.

- As a newbie healer, it took me a while to understand the concept of aggro and that I needed to run towards Jess when I got it. Why would I run towards the mean angry mobs? You run away from danger! There were many many situations where you'd see a crazy healer running all around, being chased by mobs, being chased by Jess.

- It never even crossed my mind that female toons could be played by male players and male toons could be played by female players. Never. I assumed that everyone knew that I was female because duh, I played a female toon. Thus, I reached out to other female characters with naive excitement (yay girl power!) assuming that they were played by female players. Yeah... I learned that lesson quickly.

Hmmm so am I supposed to be tagging other folks? Well I tag:
Beruthiel at Falling Leaves and Wings (gorgeous gorgeous blog name!!!)
Misneach at Aggro Junkie
Sylly at Rolling Hots
And Jess at Pretty in Plate because Jess is still a noob.

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My communication philosohy

I've had some people recently email or whisper me in game saying that they liked my blog or a certain post. Sooo very nice. Thanks to you all. You guys are obviously incredibly smart and good looking people with impeccable taste. Clearly.

But as a blogger, you're bound to run into people who lie on the other end of the spectrum. I've had a couple of conversations with friends and bloggers about internet trolls. Here's my philosophy on how I think about them:

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Beware of Mr. Wiggles

In light of this whole swine flu craziness, a warning for those of you with the pig pet:

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Bringing up the next K

I got my adorable little mini me, the Teldrassil Sproutling about a week ago. Its a big responsibility bringing up the next generation of trees, and I take the responsibility of raising K 2.0 very seriously. There's a lot to teach this little twig! I started by giving her a lecture on all she needed to learn.

But she seemed a bit confused and all I saw on her face was a wooden stare (lawl), so I decided I needed to show her what it meant to be my mini me. First I tried to take her herbing, though not to too much success. Apparently this little one finds herbing a bit boring for her taste? Blasphemy my little one, blasphemy!

Ok ok, how about fishing little K?

I also took her around to celebrate her first holiday.

Ok so there's herbing, and fishing, and taking part in world events. But I also needed to introduce her to the world of raiding, thus off to Ulduar we go! I was hoping that my sister tree Indi could help me focus the little one beyond falling asleep and dancing.

But instead of following our lead in throwing out our hallelujah praise the lord branchy HoTs, she got distracted by Vel's beauty.

Sigh... this little twig has a long way to go, but we'll get there. Its quite exhausting though being a student and a teacher!

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Bunnehs take over Ulduar

We went back to Ulduar for the second time this past weekend. While we were waiting for the group to form one night, we thought we'd amuse ourselves by turning into bunnies at the stone. Why? Because everything is better with bunnehs. (And yes, they are spelled that way.)

I thought it was super cute that a rogue's stealth and a shammy's shield thingie also translates in bunny form, though its a little hard to see Atania's stealthing bunny behind me in this pic on the left:

After a bit, a bunch of folks from a horde guild started showing up. I'm not sure if they were wanting us to get flagged or what, but they started standing in the middle of our little bunny party and casting aoes and whatnot. I emoted myself nibbling on a bunch of their ankles, unfortunately to no response:

Ok, on to serious business now. Here is a shot of us after one shotting XT-002, who I hear has been nerfed, but was fun nonetheless. Surprisingly, I didn't find the raid damage too bad to heal during the tantrums. Though maybe that was because I had a kickass priest and fantabulous tree healing with me (Hai2U Suzzy and Indi!) There were a couple comments from the boys that XT-002 was clearly a female because "she" has tantrums. /sigh

However, we had some trouble with getting Razorscale down. I think at first we weren't bringing her down fast enough with the harpoons. We were trying to wait until we cleared some more of the trash before bringing her down, but then we weren't getting enough dps on her. Then when we got that part down, we had to figure out how to navigate her and the raid around during the second phase. But finally, we got her!

I must say though that this Razorscale kill felt incredibly good and satisfying. I was proud that we were clearly improving and learning the fight during each attempt and no one was negative throughout all of the wipes. Yeah, wiping sucks, but people were positive pointing out that we were clearly getting better and what we could do next time. When we got her down, I think the 10 of us were all performing at our peak individually and as a collective unit. I must say that I was much more proud of this boss kill than any of our boss kills in Naxx. It reminded me of how we felt when we downed Shade or Prince back in the day in Kara.

Or maybe the secret to getting Razorscale down is to turn your raid members into bunnehs. Of course I had to make the comment, "Y'all are my bunneh bitches!" Heh heh. Sorries guildies.

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