Vote kicked

Being the one to be vote kicked from a group is an interesting experience. I know I've been kicked a few times for disconnecting, but to realize that someone kicked you from the group for being bad is a different experience entirely. 

Something is wrong with the wait time here...

I have been kicked for being bad twice.

First, Milli zoned into regular Stonecore at level 83 to a group that looked like it should be running ramps. Meaning 4 DK's and a healer. The DK that was tanking ran into the first group, then the rest did, they all AoE'd and promptly died because both the earthragers turned into elementals, and I simply couldn't heal it.

We wiped, I ran back, and found myself not in a group.

The next time, I was healing H-SFK on Luna. For the 3rd boss, the one with the adds, we were going to do the courtyard strategy. The only way I've ever seen the boss get down to the courtyard is if a dps with a movement speed increase (or a healer with the same) aggros him and books it down to the courtyard.

But this group wanted the tank to slowly tank him down the stairs, and for me to stay with him and heal. I thought that it was going to be a grab it and book it sort of situation, and ran way ahead of the tank. Tank died, we wiped, it was my fault, I apologized, and got kicked anyways.

Part of me wants to know what each group was thinking when they kicked me. I'm wondering if the first group thought that they had some chance of success and that the healer was the only thing holding them back. I think their chances of success were rather low no matter what healer they got.

With the second group, they did it a different way than I was used to, and with the many available strategies for the current bosses, I should have asked exactly what we were doing.

I think that people should give pugs a little more leeway when it comes to how they do things in a dungeon. If your guild does something that is rather strange, let anyone you pug in know ahead of time so that they don't screw it up. You'll wipe less, you won't have to vote kick the pug, everyone gets badges and loot, it's a win win.

Just remember that pugs are people too!

On Alts, guilds, and ADD

I really didn't expect to hit the end of Wrath burnout that I did. But I dealt with it by leveling a small army of alts. The week before the shattering I had:
- 4 level 80's
  - Druid - H
  - Priest - H
  - Hunter - A
  - Paladin - A
- A level 73 rogue
- Various bank and other alts

The shattering opened up a lot of new interesting quest chains, so my little baby mage banker set out to do some of those and leveled from level 6-41 in a little over a week.

Then the expansion came out. I went from having not enough to do, to having no idea what to do first. I made my obligatory goblin and worgen, they are both sitting at around level 10. I dithered around on my druid doing archeology for about 2 days and questing and picking flowers, and not knowing quite where to start.

Now, at the beginning of December I made a list of who I would level first, and where they would go along the way. I had to throw that list out the window after about a week. I thought I was going to level my hunter and farm ore to give to my paladin to level her jewelcrafting, but no. It's a lot cheaper to just buy it off the AH (at least on my server A side) and save anything my hunter gathers for her own engineering efforts. I race changed my priest and thought that would help me get the urge to level her, but no. She and my hunter are still sitting at level 80, probably playing chess with each other. Well my priest isn't completely bored, I've been feeding her cloth and greens.

Of course I leveled my druid first. She's my main. I am mostly on top of all the resto druid goings on (I'm looking forward to 4.0.6 and the decrease in rejuv's mana cost, I might be able to raid heal again!), and she has a raiding guild that needs her. It would really make sense to level the alt that could help support her with enchants and stuff next.

But, noooooooo, I fell in love with my paladin while leveling her to 80, and want to get her to 85 next. Shockadin is really quite fun to level with. Plate wearing ranged dps FTW!

Here we meet some problems. The guild my paladin and hunter are in is basically a bank guild. It will take quite some time before I see any guild perks. I won't have anyone to run heroics with that I know. She did a lot of pugging on her way to 80, but those were much more forgiving conditions. I don't pug with my main, let alone an alt that is going to have much less time devoted to her gear, and support from guildies. I could try to find a guild for her (and for my friend's alliance side characters) that would have perks and the occasional tank that would take my side in things. But she's not a main. And when I get alt ADD again, I don't know if I will continue to play her much. Like my hunter.

Oh well, I'll figure something out.

DoHP's Wrath bucket list

Cataclysm is coming. And I have things I still want to do in wrath.

Milli-
- Kill Arthas (Sindragosa should go down this week!)
- See up to Yogg in Udular
- Stockpile some gold
- Make a kitty set

Sybb-
- Get Ambassador rep title
- Max out engenering

Q-
- Get to 80 and maybe enough gear to go to raid or two
- Get all the good rp tailoring patterns (should help with the stockpiling gold thing)

Bleeth-
- Pick a pair of professions
- learn how to rogue

Screenshot with song lyrics!

Featuring my hunter, and a horse, with no name.
(I can't remember who started this meme... will link when I remember)

Bubbly flavor

Something rather unusual happened to my druid. She has become my "raid only" main. I've got about 100 frost badgers that I'm not doing anything with, guildies to farm up herbs to make flasks, and a geared to the teeth healer. I'll duitifully take her to the weekly raids, but she's stopped doing dailies, I couldn't even really get into children's week with her. My hunter still has some mining and engenering to work on, and her gear would have been good last patch. But I have apparantly gone crazy and am leveling another healer.

Enter Q. No, not that Q. or the other Q. My Q. She's a bouncy disc bubble thrower priest. She's pretty much leveling using the dungeon finder, with a little bit of questing as shadow on the side. (Don't tell my guild's shadow priest, but I kinda like it. A lot better than I do balance on my druid. MOAR DOTS!!!) But she always has a constant goal, more levels. And then when she hit's 80, gear to do heroics, then gear to do basic raids, then gear enough to do ICC... etc. And I don't know, but come cataclysm, resto druids are losing tree form, not getting any new heals, but disc priests are getting power word barrier, and "life grip" and a new heal. So for right now, she's a back up plan.

Save the Trees!

From Tree Bark Jacket.

Thoughts on Druid changes

BUT I LIKE TREE!!!!!

That is all.