Reliving Old Memories, Glyph of Stars and Swapping Recipes
Easter weekend has been a long weekend and I’m sad to say that it ended badly. I feel like I had a WoW nervous breakdown. You know that feeling when you leave something behind, you fear you will miss it so very badly. I thought I was like that, and yesterday I got to find out whether it’s true.
I statused on my BTag that I was in the mood for an adventure, meaning that I was bored and wanted company while doing something interesting. My mentor caught me up on it, and we went looking for a lore quest in Outland Shadowmoon Valley. It was incredibly interesting, I will not lie. Didn’t take us very long, and we *cough* I *cough* learnt very quickly that the green lava there is shit OP. I died. That Lava Boss :O But, what’s an adventure without me dying, huh? My mentor then had to head off to do some errands, and when he returned, invited me to do Mogushan Vaults for the title. I already had it since FA did all these runs a while back, but I thought, “What the hell? It’ll be a laugh!” He then asked me to join his guild’s TS. Now, my mentor is in my old guild. I asked him in my own way if he would follow me, but he felt needed as a raider (and later, a councillor) at Atlas. Which is fine. We have each other on Skype and BTag, so we can chat whenever. But, that’s fine, I joined, and found two other people there from Atlas that were also joining us. One I knew from raiding in prepatch, one I didn’t know at all. That’s fine. It’s me. I make friends easily.
From there, we moved onto the bug raid in Dread Wastes (another name that eludes me) where we kept struggling, and then to ToES. While we were here, an old raider friend person popped in, seemed surprised to see me there, said hi and then went and hid in the AFK channel. Some things don’t change. As we were deciding where to go next, so another person logged in. This one was someone that was in the raid team I joined when I first started raiding. I knew him well enough, and he seemed interested in the fact that I was around. We all then decided to do some Siege achievements, because I was running around on my Galakras mount, and this guy joined us.
As we were entering Siege, someone logged onto TS that I was excited to speak to, my confidant and friend, Cal. But, that excitement was incredibly short lived. His first words in the room were, “Oh. What is she doing here?” I wasn’t Xeno as he’s always fondly called me and he didn’t have that animated voice as he had when he joined my guild’s TS to discuss logs with me and my shadow. My heart sank. I barely had the ability to say that I had been invited to the TS channel to join on some old raid achievement runs. The one person I didn’t expect that from. I almost left. The rest of the raid, I spoke only when they really didn’t know what to do, and I was mostly ignored anyway. We missed two achievements because people didn’t listen to me and wiped multiple times on bosses that were in fact super easy to get the achievement on. It was like I was back in an Atlas raid, ignored and belittled. And afterwards, when I was chatting to my mentor about it, I realised that this is why I left. I didn’t fit in. I didn’t like the uptight atmosphere that’s supposed to be a casual VoIP. I didn’t like being looked down upon. I told my mentor that, without being offensive, I didn’t enjoy being on his guild’s TS. It was cold and stuckup. Nothing like FA’s TS. Ours has a warm atmosphere, no matter who’s online. People laugh at each other, we tell stories and jokes and make each other feel welcome, even the strangers (this happens all the time, random people just decide to log in as they please). And I realised that FA really and truly is a home away from home. As I said to one of the other guildies (who was a bit concerned, seeing my stream of Nerd points come in), "I’m not going anywhere. My house has been built on top of yours, Mate.”
On a happier note, Nako has been part of two progression BrF bosses this week! I’m still struggling to get the timing down on my casts and alignment shifts, but attempting LFR on the Hunter convinced me that I have done the right thing - I didn’t enjoy it at all! The Boomkin is still a challenge I am very much enjoying, and I’m pretty close to what I should be able to put out DPS wise. I made a new friend in our raid on Sunday (I shall discuss this shortly), and he Simcrafted me at 24k DPS (I’m currently 664). On the dummies, I managed 17k over 9 minutes, but no more. Thankfully, my shadow was still on TS, and made my evening even sweeter by mentioning that I got 22k stable on Iron Maidens. Whoop! Heading in the right direction!
And, as I’ve mentioned, I’ve made a new friend! A whole bunch, actually! The weirdest way ever, though. We didn’t have a full guild team on Sunday, so we had to list ourselves. It’s not uncommon that people don’t read that we are still on Nm (mostly because we fuck around on TS and we wipe often). A few people signed up, found one person that was overgeared, kindly sent them on their way, and I was just about to delist when a group of four players signed up. 688, 687, 68-what what and what what. I /w the leader of the group, saying that they have signed up for a Nm, and are probably looking for an HC, judging by their gear. Nah, they’re looking for a Nm run, but looking for some fun while doing it. Ok, I discuss this with the team, they all seem fine with a larger than usual group since at least two of the players can heal. I invite them into the team, and ask them to join TS. I run through the motions, loot rules, how far we’ve progressed and what not, and we head on up on our way.
Gruul goes down like a whore on a client. Oregorger was a bad (read TERRIBLE) pull, but somehow I actually survived the kill. Sadly, the mage that joined didn’t, but we forgave her with cute puppy dog eyes because she has the sweetest voice EVA! We then moved along to Hans and Franz, killed them and we laughed and made pulling Hunter jokes as I pull almost everything I can find. TS was loud with the sound of random giggles as Lee and I are having phat discussions. It’s around this point that the Rogue starts messaging me, telling me that him and his group are enjoying themselves, that they were in a group before, but the group was full of rude people, and they decided to leave. Flamebender is a breeze, and then we give a few goes on Kromog. A boss we haven’t defeated, and sadly, didn’t defeat either. However, the Rogue in the group of four makes a few suggestions, ones that makes so much sense, I can’t believe I haven’t thought of it. (If you’ve raided with me, you’ll know I like to mark everything and its dog.) Definitely something we can build on!
We take a few breaths, and on to Darmac. Once he’s dead, we’re all standing around, people go pee, and someone had to leave. We’re discussing going back to Kromog, since Furnace is not an option, and we’ve not done Thogar or Iron Maidens yet. “Let’s go Thogar!” someone yells, and as we decide on this, so the other main tank logs in, though a bit grumpy after his long day at work. We all wait for him to join, and I hide in a corner with the Rogue :D Now, I’m not going to lie, it’s a common occurance that I don’t see what’s going on in half the chats in guild or raid, etc, and I normally ask people to ping me if they need my attention since ElvUI makes a noise when my name is typed out in a message. But, oddly, I was a bit more aware of what was going on. Might’ve been because of the large group. I don’t normally take in more than 12 or 13 people into a raid. We were at least 15. I had bad experiences leading 25 man in SoO. But, anyway, and I keep seeing double messages. One to myself, which I know is Big Brother, the other in /raid. So, I message the guy, and ask him, “Are you a RL?” “Yea. How could you tell?” “The addon.” “What addon?” “The one spamming /raid :P” “Oh. Should I switch it off?” “Nah, it’s ok.” And BOEM! New friend ^_^
I log in yesterday morning, and spam spam SPAM spam. This is how we live. Not even guildies, it’s of these four (which I’ve added three on BTag), all enquiring when our next raid will be and if they could possibly join. < This. This is what makes my day.
Also, here is my first recipe, Law :D It’s my beloved Beef and Baby Marrow Lasagna. Now your turn.
