Monday Morning Mumblings: Chapter 1

So here we are...another Monday morning...guess that means it's time to mumble a little.  Hey, bear with me please...I'm still working on that first cup of coffee.  It's hard to be coherent before say...NOON...on a Monday, despite having already been at work for a few hours.

As part of my Monday Morning rambling, I wanted to talk a little bit about feeling burnt out.  Hard to believe, right?  But it's true...I'm definitely feeling burnt out.  In the beginning of patch 4.1 or...whichever brought us Firelands...the whole idea of what my raid guild was doing seemed awesome.  We'd all be asked to raid 2 nights a week with the option to have a 3rd night off with an alternate taking our place.  That seemed so awesome...but our guild hit a rough patch a few weeks into Firelands and now we're struggling to fill our 25 man raid group.  No, there wasn't really any drama...but we've had a streak of nasty luck.  One of our main tanks got really sick, another main tank's computer died...two of our healers have too much RL stuff going on and have canceled their accounts for now...

That means that I get to raid 3 nights a week.  Every week.  And while I do love to raid...sometimes I just want to go be a total noob on an alt someplace...People keep saying to me that I can just tell my guild leader I need time off...but I don't want to be that guy.  You know...the person that's preventing your entire raid team from running because you aren't there...the 25th person they're waiting for...yeah I don't want to be that guy and like I said, I love raiding.  I've been there for all of our First Kills in Firelands so far and that's a cool feeling.

I'd especially like to be there for our first Staghelm kill...and Ragnaros.  The Rags fight looks so fun...

But anyway...I'm feeling a little less than enthusiastic lately.  I've let one of my dearest friends hang out on my account a lot lately.  Mainly he farms for me...occasionally does dailies...runs up repair bills...stuff like that...I love running instances on alts with friends still, but actually going out and questing and stuff...it's just not my cup of tea right now.  Running dungeons to gear my level 85 alts?  NO THANK YOU.

I'm sick of grinding rep and valor points...Luckily, my valor points get capped easily on my druid every week because she's actively raiding.  I usually only have to run 1 or 2 heroics to finish it off with her.  My shaman and priest (my "main" alts) are another story.  I haven't actively raided on either of them, nor do I even want to.  I'm so sick of healing I could scream...that's why I thought leveling my warlock would be a good change of pace...but she's 85 and trying to gear her makes me want to scream, so...I don't bother with her too much these days.  I don't even play my death knight or my mage at all anymore.  Maybe melee dps would be a good change of pace...I suppose I could give that a try, but I'd need to get my DK two weapons, because she's frost and 2h frost is broken supposedly.  

Meh.........

Maybe I'll just take some time off and go read the Twilight series...nothing would make you miss your night elf more than a twinkling vampire...right?  

I apologize for the "filler" post today.  I've been a little under the weather for the past 2 days and have sort of been less than enthusiastic about playing the game so I really don't have much to say.  

For someone without much to say, I sure do talk alot.

HA!  Anyway, RL calls so I'll post again soon.  Take care!

Reflections: Why My Main is a Druid

One of the most frequently asked questions to any World of Warcraft addict is:

Why did you pick that class as your main?

Recently, I got asked this question and decided that since I've never really talked about it...maybe today would be a good day to do that.

My WoW journey (aka addiction) began near the end of Burning Crusade.  My husband, at the time, had installed the game and paid for a subscription for me for Mother's Day.  It took me over a month to even log in for the first time because I had never really been a gamer and I was busy with getting us settled into our new home.  Once we were all settled in, I made the mistake of mentioning to a really close friend that my husband had given me a subscription as a gift and everything was installed and ready to go but that I wasn't sure I wanted to even log in.  My dear friend convinced me to give it a try, as we were long distance friends, and it would give us a way to "hang out".


Thus began the journey.


My friend decided to roll a hunter named Phaeryn.  I remember doing extensive research on the classes to try and decide what I wanted to play.  Maybe you'll giggle, but I have always  been fascinated by elves, so my first character (and many subsequent characters) had to be an elf.  Since all of the people I knew on my server were Alliance, I decided I would go that route...that and my husband at the time forbid me from playing Horde.


I originally picked the druid because the lore surrounding them made them seem so earthy and natural.  They were the protectors and seemed so peaceful.  When I found out that, ultimately, my druid would be able to turn into a bear...I was sold on the class.

I really miss the old bear form sometimes.

Phae and I leveled together each night after my child went off to bed, and I think it helped me adore my druid that much more.  It was the adventures we had, the trouble we found, the fun we had that really helped make my love for my druid become eternal and pushed me to actually begin learning about my class.


Admittedly, in the beginning, I really didn't know there even was an "end game".  I thought it was all about questing and picking flowers.  I didn't know anything about raiding.  It wasn't until after we had reached level 50 or so that the guild I was in really started talking about raiding with me.  


Phae had gone away to visit family for about two weeks and I was on my own.  One of the guild's main tanks sat me down and talked to me a little bit about raiding and what was involved.  That's the point where I started really trying to learn as much as I could about my class.  I updated her spec to become a tank and I started questing hard so that I could tank for our guild when I hit level 70.  (Which, unfortunately, left Phae behind...but that's another story for another day).


I started reading up on EJ about my class, had found a great forum in The Druid's Grove in order to really learn what I was doing.  I had always been a bear at heart, but had never really tanked before because I was nervous and wasn't sure I knew what I was doing.  My first actual tanking experience was in Karazhan.  


Yeah, I know.  Nothing like tanking for the first time in a raid to get your feet wet, right?


Overall, I did well given how "poor" my gear was and being that it was my first ever time tanking...actually, it was my first time raiding...ever!  I got a lot of positive feedback which only pushed me to learn more about my class and get even better.  


As time passed and I started learning more about my druid as a whole, not just bear stuff...I started to fall even more in love with the class.  During Wrath of the Lich King, we were granted Dual Spec...which allowed me to transition back and forth between healing and tanking as needed...and let me just say, there is nothing more fun than going from being the main tank on one fight to the top healer on the next!  Dual spec made me love my class even more than I did before.

I miss the old tree form, too..../mourn

 I guess to make a long story short:  The reason I play a druid is because I love the versatility of the class and I love how much fun I have when I play my druid.

I hope that answers your question about why I chose a druid as my main.

And since I answered your question...Why did you pick the class you did for your main?  

Feel free to email responses or reply in the comments section below!  I'd love to hear the reason you chose your main!

Filler: A Blogger's Crutch

I intended to post more often.  It didn't happen.  My bad.

I have been busy.  Or not...

Quick updates:  The warlock is 85 now and I have to work on her gear.

BUT WAIT...

"Don't you still have to gear your shaman, priest, death knight, mage, and keep working on gearing your druid?"

Yeah.  I do.  Add the 'lock to the list of things to do now.  Except, she's lower on the list.  

That's about all I've got really for today.

I'd love to sit here and tell you that I'm going to go over patch 4.3 notes BEFORE it goes live, but we all know I won't ever end up doing that because ... Hey look!  A bunny!