WoW movie gems.

Sometimes I stumble upon some World of Warcraft videos that just need to be remembered. There are such gems out there, I wish I could be as creative and stylish -

The Demise
This video just blew me away. It is so beautiful, yet so sad.
I love how it is so different and is almost like a painted picture.
http://www.vimeo.com/1311788

Azeroth Walk
It is short, yet something totally different. Might be the only video done with stop motion out there.
http://www.vimeo.com/1345309

Ring Of Valor 2
http://www.vimeo.com/1207292
I'm not a big fan of PvP videos, but this truely stands out from all the rest. It has style and is funny as well.

Timeout

I'm taking a WoW break for at least a week. I feel burnt out again and tired, so it's that time again. Everytime shortly before the next expansion hits, World of Warcraft is getting on my nerves. There is a lot to do, but with most of it (raiding, gearing up, doing dailies for reputation) - you ask yourself "For what?". New expansion will hit in October / November I guess, and everything you are doing will be worth exactly ZERO.

So I will have a look at Mount Hyjal today, and then I'm off to think about what I want to do until the expansion comes out, or if I won't wait and quit the game altogether.

Annoyed

I haven't posted here in a long time, and much has happened since.
Pokayoke is of course 70 by now and has gone through being a healer, being enhancer and back to healer again.

Being Enhance Shaman was fun, was a few times in Karazhan, got some nice loot and got nice weapons and some good gear now. But now that I have grinded some of the reputation, have done dailies, went fishing - have maxed out the professions, now it is time to go back to healing.

In the meantime, Duh got his mage to 70, and has left the server again because, well, I have no clue what he wanted anyway- I think he has neither. So he went back to my old server and is raiding once more, and I'll stay with Pokayoke and get my healgear going. Only bad thing is, nobody needs a healer - during my vacation I only managed to run one lousy instance in 4 days and I was in the goddamn LFG channel the whole time.

So, for lack of a damage dealer I am currently leveling a Bloodelf hunter, he is going to be 30 the coming week-end and it is fun to actually level a hunter once more. So I will have a farmbot in no time.

Healing with a Shaman is also fun, so I'll keep the spec, even though it is difficult to get into non-heroic groups. If I can run Karazhan a few times more, I will be able to heal heroics, I hope that I won't disappoint. But Chain Heal is heaven, I tell you.

As long as my guild keeps supporting her, I'm going to be fine.
On my old server, some people have come back from playing AoC, but still nothing really pulls me back there. My old guild there is broken into different groups, there's no real sense of togetherness anymore. And I need that, I know that Duh for example doesn't care in which guild he is as long as he can do something that "gets him somewhere" and there are many people alike. But I need a sense that you can also count on people to help out others with no own agenda. But that is lacking there completely. So I'm fine with the guild I found with Pokayoke, even though we have ups and downs as well, but nothing is more depressing than when you are online or in a raid with your guild and nobody is talking...

Like in Karazhan on Sunday - which was the last run I organized- I'm done pleading with people to come and help out in Karazhan anymore. I know that raiding with the partner guild is much much more important than help gearing people of your own guild who can't go there.

Yes, that was meant sarcastic. I'm pretty much annoyed with them all, and need a break from seeing my old guild break into pieces...

Poka's to do and to get list. Shinies!

Leveling up to 70 should be a piece of cake (manical laughter in the background), so what do I need to do and what should I'll be getting when I'm level 70?

Necklace: [Vindicator's Pendant of Salvation] (15.300 HP, 10 Eye of the Storm)
Ring1: [Vindicator's Band of Salvation] (15.300 HP, 10 Alterac)
Ring2: [Ancestral Band] (Thrallmar Revered)
Trinket1: [Lower City Prayerbook] (Lower City Revered)
Trinket2: [Alchemist's Stone] (Alchemy 350, 5 Primal Might, 1 Earthstorm diamond, 1 Skyfire diamond, 2 Fel Lotus)
Weapon: [Hand of Eternity] (Blacksmithing) / [Gavel of Pure Light] (The Sha'tar Exalted)
Offhand: [Crystal Pulse Shield] (Auction House)

Ramparts Rampage

Pokayoke went to Ramparts last night to heal her first 5-man instance, ever. Two druids (one bear and a Boomkin), a Warlock and two Shamans (me and an Enhancer).

First pull, the bear didn't see that the second mob ran straight to me and I guess saw nothing but his big butt... so while I was off-tanking the add and healing I thought that this will be interesting and 'can I have my Fade button please?'.

So the bear was new to tanking, and I was new to healing with a Shaman.
We did wipe twice during the whole run, once on a 6-man group and then on the final boss.

It wasn't too bad, I had worse groups in there. The bad thing was that at the end, healer pants dropped and the Moonkin won the roll. WTF?
One more on my ignore-list. He was getting on my nerves about my specc and I actually was at the point where I just wanted to say that he should go over to elitistjerks.com and have a look at the post about Restoration Shamans and that he could actually learn something there.

I didn't even say anything about the warlock having his voidwalker out all the time and giving us no healthstone even after I asked for one... maybe a voidwalker was just his thing, who knows?

Usual random group, not very rewarding, but at least I learned something about healing with her and got a bit of XP.

Shaman builds and leveling

I have been trying to figure out how to level Pokayoke to 70.
She is now Elemental and still in the transition phase gear-wise from Enhancement to Spell-gear. I don't have leatherworking, so getting gear is limited to quests. I've been taking the mail/leather and all the stuff with spelldamage on it. But it's a bit less powerfull still than the kind of damage I did as Enhancement.

Still, I won't go back to that, I have been thinking about a healing specc instead. I don't do that much damage anyway, so I've been getting used to long fights and a bit of a frustrating questspeed.

But really, what's the rush? I have all the time in the world and leveling on a PvP server is harder anyway. The interruptions from getting killed by random 70ish-level-players who farm there or do the dailies, is enough of a hold-up. Why not take the chance to do the instances for reputation? They always look for healers. And even if I don't have any healgear at the moment, should be fun to start healing. I could go back to Elemental if I can't kill anything with that specc.

I'm thinking about it.

Linkage:

• elitist jerks: shaman restoration


• a Shaman leveling healing specc


• Pokayoke in the Armory

Ding! 60! Poka!

Small Ding! for my Shaman, she reached level 60 yesterday. ;) Having gotten through the dreaded 50-span she now quests in Outland has a ton of fun there. Even though now I really get to know the PvP aspect of the server (*hugs* to my guild to come and rescue me) - but still fun.

Taking a big break from raiding, different reasons. I'm just fed up with everything that's all.