#xenalt

It’s been about a month since I announced my plans to switch mains. If you’ve been watching my blog, you’ll have noticed that a few things have recently undergone cosmetical changes. This is because Nakotona has officially surpassed Xenorra in ilvl, and most certainly in DPS. Mostly with the help of some amazing friends! I have been gifted with upgrade tokens and pulled along into raids even I knew I was nowhere near ready for. I was even refused permission to bring the Huntard* when I was clearly not pulling my weight. Well, I’m pulling my weight now, that’s for sure, and as in the refusal reasoning ("you need the practice"), I have managed to work with the speed of the changing eclipses with the Euphoria talent. Also, Mastery. I recall being a Mastery freak back in MoP, and now I get to Mastery all over everyone again. I love it. Mastery. Boom. Mastery.

On another note, it turns out I was being overly sensitive to the comments made when I was visiting an old friend back at Atlas. I got a chance to speak to the guy on Friday, and though he apologised, he thought I caught the joke since he’d mentioned before that he has a sick sense of humour. Well, as I explained to him, I knew that, but I was hellish nervous being there already, and hearing that from him especially kinda broke me. He then told me that he’s getting bored of the game, and is thinking of quitting. I haven’t seen him on BNet for three days now. 

I’ve finally completed my Highmaul Curve achievement, but after this past Saturday’s re-attempts, it seems that that fight just hates me. Last time, my latency shot up like crazy. I think I hit 2,4k ms half way through the fight, and spent from the first pair of Warmages on the floor. This Saturday, my mister and I redid our computer room’s desk arrangement as well as all the cabling in the room (having a shitload of PCs and consoles is just urgh). As of Saturday, I’ve taken on a smaller desk and as a result, was having issues with my keyboard being much closer to what I was used to. This meant that, at some point, I was pushing my CTRL key in with my forearm, and the key got stuck. Keyboard bashing FTW! 

Well, that’s it for now, Ktxbai X~

For the next two or three weeks, I will be transitioning from Hunter to Boomie as I switch mains and gear up. 

My reason for this is mostly because Hunters are so common in the DPS pool as of late, and I’m sick of people telling me which spec I should be playing and how I should play that spec, and I’m not enjoying any Hunter spec at the moment. 

Bringing a Boomkin into my raid team also fills a Leather gap that we have been experiencing, without removing a ranged player. I have also personally fallen in love with the rotation, the animations and the beauty of my cow. 

From then, Xenorra will become merely an alt. This means that when Nakotona officially joins the main raid, I will no longer post my Hunter pics under #XenMain, but rather those of the Druid.

A few weeks ago, I dinged on my beautiful Undead Priest, Xhylo, mostly because I have a wonderful person that wants to play alongside me all the time. She has done a few Nm dungeons, but the both of us got bored with the same old fights over and over because of the lack of options. We also tried some Hc dungeons, but after people just screwing up on Rukhran's stupid Solar Flares, and me not being able to heal through two of the explosions, we gave up. Looking beyond this failure, I am rather loving the Disc Priest, and even prefer to DPS in the spec while doing old content. Shadow is just not for me.... I did find a very nice mog :D Got a bit daring with large shoulders and a head piece that covers most of her face, something I wouldn't think of with the Belf. The Conqueror Priest Tier set is really pretty :D Okay, not the gloves, but the rest of it!

My friend and I also have another guildie, whom we both rather enjoy the company of, who has showed us the error of our ways, and brought us to the light: Auctionator! I'm a proud hoarder, I will not lie, and the both of us have a ton of shit that we keep on bank toons. So, we each have our multiple banks, and then two guild banks for storage. When we were introduced to Auctionator, we both went mental, dumping everything we could find on the AH and doing old content to farm goodies as much as we could carry. And with the profits of this lucrative business venture, we were each able to purchase the one mount in the game that I would give my soul for: the Sapphire Panther! Oh. My. God! It's the most beautiful thing EVER! 

There has, as per usual, been drama in the raiding of the guild. There were apparently some issues with certain people, and the roster was condensed. People are no longer getting raid invites, and I'm personally disappointed in how the whole situation has been handled.

Having said this, I've been invited to, and joined, a raid with my old guild. Was really nice to see that people *cough* found their big boy panties, and have dealt with the Exodus. I was welcomed into the raid, even though I was a pug, and my opinion on boss tacts was taken quite well. In fact, I was asked more than once how I've done the fights previously. It's rather flattering. However, the group didn't get particularly far, and after just under two hours, I was on my way. Straight into a raid of my friend's friends. 

So, I am used to raiding with a little bit of a uptight raid vibe, went to one that is more local (geographically and linguistically) but the players are unsure what to do, to one where it's lead by fun British women that curse and laugh and joke, but want to get Butcher down. The last group gave me more of a sense of how I would like to feel while raiding. I want a more comfortable vibe, more trusting and less of this aggressive competition. Lighthearted conversation when the time calls for it. With elements like this, progression will come. Though, it does sound more like a casual group than a hardcore progression group. Hmmmmmm *drifts in thought*

Okay, well, that's it from me for now~