One Hour til the Weekend

My guild had some interest in doing Outland Heroics and Raids. I think i'll sign up and join them. I have been inside Botanica and Mechanar or something, but that was as a level 70 being run through by a level 80 DK because, well, he wanted to acheivement for Outland Dungeon Master. He did get it, and i did get to see the inside of a crystal spaceship. It's a pretty awesome sight inside the walls of one of those spaceships. I would never be able to live inside one of those things, considering everything looks like its made of stone. But add some sofas and lounge chairs and you can make any one of those crystalline-walled rooms look comfortable and cozy... in space.

That's essentially where we were. Since Draenor has been shattered into pieces, i am sure most of the planet has been destroyed and the zones we see now are but a fraction of what the planet used to be. Of course, all of the seas are gone so its not too far to assume that most of the atmosphere is gone as well. flying up that far would bring me close enough to be shot out into outter space with a cannon. im pretty sure of it.

What else, the old city of auchindon is just as cold a place, possibly because they were both created by the draenei. Running through mana tombs, sethekk halls and crypt showed me a large underground city filled with stone walls and empty space. it is almost as if the draenei had dwarven tendentcies to build cities underground. but not really. only part of their city was underground. the rest was probably pretty awesome to look at before the explosion that left us with the bone wastes. What amazes me is how the archetecture is completely different from all the other races in draenor and azeroth. I mean not just that its different from them, but that all the others are unique in its own right (which also leads me to wonder why gnomes need such big doors in gnomeregan).

So im a little bit excited about doing the higher leveled outland instances that i went ahead and got the shattered halls key made, complete with killing the voidwalker (i did this by aggroing the voidwalker when he's passing thrallmar to the east, and then making a beeline towards the mages standing outside. Once i died, it only took the mages about a minute to kill the thing. once it dies, i have until it despawns to forge my key. and forge my key i did!). i am also trying to figure out how to get the shadow labyrinth key as well as tempest keep. i do not remember a requirement to enter steamvaults. i did escape from durnholde but forgot to accept the escort quest. so i'll have to do it again. but thats fine. i like that instance, i really do. and eventually, hyjal! So the raids will open up as well. Kara, SSC, TK, BT, Hyjal, Zul Aman, Sunwell. I think that covers it. MGT will be awesome too. Magister's Terrace. Even at 80, we cannot be lazy about this instance. Im sure Gruul's, Mag's and that last one in sunwell will be great.

What i am concerned about is the organization. I would love to just do a 10man of these. Perhaps there will need to have 15-25 of us in the raid. i dont mind. the more the easier. i just hope i do not ever have to heal, or tank. as a ret paladin, as you've read the other day, i do not want to do anything else besides dps. its pretty fun in 5-mans so 10-mans shouldnt be much of a difference. i know its a bit harder to tank and heal, as i've done both in 5-mans. i can attest that dps is a lot less stress. my responsibility is to dps and move. that's basically it. i have no responsibility to others really. but if i have to, i will taunt a mob off the healer, or even the warlock who's trying to out dps me. the difference between me and the warlock is that i do not die after two hits, maybe after five, but not after two hits. so its much better the mobs pound on me than on the warlock, and only until the tank grabs the stray mob's attention again.

In any case, about organization. I've been in guilds where we've attempted some runs here and there. some were successful, some werent. some took forever and some were pretty quick. what all of these had in common was that a bunch of us ended up really liking raiding, and wanted to do more while the rest of the guild wanted to level, or quest, or do 5mans and then end up leaving because they want to raid. and other times the raid leader just did the raid for fun with no intention of doing more later. there was a guild that i was in where the guild leader took a break and left it to one of his officers to lead. lead we were not and the guild ended up breaking apart about a month later. the lame duck guild leader decided to give the leadership to others after the fallout, although he was given plenty of opportunity to turn the guild around during the month. he was just benefitting from someone else's hard work, and the butt kissing and ass licking helped him gain the position but it didnt help him keep it. ok rant aside, i just hope things dont fall apart after a while. to finally be in a raiding and active guild would actually help a lot. it may change my playing habits a bit.

Anyway, i am hoping our first steps would be in outland heroics. Im already honored with Thrallmar to get their heroic key, but im friendly with lower city... and thats it. meaning, i need to improve my standing with lower city to do heroics in auchindon, then figure out a quick way to get my rep up with the sha'tar for tempest keep instances. lastly, honored with the cenarions in order to do heroic coilfang instances. i think keepers of time will come... in time. and maybe i can start doing netherdrake quests. that does mean i will have to buy epic flying. i did break 5k gold two days ago. it is pretty slow but i've found that enchants sell pretty well, although a bit slow. i do get some competition with fiery enchants but i have zero competition with the agi to weapons. although, honestly, there's no competition because theres practically no customers. in any case, i did gain my last 3k gold from enchanting mainly, and a few AH flips. i have been buying frostweave cloths for about 10g/stack and reselling it for 15g-20g a stack. netherweave as well. and i've also been selling some raw gems because practically every character and their mom is a JCer. so yes, the future looks difficult due to the slow economy. but that doesnt mean there's no gold to be made. what i need to concentrate on right now is rep (cenarion, lower city, shatar and keepers of time). i guess i can also buy some of that intro-pvp gear they started handing out some patches ago for the level 70s wanting to enter the pvp game.

So there is your critical-hit wall-o-text. I am just writing because i am at work and none of my bosses are back yet. also, because i can actually edit posts right now. its a good thing to do to keep busy and plan for the weekend. i do have this urge to level all the way to 80 but i think maybe i should just stick it out and wait at 70-72 and do everything outland has to offer with my guild. I can level my DK instead. that works. level Krakken to 80 so he can actually get some decent JC cuts. yay. sounds like a plan.

This weekend's goal:
Get Devynity honored with Lower City
Get Devynity honored with Sha'tar
Get Devynity honored with Cenarion Expedition
Get Devynity friendly with Keepers of time
Get Devynity friendly with a drunk elf
Get key for Shadow Lab
Key key for Tempest Keep
Get to 70 (so i can equip most of the gear that will drop in the level 70 dungeons)
Level Krakken, who is currently 75, to at least be 78 (which should be easy considering he's got so much rested exp and im pretty familiar with northrend content.