First, “third-zerging” Sindragosa = no, does not work, ohgod my repair bill. (“third-zerging” in this case being “only let one person at a time be an ice block, don’t bother dropping stacks and just nuke the everloving smoo out of Sindy in the meantime) Oddly enough, this runs counter to all my previous Sindragosa posts that painted her as the Ridley of WoW.

…well, she IS, but more like Meta Ridley than X-Ridley in that the fight is not a clusterfwegh of DPS and you actually have to think about positioning at some point.

ANYWAY…

Hello, Frozen Throne. I’ve only seen it once before, on Leslie… and very briefly at that. This raid group wants Kingslayer as much as I do, to the point where we’re considering extending the lock until we walk away with that title and Mr. Lich King’s ice cream. That bastard, walking around with tasty chocolate chip scourge-y dough!

Phase 1 is simple enough… somewhat reminiscent of Rotface with the having to hoof it over to the OT when you get slapped by Necrotic Plague. With this group, the first transition is more like “everyone pile up and DPS the crap out of the adds ASAP,” also pretty easily done. Phase 2, though…

DEFILE. At last we meet. The bane of a Kingslayer’s existence… and literally a pool of gray goo. Seriously, what is it? Scourge poo? Rotten ice cream? Melted tire rubber?

My brother is often on an alt but able to listen in on the shenanigans. I’m convinced he’s eating popcorn. Munch away, you smug fool… even if I have to share my Kingslayer title with two (awesome) guildies, you shall pooh-pooh me no more! :P

Finally: Dinah the Ninja Jeweler. At last, raking in a small profit on a daily basis. Not only will this get me MOAR PROFIT, but will also pay for her next flight training and her second Sky Pop (seriously, Engineer flying machines are freaking Sky Pops from Super Mario Land). >:D

I’d left Dinah to charge for awhile so after I’d finished my randomsauce (and even got in on my first raid since 4.0.1 hit), it became NINJA HAPPY HOUR. She went from 47 to 50 (mostly in Searing Gorge) and, more importantly, I binge-leveled her jewelcrafting and engineering. Oh sweet mother of SMOO I always forget why I should never do that… I was supposed to go to bed around, what, 2am and now it’s almost 7. Ouch.

I’d a huge pile of adamantium ore piled up on Leslie from when she was doing Netherwing dailies, so I dumped it all onto Dinah for prospecting so now she has a happy little stack of lesser BC jewels to play with and turn around for a tiny profit. Wee~

Really, though, what I should be doing during the day is drawing (or better yet, cleaning my room in preparation to move my bed so I don’t tweak my neck to use Yggdrasil the Media Server… who himself is more than a decent WoW box). Otherwise I idle in trade waiting for raids that don’t happen and I end up falling asleep at the keyboard. That’s not good on several levels. I leave Painter open on Blastoise as a sort of ribbon-on-finger but then when I come back later, I forget why I had Painter open to begin with, click out and log into WoW anyway. Boo this Yoshi! :P

My brother finally wandered back ingame. I thought it would make me happy… now I don’t know. He had oral surgery and didn’t tell me, and probably would have canned his account without as much as saying goodbye if it weren’t for the surgery (which will have him off work for awhile) and impending Cataclysm. I should really cut him a break because oral surgery is a bitch, but at the same time, I have very, very serious issues with people who cut and run without a word. Yes, even if you’re family, going perma-AWOL gets you on my bad list VERY QUICKLY. If you can’t even be arsed to say farewell, did you even care in the first place? How little are we worth to you if that’s the case…? And this on top of finding out my brother more or less foisted me on Boss so he could go raid with some other guild… It’s so depressing…

(Hi, I’m Yoshi and I have abandonment issues.)

Hallow’s End starts up this week, though! I can get that item that Boss likes to fling about, the one that gives people pumpkin heads. Man, he must have a ton of those piled up, given how casually he throws ‘em around. XD

I can’t leave well enough alone. I was going to let Dinah charge to maximum rested EXP before I trot her out for levelling, but I had this ridiculous compulsion to crank up her Engineering and Jewelcrafting… which are REDONKULOUSLY expensive to level. :| Not only that, it’s also soooo time-consuming when you factor in having to log other alts to pass materials and such around. Ah…

And what do I have? A crapload of Elemental Fires. This is where I go all Beavis and Butthead and… yeah. (I’m trying to imagine a Night Elf chick doing the whole “Fire! Fire! Fire!” chant… I can’t. XD)

Welp, she’s at 300 on both and therefore sitting pretty until I ding 50 and can unlock the Outland recipes… that will actually be somewhat useful to me and other guildies around that level.

As for my 80s, I’ve been lazy in raiding this week, mostly so I could pile up monies and make ICC shoes for guildies. There is talk of trying to, at long last, put together something resembling an ICC guild run— yes, Shattered Knights, which has issues filling 5-mans, doing ICC 10 guild runs! Hah! (Well, guild runs as in “still half-PuG but at least the other half will be us!”) Leslie did, however, get a new hat… which of course you can’t see because I turn off helmets for everyone but Dinah, but that’s pretty much it… Hm. Maybe this week will be more productive on that end.