New druid forms…. Meh
I was, once again, looking at the new bear and cat forms that are being put into place with the upcoming patch. The fact that there are no new BOOMKIN or TREE forms is a whole other rant! But there is a pretty good video out showing the new forms which can be seen here. I am less than enthused. Granted - any improvements to the druid forms I suppose is a good thing - but I just can’t seem to like them. See the rest of this entry…
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I think I’ve been trying to reinvent the wheel….
…as far as this healing stuff goes. I have been (extremely helpfully!) bombarded with advice on addons and I think I’ve over done it on trying to change the way I play. Asgara and Bill pointed out to me the other night - I was doing just great as a ZOMGTHESHITHITTHEFAN healer while in boomkin, and I should stick to using what I know.
I found out very quickly last night that when I shifted back to boomkin for Flame Leviathan (needed that extra DPS) I had no way of healing because I hadn’t thought to drag the macro buttons out onto that bar, and would have no space for them that I don’t use for Boomkin stuff. The trouble is, I still need to work in the variety of spells that are available to me as kindling.
I think I’ve come up with a plan for making it work. I had already re-downloaded Decursive - It’s so easy and takes up such a tiny space that I felt it was worth it instead of devoting 2 more buttons to macros or a control-rightclick-and-useyourleftelbow type of thing. I’m also going to re-download Healbot. I’m used to it, its simple. I’m going to keep the mouse-over macros for when I’m in Tree -and use them with healbot as well as probably program more mouseclicks into HB. When it comes down to it - I can’t be any worse than I already was. Well, ok, yeah I could but…
Also - it is DAMN hard to try to learn a whole new way of healing and raid lead something you have only been in on 10-man 2 times. I was so angry and frustrated with myself last night. I told Oaks…” you’re going to get a whisper from DB saying “We need to do something about Cynn, what do you think?’ ….or did you already? ” He denies it but damn I suck lately. OK enough with the EMO - I’m just going to have to do better!
Hi ho hi ho, its off to Elitist Jerks I go…
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Wherein I post random thoughts on WoW, the Guild and me as a Tree
WoW has once again proven to be a valuable tool in keeping my real life sanity (stop with the snickering peanut gallery). It has proven a valuable distraction in a very difficult time in my life. What makes it valuable is not that I have shiney pixels running around amusing me, but that I have amazing friends who have given me love and support, a shoulder to cry on, and an ear to rage into. I may never see some of you outside our little virtual world - but you have proven once again that you are TRUE friends, and that distance doesn’t matter at all.
Speaking of true friends - Nigel is back!!!! He was welcomed back with an outpouring of joy late one night last week. Hopefully we will see more of him!
Just as I personally have been going through some tough times, so to has our beloved Jaded Souls. Raid attendance and sign-ups have been a problem, as well as just plain abysmal performances keeping us from progressing. It’s been extremely frustrating, and several people have abandoned ship, and many more were kindly shown the door. The people who left, well, it’s always easier to walk away from a problem than to fix it. Perhaps my perception of their reasoning is faulty, and I apologize if it is - but that’s how it feels to me, particularly because of the manner in which they left. Their decision, their $15 and time. As for the latter, “The Purge”, that is even more difficult. I feel for DB - I really do. His job is not an easy one, and he has to make the tough decisions. He takes input from his officers, raid leaders and class advisers, but in the end he’s the one who has to decide. He looked at things with the eyes of a business manager, and let go of those who were not contributing, either through their raiding, their crafting, and their overall contribution to our society. We had a guild meeting last night and discussed the issues facing the guild, and what we are going to do about them. I’m hoping that we can move forward in a positive way, and improve. It’s not going to be easy - but it will be worth the hard work in the end!
Speaking of not easy - DB has asked me to go resto for a while to supplement our healers. I have always been an off healer, even when fully boomkin. I love being a boomin, and I’ve always played as a true Balance - a little bit of all aspects of the druid. Despite that, it is rather hard to shift gears so completely and take Cynn in that direction. Last night was my first real healing experiance on 25 man. I HATE SUCKING and I really did not do as well as I wanted to. I installed Grid and made mouseover macro’s at DB’s suggestion. I had a bit of a hard time getting used to them though - I wasn’t quite certian if it was doing what it was supposed to or not. I’m sure with more practice and some better gear (my gear is not bad but is still relying on a lot of my balance gear) I can do it well. I am determined to - so that is the first step. I’m not certain that my current set up is the way to go - I have 5 very good healers all giving me advice and it’s all different! The up-side to that is I have a lot of options to try to figure out what does work for me. Now if I could just find the time…. hmm … should probably be doing that instead of updating Mostly WoW LOL. Actually, I’ve been doing research at the same time as this so I’m not TOTALLY goofing off.
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How to Post a YouTube Video into WordPress without widgets
Instructions on How to post a You Tube Video to your WordPress 2.7.1 site.
Step 1. Find the video you want on YouTube.com
Step 2. Copy the Embed code from their site 
Step 3. Create a new post in WordPress.
Step 4. Click on the HTML tab in Wordpress.
Step 5. Paste the Embed code.
Step 6. Click back on Visual and you will see a big yellow box - this is where the video will be. You can finish editing normally.
Enjoy!
The good people over at Wordpress.com claim you can do it like this - but that doesn’t work for me - looks like it only works for wordpress.com accounts - not stand-alone installs. Ah well.
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100 posts and Ulduar kills!
Hey gang! Guess what? We hit 100 posts! Cyn’s last post was number 100! Yaaa!
In other news, I think Asgara summed it up best when we were talking about Ulduar - “We’re not in Naxx anymore, Toto.” That place is pretty tough so far - but lots of fun. This weekend we downed 2 bosses so far - The Flame Leviathan and Razorscale.
Razorscale DOWN!
Deconstructor kept deconstructing us 
but I’m sure we’ll get him next weekend.
Anyway, it’s very late so we’ll post more later.
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First (brief) look at Ulduar
First off - I hate patch days…. Just had to get that out of the way.
Also I duel spec’ed into Resto - the Tree is cute but I am always Boomkin at heart - at least this way I may be able to help the guild more often. My Addons are all trashed too.
We had a quick first look at Ulduar on 10 man. Oaks and I grabbed a tank think and I rocked out in the gun turret :) Unfortunately the servers are still very unstable so we didn’t get to even see the first boss. The rest of the week will be insane amounts of 25 man raiding -but I’m sure we can sneak a group into 10 again too - I’m not even sure that we saved to it. Here’s the pics….
oh yeah and did I mention I hate patch days?
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Lost in The Deadmines
One early, early morning a few weeks ago Cyn, Oak and I were too wired from raiding all night to go to bed. We started looking through our “1001 Things to Do in Aziroth Before You Die” book and dreaming about exotic destinations, those fruity drinks with the paper umbrellas, and buff, Orcan pool boy … er … never mind that.
On page 27, between Eversong Woods, (too pretentious), and Dire Maul, (so last year), was a little out of the way resort in Westfall called the Deadmines. Now, I’m not sure about the other two, but I hadn’t been there since I was a young girl. After a short discussion, we packed up and headed out to the nearest flight path to start our little vacation.
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Champion of the Frozen Wastes
In other news, Nab (well Ferrania), Wayn, Asgara, Oaks and I did Heroic Occulus right after the raid. It was the only dungeon Oaks and I still needed for our “Champion of the Frozen Wastes” title. What a pain in the neck! The begining secton isn’t bad but the last Dragon is a pain! We tried 3 different strats - the last we tried (obviously) was the successful one. We did 3 amber, one green and one red. Supposedly that was the more difficult but honestly that was far faster and easier than any of others. We got him down in 2 tries with that as opposed to the 5 or 6 other tries we did. Of course we also stayed up stupidly late and by the time we got to our winning strat we were riding dragonback naked because our gear was shot and we realized that we didn’t actually need to be continually trashing our gear for the last fight as it didn’t make a difference.
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Last Night’s awesome Naxx clear
Last night we STOMPED 25 Naxx. We started off there whilst waiting to fill the group. Our goal is still to take down Sarth+3 but we didn’t have a full crew yet.
We started on the trash pulls and nearly had our obligatory trash wipe on the first pull when someone ass-pulled the left-hand spider group. We didn’t QUITE wipe - still had a bunch up. That was the last time we even came close to wiping :)!! We ONE-SHOTTED every boss in Naxx and cleared the place in around 3 hours! Not bad considering we had disconnects, and took a couple short breaks. I personally had the worst lag I’ve ever had in there - I’m not sure what the problem was - Oaks had no issues at all but I had to reboot after Gluth because I was all but locked up. It got a tiny bit better but not much.
Once we finished Naxx, we went and tromped VOA just for good measure since we had control. The loot pinata didn’t have much for us but it was fun regardless. The Mammoth reigns dropped too which was cool to see. The rest of the stuff was junk :(.
I’m hoping the ‘high’ from stomping Naxx so thoroughly will carry over into tonight’s raid. I want to take SARTH down!! I think we can do it - we just have to get the hang of it. As long as people don’t get discouraged by banging our head against it for a bit we will be fine 
. Really this is less of a head bang than some of the other stuff we have done and the trash clear is soooo much shorter! No need to spend the whole night before just GETTING to the boss!
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When thinking out side the box does work it’s a glorious thing
Thursday night my stalwart crew of Cynnialunaxx’ers revisited Naxx again for the second 2 quarters. The raid almost didn’t go off due to several of our ‘regulars’ dropping out sick. We managed to cajole, beg, borrow and steal enough people to fill out the rest of the raid at the last moment though. We tromped through Plague quarter with little problem, and Stomped through Construct. Grobbulous was a small stumbling block, but we got past him after a couple of wipes. Then we got to Gluth…. and things got difficult.
Usually Sandryann is our Zombie Queen - she can tank Zombie Chow like no one I have ever seen. She has them dancing to her will and following her like puppies after a chew toy. We are able to take advantage of her talent because usually have a great 2nd tank (Thradran) and Wayn, who lately is specing ret but is uncritable*, and therefore able to take the taunt switch off for short periods of time. Unfortunately for us, Wayn and Thrad were amoung our sickies…. So Val was our second tank (and did a great job!). No ret pally, no beartank, and no mage (not that we ever have one of those). We were lucky enough to have Naps, Naberious’ healy-pally-alt (an ADORABLE dwarf girl ) so we set off to try Gluth with Naps tanking the Chow, our hunters Weirdbeard and Maverick helping her and our tanks on Gluth. This didn’t work out so well. Naps is still in the gearing up phase, and she just could not take the debuffs from the chow despite her considerable tanking talent, nor was she any where near geared to do taunt duty. Extra heals were to no avail. It was starting to look like we were at an impasse.
Then…inspiration struck like a snowball to the back of the head…. CLYDE! Maverick’s MONKEY! The gorilla pets have an ability called “thunderstomp” which is very similar to the tauren stomp stun, consecrate or thunderclap that warriors have (I could be calling all it the wrong name but you get the idea.. big noise, gets attention and keeps it for a few seconds) ** So I came up with a new plan. Mave gets his gorilla Clyde out. He helps tank the Zombie Chow. Now this will only work if Mave keeps Clyde moving… STOMP … RUN>… STOMP … RUN .. .because like Naps there is no way that the pet will stay alive unless he can keep moving. This is no where as easy as it sounds. But Maverick is a Beast Master and a damn good one at that - I knew if anyone could make my silly plan work it was him. And I was right! Everything went very smoothly and we downed Gluth on the next try!
Perhaps I’ll drag Mave on here to give a detailed description of how he worked it.
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* So I was lead to believe Thursday anyway - I KNOW I’ll be corrected if I have mispoken on that 
**Personally, the gorilla’s irk the hell out of me, I hate when Oaks has his around, though I will be more nice to him next time after this.
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