Without Rhyme or Reason

Its been over a month since my last post, man I’ve been slacking.

In my defence ive been spending some time of late considering the original reasons for the inception of this blog, what my target niche was and where its all gone wrong.

a) I don’t play wow as much as id like anymore. Around the time of creating this blog I was starting to get more heavily involved in raiding again, and I was really enjoying playing a healing class again! That went well for about a month, and I was enjoying blogging about all my new experiences. Since then there has been a lot going on in my personal life and not I or Misty have played anywhere near as much WoW as we’d probably like to.

b) because im not playing wow, its really quite hard to write about it. The times when I do get to dip into the game I tend to play on alts as I didn’t schedule in to raid etc… which means im not playing on my priest meaning I have noting to say about her in the blog.

c) Essentially, I pitched my blog to be all about being a holy priest, starting from scratch in end-game. Subsequently I haven’t been playing end game and so haven’t been posting. Now I really do hope that this all changes post WOTLK, but I really cant predict the future for this blog at the moment.

I want to take this opportunity to thank anyone who still subscribes to this in their reader, and im really sorry that I haven’t fulfilled my original scope for the blog. Im currently considering a redesign and name change for it, maybe to make it less focussed on my priest and more just about my wow experiences, but again, I guess time will tell.

Life After Kit

so, as i mentioned in a previous post we had a had adopted a little kitten for a short time. Sadly, he has now moved on to his permanent home and it has upset me more than i thought it would. We only had him for a week, although it felt much more, and he certainly became a large part of our family. Sure, he was a pain in the arse, and he'd snap at your heals whenever you got up, but we loved him.

So yesterday was an emotional day, but ive got to try and put that at the back of my mind today, as the builders are in. See at the beginning of the month, our up stairs neighbours decided to block their toilet. Now usually this wouldnt have been a problem, but at the same time their overflow was broken. Basically this means that the toilet continued to fill, but with it being blocked the water had nowhere to go. Eventually it overflowed, and a little bit later we had it coming through our ceiling.

The damage of this was so significant that today, im have the whole bathroom ceiling torn down and a new one put up. As i right this the builders are banging away. I expect that any second now another neighbour will knock on the door to complain about the banging, and thats why i cant be upset about the cat, because i need to be on top of my game for today.

So, not one mention of wow in this post, maybe i'll do one of those later today.

I got the Beta blues!!

So for those of us that didn’t get into the beta, all we can do is wait for the ever-closer expansion to be released before we get our hands on the new content. Of course, this doesn’t prevent us from reading all about it. I don’t know about you guys but my reader is jam-packed full of ever evolving WOTLK news. Where possible, I try not to read these in to much depth, as i don’t want too many spoilers (and in any case I have plenty of [current] content to investigate / read about / write about).

Interestingly though I have already reserved a name for my death knight, its not very original and im sure I’ll take plenty of stick for picking it, but I think its pretty cool. That’s all im gonna say about that for now, and you’ll have to come back and visit me post wrath to find out how uber cool (geeky) I really am!

Talking of death knights though, has anyone had any thoughts on which race they are going to use? I’ll probably wait to see what gear looks good on what races before choosing, although at the moment im thinking of picking a dwarf, mainly as it’s the only race I don’t currently have an alt for. what about you?

Money Money Money...

Just a quick one about gold reserves really. At the moment I have two level 70’s and a 62 (im also working on a mage, but shes really small). Both my 70’s have normal flying mounts, but no epic… despite this I only have 13k gold…

I guess my question is, how much gold do you have, and how did you get it? I wheel and deal, but never really seem to get anywhere with my funds!

Herbie!!!

Herbie!!!

Basically I need a new herbie. Cavalla used to be a herbie pre-tbc but then she took up the fine art of tailoring, which I cant drop now, nor can I drop alchemy as that comes in handy for the transmutes.

Tayend is both a miner and jewel-crafter, cant really give either of those up at the moment.

Masahashi is a leatherworker, and [you guessed it] skinner. Now im tempted to give up leatherworking, but I cant really decide. From what I see on the AH there aren’t many boe hunter leatherworking patterns worth having, although raid content provides some good craftables….

I guess im in a situation whereby I have to make a decision between dropping leatherworking (or skinning) to take up herb’ing, or do I create another character and have them as a herby. I really wanted to get my hunter to 70 before wotlk, but I think im looking at an impossible task of getting him and another to 70 in the next 2-6 months….

What are peoples opinions on leatherworking for hunters, is it worth it?