Apparently girls DO play WoW!

[thistlechaser]

Since the queue was so short, I did four or five instances on Reed the Paladin today. The first couple were good, some tank pulled all of SM in like three pulls. Alas some DPS pissed him off and he left after two runs. Then I got some other tank, Mr. Tauren Paladin. Some BoE blue boots dropped, not perfect stats (agi/stam), but they were a big upgrade for me anyway, so I needed. He did as well. He won. Oh well, happens, at level 30 it's not like you're going to wear things for long anyway.

Then the party jumped on him. All of them. They told him to give them to me. That he didn't need them, I did.

Buh? He was a paladin too, we both needed, he won. I was fine with that. Happens. My concern at this point was finishing the instance. I want XP a lot more than boots! He ignored them, so they all kept heckling him. I could have spoken up in his defense, but we were almost to the last boss and I didn't want the group to break up before then. (I've seen it happen so many times.) So he pulls the last boss, we kill it, they all insult him one last time and drop. I didn't leave, I had to turn in quests. He stuck around too.



...buh? I have no idea why he thought I was together with any of the others, let alone why he would assume that one of the others was a girl and I was a guy. He actually gave me the boots, which I thanked him for. The line left me scratching my head though. I suppose it was supposed to be an insult? What kind of man am I, letting some uppity woman speak in my defense?

Oddness.

Related: I don't know if bear tanking is still rough in the 30s or I've just only run into sucky ones. Paladins seem to have a lot more control of things at this range.

Not much RP tonight. Had one long scene with someone who wrote nice long posts, but for some reason there was no spark. She seemed really nice OOCly, the character was both nice and interesting ICly, and Thistle would make friends with a rock if given half a chance, but for some reason the two characters just didn't click.

During the scene I did some math. In about two weeks Thistle should have enough gold for his flying mount/flying lessons. I know it's silly to plan that out so closely, but it's fun to calculate how many herbs/day he gets, estimate gold, and all that.

I poked around mount lists and such, trying to find the right flying mount for him (and groaning at the idea of doing jousting dailies yet again), then decided a wind rider is the best thing. Plus they're actually kind of cool looking, I've not really looked at one (let alone rode one) in ages.

Comments

[lokyst.livejournal.com]

Bear tanking is rough until cap. Stupid class overhauls that forget about people below level cap. :(

[wow-hazmat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's tough for low-level bear tanks. :/

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Aww. Poor them. :/

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, well that explains it. I've had lots of good (or at least okay) paladin tanks, but still no good bear ones. Poor bears. :/

[halogin.livejournal.com]

Thistle would make friends with a rock if given half a chance

*Sends Thistle an Elementium Geode pet.* XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

HA! I didn't think of that. :D

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

Hrm, I'm a little confused. If you didn't have a problem with the paladin taking the boots and everybody's jumping down his throat, why didn't you mention there was no problem? You said you didn't want to speak up for fear it would break the group apart, but I would have thought there'd be a decreased chance of that happening if you told them there wasn't a problem.

Did I miss something? =o

Also, lupus-born Get of Fenris Galliard. "Sends-Them-Off". I will kick ass AND take names. :>

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I don't know, maybe? What I should have done was tell him no at the end when he tried to trade them to me, but I was so boggled by his 'let your girl talk for you' line, I didn't think about anything else.

:O Did you join GarouMUSH or is this tabletop? I've never played a lupe Get! I bet that rocks! I had a really fun lupe, um... Child of something or other, I forget the name of the tribe. Clever-for-Food, she was a dog who was really good at begging for food. :D

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

Children of Gaia, I think. The hippies!

The game's tabletop. We're doing Wyld West theme!

I'm really inexperienced with the world, but I think I can pull it together. RL RP is so much harder than online RP. I'm so much better at my MU*s. But I gotta practice!

Clever-for-Food... I like that.

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

Your icon makes me real happy. Jus' sayin'. :3

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm glad! I have a few holdovers from my Naruto days. :D

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

\o/ My Naruto days persist, so it pleases me to see stuff when it pops up. XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

This is my last icon. One of my at-the-time fanfic friends wrote some horrible crack fic about this pairing, so I made an icon for her. We used to torture each other by using it. :P

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

AMG I REPLIED FROM MY EMAIL SO I DIDN'T SEE THE ADORABLE (AND SWEET) HAKU + ZABUZA ICON. AAAAGH.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I haven't used that one in forever. (Usually animated icons annoy the heck out of me, so it's one of my more avoided ones.) Watching it now though, it still works.

That was my favorite storyline ever, in any anime!

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah that is a crack pairing. My brain hurts. Too much eyebrow. And.. yeeah. XD Gotta love their whole deal though.

NICE GUY POSE!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

NICE GUY POSE!

Ha! I forgot about that. :D

One day, when I have nothing but free time, I want to watch Naruto again from the beginning. It really was an enjoyable series.

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

Yes! You definitely should. :3 There are a million and one sites that stream it from the beginning, so no lack of places to find it. And the good news is you don't have to watch all 220 episodes of the old series because the last 90 or so are filler. XD

I did that last time my husband went on deployment and will probably do it again. It's a good way to kill time and I find it inspires me artistically and RPly. XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's good! I'd much rather stream it than redownload it all. Hmm, I actually probably have it burned on a CD somewhere. I used to burn all the anime I watched. Hundreds of CDs...

Okay, it's on my short list of things to rewatch! :D

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

\o/ Woot! :D I will say that if you've not kept up with the recent things in a long while it is very, very good right now.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear! I stopped watching right before they all got older. Couple years back, I guess it was.

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I know just what was happening right around there. XD Ooooh you're gonna have a lot of fun when you get back to where you were. X3

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Eee, good to know! :D

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Bear tanking is nearly impossible before level 81. Paladin tanking is easy mode from level 10 (and you can't even run instances until 15, so that should give you an idea of what a joke it is). So yeah, give the poor bears a break. Also, something with only agility on it is never an upgrade for a paladin. You'll find some legacy gear that will have both strength and agility on it, but if something doesn't have at least strength or attack power on it, never take it. That wasn't an upgrade for either of you, I'm boggled that since there was crap in the group about it, that it wasn't both of you being yelled at for needing on gear that didn't do jack for you.

Also, this post is an odd reminder that while we technically play the same game, we really don't at all. Sarth 3D kills were generally a given for the people I play with at the end of Wrath...now we're doing things like Sarth 25 3D with less than ten people and having the single healer saying she should have just gone dps... ETA: This isn't meant to be any sort of put down, just how odd it is that we play the same game, but we do so from totally different perspectives and play styles. There just isn't that variety in experience available in most non-MMO's.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Bear tanking is nearly impossible before level 81.

Ah, that's good to know. It's easier to go easier on everyone, since I'm not doing instances as often. (The less I deal with pugs, the more patient I can be when I do.)

Yeah, I did wonder if I needed the boots, but they were a big upgrade in stamina and defense, so I figured it'd be okay. (I don't sign up as a tank, but I take over when needed or when adds are out of hand.) I always think the group is going to yell at me, no matter what I need on. :P

And no worries on the edit! It always surprises me how different the game is for different people. All of us on the run were RPers, though I did get mocked for having green pants... Me more than them, I play only to RP. They do Cata level instances and such, so they're more serious about PvE stuff than I am. I did 8K damage and the other DPS did 14K I think, that was the grand total of our DPS. We got close every time, if we had one more person I think it would have done it. (Especially since the two fill-in options both do good numbers.)