Healing Heroics

Last night started with us running a Heroic where I tanked and my sister healed. It was one of the Scarlet Instances, and went well. After that, my sister had to go to bed to be up very early. We decided to continue on in the Heroics, but I did not feel like tanking as I can get mostly minimal uprades out of Heroics on my Warrior.

I decided to give my Druid a shot at healing instance.....it went surprisingly well.

I think we ran 3 more Heroics, and we only had one wipe due to me dying to explody stuff and my wife having her battle rez on cooldown.

I have enjoyed the Pandaria heroics much more than the Cata Heroics is that they are much more doable with a lower gear level.

My gear is not that good. It is a combination of quest/lower instance blues, quest greens, and a lovely level 85 epic shoulder piece. I healed through all of our Heroics with crap for gear, and while it was very rough on mana, it was quite doable.

Unfortunately, I didnt get any damn upgrades.

In other news, my wife of all people because the first of our normal instance group to kill a raid boss. She killed Sha of Anger twice yesterday.....on her two level 90 Druids. She got the quest boots on both, and also got the tier pants on her main druid. Never thought I would see the day, but was quite proud of her.

My next projects in WoW are to do some dailies on my Druid (ugh), finish the reps on my Warrior (double ugh), and then level my Paladin.

Good Weekend of Double XP...and Monk Leveling

A large part of my weekend was spend getting double xp on BO2. Since it only comes seemingly every couple of months, I wanted to make the most of it.

I ended up going from prestige 3 level 32 to prestige 4 level 44 (or something like that). Not too shabby.

I had a lot of very good games over the weekend and even had a luck game when it game to care packages. I got the K-9 unit in one after I rerolled using my Engineer perk, then got a Warthog with the other care package I called in. I think I went 38-16 that game which is pretty decent for me.

I also go around to leveling my Monk with my wife. He Monk was at 59 and mine was sitting at 54. She mentioned questing with me, so I started blasting through levels. I was 58 in no time and we headed to outland. We did a few quests, and then Kev was nice enought to run us through some BC dungeons. I think we are both at 62 currently. Once we hit Northrend, we will probably be joining up with Kev on his Monk.

Overall, it was a fun weekend.

BO2: Double XP Weekend

Just letting all of you who play BO2 know that it is a double xp weekend.

Heroic Running Machines!

That is what we were last night. We ran four total Heroics with a group of 4 (with a switch of one person on the last one where my sister came in to heal).

Overall it was a pretty decent experience and we only ended up with one douchy healer (the first healer who was gone before the end of the instance. We were in the first part of the new Scarlet Monastery Cathedral and I am completely new there. A couple of mobs here and there would run off and hit he healer (all non elites). He told me "Tank, can you hold aggro." to which I replied...."Fuck you".

Obviously I am working on picking up all of the bazillion mobs that spawn at the start of the instance.

Then he asks my wife why she is still using a level 85 intellect trinket. Why the fuck do you think? Because she has not found a better one yet unfortunately although I may get her one of those dragonling trinkets.

He eventually "DCed" right before the second to last boss while in a trash pack. We still killed the pack and then kicked him. We finished the rest of the instance with no issues.

We also ended up running Gate of the Red Sun, Stormstout Brewery, and the one with the Mogu guy at the end who has all of the stupid ass weapons flying around.

We didnt have any wipes and mostly had minimal deaths. I much prefer the Heroics in this expansion to the ones from Cataclysm. They are significantly easier and much more accessible for people with lower gear levels.

I should probably start doing some Dailies again, but they are such a fucking pain in the ass.

Some Transmog and even a Heroic!

Thats right, I actually played some WoW. I have been a bit down on WoW recently as I did not feel like doing dailies, which is unfortunately what the game has mostly become.

Last week, my friend and his wife ran BWL.....and the Antlers that my wife had been trying to get on her second Druid dropped. She was sad, but we decided to run it the next day and guess what? The antlers actually dropped. She was a happy camper.

Last night we did a couple of transmog runs. We did BWL (I got my Warlock's T2 chest and Kev completed his Wrath set by getting the chest). For about the gazzillionth time, the Paladin shoulders dropped and my sister was not present at the run. That is the piece that she still need for her set.

After that, we decided to do a Molten core for some transmog pieces and specifically for the T2 pants off of Ragnaros. I think I got a piece on my Warrior.

After that, we ended up running our first random Heroic of the expansion as a (semi) group. We had four of our regular group as Fett was busy playing either Minecraft or LoL. I am decently geared as a tank and Kev has got some very good gear on his Hunter as well, doing 45-55k dps for the instance.

We got Heroic Stratholme and had quite a lot of fun. It was the first time doing the new version in either regular or Heroic and it proved quite interesting. We had a pug healer, who was a good healer with bad attention span. He died in several boss fights. Thankfully, my wife is a druid and was able to battle rez him most of the times.

There are no overly complicated fight there, and we got through it in good time. I am actually looking forward to running some more Heroics with our little group.

My wife ended up purchasing an epic ring with valor and a blue cloak with justice to add to her upgrades. I also payed 9k for a new chest piece for her.

DayZ: Namalsk

So, I downloaded a couple of the newer maps for DayZ last night and logged on briefly to give Namalsk a shot.

I didnt play for long, but I did have a terrifying game experience that I did not expect.

First of all, the server I started on gave me a rifle and a pistol as well as some other supplies.

I run around for a bit before seeing a town in the distance. For some reason, a bunch of military zombies spawn somewhat near me. I figure there is a tree stand or something.

I take a shot and miss. Meh no biggie. They dont aggro on me. I decide to explore a bit more.

Suddenly, there is some kind of monster I have never seen kicking my ass. I try to kill it, but it keep disapearring. I book it into the woods trying to get away. I keep hearing its roar even though I cannot see it. I end up losing connecting and that is that for the server. Apparently this creature is called a bloodsucker and comes from a different game.

It was certainly a big WTF moment. I wouldnt mind playing Dayz a bit, but I really dont want to do it without my friends.

My Aim is bad....and Game of Thrones

We, as the first part of the title says, my aim is bad. That must be it. Whenever I play Core game modes on BO2, I usually do pretty shitty. I will get 3-4 hit markers on a guy and die. I think I am too wild sometimes with my aim. Too excitable. I do very well at Hardcore because I dont need to hit them a ton of times to kill them.

I also seem to suck in a lot of the objective based games at staying alive. I really wish they would add more Hardcore game modes.

As the second part said....GAME OF THRONES!!!!

My wife and I watched both seasons over about a 3 day period and absolutely loved it. Now I just need to pick up the books.

So far my favorite character by far is Tyrion Lannister, even though the rest of his family are a bunch of cunts.

I obviously have not read the books, but I feel like this may be the season that high fantasy really comes into play. Dragons, magic, and the undead White Walkers. Can't wait.