After over 4 years of playing WoW I have finally dipped my toe into the PvP pool. The last time I attempted PvP was back in vanilla WoW when 900 gold for an epic mount took months to grind. Back then if you got to Rank 3 in PvP you got an extra 10% discount. My hunter spent 2 weeks in Arathi Basin running round like a headless chicken and after buying my mount I never set foot in there again. Winífred, my mage, went in just once and died so depressingly fast I never took her back in. Acouple of weeks ago I decided to try some battle grounds with Dimity, mainly to have something to do in those odds and ends of time where I’m bored. I am completely hooked!
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Posted in Dimity, Ravenwynd, pvp.
Tagged with bragging, Dimity, pvp, Ravenwynd, Winífred.
By Hulan
– 25 September, 2009
I joined a PUG with Raven today for the daily heroic. Her professions are Inscription and Leatherworking (yeah, I know…an odd combination). A few mobs in one of the Inscription books dropped and I rolled need and won. I used it straight away so there could be no question that I’d ninja’d it to sell when all hell broke loose and I was accused of being a ninja anyway. The snarky remarks continued so I left the group and hearthed. Was I wrong to roll need? Obviously I don’t think so, it was something I could use (and did), to me BoE or BoP is irrelevant. I’d be interested in what other people think.
Posted in General.
Tagged with loot, PUG, Ravenwynd.
By Hulan
– 17 September, 2009
How many raptors do you have to kill to get a Gundrak Hatchling? For me it was about 1500. 400+ on my Death Knight, Nithu, and 1042 on Dimity. It finally dropped this afternoon.
Gundrak Hatchling
That’s not counting the 100+ raptors I killed around Drak’Tharon Keep before I realised I was in the wrong place! Still, I have it now, doesn’t it look cute?
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Posted in Dimity, Hulan.
Tagged with bragging, Dimity, Hulan, pvp.
By Hulan
– 11 September, 2009
I have taken the plunge and dual-spec’d Ravenwynd. She is now Balance/Resto and recently I have been mainly healing with her in attempt to gain some confidence. I had toyed with the idea of healing with her before but on the rare occasion I’d tried it I wasn’t keen. Firstly there was the rolling Lifebloom thing; I hated it. It felt very constricting and I loathed having to keep my eyes glued to that little HoT counter. The other aspect I disliked was HoTs themselves. When I see that big chunk of hp disappear I like to be able to pick the appropriate spell knowing a) how much it will heal for and b) that the missing hp will be restored immediately.
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Posted in Druid, Ravenwynd.
Tagged with Healing, Hulan, Ravenwynd.
By Hulan
– 9 September, 2009
Well, planes, a harpoon and a horse anyway. As ever Ravenwynd is always on the lookout for ways to fly in her Moonkin form. She didn’t actually fly on the horse but it jumped pretty high!
Raven riding a harpoon
Sadly only a short flight and not a lot of room for those big Moonkin feet so a little precarious but fun nonetheless. Continued…
Posted in Druid, Ravenwynd.
Tagged with Druid, funny, Ravenwynd, screenie.
By Hulan
– 9 September, 2009
After several years of sharing my WoW account with my kids I finally decided to set them up with their own account. You would think this was easy yes? You’d be wrong! I decided to go the route of Recruit A Friend. This involves several stages, send an invite and set up a trial account. Then you upgrade to a regular account, just enter your payment details. Then you have to pay for the two expansions. Click the link for The Burning Crusade and enter your payment details again. So far, so good. Then I tried to upgrade to WotLK. Follow the link, enter my payment details again (this is getting very tedious), click the button and get a message telling you that you have tried to enter your payment details 3 times and are now locked out for 24 hours!!!
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Posted in General.
Tagged with Blizzard, venting.
By Hulan
– 19 May, 2009
…but last night I got my World Explorer achivement on Winífred.
Winífred the Explorer
2 seconds after that screenshot was taken Winífred was dead! I was so excited at getting the achievement I wanted to tell my friends; we all hang out on a custom channel which, on my PC, is channel #5. I hit 5, cast Arcane Brilliance on myself and hurtled to me death. I use Slow Fall so rarely I didn’t have time to look which key it was on before I hit the ground and went SPLAT!!
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Posted in General, Winífred.
Tagged with achievements, Winífred.
By Hulan
– 12 March, 2009
I finally got my PC sorted out. After installing my new graphics card I had an odd problem where I couldn’t switch my PC on without powering off the PSU at the back first; I was also getting warnings on boot-up that my CPU fan was running slow. The obvious culprit was the PSU but possibly the motherboard. Not wanting to throw away money without being sure what was causing it I booked it in at my local PC shop. They checked it over and said it was definitely the PSU so I ordered a new one, a very good one that gives me a lot of scope to upgrade in the future. I got the PC home plugged it in and off we went. The next morning I pressed the power switch at the front and….nothing! Great! I’d spent £115 on a new PSU to have exactly the same problems.
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Posted in General.
Tagged with chunnering, PC, venting, WP.
By Hulan
– 11 March, 2009
Dimity has finally recovered from the shame of her tanking trews and, after months of hiding upstairs at the Honor Hold Inn, has decided to show her face again…but not her arse; I took pity on her and got her some new ones. I had barely played her since I wrote that post back in July and only logged into her to disenchant things. She had no talents or anything so when I filled in her talent tree and went to visit the trainer it was a bit of a shock.
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Posted in Dimity, Paladin.
Tagged with chunnering, Dimity, Paladin.
By Hulan
– 2 March, 2009
Here is my contribution to the screenshot meme currently doing the rounds. I started playing in April 2005 and don’t have those early screenshot because I replaced my PC in September 2006 and didn’t copy across the screenshots from my old PC but I do have screenshots going back to when I started playing on this PC….I never get rid of anything, you never know when it will come in useful!
This screenshot is dated 18/09/06 and it shows Hulan in her previous incarnation as a hunter. She must be in her late 50s, she is in the Burning Steppes and has just completed the quest to kill the leader of the ogres and put his head on a stake to put the wind up the other ogres; it’s quite a funny quest. I remember that armour Hulan is wearing, I was quite pleased that she had pieces that matched and looked like a set and weren’t too ugly. She was a member of The Keepers of the Light, one of the oldest RP guilds on Moonglade, sadly now disbanded.
Posted in General, Hulan.
Tagged with Hulan, Hunter, meme, screenie.
By Hulan
– 28 February, 2009
