Back again

Did my daily random on my shammy and got in a VH hold run. Easy right? well when someone starts it and the tank is dc'ed it gets sorta rough. Well we had a DK so he kinda tanked through wave 6. I say kinda because he wouldn't switch to frost presence so the Boomkin and I kept pulling aggro. halfway through the core-hound boss the Boomkin died and I had all the ag so I dropped my rock guy and started healing him and we beat it. We had voted to kick the dc'ed tank at wave four so we were in queue but no reinforcements showed and the DK bailed right after the boss. well our holy pally healer started tanking then (held ag way better than the DK too lol). After wave 7 the boomkin bailed so it was just me and Toz of Alexstraza. An awesome Holy paladin if there ever was one we 2-manned wave 7-10 until reinforcements arrived. I kept rooting them with my earthbind totem and doing damage whenever I could we were healing each other and just kept working away at them. So here's to you Toz, I wish you many good drops and easy pugs.

I gave up on a group last night

I am kind of ashamed of it and I kind of wish I hadn't but after 2 wipes on the snake boss in Gun'Drak I hearthed out and logged off. I was just not in the mood to deal with people and decided to level my shaman instead. I know 2 times isn't very much and I probably sound like an elitist douche bag but it was just a bad experience and I wasn't ready to deal with it at the time. I had a pally healer who had dual-specced and was in his tanking gear when he started the group and with 33k health I figured he at least had an idea about what he was doing. Well, both tries on the snake boss he ran right next to me and got blown up by the poison nova. I thought it was a fluke the first time because I didn't really position the boss away from the group, so the second time I positioned him away from everyone and the healer and one of the hunters ran right by me and got blown up by the snake boss again. This after the first wipe where they went in the back door to get there bodies, I should have known they had never been there before and maybe worked it out but I just got fed up and bailed. I feel bad about it now, but I just couldn't deal with it then. I guess I am too spoiled by my new guild that I forgot what its like out there.

My quest begins

So I have unguilded my Moonkin and am starting the great pug adventure. I decided on him because I have found that since raids have more dps spots then anything else it is easier to get a spot as a dps then as a tank, and also its not nearly as much pressure as trying to heal a run for people you don't know. I will probably follow suit with my priest too shortly as healers are a valuable commodity. I got in a 25 Vault run and my 3-3.5k dps was at or near the bottom of that run. I guess all the good dps run that on Tuesday lol. I also did the heroic daily and H ToC as well. I will basically be sitting in lfg from now on and maybe asking a few of the people I know that if they are short on dps in anything to let me know and I will gladly come along. I am going to go through my gear and get a list of upgrades I can get and where to get them, and I am going to do a slight change to my spec as I had him setup for mad aoe dps but his single target dps suffered a little bit so I am going to adjust that to give me better all around numbers. I also found a a good post on what a raid leader is looking for. I also wanted to thank Shy and Smashie for their advice and encouragement. Thanks alot!

As requested :)

Yes, I am still alive. I have so far been unlucky in the job market but as I am still on contract layoff from my previous employer it is not a big deal (for now). I was hoping to make a blog post trumpeting my triumphant return to the workforce before now but you can't get everything, right. I have spent a good chunk of time applying and and searching for a job that I want. I can afford to picky right now but, if it gets to the point that I can't then I will take what I can get. Well you can't be looking for a job all the time you say and you would be correct I have gotten some Wow time in as well. I've found that pugs during the day are much smoother than primetime for the most part but if you want to do Naxx wait until late at night. I have finally gotten to see all of Naxx, although not with my guild and not on my tank. My priest Newguy is now nearly fully geared out in Naxx gear and has done 2 full clears in pugs in the last 2 weeks. I now feel more confidant taking my other toons into Naxx and will probably try pugging into that a little more as well. I am now starting to think about trying to get into Maly and maybe try to get into Uld, but if you don't know the fights its really hard to get into those fights. I will just have to hope that the people I've been running with see that I have the skill to handle those fights and trust me to learn on the go. I will read up on the strats and probably watch some of the fights on youtube if I think I'm gonna get a shot. Well that's mostly what I've been up to. I did get my DK to 80 and an grinding BG's for gear because I am really tired of heroics lol. I really only bring my tank out to tank Emalon it seems. Oh yeah, a bunch of our guild has rerolled on a pve server to get kind of a fresh start with some friends and family so our guild runs have died out our last three scheduled Naxx runs have not gotten enough people to sign up. It is summer and that's part of it but I know some of it is frustration on the lack of progress we seemed to be making. Well hopefully we can regroup soon and get back to downing bosses and having fun. I don't know when my next post will be but I will try to update a little bit typeatyalater