Well as some of you heard yesterday. Efectivie immidateally i am no longer working at the auto repair shop. I showed up to work yesterday to be told that I failed to readd fluid to a rear differential back in Jan and that the company was haveing to pay 2000$ to replace it. As result they would be keeping my pay. Now as to the rear diff. I dont for 1 second beleave i put the plug back in without adding fluid. thats neither here nor there though. I spoke with the Texas Board of Labor and was told that if i didnt sign anything saying i would be responsiable for a mistake that causes the further repair of a vehicle then they could not hold any pay or commission from me. I signed nothing but tax forms when i was hired. After calling and speaking with work today they are going to cut me a check for my hourly but still plan to keep my commission. I hope its worth it to em. 300$ to me is worth fighting for. and I fight dirty. once i have my hourly check in hand this afternoon I will be calling the state inspection office to report illigal inspection atcivities. Then i will be calling the EPA to report illigal petrolium product disposal. Then i will be hireing an attorny to sue them. this will cost them way more than 300$ by the time its done. They shoulda just paid me.

So, in ZA last night I got one of the few remaining pieces of gear on my wish list out of things that aren't BT. Ancient Aqir artifact is gonna fit nicely into my mitigation/boss tanking set. :) So, that kind of leaves me at an impasse with what I'm going to do with pudo.  Do I continue hoarding badges in anticipation of sunwell? Do I pimp pudo out to nightly SH lps runs? or do I start a new project? I've been slowly gearing my priest for healing (healing non heroics is wicked easy) and have picked up enough to start healing heroics/kara with a piece or two more.  while I like the idea of pimping pudo out, the last few SH runs I've been on have actually LOST me money, as well as an embarassing finish that missed the timed event.  right now i have enough gold on all my chars to sustain myself through a raiding heavy repair bill month without doing dailies...barely and dailies for me right now aren't worth their gold as I'm not able to pay attn enough to finish them in a timely manner. 

Well, I rolled a pally alt. So thought I'd make a pally blog! All about the trials and tribulations that turn up as this dps class tries to level a non-dps (sorta) class.

Tuque's UI

Day 1 (Level 11):

So, created it as Draenei. First thing I got was this Seal of Righteousness. Dang this is a bit disappointing as a yellow attack. lol Basically just auto attacking and it adds a bit more holy damage on top of it.

Couple levels later I get this Seal of Crusader. Hmm, AP and attack speed boost but lowers damage... I'm thinking this is prob better for slow 2 handers? While SoR could be better for those faster one handers.

So grinding on mobs, this is the cycle I come up with. SoC, Judgement, SoR, Judge, repeat SoR. That any good? Crusader to boost holy damage so more dmg from SoR.

Anyways, have to put in talent points now. Where to put those first points? And what would be the spec to level with? I assume ret for better solo grinding. Though that could defeat the whole purpose of this experience. lol Insane to jump into holy? Or maybe start prot? Or some mix with all 3 trees?

Day 2 (Level 15):

So I spec'd down the Holy tree. Doesn't seem that interesting yet, nothing really helping my healing so far. Ya 10% more int, but at this level it's like 2 more int. lol

Speaking of int, so what exactly is healing gear at this level? So far all the quest mail armor pretty much has stam and str, guess good for the tanking/dps portions. Only int could help with the mana pool but I've only seen cloth having it so far. Should I just be wearing cloth? Or just wait it out until some real healing gear comes along?

I really really like this fight for a few reasons

• Awareness of surroundings (forces all classes to actually look at the game, be aware of their surroundings and make a large effort to not stand in the shit that hurts)
• Situational awareness (watching grid to see if you're going to get a heal or need to pot, is that rogue running at me, where the hell can I stand to maximize dps but still land my required kick/CoT/CS)
• Self Sufficiency (I love love love the fight for this reason, and this reason above all else)  I ate nine envenoms over the course of attempts, and that again or more of divine wraths, random AoE's and my own lifetaps/reflective shielded dots.  I never died, honestly, unless I had just lifetapped and/or gotten caught in an aoe before a poison, I never needed heals.  My HS's sat unused for the first 3/4 of attempts because I simply didn't need more than drain life/death coil/or the fast reflexes of our healers.  This right here, this reason, is what will separate the good raiders from those you say "fuck, I want that guy on my wing when it's go time" 

This is the iron man contest of wow.  "do you have it in you to dps/heal/tank for fifteen minutes totally self aware/sufficient/sustained while contributing in a stellar manner"  This is the hard core.  Illidan to me, meh.  five stages, learn a phase, move on, new stage.  Illidari is "these are horrible things happening all over the place, can you adapt, survive and conquer".  We've had a pretty easy learning curve up until now, everyone has fights they're required to perform above standard at, but this fight requires EVERYONE to be THAT good. 

So, I've been thinking about what next main, I mean ALT, to make.

Got me a 70 mage, but that's mostly become my pot dealer. Pretty much done the KZ farming thing. Got most of what I need out of badge rewards (this patch at least), with a potential few others there for minor upgrades so not much motivation to continue diligantly. Don't really like pvp on it cause his gear sucks! lol Maybe next patch when there's the blue pvp gear on rep vendors will make it tolerable.

So this leaves not much left to do on either cept a daily grind, but that gets boring, and on to the pressing question. What should be the next alt?

I do happen to have a 60 dwarf hunter... But literally haven't touched it in over a year, not sure if I can remember how to play one. lol Not much pve experience there either, never got into the shot rotations and theorycrafting bits of it back then. And it's kinda another ranged dps class of sorts. But I do like the name I gave it and it's tempting to just level it just for the novelty of running around with it. lol

Or I could start from scratch. Experience the whole easier leveling in patch 2.3 thing.

Tempted to start a pally I guess. Prot pallies seem OP! lol And should I be healing this seems like something more appealing to me, efficient big heals!

Other stuff I can try...

Warlock? Well I've actually twice tried to level one, but just didn't get past level 25. lol

Warrior? Well I have levelled a horde one to 64. But guess kinda got bored with his crappy gear and inability to access alt twinking moneys. lol

What's left, priest, shaman and druid? Hmm, guess they're possible too.

Some of you may remember the other night when I mentioned I found out I had gotten reported.

After a 30 minute call on hold to Blizzard, I got my email updated and requested previous emails to be resent to my new one so I could find out why I was reported.

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Account Action: Warning

Details (Note - Times are listed in Greenwich
Mean Time, GMT):
2008/02/26 01:56:46 (GMT) - Karlizeth whispers Player "wtf
are you doing asshole, that's fucked up that you are purposely trying to make me
fail the escort quest. i'm glad you didn't you fucking jerk"

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Apparently using vulgar language is more warning-worthy than purposely trying to make someone fail the skettis escort quest for shits and giggles.