Hello all, your favorite (or not so favorite) moonkin here!

I'm intending to PvE as a moonkin like planned, but I was putting serious considering into PvPing as a feral druid.

"Ok, so what's your problem? Just PvP as a feral druid and PvE as a moonkin sounds good." In both situations the gear I'll be collecting will be, mostly, temporary. The progression of the raid depends on everyone doing their best , the same as the progression of the arena team. Me alone being more geared probably won't make or break our progression but you take 15 of the raiders that didn't get honor blues/epics and you may have a serious issue... Annnd.... same goes for arenas... can't run/healer dps if your healer has 7k hp and expect to get very far.

So I'm a little torn. It was easier for me when I went boomkin, because I already had all the gear I needed for pvp, I spent some points on some gear that would be very hard to replace (IE a helm) and it helped me in the beginning. Helm would of lasted me all the way until Kiljaden if I didn't snag A T6 one.. and it's pretty on par with T5.

To be blunt, to do very well in season 5 you'll probably need to get into a highly progressed 25 man and be specced the way your raid job is. Things like weapons, trinkets/off pieces are all going to be better than anything a pvper could acquire in preperation for season 5. So while I level I'll probably decide to just pvp as moonkin. But I thought maybe some others that are in similiar shoes could give me their opinion/decision ;p.

Not everyone may be pvping as a different spec, but may want to get the PvP gear with their badges of valor/etc...

Well... Seeing that at the current time frame I'm broke as hell & can't afford Wrath I won't be rushing to 80 with the rest of you guys & girls. I waited to post this to see how my expenses would be this payday, and sadly no better then I had hoped, actuallly worse..

A IRL friend of mine offered to buy wrath for me, but I'm also outta play time so it's kinda pointless. With my job being stupid lately & I hadn't been getting my 40 hours in each week my paychecks have been horribley short. Yeah that & my daughter's birthday is this weekend so what little bit of extra money I have this payday goes to buying her birthday cake & some food stuff for the party. It just seems the harder I try to get caught up the further I get behind, and bills come first. So as soon as I recover from her birthday here comes christmas urgh.. which i haven't even started shopping for.

Maybe "hubby" will buy me some game time this week when he realizes I'm out, but I dont know how his expenses are either.  Either way just a heads up that I'll be leveling as soon as possible. Most likely as feral since I think it will be quicker

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now if I wasn't sick I'm sure I could figure out how to make this picture appear here but you will just have to try the link instead.  It's been a wild evening, I wrestled with my internet for a couple of hours and got it to submit to my will to go online only to discover WOW is not there.  I'm not going to wrestle wow, they have many employed people to do that and I'm sure they are all wrestling with the problem right now.  Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow and wow will be working, that's what I'm going to go to sleep hoping for.

With WotLK just two days away, I decided to throw together a simple informational spreadsheet to plan potential gear upgrades for me.  Keep in mind that I did this very quickly and mainly to just centralize the information.  This is just possibilities to keep in mind as I am leveling and goals for once I hit 80.  I kept out melee weapon due to the fact I'm too lazy to sift through the number that is available.

All information was pulled from wowhead and there is a good deal incomplete due to just not finding the complete information on the items.  Attacked is the excel file I created.  Any and all feedback is encouraged.

Colin was born via c-section at 1:22am on Friday November 7th.  He is completely healthy and weighed 7 lbs 12 oz at birth and measured 20 3/4 inches long.

Labor was induced starting around 9:30pm Wednesday evening per our decision (we were just tired of playing the waiting game--it's enormously hard on your psyche--and they typically offer it to past-due women).  I began contractions around 3am, and by 10am was having some serious issues dealing with the pain.  I spent another 1 1/2 hours actually in a tub which really helps, and then I had some IV pain meds which got me through about another 2 hours.  By then I had totally caved and demanded an Epidural, and I can honestly say that I cannot fathom the pain getting any worse than it had been or dealing with it any longer....so for those of you ladies who spent longer in labor and made it all the way through, I applaud you.

Anyways, got the epidural around 3pm, and was doing amazingly well after that (as in, I almost felt normal).  They started to have some concerns about my progress and how baby would handle it as the night wore on, and even though I REALLY did not want to consider a c-section as an option they pretty much told me that if things got much worse it may have turned in to an emergency situation.

So, at around 1 am they started the surgery.  It's not painful because you are numbed up beyond belief, but you CAN feel enormous amounts of pressure and your body typically responds by shaking violently.  Colin was born shortly thereafter, and his proud papa, who was previously so squeemish around blood that he couldn't look at me getting a shot, cut the umbilical cord. 

Bump on 11/17... Here's an update:

Nothing has worked so far. The list of ideas Blizzard's tech support (I'll spare the long rant about how slow and ineffective they are) has provided is as follows: