The new guild and I !

So last time I had mentioned that I had joined smashing and we had done a pretty good first half of Kara. Well we went back in on Sunday and Finished up all but the 2 dragons. We managed to one-shot everything except prince. Prince on the other hand just gave us fits. We weren't lacking DPS/Healing/tanking. We just couldn't get it right. Had a series of bad infernal drops, then the tank got hit with a nasty series of hits wiped out 14k health in less than a second. I volunteered to call out the infenal drops and move the raid as needed. I'd like to think I was doing a good job. But, admittedly there were a few mistakes. I called for the tank to move left and he moved right. I called for the raid to move right, when I should have moved them left. But eventually, the raid leader switched out for his warrior and it all came together. We downed him on the 5th or 6th attempt. He dropped the T4 helm for hunters/mages/warlocks. And I won it. My first piece of T4.

Tuesday, we started with a fresh Kara and cleared up to Curator. We had a good time. One shot almost everthing. Nightbane and Opera: Romeo and Julliene gaves a some heartburn but we got them. This was my first real attempt at Nightbane, and I died twice on the final attempt. I didn't realize on the first attempt that when he went airborne everyone needed to group up closely. I died fairly quickly, lol. On the last attempt I was grouped up, but was taking a butt-load of damage. I'm gonna have to read up on the fight to understand it a bit more.

Romeo and Julliene took us 2 tries to get. We had a rogue that was new to kara with us and he was a bit slow to interrupt her heals. But after the wipe and res, we tried it again and it went flawlessly. We pressed on to Curator and one-shot his mechanical butt. And once again the T4 token I needed dropped. I was the only one to roll on it.

Let me mention something about smashing. This guild is great. The guildies are sooo helpful and nice. Almsot to a fault. The hunter didnt' want to roll on the T4 because he got the boots offa Nightbane. The other 2 warlocks didn't want to roll because the each had recieved a belt during the run. Pel got the trash drop fire belt. And Supa got the belt from Moroes. The raid leader Xess tried talking them into rolling, and I said I didn't mind if they rolled as I already had epic gloves and we just dont' see non-pally tokens drop much. But they deferred and so now I have the 2-pc set bonus from T4. However, I dont' think I'll actually be wearing it much yet. When I equip it I lose a little +dam, which i'm not really worried about. What i'm actually worried about is dropping from my admittedly miserable 112 +spell hit down to 86 +spell hit. That really hurts. Granted, I'm an affliction lock with 5/5 suppression, but I don't really wear the +hit to help out my dots. I wear it so my SB's will hit. Even with 112 +spell hit I get resisted/miss way more than I like to see on raid bosses. I've been meaning to try and improve it, but really haven't had the time to try and get the gear.

Ok enough about Bahzell's progress. Let me harp on my hunter Kosutic. She has finally gotten her epic flier and started on the Netherwing daily's to get her drake. Sunday night I talked a few friends into to making a trip to Dustwallow with me. I wanted to get that spectral wolf. Dancer hopped on his shammy to give me heroism. I got Ella to come on her pally for the concentration aura, because the first few attemps I kept getting interrupted. I had Hiramhold on his priest to come and MC the mob to summon the wolf. And Drowgon came on Illyriana his LW rogue to use the drums of battle. It took about an hour and a half or so and like 8 attempts, But we were successful. Kosutic now has a nice spectral wolf as a pet. Now for the annoying part, leveling it from 30 to 70. Oh and I took my wife's suggestion of a name and the wolf is now named Kotoruh. Which means Wicked Spirit in turkish. :)

Well that's it for now. Hopefully soon I'll actually do a helpful post. I've been thinking about doing a post about a pt. by pt. leveling talent guide, or least to level 20 or so. We'll see h0w it goes .

Smashing!

Hurray for Smashing!



I've finally been able to find a guild that raids in my new playtime. I was running a late night coalition of players on Rexxar. We were doin' pretty good. Went from a total PUG, to clearing to prince in the space of a month and a half or so. Then my job changed my schedule and I couldn't raid late at night anymore. And with the wifey getting angry if I tried to raid during prime time, I really didn't want to join a guild that raids prime-time. But there was a lack of guilds raiding in the late evenings. I'd notice the recruitment post for smashing for a few weeks. I had thought about it, then last week I decided, what the hell, and sent in an app and talked to one of the GM's.



Smashing only accepts people if everyone in the guild agrees. It's a fairly small, and tight knit group of people. They are pretty fun to hang out with. I got accepted on Sunday, and Tuesday night after the reset, I was asked if I wanted to go to Kara. Of course I accepted because I was eager to return to raiding and wanted to see how good I was going to fit in.



We were aiming to get at least thruogh to Shade. We got to Curator. Not bad though all the bosses were one-shots. The trash after the Opera was giving us some fits though. I don't know why, i've done that trash plenty of times and usually don't die when doing my AOE thing. The first pack, I'll admit I jumped the gun and started throwing out the seeds a little bit early. Of course, once the seeds ripened and exploded I pulled aggro and died fairly quickly. The MT( also raid leader) mentioned not seeding right off the bat. So the next pull I waited till he had sunders on at least 2-3 mobs. I think i waited like 6-7 seconds or so, then did my normal seed, tab, seed, tab routine. Again i pulled aggro from the first seed and died. The raid leader seemed rather upset with me over it. I told him I wasn't doing it on purpose, if I wanted to die, i'd stand in the middle and Hellfire. From that point I held waaay back and didn't try to seed again. The three pulls don't really require alot of AOE on them, so I tried to just focus fire, or cast rain of fire. That was really the only hiccup in the run that I saw. Overall I had fun and think I'm gonna fit in nicely!

History Post pt 2 The hunter

To continue with the history lesson /sigh.

I had originally started with my warlocks. But was bored at 60 and not being able to raid. I friend suggested I start a BG twink. I thought it over and discussed with him what classes were good for a BG twink. After mulling it over I started a hunter. Leveled it up to 18 and got it what i thought was some decent gear. I had alot of fun leveling it. I started to play some BG's but didn't really care for it. So I thought why not just level it up. A hunter makes a good farming toon. I initally went with skinning/mining as my proffesions so I could make mad cash off of selling the collected mats.

I had gotten the hunter up to around 40 or so when word of TBC being released came out. I got lucky and got an invite into the BC beta. So I copied over 2/3 warlocks and my hunter. I had fun in the beta till the warlock hit 70. Then decided to get my hunter to 60 or close to it before BC was released. I actually didnt' make it to 60 till like 2 weeks after BC came out. But I really really liked playin' the hunter. So I decided to take turns leveling the hunter and my warlock on Rexxar. I'd level till the rested was gone, then switch toons and do the same. Got both my toons up to 70 and got them both attuned for Kara.

I focus mainly on my warlock. But I try to keep my hunter geared up and maxed on proffesions as well. I don't get much playtime lately but when I do play I try to do something that will improve the characters in some way. Lately it's been trying to save up enough money to get the hunter her epic flying mount. The warlock already has his epic flyer, the netherdrake and the flying ray. And as of last night his epic engineering flying machine (which totally rocks)!

Well think that's it for now.

Obligitory History Post - Pt 1

This is the obligatory history post.

I've been playing World of Warcraft since about 2 weeks after release. A bunch of co-workers kept talking about this new game. World of Warcraft. A new MMORPG. I'd never tried any MMO's before but i am a big fan of RPG's. And I absolutely loved Diablo I and II. One of them showed a guide book and I looked up some stuff online. I was hooked!

I read up on the classes and got hooked on the idea of the warlock. The whole enslaving Demons thing appealed to me. So I rolled a gnome warlock on the Feathermoon server to play with my co-workers. Got the lock up to 45 when my friends moved away and didn't seem to be on much anymore. I really didn't have much luck finding groups etc. So a few months later i notice they opened up a new server, Skywall. I figured great time for a fresh start on a brand new server. I created a second gnome warlock on Skywall, joined a decent starter guild and eventually made it to 60 and 8/8 Dreadmist (lol).

Then my work schedule began to go bonkers. I couldn't make raids, just PUG'd alot of instances and farmed. I was starting to get burnt out, whenBlizz decided to open up the first Oceanic servers. Yay, time for another fresh start! I was grouping with alot of Aussies anyway so I figured what the heck might as well try to level another toon on the Oceanic servers. So I created yet another gnome warlock on Khaz'Goroth. Got him to 60, and 7/8 Dreadmist. But my work schedule changed yet again. I couldn't make raids, etc. I really loved the game and wanted to play but with a shitty work schedule it was hard to really make any progress.

Then blizz came to the rescue yet again. They started offering server transfers from high-pop to low-pop/new servers. I heard from a co-worker that they were offering server transfers from Feathermoon/Suramar to a brand new server: Rexxar. His entire guild was transfering and he could get me into his guild if i tranfered my warlock there. So I figured sure thing, worth a shot. So i woke up the level 45 on Feathermoon and transferred him over to Rexxar. I got him to 60 in no time with the help of my friend and new guildies.

So there I was, 3 level 60 Gnome Warlocks. On three different servers, and still couldn't make any raids on either of them. But wow this has been longer than I anticipated so I think I'll cut it out for now. And tell the story of my hunter tomorrow.

Welcome to Demons and Beasts!

Why hello there. Welcome to Demons and Beasts! This is going to be my Blog about my World of Warcraft experiences, thoughts, etc. My current mains are a 70 Affliction Warlock (Bahzell) and a 70 BM hunter (Kosutic). Not to mention a plethora of lower level alts. My current main server is Rexxar(US).