Makarios the Noble

I achieved the new title from the Noblegarden event this week. It took me roughly 6 hours to complete it I believe. Was able to loot all the necessary items from the eggs except for the snow bunny. That cost 100 pieces of chocolate. At the end all that kept me from the title was finding a Troll Female...I would have thought finding an Orc Female would prove more difficult, not so it seems. This wasnt all that difficult of a title to attain, you just needed to find a good egg spawn camping area and I chose an area in Kharnos near the hunter trainer. I was in shot of 4 egg spawn points.

25 man Naxx

I have planned to run 25 man Naxx with Narrow Path on 4/28 and 5/1. Still working the Holy main and Shadow offspec. I am halfway to exalted with Sons of Hodir atm. Also, yesterday got the 5 exalted rep status with Argent Crusade while doing the daily Heroic.Picked up the rep reward ring Signet of Hopeful Light.

saw this on a wow forum...

this was too funny not to post:

Normal fight:
Tank: "I tanked good today"
DPS: "Look at my dps meter"
Heal: "Why was I here?"

Wipe:
Tank: "What happened?"
DPS: "I didn't get healz"
Heal: "We told you to run when you get the debuff or you'll damage the whole raid."
DPS: "L2Heal. rez plz"

Difficult fight:
Tank: "GJ heals"
DPS: "Look at my dps meter. My virtual ego is now longer."
Heal: "..."

patch 3.1 and fun with shadow!

Once again I am bringing the shadow pain...or at least almost bringing it. With the new duel spec capabilities we have now for a 'modest' 1000g I can be a healer or a dps'er at the click of a button (with gear swap). Awesome concept, although not so great for my shaman as now I will prolly be investing more time with my priest now that he can do both heal and damage. So nice to be flexible. My shadow gear is not too bad atm. I hope to list my dps gear soon after the tuesday update. I am set to holy on armory atm so I cant see my dps set ;(

The guild cleared KT recently I wasnt in the group but I am glad for them thats a full clear for 10 man now for our guild. I am scheduled to run Naxx 25 with Narrow Path this evening. Of course its on my shaman since i signed up before the duel spec was in effect and they needed dps. Not sure if I can talk them into my subing in the priest or not...looks like i'd be the only elemental dps so they may want me to stay with Pharseer. I invite the opportunity on either toon though..its a blessing to eb able to run that with them. Happy gaming all.

OS clear and fun with Naxx

so, we (with the Misfits) finally cleared OS without any deaths on Feb 18th I was able to pickup Majestic Dragon Figurine. The group did a lot better than the week before we I and many others couldnt get the fire wall timing down.

On Feb 15th the BHS Misfit Raiders entered Naxx (my first time) and downed Noth the Plaguebringer. Then we proceeded to Heigan the Unclean at which point we had many troubles getting "the dance" down...so we called it to try later...

...Feb 20 we got our revenge on Heigan ;) not to mention we went thru the Spider wing and after many a try took out Maexxna who seemed to give us some problems with the anti healing poison debuff.

...but back to Haigan. After many tries I got better at the dance and finally Me, Oddjon, and Jurin (Brubert almost went the distance) took him down in an epic 25 minute fight. I came out with much praise from the raid and a nice new ring: Ring of Holy Cleansing.

also some gear updates with badges I have:
The Egg of Mortal Essence
Sandals of Crimson Fury
Azure Cloth Bindings

the Obsidian Sanctum

I was able to run several heroic instances today and picked up 2 nice items. One from the emblems and another from a boss in Heroic Old Kingdom. The Skirt was from the Old Kingdom and the handbook from 25 emblems. All the Heroics I ran were with pug's so a few were difficult to say the least. I ran An, OK, VH and Gundrak.

Later in the evening the guild got together for a shot at Sartharion in the Obsidian Sanctum. We got 10 brave BHS'ers and Misfits together for the run. It was exciting but we were unable to down the dragon...i'm sure there will be another time to try soon. I couldnt get the timing down for the flame waves so that was my main difficulty. Below are the 2 links of items I attained Monday.

Skirt of the Old Kingdom

Handbook of Obscure Remedies

back to holy

yep, so i'm back to the holy healing talents now. Discipline was fun...but I can't achieve the lvl of healing needed for what we are doing now...and owe it to my guild and any PUGs to show them my best. Only thing really different for me than when i was hoy b4...I decided to not put points into the Improved Renew talents instead opted for the Serendipity talent. Mainly for the overheals on Paladin tanks and spamming prayer of healing.

Been able to consistently do dailies for 2 days now. Doing the one in Dragonblight, 2 in HF and 7 pvp ones in grizzly hills. later all.

dailies

looked around recently and found some info on doing dailies to make money and such in Northrend. I found some in Grizzly Hills for pvp dailies and a few on Howling Forge. Not sure how devoted I will be to tryin to do them as they arent close to each other like the ones back in BC (miss those dailies).

Got an upgrade to my Helm, mace, wrists, necklace, wand and a ring upgrade. Of course I half expect to upgrade these on down the road but the Necklace was my first badge purchase!

• Helm: Cowl of the Vindictive Captain
• Necklace: Encircling Burnished Gold Chains
• Wrists: Ancestral Sinew Wristguards
• Ring: Solitaire of Reflecting Beams
• Mace: Gavel of the Brewing Storm
• Wand: Brazier Igniter

The wand and ring dropped today from UP and Heroic VH.
The mace and wrists came from hitting revered with Wyrmrest Accord
The Necklace from 25 heroic badges
And the Helm from a quest after running Utgarde Pinnacle

may go back to lvln the cooking and herbalism soon as well.

moonshroud robe

finally obtained the mats to make my Moonshroud Robe a few days ago. Been talking to Shell and JIoni to see if they want to run as a heroic group with me and they seem to be interested. Hoped that Corim would come online soon, havnt seen him in 10 or more days. Yesterday I ran The Oculus with a PUG to get the achievement. Later got a group with shell and jioni to do the daily Nexus heroic. The mace I am hoping for hasnt dropped yet ... it did drop on another guild groups run however.

Been looking into lvl'n my cooking since my pally is at lvl 375 I think my main should be high enuff to benefit from the income and buff flexibility.

That H Nexus we went on I main healed a druid tank that had 36K health with the buffs. And he pulled like a speedracer. It was a great test to my new Discipline Healing spec I am using. I ended up with over 3M healing from the instance. I may try to rework the talents a little as I am not using Renew as much as I used to...so 3 points in another area may be more efficient.

heroics

I know its been a while since i posted here...but not sure even if anyone is viewing these. Anyways, have been doin some nice runs here and there with friends. Guild-wise Ive been a part of H Nexus, H Utgard Keep, CoT: Culling of Stratholm and a Vault run in Wintergrasp (our first 10-man). Recently got the opportunity to go to H Violet Hold with a former Narrow Path member and others and last night met up with 3 guys from the Misfits guild that Bru and Jurin have been doing stuff with for a while. Shelley got to venture out with us as well on that Heroic Nexus. More later, hopefully...

finally lvl 80

well i made it yesterday to level 80 many thanks to all that helped make it possible....my quest buddy Synnarr hit lvl 80 today and we hope to start some serious instancing soon. halfway to my super flyer mount as well. i took up mining to make some money not sure how that will work out. i am slotted for 2 runs tonite with the guild. a reg Nexus and a heroic UK after. I hope to be posting some great stuff about them both.

half way!

got a little slow in posting my level-by-level progress but I guess i'm just moving that well?! as i write this I should be over halfway to lvl 80 and considering my switch back to holy talents. I am currently questing between Storm Peaks and Icecrown as they have offered me the most quest XP bang I could find. I am running mostly on non-rested xp so its still a little slower than I'd like...however the hugh xp one gains from these Qs makes up for it imo. I pretty much tapped out my quest lines in the Basin.

I have my tailoring up to 413 and now am the proud owner of a flying carpet. Havent done anymore instances since the last post, however, i am lined up to run a guild Azjol-Nerub on saturday. Jurin is trying a guild calendar signup form for all to try. Next post lvl 80!

lvl 77!

pretty much just skipped the post for lvl 76 so i can talk about the excitement of flying in northrend now. should make questing and playing a lot easier now. possibly the next post can be me sharing in our run of DTK since i have 2 quests to knock out there. on another note, Jurin was promoted to our guild's raid leader and we have been polling the guild to see what nites are best for running. Still working at tailoring (395 atm) as far as my enchanting, its only 275 and i'm not to excited about it. i may end up dropping enchanting as it isnt lvl appropriate for me now. stay tuned i am around 1025 spell power with my solo buffs and managed to place 2 or 3rd on our last UK run in dps with Rhod leading and Corim tanking on his DK. til' we meet again...

lvl 75!

Barely made out lvl 75 last nite before the guild ran a quick UK. The group was made up of Jurin, Rhodryy, Me, Corim and Trynyty. I was the healer for the run, and I dont mind doing that as a spriest, as long as it is a guild run mind you. No one died and both Corim and Trynyty got some nice gear.

I picked up a new aoe damage spell called Mind Sear. Looks, and seems very different to have an aoe shadow spell in my arsenal...I shall test it out with my buddy Shell in some questing situations.

As far as the latest questing goes, we knocked out a few more around the western side of Grizzly Hills and later I tore thru the quests in Thor Modan. We hope to embark on a venture through Drak'Tharon Keep soon enough ;)

lvl74!

I pushed through and made it to lvl 74 tonite after some runs with the guild. Finished up a few quests in HF with Shell. Finally got to run Utgard Keep and Nexus with Shell. We were also accompanied by Jurin, Brubert and Pookehuntres. We attempted to do UK w/o Brubert on heals but didnt make it very well (those ice blocks were a terror)...so he joined us and all was well for the 2 runs. I ended the Nexus run with 3 bubbles to go so I polished off some random quests in BT and hit 74 to end the nite.

lvl 73!

so, lvl 73 comes with no other instance runs to speak of. I mainly gained 72-73 with solo questing on Friday finishing up around Coldarra and some Borean Tundra content. There were some bizarre quests in Coldarra (a very pretty and odd zone) thats for sure--like subduing a netherdrake and wrangling him into the questgiver. Another notable goal attained was I finally got my first aid up to 400 from 240 or so. I was leveling holy so never really needed to use bandages until now...now I can stay in shadowform and heal. At the end of the night I met up with Synnarr (my quest buddy) she had been taking care of some much needed matters in RL. We took care of a 3 person group Q in Dragonblight with the much needed assistance of Jurin. Also of note, I am guessing its due to kids being out of school for the holidays...I was around 250 in line for the signon on the server. farewell.

lvl 72!

yipee, hit lvl 72 tonite with the assistance of a mostly guild P.U.G. of Nexus and a full guild run of Utgard Keep tonite. wanted to get those in and hit 72 b4 i took a few days off to attend some RL matters ;-) had a great time with the runs, my first northrend instances so far. the first run, Nexus, comprised of Jurin and Serruphim (new guy with the guild). I had to revert a little to healing role as the holy priest with us kept getting slapped by the wildlife patrols in the rear of the group. All-in-all a great first exposure to the Nexus experience. In that run I picked up a nice OH which atm im not using unless i get a stellar mace or something to to replace my staff.

The next instance, Utgard Keep, comprised of a full BHS posse: Jurin, Xandrei, Sparus, Serruphim and me. I had the full healing role on this roll. no matter, i have enuff spell power to handle that and with an 80 tank the sky is the limit. I hope to log back into the game by Friday the 2nd and continue working my way up. take care.

lvl 71

it is official, I will be focusing on the priest until lvl 80 and not playing 'popcorn' toons with the others. And my equally excited quest buddy will be Synnarr. You could say we worked out who was our fav toons last nite and between them all we dubbed the 'Lock and Spriest as our go-to toons.

as far as interesting quest last nite goes...Northrend hasn't failed me with the endless cool factor of content. We had to cannonball a tree mutant and collect his 'booty'  and we had to collect several unpaid debts of drunken pirates. We focused on the Kalu'ak quest this past run. I was reviewing my gear as well last nite and noticed the amount of purple gear I have...didnt think I had that much but thankfully healing and spell power are one in the same, otherwise all that healie gear I had b4 I went shadow would be weak. 

Rez'n this blog

yep, its been ages since i wrote on this blog. In fact i've changed character names, and realms a few times since then. But have found a home on Thunderhorn with BHS. Since turning lvl 70 and entering Northrend I have respec'd shadow to maximize my dps and overall 'booya'. Currently I am teaming up with a friend from BHS that I've been blessed with to accompany me of past questing. We are currently questing in Howling Fjord which has an uncanny look of a barbarian theme. We knocked out some great quests in the area and my partner atm is Syntara. We did some wacky quests from shooting dragons to surfing on a harpoon. The graphics and gameplay with the new xpac are amazing and look forward to experiencing more soon....

keep yer feet on tha ground

well no longer will i be "keeping my feet on the ground" as the gryphon masters have told me fer ever. I finally have my snowy flying mount. Thanks to dailies and a nice contribution from a special "soulfull" friend ;-)

also, have started the raidar raid listings up for some heroics and regular runs beginning this coming weekend, Lord willing.

With 2 solid 70's now in my family of toons (one for Heals, another for DPS) I have been toying with who to choose as my Tank toon...well looks like my love for the healer side finally decided...I am working on making Justus (pally) my tank toon. I do love lil' Samson, but at present I will be leveling Justus to get him hard pressed to outland runs. Hope i can hold that agro! God Bless.