With Project #2 now winding down (#2 was the garage, #1 the master bedroom), Project #3 has gotten underway. Our family room is getting new flooring. We've slowly been replacing the carpeting in that very large room (over 400 sqft) with laminate flooring over the past few years, and this will be our final push to finish it. The Mrs, who loves to paint, is repainting the whole room first. My job over the weekend was packing away ten years of accumulated knicknacks so that I could wrestle the furniture away from the walls. The actually floor work starts this coming Wednesday.
Wild was all but absent over the weekend. On Friday night EZ, Ando, and Lao made mincemeat out of the alliance in two WSG battles, both handily won by the horde. EZ was more than just bait when she and Lao teamed up outside the alliance base and slaughtered nearly all who came after us. Lao, laying down her shadow priest spells, drew immediate attention. EZ would get ignored and so EZ kept heals on Lao while weighing in with her own modest DPS. When the allies caught on and came after EZ, Lao would keep the DoTs on them and heal EZ. The allies rarely caught on to the trap. Ando did the heavy lifting behind the scenes, keeping the flag team healed up and capping flags. In between and after the WSG battles we hung around outside Orgrimmar and dueled each other and others. It was a short Friday night, but lots of fun.
Philly stuck with her dailies, which now included the Argent Tournament dailies as well as the others she's been doing. After completing the last daily for Saturday night, Philly was 94% of the way to level 80. It was already late, but she considered getting into a random dungeon. However, both her and Wild were very low on stocks of chilled meat and Philly decided to farm for them until she got too tired. The best place to farm for chilled meat is the lion seals in Howling Fjord. But they were too low level for Philly to get any xp from. Her next best choice were the level 75-77 gorillas in Sholozar Basin. Both Wild and JB would have approved, since both of them reached level 80 in the Basin, and we had the makings of a tradition. Philly had already done the quests in the Basin that both Wild and JB had used to reach level 80, so those were out. However, there was a quest for killing the gorillas that would help the grind, so Philly went in search of it. As expected, there were pre-requisite quests before getting the one Philly wanted.
When Philly had pulled the thread far enough, she learned that she had to find and steal the catch from some other hunters out in the wilds of the Basin jungle. The target was a big cat. Once Philly killed the cat, she got a quest to go to the local village as a "slave" for stealing the kill from the local village hunters. From there Philly got the quest to kill the gorillas as well as a second quest to kill the gorilla matriarch.
At fifteen minutes past midnight, Philly turned in both quests and DINGED! to level 80. She had begun her march to level 80 on 12 Nov, 2009, as a level 59. Twenty-one levels and 163 real life days later, she made it. Philly averaged a week per level.
On Sunday Philly laid out all of her current gear and the level 80 gear she'd been accumulating and went to work getting all of her gear sets together. She has the most gear requirements of any toon in the family. Philly is not abandoning her pvp career, so she needed to maintain and improve on her pvp gear set. She also needed to raise her DISC healing gear set to level 80 standards as she was now eligible for random dungeon Heroics. Then there was her shadow priest spec. Philly needed both a "normal" set for every day slaughter, and a "+hit" set that was critical for the elite bosses of ICC and other elite boss dungeons.
Wild had to struggle to build a +hit set for his moonkin spec. He'd never envisioned using moonkin for anything more than solo grinding and had never bothered to get or keep the +hit gear that came his way. Philly, however, planned well in advance to have a capable +hit gear set. Even so, I was surprised at how well it came together. The set is still a bit of a mish mash of caster DPS gear, healing gear, and pvp gear, but it's plenty good enough to start with. At least Philly hopes so.
There is also some related guild news, with perhaps a surprise announcement. First, I don't think anyone will be surprised that Wild has decided to stay with the FS guild. Wild and the other druid healers have had a series of excellent conversations over the past few days and that has done a lot to clear the air and get us all on the same track. And, at least from the point of view of the healers and raid leaders, Wild is very much wanted and needed in guild 25 man raiding. And Wild wants very much to remain a part of it.
Wild also wants to get into an ICC ten man raid, which is currently not an option with his guild. Bd's MM ten man ICC raid will hopefully be up and running again in the next week or two, hopefully on days Wild can participate in.
Meanwhile, Philly has also made a raiding decision. First, she has decided that she does want to raid. As reported before, Lady Hunter (also in the MM guild with Bd) has asked Philly to join the MM guild. Philly has decided to give Lady Hunter a conditional Yes to joining. The condition is not so much a condition as a determination on whether the timing of the various raids works out so that Philly will be available to raid with MM. I have hopes that it will be possible because while Lady Hunter intends to lead her own ICC ten man raid, she also has an alt she wants to run in Bd's raid.
We'll see how this all falls out, but my expectation is that Philly will take the plunge and join MM soon. Just think, if everything lines up a certain way I could be looking at six days of raiding a week. Uh . . . no. Just no.
Don't worry, Philly won't forget her friends and family. Philly is looking forward to tearing up Heroics (and ICC 5 mans) with DER and Sis (once she hits 80). And of course the pvping will continue!
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