Tuesday (22 Mar) - Sorting Out Toons

Tuesday (22 Mar) - Sorting Out Toons

We mighta shoulda coulda gotten in three Warsong Gulch matches on Tuesday night, but Shevils became a one woman rain delay with Hunter Fortress. After preaching to Bean to ensure that she had all of her gear, potions, bandages, and other assorted requirements ready for the evening, Bean and Shevils were dancing in Org when Speak came in game. Shevils sister Sista (sounds like one of those tongue twisters) once did an entire dungeon without her dagger. Speak's brother Kire remembers that and the first thing Speak did after getting in game was to check Shevils gear. "Where'd all your health go, Shevils?" he wanted to know. Shevils popped open her gear and sure enough she wasn't wearing any of her heirloom gear. Oh dear, hmm, so who had it? JB!

At that moment See logged in and Speak signed us up for the Battlegrounds queue. Shevils, meanwhile, logged out to find JB and get her gear back. Shevils was in a hurry and rushed JB to strip off her gear and get it in the mail back to Shevils. Only when Shevils checked her mail there was no gear. What? Back to JB. Where's my gear, Shevils demanded! JB checked. Oops, I sent them to Happy. Happy!? You rushed me, JB exclaimed! Shevils had to roust Happy out of the Auction House and the grumbling goblin located the gear and sent them on to Shevils.

Shevils popped back in game, hurriedly donned her gear, only to find that WSG had popped and the Hunter Fortress team was already heading inside. Shevils was too late. But Speak and See were able to back out of WSG, leaving Bean to wonder where everyone else was. The match started and what to do? Leave, Shevils advised. The "rain" turned into a downpour when Bean left the match and was hit with the "Deserter" tag. We were locked out of the battlegrounds for fifteen more minutes.

"I thought someone said "dessert," not "Deserter," Shevils said, making a limp attempt at a joke. Ha.

Shevils waited out her sentence with the rest of Hunter Fortress, and we then turned the Alliance upside down, sideways, and every other which way in our first Warsong Gulch match in the level 15-19 bracket. The top 5 damage dealers were on the horde side, with one amazing hunter getting 25 killing blows and leading in damage. Speak and See came in second and third in damage dealing. Shevils was 6th overall in damage and managed to be hanging around to pick up the most honorable kills, and Bean was right up there with Shevils. We won 3-1.

See had to leave after the first match, but Speak, Bean, and Shevils got in one more match. We won 3-0 in a battle that was a little closer than it looked. The alliance held their own and had hold of the horde flag numerous times. But our team would not let them keep it. Shevils and Bean personally killed the flag carrier on one occasion. Meanwhile, Speak was getting a match leading 18 killing blows with Speak and Shevils going one-two in damage.

Despite Shevil's "rain delay" it was a fine night of combat and the Hunter Fortress Team remains undefeated.

Family Matters -

The "I wannas" are starting to get thick within the Wild family on both the horde and alliance sides. There are a few key priorities:

#1 - Raiding - Wild's first priority
#2 - Hunter Fortress - Horde teeny bopper Battlegrounds
#3 - Alliance Dungeon Conquests - Kire/Sista

Beyond that things get a bit muddled:
- Wild wants to get Tailoring to 525 skill
- JB wants to get to level 85 and then ?
- Philly just wants to find some sanity amidst an ocean of mats
- Achieving level 85 with an alliance toon

That last one is getting dusted off and given another hard look. Sista has the inside track right now, but is in no hurry to get there. Farther behind is Shevils, but reaching level 85 isn't even on her radar screen, she's having way too much fun in Hunter fortress. And just thinking about starting a new toon makes me want to go take a nap. There is also DER's Daethbot, level 70 alliance killing machine, who would love some company.

One thought is to talk level 63 Melashand into switching faction to Alliance. That would be the fastest path, even though it would cause some shifting around of other toons to take on Mel's duties. She would be far behind from a pvp perspective, though, in terms of honor and resilience gear, and I prefer a healing toon in pvp, particularly at higher levels (exempting Shevils, of course).

My other thought is level 32 alliance paladin, Java. It would take time to level him, including as many battleground matches as possible. To keep gear requirements from getting out of hand I was thinking he would be specced holy for dungeon runs, but his main spec would be the hybrid shockadin for pvp and pve leveling. I've been reading up on the hybrid spec. It's based on the holy spec but with more DPS abilities taken. That way Java would have talents to help with DPS but could also heal BGs and be able to use the same gear for both.

Yes, retribution spec for Java is much better for pure leveling purposes, but then Mel would be a better choice than Java if I went that way. For now it's just thinking out loud.