Mooonfire!

When I first zoned into Quel’Danas, I thought it was a great idea. And the atmosphere, the lovely, somewhat chaotic, help-help-we-are-under-attack atmosphere, was, to my way of thinking, lovely. Compelling even. But

Magister’s Terrace. I DON’T like it. There’s only so much “You must be perfect” that I can handle, and that instance not only tops me off but overflows me, in that regard.

Then there’s the dailies. Oh, the dailies. I pretty much have to do them every day to stay abreast of my expenses (more on this in a minute) but… There’s only so many times I can do the same things over and over and over and over and over again until I start to hate them. I tell you what, Blizzard- let me do the Distraction at the Dead Scar, I.E. My Favorite, once for each of the daily quests otherwise available? Please?

I am enjoying the fishing dailies, though, and to some extent the cooking ones (though since I’ve finally tracked down both of the blue recipes from there, those, a little less).

So what does this mean?

Simple-

The new content added in 2.4 is already stale for me.

New badge rewards? That’s… nice I guess? The problem is that my guild isn’t stymied through lack of gear (for the most part). We’re geared fine. We just don’t have the manpower to make the jump out of Karazhan.

Gee, I guess that means that Sunwell Plateau isn’t going to hold my interest very much, is it?

The new dailies? As I’ve heard it said- “Twelve bear asses, go!”

And again.
And again.
And again.
And again until you want to scream.

So, apropos of screaming, what am I doing in game these days?

1: Arenas.
I’m not going in expecting to be the top the best near the best good poor acceptable at this game, but I am having fun with my young lady and a friend of ours who is an almost-identical troll hunterette to match Maliata. This means that I have to rely on my raid frames to tell who’s taking damage, since all I can tell in the field is “The hunter’s getting attack!”

And they both have scorpid pets. Identical scorpid pets.

Arenas leads well into the second thing, which is

2: Panzerkin (AKA The Mad Cow Chronicles)
I tanked my first (as a caster) five-man last week and I’m going to continue burbling about it until I get the video posted, which could take quite a while. Durnholde may be a 66-68 instance but I did it in blues/scattered badge rewards/bg rewards for the most part, which I figure means I didn’t outgear it too harshly. The challenge will be to pull the same trick with, oh, Steamvaults or Arcatraz or something.

I’m finding this fun, but the only real upgrades are via arenas, and there’s a static limit on how fast I can gain arena points.

3: Prismspec work
This is one of my other ideas. I want one, single, solitary spec that is adequate, if not brilliant, for my druiding needs. I think what I’m using now is just about it, though I’m still debating between Furor (for the rare times I AM in a feral form) and Imp Mark (normally useless except when you really NEED that extra bonus, heh).

4: Soloing Older Content
I can do up to (but not including) Baron Rivendare on Undead Strat. By myself. As a non-feral. I can do up to (but not including) the final boss on the Scarlet Side as well, though that’s harder (bloody healer caster four-pulls melee interrupting rassin’ frassin’…).

To be fair, I’ve wiped (twice) on Rivendare, and never actually tried the final Scarlet boss. I also skipped the Cannon-master- bad druid!

My best time so far is engaging Rammstein with 20 seconds to go on the ultimatum timer- though, to be fair, I managed to accidentally kill myself earlier in the instance. Remove that little timer foible (and figure out a way to handle the 5x Elite pull that comes after Rammstein) and I may be able to actually attempt Rivendare with some time left on the clock.

For those who are curious, my problems with him were based on not being able to do AoE damage four times per minute to take his skeleton assistants down, but I’m fairly sure I’ve come up with a way to handle that. I’ll let you know.

This entire activity is exempt from “Must Be Perfect” syndrome because, if I wipe, I have not wasted anyone else’s time.

5: Old-School Tuesdays.

I tried to start this when I was in my last guild, but the chronic lack-of-interest problem stopped me. I tried it again in KMM, and was immediately taken up by three people, with the same number again going “That’s cool, but I can’t usually make Tuesday nights. :(”

We’ve spent the last months or so working on our Onyxia attunements (SUCH a pain for Horde players- contrast one instance run and three raid runs plus four elite world bosses to kill starting at level 55 vs something like two instance runs, one world boss and three fed-ex quests starting at level 48 for Alliance). Tonight, we get a third player his Onyxia key (half a dozen of us also picked up Blackwing Lair attunement).

Tonight, we hope, we’re going to go in and see what she’s got that’s so exciting. We hope.

If we win, that’s 50g each and an eighteen-slot bag for one of us, so…

6: Enchanting

I dropped mining and have been levelling enchanting. It’s been pleasant.

7: Old Content (Rep and attunements)
I’m actually in higher standing with the Argent Dawn at the moment than I am with the Shattered Sun. Go figure. The Strat runs are providing me with extreme amounts of reputation. I’m going to be running Blackrock Depths next to get enchanting mats, and that should help me level my AD rep further via the Dark Iron turnins.

I’m also a key-and-attunement fanatic. Thus far in the list of ‘keys not often picked up’-

Blackwing Lair attuned
Onyxia Key
UBRS key
Anzu Key
Key to Stratholme
Master Key to the City of Stratholme

I’m working on my Molten Core and naturally my Naxxramas attunements.

So, I’m keeping busy and regard the new daily quests as a boring, but necessary evil to keep me financially solvent through all of this (ever tried to gem, enchant and keep in good repair five sets of gear? It ain’t pretty).

In other words, I’ve been occupying my time with fighting the Scourge threat and hunting dragons- What are you doing to keep yourself interested in the game?