Here I sit, not sure what to write about, Anachranos is currently offline due to some "emergency maintenance" which is, now, only affecting my battlegroup. This is somewhat irritating as I had planned to do a blitz of some instances if I could, or at least run one or two, Papa needs his badges. Other then that I don't know what I would do, I think I've played WoW a little to much lately, that's not to say I spent hours and hours at it, I haven't. I've just played too much without a differant gaming distraction, I don't really have any other games to play. Well, that's not strictly true, I still have to finish bloody Twilight Princess on the Wii, someday, I swear, Someday! The Wii is pretty much the only console that is readily available to me as well, so that dosen't help, all the other ones, the PS2 and 3, and the xbox are all in my brothers room, makes sense considering that he owns them, but it's still irritating.

Maybe it's also all my social activity of late, ever since going off to Oxygen I've been hanging out, drinking and just messing around with my friends alot more, which is nice. Oxygen is a music festival in good old Ireland in case anyone reads this and wonders. Maybe I'm growing better or at least more practised at it as well, because I seem to be more relaxed around them and other people now, it's easier to have conversations, smoother if you will. Another couple of good things about going to Oxygen have been that I get up early now every day, well, early enough, I hover around 9 most days. I really enjoy this extra time in the day because I was beginning to slip and sleep alot of my day away, waking up at noon or 1, this always seemed a big waste and I'm glad it's corrected itself. The second thing is that Oxygen had taught me the true value of personal Hygiene, and I am no alot more clean in things, as in I shower every day now, instead of letting it slide for a couple of days. This is good.

A couple of other things have made me less then motivated when it comes to WoW, the impending xpac is one, and looking at all the lovely T6 gear that I will never have or see=(. I often find myself drooling over full paladin T6, with the illidan helm, tempest of Chaos and the bulwark, oh I wants it. It's hard to get motivated to raid or really try and progress at all when I know I won't be able to get to the gear that I really want( the asthetics of gear is important to me, which is why I hate T5). I have also yet to step into a 25-man raid with this guild, or at all as a serious tank. I'm not sure how I feel about the guild, as I don't like some of them and it seems hard to get along with them, I guess this is because I have yet to earn their respect? They have also gone on a kind of break from raiding over the summer, as people just were not signing up.

I've made a list of stuff that I would like to do in WoW, i was hoping this would serve as something to work towards when I start feeling bored, an awful lot of them are about mounts, I have to say, i really enjoy having different, and rare mounts. I've managed two of them, those being getting exalted with scryers, which I was quite proud of, so glad to have it done at last and the other being getting my Piccolo of the Flaming Fire. My god I love that trinket, it is just so damn fun, I can't wait to enslave the members of my guild with the power of dance when we eventually do a raid again. So counting those two, 2 of the 17 items have been done. I just can't seem to motivate myself to do them. Of course, 6 of them are only possible through raid, but that still leaves another 9 things that could be done. Two of them can be done in Heroic Magisters' Terrace, so I guess that I should run it every day, or when I can, so as to get two of the goals accomplished. Those being getting Kael'thas' White chicken( sounds so wrong) and getting my commendation, which that filthy healadin stole the one time I saw it.

I made a similar list of stuff I wanted to do IRL, I've currently done one thing on it, but theres much less stuff on it.

I hope my guild does Gruuls Lair one of these days, were doign Karazhan on Wedensday. I want my T4 Shoulders, they'll make my guy look really cool, and they're an upgrade from the D3 which I'm currently using. Ah well, maybe I get can the shoulders from spite this wedensday anyway.

Fingers crossed!

Tired now

So Ive now gotten all my stuff ready for Oxygen, I got a bag, which is quite nice, and all the other sundry things I require. I still don't know whether my friend Darragh has sorted out his drink yet, as he's been putting it off for ages, it actually annoys me now, even though it dosen't affect me too much. I hope he just gets one of our friends to run up to the offy for it, as I don't want to deal with his whining. Ahh god, I so do not want to wake up as early as I have to tomorrow, I'm going to have a nice wee sleep on the bus methinks. Hopefuly it will be sunny or at least fair, but I have a feeling it's gonna rain.

Now I have to decide whether to go to my friend Joes house tongiht for a bit of a session before we all go to Oxygen( Joe himself isin't going due to being a big faggot and deciding he wanted to buy pedals for this guitar more then he wanted to go). On the one hand I'd like to go because it would be fun and all, on the other I don't want to have to buy drink, and I don't want to go to bed too late. To be honest though, I go to sleep quicker when I'm drunk, and I'd just stay up late playing wow or worrying over something if I don't go. Hmm, quite a conundrum, I think I'l go get some water and think about it, better decide quickly though, as his house is probably about to start or already has.

I think I might join the gym when I get home, or at least go swimming more, as I quite like it and it would be good to BUFF UP as it were, or at least become fit, not that I'm horrendously unhealthy, just that I could definatly do with some work. My body is a temple and all that malarky. Yeah that's it, I'll go swimming when I come back, once I recover enough that is. Oy vay, I'm not looking forward to the first day or two back.

My list of things to do in wow is a little daunting, I think, what with my flagging entusiasm for my paladin, alot of them probably aren't gonna happen. Alot fo them are just " Get such-and-such a mount", my but I do love special mounts. They rock. One of them I hope to complete is levelling a warrior to 70. I love warriors, asthetically(I think their tier sets are the coolest looking), technically(I realy enjoy playing them as a class), and lore-wise(I'm a big lore nerd, I love all the classes in that way, Paladins in particular have great lore, or maybe I just think that way because I levelled a paladin and looked into all their lore). My first character, Blacksword, on my brothers account, was an Undead warrior, and I really enjoyed playing as him. Then when a friend of mine started playing I would go to his house after school and mess around on an Orc Warrior I created. When I eventually got my own account I wasn't crazy over starting another warrior, mainly because I had played the other ones alot and then they just got deleted, I didn't really want to go through the same abilities and such so soon, so I created a Tauren shaman, just because I wanted a unique, as I saw it then, kooky class. I levelled the guy to 43, and he hasn't moved a level since, he's my bank character now. It was then that I took up Vash(my paladin) from his lowly level 23 or so and raised him up to be my first 70. I can't remember whether it was along the way levelling him or if it was when he actually reached 70 I created a Tauren Warrior, Vars, a name which I think I'll re-use(If anyone is reading this and is on Anachranos Ive got dibs!), and levelled him upto 13, I then deleted him due to my loss of interest. I later created Krathor, another warrior, an orc this time, and got him to 40, I then got bored again. I began to love the way high-level or even mid-level Tauren warriors looked with cool gear. And so I created my new warrior, Ruad, he's now level 28. I find my interest is remaining unflagging in this one, hopefully that won't change. Ive decided to forgoe the traditional dual wielding levelling routine, for one simple reason.

I love Big Swords.

It really is that simple, I really enjoy the look of my big mongo Tauren smashing and cutting his way into the enemy with his massive greatsword. To me it just kicks ass. Axes and such are great as well, pretty much any big weapon, but Ive got a soft spot for swords.

Yeah anyway, I think some of my boredom with Vash may be stemming from the mass enjoyment I get from playing my Tauren. I really hope I can get him to 70, as I also want to check out what tanking with a warrior is like, and also I might decide to make him my main when Wrath of the Lich King rolls around, It wouldn't be bad to get some experience with warrior tanking before then. I know from past playing of Vash that bexperience really is king, I'm a much better tank then I used to be, and I'm still improving. Confidance is also a great thing in tanking, if you know what to do and are confidant that you can get the job done that feeling transfers to your group, they feel more comfortable with you tanking and everyone has a better, more carefree time.

Bleh, that's all for now, this was longer then anticipated

First Impressions

So here I am, writing my first blog. This will be pretty much a collection of my thoughts and experiences as my level 70 Blood Elf Paladin in World of Warcraft.

I guess I'll begin with how I feel about my paladin now. I'm finding it hard to play him. It may be that I feel I'm too far behind the progression wave now to progress to any real level, or it could be that Ive just gotten bored with him, or wow in general. He has very little to do outside instances, and finding groups for instances can be a right pain in the ass. No one from my guild ever seems to want to do heroics, at least not with me when they have their two already established tankadins, and then the warriors who are also further in line then me. I don't really like a few people in my new guild either, one of the healadins is a prick, at least to me, but is popular in the guild. One of the GM's(a hunter), insists on calling me a "juvenile", because I'm under 18, I'm not sure what to make of this. Added to this is the fact that they haven't gone on a 25-man raid in ages, they don't get enough sign-ups and then the people who have signed up don't show. I think I might just head on and try and find a differant guild, I'm pretty much always going to be lagging behind, and will never be part of the core tanking team.

I think I may take up an offer one of the retribution paladins I run with gave me. They need another tank for ZA, and tankadins are good there. He said that they might even want me as a Main Tank, this would be great for me, as I would get to experiecne ZA with people who are actually progressing through it( current guild is on 25-mans and never does 10-mans unless a raid is cancelled), I would have a main tank position, which I think I would enjoy, I would get pretty much first dibs on upgrades, and maybe the people would be slightly nicer then they are in this one.

Bah, I'm tired, it's 1'o'clock, and I have to try and get up early tomorrow so I can break out of my late night cycle. It'll probably be decided for me anyway, as I haven't been signing up for most raids due to having Real Life stuff to deal with(ie getting ready for Oxygen, a music festival, my first concert being a festival, I know, fantastic idea), and I'll be gone for about 5 days to the afformentioned Festival. I might be kicked during the absence, before it or after, but I bet it's coming, there just isin't room for another tankadin.

I think I'll just bite the bullet and quit the guild tomorrow, after a post on the leave of absence board of the forums I guess, they are not very helpful, and not very friendly, which I find important. I have to enjoy who I'm playing with, and they just don't supply it. I always feel uncomfortable with them, like I'm intruding.