Today I decided to take my baby priest out of hiding. I had the day off work and it was pouring rain outside so I had no desire to do anything but take a shower, put on a fresh pair of pajamas, throw my snuggie over it and play WoW.
But I wasn’t really in the mood to be “on”, which I sometimes feel I have to do when I’m in guild, and none of the people I usually play with were gonna be on anyway. I’m getting burned out on Loremaster, now that I’m working my way through Outlands and keep getting stuck on bugged quests. So, I decided to go to my horde realm. I currently have 3 toons there, a level 11 mage, a level 16 pally and, when I started today, a level 23 priest, that I use to get away sometimes, but I haven’t really played them in months, probably since the beginning of Summer.
I decided to try the new dungeon finder on the priest, since I’m most comfortable playing that class anyway. I queue up and right away I’m put into a group for BFD. They’ve already started pulling mobs before I’ve even zoned in, so by the time I buff everyone and heal the tank, I’m outta mana. God, mana regen at that level is excruciating. The druid tank is pretty good, though, so I just keep a renew & shield on him and grab a drink whenever I can because he’s not stopping.
I love BFD. I have great memories of that place and it’s fun. I’m having a blast trying to heal with my limited arsenal of spells and manage my mana, plus I got the belt off of the big Turtle. This group is moving along smoothly, we pick up a quest, kill a lot of mobs. I ding 24 somewhere along the way. Then we get to the part near the end, and I’m taking a drink and the tank takes off. I stand up to follow him and it looks like he’s running in place and everyone else is standing by me and not moving. So, uh oh, I dc’d…but it turns out it wasn’t me, it was the server that went down (for quite a while, too).
So, I go back to my main server and farm frost lotus for a while on my druid…didn’t find any, but got 6 stacks of flowers to mill…which I don’t need, but oh well. Then I take a break to eat and it’s near the time I usually log on, so I signed on Whimzee and did my random for my emblem. I didn’t really want to do anything else, but I stuck around for a while and worked on some Loremaster quests (woot! Terokkar is done!), but I kept feeling the pull of the baby priest. I wanted to go heal more low level dungeons.
So I logged off early and went back to the other server and hit the random dungeon finder. About a minute later, I was in RFK. I think I’ve only been in RFK maybe two times in the 4 years I’ve been playing, so it’s very unfamiliar to me. The tank takes off right away, before buffs and the hunter keeps pulling mobs and I’m out of mana before you know it. Then the tanks says “Let me know when you need to stop for mana”, so I say “mana” and sit down to drink. And he quits the group. So we queue for another tank. While we wait, we clear some trash with the hunter’s pet & warlock’s pet tanking and we’re actually doing ok. After about 10 minutes, we finally get a tank and he’s not very good, but I’m keeping everyone up and we’re moving along. The ‘lock decided to soul stone me after one particularly bad pull where I almost died, so at least we had that cushion. We downed a boss with no problem. Then, as we’re moving along, my computer freezes and I have to reboot, so of course, I was kicked from that group by the time I was able to log back on.
Geez, 2 strikes already today…I really wanted to finish one, though, so I queued up again. This time it took a while, maybe 5 minutes. But, let me tell you, it was worth it. One of the best groups I’ve had with the finder, and that’s including all the ones I’ve run with Whimzee (and she has had her pug pet for a while).
We got BFD, the tank would stop for mana every once in a while, but kept it going at a good pace. He asked us if we wanted to kill optional mobs. He told us we were all doing well, and he was too. Everyone was friendly, everyone dinged, I got a nice new staff. It was pure heaven as far as PUGs go.
After we finished that one, we decided to do another, since the group was so great, and we got Stockades. Everyone was pretty excited about that because they’re horde (well I guess I am too, haha. Just not used to that.) but could get the achievement without having to sneak into Stormwind. We had a great run in there, even getting a rare boss, and most everyone dinging again. It was pretty quick, so we decide to go again and got Stocks again. That ended up being the last run of the evening because it was late (yeah, I should be in bed now, but I wanted to write this down). After we finished there, I turned in my BFD quest and leveled for the 3rd time today, so now my baby priest is level 26. Not bad for a few hours.
The one thing we all lamented on is that we wouldn’t be able to group together again, since we’re all on different realms. It would be a wonderful feature if Blizzard could add some way to do that. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has thought about that. Hopefully I’ll see them again some day in a random. I know after this experience, I’ll be spending some of my off time there for a while…at least until I get obsessed about something on my main server again.
