At least one person has told me that he enjoys reading my byzantine World of Warcraft posts, even though he doesn’t know anything about the game, so here I go with another one…
As some of you ducklings might recall, I took Viv (my priest) to another server back in October in order to more deeply sample the rich life-affirming ore that is a slot in a semi-serious raiding guild. For several months we had our way with various pixellated monsters, obtained fabulous pixellate prizes and generally had a grand ol’ non-pixellated time. Sadly, that guild went up in smoke (fuller history here), and I was suddenly popped out of my thrice-weekly raids, my late-night mining circuits, my purposeless Auction House scanning, etc. What to do?! Join another guild? Raid more? Raid less? PvP?
The answer turned out to be: “Get a job!” The meltdown happened about the time I was due to start my new job, so I just let ol’ Viv collect dust while I went about rejoining life in the salt mine. (Oh, and somewhere in there I bought an xbox 360, which I’m guessing you’ll hear more about later.) Just a few weeks ago some old friends encouraged me to move her back to my old server so we could hang out. “No raiding!”, I vowed. “Sure, whatever!” they winked. The name “Viv” was already taken on Dethecus, sadly, but now she has a new name: Puttanesca. Saucy, no?
We now have a sketchily-balanced 3v3 arena team, and today we went 7-3 — a huge improvement over last week’s horrifying 2-8. The difference in my play this week is twofold:
* I respecced away from heavy Discipline to a more traditional healing Disc/Holy build; if I really worked at it I think I would be a better arena priest with Pain Suppression, but let’s be honest: I’m an old dog, and PS is a new trick. Plus, I just like pumping out big heals more than I like extra survivability. Her resilience is almost 400 now, so she’s pretty tough.
* The title of this post, “LOS! LOS!”. I’m really trying to learn to think more about Line of Sight while playing, especially when my thick head figures out that there are hunters shooting at me. “Hey, this would be a good time to hide!” I think… Today we got placed a lot in the Blade’s Edge arena (the one with the bridge), so instead of going up top to get slaughtered like usual, we hung around at the bottom with the big helpful pillars. That worked pretty well…
Anyhoo, it’s nice to hang out with friends again, and gathering arena points is always a joy. Puttanesca picked up some Season 2 shoulders last week, so now she looks pretty goddam badass:

Badass for a sweet-tempered girl dwarf, that is. 