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Rare tame of the day:
Olm The Wise. As I was browsing Petopia’s Rare and Unique pet’s, I found one of my long ago favorite tames had gone through a change. Olm used to be a white owl, the same model as the Alterac Valley and Winterspring ones.
So, I figured he’d be off my list this time, until I saw his picture. It took four hours of camping his spawn point in Felwood, but patience paid off.
I never thought I’d like a big flappy bird pet. But I love this guy.
Too bad he thinks doing tricks is below him.
Leveling little Lieshou has been a blast so far. I love her looks, her /dance, all her jokes, her laugh. Just Everything about her is adorable. She’s now level 44. A Beast Master hunter, because that’s the only spec for me. And did I mention CUTE??? (click to enlarge!)
Arriving at Stormwind with her first tamed pet (I do not consider the freebie my first pet. My first pet is one I tame MYSELF.), Her friends JoJo and Aysa.
Hanging out in the Dwarven District with Azzere, her windserpent (Rare, Barrens).
Making friends with Shadowclaw (Rare, Darkshore)
Failing to convince Bailey that no he can’t ride the big birdie. (Bailey is the Silithid Harvester, Rare, Barrens)
Death sucks, someone’s gonna pay
Bring It!
When learning to play a hunter again, keep the most important resource at your fingertips.
Petopia is still the best way to find the right pets for your hunter. Especially if you plan to have all rare unique pets in your stable like me.
So far I have tamed
Duskstalker
Shadowclaw
Ghost Saber
Azzere the Skyblade
Silithid Harvester
Pogeyan
Ashtail
Not bad for level 35!
Fall semester kicked off last Monday for me. I’m once again taking four classes, another 12 credits. One of my classes, is a retake. Algebra, ugh. I’m hoping I do better this time, since surely some of what I learned last time through should help this time.
The rest are all rather writing intensive. So for the record, here is the what and why of Fall Semester 2012.
What: Introduction to the various roles that companion animals play in society, and their impact on human activity and well being.
Why?: I plan to move into a BA in Psychology after I finish this AA in Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Specifically, I aim to work in some capacity with servicemen and women, and their families dealing with PTSD. As the military is beginning to embrace pets, in that you now see soldiers with service dogs that are specifically trained and assigned to assist with PTSD. In a broader scope, I think knowing more about the connection between pets and mental health is a great stepping stone in my chosen field. I have anxiety issues, and I know my pets have helped me when I get to anxious. Yes it sounds like a fluff class, but the workload says otherwise. Plenty of reading, and writing due every week along with class discussions.
What: Exploring some of the interesting questions and ideas of the way religion and culture have interacted in American history.
Why: Much like the earlier class, religion and faith play an integral part in our society, and our mental health. No matter the beliefs, each of us depends on our faith in hard times. This also contributes to my future studies. I also needed a “Writing Across the Semester” class (the “Y” designation) to fulfill my current degree requirements.
Biology, well that’s pretty self explanatory, I needed a science, and Biology is a basic requirement for any health field really. Might as well lay that groundwork too. Again, writing intensive. So basically my semester is Math, Science, lots of writing. I hope I can keep up. The first week went well enough. Usually that week is all introductions, and syllabus reading/quiz. But this time every class jumped right into assignments.
I finished Friday night, just in time to have the weekend off. Which is my goal most weeks. Finish early, and then enjoy my free time.
I’m also keeping with my self made rules. As you have to with online learning. Not only does it take discipline to DO all your work, it takes just as much to know when to STOP. My children attend school from 8-4, and my husband usually gets home sometime later. I make myself work within the kids school hours and STOP when they arrive home.
When you are balancing life and classes, you have to have limits. When 4pm hits, It is time for me to shift from Student, back to Wife and Mom for the evening. The kids assist with the housework, so that isn’t a huge issue, but I need that time to wind down, and relax as well. I also need time for ME. So once we all finish dinner, and the associated cleanup, we split up and do our own things.
I also like to help out with his unit, so I will be making time for volunteer activities as well there. On top of that, I’ll be looking for opportunities to volunteer on post, to build my resume and make needed connections. I’m adding things a little at a time, but hopefully I’ll end up eventually working, AND going to school. Then all my well scheduled time will need rescheduled.
But it’s working for me now.
I have never prepared for an expansion. I always just grabbed a character and started playing. Even when Draenei and Blood Elves were introduced, I stuck with my existing characters mostly. This time is different. Now we have heirlooms to boost our new characters through the leveling experience. We have account wide pets and mounts coming. We. Have. PANDAS!
I have 2 baby characters planned and their names saved. One will be a Pandaren hunter named Lieshou. The other a possible Night Elf monk named Dorienne. Dori for short! Just keep swinging, just keep swinging! I have 4 heirlooms collected for the hunter, and I’ll be working on the Monk’s this week before school begins on Monday. While doing that, I’ll be running my Priest through heroic randoms, since she has the best gear and gets the most out of it. She’ll get bonus cloth, to make everyone bags, and maybe sell some. She’ll also be working on the Pug pet to add to the team collection, which currently sits around 158.
Jess the Druid is still working on Archaeology to get that damned crawling claw, and doing dailies in Hyjal for the Mini jouster, and Hyjal cub.
Apparently most of my preparation centers on pets. Shocking.
Other things I should do:
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It’s about #$%$^%^& time!!
He was my Unicorn. I did nothing but fish the last 2 days, after trying on and off since BC. Finally hooked him this afternoon!
Still working on my last couple pets. The ones through Hyjal dailies, and the mini jouster daily, and Pebble from the random Deepholm daily.
Part of getting ready for Mists of Panderia means getting what pets I can before release. That meant pugging ZG to get my Lashtail Raptor < Jessmyn’aka" >
Never. Again. In fact, I may not pug any heroics again ever. 4 different times the queue popped, once the other dps didn’t accept so it was another wait, when I finally got in, with a full group, our tank pulled too many mobs, wiped us, and the group fell apart. The next tank refused to click the cauldrons to get the debuff, and repeatedly died in the goo. Then he dropped group after wiping on the…well goo boss. The final tank never said a word to anyone, rode straight to the Raptor boss, leaving those of us from the earlier group to catch up. Started bang smashing through the place like the incredible hulk on crack but with less personality, down Raptor boss, grabbed my little Raptor out of her chains, then we went to somewhere with panthers and shadow hunters. This is where I threw up my hands, grabbed Jessmyn’aka and left.
He pulled every trash mob in that hut.
So, from now on? my get ready for MoP plan?
It is with a sad and heavy heart, I say goodbye to the best damned Orc I ever knew.
Ratters, you will ALWAYS be Ratters to me, you were the 2nd WoW blog ever read, the first I subscribed to, and all the reason my characters have developed voices in my head no matter what game they are from. I have laughed out loud, and burst into tears more than once in the years I’ve been following you, you did good son. Real good. (sorry, I channeled some Mass Effect 3 there).
I’ll be following you on Tumblr, and Twitter, and I damned well better see you around. I kinda loves you and your crazy wife, and I’m proud to consider you both my friends.
