I Sheep Things…

Can’t even begin to describe how good it feels to be in Northrend and finally doing instances again. They are FAR and AWAY my favorite thing about WoW, and I have really been missing them for the last, oh, sixty some-odd levels.

So this week, I finally got into LFG and did some PUGs, some good, some bad. I ran Nexus, uneventfully. Honestly can’t remember the names of any of the ppl in that group… nobody sucked, nobody was mind blowingly awesome either. I am trying to gauge my progress in DPS, so I was relieved to see I was a close second to our dps shammy. Not bad for a nooblet, hmm?

Then the next thing I tried was Azjol-Nerub… ummm yeah. Still don’t have that achievement. First group to inv me was four DPS… no tank… no heals. >_> I said, I’ll pass this time, guys, don’t worry about me… and slipped away quietly. Good on me. The second inv I got was an interesting group too… there was a DK tank, a resto shammy healer, and for DPS there was a lock, a feral druid, and me. The tank couldn’t hold ANY aggro… I went oom and was wanding something (*embarrassed*) and the tank lost threat and I took damage. It was bad stuff. Anyway, long story short, healer got creamed, wouldn’t come back (who could blame him?) and group fell apart. Mooooving on.

Next inv was for Gundrak. I didn’t even want to GO to Gundrak. But they promised me good gear, so I tagged along. Figured it couldn’t be too bad, or if it could, it couldn’t be worse than the last one. We had an interesting group: a hunter whose name was made of jumbled characters… diwfleriuflwe or something… and who flatly refused to talk, couldn’t control her pet, mostly used autoshot and… on the whole, might have been a bot??? Very weird to say the least.  Then there was a lock who kept getting disconnected. Then there was a stellar priest healer and an equally stellar pally tank. And me. The fifty nine millionth time the hunter’s pet pulled aggro that resulted in deaths we booted her. Bye dwoifwlekfewois. The lock died in one of the inconvenient pulls and then couldn’t get back to the instance because of connection issues. So the amazing and lovely priest, the durable and magnificent pally and I finished the instance alone. Last three bosses went down without a hitch. Beautiful, smooth, easy. Got some loot, which was nice. What was nicer was knowing that I don’t suck. At least I’m pretty sure, since I three manned Gundrak at 76.

So, after Gundrak I got to comparing gear. I was sporting Turtle Minder’s Robe from the Kal’uak Quartermaster before the run (<3 red robes!), but in Gundrak Embroidered Gown of Zul’Drak dropped. I was the only one who wanted it, so I got it. And I sat around comparing the two trying to figure out which I should wear. Finally I got frustrated, being a noob at gear comparisons and all that, and asked an 80 mage in my guild what he though. He gave me a big grin as though he was happy to help a young’un learn the ways of the endgame and told me wear the Embroidered Gown while questing and the Turtle Robe when fighting bosses. Puzzled, I asked for an explanation. I can take an answer as read, I swear I can, but unless he wants me to come to him next time I’m not sure, I need to know the rules for figuring these things out on my own. Anyway, he got all annoyed with me and ranted a bit about how he just woke up and was late for a raid and how I should just look on wow-wiki if I wanted an answer in detail.

Maybe my feelings are too easily hurt. I kind of cried. I know I’m noobly… I know that was a dumb question. But honestly, how am I supposed to learn if people won’t help me? And why are you an 80 in a casual leveling guild if you’re going to be all snotty about the raid you’re going off to? I just want to learn so I won’t be a noob in the future. That’s all…

Anyway, I recovered from my fit of hurt feelings (well maybe not entirely, I’m not sure my relationship with that guildie will remain altogether cordial *sniff*), and I jumped back in LFG… mostly because I LOVE instances…

And so I went to Old Kingdom (yay!) with the lock who had previously had connection problems. He was kind enough to vouch for my dps-ability even after I went on to finish Gundrak without him. Fortunately his connection had cleared up. We also had a live hunter who actually talked, a talented resto druid and a warrior tank. Old Kingdom went smoothly until the end when Herald Volazj casts insanity.

Oops! It’s time for today’s Mega-Noob-Moment!!

Nobody had warned me about that, and of course, I had no idea what was going on when my groupmates turned on me so suddenly. I turned tail and ran like a scared little draenei girl who sees orcs in her closet at night. I thought, oh, it’s temporary insanity, they’ll stop trying to kill me in a minute… so I ran, and I ice blocked, and I blinked, and I used all my little defensive tricks to get away, and eventually they did stop attacking me… I WTF-ed as hard as I could in /party, and lo and behold… they stopped attacking me because they were CLONES and my REAL groupmates killed them for me. /facepalm. But even with that (hideously embarrassing) faux-pas, I still managed to top the DPS meter by almost 300. Which doesn’t seem like much in the land of 3k and 4k (*glares at raid-geared 80s everywhere*), but in the land of 1200 vs 900 it’s kind of a distinction. And my groupmates understood that I was new at this whole crazy-freakish clones business, and they were nice to me about it. We had a laugh. And now I know. Which is a lesson a few other people around here could learn. *clears throat accusingly*

All in all, the ups outweigh the downs. I’m feeling pretty good about, well, Life the Universe and Everything… at least in WoW, anyway. But nobody’s on top of everything in the real world anyway.

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