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I spent some time on Yolana yesterday, tanking Arcatraz.  We were in there for a mage friend but I walked out with the chestpiece of the bold.  It was pretty cool though, because I went in with Airbringer, Megawatt and Daelin and a priest that we found on the LFG channel.  I've been having really good luck with PUGs lately.  When Mega and I came out of Kara on Thursday I was asked to tank an Old Hillsbrad run, and that was an amazing group.  Then not long after Yol hit 70 I went to Botanica with one friend and three PUG'ers, and that was GREAT. 

I've found that putting together a PUG on a tank feels better to me.  As a tank you have a lot of control over the group... generally you're the one marking things, you do the pulling (unless you have an over-enthusiastic DPS/CC'er) and so you're setting the pace.  As a healer you just kinda stay behind the rest and drink a lot, hoping the tank doesn't pull when you're on 10% mana. 

I then spent some time with Megawatt on his newly-respecced level 65 resto druid.  He'd been levelling with his wife who plays a holy priest, so he has pretty much no healing gear right now.  I forsee many instance runs this week.  I spent a happy half an hour or so going over the theories and practices of healing as a resto druid (lifebloom, lifebloom, lifebloom, rejuv, regrowth, lifebloom, repeat until sick). 

Once he gets this character to 70, he'll join me and a few of our other friends in having the "Holy Trio" of characters - a tank, a DPS and a healer.

I've mentioned before, but I really love having the three characters.  It also works incredibly well when we want to do an instance, because we can fill in those three roles between us and then take pretty much anyone for the other two spots.  Admosmori also has a healer and is working on a tank, and so are a few of my other friends.  Admittedly, sometimes it leads to alt-itis where the individual characters suffer because you're spreading the time too thin, but I think around 3 is the magic number. 

Of course, I'm aiming to get my currently-63 warlock up to 70 at some point soonish, just because I want to rock the raiding damage meters, but we won't talk about that right now.

I've enjoyed the Love is in the Air stuff this year.  I got incredibly lucky, and I got a lovely black dress last night, which rounds out the three items I wanted (Kwee, basket, dress).

But do you ever have those moments where all you can do is stand and laugh, and say "WTF?"  Yep, had one of those yesterday.

I think I about died when Daelin /yelled about them getting married.

I put a picnic basket out after that, and started a pandemic.

Last night I took part in a fundraising event organised by one of our guild's bank officers.  She asked people their gathering professions and what they wanted to do, then sent people out mining, herbing, skinning or farming.

Of course, Megawatt and I being slightly odd people, we decided to farm Stratholme instead of anything more obvious.  We did Live side, then decided to give the Baron a try.  In the end we came out with 3 righteous orbs, over a dozen shards, an epic tailoring pattern (Truefaith Vestments) and an epic axe, along with a few other bits and pieces.  Of course, that epic stuff never drops when I'm solo'ing in there for cash.  Pshaw.

We had a guild auction for some flasks, and for a while Mega and I were bidding against each other.  I attempted to misdirect a banshee onto him to distract him, but the price got a little too high for my liking.

After the fund raiser, I swapped from Alyviel to Yolana, and got our members together to whack Omen.  We had 15 people, a few of which were under 60, and we gathered in Moonglade.  Some frantic "Oh no we only have one healer" and "Get out of the AOE!"s later, and Omen was vanquished.

Like all good events, this ended with fireworks.

The Valentine's festival is always fun.  I love running around and seeing all the guards with hearts above their heads and helping people mend their broken hearts.  So far I've done the questline ( See here for guides) on Yolana and Eledith, along with two of my best WoW buddies. 

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The new items are pretty nice.  I was lucky enough to get the picnic basket on my first gift for Eledith, and Yolana got the old Kwee permenant pet that I was looking for last year.  The picnic basket puts out a parasol and a basket and if you click it, it sits you down with a "looking for love" debuff, and then other people can come along and join you.  It makes you do random emotes like laughing and blowing a kiss.

I also went into Scholomance on Yolana and Eledith with friends and got myself the offhand item that you can keep.  It acts like the handful of petals, but has a five minute cooldown.  It was pretty amusing to see a zombie with a bunch of flowers.

And of course, where else am I going to get pictures like this one?