Results tagged “Yolana” from Bitter Roots

This is my new toy.  It's seriously awesome.  It doesn't seem to have some of the armour pieces that I want, but there's a heck of a lot there.  It's great to be able to watch the animations in slow motions and view some of the things I've never seen before.

Plus, I can get pictures like this one:

While the servers were down last night, this is what I was doing, as well as talking to guildies on Vent.  Stupid server downs.

Yup, I'm saying it.  I think I'm sick of Kara.  While I do think that place is great, the bosses can be fun, the design is amazing... I'm sick of it.  I've been healing that place every week for months now.  Zzzzzz. 

We did a full clear for the first time last night, took us about 5 hours with a few breaks.  By "full clear" I mean Attumen, Moroes, Maiden, Opera, Curator, Shade, Illhoof, Chess, Prince.  Nightbane still whupped us but I think we were all just tired by then.  It was a good run and a sort of catharsis for me.  I've been getting very frustrated at some of the aspects of running raids in my guild and it was something I needed.

I'm bored now, though.  I'm going to continue running Kara for a little while longer on my warrior to get her ready to tank in the 25-mans, but I think my healer is about done.  However, I've been looking at some boss fights and I think we're ready to move on.  Mags isn't really that hard, and Void Reaver looks like we'll be able to do it. 

I was going over the strats with Mega last night and getting all enthusiastic about it.  It's a good sign.

I think it's something we need as a guild, too.  We have the problem where people come in, run Kara with us for a little while until they get gear and get trained up and then they move on to a guild that's already in the 25-man places to do the same thing.  It means that there's ten or so loyal people who just end up spinning their wheels in Kara because we don't have enough to move on.  We're at a stage where we have 25 people with good enough gear and skills right now (last week we had three seperate groups down Prince, and we've seen him go down a couple of times this week) so I want to strike while the iron is hot.

Big bugger, ain't he?  There's a picture of me tanking Prince for the first time.  Well, technically the third time (The first time I accidently pulled him before we were ready, second time I got an infernal dropped a bit too close).  Now that was a scary fight, especially in stage 2.  My health was going up and down like a kangaroo in the mating season.  It was scarier than when I heal it.  Not to mention that I nearly wet myself when we misdirect-pulled him and I saw him thundering towards me.  EEK.

I found Shade of Aran a lot harder to tank than to heal.  I couldn't see what was going on nearly as much as when I'm bouncing around the edge like a deranged chipmunk on the Shade Carousel.  Like the magnetic pull thing he does, the last time he did it I didn't even notice, I was too busy watching my cooldowns.  Getting thrown up in the air was kinda fun, though.  Thank goodness for a recently popped shield wall.

I did some exploring in Karazhan yesterday too.  I'd never been up the stairs behind Attumen before.  It's an alternate route to Moroes, but I don't think it would be worth it unless you were going in just to go to him and no further, because you'd still have to clear all the stuff between him and Opera/Maiden.

I did find some cool stuff back there though, like a locked door marked "Sergeant's Quarters" and a Sergeant-At-Arms Bennett (For anyone who doesn't know, Bennett is my RL surname). 

I love running around Kara when it's cleared.  If you've not tried it, you should.  Once you get past the library it can be a pain, because Illhoof and Netherspite's stuff respawns if you don't clear them.  Even just looking at the architecture between the front door and the library is worth it, though.  It's amazingly well designed.

Time for my most recent level 70, my Draenei.

Name: Yolana

Age: Around 50.

Background:

Yolana lived with her family in Shattrath City, studying along with many of her age as a servent of the Light.  To her continuing distress, she displayed little aptitude for any type of magic, although her skill with a variety of weapons was undisputed.  Because of this "handicap" as her family saw it, she seldom left the city and never took part in any fighting, even sparring.  Yolana looked up to her older brother, Admosmori, who was a gifted weilder of arcane forces. 

Things proceeded quietly until the corruption of the orcs and the attack of Shattrath City.  Yolana, Admosmori and two of their brothers escaped the slaughter, but most of their family were killed.  They went into hiding with the rest of the Draenei, until the prophet Valen led his followers to take the Exodar and travel to the continent of Kalimdor.  Yolana joined the parties that turned the crashed ship into a new home, while Admosmori left to learn the art of shamanism and to fight against the demonic forces in their old home.

To her surprise, Yolana learned that the elves of their new home did not revere magic in the same way as her people.  She trained with the Sentinels of Darnassus and then travelled to the Eastern Kingdoms and there continued her pursuit of the techniques that the humans, dwarves and gnomes could teach her.

While in Shadowmoon Valley with a druid she had befriended, Yolana was almost overcome by a pack of fire elementals.  Just as the two of them were about to fall, the elementals were struck by a storm of lightning and destroyed.  To her surprise, their savior was her own brother, Admosmori.  Impressed by her swift progress and abilities, Admos allowed his sister to join him in the fight, and the two of them now battle side by side along with their other allies.

OOC Background:

Yolana is my third 70.  I started her to try out being a warrior, and because I wanted to have a tanking class along with my healer and DPS.  I levelled her as MS/prot (I liked being able to solo, but also being able to strap on a shield and tank) and ended up respeccing to full protection at level 69, when I tanked Shadow Lab for my Kara key piece.  Since then I've not looked back.  Devastate and shield slam are just delicious for building hate.  I have to admit that the temptation to go to a PVP spec and rock the BGs appeals to me, though.

Why a Draenei?  Well, I always loved the look and feel of the new races.  Most draenei at level 70 are shamen, and I wanted something different.  I also already have two elves at level 70, two humans at mid-to-high levels and I find dwarves and gnomes hard to play because of the low perspective of their heights.  Playing a draenei female warrior makes me feel incredibly heroic, too.  Even if she does squeak too much when she gets hit.

I'm about ready to begin tanking in Karazhan with her, and I'm hoping to gear her up as one of our tanks.  We don't have many warriors in the guild that raid.  I'm still considering her as a DPS warrior, but right now I prefer tanking.  

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?

My dearest Devastate,

Since mine eyes first beheld thy wonderous visage, my life hath remained enraptured by thy countenance.  I could not have hoped to contemplate thy skill in gargantuan building of threat.  Nor didst I believe that, even when lonesome, thy uses would be many.  While thou knowest that mine affections are shared by thy brother, Shield Slam, my greatest love wilst always be thine.

Yours forever,

Yolana.