The Trials of a Co-Main

I used to be in a raiding guild on Durotan called Aspire. It was one of the premier guilds on our server. We covered the same ground as the "hard core" raiding guilds without having to raid 6 or 7 nights a week. We only raided 4 nights a week and we progressed as far as many/most of the end game raiding guilds. It was a thing to be proud of.

Well, when I joined the guild, my main was my lvl 60 priest, Niimu. I love being a priest...I'm a damn good priest, for raiding. My spec is heavy holy and I have over 700 + healing. That is pretty damn good. The only problem was that I also had a lvl 60 mage. My mage is FUN FUN FUN. How hard can I hit that mob? Where am I on the damage meter? How can I hit harder? These are all questions that I asked my fellow mages as we were playing the game. Finally, my chance to apply for a co-main came. ZOMG I was so happy. So here I am, a mage and a priest...which one will they need tonight? Because you never quite know if they are gonna need damage or healing. Both toons are at the instance, waiting to be called...both toons have bought all the reagents necessary for their respective classes. And both toons have put out the money (virtual) to make sure they are repaired and ready for a night of hard use. Please, please, please pick my mage! ./beg Of course that is all in my head. I don't get to choose which toon I play. It's kind of annoying, but I have to keep raid balance in mind.

In the end, they usually picked my priest (uber healer) and my mage was left hanging out to dry. And that made me a sad panda. What I should have done was retire Niimu (the priest) and made Kaliandra (the mage) my only main. But I couldn't do that...I"m such a sucker that I couldn't deprive the guild of a healer, even when I was absolutely tired of playing her that I could scream. Oh well. That part of my life on Durotan is over now. Now I get to play whichever toon "I" want to play. Aspire bit the dust last month, in advance of the expansion coming out. Basically, 40-man raiding forces are going to be a thing of the past, in about 13 days. THANK GOD! At that point, I will have a lvl 60 priest, mage and hopefully warrior ready and waiting to go into the new instances and get uber plewtz and pwn some face in there...we'll see.

Until next time, happy hunting!

Scarlet Monastery

So there we were, my husband and me, lvl 60 mages of Durotan, with our newb friend. Everyone knows what that means...Power Leveling. And this friend is lvl 30...which means SM. We enter the Library, and 15 minutes later, Arcanist Doan is dead. From there we go to the Armory. 15-20 minutes later, Herod is dead. Then comes the Cathedral. The creme de la creme of the Scarlet Monastery. Oh, the lewtz from Mograine and his lady friend! Our lvl (now) 31 friend got the chapeau and some new gloves from the Cath. He also almost got pwned by a pat. It was hilarious. He was like 20 yards from the mob....and he gets aggro...Welcome to Scarlet Monastery!!! So Mazraimtaim (hubby) and Kaliandra (me) had to save some newb butt...it was fun. Not to mention we made 4g even with the newb with us. A very profitable run, all in all. Not to mention, the newb friend thinks we are GODS!!! Worship the mage!

Played from Launch

Anyone who has ever played an online game knows about World of Warcraft. At least, they should. When World of Warcraft came out less than 2 years ago, I was still playing LIneage 2 (GAH) and reminiscing about EverQuest. I met my husband on EQ, actually, so that game will always be special to me. But I digress. We (my husband and I) decided that we were going to try World of Warcraft. We started out with one account and one computer. Big mistake! Once we had each had a taste of the game, there was great wailing and gnashing of teeth when one wanted to play and the other was on the game...solution! Buy a new computer and a new account. So we did, and have been playing side by side ever since. We farm together and exp together and group together. It's awesome. We have characters on Durotan, the original server from day 1. We have made many online friends since we have played this game. Yeah, yeah, I know that they are "virtual" and could be completely different than what I think they are, but dammit we have fun! My husband and I consider ourselves very lucky that we both have a passion for online gaming. A lot of couples have the game come between them, whereas our gaming has given us something to do where we can spend time together. Please Post away here guys. I love talking about the game and the mechanics that I know. I'm a kick ass priest and not a bad mage either, in the game. I would love to talk to people who don't think I'm a freak for loving online gaming.