| Alliance |
| Pallanen |
Dual Spec.: Arms/Protection Guild: Club de Jolie Filles Profession #1: Grand Master Blacksmith/Weaponsmith/Master Swordsmith 450/450 Profession #2: Mining 450/450
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| Sairalinde |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Leatherworking 275/375 Profession #2: Skinning 450/450
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| Jaelle |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Alchemy 290/300 Profession #2: Herbalism 291/300
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| Merenwen |
Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Enchanting 352/375 Profession #2: Tailoring 350/375
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| Miriel |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Mining 316/375 Profession #2: Engineering 100/150
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| Earanel |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Leatherworking 67/75 Profession #2: Skinning 133/150
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| Granuaile |
 Guild: Club de Jolies Filles Profession #1: Blacksmith 300/300 Profession #2: Mining 289/300
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| Horde |
Rubacuori |
 Guild: Club de Joiles Filles Profession #1: Herbalism 111/150 Profession #2: Alchemy 93/150
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| Ki'Leanna |
 Guild: Club de Joiles Filles Profession #1: Mining 450/450 Profession #2: Enchanting 340/375
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| To Dungeon Or Not To Dungeon? |
| Tuesday, February 3, 2009 |
This post is actually an answer to Ian's question from my previous post. I tried to answer his question in a nice short and sweet manner but somehow that never works for me... well, I should say usually doesn't work with me. Sometimes I manage it. Normally I don't. :)
Referring to my point about Pallanen not finding any gear upgrades from 70 to 80, the question was simply "Have you run no dungeons?"
Ths simple answer is "Nope, not with Pallanen nor with Ki'Leana."
Now for the not-so-simple answer.... lol
Why? For several reasons. First, I was pretty bent on leveling to 80 and never took time to do any of the Dungeons in the new game. Both Ki and Pally have a long list of quests in various Northrend Dungeons still in their quest logs. (Ki has 17 of them. I counted.)
The second reason is different for both girls.
For Pallanen the reason is basically that she no longer has a Guild to run with. As I documented a few months ago, Pally was in a great Guild that ran Kara almost every night. I was very active with them. Pally did a lot of Tanking and DPS with the old Guild. Kara became very familiar.
But after the demise of the Guild I added Pallanen to my personal Guild just to keep all the hounds out there from throwing up Guild invites in my face. That is so annoying. My personal Guild isn't a real Guild per se. It's just a place to hide my alts and my bff's alts. We don't have a bank or anything but I did make a nice Tabard. :)
Also, I have learned my lesson with PUGs. I stay clear of them. They rarely work out well. So Pallanen has basically been without the means to do Dungeons. Recently several of my old Guildies have asked me to come and Raid with them. I may do that. We'll see.
As for Ki'Leana, other than the big rush to get to 80, I haven't done Dungeons because her Guild kind of sucks. The people can be kind of rude. They seem more concerned with the gear they can get and nothing else. More concerned with what the group can benefit for them, not what the group goal is supposed to be. Even if a drop is a very minor upgrade and for someone else it is a huge upgrade, the needy person doesn't always get the drop. Their system, to my way of thinking, keeps the balance askew.
They have so many rules to raiding with them too, including some kind of dues system (which I haven't bothered to read up on yet). They went and made me/Ki'Leana a class leader even before Ki was 75. Then they set all these rules down that I was supposed to follow/enforce. It is silly to me. It is a game and I think some of them lose sight of that. It's supposed to be fun, not some hardcore slave-driving gang thing.
The bottom line is, it's just not fun to Raid with uber-hardcore players.
Now, these are generalizations and usually generalizations aren't fair. I get that. But for the most part, it's the truth. If the truth offends someone, so be it.
With that being said, there are several Guildies that are pretty OK. Some are 80 and OK to play with. There are some that haven't made it to 80 yet that don't seem so bad. I have taken Ki'Leana into lower level Dungeons and helped some of the lower level ones out. Usually somewhere in Outland. Most recently the Arcatraz. So not all of them are dorks. Just the ones who think they are god's gift to WoW. (And I'm sure if they read this they know I'm talking about them. :P)
The final part to this answer is simply that I don't think Dungeons and/or Raiding are much fun. They are time consuming and usually fruitless since so many others need gear too. Doing a raid 10 times and getting maybe 1 nice item is silly to me. That is a lot of game time wasted in my mind.
Now, if I could get into a group that wanted to actually Raid in order to kill every Boss in the game, up to and especially including the Lich King, then I would maybe take it more seriously. But neither of my level 80 girls have that kind of group available to them. Ki'Leanas Guild talks like that is the way they want to go but so far, I have my doubts.
So thats my take on it all. To Dungeon Or Not To Dungeon? That is the question..... I don't really have a good answer to it for myself. So I will PVP and Blacksmith for gear and hope some cool Guild comes along like my old one. Then who knows where it will lead?
So Ian, the answer to your question is easy. No Dungeons so far for my big girls. |
posted by Jen @ 12:08 PM  |
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Name: Jen
Home: Pennsylvania, United States
About Me: I started playing WoW after my best friend bugged me to play. I soon learned that I really liked it. Now 2 years later I still play and have 20 characters. LOL I am no gaming expert. I am no WoW expert. A lot of the terms and "how to do's" elude me still. But I love to play. All you will find here are the adventures of Pallanen and her sisters. I love them all and they really kick butt. So stay tuned and maybe we can learn stuff from each other that we never knew. xoxo
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