Snowflake Can't Heal!

My sweet little Mistweaver took a little detour into a BG tonight. Purely by accident, because I promised myself to level her in PvE. She just tripped and fell into the BG, honestly! Now with my lil gnomie, I levelled in BG's because I did not enjoy dungeons. Mainly due to the shouting when I was all new to it. And how the tables have turned! Now in dungeons, I get people being all nice to me, even if I bugger up a little and in PvP I got raged at! With swear words and everything! He even did say the f word once. I got called a shitty healer by a rogue who ran past me and needed heals apparently. By whisper! No one whispers in BG's. Be a normal PvP'er and complain in /i about all the nubs and we can all just ignore it and carry on what we're doing. I haven't got time to respond to whispers. I was all busy concentrating on the multiple targets and trying to keep myself alive and being all "arrrrghhh, what is happening? Who needs healing!", and swearing loudly, to know that one rogue was running past me in need of heals. I only bloody had this char just over a week and it's at 53. Long story short...f**k PvP healing. He forgot I healed him while he did a flag run, and as a side note...highest healing in that BG *wink*. It's just not fun getting smashed by all the horde in the world and having to make sure I don't miss anyone when handing out green misty awesomeness. So my lil gnomie will become full PvP and my curvy (not fat) panda can do the PvE stuff. Or at least that's the plan...

Also, this week I fell off the big tree in Teldrassil. There are no words to describe just how bad that was. I only took a look over the edge to see if the boat was that way and then there I was, falling fooooorrrreeeever. Ask the dwarf how many curse words were spoken during that fall. Personal record.

Welcome, Snowflake

My lil gnomie is broken. Her DPS has dropped and I know not why, only that she's frustrating me at the moment. So I decided to have a lil break from her and try something completely different. Welcome, Xuehua. Or Snowflake, as she's affectionately known. 

First flag run!

This is Xuehua, version 3. I've tried her a few times now, but this time she's here to stay! I just have to get used to healing instead of pew pewing. Which is proving to be a bit of a problem thus far. Still, plenty of time to get used to her! In true nub style, I already made some super special mistakes. Like in the start quests, going for that one last sprite next to the edge of a cliff and clicking roll instead of blackout kick... Straight off the edge and thanks to the panda Bouncy racial, didn't die. Nice achievement but I had to Hearthstone to get back up and ended up in the Panda starting spot. 15 minutes of running and getting lost to get back to the quest! Not a fan of running....as you can see from my Panda's fat belly!

Things I learned from Rafiki

Isn't the Lion King a great film? I haven't watched it for a long time, since my lil one is not so lil now and prefers grown up movies to Disney. But the Lion King is such a wonderful story. My favourite part of the movie is this:

Wise old monkey, no? My second favourite part of the story is Pumba's gas in Hakuna Matata but that's less important...

I Need Help!

Stone Dragons Guild

I was sent here by my good friend, Icklegem. She told me you guys were the people to come to for help. I need a few of you to help me to find my crazy, old grandma. She's been missing a few days now. The last that anyone heard she had gone to Karazhan to find a ring that was stolen from her. No one has heard anything since and I am very, very worried. We have had trouble from the Big Bad Wolf in the past and I fear he might have gone there after her. She's pretty senile now and easily confused, so she might be easily tricked by him.

I am too afraid to go there alone. Especially around this time of year. I hear that it's a bad place. One tale tells of a huge dragon that once ate a gnome whole. It makes me very nervous. So please, meet me there if you can and help me find my dear old granny. I'll be waiting.

Little Red Riding Nub
(Grandma gave me the name, silly old bird)

Totally a Pink Goblin!

I got a new mog! A pretty, pink, girly, pirate mog. Yes, I have a wicked eye patch! But I really feel like I might have to get Visage of the Destroyer to complete the look. For now though, I'll have to manage with my Warpstaff of Arcanum. Until I can stop being lazy and do DS HC again.

And my awesomely cute living frost bolt. Poor elemental is feeling a little left out now I have an Ominous Flame by my side at all times. Because it's just the best mage pet ever! A perfect match for my Frostfire Bolt. I'm not a pet collector, but I just had to have this one. Even though he gets in my face all the time. Seriously, I'm trying to concentrate and not stand in crap and there he is, in front of me, trying to stare me out. And oh! My Jademist Dancer to match my PvP mog! The two prettiest pets EVAH! I know, I'm such a girl...

Me and mah new bff! Gnome sized pet ftw!

I think Elemental is really mad. He turned his back on us and refused a screenie. Not a word about the staff...(certain dwarf I know)

Let the PvP Begin!

I...I was in a winning battleground tonight. I can't even speak right now, I'm so surprised. I'd like to thank the priest healing and the druid flag carrying. Also, special mention goes to the Undead DK who I spent as much spare time as I could on. Mainly to make him penguin and giggle at him, after he and his friends (3 of them) nuked me, then laughed at my poor lil ungeared gnomie. I got creative. Penguin from the room, penguin from invisible, penguin from a doorway. And a little giggle following each. He did do a /spit on me in the end. Achievement earned! Warsong Gulch Victory and piss off a DK. I missed PvP so much! MOAR PvP TIME!

Timeless Isle: Pretty But Dull

Well, we got the new patch. And I love how Timeless Isle looks. But I'm avoiding it like the plague. It's just way too crowded to even consider doing anything there at the moment. Aside from the epic lag, tagging anything to kill is a nightmare. So, I've been busy doing other things. Like pet battles. So I could have all the pets I sent back from my old account. There was one giant fail though. After spending 3 days solid levelling a Hyjal Bear Cub that was on loan, I sent it back to it's owner before I put my own level 25's into my journal. So, I had to go find a Pandaria pet and level that to 25 instead. Which was a massive pain in the butt. I'm sure we all know the awesomeness of Hyjal Bear Cub (or Pooh Bear). Bandicoons just don't compare. Cue lots of pet deaths and crying over my tea. I got there in the end though and now I have my super cute pets back with me!

While I was in the mood for all things pets, I heard tales of a Timeless Isle pet. This evening I went back. Ice Lanced a Highland Albatross and flew around in it's mouth for a while.

The flight is long and uncomfortable. 4 minutes or so to get there, then kill the Albatross and Slow Fall into the lake. That worked well the first two times. However, shortly before I decided to write this entry, something ridiculous happened that had me screaming at the screen until I rage quitted the game for the evening. I was happily flying in the Albatross' mouth, reading some guides and plotting my farming/RF/PvP plans for the next week, when the lake was in sight. I started to kill the Albatross, when this happened:

Don't think so, Pedro. I'll kill you too. 

I almost killed the first, when another plucked me out of it's mouth and started to carry me away. So, I thought, ok, lets kill this one too. Then this happened:

Hey! Put me down! I call shenanigans!

See the Albatross behind mine? This one pulled me out of the clutches of the one I was in and tried to carry me away. This happened 4 times in total. By which time I was so enraged that I rage quit, mid air. Is this a common occurance? Or does this crap only happen to me? A bloody Albatross relay race, using me as the baton! Anyone giggling, shhh :P I will go back, but for the moment it isn't safe for my PC screen for me to go.

Oh, and Little Tommy, all sweet and 'come and battle me'. Screw you, and your Lil Oondasta too. You troll. Proper fell for that one didn't I. Remember, kids. Read some guides before accepting pet battles from a not so sweet little boy and his big ass dinosaur.

Stronger, Harder, Better, Faster

I have been a busy little gnome lately. Busy with many things to prepare for the new patch. Which is today! /cheer! Being the organised little gnome I am, I even worked from a list on the things I needed to do. The list was almost completed, even though it was a bit ambitious. But I've put all my efforts into being ready. Ready to kick ass on Timeless Isle!

I'm also a business gnomie now. I have a few friends who have become enablers for my AH addiction. If I don't AH or PvP for so long, I begin to suffer withdrawl symptoms. Sweats, shakes, increased rage that can only be cured by extreme PvP sessions... I like to kill hordies and make goldsies.

I had got to an impasse a few weeks ago, where I didn't really know what to do with myself ingame. This has been cured thanks to two friends in particular, who gave me the hugest surprise ever. One that they worked very, very, hard to make possible. The best part of the surprise was that they have given me a new drive for things in game. As mentioned above, I like to PvP and AH and that's really about it....before now. But now I find myself doing things that I previously wasn't too interested in. Like titles, achievements and collecting pets. My 'stupid o'clock' sessions have been filled with hunting rares and I almost have the 'Glorious' achievement now. It's given me a great sense of satisfaction to find a rare on the list that I didn't have, sad though that may sound! And I'm exclusively PvE at the moment, although I hope to PvP in the new patch. And as soon as I'm geared up in this patch, I will be going after some of the old achievements. Loremaster is on my list, though it will take forever! I'm looking forward to it though, to explore all the areas that I missed the first time around. Which is most places, as I levelled through PvP. And I'm a lazy mage. So, really what they gave me is a gift that just keeps on giving. And for that, I am very thankful. To have such considerate and thoughtful friends.

Slutty Dwarf! I call it!

Time for patch 5.4, right now! Till later!

Kodak moments: Part 3

Here is a collection of things that have amused me lately:

I spent a lot of time fishing for the Tiny Carp. After fishing up two Tiny Red Carp in less than an hour, plus the Squirtle mount, otherwise known as Sea Turtle, I decided to make a goal of fishing up all the others. I made 40 Ironpaw tokens from spending that long doing it, which I promptly spent on the Flippable Table. For rage filled moments like these:

Eat your heart out, Gordon Ramsey!

Shrine gatherings:

Sons of Anarchy, Pandaren Chapter

Making Golds in Goldshire...or just making people throw up:

C'mon! Everyone wants to see a gnome in bunny ears dance on a bannister in a bar? Right?

Fishing next to a Tauren?? 

I smell burgers! Quick, get the BBQ out!

More to follow soon. As soon as I sort out the million planking screenies! And soon I hope to document a very special guild event...

Hello there, Strangers

Hello there! Remember me? It's been a while since I was here. Things have been very busy. Lots of things have happened since my last post! I levelled up to the grand old age of 32! I know, so old. My guild friends gave me the most awesome gifts and party ever! Killing Horde at Shrine of the Two Moons? Genius idea! Lots of deaths ensued, mainly mine, but lots of fun! Just the best party anyone could think of for me!

I tried my hand at raiding, though sadly, still a nub! I'm hoping though to try some more before the new patch drops. Once I figure out my DPS rotation. Frost Bomb apparently is no good but I just cannot get used to using Living Bomb. It just doesn't feel right. And I totally buggered up my reforge. So now I do a lot less DPS and I still stand in bad shit. I was going to get the GTFO addon yesterday but I consider it part of my charm, though many I'm sure would disagree.

My favourite thing to do lately are the Barrens quests. They remind me a lot of Stonehearth for the big, fast spawning mobs. And with the help of my little Lock bro, we can kill huuuuge mobs. Which is very satisfying indeed. Farming and Valor? Suits me fine and helps me actually cap my valor per week (which neeeever happened before!). I'm currently farming and saving mats for when the next patch drops, so this goes a long way towards my tailoring and enchanting.

I finally got all 20 Secrets of the Empire and started the next stage of the quest. The solo scenario on Isle of Conquest. Which led to much frustration and comedy rants. As follows:

"This time I'll do it...Ok, I can do this...what the f**k, no, no, stop hitting me! Celestial Guardian, why do you let them hit me?? Noooooooo, don't kill the Blacksmith!!!"

Each wipe, there was a Skype mute to rant and curse, take a deep breath and try again. This continued for about an hour. And then I left the Scenario in a rage. Called Wrathion every bad name I could muster and drank tea until I calmed. Thanks to a few words of advice, I calmed down enough to do it from start to finish in one go! Now to farm those bloody runes...

Part of going to my 'happy place' is being able to plank, post stressful situation

And to my friends who are currently in NL on holiday, hope your time is wonderful! I am still utterly, utterly jealous! Especially of the Swedish cake!

Achievement Earned: Mog Trolling

I've been looking for a PvE mog for a while. I love my black mog, like my lil Gnomish brother's. But I wanted a change. Something similar to my PvP mog. I called upon my stylist, the Dwarf for help. We spent a very long time deliberating, but in the end couldn't decide between a red mog, or a purple and white one. I will be switching to Arcane again soon for PvE, so I felt like the purple would go nicely with my spells. A few nights later I got the pieces for that kit, when I was unable to sleep and decided that was a definite. But here I decided to have a lil fun. My stylist is very, very into mogs and will not be seen with me if my cape doesn't quite match, or I haven't been to mog my new boots etc. He can't stand it. So I decided to put together the most hideous collection of items to troll him. Every piece was mismatching, slutty, or just wrong on a gnome. Then before we started ICC I unveiled my new look. After talking in Guild chat about how my stylist influenced my choices so much and how thankful I was to have someone to help me make such awesome style choices. Then I showed him this in the most serious manner possible :

Slutty Gnome, I call it!

To screams of pain from my dwarven stylist! Mission accomplished! But here is my actual mog. Which I like very much!

Planking: ICC Edition

After a heavy battle with the Lich King, the only thing left to do is indulge in some planking. I'm not sure which was hardest. Killing the Lich King on 25 man Heroic or managing not to fall off the edge?

Many deaths later, Penthea and I managed this shot. Yay!

Poll: Are Gnomes Hated in Argent Dawn?

Again while doing the Barrens quests, this time as assistance, I got myself into trouble. We were killing the elites there when I saw some PvP flagged Horde. I saw a DK killing Ally players so I thought hmmmm, shall I kill it? The answer to this is always yes. Especially DK's. And especially since I had a lovely Priest healing me and equally as excited to kill some nasty, smelly Hordies. After he went down we spotted a belf Paladin also asking for a kicking. So we did. But it wasn't just me! There were more people hitting it. Sadly, it died. A few minutes later I got a whisper asking why the f**k I killed it. Then again, the same question. So I said, sorry bad aim. And then the abuse began. Some of my favourites:

I never hit you, why the f**k did you hit me?
I was f**king healing the group. Not my fault if some things hit you.
F**k off you stupid retarded gnome. No one likes gnomes on this realm anyway.

To much lolling from me. Exactly how butthurt do you have to be to log onto an Alliance alt to give someone abuse? The last one was my favourite. Swearing not working? Tell someone their race is hated on this realm. Awww, someone please give this Belf a /hug. He must have really felt it.

But I beg to differ. Aside from a few jokes, I get a lot of love on AD. Usually nice, sometimes a bit scary. But still, I haven't found anyone that really hates me because I'm a gnome yet. Except this guy. But it has made me curious. Was he talking fact, or just from his butt? I know I like gnomes. So, ner ner /rude.

Sightseeing in Orgrimmar

It's been a while since I went to Orgrimmar. I briefly popped there to sing carols at Christmas and to land a fish once but I haven't walked around there sinc my days as a Belf. And even then I hated it with a passion. Now though, I get the feeling they don't want a gnome in there. Might be all the guards that rush me when I do visit. I don't know...

I've been doing the Barrens quests (which I love, by the way) weekly for the 200 valor. Sometimes I have to take the dwarf with me. He comes in really handy for taking the damage and flying me around. Because I really am too lazy to fly. It's great. We have lots of fun while we kill orcs and collect various materials. Unless the dwarf is in full troll mode. Post mission, we did a little sightseeing. With what I thought was a fly over Orgrimmar. Until I was dropped on a roof. I sat there happily chatting away until I heard him do a count down. I am such a foolish lil gnome that I didn't realise that the countdown was for the flying guards headed my way. They landed, 3 of them, and I killed them dead. All the way dead. And /roar over their dead bodies. Then I hopped back on my dwarvish friend for what I thought was a flight out of there. Until I heard: "no, I shouldn't do it. That would be mean". So like an idiot I said go ahead and do it. It can't be that bad, right? It was. He dropped me in the Trade District, PvP flagged, where every horde (or so it felt like) in Orgrimmar descended upon me. I was fast getting my butt kicked when I shouted out for heals and help. It was then I learned about bubble hearth. He was sat in Shrine, giggling while I was getting the crap beat out of me! I died fast. Very fast. It took me 3 deaths to get out of Orgrimmar. Lots of swearing and cursing. I had to jump into Southfury river because instead of running back through the gates I panicked and ran further into Orgrimmar and managed to pull every guard there. And that was after running from Durotar every death. Then when I finally got away and back to Pandaland, he dropped me in the Horde Shrine while I was looking away from the PC. Sigh, I'll never learn. But I have to admit, although I was swearing a lot I had a lot of fun. I like a challenge. Even if I get my ass kicked all the way back to Gnomeregan!


But if the dwarf thinks he has escaped punishment, then he is wrong. So very wrong. It's coming. I just have to find something suitably evil, mwuhuhaha

Late Night Conversations With My Mini-Me

My daughter plays WoW. While she's not always sure on everything she's doing, she's quite happy to set up a Sha group, go to RF alone or pew pew Oondasta. Which is awesome for a small one. But the two best things about her playing are the way she shouts at the screen when she's in a BG and conversations we randomly have when she gets up late at night. I was stood in Shrine, watching some mages on the dummies while I was chatting to one of my friends. Little one comes down for a drink, sees this and conversation goes as follows, in the most serious tone I've ever heard from her:

Awww mum, I'm such a duggie!!

Obviously, but why this time?

You know those things (dummies). Well I tried to kill one one day. I proper tried to kill it. Used all my spells and everything!

Really? 

Oh yeah, I was stood there for like 20 mins trying to kill it. Until I realised they don't die. Did a massive facepalm then RP walked away.

Cue a major giggle fit from the pair of us. Nice work, small one. Tried to kill a dummy? Yep, she's definitely my child! Death to all dummies!! 

Whooo, I'm Awesome!

There's been some tough times here in Gnome Towers lately. But thankfully, I have some good friends to turn to for support and to cheer me up when I'm down. Last night I heard THE best impression anyone has ever done of me. I almost passed out from laughing. Using Ai-Li's Skymirror to turn into me, my dwarfish friend did a vent run through of my most commonly used phrases, in the most high pitched voice you ever heard. Highlights include:

• Look at me, I'm AnyaRose. I'm awesome!
• Lalala I'm in the AH/bank/Trade District
• Squeee!
• *Giggle, giggle, giggle, giggle*
• I'm killing hordies! 
• Slutty Draenei/Belf/Human, I call it! 
• Duggie!
• Whooo look at me, I'm awesome! (I do say that a LOT, but I'm a gnome. It's allowed)
• I'm gonna faceplant this keyboard so hard soon if I don't sleep
• Oh, I am totally gonna do that!
• Whatevah
• True story! Fact even!

There were many more that I can't remember now. But one thing is for sure. If that's how I talk, I must be a real pain in the ass in vent! I totally overuse the word totally! My Yorkshire is getting a little stronger lately, making me incomprehensible at times. I know, it'll pass when I'm less tired and stressed. Then I can go back to being a giggly lil trolling gnome. Or get serious and ready for raiding!

Huge thank you! 

Serious Gnome is Serious!

Yes, it's happening. No more shall I be all 'lalala, I'm a gnome and I'm awesome'. I'm going to be all serious gnome from now on! I'm in training to be raid ready in a few weeks. Cue epic montage music, clips of gnome press-ups and running till I'm all sweaty. In my mind...

So, I need to get my ilvl up to 500 to try to raid. Tonight I managed to replace my 476 gloves with the sparkly, Flameweaver Handwraps by getting Honored with Shadowpan Assault. I was only a teeny bit away, so one part of ToT RF got me there. In that RF run I dropped two pieces of loot. Because it seems I'm quite lucky on the loot drops! Or not. I dropped 2 chest pieces. And then this little rant happened (disclaimer: it's a foul mouthed Yorkshire accented rant about two octaves lower than my normal voice):

"Two Chest pieces, Blizzard. Two f**king chest pieces! Are you f**king kidding me. You absolute f**king shitheads! Why the f**k would I need two f**king chest pieces??? Argggh, I hate you!!!"

Then I drank tea and made silk while I shed a tear for my lost coins.

Now this is a common theme in my loot drops. I drop loot nearly every time I go somewhere, RF, Sha etc. But it's always the same stuff. When I use a coin I get exactly the same item as I looted or something very similar. Waste of coins, and makes me lose my calm, gnomish mind completely. Thankfully, I was out of vent and had no one around to hear me sound like Gordon 'F**king' Ramsey. I know I'm not alone on this. But seriously, I'm trying to stop cursing, Blizzard. So why do you make it so hard for me?

But I'm up to 496 now in just over an hour. Now to get the golds to buy the Haunting Spirits I need to make a 522 headpiece and hopefully some new shoes. Only need about 100k. Easy... *makes more tea*. Hopefully some shinies might drop before then. Hopefully. More than likely another chest piece.

Hyjal Bear Cub! I Choose You!

Now, I've tried pet battles in the past and not enjoyed it. But tonight I decided to have a proper go. I had a few pets at level 10 that were gifted to me, so I thought, why not! I did some random battles to level up fast. Flew to the right areas, caught a few rares, then decided to do the quests for the achievement. And here is where I met Lindsay (I know, I know, I'm late to the party!). So very cute, with her lil bunnies! Did I feel bad about slaughtering them and making her cry? No. Not in the slightest. In fact I took great pleasure in setting my much higher level Hyjal Bear Cub loose to savage her bunnies. Now I'm coming for the rest of you pet trainers! And I'll slaughter all your pets!!!! Except the higher level ones. I'll leave those for a bit. Just to give time them to be trained of course ;)

Tron Party!

On Sunday, my lil one (or not so lil now) levelled up to 12! We had a quiet day, in readiness for the birthday girl's Laser Tag event last night. Which was an epic idea! Even though 3 games nigh on killed me. Nothing like chasing round a bunch of kids for two hours to prove how unfit you are! So with eight 10-12 year olds (almost all taller than me), a ton of UV paint and ninja transmogs on, off we went.

We painted up ready for battle and this was the result,. Which looked awesome under the UV lights but got us some funny looks in daylight:

Releasing my inner drag queen

Easy targets ;)

Now, first game we were all together as a team. Against a bunch of 6 year olds. Which was awkward. None of us wanted to make them cry. Until that is, one little angelic boy walked up to me and said, "don't shoot! My pack isn't working!" So, I was all awww, let me take a look. Then he shot me, laughed and ran off. To shouts from me of, "you better hide! You're going down, Steel!!!!" Tricky little bugger! So, from then it was game on. Instead of my usual trick of staying high and sniping them down, I went for bases and took two, that were guarded by lazy adults hiding from kids. I took 44 hits...most of them from Steel doing his midget Terminator impression. But we won the first game and the second.

To even things up, we changed the teams around so there was a mix of tiny people and tall people. And everyone was painted with the left over UV paint. Which made targetting a bit harder. I immediately gained a new arena partner. I got a pull on the back of my shirt from a little gnome...erm I mean boy... who wanted to come with me. Together we formed an unstoppable team. He would trick them with cuteness while I shot them from behind a wall, or I would go out as bait and cover with laser fire while he ran to a new spot to get the best shots at a bunch of girls hiding together. Cue high (or low, in our case) five's and air punches! We threw in a bit of comedy dramatic falls to the floor as we got shot and laughed in the faces of people we took down. Epic teamwork! 

The evening was a lot of fun that all enjoyed. Even though it took me 8 hours sleep to get over, and am left with aching muscles that I didn't know I had.

Hands Off My Mog!

I finally find a nice mog, that I haven't seen on anyone else and look what happens!

Danaerys Targaryan, find your own bloody mogs! Also, the Iron Throne is mine. My Elemental would easily kick your dragons' butts. Easily. Let this be a warning...

50 Ways To Say Goodbye...

I have THE new most favouritist thing EVAH! My little, accidentally evil (messed with dark magicks...sigh), gnome brother showed me a drop that I absolutely love. I shouldn't really enjoy it so much, but I do. I can kill myself every 30 minutes with Ra'Sha's Sacrificial Dagger. So, instead of using it to do something sensible like killing myself to avoid repair costs, I'm going to off myself as often as possible. Drop a pair of legs that I already have, then use a coin on Sha of Anger and get another pair of the same will no longer end in a rage. I'll just kill myself in protest. Go to SW Cathedral with a plague and dramatically die on the steps. Throw myself of something high and explode after I hit the floor... the possibilities are endless.

3 days later...

I have so far killed myself by the following methods: I went to the steps of SW Cathedral and committed suicide because I was so embarrassed at marking myself as a target in HoF RF, instead of the thing we needed to kill. I brought the plague here also. I coughed blood all over myself and a few other people and started an epic, epic RP story. With people panicking about a new plague after my lil gnome brother and a beautiful priestess also died in a similar way. The people of SW kindly burned my body and said some nice words for us and then carried on the story. But my favourite was this:

Poor dead gnome on a parachute

You can dismount from a great height, use the dagger and a parachute will gently carry your dead body to earth.

I'm easily pleased, I know.

Late Night PvP Is Baaaad!

Tonight I indulged in some late night PvP with a few beers. Friday night is usually reserved for RF runs with guildie friends but tonight I got called into work because all of my village decided to descend upon the restaurant. By the time I managed to get out and get home and dried off, (serious blizzards in the UK. Which was awesome. I walked into the house looking like a snow gnomie), it was waaay too late to start anything. I didn't manage to log into WoW until 11.45pm by which time most people had gone offline. So, it was just me pottering about looking for something to do. I'm usually super hyper after a busy shift, so there was no chance of sleep and no one to have fun with. I decided I would go retro and put some music on, grab a beer and go BG for a while. This was not a great idea. Post 1am seems to be a bad time for Alliance PvP. It's full of whiney babies!

"Blah blah, F**king losers"

"wah, wah, wah, why can't Ally PvP?"

(I'm paraphrasing in the above statements :D)

This is why (in my opinion). Alliance PvP'ers spend too much time bitching, moaning, crying, telling other players how to play etc. When I was Horde it was nowhere near as bad. I had a discussion with an idiot who shouted in /s, "F**CKING DEEP FREEZE* at me. Kinda hard when you are sapped by one rogue, then by another straight away. But thank you for the advice, random crybaby. Maybe I was slow out of those two saps but I'm pretty sure there's no need for anyone to be a dick about it. We whispered for a little while. It wasn't pleasant. And every BG I went into it was the same. I didn't get any more abuse because I did pretty well in the others. I was fast, crazy on damage, but unfortunately we were playing against better teams. There were quite a few premade groups, which is never good. But there were also a few close games. Which people are so busy whining, that they don't see when we catch up and almost take it for Alliance.

My last game, though it was a loser ended on an epic feat from me. I took Stables in Arathi from a Shaman and a Druid while they were still alive, watching me do it. One cow in a penguin suit and the other in a deep freeze. With a Pet Freeze as they came out of those it gave me just enough time for me to finish capping the flag and then turn round and blast everything I had at them. They died. I think from shock. It was beautiful, it really was. And I did do /giggle at them. We lost by about 200 points (they did have 7 healers on their team though, so we didn't do too badly!) but I enjoyed my little naughty cap!

I really do prefer my arena now. And I think it has improved my play in both PvP and PvE. I am much faster and I'm thinking in advance what the next move will be or which target I need to change to, etc. I'm much more reactive now to things that are happening. I still need a lot of spit and polish, because I still do go running in, arms flailing, screaming sometimes. But I'm getting a little calmer now. And maybe one day I'll stop shouting, "YOU SHALL NOT PASS" when I freeze a ton of horde. Seriously, Frost Mages, stand at the top of the steps of Wildhammer Longhouse in Twin Peaks after your flag carrier has gone inside. Wait for the masses of horde to come your way, shield up, take a deep breath and stare them down. Then when they're in range freeze the crap out of them. Just keep freezing and watch their frustration. You probably will die when the freezes run out. But if you go all Gandalf on them, even for a few minutes, it's really the most fun you can have with your clothes on! Maybe I won't stop doing that... 

Hmmm, 3.40am. Should I go for another?

It Actually Exists!

I forgot all about this photo until I emptied my phone pictures into my PC. Gnome World! In the UK! I didn't go there though. Mainly for fear of never being able to leave... For Gnomeregan!!

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Adventures in Gnomieland

This is a very late post, I know. But last month I went on an adventure. A huuuuuge adventure. I travelled to another country all by my gnomie self! I went on a secret mission to a land far, far away. Well maybe not that far, but far for someone as small as me! I visited Holland! To see my guildie friends in RL. I was a complete surprise for them. Only 3 people knew (Party Tank, Mage Sister and Dwarf). And we planned it together secretly. I booked a flight, and even booked it wrong...return for in a month?? Sigh...I am not a clever gnomie sometimes. But I fixed it and got all excited! I was going to be a gnomie of the world! Flying to faraway lands, meeting people for the first time face to face. Tiny squeeeeee!

So, off I went. I levelled up in airports. In the smallest airport in the world. And I still managed to almost wee myself from panic. I am not a good flyer. I'm too small to be that high up. But I did it to meet my friends. Only had one cry before the flight, shortly before I had a beer at 4.45am. Oh yes I did! And then the flight was better. Everything is better with beer! But weird. Crossing a time zone is really odd in the early morning. Dark, then light...no twilight. But very fast. There in 1 hour! Schiphol airport is huge, and scary and huge. But all fancy and space agey. Maybe not, but for the untravelled gnomie it was. There I waited for the Dwarf to pick me up and make sure I didn't end up on a train to somewhere random like Germany. Here the panic set in. I know we all get on well in game but in RL would it be the same?

The panic was not needed. I saw the dwarf outside a cafe and thought, 'bloody hell, that is one tall dwarf!' I looked like a real life gnome stood next to him. We exchanged greetings and off we went for the train. Just like in game we happily chatted. About plans for the week and all the RL fun that we would have. And I got snow! My favourite thing in the world (except chocolate and Sean Bean) and I got it for my visit. And Dutch trains are awesome. They have an upstairs! We don't have that! Only double decker buses, but we hardly ever see those any more. It was a wonderful start to my trip. Now for the first few days I would be in hiding, so that I would be a total surprise for the Guild meetup. I was so in awe of the beautiful city I was staying in that it wasn't a problem. Seriously, in comparison to where I live it is gorgeous!. And not hearing English voices was a real treat. Working two jobs in customer service means that there's always someone that needs my attention. Not here though! No demanding customers to deal with, just peace and quiet. And everyone I met automatically switched into perfect English as soon as they heard my voice, happily. Kind of made me a little ashamed that we English don't make the effort to speak any other languages so well. I was lucky to have nice waiters, waitresses and shop assistants who were more than happy to help the silly, English gnomie! And my experience of Dwarvish hospitality was a great one. They're very tidy and pleasant to live with. Not like us gnomies who just throw things out of their case over their shoulders and leave all the lights on and doors open! The latter come back to bite me on the arse when I attempted not to wake anyone by going to the bathroom in the dark, very quietly, on my first night, and ended up head butting a door on my way back. Which ended up in loud swears...sigh.

The guild meetup came very fast. Before I knew it, it was time to meet everyone. I was to go to the restaurant before everyone else and wait for them to arrive. Rubedeus kindly rang the restaurant to tell them I was coming early and to seat me at the table. From here it became a bit like sitcom. The plan was that I would go on the bus before everyone else and sneak in. I am a brave gnomie, I wanted to go on the bus alone and be a big growed up girl, while my dwarf friend went to help another member of the party get to the restaurant. Only, I'm a terrible traveller. The bus driver said she would help me get off at the right stop. Only she kinda forgot. By that point I was hyperventilating because it was much further away than I thought and was frantically texting my friend. Then when I did get off I didn't check out of the bus properly with those fancy card thingies. So she chased me and brought me back to do it, in front of a bus load of people. /facepalm. Then I realised I had no clue where the restaurant was. So off I went looking, in my big  girl high heels (I don't get out much, so when I do I like to dress up. Even if no one else does!), getting some rather funny looks. I eventually found it and breathed a sigh of relief. Went up to the counter and asked for my table. The woman looked at me blankly and said "table of 1?" And I was all, "no, no, no. Blah, blah, blah...table of 9". And that's when I really panicked. She couldn't speak English. So, after almost passing out from panic, I got my brain together and rang my friend to speak to her. I could see her smiling and nodding and I thought, "yay, it's all fixed". Off I went into the restaurant, where she didn't sit me at a table, instead at the bar. So, I looked like like an overdressed loner. Though she did bring me spicy shrimp chips and a beer. Which quickly turned into 3 beers and an empty bowl. An old Chinese waiter came up to me and started chatting...in bloody English! He told me he lived in London in 1970. So, I told him the plan and asked him to help out. And he was in...or so I thought, until my friends arrived and spoke in English to them to tell them someone was waiting for them!! I spun round fast in my chair so no one would see me and waited for them to sit. It was here I decided to tell the group that I was here before he pointed me out! I went over and very politely asked if I could join their party and sit with them, to some very puzzled looks. Until I revealed my identity! It was all worth it. We had so much fun that evening. Food, drinks, RL trolling, giggles. The most fun ever. And lots of photographs and good conversations. Sadly, a few people couldn't make it but hopefully next time we will all be there! Afterwards we went back for a chat and arranged another meetup before I left. Hopefully, I wasn't too embarrassing with my loud giggles and window kissing!

Our next meetup was a lovely day out walking around the city. Here we got to star in a Dutch movie (which I cannot tell my dad or he'll never let me out of the country again! But don't worry folks, it wasn't THAT kind of movie!). It was quite odd. Go sit on a bench, then walk away. Errrrm ok...! Then I got a new house, played on a swing, ate half a sandwich in the slowest time ever, cupped a statue, got lifted up by girl 15 years younger than me, almost got pulled over with the world's largest bag on my back. True story, it was comedy from start to end. Met another guildie (who is also awesome)...ahhhh it was such a good time!

And then it was time to go home. And I was sad to leave. The flight home was nowhere near as exciting as the one there. Hopefully soon though, Guild Meetup: The Sequel will happen! But for now, I'll leave you with this picture... This was what I was doing when I was out of sight. Blowing up cows! Wheeeee!

All credit to my dwarvish friend. I think we've all seen my editing skills.

More Gnome Planking!

I am totally addicted to gnome planking now. I have to do it everywhere I can. And my guildie friends have found some excellent places!

Casually sits off the side of Kun Lai Summit

Don't look dooooooownnn

From the edge of a giant sword

Dual gnomie planking!

As if one planking gnomie isn't confusing enough, now there are two! Wheee

Arena Buddies For Life!

It's been a while since my last post. I've been crazy busy with work for the last few weeks. And I've been doing lots of things in WoW too! Busy little bee I have been! I'm squeezing this little post in on a break from doing work! But I have so much to say, I don't know where to start!

I'm doing arena's again! With my shiny new Dwarf Paladin arena partner! Who very kindly offered to go with me so I could gear up faster than at a snail pace in BG's. And we are awesome! Aside from the fact that we are incredibly handsome, witty and have the most beautiful outfits, we also kick ass! Who says Dwarfs and Gnomes can't be friends? I hit my conquest cap for the first time ever last week. And spent it all on new a Malevolent robe, which I will mog into my most favourite transmog EVAH! (More on that later!). Still struggling with a few classes though. Especially BM Hunters and Disco Priests. The look of horror on my face when all those beasties pop out, I'm sure would amuse many. I get confused, panic, the whole works. I duelled my friend's Hunter for practice and got my ass squarely kicked. But last night, we faced 2 of the swines in an arena and decided enough was enough! We nuked them into the floor with speed and precision. Ok, that's a lie (from my side anyway)...I just hit every button I had and hoped for the best! But it worked, they died and everyone was happy. Take that, BM Hunters! Priests, still have no clue with but I'm sure someone would be kind enough to let me practice on them soon, maybe? I'm enjoying these arena's sooo much, it's all I want to do. All the time! Impatient lil gnomie is impatient. MOAR ARENAS!!

I've also been RP'ing a little, with my gnome brother and our Paladin protector. Well, I say protector but so far he managed to almost get me in a duel with a fully PVP geared Holy Paladin. I mean, maybe I started it after the Holy Pala said he wanted to put me in a bag because I was cute and he was rude to my girls. And I got mad and threatened all kinds of gnomish evil. Ankle biting, the lot! But my Paladin friend totally encouraged a duel. I was up for it, after doing a quick inspect, until the bastard popped his other gear on. I thought, 'oooh, pretty mog', then did an inspect, then almost had a bladder accident. Full purple PvP gear?? I've never backed up so fast in my life. Especially when his equally geared Guild friends came too. The whispers I was getting were very amusing. I seem to drop into a lot of random RP encounters lately. And I'm rather enjoying them! Hugs from other gnomies, arguments with gnomie haters, even a little bit in a BG. Not too much though. Too busy killing or being killed to talk in BG's!

And the Squeeegnomie is no more, sadly. Until Winterveil comes round again. If I summon her, she gets angry, then disappears. But if I keep her summoned she reappears every time I get off my mount or go to a new area. And every time, she sounds angrier! So I like to do that a lot!

Squeegnomie, that's EXACTLY what I do all year and you know it.

She's such a cute little ball of rage. But now I have a new favourite! Introducing...

Baby Lei Shi!!!

Isn't she the sweetest?? My favourite boss ever and now I have the baby version!! I just want to play hide and seek all day with her. I keep poking her so she makes those adorable noises *dies*. And she matches my Elemental and transmog perfectly! By the way, isn't my new PvP transmog beeeeauttiful?? I feel like a grown up, pretty gnomie when I'm dealing out frosty death to Hordies now! My favourite transmog yet. And I did go get all the pieces, like a good gnomie, instead of just buying them *nods*, yes I did!

But for now I must get back to work, so I'm finished in time for Friday night RF with my guildie friends. Just to confirm, I will be having a drink this evening before the mother-in-law descends on us for 3 days. So apologies to all in advance. I may stand in every death pool, or blindly run around, or just giggle a ton. But it will be fun, I hope!

Bye bye!

Gnomie Guide to Brawling

I finally got into the Brawler's Guild thanks to one of my kind guildie friends! So far, I have gotten to Ixx. Not without much frustration though. It was suggested to me that I might not be the best person for this content. Presumably because I stand in bad stuff and don't take so well to tactics. So, being the stubborn little gnomie that I am I decided to go at it as hard as I could. After spending an entire conversation pretending something was in my eye and rubbing it with my middle finger, all the while making it look like I was paying attention.

The first 9 bosses I took down pretty easily. Except for Dippy the penguin, ironically. He caused my first death. But that was because I didn't want to kill him! Why would you force me to kill him, Blizzard? Why? You sick puppies! The first boss that gave me real trouble was Sanoriak (or, as I call him, the big fiery bastard). He caused me a ton of frustration and lots of swears. I think I might hold the record for the most time anyone could say 'shit' in a few seconds. I hate him. A lot. I'd say how many times he killed me but I'm trying to look good here, ok! Ixx has taken me down twice now, but I almost got him on the last time, so hopefully he won't have me wanting to tear the monitor from the desk and throw it out of the window. I have to kill other gnomies too, I hear. I think this is going to take me a lot longer than I expected...

The best advice I could give is to not panic. This has led to almost everyone of my deaths (except for when I just stood and got nuked in a second). I forget that I have Time Warp, Alter Time and virtually every other mage ability when this happens. I see my Elemental die or hear the bleep that I have low health and I panic really bad. Then die. Don't do that! Also, the Icy Veins Brawler's Guild Guide is fantastic for knowing what you're up against. It's saved countless deaths for me and hopefully many more. Get in groups with other players and remember to buff up. Or if you're me, totally forget and have to be reminded.

All in all, Brawler's is a lot of fun, frustrating though it is. I'm so glad I got my invite and hopefully soon will be able to pass my invite on. Before next expansion anyway!

Gnome Planking: Stormwind Edition

Spidergnomie has been out again. It seems gnomies can plank off pretty much everything. It doesn't work for humans and Nelfs (tested) so it could just be gnomie magic...*poof* More proof of the awesomeness that is Gnomes! All gnomies must try sometime! From silly places! I know I will be trying it everywhere. Suggestions please!

Aerial proof of my magical abilities!

Just sitting in mid air...because I can!

Total accident from mount fail...but I just had to! From the Trade District Bank roof.

From a fountain?

Batman Style!

Oh Oh Oh, Where did I go?

Kodak Moments: Part 2

A few random screenie wins!

New Years Eve dancing party in Goldshire! Because, well, some of us were RL drunk! (hic!)

Can we hugz your legs? And confuse you with our Polar Bear pets? Don't let your tiger eated us!

Group cute, tiny panda shot!! Can you see me there?

Saw a Spectral Tiger in the Horde Flag room in WSG, casually hopped on. Wheeeee

I'm Out! Loud and Proud!

I got outed in my guild tonight. Yes, my deep, dark secret was announced to all. I'm gay...

Not really! But if I were, I would totally be awesome and proud anyway! But bad jokes aside, my secret blog hobby was posted in guild chat. Only a chosen few knew of it's location. But now, it's out there! After a liiitle bit of shyness and some reasurrance, I'm quite happy that it was and hope that people will enjoy reading it, or ignore it completely. I'll still continue to talk to myself (and Loremaster Cho) anyway! Tonight I shall post a few pictures of awesome stuff that happened lately...

I'm all squuueeeeey at the minute in game. I got my mojo back! I did RF for the first time since the last flashy fail. I avoided Mogushan and Vaults but did do some of HoF and ToES. And I have to say I loooooooooved it!!! My beautiful healer guild friend (not the dwarf, he's way too grumpy) joined me for the fun. And fun it was. I love ToES (I really can't be bothered to type the full name, even though this is taking way longer, and I had to delete once already because of caps fail). Lei Shi is officially THE cutest boss EVAH! Hide and Seek? I'm in! Blizzard, you win back my undying loyalty. And I got 3 pieces from those runs and 3 sigils! Yes, you heard that right. I gots the loots! With only 1 coin used and that just gave me gold. And I can be frost now and not be completely fail! So, I've been doing dailies again for those pretty patterns. Because I'm waaay too tight to pay out my gold for them. Farming is the way forward! And I'm Ah'ing again! Ahhh, giddy gnomie is giddy! I can be more than a fishing gnomie again! I'm looking forward to a guildie RF run so much! Vent squeeeing and giggles will happen!

I have a new mog for my pvp kit too! And it's beautiful! I finally growed up into a big gnomie and now I look pretty while I deal out frosty pain. I just need the dagger from Ulduar and it's totally complete. But it's still rather pretty without that, even if I say so myself! Thank you for the Jade Fan too... you know who you are! It comes in handy for cooling myself off after a good killing spree ;)

Last thing before pictures... to any guildies that do visit, *waves*, I hope you enjoy reading. And to all of you that have already been here, thanks *hugs* :)