My Mom Plays WoW: Dungeons -- Brewfest -- Ret. Pally -- Flyin' High

In August, I took a week off from WoW to have company, Red Bear came to visit irl! Then I took a couple of weeks off to recover from Red Bear's visit! And then I got back to Wow realizing ... OMG only two months til WoD drops!

ACK!

OK, we're up to mid-September in the screenshots and level 74.

Vier was getting bored with my questing so for a few days she ran me through some dungeons. Which was "Holy Crap" Scary at first. Though, I was getting some sweet gear - like my glowy, shiny, big axe! And rackin' up the gold ... gotta get to 5,000 gold so I can get Northrend flying and mount!

Here we are in one of my first dungeon runs.

In the Titan Place - very cool. Very Mines-of-Moria.

At the same time, I was studying to take my Dual Spec live, something I was very nervous about. Several times I had the thought "just sign in, and Do It!" But, I'd chicken out.

When I started my Bank Alt, Soozuu, I even made her a Ret. Pally to see what that was like from the ground up.

[for the non-WoW readers: Retribution Paladin. The damage-dealing specialization of the Paladins.

In Wow, whenever you get into a group, you can play one of three roles:

a Tank [which I have no earthly idea what they do or how they do it],
a Healer [which I told Vier I wanted to be 'cause I had the naive notion I wouldn't be killing things, or killing a lesser number of things -- rolls eyes--], or,
a Damage Dealer.

What I didn't know, and I don't think I would have listened if Vier told me, was that every group has at least One Tank, One Healer and Many Damage-Dealers [DPS]. When you're starting out, it's easier to hide your ineptness if you're one of many v.s. the One Healer - who, if she screws up - wipes or wrecks the whole group.]

So yes, I was makin' a bank alt and I figured I'd get some "sneak" WoW time. Time when Vier wouldn't be looking over my shoulder and chiding me for not concentrating on questing and wasting my time fishing. I even joined a different guild on a whim!

I didn't recognize Vier in this spiffy get-up!

Busted!

Might as well get back into my "real" guild! And of course, do some fishin'!

Soozuu in Fists with her White Kitten Gift.

Holy Crap! I caught Old Ironjaw!

Old Ironjaw is mine!

"The legendary uncatchable fish of Ironforge" According to El's Angling, catching him is a less than one percent chance! Wow!

Now apparently I have to sneak into Orgrimmar to fish up Ol' Crafty! Not looking forward to that, go to the link and read the first comment by Dsc666.

I got my Holy Paladin up to the low-70s, healing all the way but during my reading on Ret. Pallies, I've been learning that questing as a healer is not as easy as questing as a DPS [damage dealer]. The tipping point came when I had done so much Ret. Pally studying, that it was interfering with my actions as a Holy Pally. That was when I knew it was definitely time to switch.

So, there was a day lost trying to figure out how to switch back and forth between the two specs and setting up my action bars for the Ret. Pally spec.

I took a day to re-visit some low level areas and get used to being a Ret. Pally.

Nether Faerie Dragon

woo hoo! I caught me a Sprite Darter thingy in Feralas! Drat. Nope. I caught a Nether Faerie Dragon in Feralas, which is cool enough. But it's the Sprite Darter Hatchling I really want. Next time.

Got some Explorer Achievements.

Cape of Stranglethorn fully explored!

Got my Brewfest Wolpertinger.

It's a Rabbit with Antlers!

Defeated the Dark Iron Dwarves.

No, my new computer isn't crapping out. The screenshots are blurry 'cauze I bin drinkin' ... hic!

Drank a Lot!

that's a lotta brewskies

Ate my way through the Brewfest Diet!

and a lotta sausages!

Can't help but think of my Papa and the rest of my family out at the lake, eatin' sausages and drinkin' beer!

And saw some cool mounts and pets with other 'toons at Brewfest.

sobering up!

I was feeling pretty confident with my Ret. Pally skills after Brewfest, but just to be sure, I went over to Borean Tundra to do the Airport Quests that I missed the first time I was there.