My Mom Plays WoW

Friday, October 30, 2020

Sushel Wins!

Sushel won a second place prize in Brann's Glow Up!
She was allowed to chose any Blizz Shop pet and as you can see, she chose Dottie!

She is very happy and Dottie's animations make us giggle.

In other Wow news:
Noritam got changed into a cat by one of the Tricky Treat Candy Buckets.

Hallow's End is Nor's fave holiday!

Styxxi and Lilpipnik are levelling away. They both were gifted the Sprite Darter Wings transmog and I'm excited to take pictures of us both the next levelling day.

Lilpipnik in her Sprite Darter Transmog,
with her Sprite Darter Pet,
and her Fey Dragon Mount!

Gnomes are very little while some Monsters are very BIG!

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Brann's List Discord "Glow Up" Event

My entry:

Sushel is the most bad-ass of my gals. She's not into froofery stuff but let me dye her hair if I promised to put it up so it would quit flopping around and getting in her way. She's a little sore from the new tattoos and piercings but she's feeling sassy for Shadowlands.

Calling all healers!

Brann's List is a discord server for WoW content creators. A member is looking for some healers to collaborate.

Discord: Brann's List

Channel: creators-camp

Requirements: Healer, Beta Castle Nathria XP

Member: Layria

Message: I’ve started planning a new YouTube video that will be round table style with each healer class discussing Castle Nathria. I’m looking for guests who have done enough beta raid testing to be able to share their thoughts about the different fights with regards to healing.

My goal for the video is to offer players some insight on what to expect in Castle Nathria and help prepare them. There’s so much out there about m+ and healer classes but not so much about the new raid.

Is there anyone here in BL who would be interested in participating in this video (could be just audio or video, doesn’t matter), or do you know anyone who has done raid testing and might be interested? This is the first time I’m sharing this idea with anyone, and everyone in the BL community has always been so helpful so I wanted to reach out here first!

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On a personal note, if you look at the first posts on this blog, you'll see that when I started WoW, I wanted to be a Healer. Actually a Healer/Mom to a raid group. It's been almost 7 years now and I've never done a raid, my healer is at max level but she is very squishy.
In the last two expansions, I've only passively levelled her through world events and professions. She's a great alchemist that keeps everyone topped up with water breathing potions and she does all our transmuting. But, she's never served her main purpose. In fact, she double specced away from Holy to Disc just so she wouldn't get killed quite so much levelling. I'm always looking for healer content and ideally would love to find a learning guild on Undermine so she could actually, y'know ... heal!

Thursday, October 1, 2020

New Friends and maybe a new guild?

Today I got brave and joined 2 new discord servers:

TSM - maybe I'll finally learn how to use it
PerkyPugs - I peeked into this server awhile ago but got freaked out at the massive number of people so backed out pretty quick.

BUT

The Guild I found shortly after Vier left us has disintegrated and I'm looking for a new place to call home. Plus, it's been so long since I've done any new content.

BfA scared me so bad when I fell into Freefall or whatever that "walk right into this mess of bad guys and see how many times you can die" place that I've passively levelled through the expansion.

I recently created a DK to get the Worgen pet and boosted it when I learned that Shadowlands is gonna be all about Death Knights. Noritam, my main since I started is at 120 but does not have a high enough ilvl to do anything at end game right now and Sareen does but damned if I can figure any of this scary stuff out!

At least I have Sareen, the DK to start the new expansion with.

I am currently levelling a gnome, Styxxi-Stormrage with Babybug's Gnome Lilpipnik. Babybug is my pet battle friend.

Thursday, June 11, 2020

I'm still here

I'm currently learning how to play the Hunter Beast Master spec after all these years.

I just got my first Spirit Beast pet thanks to Babybug w00t!

I've also Joined Ravenclaw's Discord from his YouTube channel.

This week is Darkmoon Faire so I'm busy taking everyone there.

Thursday, November 28, 2019

My 'toons rundown and Remembering Vier in "her" spot

An introduction of my 'toons and links to the guild and my own discord servers.

I started playing WoW because I ran out of excuses. My daughter, Vier, had wanted me to play for a while and I finally acquiesced to her request.

Note: I had never played a video game, computer game, online game - nothing! I even used to delete Solitaire off my first computers to make hard drive space. The learning curve was steep!

Noritam aka Nor aka Nori
Retribution Paladin level 120
My Main Gal - Lover of Dresses.
A Girly Girl who kicks ass, orcs, and Tallstriders, Plainstiders and any other big, gangly bird.

If you look back to the beginning of the blog, where my daughter Vier documented my thoughts before I even entered the game my stated goals, which remain true to this day were and are:

... that’s what I want to do, I want to help other players ... A paladin is always useful and I want to be useful. Healers are the only reason that I would ever consider playing. ... healers - hide around the corner and stay alive so you can help. ’the best thing I can do in a battle is hide and not get dead and not attack anybody’.

Day One: Nov. 27, 2013. I spent a lot of time RP walking because the default run speed was "way too fast". This would not be the last time Vier regretted inviting her mother into the game LOL!

Second-in-Command: Sushel

Sushel - BM Hunter level 117
Currently working on the Draenor Pathfinder and BfA Pathfinder.
- Alt1: Vier made me make a Hunter. A Fearless, No-Nonsense, All Business Beer Lover.
Name explanation in the comments of the link. Not ashamed to say that I enjoy playing a Hunter now.

Vier talked me into using the 90 boost for "the sheer amusement factor". Why, oh why, do I let her talk me into these things?

My Priest: Seelybrook

Seelybrook - Disc. Priest level 116
Passively levelling through herbalism and world events.
- Alt2: Love me some Nelfs. A quiet, shy, girly girl who loves all things coloured purple.
Starting Seely for professions & Real Life Disruption [hospital & chronic illness].

About Seely's name:
When she was first created her name was Saelybrooke, which I hated having to type. Shortly before she died, Vier talked me into a server change for an "adventure" and Saelybrooke was already in use so I gleefully changed her name to Seelybrook. After Vier died, I decided to bring her back home to Undermine and got to keep the name change.

DH Sal aka Sallaana

Sallaana - Havoc Demon Hunter level 112

- Kickin' Ass 'n Takin' Names. Sal is supposed to be working on Legion Pathfinder, but I find the DH Class Hall a nightmare. I started Sal during the pre-Legion days and I enjoy playing her.
Recently someone in the guild mentioned that they like playing a DH and did so through all of Legion, maybe they can help me with the class hall and I can get back to work with Sal.

Soozuu aka Me!

Soozuu - Protection Paladin level 65

- Tank Experience, a Gathering Specialist, dipping a toe into PvP.
The day I caught Old Ironjaw and discovered you can't hide in WoW.
Soozuu was my first Bank Alt and I don't know why I started levelling her but I did and I use her for my tentative forays into PvP.

Soozuu's personality is the closest to the 'real' me and so is her name. When I first went online in '99 the big thing was 'never use your real name' and my online persona for years was Zoo.

Because she was to be a 'throw-away' toon and never used for anything real in-game I gave her my real name plus my internet name. Unfortunately, that was already taken so the spelling distortion resulted in what you see.

Sazzil

Sazzil - Subtlety Rogue level 115

- Checking out the Other Side, The Dark Side of the Sun.
Gabbing in Guild Chat one night, we got to talking about playing Horde characters and that we had a sister guild over there.

Whoa! So many things we take for granted become new adventures. Finding our way around the main city, flight masters, zeppelins instead of boats, heck even getting to the Darkmoon Faire is an adventure when you're stowed in a city on a different continent and you can't find your way out the front door to get back "home" to Orgrimmar!

Canadian Bankers: Serran

Serran - The Canadian Bankers Guild. This time creating a bank alt I chose a character I would never want to play, chose a spec that I would never want to level and got him his own guild. Ser is officially and forever our Banker.

Noritam's Discord

Noritam's Nexus

My very small sever on Discord
https://discord.gg/mtaYty5
Some Wow, some Crafts, lots of Cats and silliness.

Guild Discord

Of The Sun

The Guild Server on Discord
https://discord.gg/9CkjVsS

Remembering Vier

Last but not least, Remembering Vier at "her spot" in the Shrine.

3 squares up from the wall
3 squares up from the stairs
Vier's Spot

😻 Remembering Jenn

One thing Jenn loved more than anything was doing annoying things. It was all fun and games when she kicked a soccer ball to you, splatted you with a pumpkin to turn you orange or a turnip to turn you pink, but that goddamn fucking train used to make me crazy.

Whenever I was taking too long reading a quest description or sorting my bags or bank, and she got bored, she'd throw the train down. Which made everything take longer because I'd have to try and remember which item made the sound stop, find it, use it and then go back to sorting or reading.

Once the toy box came into being though it was better for me. She'd run through the "change your look" toys and then the "change your size" toys. Then if I was still taking too long she'd go through the throwing toys, starting with the ones that changed MY appearance.

One of the worst things I saw her do was throw out a Bling-a-Tron INSIDE a tent. So people would know it was out, but couldn't find it. -smh-

Miss ya, kid!