Token Female Gamer

I was lucky enough to play on two different servers with two very different, yet awesome guilds. Inner Loop (last post’s pictures) ended up being my raiding guild, while Fourth Wall was my role playing guild. (Yup, I am that nerdy!)

While my bard in the Fourth Wall guild never made max level, she had a ton of really silly fun. Some of the best stories came out of spending time with these crazy people. =P

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Keeping on track with ‘Another 30 days of Video Games’ took rather a lot of focus, pairing that with the holidays meant that there wasn’t a lot of spare time for various other updates. Plus it seemed so much more cohesive to keep the posts contiguous. Thus this update post, starting with Happy Winter Holidays. (Yes its a little late, sorry.)

My end of season fantasy football team.

Another big marker, that I completely spaced on, is that I hit 500 posts! Well actually this will be the 506th, which makes the 500th post day 56 in my last thirty days. That’s a lot, and frankly I’m quite proud of myself.

On a slightly less heroic note, Fantasy Football finished a few weeks ago and though I made the play offs, my team ended up seventh out of eight. So many injuries and I could not get quality players to replace them. But I was in second place for a bit, there in the middle of the season. Woot!

And lastly, World of Warcraft raiding has begun. Thankfully its only one day a week so far, but filled with lots of dying and a little bit of success. We are running Mogu’Shan Vaults 10 player normal. Its been an interesting shift in strategy. Many of the fights really depend heavily on tank competence, while the rest of us merely need to not stand in shit.

I guess I’m not really sure why they decided to make tank raiding harder. Were tanks bored?  Aren’t they one of the fewest played classes in the game? Making it harder doesn’t seem to really be the answer to dwindling numbers. I don’t play a tank, and after raiding in Panda for a bit, I’m really glad that I’m sticking with DPS. Easy mode!

Thats it for now. I’m sure I will come up with some other stuff eventually. Oh, maybe some shots of dead WoW raid bosses. =P

I’m quite surprised to say that I’m enjoying the experience. I’m actually having fun. Which is saying a lot since I was determined to not like it. Frankly I dont really have time to like it, since I’m still not done with Skyrim and Mists of Pandaria is coming out, but I just cant bring myself to quit.

My Mesmer character is almost level 17. Was a bit of a rough start as I dont think its the most straight forward class to play. Some of the weapon builds seem to be underpowered. But this is certainly part of the games biggest drawbacks, its really hard to figure out. Maybe in six months when there are four hundred websites dedicated to explaining the game it will be better, but for now, there is so little information in the game. It gets a bit frustrating.

As a little side note, I found this website Guild Wars 2 Girls, which is a place for ladies playing GW2 to hang out and commune with other ladies. Turns out that while there are lots of us who play, we are a bit scattered. I think its an interesting idea and as I haven’t really played with many ladies online, I’m looking forward to having the option to play with some other women who enjoy GW2. =D

This past weekend my World of Warcraft guild got together for a BBQ, in real life. No we didn’t all sit around playing WoW on our laptops. We hung out, enjoyed good food and good company.

Lots of World of Warcraft discussions (aka warstories), even got some Everquest squeezed in there. EQ provides the much needed ‘I walked to school uphill in the snow both ways’ perspective for all the new and ‘easy’ MMOs of recent times.

I have to say it was a treat having something to talk about with every single person there. No matter what else, we all had WoW in common, but even more, we actually play together.

Which just reaffirms that our goal of inviting only real life friends and family into the guild was a good plan.

Thanks to all of my guild mates and their spouses for being awesome! <3

As part of my leveling regiment I have been running dungeons with my little shaman. Dungeons are an incredibly speedy way to gain levels, but they are group activities. Which means dealing with other people.

Mostly the groups have been fabulous. Even convinced some guildies to come run lowbie dungeons with me (great way to complete guild challenges btw).

But then there are those special few, so easy to spot.

Both of these lovely group additions were healers. Thankfully low level dungeons hardly require much skill. Never the less I now have a healer off spec on my shaman. (That comment by Pwnsface really sealed the deal for me.)

Names matter, people!! Character names are basically first impressions.  These guys got cringe worthy reactions and sadly followed it up with cringe worthy results. On the bright side this sort of naming convention is akin to a “please avoid me” forehead tattoo.

Side note:  Shammy made 42. =)