Token Female Gamer

Happy Winter Holidays!! May your days be filled with love, laughter, and lots of game playing. And (of course) may all your characters reach 85!

<3 TFG

It’s here! World of Warcraft is remade! Time to get back on the wagon, which means this might be my last post…EVAR! (So I exaggerate a bit, but I am rather looking forward to this new expansion. New guild achievements, new raid instances, new dungeons, new quests, new gear! Squeeee!!)

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Thanksgiving heralds in the winter holidays for me, which is probably why it is my all time favorite meal. Those mashed potatoes and slices of turkey slathered in gravy are merely a gateway to the cozy, snuggle by the fire with hot cacao, bundle up warmly against the chill, tree decorating, cookie making, present giving Winter Holidays.

There is so much too look forward too – good food, lots of cookies, some champagne (okay, lots), presents galore, and every computer game release under the sun.

All the publishers try to capitalize on the random “grandma” sales, which is understandable, LOTS of shopping happen during this season. But for those of us who buy games for themselves, its just a bit overwhelming and costly.

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Its amazing how much I can get done when I’m not playing World of Warcraft twenty-ish hours a week. (I might be underestimating a bit there…)
I can do things like take long, luxurious, sudsy baths or post more often on my site. CRAZY!

/sigh I miss WoW. All this productivity is getting too me.
(edit for clarification: I miss the OLD WoW! The new fancy “we changed everything without actually really affecting any change” can suck my a$$!)

So the latest World of Warcraft patch (4.01) went live yesterday. After two hours of patch downloading and two hours of patch installing and finishing with another hour of post patch patching, I was finally able to get into the game! This is what greeted me:

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So I haven’t been completely slacking on everything. My druid finally made level 80!!

This makes my third level 80 character in World of Warcraft. Can’t decide if that makes me three times as awesome or three times more pathetic. =)

What is great is that I now have a healer. Turns out its a completely different type of game. My druid off spec is still ranged dps, my comfort zone.

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Look what showed up in my email the other day.

Thank you for being a valued member of Xbox LIVE. We want to let you know about an upcoming price increase for Xbox LIVE Gold subscriptions. The new price for Gold membership goes into effect on November 1, 2010. The new prices are as follows:

Old Price / New Price
1-Month Gold Subscription $7.99 / $9.99
3-Month Gold Subscription $19.99 / $24.99
12-Month Gold Subscription $49.99 / $59.99

With an Xbox LIVE Gold membership, you can play blockbuster games such as Halo: Reach with your friends online, you can also stream movies from Netflix* and music from Last.fm right to your TV. You can even connect with friends near and far on Facebook® and Twitter™. Gold members also enjoy exclusive discounts and early access to game demos. And, this holiday, Xbox LIVE is adding new Gold features, including ESPN and Video Kinect, with Hulu Plus coming on Xbox Live in 2011.

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Its about time for another little World of Warcraft update. And though I have been trying to keep WoW topics from overwhelming the site, I do still spend quite a lot of time playing it still and could go on and on. Thus I am consolidating all my latest news into one post.

Almost forgot to add that the Midsummer World Event began today which is the last world even that my warlock needs to complete the purple drake flying mount achievement.

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Although I have tried a wide range of characters in World of Warcraft, I have not played a healer since beta. Strangely enough the two characters that I have leveled past fifty are both ranged DPS with pets (Hunter and Warlock). Clearly it was time to branch out!

The not playing a healer thing had a few different reasons, the most prominent being: (1) the changes to priests in beta broke my heart and I refused to play one ever again! and (2) my husband plays a holy priest as his main (making reason one very easy to uphold!). Since I enjoy playing WoW with my husband, playing another healer has seemed rather superfluous.

But recently the mood has changed around here. Husband of mine seems to want a bit of a healing break. Maybe he was jealous of my leet deeps, or he was feeling the urge to stray, whatever the case, he is happy to alt it up with me. So he is tanking while I am healing in our awesome druid duo. (Getting pick up groups has been a breeze!!)

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Blizzard has released some buy-for-real-money items in the past, but never before have I been tempted. “What a grandiose way to waste your money!!” I would think to myself. But then this past Wednesday they released The Celestial Mount – purchasable from their online store for $25. Its a flying hours that has variable speed, but can be a ground mount or a flying mount and its incredibly pretty.

I had to have it.

Turns out tens of thousands of other people had to as well, because I ended up in a queue of seventeen thousand people waiting to purchase my brand new mount. (From what I hear the queue got up to eighty thousand at one point!)

That’s right I spend $50 and two hours of my off line time to purchase both my accounts some Bling. Yes I am a loot whore and have the fancy mount on display for everyone to see my dirty little secret.

But its soooo pretty…I think I need to go shower now.