A new home

Well yesterday I decided to bite the bullet and try my luck with a few pugs.  I signed up in the LFG channel and was soon picked up for a group heading to Heroic: Halls of Lightning. Well, 90 gold in repairs and 2 hours later, I was back in the LFG channel looking for another instance to do. The group was pretty good, we burned through most of H:HoL without much problem, but then… yes, Loken cockblocked us. Bastard. We threw ourselves at him repeatedly, repaired and kept at it until someone finally had to leave. We tried different strategies. Loken kicked our ass every time, although we got VERY close at one point. Sometimes even good players don’t make a viable group for a particular boss. This was one of them.

So I repaired again and got into another group for a few more heroics. This group was mostly a guild run with others they knew. I think I was the only pick-up. We did several different instances with a replacement member here and there. After Heroic: The Nexus, the tank had to leave so we replaced him/her. Picked up a tissue paper tank from LFG. I think he was just learning how to tank, too, because not only was he taking huge amounts of damage but was really slow to pick up adds and never watched the caster’s and healer’s mana. He’d just go running through from one group of trash to the next, even while we were yelling “DUDE STOP!” in party chat. lol  Ah well. You win some, you lose some. We did Heroic: Utgarde Keep and what is normally a 15-20 minute run turned into over an hour. Still, we finished it, the tank got the xbow he was craving, then we all begged off and he went away.

I took a break for a few minutes, did a Winter Veil quests, chatted a bit with a very nice but totally p-whipped dude from the pug, and bought a JC pattern for a cut he needed. Didn’t want him to but he insisted on paying me 50g. At least I talked him down from 100g. I hate taking money from people I like.

I jumped into LFG channel again, hoping to do some more pugs. I’ve missed running instances it seems and I didn’t even realize it. I mean I knew I wanted to do more but meh, haven’t been able to for a few weeks. So I’m back at it again. Well, I got a pst from someone asking if I’d like to do Naxx10 with them. It was a guild run but they’d had a few members that couldn’t make it so needed to pug a few spots. I said sure, what the hell. They’d done the first boss in the spider wing but the rest were still up. Mostly guild members, a friend or two and like three pugged spots. I was hopeful that it would be a good run, even though we started REALLY late in the evening.

I think it was after we’d killed Grand Widow Faerlina that I got the fateful pst. “Hey, you looking for a guild? We could really use your dps!” After thinking about it a short while and talking it over briefly with my bud, I decided what the hell. They weren’t quite as progressed as the guild I’d just left but you know what? We had fun last night!  We burned through three wings in no time and were doing great until we got to The Four Horsemen. Having a couple of newbs to the fight made it a little troublesome, added with the fact that it was by now about 3:30 am my time and people were really tired and some had to leave. But it was a fun night, a good time was had by all (well, aside from the one warrior pug – someone please explain to me how the hell someone gets to level 80 without any flying skill at all? Not even slow flying. Cripes, he was a pain in the ass, had to keep going back to summon him at the stone because “Oops guys, I fucked up and released.”)

Anyway, yeah, they aren’t quite as progressed as my previous guild but they do know how to have fun. We got shit done AND had a good time doing it. Unlike before, when it was all business, ‘burn through and let’s get out of here cuz none of us really wants to be here’ kind of attitude. And its nice to be wanted and appreciated for once. And they aren’t too far behind, either, especially for a smaller, newer guild.

So now Khassie is the newest member of Forsaken Bloodlines. Huzzah!