Alt Appreciation – Druid Week

Yes, another week with no shortage of screenshots and stories!  Continuing with Alt Appreciation weeks from World of Lae, we’re now in Druid Week.  I have six druids over level 80, and about a million under level 10.  Trust me, the hunter/mage problem is worse.

My first druid was Terivanis.  He was originally called Jaevan on a regular PVE realm, but when I transferred him to Wyrmrest Accord for RP, I thought he needed a different name instead of just being a variant on my hunter’s name.  I play him primarily as resto, and he is the only druid I finished the epic flight form quest on.  It’s out of the game now, or I’d do it on others.  He’s level 90, and I occasionally take him into ToT LFR.  Teri has been part of the rp, and has stories on this site.  He’s a grumpy old burd, who is a little less grumpy now.

Terivanis, aka Burd

Terivanis has a tauren friend in his story, a druid named Rohau.  He exists in-game, and has become my banker horde side.  He’s level 83, just gaining a level a couple of days ago.  Go cow!

Rohau is resto too.

Rohau in his usual spot.

Relanos and Farahlor are the babies.  They aren’t actually role played because IC they’re too young.  I created them just to keep their names from being used.  I wound up leveling them.  Farahlor is feral spec and level 82.  Relanos is guardian and level 85.

Farahlor and Relanos.

Then there’s Jaellynn.  Yes, he was just part of death knight week.  Who says death knights can’t want to be druids?  Jaellynn remembers his life before his death as a druid apprentice, and he wants to continue learning, despite being dead.  His druid version has two dots above the ‘y’ in his name.  He is level 85.

Then there’s Pimzoz.  Pimzoz was created as part of my new army of alts when I transferred to horde side on my main for raiding.  I didn’t want to faction transfer all of my alliance characters, and I had the free space to work with yet on that server.  When I burned out on raiding and decided to try RP, Pimzoz was left behind in this elite top raiding guild.  Two years later, he was still level 12, and to my surprise, still in the guild.  They had done all the gold challenge modes and defeated heroic sha of fear.  I could get things!  I bought the pet, then set about leveling him for the mount, which he was able to learn at level 85.  I have since transferred him to The Venture Co realm.  It’s an RP PVP realm, and one of two realms that are not subject to CRZ.  He sits in Storm Peaks now, hunting a certain protodrake!

On Watch

Jaellynn Evershade sat on the hill overlooking the lake next to the glade he called home.  A stream ran next to him, trickling over the edge of the hill into a second lake below.  Normally, he would come here to fish, but today, he faced away from the stream, and away from the lake.  Instead he watched the skies to the east where a sharp ridge rose as a natural border between Desolace and Mulgore.

Tathariel had told him the news she had heard of the trolls and the orcs fighting each other.  Since then, he began to make more trips to this hill.  He didn’t expect to see anything from here, but if the tauren were getting involved, then it was much more closer to the glade than he was comfortable with.

He carried his runeblade with him.  No, druids weren’t supposed to use swords, but he was stronger in combat with one.  He could quickly cut down any danger that approached the glade, within reason.  He was undead, but that hardly made him invincible.  He knew that.

He glanced away from the ridge, looking back towards the glade where he lived.  It was nearly time to eat.  Tathariel would be back with Relanos from their walk on the other side of the glade.  They had gone together to check on the thunder lizards first thing this afternoon when they woke, an activity Jaellynn wasn’t sure was safe for Relanos.  He could yell at the wrong time and frighten one into being aggressive, or hit it with a stick.  He was sure Tathariel was watching him closely, but he would be happy to see them.

He often joined them for meals though he didn’t eat.  Well, he could, but undead bodies do not digest the same as living bodies.  Sometimes, Relanos fed him, perhaps out of concern that his an’da didn’t eat much.  Jaellynn was sure the boy was going to start asking some of the harder questions soon, even though he was barely out of diapers.  He already asked lots of questions about other things and had remarked how an’da was always cold.

Not today.  The hot sun shone down on him as he stood.  Even this late in the day, he could feel the heat from it.  He took one last look at the ridge, watching as a windrider passed along the top of it in the distance.  He waited until it was out of sight, and headed back to the glade.

Jaellynn – Journal

Things have been quiet.  That has been good.  It`s been very good.  I don’t think I could have imagined things being better, not for me.  Sure, I’m still dead.  I don’t think there will ever be any way to fix that, but, other than that, things are great.

Relanos is growing well.  He makes me proud.  I got him a child’s fishing pole.  He’s not very good yet, but he can tell when a fish is biting.  Unfortunately, waiting for the fish to bite doesn’t hold his interest very long.  Maybe when he’s older, he’ll have more patience and be less easily distracted.

He’s learning to talk.  His favorite word is “no”.  He knows min’da and an’da too.  Karnum taught him to say “hello” in taurahe.  He can also say, “Eloodoray”.  I think he means “Elune adore.”

Tath has been talking about getting another baby.  She wants a girl.  Maybe she wanted a girl before, but we both like Relanos.  I don’t know what I’d do with a girl.  She probably wouldn’t want to fish or help with the plants all the time.  I guess I could teach her how to use swords and daggers.  Maybe I’d let Jaeyn get close enough to teach her how to use a bow.  Imagine that, a girl learning how to use a bow from a boy!

I don’t know why she isn’t happy with Relanos, but I told her it would be okay.  I think it would be.  I don’t need to sleep so I could take care of five babies if I had to.  I might go crazy if we got that many, but I’d be awake for it!

OOC – Screenshots

I haven’t posted screenshots in a while so here they are.  You’re getting them all at once.

Lali babysits murlocs. She should totally bring one home to Raleth. “Can we keep it?”

Aww, my baby dk tank feels loved.

Teniron got his first epic at level 50, Sul’thraze the Lasher!

Alinash and Suuri? They met at McDonalds for free WiFi, I guess. She was a priest I believe.

Speaking of Alinash… He’s a beast.

I laughed.

Another page of that same one. I laughed some more.

A different one. I giggled.

Theronil’s Night Elf Form!

Sanimir’s ugly human form!

Sanimir kills everything. Level 79 dps.

Sanimir dings 80.

How did he not have that before?

DARGON!

Sometimes you expect an achievement, but you don’t expect your character’s expression on the screenshot. He looks very happy.

I’ve been farming this thing so long it’s about time one of them got it. Thankfully in MoP, my mount collector, whom farmed it the most, will get it as well. He’ll also, finally, get the kodo and headless horseman’s mount. And Attumen’s mount. 🙂

OOC – 30 Days of WoW: Day 19

Day 19 — Favorite class and why?

I can’t choose just one.  I prefer different classes for different things.  So I’ll go down the list of things and choose my favorite for each. 🙂

PvE Tanking: Death Knight.  Druid would be a close second, but I’ve yet to get a tank spec druid to max level (Soon!).  I really like the control I have over my own survivability and being able to help the healers out with my cool downs.

Jaellynn, and Kadari, poke Ragnaros.

PvE DPS, max level: Hunter.  Although, I have not enjoyed it as much as I used to (I hate focus.  gg blizz), it’s still my favorite.  I just wish they would give us mana back even if it doesn’t make sense.  It worked.

In a very old screenshot, Jaeyn, whom was Jaen at the time, kills naga in heroic underbog.

Chilling on the bike while everyone else does the work!

PvE DPS, low level: Mage.  I would probably enjoy mage at 85 as well, if I could do good dps as frost.  The game won’t let me.  I have a lot of fun in lower level dungeons with mages though.  I love leveling mages. 🙂

Sanimir beating Sunken Temple. Sometimes I feel like all he really needs is a healer and he could two man this stuff without carrying a tank and two dps along. It wouldn't even have to be a good healer. Frost mages are that OP with heirlooms at low levels.

PvE Healing: Druid.  I love HOT’s and AoE heals. 😉

Healing in LFR

Rawr!

PvP, any level: Rogue.  I used to hate pvp.  I also used to play a hunter almost exclusively.  I have had a rogue, a dwarf, that hit 80 in WotLK, but I didn’t pvp on her.  It wasn’t until I leveled Latahlali past 60 that I discovered the joys of rogue pvp.  I enjoy it at any level now. 🙂

Killing cows, and about to kill that undead guy. Yeah that other rogue wasn't hurting me that much.

Guarding the blacksmith as a very OP low level twinked rogue. Heirlooms and enchants! He's a beast!

 

OOC – 30 Days of WoW: Day 10

Day 10 — Your favorite mount.

I've never drawn a horse before.

I’m going to assume this means my favorite mount that I have.  Trust me, if I had the Ashes of Al’ar, I’d have drawn that today.  So the favorite mount that I have on any of my characters would be Jaellynn’s Fiery Warhorse, which dropped off Attumen on his first solo try.  I’ve tried to get this mount on Jaeyn, with no luck, as he’s the mount collector.  I’m hoping that if/when they make mounts account-wide, they go by battlenet account and not individual accounts so that Jaeyn can finally have it too.

Please Blizz, let me have this on all of my characters.

 

OOC – Screenshot Spam

Warning:  Should you want to do the Battered Hilt quest without any spoilers.  Stop now.

OOC – Screenshots

Just some screenshots from the past week or so.

Jaellynn got the rose!

 

So did Ellorian, which is funny considering how bitter he is right now.

 

Mage Lali in CoT.

Not only can Dalaran npc's see through stealth, they can also see through walls.

So very OOC. What's funny now is that I forgot to turn in the quest, so I'm carrying around Kael'thas's head in her bags. =P

Moonglade

Tathariel and I took Relanos to Moonglade last night.  It’s his first lunar festival with us, and probably the first time he’s been taken to Moonglade for it.  They had fireworks and he really seemed to like them.  I was worried that they would be too loud and he would cry, but he watched them quietly.  He even laughed at them at times.

That’s where the night stopped being nice.

I’m not a mind reader.  It seemed she kept hinting at something, and I had no clue what the hell she meant half the time.  She refused to tell me.  She dug up old feelings of being inadequate because of what I am.  She randomly changed the subject, and it was all based on the past. Apparently some of her focus was on a separate trip that we made to Moonglade before the festival last year.  I’d rather remember the good parts of last year, and let the nervousness, sadness and pain fade away.

What’s wrong with right now?  I’d rather focus on the present.

I really don’t care to remember how I felt last year.  I was feeling like less of a failure.  I love her more.  I’m less nervous around her father.  Why would I want to remember what I felt last year?

At one point she started crying, and said that I said I didn’t love her anymore.  I didn’t.  How can I give the right answer if I don’t even know what the question is.  She asked if there had been any changes since last year.  I said some had, some hadn’t.  That isn’t saying I don’t love her.  I’m still not sure how she could even think that.

Do I not tell her that I love her?  Do my actions not speak as well?

I’m mad.  I’m angry because I wanted to have a good night.  I wanted to enjoy the festival with her and Relanos.  Why couldn’t she just ask plain questions instead of ruining the entire evening?  I hate being asked vague, cryptic questions.  I hate it mostly because I know she expects me to know what the hell she’s talking about, and when I admit that I don’t and I ask, she just gets mad.

I hate being mad that she’s mad.

I hope that next year, all I have to remember is how Relanos smiled at the fireworks.

Letter to Jaellynn

Jaellynn,

I’m afraid I don’t have many answers for you.  Mother was not very forthcoming about her reasons for doing things the way she did.  I went to see her with Ellorian.  I don’t think she told him much either.  He was going to stay in Feathermoon Stronghold a few days, but they went to talk alone.  She came back without him, so I’m guessing it didn’t go so well.  She kept telling him he shouldn’t have come there.  He wasn’t dressed like he usually dresses, and didn’t look like a Highborne, so I don’t see what was wrong with him going there.  I haven’t written to him yet, but I will soon.

From what little I was able to talk to her, I don’t think she had any good reasons for letting us believe her to be dead.  She said she didn’t want to come home because there was always fighting.  I assume she meant between her and Kel, since that’s the only arguing I remember.  She blamed Kel for a lot of things, then asked me about my bows like nothing happened.

She wanted to talk to us more I think.  I’ll let you know if I find out anything when we see her again.

– Jaeyn