I'm from now on writing a blog with my Shaman friend, Kairri :D Please be nice to her and come and say hi to us over there!

Hope to see you all soon!! xxx

You asked, so I told you :P But watch this space, cause I have some changes to make throughout the day :)

Since my little hiatus from the blogging world, there's been several annoyances that have been bothering me. My main one is Paladin related. As you all well know, I play a Blood Elf Paladin on Cairne under the name of Melevelia. In the last few days, I finally got her dual spec and put my 2nd spec down as Holy cause I wanted to have a crack at healing with her. Last night, I finally got my last piece of heal gear for her (even though it's kinda patchworked with leather bracers and mail shoulders... >.>) and so to test out the gear and my spec, I pugged myself in for a regular UK run. I'm only 75 at the moment, and could probably manage Nexus too...but I'm not too sure of my capabilities right now. We managed to get through it with only one death, so for my first healing run on my Paladin- I wasn't too unhappy about that. My main problem was that I just kept running out of mana, and even with Seal of Wisdom up and judging Wisdom...I was getting nowhere. Maybe it's my spec but I couldn't see what was the problem there. I found it was relieved a little by using Divine Illumination and Divine Favor...but I'm so new to all of this that I really am blind and I don't have a clue what I'm doing. My mana pool currently sits around the 11k mark...and at lvl 75 I can't gem for intellect as of yet. And don't even get me started on AoE damage. I beacon'd the tank (and man when that procs, wooo that makes me fucking happy :D) but apart from that I was throwing FoL, HS and HL around like free candy. It was deja vu of me working over the Priest on her first heal runs. Honestly though, healing on a priest is like freaking childs play compared to a Pally. omfg...so goddamn scary xD

Melevelia got to Northrend last night though, woo hoo :D

Okay so as you all know, the majority of my toons are on Cairne-US...and that is part of the Emberstorm battlegroup. This battlegroup is on a set of servers called a datacenter which is out in Seattle, WA. Over the last six months, we've had nothing but issues with this because we constantly get outages, server maintenance and other kinds of issues besides. And frankly, we're friggin sick of it. So far, all we have had in return is one lousy free day for their cock-ups.

Hey Blizzard, I have an idea for you...move all the servers from the Seattle datacenter to some other state or city...then raze the piece of shit to the ground. Everyone from Emberstorm will come to Seattle and dance on the ashes in celebration of having servers that stay up when required.

Seriously? They need to give us the option of transferring out of the battlegroup to some other one so we don't have to constantly deal with this bullshit. I lose the majority of Tuesday's play time because of the time zone I live in...and now I lose Wednesday too? Ohh give me a fucking break! Servers came back up on time yesterday and all seemed well for a while, then it started getting real glitchy real fast. Taking five minutes to loot, 10 minutes stuck in a loading screen, 'Instance Not Found', 'You are not in a guild', 'That character is currently online', ETC....ETC....

What absolutely hogwash. Fix it Blizzard and burn Seattle Datacenter to the ground. Seriously, we'll pay you to do it ;)

On the same server that I have all my Alliance toons, I also have three Hordies...a baby Rogue called Ambiance, a baby Warlock called Zynka and a mid-level Paladin called Melevelia. I love all three of them and it's my challenge to try and get my rogue levelled (since Pogue keeps saying how hard it's been for him to learn the class)...but right this moment, I'm very much in love with my Paladin. For me, it's like levelling Lysix all over again- but with healy capabilities. So I can run in, hack and slash...and when my health gets low I use either HL or LoH. Hehehehe, I rarely ever die and if I do..it's because I bit off more than I can chew and get my ass kicked. That happens occasionly with Lysix too. Melee toons are not my strong point, but I give it the old college try.

What's it like playing on the other side? Do I feel like a traitor? Um no not really, I really enjoy the freedom that comes with playing on a faction where barely anyone knows you. Since I've been playing Alliance on Cairne since the server opened, I know a good proportion of the server and a lot of them know me...so I don't get the chance to hide much. Playing Horde gives me that escapism, that anonymity. And I never liked Human Paladins anyway, as I said a couple of posts ago...I would rather gouge out my eyeballs with a rusty spoon than level in Elwynn Forest or Westfall....ugh. I really need to roll a toon to perform as my bank alt on the Horde side though, Mel is a miner and an enchanter, Zynka is a herbalist and an alchemist and Ambiance is a leatherworker and a skinner. So all those gathering professions mean that I've got to have a bank alt so I can sell the stuff I don't need, heh. And I have to start making some gold anyway, Paladin will be level 40 soon enough and I need gold to buy her mount training.