This is a shout out to my favorite tank, Vikingmetal!
At 74 Squidly realized he was eligible for a new totem, one that did more than just save bag space.
To get it he just had to do some easy peasy dailies in Grizzly hills. They are PvP dailies, in a PvP zone, but hey, I like PvP and these days you are lucky to see someone of your own faction let alone the stinking Horde.
Everything was going to plan, Horde NPCs meeting a swift end, Alliance NPCs being brought back from the brink of full health with a quick bandage. The only sign of PC habitation was another Alliance player at the other side of the camp.
Unholy DK Batman!
Then there was that sound.
There was also that purple stream
Ohhh and of course my body being launched through the air.
Death Knight
Level 80 Dk at that, but I’m flagged and happily so, all I can do is give it my best and ultimately ghost run back to my corpse.
I mention to Viking I got ganked, he chuckles, I chuckle. All is good in the world, everything is as it should be.
I rez, buff, check for the DK, take aim at the next NPC…
Then I see the dark mass plummeting from the sky… Purple beams, gray screen … All gray in the spirit world.
I chuckle with Viking again. He has just finished up with the Horseman and tells me he is on his way.
The party invite arrives about the same time I reach my corpse.
I rez, buff, check for the DK, take aim at the next NPC…
Viking asks the question:
Is he still around?
Then I see the dark mass plummeting from the sky… Purple beams, gray… All gray in the spirit world.
Obviously so, he says.
As I reach my corpse this time I notice the brown dot on my mini-map, Viking has arrived.
I can’t see him anywhere, he says
I reply
Don’t worry, as soon as I Rez he will appear
Sure enough, the moment I return to my body he plummets to the ground and opens up. There are 5-10 seconds of me desperately trying to keep myself alive before his attention shifts.
Heeerrrreeee’s Viking!
The DK gave it his best, popped all sorts of cooldowns, called his army… Died.
Viking gave him a gentle /spit to remind him to pick on someone his own size.
We mounted and waited…
The DK rezzed and lept into the sky… Viking gave chase for a bit just to get the message across.
He hung around a little while as I finished off my dailies.
Tough kitten is tough!
Have you ever stood behind a kitten when a dog approaches?
I remember years ago, I had just brought a kitten home. A dog from next door wandered over to introduce itself.
The kitten panicked, fluffed itself up in an attempt to make itself look bigger (unfortunately the real effect was to turn him into a little bite sized ball). The kitten hissed and the dog backed away.
The kitten turned to me, gave me one of those triumphant smirks that only cats can produce and wandered off to survey his domain.
What he didn’t realise was while he was fluffing and hissing, I was standing behind him waving a rolled up newspaper.
Boo DK!
I dropped off my shredder, mounted and launched myself into the sky. There ahead of me was the DK flying in. I charged, he turned and ran… errr flew away.
I lol’d and circled in the air… Which is when I realized that Viking was mounted and flying right behind me…
It really is good to have a body guard!
PS: got my coins for my totem, head to the vendor to buy them… He isn’t there… But the area is Alliance controlled!
Turns out our vendor only appears when the Horde controls the area… Damn DK, why couldn’t he capture the Venture Bay rather than harassing me.
Leveling slowly through healing.
Squidly isn’t feeling like questing much, so he has been healing his way through instances and BGS.
It’s slow going, even with flawless instance runs and the odd BG win. Viking and I were neck & neck leveling, until I stopped questing.
I finished VH last night 4% from level 75. The tank suggested I go explore, but I needed to be ganked a few more times before the night was over.
AV Horror.
I got my fill of that in AV.
A hopeless battleground this time. I should have taken the hint when I missed the 1st invite.
Countless deaths and 1% XP later the battle was over.
Priests run flags in WSG, more news at 11
The WSG queue popped soon after… One last chance to hit 75 before sleep called me.
As usual I rushed to the enemy flag room. Unusually the only one with me was a priest.
Two healers, one flag, no flag runner… Or not!
The priest grabbed the flag and we healed our way through the mass of Horde defenders, straight to our flag room to cap.
I head back. Same thing, just the healer and I. They manage to take me down, but I race back to meet the priest mid field… and cap.
Once again the 2 of us head for the flag, grab it and depart… but not for our flag room!
The priest detours to dance below the Horde’s graveyard. Someone wants wrecking ball.
We dance, we taunt, we kill, finally we cap. We win, the BG scoreboard appears, but what is it obscuring?
Ohhh I dinged!
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!
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