A funny thing happened to me while me and Balth were waiting for our random dungeon to pop. I was doing the usual laps of Dal, I had already completed all my dailies for the day and needed to get my daily frost badges. I got a whisper from a stranger asking if I wanted to heal ICC 10 man. Oh boy did I, but to be honest I haven't been doing a lot of healing lately since I started gearing my Elemental side first. So I politely thanked them for the invite but told them I hadn't healed that instance yet and didn't want to be responsible for ruining thier run. No problem they say we're going in for the first time too and we expect wipes...lol. Oh Really!!...think I. Well alrighty then I accept and get invited into the raid. Now these guys are geared very nicely and I figure I'll last for one wipe and get the boot. Wrong, I did damn good if I do say so myself and I got compliments as well. Yeah!!

The run was not easy as we never killed the first boss, but we were learning what to do and where to stand and what worked best for everyone. This is a great group I've got myself into I'm think one of the tanks is tabbed out checking for strats to make sure we're not going to run into any surprises. We had a rogue with us and she deactivated the traps that are in there that bring out these big Mean skeletons(more on them later). We got up to Lord Marowgar and wiped about 3 times and the RL called it. Good call too we were all done for the night and had enough to absorb from what we had learned. Marowgar throws some nasty ice curtains up and some other stuff I was so busy watching health bars though I really don't know what all killed us.

(Did I mention you can repair armor in there between pulls or wipes as the case may be, and I finally found the Witch armor for Shammy's in there and I only need 3 more frost badges for the shoulders...woot.)

I thanked them for letting me play with them and immediately got a whisp from my original inviter asking 'same time tomorrow?' Hell Ya!! This group is rocking me now and also he says 'if you're ever thinking of changing guilds we're always looking for good healers'. Woot he/she said good healers and me in the same sentence. Yes I know I've been healing Balth and me for 80 levels but this is not the same thing. This is acceptance by your peers outside the family so to speak and it felt good, damn good.

So next day I'm on bright and early well when I get off work 4 server time I do my dailies and get my Random out of the way and wait for the invite...finally at 6 my new best friend...lol wisps me that they're getting ready and if i'm still interested...holy guacamole you bet I am. I get the invite and have to wait for a few more folks to get on but not long and off we go.
It doesn't go as smooth as last time we wipe pretty often and on stuff we really shouldn't have. This time no rogue with us and we trip the traps and out come two giant skeleton dudes...ouch bang dead. We finally managed to learn how to get one at a time and kill the bad boy but what a fight and off we go to the final mob in front of Marowgar again. We kill them but at this point we're all exhausted and some of the group is east coast so it's late for them. And you'll never guess...you did...yeah...yep I got asked to come again tomorrow...how cool is that.

I'm kind of curious how some of your first experiences in ICC have been and how do you avoid the ice curtains Marowgar throws up? Seriously those are nasty.

P.S. Well if you're still here thanks for reading and happy raiding.

P.S.S. BTW the name of this friendly guild is Kingdom of Lycans...pretty cool huh?

Balth got himself a little friend for his squire. You can't tell me that pony isn't the cutest thing ever...lol



Happy New Year everyone be safe out there.

As 2009 winds down I look back at all we've accomplished this year. Both Balth and I rolled our current mains back in March. We've earned many Achievements and finally leveled to 80. I've been playing since '07 and only with Balth's help have I been able to get there. Below are some of our Achievements for the year.



We are very proud of these titles we worked hard to get them and I think it shows a definate dedication to the game. We both got all these Achievements at the same time or with in days of one another. Diplomat and Ambassador were both titles we really wanted.



And then we got bunches of mounts too :)Ya this big boy comes after you've collected 50 unique mounts.



And I got my turtle I was so excited I almost for got to click on it...



We started jousting and started the progression into earning our reputation with the Argent Tournament and earned the title of Crusader but I can't find the screenie of that one :D



We also participated in a multi server event to help raise money for Breast Cancer awareness when a guild member from a different realm was diagnosed her guild came up with a unique way to help. Many of you may know our Big Bear Butt friend already. The Sidhe Devils invited all from all servers around the world to participate in this event and they came. It was a memorable event and one i'm proud to have participated in.



We completed the Winter Veil and have now become Merrymakers as well.



All in All it's been a very good year and we've met many wonderful people in game and in the bloggisphere.

I wish all of you a very safe and Happy New Year.

Christmas Traditions Around the World

 


How "Merry Christmas" is said .....


African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese:Feliz Natal
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym or Z RIZDVOM HRYSTOVYM
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen

Peace On Earth Good Will Toward Men and Women