[2500-2999] Standard Performance
Capable of running the game on default settings.

Hmmph. I’m definitely going to need a new PC. *pout* It was pretty, though. I’m going to love playing a cute furry girl with ears and a tail.  :D

Pah. Fie even. I hate English weather.

Not that this makes me unique, pretty much everyone does here, even the ones who were actually born and raised here. It’s mid-June, and the weather is cold and grey, with a real mean wind blowing. It’s threatening to rain at any moment. This is a problem for the brisk walk that I had planned on taking during my lunchtime, both for stress management and for exercise.

Sometimes I get really, really nostalgic for Los Angeles. I know that it’s not all beaches and sunshine (it wasn’t even when I did live right on the strand at Hermosa Beach, just steps from the sand and water). I have this very idealised vision of what it was like to live there, kind of a “good parts” version. You know, the one without gangs and smog and traffic jams and the possibility of getting shot. The good stuff.

Just once, though…just once I would like to have a proper summer. One where the sunshine and warm weather last more than just a few days. I’m a hot weather girl, I really miss sunshine – I’m probably a much nicer (less depressed) person in the sun. I want an endless stretch of sunny, hot weather, frosty drinks by the pool, sleeping with the windows open to catch the moonlight and night breezes.

That’s why everyone I know here has a dream of moving to Spain. Or Portugal. Or Greece.

Even though I am already nostalgic over the changes to old areas that I have loved, I’m loving a lot of this. Stormwind and Ogrimmar both look amazing. *squee*

I’ve done a lot more healing this weekend, and although Kes isn’t ready for the runs that I really want gear from, I’m getting more used to healing groups (otherwise known as Not Screwing Up). I really need to figure out Grid, however – although I can heal five mans by clicking on bars, it would be much too slow and clunky for anything more demanding. I overheal like mad, which at this point is ok by me as long as everyone stays on their feet. I’ll work on more efficient healing as I go on.

Oh, and Miz? “One of the things a new paladin needs to learn is not to be timid with Holy Light, but to be willing to use it a great deal, even if there is a lot of overhealing.” So there. :P

I would love to see the Hyldnir as a playable race. There’s something about these stout blue ladies that I really like. Although they, undeniably, do look stupid on a sparkle pony.

Now that I’m back in my enjoying-Warcraft phase, I’m thinking about looking for a guild. I have no intention of going back to 25-man raiding – the thought fills me with absolute horror. I quite enjoy having free time off, an actual life that doesn’t involve raiding five nights a week with people who I consider to mostly be a bunch of irritating pricks. (Not all, of course – I’ve been very lucky in my guilds, to be honest. But there are always those people who I would never have chosen to spend so much time with were it not for raiding.)

I think a 10-man guild sounds like the perfect solution. People who are experienced raiders, of course…although I love friendly, social guilds, I would hate waiting for endless periods of time while people put children to bed or have dinner or whatever. I want to raid hardcore on a casual basis, if that makes any sense. Raiding with respect and responsibility to guildmates, but only three or four nights a week. Raiding with people who show up early, repaired and stocked with consumables. Not with idiots.

This may take some time.

A guest post from one of the Warcraft blogs that I enjoy most: Jaedia’s The Lazy Sniper. This entry is entitled A Rant About Tanks 2: Electric Boogaloo, and it totally made me laugh. (And I have to tell ya, I desperately needed some giggles today, it’s been one of those weeks that’s on the Honor Roll of All-Time Shit Weeks.)

This is everything that you need to know about tanking:

• Use your hurty attacks to make the mean people not kill everyone.
• Every last healer and DPS is a wanker.

Enjoy. :)

That said, I’m totally going to try tanking this weekend. Be warned.