Rp, Dailies, and I Should Tank Moar.

Well, yesterday was a good day.

I went out and did my dailies, like a good little paladin. I am still awed by how fast the mobs die, and still sad by how often I'm OoM, despite keeping seal of wisdom and judgment of wisdom up.

I did my Hodir dailies, then I went to WG to farm fire. Like a little crybaby whiner, I bubble-hearthed when a 'lock and rogue decided that I'd done the round in the eternal fire area enough. That was fine, I got two fires with minimal effort. The 'lock even /danced with me as I bubble-hearthed away. Apparently, controlling WG isn't necessary to farm eternals- just have a good grasp on your coward buttons, and be prepared to accept a death.

I skinned some stuff, and earned 100g yesterday with minimal effort, then took my nap. I was a good little protadin!

When I woke up, I logged onto Rhainn, my primarily for RP death knight. Now Rhainn is an interesting character, to me. I enjoy playing villains, but villains with motivations and reasons behind what they do. No one wakes up one morning and decides that they want to kill everyone just because they're there. If they do, it's kind of unrealistic, in my opinion.

Rhainn was supposed to be a villain. But because of her multi-faceted nature, there was space in her character for a chance at redemption. Not that she wanted it. Her exterior consisted of a lot of grunting, alcoholism, cursing, and fighting. She's unfriendly, short fused, and bad at communicating. She doesn't trust anyone, and is in serious denial. I really didn't expect anyone to probe past the fact that she was apparently pissed off at the world and only really liked to drink and fight and yell at strangers.

Still, she was the daughter of one of the more prominent guild members, and was given a chance. People began to get to know her, and at least one began to understand her, in all her crazy, angry, bitter ways.

Rhainn's backstory is complicated, to say the least. I wanted a villain who had reasons to be villainous. Rhainn's primary motive was to keep everyone away, because she was dangerous. This is because she does not possess free will, entirely. On occassion, the faction that rules her raises it's ugly head and takes her over, tells her what to do, how to do it- and the hell with anything she wants. She is there to obey. As a result, being the obstinant thing she is, she rebels against anything and anyone that she perceives as trying to control her- and kept her problems a very guarded secret. God forbid anyone should perceive her as weak. Better to die fighting to prove otherwise, than to let anyone have any doubt.

At any rate, she's changed over the past few months. Changed a lot, and mostly due to the fact that despite her best intentions, she got too close to those around her. Oh, she's still nasty and unpleasant to strangers, and communicates mostly with grunting and narrowed eyes; it took countless fist fights and screaming fits for anyone to penetrate the thick barrier she formed about herself. Only someone as stubborn and hard headed as Makis could have survived, and there were times when I wondered if he would.

Now she can even admit she cares about him, and, when caught off guard or absent-minded, might even make statements that imply she doesn't loathe everyone else in the world, though those statements are quickly followed by defensive abrasiveness.

At any rate, Rhainn came out to play last night, and there was some -very- fun plot oriented RP as a result.

Kudos to Makis and to Jandrith for the new plot arc that appeared out of no where. This should be entertaining!

Goal Setting

A more comprehensive introduction than the mandatory first post:

I have been playing World of Warcraft for a year and a half, now. It took me most of nine months just to level to seventy. I had no knowledge or real interest in raiding; I played for the role play aspect of the game, and still do, to an extent. I have never been in a primarily raiding guild. In BC, I never made it past Karazhan, with the notable exception of downing part of Zul'Aman before the EasyMode patch- that was a thrill.

Back in BC, I was a FoL spammer. That's pretty much what I did. Spam FoL, move. I thought MP5 was great, and my holy crit never even touched 20%. I only raided because my RP guild needed a healer, and it was cruel to make the shadow priest spec holy.

We stopped raiding when our main tank went AFK for a few months. I think I raided for, what, two months total?

When WotLK hit, I was quite excited to get into the raiding aspect again. I'd really enjoyed the time I spent with my guildies facing down Prince and getting teh epic l00tz. So, with our main tank back and a new guild name above our heads- yes, another RP guild- we formed up grand schemes on how we were going to raid Naxx 10 in the coming content with our RP guild friends.

Now, understand this. I was a newb, before I started raiding. I never carried water, I didn't know how to prioritize stats, my talent spec was a complete mess. Raiding taught me a lot, and I wanted to be as prepared as I could be, for WotLK. I leveled to eighty... as holy. Solo.

This left me frothing at the mouth when it came to doing quests. I could not stand questing. As a result, I did as many dailies to get the minimum level with Hodir, and then stopped. I also had no tradeskills. I hit eighty with about 4k gold to spare, but between enchanting, gemming, repairs, and consumables- eventually this gold store got worn down. It took a surprising amount of time, but alas, I am now broke.

The main part of the story is that I did start raiding Naxx 10, with great success. I had a two month hiatus which I spent researching like a crazy person, driven to understand every part of my spec and my role in a raid. I still have much to learn, but I am a very proficient healer, and I love healing.

However, this particular post is about... funds.

Recently, I've worked on my prot set, as our guild's OT- the aforementioned MT I ran with in Kara days- is having another several month AFK. The retadin specced prot for our raid, but has now left to join the Marines. Our beartank OT still hasn't come back from moving. This has left... me, the holydin.

I won a roll on Thane's Tainted Greathelm, which left me feeling guilty because our retadin OT could have used it too. (I wasn't going to roll, but I was told to by the RL and the OT... still, I was holy, and he was OTing, not me!) So, guiltily, I looked at my prot set, and I began the long, arduous process of balancing everything so that I finally- FINALLY!- hit the defense cap. All was well with the world! Except my funds.

My apathetic attempts at dailies and selling of my leveling tradeskills built up the funds a little bit, but I blew through 700g enchanting and gemming my gear for optimal use. When I finally finished and specced myself prot, I was down to 20g... a fraction of my repair bills.

Half-heartedly, I finished leveling my professions, and sold off my cobalt and saronite. I sold stacks and stacks of Borean leather.

But it comes down to this: I won't be able to continue to fund my speccing and respeccing and gemming and enchanting, unless I start doing dailies, and set some goals.

So, last night, I decided that I would take some time away from RP- yes, I still do that, despite my borderline obsession with raiding and knowing everything there is to know about raiding- and set some goals. I would like to someday be able to use my bronze drake mount. I hate being poor all the time.

My goals are-

1. Do my Hodir dailies. I'm half a bar from exalted, damn it.
2. Farm 1 eternal fire a day, preferably 2 if I can stand it
3. Farm 1 stack of Borean leather a day
4. If I have time, circle icecrown for saronite and titanium

I've also begun to build up a 'stash' of goods in my bank. I'd like to stick a couple of stacks of Saronite and a stack of Titanium bars in there, just in case. I'd like to have a stack of each kind of eternal, so that I can provide mats for anything I really want. I've got some uncut blue quality gems as well. I've got three titansteel bars.

I want to be that person that can help a guildie get the mats they need. I want to be that person who can respec without a second thought. And damn it...

I want to be that person on the bronze drake. SOMEDAY, EPIC FLYING WILL BE MINE.

If I can make my current goals, I will up them, and set my questing dailies goals a little higher. Questing as Prot is no where near as agonizing as questing as holy was. My only problem is going OoM.

Current funds: 800g
Bank Goals: Will post when I have the information in front of me.

Also, if anyone ever reads this- opinion:

Should I drop Skinning, which provides me some money and an extra 36 crit, and try to level up a different profession?

I hate spending money on stuff that isn't gear or directly raid-oriented. >.<