Nine Muses

It seems like money comes much more quickly, lately.  It’s not just that Ceire is at the level cap, because it’s happening for Sera more than it is for Ceire.  It’s been fortunate.  I’m not flush with pretend cash or anything, but I was able to buy Sera’s epic flight skill on Friday (and then save another thousand for a second druid spec, and am halfway to the money for Sera’s second spec).

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Ceire now has a tanking spec.  After managing to save up and purchase Sera’s epic flight skill last week, the money seemed to keep rolling in (relatively) and I was able to easily make another 1000 for my second druid spec.  (Hint: flasks sell fairly well.)

I admit, I cheated when it came to choosing her talents.  I found a tanking build link on Wowwiki, reviewed it briefly to make sure there was nothing too strange in it, and then set it up exactly the same.  I still need to go back and review the choices with a more critical eye, but at the time, I just wanted to get into it.

I don’t know that I said it out loud before, but I’d always felt that being in bear form was a little boring, and cat not much better.  There just wasn’t much to do.  The rotation involved two, perhaps three, skills for most fights.  Now I am overwhelmed by the number of options.  Where I had plenty of empty spots on my bear and cat bars before, they are now both full.  I had to move my herbalism heal to a side bar, and still have a couple of talent-based abilities on my upper bar.  Now, instead of being bored, I’m trying to remember all the tools I have at my disposal to make sure they get used.

And now I get to learn how to tank effectively, starting right at level 80.  This should be fun.

Before the sapling came along, I had a serious altitis problem.  I have, currently, 26 characters that are level 10 or higher.  There may be more.  That’s just what the Armory is owning up to, which hasn’t always been accurate for long unseen characters.  Just for curiosity’s sake, some statistics:

• Eleven are in their teens, four in their twenties, four in their thirties, two in the forties, two in the fifties, one at 60, Sera at 75, and Ceire being my only character at the current cap.
• I have four hunters, from 17 to 60.
• I have four mages, from 10 to 34.  I had one to upper fifties in beta but haven’t reached that point again since.
• Ten are human.
• Eighteen are Alliance and eight are Horde.

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If there was an achievement for being frustrated and road blocked by game bugs, I think I’d have earned it.  Outlands seems particularly finicky in the number of quests needed for completing Loremaster.  With only Netherstorm left to go, I have four zones for which I have still not completed the Loremaster related achievements.

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I went into this book knowing that others had said it was a somewhat dark combination of Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia.  I had no idea what I was in for.

When I finished the book last night, I set it down, walked out to my husband and said that I hated it.  I then went on to explain that I didn’t really mean that, that it was an excellent book, and that I loved it, but that it was also very dark and sometimes difficult.

If you’re looking for typical heroic fantasy, where the protagonist rises above his faults to win the day and save the world… this is not that book.  Yes, there are elements of that, and if I felt like playing devil’s advocate, I could probably make a convincing argument for it based on some few bits, but that isn’t what the book is about.

(Minor spoilers below.)
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