Without Dark You Cannot Have Light

*warning: uber judgmental post below*

Sorry for the horrible subject line....but I would really like to know how others cope with the other women that play wow, and by other women I mean the ones that use the fact that they are female, use photos and the promise of god-knows-what in order to advance themselves?

( Argh... )

Is it better to tank with a two-handed weapon or duel wield? Or is it more of a personal thing? I saw some tanks during Hallow's Eve duel wield and that didn't seem right to me, but what do I know. Nothing, I'll tell you that. :D

Is there an add-on/mod that tells how full/happy a pet is like numerically, such as 80/100? Because my alt hunter keeps feeding her pet and it's never topped off. I like having my pets happy and killing things. :D

I've seen and heard some people say that they suck at PVP or don't like it, but they are on a PVP server. Is there any reason you picked the PVP server? Was it because you didn't know any better, a friend was there, or something else? Why did you pick PVP over PVE in the first place? Are there any benefits for you PVPers out there? I did PVP because a friend was doing PVP at the time, but it was an alt I played once a week, so it wasn't too bad.

One hatchling and two new eggs in need of clicks. Thanks in advance, and I'm off to do some clicking of my own...

( Hatchling & Eggs! )

So my problem is healing in Northrend dungeons. I had no trouble at all keeping up with dungeons below level 60, most of my leveling was through dungeons, and I did almost every one of them, but now that I've hit 70 I've been having ridiculous amounts of trouble.

I was holy until 60 or so, and I switched to disc, and it feels like I'm still putting out a ridiculous amount of healing - penance tics off for a lot, I bubble a lot, toss out PoM whenever I see it fall off, and flash heal and renew in between when needed, etc. - but I've been having so much trouble keeping tanks alive.

In at least one case I know it wasn't me, we had a DK "tank" that was completely spec'd and geared for blood DPS, and in another we had a mage that kept stealing aggro and a hunter that was reliably hitting about 200 DPS.

So I guess my question is, is there that much of a huge difference between 70+ normal instances, and say, level 60 ones? Or am I just dealing with some spectacularly fail groups? Or am I just being slow? It just seems like I shouldn't have to work my butt off this hard to keep people alive, particularly when I have to consistently do intensive healing on two or three party members at once instead of just the tank.

This be my armory. I'm sure my gear could be better, and my spec isn't perfect, but I don't think I'm so horribly far off that I'm shooting myself in the foot, so to speak. At least, I hope not.

(I hope this makes sense. My new pain meds are making me a little loopy. XD)

( Thanks in advance! )

( There Be Dragons Everywhere... grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. )

Monday, why do you treat me this way?
( Is it Wednesday yet? )

Unicreatures:

and Batty, my current medal critter - he likes all the clicks:

J: | M:

thanks! i've clicked back to my last post. :D
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( eggs )

ugh it got so late already without me nanoing at all. goes to type like a woman insane.

( clicking all, commenting some )

Happy Monday! My friend's hatchlings just passed the 3.5 day mark and they still haven't gained their wings, so they could use some love. c:

( plz 2 be cliking drgnz? )

Thank you! I'll be ninja-clicking as usual~

All I can say is Ew! The gear makes me so not willing to explore end content for my 80 druid. I haven't played her in a while.

I can handle the paladin which I'm level 43, so it'll be a while yet.

Pictures are here

( Back from vacation! )

( Dragons )

(  Two stinky eggs  )

Ok...my little lock isn't the most powerful, granted she's at 37 right now. But I just can't figure out a good affliction spec for her or glyphs. Actually, when it comes to her, I'm completely confused. I've read up on the forums, but I still can't pick out if stamina is better to stack for a lock or Int.
...and honestly I can't find a good balance on her. There are times I can handle 2 or three mobs at a time, and a little later with a gear change and an increase of Int. those same mobs will wipe the floor with me. I'm silently hoping that when I pick up Dark Pact at 40 that it will help out my survivability since I wouldn't have to use life tap as much for mana (which three life taps drain me to almost nothing at this point and barely add a 1/3 to my mana pool).

Any help or encouragement/helpful criticism would be appreciated.

Oh, and here's her Armory: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Earthen+Ring&n=Elindine

I just got home, and I expected to just play WoW, but it downloaded some sort of patch, and now it's giving me this pop-up saying:

"Launcher requires write permission to the StarCraft II Registry key to successfully locate and run the game. Please enable write access to the Registry key using an administration account."

I can't log-in to WoW without doing this. Does anyone know what this means? :( Any help is appreciated. I just want to play, damnit lol. :(

Edit: Got it. The link that helped me fix it is in the comments. Stupid Bliz. Sigh. Thanks again!

Edit 2: OMG. I think this ninja patch screwed something up AGAIN. I play WoW in Windows Mode, and I can usually talk in Vent when it is under WoW, but now I can't. I have to put Vent over my WoW window in order to talk, and I don't know why. I've tried looking up stuff online, but everything on this topic is for a Mac. :(

Edit 3: Vent issue fixed. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2856023849&postId=29493200520&sid=1#0

I closed Vent, and did "Run as administrator". Geez. What a bad WoW night. :(

Winame, my medal creature. Click him as much as you please. Thanks ^_^

Needs 1000 CP. And a lot of Astralune.

Brick and Mortar
A World of Warcraft Story by Gre7g Luterman

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