One Mouthy Broad

I have to put one of my dogs down today. She can't eat anything due to the enormous tumor in her stomach, and she's dwindled to the point where her quality of life is horrible. I think I'm taking this so hard because she's only eight years old. I thought we'd have at least a few more years with her. But she's the sweetest tempered, nicest, most well behaved dog I've ever had, so naturally she has to die young.

I have to say, this really blows.

So I've been rather bitter about the latest round of nerfs to the Druid class. After two years of playing the red-headed stepchild class of WoW, we finally got some serious love with the expansion pack - and finally we weren't the suckiest class in the game.

As I figured, this was too good to last. And now, due to a bunch of whiners, we've been hit with the nerf bat after only a month and a half of being fixed. Some had legitimate gripes (warriors did need a buff - but I fail to see why a Druid needs a nerf), but most are a bunch of 14 year old rogue noobs who figure if they can't wtfpwn another class in under five seconds - you must be overpowered.

I realize that nerfs come and go. Classes get new powers and nerfed all the time - but this time it truly blows. We were broken for two freaking years until they finally got around to making us useful and only a month and a half later we're back to our pre expansion uselessness for feral druids. I suspect that the resto and balance trees are next. I guess if they do that, I'm goint to throw in the towel and just level up my lock to 70 because I'm getting really tired of playing the most disrespected, fucked up and misunderstood class in the game.

Honestly, I think this whole thing is driven more by market economics rather than any desire to balance the game. Druids are by far the least played class in the game. Warriors and rogues are two of the most played (warriors alone outnumber us at least four to one). And let's face it, Blizzard is a company and the thing they are most concerned with is their bottom line.

But this video made by the dudes that did the illegal danish stuff, almost makes the nerf worth it.

Argh... Fic issues.

I was going to write a fluffy Carth/Morgana/Dustil piece for The Full Monty fic challenge over on kfm, but my brain seems to be stuck. While it's kind of a cute idea, it's not really a story, but just a cute scene which unfortunately just doesn't have any story momentum if that makes any sense at all.

So I decided to write a teenage!Canderous story but then I realized that my ideas were too similar to the Dustil story that I already wrote.

Next, my fevered mind thought it would be cool if I worked in naked Jolee into my imagined first chapter of the Jolee/Nayama story that won't leave my brain alone. However, I realized that if I wrote the first chapter, that I would break down and write the whole damn fic. Another idea discarded.

I also realized that the first scene of the next chapter of Common Ground might work for the challenge, but I'm not sure how well it would stand on its own.

So now I'm back to square one.

I think I'm just going to let it sit for a couple of days and work on my sadly neglected story Chasing Redemption. If I can figure out a way to finesse one of the above ideas into working then I'll enter a submission.

It occurs to me that this might be some big cosmic, karmic payback for creating the monster kotor roleplay thread that has caused the delay of some of the best fics in the kotor fandom…

Hmm… I think my brain needs to chill out and have a beer.