Healer at Heart I just can't get enough of that healing power.

Ha ha, just kidding.

I've done it!  I've finally hit rank 40.  It's just in time too.  My guild (Ordo Malleus) needed another healer as they're attempting to push on to Lost Vale.  I know that I'm a ways off in terms of gear but now at least I can work towards that.

Rank 40!

My first hours as 40 was fun, new, long, frustrating, then boring.

Fun/New/Long: After a short congratulations I was immediately ordered to head to Black Crag as our Alliance was about to head to a planned fortress siege.  Making it there just in time I was able to participate in my first succesfull fortress take.  We then rode out and headed to Chaos Wastes captured the BO's and took the keeps.  We camped out near the Destruction warcamp and guarded the zone for the 2 hours (that long?) needed before we headed up to The Maw.

Frustrating:  I went into this whole siege thing new and not expecting anything other than a thanks for helping.  The first fortress went down and I think I ended up 88th.  Fine by me, this was my first attempt at this sort of thing.  But somehow during the second fortress attack I was lucky enough to place 13th.  Gold bag!  OMG OMG OMG.  How does that work?  This is super cool!  I think I actually had butterflies.  So I made it past the wall of people into the lord room.  But guess what?  There were so many people standing on, near, and around the box that my timer ran out before I could even click on it. Not to mention the dead bird thing sitting on top of it too.  I know I wasn't the only one shorted the loot either.  Region chat was a mess at that point.  I've never been so mad at stupidity and just plain rudeness before.  Oh well, not much I can do about that now.

The Maw Fortress Siege

Boring:  We capped the fortress and moved on to the Inevitable City.  Woo!  We must have waited a bit too long to get into the city PQ's as our warband was put into a queue.  After defending the couple waves of Destro that showed up we realized we were most likely not going to make it in.  So we tried the suggestion of dropping group, logging out, logging back in, and jumping in singly.  That seemed to work except not all of were able to make it into the same instance.  I ended up being separated from my guild into a constantly losing PQ.  I played until we were finally kicked out of the city.  We were close, but not close enough to make it to the next stage.  But holy Hell was I bored.  It didn't help that I was in Vent listening to the rest of my guild dominating the one they were in.

Overall, it was fun though.  Hitting 40 and participating in my first city siege wasn't a bad way to start my rank 40 career.  I look forward to trying this again (hopefully with better success).