The Patient

My two alts needed levelling up. I couldn't get their professions any higher if I didn't and that's all I really have them for. It was with a heavy heart that I plunged into the world of dungeon finder to get me some much needed xp.

The reasons I've put it off for so long are probably the same reasons most people have alts that are languishing in the 40-to-60 region. Upper and lower Blackrock Spire and the people you encounter via pugging.

I used to heal with Pazima belive it or not. Instant queues were very handy. I knew I wasn't going to be the greatest at healing but I wanted to try it out. (Bearing in mind I had never gone into a dungeon until I was level 83 and when I did them as achievements I could one-shot everything so I never really had to pay attention.) I went into Scarlet Monastery without any guildies as back up and had a really good group. I kept everyone alive and only faltered right at the end when I got aggro and died, but managed to keep everyone else up (my healing spec is Holy) I was whispered by one of the dps who told me "you're a really good healer!" It boosted my confidence no end and made me belive that I possibly could be a healer. It then all went south with the next group. My then guild master came with me on a similar level mage and we went into the same dungeon. We had a tank who want willing to wait for anyone and was pulling left right and centre. He would run out of range pull everything but not keep aggro and lo and behold I want able to keep him and the group up when we were effectively getting slaughtered but as the healer, it was my fault. I should have been prepared for this as I had often seen healer bashing going on and should have expected it to be 'my fault' but considering I was trying my hardest at a class I was learning I could stop myself from feeling angry and hurt. The gm said nothing, probably due to his love of being top dog and left me to be verbally abused by someone who thought they were the God of WoW. The last straw came when I was called a retard for dying when I had aggro off of mobs that the tank had failed to keep control of. At that point the gm did say that was unfair as I did have aggro that I shouldn't have but I had had enough. I quit, the gm stayed and then told me that they found a better healer who knew what they were doing. I found my trainer, activated my second spec as shadow and stayed in it, never wanting to heal again.

Fast forwarding six months, while I was in my horde phase, I started levelling a druid as melee dps and tank. I stuck with dps as I knew I couldn't get myself into too much trouble with it. Due to being on a 'normal' realm, I could quest without fear of being ganked and some dungeons I missed altogether by out-levelling them. I remember being in Uldaman and the healer and the other two dps left. There was me and a warrior tank. I stood there in my kitty-kat form just waiting for the inevitable.

"Druid, can you heal?"
"I can, but I warn you, I'm not very good"
"It's fine, I'll pull small groups, you ready?"
"Ok"

True to his word he pulled the world smallest groups and I didn't have to break a sweat with the two spells I had at the time. I don't know if he was aware I didn't even have a healing spec but nevertheless we ploughed on until weer got to a boss where we had to wait.
"You did great but I think we need to wait now :)"
I was pleased, I think I had given myself a way out clause as I didn't have a healing spec as then if I was shit, there was the answer. There were a few dungeons like that where I had been called on to heal while the actual healer was afk or had quit. I  levelled Emava quite far and only had to heal a few, short times.

When I changed back to Alliance I missed my kitty and after a month, brought her back with me. It's at this point I took an interest in Pazima again as Emava was level 72 and Paz was only level 58. I had levelled enchanting as far as I could on her and needed to get her actually levelled up to go any further.

After making my way through numerous Blackrock dungeons I was almost losing the will to live. I was plucked out of dungeoning hell by an old guild mate who ran me through Hellfire Ramparts and The Blood Furnace until I dinged 60. Bless him, he was greeding on the loot when I saw a ring I could use when I was level 61. I asked if I could need it (silly as he had no use for it but it's just polite to not be a ninja) "of course you can you stupid space goat" was the reply. Sure made me laugh! I did then ninja some gloves that had gem sockets in and laughed when he saw that I had rolled need. After that I was in my own again but at least I was on new dungeons that didn't take an age and a gold badge in orienteering from the Scouts to complete.

Off on my merry way I went, determined to make it to level 65 so I could further my enchanting and now jewelcrafting career. Queuing as dps sure didn't make it quick but no way in hell was I queuing as a healer to make it quicker. Most of the dungeons I had seen before after running them to gather cloth and so was fairly comfortable with what I was doing. I was in The Blood Furnace again when the healer we had decided, mid way through that they needed to go to class. My heart sank, I knew what was coming. Most of my stuff didn't have any spirit on it so if I ran out of mana I was screwed.

"Priest, can you heal?"
"I can but I'm not very good"
"It's fine, let's go"

With that we were off, staying in range, madly focusing on the nameplates of my pug group and being unable to loot anything, I dutifully threw the three healing spells I had at them. All was going relatively well, I had my heart in my mouth panicking at the thought of failure but we seemed to be ok. We entered a boss room and the Druid tank ran off into the room. We died. "omg I was silenced" I posted into the instance chat. "hah never mind, I'll pull smaller groups, I didnt realise they could silence" I was in love with this little bear! Rather than bitching that I hadnt been able to keep them up he was accepting that shit happens and even though I was not prepared for healing I was giving it a shot. The rest of the dungeon we worked through slowly and steadly, we never did get a healer. Before the end boss I did get a bit worried again...

"Should I swich to Holy?"
"Nah, youre doing fine"

We survived!

Another group I went into, the healer went AFK and ended up being kicked. We had a hunter on the team and with the clever use of CC we got through most of it without needing a healer. The tank was a monk so was able to kip themselves up. Things got a bit hary when the Hunter decided to just start filling everything with bullets and got more aggro than the tank could keep off. Seeing that he was about to peg it, I shrugged off my Shadowform and started to heal without even being asked. And I did ok again, I was slowly coming around to healing but I just knew that I would be more comfortable if it was with a group comprised of just guildies.

The flip side and the one that you most frequently see happened with Chizzorz and I. We had a Pally tank called 'Sainsburys' (had some random letters in it like ű but can't remember what ones exactly) while I was levelling Emava and he was shall we say, an arsehole. He was launching himself through after wanting a quick run (that's nice but what about the rest of us?) And left Chizzorz to die and went straight onto a boss. I left him to it to go back and combat res Chiz. He was mighty pissed off to have been just left behind to die after the tank didn't want to hang around long enough to make sure he had all the aggro. The worst bit came when he launched himself into a load of trash and we all piled in after him, he then shouted not to attack and called us all 'retards, complete retards' after we wiped. Chiz told him that is not our fault and he shouldn't get so arsey as it's just a game, I told him to give it a rest and our other dps reported him for language as she had a six year old at next to her watching. It's people like this you find in the majority of dungeons and worse in lfr and they almost ruin it for you if you don't remember that they clearly must have nothing better going on if they get so worked up about a level 75 dungeon.

I guess that's why you get the Patient title, you have to be a saint to put up with it all....

Ore Farming

As I started ore farming on Emava so she could provide the mats to Pazima for her jewel crafting. I would keep having to look up where I could find certain ores. So far I've found Fel Iron, Adamantite and Colbolt the hardest to find as there are always Hordies around,  which makes it a giant pain in the ass to find.

To help any budding miners on their way, here are the spots I've farmed ore in and on the whole, I've had quite a lot of it. I have included up to where I am currently with mining, as I level I will be able to get other ores so will update accordingly.

Copper: I stuck with Elwynn Forest for this one. There are loads of nodes around the rocks and in the mines to farm. There is a hill near Jerrods Landing that has a rare nearby, the hill has no end of nodes on it and is a great place to start, after that just move around to any rocky areas and then follow the mountains round.

Tin and Silver: I went to Hillsbrad Foothils for these. Unfortunately so did a lot of Horde. There is a cave full of tin in the snowy area on the hill. First time round I didn't manage to get any of it as there was a lvl 90 Hordie mining it all /sadface. Pretty much all you have to do is just keep circling around the snowy bit and the stuff will keep respawning. Sliver is quite difficult to find in this area so I did have to make a return trip for it and went around the areas outside of the snowy bit so I could just mine them and not tin. (This is to make sure that when I go back, I know that the green circles on GatherMate are going to be silver if I'm outside of the snow area and mostly tin if I'm in it)

Iron and Gold: I went to Western Plaguelands as it was only a stones throw away from where I was and you just need to do a great big loop. I found no end of iron nodes but only two gold, it just wasn't my lucky day! I did go back and found some more though. Just make sure you avoid the black bears on the hilly bits of your not a high enough level to kill them without much trouble add they can bumble over the top of a rock and take you completely by surprise!

Mitheral and Truesilver: Burning Steppes. The best place ever to farm this. Just go in a massive loop round the outside, there are so many nodes, some practically one on top of the other. Three laps got me nearly 300 ores. Don't go inside any caves and whatnot as tempting as it might be as this will just slow you down.

Thorium: I chose Winterspring. Purely because there was a tailoring pattern I wanted. It got a bit fiddly trying to mine it all. It's not a straightforward loop around the zone, with many mountain ranges to navigate. I was able to mine Rich Thorium Vein right of the bat which helped but after two loops around I only managed to get 150 ores. Was expecting more from a zone that size. Will try Un'gol Crater next time as it's a case of just going around the outside.

Fel Iron: Oh how I hate thee... Hellfire is the place that has the most. But it's also full of other miners. I've been ganked quite a few times by lvl 90's who were also there farming. Out of the whole area I have discovered at most 25 nodes which is quite depressing. Monknessa did send me a screenshot of her map so I could have a better idea of where to look for them. I did have a small success farming it in Nagrand, when looking for other veins.

Adamantite and Khorium: This was ridiculous to find. I went to Nagrand to find this and had to contest with the level 90 Hordies trying to gank me and steal it. It had a respawn with the rare Khorium vein which lowered my chances of getting anything. Unfortunately my jewelcrafting on Pazima is at the point where I need the ore to make the powder so I couldn't really skip this part.

Cobalt: This had been a trial too, have tried two zones Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord. Neither of which produced much considering how big they are. Luckily the veins I did find produces a fair amount of ore and I did manage to find one or two rich Cobalt Veins so I had enough to get started with.

Saronite: I'd tried Sholazar Basin for this but with the many level 90 Hordes hanging around it was just ending up as a rather tiresome and long corpse run. Even though its essentially a big loop to get round all the nodes, it was taking far too long. I decided to go to Wintergrasp. There was less ore to be found and some I couldnt get to due to the mobs hanging around but all in all it was less stressful/gankfilled area to farm.

Obsidium: This ended up with me back in Vashj'ir. I really dont like this place. The swimming around 3d nature of it meant that I would constantly be swiming into mobs and then not being able to work out where they were to try and kill them. Once I had worked out the route around the Shimmering Expanse, the respawn rate was really quick and I could gather a lot really quickly. Plus my water form on my Druid made the swimming bit painless.

Elementium: Urgh, this was like Fel Iron ore all over again. The loop recommended around Twilight Highlands was huge and didnt seem to provide much. I spent a fair few hours trying to gather enough ore for Pazima to prospect for gems. It was painful progress, although I managed to go from 83 to 84 while doing it. I could also see someone else farming in the other direction to me which wasnt helping matters, I didn't try Uldum but I would have thought that it would have been quicker to farm due to less people.

Ghost Iron: I started off by doing laps in The Jade Forest. Near the Sri-La Village. There were quite a few and any mobs I ran into were manageable. I needed to get to the Silken Fields to start doing my Imperial Silk so I ventured into Valley of the Four Winds. Parked myself at Halfhil and then went around the farms and the lakes. It was much better than Jade Forest, I only pulled one mob which I could just run away from. Two laps round and I had got from 500 to 585. and had more than enough for my JC to prospect.

Images that made me laugh...

We have a section on the guild forum for 'Too good not to share' items. Pictures about WoW or other general funnies that we have found on the internet. I came across these and a few I have shared but the rest are sitting idly on my desktop. Rather than keep them for myself, why not share them with everyone!

 



Older than WoW its self... This person has been playing since WoW was just a sparkle in Blizzards eye!

 



If someone wants to make this cake for my birthday please, feel free!

 



Can't help but think - How long did it take them to finish fighting over who was going to be what colour? How long did it take them to get their mogs? And where is the Pink Power Ranger?!?!

 



Dominos online ordering. Many times I've thought about what you would put in this box... "be sexy" was as close as we got when ordering during a flat warming party...

 



All those people who charge at the doors on battlegrounds, with their combined effort maybe one day they will force those computer gates open with the power of pixels!

 



The gods honest truth. It took me an hour to complete this dungeon as no one wanted to run it. I was on my Druid while I was still horde and had to take up the position of Tank, Healer and DPS at various points during this dungeon. Almost made me want to sack off being a druid and re-roll...

 



It's a heinous crime! (and a bloody good episode!)

 



This one I love. The amount of comments I get about my slutmog barely covering the 'essentials'. Although I have a bit more coverage via a few chains, you would have thought that I would have been dead far more times than I am if it actually worked like proper armour! (although I am not too sure that I 'can' actually die any more or I would have to re-roll as an undead...)

 



Oh my god... I want one of these. The cutest thing ever made!

 



This is as old as the hills. I splurted my drink when I came across it as I immediately thought of the Pallys in guild being like this! (Our Pallys are tough as old plate boots so it would have to be a  really big spider or something to make them bubblehearth ;-) )

 

 



 

This is evident if you stand around in a city for long enough, you always hear the moaning about things being changed and the excitement about other things. (Excitement, confusion, boredom, hatred since and repeat) I think the story is told so much better because its a panda...

 



Monknessa brought this to our attention on the guild forum. How many times has this happened. or you find one, get excited, enter into battle and then find all your pets are ten level higher than it so you just have o make its death swift and painless...

 



Oh if only this was real! I have the Celestial Steed (top right) people are always telling me it looks naff because of all the glitter and shit. If only it was an actual My Little Pony... *swoon*

 



My absolute favourite things in WoW. Sod the Pandas, sod the shiny new loot even sod killing Garrosh. These snails win hands down every time. We ran a raid to the Forgotten Depths and even with us knowing what to expect we were on TS just counting down how many people got eaten by the snails. It was and still is the funniest raid I have ever done.

 



LFR angst. Every raid has someone who has to get arsey. It's like some Blizzard rule that if you don't have someone in there who is having a bitch-fit about something then you are doomed to fail. Needless to say its those very same raids that usually have you crying with laughter as people engage their typing fingers before their brains...

 



Ok, I may have made a hasty decision with the 'cutest thing ever' now I have to make a decision. LOOK AT ITS CUTE EYES!!!!

 



The look on this healers face kinda sums up what they feel when they get yelled at to heal. "You stand in the shit on the floor, you're not getting healed" "KICK THE NOOB HEALER! OMFG!"

 



The Alliance ARE unicorns! We are precious and magical. And we just killed your Warchief. Suck on that *snort*

 



Yeah, this is how I feel every time I have to go there... and OH JOY! Looks like I'll be going there AGAIN to farm ore *waves worlds smallest flag*

 



 

This is what happens when Warlocks have a disco....

 

Annnnd we're done! Hope you like them, they certainly have made my WoW down time more interesting!

Flex funnies

After the officers meeting on Thursday, Alr and Monknessa plucked me from my slacking and  transported me into the world of Flex.

At first I couldn't get in as they were just finishing the Fallen Protectors but I kept clicking 'teleport to instance' and eventually rocked up.

We needed to get to Norushen and we hugged the rock face as we made our way through the trash. We came across 'Vanity' and while the melee had to drop down to it, the majority of the healers and I stayed at the top on the ledge, out of harms way. As I fired off my first shot, Barney scuttled down the sheer drop to join in the fight. I was concerned after the trash was down that he might pull extra mobs trying to make his way back to me. I needn't have worried, like a mountain goat/unrealistic computer character he managed to scale the vertical face and return to me, like the good little pink dinosaur he is.

We got into Norushen's domain and took up our positions. I don't quite know what was wrong with me but I only remember three bits of this fight (which might go some way to explaining why I ended up like I did)
-I remember dying almost instantly and feeling like a complete twat because I had no idea why I had died.
-I remember being ressed (they're was no getting away from it with two Druids and a Death Knight on the team) and thwacking the boss about a bit, seeing an add pop up, my brain went into auto-pilot and before a tank had a chance to pick it up I fired one shot at it. It decided it wasn't going to stand for that and waltzed over and bitch-slapped me to death. It didn't go unnoticed that I had died again...
-I remember people talking about loot and the tier peice that drops. There is a chest peice and there were a few people who wanted that. When the loot box opened, I re-rolled as everything this boss had to offer was an upgrade. I got gold. Never mind. I asked for a res to avoid keeping people waiting with my loading screen and then, once alive checked my cache. Omfg. The rest of the team were lamenting over their gold or the fact that they got worthless loot. 'I've got the chest' I whispered over ts.
'What! But you were dead!?'

Sha was uneventful, we did what we were supposed to, killed what we were supposed to and most of us survived until the end *side steps away*
This time I didn't roll on anything and was happy with the few breadcrumbs of gold that was thrown my way.

The funny one was the great piñata that is Iron Juggernaut. I'm not sure why Blizzard put in a boss like this after they introduced the soul destroyer that is Spine of Deathwing in the last expansion. Actually, maybe that is why!

We cantered up to the gates to take him on. Mind was in the Sky Golem. Upon seeing 'Juggers' the realisation of what was in front of him hit home...

"DADDY!!!"



If only he had turned around but the uncanny resemblance between 'father' and 'son' was clear for all to see. Unfortunately, Mind was quite happy to kill his 'father' and pillage his rusting shell...

While we were waiting (for what, I have no idea. It was like when you group up before going into a nightclub but you don't actually join the queue) Stanza decided that he would let curiosity get the better of him and he went for a gallop around Juggers. All was going well. We watched him dally around dipping in and out of the fences add he skirted around the boss. Ts was mainly silent, as we waited for the inevitable to happen.

DBM announced that we had initiated the fight. 'Have fun! :)' it joyfully told us. We all were watching Stanza, up one minute and down the next.
"Good work"
"What were you doing?"
"Stop dying!"
"I wanted to see how big his aggro area was, I found it..." Stanza explained as he ran back in.
Juggers reset and was further back. Stanza went around again and pulled the boss. We waited for his nameplate to say 'dead' but it didn't happen.
"That was a panic vanish!" He gulped as he appeared in front of us. Juggers disappeared again.
"I wonder if I can run there and back before he respawns?"

Without waiting to hear our pleas, he was off. He made it there and he made it back.
"Go for lap two?" He asked while running back again.
"You should have just stayed dead" Alr sighed as Stanzas little blue pony disappeared into the distance.
As he was running back Juggers decided to make an entrance. Stanza swerved behind him.
"That, was close" he laughed as he swung back round to the group.
"Why did you not take our Rogue sacrifice!" Someone wailed. "He wants to die!"
"Shall we just kill the boss?" Zinta asked. 'Yes' rang out over ts as everyone tried to agree at the same time. And with that, we set to it...

PvP woes and success

Most days we have a RBG session to 'take out your real-life stress on those hordies - they totally deserve it'

We always try to make it a guild run (need 8 people to be from Jesters to make a win rbg win also count as a guild win) but try as we might, for many nights now we hadn't managed to get that elusive guild team win. The days ticked by, tensions started to get a bit fraught.

There was a RBG starting last night, there was also an alt-run for ToT which got called a bit erlier than it could have been as some of us were going to do the RBG. We had a team of 7 so were a person short for the 8 but also had a spare spot going free too. Roly whispered that he could join in but he only had PvE gear. The Gulid Master coming along to get battered by Horde -or potentially another Alliance team? We were not going to pass up that offer! We then had Vinzlage offer to join us too, brilliant! We were all excited and ready to go. We had ten people ready so didnt need to pug for our last member.

We pugged a tenth member a few nights ago and he was a disaster. He wasnt healing anything (I say 'anything' as he wasnt healing us, he must of been trying to heal the rocks, but wasnt showing up on the healing chart at all...) and was telling us that what we were doing was poor tactics, even though there was all of us on TS talking about what we were doing etc. He then decided to go off and get the flag from the middle after we had spammed raid chat telling him not to. This resulted in the opposition team going nuts, taking our tower that had the flag and resulted in us losing the match. Our RBG leader was not happy. Shouting the odds over TS and typing the 'groups' feelings in raid chat. 'Can we just kick him?' 'with pleasure' *boot*

Vinzlage asked what our strategy was, It usually depended on what battleground we were in so we didn't really have a plan. He gave us teams which didn't go down well with the group organiser. We went into the first battleground. It was Warsong Gulch a capture the flag battleground. We had a brief 'discussion' before the doors went up about what we were going to do. We decided that the best plan of attack was to go with Vinzlage's idea of splitting into teams of defending, attacking and brawling as we had followed the old tactics so many times and not got far. It was with a bit of heel dragging that our group organiser conceded to try it. The first flag was taken by the Horde and with Vinzlage giving directions over TS it wasn't long before our organiser started shouting orders to us over what Vinz was saying. There was a tense moment as Vinz then graciously conceded that the leader wasn't for turning and opted to follow his instruction instead.

In the meantime, Roly was finding life on the battleground a world away to what he was used to. Lamenting over TS that his holy spells were merely tickling the opposition rather than the crippling blows he was used to in PvE "they're only doing 40k... I'm not used to this". Unfortunately the Horde were not about to offer him any leniency and mercilessly set about bashing him into the ground at every opportunity. At gates up on the next RBG he asked if he was to defend again. "yes, because you're very squishy" Vinz replied, there was no denying it for someone in plate, he was so squishy it was alarming.

Warsong didn't end well, we were not in our flow. We lost 2-3. Not a huge margin but it was enough to make the organiser a bit fraught. "It was our first one of the night, our first ones are always bad before we get into it" Monknessa reminded everyone. Which was true, most of us had gone from fighting bosses that had a set pattern and now we were up against oppositions that we couldn't plan a set tactic for. We queued again, slightly deflated but ready to get that win.

We ended up in Twin Peaks, another flag one. These are rapidly becoming my most hated battlegrounds. This time Vinz said that we were going for whatever the organisers tactics were. He picked Monkness and Marvv to go and get the flag and then the rest of us to scuffle in the middle. Monknessa asked if it was possible that Tauli could go for the flag as he was firmer than her in the whole squishy-not squishy stakes. So it was agreed that Marvv and Tauli would go for the flag and Monkness would join us in the middle. Roly stayed back as instructed from Vinz and the gates went up and we went for it. After Marv and Tauli went off for their flag we all stood on the opposite side of the river to our Horde counterparts and watched them put up a portal across the river. Roly tried to shoot it but to no avail which then lead to some more humorous grouching. It was like no-mans land in the middle and we were waiting to see if was actually safe to have our heads above the trench. We stood there for what seemed like ages but was only about 30 seconds. We then went to work, followed what we were being told by the organiser. Vinz was only interjecting to ask us to use more crowd-controls when after the first flag went we hit a snag. The organiser started to curse about our play performance, Vinz tried to keep everything calm. The rest of the team were used to it and just got on with things. The second flag went in the confusion and then the shit really hit the 'flag'. The organiser said something incomprehensible and rage quit. We were down to nine men in a ten man battleground and were just waiting to loose.  We got out of the battleground, a little disbelieving about what had just happened. Vinz then took charge and we got a replacement and went for it again. It was to be my last battleground of the night but luckily it was my favourite one. Silvershard Mines.

We got in and most of us worked out we were Horde with out needing clarification. "What? We're Horde?" Roly said, you could hear the confusion and slight twang of disgust. "yeah, there are two Alliance teams so were Horde" Marvv explained. "Someone had to play the scum" I added, a titter of agreement went around. I guess its worse when you're playing people from the same side. These should be your 'brothers in arms' not 'brothers ripping off your arms'...

We went out; two teams, to two sides. Lava was first and we got it almost all the way to the dock before it turned Alliance. As it was a lost cause everyone went up and we took another one back to the middle dock. every cart we got, they seemed to get another one that got them that little bit further ahead. We got control of a cart and it went from blue to red. "It's gone red!? Oh wait, thats us" Roly voiced over TS, it did take some getting used to! After we had started out so well, the same thing that always seems to happen started. Crowd Control. This team wasn't as good as previous teams we had played. The last team we dealt with in here would CC someone and everyone else would ignore them until the CC wore off and then someone else would put another one on. This team were putting them on but more often than not someone else would inflict damage and it would then be taken off. However, they were using it more than we were and it showed. Roly was getting grouchy about his CC taking longer to reset than another classes. I was being mercilessly picked on by another hunter. It was turning into a sorrowful performance. We kept loosing our carts to them resulting in us having to go and get another one. Eventually, by the skin of our teeth we were ahead of them to then be 500 points behind them. The whole bg seemed to revolve around us catching up and then falling away again. We seemed to be dying more but also seemed to be in the right place at the right time more. In the end, it fell down to CC and we came away with another loss.

At this point, I needed to go. So while I was loading, Vinz asked if he could kick me.

"omg, rejection" I joked.

"yes it's I'm going to kick you.. but said in the nicest possible way..." Roly laughed

"It's geettt ouuuuttt" I added

"Boot!" Said Monknessa laughing

"yeah, thats fine, I've only just finished loading anyway" My time in the group was over due to needing to get some sleep for work the next day.

I was listening to them on TS and Vinz was getting them to duel each other so they could practice CC'ing each other. So they could get a feel of the abilities and how long they would last, what the cooldown period was etc... After a few minutes of watching them I really did think that PvP was probably something I wouldn't ever be any good at. As Roly said, PvP is really hard and I prefer having some sort of structure and order to what I'm doing. I like to know exactly what my team mates are doing, why and how as well. Which is only something you are really going to find in raid encounters.

After logging off, they went into another RBG and by God, they did it! The first guild RBG win!

[caption id="attachment_205" align="alignnone" width="300"] Thankyou to Monknessa for providing this for our Royal Jesters forum![/caption]

Mount macro

Do you have unloved mounts?
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Look no further than Verdies 'Mount Up!' Macro!

Copy and paste this into your macro screen (accessed by /macro)

/run if not IsMounted() then local m,t,f="mount",{{},{}} for i=2,GetNumCompanions(m) do tinsert(t[bit.band(2,select(6,GetCompanionInfo(m,i)))==0 and 1 or 2],i) end f=IsFlyableArea() and 2 or 1 CallCompanion(m,t[f][random(#t[f])]) else Dismount() end

Essentially this macro will select a flying mount at random if you are in an area where you can fly and a ground mount if you are in an area you cant.
Can sometimes try and select the Abyssal Seahorse and also can try and select Cloud Serpents even if you are not able to ride them but neverless an amazing little macro from the genius that is Verdie!

Mounts

So we were messing about in the shrine after we had all done our bits and were waiting for the RGB group to take shape. I was on my Thundering Jade Cloud Serpent (Thanks RT1!) When Monknessa arrived on her Serpent. We were there looking pretty when another guildie mounted up on theirs. We were looking super cool parading outside the main door.





Someone has to go and steal our thunder and turn up in a Sky Golem!



Monknessa squealed a little over teamspeak and our clutch of cloud serpents all turned to look. It was pretty impressive.  Having a look on the ah there is one for sale for a cool 150000g and a couple of guildies were talking about making and then selling it.
The mats needed are horrendous! However, it begs the question when are tailors going to be able to make an amazing mount that's along this line? How about a hot air balloon adorned with flags made out of tons of imperial silk? Flying carpets are so last season...

Farming for Silkweed

I have the Gathermate add-on to help me keep track of where all my herbs are without needing to make my self dizzy/lost trying to find them all. I don't know what keeps happening to it but every so often it wipes all the data and I have to start again gathering everything like a woman possessed until I have a suitable amount of spawn points logged in.

One of the herbs I have never actively collected is Silkweed. As a scribe any pandarian herb is as good as another and I generally just collect tea leaves as they are everywhere. I noticed that I only had a few spots on my map for them and as I had nothing pressing to do (lfr for the newly opened raids wing was an hour wait, so if you add that to the hour extra you wait on top of that, that queue was going nowhere fast.

I confess that I used wow - professions to find out where to go for this herb as all I had were a few spots around some ponds and I couldn't seem to find any more. The route took me along the top of the Vally of the Four Winds and then down into Krasarang Wilds.





In the bottom image, the squiggle means to just go all over the watery bit as they are no end of Silkweed there.

On my trip I bumped into (quite literally) several Sha infested tigers and cranes. I've tamed one of the tigers before as they look pretty awesome being all grey and smokey but alas it didn't keep the barbecued look upon taming and just turned into a normal tiger. Needless to say it got rage released!

There was a Zandalari Warscout roaming around which caught my attention. I just got my bear out and cleared the lizard people out of the way when he wandered off! Bad Zandalari! I did eventually track him down again after I turned on all of my Hunter tracking options (there's the downside to being a hunter, sometimes you cant see the herbs for the red dots)

It was am amusing fight and I'm grateful to Verdie telling me about the missdirection macro. The scout was all eyes on my bear and he was throwing his balls of fire at the bear and not me. Things were going peachy until we managed to pull another mob into our ruckus. The balls of fire them started coming for me. My neglect of my bear had left him dead (I always forget to heal him) and I was rapidly losing health. "I'm too pretty to die!" And with that I popped my cooldowns and dispatched him and the other little shit to the great wow graveyard in the sky. After all of that I got a Shadow-Pan rep thingy...

I carried in my way collecting herbs and eventually made my way back up to the river in Four Winds. There was so much Silkweed! After being ambushed by a fox I started making my way along, all my Hunter tracking now back off. Eyes on my mini map and on the floor I really wasn't paying attention to where I was flying when DBM popped to tell me to have fun. What? *move camera* ooooh... *retreat*



This had caused me to abandon several Silkweed that was around it and after waiting to take the screenshot (waited for lightning to make it extra pretty :3) I had a quick check of my bags and voila! There were about 5 stacks in there! Amazing considering there were loads I would have missed buggering around with the scout and the ones that were a bit too close to danger for my liking.

I don't think I've had a herb gathering trip that has been this eventful in ages. Unless I count when I was being out numbered and ganked trying to farm turtle meat but that may have crossed the line from eventful to annoying...

Protecting the BMAH

We got a call from in guild for everyone to help at the BMAH (Black Market Auction House) as a guildie was having some trouble with a Horde trying to out bid her on some boots. These were heroic Powder-Stained Totemic Treads

Valora was being camped by some Horde and as we had already dealt with Horde interference before, we all crashed the party and camped out at the BMAH to protect her bids.

There was a particular Horde who kept trying to bid, that we kept killing right in front of Madame Goya. There were two from the same guild who also kept having a go. One got death gripped out by Marvv and the other we slaughtered in the dusty wasteland outside. He then left his corpse there and got teabagged by Xenthos after Alrysia told him to 'sit' on the corpse so we can keep an eye on him if he ressed.

To make things more fun for the Hordies we had everyone stealthed by our Rogue to surprise them and there were four hunters who were putting traps everywhere. There was a lot going on and at points it looked very festive!

I would like to point out that being able to see everything on my minimap is a blessing and a curse. I announce 'incoming' on TS to be asked 'where?'. I tracked the little red dot with the silver outline, looked in the direction it was and said 'Horde, I think they're flying'. Alrysia pointed out that it was James on his Horde alt. 'Haha! You're lucky!' I replied as he was on TS so he could still talk to us. Alrysia had some words of advice for him 'Don't try and gank us James! If you do you'll be guild kicked quicker than you can log your priest!' (They are friends, so it's all done in jest)

Needless to say they didn't succeed and between them and angry goats we managed to pull, everything was peachy. They cost 44k g in the end, which wasnt to bad considering how much more they could have been if the Horde had got their way.

Considering that's two Jester's that they have tried and failed to screw over I think they should be learning a lesson now. After a Horde did manage to bump up the price to ridiculous gold (Angerfisty - Noob) we have a new strategy. If there's something a guild member wants on the BMAH we will get it, and call in the cavalry to make sure.

This must be agonising if you're on a 'Normal' realm. At least on a PvP realm we can do something about situations like this.

In other news -

BMAH Fail Award goes to: Angerfisty!

Spending over 50k g on a pair of plate boots... You're a Monk, not a warrior... good luck equipping those!

SoO Flex part 2 and a tiny bit of 3

Part Two

We had a guild flex raid. RT1, RT2 and some casuals joined us to complete the second part of SoO and the first boss of the third. Vinzlage (The voice of reason) was sorting us all out to make sure we knew exactly what was going on, when, where and how.



We defended Jaina (who is a secret bitch! After seeing the Alliance ending after killing Hellscream) and co. Most people who were whispering me while we were sorting out groups for the tower were seemingly praying in a 'not me, please don't pick me' kind of way. I have never been up there, all I know is that last time we did this, it got really messy! As I have never been up I did a little check to see what exactly happens as the only thing I know is that they go up after the first Demolisher is downed. Here is the low-down on the towers thanks to Icy Veins.

When the mini-boss appears on top of a tower, the gate blocking access to that tower opens, and your raid can start climbing up (through a stairway located inside the tower). Raid members who enter the tower will notice a Tower Control bar appearing on their screen. It starts out fully red, meaning that your raid has no control over the tower whatsoever. As your raid members make their way up the stairs, they will be met by various types of (relatively weak) adds, which they must defeat. Each add that your raid kills will push the Tower Control bar slightly in your raid's favour. Killing the mini-boss on top of the tower will affect the Tower Control greatly, ensuring that it becomes fully controlled by your raid. When your raid controls a tower, you can use the Anti-Air Turret located on top of it to shoot at Galakras.

Having access to both towers, and using both Anti-Air Turrets to shoot down Galakras at the same time will cause the boss to come down and engage your raid, starting Phase Two.

We got through it fine. Every time we do it, it seems easier and easier (probably more that we know more of what were actually doing)

Next we faced the giant piñata that is Iron Juggernaut. With ranged all stacked up against the fence by the entrance and the beast being tanked against the wall it was at some points a mass of bodies, after all the melee got thrown our way. With people screaming "get the bombs! get the bombs!" on TS it was a pain free boss fight. We ran through to Orgrimmar before the Nelfs had even landed by the front gate.

We went in and started clearing everything. We were going to do a big circle of clearing but we accidentally disturbed a Horde party going on in the pub and ended up with one too many trash than we could handle (ok, maybe ten more...) "Oh dear. This is bad" said the Voice of Reason. Yep. It was... hello corpse run! After that hiccup we got rid of pretty much everything, had a brief conversation about how we wished we could use the transmog service like we could use the guild bank (Hang on guys! I just need to get dressed for this kill!) and then made our way up the hill to get prepared for the pull. There was talk about doing a soft reset of them to get them outside for easier pulling but were too pro for that and with Marvv off to get them, Vinz set out some feathers to aid him back in one piece, we stood on the ridge with baited breath.

Our tactics for this fight vary slightly to the Icy Veins version. Where they say to pull them out and go directly into the massive open space thats by the entrance gate to Orgrimmar, we have them up the hill, near where you go through to the final boss. This is to make sure that we can then pull them slowly down and give us more space and time to get away from the Toxic Mist and then the resulting Toxic Storm.



 

I think we had a couple of wipes here, not anything major. A tank would go down and then a healer etc. But eventually we got going again and they died. Onwards to the General!

Things did get a bit hairy when the Horde tanks blew half our raid to smithereens. We metered out some vengeance on them for our fallen brothers and got to the entrance to Ragefire Chasm. "This is the dungeon, right?" Said Chizal on TS. After confirming that it was it was decided that Blizzard had decided to make this particular dungeon a Heroic for us to enjoy! We left Gamon where he was so that we could get the achievement 'Gamon will save us!'

Some of the comments are hilarious about this:

Now we should stop killing him.

Hahahaha... No.

There was much talk about what to do when, the different stances etc... There was also much speculation about what to do with hunter pets (this being quite important as there were three hunters in the group.) Do pets count as dps during the defensive stance? Do they act as tank attacks and therefore generate no rage during that phase. Some people said they do damage constantly so would generate rage, others said they wouldn't. Better to be safe than sorry and to have to pull back a cat who on occasion has a mind of its own off the good General before causing a wipe, I decided to dismiss mine (rather have sucky dps than a sucky corpse run/massive repair bill)

After the fight I did check and This stateside wow forum post says it doesn't. (note the post by Scrimshaw)

We started the fight and cleared the Horde minions - bashed Nazgrim - swotted away the adds - burned his banner - rinse and repeat. A few frantic moments occurred during defensive when some people were still dps-ing him.  We did get a nice clear raid warning spam com up on the screen just to make sure we were all clear though (and some screams on TS)

STOP DPS
STOP DPS 
STOP DPS

I think only a few people died. Ive slept since this happened and died so many times myself on that night that I can't be sure! Gamon did indeed save us though!

On to Part Three!

 

Part Three

 

We were only going for the first boss, Malkorok. We were all too overexcited/needed to leave/not concentrating/dealing with real life goings on at the same time. (delete as appropriate)

We entered the hall (see below for image of it after our oopsy) and were instructed to pick off the groups of Horde minions and dispatch these before moving on to the next ones. After taking out the first two groups, one on the left and one on the right, someone (name no names *cough*Rolypoly*cough*) said "they don't hit very hard, pull more". Famous last words.



Marvv pulled the entire back row. Death gripping his heart out. Melee died instantly. "This is bad" said Vinz. Marvv dropped next. The screen lit up like it was an exploding christmas tree. Ranged bit the dust. 'Whos idea was that!" After much conferring, it was announced that we were blaming it on Zinta's pet. We ran back and then went forward again slowly. We ignored the group on the left, killed the group on the right and then got the group in the middle, where the exploding christmas tree thing happened again "I feel like I'm having a fit" was quipped on TS, I can't remember who said it but it was hilarious. We then made our way up the stairs and tried to sneak past the majority of the minions but we failed. We got the group that we were supposed to kill and pulled a few more in for the ride. Eventually, we made it up to the top to meet Malkorok.



This boss was fun and a complete headfuck all in one go. Usually you get screamed at if you don't move out of the shit on the floor. This boss, you get screamed at if you're not standing in shit on the floor. (ok, no one screamed, but you can imagine what lfr is going to be like when that opens up) Usually you're told to stand on a colour. This time AVOID THE COLOURS ON LITERAL PAIN OF DEATH. The healers got into a panic when they learned that an certain phases you can't heal anyone you can only shield them. I got into a panic as at one point I was so low on health I could have been one-shotted by a lvl 1 and all I was getting was shields, and so many of them I couldn't see anything that was going on. I died so many times on this. We wiped god knows how many times but every time we got him further and further as we were learning about the game play. It was frantic and messy. We soldiered on until the last wipe was when we had him at 9% health. We had got to grips with the standing in shit part, the healers were spam shielding the tanks (and noobs like me) and everyone who had the Displaced Energy debuff was running away at the right time. On the fight where we did actually kill him, I died (standard) and had to get ressed. So I did enjoy the fight to its full entirety and from a thinking outside of the box fight, it was immense. Imagine doing this with no guide, how many times did raids wipe before they realised that the purple shit on the floor needs to be stood in!?

The screenshot above, which was taken after our first wipe when we had all run back and spread out, showed the calm before the storm. The screen shot below is mid fight (and of my UI so everything can be seen!) Im pretty lazy with my UI and haven't changed much. 'Busy' is what Roly kindly put it. 'Shit everywhere' was the more direct version from Aska!  I like to think of it as driving a car where there engine is temperamental. You know that it could get a bit much for said engine and it fails you, but if you talk to it nicely and stroke the dashboard occasionally, it will get you there.



 

Cloth Farming

While collecting cloth for Emava, I used a profession guide to help me find the best places for cloth I hadn't thought about farming for (see 'Websites I love tab up at the top). Some I had seen drop while finding loot for Pazima to disenchant (like linen and netherweave) But the one thing that disrupted game play was having to switch between pages to get an idea of the zones if I wanted to do a sweep and see what I could farm close together. So here for my benefit as much as yours is a quick guide to places to farm each cloth type (if you're not feeling lazy enough to buy it off the ah)
Because I'm mean, this only works for Alliance :)

Cloth: Head to Sentinel Hill in Westfall. The battle that is going on means constant respawns of mobs that you can get cloth from. Also they do drop loot you can disenchant too.



Wool: This can be farmed in Wetlands. If you head near the Nelf place there is an ongoing war between whelpstealers and slavehunters, while they are knocking seven shades of shit out of each other, round them up and blast them.



Silk: The place I always had to is Uldaman. You can clear all the mobs up to it (don't get lost though) and then clear the instance. It helps being a hunter as I can see all the mobs that are waiting to be killed and know when I have done all the outside ones and am ready to head in to the dungeon.



Mageweave: This is one cloth that I've never actively farmed. Someone was selling hundreds of it for 5g a stack on the ah so I didn't need to bother with farming (result) But Zul'Farrak is the place to go, get all the mobs, reset, get all the mobs, reset, get all the mobs... You get the idea.



Runecloth: Hello Hellfire Ramparts! A trip to Outland is required for this one to maximise your farming. Just like the mageweave, keep running it until Blizzard says 'steady in, let someone else have a go'.



Netherweave: This is where my guide goes completely away from others. The best place for me is Kara. Thousands of mobs to loot, lots of cloth and greens to disenchant. Plus you might even get a mount if you're lucky!



Frostweave: Bane of my farming life. Icecrown is the place to go. My favourite spot is the Cathedral of Darkness. Those Zelots are ripe for the picking and spawn pretty quickly. I find them better than the Converted Heroes as even though they are in hefty groups of 6-7 you really need to keep mounting up to get to them all quickly. If a Horde knoblett is in the Cathedral then do these.



Embersilk: Tol Barad Peninsula and the Restless Front. The Restless Soldiers and Infantry are bashing each other to death and you can swoop in and help them on their way. It's a shame that they got rid of the spot in Deepholm where the troggs were. Many a time there would be a variety of levels tentatively moving around each other trying to refrain from attacking the opposition while Embersilk farming. Fun times and the drop rate was amazing.



Windwool: This one is pretty easy, as it drops off any humanoid in Pandaria just go to where there are lots of them! Also don't forget you can also plant Windshear Cactus Seeds to catch Windwool as it floats past!

RT3?

If you're ever looking for a team that gets stuff done but not sure what guild to apply to then it looks like you might just be in luck!

It looks like we might have to set up a third raid team to accommodate all  the people who want to raid.

RT1 is there to kick the other guilds arses (of which they are doing a fine job) RT2 are there for the kills just without quite as much blood lust as the first team.

So what could that leave a potential RT3 as? Progression *cheer*

A call has gone out in the forum via Chizal to get people on board even if it's with alts.

Watch this space!

Transmog

I am quite attached to my transmog, or rather, slutmog.



I finally completed Kara to get my Sunfury Bow of the Phoenix which goes with my red/gold colours quite nicely to replace my still awesome gun. There are certain bits which don't quite go, like my gloves and to some extent my boots but they were the best I could find at the time.  Unfortunately I was running Kara again to get items for my priest to disenchant and was at the 'Opera Event'.  For once in 20 runs it wasn't the Wizard of Oz and it was Little Red Riding Hood.
An almighty gun dropped, the Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle, it looks like a Tommy gun with a knife on the end and it's black. I am in love with it. I have lots of other bows and guns which look really impressive but I have nothing to go with them (typical woman)

I was looking through the ah for cheap items for disenchanting when I came across some Hero's Leggings. They looked pretty cool and were black with a red sheen to them. I bought them to stash and looked up what the full set would look like. The only thing that puts me off leggings is that if your boots are not high enough you end up with leg showing. My boots I currently have are high enough and so are the ones that go with the set (you still see some leg but its the cut of the leggings rather than 'ankle boot' syndrome) but the drop rate for them is quite low :( I wandered off into Blackrock Spire to try and get them but no such luck. Me being a typical woman, as nothing dropped that said 'hero' and I already had a mogged set, I didn't get too cut up about it and sloped off back to Stormwind.

Having looked through, I now think that maybe I should have something to off-set my slutmog. Something a bit more 'meaty'. Im quite taken by the 'Hulking Set'. Looks pretty nice and then with that gun *drool*. And theres only so far boobs and bum will get you.

Professions

I have two alts with professions that I really need to work on.
Well, I have a dk as well but I don't like it so it doesn't count.

Pazima, my priest, had enchanting and jewelcrafting due to my old guild needing them for the professions achievement Working As A Team. Jewelcrafting was getting mighty expensive as I was needing someone to find the mats or buy them from the ah. When I left Enter the Fury I didn't need to keep it up. Seeing that I was a clothie I thought tailoring was a good option as (check out how pro I am) I thought that it would make disenchanting easier to level by default. Bearing in mind that I was level 47 at the time I found my linin and set to making bags and shirts until I'd got to around lvl 100.

It's at around that time I transferred my main to a different realm and started playing on (wait for it) horde *gulp* /cry. Three of us decided to make druids to cover all the dps/healing/tank bases and it was at that point that I picked up skinning and tailoring on that too. Skinning I didn't care much for but gathering profs are always handy. Tailoring however I got up to level 275 before contemplating moving my main back again. I wasn't particularly bothered about leaving it behind, it was level 72 so fairly sturdy to come back to if I wanted and for the main part I hardly spent anything out trying to level my professions on it.

At this point it would be worth while to note that I have inscription and herbalism on my main. Herb gathering is always a winner for alchemists for flasks and with SoO going on there are a lot of flasks to be made. My feelings towards inscription declined after hitting 600. There were so many glyphs on the ah and none seemed to be selling. Apart from the shoulder enchants It felt like the only people who benefitted from it where the scribes themselves and the rest was like flogging a dead horse.

Anyway... A month after being back I checked on Pazima and sighed. She had so much promise to make me some gold! I set about levelling tailoring again and got her to 275. I then decided that this was crazy. I have another alt which I will never play unless I get her over here and she has tailoring too. With that I forked out for a realm and faction change and brought her over. I had been running Kara on my main and had lots of Netherweave stashed in Pazimas bank. I got Emava invited into Jesters and then mailed the cloth from Pazima to Emava and made 9 Netherweave bags. I put them on via the AH on the Armory app, it automatically set them at 49g bid price and 52g buy out. The next morning I saw that I had sold all 9. All I need to do is keep making bags and levelling her up. Any odds and ends, I have been making stuff for Pazima to disenchant, also buying very cheap cloth from the AH if I'm feeling lazy.

Problem now is that I have two alts with tailoring. I have Emava for the bags to sell and cloth armour etc I need another profession that would be in constant demand. (if only Blizzard made it that if you swapped out a glyph, you lost it completely, then you would have to buy it or get it made again.) Pazima has the lowest so she's going to have to drop hers. With flight form on my druid I think I might swap skinning to mining. And then replace the tailoring on Pazima with... jewelcrafting. *headdesk*

And we keep raiding

I don't know if I'm qualified to say this but, here goes.

ToT is getting easy.

There, I said it.

We had a crack at ToT for funzies one night and seemed to get through it with only marginal errors.

Dark Animus was a sticking point because I didn't have  a bloody clue what I was doing. I was directed to stand at a robot thing near Marvv.

"where?"

"here"

"where?"

"where I am"

"I have no idea where you are"

"the cat"

"what cat?"

(cat runs over)

"follow me"

"oh, you are the same colour as the floor"

"don't stand too close to other people, dps very slowly, ok pull timer"

So I stood where I was looking at this robot thing.  The pull timer went off and I hit my robot (my robot <3) thing is, my idea of hitting it slowly is not to kill it right away. So I am merrily shooting it, it's getting angry and twatting we with it metal fist. Monknessa is healing me. I can hear everyone on TS talking about robots being collected and going into big robots. I have a big robot right next to me. My tiny robot is still angry with me and my 'kill shot' pops. Boom, I fire it off twice and then add an 'arcane shot' for good measure. My robot falls over and the big robot comes over to me.

"what the fuck! We have a big one!"

"who pulled the big one!"

"WIPE"

(at this point I let the big one pummel me to death)

"Zionxi, don't kill it, or you get the big ones"

"oh, so I just make it angry and stand there?"

"yes"

So this time I did as I was told, went over to my position next to Marvv and waited for the pull timer to go off. I hit it once, and only with my auto shot. Robot was cross and started beating me. I was starting to die... help. I used a healthstone and then continued to stand there with an angry robot. This time, someone managed to activate and even bigger robot, WIIIPPPEEEEEE!

Third time around, everything was peachy. I hit my robot, it got angry with me and then started to run off. Bad robot! I performed the 'come back here you little shit' rotation, hit it hard until my focus ran out. Robot was half dead but luckily very, very fixated on me in its robotic rage. Marvv eventually collected my little robot off me and I moved out of my corner away from the bad, slightly bigger robot.

Things seemed to be going well and then a really big robot appeared with groans and general curses from many people on TS. I still had no idea what was going on and was just running around trying to stay out of the way. I did fire off a couple of autoshots as I didn't want to be completely useless on dps.  As all the commotion was going on it woke up the boss, who didn't seem to pleased that we had killed half of his children and were in the process of battering to death one of his 'eldest' sons.

"NUKE THE BOSS!"

"KILL THE OTHER ONE IN FRONT OF HIM!!!"

We performed some robotic sacrificing and then concentrated on attacking Pappa Robot.  To the untrained eye, it looked like a shitstorm going down in that room, to me however, it still looked like a shitstorm going down in that room. All I was concentrating on was shooting off everything I could at this giant butthurt that was stamping around. I even remembered to get my cat out (hehehe) to do some extra damage.

Not sure how but half the raid died. I had red shit following me around, I got swapped so many times that I got dizzy and tried to target a raid member, even though I was helpfully told 'you can't attack that target' I still tried to shoot black arrows into our druid tanks furry ass before realising my mistake.

'fucking cat! why are you not doing anything!?! *click assist button* DOOO SOMETHING! oh... *targets Dark Animus* gogogogogo!'

Eventually, the robot died. queue nerdscreams of epic proportions (think Method's nerdscreams) and we res'ed our dead, and decided to call it for the night. Repair bills galore, I don't know why I'm not using the guild repair function to alleviate some of the cost, that night must have cost me 200g easily, but holy shit was it worth it!

As old as wow itself...

There are several things that every wow player must have see before. one would be this infamous video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPx6nbbwz8

And the joke "what do you call it when a Druid and a Paladin share a bath? A HoT tub with Bubbles"

Dark Legacy Comics are also a must for wow players. They are so true to everyday playing experiences it's untrue. Take this for instance...

Screenshots and general funnies

There are several funny wow themed pictures and cartoons out there. Hell, we have a forum thread dedicated to them.

Here are some I think you will enjoy.



This was the unexpected announcement that it was in fact us and not the old guys at the Vatican who were choosing the new Pope.



My Little Pony gets everywhere. I was then advised to take safe search off and google images for 'clop clop'. Aska has now been invoiced by the whole guild for brain bleach...



Aint that the bloody truth!

RT2 filming in progress

We had a conversation over team speak about creating a channel for our raiding on either YouTube or twitch.

Several things came up like what to call ourselves, did we just want to be RT2 or have an actual name? This could possibly open a very large can of worms with people not being able to agree and potentially being not happy with any name put forward etc... If we have a name shouldn't RT1 have a name?
Should we have a group where we can all input videos or have one person doing it? What happens if someone doesn't like the editing?
Would people be happy having their voices recorded?
Do you tell people when it's being recorded or not? Would people get distracted if it's recording and mess around or would people put more effort in because they don't want to make an arse of themselves...

Interesting ideas and it raises a lot of questions too.
If we are going to be editing these videos are they going to have a theme? If people are going to watch them other than those in the team/guild would it be more entertaining to have a theme, possibly like Project Lore? Rather than a straight film of the fight?
We don't talk tactics much apart from at the beginning and when we are running back from a wipe! Things like 'what the fuck was that!?' 'Who pulled the big one?!' Were quite amusing from tonight's Dark Animus fight and could be so funny if edited right but could get lost if they were just random points in the middle of a huge long recording.

It's going to be an interesting one and I can't wait to see what we come up with!