More tales from Twitter!

I seriously have had a spam overload to the guild unofficial Twitter account.

One thing that would be nice is to be able to look through the last few screenshots/selfies taken and chose what one to post. The amount of times I've taken a few in quick succession to get that perfect shot and then have to go through the folder on my computer to find it... I digress but idea for you Blizz!

While scrolling through my time line I found a few more photos with little stories behind them. There's a whole post going to be needed on the lfr we did in Highmaul not long after we got our cameras! However, here are some that are from the last couple of days.



Repair bill





I'd taken a moment to go afk after we got to our 'call it' point. People were using their hearthstones or a Mage portal to vacate the raid.
I was stood there minding my own buisness when I got back to my laptop to see the boss attacking me. As I died and expressed my confusion with a subtle exclamation of 'what the fuck?' over ts.
There were a few sharp intakes of breath as my health went from full to zero in seconds.
Fenrir then explained, trying to hold in the laughter, that he was trying to kill Marvv and I ended up being in the way and subsequently flattened.
Marvv essentially skipped away laughing as I took a fist to the face and Fenrir had behaved like a true paladin and hearthstoned out as well.
I think I did get ressed by someone, even though Jesse put his foot down at doing it.
(Fenrir did pay my repair for that later, bless him!)


@nickclegg

We had the dubious joys of Nick Clegg joining us for a clear. He buckled under pressure a fair amount (as in real life).
Nick Clegg gets booed whenever he logs in. Despite it just being Rawls at the other end of the keyboard, when Nick Clegg logs in that's it. The gloves are off!
"Oh look who just logged in..."
"Booooooooooooooo"
It did prove rather amusing when on Iron Maidens in lfr when one of the healers, after that long, suddenly realised who exactly they were healing.
[Raid chat]: I've just seen the tanks name and laughed so hard
(Over ts)
Rawls you've been spotted...
What? Oh.... HAHA!

Which leads very nicely onto...


Nick Clegg killed us all

I don't think there that is really much to say to this. We were counting on Nick Clegg and he let us down... twice! and took half his raid team with him.
Bad Cleggy!
It was also in this raid where we realised once we got in, that we were in the dubious position of not having any healers we trusted. We were not expecting miracles but at least we had two tanks we could count on! (Almost)

And what have we been up to?

Time has flown by! Although raid documentation has now been taken over by the means of Twitter and the selfie camera.
Rather than having a note pad next to me, furiously scribbling down all the funny bits, I can take a screen shot and a few words and *poof* it's out there for all to see!

Having the Twitter thing is fun but it doesn't allow for all the in depth explaining of why we wiped, or how come we managed to kill someone, whose great idea was it to go outside to repair when there's a Horde raid team waiting outside...

While all the tweets have been going on we have killed Kromog on our own (last time we killed it we needed to borrow a healer from RT1 as we were short) and also finally killed Iron Maidens. I say finally but it was only about 14 wipes, it's just that the fight is so long it seems like we were poking them for days at a time.

So from my Twitter account, here are some of the screen shots and the stories behind them.

Ha! Suckers!





Oh Hans and Franz. How we can't help but run around like headless chickens while laughing like lunatics. With the occasional gagging noise thrown in for good measure.
I play on a potato, so that often paves the way for jokes about my lag (doing this with 2fps ain't easy!), jokes about my loading screen and jokes about how I will die first.
On this particlar run the bets were off on me hitting the floor first, I'd managed to survive once with all the lag in the world (good job healers!) So that meant there was a slim chance that I might survive again. This time they were betting on me getting hit by the stampers. Which is probably the safest bet in the world. While the fight went on I was doing really well. Then near the end I had four tiles light up around me and 'damn it!' There were cheers as Rawls confirmed "she's been hit! She has been hit!"
A few thousand slipped through my fingers.
I can't even remember why we wiped but I took great pleasure in being the last one standing. Ella 1. Lag 0.

Touch of karma





Talking about touch of karma for longer than Yjelza thought we needed and he broke out into song.
Danue's 'Omg' voiced what we were all thinking. Watching the chat box for the song to end up being typed out in its entirety.
With baited breath we watched and then just when we thought that it was all over Fenrir came up with the goods.
Karaoke needed at the next meet up!

#myring





After the infamous video of our first Bladefist HC kill, where Blunnerz squealed "my ring!" when it dropped. This has now been adopted as a slogan.
I'd missed out a roll to Frank on a warforged with socket version of this ring which he keeps reminding me about. Damn him.
So when two of these suckers showed up my first response was to yell "MY RING!" at everyone on ts and then turn into a loot whore. "One of those is mine!  Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine!"
Neither of them were as shiny as the one Frank got but it meant I wasn't running around with a BM BiS ring anymore which was doing absolutely nothing for me.
Obviously it had to go straight on Twitter to back up the 'my precious' pictures I'd sent to everyone to back up my claim on this thing.

I've got the clap! Wait, what?





There was a challenge set up which was to take a selfie and time it perfectly that you got the 'clap' in the background. I may or may not have died trying to get this... However from my rather dead position on the floor I waited and waited to get the next set of hand doing their thing. Hoping that the rest of the team wouldn't die before it happened.
I will not take responsibility for wiping the raid. No no no no.

All the cooldowns used!





I'd just got my camera so it was all rather exciting. Taking a quick selfie with the team someone spotted me and a snowball effect went on behind me. People were popping cooldowns to make the scene behind me a hot mess. We had to wait for five minutes for them to come off cd before we could actually pull or we would all die due to their being no raid wide healing available. Thankfully, no one popped hero.
Although accidental hero popping had happened before...
(Why anyone would give me drums is beyond me...)

 

Computer God

The perils of having assist

Yesterday we got the Choo Choo boss down. Many tier tokens were had by all,  Hurrah.

We went on to Flamebender, after pulling all the trash before her and getting a trash drop or of it we started the fight. Things were going ok, this boss does stress is out somewhat and there's a lot of directions being yelled over ts. Still, we need to kill her so we knuckled down on it.

After a few wipes I groused about the Wolves not being marked so was blessed with the power of assist.
The marking was going pretty well. After learning not to use skull as someone's add on kept removing it we had the switches down better by using cross and square.

I then went to whisper Blunnerz by right clicking on his raid square and instead of clicking on 'whisper' I clicked 'remove'. Several gaps were heard over ts and I was wetting myself laughing as Blunnerz just said "oh... bye then!"
Questions were asked about what happened along with frantic calls to get him back in before he got ported out of the instance.

Composing myself slightly I admitted that I'd accidentally kicked him. Which then set me off with more laughter. People were asking me why and through the tears I managed to find my ptt key and let them know "I was trying to whisper you!"
Without my knowledge, a tweet went out to the unofficial jesters twitter page...






"Take assist away from Ella!"

Literally the funniest thing to happen that night. Still laughing about it today and now immortalised on Twitter due to the ability to tweet in game.
No mistake will go unnoticed now!





24 hours later and I still can't remember why I wanted to whisper him!

6.1

Two monumental things have happened for us since 6.1 launched. Firstly, we were one shotting bosses that a week ago we were struggling on.
Secondly, Twitter and the selfie camera came into our lives. (which has meant that we have claimed @TRJWoW as our own and have spammed selfies to it mid raid)

[caption id="attachment_1364" align="aligncenter" width="585"] Queen of the Garrison. All hail![/caption]

On Thursday everyone congregated at the entrance and started pulling trash. I was late (surprise!) and made my way in just as everyone was congregating at the boss. Jolly was close behind me.
What boss they were stood at I didn't know but I assumed for some reason that they were waiting at Flamebender. I managed to pull a pack of trash that was still up and caught Jolly in the cross fire.
I feigned death on the lift to evade to adds and pretty much left Jolly to fend for himself. As the lift went down and we thought we had lost the aggro it was questioned where we were going.
"Have you pulled trash?" someone asked.
"Never trust a Hunter..." Jolly added.
"Yeah but were almost at Flamebender" I said.
"We're at Gruul..."
"What? Are we not carrying on?" Jolly and I waited for the lift to go back up again.
"Reset, so we're going to clear again"
We got back up to the top and the hideous add that had picked on me was waiting. It got me almost instantly.
"Oh dear" Rawls said as the group watched out health bars plummet.
"And Jolly just followed me..." I laughed as we both ressed at the entrance.
"See this is why you never trust a Hunter!"

We got to Gruul and assumed our positions. The boss was a walk in the park.
"OMG did anyone else see that?"
"Yeah! 'Gruul has been defeated!' That's pretty cool!"
Loot was awarded, the next boss on our radar was Oregorger. Lots of small sighs were heard over ts.



 

As we cleared everything and stood at the boss we braced ourselves to get rolled over and squished. Upon pulling we settled into a routine. Then the boss got hungry and it was a Pac-Man style 'run around like idiots' survival of the quickest sort of thing. So many of us were screaming 'where is he!?!' as we tried to stay near a healer, open boxes and run away from his rolling. After the first feeding frenzy was over we were stacking up again when some vomit hit the floor near melee.
"Ranged stack up at the back!"
"Oh that's a bad puddle"
As the vomit forced us closer towards the melee there was a growing concern that we were going to trap ourselves I'd he didn't go into the second phase quickly enough.
Thankfully (and due to many missed interrupts) he started rolling around again and once finished he was back where he started.
In our comfort zone with the boss positioning he was soon dispatched.

Beastlord was next. Those on spear duty got ready. We made sure we were all aware that the spears damaging circle was now around the spear and not on the boss.
The start went well. He hopped on the wolf quickly and was then went back into his walking phase again. Somehow we got him down to his next mount phase before the tanks had time to drag him over to the Elekk so he hopped into the stupid Rylak. There was fire everywhere. Somehow we manage to negotiate it, running around the red dot that was placed on the floor to show where the inferno breath was heading, the Elekk came and went and then it was us v Beastlord. Popping hero and potions and praying to the WoW God's it was a race against people dying one by one and the bosses health. We did it, just. But last time we made this boo-boo we wiped so we were monumentally chuffed with ourselves.

Next up was Hans and Franz. The motion sickness boss.
Again there was a lot of fire. Someone pulled some of the second group of adds and I couldn't help myself and barraged everything in sight. The floor was covered in flames, a tank went down, the melee were running around like their asses were on fire. Ranged were stood on the balcony having a chuckle at them.
When the bosses came down I started messing around with talents, swapping things about. I'd decided to take lone wolf over focusing shot just due to the movement.


"Oh Ella are you not being pro work focusing shot anymore?" Rawls asked 5 seconds to pull.
Fuck potions! I swapped it back and just managed to change to Stampede and get my pet out before 0.
Pressing stampede, which I had glyphed to just use copies of my current pet, I watched 5 beasties run over to the boss.
"OMG all of these pets!" A melee said.
"Errr. What is RaidWiper doing?"
RaidWiper and co had found a corpse on the floor and instead of attacking the boss, all five of them were flying between the boss and this random trash corpse. Completely oblivious to what they should be doing, they just flapped around in circles.
Once the plates started moving I was on 'stay alive' mode. Finding myself a nice secluded spot to move in and out of the smashing things from the ceiling and occasionally shooting the boss.

[caption id="attachment_1366" align="aligncenter" width="585"] A previous attempt where I don't think I did much damage on the boss but I DIDN'T DIE!!!!![/caption]

There were constant groans over ts as people were going in every random direction due to the plates. The plates stopped moving.
"It's it safe?" Someone asked
Several squares lit up and sent people scrambling.
"Nope... Now it is!"
Popping everything we had we took them out just before things got too troublesome. Victory!

We then had a go with the train boss. As it was so late we just gave it a couple of light hearted pokes. This montage of fails sums it up rather nicely.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-vixSg1NJc&feature=youtu.be[/embed]

Blackrock Shenannigans

Truth be told, I cant remember what day I took the following screen shots. I can, however, remember the funny situation behind most of them. Just little things that I thought 'That will be good for later' and here they finally are!

 

That time when Fenrir got lost...

First run in for Fenrir and he cant find the entrance. To be honest only two days ago a search party had to go out and find me as I couldn't find the entrance to Blackrock Foundry for love nor money.

 

That time where Xerath used a glider and got trapped by a small ledge...



To avoid the Horde, Xérath decided he was going to 'fly in'. What he didn't count on was landing on the roof and then have his size be his own worst enemy and ensure that he couldn't jump over what would apparently be a small ledge. Ruin went off in search of him and to try and find a way to get him down while the rest of us were contemplating braving the Horde outside to try and get to the summoning stone. somehow he managed to get down but to this day, we have no idea how...

 

That time with the spears

Pinned Down claimed many many victims. Frank was pinned between two spears and was so far away from both of them we didn't know what one had got him. Xerath (theres a theme here) got snagged and let out a nice announcement for everyone to see. I was lagging no end and ended up being impaled halfway through a disengage. "Get Ella out!" was a frequent yell over ts as those on spear duty frantically tried to free me before I died.

 

The one where I'm glad I don't have to strip anymore...

The amount of times I've been caught out half naked with ninja pulls... It's a running joke now that the only item that I owned which made multistrike my biggest secondary stat was one of my trinkets. This mean that every time a feast was put down I would have to strip off, eat and ensure that I was fully dressed so that I was prepare for the ready check. Obviously there is the incident in Highmaul where I somehow managed to survive longer than fully geared players while I was running around in my pants. Thank god with 6.1 I can cook my own food and also get multistrike from feasts by default while fully clothed! Judging that no one else would be sitting at the feast table naked, one can only assume that as long as Big Brother (read as Rawls) noticed you had a food buff it didn't matter what actually stat was buffed...

 

The one where the Mages realised they could do something magical...

Oh Flamebender, how we hate thee. So with this and the tanks dead and the remaining dps and healers just trying to stay alive Xerath (again!) was just trying to get away when he blinked through the wall. He waited there while everyone else died. His fun was short lived as the boss charged though the wall after him and his little Gnome legs needed to hurdle the conveyer belts (is that what the stacks of boxes are for???)
This little trick was put to great use again when the add knocked Danue out of the arena, after she struggled to find the sweet spot to Blink back in we thought that perhaps Blizz had fixed it but she soon found it and was back kicking Flamebenders ass again.

 

I'm going to leave off with something that is not BRF related but still makes me chuckle...

The one where I 'took a shit' in Yjelza's Garrison...



You're welcome!