Pugging

We had a raid last night that didn't quite go according to plan.
Starting at 8:30 anyway, we were missing a tank and two healers which meant we had to go to the glorious world of pugs.
Which was fine, we had done it before. However this time it took us over an hour to find the people we needed.
First tank shows up, gets here and then says they need to go.
A healer joins but all they are doing is server hopping.
Another healer joins and stays.
Then we get a ranged. A Warlock! Summons all round!!! COOKIES!
A tank.
Final healer.
Sorting the groups out (as we were starting on Kilrogg) things went swimmingly!
No one died. Everyone got in the visions... I had heartseeker right before my group and seamlessly swapped with Frank...

While we were waiting for people in Kilroggs room it was noticed that I had something on my head.

Frank: what's that parasite on your head?
Me: that's a bird pretending to be Leatherface...
Frank: Pepe... Whenever I hear that name I just think of a Mexican
Me: or Pepe Le Pew!
F: nope it's still a Mexican name... What's that thing you hit with a bat?
Me: a moron?
Ketod: ellas...
Me: a piñata!
Frank: yes! That's it
Me: Ketod... Did you just say ellas?
Ketod: I insulted you and you didn't even realise... Well I'm still in the group...
Me: I'm tolerating it...
Ketod: tolerating it because you don't have enough healers???
Me: ...yes...

We got to Gorfiend and the mini boss went down before rather smoothly. Coordinating the group of three hunters to stand in the circles that do the aoe damage they went down so quickly.
We got organised as Gorfiend was crawling out of his pit.

Me: I didn't die!!! Why have I lost Pepe?!? Oh. It might have been an hour.  Fuck my life...
Ketod: jesus christ ella get a grip woman...

Gorfiend was started well and we got to the first feast of souls. Adds were dead and we were going for it. Suddenly people were dropping like flies.
I turned my camera around to see what the fuck was killing us and I was greeted my the crone mini boss. It took a few seconds to work out that it was her but when I saw the purple pools you have to stand in I knew we had some how annoyed the gods of blizzard.
We fake wiped it, ressed the dead and had a good chuckle at it.
The next attempt was smooth as silk.

We were going to go to Xhul but the three we pugged in left. Jolly started organising an archimond group for ring upgrades. Xozox (Zoz-Zox) asked to join.
Oz: I can come
Jolly: you're going to have to remind me who you are...
Me: it's Oz!
Jolly: look, I might not sound as old as Grumpy
Ketod: oi!
Jolly: but I'm getting there...

Ketod did say something that rang true. I've been having fits of hysterical laughing over things in the past couple of raids. "does this mean you're actually having fun again?" he asked.
It does. And now we're more or less on our feet again it's good to be able to stop stressing over it and enjoy raiding and having fun.
As Jollys lad would say: Smash keys, smash boss, get loot... And have a bloody good laugh while doing it.

Field Photographer

WoW is a tiny bit dull atm. The things to do which could easily eat up your time before you realised it was two days later and you're late for work are diminishing.

I like looking through my achievements tab to see what little things can be done to hitch up those points. If it has a title with it, even better,

Field Photographer caught my eye. Nice and easy, I knew where about 97% of the places were and it would be pretty easy to get round them all.
Well, it would be after I sorted them all out into continent order and then in a logical order to get to them.

Anyone who is anyone should still have their hearthstone set to Shrine in Pandaria. It also helps that I'm a scribe, so I have two hearthstones (like Shamans with Astral Recall) which helps me getting to and from places.

Barrage is so clutch

Tuesday night raids are fun, the crew gets back together and we kill bosses.
This time we started on the upper floors. Having the main of a pugged pally join us.
Everything was going ' normally'. I'd just downed a Red Bull and was feeling casual with my approach to dps.
Being presented with a pack of adds on Iskar I announced "barrage!" as I pressed the button.
"I'm to scared to use barrage in here" Moose said as a hail of arrows swept into the group of mobs Chris was tanking.
I did it again in the next pack.
"omg. As long as the robot doesn't get pulled!" Chris spluttered.
It didn't.
We were fine. Killed the boss and went on our way.

The next Trash pack was in the red hallway. The huge guardian in the corner bit was pulled. The red beams went round.
"is that what you're supposed to look away from?" I asked as I was thrown up into the air.
"no, it's the other one." Chris replied.
The other one was announced. 'crowd control'.
"And half of the people didn't look away"

While we were spending our time looking at the opposite wall or being cursed by an almighty beam of light the next guardian had stopped in the doorway.
"Is it going to move?"
"Yeah, it will in a minute"
"What happens if we pull it? Will it pull the rest of them?" Jolly asked.
"Yeah we need to wait for him to fuck off first." Chris assured us.
"Are you sure?"
"I'm pretty positive"
"Well..."