Pepe

Ah Pepe, you fluffy little in game bird that has annoyed and delighted players in equal measures.

When he first came out I did take a passing glance at him and then shrugged off his existence. Completely forgetting about him until yesterday.
Why yesterday you ask? Well that would be the arrival date of the Pepe plushie in the photo above. However, he's not mine. This little fuzzball belongs to Francis.

His arrival time was some ungodly hour of the morning and was a surprise due to the poor little chap being squeezed into a FedEx 'medium' box (with no air holes, the monsters!)

Once back at my own computer I logged in and went to his tree. There he was, sat there doing not a lot. I clicked on him but wasn't close enough. I mounted up but even on the biggest mount I had I still couldn't reach him. I flew up a little. I was now technically in reach but was greeted with the message 'you are mounted'. I tried to land in the tree. That didn't work and as a result of my efforts all I had managed to do is cause him to go away.
Being Pepe-less I went to Stormshield to collect my seals (I haven't been near my computer for five days) and have a look at what goodies having a feathered friend would bag me.




The bird whistle is the obvious item. If you like Pepe then you want him all the time! There was a lot to get through and I still had the whole 'he flew the nest' thing to contend with.
I was informed that if I went back into my Garrison it would reset him. So back I went, ran up to his tree to be confronted with an empty branch. I went out and back in my Garrison twice more, each time getting to the branch and seeing nothing. I tried the /tar Pepe and nothing happened, I tried it out on another npc milling around and it worked perfectly. At this point I conceded that Pepe was gone forever and I decided to look at wowhead to have a look at the bird whistle achiement in more detail due to the number of raid bosses you need to kill.

It was upon reaching the comments section I decided to read through them as there can be comedy gold in those posts, scrolling through comments about not having certain critter killing pets out, I then stumbled on this...


Little feathery bastard had been hiding from me!
Lo and behold, there he was...


He looks like Leatherface. Creepy little shit...
Anyway, I collected him and got the achiement for finding him in his scarecrow costume (wut?) and had his fat ass on my head as we went in to raid. Trash went a bit wrong and he decided that there was no reason to hang around with my corpse so he buggered off again.

I might be tempted to complete this, as he is kinda cute but the sheer effort needed now nothing is current is going to be horrendous. Unless I can convince the raid team to spam the old dungeons and raids while we have birds sitting on our heads it's going to be a lfr job... Can I actually be that bothered? Possibly not!
Anyone wondering about what you need, boss wise, the list is below. Good luck!


Gug'rokk: The last boss in Bloodmaul Slag Mines

Teron'gor:The last boss in Auchindoun

Skulloc:The last boss in Iron Docks

Ner'zhul: The last boss in Shadowmoon Burial Grounds

Skylord Tovra: The last boss in Grimrail Depot

Yalnu: The last boss in The Everbloom

High Sage Viryx: The last boss in Skyreach

Warlord Zaela: The last boss in Upper Blackrock Spire

Brackenspore: Boss in Highmaul

Ko'ragh: Penultimate boss in Highmaul

Oregorger: Boss in Blackrock Foundry

Hans'gar & Franzok: Boss in Blackrock Foundry

Operator Thogar: Boss in Blackrock Foundry

Beastlord Darmac: Boss in Blackrock Foundry

Kargath Bladefist: First boss in Highmaul

Twin Ogron: Boss in Highmaul

The Butcher: Boss in Highmaul

Tectus: Boss in Highmaul

Imperator Mar'gok: Final boss in Highmaul

Blast Furnace: Boss in Blackrock Foundry

The Iron Maidens: Boss in Blackrock Foundry

Kromog: Boss in Blackrock Foundry

Gruul: Boss in Blackrock Foundry

Flamebender Ka'graz: Boss in Blackrock Foundry

Blackhand: Final boss in Blackrock Foundry

Drov the Ruiner: World boss in northern Gorgrond

Tarlna the Ageless: World boss in southern Gorgrond

Rukhmar: world boss in Spires

 

Know your DBM pull timers!

Jollyjanes' son created a video guide on how to use pull timers while we were having issues with ninja pulls and itchy fingers. I First spoke about why we needed it in this post. The video has been around for some time now and has been referenced every time that we still have ninja pulls.

http://youtu.be/cik7a6__vGk

The guildies knew about it and it was sitting at a modest amount of views until one day, it got linked on the wow sub-reddit by a guildie.

I have to admit, I've never really looked at reddit due to most things like this being full of keyboard warriors and cancerous trolls who like to lord it over people regardless of how much of a complete twat they are. Half of me was expecting that the usual crettins would come out and slate the video even though they are made fully aware that the creator of it is (was) 7 years old. My faith in humanity is restored however when reading the comments.



















 

 

And then theres twitter...


And general sharing...


And how about getting the boy to 50k views? We can do it!

Is it fair?

I realise that it's been a long time since my last post. I have so much stuff to type up but alas, it lost out to typing up my assignments and getting A's (go me!  I digress...)

We killed Archimond on Sunday, great stuff! We did have a few wobbles but after five pulls or so, we had him down.



One thing that was a hiccup was the chains and breaking them in order. I use dbm and doing this boss with this group was the first experience I'd had. When we got to the chains part I noticed that amidst the other flurry of text on my screen, it said what chain number I needed to break. 'Great!' I though. 'now I don't need to be turning my camera all over the place to see who has done what'.
Yeah. Dbm doesn't like to make it that easy.

Dbm tells you what position in the chain breaking queue you are. Which is nice! Big letters fill your screen. Im always third (stupid alphabet) but I get this announcement.

ZIONXI BREAK CHAIN: THIRD

(or something like that, I was tempted to take a screenshot but thought that instead of tweeting, I should probably be killing the boss...)



This is someone else's screenshot showing the chain. Now when this first happened I was expecting something like the below shot when I needed to break it...



But no... That would be too easy on a fight like this! So they give you this...



Well, not quite. They do however demand that while you're running around screaming at being chased over ts that you steady your nerves with a little counting puzzle...



Wtf dbm! You're expecting a group of people who are crying because the imaginary Wolf thing with dreadlocks is chasing them and trying to bite their arses to then have enough mental prowess to complete a puzzle? No no no no. What you get is this...



Such fun...
Implement this plox.