Time for screenshot fun day.

mmm. So, yes I have been doing things. I even take screenshots now and again.

Months ago. Probably like back in December '08 a guy in a pug told me that my name, Yora, reminded him of Dora of the Explorer namesake. We don't have kids. We have cats. The only reason I know about this show is popular media and working in retail.

But damn it was a funny idea to have the title. Well I shared the joke with my friends and they have been nagging me ever since to get the title. I finally cracked down this month, did a lot of exploring, and got me a title.

What's funny is I finished at Land's End Beach completely on accident. I was finishing what I had left of Kalimdor zones by looking for little areas I seemed to be missing. I didn't even know this place existed. Well, there it is.

The turtles were making me hungry.

My good buddy Jigoku (a chick of many names) took me off to BT led by her rogue. She was good enough to let me sit in her bank guild for a few days (I mentioned that before...) anyway, BT was something I never got to see in the prime of BC because...well...our guild at the time were jerks.

That's it for the fun ones for now.

AFK: Too busy headbashing keyboard.

Who's a lazy blogger?

I AM.

Things weren't going great with my old guild. This is something that happens as core members leave, policies change, and cliques form. I added quite a few of them to my friends list when I left. I spent Memorial Day weekend in Jigoku's bank guild and then got invited to join as a candidate.

I like the way SS's recruitment systems runs. They start it off by having you fill out a sort of application, which based on that then they will do an interview with you. The interview is then conducted via IM so that the recruiter can copy and paste the interview for the guild to read...so they can all see what you're like and if they want to give you candidacy. Candidacy is like a nice little trial period. They give you a mentor and a thread to journal in. I like the journalling idea. It's a good way for both the guild and for the new member to get a good feeling of what the other is like.

So I got to run Ulduar with SS tonight, it was fun. I like the way they run the raid and I look forward to Sunday. Time to get researched up on those fights some more and get stocked up agian.

<3 Yora

Mass Barf

I certainly have been shirking any sort of sharing on here, but here we go regardless.

This week I got to main tank Sarth 25 .... finally. We've been doing this for months now; and we did it for at least three weeks with exactly the same tank assignments .... me on fire adds. *dies* boring Unfortunately this week the first pull didn't go so well. I got Sarth, the promptly lost him to a pet with growl on *grumble* so...as half the raid goes down while he spits fire on the for the half a second it takes me to taunt him back...we called it a wipe. I jumped in the lava with one of our other raidies. I thought it was funny.

For some reason, it's just not OS Wednesdays unless I drop a romantic picnic. <3

Also, I have been able to do Naxx a few times with my guild. =D

For the Alliance!

For the Alliance! The raid took about 1.5 hours. Pretty good! I got to main tank all four leaders. I have to thank my good friend Featherwind for that. ^^ She also did a great job leading the raid, not to mention keeping us all in check. I don't think it would have gone as smoothly if she hadn't been in charge.

It was a lot of fun. Usually I'm not a PVP person, but world PVP is a blast. I hope we'll go again some time. I know if anyone wants to go for it and I'm available, I'll be there!

Sweet

...interesting tactic

I am a bit of a Facebook addict. What does this have to do with Warcraft, you might ask? Well since I have one of the Warcraft applications added to my profile there have been a lot of Warcraft related adds showing up on my pages. That doesn't bother me, really. I ignore them with all the other crap that pops up as I peruse the site. However today I saw something that made me stop and think "Woooooow, that's....special." There was an add for a raiding guild looking for new Alliance members on some other server.

This might seem like a smart idea initially when you are a guild trying to recruit. Sure, get an add on Facebook where it's cookies will show it to all the Warcraft players. But what kind of people will you end up applying? I mean, most of them are probably not going to be good players or good people. I just don't think that the kind of person who would apply to a guild that they saw on an advertisement on a friend-sharing network would be the kind of person you would want in your guild. I mean, Facebook is supposed to be for friends, right? (For the sake of this arguement, that is). Well, if you have friends who play Warcraft, why don't you play with them? For that matter, don't you make an effort to make friends in game? Who would want to raid soooooo badly that they would apply to a paid ad that they saw on a website other than WorldofWarcraft.com so that they could transfer servers and then hope that the guild is worth the effort and money.

It's just...weird. I mean I would expect Facebook ads from gold-sellers, but not guilds.

Twilight Assist

Last night our guild made another attempt at doing Sarth 25 with one drake up. We went with a much better positioning, which worked out better once we figured out where people should stand and who is doing what. Which would seem obvious. Forgive me if this post doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm sick and there is a snot balloon filling my brain. >.<

This is where our raid leader found the strat for where to stand. All in all it helped a great deal, when looking at it. Of course not everyone has the advantage of two monitors, so most of the raid was still taking a few intitial tries to remember where the lava walls were coming from so as not to get burned by them. Last week when we tried this I tanked Tenebron and was told to pick him up where he lands, at the far right (if you are looking at the linked post) of the map. Then the tank is to move from the far part of the island's safe spot and back depending on where the walls are coming from.

This week we decided that it might be better to tank Tenebron on the bottom part of the island where most people tank Sarth when they first work on this raid. This is, in fact, where I tanked Sarth the night before in 10 man. It's a good spot. Our first few tries were still failures because between the whelps and the fire elemental adds, it was just too much to handle after a few lava waves and people, including the OTs, were going down.

For the record, I was an add off tank this week. ^_~

Anyway, my fellow add off tank was a death knight. He suggested after a couple of wipes that he could tank the whelps by himself using his nifty DK aoes that make the ground glow red and do damage. I don't know what it's called, but it's cool. *rolls eyes at self* I wholeheartedly agreed and we decided to try that. It worked. While our DK tanked the whelps I collected the fire elementals while all of the rest of the raid dpsed down Tenebron. This was key. The problem we were having was that Tenebron just wasn't going down fast enough. So having our DK handle the whelps and burning down Tenebron asap meant that there wasn't more than 2 waves of whelps, not to mention that he went down shortly after the second wave anyway. So, this is a good strat.

After that, smoking Sarth was business as usual. Grats to my guild! They did a great job. +1 drake OS down, only +2 drakes to go...as it were. =D