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

Sorry Sarth. Nothing personal.

Didn't expect to do an OS run today, but it happened. Did a 10-man Sarth run with Breach of Faith. Went well! I got to main tank Sarth this round. No one even died during the main fight. I got him right in position right away. Hurray for highlighted maps on guild forums. Gotta love visual aids.

Yep. That's my UI. Makes things a little easier. Of course, a wide screen monitor would do that too! ^^

We're coming for you next week Malygos! Be ready!

Happy V-Day!

Well I had to work all day. Stupid job. No Naxx for me this week. But, did finally get all the Love is in the Air achievements!!

Got some fun screenies. Enjoy!

THE ICE STONE HAS MELTED!

The bug that appeared with Love is in the Air amuses myself and everyone I know a great deal.

SO! Tonight was my first raid with Atlas! Yay! It was great. It was heroic Obsidian Sanctum aka Sarth 25. This was the first time they were going to attempt to do it with one drake still up, but it didn't go well. I'll get up to that.

So I was delighted to be told by our RL to tank the drakes we did take down. That was fun. We had four other tanks with us, so I was glad to be told to do the dirty work *evil grin*.

When it came time to down Sarth, we discussed possitioning and movement strategies because of the lava walls. I was asked to be in charge of tanking our last drake. So the first three tries were failures. Mainly for two reasons. 1) Lava walls killed people because they didn't get out of the way. 2) A lava wall hit me and didn't kill me (at first) because I was trying to get aggro on the additional drake and DOTs eventually killed me. 3) I couldn't get aggro on the drake because the DPS tried too hard to start getting the drake down before I had enough hate built on him to keep it on me.

So it didn't work. Once we gave up, killed the drake separately, and did Sarth alone, everything went swimmingly.

Cracks me up.

It cracks me up when stuff like this happens. It's 100% better when it's random too.


It was a while ago, but I found the screenshot I took. Didn't know the guy. Didn't even see him in Stormwind! Just randomly whispered me >.<

It's weird I'll get whispers all the time from people I don't know asking me to run them through a low level instance. It's weird. Especially since me running someone through an instance will take like...an hour or more. No aoe...um...ash a mage?

Super Duper Weekend

Kedreeva, having her own plans, spent Saturday afternoon hijacking Yora so that she could get me loads of gear because she wanted me to run with a group for Naxx 10 that night as a tank. I can't complain. I came home for lunch from work to find my hubby on my computer looking suspicious and to see that my account is logged into and I'm in Iron Forge being traded with for enchants.

Well. It was quite exciting because that night I DID get to tank in Naxx 10. The group Ked formed made it all the way up to Kel'Thuzad. We didn't finish KT that night, but we did the next afternoon. I had a LOT of fun. I got a lot of tips from the awesome Jigoku, our DK MT. She rocks. I look forward to running other things with these guys, they're a great bunch.

But, I also look forward to running with Atlas. We will see what kind of juggling I will have to do to try and run with both Atlas and BoF, but Atlas takes lead. I am hoping to run Wrath raids with Atlas, though. I haven't gotten to yet.

But, a few more enchants and just a bit more gear and I will be totally ready to do some damage anywhere. I'm only missing one piece of T7 gear now, but considering the pretty helm I have now, I'm really not worried about getting it asap.

Thanks to Kedreeva and Jigoku. You gave me a push to being just that much more sucessful as a tank.

Sarth Pug - success!

Good old Kedreeva. I can count on her to get me into the occasional awesome event. I don't know how she does it, but she knows a ton of people. This week one of these people she knows was looking to put together a Obsidian Sanctum group and I got to go with them. I hadn't done it yet, and really didn't expect to even get to off tank, which I did not do. This was fine, though. I got a chance to see the fight and it went pretty smoothly.

I have to say, these fights they have come up with in Wrath are pretty creative. When you are fighting the dragons and the group has to go through the portals to fight adds, that was pretty cool. I really like this "other reality" aspect that Blizzard has started to incorporate into the game. It adds a higher sense of fantasy to the game that has me intrigued a great deal.

As for our group, everyone kept calling it a pug, but it was really a 3-degrees of separation group. Someone knew everyone who was there. This is mostly due to Ked's network of friends as well as her implimentation of the Breach of Faith "guild". Which is a marvelous creation and I hope to get a chance to talk about it a little more at another time.

So, here's to a chance to do Sarth again soon! I'm looking forward to a possible Naxx run this weekend. =D Wish me luck!

Fail of Archavon

The problem we had wasn't so much me dying, as the off-tank dying. We did not have a proper off-tank because ... well... it was 8am. So instead we had a DK trying to OT. It would have been ok if he was any kind of tank, but he wasn't so by the second time I was stunned, he we dead all three tries.

Despite how poorly we did, at the very least I know that I'm a decent tank. I didn't have any trouble dying once I knew the fight. Well...accept for after all the healers got themselves killed >.> I can tell though that with a capable group this is a not a hard fight. Even though I've been told it's easy peasy, I still have to see it for myself to feel it out before I'll believe the rumors ^_~