Monthly Archives: June 2009

Call the Fire Deptartment…

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Two hardmodes in one week, that’s a GG in my book.  This puts us at US 48th.

heroic_firefighter

Mimiron’s hard-mode is one of those unforgiving encounters with a thousand-and-one ways to die, and it takes nothing short of every member in your raid learning how to keep themselves alive under pressure if you want to get the kill.

You have to dodge landmines.  You have to run from the spreading fires. You have to avoid the emergency bots bobbing around the room dousing the  fires.  You have to dodge aerial rocket strikes.  You have to run from plasma blasts and laser beams, while avoiding more fires and landmines and the frost-bombs Mimiron deploys to help his emergency bots put out the fires, all while trying to kill the boss under the strict confines of an enrage timer…

It’s serious.

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Jigga Wut?

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Filed under MMO Gaming, World of Warcraft

Back in action -

Took a break from the WoW scene before WotLK dropped, came back in April to see if the game had changed for the better.  What I found was a heaping pile of guild strife and challenging content.

We’ve been hard at work, repairing the ship Steve built, check the résumé:

10-Man Ulduar Drakes

And our progress on the 25-man equivalent:

Glory of Ulduar - Progress

And some 10-man Algalon progress:

10-Man Algalon Progress

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