Category Archives: World of Warcraft

Drow - Celestial Defenders

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There a pivotal moments in a guild’s life that make or break its success, last night was one of those for DROW.  For the folks who threw us under the bus for a few hours of progression, this one’s for you:

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This wasn’t just an end-zone boss kill - it was end-zone boss kill when all the chips were down.  After a staggering amount of turnover and roster change from the start of Ulduar, we put ourselves back in the US top-30, after being Top-100 only weeks ago.  In that time, we’ve been spit on, poached, laughed at, and abandoned.  We’ve been told we were washed up.  We’ve had people log into our vent calling us “Has Beens, Woulda Beens, Shoulda Beens”.  People doubted us, called our successes a fluke, didn’t think we could hold a top standing.  So here it is…

And for the record - the actuall kill was closer to US 21st or 22nd.  With the way scoring works on WoW Progress, we got bumped 7 or 8 slots back in ranking by guilds that got the kill hours after us.  It is what it is.

We’ve got Alone in the Darkness to keep us occupied, and hopefully some more PTR work to get our feet wet with 3.2.

/Salute to the team and to Kurkis (The Magic Man) in particular.  I’m pretty sure he made this win possible for the guild.

I need to write more, hopefully now that the stress is off I’ll have more time to play here.  See you guys in a few days…

PTR, Fireworks, and Fruitcakes.

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Got on the PTR, machine locked up loading into Dalaran.  No big deal, these things are to be expected with test servers, right?

Logged back in, started loading back into Dalaran, machine locked up.  3rd times a charm…

Lucky number three, yet another lock-up loading into Dalaran.  Fuck this.  My PC doesn’t deserve this shit.

Made a level 1 alt, loaded in just fine.  Ran around and did a quest to make sure I wasn’t imagining things, hit level 2, no lock-ups, no CTDs.  I don’t know why this would fix anything but at this point I’m willing to suspend my disbelief…

Tried loading back into Dalaran after my level 1 expedition, was able to load in this time.  Ran straight to the JC trainer to take some notes on the profession changes.  Found the vendor, started sifting through recipes, looking at the new epic cuts, noting gem costs.  Forty-five seconds of productivity on the PTR, and then a CTD.  “Fuck it”

Loaded in one more time and started snapping off screenshots to circumvent the innevitable CTD.  Got what I needed and logged off.

Here’s the documentation:

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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.

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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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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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