zuru furakku

Anyone really bored and want to run kotonoha thru zf? ^_^;

I have a billion quests and it'd be nice if i could get that wolf helm.

As always, lemme know if you need meef to run anythin for ya.

p.s. we haven't done any arena this week have we?

screenshot dump

just summore random bbq happenings...

cow took kotonoha on a quick tour of sfk and sm graveyard. no torturing poker, but i did score some watchman pauldrons!
cow also got kotonoha her poisons! woooo!
later i was goofing off in the sm graveyard also...
today i actually ran shadow labs twice. both times were with members of the strange box guild... though strangely enuf with different members each time. they're good folks and we mopped up the place. leggings of assassination dropped twice, but no bold in sight. oh well, completed the quests and got a fat wad of cash out of it.
my questing in shadowmoon has been slow but steady... unfortunately i'm again left with a huge chunk of group quests... where are you bbqers? :P
i hate fighting elementals so much. damn unmitigated damage. well, i guess in that respect earth elementals are ok... but lotsa them have other annoying abilities -_- knockdownsplitupondeath bastards...
also ran botanica a while back... again, no bold armor, but it was fun to get to know the instance.


slowly climbing toward my epic mount. at this rate maybe i'll have it by winter... ^^;;;

if you're looking for bbq activity:
--meef needs group questing help and/or any bc instance run. and be sure to lemme know if you need a run to gear up an alt or somethin.
--kotonoha could really use a new dagger. a torturing poker would be nice (boss in sm graveyard, 5% drop, but it will prolly take only about 3-5 minutes per attempt). swinetusk shank from rfk would also be a nice offhand upgrade.
--nayuki could use a couple runs thru sfk :D

すっきりした！

so i have roughly a billion screenshots... and some big (meef) news!

kinduva an old one from zangar... evidently this is how the world pvp tower capture battles go...
ahhh good 'ol... underbog? or wait slave pens? bah, whatever. damn crabs.i come for you bastard giant!Mennu betrays no more
i'm sooo glad no one frikkin fell off the platform. how do you recover from that anyway?

kinduva neato quest (well, mob at least) i duo'd with bendyr. guess that's the closest i'll ever get to tanking sapphiron. this is that one in the bone wastes...
always make sure to have a strat
more bbq questin :D spider huntin fun no you can't have a pit lord, i don't care if he followed you home. ... ... ... warlocks never listen.
sooo glad we got our caverns of time attunement quest out of the way. i love this place.cow took offense to the human jokes hahathrall is my hero.
you guys remember hindwes? i think that was the name of the 'cna i cmoe?' hunter. he invited me to a mana tombs group. then before they summoned me, the priest dropped and hindwes couldn't find another healer (after like 5 minutes) so he dropped. So we picked up two guys and rocked the place. man i was so happy when he dropped.
i think i like mana tombs. too bad i got no loot >_<
shadowmoon valley is rock. ok, sure it's all dark and burnt black, which would put it in the blasted lands/hellfire peninsula category, but man, all this shit's goin down and it actually feels like a war zone. it's great. and what the hell is this c'thun looking thing doing here.

this is an awesome area, right near the zone entrance. basically a holding area for the infernals.but they obviously didn't count on the bbq!
so yeah, i was running around shadowmoon since i was real close... eventually 28 xp close...one kill later... woooo!!!
and the best for last... *sob* take my money you bitchwooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

curse you sethekk halls!

so i just had my first sethekk halls pug. ugh. well no, ya know, it was actually a good group. we had no problems with our pally, mage, lock and hunter. in fact, i think the group organizer purposely chose the group to have all ranged damage and maximum cc. the hunter was a bit of a tard, but hey, at least he was dpsing.

but anyhow, so yeah, no problems, we downed the first boss, make it to the 2nd and final boss with only 1 wipe (in fact, it was that last damn 5 elite pull). ...then we wipe. then we wipe again. then we wipe again... and again. and again? i forget. after like 4-6 wipes the pally was red and left. we get a 69... shadow priest. with no pure healing gear >_< well i lie, she had healing gloves... from bf i think. (those surgeon mitts, wherever they're from) but everything else was dmg crit gear. hell she still had her pvp trinket on. so we wipe the first time since she'd never been thru... then FINALLY down the boss.

ugh. lessons i learned:
1> pallies can main heal... except through boss aoe damage ;_;
2> Talon King Ikiss is a bitch
3> ikiss is a fucker
4> fucking RUN after ikiss blinks
5> everyone should run to the SAME pillar
6> ikiss casts his damn aoe arcane bolts after every blink, so make sure you can take 1-2k dmg
7> ikiss is an ass
8> a prot warrior and a holy pally can take ikiss down from 60% to 37% by themselves.
9> ikiss is a bitch

On the bright side i got a sexay plate belt (although not a tanking one ;_;) and finished the two quests outside, which netted me an awesome 93 dps polearm and a 40 sta, +def neck.

in other news a fucking dwarf shadow priest tried to gank me outside of the maghar city thing in nagrand. but i fuckin killed him!!! gyooohohohoho! prot ftw. i even missed a chance to spell reflect a mind blast.

Adventures in Outland

Yes ... the outlands are great fun. Just a few pics from the adventures ...

Yes ... I now have Nightfall AND Backlash which means 4% chance for an insta shadow bolt on a Drain Life or Corruption tick and a 25% chance insta shadow bolt on getting hit by the enemy. I had some great encounters against allies trying to killing me and having backlash and nightfall proc at the same time. This lead to a huge chain of insta cast nastiness: Conflagrate + Nightfall Shadow Bolt + Backlash Shadow Bolt + Shadowburn + Death Coil ... they never knew what hit em ...

bffffft

so last nite i made my first voyage to bf with meef... and tanked for the first time ^^;;


so yeah, things were going fine... until mutant jellyfish man... broggok is he? blegh. shoulda read up on the encounters more. first time we wiped on the last group of guys... restarted... then we got a group and 2 guys bugged out!!! we couldn't target them! it was utter crap. we figured it might have been because the shaman dropped his totems too close to the unopened gate... poop.

so we wipe a little more, the mage logs -- but to get his 67 priest! so now we're running with 2 shadow priests... and... we wipe again. -_- i woulda quit earlier except the perseverance of the group was refreshing. finally, on our second attempt with the higher lvl priest, we downed the bastard... and got a gun... poooo

well, thankfully after that cockblock we were able to finish the zone off


yay tanking trinkets!


in other news, wholy hell, look at the awesome buff you get *when you gather* dreamingglory!


so awesome. just gotta find more spawn points...

finally... gralax has an awesome hat.

Siebzehn, Säugling

Hit 70 on Sunday after some crazy questing, but I was too lazy to post until now. I also picked up my epic riding mount; I felt like the only level 70 without one, so I felt like I had to get one. Of course, now I'm the only lv 70 without a flying mount, so I'll be saving my pennies for that now... sigh.

I also did a total revamp of my UI and addons. Cut my memory usage down by almost half, and it looks pretty slick. I'll add some screenshots when I get home.

So... Meef and Dwight still both need a Ramparts run. You guys wanna set something up for tonight or maybe Sunday? I'll probably be massively hungover Sunday, so an instance 10 levels below me will be about my speed.

NOTE: Also I was bored at work so I put labels on the last 50 posts of our blog or so. Yeah...

Gravy

Dwight, Cowchan, and I continued the tradition of finding borderline psychotic PUGs, this time in the form of a Priest who refused to leave Shadowform, was apparently trying to pull AND tank, and was just generally trying his best to wipe us. We gave him the boot and picked up Wolfenstine, a 59 druid with some Cenarion gear, which was an obvious improvement.

Grats to Dwight and Cowchan on finishing your class quests! Let me know which rewards you end up opting for. BTW, that "Chained Essence of Eranikus" isn't a bad trinket, but if you like you can also turn it in for XP in and gold in SoS: Just find this dude, and talk to him (he won't have a mark over his head, but he's in a cave and you just start talking to him).

Return to the Sunken Temple

After pwning a Turkey and its various fixing minions on Thursday, I now feel revitalized, and think we should organize an instance this weekend. Dwight and Cowchan still need their Sunken Temple goodies, and with three or four 60s in tow, it should be a piece of cake. In fact, what level is Ros? If he can hit 50 by this weekend, we can probably even bring him along...

Prior to this weekend, Dwight should complete the quests up to Trolls of a Feather and Cowchan should complete the quests up to The Green Drake in preparation. If either of you needs help with any of those prereq quests, just /holla.

Given that you guys are interested in some "Big Game" apparently, we can either do this early morning on Saturday or some time on Sunday. What time is good for you?

Damn BRD conspiracy...

Well, the zionist-conspiracy-controlled respawn times in the Lyceum prevented us from dethroning the emperor, but at least we got some good lewt! Meef came away with a blue and a BOE Purple O_o. Cowchan got some quests completed, and I learned to smelt Dark Iron!

Now if you don't mind, I have some more ethnic groups to defame and some dwarves to aggro.

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Wait, where am i? Who just took over my blogger account? Did someone just post using my name? Why am I wearing all this lipstick? NO WIRE HANGERS... EVER!!!

BG, XP, ST

I'm stalling Bendyr at 59 so we can do guild WSG and AB (if we want, I even have info for a vent server that we can use). We needs to grind our low 50s up so we can get some BBQ BGs. In fact, Meef has suggested that you grind levels on the mobs in AV. Not only do they give decent experience while you can do some minor AV objectives, but you will be getting free rep and honor the whole time AND you have no durability costs O_o. The AV trinkets just add more honor and xp. Other good XP at low 50s can be found in Un'goro where the quests are all overlapping and there are tons of quests with good xp you can complete just by running around (like the Zelda quest).

This weekend, I think we may want to do ST again for Dwight, since he needs to do his Warlock Scythe quest.

assty

wow, what a day of wow. the princess fell quickly, i think we got thru there in under an hour. pressed on to st, snakes in a temple.

trolls fell and i collected their feathers, dragons fell, and we killed a giant flying snake. why stop there?! to BRD!

later in the day we headed to brd... and thus began the most terrible run ever. first we had a druid who couldn't heal me. so we wiped a bunch. i was rezzed during a boss wipe so i got to die twice. excellent. theeeen we had 4. we pressed on. we killed the boss... then we wiped in the areana. aaaand you can't reset the event. great. so we waited for a priest. we waited forever. priest finally comes when we're about to quit. we have a bad pull or somethin and i die... ...and my equipment is broken. so i try to run out... noope! respawn! i die. rezsickness at thorium point. pay 5g in repairs. ganked by 60 warrior. rez. ganked by 60 warrior. rez. run for my life. maaaake it baaack aaaand... we have to backclear so i can rejoin the group ><

in the end we managed to make it to the 7 dwarves, get mc attunement, and kill plugger. but frikkin a it was a terribality. thank goodness the priest was skilled.

damn you brd.

Cowchan, Bendyr, and Prometheus

After this shot, Cowchan loaded me into his gun, and shot me at someone.

This was taken on the way to get Cowchan his trinket in Jintha'Alor, and to clear up a bunch of leftover quests (including Ancient Egg). Seems like our guild progression is still Maraudon->Sunken Temple. Meef and I are a little over-leveled, but it will make the instances go fast, and at the very least, we all need the reward from ST anyway. Anyone interested in doing one this weekend? After this whole extended downtime crap, I'm antsy for some heavy WoWing.

Third time is the (Gazlowe's) charm

Ok guys, I thought i'd get the word out early and see if you guys are up for some centaur slaughter in Maraudon this weekend. Meef is scaling back raiding time with his Khadgar priest, so we could do it on either Saturday or Sunday.

Cowchan, are you set up with teh Intarwebs? Dwight, does Saturday or Sunday work for you?

Mucho Azul en el Desierto

Other than making the unfortunate choice of PUGging a troll healer in a purple dress who was visually identical to the mobs we were slaying, we had an excellent run through ZF. Dwight and I got blued up, and everyone finished all the quests except for the collection of Troll Juice, which really is just as well. It was also our first run with Cowchan back from his world tour, so that was also pretty cool.

See the full post for more pics.




Gojira was no match for us, and I am now using one of his fangs as my ambush weapon.


Chief Uzorz has like a 7% chance to drop Embrace of the Lycan, which is not only the best helm I can get prior to Stratholme, but it also makes me look like Fox McCloud! Rawr! Now I don't have to miss out on my lycanthropy when I'm not playing my druid. And alex can keep saying something about bdussbdbd. The only downside is you can no longer see my awesome mohawk, which is a little sad. Back to the topic of Starfox real quick though, if you haven't seen this penny-arcade strip, it really should not be missed.


Dwight actually got in the way when I was trying to get a screenshot of my cool helm, but I thought I'd include this. Among other things, Dwight was able to snag Zum'rah's Vexing Cane. We're all starting to look very menacing, which is good.

Zul'Farrak

Anyone up for Zul'Farrak this Saturday, same Bat-Time as normal? Now that I'm using ItemRack, I think I want to get that dagger off of Gahz'Rilla and train up Ambush.

Rick, if you're situated, you should come. Level 48 should be fine for the mobs in Zul'Farrak, and then we'll just have to PUG a healer.

Progression

So looking at the items laid out on the BBQ planning page, it seems like the progression from here should be Hinterlands -> Zul'Farrak -> Maraudon -> Sunken Temple.

Also, the Hinterlands quests are not in an instance and may be a little less hardcore. Is everyone cool to do it this Saturday, same time as last week? I'll be 51 and alex will be 50, so it should be doable. I'll throw something in the gCal when i get home.

On another note, I finally created the custom Guild ranks Just let me know if you want to rename/change your rank.