it is done

The Endgame calleth...

So, I hit 60 on Wednesday Night! Wooot!!! Time to get some of that endgame content that everyone's always yammering about.

Meef and Cowchan both hit 59 too, so won't be long for them either. Whatsay we try to get one of the high level dungeons done this weekend? BRD? Strat? Scholo? Meef, I've never done any of these all the way through, so can you give us some estimate of what kind of content we could do that would be fun and possibly loot-inducing?

I spoke to Cowchan, and he said that he might be able to do Saturday afternoon or late Sunday afternoon, I think. Both of these times work for me. Meef?

I know Alex is out of town, but maybe Zala will have his account restored by then. Otherwise we'll have to pug a healer ;_;.

Oh well, still should be fun. Respond with times that you guys can meet. I'm gonna suggest 2PM EST for Saturday (that's 11AM for you guys) or sometime your Sunday afternoon.

Leather is not really that much better...

So, I guess I shouldn't be making fun of Tsukikaji's Dresses. I spent a lot of time trying to put together my Embrace of the Viper set, just to find out that it makes me look like a bad, bovine Elvis Impersonator...



Ah well, at least they've been leaving these nice-apple scented baths in every Inn for me to use.

orly

doh, don't mean to push that previous post down so quickly, but ya just reminded me i have a tonna screenshots i wanna upload ^^;

I highly recommend getting drunk. Then get drunk in the game.Looking for trouble in RFC...


ftl

Dig in the dust! +25% to sta, +25% health & mana regen for 2hrs! outside uc, on the way to silverpine

nothing like the freedom of the robe...

which reminds me... i might've posted this before, but it wasn't ringing a bell when i mentioned it to will... big blue dress (make sure to have sound on)

Ros dances with a beast

Meet our new warrior. Lvl 41. w00t!

maybe it was just a long day...

...but i lol'd:

Remove the C'thun trash scorpians/scarabs

[the thread title is in reference to (i think) the tons of time wasting trash you have to fight before the final aq40 boss, prolly a valid complaint... anyhow, 18 pages!!!]

zomg even better:
"Yeeeaaaahhh... I'm gonna need those DPS reports on my desk..."
"I told them....I told them if they told me to clear vent one more time I'd disband the raid."
" Sounds like somebody has a case of trying to raid on a tuesday."
"I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "kel'thuzad strats" in the wiki."
"'Looks like you've been missing a lot of raids lately...'
'I wouldn't say i've been missing it Bob...'"
"' Ladnil, we need to talk about your FR.'
'But I have 120 unbuffed FR, that's the minimum right?'
'Sure it's the minimum, but you don't like to only do the minimum, do you?'"
"'You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time so if you would, would you walk us through a typical raid, for you?'
'Yeah. Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, after that I sorta space out for an hour.'
'Da-uh? Space out?'
'Yeah, I just wand my target, but it looks like I'm DPSing. I do that for probably another hour after I DC for lunch too, I'd say in a given raid I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, DPSing.'"
"So you want me to wear more flarecore?"
"'Now Miltonadin, don't be greedy, let's pass it along and make sure everyone gets an epic piece.'
'Yes but, last raid I didn't receive a piece, and I was told that I could n---'
'Just Pass.'"
"... and if everything goes well tonight, I'll be showing her my o rly face. O rly. O rly. O rly...."
from the wow forums

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.

tsukikaji

so I rolled a new character. he's a druid. his name is tsukikaji. tsuki = moon. kaji = fire. i'm so novel. anyhow, i'm sure you can see where this is going. before you read any further, you need to view/listen to this ytmnd (Bendyr's Edit: As with any YTMND link, DO NOT CLICK AT WORK UNLESS YOU HAVE HEADPHONES). bendyr also rolled a druid. his name is slotr. he's gonna get twinked out, so he'll end up with a pvp rank of... sergeant! BRILLIANT. here's a pair of screenshots from our adventures:





perhaps i'm just easily amused... but that was easily the most fun i've had with wow since... well actually running thru st was pretty cool... but still!!! BRILLIANT.

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.

get your asses in here

zomg av holiday weekend ftw. in three days of pvping, i already have 10k more honor than last week. and one of those days was spent in ab/wsg (much less honor). wait times are usually less than 30 seconds and games less than 30 minutes. nyooohohoho!

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.

for the nyohohorde!

Well i played like 5 games of AV just now and we finally won the 5th one... totally forgot about the quest reward for winning!!!


I went back to UC and respec'd so I'm now Arms/Fury for maximum polearm goodness. Can't wait to try this baby out!

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?

Holiday Weekend

So my plans to travel to exotic Maine to observe the habits of the Flying Panda fell through, so I may be a bum and just stay in New York this weekend. If so, I'll probably be playing a lot of WoW. Is anyone interested in doing an instance on Saturday morning and/or Monday as well?

Right now our progression is pointing to either Maraudon, or back to Jintha'Alor for Cowchan to get his trinket and for us to get that stupid egg. Mara would require a pugged healer, Jintha would not. I think that Dwight still needs to get his infernal, as well.

Who's available this weekend?

zomg bgs

so i went to AV last nite with my priest and man, what a difference. previous attempts had always failed due to a grand total of 0 games being up whenever i tried to get on (like midnight server time)... last nite thanks to the new patch... 28 AVs!!! it was great. wait times < 5 min for the 2 games i played and i scored almost 2k rep in < 2hours. (and i didn't even get to stay for the completion of the second game, that one had reached a stalemate and i had to drop to run human strat with my guildies).

good stuff... i need to get meef in there asap... i can feel the unstoppable force... it's too bad you can't join av as a group, cuz that'd be a great way to spend guild time if we could. we still can for other bgs thou, right?

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.

Welcome new guildies!

I'd like to welcome Synbian (lvl 8 Tauren Druid), Bitrot (Orc Hunter) and Mojito (Druid). I've also created an alt -- AngelaMartin (undead priest).

I've already sent Mojito some mageweave bags ... I'll be sending some to Synbian shortly.

We'll soon be scheduling some low level grind sessions ... probably in the barrens ... I'll schedule it soon.

Edit: If someone sees Synbian online ... can you /ginvite him?

The Cow Has Returned...

...kinda.

So I'm finally back in the states and anxious to get back to the fleeting summer BBQ fun. I see many improvements have been made, and I will get back to the grind as soon as I find a)an apartment, b)internet access, and c)a job. Hopefully, this will take two weeks or so. Anyway, I just wanted to congratulate everyone on their hard work and I will do my best to join the ranks of the Korean BBQ once again.

For the BBQ!!!

PS - Australia was frickin' cool. No tips! And wombats (which are basically fulborgs!)

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.