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| Everybody wants a rock to tie a piece of string around Posted By: Tundra - April 28, 2007 0300 PDT |
And that's why we keep going back to Crazy Gruul the Dragonkiller's Rock Emporium! He's got a wide assortment of rocks and he invites you to try them out, free of charge! Why, if you've ever wanted to know what it's like to be a rock, he can even help you there! That's right, remember, Crazy Gruul the Dragonkiller's Rock Emporium: Where to go when you just wanna Rock! |
| Here are some pictures from our recent trips to the Emporium. You can see that he's more than willing to help everyone try out a wide variety of large heavy objects. You've never met such a generous and giving Gronn! |
| Here we are trying out some nice Obsidian and Basalt pieces. Why, just look at the quality of his stones! |
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And here's everyone trying out some very nice Granite and Slate. Why, we could barely pull the priests off the limestone -- they just kept coming back (from the dead) for more! |
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Here we are looking at some Geodes and other fine crystalline rock formations, why, I think we might have hit on something we like here... everyone seems awfully enthusiastic for some reason. |
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What!?! Oh noes! But Gruul and I were just in the middle of a very interesting discussion about sodalite deposits and it's various uses for gemcutters! I was so close to coming up with a unique jewelcrafting recipe and you guys had to ruin it! |
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| Great work guys. Just great. Now I'm going to have to sit
around in org trying to cut blood garnets for copper all day. Good job.
Thanks a million. "/2 Druid cutting gems for epic mount funds! Only 100g for a bright blood garnet! At least 25g cheaper than AH! You can trust me, I've got epix!" |
Well, fine. Since we came all this way, I might as well show you the rest of the pictures. Field trips sure are exciting, aren't they? |
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We also came back two days later so I could finish my discussion about the intricacies of stonework and crystals, but apparently I got overenthusiastic while trying out some of the amazing rock samples and had to take a nap mid-trip. Fharo must have had a power nap that morning because usually he has to take a break a few minutes before I do (MT'ing sure can be tiring!), but not today: |
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| (For those keen observers, yes, the 1% and 9% are from the different kills. I'm taking creative license. 1%, kill, 9%, kill, doesn't flow quite the same.) |
I didn't get shots of both days loot for Gruul/HKM, so if anyone has some of those, ship them over for postings. I am, however, wearing some of it now: Look at my pants! Do eeeet! |
Here's the second kill though: |
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Here's a few bits from the 'Department of Irony': |
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For anyone with even a passing knowledge of majy, it is obvious we will need more irony-load bearing walls lest our dikes collapse -- or homonyms to that effect. |
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From the 'All WoW players are a little ghey' Department: |
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| And what's life without a happy ending once in a while? Talk about service! |
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This week's very special guest is.... Zaka! Let's give him a warm round of applause for being willing to just leap out of the closet and be an inspiration to us all! |
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Moving on -- These next tidbits are from the 'I'm not sure we talk about anything except sex and loot' department: |
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This week's 'Engrish, Do you Speak it?' prize is being jointly awarded to Tjaden and Fharo. There were some strong contenders, but you guys really pulled out all the stops! Remember folks, communication skills are key to effective leadership! |
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Some of the competition: |
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| By the way, we're paying $50 for anyone who can decipher
exactly what is going on previous chat log. And yes, we're fairly sure
it's not just baby-talk, so please stop submitting that as the answer.
Yes, I'm talking to you, Stasis. |
| In any case, Avarice is widely known for being a very friendly guild. Why, our executive team is always willing to sit down and talk with you about just about anything ... |
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| ... whether you want to, or not. |
| Also, Kirai insisted we post this on the forums. The only problem is, I can't remember what exactly it was we killed. So, grats on #3 on the meters killing .... something! Wooo!!!!! Keep your eye out for next week's installment of 'Damage meters with absolutely zero context' part two! |
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| And the Rogue's very favorite section.... 'Random damage meters'! |
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High King Maulgar:  |
| And the Gruul meters section. Mixed fights -- the filenames reveal more detail: |
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Gruul Healing Meters:  |
Zat ees all. You go home now! Go now! |
| Black and blue and broken bones Posted By: Tundra - April 10, 2007 2100 PDT |
| You know it's been a good night when you start with this: |
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| Do a little bit of the old ultra-violence: |
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| Errr, okay, I mean, and end like this: |
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| We wandered in hoping to warm up a bit on our third night of attempts, have Fharo try out his brand new 'tank hit things with big pointy stick' strat, and work our way to a kill. Instead, we walked in, one-shot him and then stood around going 'Well, crap, what do we do for the rest of the night?''. We seem to do this a lot recently. As soon as someone says, 'nah don't bother potting up much', we're pretty much sure to get a win. |
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| All I kept thinking to myself was 'You, and we allll, is barbequeue.' There's something wrong with me. Send help. |
| Actually, we weren't quite finished there -- it actually ended like this: |
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| Zaka said it all. Thanks, Blizzard. So happies. |
| The next day we decided to try our hand at Gruul, seeing as how we went to all the trouble to kill some ugly pack of ass-beat ogres. Not quite as happy an ending there, but for our first day I think we did okay. Meters in the bottom left corner for that attempt. |
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And, my final commentary for the evening, a
little featurette I might start calling 'Tundra's Inevitable Druid
Blathering... World... of Cats' because frankly, there just isn't
enough talking about all things druid (sshhh, I am taunting someone
else into doing an update, it's a secret!): |
| Yes, it seems clear to me, I'm going to need some more gear.
This wasn't my high for the night (22.2k), but considering it was sans
flask I'm pretty happy with it. Now, if only Gruul wouldn't hit for
more than 50% of that one hit out of four. In any case, I would like to thank all of the Priests (Whoever buffed me! Rainy!), Warlocks (Xanthu!), Paladins (Okay, Paladin -- Esurance!), Leatherworkers (Kirai! Dena!), Alchemists (Donon! Bonk!), Cooks (Kirai again! Curly! Remf? Bonk? crap I forget), and anybody who can do anything even remotely buff sta for stroking my epeen so very, very much. You will, none of you, hear the end of it. You're doomed. May as well give up now. Okay, I need to wrap this up fast because I've been touching myself all during this paragraph. |
| But do remember, true happiness is only a Night-elf pvp kill, or five, away! |
| Teenage angst has paid off well Posted By: Tundra - April 04, 2007 2300 PDT |
No real text for this update, just these: |
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| Oh, and I also made the images for this page clickable so that you don't have to do a view image to get the full sized version. Congrats, all. Now if only we could figure out why we win after we run out of pots and flasks instead of when we're fully potted up. Anyone? Buehler? |
| I'm
breathing so I guess I'm still alive Posted By: Tundra - April 03, 2007 2200 PDT |
Yep -- we're still here, one guild management rebuild and TBC roster annihilation later. So now we're back in action and man, is it great to be stepping up and killing shit again. |
| In any case, this is the first update for me. Where to begin? Where to end? Well, I'm no good at dramatic buildup, so let's just skip straight to the moneyshot: |
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That, for the record, was Netherspite. Now he's helping foster economic growth in a small digital third world country where he is being used as raw material for a burgeoning textile industry. Apparently blood elves love the crystalline-dragon-purse look. Blood elf males. On a note of what you might call personal pride -- that was our second day of attempts -- our first being a ninja-raid (unscheduled with whoever is on), I believe it was pull #7 or 8 en toto, not counting some whoops-hey-look-at-that-aggro-range 'pulls'. On a very execution-oriented fight, I am pleased that we can refine and stabilize as a team so quickly. DnT we're not, but it sure as hell wasn't 4 weeks of wiping, either. And, of course, with any kill, comes the inevitable 30 minute e-peen brag-fest. I figured I might try and put a stop to this one before it started -- you can see the clear focus on the rogue... big meaty tauren mitts at the ready... right here I'm thinking 'Hey, his spine is already halfway out, I bet I can do one of those Mortal Kombat moves!'. |
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This, folks, this is why we don't let rogues in the blue beam. Because you hear about it afterwards. For two hours. And then again at the next raid.
In any case, if you look at the picture, it's obvious Rainy could tell what was about to go down. My guess is she was thinking something along the lines of 'Oh shit, better move before he gets blood all over my dress!'.
Well, okay, I've been wrong before... Sometimes I wonder if I'm playing the same game as everyone else is.
Erm, apparently I'm not. Maybe it's in advanced options somewhere... |
After putting him down, we decided some conga-line action was in order to celebrate.  |
Esurance is such a spoil-sport sometimes. In any case, on with the show... |
Now, I'm speculating wildly here, but I imagine there's not a lot of porn that stops at just one moneyshot. So here's another: |
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That was Prince Malchezaar. For the record, that was our second pull of him, ever. Fharo == teh crazies. |
Oh, and here's the meter for him for that attempt:  I'm posting this one because I would like to point out one thing: Zaka died first, well before other DPS. Mages can all go die in a fire plzkthx. |
In any case, it's been a fairly productive last few weeks. Our Shade of Aran first and second kills, Netherspite first and second. Prince first and second. R&J first (alas it was post-nerf, sigh). But it hasn't been all raiding, many of us are still hard at work rep farming:  |
 Also, I have no idea where we find these people. It just seems to be the rogues, though. Perhaps it's because Horde didn't have BE paladins yet? |
And, based on popular request, here it is, proof that Esurance is not actually a mime:  |
Anyway, back to kills:  Yes... yes it is. I wasn't there for the first Aran kill, but here's a killshot on the second. Note the perfect execution. We had to abort a few times because the hunter hadn't died, but we perservered and pulled it out at the end.  |
 I've mentioned that I hate rogues and mages, right? Add warlocks to that list. Hunters are assumed everybody hates them. Except when they're on your PvP team. So Remf gets a pass this time: |
 I wasn't kidding when I said you'd hear about the meters from the rogues. It's like an obsession. As if they don't have anything else to do in a raid except think about DPS or something. Seriously guys, try needlepoint. |
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There was also a late night pre-tbc world boss spawn which 16 people were suckered into. Just because we could, or some other completely pretentious sounding phrase. Naturally, it dropped the Druid hammer which would have been complete hotness prior to TBC. Thanks, Blizzard. Contested world spawns are SO eq.  |
There was also our first night of attempts at Nightbane. This should be Dragon theme-week or something. Nightbane? Badass looking. EQ may have done 3d undead dragons, but WoW does them with style.  |
 Heehee. Smoldering pile of corpses is awesome. Even if it is our raid. Granted, this was after the 48% Fharo LD when they decided to try out a druid tank for a couple of pulls. I think we can all see how well that went. |
Also, warriors and your bitching about MCS (Mob Crotch Syndrome)? Yeah. You ain't got nothing on this:  How would you like to be staring at this each and every fight? When I finally give up druiding I'm going to need years of therapy. |
There was also a heartbreaking 1% loss to HKM on our second night (after a month and a half of recruiting to bulk back up after the roster-raping that was TBC). Sorry, no screenie there, I was smashing my keyboard at the time with 'FULL BURN STOP HEALING OMG NUKE!!!!11!1!oneone'. What sucks about that loss was that we hadn't expected it to go well, so we hadn't potted up, and then our MT had to go 'sleep' or some bullshit afterwards. Yes, the same MT who LD'd at 48% on what was turning out to be a perfect Nightbane attempt. Let's all say it together now -- FHARO SUCKS. |
Anyway, that's all I have. Unfortunately I didn't have time to collect screens from others, so this is what you get. Stay tuned next episode when we sucker one of (Zaka | Donon | Tjaden) into an update. I can already see Donon planning his update, 'Oh my god, is it ever about anything but the druids!?!' |
