Remember the other day when I said that my guild was on hiatus?
No, that didn’t change.
But the week before I *gasp* offered to gear my priest up since replacing DPS would theoretically be easier than replacing a healer (and with the exception of Tir, we’ve had pretty crappy luck with recruiting healers in the first place).
I was told, no, I should stay on the mage because my damage would be difficult to replace.
Awwww, how sweet. Continue reading
Four hundred seventy nine.
Once again, that would be four hundred fucking seventy nine.
479.
FUCK.
/rage
As I posted earlier, I was looking forward to trying the QUEST (which apparently involves a draenei porn star).
Log on Thursday evening bearing bad news – Tir’s semester is winding to a close and he’s slammed with homework/studying.
The GM/raid leader was less than enthused, but understood that school is at least slightly more important than wiping all night.
I was on about 30 minutes prior to raid.
There were 4 of us logged and ready to go.
I ran out to the island and popped into the inn. I had my flasks, my feasts, my pots. Continue reading
Tuesday’s raid sort of ran out of steam… and by steam I mean people. So I might as well post.
Tir’s been having a rough week so missed raid as he was passed out before the raid even started, meaning we were out our strongest healer.
Our normal (new) hunter was MIA for something in RL.
We did have a new warlock to replace the last two we burned through in rapid succession. We need a warlock vending machine. Hell, I would be happy with a Healthstone vending machine.
The warrior was busy, but his girlfriend was playing his character. (Much better than she normally does but she was even more talkative than normal. I don’t think she took a breath the whole night.)
We were short our normal heal and DPS spots on top of the absences.
Almost an hour after raid started we had a temporary hunter, a resto druid, and an ele shaman.
Off to Throne of Thunder! Continue reading
Supposedly WoW lost 1.3 million subscribers.
As I’m sitting here, in queue — again — I just don’t see it.
(Yes, I know most of the losses were in China, but seriously? Couldn’t we have lost a couple hundred off my server? Just not the ones selling cool shit in the AH.)
…
What I do see is a very busy future for me.
I know, I know, I already don’t post here often enough.
But this time it’s going to be for a good reason!
I’m going back to college. Continue reading
Laughing out loud… at myself.
Once upon a time, I played the original StarCraft.
Like, I played it a LOT. On dial up connection. Entire days and weekends lost to scampering zerg decimating supply depots. Swearing at Goliaths for being completely incompetent at navigating a fucking 5 foot ramp. My life for Aiur.
I loved playing StarCraft.
I hated the player versus player aspect.
It didn’t start that way.
Finished with the campaign, I eagerly created my battlenet account and moved in to what I felt was the natural evolution of the game – I crushed the computer, now it’s time to play with the big kids.
Except they weren’t big kids. They were whiny, immature, sexually frustrated tweens with only the weakest grasp of the English language or common decency.
StarCraft killed my taste for PvP. Even in WoW, I’ve dabbled with it but it never really clicked as something I could enjoy for the long haul.
So as you can imagine, any game that focuses entirely on PvP has just slipped completely by my radar. Yep, I acknowledge that the game exists and other people might like it, but it wasn’t my cup of tea.
And then insanity hits. Continue reading
A quick follow up to yesterday’s post about failing miserably in ToT and not even being able to clear Jin’rok.
We zoned in on Tuesday night with a new hunter to replace the one we lost.
(If you follow me on Twitter, you might remember me talking about calling a raid early when one of our raiders reported he was puking blood but wanted to wait until the raid was over before going to the ER. Turns out he has a stomach ulcer. He was hoping to continue raiding but hasn’t logged since.)
We had a full complement of healers.
We had a PUG warlock to replace our warlock that suddenly went MIA the other week.
(He logs on via remote chat but won’t talk to anyone. Even if he was hacked or sold his account you would think he would log in to vent to give us a heads up on current events…)
So we entered ToT with a full raid, nearly all guilded. Continue reading
