First T5

Snowed again in St.Louis, about 10 inches of snow Monday night. Worked from home again on Tuesday and Wed. Havnt seen those damn kids yet and I have been watching pretty close, I have a yellow snowball ready for them. Little bastards have it coming, I might also steal their sleds just for the fun of it. Anyways… Tuesday night was Hydross, Lurker, Leo. Hydross and Lurker went down on 1 shots and the trash was quick. Leo turned out to be just as big of a pain in the ass as he was last week on our first kill. We wiped several times before he died. So far this is still the coolest 25 man boss I have ever been on. What makes him even cooler is that I picked up the T5 gloves off him. I did spend a good hunk of dkp but I figured I should chase after my first piece of T5, I kinda look at it as a milestone for my character. It was no where near the amount of dkp I would have spent last week though so it did pay off to wait a week. I’m still gunning for the shoulders this week but there is actually a few priests and druids who have more dkp than me now since I got the gloves so the shoulders may be a few raids off yet.

Last night we wanted to wrap up everything outstanding so that on Friday we can go learn Fathom-Lord Karathress and Saturday the plan is to kill Alar before VR. The GM said we arnt not doing VR this week unless Alar dies, so I guess that’s incentive alone to kill him so that people can continue to get their T5 shoulders. Last night was a nice organized mow of Tidewalker over to Mag, then onto to HKM and Gruul. I opted out after Mag because I was so freaking sleepy I couldn’t stand it, which probably ended up me losing out on about 160 dkp. HKM and Gruul are the quickest bosses to gain dkp, our system rewards extra dkp for 1 shots, and for no one in the raid dying. That usually happens on both bosses and they are both dead in about an hour but I just couldn’t stand to stay up any longer. I ended up with a dps helm off Mag that I really didn’t want but I took it so that it wasn’t disenchanted. I rarely do dps, and I also have my season 3 helm anyways but what the heck I guess, I ended up taking it for 25dkp which is nothing.

Tonight is a guild night off and my b-day so ill be hanging with the family and catching up on some sleep, before the mad wipe fest of Friday and Saturday. Now that I think about it I may actually miss a raid on Saturday because I might end up going out with my friends that night gambling or something since several of us have b-days around the same time. Possibly no cool Alar kill for me >< Hopefully tomorrow night I will get to see a fathom-lord kill.

Leo dead, Karathress in progress

So sleepy, ready to lay down on the floor and go into hibernation mode. Friday played until 4 am – woke up at 7am to get ready for golf, Saturday played till 3 am – woke up around 7 again because my kid got up, Sunday played till 2am, woke up at 6 for work. I am such a piss ass at work today, I need sleep so bad! Friday night the raid got started way late, which sucked but I guess you can’t force people to raid when they don’t want to. We ended up going in and one shotting Hydross and lurker once we finally got the people on, it went nice and smooth it just sucked getting started so late. I ended up getting a really nice pvp ring off Hydross which cost me next to nothing dkp wise so it was a great upgrade for me at hardly any cost. Once Lurker was dead we went on for Leo attempts so people could start learning the fight. We didn’t end up killing him but we did get him down to 6% which I thought we should have stuck around to see him dead but people had to log. After the raid I went and started farming primals because I needed money just to repair, I hadn’t farmed in forever. I farmed for several hours and another JC recipe dropped for me which I sold for 800 smackers. That’s respec and repair fees for a few more weeks!

Saturday night was a progression night so instead of going and killing Tidewalker we went to go do Leo attempts. 4 hours later Leo was dead. I was finally present for a guild first kill and it was a lot of fun to be back to experiencing first time kills as a whole guild again, not to mention the extra dkp that is given out for guild 1st’s. Leo is probably the most exciting fight In 25 man content I have done yet. During his human phase he goes psycho apesh#t and starts spinning around the room doing a whirlwind, damaging tons of people and putting rend dots all over the place. During his demon phase you are sometimes forced to fight your inner demon, if you do not kill the demon fast enough you are mind controlled and start fighting your fellow guildies. Every attempt I ended up fighting my own inner demon at least once per fight, oftentimes 2 or 3 times per attempt and it’s actually pretty easy to beat the kill timer, even as a prot warrior. The demon will cast a shadow bolt, so if you spell reflect it your demon dies extremely fast. I wore all dps gear besides my sword and shield during this fight to ensure I could kill my demon. I was a little worried that I had too little tanking gear for the summoner type guys at the beginning of the fight but it turns out those are a joke to tank and can easily be tanked in dps gear. A defender glove token dropped and the plate tanking belt dropped and went for extremely high dkp so I opted to pass till a later drop. I did not want to blow all my dkp on one item. The T5 tokens are really starting to call to me though so I bet I do start really throwing a lot of dkp at them soon.

Waiting at leo

Dead Leo

Leo Demon Form

Leo Human Form

Fighting my Inner Demon

Sunday night again the raid started late but I chose to go even though it was late and I was soooo tired. We went in and 2 shot Tidewalker and to my surprise we went ahead and headed over to learn the Fathom-Lord boss. He seems like a pretty cool boss but not nearly as fun as Leo. We have not killed him yet but mainly because of one shamans hilarious mistakes. It went something like this. This fight consists of Karathress, his hunter (and pet), A priest who heals, and a enhancement shaman. I was chosen to tank the priest and stop her from healing the boss and other adds. Move boss into position, tank boss, shield bash heal spells. No problem. I also was given a rogue on my boss incase I was ice tombed during her heal spell so that he could kick it, also no problem me and a rogue can easily cover that. I was given a resto shaman as a healer who could chain heal himself, me , and the rogue. Cool deal the priest doesn’t hit that hard so 1 healer will work just fine….i thought. During our first pull I moved the boss into position, me and the rogue started doing our thing, I saw that my health was getting very very low and I was only getting a random healing when a chain heal would bounce off the rogue to me. I died , raid wiped, we go back and try it again. Second attempt the same thing happens, I get no heals , we discuss what is going on and I say “I got no heals”, I hate doing that because it’s like calling someone out in the raid, but there wasn’t much else I could say. Gm asks the shaman “Why didn’t you heal Raydz” Shaman “I didn’t have LOS, I got it this time though” Third attempt, priest in place, me and rogue shield bashing/kicking heals. I find myself swigging pots, health stones, last stand because again no heals. I look up and see my shaman running away from me toward the raid. (we’ll say the shamans name was homer, which it’s not but I don’t want to throw the guys name out there) Me on vent “Homer, where you going man I’m going to die” I die Me on vent “Homer wtf you doing man you’re supposed to be healing raydz & rogue & yourself” Shaman “Man im trying but I have to run all the way over here to get LOS on the raid then run all the way back to heal the rogue” Me “Wait what? Oh shit *laugh* No dude *laughing more now* Your not supposed to be healing “The Raid” your supposed to be healing me, “Raydz the warrior”. Shaman “ohhhhh” *everyone laughs* Shaman “Shit im sorry guys, I was wondering why you wanted me bouncing all over the place for this fight it made no sense” It turns out the shaman didn’t realize my name was “Raydz” which sounds like “raids” and was running all over the place to heal everyone else except me. It was actually pretty hilarious on vent and made wiping kinda worth it for the laugh it got. Our fourth attempt I got heals, we kicked the heals, but they had trouble killing the shaman in time before he killed the druid tanking him so we wiped again. The shaman has a windfury totem and can dish out an amazing amount of damage quickly so were going to have to figure out a better way to keep up the shamans tank next time. Next week the plane is to get Hydross, lurker, tide walker , leo down as fast as possible so we can spend a while day alone with Fathom-Lord and hopefully get him down as well. Even though im dragging ass and so sleepy I had a really fun wow weekend because of getting to see some new bosses. Tonight is a guild night off so ill be doing my PVP tonight, hopefully that goes good!

Looking at fathom Lord

Tanking my priestess

Damn Kids

Last Night I got home and my kid was running a fever from all the antibiotics she is on. I can’t recall if I have mentioned it but this winter has been hell on my kid for fevers, ear infections, coughs, etc. Tuesday morning she had surgery on her ears and had tubes put in to help clear up the ear infections (which went good). She is on a ton of antibiotics right now to keep her ears from getting an infection but it pushes her body into a fever. Since she is feeling so crappy she becomes a little monster so I decided to not play wow and just sit on the couch with her and do my best to make her feel better.

Someone should mail me a father of the year award.

The reason I’m making this post is because by not playing WOW it led to a break-through in one of my current Real Life missions.

My Mission: Smoke some kid in the face with a snow ball.

I’m being 100% serious and honest, this is one of my current goals before the spring gets here and melts all the snow. Yes I understand that it’s just wrong of me a 27 yr old man wanting to zing a hard packed snowball at some kid but there is a story behind this need which I’ll go ahead and relay.

Saturday night after my raid was over I was farting around on the computer when I hear this thump on the outside of my house. My desk in my office sits below a window up against the wall which faces the front lawn of my house. I kinda sat there still for a minute wondering what I had heard. I looked outside and saw that it was snowing pretty heavy and figured that a branch had broke off a tree and hit my house, that’s pretty common during snow. I sat back down at my computer and like a second later there is a loud bang against my window. I jumped up and at the same time I yelled “WTF!”. I was pissed off because I thought that maybe someone was trying to break in or something. I ran out in the front yard in my shorts and a t-shirt and saw that stuck against my window and house were tons of snowball remains and my window was even cracked. I started looking around and sure enough there are tons of tracks in the snow where some kids had been running up and down the street and milling around in front of my house. I did get a brief chuckle that it looked like one of the kids had slipped and did a face plant, possibly when they heard my yell in my house.

I was pretty steamed that I now had a broken window so I ended up shape shifting into “super white trash man”. Standing out in the snow at 2:00 am in shorts yelling into the night “Come back here you f*ckers so I can beat your @ss” was not one of my proudest moments but I was extremely pissed. I stomped back into my house and started dressing so I could try to find these kids and maybe force them eat a yellow snow cone (no I wouldn’t really do that, I did entertain the idea for a while though). While getting dressed I ended up waking my girlfriend who said she would just call the security desk and have them track these kids down. When I was a young teenager I did a lot of stupid crap, had the cops called on us, which sucked so I really didn’t want that to happen to these kids even though they did break my window (I need to tell the story of Dirty/Perverted my RL resto druid friend and me getting chased by the cops on our ATV’s because we were riding through someone’s woods. It’s a especially funny story because he was the one who got caught and ended up sitting in the cop car hand cuffed). We live in a gated community so it wouldn’t have been the cops but our “security” guys who are basically like a mall cop or something but still, I didn’t want any serious trouble for these kids from the subdivision or their parents so I decided to make it a mission to smack a kid in the face with a snowball. I walked around like a psycho in the snow at 2:00 in the morning seeing if I could follow their tracks back to their house but I was out of luck. They had high tailed it into the woods and I lost them.

My break came yesterday when I heard a couple of teenage kids outside so I looked out my window and saw these kids kinda hiding half in the woods. It was starting to get dark so I guess they saw the headlights of a car approaching so they all hide behind a bush and after the car passed they poked out of the woods and let a few snow balls fly which plastered the back of this car. I guess it pissed this guy off as much as it did me because he threw his car in reverse and headed back the way he came. The kids broke and ran for it, I was able to watch them run through the woods and bingo, go into a blue house that’s located a few houses down from mine. The driver of the car never found them so he drove away.

Had I been thinking about it I should have just stepped outside and smoked them all with a snow ball and went back inside like nothing happened. Now I know where some of the kids live, I just have to find a way to pop them with a snowball now. Best case scenario is I’ll catch one of them riding by on his bike and I can hit him making him crash into the snow.

Since I know where they live I could just go and tell the parents but that makes for very little fun for me and might end up getting my house toilet papered. Hopefully the cold lasts long enough for me to complete my mission. I’ll let you know.

*Mission impossible music starts playing*

New Arena Teams

Saturday morning my arena 3v3 with my RL friends went something like this after each loss. (we went 3 – 7 btw) Friend 1 “Why didn’t you do ..blah blah” Friend 2 “F*ck you, It’s because you didn’t ….blah blah” Me *sigh* Friend 1 “Well if you would just f*cking heal” Friend 2 “I hate this class, im never playing him again especially with you guys” Me “F*ck it that’s fine, im quitting the team im sick of this sh*t” You would think that 3 guys who are all RL friends would get along during arena’s but we argue more over arena’s that we have argued over anything else. I guess since we are such good friends in RL its easier to yell at each other, tell them how bad they suck, and threaten to leave the team. One of my favorite activities in WoW is arena’s. I love to do them and look forward to them every week. At least I used to. The in game fighting between my friends just eventually wore me out. I want to get back to the point of enjoying arena’s without listening to constant bickering during queue times. Therefore I quit the arena teams I had with my RL friends, we can all do our own thing and won’t have to fight with each other right? WRONG, apparently me leaving makes my pally RL friend go psycho (this is what I hear from my druid RL friend). Even though the pally said he is never playing that char anymore, hates doing arenas, and only wants to play with “Good” people. Apparently I’m the big a-hole for leaving but whatever I guess, I formed up a new 3v3 team with the hope of playing more than 10 games a week and having a little fun even if we lose a ton of games. I asked around on my guild and found a SL/SL lock 400 resil to join but then we ran into a hard spot finding a healer with resilience. We eventually decided on a shaman in our guild, who has awesome healing gear but less than 100 resil. The shaman is played by some lady over in England, id let her on my 3v3 because of her accent alone, it’s pretty hot. Sunday night we played 30 games going 15-15. One game I played against a disc priest capnmorgan (I wonder if this was one of my friends from my previous server). If this was my friend from a previous server then good fight man it was close. If this is was not him and just some random guy then, HA! Stomped your ass. I wrote down most of the combo’s we played against and by far our biggest weakness was playing teams with hunters. They tore our shammy up even with me taunting the pet off her. Until she gets more resil i think we'll be hovering in the 15's for a while because they just burn her down way to fast. I still enjoyed playing so many games this week even though we didn’t really make any ground. It was good practice and the shammy says she is going to work on her resil, so that will be pretty nice if she can bump it up to 200+ resil. My 2v2 was rather uneventfull, we only played 10 games which was a bummer but at least we made a little bit of headway toward the 1600’s.

Last night (Tuesday) We did a clear of HKM, GRUUL, and MAG. Nothing really exciting to say except that I did spend some DKP and picked up my chest piece. I got it for 200 dkp cheaper than I was bidding last week so that worked out nice. I still need to toss the +150 health on it but it is an upgrade that I think was “sorta” worth it and I do get the 4 piece bonus now. Tonight I think we are headed into SSC, per group make up though we may be heading into TK instead. Either way my DKP Is still holding strong so hopefully I can pick up another upgrade.

BTW: What happens when you get the shatter stone form and then gruul dies? You sit there for 30 seconds able to do nothing, and yes im standing next to a healer on accident. Im sure it was his fault though not mine =)

I must punish a previous guildie.

My last post I had commented that I was excited to be going into SSC for 3 boss kills and LEO attempts. I ended up missing the raid because my kid was sick. She has some ear infections that just won’t go away. Tomorrow she has surgery to put the tubes in to hopefully fix the infections. I don’t like the idea of my kid getting surgery of any kind, but on the other hand I’m also looking forward to it because she needs something to make her feel better. Really sucks when your kid is sick and you can’t do anything to make them feel better. Saturday I logged on to raid and found out that on Friday the guild had done Void Reaver, Hydross, and Lurker. The T5 shoulders didn’t drop for warriors, nor did the tanking mace drop off lurker, so even though I missed out on the DKP I wasn’t too bummed since I didn’t miss out on any loot. Our Saturday raid’s goal was to kill Tidewalker and go for LEO attempts (I remembered my Tidewalker screen shot this time). During the raid I was chit chatting with one of my buddies from my previous server/guild SO when one of the trash to Tidewalker dropped a trinket which I have been wanting for a while now I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE IT BECAUSE I HAD MY PARTY WINDOW CLOSED FOR MY WHISPER WINDOW. I heard on vent “Bidding Closed” so I flipped over to the party screen and saw I had totally missed out on my chance to get the trinket. Missed Trinket! Son of a B#T@H! I am sorry my friend from Altar of Storms but I have hired a hit man to find you, give you a vasectomy and then make you go jogging immediately after. I think you’re getting off with a light punishment but I took into account our friendship. Obviously the real fault is my own for not paying attention to the dropped loot…..but I must vent my rage on someone. We killed Tidewalker and he dropped a tanking ring which is an upgrade for me, but I was competing against two other tanks. It’s not a huge enough upgrade that I wanted to spend all my DKP but I tossed out a couple of bids but these guys wanted it really bad so I let them have it. I’m pretty stingy when it comes to my DKP I always have been. While doing this pretty much guarantees I get any tank loot that I REALLY want if it were to drop, it also is a huge risk because if the guild was to break up I am left with nothing. I’m still aiming for the Lurker tanking mace, Gruul shield, or T5 shoulders but if my DKP starts getting to high I’m going to force myself to spend it on pieces that are upgrades but just not as fun as the ones I really want. After our Tidewalker kill several people said they had to log for one reason or another so it pretty much killed the raid. That sucked I really wanted to see a LEO kill. I think we ran into the same old problem of people not wanting to put forth the effort to learn progression kills, they just want in on the farmed bosses. That annoyed me. Tonight I’m not sure what I’ll be doing since there is no 25 man scheduled I might do some more arena games for the fun of it, or maybe see if I can get in a ZA group. Later today or tomorrow I’m going to write up another post about my arena teams this weekend and all the people I have to find in RL and kill.

*I just noticed there is someone standing right under my character so it looks like i have a different name, but its obviously me, i dont think ingame your own name is shown above your head*

St.Louis has a major Ice storm.

Wed night: Sleet, Sleet, Ice, Snow, Ice
Thursday Morning: Working from home in my boxers (that’s me half naked for all you ladies…ya.. your welcome) sipping some hot chocolate.
Friday Morning: Working from home in my boxers , sipping some hot chocolate. My week ended pretty good =)

Tuesday night our SSC raid was called because of lack of healers online. This was followed by our GM going apesh*t and as he said “I’m cleaning house”. He was extremely mad about having a raid cancelled and kicked over 50 accounts out of the guild for either inactivity or “I don’t know you”. He said if ever one more raid is cancelled he is going to open up recruitment after kicking out a bunch more people. I thought the whole rant was pretty comical but a lot of people were like “omg we have never seen him so mad”. I probably shouldn’t have been laughing on vent every time someone was kicked out of the guild.

Wednesday night there was enough people online so we did our scheduled HKM,Gruul, Mag run. As it stands with my DKP now I have a good shot of getting pretty much any item that I want next so I was hoping for a shield drop. That turned out to not happen, but I did win the bid for my T4 chest piece.

One of the other warriors who has been in the guild way longer than me was trying for this piece as well, so I ended up passing to him because I felt bad. If I was trying for a piece of loot and one of the new guys beat me out on an item it would probably irritate me pretty bad. This just solidifies my position with DKP even more so now I can hopefully be picking up some tier 5 or the mallet instead of a new t4 piece. I’m not sure if I will eventually spend the dkp on the chest piece or not because of the new badge rewards being better.

Tonight we head into SSC for Hydross, Lurker, Tidewalker, and then Leo attempts, hopefully I can snag a piece of T5 loot.

I havn’t had much to write about this week since all I have really done is HKM,Gruul, and Mag. I spent Thursday night with the family so I didn’t log on, which means I missed my Kara night so hopefully I’ll be able to get in a group Sunday instead. I really need to get on top of farming badges. A different team cleared ZA this week which I thought was really cool. I have been trying to get my own ZA group up and going so hopefully I will have a chance to get in there this weekend.

Part of the Core Group now

Friday night I logged on with the hopes of raiding SSC. I was invited into the raid right away which was a good feeling. I’m starting to think I have earned my spot as a core raider now and a little bit of the worry of having to sit out is going away. You would think with 70+ level 70’s online and in the guild finding the right group makup would be easy. For whatever reason we had no mages and we were missing our fire resist geared lock so the GM decided that we would go do Void Reaver while we waited for the correct makeup for Leo to hopefully sign in. We have a druid tank in the guild who talks and talks in vent all the time, dude never shuts up. On Friday he talked more than normal, and as the raid cleared through TK you could actually tell the dude was getting high. I get pretty irritated at people who just talk to hear themselves in vent, I would much rather have a quite vent and everyone paying attention to what they are doing. I was especially getting irritated that this dude was talking and was high because he was making hardly any sense. Friday is my night to relax from a long work week and I really didn’t feel like listening to this j@ck off so against my better judgment I piped up on vent. “Dude would you please shut the f$ck up, you’re really irritating” Luckily I wasn’t the only one because the GM said he is kicking the druid out of the raid. When the druid heard that he was getting kicked out he says. “No wait….has anyone here ever like…killed anyone? *long pause* Seriously…type a number ‘1’ in raid chat if you have ever killed someone…….. *long pause and no number 1’s in raid chat* “ Gm says “Dude, wtf is your problem, your gone” Druid says “Wait wait…type a number 1 then if you have had lasagna in the last week” *Druid is kicked from the raid* Druid says “Man…no one loves me and im drinking a sprite that tastes like a coke.” *then logs out of vent* It was crazy bizarre but I have to say the whole conversation of killing someone strait to lasagna was pretty funny. After that brief piece of oddness we cleared the last few trash mobs in front of Void Reaver. The trash dropped the tanking ring, but still being new to the guild I didn’t have the DKP to win it. I’m damn close though to finally having the DKP to getting items that I want. T5 shoulders and Lurkers mace shall soon be mine! I was one of three tanks to be in front of Void Reaver. This time I ended up holding agro on Void Reaver for well over 60% of the time which was kind of fun. Void Reaver died in one shot and I remembered to get a screen shot this time.

After Void Reaver the raid headed into SSC for some Leo attempts even though they didn’t have the correct makup the people still wanted to get in some attempts and learning encounters. I was happy to go, but since we didn’t have our main warlock with this fire resist set the attempts were pretty futile. I’m not sure how close they got him on Saturday night since I was out with friends and couldn’t raid that night. I didn’t get to do as much honor grinding as I wanted with my hunter but I still did earn over 10,000 by doing Pre-Made AV’s. My Horde Arena’s went pretty good this weekend as well. We went 7-3, which I was pretty happy with. We bumped our arena team almost back to 1400 (Yeah that’s lousy I know, but you have to remember we each have a little more than 100 resil and no healer). There is really no other interesting news horde side. I tried to do some AV on Raydz as well but alliance just kept getting smoked and there was no Pre-Made Av’s going on, but there was a PVP guild doing some premade AB’s and needed a MS warrior. Since it was the daily and I needed to respec for my arena’s anyways I figured what the heck. I was in for a pleasant surprise because these guys knew what they were doing. We 5 capped several games in a row and I earned about 4,000 honor with raydz before I had to log off to go take care of my kid. I also capped out several stacks of BG badges so I went ahead and bought myself a new PVP mount for fun. The Dwarf mounts are pretty tight looking. Tonight will probably be another PVP night, and starting Tuesday ill be back into raid mode.