The Scourgelord’s Command
Tonight has been challenging, with the release of the new patch, came three new 5-man instances, The Forge of Souls, Pit of Saron and Halls of Reflection.
I cleared these on the night of the patch going live on ‘Heroic’ difficulty and had a great time, they’re truly epic encounters that really appeal to me.
Tonight, I decided to run through them again with a guild-mate who’s yet to complete them.
Tonight, thing’s haven’t gone so well, we start off at The Forge of Souls, the first in the chain of three dungeons.
We got through it in around 45 minutes and I picked up a rather hideous new helm for Touji.
I’ve also managed to pick up some nice new shoulders.
Anyway! As we ploughed into the second dungeon in the chain things looked good, we cleared the trash with little to no problem at all.
Actually, things went surprisingly well till we got to the Scourgelord Tyrannus.
He safely ate our group at least 5 times, our original healer and a DPS left us, clearly unhappy that our tank was learning for the first time.
Me and Kwoff, being the great folks that we are, stuck about and vowed to help the tank learn, till the bitter end.
Our replacement healer and DPS turned up in around 15-20 seconds, did I mention I love the new LFG system?
With our new group of intrepid adventurers raring to go, we charged back to Tyrannus and decided NOW was the time we would end his miserable existence.
The first attempt went the way of a bad snuff flick, he cleaved us limb from limb with his mind alone.
The second attempt? We’ll not talk about that.
Attempt three, well, attempt three never really happened, we returned to the cave where the path to his lair starts, but it was sealed shut, either a bug, or a lockout because we’d tried in vain to kill him too many times.
The decision was made to call it a night, Tyrannus survived…
I will be back for him though, I’ve killed him once, I can do it again!
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Hakuna Matata
WoW 3.3 and me
So, Warcraft’s latest patch 3.3 has gone live.
I’ve found myself sucked back into Azeroth in a way reminiscent of 2.4.
I find myself once again really enjoying adventuring in Azeroth, specifically as Touji. I’ve gotten stuck into a large number of heroics thanks to the new dungeon finder system.
Blizzard have exceeded my expectations with this feature, at the moment I’m chain running heroics with a gap of about 30 seconds between them, which is frankly stunning.
Combine that with the three new additional 5 man instances as well as the new raid content and I’m pretty much set to return full swing to WoW.
The big issue now is getting the guild back on its feet. I’ve been looking at the website and the forum, but I can’t quite bring myself to start the mammoth task of starting again basically.
I don’t mind so much though, I really think that running a guild is more than worth the effort involved, the rewards are simply staggering.
Embarked upon my first guild run in ages tonight and had an absolute blast even if we did have some issues and didn’t actually manage to achieve a whole lot. It was the taking part that mattered and I really felt a bit of that old guild magic again.
Here’s my latest pet, the Core Hound, simply logged in and acquired it as I’m using an authenticator to keep my account secure. Pretty sweet and a nice gesture from Blizzard.
Other than that, I’m just soldering on, trying to get as much done in life as I can but with the holiday to Florida coming up in 12 days I’m getting very excited and distracted.
Hakuna Matata folks!
North again
I'm off to Scotland again this weekend but this time for something more productive.
First a job interview, secondly to provide some initial technical support for my father and finally to finally catch up with some folks I missed last time I was up.
I've been spending my nights either studying for my MCITP or levelling Rhemis my paladin on Earthen Ring eu.
I'm absolutely loving the paladin class and it makes a change to get away from playing a shaman every waking hour of every day.
Works still plodding along I'm finding the hours really hard, did a 53 hour week last week.
Also, trying to buy decent birthday presents is a serious challenge, especially for big birthdays.
Regardless, I'm sure I'll make the right decision and my choice should go down well. I hope.
Hakuna Matata!
Proles and Drama
Karl Marx is credited with giving the term proletariat a non-derogatory meaning, however I find it still holds true in either sense.
The masses may want to rise up against those who chose to oppress them even when they truly don't know what's best.
I suppose this is a byproduct of our generation being told they're special and a further product of our twisted media-centric nation.
The more I see the youth of today acting like spoiled brats the more I lose faith. What's more I've seen some truly deplorable behaviour from the older members of the guild. No wonder the youth of today have no discipline or respect, when the adults don't.
Aren't we supposed to instill social responsibility in our children?
Or was I brought up wrong?
Betrayal has a powerful grip on the mind. It's almost like a python. It can squeeze out all other thought, suffocate your emotion until everything is dead except your rage. I'm not talking about anger; I'm talking about rage. I can feel it. Right here, like it's gonna burst. I feel like I wanna scream. Right now, as a matter of fact.
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So long
Guild leading…
Gah, I wish people could understand that running a guild is a full-time bloody job.
Just because I'm taking a few days off does not give anyone any right to break the rules because they somehow feel entitled to an opinion.
Don't get me wrong people pay their sub so can do what they want, however so do I, I also put in my time and effort and as such I am entitled to enforce my rules about my guild. If people don't like it they can get the hell out of my guild.
I don't have the fucking patience to babysit a bunch of failed nolifers who aspire to nothing more than their hopeless lives.