Leaving Exodus

The time has come, I have put myself back on the market. This were not working out for me in Exodus. I could explain it in detail but I still have respect for them so il just give some reasons.

I got annoyed of the schedule, taking up my evenings 3 days a week, so I decided to leave it all behind me, the downside to this is now I will be starved or blogging material, but im sure I will find something...

I have joined a PVP guild, which aren't to happy to have me, but took me in nonetheless. Im trying to think of what I can do when i'm bored. I will pvp for the time being, maybe put together a video or something. If anyone would like to suggest something to do..or invite me to an event it would be nice xP!

I could change him to horde, start fresh but I can only see 2 things happening.
Either I really enjoy it, find another awesome guild and spend another few months raiding, or, I get even more bored as I can't find anything to do and now I can't even play with my ally friends.

Meh, I might go all out and change realm aswell.

On another note, I was invited to some weird pvp tournement, looking at the invitee list, he picked one person of each class to fight for gold..seems a bit cheesey and I know I am not the best warrior on the realm (Contrast to most of my forum posts)

Oh well...more coming soon once I figure out what to write about :<

Oh blog, why have you forsaken me!

I recently applied to a raid group on my server as I wanted to raid more than I am currently. My guild is like a sister guild for it so the raid days suited. It would be a big step up from 10 mans but I was ready for it. I made an application and they switfly responded. I checked my blog every day to see if there were any comments and such left, and to my surprise it had raised by over 50 in one day. I hadn't updated, and I hadn't posted about it anywhere new, or so I thought.

It appears (unless I am mistaken) that the group I had applied to had caught wind of my blog and checked it out. This wouldn't be such a bad thing, since the fact I wrote it was for people to read, but it just seemed embarrassing. I didn't really speak about it publicly and I didn't tell my guild. Anyway, to me it looked like I would be judged unfairly so I withdrew my application.

Nothing more was said about it and my view count didn't raise any higher. I couldn't stop thinking about it and after a lot of thought I came up with two "things". Firstly i am insecure about what I type as I was hoping that only people I didn't know me could read it, so it could be personal and not revealing. Secondly, I write about my guild a lot and their progress and if I was accepted I would probably blog about the raid group too. Now I don't know if my guild cares, but the group may not like the idea of me documenting it.

I also want to point out I don't like using spell check, as I mostly write about wow a lot of words show as errors which can be annoying.

In other news, I am now obsessed with House, the hospital drama. I watch it every Sunday, right before Fringe. But lately I decided to watch the whole show from Episode 1 to where it is now. I stream it from Stagevu and I currently am half way through series 1.

It
is
awesome!

I would recommend watching it!

Faction Champions! HARDMODE!!! [Part 17]

With all of the Tier 8 content on farm, we decided to take a week break from Ulduar hard modes and start ToTGC Hardmodes. On our first day, everyone was unsure on how hard this would actually be, from watching videos of it myself, I thought I was not geared enough for it.

In the past I had damage issues, Stacking stam when I had no Avoidance and I would easily be 2 shot by a decent boss. Now I was at 75% avoidance with a nice set of health, but still was unsure.

EDIT: I just noticed I messed up my last post, I went from Toc Hardmode to our first attempt on Normal. I will continue hardmode here instead!

Ok, Twin Val'kyr Hardmode! It started up as normal, with the portals and stuff everywhere. We knew that the Vortex and the orbs would hurt more, so we made everyone go Purple. There hp has increased by a lot. It was getting near raid end, so we only had a few attempts. (1 actually) We all stacked up on the white portal, in case we needed to switch. For the first time people starte to mess up, wheather it was the pressure or the lateness I don't know. A message came up for everyone to change to Purple, but we were already purple so it didn't matter BUT a healer and a dps messed up and changed to white, just in time to get mangled by the Dark Vortex. Not a problem though, Re-incarnate and a Combat Ress and we were back again. Everyone was purple and standing near a white portal. This time, the special ability was Twins pact, luckily the light person was casting it so all of our dps could hit it straight away, but even with us all attacking it, it was at 80% before it got interupted, this meant if the dps had to change, they had about 3 seconds for them all to do it and start burning the boss. I realised then that if we had to change to white and back to black, we would need to move.

And of course, the boss started casting Light Vortex so we all changed to light. They started dps'ing the dark one now so I moved the light one nearer to a dark portal. People didn't seem to realise why I was doing it and when the time came to change to dark, nobody was near one, twins pact got casted and we wiped. Great.

The next raid night wasn't any better, Drake can't raid with us on a Thursday so we were an Interupter down. The first boss took more attempts than our first try which wasn't a good sign. The second boss was horrible, every single time the portal opened 2 waves would come out. So it took a few wipes at it.

Faction Champions V2.o
We got a really hard setup. Last time we would burn down a Melee dps first, but this time we got two plate wearers, the retadin and the warrior. Everytime we got anyone under 20% the paladin would bubble them. We might have been able to do it, if we weren't doing bad that night, but it was the toughest set up. We tried it for a while but we didn't get far.

I had suggested a tactic, which I heard was the easiest way to do the fight, so we tried that Most of the raid didn't understand how it could work, so we still couldn't do it. I had syggested the pet tactic, where the best dps attacks the pet and the rest on a dps, this was working but the read leader didn't want to waste our strongest dps on the pet. (The way it works is the pet gets priority on healing, untill it is a 100%. So if we had someone nuking the pet, it would force the healers to heal him instead of the dps we were trying to take down) A few wipes later and people didn't believe it was working. And the RL wouldn't make the Highest dps attack him so we got nowhere.

Next Il just say whatever happens next I suppose!

Faction Champions! [Part 16]

We had trouble on the champs on normal, I can't remember but it took us at least a week to kill them. (Wrong tactics) At the start we had the tanks go Dps and try to nuke down a healer, but then our healers and casters got destroyed. So the next day we had a night of trying to nuke down a dps, which didn't go so well as someone would end up dying. Eventually we realised they could be taunted so me and Tank #2 switched back for some "tanking"

It was more like trying to keep a child under control in a toy shop! You could get their attention...for about 3 seconds before they go zipping off to annoy somebody. Stun after stun, taunt after taunt, it was awesome! My guild don't particularly like the fight, but I love it! We locked down 2 Dps and the rest worked on one of the healers. (I think this was pre-FoK Nerf) So we would try keep the two healers together and have Drake spam em. Sweet sweet victory was ours! AND WELL BLOODY DESERVED!

Next fight was a joke, The Twin Val'kyr or whatever you callem. We knew that we would have to change portals or something but we weren't sure. We decided the best way to learn was to just try it.

Fight Start!: We engage them, 3 Dps, A tank and a healer of each colour. We continue fighting them and one of them starts to cast Twins Pact. We just continued as normal but they healed up full. A while later, they cast it again and everyone goes to the opposite colour to Dps and Interupt it. We were all dark at this stage and everyone was damaging the light guy, the Dark guy started casting Dark Vortex but we ignored it. A few seconds later they were both dead.

A bit too easy, but that was it!

When we clicked the guy to continue, the Lich King came and spoke about something..
Then he threw us into the air and broke theground beneath us! We fell down into the Icey Depts and we walked cautiously ahead. Then, similarly to OBLIVION he just popped out of the ground, nothing to let us know he was there apart from a little yell.

A pretty simple fight, phase one he freezes the tank sometimes, doesn't hit *too* hard. (I bet my healers say diferently!) After 30 seconds or so he burrows underground and chases random people. Around the room there are clouds which, when stepped on, reduce your movement speed BUT if Anub hits them he stops for a moment and changes target. After a while P1 starts again until you hit 30%. This is where it gets interesting!

He life drains the whole raid based on their hp. If a dps is at full 20k health, he will heal Anub for around 2k per tick, but if he is at 10k its only 1k per tick, so we keep everyone at around 50% hp apart from the tank, pop heroism and nuke him down.

15 Badges is not bad! Not to mention I finally got a replacement for my Royal crest.

Im back..for real...sort of! [Part erm..15ish?]

I guess I might as well start updating again. Apparantly some people actually read my blog so to all two of you, im back.. sort of.

My last im back post didn't really work out, mainly because I had nothing to blog about. 2 years of gaming summarised into a month (Or less)

I guess now I will just write about whatever comes to mind, game or not.

For starters, lets talk game! Hallows end is back and so is the headless horseman. He has the same loot table everything is just updated for 80 use. (ilevel200)

This year I thought it would be a good idea to get The Hallowed on all my characters to get some quick cash but the gold from the reward was pretty much worthless. Im hated with the BootyBay factions so I died in Gadgetzan and Bootybay. Over all I got them in a few hours and the total was around 300g.

Needless to say I was very disappointed! Since I never felt the need to buy an epic flying mount I never tried to save up (I couldn't either) Every gold I got seemed to go towards repairs or upgrades.

I always had a bank character but never found use in it, the effort of changing over to get gold seemed like a waste of time...but that was the point! I managed to put together 1000g and sent it over, keeping 200-300g on my main for repairs. Sure enough the gold is flowing in slowly but constantly! Currently I am at 2400 after a week and pretty excited! I have some of the achievement drakes and nearing in the Rusted Proto Drake so its going to be worth it! Not to mention gold will come faster while im flying faster.

Guild talk time! Exodus is going strong and im really glad to be a part of it. After taking a short break, the guild managed to clear Ulduar without me, so my break was cut short.

In the first week after clearing Yogg for the first time, we have killed 2/4 keepers on hardmode, We have also gotten I Choose You, Steelbreaker to unlock Algalon. We also have every meta achievement apart from Vezax and Yogg!

We cleared Yogg on normal this week so people could get a taste of it, we had devoted a whole night to it as we were expecting to wipe a lot (As 3 of our members hadn't even seen him yet) But we one shot him to everyone's suprise.

Then our GM said the words nobody was expecting to hear for weeks. "Toc Hardmode"

The sound of the words just sounded so right! I never thought we had a chance though...

First up, Northrend Beasts. The diference in this fight was that there was a strict 3 minute timer on each phase, and if you didn't kill the first boss within the 3 minutes, the second phase would come anyway!

All of the videos I watched showed all of the hardcore guilds getting the boss down just before the timer expired, so I assumed we would be wiping hard. If you watch the Tankspot video, they kill Gormok with 2 seconds before the next phase, we killed him with 15 to spare.

Nobody was expecting this so we were a bit unorganised on P2, and so we wiped. Second try, it was well, got to P3 and wiped. Third attempt and we defeat them all! Textbook progession if you ask me!

Second boss was hard as the adds done a weird silence/stun/lockout. None of this concerned me as a tank but it was funny nontheless watching the healers panic! Killed him in our second attempt.

Faction champions...it really deserves a post of it's own. So I think I will leave it here and update tomorrow!

Im Baaaaack.

Video of Exodus

Sorry this will have to be another short one, tomorrow will have a LOT of updates, I have not been feeling well and my school just got some swine flu >.> I did record a few fights including the new boss in Archavon! See you then *cough*