Temporary Break = Vote

Well, Iggy recently informed us that tonight was his last Karazhan. Whether it's not fun, or he's burnt out on Karazhan (that happens when you farm instances) or it's because we're losing people who knows, but I'd like to basically call a vote:

"Do we want to continue to push on if we are sans Iggy?"

and

"Do we want to even push on if we still have Iggy?"

My idea is to honestly take a break until maybe September when I get back from Vacation, Zul'Aman will be out, it'll be a new instance and something new for all of us to do, this is obviously only feasible if Iggy is still with us, if not, I'm still up for getting Karazhan together and 3 weeks is a decent enough time to find a replacement tank or to start gearing up for one. I'm no amazing beast, but if necessary I'd spec Prot to keep the raid afloat.

So, Yes or No for both questions, please cast your votes.

Friday = MIA Maybe?

I'm dealing with some nasty flooding bullshit right now so I may or may not have a room/house to play WoW in. Just hope for the best for me and all my wordly possessions and I'll hopefully be able to log on tomorrow and we can get things back on a roll. If not, I'm sure I'll be available for the next week no problem. My PC is currently unplugged and on the 1st floor of my house out of the basement. Chances are it's not going to get bad, just gotta wait until the end of the night, but you never know.

Its not really the worst but....

You're going to need a new healer. I'm taking my wow break. The game has become nothing but a bore to me at the moment. I'm sure I'll be gone for a hefty amount of time. I don't really know what else to say.. thats basically the gist of it. Its just what I gotta do..

Prepare for the Worst

For the remainder of the month I think things are going to be a little iffy with us but it's no need for anybody to blame each other or start flipping out or anything. I don't want people to get worked up if for some reason we DON'T have a Kara raid on a Tuesday/Friday. As far as I know we should be good on Friday, although we do need to find a healer if we don't want to dual heal, so if you know anybody, please tie them down and bring them to our raid.

We've obviously taken a few big hits recently due to Sleyvas and then Iggy's computer problems (Not Iggy's fault, it is Sleyvas' fault though.) So, we're still kind of grasping at strings occasionally, we have Archaeus for sure, so that's a good back-up plan I think. Jalzin is there for us Friday at least, and 90% of my gear upgrades are going to be coming from Karazhan, we just need that tank loot to stop dropping.

For advanced warning, on the 21st Alenaira will be unavailable due to IRL school stuff. I need to recheck my schedule but I MAY not be available on the 28th due to a trip I'm taking to Oregon, which will leave me out of raiding for at least 3 raid days maybe 4 (I'm coming back around September 8th or 9th.) So, our mission is to basically work hard to find healers or do a lot of spec switching around if need be, but we will plan this in ADVANCE.

So, here's the overall game plan for everyone:

- Find an off-tank or extra healer.
- Find additional healers/off-tanks that we can rely on.
- Find a few extra DPSers.

Basically, get out there and tell your trustworthy friends and such and or bribe them into coming to our raid with oral sex.

Related Question:

"Do we want to put out a request for some raiders on the AD forums if need be?"

Tuesday Friday's Raid

First off thank you to both Konstance & Jalzin for showing up and helping things get on a roll, you all did a great job considering our circumstances. We obviously have a few things we need to work on to get back on a roll, but I'm sure we can do it, if need be we can always have some fun time doing respecs if people are willing, we'll have to see what we can get permanently.

Also, huge congratulations to Namoric on the bad ass epic mount AKA Nightbane. Even though it looks almost like a Warlock horse, he still deserves some congratulations on it. So... congrats to you! :p

Konstance won't be able to make it this upcoming Friday, she has something going on IRL that she needs to take care of. I guess the important thing to do right now is find another healer if we don't want to dual-heal this thing.

As for an off-tank, I've spoken with Jalzin and he's willing to fill in for us until we find something more permanent. This Friday he will be speccing for DPS instead of Prot, but he has to remain Prot for his guild since he's the only level 70 warrior they have. However, things may change and he may go full time DPS and become our off-tank. A quick FYI on him is that he's experienced in Karazhan with his mage but this Tuesday was his first time in as a warrior, so things can only improve.

Thanks Sleyvas

Sleyvas, I don't know what the story is. You got hacked and your character is transfered to Undermine, or you got a good offer from an old raiding guild and transfered back, or whatever, but in so many words "It was dick of you to not tell us." and play the "I might not be there Tuesday because I might have to work." card. Either way I guess we're ending up severing ties here and now unless you got majorly hacked or something serious. Talking all the crap about Blackfang Brotherhood and our guild drama and then talking about loyalty, etc. What a load of bull.

So on behalf of the Skullfang raid:

"Thanks for taking all the loot and leaving us in the dust, you're a real hero."

August 21st & Alenaira

On August 21, Tuesday's raid. If there is one I guess. I'm sure there will be one. I will not be at that Kara's raid or maybe the next time. School starts up on the 22nd here of August and I like to get my ass on the ball instead of worrying on a game right now..

I will try best to either come, if not find a replacement for me.

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Sylvina + Tank = ?

Okay, just throwing this out there, but I'd like to bust my ass in order to get gear to become an efficient off-tank for some of the trash pulls we have to deal with. More or less this is a request/statement I'm making so I can loot whore the hand me downs from Ignignoct. It's entirely up to the raid as a whole though obviously, I'm just stating that I'd like to try and fulfill the off-tank role after I get some decent epic gear (I don't do too hot in blues even as Prot spec.)

Why do we need an off-tank? Well if Ignignoct or Sleyvas can't make it to a raid somebody is going to have to fill someone's shoes. I also know that Sleyvas really doesn't want to continue tanking or bringing Sleyvas (from my understanding he originally signed on for this whole deal as his Rogue.) I'd like to try and build my gear up so I can at least fill the off-tank shoes to some degree while remaining in Holy spec. Before you say you can't do it, I've noticed something with Prot spec, being specced Prot and being specced Holy/Prot is basically the same thing except you suck at healing. Prot really doesn't have any MAJOR benefits to it aside from Ardent Defender and perhaps Holy Shield, but even those talents aren't entirely required if your gear gets to a certain point. It more or less breaks down into needing a lot of +STA and +DEF, which is exactly what I'm working on.

Confusion & Loot

Recently there was some hubbub about Namoric and the dagger that dropped off the Prince. After doing some investigative work it turns out that Namoric wasn't angry about the dagger at all and was in fact just tired and logging off. I think it may of gotten blown out of proportion, but that happens sometimes.

Something I want to touch on is that I think our group feels very 'competitive' for loot. I think we need to work better on our 'sharing' skills, so that EVERYONE can get something. If you won some stuff last week, then pass for the person this week. This problem really only occurs between the following people/classes:

- Weaponry for all weapon users
- Alenaira & Yuzuki for Mail gear
- Arinelle & Myself for Paladin gear
- Warlocks & Mages with Cloth DPS gear
- Priests with cloth healing gear.

I try my best to pass on things if I don't desperately need it (I still feel bad about taking that Necklace from Konstance, I didn't realize she was being serious), or if I already have a good piece of armor compared to the person who wants to roll for it. In general, the more we share amongst ourselves, the better our group and teamwork will become. It's cool to get a weapon or item first, but if we plan on doing Karazhan multiple times and farming it to death then we're pretty much all going to get the items we want eventually.

I'd like to know all your thoughts and opinions about this and if you feel that you have to compete against somebody else.

Arinelle's Question

Ok...so why is your guild so uptight? Someone gets singled out, I comment about it and now I'm the bad guy...

Something is wrong with this picture...when you are in a guild you are supposed to stick up for each other, not pick at each other. :(

Zzzzzzzzz

I ended up passing out randomly around 7ish and I just woke up. :( Sorry guys, what happened, did you one shot it, are we going Friday? Bleh, I feel really bad, I tried to stay awake and the next thing I know I'm waking up not exactly sure where/what is going on then I look at the clock and it's super later.

Enchanting!

Hey Hey! This week I've been farming up some enchants and working on faction for enchants. I now have the following:
Enchant 2H Weapon - Major Agility
Enchant Bracer- Spellpower
Enchant Gloves- Major Spellpower
Enchant Weapon- Major Healing
Encahnt Weapon- Major Intellect.

I'm in the progress of farming up Enchant Weapon- Spellpower. I'll also been working on getting CE rep for Encahnt Gloves- Spellstrike.
The other 2 drops that I'm waiting on last to farm is Enchant Cloak for Arcane and Shadow resist which isnt really important atm.
If any of you guys need an enchant let me know. I'm not THAT heavy on mats but I can try to spare what I can (except primals). I'm stuck @ 362 enchating atm. /hugs
-Konstance

Karazhan = Owned!

Way to go on our 4 hour Karazhan run, we absolutely demolished the place and Samoset walked out with pocketfuls of loot, grats to him! haha. Seriously though, great job to everyone, it was a blast, I'm only slightly disapointed now because I don't have anything to look forward to on Friday! /sniffle

Also, Iggy had the idea of an 'alt' run, how many of us actually have anybody close to or at 70 already that they could bring in for an 'alt day' if we decided to do that?

Unicorns

Ignignoct's story about his office life kind of reminded me of this comic, so... here it is!

Kon late for Kara :o

Hi Hi!!! =D Hoping Valk or someone reads this (which there isn't a doubt in my mind that he wont) I may be a a tad late. Don't go off replacing me! I will be there latest like 8:10ish if I'm late at all.

Worst Case Scenario

If Ignignoct is unable to get his computer up and running by Friday, what should we do? I'd also like Iggy's personal opinion on this since it involves him. Here are some examples of what we could do:

- Wait until Monday before we run again, giving Iggy optimal time to get his PC working and if not then perhaps have a back-up plan lined up.

- Proceed on Friday because we can't run on a different day or it looks like Iggy is screwed for a PC this week/few weeks, and follow the back-up plan.

- Viyna, as the loving girlfriend and great raid member she is, let's Iggy use her PC for tankage time for the raid since it would probably be easier to replace a DPS than a MT. Just a thought, entirely up to Viyna/Iggy obviously.

If we need a back-up plan we have the following options:

- Sleyvas becomes the main tank and Ekim becomes the off-tank.

- If Ekim has awesome gear he becomes MT and Sleyvas remains as OT.

- Sleyvas becomes MT and if we can't get Ekim, I'll spec Prot/Holy to Off-Tank, or Arinelle can, healing gear makes the healing paladin way more than the holy spec from what I've noticed with Verosend when he heals.

Those are the quick fix solutions floating around in my mind atm, basically, we just need to do some respecs and other things prior to running. Nobody jump the gun until Friday though or until we find out exactly what we're doing.

Purpose of the Blag

Okay, here's the quick and short of this blag (I typoed it as blag and now it remains as blag forever), we need a place to vent and discuss things, I'll try to give those who register on blogger admin rights so they can post their own topics/blags. We really need a place so we can start discussing and planning things in advance. Examples are:

- Yuzuki's School on Tuesday, it kind of came out of left field and we weren't really in the know until raiding day.

- Samoset & Shadow Spec, this caused a ton of unnecessary money spending and confusion about wtf was going on, and it turned into a big mess when it didn't need to be in the first place if we would've talked stuff out.

Those are just two examples, but I find that talking about stuff OUTSIDE the raid when we aren't pressed for time can make things a lot better for all of us. Communication is key so we don't flip out and blow up on each other DURING the raid because we don't talk our problems out. In addition to talking, we can HELP our raid members out and maybe provide suggestions and information to help people get on top of their game. If you see somebody doing something wrong, don't simply say "Sorry, but such and such class sucks." behind their back, give them good advice. Same thing goes for classes who want to respec, give Samoset shadow priest advice, don't say "Sorry, you can't do it, lawl."

Let's work together as a team both in raid and out of raid to keep things being successful. or, as they say on the forums "Less QQ, More PEW PEW."