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ery air takes on a sickly hue she d never take the wheat and barley growing in the fields for granted again things have changed since card started out she has several nieces and nephews now two of the farmhands james and robyn married and moved into a small place card s mom and dad built for them on the northern edge of the fields they now have a couple of children of their own linna is still out there with the knights out in the plaguelands keeping light s hope chapel open and the scourge at bay mistress evelyn is semi retired card s family built a small place for her adjacent to the farm buildings so she could continue her pursuits without constant travel to stormwind instead of visiting the children of eastern elwynn they now come to her for lessons the ebb and flow of children suits card to no end she gets to play with her nieces and nephews go fishing at the nearby pond and even do things she used to hate such as turning manure being out in the sun in nature and surrounded by friends and family keeps the darkness at bay it also serves as a reminder of why she fought in the first place which can get lost in the heat of the moment perhaps that call will come a summons to cross the dark portal and face illidan and the burning legion but for now time is cardwyn s most precious resource and she intends to use as much of it as possible making herself whole again not one or two but four including card posted by redbeard at 12 20 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels naxxramas tbc classic wow classic thursday may 6 2021 yeah it figures figures that blizz would drop the news about bc classic a couple of hours after a post so june 1st eh with a may 18th pre patch not amused i am naxxramas event went on longer than the two weeks worth of pre patch for tbc classic boosting services on the servers the ones you pay for in wow gold not the ones that blizz wants you to use will be brisk especially if you want multiple shamans or pallys on the horde side in raids fairly quickly i look at the two weeks as a push by blizz to capitalize on their own monetary boosting services but given that most of the toons in need of a boost won t be able to get one draenei and blood elves why stick to two weeks unless they asked the sweatiest of the sweaty guilds for advice on lead in to release day that is oh and i left my old guild today within the past few days i noticed that a lot of my old guildies began logging in like clockwork with tbc classic on the horizon to be fair i was never on az when they were because i was either doing some leveling on alts or raiding whatnot on card but when i logged into az to do some farming i noticed the last logged in times and went hmmm after a couple of days of this i began to get irritated i d been the only one to consistently login over the months and i guess they figured they could pick up where they left off it was at that moment that i realized that i d moved on without them and i really didn t need retail orphans any more so i gave the gm role back to the original gm and gquit az is now a free agent again will she join valhalla nah not for now at any rate she can remain independent especially since she has been doing her own thing for so long besides i m going to be busy doing raid stuff and az will be an alt that i ll goof around with from time to time posted by redbeard at 2 51 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels guild tbc classic the maiden voyage of the loot master i should have taken screenshots really i d never performed any raid lead functions before and i mean the real raid lead functions not merely organizing the mage int buffs but last night during our regular zul gurub pug run i assumed the role of loot master for the first time courtesy of my new gig being part of a raid lead team i knew i was going to have to learn this job anyway so i figured no time like the present i d already been growing more and more concerned about the burnout that the pug raid lead had been facing and i wanted to take on a greater role in her raids to make her job easier so last night s zg run was a great testcase as to whether a i could handle this technically and b i could handle this without getting too much stress while i realized that i wasn t going to be as smooth as she does it she s been doing it for months i have no idea how she juggles all the hats on these smaller raids we spent about a half an hour before the raid working out the settings for the lootreserve add on which is what we use for our raids with the soft reserve loot system and then based on a quirk of classic i had to assume the raid lead position and then grant her assist so she could perform all of her regular tasks it actually wasn t that bad it helped that the raid was composed of a mix of guildies still feels weird saying that and regulars and they were very encouraging throughout the raid the two other mages stepped up to help out with managing the int buffs and taking care of other small things i m used to doing so it freed me to focus on the loot master s job which actually contributed to my death at least once i was busy looking at the reserves and whatnot in the approach to the spider boss while we were killing those spider packs since my mind was on that i kept spamming arcane explosion and not paying attention to my threat levels naturally i pulled threat and died a card in her natural habitat eating dirt was how i described it in mage chat what happened died due to skitterer packs how was busy looking at reserves spamming ae not paying attention yeah that ll do it i died one or two more times both of them directly related to me focusing on the loot master job so i m not terribly concerned but given that i m not exactly swimming in gold that money spent on repairs did hurt since i ll be taking this job going forward on the two 20 person raids i m sure i ll get better at this as time goes on and i think i can do this when we get to bc and i graduate to the dkp tools we currently use in our progression raids of course stakes about loot are a bit higher there so hopefully i ll have this down enough to not cause any drama all by my lonesome while technically it is a pug this raid as well as our saturday bwl and sunday aq20 runs has so many regulars from across several guilds that it s more of a semi pug at this point if you re considering running soft reserve the lootreserve addon is amazing for both raiders and the lead team for raiders you get a gui that handles everything you wanted to do so you don t overwhelm the loot master with requests to the point the lm s account is throttled by blizz for loot masters you only have a half dozen settings to worry about without having to type out commands on the chat line if it was all command line driven it d take forever posted by redbeard at 9 36 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels raid raid lead zul gurub monday may 3 2021 here have some homework but bring your hardhat i received the ping over a week ago it was after a detailed yet really emotional discussion on the raid guild s mage channel about thaddius or more specifically the mage team s lack of decent parsing on thadd while we consistently down thadd the mage crew has had to lay off of pushing the pedal to the metal because we frequently get an ignite that either comes close to or actually pulls threat if you map out our threat levels one of us with ignite s threat looks like we re on a sudden rocket ship to the stars almost vertical so to combat that we frequently start by soaking the first ignite use a rank 9 fireball to start with and then switch to max rank when things look stable but all of that has an effect on our parsing which to be fair sucks one of the crew was arguing about his need to fix his lack of parsing so much and in such a way that it set off alarm bells in my head i can t describe it but if you ve been a parent for long enough you just learn to recognize where something takes a detour into dangerous emotional territory dude i finally responded if you re thinking you suck you don t trust me on this one i don t want you to think you suck because you kick ass things calmed down after that but still it was a pretty raw discussion so with that in my mind i received a ping from one of the raid guild s leadership later that day cardwyn do you have some time to talk uh oh first she used my full name cardwyn which i only hear in raid when the raid caller leader says something officially in raid or when the loot master says it when i win something second with the rather generic do you have a second to talk following so shortly after the thadd argument i got that sinking feeling that i d overstepped my bounds in the parsing discussion and i guess she drew the short stick to talk to me about it well i said might as well get this over with i responded and said i had time today or tomorrow but now is fine too i was alone in the house at the time so no big deal after a couple of hours and of course after my youngest and her boyfriend had dropped by and were up in her room she finally responded and i pulled on my headset to chat while i worked on dinner so card she began you re aware that in bc we re going to have two 25 person raids right right i replied realizing belatedly that mage parsing was not on her mind i m going to be leading the monday raid along with a couple of other people i d like to know if you would like to join the raid leadership to be our fourth i blinked this i was not what i was expecting i mean in the raid surveys that we d filled out i had checked a little box that said yes if i wanted to help out in some way i d conveniently ignored the entries for raid caller loot master and other official duties of raid leadership because i figured i could help out by doing a few minor things here and there after all i m not exactly the sweatiest person out on the raid team by a long shot somewhere in the back of my head was a small voice saying just how few people offered to volunteer before they got to my name but it was an offer and i accepted it without hesitation we chatted for about 10 15 more minutes and finished the call as i took off the headset i suddenly realized what i d committed myself to doing i was going to have to give up on my grand dream of taking my time and exploring outland at least initially and i was gonna have to get sweaty no way around it well crap around the same time with the latest patch came the ability to dethrone a gm if they d been marked as inactive since my guild s gm has been inactive for months it was kind of a no brainer that i took the opportunity to perform a coup and take over the guild sure it s a guild of essentially me at this point but hey it s something and i didn t even have to gather signatures or anything either it had kind of irked me for a while that if the gm wasn t going to even make an effort to come back he could have given me or someone else the gm job and then left but oh well i guess people figure that things will remain unchanging i once asked him about some of the people who leveled in the guild an then split and he kind of shrugged it was his guild i was informed and he was fine if people didn t necessarily want to stick around or anything i thought it weird to not have a vested interest in the people in your guild that you didn t necessarily know that well but i rolled with it and now it wasn t his guild at all anymore it s kind of weird how my work instincts immediately kicked in when i began analyzing the documentation we already had usually i try to separate my work from home life and in spite of me working from home for a couple of decades i do that fairly well unless of course something like this comes along and then my lizard brain says ooo data and then the work part of me wakes up naturally the next thing i thought of was i don t have enough info on raiding in tbc or classes for that matter to help out so i started reading up on raid compositions goals and whatnot this sort of thing has been my diet for the past week i quickly discovered that there was going to be a problem as part of the raid leadership team i was guaranteed a spot in the raid but a lot of the 25 person raid compositions in tbc had only one mage in them and with two raids that meant 2 mages total our core group of mages currently totaled four i knew that at least 3 of us were planning on playing a mage in bc classic and if as i assumed all four of us would we d be hard pressed to find space for all of them while i could theoretically switch to az the slots for rogues in 25 person bc raids numbered somewhere between zero and one and i knew that we had far more talented rogues out there in the raid than me i cursed up a blue streak realizing what that meant unless something happened we were at risk to lose at least one of the mages from not only the raid team but potentially from the guild and our mage crew is pretty tight if we all lived in the same city we d likely hang out together go for beers and in general have a good time we look out for each other and reach out when we think things aren t okay it may be totally selfish but i didn t want to lose that friendship so i decided to sacrifice card listen card it s just a figure of tell you what go finish farming demonic runes and i ll explain it later i brooded over this decision for a couple of days because i ve grown quite fond of her it s likely due to my writing attempts because her fictional personality is a mesh of my two daughters and i ve connected to her in a way that i never did with my other toons but i ve played a ret pally before and i ve played a warlock before and both were going to be needed in bc raids i was fairly certain nobody was clamoring to play ret the only person i knew who did had to retire from the raid due to personal reasons so i could slip into that role fairly easily and i already had card s sister slated in my head for a ret position so i could do that if i was going to lead i had to set an example and do what i could for the betterment of the team my time has come hold yer horses there kid i took my concerns to the raid leader who told me that once the teams and leadership were announced there was going to be another survey to see who wanted to go where so she said we have time so just wait and see okay i could do that a short time later the raid leader pinged me in discord that we had an issue since a lot of the raid leader tools weakauras and add ons are configured to be guild specific my presence was going to cause problems she cast out a feeler about whether there were any real issues about joining the guild i kind of figured that this would happen and i was surprised that the topic wasn t broached when i initially agreed to join the raid lead team so i d already decided it was going to be okay i laid out my checkered 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