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ion grouping so i hopped on neve who was simply loitering around silvermoon city ported to orgrimmar and then took a flight down south i had to make some adjustments to the ui however yikes that was embarrassing i felt it wasn t going to be that big of a deal only there was one thing you ll have to timewalk a bit she informed me do i need to do that i haven t played neve since mists yeah you will the giant sword is in the middle of silithus what sword the irony which i called out midway through the raid was that she was on a draenei warrior and i was on a blood elf mage tbc forever i said yes this is the same gear neve wore when i last ran a bg with her in cataclysm or thereabouts my questing buddy s warrior was significantly higher level than neve because neve was still at l32 where she landed after the level squish going from l85 down to l32 and with the mobs there around l31 or so my aggro radius was pretty broad on more than one occasion i d be typing something in and i d get shellacked by a mob that wandered vaguely close to me even when i behaved myself and hid away from the fight such as the final fight against c thun one of his tentacles magically appeared in front of me and tossed me into his inside where i died quickly story of my life dying to c thun obviously one shotting mobs and bosses don t give you a good feeling of how the fights really progress and so i was just there to bounce my experiences off of her however i believe she s going to have a bit harder of a time of it in spots than we did in the fall of 2020 you have to be able to decurse here so casters can t just sit at the top and then dps you need to put them on the stairs so they can reach people for decursing that means me because our mages don t decurse i was pretty disgusted at that behavior you do what you can to help the raid if they behave like that they ll die very quickly in naxx let alone here still for a brief diversion it was fun i really didn t do terribly much other than comment on how much things had changed such as the blizzard spell behaving completely differently in retail versus classic and how you could now use any mount you wanted inside aq40 whereas back in the day you could only use those qiraji battle mounts which worked only within the raid itself also i have no idea why raid frames didn t appear like they re supposed to when we were in a regular party things looked normal but as soon as my questing buddy converted the group to a raid the frames vanished and for the record i don t have any addons in retail because this pc didn t exist when i last played retail speaking of not playing retail note i don t want to hear anything about the cluttered nature of my bars i haven t touched them in 13 years so they re bound to messed up posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aq40 friends retail wow classic anniversary tuesday november 10 2020 another slimeball bites the dust my long time blogger friend shintar of priest with a cause posted this video yesterday showing her guild s final attempt at taking out the last boss in aq40 viscidus congrats to shintar and the rest of the order of the holy fork for the kill i did notice that unlike how our raid got rid of the poisons i believe they were using elixir of poison resistance instead of immature venom sacs but outside of that we used a similar strategy shintar did everybody have a stack of 20 to work with oh and it does look weird to see your bars with all of the hunter abilities instead of my mage or rogue abilities and i think the tranq shot addon is awesome posted by redbeard at 7 04 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aq40 friends raid wow classic tuesday october 27 2020 end of a slimeball we finished viscidus last night kind of hard to get a screenshot of a smudge on the ground so we decided to lie down instead a couple of us took turns teabagging that old slimeball so our raiding group 95 valhalla myzrael us is 9 9 aq40 and somewhere along the line i managed to become exalted with the brood of nozdormu and revered with the cenarion circle without doing a single quest in silithus i looked at that and thought oh that s cool then i realized that i might want to do a few of those quests after all i wasn t thinking of doing much in silithus until say november or december because by then i figured i d be geared enough to consider it of course that thinking went out the window in september what i ve got now are people occasionally asking when i ll switch guilds sigh i understand where they re coming from but while i raid with them they re not the only people i hang with in classic see my 11th anniversary post i also hang with people from 9 10 different guilds and i ve even gotten invited into a guild run of strat ud with the top alliance guild on the server four of them one of me i actually held my own and didn t behave like a jerk so yay me it s understandable that people would think that i d eventually join another guild especially since so few people in my own guild ever sign on when i joined there were about 20 active members but as time has gone on people have left the game split for other guilds or simply vanished right now we have 2 3 people including me who login with regularity i suppose that those people who thought that the guild was my own personal guild can be forgiven for that misconception since i m the only one they see around azeroth and to be perfectly honest i have trust issues concerning guilds in mmos it s not like i ve never talked about them here so i m not gonna rehash them too much and to be perfectly fair the guild i run with has been nothing but welcoming to me and the few others who aren t guildies so it s nothing they ve done to make me feel that way instead it s all about me the tl dr of my mmo guild history has been about series of guilds blowing up guilds reforming blowing up again and guilds fading away as time has gone on the situation i find myself in with retail orphans is a mirror of what i experienced in mists where the guild i d joined in cataclysm slowly faded away until i was the only person who regularly logged in and while i see active guilds around that would love to have me join i keep having the doubts in the back of my head fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me fool me 4 or 5 times what kind of sucker am i so right now where i m at is where i m likely to stay for a while my wow activity is relatively stable and stability is nice the rest are a few people like me who are part of different guilds posted by redbeard at 4 24 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aq40 guild wow classic tuesday september 22 2020 in soviet russia tentacles kill you yesterday was one of those days where you kind of wish would keep going on and on and then you realize that it did setting aside work for a moment the evening began with this yeah and on av weekend no less and ended with this yes card is in there somewhere in between there were a lot of deaths a lot of deaths the last one by one of the eye tentacles came right before c thun was weakened for the second time and those still alive were able to dps it down and somewhere about an hour before first pull i got pulled into a work call that lasted longer than the entire aq40 raid so yeah that made for an entertaining evening but c thun is dead and we proved we could kill it while trying aq40 once a week posted by redbeard at 6 11 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alterac valley aq40 battlegrounds raid wednesday september 16 2020 the cards maketh the man it wasn t too long ago that i posted about the requirements to be an aq40 raider and my thinking that it would be a second job to simply keep up with the raiding requirements well i can confirm that yes it does take a big chunk of your time to keep up with raid requirements at least the guild i raid with or tolerates me there are times i can t decide which doesn t require flasks but the requirements certainly cost a ton on the auction house and to be fair were it not for flasks and their components costing so much i d not have been able to generate the gold to cover all the items needed for the other day s aq40 raid it kind of left me hoping that i d not be called off the bench for monday s raid so i could preserve the pots and whatnot for another week after all i was second off the bench that night i figured that i d sit around play some solitaire and once i was released i could go do some fishing for a while and collect mats for the elixir of greater firepower about 10 minutes before invites were to be sent out however i got a ping from the raid leader that i m 1 on the depth chart and i had a good chance at being called up oh i finished the farming i was doing switched over to card collected the mats i d bought and headed off to ahn qiraq i wasn t kidding about playing solitaire yes i know i need to clean the carpet and no the stain wasn t caused by me however i couldn t rent a cleaner throughout the summer due to that covid 19 thing and yes i suck at solitaire to be fair most random solitaire deals from a real deck of cards aren t solvable so it s more of a method to keep yourself grounded and the mind occupied while waiting i kept checking to see if i was invited but so far nothing and then i got a whisper that one of the raiders hadn t showed up yet so be ready and in a couple of minutes i got the invite i put away the cards saluted the raid leader who was outside and ran on in how d it go i thought the raid went pretty well we got to phase 3 on c thun and i m sure we ll take it down next week i got teased a bit by some of my friends in the raid with one of them whispering you are becoming one of us repeatedly which made me laugh there were a couple of items that dropped that i was interested in bidding on but i decided against it because a i m not a regular member of the raiding team yet so i d rather the item go to someone who is and b i had issues getting the weakauras widget that was created for handling loot on this specific raid to work so while i could see the loot i didn t want to take up any more time in raid to fuss around with my inability to use the widget when we could be out there slaying internet dragons or old gods your choice it was the same belief that i took into the raid last week when i had friends kicking me in the ass to roll on a mount i m the guest and until i become a regular raider i ll wait until others get theirs first i m not going to be known as that guy who showed up got a mount or some gear and split i ve too much self respect for that compare and contrast with the molten core run on az last night i ve been coming to that raid for a couple of months now and az has gotten pretty far in collecting t1 gear however i still need to upgrade my other stuff such as rings and weapons and tonight should have been a bonanza as i was the only rogue in the raid for the first half of the run and the rogue who showed up in the second half of the run was already bwl level geared but naturally the wow gods had other ideas with the exception of the shoulders every drop up until ragnaros was something i d already looted before and i d seen numerous times already but the shoulders drop was worth the wait as i d lost a roll on those twice now still when perdition s blade and the band of accuria both dropped on ragnaros i pinched myself so the perdition s blade came up for a roll i rolled and waited for the timer to end as the other rogue there had one already i was confident that i was going to walk away with this one at least then another person outrolled me that s when all hell broke loose on one side there were people arguing for the warrior who rolled for the dagger he was a fairly fresh l60 and for him the perdition s blade would be a huge upgrade on the other side were people saying that the perdition s blade was a bis rogue dagger that s useful up until it can get replaced in aq40 the chaos went on for close to a good 5 minutes until the raid leader reasserted control and said she d let me decide if i wanted it or not for me it was a no brainer i d already won an item the warrior rolled and won so it belonged to him whether or not he should have rolled is beside the point he rolled didn t have any other wins and he won the roll almost immediately afterward i got whispers from people basically saying how could you pass that up it s bis because i d rather have a clean conscience than a bis item that s why i play the game to have fun not to win all the things when it stops being fun then i have to consider either changing my in game behavior or move on and i guess that s what i don t get when you quantify winning as in winning all that phat loot then you can deviate into ethically questionable territory like the time that two friends of mine back in college decided to cheat at cards so that they could win at euchre oh yes that did happen and it went on for at least a month or two before another friend noticed their signals between each other while my roommate and i were buried in our cards looking them over for possible moves that other friend started laughing and then after the hand was played he pointed out the cheating my roommate was hurt but i was infuriated we didn t play for money and we didn t play for booze or anything either we just played to have fun but winning was so important to them that they felt they had to have that extra edge and that s what hurt and here i was thinking that my roommate and i were just having some long droughts of bad luck but no the reality was a lot different i ve never forgotten that feeling of humiliation betrayal and anger that s why i play games the way i play so that others know that when they win they ve won fair and square that there s no recourse for accusations afterward and so that everybody knows that any winnings are rightfully gotten on both sides you could argue that i ve taken that to extremes and that i should assert myself more but in the end i have to live with myself and in the dead of night when you re trying to sleep your conscience can be pretty damn loud thank you dreamfoil for costing so much when i say solitaire i mean klondike that s the game that was known as solitaire when i was growing up and whenever i pull out a deck of cards to play that s what i play posted by redbeard at 10 12 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aq40 cheating molten core raid wow classic friday september 11 2020 well this is different the last seven days were pretty eventful game wise not for any earth shattering content update or even for some in guild or on server drama but for personal reasons a week ago i began laying the groundwork to have card begin showing up at the 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