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an amani warbear that i felt it merited a response if you ve got hyjal bt gear then yes zul aman is a pretty chill raid even if you re in ssc tk gear you should be fine but if you re in a raid with primarily phase 1 gear or quest greens pre bis ignore what wille is saying it s a raid that is highly dependent on gear checks and having the right composition such as having a priest to do periodic mass dispels on the raid during the vol jin fight that if you don t have those you re not going to finish the raid and god forbid if your raid is caught in between about 6 other za raids not to mention the other progression raids of other major guilds so most of the personnel for the critical slots tanks healers the aforementioned priest shamans are already either locked or are busy and those roles are ones that i have no desire to pug i ve been in enough pugs that i know that those roles are ones i want people i can trust with and a random pug assuming you can even put one together right now on the server isn t where you re gonna typically find them i suppose that the entire tone which is a breezy oh this is some box you can check off before wrath drops but everybody will have this anyway really ticked me off probably a good deal of it was because i m not going to get the hand of a dal title because i never got a kael thas kill in phase 2 i never show my champion of the na aru title anyway and i d certainly never bother showing a hand of a dal title if i got it but the fact that i did get it would mean something to me and here was yet another reminder that one of the few personal goals i had in this expac to raid up until illidan was downed in black temple was not going to get completed just kind of set me off i guess what drives my obsession about this is something i remembered back in original wrath remember the blog i sheep things oh my kurenai i certainly do and i remember rhii s steady stream of updates on her guild s attempts to kill arthas in icc before cataclysm dropped but more than anything else i remember her despair at her realization that her guild wasn t going to be able to do it and her gm of all people took off to run with another guild and down arthas instead of trying to finish the job in their own guild as i wasn t a raider at the time i could only offer some sympathy to her plight but i didn t really experience it firsthand when i was a guest on the twisted nether blogcast back in ancient history there was some disbelief that it was a big deal to down arthas by the end with the hosts thinking it wasn t that hard by then because of the buffs and whatnot and because i knew rhii s struggles i disagreed now i have found myself in her exact same situation knowing that one thing you wanted to get but you aren t going to get it that hurts it s not like a kick in the shins because that is intense for a brief period of time and then fades but it s closer to a long slow burn like when you ve got acid reflux even when you think you ve put it behind you it s still lurking to spring out when you least expect it like now posted by redbeard at 2 08 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogs raid tbc classic videos monday may 23 2022 a short recommendation wildermyth the other week i had a long conversation with vidyala the person i ve described to my friends in classic as the person who taught me how to be a mage it s kind of funny that when i mention she s a blogger a webcomic artist or a wow insider columnist that i get kind of a oh that s nice but when i say she taught me how to mage that gets people s interest up go figure regardless we spent some time catching up and reminiscing about the old days and bloggers that are long gone lara of root and branch if you can read this we miss you but she did mention a game that she and her husband voss have been playing lately wildermyth vid described it a bit like paper mario but there s a lot of rpg elements to it and there s also a bit of procedural elements as well the fact that she recommended the game so highly and that there s a multiplayer aspect to it never hurt had me intrigued and oh look it was on sale with a price much much cheaper than any aaa game the main loading screen so i tried it out okay i ve been playing for a little while when you first start playing no characters are seen there are a lot of nice small touches to the game such as when you come back after having played before and you want to continue your journey you feel like you re part of a story or a comic there s two main screens to the game the main map and the tactical map what bridges the two are the stories told in game that lead from one map to another when you re first starting out there s a lot of unknown territory the main map provides you with a where to go aspect to it but you also have to clear the area to make it safe from the prowling monsters first you scout then you patrol then you can clear an area of an infestation once all that is done you can build defenses as roving incursions of monsters in the main story will invade from time to time so in order to buy yourself some time the defense will suffice the tactical map is where the fighting takes place and yes this is where the paper mario references surface sorry it s not what you might think too much lovecraft on the brain after a fight if you level up your capabilities are limited and your party can t heal in combat so be aware of that sometimes during an incursion you have to just let the monsters take an area zone before you can stop them because their initial strength is just too large that being said wildermyth thrives on its stories there s a few steps between the second and this pic but it still makes for fun stuff i d be lying if i said that the stories didn t fascinate me they re very well written and while the procedural elements creep in it is still great fun to enjoy a story that relies upon the visuals just as much as the written word the devs behind wildermyth do something very smart they don t tell you everything they tell you just enough to keep the story going and let your imagination fuel the rest the game is highly addictive and it s really worth some of your time to try out thanks for recommending wildermyth vid i really appreciate it or that she was gm of one of the best strict 10s raiding guilds back in the day that usually works too not his real name naturally just his wow toon s name posted by redbeard at 2 43 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels friends video games wildermyth saturday may 21 2022 giddyap i typically don t flex but on the outskirts of deadwind pass cardwyn reached the end the long grind to exalted for the wintersaber trainers yesterday once she reached l66 the reason for showing my ui instead of hiding it as usual the xp she obtained from the mobs for the wintersaber rep quests slowed to a trickle with about 5k worth of reputation to go there was no longer any reason to artificially slow down my rep grind and to be fair another guildie had started in on the rep grind with her own traditional single mindedness and had about 9200 rep to go last morning therefore i decided to push it and finish card s own grind around my lunchtime card s trustly old alterac ram has finally been put to pasture oh and i can report that with t3 gear cardwyn can hold her own as l66 against mobs that are l69 l70 outside of karazhan she just happens to pull them from a pretty far distance that s all and that each kill nets her 1340 xp redbeard has a new grinding zone eta corrected from xp to rep oops posted by redbeard at 10 09 am 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mounts tbc classic thursday may 19 2022 it s about time you d think that the sky was falling given the wailing and gnashing of teeth in some parts of the wow verse but no it s the upcoming implementation of a social contract into retail wow with the upcoming 9 2 5 patch in case you re wondering the social contract boils down to wheaton s law don t be a dick or maybe the golden rule applies do unto others as you would have them do to you now we re not talking about anything resembling a no ganking rule after all that s pretty much part and parcel with a pvp server s activities we re talking about answering questions in chat rather than saying go to wowhead noob lol or if someone asks for help and you re available go help out or if you re in an instance with people play as a team rather than being an ass and doing things like mage pulling things that are pretty basic as part of an unspoken social contract in our real lives but for pete s sake you d think that blizzard was asking people to be placed in shackles and shipped out to siberia for example i can sling curses with the best of them having learned how to cuss from my grandfather the ww2 vet but that doesn t mean that i should just let f bombs fly whenever i feel like it online because i m in a public space and that behavior isn t always acceptable there i m not perfect and i do let them fly from time to time even when i m around my mother who most definitely does not approve but i do try to accommodate people it s not that hard but apparently the right to be an asshole is what most people are concerned about as if that was the sole reason why a certain part of the player base plays mmos the real question that everyone likely has what sort of enforcement this social contract will receive is the one that nobody except blizzard knows even blizz probably doesn t know how that will shake out either like whether it means blizz will go harder against offensive player names or will more frequently intervene in trade lfg chat but one could hope that some of the more egregious crap out there would be thrown the ban hammer but for every person loudly stating that they were now leaving the game because of this relatively minor attempt at enforcing some basic standards of decency i have two words good riddance if abusing people got you off then wow doesn t need you to be honest society doesn t really need you either go hang out in league or something where people get away with that behavior without consequence i also learned a lot of racist language from him too which still saddens me to this day my grandfather was a complex man but he was also a huge racist my parents tried their best to raise me without racism but i recognize that i can always do better therefore with the mini reds i made the decision to make sure they were better than me at being anti racist and other biases i explained this to each of them as they reached adulthood and i told them that i knew i wasn t as good as i should be but i wanted to make sure the next generation was better still posted by redbeard at 8 19 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blizzard social contract tuesday may 17 2022 like riding a bike if it involved wholesale slaughter i was commenting on a post by shintar about how i ve been strangely optimistic about wow the past week or so and i think it has something to do with a couple of factors well there s this for starters yes indeed i think my questing buddy was stunned when i told her i joined a horde guild now before anybody says the word raiding catalyst is a leveling and social guild it s been quite a while since i was in an active leveling guild i think retail orphans kind of qualified but they fizzled out far quicker than this guild has and logging in to see about 20 25 people of all sorts of levels just doing things is refreshing when you re in a hardcore raiding guild leveling toons are few and far between or if you find some they don t stay that way for long as they rocket up quickly so they can be used for raiding alts or to support your main raiding toon just lazily leveling along is quite the exception to be fair i realize that my stay in catalyst might not be very long leveling guilds tend to have a pretty decent amount of churn as toons reach max level and then move on to other guilds for raiding or other endgame content but at the same time having a guild that isn t constantly fretting over parses or following the meta or arguing over various aspects of raiding is quite nice some people will tell you that my current raiding guild is relaxed and social and to that i raise my eyebrows in disbelief if this is relaxed and social i hate to find out what other hardcore raiding guilds are like no no scratch that i once had an extended conversation with someone who was on the at the time 2 raiding guild on myzrael and he was telling me that he had to come up with about 1800 gold a week to cover all the potions and whatnot they needed for raiding multiple days a week 1800 i was stunned are you sure you had two zeroes there oh yes more than once i was tempted to just buy gold to keep up the irony is that i do know people who at least in classic bought gold just to keep up with the demand and their raid teams were nowhere near the top of the charts but still the stress of trying to be the best would have driven me bonkers and my somewhat feeble attempts to keep up in tbc classic because i was a raid lead and had to at least set a decent example if i was going to ask others to do what they could to be ready for raids were frequently sabotaged by my desire to zag when everybody else zigs like right now in the isle of quel danas someone asked me last friday before karazhan what i thought of the isle of quel danas quests and magister s terrace and i told him that i hadn t been there there s no real reason for me to go since i m not progression raiding and i figure i ll wait until the crowd has moved on in a couple of months and then i ll go up there but right now if you get into a group for mgt with a decently geared team it s really easy oh i ve no doubt but my experience in magister s terrace was when my mage leveled through there imagine doing mgt on quest greens instead of raid gear oh shit yeah for me it s exactly like trying to tell someone who is kitted out with phase 3 raiding gear hyjal black temple that the zul aman bear run is hard to do when your raid team is frequently a mix of phase 2 and 3 geared toons and toons with a decent portion of quest greens or some phase 1 gear if they haven t walked a mile in your shoes they won t understand it or like my questing buddy telling me that i m pretty much hiding from the guild these days to which i ll agree completely after all being a non raider in a hardcore raiding guild is like being a second class citizen things that you want to do for fun are shelved because there s not enough people to do them but if it s progression raid related in some way people will show up for it i have never forgotten being booted out of an instance run because i was just coming to help out but someone else who showed up right before the run needed something for the 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