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d crowds anyway because i dislike them but i quickly discovered that crowds as found on a 52 brought anonymity with them nobody knew me and using the automated lfd tool meant most people i found via the tool didn t know me either since i didn t raid i had no titles next to my name no gearscore to worry about either since that was only utilized in reference to pugging raids i mean if you had people looking for gearscores of 5000 to run heroic halls of lightning they likely wanted to be carried even the non friends and family guild i eventually joined with soul and his wife the grey death legion was small potatoes compared to the rest of a 52 now in classic the script has been flipped atiesh us is a much larger server than a 52 us ever was but due to layering there aren t many crowds in dalaran you d think that was a good thing for an introvert who doesn t like crowds much but because so many people from myzrael us migrated to atiesh us i always see people i know the few times i enter into dalaran especially ex guildies it s a constant reminder to me that i left valhalla by remaining behind while everyone else migrated to atiesh us and i fully intended to remain mostly on myzrael us until i was recruited into the 10s raid that i m presently in so here i am mostly on atiesh us these days despite my original intentions and while i ve made it plain that deuce is not og cardwyn people still whisper me periodically about how i m doing and whether i ll join the franken guild yes i m doing fine no i m not joining so far my explanation that deuce predates any migration or even the announcement from myz and i wasn t planning on maining her until i got recruited into a raid has been enough to satisfy people who inquired however i do know at least a few people who if given half a chance are going to ask why and won t take a simple it s a private matter as an answer i ve seen enough guild drama to last a lifetime and i d rather not cause any more that aside there s a larger reason why i don t hang around dalaran it doesn t feel like home to cardwyn this is 100 percent due to my fiction card has been around she s traveled she s fought against powerful enemies and she s even spent time away from the fray due to ptsd from the fight against kel thuzad her initial idealism about mages was deflated early on in her career and replaced by a certain degree of cynicism this has been encouraged by her first teacher evelyn who grew up in dalaran and saw the shades of gray and blindness in that community that allowed a kel thuzad to grow and flourish before his betrayal and creation of the cult of the damned the full extent of evelyn s involvement with dalaran is unknown to card before you ask yes i know what it is but card knows enough that she can see beyond the utopian veneer presented in the avenues and shops to acknowledge the reality that dalaran is not what it seems to a mage who is not part of the kirin tor dalaran can feel well like your know it all golden boy sibling who despite their best intentions always feels like they re perpetually mansplaining things to you what d be especially grating is that in the aftermath of the rise of the scourge and the destruction of the northern kingdoms dalaran turned tail and hid behind it s own bubble belying all their lofty aspirations oh no a dalaran mage tells you early on in the nexus war questline we re not allowed to torture people to extract information from them but you can the implication that we can t get our hands dirty performing tasks that are beneath us would grate on cardwyn either you believe in torture or you don t cardwyn would have replied just because i act as your proxy doesn t mean you re absolved from any guilt so don t give me any of that holier than thou bullshit that little exchange could have set the scene for so many more shades of gray interactions with the kirin tor that i m disappointed that blizz didn t head in that direction instead that quest was a bit of an outlier in the whole we re magical paladins feel that i got out of interacting with the kirin tor this time around it all boils down to whether cardwyn would want to be associated with a society like this and based on card s backstory and personality i d say no or maybe grudgingly so finally there s one picture that came out of retail several years ago that haunts me to this day this is disney in a nutshell that pic from legion looks like it d be something out of spaceballs or maybe a disney channel mashup of star wars and cinderella s castle darth vader where are the plans to make a genie s lamp cinderella i don t know what you re talking about i m on a diplomatic mission to see captain america vader you are a member of the princess alliance and a traitor take her to the black pearl either way it has to be one of the sillier things i ve ever seen yes i was aware of heirloom gear at the time and while i was leveling i was insanely jealous of all the people who had been at max level and were populating their toons with heirloom gear it was such an obvious advantage for a player to speed level with gear that essentially was like having blue gear that scaled with you all the way to that max level particularly if you ever set your foot inside a random battleground that a new person felt like a scrub until they finally started getting gear from heroic instances once they reached max level it was mostly notable for being a guild that wouldn t let you curse in vent or guild chat that didn t prevent the guild from blowing up due to the difficulties in icc however about 3 4 weeks ago while i was on og card for something or other i was contacted by a leadership member of the franken guild asking if i was going to join them on atiesh not planning on it was my reply and that was that how do i know this because i ve seen them do this before and that s part of the reason why i m not in the franken guild that some people in guild leadership are people i simply can t respect and neve won t ever let anyone forget that in addition to being the prince of quel thalas kael thas sunstrider once was a member of the kirin tor posted by redbeard at 11 38 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels dalaran wrath classic wednesday november 9 2022 wrath classic phase one raids part 3 something something something black dragonflight monday night my raid team ventured forth to do battle with malygos again and then to the only raid instance i d yet to see in phase one of wrath classic the obsidian sanctum once again i hunted around for a quest any quest that pointed people in the direction of the seedy underbelly of wyrmrest temple but i rolled a 1 on my intelligence check is the redone onyxia raid out yet i asked in voice no it still says l60 if you go visit her our warlock replied i think the redone ony dropped around the time of trials of the crusader then i m trying to figure out why we re here i couldn t decide if blizz decided to redo ony after it created obsidian sanctum or before it feels like this raid obsidian sanctum came first then onyxia s revamp but unlike ony there s absolutely no reason for us to know this raid exists in game oh this definitely came first the raid leader replied yeah but unlike eye of eternity and malygos there s no quests at all for the reason why we re here at least the nexus war had a big long thingie for it thingie whatever it is brain fried from the time change but that s the point really there is no reason why we re at the obsidian sanctum if it weren t for blizz saying hey this is a new raid you d have no reason other than pure curiosity as to whether there s something underneath wyrmrest temple blizz has mentioned in the past that they re already looking storywise a couple of expacs ahead i ve always thought that was something they did later in wow s lifetime but i suspect it was happening even back in the ancient days of wow pre cataclysm after all the evidence is right in front of you when you walk into the obsidian sanctum three twilight drakes years before we got to know them well in cataclysm there they were beneath wyrmrest temple no explanation no nothing just there arrogant as hell even as drakes they feel superior to sartharion and their presence there make the raid totally chaotic so i ll give kudos to blizz thinking ahead but without any in game reason why the raid is there it s just well disjointed oh the fight itself uh i died a lot i d never been in the raid before so of course they wanted to try killing sartharion with two drakes up i very quickly became acquainted with what two drakes up meant you can kill sartharion with anywhere from zero to all three drakes alive when you first attack sartharion but the more drakes you leave alive before you start the fight the better the loot that will drop and the more chaotic the fight gets too the basics of the fight are simple kill sartharion however sarth summons fire elementals to pester you and whelps to hound you oh and there s this thing called a lava wave or something to that effect where walls of lava come rushing at you like you were out surfing in hawaii with a gap that you can stand in if you re fast enough i was frequently not fast enough oh it s not that i couldn t see the gap or that i dropped casting i did it s that i often chose a gap too far away from me to try to make and with my blink ability frequently on cooldown because i constantly had to move to avoid mobs aoe whatever i had to hoof it a lot that s a type of mistake that i ll fix the longer i m exposed to this fight yeah starting out on the second highest difficulty setting for 10 person obsidian sanctum wasn t the best introduction to the fight the raid leaders finally decided to dial it back a bit and take down satharion with only one drake alive before the boss fight began which made things much easier to process for me whereas before i saw only chaos i was able to understand the mechanics of the fight better because i wasn t constantly running for my life as is what i ve discovered in the phase one raids i do better when i can stand and cast fire mages abilities don t lend themselves well to fights where you have to be on the move our instant casts are pretty piss poor damage wise and even if a fire mage was standing my damage output is definitely inferior to an arcane mage however i can do better and have more of an impact with aoe damage for all of the adds that spawn get them down and the fight is much easier like the onyxia fight back in vanilla vanilla classic the obsidian sanctum is organized chaos it is also the most difficult fight in the phase one raids for 10 people yet despite that it is the one raid that has the largest disconnect from the entire expansion kind of like how blizz shoehorned in a troll raid zul aman into a burning crusade expansion that had nothing to do with trolls at all more on that for another post posted by redbeard at 1 59 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels raid wrath classic monday november 7 2022 meme monday time changing memes here in the us we set our clocks back one hour this past weekend again the older i get the more annoyed i am at having to do this on an annual basis my body complains more and more every year about this and the discernable benefits to the outdoors industry anyway don t help my own personal health much trying to explain to my oldest s guinea pigs that there s a time change simply doesn t work i tried from imgflip i ve got coffee going and if it weren t for me likely getting scalded i d be doing this from houston chronicle then again this was my body on saturday night from imgflip of course this is me for the next week but i ve got enough friends to remind me when it s raid time from imgflip posted by redbeard at 9 36 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes friday november 4 2022 wrath classic phase one raids part 2 how to make something less than epic as i alluded to in my previous post we cleared wrath naxxramas over the course of two nights with plenty of time to handle vault of archavon and the eye of eternity while we didn t get to obsidian sanctum this first week of my raiding participation the raid team did clear it the week before that means there ll be a third post on phase one wrath raiding when i visit obsidian sanctum so you have been warned after dealing with the uncanny valley effect in wrath naxx the two other raids were completely new to me i mean i knew of them back in the day but as i wasn t a raider back then i never actually saw them during mists i considered trying to go in and solo the malygos fight but i was vaguely aware that there were drakes involved and if i were required to use a drake s abilities for a decent portion of the fight then it would be impossible to solo but vault of archavon i really don t know why i didn t care about soloing that raid but it just wasn t something i was interested in seeing after we turned kel thuzad into a puddle of goo at the end of wrath naxxramas we ported out to dalaran and flew over to wintergrasp everybody should have the flight point someone in the raid said i don t the raid lead said nor i i added given that the only way to get to wintergrasp is via flying my purchase of cold weather flying the day before meant i didn t have that flight point i wasn t planning on short circuiting the storyline and grabbing all of the flight points available just because riding wasn t as fast as flying i tried flying over to wintergrasp and yes i got turned around on my navigation and initially went the wrong way but because i was also one of the few people without an epic flying mount the rest of the raid made it ahead of us and summoned us over don t ask me to navigate i grumbled to myself dismayed at how low my map reading skills had fallen from the days of being the family s navigator when we went on vacation maybe i should reread that book on orienteering that i bought back in high school we went inside and i followed the crowd to the raid entrance i d never been inside the building before so i was surprised to see another location where you could queue for battlegrounds as if there weren t enough of them already people call vault of archavon voa for short which gave me flashbacks to my shortwave radio days as voa is also short for voice of america the long running international broadcast of the us government in much the same way as the bbc world service or radio nederland or radio moscow were for their own countries or it reminded me of a few songs from the 1980s holy crap is this music video so campy and i thought i can t drive 55 was bad it wouldn t be an asia album without the roger dean cover art as for the raid itself there s not a lot of there there i knew absolutely nothing about the boss fight but neither did i die nor did i feel like i was in any sort of danger 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