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courge invasion began the view a minute before it started just a normal day in azeroth i suppose obviously we players all knew what was coming but the npcs were blissfully ignorant of course all that changed the skies darkened and the argent dawn began the call to arms i joined up with a group of my fellow raiders and our first order of business was to fly up to light s hope chapel to check in and discover what needed to be done to beat the scourge back we arrived to find people across azeroth answering the call we scanned our maps and found that our best bet was to go to burning steppes where the region close to morgan s vigil was swarming with scourge but first a side trip to ironforge for a few of us to get some gear trinkets and extra potions flying out of ironforge we were confronted with a floating necropolis that s when you realize this is a big deal when we landed and rode out to the first invasion site it was chaos just like that first battleground i ever found myself in i just said go out there and hit somebody blood red skies indeed this continued for about 45 minutes until i had to drop for other things but you kind of get the idea the next day while az was farming herbs in eastern plaguelands she came across our goal young mage i have seen hell elune be with you in that seat of vile darkness i spent the weekend doing some of the scourge invasion but ironically enough i wasn t able to get online very much as i had other errands to run around town even in a pandemic stuff needs to get done but come monday night i was nervous were we going to be okay was i going to be okay was i going to look like an idiot in there did i have enough gold to cover all the potions i needed that last one was bothering me all the way up until an hour before invites went out and i had to sell some large brilliant shards i d been stockpiling in order to squeeze all of my requirements in leaving barely enough gold to cover two or three hefty repair bills between all of my toons i think i had about 25 gold total and that 15 gold card was carrying clothies don t need nearly as much gold as plate wearers for repairs vanished pretty quickly when i did need to repair my almost completely broken gear twice i m pretty sure i drove my wife nuts by wandering back and forth around the house sitting down to read up on the strategies and then getting up again to pace aimlessly normally i take a nap to get some rest in but i simply couldn t do it so when i zoned in i was nervous as hell before we buffed and pulled however our raid leader had a surprise for us like the songs from the raid cd coming soon honest our raid leader added an extra discord mic pulled out a guitar and sang a naxxramas and guild themed riff on hey there delilah by plain white t s entitled hey there valhalla i hope someone captured the performance because it was really good even the oldest mini red approved of lojze s performance especially given that discord isn t the greatest platform for musicality freebird one of my fellow raiders called out after the song was over if i could have held up a lighter in game i d have done it after that performance i calmed down it was going to be okay we were gonna do this i m in there somewhere we pulled our first piece of trash and i lived to tell the tale that didn t last long however after 3 5 hours we downed four bosses but were stymied on heigan the unclean wiping 4 times before throwing in the towel as we hit our raid endpoint in between we learned that yes we were ready for this raid and yes we are going to die a lot i did not win the turkey award much to my surprise i finished 4th ahead of me were three of my fellow mages with 17 15 and 15 deaths each sure i had to spend almost all of my gold to repair but it was worth it we are going to get better and we ll figure this out during my time raiding in aq40 that s been a staple of this raid team we wipe we get back up we figure things out and we improve we ve got this from dennis miller s the off white album circa 1987 back in the 80s and 90s comic dennis miller was well known for his encyclopedic knowledge of trivia and put it to use in his stand up this line comes from his commentary about how you live your life following the traffic rules but in a cruel irony they let your funeral procession run the red lights on the way to the cemetery hey i m dead but i m early trust judas priest to come up with a piece of music appropriate for the occasion posted by redbeard at 8 50 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels naxxramas raid wow classic monday december 7 2020 a bit of raiding pride i ll have other posts on the last couple of days later but in the time currently 1 20 before first pull before our first try at naxx i wanted to point out this little post on wowhead classic comparing kel thuzad strategies from 2006 to classic wow s modern approach the reason why i m pointing this out is that redditor marmotzero is also the co gm of valhalla myzrael us and the raid leader for the progression raid team yes it s our beloved lojze who keeps the raid going in a smooth and practiced hand and if he finds this post i d like for him to explain the origin of the beer pack which is the tradition of him drinking a beer his choice if we complete a tough pull without any deaths and i should mention that the wowhead article itself does have one glaring error that atiesh was not crafted prior to the fight but the guild in question had all of the components assembled so they could craft atiesh right after the kill see lojze s comment in the comments section and for those curious about the original reddit post here it is so let s have a good first run and maybe we ll see that beer pack tonight who is also the guy who finally convinced me to join as the sixth mage in their aq40 runs on labor day posted by redbeard at 10 30 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels naxxramas raid wow classic saturday december 5 2020 partway there before you ask no the blog hasn t been hacked and no i don t believe this is the end point either i tried to put a background together but blogger just did not like the dimensions of my uploaded graphics so i ve got to come up with something that works but yes after 2012 roughly i m starting to make major changes to the blog design back when black was edgy the blog looked roughly current but now in the age of covid it just looks like a funeral and i ve been to enough funerals this year so this is what i ve got so far it s okay serviceable brighter than before and something i can work with for the time being while i clean stuff up i ve never been able to get a gif that i liked for the title graphic because it costs money to buy a product that allows me longer frame times so i m going to have to pick something out of my screenshots and run with it and truth be told i need to clean up the sheer size of the sidebars and make it a bit more pc friendly rather than it looking like a myspace page but hey the black is gone and that s fine with me posted by redbeard at 5 52 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging blogs tuesday december 1 2020 represent i don t often write about failpugs these days for two reasons i ve found them pretty rare in wow classic and a lot of the runs i go on these days are with friends online that doesn t mean those failpugs don t exist however i was reminded of that in aq20 last night it was a sponsored run by said guild and i attend regularly because i want to see these runs zul gurub and ruins of ahn qiraq to succeed and for them to succeed they need a core of people that the raid leader can depend upon to show up week in and week out plus i really like the raid leader s work ethic and how she runs the raid and this is my way of showing support i ve done over 15 or so aq20 runs so i know the ebb and flow of these raids fairly well i ve even been both a runner and a clicker for ossirian so you know i ve been around a bit we get about roughly half pugs in the aq20 run although about 4 or so puggers are regulars so the number of true puggers number about 6 last night that included a tank pugger from one of the top guilds on the server i realize that other people s experience may vary but in my case i ve frequently had good experiences with this particular guild so my first impression was pretty good and the first few boss events went well too but by the time we got done with buru i began to notice some troubling signs even though this tank was technically the off tank he d kind of muscled his way into the main tanking role consequently he marked up buru s eggs the way he wanted it rather than how the raid leader wanted it after we cleared the two slimes that tend to wander back to buru s area the raid leader found the markings and rearranged them no extra commentary other than huh someone already marked these i should have realized this was the opening salvo but i figured it was a basic faux pas after buru the road to moam has obsidian destroyers and packs of bugs the strat is simple burn down the destroyers and let the 305 level miners harvest the mining nodes that drop and aoe the bugs standing in the middle so the bugs don t attack people at distance simple right well the pug tank decided to do some chain pulls because we weren t pulling fast enough i guess with both bugs and destroyers in the same pull of course that upset the strategy a bit with some of us aoe ing and others single targeting the destroyer for me the biggest deal was to aoe the bugs because we weren t stacked in the middle so to avoid their knockback we needed to eliminate them first the melee could focus on the destroyer but of course with that additional time spent in aoe it meant the destroyer came closer to getting a full mana bar that it ordinarily would still we managed just fine moam came and went without much incident and the anubisaths weren t that much of an issue either except the tank did do some chain pulls without letting the healers breathe oh and btw did i mention that we had at least 2 people who d never been in aq20 before no well neither did the tank who expected everybody to follow his lead and ignore the raid leader s instructions things came to a head against ossirian where the first wipe was caused because one of the runners was new to aq20 and didn t understand that he was to click on the devices on the outer edge of the room not closer to the middle no worries because it happens but boy did the tank disapprove he kind of blew up saying the dude was an idiot and let me do all the clicking the second pull we proceeded to wipe because we didn t get the coordination down quite well enough particularly because the tank expected to be able to do things his way rather than what was expected of him and the guy started ripping on the main tank the clicker the raid leader and you don t know how to handle this boss don t you well enough was enough and the raid leader kicked him from the raid and got the co gm to kick him from the discord the co gm joined the raid and after he shook off his rust from not having tanked ossirian in quite a while we got the boss down the rest of the raid proceeded without incident at times like this i am reminded of what i used to tell the no longer mini reds back when they were in elementary school people will judge you by your actions but if you are wearing clothing with a logo on it they will also judge that logo based on your behavior doesn t matter if it s a school or a sports team or even something you like such as star wars if you re wearing a hoodie with your school on it and you behave like an ass people will judge that school based on your behavior it s not fair but that s how it goes from az quotes doesn t have quite the zing as in the movie miracle to spare people from seeing it again go watch the trailer for the 2004 movie if you re interested bonus points for disney using blue oyster cult in the trailer i ve seen this play out time and again in games and in real life if you act like a dick everybody will associate your dickish behavior with whatever you re wearing or representing and on the flip side if you act well toward others people will remember that too hell blizz has a version of that on loading screens being polite while in a group with others will get you invited back so why do some people continue to act like jerks hell if i know i try to always follow the golden rule so the concept of being a jerk is kind of foreign to me and when it happens to me directly i m more shocked than anything else like the time a week ago while i was farming herbs in eastern plaguelands i stopped to pick up some herbs want to say dreamfoil but i m not sure and a nearby hound aggroed on me while i was standing on the node killing the hound another alliance toon just rode up took the herbs and rode off i even said really out loud in game but that guy didn t give two shits and just rode off to the next node i knew the person wasn t a bot because i saw him talking in the lfg channel and i was tempted to call him out there for being a ninja looter but the reality is that he didn t ninja it at all because he brazenly rode up and did it what gets me the most about that sort of behavior are the taunts if you do call them out showing that they really don t care oh look at the baby who can t handle real life was once response i saw to a person being called out in trade chat go back to retail is another common refrain when being asked to not be an ass in game i suppose you could say that this is a bit of an improvement from the old days but when i m referring to people being overtly racist and sexist in trade chat in wrath that s kind of a really low bar to jump over still there s only so much that i personally can do and most of that is to behave the way i expect others to behave and for pete s sake if you re in a pug or another guild s raid remember that you re a freaking guest and behave accordingly just because you re from a top guild doesn t give you carte blanche to be an ass and i d hope that if you behaved like that in your own guild s raid group that guild leadership would do something about that because if they don t they re basically saying we re a bunch of assholes and we don t care what you think in retail you can get away with that because of cross server grouping but in classic you try that on a server you ll quickly find that you re ostracized at least i d hope so nevertheless in the words of bill and ted from giphy com yes that includes the guild i raid with definitely prefer being the clicker because if you end up with a mage as a runner you re really scraping the bottom of the barrel and no it s not he who has the gold makes the rules even if that is true in real life posted by redbeard at 10 41 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to 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