Normally on Wednesday, you would have been reading the smooth writing of Slig…
But Slig, due to computer issues and “losing that loving feeling” with WOW, has left the game. For Now. And Ashes of Tirisfal and Azeroth as a whole are less fun. We have some awesome new recruits. Recruits Slig will love when he (hah!) returns. But Slig is part of the family that is our guild, and nothing short of her return to the game will lessen that loss. This is in by no means a way to try to get Slig to come back. No, she made a decision that is right for her, but that doesn’t mean we don’t hurt. I will miss playing my druid without a hunter’s mark over the mob. I will miss getting her own brand of Bloodlust. I will not miss the player as much because we chat in emails. Apparently she has one more post to do about those emails. We will await that post with expectation. We will continue to visit her own blog…. We will miss you Slig and Calysong and Solareclipse.
And other changes have been made in game as well. First, Fikkle gave the GM role to Sy…which is scary. And Piepal became a tank.
Yeah like your tank never tanked in a dress.
I am enjoying tanking because it is something pretty new to me. I started a paladin to give me something different to play when I wasn’t playing my hunter. I am finding that I really have to concentrate and study the fights, things I never really had to do as much with my hunter. Oh, when I was raiding I did, just to keep up, but really most fights were, here’s your target, kill it. Oh and don’t stand in stuff.
So now I tank. I am really practicing my rotation because it’s important as the tank to not threat cap the DPS. If I do my job right, then the DPS can do their jobs right. And the healers don’t have to do their jobs for as long.
There have been loads of blog posts and threads and insane amounts of pixels devoted to how raiding has changed in Wrath. It really hasn’t. It’s still the same. Tanks still tank, healers heal and DPS, kills things. How you go about these roles may change fights, but in the end, the basic core of raiding or grouping or even leveling is, can you kill the mob before it kills you. You might need to dance every so often, or get in a vehicle or dragon to do it. And on that point, what makes reasonable players lose their minds when they get on a vehicle of sorts?
This post has rambled. Not because I didn’t have a topic, but because I had too many thoughts rambling around in my head. So many changes over the past few weeks. Sometimes you just have to talk it out.
For those of you that read this blog, AoT and 4thehorde are still strong. We will be stronger if/when our prodigals return. And if they don’t, we wish them the best on their journey.
Aka’Magosh
Lady Anacondra-The first of the Fanglords. She puts a party member to sleep so group coordination will be important. Also watch out for her serpent pals.
Lord Cobrahn-Surrounded by tons of little snakes that must be AOE’d down. At a certain health level he’ll turn into a snake and his damage is increased. Watch out for poisons. Maybe even implement a constant poison tick on the whole group.
Serpentis-Make him the caster boss. He’s already capable of casting sleep and throwing around lightning bolts.
Verdan the Everliving-Casts Grasping Vines that immobilizes anyone caught in its grasp. Upgrade his hitpoints massively, maybe add an armor debuff.
Mutanus the Devorer-The great white murloc. In Wailing Caverns’ original incarnation one must kill all 4 fanglords and then speak to the Disciple of Naralex near the entrance to start a fairly exhausting event that takes you to the room where Naralex is trapped in his dream. Then the group fights several waves of mobs until Mutanus shows up. I propose instituting a 5-man ‘hard-mode’ of sorts where a group can go to the disciple whenver they choose to start the event. Of course, leaving the various Fanglords alive will make the showdown with Mutanus harder. Probably either the living fanglords join the fight or possibly just grant Mutanus buffs of various types.
So, I really don’t want you to feel like you wasted your twenty five dollars, so here it is, your nudy pic, on the Internet for all to see, all for the low, low price of 25 dollars! We threw in the server transfer for free!!!! After an evening of goofing around in guild chat with these two, as well as the past few days with Roz, I have to say, we are getting the kind of recruits we are looking for. They are funny, goofy, and look at this as what it is, a game. A game full of other real life people that have lives, and families, and dogs, and jobs. Ashes has grown stronger today, stronger indeed. And just to prove I’m a nice guy, here they are, in their full glory, and fully clothed!
Now those two can stay!
Nimrock
