RIP Steve Madry

Rest in Piece Steve Madry, aka Stevi, aka Fubaryou, aka Tripodd. You will be greatly missed.

Stevi was a healer for us in Grand Theft Kodo, a hunter for us in Forsaken and PVPed as his Warlock Tripodd. He was a kind soul and always offered his Enchanting service to the guild in a moments notice. Sadly, on June 21st, Steve Madry passed away from a heart attack but his brother was kind enough to notify someone in-game about the incident.

Stevi, we'll miss you on vent with your southern draw and we'll miss having you in our Kara group. On behalf of the players that had the pleasure of being in your groups, you'll be missed.

/wrist

7 more Ahune kills last night.. the same damn cloaks are dropping. Is the drop rate for the staff really THAT bad?

On a good note, I won 2 EOTS matches and gathered the rest of my tokens for the new S4 caster necklace and slapped a Veiled Noble Topaz in it.

Looks like Friday is going to be another Kael night. I'm not looking forward to wiping for 4 hours and I'm not confident we can down him but thats all part of raiding.. learning the fight.

I need to nail out some dailies for money since I'm too lazy and have too much to do at the moment to farm consumables. Blargh.

On another good note, a friend of ours that had quit WoW around February-ish came back to the game last night and we took him with us to heal for our Ahune attempts. He got one of the 3 healing cloaks that dropped. At least one went to good use.

If It Wasn't For Bad Luck..

Got a solid group of friends to farm Ahune last night, swapping out for alts, etc., for a total of 9 summons. 7 of those attempts we downed him and every single one dropped a cloak.

The two wipes we had were due to the lack of AoE from our Lock on one attempt and our Mage on another. The fight is pretty fun and we had the easiest time with an Arms warrior handling adds. I actually got to Moonkin-tank one successful attempt which was pretty awesome.

I'm still after that damn staff..

Season 4 started today but S1 is nowhere to be found. Apparently the rumors were true that S1 can only be purchased with T4 tokens now.. it's not replacing the blue quality pvp gear from the rep vendor and can not be purchased for reduced honor costs. S2 can now be purchased which is nice. I need about 12k more honor for the staff which I think is my best option at this point.

I could go home and do 1 AV to get enough honor to buy the neck or hold off and get the staff.. weapons are apparently easier to come by but my luck is awful. We'll see.

Anetherowned + TD gets Supremed.

I don't know how anyone else felt at last nights raid but something was off.

We started off going to Mount Hyjal and 1 shotted Rage Winterchill. Our main Shadowpriest and one of our Hunters got their bracers and we moved on to Anetheron. We dominated the trash flawlessly but Anetheron wiped us 4 times.

This is a boss that this guild has downed numerous times and we had a good setup.. but for some reason we couldn't even get him to 50% once. Healers mentioned having problems keeping our infernal tank up and reaching the rest of the raid and we had horrible luck with his Carrion Swarm hitting the same group that got the infernal spawn. Thats no bueno. Every so often the person getting the infernal spawn wouldn't run to the infernal tank fast enough and would take a huge beating.

After 4 wipes we decided to call it and go try Supremus. Saturday night, Total Dominance downed Najentus for the first time and had a try at Supremus. Their best attempt was 26%. Last night on our first shot we got him to 1% before wiping. Our 2nd attempt was haulted at about 40% with our tank dropping due to tanking him in the fire.

It was nice to finally experiance Hyjal beyond Rage Winterchill and to actually step foot in to Black Temple but it was a bit depressing only downing 1 boss in 4 hours. I was also really hoping for the trash mace to drop but, alas, it didn't and I'm STILL stuck using the Bringer of Death.. still.. in Hyjal & BT. Thats pathetic lol. Hopefully tonight Ahune drops that new epic staff (even though its poorly itemized).

Back in the Game!

So the move is over.. well.. most of it.. but I've finally gotten time to get back to playing WoW. Sadly, after not playing for about a solid week, I'm not really motivated to continue playing.

I thought raiding on Jandrae would have filled the void but unfortunately it hasn't. I enjoy raiding with Total Dominance but I just can't raid on the weekends. Raiding at 1:15 am is never a problem except on Saturday morning when I have to be up for work at 9:00 am and don't get out of the raid until 5:30am.

So here I sit at work.. very VERY tired. Last night we downed Alar to finish up the TK trash bosses and worked on Kael for about 3 hours. We made great progress and consistantly make it to phase 3 before all hell breaks loose.

I'm not sure what the problem is outside of this just being a new fight to a majority of the raid team.. but it rekindled my hatred of learning new boss fights. TD is new to BT as well and I don't know if I want to look forward to wiping in there a bunch.

This is me being stubborn I guess. Afterall, I'm an undergeared Moonkin raiding T5 content in T4 gear so I AM lucky to raid where I am at the moment.

I'm debating on taking a break until WOTLK comes out and then seeing if the interest is still there. My wife raids earlier than I do so for a few days we don't really see each other for about 8 or 9 hours at a time. We're both really bored when the other is raiding and I don't want to keep putting time in to WoW's raiding content at the moment when the gear is going to be obsolete soon enough.

I'm really not sure what to do at this point but I can honestly say that last night being my first night back raiding I didn't enjoy myself. Not because I didn't get loot. Not because we wiped on Kael for a few hours but just because it's getting old and time consuming. The days I raid takes up all my free time online. The days I don't raid I spend my free time doing dailies to fund repairs and consumables. I have 4 70's and no interest in rolling another alt or switching factions. I came from the Horde. I switched to Alliance after hitting 70 on my Undead Warlock and realizing that our server sucked for Horde.

Even if I switched factions for a change of scenery, what would I do? Hit 70 again and raid the same places I've been raiding? It's not the people that are burning me out so I don't think that would help matters at all.

We'll see what happens, I guess.

Moving On Up Part 2

My wife and I start the move today after work around 2:30pm EST.

We'll be without internet for 2 days - Blah.

New PVP Bot

I created a Mage to PVP with at 70 or 80, etc., isntead of respeccing my current toons. I've wanted a Mage for awhile and some friends recently rolled on our server so hopefully I can PVP with them. I know one of them loves to PVP so who knows.

My first toon ever in WoW was an Undead Mage named Vevister. My Warlock spoiled me so I deleted him and rolled a Human Mage named Aulbeth. He's only 11 but he'll be 70 soon enough as he'll be my primary concern when I'm not raiding on Jandrae.

The pic above is just a palceholder until I can get home and take a screen cap of him to post. Credit goes out to whoever this is lol.