Mmm ketchup

I have a lot to catch up on, so I’ll try to keep it fairly concise. In the week since I last posted we only raided Ulduar 25 this past weekend. The Saturday start was something of a disaster, as over the last few weeks raiding attendance on weekends has been unmitigated crap. Despite not having our usual 25man raiders we managed to down FL, Razorscale, and XT. Not only that, but we started the night by one shotting Malygos and 20 manning 1D Sarth.

I told you all, sometimes I don’t get my guild. And I mean that in a good way.

Of course, then on Sunday we downed Iron Council and spent the rest of the night wiping on Kologarn.

In any case, after the experience of this weekend we decided to switch 25man raids to weekdays (specifically Tues/Wed) to take advantage of having almost 40 people online on those days while barely scraping 25 on Sat/Sun. Keep in mind though not 3 months ago we switched 25man raids to weekends so we’d have more raiding time. How things change!

Now last night was the start of the raiding week, so to capitalize we started off with Emalon25 ( who is soooo easy now that they nerfed him), and then headed into Ulduar. We one-shot FL and what does he drop but this awesome and probably over-budgeted ring. I promptly snatched it up, finally replacing my Titanium Earthguard Ring.

Has anyone noticed that when you down FL your raid still stays in combat? I don’t know if this is a bug or not, because it’s happened the last few weeks. Apparently some random dwarves stay up and just run around after FL goes down, locking us in combat. A DI will typically take someone out of combat, but only for a short while. Right now our only relief seems to be running out, which is a huge pain considering you can’t use teleporters while in combat, and the distance between FL and the entrance is vast.

Anyhoo, after FL we marched over to Razorscale and quickly one-shot her as well. The fight is always a bit surreal now that it’s been nerfed/tuned down a bit. I still remember the ungodly hell it was the first week in Ulduar. So glad this was changed.

After that we went on to down XT after a few attempts, who dropped the Signet of the Earthshaker. Demo didn’t want that, so I took it as well. It’s got a nice amount of stamina and defense, and the block rating will give me some flexibility with gear so I stay block capped while maximizing avoidance elsewhere.

And then after XT we went over to Ignis and downed him after a few tries as well.

So first night and Siege of Ulduar is cleared! That means we have a nice, full night of… er, Kolo wipes… ahead of us. Crap.

Um, but I digress. Let’s back up a sec for some hilarity.

While we were clearing trash to FL there was some unrest in gchat from some dps who were sore they weren’t being taken to Ulduar. Mind you, they weren’t skipped intentionally, just they weren’t invited that night. By the time we got to FL though, one of the sore dps typed this into gchat accidentally:

Oops indeed.

He left the guild immediately after, though he was probably about to get kicked.

It’s kind of a shame, the guy was decent dps even in bad gear. He probably would have been really good in time and with some better gear.

Speaking of further drama, one of the issues bubbling just under the surface concerns two new members we picked up two weeks ago. These two came from the best Horde guild on the server, and for that reason I shall call him Captain [AwesomeGuild]. Now C[AG], I have been informed, is by virtue of his previous guild membership apparently some kind of WoW god. And we are but lowly mortals that walk under this bestriding colossus’ legs.

Because C[AG] was in [AwesomeGuild], suddenly he’s being consulted for every progression boss fight, despite the fact that he joined us two weeks into Ulduar’s release, so I doubt he’s seen more of the place than we have. Case in point, on Kologarn last week we wiped a few times, so offerings were brought to this Ye O Mighty Oracle, and he revealed that a druid main tank would be in order because druids have more avoidance.

Er, wut?

Unless something has changed significantly recently, wasn’t the whole point of druids that they don’t have much avoidance? Don’t they only have dodge as an avoidance stat?

I think this guy’s full of it, and some people are just stroking his ego. To make it worse he has all the personality and charm of any random leet kiddie you might encounter in WoW. For example, a guildee asked in gchat the other day which of two pieces was better for him. Both were similar, but one had hit and one had crit. C[AG] says in guild “HURF DURF HIT CAP OR NOT HIT CAP”. Granted, the answer was obvious, but there was no need to be such a dick.

And frankly, anyone who uses the word “brah” unironically is suspect.