WTB another day off

Ah vacation, how I love you. I loathe when you end, but we have fun times while we can.

Speaking of fun times, yesterday myself and Gulliveig (my IRL buddy and guildie who I do not talk about enough on this blog) hosted two guildies from out of state, Ildara and Cendra, who came over to Boston to see us. It was great times, but I think the whole day is a remarkable testament to WoW as a social tool.

I met Ildara and Cendra randomly while listed in the LFG tool for Heroic Steam Vaults way back during TBC. I’ve “known” them for two good years now, and I say known in quote marks because there was the awkward moment yesterday when hands were shaken, hugs exchanged, and “good to meet you”s dispensed.

And yet, it was all sorts of surreal considering aside from never standing within 600 miles of each other, we basically knew each other as well as we could of had they been my next door neighbors and playing WoW.

I think in the end that will be WoW’s legacy for me–not the phat purps I accumulated, or the raid bosses felled, but the friendships I made in the game.

But I digress.

As you may have noticed around Thursday last week I finally caught up to the rest of the WoW-playing public and achieved Champion status with my last faction, which gave me my much-desired Crusader title.

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So heroic.

Of course, now I’m out more than 50g a day in dailies, but them’s the breaks.

In a Naxx25 gear run on Thursday night (as I mentioned in my last post) for the lulz I decided to go afk halfway during the Loatheb fight. Mechanics of the fight being what they are, not to mention how insane my threat is, it was pretty easy to just walk away at 50% and go grab a drink or something.

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I warned everyone in advance too, and I don’t think anyone believed me. But then at 50% I said in vent “afk guys, I’ll be back in a few” and got a few “wait, WHAT?!”s in reply. Of course, at such a threat lead, it wasn’t hard holding aggro with auto-attacks and Blood Corruption, haha.

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Oh, and I saw a fun glitch: a dragon riding a horse. Didn’t know they could do that.

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4 Comments to “WTB another day off”

  1. Thommas 28 May 2009 at 10:27 pm #

    Did you just head into boston for Logan to meet your friends? If you’re from the valley area like I am, try Manchester, its much easier. it’s not far up 93 past the nh border, and you don’t have to deal with 1A or any of that crap. :)

    • Rhidach
      @Rhidach
       29 May 2009 at 12:11 am #

      Oh I live like 10 minutes outside the city, and they were coming in by bus. But I agree, Manchester is much easier than dealing with Logan.

  2. Thommas 29 May 2009 at 5:06 am #

    10 minutes from downtown boston? too close to me. i installed cable for about a month (fear of heights made working on the telephone poles really fun) and i did the north section of the boston suburbs, chelsea, revere, lynn and such. wasnt fun. i did armored car for quite a few years. even armed and armored, i still didnt feel safe. good luck to you down there. :P

  3. Thommas 29 May 2009 at 5:12 am #

    Supposed to be “too close *FOR* me.”
    Damn bad cell connection at work, makes proof reading a PITA. :P