Thursday, August 28, 2008
Blizzcon lottery
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Raid Scheduling
firstly, i understand that you all have work, school, life, and a g/f or wife to agro
secondly, doing in game content is more fun than level, honor, or rep grinding... well to most people
thirdly, i would like to know what night still works best for doing in game content/raids
Some raids like ZA we may only need like 1 night to get to maybe 2-3 bosses, hopefully 4 since it is a much smaller instance. But raids like Karazhan, at our current rate we can take 80% on the first night with exception to maybe 2-3 bosses... so this will take more time to run or be split on separate days. With that in mind, some places we need to start early or be on time as close as possible, prepped with heal/mana potions, reagents and such. Post below your preferred nights and availalbility. Hopefully we can do this consistently, but understandably can take a break or do it on alternating weeks.
JP
- Betadine/Haohmaru
Oh SNAP!!!
(here the text for ppl who can't read the link from work)
With the release of Wrath of the Lich King approaching, we wanted to provide you with some important information. In preparation for the expansion, we will be issuing a new content patch in the coming weeks. Much like the patch made available shortly before The Burning Crusade's release, this content patch is designed to bridge current game content with that of the expansion and will contain some exciting changes and additions.
We have outlined some of the larger features scheduled to release with the patch below:
New class spells and talents
Stormwind Harbor
Barbershops in capital cities
Zeppelin towers outside of Orgrimmar and Tirisfal Glades
Two brand-new Arenas featuring challenging new layouts, terrain hazards, and moving obstacles
Guild calendar
Hunter pet skill revamp
New profession: Inscription
As mentioned above, this is not a comprehensive list, just some of the major highlights. We’ll post the full patch notes as soon as they’re available. Regarding Inscription, please note that all Burning Crusade players will be able to select Inscription as one of their two professions and level up to a skill level of 375 with it. Upon the release of Wrath of the Lich King, players who purchase and install the expansion will be able to continue leveling in Inscription and the other professions beyond 375.
Secondly, Arena points WILL BE WIPED OUT ONCE YOU LEVEL PAST 70, no carry over. (source)
(again here is the text for non-linking people)
We want to provide some information about the direction of the Arena system. Upon the release of Wrath of the Lich King, players will find they are still able to access the Arena system at level 70 for rated matches. Those competing in the Arenas at 70 will still be able to attain items using Arena points and rankings; however, we do not currently plan to offer new items or titles for this bracket. Players who level past 70 will have their Arena points reset to 0 and be removed from all Arena teams in the level-70 bracket.
Two new skirmish brackets (71-75, 76-80) will be available for players who wish to hone their Arena skills while leveling in Northrend. Those who reach level 80 will once again have the opportunity to create new Arena teams and play in rated matches once a new season starts. New items, titles, and end-of-season rewards will be offered to the most successful teams at level 80. Additionally, the sets released for the Arenas in Wrath of the Lich King will no longer share aesthetic similarities with tiered raiding gear. We want those equipped with the best PvP rewards and those with the best raiding sets to stand out from each other. Players at level 80 will also have the opportunity to compete in two new Arenas featuring challenging new layouts, terrain hazards, and moving obstacles.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
For the Shammies
Introduction:
Talent Specs and Important Abilities:
The Stats You Need and Why They Play Well Together:
The Shock and Awe of Shocks and Windfury: A How-to
Beating Other People With Sticks: Totems and Synergy
Thursday, August 21, 2008
ZA for August 25
As with this week, plan to be online by 7:30 so that we can roll out before 8:00 (one of these days we'll succeed at it!)
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Blizzcon ticket lottery information
- To be eligible for the BlizzCon ticket drawing, you must (1) have an active Blizzard Account that was created on or before 9:00 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, August 12, 2008, when we first announced BlizzCon 2008 tickets had sold out; (2) be an adult in your country of residence; (3) have not previously purchased BlizzCon 2008 tickets; and (4) live in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, or South Korea.
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The opt-in period begins on Wednesday morning and will end the evening of Sunday, August 24. As this is a random drawing, those who opt in early will not have a better chance of being selected than those who opt in later.
- After the opt-in period ends, we will randomly select 1,500 eligible Blizzard Accounts from the opt-in pool to receive the opportunity to purchase up to two BlizzCon 2008 tickets. If selected, you will be notified via email with further information about how to purchase the tickets.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
ZA for Aug-18-2008
Plan to be online at 7:30pm, we roll at 8pm sharp.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Blizzcon
Friday, August 8, 2008
ZA again
- JP
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
J.P. busting a move!!!
here's the vid to watch (turn down your volume before hand)
Friday, August 1, 2008
Something fun to doooooo...
Link: http://www.bigredkitty.net/2008/08/01/its-finally-almost-here/ has detail information on the event.
Once in a while BRK host these thing where people just meet up on a chosen server at the appointed time and do fun and crazy thing, in this case the Biggest (hopefully) scavenger hunt.
Talk to me online if you want to form up a team for Orcapalooza.
Where: Argent Dawn server, US
When: 4pm PST on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008!
Who: YOU!!!
Update by Thomas: changed link into hyperlink. L2HTML!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Karazhan - Monday 8/4
ah... good ol badges and purplez. We need 10 of you :)
2 tanks
2-3 healers
5-6 hawt dps
we hope to start @ 8pm and get through most of it. Post below if you can make it.
JP
aka. Betadine
Blizzcon Tickets Go On Sale
IRVINE, Calif. – July 29, 2008 – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that tickets for its third BlizzCon™ gaming convention will go on sale August 11 and that live coverage of the event will be available as an exclusive DIRECTV pay per view event. BlizzCon is a celebration of the global player communities surrounding Blizzard Entertainment®'s Warcraft®, Diablo®, and StarCraft® game universes. The event will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on October 10 and 11.
"Meeting and interacting with our players at BlizzCon is always a great experience for us," stated Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We're also pleased to be working with DIRECTV this year to bring the show, for the first time, to those players who are unable to attend."
In addition to serving as a gathering place for the different Blizzard Entertainment gaming communities, BlizzCon will offer an array of activities, including discussion panels, hands-on playtime with upcoming games, tournaments, contests, and more. Tickets to the convention will be priced at $100 USD each, and will be available for purchase directly from the official BlizzCon website at www.blizzcon.com.
The pay per view event will deliver a minimum of eight hours of live HD coverage from the show floor on each day of the convention, including exclusive interviews, demos, and more. Beginning in August, DIRECTV will run a promotion offering the BlizzCon pay per view event free to new DIRECTV subscribers. Pricing for existing DIRECTV customers and programming details will be available in the coming weeks from Blizzard Entertainment and DIRECTV.
"BlizzCon is one of the most highly anticipated gaming conventions of the year, and we are excited to partner with Blizzard Entertainment to deliver coverage of the show to gamers nationwide," said Steven Roberts, senior vice president, new media and business development, DIRECTV. "With our BlizzCon pay per view package, members of Blizzard's gaming communities who are not attending the event can now experience it in crystal-clear HD."
As the event draws closer, further details will be announced at www.blizzcon.com.
Monday, July 28, 2008
E-mails
- JP aka. Betadine/Haohmaru
PS: for now, e-mail me at jpbabiera@yahoo.com... we'll try to set up a guild e-mail acct as well.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
ZA revisited
What days (S,M,Tu,W,Th,F,Sa) would work and what date? Post below on feedback, questions, concerns & availability.
JP
(aka. Betadine)
Monday, June 16, 2008
Full Kara run this Friday (June 20th)
Please sign up in the comment if you can make it.
Update:
- Kinz (c dps)
- Bubble (tank)
- Naestel (heal)
- Beta/Haoh (c dps/m dps)
- Stone (tank/dps/heal) *not sure what Stone will bring
- Nereid (dps/heal)
- Propane (dps)
- Veriele (dps) *maybe
- Zor (heal) *maybe
Friday, June 6, 2008
How are the weekends?
Unlike me some of you do have social lives so I realize the weekends might be bad for WoW... hehe.
choice 1 - Friday night
choice 2 - Saturday afternoon (12pm - 5pm)
choice 3 - Saturday night (5pm - 11pm)
choice 4 - Sunday afternoon (12pm - 5pm)
choice 5 - Sunday night (5pm - 11pm)
Please let us know your choice.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Potential new line up for Kara
Primary Tank
Bubble (MT-Takadin) - Danny
Stonebarr (OT-Bear) - Robert
Reserve Tank
Kyron (MT-WARR) - Mike
Primary Healer
Naestel (Hally) - Harout
Sarahn (Hally) - Brent
Zor (Hally) - Mike
Reserve Healer
Betadine (Priest) - JP
Stonebain (Priest) - Robert
Primary DPS
Haohmaru (Rog) - JP
Kinzlayer (Lok) - Phong
Propane (Mage) - Casey
Rotgutt (Mage) - Thomas (added)
Somebeach (Rog) - Derek
String (OomKin) - Anthony
Viriele (SP) - Elliott
Reserve DPS
Betadine (SP) - JP
Jagan (SHM) - JP
Kyriel (Mage) - Mike
Leinad (Hunt) - Danny
Stonemage (Mage) - Robert
Testicoilz (Lok) - Derek
We should look at when the next Kara should be (after the reset on June 10th), please put in comment a day that works best for you or a day you can't come if that is the case.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Video of the new tier gear & Death Knight
http://www.vimeo.com/1052422
tbh the priest gear looks half decent, mage is not too bad, warlock looks like crap, rogue looks interesting, but WTF on the hunter gear??? it's like demon-looking for some reason???
Also found this Death Knight video, omg I want one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GNGAy4_J2Q
Sunday, May 25, 2008
helpful web app for figuring out stats
http://www.chardev.org/
Check it out.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
BlizzCon 2008 Announced
http://www.blizzard.com/us/blizzcon/
I went last year with Mike (Kyron), Anthony (Stringfellow) and Danny (Leinad). Despite rubbing elbows with the weirder percentage of the world's population, we had a pretty good time out there... got some great info on future development, got to play the Starcraft 2 demo, and got to Ebay (not I) some free items for a nice fee. We plan on going again this Oct and buy tickets as soon as they go on sale... they will sell out fast. Check it out... consider it... don't be left out without a Murlock suit to sell (or whatever it is this year).
- JP (Betadine)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Karazhan - March 25 & 29
1st Half - attumen, moroes, maiden, opera... maybe try nightbane
2nd Half - curator, shade, illhoof, chess, prince... maybe get to netherspite or nightbane if we don't get him on the 1st night.
If you're unfamiliar w/ Karazhan, check out http://www.wowwiki.com/Karazhan in your free time
- Betadine
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Friday, March 14, 2008
March Karazhan
Second, my apologies for being rather silent these past few weeks. School has really been kicking my butt. If you guys want to run anything, feel free to let me or any of the guild officers know and we'll try to plan something. You guys don't have to wait for me to say anything to plan something... I want this to be your guild as much as it is the senior officers.
Officers are as follows:
- Kyron/Kyriel/Zor - mike
- Stringfellow - anthony
- Leinad/BubbliciØus - danny
- Stonebain/Stonemage/Stonebarr - robert
- Kinzlayer/Kiserai/Orgreaznik -
- and myself Betadine/Haohmaru/Øptimusprime - jp
Third, we haven't ran anything since ZA and its been brought up when we're going to do it again. We do have a few new 70s (Fifedoggy, Naestel, Eggbrook) who may be interested in checking it out. Where they are in the keying process, I am uncertain.
With #3 in mind, I'm wondering if the last week of March will work? March 25/29. Another alternative is in 1st week of April.
- Betadine
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
ZA... are you prepared? (continue)
Please sign up for the run.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
ZA... are you prepared?
http://www.wowwiki.com/Zul%27Aman
Post and give me your feed back and let me know what day will work.... usual raid nights are Tues and/or Sat.
- Betadine
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Second half Karazhan - 2/10/2008
Here's a link to the guild's runs: http://wowwebstats.com/ega5pb2235b13
That site contains both runs from this week, and will continue to expand as we add more logs in the future. WowWebStats is a neat site - it sets all this stuff up automagically.
Excellent run, especially with the Prince clear. This one page was a bit of a concern, though: http://wowwebstats.com/ktqpdi4bxvdrw?a=34#break. Nobody was hitting the demon chains? Good thing we were still able to clear him!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
First half Karazhan - 2/5/2008
It's not a big deal, but the stats are more accurate when more files are merged because the range on the combat log is not infinite. If people really appreciate these stats, in the future we should consider having more people record their logs: at least one melee, healer, and ranged DPS.
Here's the stats: http://wowwebstats.com/rc5h6sscdow6u
Enjoy.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Kara 02-05-2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
Kara Keyed
- Betadine