Something fun to doooooo...

I'm not sure who else read BRK's blog beside myself and Brent but there is an up coming fun event hosted on Argent Dawn server (RP-PVE) that I would encourage people to do if they wana have fun with the WoW community.
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!

Karazhan - Monday 8/4

http://www.wowwiki.com/Karazhan

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

http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/080729.html

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.

E-mails

OK... seeing as the in-game MOTD may be have "delays" in getting updated. I'm compiling an e-mail list. It will not be used for spamming, but more along the lines of organizing guild events. I will continue (or at least try) to post messages on the blog about future raids and events. This is optional, and if you should choose not to have your e-mail on list, please try to log on the blog for updates. I'll try to put things here at least 1 week in advance of any event planned.

- 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.

ZA revisited

I'm throwing the idea of trying ZA (Zul'Aman) again. We got to the first boss first time, though we could not quite take the 2nd & 3rd one. Hopefully this time around we'll get further and have fun with this next run.

What days (S,M,Tu,W,Th,F,Sa) would work and what date? Post below on feedback, questions, concerns & availability.


JP
(aka. Betadine)

Full Kara run this Friday (June 20th)

7pm on Friday, we will be trying a full Kara run... I know when can run through it quick.

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

How are the weekends?

I was wondering how many people we would get for Kara on Friday night, Saturday (afternoon or night), or Sunday (afternoon or night).

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.

Potential new line up for Kara

I believe this is the list of people and the toons that we would like to get into Kara. We should try and get the primary in as much as we can and use the reserve if we need.

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.

Video of the new tier gear & Death Knight

here's a link to a video of the new tier gears for Priest, Warlock, Mage, Rogue, and Hunter...

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

helpful web app for figuring out stats

this web site is great to use for figuring out your toon's stats with various gears, gems, enchants, talents.

http://www.chardev.org/

Check it out.

BlizzCon 2008 Announced

Back by popular demand, and now with 50% more hall space for your convention- going enjoyment, BlizzCon officially returns to the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA, on October 10–11. Join us for another epic celebration -- meet your guildmates and fellow gamers from around the world; spend some quality time with current and upcoming Blizzard games; and partake in the contests, tournaments, and developer discussion panels that make up BlizzCon. Check out the press release to learn more, and stay tuned for further updates. The Latin American Spanish version can be found here.

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)

Karazhan - March 25 & 29

Same plan as last time... run it in 2 halves.
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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March Karazhan

First off, good showing at the ZA run, did well for a first run through. Got first boss, we can probably take the 2nd boss next time around.

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

ZA... are you prepared? (continue)

From the comments of the previous post Beta made about ZA, we will be making an attempt for our first ZA on Saturday the 1st of March.

Please sign up for the run.

ZA... are you prepared?

So... it was broght to my attention from Mike (Kyron) that we should try ZA... and I thought, why not. We've done Karazhan quite a bit, and we can get through most of the bosses. Time to mix it up and try something new (not that we're gonna stop trying Kara). I've only ran it once and it seems like a short instance... just some pretty insane bosses. So we can possibly just run it in 1 night instead of breaking it down into two.

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

Karazhan Bingo

A coworker who plays Alliance on a PVE server (boo!) sent me this today. I thought it was quite funny, and that several of the squares apply to our runs.



Click to enlarge.

Second half Karazhan - 2/10/2008

I've posted the logs from this Saturday's Kara run, and this time the two files (Phong and I) were able to be merged.

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!

First half Karazhan - 2/5/2008

I've uploaded our stats from the first half of Karazhan. Phong and I both ran our combat logs the whole time, but unfortunately the two logs could not be merged. Apparently one of us was lagging for portions of the instance, and this caused enough corresponding lines to have mis-matched times that the parsing client got befuddled.

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.

Kara 02-05-2008

Due to some technical difficulties we don't have the WWS report for last night Kara yet but stay tune and check this blog again to see the report.

Kara Keyed

We have quite a few people as well as characters who just reached the glorious level 70 and is anxious to get in on the Kara fun. Please indicate where you are in the keying process (don't worry if you haven't started) and available evenings where we can possibly knock it out. Also, if you aren't honored w/ the different factions, I recommend getting there and the keys so we can start running heroics with you and get you some PURPLEZ =)

- Betadine

Kara 2008, 2nd attempt

OK... I'd have to applogize that the last run didn't go so well... for many of you it required some "bargaining" or scheduling to make yourself available that night. Unfortunately, Blizzard's ISP connectivity failing came at a bad time. So, there is much consensus that we do it again sooner than later. With that in mind, I am putting the 1st week of Feb (Feb 5 & 9) to be more precise as an option for the next Karazhan run. Please post and if this is something you guys are interested in.

Betadine

Guild Ranking (version 2)

Ok, as you may have (or have not) noticed... there are new names for the different guild rankings. These changes are done primarily to accommodate the tank and plate wearers as we do various dungeon runs/raids. Listed below are the rankings & a brief explanation of each one. If you haven't caught on yet... the naming scheme comes right out of Starcraft.

High Templar
- The highest rank, guild leader
- unlimited guild management rights
- unlimited bank rights

Dark Archon
- Senior officer tank
- can promote, demote, invite, remove, and motd.
- good amount of bank withdraw rights and for repairs.

Dark Templar
- Senior officer guild member
- can promote, demote, invite, remove, and motd.
- fair amount of bank withdraw rights

Arbiter
- Seasoned guild tank or other plate wearer
- can promote & demote
- can see bank, deposit, higher repair withdrawal

Archon
- Seasoned guild member & contributer
- equal to Arbiter
- can see bank, deposit, lower repair withdrawal

Templar
- mid rank
- guild chat, set public & officer notes
- can see bank & deposit only

Corsair
- low-mid rank
- just guild chat & public note
- can see bank & deposit only

Zealot
- 2nd lowest rank - for that "new" guy who we aren't of sure yet :P
- just guild chat & public note
- can't see bank

Probe
- lowest rank - for players who have been inactive for months.
- just guild chat
- can't see bank


Guild Bank Status:
It is getting quite full and space is quickly becoming an issue. Next bank slot (#4) is a 1000 gold buy. We either need to A) not put anything of little value in the bank B) deposit some $ to pay for a 4th slot or C) actually use the bank and take out items which you think may be of use to you or D) just disenchant everything... j/k :P

- Betadine

Kara part deux - Jan 19th

Please confirm/update/sign-up for the second part to our Kara run coming up on Saturday.

1. Kinzlayer
2. Stringfellow
3. Stonebain
4. Betadine
5. Kyron
6. Caharin
7. Rotgutt (75% probability)
8. Sarahn (10% [updated] probability)
9. Leinad (50% probability)
10.

Kara 1st part - Jan 15 2008

Alright we had a few hiccups with combatlog so not all the encounters from tonight's Kara are on the charts, basically we forgot to turn combatlog back on after we got booted from the server when we were fighting the trash just before Moroes. Of course we didn't turn combatlog back on till right before Opera Event so we don't have the Moroes and Maiden encounters recorded... stupid Blizzard- combatlog-thing. What we do have is the Attunmen The Huntsmen, Opera Event, Curator, and the Nightbane attempt.

http://wowwebstats.com/2rec123gmnwyc

It's fun to dissect the numbers but it's above all just informational.

PS. It looks like when you log out of WoW, if you had combatlog turned on, WoW just turns it off on the next login but does not delete or restart the combatlog.

PSS. I'm not 100% sure why WWS register our Opera Event as a try instead of a kill since I can confirm from the logs that it does record the bosses dying??? just not sure.

Something funny to share...

http://outofmana.blogspot.com/2008/01/takeover.html

Instead of pasting the whole thing here and pushing the Kara post too far below, here's a link... I thought it was funny.

Kara - Jan 15 & 19

Same plan as last Kara run. It'll be broken into 2 parts. First half will be done on Tues starting @ 8pm. Second half will be done on Sat @ 8pm.

1st half
- Attumen
- Moroes
- Maiden
- Opera
- Curator

2nd half
- Illhoof
- Shade
- Chess
- Prince
- Netherspite
- Nightbane

Hopefully we can get past Prince this time around. We should try to spend this weekend to try and read up on the boss fights and also prep to summon Nightbane. Sign up for Kara here and indicate which days you can make it.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Karazhan

- Betadine

January 08 - Kara Run

We had a great run last time, and got up all the way to the Prince! Not bad for running it the first time as a guild. With that in mind, as I mentioned in another post, I hope to do Karazhan more consistently - usually around the 2nd week of the month. But January is kind of a funny month w/ New Years and people leaving for trips or what not for the holidays. So, I need your input on what will work.

Jan 8, 12
Jan 15, 19


Note: I'll be out of town from Dec 27-Jan3. Guild matters will be handled by Kyron/Kyriel.


- Betadine

Kara part deux

Gratz to everyone who ran Kara on Tuesday night (Dec. 11th). We had a very successful run, cleared all the way up to and including Curator with only one wipe, I think, and the typical hiccups so we know we can do half of Kara on a regular basis, me think.

We will be trying to hit up the rest of Kara on Saturday so please sign up to let us know if you can make it. The plan would be to hit up at a minimum Illhoof, Shade, Chess Event, and Prince. If we have time, we can visit Netherspite and I will try to get my book before Saturday so we can summon Nightbane for those who have never seen this fight. (Kinzlayer has just been very lazy about finishing the quest in order to summon Nightbane.)

For those who have not done the fights we will see on Saturday, you can read up a bit from these links and I will explain them further as we get to them on Saturday:

• Illhoof: www.wowwiki.com/Terestian_Illhoof
• Shade: www.wowwiki.com/Shade_of_Aran
• Chess Event: www.wowwiki.com/Chess_Event
• Prince: www.wowwiki.com/Prince_Malchezaar
• Netherspite: www.wowwiki.com/Netherspite
• Nightbane: www.wowwiki.com/Nightbane_(Boss)

(12/13/2007 Edit by Rotgutt: turned the URLs into hyperlinks for ease of use)

Karazhan - Dec 11 & 15

This is for the sign ups for the Kara run on Dec 11 (Tues) and Dec 15 (Sat). First half of the run will be on Tues. Having taken down Attunemen & Midnight, Moroes** and Maiden last time, we should be able to do the 1st half without any problems this next time. We should start meeting around 7-7:30, start no later than 8.

Also... please download Omen mod, a threat meter, and the latest version of ventrillo.

Sign up today!

- Betadine


** hopefully this guy won't give us a lot problems

Kara Run Schedule

We're giving Kara another try, and I'm hoping to do it more consistently. I hope that we can run it every 2nd week of the month. Tuesday, being a popular night for people to jump on would be the 1st half of Karazhan, then Sat we'll go for the 2nd half.

So with that, the next Kara run is on Dec 11 (Tues) then follow up is on Dec 15 (Sat). Sign-Ups will be on a different post.

- Betadine