I hate you Arthas.
September 5, 2009 § 3 Comments
So last night I was running Heroic Culling of Stratholme with my guild. As luck would have it CoS was both the regular and heroic daily. We had a solid group together, although one of the dps had never been in there before. I suggested that we try for the timed achievement as I still haven’t managed to get that darn drake on my main. Our healer was a little nervous about it, but she’s way to hard on herself. She’s actually a freaking fantastic healer. But, I didn’t want to add extra stress to her life, so I suggested that we just give it a shot, as a practice effort, but not as our primary goal.
For the benefit of the dps who hadn’t been in I made a very thorough run down of what would happen (maybe it was a little too thorough, I have a tendency to go into a little too much detail). Everyone knew what was going on, and I was fairly confident we could do it.
I started the first pull and everything was great! We flew through the instance. I don’t think I’ve ever gone through it that fast. We also got really lucky in that all the mobs spawned right there in that first area, so we just bounced back and forth between them. We got the 2nd boss down and still had 10 whole minutes to get to the boss. Well we headed for the inn and waited for Arthas to show up. And waited. And waited. After about 3 minutes I was about to go find him when I saw him running down the road. Well, 7 minutes..it’s gonna be tight, but we can still do it.
We get to the 3rd set of dragonkin when, Arthas decided he was going to tank theses mobs and I could go to hell. I don’t know if it was a bug, or if I was just getting really unlucky taunt resists, but I could not pull the mobs off him. So of course, he gets himself killed. And then he just refuses to respawn. By the time he does, the time is down to 4 minutes. And despite our best efforts, we just didn’t make it in time.
So in the end, what should have been a flawless and easily accomplished drake run ended up being a disaster because Arthas is a jackass.
Oh well. There’s always tomorrow.
But as a side note to my complaining about Arthas, I want to compliment my guild mates on doing a fantastic job. Especially our healer. She rocked the hell out of that instance.
“[Insert clever sign off phrase here]”
~Fizz
…And they called him Thistlefizz
September 4, 2009 § 2 Comments
I ran out of time last night before I could finish this post, due to my weekly raid schedule. I knew it was coming, but I got distracted by that ‘new blog smell’ and kept tweaking this theme or that format instead of focusing on finishing that post.
Anyway, to continue my story from yesterday…ah yes, fate having other plans and all that.
I had been so determined to become the most annoying Gnome in all of Azeroth. But with a trial account, I couldn’t even whisper people.
To be honest, I’m still not really sure what ultimately made me decide that it would be totally fine to buy a regular account just to annoy people. I’d like to think by that point the annoyance factor was really just more of a justification. In truth, I was already completely hooked.
On this day a Gnome is born…
September 3, 2009 § Leave a comment
My initial foray into Azeroth was not exactly what you would call typical. It was a dreary February day. I had been out of work for a long time, and I was very bored. My roommate had been playing WoW for quite a long time (since it’s release I believe) and was playing his paladin. Years ago, I had played Warcraft 2 and loved it–although I had no idea there was anything after it. So I began asking him questions about what he was doing, where he was going, what the game was like and so on. He was in Ironforge at the time and as I was asking him about the game, he was accosted by a gold beggar. He was so annoyed by it that I couldn’t help but laugh at his frustration as he yelled at what pretty much amounted to pixels on a screen. « Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome to my Blog!
September 1, 2009 § 2 Comments
I hate first posts.
See, this is where I’m supposed to jot down a bit about myself, my blog, and what I hope will come of it. All very standard stuff. And it’s not that I dislike the idea of first posts–in fact I love going back through other people’s blogs and reading their first post.
The problem is I’m not very good at first posts.
It reminds me of my first day of college. The teacher went around the room and had everyone say their name and list a few hobbies, their favorite food, what their major was, etc. Row by row, people stood up and said their names. Everyone seemed to have something witty or interesting or funny to say. But there I was, dreading my turn. I tried to plan out what I would say, try to think of a joke or make up some obscure hobby. Four more people till me. –Come on, think of a hobby.– Three more people. –Underwater basket-weaving? No, that’s stupid.– Two more people. –European tight-rope-walker?– One more person. –Albino rhino hunter? Yeah that’s it.– Ok it’s my turn…
I forgot my own name. I’m not even sure what I said in the end. I remember standing up, my mind going blank, mumbling…something…and then sitting back down. I did get a laugh though, so at least there’s that…
But I digress. I hate first posts ’cause I always put too much on myself to be clever, or funny, or come up with some grand all-encompassing summary of what my blog will be. I’ve actually tried to start blogging on at least 4 other occasions, but never managed to get past the first post. I was really good at setting up the templates, themes, fonts, about page, links, calendar, background image, header, and hit counter. But that damned first post….
But I’m going to make myself get through it. And I apologize in advance if it’s not very elegant. But the info will be there.
For now, this blog will primarily be about my favorite leisure activity: World of Warcraft. I don’t have an idea of what specifically this will mean. It may be any of the following: tanking (which I LOVE), my user interface (which I’m in the process of rebuilding), addons (I’m a total addon junkie), Thistlefizz (my wonderful little gnome), my shaman alter ego, Zulaijang (Resto4Life!), or my gross overuse of parenthetical statements. I’m hoping that as I put pen to paper–or pixels to screen as it were–that a plan and a focus will form itself. And if not, well, I guess I’ll just keep meandering around, much like I have in this damned first post.
“[Insert clever sign off phrase here]”
~Fizz
The Cranky Old Gnome 