Kadi

He can only have it if he promises to put it on a keychain with one of my scrunchies.

What, you mean "Heal through it" isn't the answer to everything?!?! No way!

This is why friends don't let friends play Ret!!

*hears Kalea sighing and decides to investigate, listening to Kalea tell what was in the note* It's always sad to see someone go. Good luck to him, wherever he finds himself in his journeys.

It doesn't? Damn. I'm so screwed. I apologize for being a bit distracted the last couple of weeks. Between multiple job interviews and finally getting a job after nearly 9 months of unemployment, I've had a lot on my plate. My work schedule should allow me to raid most nights, and I'm working to get acclimated to my new schedule quickly so that I can be more responsive to raid situations than I have been the last couple of weeks. That said, one problem that I've noticed more in recent weeks, is "defeatist" attitudes that seem to become more self-fulfilling prophecies. Lately, I've been hearing a lot of 'One more attempt then we'll go do something else' on something that I feel that we're making progress on, and that we have a chance of defeating. To me, that is like giving up. It seems to INVITE that last attempt to be a failure so people can get over the drudgery of wiping so we can go do something else... instead of pushing them forward to try to get over whatever wall or hump is holding us back. I understand that part of it is because the raid leads are afraid that if we keep banging against the wall, some people might get upset, but to that I say 'tough ######'. If you can't wipe, then you shouldn't be raiding. It's that simple. Also, I think that part of the problem is boredom. We aren't making much progress, and I know that sometimes during trash pulls I've found myself looking at something shiny that isn't on my WoW screen. I doubt I'm the only one. Things seem less tedious if there is a new goal ahead than it does if it's just another night in Ulduar. We never did get Sarth3D done. That is something we should have been able to do. To some, it was "just another achievement", but to others, it meant more. It meant accomplishment to some. It meant shiny new mounts for others. It meant shinier phat loots for even more people. But, what it should have meant for us all was that feeling we had the day we finally killed Vashj. A job well done, not another 'tedious' chore of an achievement. I don't think it's too late, though, and I think Zuworty has the right idea in starting to set goals for this raid. I really look forward to raid nights, and I hope to be able to continue to do so in the future. -Kadi Lover of Volcanoes (especially green ones) and Scrunchies.

I'm still waiting for my inevitable Beacon of Light nerf.

Oh, add-on note: If you use Fubar, it's likely to break when you log in due to a problem with Rock. Last I checked, ckk hasn't posted any plans to fix it (he might, he might not), so you may want to look into moving over to DockingStation (or any of the other Broker bars) and LDB equivalents of your Fubar add-ons. Worst case, if you can't find a LDB equivalent for your favourite Fubar add-ons, you can probably use Fubar2Broker (it's on Curse) until you do. It looks like CKK did update FuBar. No idea if it works though, since the servers are still under maintenance.

I already sense failure. Don't worry, I have a new flask button! We'll be fine!

Grats on killing the oversized lobster! See, all you had to do was get rid of the gimp pally, and you win! And Anamarie says you all suck. I sense jealousy! I look forward to killing him with you guys next week. As for Ignis, I agree with those who want to keep working on him, but try for the speed kill while we're at it. See you next week! -Kadi

I would make a comment here, but I think I just cracked my screen trying to hit "quote" too hard with my stylus...

Hey, you're supposed to tank the gauntlet tomorrow! You're not allowed to go do family stuff!! Get back here! *Shakes fist in air* Oh, allright. I guess we'll have to survive without you. *pout*

Now remember, you can't wear offspec loot in your healing set! The brown eye of Ug is watch--- oh wait. Nevermind!

Happy Birthday to our Volcano/Fire/Void Zone/Meteor Lady! *big hugs* Wow, I just noticed this was here! I can tell I usually don't check forums on weekends. Thanks everyone!

Oh man, if they do this, I'm soooo going to bring my druid over to Horde Side. The new tauren druid forms are win.

Wait, where's the part where Kailand sets something on fire? He ALWAYS sets stuff on fire! A very good story, though! It explained a LOT....

A better idea would be kinda like what somebody suggested on MMO-Champ: Heroism = Normal 5-mans (Northrend) Valor = 10-man Raids. Maybe even drop 2x per boss or more if Hard Mode requirements were met (not sure if Sarth+3D already does this). Conquest = Naxx/Sarth/Maly 25 and Archavon. Ulduar-10 too for normal modes. Again, probably increase their quantity? Triumph = Ulduar-25 & the Colosseum. I agree with that MMO-Champ suggestion. It would make things 'easier', but not 'too easy' Ouch. Even Blizzard's box-based minigame got kneecapped. So much for simply buddying up with a 2nd player and trying to earn gear I missed that the first time I read through the original wall of text. This actually makes me pretty mad because I was just starting to have some fun on a 2v2 arena team, and my PVP spec is set up for 2's not larger groups. And yes, you phrased it pretty well, Holy... 'buddying up with a 2nd player and trying to earn gear' is EXACTLY what I was doing, and it was darn fun too! *grumps* So much for that! I have a feeling that almost all 2v2 teams will disappear now.

Oh wow.... *looks at the pally changes* *head explodes* Even with Blizz "thinking about" buffing replenishment and adding more Mp5 to Pally gear, the combined nerfs to illumination and divine intellect make me cry bitter bitter tears. It's pretty obvious that they want us to go back to being flash of light (small heal) spammers instead of striving to try to get enough regen to use holy light (big heal) on a regular basis. Still no medium heal to help with mana management. Now, instead, we'll have to choose between mana and underhealing most likely. Sure, it's nice they're giving us a "HoT"... provided we blow 500 mana and a Global Cooldown to replenish Sacred Shield every 30 seconds. It's going to go from a 'occasionally to block a large hit or to be able to go to flash of light to regen mana during a lull' spell to a 'refresh it all the time. Oh, and keep beacon up too' spell. *sigh* I'm not too surprised, though, since the 4 piece bonus on our T8 pretty much seemed to be going that way, and I had to planned to use it more myself once I got the bonus. And what's with them taking out the indicator for those in range of the beacon? Sure, it's going to 60 yards, but in some fights were people spread out, someone still may be out of range, and I'd sure hate for a tank to die because I didn't know that their heal wasn't going to go through... I guess I'll have to wait and see. There are some other nice changes in the patch notes, but all in all, I think I have to agree with V.

Oh man, they're making the dragonhawk accessible? That doesn't make the 100-mount reward seem quite as cool anymore. But outside of that, it looks good! I have to agree though that the pally mount will probably look pukey pink... but only if the colors are different for each faction (horde will get pink, alliance blue). If it's the same... then it'll probably resemble the AT steeds.

You might want to think of something for miners and the Pure Saronite Nodes in the Vezax area as well. The ones in 10 man yielded about 30 ore, 5 blue quality gems, and a bunch of eternals/green quality gems per node. We have some time yet on that, but I thought I should give the heads-up.

I'm sad to see the two of you go, but I completely understand the desire to be with family and friends. I wish you both well in your new homes. *HUGS*

Hello all! As some of you may know, I am currently collecting mounts on Kadiana, and I have not yet obtained the two PVP mounts from Halaa. Unfortunately, they require tokens received only from PVP with people while in Halaa. But, I have good news! I found some alliance volunteers, er, guinea pigs, who also want Halaa mounts to agree to meet with the Horde in Halaa and agree to let us kill one or more of them in exchange for us doing the same. There will be rezzers on both sides, and yes, you can go naked to save repair bills. The mounts require 170 'kill' tokens, and can only be obtained if your victim is within 5 levels of you. This coming Sunday, at 5 pm server time we will be getting together. We can do this with as many as 40 people per faction, so anyone who wants some free tokens are welcome! We should be finished before most people's raid times. -Kadi PS: the mounts also require 35 research tokens, so if you don't have them in your bank, go farm up that oshugun dust! It's 10 dust per turnin now though, instead of 20.

I have heard a couple of people on guild chat talking about arranging a potential swap of Horde/Alliance Argent Tournament pets. I spoke with my Alliance friends, and a few of them are definitely willing to work an arrangement where they buy extra alliance pets and trade for horde ones and vice versa. We thought that we might be able to get our guilds involved on a larger scale, since I'm sure there are more than just a couple of people on each side that would be willing to do this. We probably wont' bother to do any actual trading until after blizzard adjusts the prices of things (next patch?). If interested, or if you know someone alliance side who is interested, comment here, so we know how many people we need to find trading partners for. Thanks!

I can't remember what patterns have dropped for us in Ulduar, but Calypssai from Winter Wolves was wondering if anyone here had the pattern and can make one. If so, drop her a line, I'm sure she'd appreciate it!

Well tonight all hate can be directed towards me if you want. As long as i'm AFK i'm immune haha If you do not want to be hated, let everyone know and I am sure everyone will make a conscious effort not to. K Correct. Just let me know and I will only talk about you instead of to you in TS. Don't taze, er, hate me, Bro!! Yeah okay whatever.... hate away, I can take it! Just, be gentle, okay? *cough*yeahright *cough*

I am probably guilty of enabling this, since I am the target of a lot of the 'hate', and very rarely ask it to stop (usually only when I'm in a really bad mood and I just can't take it for whatever reason). While I think that part of the 'fun' of the raid is to pick on each other a little bit, as long as its in good fun, I've felt that the last few weeks it has grown more hostile... and not just towards me necessarily, but to others as well. I've been frustrated some nights, and last night was definitely one of them. Every time Holy died when I was healing him, that frustration only grew. I think that, in general, a lot of us were just a little off our game last night, and it just compounded that frustration for everyone. For Thursday, hopefully we can just take a deep breath, focus (I need to do this too) and go back out there to kick ass and have fun doing it. I think we have lots to be proud of in general. Yes, there are guilds that are way ahead of us in progression, but they also raid 3-4 nights per week or more for their 25-mans. As long as we keep moving forward, we'll catch up to them eventually, and they'll be bored way before we are. Nah, you did fine. But I do look forward to having The Pink One back with us as well!