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Archive for April, 2009

Hardcore Pwnography

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 Posted in Rants | 2 Comments »

Though I'm sure it wasn't meant as anything, Jacob accused me of being "hardcore" below, after I mentioned my surprise at parts of Ulduar being nerfed after the instance had been out for only a week. I'll admit I was ...

Who trashed Ulduar?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Wrath of the Lich King | 4 Comments »

Another week, another few bosses down. Farewell to Ignis the Furnace Master, Kologarn and Auriaya (though on 10-man only). But wait. What's going on with the trash? The first time we took a look at the trash in the Antechambe of ...

Karazduar

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Wrath of the Lich King | 1 Comment »

It doesn't seem like a week has passed since our first foray into Ulduar, but it very nearly has. So far, I've seen five bosses and beaten four of them. Ignis was the only one that defeated us, though to ...

Let’s Go Farmin’ Now…

Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

For me, one of the gret mysteries of Ulduar was "How can the instance crash in such a way so much?" on Wednesday night. At least between the place being unplayable we were able to down the Flame Leviathan, which ...

Timber!

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Healing | 4 Comments »

So, what are my initial thoughts on healing as a resto druid? Having spent some time yesterday, as promised, healing my way through instances rather than facing the quest grind, I specced tree and put on my very best (read: ...

Cutting down the largest tree in the forest with a herring

Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Wrath of the Lich King | 2 Comments »

The more astute readers of this site will have realised that a second armory profile has appeared in the sidebar. Druziraa was the very first character I created to tank, long before Namthe was even considered, let alone created, and ...

I am not the world. Neither are you.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 Posted in General, Rants | 1 Comment »

There is so much complaining going around, stating that the point of the game has been lost with its challenge. It's true that you can't please all of the player base all of the time, and I think sometimes a lot ...