Alts + Ding = Fun :D

Lately, quite a few of my guildies have been making alts, getting to 70 and geared...thought I'd just mention the main group I've been levelling and questing with...so, here they are.

Zenborg, Shadow Priest. The guild's record holder for being the fastest Kara-geared toon after getting to 70, with a record of less than a minute. Alt of Borgthor.

Jossamine, Destruction Warlock. The biggest class change of us all, going from the guild's resident treeform druid into a massive crit-machine. Alt of Jondayla.

Konbawa, Fire Mage. Probably the guild's record holder of hating your main so much that you roll another dps...what next, a boomkin? ;) Alt of Obento.

Kattnip, Feral Druid. The 'tank', or so we say, who loves to sit in catform and watch the numbers tick away. Don't worry, catkins will be useful. In a few more expansions. Eventually. Maybe...oh, who am I kidding, never. Alt of Moonspirit.

Then...me. Adirix, Holy Paladin. It can get tiring sometimes going to raids and dungeons simply to steady-shot spam the enemy to death, so I thought I'd roll another class for a change every now and then. Little did I know, until I'd gotten into levelling to the point of no return, that the steady-shot spam I tried to escape from had led me straight into a FoL-spamming wall of easiness. Out of the frying pan, into the oven. Or whatever the saying is. Anyway...I'm enjoying Adi now, and healadins get more spells in WoTLK, so it's all good.

Grats to us all on 70, and now, as far as I know, all being nicely Kara-geared...I just scrape in, with 8.8k Mana, 21% Holy Crit, 1018 +Heals (I think :P)...and the MP5 of 41 that just makes me want to hide in the corner. Either way, it's there...barely. Except I still need attunement for the key. Say...anyone up for a Slabs run?

Guild Progression

Over the last few weeks, The Ancients raiders have been flying through the content. Here's a quick catch-up, gear, and recognition list; if anyone or anything is forgotten, please let me know.

Firstly: A bit under two weeks ago, a mix of our raiding groups 1 and 2 entered Zul'Aman for the second time. We got through the adds much better than the first time, and it showed on the boss, too... we downed Nalorakk within a shot or two, and congrats to Moonspirit on the Robes of Heavenly Purpose. Afterwards, we progressed onto Akil'Zon, the eagle avatar, and tried him a few times. We lowered him to 49% on our best shot, which, considering it was our first night at him, was a quite good effort.

Now, to get more recent: Last Thursday, The Ancients combined with guild Captain Sanders Shirt, as well as some pugs, to give Gruul's Lair a shot. It took a while to get started, but after an hour of getting more people and buffing up, we progressed to High King Maulgar. It was a long process, taking a fair few shots because of mage-tank problems, but we eventually got a replacement mage-tank who had done the fight before, and got the fight easily from there. I'm not able to congratulate anyone on the loot for this one, as I forget who got it. :P

Moving onto Gruul's, we had respawn problems, but managed to clear it. After, again, the buffing and tactic-explaining, we lowered him to 40% for a good first shot...then, our next try was an agonising wipe at 2%. By that time, there were respawns, so after also being on for quite a long time, we had to leave. Correct me if I'm wrong, because I didn't hear much about it, but as far as I know, the raid dissolved soon after, and Gruul, sadly, remained alive, even after a great effort from the raid.

Now, to the most recent, and maybe most beneficial achievement; The Ancients first full one-night clear! We could tell from the start - from Borg's enthusiasm in pulling - that we were aiming for a full-clear. But it went even better than planned...we progressed through all the bosses as we passed them, with lots of loot, BoJ, and void crystals. Zev complained, justifiably, of the lack of Paladin T4 Tokens from Curator, as the Warrior-Priest-Druid one dropped for what seemed to be the millionth time. Also, there was yet again no luck with the ring for Odayla and I... although, a few bosses later, at Netherspite, I got a leg armour replacement, with the Skulker's Greaves dropping, and nobody else wanting to roll on them. Maybe just because gemming and enchanting legs costs so damn much. :P

After just over three hours, we got to Prince, the last boss standing. No wipes so far, and many people having gotten gear already. We were just going for a perfect full clear...when a bad infernal placement wiped us. At 1 damned percent. Annoyed, but still determined, we rushed back up for a second shot, and downed him easy, for us first 1-night full clear! Grats to Odayla on the T4 Headpiece token.

And finally, one last piece of news: Zevon/Beanieone - the guild's fastest leveller, and maybe wit - is unable to play until November. Zev's been a great friend and rival to me for many months now. We'll miss ya until then, Zev :(

So, cyas till next post, guys.
Elf.

New Gear :D

Okay, so I haven't posted in a while, I realise that. Really, it's mainly because not much's been happening, considering Kara was called off last week and a flop the week before...anyways. I thought I may as well post to update with my new gear, since I've gotten some stuff recently which I may as well sum up.

Number one: Crossbow of Relentless Strikes! This is, actually, from about a month ago...but I forgot to make a post. I tend to do that often. Either way, its ownage is nice.

Number two: Midnight Legguards. Was lucky enough to get these from H SP, so I'm in the process of trying to find someone for Nethercobra at the moment. Ugh.

Number three: Vengeful Gladiator's Chain Armour. Managed to finally get this from arena points, still need to get it gemmed though. Although it's PvP, it's still better than the crafted Thick Netherscale Breastplate.

And I haven't gotten another piece yet, although I have been farming BM for the elusive Hourglass. Damn Temporus! *Mutters about drop rates and uses /doom towards Obe and Zev*...anyways. I'll be getting the Skyguard Silver Cross very soon, and although it's pretty damn lame for raiding, it beats my old trinket by a long shot.

Oh...and it seems Gruul's is on the GC for next week, which could be...interesting. And Borg...if you read this, ignore the gems part for now. Please! /scared.

Cyas all.
Elf.

Full Clear!

On Saturday, June the 14th, The Ancients have had their first ever full Karazhan clear!

The night was a blast, with a great continuation from the Thursday. As Borg states, running into the first trash mobs... well, it isn't such a great start. I sometimes get the feeling that Blizz gave Netherspite, an 'optional' boss, control over half the trash in Kara as a simple attempt to spite us. Or it could just be because they sit there in their monitors, bored, giving bad infernal placements and doing things like this to pass the time.

It seems, though, that Blizzard's boredom was gone for the night, as we had our first ever one-shot at Prince. Perfect infernal placement and execution, paired with great gear, makes it hard to not down him. Barrath's bad luck came to an end with the token for Demon Stalker Greathelm, and Jondy's drop of the Jade Ring of the Everliving gave our Karazhan group yet another fully epiced toon!

Moving onto Netherspite, we mostly knew the tactic (Borg had given us research homework on the Thursday :P), but we had to have a good old wipe...or two...or three... to learn. Still, only three wipes is an awesome time considering he's one of Kara's hardest, and we'd never tried him before. The fourth shot was pure ownage, and Netherspite went down very well, the portals being blocked almost flawlessly. As the dragon fell, we all rushed up to see his loot, and saw our two BoJ's sitting there with some cash and epics. As no-one could use the epics, Moon, our resident enchanter, got us some Void Crystals for rolling goodness. We then moved onto the only remaining boss, Nightbane.



After lots of preparation and fumbling around, we got started. Borg and Jondy had their famous DC (well, nearly half our raid's famous for it. I've never seen Zev in for more than 10% of Chess, and my computer likes to pop WoWError up on me during Shade, Netherspite and Illhoof), but, we got there, and after another wipe, we had a pile of flaming dragon bones sitting nicely there before we knew it. Kara clear, woot!!! NB's Dragonheart Flameshield was DE'd, but the Scaled Breastplate of Carnage was of more use to us: Barrath's Felstalker Breastplate was replaced with quite a noticeable upgrade.



Then, the realisation of a clear Karazhan sank in... and, as all good raids should, we proceeded to promptly dance naked. Woot!



Soon to come, a video of The Ancients at Netherspite, to be filmed and edited by our own Barrath.

The Post Which Would Be Labeled 'Woot' If There Wasn't One Already

Wow. For anyone in last night's raid, you should agree that it more than made up for last Saturday. In a normal Thursday night, barely passing 10pm, we downed: Attumen, Moroes, Maiden, R&J, Curator, Shade, Chess and Illhoof... beating our first-night record by 3 bosses, and only taking an extra 15 minutes!

Many people got loot, and we're hoping for Netherspite to be nice to us for our first try at him on Saturday. Thanks to Borgthor, Dos, Jondayla, Moonspirit, Obento, Kalus, Barrath, Beanieone and Mortslock for an awesome 15-badge night of all-Ancients pwnage. Grats to Obe on his LONG-awaited Romulo's Poison Vial, Borgthor on getting his T4 Glove Token off Curator, and the always-complaining Beanieone on getting the Shard of the Virtuous and Legplates of the Innocent, both for his offset.

And I finally cracked 1700 unbuffed AP with Girdle of Treachery and Stalker's War Bands :D

Wha?

I've been looking on Flash Game site XgenStudios recently, and playing a few of the games... and seen something that looks a hell of a lot like WoW. Seems like a mini-version, where you play a Murloc to level 10. I'm bored, so just thought I'd post this, and see if I can get a link going.

Play Murloc RPG

Terestian Time

Last night, Karazhan. To sum it up in two words - good night. On the fourth shot, Prince Malchezaar was down for a second time, and we all got some good loot... Jondayla got Light's Justice, Barrath got a belt (the name of which I forget, and cannot find on Wowhead), and grats to Mort on his second T4 piece for the week, Helm of the Fallen Defender.

After that, with some time to spare, we headed to Terestian Illhoof's room, thinking we could give it a shot at learn the tactics. We had a great first shot, getting him to 15%. Our second attempt was a good job by all, lowering him to 2%, and we failed only because of the dreaded WoWError message popping up on my screen. Finally, the third shot - after a sketchy start, we came back, and Illhoof was down on the first night we tried him! Congratulations to Pug Valarion on the Breastplate of the Lightbinder, Jondayla with Terestian's Stranglestaff for an offset, and the raid for downing another new boss.

Oh... and I got Bladed Shoulderpads of the Merciless from Chess :D

Woot!

As of 24/05/08, The Ancients have downed Prince Malchezaar for the first time. It was a great effort from Borgthor, Mortslock, Barrath, Lashana, Moonspirit, Jondayla, Obento, Valarion (Pug) Moppet and I. We got him second shot, and we're hoping to start getting him frequently some time soon. Grats to our MT Borgthor on Gorehowl and our guild's first T4 Helm - Helm of the Fallen Defender, and hunter Lashana on getting the Ring of a Thousand Marks. Good job to all who were there, and remember... as we continue downing Kara, we can only advance further, thanks to the 5 or so epics going to the guild each Kara night. Let's keep going!