Tag: raiding
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Blaugust 2022 – 6 – The first night
I feel like the first time raiding with a new team is like going on a first date with someone…
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Blaugust 2022 – 3 – Raiding with the Silverbacks
Season 4 brings new affixes and a new mythic raid team!
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Who’s getting stabbed in the back tomorrow?
Tomorrow the gates of Azshara’s fabulous Eternal Palace open, giving us a brand new raid, with loads of new boss butts to kick. And with it (hopefully) will come some answers as to the next part of the Battle for Azeroth story. I for one am so pumped for this! I have some ideas about […]
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The devil’s in the details
Can’t I just go back to a week ago, when I was ignorant? Please? It was more fun then.
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Beat it
I think I need to learn to stop making plans. I’m never good at keeping them. Although this time it was less my doing, and more things happening to me that changed my plans. I had planned on spending a lot more time in the WoW Classic Beta over the past few weeks. Instead, I’ve […]
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Sometimes raiding is hysterical (raiding outtakes)
We’ve been progressing on mythic Jaina for 2 weeks now. We’re at 200 pulls and seeing third phase, so we’re actually doing pretty well in comparison to some other guilds. But it is a hard slog, without a doubt. So it’s probably no surprise when I say that sometimes we get a little silly. Tonight […]
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Come together
Warning – this post contains reference to sensitive content involving abuse and situations involving children. Please proceed with caution. I’m a bit quieter than usual this month as I am spending the vast majority of it interstate for work. I was hoping that I would have some time to finish off some posts before I left, but as is usually the case, I didn’t really get enough time before […]
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On the move
It’s been 2 lockouts since Realm disbanded. It’s been weird not raiding. I played a whooole lot less. The break was nice in a way, but to be honest one of the main reasons I wasn’t playing as much because there just wasn’t anyone else around. It got very lonely very quickly, and it was […]
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The un-break-up
Those of you who follow my twitter account will have seen that this past week was quite the rollercoaster. I’m personally still reeling a little bit from everything that happened (though I am overly dramatic, I know). On Wednesday, Realm as a guild ended. And then on Thursday, it didn’t. Confused? Well, it will make […]
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Realm takes on Uldir
Last night, the first raid of Battle for Azeroth opened. Uldir is here! It’s a great looking raid. But more on that in a moment. Before we headed off, I wanted to get a team picture of our starting team for the expansion (and thankfully my GM entertains my annoying screenshot-taking habits!). So we all […]
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Legion Raiding gallery
There’s nothing better than getting your guild mates together and taking down some bosses. A collection of team kill shots and videos for each of the raids.
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Raiding with Realm
I’ve been wanting to do something for my guild for quite some time. I’ve grown so fond of my guildies, and I wanted to say thank you.
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Titanslayer, btw
Well, we have officially “finished” Legion. Last weekend our guild finally killed mythic Argus, giving us the Cutting Edge achievement. It took over 600 pulls and countless frustrations, but we made it. We are now Titanslayers (a title we now use to brush off dozens of wipes during re-clear…) I’m proud of our team, though. Even […]
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Raiding and streaming and healing, oh my!
I mentioned in my 2017 wrap up post that raiding had gone a bit weird for awhile with yet another guild disruption and shifting and all that. I’m not going to dwell on it- the past is in the past. And since Antorus opened, I’ve been trying to keep a positive attitude towards everything, because […]
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There is only one word- EPIC
~*~*~*~*~SPOILERS AHEAD!! This post contains images and discussion about bosses in the new Antorus raid. If you do not want to know anything about this raid, please turn back now. ~*~*~*~*~ Anyone who has been reading my blog for awhile that I love a new raid. There’s always something so exciting about it. There’s a buzz that […]
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Mythic not-so-sassypants-anymore!
We did it! After all the dramas we have gone through as a team over the past couple of months; after losing so many players and recruiting and trialling others, we are finally at a point where, not only have we defeated all the mythic bosses we had killed before, but we have now got […]
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Mythic Gul’doooowwwwwwwn!!!!
Well, it took us three weeks, lots of tears, frustration, swearing and hysteria, but we did it – Mythic Gul’dan is defeated! We got our Cutting Edge achievement, and new title Vengeance Incarnate.
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It was the best of times, it was the busiest of times!
Getting back to work has been really great – knowing I’ve got money coming in again to pay bills is a big load off my mind! But it does come with the downside of a lot less game time.
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Raiding gallery
There’s nothing better than getting your guild mates together and taking down some bosses. A collection of team kill shots and videos for each of the raids.
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Z and Cinder’s blog challenge topic 8: changing mains
It’s a sad time for anyone who feels their class has moved beyond something they can connect with, and I feel for anyone who has to go through it.
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A valorous victory
Thursday night was our last formal raid night for the year. With most people being unavailable for Christmas/New Years/family time it was our last chance to try and get at least one mythic boss down in Trials of Valor.
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Splishy splashy woes
The new raid week started for us last night and we absolutely powered through a full heroic clear in no time at all. Then we went in to mythics and cleared Mythic Nythendra on just the second pull. We headed off to spider bird but only managed to get 1 pull in (which we got […]
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Pre-patch adventures
I knew going in to this new patch that there would be some big changes, and that things might not work. So I didn’t hold my breath that things would be ok.
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The price of talent – let’s bargain!
Today Watcher Dev made a post on the forums about removing the cost of changing specs (that is currently on the Legion beta) but instead implementing a cost for changing talents. I’ll post both of his comments below (these can be found on the forums here) We’ve definitely heard much feedback to this effect, and […]
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A light in the dark
I don’t think there is ever going to be a time that I’m not worried about being good enough in this world. When it comes to World of Warcraft, I’m always worried that I’m not a good enough healer, or that I’m not a good enough raider, or that I don’t contribute enough to the […]
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Defiler’s End
This week, I got an achievement I did not expect to get. This week, I killed Mythic Archimonde. Because my new guild only had a few kills on Mythic Archimonde, I didn’t expect to be in there for a little while yet. They needed to keep in strong healers to help out any lower level/newer […]
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At the end of April
It’s been awhile since I posted. I’ll be honest, I’ve been busy and not really having a brilliant time of things so haven’t had a lot of energy to write. That’s not to say that things haven’t been happening, so that’s why I’m here. Raiding The biggest thing is that I’m now 12/13 mythic bosses […]
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Navispammed!
The hunt for a new guild/raid team is still going strong, and I’m not having any luck at all yet (which will be the topic of a future post, I’m sure). However it hasn’t been a complete loss. On Wednesday the ever so delightful Navimie happened to notice my post on the forums about looking […]
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A home to call my own
Well today I finally made a decision about where I want to be in Legion, and have decided to look for a new guild and raid team. I have loved being in Deadline – the people are amazing. We always have a laugh, we know how to have a good time. It has been awesome. […]
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You beta test this!
This week I was a guest on the Girls Gone WoW podcast with the ever lovely ladies, Raven and EJ. As usual, I had a brilliant time. You can check out the episode on their website here (or iTunes, Stitcher etc). The episode was about all things Beta. We talked about our experiences with Betas, how […]
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A question of valor
So there has been a couple of edits to the patch notes for 6.2.3. I wrote about my initial thoughts on 6.2.3 in a post last week (which you can check out here if you are so inclined!) For the most part – yay! Today’s updates I found to be interesting. Here’s what the edits […]
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Bye bye, Heroic Archimonde!
Last night was a good night of raiding. We had made our way through all of Heroic Hellfire Citadel on Wednesday night so that we would have all of Sunday evening to work on getting Heroic Archimonde down for the first time. Turns out we only needed 2 pulls. We were very fortunate to have […]
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Thoughts on 6.2.3 (without the table flipping)
Edited: I misread the cross-realm information – Cross-realm Mythic raiding is EXCELLENT news! It’s quite daunting waking up to see twitter exploding with opinions about some WoW news that was released while I was asleep. One of the problems with the time delay is that I see opinions before I see what the actual news […]
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Podcast goodness
Earlier this week I was a guest on the Girls Gone WoW podcast! It was a really fun time, even if I did get up just after 4am in the morning after a late raid night and then no sleep (’cos I was so nervous and excited!). Despite all that, I somehow managed to be […]
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An Officer and a Raid Leader
Those of you who follow me on twitter will know that a few weeks ago our Guild Master/Raid Leader decided it was time for him to leave WoW. I was devestated to say the least. He’s an awesome guy, and I’m glad I got to meet him in person at our guild meet up earlier […]
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Hellfire Citadel – go team, go!
So raiding has been going well. We’re currently 10/13 just on normals, but it’s been good fun. The people who need loot have been getting it, so we should be good to start heroics soon (potentially would be sooner if not for stupid State of Origin. Argh, sports!) This pic is from the Socrethar fight. […]
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How to stop being crap?
Last night was raid night, and to be quite frank, it sucked. It sucked for me and because of me – not really anyone else. We did have a few issues with some key people being away, but there were people able to fill the roles and whilst it slowed things down a little, that’s […]
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Mythic Blackrock Foundry
I’ve been raiding with my new team for a couple of weeks now. We are currently 5/10 mythic, which I am incredibly happy with. Sunday last week we managed to get down Mythic Flamebender Ka’graz and Mythic Gruul on the same night, which was an awesome feeling. Wednesday just gone had a few people missing […]
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Oh the trials
Last night I did a raid trial with the team Zeirah is currently trialling with. The evening was for progression on Mythic Hans’gar and Franzok. I am trialling as an elemental shaman, and boy did I feel out of my depth last night! Not only was I learning a new fight that I’d never seen […]
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All about the raids
It’s been a week since all the dramas came to a head, and it’s only now I’m really in the right head space to write about it. Unfortunately the guild team that I have been a part of for almost a year now, a team that has many people in it whom I consider friends, […]
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Where are all the raiders?
martymuses: cinder-says: This seems to be the mantra of mythic guilds everywhere – where are all the raiders? Where are the people who want to kick bosses in the face? Where are the people who want to hang out with a bunch of random weirdos for a laugh and a few jokes? Where are the […]
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Where are all the raiders?
This seems to be the mantra of mythic guilds everywhere – where are all the raiders? Where are the people who want to kick bosses in the face? Where are the people who want to hang out with a bunch of random weirdos for a laugh and a few jokes? Where are the people who […]
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How Blackhand died Some of the guys in our guild like to record our raid nights. Thankfully they recorded our kill of Heroic Blackhand from the other night. Thought I’d share it so you too can marvel at how little melee have to do in this fight! (except for trollmonk – he has to go […]
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I’ve been feeling a bit crap about things lately. It’s why I haven’t been posting on here all that much. I’m going through a “I completely suck at this game, why do I bother playing it” phase. Mostly it’s because of my raiding performance lately. It’s tough being a resto shaman sometimes. It’s not often […]
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Hatespark
Oh hello, Hatespark! Don’t we look pretty? I’ve wanted Hatespark the Tiny ever since I saw his little model come out. The drop rate to get him is sooooo low (0.03% chance, according to Wowhead, though I didn’t think it was quite that low!). I thought about buying him, but the cheapest price I found […]
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Healing Heroic Highmaul – The Butcher
The Butcher getting in to the Festive Spirit! I’m putting together some short healer-based posts for each of the bosses in the Highmaul raid tier. Hopefully they’ll be useful for some fellow healers (my focus is on restoration shaman as that is what I play). Let me know what you think! (Read the Kargath Bladefist […]
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Healing Heroic Highmaul – Kargath Bladefist
Kargath Bladefist (image from wowhead) I’m putting together some short healer-based posts for each of the bosses in the Highmaul raid tier. Hopefully they’ll be useful for some fellow healers (my focus is on restoration shaman as that is what I play). Let me know what you think! Kargath Bladefist Kargath Bladefist is the first […]
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Paragon World First Mythic Highmaul
Paragon have cleared Highmaul! I’ve been watching this race pretty closely. It’s been fascinating. For the longest time Ascension, who are an Australian guild on the same server I’m on, were kicking butt and clearing things super fast. They got a lot of world first kills so should be super proud. A lot of guilds […]
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Raiding again
blah! Tumblr ate my post. Now I have to try to remember what I said! A couple of weeks ago I applied to a guild on my server. As my gear was too low for current tier, I was looking to join for Warlords of Draenor. They invited me to the guild and I’ve been […]
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Decisions made
I’ve been blogging a lot lately, I know. I blame the 20 days of blogging for opening that gate! (though I’m not even a little bit sorry for it). I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about WoW and what I want to get out of it. When my raid team fell apart and everyone […]
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20 Days of Blogging – Day 4
Day 01 – Introduce yourselfDay 02 – Why you decided to start a blogDay 03 – Your first day playing WoWDay 04 – Your best WoW memoryDay 05 – Favourite item(s) in gameDay 06 – Your workplace/desk (photo and/or description)Day 07 – The reason behind your blog’s nameDay 08 – 10 things we don’t know […]
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Undecided
It’s been about 2 months since my raid team/guild fell apart (most people have left the guild now, except for one of the officers who has just came back within the last week, and a friend of mine who plays casually). It’s pretty lonely for me in WoW now. My bf doesn’t play anymore, there’s […]
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Leading the Flames
5.4 has been out for 2 weeks now. I’m still enjoying it a lot. The Timeless Isle is a lot of fun – it’s like a giant Easter Egg hunt! And of course there’s the new raid zone, Siege of Orgrimmar, which hasn’t been out long enough for me to hate yet. 🙂 What I’m […]
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I quit raiding
This weekend I quit my core raiding team. I’m pretty devastated. I really love raiding and I enjoy the team I raid with. However, raiding times were Saturday and Sunday, 11am – 4pm, essentially wiping out the entire weekend. It’s been a struggle. I work a Monday-Friday 9-5 job, and I work damn hard. So […]
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Lei Shen
WE DID IT!! Tonight my little team got Lei Shen down and got the “Ahead of the Curve” achievement. It’s all I wanted for them – for us to all have that achievement that says we worked hard this tier and saw all of the fights. It’s not heroics or anything, but I don’t care. […]
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Iron Qon
Soo…. we downed another 2 bosses tonight. Iron Qon took us a little bit, but only because our dps was a little low so if we lost one person we’d hit beserk. When we did get the kill we had already hit berserk and our DK tank was last man standing with like 0.5% health when he […]
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Dark Animus + Primordius
And another two bite the dust. I missed updating about Primordius last week as I was heading off for holidays, but we got him down after only 2 attempts. And then tonight, Dark Animus went down. It was past raid ending time but we wanted to give it one last shot. And we got him! […]
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Durumu
Durumu is down! So proud of these guys. It was the third week we’d been able to have a crack at getting this guy down. Each attempt we got a little closer, and the mistakes were fewer. We had one kill that got down to 6%, and another to 3% which were just devastating. But we persevered and […]
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Ji-kun
And Ji-Kun down, too! Quite a successful weekend. Love that we all had feathers for the photo 🙂 Except Shogun who’s napping from all the hard work hehe
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Tortos
So these are my guys! And this was our Tortos kill from last week. We had actually gotten him down the week before but I hadn’t thought to take a screen shot until last week. So proud of my team 🙂 And so much fun! *edit: I should say – that’s me in the middle […]
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