Completely Different: Progression raiding without the elitism

The End

Well, I'm bored waiting on my wife to finish her last final exam so I figured I'd type out some randomness. I have been playing some WoW again over the past couple of days and enjoying it for the first time in a long time.

I started playing WoW too many times to remember (ever since it first launched). I never got into the game and really only leveled a toon past level 20 for the first time when BC launched. I played off and on for a while with a RL friend, but finally after Sunwell was released I got serious about leveling my lock, Semanthe, and got him to level 70.

I decided to write a brief blog thing to give you some light into why I make some of the choices I do for our progression focuses. I will start doing so not with my own words, but those of a much better leader and orator than myself:
[i]"We choose to go to the moon.

I wrote this a little while ago to help me remember everyone I met and shared my time with on this time sink of a game, and decided I would share it with you fine folks.

I was first introduced to WoW by a friend who found himself a beta key. Every day he would tell me about all the cool new things he found he could do and all the people he met. I told him to come back to FPS games. Eventually though all this rambling by him got me curious and I resolved to pick the game up when it hit shelves. We wanted to quest and level together so he made a Human Warlock and I made a Human Warrior.

You know, I really should be sleeping right now but for some reason, I just can't. I've got a lot running through my head at the moment. Last night's raid made it official that I have changed mains, and, as a result, I am to learn how to do a very different job than what I am used to and comfortable with.

Bwasome's Mark of Sanctification
Classes: Rogue, Death Knight, Paladin

Part One

Over the past year and a half I've managed to level a rogue, a death knight, and a paladin to level 80, and have invested a decent amount of time into each. I've seen all three aspects of a raid, from main tanking to off tanking to dpsing to tank healing to raid healing.

As much as I hate pugging Malygos now for the weekly, it reminded me of the time when the Eye of Eternity was the cutting edge of progression. The 6-minute achievement is the first real raiding achievement I ever got, and it was the first time I ever felt an immense sense of accomplishment from killing a boss. I remember the 2 weeks of endless wipes it took to perfect our strategy, and the raid leader screaming at people to dismount and die if we were even cutting it a bit close.

I just Wanted to start a little blog and say congrats to my fellow guildies. I am really proud of what we have accomplished this week and I hope we can keep it up. We achieved Server First on Deathrbinger Saurfang in both 10 &25 as well as getting the achievement first. Now that all the rankings have caught up we are 4th on wowprogress but that is OK! Let's just keep rocking shit and doing an awesome job.

Well, I figured I would say something and please totally ignore all my grammer and spelling mistakes cause personally, i really dont care. Anyways, When I first joined this guild I can fully say i was a nub in the way of a mage. I knew enough to do decent dps in fire but not enough to amaze anyone else. Where I came from was a server, even to this day has NOT downed yogg on 25 man. We never did hardmodes cause really, we couldnt. It wasnt because we didnt want to and we tried very hard but when you wipe for 3 weeks on mimi NORMAL 25 man the thought of doing something hard was just ridiculus.

In response to Trypt's blog I mulled it over and figured I'd give it a shot anyway.

In case anyone of you didn't know and possible cared, I have been working on a little Feat of strength called 'Insane in the Membrane' http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=2336

And in a very shaidar like fashion I've been keeping a little note book of what I've needed and need, what I've done and need to do for my fancy title. So come take a trip into madness with me.