One Night In Naxx

Wow Wednesday

Many have said it just couldent be done. But Incursio has done it! We did Naxxramas 10-man in one night! Thats how unbelievably awesome our abilites are.



Truly it was a magnificent run, full of awe-inspiring crits and head banging rock music. Ok maybe only I had the latter, but it went along well with the mood of Naxxramas. Truly the greatest thing about the night was that Kel'Thuzad dropped a extremly good axe, and I beat a 95 roll with a 100 roll. Amazing, aren't I? That should boost up my Dps quite a bit. Note that the above photo isnt from that particular run, just a 25 man naxx that didnt succeed.




On a more embarssing note, i tried my hand at raiding the horde cities. Thunder Bluff and Undercity fell easy enough, but the stories about Ogrimmar are no exaggeration, ANY threat on Thrall, and fifty hordies are by his side in an instant. That is because hordies are stupid, and they can only match alliance's superior skills with overwhelming numbers. Losers.

- Brenden [Incursio]

On The Hunt

Wow Wednesday (err...technically Thursday)

Wow I haven't played my hunter in a long time (lol). I'm a pally, through and through, but if there was one class I had to play in a paladins steed, it would definitely be the hunter. They create maximum dps, and they don't even have to tank. They just get really cool pets to help with that.

My Dwarven Hunter Orman finally reached 60 today. The only character besides my main to achieve such a lofty goal (first not being a Death Knight anyway) and it was the end result of a full day of grueling work. Truly I am thankful I made it to outland. I just about exausted every questline there was back on old Azeroth, and theres plenty to be found on Draenor. I had to sit out another 25 man because of scehdualing conflicts, but hopefully ill get into one over the weeked or something. My DPS seems to drop significantly while im in 25 man naxx. Im about 12th ranked, as of my last run, but in 10 mans im usually number 1, or a close 2. Whats even stranger still is that I usually run with the same people. Go figure. Perhaps I just get nervous in big groups.

Observed

Wow Wednesday


25 man naxx was a precipice of insanity. I'm not quite sure what that means, but it sure sounds cool. Truly the first well organized 25 man I've been in, it shows that maybe 25 mans shouldn't be as readily avoided as I previously thought. My shoulders dropped, but alas, I did not win the roll. Which is a shame seeing as how my shoulders are my last remaning blue piece. But I'll be back in the dread citadel soon, and hopefully my pauldrons will be present. EoE is still a mire of wipes, as none of us can even get past the second stage. We are working on Ulduar, however, which is semi-stupid since it skips over EoE entirely, and loot from Malygos could be of prime importance in the battles to come. But as usual, I kept my silence within the guild.


I am a total lore nerd, and the world of Azeroth is pretty much my middle-earth. My world-away-earth, if you will. Because of this, bosses that are steeped in lore are very amusing to me, despite their level of difficulty.



One such boss, pictured above, is Algalon the Observer. A servent of the creators of Azeroth, he has deemed the planet too dangerous to continue its activities, what with the rampant gods of death and demon titans. He's about to send a signal to a inersteller demolition crew to destroy Azeroth (kind of like A Hitchhiker's Guide), and it falls to the heroes (you) to stop him. Although he believes what he's doing is for the greater good, we know that Azeroth has more then enough good in it to warrant survival.

I love good lore! I need to get the book on Arthas. God I'm such a nerd...

Dual-Spectacular

WoW Wedsdays

Not often do I feel my prayers are answered, in fact they never are. Which might be the leading reason why I am an atheist. But yesterday I had one of my prayers answered, that prayer was "Can we please get fucking patch 3.1.0 already??" and the answer was an empathetic yes.



Yes it seems blizzard actually reads my blog, because no sooner then I complained about it, they released it within a week. Patch 3.1.0 is here and it is bitchin'. I guess. Really I don't have the legal tender to enjoy all its amenities, but with the release of the Argent tournament dailies, I feel like I should in no time. Pictured above is me with my mighty lance getting ready for the Argent games. Evidently, Blizzard thought we should have a competition amongst ourselves instead of fighting the Lich King. Good call! But seriously, I respect Blizzard very much so I find it very hard to criticize what they do. And sadly, I think I'm the only one who feels that way. Tuesday was officially patch day, and a patch of this magnitude, everyone knew downtime was inevitable. While some overestimated and some underestimated the time to get the servers back up, EVERYONE complained. I was frustrated, but nonetheless elated that it finally came. Everyone else was just frustrated.



Malygos the Spell-weaver, or as I like to call him "The most awesome Dragon EVER!!" is the only encounter within the Eye of Eternity, not to mention the Aspect (leader) of the Blue Dragonflight, so it should come as no suprise that he is among the most difficult fights in the game. The encounter is long and grueling, and of course since it is WoW, if you fail, you must begin anew. The problem seems to be DPS, but with my new build from the patch, we'll see if we can't improve upon that. Our battle with the Spell-weaver might be put on hold though, as the new patch included a brand-new raid: Ulduar. The home of the Old god of death. Sounds cheerful! I'll definitly let you know how my foray into the underground went, if Indeed i get to raid it this week.

- The Blue Dragon

Patchwork

Welcome to WoW Wednesday at Sewer Surfin' Where we explore the world of Azeroth from week to week.



Part of me was beginning to think that Patch 3.1.0 was simply an urban legend, made to keep us salivating at the thought of dual specs until we blow all of our money getting our second-spec gear. I thought wherever patch 3.1.0 is, its the same place Bigfoot, the loch ness monster, and Joyce Dewitt from Three's Company reside. Our imaginations!

But that changed a few days ago. Patch 3.1.0 contains a revamp for Noblegarden (The wow version of the Easter holiday), and while many people don't really care about this, it became useful information two days ago when blizzard announced Noblegarden would commence April 25th. Being the practical human being that I am, I deduced that since the patch needs to be released for Noblegarden to start, that must mean that the patch would be released before April 25th! Although it worries me that no release date has been announced, and if it was going to be released that soon, we would've gotten one. Quite perplexing



I usually make it a rule to avoid 25-man's that don't consist mainly of Incursio (my guild) firstly because the threat of a Ninja is always looming. And secondly they require large scale planning and coordinating, and more often then not, one of the 25 believes they know more then the raid leader, and break off to start their own raid so they can accumulate their own loot. However, a few nights ago I made an exception and went to the 25-man Obsidian Sanctum (pictured above). Although it took awhile to get started, it was surprisingly easy. I suppose since OS is approximately 10 minutes and all the bosses require little or no strategy, this is one of the very few bearable 25-mans available. Even though I got no loot (nothing for paladins dropped anyway), I did get the achievement, and the knowledge I need to understand 25 man's better. Experience can be the best loot of all.

-Brenden [Incursio]