OK…had a fun night tonight running with Forsaken Legion on an ICC10 continuation.  We downed Dreamwalker on the first shot (yeah, that’s how we roll), and then moved on Sindragosa.  For those who haven’t tried her yet, one of her key headache tactics is called Blistering cold, where she sucks the entire raid into her belly (get in my belleh! ), not unlike the final boss in Violet Hold.  She then starts a 5 second cast of Blistering Cold , which nukes (or nearly nukes) everyone within 25 yards.  I had just barely gotten used to using Disengage to get out of there, but we continued to struggle, despite Luciere’s awesomeness (see?!  don’t taunt me on this stuff!).  So the raid lead came up with a crazy idea.  Aspect of the Pack . Read the rest of this story »

I don’t like bumper stickers, but several years ago bought a Strong Bad static cling for the bottom center of my rear window, and liked the idea of something simple back there ever since.  After Strong Bad faded, I got myself a sweet Autobots decal for the space.  Recently the decal had started to peel, so I needed to find something new.  Without further ado…

No, my car isn't pink...some strange lighting issues going on I guess.

Punch and Pie has had a great couple of weeks. Two weeks ago we finally downed Festergut after struggling to do so for a few weeks…well, I should say Bromith finally downed Festergut. We hit the enrage timer, but Bromith was quick with the pally bubble and bought us 10 extra seconds for the dots to tick…which did the trick. Way to go Bro! For those of you unfamiliar with the fight, Festergut is a DPS check in Icecrown, which means you have to kill him before he enrages and stuffs your face in. We’ve been struggling to do this regularly, but we think it’s in the bag now. Check out the screenshot below of Bromith bustin a move after he made Fester the dead.

This past week we fielded a solid group.  Our good friends at Blame Roll/Unguilded took the week off for spring break, so a few of their faithful came and joined us at Punch and Pie.  They were welcomed and we had a great time.  Festergut died with 40 seconds to spare on the enrage timer, and we got our first Rotface kill.  Afterthat, we got our first Blood Prince Council kill, and were able to spend 40 minutes learning the Queen fight.  It was quite a leap forward in our progression.  Screenshots and shot outs after the break.  Good job all!

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I’m personally excited about the changes that Cataclysm will bring to the Druid class, well, all except one: 

“Tree of Life is changing from a passive talent to a cooldown-based talent, similar to Metamorphosis. Mechanically, it feels unfair for a druid to have to give up so much offense and utility in order to be just as good at healing as the other classes who are not asked to make that trade. We are exploring the exact benefit the druid gets from Tree of Life. It could strictly be better healing, or it could be that each heal behaves slightly different. You also will not be able to be banished in Tree of Life form (this will probably be true of Metamorphosis as well). Additionally, we would like to update the Tree of Life model so that it feels more exciting when you do decide to go into that form. Our feeling is that druids rarely actually get to show off their armor, so it would be nice to have at least one spec that looked like a night elf or tauren (and soon troll or worgen) for most of the time.”

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Do you ever think about this? Laugh Out Loud, LOL, El Oh El. It’s everywhere in our text messaging, IMing, chat having culture. Of course it’s in WOW too. I realized a couple of weeks ago that most times when I type “lol” to somebody, I didn’t actually laugh out loud. Rather, I thought what they said previously was humorous. So it was more of an acknowledgement that “hey, what you said was funny.”

I play WOW with a great group of folks. I’m often in stitches in during a play session because of something funny. It is very therapeutic to laugh at my raid leader’s cheesy jokes (“My bark is worse than my bite”, “Leaf me alone” ,… you get it, he’s a resto druid), or at the whitty banter that goes back and forth between our tanks and our DPS (“Hey can you guys please watch your threat at the beginning of a pull?” … “ You can’t use that as a crutch forever!”), or at the high-larity that sometimes occurs in officer chat (“I’m so gay to see you guys tonight…”), or at the well place “That’s what she said.”

More often than not, I genuinely Laugh Out Loud while playing with our raiding group. So this got me thinking. We all use ventrillo of course for voice chat, and most folks “push to talk” in order to be heard… that imply’s that when folks are laughing over vent they are intentionally pushing the talk button so that they can be heard. To me, this is the highest form of flattery. If you cracked a joke that was quality enough to cause other folks to open their mic so that you can hear them laughing…well done indeed.

I had a good one the other night. One of our tanks asked for a break to go get a glass of scotch. Of course, someone from the raid mimicked Ron Burgundy “Scotch Scotch Scotch”, and fortunately for the sake of humor, I was able to come in with a whammy (see what I did there?).

Earlier that day I downloaded the best app ever for my smartphone, The Anchorman Soundboard. Yes, you heard right. An app that is simply sound clips from The Anchorman…awesome right!? So I was able to grab my phone and play Mr. Burgundy saying “Scotch Scotch Scotch” over vent. It was good laughs, but got better when a fellow officer said “wtf, you just had that sound bite at the ready?” to which I answered “of course, doesn’t everyone?”

So it was good times, and what did I hear in response? Laughing Out Loud.

Share some of your LOL moments in WOW.