Grats Liquid Courage!

Parting gift to all the raiders at Liquid Courage: everyone has finally gotten their ICC mounts. A few missing people from the photos like Blazblue, Bluekii, amongst others (including Kamble, who doesnt have epic flying because he's a scrub). This final week we will be devoting a few raid nights to Heroic Lich King. We shall see where we go with that. Kinda hard with only 2 healers.

Get Off My Lawn!!!

In the Gunship Battle, remember that dude that needs to be tanked on the Horde boat when the cannons freeze up? Well, what happens when he finally gets smart and tries to do the same thing to your tank...on YOUR boat?

Pure chaos ensues and people die, that's what happens.

How do YOU like IT?!

7 days countdown to Cataclysm

Getting ahead of the game is currently Électra's number one priority. This last week before expansion, I've been meticulously questing in Northrend, trying to open up as many dailies as I can. Never thinking I would need to grind rep with the Sons of Hodir/Argent Crusade/Argent Tournament, I never got around to completing, or in most cases, even starting those quest lines. Bad mistake. But it has been kinda fun just doing mindless quests I haven't done in a long time. Sort of like a final goodbye to Northrend....

Anyways... sentiments aside, I'm collecting a maximum of completed 25 daily quests to turn in once the servers go live. It should put me halfway to 81 once I've turned them all in, giving me a small boost. This boost will allow me to skip the starting lvl 80 zone in Hyjal (yes, i will be starting in Hyjal...screw swimming quests in Vashjir) and hop on down to the next "hub" next door.

And why, you ask, would I rob myself of the new experience and hype? The sheer frustration of 200 other players doing the same quest as you at the same time is not an experience I would prefer to have. I'll save the experiencing with my other 80's, thank you very much. But the desire to reach lvl 85 quickly and before others do is undeniable. I probably won't have the server first Shaman, because I've never played the beta. But It will give me more time in the end to level professions and gear up.

PTR 4.0.3 The Shattering.

Spent some free time wandering through the new landscapes in the PTR on both Horde and Alliance side. The changes are very exciting! There are some areas that will be "phased", meaning they won't look like that when Cataclysm comes out, but they are "progressing" the storyline of the area. For example: Astranaar is being bombed and attacked by Horde, but in Cataclysm, Astranaar become Horde territory.



This will be your new login screen!

Here are a few pictures from the PTR. I didn't want to give too much away. But now from experiencing it I realize everyone should be placing most there toons in Stormwind or Ironforge before Tuesday, because there will be NO PORTALS in Dalaran or Shatt any longer.

With 2 AH's AND banks...Stormwind will once again become the New Dalaran....for now.

                                              Theres a missing statue to the right as well.

New Entrance to Stormwind Keep. Much more epic!

Bank

New AH

                                                       Check out the new town center!

When I logged onto a Horde toon to explore Orgrimaar and the new Goblin City in Azshara, I was immediately impressed at how changed Org was and how much more powerful and city feeling it has now.

                                       This is the exact center of town now. Looks amazing.

                                           
Even the AH seems very lofty and impressive. Overall , you dont feel like some refugee in a tribal internment camp somewhere. They made it the horde equivalent to Stormwind, which is what I think it needed.

A couple sneak peeks at Azshara and Gilneas. You ARE able to roam these cities. But again, they are "phased" set pre-Cata.

Entrance to Gilneas

The now broken Greymane Wall

travelling the roadways by goblin rockets....its sort of run like the Tram with diff stops along the way. I'm jealous that the goblins will level easier in Azshara this way!

Once this patch goes live on the real servers, I think the main goal for me will be to pick up all the new flight patterns (there are more than 1 in most questing areas now). I also think I'll be preparing to make Stormwind my new home. Overall, I think most of the land has stayed somewhat the same, with places like The Barrens and Darkshore on the farther end of completely altered. Head to those places first after seeing Stormwind and Org! Then try out the new starting area quests for Gnomes and Trolls.

Heroic Sindragosa Down Drakes Up

I am pretty sure we attempted this fight (on going from last week) about 10 times before we had success. Heroic Sindragosa....I hope to never do it again. (At least not until I'm level 85 and fully geared)

                                                     I hate this fight...so so so much.

                                           But the reward makes up for it... BEHOLD!

Lich King the almost nearly wipe, last minute Victory.

Picture this scenerio: 4 players left alive, Lich King is at 13% health....do you give up and wipe it? The answer is , YES.....if you aren't Liquid Courage. But we have a way of pulling out some bullshit at the last minute to save the raid. As our raid leader says, "We make easy stuff luck hard and the hard stuff look easy". Yes, we may wipe to trash from time to time, but goddamnit, we'll take on the Lich King with 4 players...and doing the achievement at the same time.

 



Can't you see the excitement building?

you dead!

Last month I had posted my previous' guild's kill of Sindragosa. Then my hopes were in progressing through the Lich King fight slowly, but forward minded. Unfortunately with the new patch and a few key players going on leave.....I had to put an end to our raid group before we really even got a chance to progress through the Lich King fight. In the end, I let my group down and this Lich King kill with Liquid Courage felt lack luster as they have already downed him many times before.

Thank you to the Raiders of Holy Legion who trusted a complete Noob to lead them through some difficult content. I am sure if the expansion had not been knocking on our door so soon, we would have had victory. Thank you to all who dedicated their time and effort and showed up every week. It's because of you special few that we had the best team in the guild:

Rayon (warrior tank), Matszuzaka (death knight tank), Kasaria (shaman healer), Alisha (mage), Momir (druid), Hyli (hunter), Mus (warrior), Arabella (warlock), Moonlapse (jack of all trades).

Achievement Whoring

Don't know what made me suddenly decide to go through with this long, boring, repetitive rep grind for The Wintersaber Trainers in Winterspring. At exalted you are able to purchase a Wintersaber similar to the one pictured below. You are also given a "Feat of Strength" Achievement for obtaining one. I'm determined to see this rep grind through to its hellish finale.

This man was not easy to find. He's hidden at the very north point of Winterspring on top of a jutting crag at the end of the winding road:



looks like this as you approach. He's at the tippy top.

Might take a couple weeks of grinding to gain Exalted reputation. I've calculated that I must do these quests a total of 60 times to get there. OUCH.