WoW Update - 29 Aug 2008: What's Been Happening

Blogging's a hard habit to maintain, especially when this much time's passed between posts. Still, with Blizzard experiencing "connectivity problems", I guess it wouldn't kill me to churn out a couple of blog posts, if only to keep the two or three of you who read this blog updated on what's been happening with me online.

The past few weeks have been spent pimping my rides:



Yes, that's a Black War Elekk, and Froufrou is in 2/5 Merciless Gladiator (head and chest). The Elekk is the Ford Expedition of epic mounts, and it looks even more badass when a gnome's riding it.



Thanks to a timely loan from Amihan and Malago (already half paid off!), Froufrou is now the proud rider of a Green Riding Nether Ray. Now I can zip along from one daily to another as I try to make back what I spent on the epic flying mount skill.




Avierra spent some time raiding with GoV these past few weeks (Frou too, but more Avi than Frou). Avi's been to ZA a few times, and was part of the Guild's first Hex Lord Malacrass takedown. She left that raid with a shiny new Enamelled Disc of Mojo and a Bloodstained Elven Battlevest.

And that's it. Oh, and Frou managed to snag a Malefic Mask of the Shadows. Woot!

WoW Update - 2 Aug 2008: Magtheridon Down!

GoV usually runs Karazhan on Saturday mornings, so I was surprised to receive a text message from Malago saying "Log in early, we're doing Gruul's today since we have so many people online."

I'd gotten home at past three in the morning so logging in at a quarter of eight was a little bit of an imposition. Still, I logged in and immediately found myself with a raid invite. After a little discussion, I switched from Froufrou to Avierra as the raid was short of healers.

The weather's been hellishly bad lately, so my connection's been prone to go bad at the worst possible times. Midway through the High King Maulgar and the Gruul fights I found myself disconnected from the server - my wireless router had lost the signal from the ISP's cabinet - and it took me a few minutes to reconnect to both WoW and Ventrilo. Still, I'm glad I didn't get replaced, as the Gruul fights were short and sweet. It's fairly obvious that we now have Gruul on farm status, leaving us only Magtheridon to defeat at the Tier 4 level.

So we headed over to Magtheridon's Lair. I was not happy with my connection, but the group was determined to down him this morning and so was I.

The result:

Before -


(That's me behind Magtheridon's left leg, keeping Judgment of Wisdom up.)

And after -


Congrats to GoV for a first Magtheridon kill!

And of course, as I did this on Avierra, that naturally means something...



All hail Avierra, Champion of the Naaru!