Guild Mum

Well, this post is borne on lack of chocolate, lack of sleep, heat and humidity, having to work full-time and the fact that my kids have now stopped school for 9 weeks of summer holidays. It will be a random outburst of potential emoness and whine. There may be some flashes of insight and good stuff, but who knows where it will end up as I’m typing in my lunch half hour and have no set post in mind.

First - I got my snow-filled scythe from Ahune, who firmly refuses to drop the pet for my friends who want it.

Second - I had my monthly emo outburst. I decided that I wasn’t sure if I still wanted my guild to be 10-man Strict. Many of the guild have alts outside of the guild because they have done ICC25 and we have no wiggle room left to stay in our strict ranking (1st on the realm out of 6 guilds, but we are the only raiding one; 41st in Europe; 104th in the World). I would love all my friends to be together.

There is a new ranking - 10 man Casual - where we could have competition on our realm and this set me off. In the end I decided that I like being strict. It is more of an achievement and to me does not smack of “I’m only running 25 man to get loot”. If you have a guild that wants to do 25 man raids, fine - do 25 man raids. If not - why bother?

This brings me to my next point - Gear Score. Yeah, it’s a measure of your gear. It is not a measure of your skill. Seph currently has a gear score of 5960 according to wftgearscore or less if you look at GuildOx which doesn’t seem to realise that I have the Heroic version of my dagger. I have never set foot in ICC25. I have bought some BOEs that drop there, but I have not been. I have one piece of T10 gear because I won the trinket that dropped when we killed BQ heroic. I rank 208th on our realm (of people who have looked themselves, or been looked up by wtfgearscore website). Reminds me of the Epeen add-on theing that went about on April Fools day

So - people using the argument that you have to run 25 man raids to get the best gear and therefore GS are talking out of their backsides.

One downer is that we won’t be able to do 25 man Halion until after Cataclysm drops and that is a shame given the lovely trinkets that he drops.

Halion - we tried him last night! We did quite well, getting to Phase 3 fine and then getting a bit tired by then. I was actually amazed by my performance. I am without question a slow learner. I keyboard turn, I am old and have slow reactions, I have a little monitor, I have healer tunnel vision on my grid squares - all of these, but I only got zapped once in the beams, then learnt that and did not die in a pool of fire, a meteor or a shadow zone.

It felt good to be trying something new again and makes me look forward to Cataclysm.

Oh yes, Cataclysm. I would like a beta key,but if I don’t get one I’ll not be too upset. I had one for LK and only found my way about Dalaran, saw the new world and checked out pets. I think that all I would do if I got a Cataclysm one would be something similar. I am most looking forward to being able to fly everywhere because I have challenges jumping to get to IF airport for example. Son has escorted me there, but he had to do the tricky jumps for me!

OK - time’s up - back to work …. I might spout some more later, or I might not. Remind me to yap about Halion though and how people expect to be able to plough through new content on the first night, in pugs and have forgotten how to have patience and learn and progress. (I have a grumpy Old Women style post in my head about that one)

In the mean-time - take a look at this - it really made me giggle… Have a look at them all - they are great I do like this from Cataclysm. The yellow text on things get me some days