New Members, Warsong Domination and the Weekly Main Event

First, a welcome to our newest members Lucin and Sanura. Both are FFXI vets and bring additional DPS to the guild. Lucin ran SFK with us Saturday night, was on vent and seemed to fit right in with us and our philosophy.

Lucin and I also dominated WSG for the better part of last evening, scoring definitely a few flag caps as a 2-man running team. Silvanesti, Sanura and Igor also joined in the fun and got a good look at just how bad the alliance in our battlegroup are.

But if numbers are more your thing, try this on.

15-0, 45 caps to 1. I couldn't make those numbers up if I wanted to.

Wednesday night the plan is to queue for WSG/AB while questing and helping out anyone who needs to clean up some loose ends... This probably means killing Dar'Kahn in Ghostlands for Bill and Taelara, hopefully clearing out 2 bosses in Wailing Caverns for Bill and maybe killing some dwarves in Hillsbrad.

And of course dominating some alliance in the battlegrounds.

SFK, WSG and More

For those that stayed up to do our two SFK runs last night, thank you. The second was a little more rough--but we had a 20 druid in our group that didn't quite have a feel for his aggro radius. Arugal also proved to be quite annoying--mind controlling me and burning a mana pot, which cost me a few key heals later, but we survived.

We're 2 Robes of Arugal richer, and there's more to be had for our casters. Our next target will be Blackfathom Depths up in Ashenvale. I've never been there before--it's sort of like the bastard child of instances (along with the Temple of Atal'Hakar). Nobody goes there ally or horde.

Which is why we should go. And conquer.

I'm taking it easy today, queuing for Warsong Gulch and reading. The WSG games have been a ton of fun, two 3-0 dominations by the horde. Because face it... we're better PvPers. I had no clue that you got a damage/healing meter for a BG after it was over... The second BG, I healed for over 12k. Nobody else had over 2. There was one fight where it was a hunter + pet of ours against 3 alliance. I stayed at max range and healed through it for him to kill one, then for a rogue of ours to show up and win.

I know my role in a battleground. That might have explained why I had 3-5 alliance tools one me every time I was in a big battle. It was actually kind of fun.

I also did over 11k damage that run. I don't know how to explain that, other than that dots add up?

You can check out the rewards for 20-29 WSG here: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/factions/warsong/index.html

I like the cape and then ring... The staff is way nice too - anything with MP/5 on it for me and I get giddy. That's a lot of WSG for the staff though. The cape is hopefully 2 matches away. The ring, maybe 5-8... unless we keep winning. Which we might.

For the horde!

Dominating Wailing Caverns and SFK

Way to dominate WC not once, but twice. I think that we got everyone through, except for Creasey who DC'd (thanks to the Cox Cable stuff you're reading about). He needs one last gem for his Wingblade. Let's try to do that for him on Saturday.

I'm thinking that we could use the message board that Hunk has created. We'll try to get that going this weekend. It'd be nice to have somewhere where everyone can post what they make and do and when they can play, etc. in a more accessible way than the comments.


Shadowfang Keep is the next target. We'll hopefully take it down Saturday night.

Wailing Caverns Tonight!

We close the book on this instance. 9 server.

Make sure you have the oases pre-req quests done to get your big reward of a nice blue weapon.

Shadowfang Keep to come this weekend. Exciting!

A few reagents to send to me

As you kill beasts out and about in Azeroth, save any sharp claws or large fangs. I need them to make Hunk his rage potions.

Hope everyone had a great weekend. We now have guild chat too! See you all soon.

Money, Money, Money

Before I talk about the Benjamins, a thank you to the new (old) faces that have joined us this week. Hunk found a pretty sweet 2-handed axe while we were questing on Wednesday... and we got super-excited. It was remarked that 'was like old times.'

After spending well over half of my /played at 'end-game' content and most of the 1-60 grind the first time by myself, that made me feel really good about not what we're doing... Not just for reasons of nostalgia, but because it's nice to do it in a community and share in the fun of doing all of the fun things that aren't raiding MC and BWL every week in perpetuity. I'm glad that everyone is on board and having fun.

With that said...

My toon now has over 5g. My current moneymaker is fishing up Oily Blackmouth in the Skittering Dark/North Tide Hollow in Silverpine just north of The Sepulcher. I'm getting 1g/stack of Blackmouth and have pushed the Stranglekelp (also 1 stack/run) to 85 silver/stack. I'm trying 90 this weekend, etc.

If you see something on the AH that's both sweet and something you wouldn't easily replace, let me know. Hopefully we'll have a modest guild bankroll to work with in a week or so. (Emphasis on modest, but that might be enough with such a small economy.)

Tomorrow and Saturday are my law school musical performances. There will likely be pictures and maybe even footage. I'll have pictures up when first convenient to.

If you have some aspect of the infamous 'RL' that you'd like to share with everyone, let me know and I'll make sure it gets on here! Or the message board that I'd like to move to soon, but need to find 2 hours to figure out and get the word out and all that jazz. Soon.

The Weekly Main Event

Thursday night. 9:30ish. Go without me if I'm not on.

The mission: Deatholme.

There are 3 quests.

1. Kill the main dude's lieutenants. It's the end of a chain that involves... um... well, you get it in Tranquillen, I think. They're named, non-elite 20ish mobs. Cake.

2. Rescue captives. You get some antidote from the apothecary. Again, a chain, too tired to remember what starts it.

3. Kahn!!! (Said in my best Captain Kirk voice.) Well, Dar'Kahn. Or whatever his name is. This is the continuation of the quest where you have to kill the minions in Deathholme. Not too tough at 20 if you're smart and avoid adds.

Blue weapons abound for completing this.

Get ready to pwn some undead and close the book on our time in the beautiful Ghostlands. Our next quest hubs are Tarren Mill and Ashenvale. Preferences?

3-Manning the Wailing Caverns and More

Thanks to everyone who played at any point this weekend. It was fun running around with you.

Last night, Hunk, Yurack and I set foot as a party of 3 into the Wailing Caverns. We managed to drop 2 bosses, a ton of trash, get lost one a few occasions, complete 3 quests, and generally destroyed the place... until we pulled just a few too many mobs. If there was some good lewtz in your mailbox, it likely came from the adventure.

I have a busy week coming up... 3 hours of rehearsal M-Thursday and the show on Friday and Saturday... on top of reading and starting finals prep.

I may want to play Wed night - post here if you can play... if not, then I'll just take a week off, and we'll get back at it next week. Feel free to level up to 23-25 if you want to. I'll pop on here and there to check mail--want pots or have stuff to funnel to the right people, send it to me and it'll get where it's going.

Hope everyone had a good weekend. Take care!

Happy Birthday Gami!

Happy birthday! I promise to let you pick out your own pet robeast to play with.

Tonight, Wailing Caverns. 9:30ish server (central). Or whenever we can get the gang together.

There's a quest chain that starts in the Barrens about investigating the Barrens' Oases (plural of Oasis?). It's like 3 quests, run through those... you go to TB at the end and get the quest to kill the boss, which nets you a fun blue weapon.

If WC doesn't seem to work well, we'll go pwn Deathholme. But I think we're gonna rock the Wailing Caverns and leave Arugal up in Shadowfang Keep trembling for when we come for him... cause he's next.

Weekend Availability

Simple question--post in comments when you can/would like to play this weekend.

We can quest or we can try our hand at The Wailing Caverns. I'll have a quest guide up for the one quest chain that you have to do in Barrens (about 30 minutes of time) to get the quest for the boss/best reward in there... a blue dagger or a +7 stam/int/spirit staff.

Guild Name, the Weekday Main Event and More

Hey Everyone... good use of the blog thus far. Torq has a message board set up. I'm going to try and figure that out this weekend and post the link. It should be a more readable format and user friendly. Stay tuned for details.

So, about the guild name... Blizzard says 'Voltron Force' is reserved. Probably copyrights or something. Creasey suggested 'VF' which was our tag in the ancient Diablo 1 days. I initially thought Vol Tron Force. But that just doesn't look right... and then today, it hit me.

"Form Blazing Sword"

Do we have a winner?

Leveling... Lets call level 20 the max of where we want to be. 21 if you can't help it.

The Wednesday Night Main Event: Down the 2 abominations. Nickleyo suggested that we take down another elite in deatholme. That sounds good--can you post/link the quest chain Nickle, so we're all on the same page? It'd be awesome if we could roll into the Wailing Caverns with a phat ring and a blue item. There's also a sweet tank sword that we could get Torq.

Let's tentatively think Wailing Caverns this Saturday night. I think that 17-18, if that can be swung should be a good minimum. I'll double check that.

That's all from here. I hope your weeks are off to a good start.

The Weekly Main Event

Each week I hope to have one night where we can do something fun for a short period of time--call it the 'Weekly Main Event' for now.

This week, there are two abominations we have to kill (you can get the quest from a wanted poster in Tranquillen) known as Knucklerot and Luzran. They're around level 20-22, gold elites.

While we're a couple levels under them, I think that 5 of us shouldn't have any problem with them. I'm thinking one night, Tues-Thurs 10 Server/CST. Post if this works... or if it doesn't, when would. We'll get it on and down some aboms.

I likely won't be able to play much this week or next, so this might be our principal action for the week.

Great work in RFC last night. It was a lot of fun--and something new for everyone. I'm looking forward to pwning Wailing Caverns and Shadowfang Keep.

RFC and Other Updates

Ragefire Chasm tonight, 9:30 Central/Server. We may delay a bit if Hunk can get on, but a bit later. If not, we'll go with Igor tanking.

Other important updates...

I got another silver elite--this time a level 15 spider in the Skittering Dark.

Anyone know where/how to level fishing? I need Oily Blackmouth to advance my alchemy.

If you get wool, send it to Allura. You'll get 8 slot bags!

Briarthorn and Mageroyal are the highest herbs on my list. If you see some areas where they're plentiful, let me know.

I'm about to train regular healing pots in alchemy. It's 30s to learn. If you could float me 5 to help with this, that'd be awesome.

See y'all tonight!