We killed a bug last night.

[plonq]

After breezing our way through AQ and Nefarian earlier this week, we decided to try our hand at another of the bosses who has PWND us to date.  We were pretty sure that we had a good strategy for him, but we couldn't seem to get Anub'Rekhan below about 78%.

While most of that was our own doing, we did have some frustratingly bad luck in our earlier efforts.  We had spontaneous resets, raid-wiping lag spikes - if you can think of something in the game that can glitch, it glitched on us at least once in our attempts.  On our first try last night we took him down to 64 percent health, and as one of the raid members gushed, "If we'd had another rogue or two with us, that would easily have been 45 percent!"  The raid leader swapped out a couple of healers for additional rogues, and (after an epically bad attempt, followed by a botched pull) we got him down to 45 percent before we wiped.


We managed to pull it off with only two deaths.  That's the way this particular boss fight works, though.  If you start losing bodies, it's effectively a wipe after 3-4 people drop.  (Unlike our first successful take-down of Instructor Razuvious, where there were only 4 of us left standing at the end of the fight).

atara and I are highlighted in this picture (she's the one lying dead on the ground over to the left).  As we were posing for the shot, the warlocks all thought that it would be fun to self-destruct for the group picture.  Warlocks are a strange breed.  They get nowhere near the respect that their class deserves.

As we were running out of the room, one of them plaintively called after us, "Um, so can we get a rez back here?"


Still WoW related, but humourous.

Awhile back (early spring) one of my co-workers was asking me about the game.  He enquired about the system requirements, and wanted to know if his two kids could play at the same time using the same account.  I gave him all the info he needed, and he's never mentioned it again -- until yesterday.

He was on his way outside for a smoke while I was heading home yesterday, and as we were waiting for the elevator he turned to me and said, "So, are you still playing World of Warcraft?"

"Yes," I replied tentatively.  His tone of voice had implied that it was a loaded question, so I was curious to see what he was leading up to.  Apparently he just needed to vent.  His two kids had taken to the game with a passion - as has his wife now too.  His kids had seen perhaps 10 hours of actual daylight over the course of the summer.  He griped about how his daughter already has two level 60s, and another at level 52.  His son isn't far behind.

"And they're always whining at us to buy them more gold!"

"What?  No!  Tell them to earn it like honest people do."

"Well, we got them some for their birthdays, but they spent that and now they keep raiding my wife's coffers."

Kids - oy!  I'd gank 'em if they were on my server to teach them a lesson (he mentioned that they're playing alliance).

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[dronon.livejournal.com]

If I want to email you, what domain are you checking nowdays? Gmail? Hotmail? Mts?

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Yes.

All of the above, though if you want it to catch my attention then you should avoid Hotmail as it is a wasteland of spam. MTS is my preferred domain, but I check both Gmail accounts regularly.