How to win at AV (Alterac Valley)

Alterac Valley used to be a ‘bad’ word just a year ago. No one I knew personally would ever queue up for it since the “Horde” seemed to always have a distinct advantage. For the laymen Alterac Valley (AV) is a Battleground (BG) in WoW. Quoting from WoWWiki:

Alterac Valley is a battleground in the continuing war between theHorde and the Alliance. The two opposing sides are the Frostwolf Clan(led by General Drek’Thar) and the Stormpike Guard (also known as the Stormpike Expedition, led by General Vanndar Stormpike), both of whom lay claim to this secluded territory. Alongside the Generals are their two Captains, Captain Galvangar and Captain Balinda Stonehearth, respectively. Aside from Lake Wintergrasp, Alterac Valley is generally considered to be the battleground that delivers the most Honor points per battle.

Along with over view:

The goal of Alterac Valley is to reduce the opposing faction’s reinforcement count to 0. Each team starts with 600 reinforcements. There are a number of ways to reduce reinforcements, named below, but killing the enemy General does it instantly.

• The enemy Captain can be killed. This will award your entire team bonus honor and reduce the enemy reinforcements by 100.
• The enemy towers/bunkers can be burned. This awards your team bonus honor, and reduces the enemy reinforcements by 75 per tower. There are four towers per side, for a total of 300 reinforcements. These structures are also important because, if they are lost, your team loses the respective Warmaster (H)/ Marshall (A).
• Enemy graveyards can be captured, giving your team another place to resurrect. Note that each team controls one uncapturable graveyard, their starting cave.
• Your three Wing Commanders (held in enemy territory) can be freed and sent running home. They award your team bonus honor and offer a turn-in quest once they reach your home base. – Note: “Secondary Objectives” on the in-game scoreboard refer to Wing Commanders and nothing else.
• The two mines can be captured by eliminating the enemy boss in the mine. A mine gives back one reinforcement every 45 seconds. – Note: this is merely a token gain, as reinforcements are usually lost at 10-20 times that rate.
• Collecting supplies to turn in. See: Battle Quests.
• Killing enemy players. This will reduce enemy reinforcement by one per player killed.

Currently the fastest way to win AV is to go directly to the opposing sides Graveyard. In the alliance side it’s the “Relief Hut”.

“On some servers, this has led to a strategy that is known as “the race” or “the zerg”. In this strategy, both sides bypass the main enemy group and rush the graveyard nearest the enemy base, quickly clear the two bunkers in the base, pull the Marshals, and then pull the General. Each side may also kill the opposing captain and claim a mine or easy Graveyard on the way, but the goal is still to rush the General without directly engaging players of the opposing faction. This leads to a faster-paced game which can be easily won or easily lost, providing more honor and AV tokens per hour than protracted games with the same win rate.

The safest route is to leave some defenders to at least slow the opposing team’s attack, but to still maintain an overpowering offense; to give up some ground, but not too much. The way some do it is to run most of a faction as fast as possible to the enemy base and then some of the team will use their recall to go on the defense team and slow the progress of the enemy. This provides enough time to let one side win while the other is held up by the defense.”

The leading strat to impede the Alliance is to put 1/2 dozen inside Galv’s little house of Horrors. If you couple this with someone grabbing the Frost Wings Graveyard (FWGY) and you bumble killing Galv in short order…or god forbid you wipe then a Turtle happens. If that happens you are in for a 20-40 min battle of boring honor killing. At this point I think if I /afk out and have to wait 15 mins for the penalty is worth it or will this end in less than 15 mins I will at least get kills, honor and a token.

Main thing about AV is- go with the main core group. Do what they do. If you get caught behind the lines simply go back to the home base and wait, guard, cap an recap Alliance Towers, hand in scraps and medals for honor.

Seven T

Seventy fell upon one ‘SeanCassidy’ this weekend. I pondered the thought of making him a twink of sixty nine but that thought lasted a mere 18 seconds considering I have several others waiting to be leveled. Playing a Paladin maybe be cheap but it can be fun. First, you can wear anything. Second, you can pretty much ’survive’ world pvp encounters, by fighting with your 3 reset buttons or simply run away. You have the fastest land mounts ingame. I have ran away from at leat 2 dozen 10+ horde levels above me and lived to tell the tale by ‘bubble”ing and running.

Am I a ‘chicken shit’ for running? To me, yes. However, I have no intention of wasting time being killed over and over again by someone 10-20 levels higher than me. I do have big enough pvp balls to stand and fight when they are within 0-5 levels of me and I can pull the wins outta my ass when need be. I also will teabag who ever I kill at least 3 times. I find tea bagging 3 times to be just on the cusp of being douchbag but not enough to warrant being a complete ass. Complete ass is when you tea bag +5 and camp for more than 3 kills. Least in my book that’s how it works. I can’t take too much love when I win a world pvp encounter playing a Paladin, we are the epitome of ‘cheap’. No other class has so many reset buttons as we do. The only thing harder to kill is another Paladin.

I tanked my first instance with Sean too (I know it’s actually spelled “Shaun” but I like short names…I went to Auchindon with a pug who asked me politely (assuming it was a chick…) to tank for them just seconds from me logging in. Since I take ingame politeness with much more interest than rudeness I accepted even though I won’t benefit from the gear/xp, I did so knowing I can make up for my failness as being a tank in a lower instance. We did Mana Tombs. I got a little nervous but I did preface the run with the pug that my Paladin tanking cherry is about to be busted bright red. We did just fine. No wipes, heals were good and our DPS was fantastic. Our mage left pre-last boss fight then I got DC’d ironically  and when I cam back they had all left. I chalked it up as a win. My HP with buff is around 12k, not bad for a 70. I was near top of charts (2nd) in DPS for tank too–. Hard to beat mages….in dps.

Anywhoo, my long hours and efforts to get Sean ‘up’ there are finally paying off as I get to learn a new class in both specs: Tank/DPS and meeting more new people with pugs. After Sean hits 80 it will finally be time for Wookieluv to hit 80, then I can be among the lazy ass DPS players and be leet. ish.

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Off topic:  V

Alo and I watched “V” last night vis HULU and it was actually not bad sans the FBI’s son being an Obama..errrr…”Visitor” kool-aid drinker and his over acting. I haven’t read the background for the writer, director but it was interesting seeing 2 Firefly actors – the on board ‘entertainment’ and the ‘pilot’…tho I called the pilot being an lizard just before the raid– get’s killed off in the first episode.

I plan on watching the series as I loved the Original in the 1980’s– at least the first few episodes before it became predictable.

I like the writers point of making it aligned with Obama and his Admin with Health Care, Global issues, economy and it’s overall feel of ‘1984′. Kudos. I did make a photoshop mockup of Obama last year…predicting he was a Lizard…   kiss it Nostradamus! Kiss it long and hard.

My wish for the remaining 2009….Hulu on the iPhone.

 

 

 

Relevance

It’s funny how I read some blogs and think “Does this person actually think what he/she is writing relevant?” Blogging is pretty much ‘open’ to whoever and whomever on any subject matter without any type of ‘rules’. Sure there are TOS with the cookie cutter blogs like this one but if you ran your own you can pretty much post whatever you like. It’s not a ‘freedom of speech’ issue as the web isn’t governed by American Laws or European Laws – thank god…– unless what you are saying crosses over certains obvious laws. i.e. kid pron etc. Also I loathe people who bring up ‘freedom of speech’ anyways.

Anywhoo– relevance online is based on your peers, responses, visits, friends, pals, family, coworkers, pretty much anyone who acknowledges you exist. If they don’t then you are of no relevance to them. Make sense? So, with that I often wonder how convoluted some bloggers are within their own little narrow minded way of thinking that what they write has actual meaning or value. This also relates to social media venues like Facebook & Twitter. I believe most bloggers have multiple personalities, one for real life, one for their spouse and one for the web. I don’t consider myself a blogger, more so an updater of this blog. WoW isn’t too exciting to read about but it does give me an avenue to spew forth my non-sensical thoughts about a game I like and it’s people I interact with. With these multiple personalities that one tries to keep up, it makes you wonder if they know themselves, the real self that’s under neath.

My guess is most prolific bloggers or grinders- people who blog at least once a week- love attention. I’ve met local bloggers and I would say most were nobodies in grade school onto highschool and if they went to college they were ‘outsiders’ then as well. Blogging gives them a sense of security – anonymous- braveness they wouldn’t have otherwise. They found a ‘voice’ posting onto blogs and like moths to a light congregated amongst eachother to form friendships, kinships, booty calls, groups and overall..made connections they WOULD NOT have otherwise. I say that because most bloggers are homebodies, they NOW use the social media as tools to promote flavor of the month ’causes’ based on popular vote. Having only been around the KC area for the past 10 years I can only speak about this area, I try not to generalize other cities since I don’t live there. From what I’ve seen of the KC blogging community they are super ‘click’ ish and mostly liberals. Sure you have a few conservatives but to me they are far more ‘right’ than my ideologies so I don’t read them. Last year this time was the wave of euphoric Obama-ness gone wild with the chants of “Yes We Can” and bloggers having rallies for the first Black president, his approval rating of a non-elected President around 70% (today it’s 39%) approval. I was on the ‘road’ when he was elected and could hear a collective sigh of ‘really??’ across the nation. A year later the media has turned it’s back on him and his Admin. He get’s an undeserving Nobel Peace Prize of a yet unproven administration. I think we all should give him another full year before we turn on him. Shit takes time. I am happy to see the kool aid kampers falling off the bandwagon left and right along the way, which goes to show that last years meteoric rise of support is only as good as ‘what have you done for me lately’. Finicky Liberals. Oops, off on a tangent….

The relevance bloggers have, are self evident amongst themselves and the lurkers that read them, but really lurkers shouldn’t count. Hmmm I’m wondering if that first sentence makes sense….lemme reword it. You, being a blogger/twitter/facebooker are only as relevant as people paying attention to you. If you had zero friends, followers, page visits, would you keep on blogging/twittering/facebooking??  No. You wouldn’t. Why would you? If no one is listening why speak? It’d be like you talking to yourself wanting others to listen to you on a deserted island. No point, if only* to keep yourself company.

*This would be me.

I’ve seen blogs about the most mundane things yet the writer has no clue that what they just spent 1/2 hr writing has ZERO meaning. “What to do with your mismatched socks”. The author, in most cases write so they can relay a story to it’s audience to empathize or simply share an experience. I think it’s best for bloggers to stick to what is entertaining because pretty much your life is boring. Liven it up. Make things up. I do ask that you do not tell others what page you are on with the latest Harry Potter book, or how great you think you are at what you do – ie. your Job. If you want people to read your posts make it interesting. As Tyler Durden stated:

‘You‘re not how much money you have in the bank. You‘re not the car you drive. You‘re not the contents of your wallet. You‘re not your fucking khakis…”

I’m all over the place with this post, so I will listen to my own advice and stop right now since It’s lacking any relevance as well.

K

 

It’s a dead mans parteee

Simplest event ever. It’s a direct reference for “Day of the Dead” honoring the fallen/passed/dead/lost/etc. You need to only do a few things.

1. Learn the Cooking skill and buy Simple Flour and Ice Cold Milk.
2. Go to your home race’s graveyard (see the list above).
3. Talk to Chapman an npc “Day of the Dead” vendor located there.
3. Buy the recipe for Bread of the Dead and any of the flowers which allow you to see spirits or have a Warlock friend that can cast Detect Invisibility (or have the elixir). Learn the recipe. (It only requires a cooking skill of 1.)
4. Make the bread using the “Ghostly Cooking Fire” which is located at each race’s graveyard.
5. Use the flower, have the Warlock cast the spell or drink the elixir to see the undead spirits.
6. Locate the “Cheerful” spirit and accept the quest.
7. Turn in the quest and get the reward Macabre Marionette.

Today is the last day. Gitterdone!

 

by the way it’s also Oingo Boingo’s most popular song.`Dead Man’s Party’. Spent many nights in 9th grade parties dancin to that song. Below is a montage vid.

Exalted

I’ve been running with the guild called “Exalted” this week doing some basic Naxx 10m and made some quick friendships in doing so. So much so they invited Wootbeer to join them- talking with my guildies last night and letting them know I wasn’t abandoning them– who does that anyways??? *chuckle*– I became a member. The guild itself is where I’d like OS to be in a few months provided we have people motivated in doing so: casual raids, learning strats, being patient with one an another, slow and low. Apparently 50% of the guild all know each other in real life, that helps to keep things in perspective and in this case, knowing eachother leads to common goals.

They seem to be taking instances with a mind set of fail first, which is understandable if you’ve never been but after witnessing the Spider Wing take down in just over 1 hr with 1 wipe I’d say they are ready for the rest of the instance. I may be going 2 step backwards for gear and instancing for Wootbeer but it’s not about progression for me per se but moreover the experiences I have with people. I was laughing it up last night ini vent and had a genuine good time. Time.

We added another 2 members last night with my spamming in trade chat. It’s always a hit or miss if they stay around. We shall see.

*Salutations!*

Patience isn’t a virtue part 1.

Patience is learned and if your lucky you inherit it from one or both parents. I don’t know about ‘virtue’ since I relate virtue with one’s morals. Morals don’t come into play when you are dealing with a 13 year old WoW player. Patience does. In my years of gaming there are some very solid foundations that remain true to this day, of course there are always exceptions. One of the basics is that a young teen ages 12-16 tend to be erratic, blunt, combustible, waffling and have a serious attention deficit disorder. I get that, I do…not that I wasn’t any of those at 13…let’s see…I was erratic, check. I wasn’t blunt, I wasn’t combustible and I didn’t waffle…so basically erratic. Anyways, when you have teens in your guild you have to adjust your patience level somewhat as well as your love for the game.

I thought I’d offer some tips on how to deal with teenagers.  We need to break them down into some categories and subcategories as not all teens are created equal as I’ve met a good amount of quality teens who were not only respectful but insightful and well meaning. I will preface this that I’m a bit of an ‘ageist’ in that I prefer to run with older players…meaning over the age of 18….

Your first teen player is the complete Noob/Newb/New player who was talked into playing WoW or an MMO and has no clue what he/she is doing. They will ask a ton of questions while also being very random and the most irritating trait of this type if they don’t answer back to you for a very long time. This is where the AD&D comes into play. It would go a lot like this.

“Tarbog” DK (the noob) “Anyone know where the Auction House is in Dalaran?????????<— notice the usage of 10+ exclamation marks…

“StaxRipa” seasoned WoW player Mage ” Dalaran doesn’t have one.”

T – What!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!  Really???????

S – Yes, really.

T- Yes as in they DO have an auction house????? Or NO!???  WTF!??!?!!!!! HELP ME!!!!!!  Hey anyone run me thru Nexus real quik?!!!!?!!!!????

S- Dalaran doesn’t have a AH go to one of the Capital Cities.

T- Anyonehave spar(e) gold I can borrw?????!  Wait…??? What’s a “AH”???????

you get the jist and you’ve seen it. The way to deal with these types is to whisper them or group up with them so you don’t clog the guild chat channel with blabber that no one really wants to read. Once you have them in your group explain to them that there is no real need to put “!!??!!?!?!?” at the end of questions. Tell them that if they continue to do so, they run the risk of being labeled an asshole player…but also let them know it might be too late and they need to make social amends in chat. Now, depending on the maturity of the kid he/she will do …fuck that..girls don’t act that way……depending on the maturity of the BOY he will tell you to fuck off, agree and lower his tone of online voice or agree then still continue with his albeit innocent tirades when you are not online. You will then log on and hear about it from other guildies. It’s important to NIP these types ASAP as they will spread to the other players who are only THINKING of acting this way and are waiting for an opening. Domino’s.

end of part 1

My WoW Weekend

Here is what my weekend in the wonderful World of Warcraft® looked like.

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It’s FRIDAY!!!

I’m really liking our mini-core group in the guild right now. It harkons back to the original crews. Friendly, talkative, older, mature and pretty much everyone is enjoying themselves. We also have more females to males ratio currently. Now, I’m sure to be poached. =D

I’ve been playing my Pally all week doing the Halloween Trick or Treats visting the INNS and inbetween doing Alterac Valley. It too me a mere 2 hours to go 1.5 levels which equated to 2 levels. I hit 58 last night, not bad considering I was 55 on Monday plus I’m racking up 3 faction reps like nobody’s business. Basically, at my level 2 AV’s equal ONE level depending on the duration, obviously turtles are counter productive but I’ve never seen Ally do so well in AV. It’s also very fun in AV again. I predict I’ll be lower 60’s by Sunday. I also have help with future Outland runs with some of the guildies.

I still need to figure out a good spec for my Pally, and will probably buy the dual spec when I hit 60. I thought my toon was Ret spec but after forgetting to point up – realized I had 7 points waiting for me noticed that I’m Holy Spec…who knew. lol  My gear is also 60% decent in that it’s hybrid for both SP and DPS/Heals. More PvP and I can at least fill in the DPS part with Wootbeer & Co. doing the PvE set.

For those who have level 50’s you really ought to be doing the Trick or Treat Travel quests at the Inns where you pick up the candy, one gets between 4k-6k PER Inn which is around 1 Bar per stop plus you get the exploration badges. Try it and you will see yourself level in no time.

See everyone this weekend !

AK

Hallowed Be Thy Name

Took a year..but ONE quest and voila AutumnKnight has the Halloween title. Good timing on my part as I flew into Southshore there was  Horde planting ’stinkbombs’, after I killed the two Horde and Teabagged em I was able to do the quest. ! Then headed to the SM for a HH run took a while since we don’t have any more tanks in the guild, LOL. However, I spammed from within UC and got ourselves a <MURDER> tank and finished up in lickitysplit! No mount or pet but got the 80 ring. Was too tired to run Wootbeer through as I was grouped up with a new guildy and we were doing the Trick or Treats of Kalimdor and got all but 1 (for me) before the pillow was calling my name.

I also took my stab at PvPing with my Paladin. I asked a couple experts and they both said the same which kinda took me by surprise. Spam 2 buttons. That’s it. No wonder why it’s hard to kill something like a Paladin when they only need to worry about 2 buttons. I used 4 but whose counting. My paladin is only 55 but is geared with 3 pieces of Heirlooms so he’s not that bad. Ret paladin– I made some good kills and racked up the points and achievenments in no time. Was fun! I did notice most tried to ‘avoid’ direct confrontation on the bg field vs. when I’m with Wootbeer or AK. I’ll get better.

We seem*** knock on wood*** and *not get poached*- to have a small core group now, most of whom are in there 35-40’s with families. Added 2 more this weekend and they stayed longer than 3 hours. lol  Much thanks to the guild for recruiting the right players and having patience. It’s def. a rebuilding but I believe worth my time and efforts- and seems for those who play in our guild – worth their time as well. We also had 2 lowbie’s hit 80!

AK

Below are some ‘vintage’ costumes some of you may recognize…

Short, Fat and wears gay looking glasses.

Tall & Lean, Curvy & Sexy, Gordo y Flaca. All shapes and size along with all  motives and aspirations. In the world of warcraft which I’ve invested ample amount of precious life too, I’ve seen a lot. Experienced a lot. Heard a lot. I still love this game, just not as much. Not sure if it’s the game itself as a whole or the people. You cannot have one without the other influencing your ingame experiences.

I would like to have a MMO where it’s more individual based vs. cookie cutter. This won’t be a rant about the shortcomings of WoW but rather what “A” MMO could be like. Since WoW pretty much copied the best elements of other games before it then became it’s vanguard it’s still lacking creativity. The only nuances that sep. us from other toons besides gear is our talent tree & glyphs…but even those have a finite variances if your looking for the ‘best build’.

I noticed the other night playing EVE that you can, with enough time invested be very alternative and individualistic in your game play and interacting with your environment. This same concept was at the heart of Star Wars Galaxies. If WoW could somehow drop the excess amount of cookie cutter gear and had actual Black Smiths make unique and specialized Armor or Weapons that in itself would change the game. Pipe dream, yes. I’m just jonesin for something that can take my long hours collectively and apply them to something that is uniquely ME.

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So very close to rep cap with Argent and ample gold to back up the personal COS runs. Guild added 1 more to the group, Colleen is inching near 80! Err..”Neeloc”. /Proud

/Salute Samandible from Death Minions!

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And below are some Friday Fun since I’m sooooo cool and thoughtful.

Drake Lately

That title “Drake Lately” reminds me of one of  my favoritre comedians, Chelsea Handler of her own show “Chelsea Lately”. She has a 1/2 hr show where she basically reads headlines with up and coming and not so up and coming comedians and they add lib. I like her because she doesn’t mince words. She admits her faults and shortcomings while still being funny in the process. People who take themselves too seriously bore me. Hence, she doesn’t bore. Well after being the ultimate lazy rep gather’err I got exalted with the Wyrmrest Accord a couple days ago and AK now has her mount. She also got the BONE fishing pole for the daily. I’m attempting to knock out some easy Achievements but they take time: Cooking for the “Chef” title, Fishing for the “Salty” title and wanting to get the ‘Gemmed Pole’ to add to my collection. I still need the Rumsey recipe too. Tons to do.

I had to put in a ticket lastnight for the cooking line for the Northrend Recipes. Apparently, as it was verified in a Blizzard follow up email, the ‘ShovelTusk Soup’ is currently bugged. I checked over and over again and saw I did do the quest back in December but never got the actual recipe. I need that to complete that line. After that I will be done with it…

We added 4 more people last night to the guild, some old faces and some new. Also had another hit 80. He was a happy camper. We also did a VH run for those in the upper 70’s and I was able to gauge how they play and they all seemed competent enough even though Yuert was DPSing and I was tanking…lol We make up for alot of mistakes.

I’m on my 11th solo run of Scholomance for the mount. Yes, I know what all  3 of you are thinking, “OMG, you’ll never get that mount let alone soloing it without being bored!” Well..maybe so…..but I’m stubborn like that. I also tend to make some decent gold and greens that DE into some good gold. My runs paid for half of what I spent on the Drake (800 gold). Plus…Runecloth drops like mad and it sells very quickly. Going again tonight if it’s not too late.

Oh and Obama, gratz on something you didn’t deserve.

Not so fresh feeling? Try EVE. (online)

I took Sam’s advice and he was right. EVE online is frackin BEEEEUUUTIFUL. Once you get past the simple beauty and the sublime music/soundtrack of EVE you start to do the tutorial missions which seem easy enough but most of the time I’ve spent is figuring out how to get from point A to point B then back to point A. Like all MMO’s there is a beginning of doing mundane tasks which at the core of the tasks is the basis of what you will be doing during your time IN the game. If just a sliver of what you COULD be doing. I, like others are a creature of habit and it’s the same for me and MMO’s, I love to start with crafting or money making career, in this case I chose to start the mining courses, I can choose other paths but wanted to see this first. The economy is player driven so one can buy credits offline for real cash, this always hurts the ingame economy but since this game is nearly 6.5 years old it’s still maintained it’s player base. Not WoW numbers but respectable 400k players on ONE server.

Alix has been watching me totally unimpressed as I’m out there mining asteroids which I was hoping she would be like “WOW I wanna do that!” but I can’t blame her…it’s mining then going back to the starport drop off or sell then back out mining again. Very much like the quest noobs do in Goldshire. =D

This delve into EVE doesn’t mean WoW is Audi5000 it just means I’m trying another game, one which from the looks of it is VERY intricate and the learning curve as many have pointed out is steep. I like steep. It reminds me an awful lot of Star Wars Galaxies 1st year. As a crafter person you had to scan areas, test the ground with sample readings, pick up the ore and minerals with your hands to get enough materials to make a simple part. Step and repeat X 10 THEN you can make your first ‘Harvester’ THEN you had to meet with another crafter for “Power”….small steps lead to bigger ones then BOOM you were in the swing of things. I think that’s what EVE might be like. We shall see.

Lastnight I came within 300 points of being revered with Wyrmrest Accord, iknowrite? What took so damn long? Multiple toons is what happened. This will be my 2nd level 80 to be exalted (Wootbeer is). So I get AK her mount tonight and another achievement. AK did hit the 4500 mark last week, I finally made my “Chocolate Cake” getting “The Cake is a Lie” ach. Working towards the Chef title, just need 1/2 dozen recipes and I’m good to go…I believe the last ach. I will need will be the Rumsey recipe which comes from the dailies… next up will be more rep grinding with the Argent and maybe another faction–

We are still looking for more peeps to join OS! For an invite just pst one of us online. To see who is online, go to your search feature in the social UI and type in “Old School”  – while you may get some Old School Academy you can also cross reference our Armory.

/Salute

It’s (not) Dead, Jim.

I’ve posted before about my mullings over recruiting more people to this guild once again and it started last night with Yarrow joining back up followed by about 5 more. And only one was under level 50. lol

I just posted a spam for new members in the Azshara forums and it reads as such:

This maybe “TLDR” for some.. Salutations to the most motley bunch of people I’ve ever met or not met since SWG Flurry server of 2003. I’m the founder/obliterator of my guild ‘The Old School’ who have been around since the 3rd week of this server’s been online. In that time I’ve made tons of mistakes being the leader of my guild as well as some very sage decisions so I’m batting like .450 What I have learned in that time is people like to be catered to and led. Some lead, some follow, but most just want a place to call home and chill. I want the latter. This is where TOS comes in. I want to provide a place for mature, casual minded players who aren’t looking for the ultimate piece of gear and will leave the guild at the smallest carrot dangled in front of their faces. Sure it’s your ‘dime & time’ and you can go anywhere you damned well please, no one’s holding you back least of all a guild. But if you want to see the WORLD with some cool people without being yelled at, disrespected or made fun of because of your southern or canadian accent then we might be what you’re looking for. This is not your step father’s raiding guild. We do raid but for now we have to pug it up. We do have members that do Ulduar + and experience counts in the right places and time. We have that but without the attitude that comes with it.

Our focus:

• Achievement runs to cap your points

• Classic Dungeons not just to see the content but to go back and finish up your reputation

• Dailies, nuff said

• Group activities to farm foods, mats and more • Scheduled events: PvP raids, BG’s, Parties,

• Having fun in a relaxed atmosphere

We have:

• Blog updated weekly if not every other day

• 25 person vent

• Max Guild Bank

• Ranking system (work in progress)

This is my thoughts on The Old School, I can’t do this without more people to join up. If your interested please post here or pst me ingame or some of my officers who can invite you. AutumnKnight, Wootbeer, Yarrow, neelloc, Mykos & any “Sam” toons not named “Samanda” Thanks for the read. AK

So with that let’s shoot for the right people for this revamped guild. Please give me a shout if your interested in joining up or coming back to TOS.

Thank!

Focus: Achievement Guild

I want to have a guild that not only has the right attitude about WoW but overall about life. I am thinking of recruiting (drive) for some players who are not just interested in the gear but the achievement side of World of Warcraft. The introduction of the achievements (A <–using that vs. spelling out the long ass word…) last year for me, breathed a new life and structure for the game itself. I take pride in getting achievements as it’s a great barometer for your time in-game and your commitment.

I know it will be another balancing act but it should be a lot of fun along the way. Currently the active players in The Old School is the ladies of the house, Colleen, Mirencia/Santha and Yarrow’s alt. Sam logs in every once and awhile on alts but talking to him lately he’s getting burned out on raids. Pathe, Sokym’s alt and other log in as well as McTeagues hunter– overall the guild is pretty much stagnant. I hope to jump start it in the coming weeks/months.

Our focus is simple- get as many points we can as a guild and have fun while doing it. Not just points you don’t have but everyones. Rack em up and move onto the next target(s), we would also be fulfilling the ego part of the players needs to be recognized and see real content from the beginning to almost the current end, of whatever that may be. It’s not going to be a leveling guild or a ‘click’ guild where certain people ONLY run with their friends as that hurts the guild as a whole and belittles the players who ARE in the guild but ignored because they aren’t as cool as you. Ideally it will be for players that want to see the other side of the gaming experience, taking time to see things through and hopefully learn more about your toons.

If anyone is interested in joining or re-joining just pst me ingame. I can be found mostly on 3 toons: Autumnknight, Wootbeer & Pinkney.

Salutations!

Hello??

2 nights ago I was dreaming of something I can’t remember. Somewhere in the midst of a dream I can’t remember came a hollow sounding, echo’y voice that simply said “Hello?”. The odd thing was that it was clear sounding yet not, sounding much like on one of those toy echo microphones, which recently my wife bought her daughter for some old school fun. I lie there in bed suddenly awake with the hazy realization that maybe it wasn’t a dream but had to rack it up to a dream since some obvious factors were present and not present.

1. No one else was in the bedroom besides me, my wife and dog. The door was shut and locked.

2. I looked out the window and didn’t see anyone but they could be hidden so I looked and looked and waited for any noises or movement. None happened.

So I went back to bed.

Another day passes and I recounted the night before and wondered how/who/what. Nothing came to mind. Until last night at 3:20 a.m.

Have you guessed it? (Talking to the 3 people that visit this site regularly)….

It was my Vent. I had left my vent on a couple nights ago….last night the vent’s server restarted and woke me up. Couple nights ago was someone, Patrick I think that logged in and said “Hello?” in the middle of the night. I could check the log today to see but I’m 99.9% sure about this. I’m usually 90% correct so odds are in my favor.

So, Patrick….”Hello!” back.

Science Mystery Theatre 3000 solved.