A post in three parts. You’re probably reading this in a feedreader, so let me tell you about a change to the page layout of Mysterious Buttons that you haven’t seen and don’t care about. I’ve removed the wall-o-links sidebar that was my blogroll, and also the single largest thing on the page. I’ll keep… Continue reading We’re not as stupid as we think we are
Month: September 2010
Virtuous pugging
Everyone (including me) has a million and one tales of horrible pug experiences, whether they’re via the dungeon finder (aptly nicknamed Sanity Tap a lifetime or two ago) or the via the joys of pug raiding and everyone’s favourite “Link GS and achivs” tradechat ads. Bad players, mad players, afk-ers, stoners, the clinically depressed and… Continue reading Virtuous pugging
Things I’m (kinda) learning: Raid healing
PREFACE: I’ve discovered a collection of unpublished drafts from the past month or so and am gradually cleaning and releasing. Expect random jumps from subject to subject! Not too long ago, I attended one of our Thursday night raids instead of stumblingly mispronouncing bits of Japanese, but in an unusual (read: never before attempted) capacity.… Continue reading Things I’m (kinda) learning: Raid healing
What to do?
Or rather, what to do next? Now that we’ve finally toppled the Lich King ourselves, it’s a question we need to ask. For many guilds, the answer to that is a straightforward “heroic modes, of course” but it’s not quite so cut-and-dried for us. Don’t get me wrong: the next time we go into ICC,… Continue reading What to do?
Kingslayer
Do I need to write much more? Oh, ok then. At about half past midnight, on try number… 17? maybe, we made it. With the patch preloading, and various guildies about to be unavailable for a while, it looked like we had one last night. We tried hard. We didn’t make it. We were soooo… Continue reading Kingslayer