Post by Winsome on Nov 2, 2005 9:24:10 GMT -5
Thanks to everyone who turned out! We had a great time!
I'll try as best I can to post recaps the day after each run.
Last night was the first meeting of the Casual Raiders. Of our 20 strangers, 15 showed up on time and ready to roll (thanks) and we quickly gathered 5 more from various guilds and were rolling by the official start time of 9:15.
For many of who come from large guilds, there were some very funny moments as we tried to learn styles and habits on the fly. The best moment by far, was wiping on the VERY FIRST PULL. Admit it, you all thought we were going nowhere, didn't you! Fortunately, the gods of WOW really wanted us to succeed, and droped an epic Brain Hacker on us to encourage us to continue!
Mercifully, that was the only wipe for quite a while, and as Leena and Emilie sorted out the pulling, and Winsome figured out how to properly play with her crowd control toy, pulls got faster and cleaner. The clear to Venoxis was pretty much without incident.
Then, more rookie pickup action, as Emilie charged a 7-mob pull that I thought was being pulled. Without healing, Emilie went down like a sack of potatoes, and I followed soon after like a cloth-wrapped bag of potatoes. Party chat was hilarious as Emilie and I fell over each other apologizing to one another.
With two wipes under our belt already, you'd think Venoxis would be impossible, and yet we pwned him with easy. A great performance, and two rogue drops to reward us.
Heady with success, it was off to batgirl. We learned how to work together on the bats, going from 3-4 deaths per early pull to flawless bat dropping by the end (pun intended).
And then came Jeklik.
First off, thanks to all for sticking with her. Wiping at 1% is just no fun. We will get her next time, I swear. We were sooooooo close, but each time came up just a tiny bit short.
I'm not going to say that is the best pickup group I've ever seen but . . . well, I can't think of any better offhand. I'd like to see someone gather 20 strangers from Ironforge and do better than we did last night. Not gonna do it!
Of course, now we aren't a pickup group any more! . . .
PHAT LEWT:
EPICS:
Primal Hakkari Armsplint (Lea)
Brain Hacker (Reyinx)
RARES:
Blooddrenched Footpads (Pfintzer)
Bronze Bijou (Emilie)
Purple Bijou (Krogan)
OTHER:
Paladin Voodoo Doll (Kandie)
Thanks so much to all who came. Next run is Monday!
I'll try as best I can to post recaps the day after each run.
Last night was the first meeting of the Casual Raiders. Of our 20 strangers, 15 showed up on time and ready to roll (thanks) and we quickly gathered 5 more from various guilds and were rolling by the official start time of 9:15.
For many of who come from large guilds, there were some very funny moments as we tried to learn styles and habits on the fly. The best moment by far, was wiping on the VERY FIRST PULL. Admit it, you all thought we were going nowhere, didn't you! Fortunately, the gods of WOW really wanted us to succeed, and droped an epic Brain Hacker on us to encourage us to continue!
Mercifully, that was the only wipe for quite a while, and as Leena and Emilie sorted out the pulling, and Winsome figured out how to properly play with her crowd control toy, pulls got faster and cleaner. The clear to Venoxis was pretty much without incident.
Then, more rookie pickup action, as Emilie charged a 7-mob pull that I thought was being pulled. Without healing, Emilie went down like a sack of potatoes, and I followed soon after like a cloth-wrapped bag of potatoes. Party chat was hilarious as Emilie and I fell over each other apologizing to one another.
With two wipes under our belt already, you'd think Venoxis would be impossible, and yet we pwned him with easy. A great performance, and two rogue drops to reward us.
Heady with success, it was off to batgirl. We learned how to work together on the bats, going from 3-4 deaths per early pull to flawless bat dropping by the end (pun intended).
And then came Jeklik.
First off, thanks to all for sticking with her. Wiping at 1% is just no fun. We will get her next time, I swear. We were sooooooo close, but each time came up just a tiny bit short.
I'm not going to say that is the best pickup group I've ever seen but . . . well, I can't think of any better offhand. I'd like to see someone gather 20 strangers from Ironforge and do better than we did last night. Not gonna do it!
Of course, now we aren't a pickup group any more! . . .
PHAT LEWT:
EPICS:
Primal Hakkari Armsplint (Lea)
Brain Hacker (Reyinx)
RARES:
Blooddrenched Footpads (Pfintzer)
Bronze Bijou (Emilie)
Purple Bijou (Krogan)
OTHER:
Paladin Voodoo Doll (Kandie)
Thanks so much to all who came. Next run is Monday!