Welcome friends.
I have a secret that I have been keeping form you for quite a while. You may or may not know that I, Aurum, am an officer in Farstriders Elite. The co-guild leader will be absent for a while, he asked ME to be his replacement. I don’t think I am up to the job, I still have a lot to learn.
FE is a guild with over 150 accounts and over 220 toons. Not all are twinks, we have toons in guild who are friends on other servers that pop in to say “Hi. Good game”.
This is a twink guild of good players. Some have transferred from different servers. They are located across the states and international (we need more on Vent from England and New Zealand IMO.)
We are known mostly for running level 19s, but are growing in the level 29 bracket, and have recruited some strong 39s.
But where do you find information on “How to run a Twink Guild?” You don’t. I have looked up and down and really we are in a unique situation here.
In the Emberstorm battlegroup, there is WKP where it is run like a Stalinistic Regime, DTK view themselves like a family, and JoAT seems to be more like a business. Where does FE stand… by committee of equals.
With the number of players we have, no one person can see everything. So officers will meet and a name will pop up and all the stories come out of the woodwork. My favorite line in a meeting is always “I don’t know why but TwinkName leaves a bad feeling.” Where we all dig up stories about TwinkName and we assess if they are removed from the guild.
Our gear standards are extremely high. This part I am having a really hard time with in general. Your first twink is a hard thing to do. Many settle for second best. It is also not cheep.
The issue is that FE is not “second best” it expects THE BEST.
*checks in bags for PvP gear*
So a 19 hunter with 4/5 Eagle pants and not the 5/5 Eagles will have a ding against them. They have to explain the 5/5s are in bank and are saving up for the Nethercleft Leg Armor. Don’t get the others started if you show up in Blackened Defias Leggings. *shiver*
*pulls out blades and sharpens them for battle*
So I am making mistakes and learning from them.
*charges into mid-field to test her newly sharpen blades*
Maybe if I am not too embarrassed by my mistakes I will share them with you.
*caps one flag*
… maybe.
*returns two flags*
But remember I am just a well geared bank toon.
*wipes the blood off her cheek*
Yes, I was spell checked by the drunken one.
May we see much from Drunk Rogue in the future!
Saw someone quoting this in their signature on the forum:
Warlocks are the only class in the game that hold the mentality that if they're low on health, they should start a fight.
I do this all the time!!!
The only thing that makes me pause before a fight is if my minion is dead or not.
But group members can replace my minion. This always leads me to the thought of being able to Dark Pact the mana of the Mages, Hunters, and Pallies around me.
*dreamy eyes* I can wish.
What SSC looks like before we start ...
What it look like after we have been fishing for a while…
Husband showed up with his newly enchanted fist weapon. I don’t see any Spell Damage. I was not all that impressed. I did make the appropriate cooing noises.
Note to everyone: Jumping on the down elevator makes it go faster. Jumping on the up elevator will make it go slower. Just try it you will see what I am saying.
Then we got down to business on Lurker. Running around in circles. Dieing together. Running back. Modify stuff. Dieing again. Changing some things up. More dieing.
It goes out…
“This is the last attempt”
We have dead fish.
Way to go WM!!
A tank picked up the Mallet of the Tides. Something that we sharded also dropped. I took The Seal of Danzalar because no one else wanted it. It was going to be sharded if I didn't. It has 21 resilience rating. Which is better then the zero my current rings I use for PvP have. *grin* So there goes my slowly building DKP.
It was a pretty clean first kill.
We are so getting spoiled with all these bosses down. I did hear something that made me happy. We are going to start FARMING these new bosses. This is a relief to me because I will then not feel like I have to attend them all. I don’t need to be, no one has said that, but having a completely different group each attempt to down a boss can be a real setback.
So bring on the farming!
P.S. Wowjutsu says that WM is 5th on our server now. But as a guild we have not taken down Leo and Tidewalker. I am sure that will be true soon. *glee*
Mom would tell the two of us. (Thought of this when BBBB
brought up Dr. Demento.)
I was in Color Guard in High School so Friday night football games were normal. I loved them because that was where I would tutor math and get my calculus homework done. (And my parents didn’t think I would graduate form HS *shrug* go figure.)
So we would get home about 10 pm at night and that is when Dr. Demento would play his top five. Mom would take my sleeping little sister into the house. Dad and I would sit in the car and listen to the radio. We would sing along with Fish Heads, Time Warp, and our all time favorite The Scotsman (found WoW versions). I cherish those memories.
<3
On another football note… those four years of going to football games I really never watched. Husband and I went out one night with a teacher friend and his wife. We started our night of games and chatting when he used a phrase I didn’t understand…
“Don’t take points off the board”
This started me on a “What’s that?” train of questioning.
He would start describing something and say “3rd of 4”
“What’s that?”
bla bla downs bla bla
“What’s that?”
Well bla penalty bla bla
“What’s that?”
This went on for a bout an hour. He even pulled out scratch paper and drew pictures for me.
It stopped when I asked “Why is it called a Safety?”
After all that…
The only thing I know is the reference has something to do with football.
He tried.
Poking around my WWS reports I was taking note of misses, how the other locks play, and what spell they are using. I finally glanced at the DPS. I honestly don’t look at my ranking. In so many fights there is movement and locks have so much utility in a fight. Solarian is a fight with adds.
Then I thought what other fight had adds? Sunday’s Kara I lock tanked Illhoof!!
I love me some Seeding.
Hydross the Unstable went down the first night.
Three new bosses down in one week! The War Machine is rolling.
Our Destro Lock (who is now Affliction) put together a video from our Al'ar Kill.
I confess I wasn’t doing anything…
Not Fishing.
Nada.
Not Cooking.
Nil.
Not Skettis.
Zilch.
Not Gathering.
Noppers.
Not Hellfire.
Null.
Not Nagrand.
Not even the Isle ones.
What am I talking about?
I didn’t do one daily on Wednesday.
I feel free.
3/4 for The Eye (Right? That’s what all the real raiders say.) It was our first night to attempt High Astromancer Solarian. Just the fact that she is a Mage wearing Warlock clothes she needs to die. She obviously needs to learn to pick gear appropriate for her class.
Girdle of the Righteous Path, Worldstorm Gauntlets, Heartrazor, and Plans: Red Havoc Boots dropped on this first kill. Husband picked up the Heartrazor.
In guild Warlock news…
