A Trip Down Memory Lane

This is brought on by the competition being run by the Girls Gone WoW podcast gals, so blame them for this.

Back in TBC I was in a guild on Alonsus EU, horde side called Malice. Sadly due to losing a few members and the GM quitting the game it was decided the guild would disband. But the night before all the available members got together and decided to have a naked dance party on the roof of the Orgrimmar bank. People from other guilds joined in, the AoE spam played hell with my PC but what the hell, and then it was decided to take it to Shat’trath to see if we could get the allies to join in.

At the time the top guild was an ally guild with a Scarab Lord as a main tank. The guild had something of a rep of being very elitist and arrogant, especially this tank guy. But lo and behold they joined in with our dance party, though all still in their shiny epics. So we formed a plan. A few of us mounted up on our flying mounts and used emotes to get Mr Scarab Lord to follow us up as high as we could go. Then we dismissed our mounts. He did that too, expecting a mass suicide. Except we all had slow fall devices (the engineered parachutes, slow fall, levitate) and he went splat in all his shiny gear whilst we floated down to earth and danced round his corpse. To be honest maybe it was funnier when you were there… He took it very well though, even the repair bill.

Anyway, the guild disbanded the next day but we had a good last evening together. And the Scarab Lord? A few weeks later he took all the valuable stuff from the guild bank toon he controlled and transferred server. Oh, the drama.

But anyway, I still have the screenies!!

Lvl 30: I Still Hate Gnomeregan

Yesterday was a mixed bag for me in game. After running a few Twilight HCs on my DK and Spriest I decided what the hell, I’ll see if I can heal one and logged to my shaman. Zoned into End Time and the first boss was Baine Bloodhoof, who I had only ever faced once before. But it went fine, we lived. Then it was Tyrande. And I suck liked a Dyson. Kept getting hit by the silencing thing, and after two wipes I left in disgrace. How DO I avoid that anyway, never had an issue with it as DPS.

Anyway, feeling foolish I logged onto my Undead Warrior to hide from the shame. Alterac hasn’t altered THAT much it seems, and I duly hit level 30. I decided to try a low level dungeon and joy of joys, it was Gnomeregan. A place that I loathe with a passion.

Back in Vanilla as a hordie you had to do a quest that opened up a transporter in Booty Bay to get there, unless you wanted to run all the way there through hostile territory. But most of the time the transporter was bugged, and it took 30 mins on jumping like a looney to get it to work sometimes. Now getting in is easier, but bloody hell it’s still annoying.

People just jump off edges to get places, which creates all kind of chaos. I zone in, we clear the first few mobs, and the healer tells us to jump down. We do, and…. They don’t follow. We’ve aggroed mobs and the healer just doesn’t jump, and we wipe, at which point said healer starts calling us names. Screw that for a game of soldiers, I dropped the group and had dinner. After dinner I got back, and same thing happens.

So yes, I still hate Gnomeregan. And have probably been spelling it wrong too.