This is the first World of Warcraft thread for ILG

Ulduar is gonna be fucking fantastic.

Wrath is really the first time I've done the "serious raider" thing; I've always been 2nd or 3rd tier in my guild, so I've never gotten to see content before it was on farm until this go-round, so I didn't mind that it was pretty easy (never saw Naxx the first go-round; hell, I've still never been to the end of Black Temple, never seen Sunwell Plateau, and just set foot in BWL for the first time about 4 weeks ago).

It's because those raid instances were largely designed for people without lives, Naxx and SWP in particular. But then I'm one of those scrubs that thought BC raiding was far too hard for the rewards gained.

Our guild cleared BT - killed Illidan the very night before the nerf - and I have to say it was a great instance. If the Blizzard pattern holds true, whatever comes between Icecrown and the next expansion will be the next no-life Naxx(original)/SWP.
I flip back and forth on raiding. Since I started with my own guild in Karazhan, I've switched mains (twice) and quit raiding forever (also twice).
I have been on the verge of quitting again, lately, but Uld looks pretty bad-ass so I'm sticking it out and trying to get the rest of my set in Naxx. Here's my dude btw. I always have trouble playing when the weather gets nice.

Oh man, I just realized I never posted my character info in this thread. Could've sworn I had months ago. <a href="http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Turalyon&n=Corit";>Here I am</a> in case you find yourself with an Alliance character on Turalyon.

DAMN YOUR EYES BBCODE

THERE

What is with all the alliances.

Oh, you know, acting like morons in /trade, losing Arathi Basin, the usual. You?

lol

Really, I only went Alliance because everyone I knew who played went Alliance; otherwise I'd have been Tauren from the get-go (still love that race, so cool looking esp. the shamans).

yeah, friends were the biggest reason I rolled horde. that and, i probably wouldn't have even bought WoW if I hadn't been told I could play an orc. For some reason I love orcs in any game, movie, or book, that has them. But especially WoW's version.. the whole noble warrior-code thing.

Taurens are great, too, but they are too damn big. I get sick of trying to see around them all the time.

I might have been tempted to go horde if goblins were a playable race, but as it is the Alliance currently corner the market on tiny goggle-wearing maniacs.

They should make a third faction out of the neutral races; goblins, tuskarr, furbolgs, dragons and murlocs.

I played on a pvp server as Horde and gained a healthy burning hatred for the Alliance. Bunch of filthy savages imo.

I play as Alliance and I have developed a healthy burning hatred for the Alliance!

Also, yeah, why are goblins still not playable? Horde needs a small race.

I played on a pvp server as Horde and gained a healthy burning hatred for the Alliance. Bunch of filthy savages imo.

hah, same here. I've been moonlighting on a PvE server lately and I don't even understand why people on those servers have any animosity toward each other.

Undead are the small race for the Horde. Geez, we're tiny compared to everyone else.

Sleight on The Scryers. I forget how to do URLs on this thingy.

just paste the URL, the board will linkify it for you

Oh, right then.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=The+Scryers&n=Sleight

Note that I'm retired as of last night, likely only to play with a group of college friends for the...fun of it and not to be a 'leet raider.

I'm thinking about starting up again. Does ILX have a raiding guild or something?

Ha, nope. We're all scattered all over the place.

I was messing around on PTR, and I must say dual specs are very cool. Almost makes me wish I was a hybrid class so they were useful to me.

Same here- dual specs are neat, and it'll be nice to be able to PVP without having to pay for the privilege every time, but it's a bit of an anticlimax when your class's talent trees all essentially boil down to "stab the mans til they falls down".

so I keep looking at websites for guilds like LootFTW and Exodus and wondering why these ppl play World of Warcraft if all they want to do is blast through content as fast as they possibly can

Exodus killed Vezax and is working on Yogg-Saron, ffs!

when I read abt wow I begin to understand how folx must feel when they read street fighter nerds

death knights = ken, if that helps

hahaha

christ, someone has already killed Yogg-Saron

IT'S THURSDAY

have fun waiting for new content

seriously... what fun is that?

the thing I can't figure out is that my whole guild is decked out in T7.5 gear, tanks are all wearing best-in-slot stuff, and our two groups doing 10-man Uld got owned last night. Couldn't even kill whatever boss is after flame leviathan. i suspect some of them went in there expecting to destroy the place and got a lesson in humility (example: one tank was still using his threat spec and gear set). i'm doing heroic tonight, so that should be fun.

Isn't the boss after Flame Leviathan the one who throws a random person into a melting pot that does 7k dmg/sec?

yup

haha I can see why they thought they'd just roll through that one

oh btw dual-spec is v.v pretty

they did a really good job with it. too bad i can't really justify the cost on a DK (no interest in tanking or pvping)

seriously considering switching mains lately.

grrr fucking job making me miss our first foray into ulduar

we downed leviathan and got Razorscale after about seven attempts. Apparently Ignis is bugged, so we skipped ahead to XT-002 and wiped on him 3 times before calling it a night. we raid for 3 hours 3x a week. bunch of fogies in our guild. so far i'm enjoying the Ulduar fights quite a bit!

Started a Paladin a few days ago, got a leveling guide and basically binged over Passover. Paladin is now level 50. I'm officially switching mains from my rogue. Turns out rogues suck at powerleveling. Paladins are the win.

one thing dual specs have done is make me wish I had a true hybrid class. I finally bought a 2nd spec for my DK but it feels wasted since I'm not really all that interested in tanking. Pallies and shaman are excellent choices for a main.

XT-002 is incredibly, amazingly annoying! Pretty awesome boss, but WOW what an annoying fight; ditto Kologarn (stupid fucking eyebeams).

The trash in the antechamber is crazy! I now see what I was missing in not doing BWL, pre-nerf BT or SWP.

You're further than us. We spent all night last night wiping on XT-002. A few people had done it on 10-man, but were mystified about why we were getting owned so hard. We only had one mage in group and he was arcane, so we were having a hard time snaring/stopping the little scrapbot things.

Because of my schedule last week, XT-002 is the only boss fight in the courtyard that I've done; 25-man Flame Leviathan and Razorscale were downed on a night I couldn't go (they skipped Ignis) and the 10-man pug I did picked me up after the courtyard had been cleared.

So, I know the fights inside Ulduar but I don't know the first few, lol.

lol why did the Lich King friend me on Facebook

he must be bored up there alone in Icecrown waiting for people to come knocking on his door.

i am not looking forward to the big room of trash of which you speak.

srsly, we screwed up the initial pull and our main tank (pally, 43k hp) got 2-shotted

shit is INTENSE

I have to say, though, that so far I am pleased with the difficulty level.

haha yeah, as one guy said on Vent last night, "It's been so long since we've had to use our brains on these fights!"

for us it's the first time we've been in a raid that hasn't been on farm forever. there are strats online, but they still have holes in them - no real optimal way of doing everything yet. it's nice being able to figure them out together.