Bonzo is reminiscing for us this week, fed up of the FAILPUGs and things hitting HIM in the face (that’s the wrong way round) Bonzo casts his mind back to happier times……….. or were they! Lets see what our unlikely hero of the Horde got up to when he was just a little calf.
The Horde are angered!
It seems Alliance have pissed off the Horde a little more than normal, never adhering to the “Keep off the grass” signs in Oggy and behaving in a totally inappropriate way, finally one has cracked, (although we all know he cracked a long time ago!) Recent Alliance defector Awoken has issued a call to arms on both Horde and Alliance sides for some good old fashion World PvP funnage. In his own words I present to you Awoken!
Tales from the Dream: MOAR Bonzo!
This is my favourite chronicle, but there are quite a few inside jokes, as Bonzo wrote this primarily for our guild, not really intended for the wider audience. However, I am confident you will still enjoy it.
Bonzo mentioned in his previous comment, that “Unleashed” is the guild’s scapegoat, ANYTHING and I mean ANYTHING that goes wrong, its all Pambos’ fault. So if the server is down or there are no more additional instances or gawd forbid there is no more whiskey, you can rest assured its probably Pambos’s fault.
Malignant, well really thats Mal.
Magpawacar is one of those WOW Fortune 500 members, as you will gather! There are more, but I am sure you want to get started on reading what Bonzo, our unlikely hero of the Horde got up to this time.
Devil’s Advocate: Epic not really Epic
Eh? Epic not really epic? They look purple to me… Oh I see! You meant in the “They’re so common, they’re not epic anymore” category. Ah right… But how and why? Let’s look at that.
Once upon a time instance bosses dropped greens, not blues. Rares were pretty damn rare and epics were unheard of. Someone who had an epic was the centre of attention with everyone inspecting him and patting him on the back and ooing and aahing over how much of an awesome player he must be to have gotten an epic.
What changed? Most would argue it’s that the game has gotten easier and epics are being handed out like candy. But is that what really happened? Or is there more to it?
Devil’s Advocate – Easy Raiding
The sound of fighting echoes across Stratholme as the Scarlet Crusade fight their daily fight with the Scourge that remains in the city. The flames lick across the ruined buildings unimpeded by the rain that showers down. Even after three years, the streets are still strewn with mutilated corpses, both human and undead. In the upper floor of one building there sits another corpse in an old rocking chair, just watching the streets below, unbothered by the fighting, the rain or the fire.
The corpse waves his hand, summoning a bolt of flame which incinerates a passing ghoul. A soft chuckle escapes his lips as the screaming ghoul runs into a crowd of Scourge setting them all ablaze. “Which resident were you, I wonder,” he mutters as he immolates another ghoul, “so many people, so many lives lost” he sighs, blasting another ghoul. He scowls, crushing the arm of the chair he sits in, the wood turning to splinters in his fingers he climbs to his feet and roars, “HOW LONG!! HOW LONG TILL I HAVE MY VENGEANCE.” roaring he slams his arms down his sides as the rain turns from water to fire, adding to the flames already consuming the city.
Devil’s Advocate: Vanilla Servers
“Ghostcrawler Ghostcrawler!!” the hunchbacked Igor cries entering the dark crypt of the Systems Design Lab. “What is it my minion… Have you brought me my gin in a coffee mug?”, mutters the Ghostcrawler, obviously annoyed at this intrusion.
Igor shuffles around nervously “Umm no your great crabbiness… The players are desiring, nay, demanding a vanilla server!”
“DEMAND! They dare demand of ME the almighty crab! … well,” Ghostcrawler chuckles thoughtfully, “Let us give them what they demand shall we.”
Igor cowers in fear at his masters devilish grin.
Soapbox: Emblems of Triumph
I don’t proclaim to be a hardcore raider, but I love to raid, it gives me a sense of achievement and obviously some fat loots. But recently I have begun thinking back to TBC and the awe in which I found myself when running around Stormwind or Shattrath gazing at the epic clad players in a rainbow of colours, sometimes even running after a Rogue with Warglaives to get another look.
It dawned on me that firstly WOTLK armour is shite and the rehashed double colours tier sets are just lazy, but this post isn’t really about that, its more to do with the fact that both now and in the next patch players who have never even stepped foot in a raid will be found running about in Tier 9, and the question… is this fair?
The History of ED
A very interesting forum post cropped up this week asking about the ye olde days of our little realm.
It’s nice to see that people obviously remember who gets what server first, or who is a PvP god, for years after the actual event.
Personally, I joined WoW too late to hit 60 before TBC hit and was pretty much out of the loop (as we all know, when you join it’s more about “OMG I’m riding a kitty!” than “Oh I wonder which raiding guilds are the best”). During the first expansion, since I was now running a guild, I did a much better job of keeping up to date with what was going on. However, nobody can really argue that Scarab Lord, or being the most progressed guild in Naxx 1.0 is not more impressive than a server first Kara clear.
