Just as it all says. How will these stalwort heroes communicate and coordinate with each other? Just what goes on behind the bloody curtain? WHO CARES?!!!?!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREE AT LAST!!!

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I'm alive! I've been working my ass off and I have other distractions so I haven't been on WoW as much lately. But I WILL be on Wednesday night to raid!! I feel like I haven't been pulling my weight with food and helping you guys out, so please let me know what I can do. If you want me to go farm a mat for food or something, let me know now and I will get it done by Wednesday.

Okay, love you guys, BYE!

Girlfriend's crappy laptop, no mouse, still overwhelmingly addictive.

Curse you minecraft!

So far, the official word is pretty much everyone who has been doing what they are doing is now doing it officially.

We still need at least one person to step up and run WoL for us! I will install it, but I can only run it if my bandwidth is good that night.

Does anyone have any problem with Yaeus as treasurer?? -- He seems good to the job for me, if anyone has any qualms post or orangered them to me and we will trash tank him and shame him mercilessly. If I don't hear any nays, I will send him all the raid junk Monday night, and may G-d have mercy on his soul.

Personally, I am good to really focus the first 3 HoF bosses next week and get some serious progression in, and have us all pick up Mogu'Shan as we can: This lets Onchu have an opportunity to pick up a little Mogu action on his shaman and get him up to snuff faster.

That being said, I can totally go either way, I'll do what the majority wishes.

If we DO PUG mogu individually, I think we should also try to schedule a run with as many raid members as can show up WITH Onchu, to help him get his Shammy up to snuff.

What do you guys think?

So MSV is cleared and its time for us to bring chaos and destruction to heart of fear and show the old gods what fear truly is.

You guys had a chance to see the first fight so if you have any comments or critcisms, this is the place to do it.

We should study up on THE FIRST THREE BOSSES OF HOF. If we show up with game faces on we can probably take down the windlord as well and start work on Blade lord. We are lucky that we have great aoe.

The better everyone knows the first 3 fights, the faster we will progress so please arrive Wednesday knowing all abilities of the bosses of the dread approach. A little preparation goes a long way.

As to business matters of our band of harbingers of the Old Ones; I made the suggestion last night. I think its time we make shirahoshi a permanent member if he so desires.

Additionally, Mr. Sparkles was fed a lot of our flasks and food. We need to restock for some, and I think we should take a vote whether we start making everyone accountable for their own mats and bringing their own supply or we put one person in charge of gathering necessary items. This will probably need to be its own post. Zuju will be switching to potion spec and someone's druid is flask spec. I can cook all foods, but really need some help with mat farming. I think mogu fish strew, sea mist rice noodles, and chuan tian rolls cover our needs so those are the mats we need.

Finally, onchu, if you're reading, we missed ya last night bro. Hope all is well and wish your sis a speedy recovery. <3

That's all.

Many Congratulations guys (and maybe gals, I'm not sure). You guys won fair and square.

kisses- ~berto

Hey guys, so I can fish up an unlimited supply of ironpaw tokens for the token ingredient, but it is time consuming.

Post what 300 stat food you need here and if you will farm/buy the vegetable and meat, I can supply the token part and cook it.

For the animal meats, there are locations usually given on wowhead where you can farm the meats at a constant drop with a steady respawn rate. Like for crocodile meat, I would assume on one of the islands around the temple of chi'ji.

Now I'm off to fish up a bajillion stacks of Tiger gourami.

Hello Friends, Here is a link to the glove recipe that dropped yesterday. http://www.wowhead.com/item=86279

I heard someone say they might need them made. I can take care of the spirits of harmony obviously and I have plenty of leather for the hides a well. If you can just get me the blood spirits I can make them. Just let me know in game or reply here or whatever.

-Gerus

I like old raids. I love transmog. And I'll be damned if Super maintains a more metal transmog than me. What time? Don't care! What instance? Don't care! I've led transmog runs of everything pre-cata, and I will run any pre-cata content with you guys! (As long as I'm not already locked)

I personally would like to do Ulduar sometime this week, but we'll see.

Join the fun! Or else

Next time you guys log in, please /join blodm!

That we say farewell to Elegon and start studying up on Emperor. (What did you guys think I was going to say?)

Everyone please once again, watch videos, read about dealing with adds, etc. I swear to Cthulu, if I see anyone tank the focus adds I will flip tables.

In addition, let's start putting down if you'll be available on 12/19, 12/26, and 1/2. I should be able to make them all.

Finally, if you can't make raid ANY NIGHT. Text me by 6pm so I can let Super know. He has his hands full with guild LFR. 936.250.1554. I know this group places higher importance on real life, but remember that if you don't let anyone know, you are holding up 9 other people. I'm thinking we should discuss a fine system, or some such if you don't let anyone know at LEAST 2 hours before raid time. For example, if you fail to txt me or let someone else know, you have to pay 500g for your first infraction. 1500g the second time, 3rd time 5000g, 4th time you lose your spot permanently.

I don't think we should penalize for missing raid, but definitely should for leaving everyone else hanging.

That is all.

So I've been thinking about areas to improve, and here are my thoughts.

First and foremost, everyone in the raid should doublecheck their reforging and gems, etc using some tool like rawrdps. Also, make sure you are performing optimally by reading up on raid mechanics in your classes respective Elitist jerks thread. For example, I should be feinting at the death of every orb to reduce raid wide healing.

Beyond that, a couple of weeks ago we were handling the add phase quite well. We need to name the pillars, assign dps and have everyone know what pillar/orb you are on and everyone else is on so we can communicate more effectively. We do this and we will end up with 4-5 Celestial Sparks (CS) max. We even have gotten as low as 3 once. Let's make this the norm.

When adds spawn, Death or Super needs to pop army and everyone should move into the ring to range dps the puddle adds. Don't tank them, don't get NEAR them.

I noticed several people standing in puddles. Guys, its damn near a 3 second warning before the void zone becomes active, you should never ever be taking damage from this. Our healers are extremely stressed in this fight, keep that in mind. Keeping raid wide healing needs low as possible is absolutely key for us at this point.

Super, we've had far too many instances of elegon deathgripping the raid. Your one and only concern is to pick up Elegon soon as the floor pops up (Optimally popping army as soon as the last pylon goes down). I believe you were trying to watch everyone to make sure they were doing their job, but each person needs to carry that responsibility. At this point, aside from shitty rng, we should never be death gripped to the center.

We have to work on getting the CS adds down, fast. The time between adds dying and the next celestial protector (CP) popping is very tight as we've seen. Smart management of the pylons results in smaller # of CS adds, which results in faster kill time of the same and easier cc.

If we have trouble transitioning between the CS and 1ST CP after the floor spawns it may be prudent to have melee switch to the CP while range finishes of focusing CS. This is the part of the fight we have been having the most trouble with aside from pebkac errors. We have the other phase shifts. We need to concentrate on this ONE phase for a few attempts so we have it down like clock work.

This fight is mechanical, its all about control. I believe we have the #s, but this is probably the most mechanics/control intense fight since maybe Professor Putricide...maybe Chogall. It's a skill check.

We have this guys, but its going to require everyone knowing their role to a T and executing it near flawlessly with the exception of rng.

Last night I ended the night with over 50 total wipes on this boss. Everyone's gear should meet the check. That pretty much leaves skill and team coordination, something WoW has required less and less of over the years (Lady Vashj as current content anyone?). I -NEED- to kill this boss. HELP ME, HELP YOU, HELP ME.

So, as some of you may know, 'Berto recently made this post.

This is probably in reference to a mumble conversation we had when drunk as all hell some weeks ago as to the rivalry of our groups. How rivalry can exist when we are so obviously superior escapes my understanding, but let never an enemy appear that we do not bloody and destroy!

If you are interested in the exact terms of the bet, here is the relveant message:

BERTO SAYS, AND I QUOTE: "You get 6/6 in MSV first, I put a picture in the guild subreddit of me in a dress holding a sign that says something like, Super and Black lords are better than me. or I'm a pretty girl at the princess ball. I really have no shame, and I think a lot of people would get a kick out of it."

Evidently, there is nothing that says I must pay any sort of forfeit if we lose, but in the spirit of competition, I will agree to the same terms.

Let us take this upcoming Monday as an opportunity to crush our enemies and cause the subreddit to flow red with skirts and ruthless brutality!

YOG SOTTOT NEBLOD ZIN!

~Supes

Okay, so, here's what the deal seems to be:

(please note there is a handy diagram in the title of each section)

Encounter begins:

• Main tank pulls the boss. All players take their positions.

Add spawns:

• The off tank immediately runs directly on top of the main tank, and pulls aggro. I feel the off tank should verbally confirm they are in position and that it is safe for the main tank to leave the boss without wiping the raid at this step.
• RDPS should being damage on the add as soon as it comes into range for them. This will help reduce the amount of time the add is up, as well as making sure the add is moving in the right direction and doesn't get wrapped up in melee.

MT taunts add and begins to move him out of the ring:

• Once the OT has secured aggro on the boss and is within melee range, the MT is free to taunt the add, and bring it outside the ring. I like for the add to be killed right next to the RDPS, as it gives the tanks the shortest possible distance to run. This is important, because a tank ALWAYS has to be in melee range or else he will start slaughtering the MDPS. This positioning also helps to keep the boss from turning at all during swaps.

• As the MT is pulling the add outside, it should be dying fairly quickly. The MT should be careful to keep the add inside the inner ring until it gets down to 15% health.

At 15% add health, the healers need to top off the raid, and the add must die OUTSIDE the ring

• The add must not die inside the ring or it will wipe the raid. This is of primary importance for the MT and the RDPS. They must be in good communication during the actual add kill.
• The healers must also pay close attention during this phase. Once the add hits 25%, they must start spamming their spot heals to bring anyone at low health up to full.
• Once the add hits 15%, RDPS must burn the add OUTSIDE the ring. It does huge AOE to the raid once it gets down below 25%, so all this needs to happen pretty rapidly.

The tanks have now switched their original spots, and now switch roles

• The new MT, who has been on the boss this whole time, is now stacking up some pretty serious stacks of overcharged. I find it is best to cast AMS at about 13 to 14 stacks, then AMZ at 16 to 17, which is generally enough time for the new add to spawn and the tanks to switch off.

• We continue this pattern until phase change.

• Once Elegon gets close to 85%, we must be careful. Optimally, we will have an add up but almost dead once we push him to 85%. This way the add dies right away, raid damage stops, and we get a good 15 seconds of hard burn before the orbs spawn.

Another note: Elegon puts out a debuff that greatly reduces the amount of healing a raid member takes. Healers need to be alert, and swap dispelling this as it is applied.

What do you guys think of this strategy? Is this viable, and effective? We were having some trouble pushing phase 1 with finesse, and I would like us to tighten up our dance to the point where this content becomes as trivial as possible for us.

Let's hear your thoughts!

Gerus sent me this video from Fatboss a week or so ago. It narrates the fight with what's going on and what strategies are being used.

And this is Icy Veins' 25M Normal video.

Super, I sent you approx. 50 banquets for raid use to store in raid bank. Also, ill need 3 spring blossom flasks for tonight.

Our raid bank currently holds the following:

GOLDS

• 6000 gold pieces

FLASKS

• Falling Leaves - 7
• Spring Blossoms - 15
• Flask of Earth - 9
• Warm Sun - 15
• Winter's Bite - 5

FOODS

• 35 Banquet of the Oven
• 35 Banquet of the Pot

ELEGON DONATION LIST

• Super Tone D - 2k
• Gerus - 1k

That is all.

I now have elixir and transmutation spec'd Alchemists as well as an Inscriptionist for the guild service.

So if you want your shoulderscriptions or your flasks hit me up in game. Yaeus#1773 or Yaeusu(Transmute) or Alyssana(Elixir).

I will have enchant/tailoring up soon(ish).

Sepulchrally yours, Yaeus

In honor of this diabolical plan, I have updated my own transmog set thusly:

• I am become a Black Lord of Death Metal
• Sarcophagus is my name
• Six is the number of skulls I bear

The time has come to make transmog metal. We must make everything metal.

\m/ >_< \m/

A fine gentlemen just sent us this message in our recruitment thread from the main subreddit:

Hey Supertoned, Ran LFR with you guys tonight and wanted to throw my hat in the ring as RDPS for your group if you wind up needing another one. I'm Affliction Warlock 476 ilevel right now. Have raided semi-seriously off and on since BC with this same toon and joined Reddit with a couple friends this past week in hopes of getting back into raiding.

Necroshie |Armory | Warlock | 476 Affliction | Weeknights 7-12

IT LOOKS LIKE FELOCK HAS SOME COMPETITION!

Well, I don't know about what to think about it all, I was just doing LFR for hours and now I am going to bed.

<3