On Sunday evening, it finally happened. After a mere 388 pulls, Ragnaros finally met his end on Heroic for a Guild First, Realm First, and US 93rd kill for Monolith. Since joining the Horde and moving in with the folks of Monolith, this was the first boss that I’ve experienced from (almost) first pull to finality. [...]

Though his mind is not for rent, don’t put him down as arrogant. His reserve a quiet defense, riding out the day’s events. There is a plague quickly gaining momentum across blogs and comment threads that is all, but unexpected in the age of feed readers, article snippets, and “every voice counts, especially mine!” Everyone [...]

I never did the first version of this little questionnaire. Beru tagged me about a week ago and I just haven’t gotten around to writing very much this week. As John Carpenter’s The Thing plays on in the background on this lovely Saturday evening, it sets a pretty good mood for taking a stroll through Shaman [...]

…I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back. ‘Til things are brighter…I’m the man in black. -Johnny Cash The brief story of the trials and tribulations of one guild leader, a raid on the edge something great, and his best efforts to push his team over that edge. It’s been too long [...]

Don’t think. FEEL. It’s like a finger-pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all of the heavenly glory! — Bruce Lee With a day off to literally do nothing in-game, I had a little bit of time to reflect on normal mode Tier 11. We still have plenty [...]

The hallmark of Cataclysm raiding was the new one instance  lockout. You can kill a boss on 10 man or 25 man, but not both (heroic raid-size locking aside). The immediate and obvious question: how are they going to balance these encounters? The Impossible Task Their intention was to make the difficulty between the two [...]

This topic was prompted by Beru, so all the credit goes to her. I was going to leave this in the comments section, but I want to share her article as well as my comments/response. Here’s a brief excerpt. … Exactly How Are These Raids Going To Be Equal? As I was ranting a bit [...]