After finishing Sindragosa heroic & the LK mount achievement last reset, we came back today for Deathwhisper, Sindragosa and Rotface.
Sorry but fuck you Blizzard for the Sindragosa fight. Literally the worst one we have ever done in WotLK, and that's something after the pile of reeking horse manure that was Trial of the Crusader.
ICC has been interesting and certainly more challenging than Ulduar was, but doesn't come anywhere near close to the level of fun. That aside, congratulations to everyone for their new drakes which look cool as shit. Now all that remains is to farm gear for a couple of weeks until the 20% buff hits, and it's time to go up against Arthas heroic.
Little notes of thank you to Kwan for sticking with us for so long even after burning out, and for our healers too.
Split the old news post because it was getting a bit cluttered, so this is now the April hardmodes post!
3rd May:
Sindragosa down, 4th try of the night! Went onto LK and idled a bit to get 'Been Waiting a Long Time for This!' Just a couple raid achievements left for Glory of the Icecrown Raider, and then we will move onto the Lich King heroic. This concludes our progress in the main hardmodes, finishing as 15% buff is introduced.
27th April:
Professor Putricide down tonight in 7 tries! Fun fight. Got to 30% on the 3rd try but had a bit of a screw-up with the kiting so we all exploded or something. As usual, completely useless loot.
13th April:
Finally came back to Saurfang, after forced parties, ISP disconnects and called off raids to kill him. Server conspired against us as usual with teleporter DC's and broken login servers but got there in the end.
10th March:
Downed Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper (first try for a supposed hard one?), Gunship (this is just a fucking loot pinata) and almost Saurfang.
After an evening of solid work on Arthas, without people going off to weddings or Vegas, the perfect try occurred with Brynlaw dropping down to 12 health at one point. Sweet. Best fucking fight rush for all of wotlk and an awesome fight overall. A fitting end to the expansion.
Heroic modes up next! No fraps because it's a 10 min fight and Kwan is lazy as shit. :'(
Adrian you wanker stop cutting my screenshots out, your UI has more black boxes than an aircraft part manufacturer's store room.
Also thanks to that sweet latency fix script, goodbye 800 ms in ICC for 2/3 of us, hello to 10-20 ms!
And Sayana........Komaru's split personality.
So far everything cleared without much trouble, except when Rotface had 25man settings.
Finally got to try Putricide after food poisoning, internet downtimes and such delays - and we killed him in 2 tries! Real fun bosses so far in ICC, great atmosphere. Loot however; shite.
Might wanna get some bigger boots, Sour...
Update from like the 20th: cleared Blood Queen after like 4 tries. First try second week.
Frostwing Halls cleared on 15th Feb. LK next! If we don't have more birthdays, pub-going and Valentines plans!
On Wednesday the last boss, Anub'arak, opened up in Trial of the Crusader, and after killing him we went straight onto the heroic mode!
First up was Northrend beasts which died without too much effort. Second was Jaraxxus which was almost as easy as normal-mode. The next boss however, faction champions, were a bit pumped up for heroic mode and they started countering almost every move as well as going immune faster, doing more damage, healing for more and with a really nasty combo we wasted a lot of tries there but they eventually went down. After that we killed Twin Valkyrs pretty easily as well and called it a night. We all went back the following day and worked up a bit of a sweat on Anub'arak which proved to be quite the fucking fight with some annoying mechanics (SUP LEECHING SWARM) and some fun ones that spiked Jimbelina like a cat on roast. Overall he's harder then Algalon at least.
Due to peeing pants after every kill I forgot to take any worthwhile screenshot so here's a heavily photoshopped wowwiki image of anub that's grungy as fuck and a nice cuddleparty with Tirion. Loot was some cool shit that has Heroic labels on them which is an anagram for Penis Extension and some Spellpower plate pants that Brynlaw happily took for his black hole of a healing set. Next up: Doing it again with less wipes. Woot.
And don't bother asking about fraps, Kwan recorded 19 tries but not #20. Look forward to a compilation of Jimbelina fails though set to any music except Benny Hill.
So on our third week of Algalon, we finally did it. Considering our last reset was pretty shit with everyone feeling out of it overall (READ: FIOLINA GOING TO THE FUCKING PUB DURING TRIES), we went and warmed up on One Light and moved on. Having not reached phase 2 yet, on the third try we got to 21% and wiped. A few tries followed where things went to shit generally and then it all clicked, we reached phase 2 and swept cleanly through to success and pro titles. Ulduar is now fully cleared, a day before they release the last boss of Trial.
Congratulations to Komaru for her Nebula Band, Fiolina for his cloak thing from the Dalaran event, Juno for some offspec shoulders and Jimbelina for some shitty offspec loot.
Starcallers, motherfuckers.
Tumbleweed is a casual raiding guild that prioritises the social aspect of the guild moreso than other things. Besides raiding we often do regular instances together, with mains or alts.
Our current raiddays are Mondays and Wednesdays starting at 20:00 server time.
Our loot rules at the moment are mostly common sense which has worked fine, but if there should be a lack of that at the time, you are guaranteed 1 need roll per run. And naturally, mainspecs first.
You should preferably have access to Ventrilo 3.0.
Guild History
The guild was created way back in the summer of 2005, when the hardrollers were rolling hard, the sun was high, and a crew of misfits were too big to fit on a single ship and needed a bigger boat. As time passed, everyone moved on to their raiding guild of choice and Tumbleweed became naught more than an alt guild.
A while before the Burning Crusade, a bunch came together again to start up a somewhat hardcore raiding guild with the experience gathered in the year of previous raiding. The guild was successful and carried on a while after the release of TBC.
At this time several people decided to go casual, some left the game altogether, and the ones who did not want to go casual went on to more hardcore guilds.
With the event of Wrath of the Lich King and 10-man dungeons, the guild started anew with the idea of having a smaller and closer group of friends raiding together and most old time members who liked the idea of 10-man raiding with a bunch of friends came back and joined up again.
Who we are
Just the good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm. Beats all you've ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born. Straight'nin' the curve, flat'nin' the hills. Someday the mountain might get 'em, but the law never will. Makin' their way, the only way they know how, that's just a little bit more than the law will allow. Just good ol' boys, wouldn't change if they could, fightin' the system like a true modern day Robin Hood.
Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit.
These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem and no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-team.
