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.
One Light in the Darkness down, Glory of the Ulduar Raider COMPLETE!
by Axior on the 12th of August 2009
After a couple tries (two?) when we didn't get random clouds desynching, people on the phone or something else, we got Yogg down. The try started great with people hitting clouds everywhere and wandering around like tramps in the brain rooms, we got the rest of it easily with some ridiculous amount of time left on berserk. Kinda chilled through phase 3 until he was dead.
Rolled over to Razorscale for some iron dwarf fun next. Hit enrage which rocked, fight was harder than One Light really. Got raped on the way out with us all running through the Expedition Grounds being picked off one by one by 80k fireballs. Congrats to everyone for their drakes, thank you for the fine work throughout and next up, Algalon!
Update requested by Brynlaw: Algalon 56% after 1 hour of tries. Sorry guys, didn't save the world.
And on the second night of tries, after many tears, charred corpses and people going afk in fire to get the pizza delivery while spamming cocks in general, Mimiron hard mode is down! Congrats to everyone for their runed orbs...that was the most notable loot that dropped.
After that, we rolled down to Vezax and steamrolled the Saronite Animus in a couple of tries.
Now that all hardmode Keepers are complete, next up is One Light in the Darkness and ALGALON! Two achievements to go for the drakes!
Downed Freya's hardest mode tonight, completing Knock, Knock, Knock on Wood. Easy once we got the hang of the elder buffs. If I may mention here that it took us 35 minutes from our first try to down her. Goddamn we are amazing, like logging machines.
Loot was some shit spell power stuff nobody cared about (edit: an amazing ring that Komaru gets all hot for HOORAY IT'S THAT RING IT DROPPED). Also, I got a new cloak from Mimiron.
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.
