The Demon Lords of Karand

This is the method I think we need to start using in order to down Sindragosa. For the last.
Freaking.
Time.
Ever.

Being that I was staring at Rotface’s ugly crotch all of Sunday night, I can’t really tell if everyone was clear or not on how to deal with it once they received the debuff and had to take it to the off tank and his blob. So, perhaps this will clarify things a little bit.

Or at the very least, it will make you hungry for a happy face waffle at IHOP. Anyway, enjoy.

There, a little Zonka-strator action for your WoW needs also.

Alright guys, please have a look at the following videos to get familiar with what we’ll be doing in there in the weeks to come. Thanks to TankSpot for the videos. Make sure to hit the buttons on the bottom right of each video to toggle to HD and/or fullscreen.

It helps us so much when people watch these. It cuts down on time we spend standing around and talking on vent, it prevents multiple wipes for the process of learning, and makes you familiar with the fight and strats. Please check these out.

A Preview of CoehlUI

I’ve done a compilation of multiple AddOns. I started it just for me and my wife, but it just sorta blew up into something more. It’s now been featured on one of the most prominent WoW podcasts, The Instance, as well as a big feature on World of Raids as a result of the previous. Overall, this thing now has some publicity, you might say.

Anyway, I hope you guys can get over and at least scope out the screenies so that you know what Marfu, Wyrda, and I are all yapping about in gchat.

Well our first week in Ulduar yielded good results. We took down everything before the keepers except Iron Council, whom we didn’t even stop by to see, then proceeded to take out Thorim while we were at it. And to top it off we laid waste to 10 man VoA.

I just wanted to say congratulations and enjoy the full size image.

For a guild that’s built upon geographic proximity and real life connections, we’re getting to be rather pro.  Last night we waltzed right into Ulduar’s gates with a lot of characters, maybe all of them, that had never seen the instance before. Some of the players had, but that doesn’t facilitate the dramatic effect.

We one shotted three out of five bosses attempted, and ended up taking out Flame Leviathan, XT-Deconstructor and his voice of doom, Razorscale, and Kologarn. We’ll show Ignis what’s up next time.

Please take a minute to visit the forums to talk about what we’ll be doing Thursday night. We’re considering doing Trial of the Crusader first, the ten man instance that is one step above Ulduar in raid progression. It is much like Trial of the Champion, the five man, in that it’s pure boss fights, no trash or running. However, the bosses are considered by some to be harder.

If we decide to, I will post strategy videos so we can walk into that instance with everyone at least somewhat ready to stomp some face. Also note that it’s a fast instance and in time, we could end up doing it within less than two hours, giving us plenty of time to still see Ulduar more.

We now are found at DLoK.org since the domain freed up. This is sweet news, way better than karand.org.

User registration on the forums should be less cumbersome for now. With all of the new guildies we’d like to make this as easy as possible. Take advantage of this to get in there and hammer out times for raiding since that’s our goal. Who knows when the unwelcome.. posters.. will try coming back.

That’s me trying to dodge key phrases they hunt.

We would like to start raiding Uld, VoA, and/or ToC and the more information that you can give us, the better.

The trailer for the newest expansion to WoW has recently been release, http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm/.  With this expansion there will be two new races added to the game.  Goblins will be for the Horde and Worgen will be for the Alliance.  They have also made it so there will be more class choices for each race.  Tauren Paladins???  The new level cap is 85.  Be happy they didn’t make it 90!!

The upcoming patch is going to be jam packed with a lot of very important changes, but there’s a specific one I’d like to address with this guild. In patch 3.2, Emblems of Heroism and Valor will no longer drop in Heroic Instances (like Heroic Violet Hold, Heroic Nexus, etc.) or Naxx. They will instead begin to drop Emblems of Conquest.

So what does this mean? Imagine that tomorrow, flying cars were invented and released to the public. Imagine that you could purchase a Camaro for the price of a Pinto. That’s what’s coming up.

Emblems of Conquest will give you 25 man Ulduar level gear. This is because Blizzard wants to catch the new 80 players up to those that have been 80 for some time. This is our guild’s opportunity to plateau the gear gap that’s previously been an obstacle to us.

I’d like some of you to hop in the forums and participate in some discussion on how we’d like to tackle this. Perhaps have a few weeks of lightly scheduled “heroic” time and talk about having some teams. We could have a short stint of heroic dungeon spamming that gets everyone on a similar level to each other.

First, I’d like to point out that patch 3.0.9 is out today, and it contains some of the changes that were initially supposed to come in 3.1.  You can see these on MMO Champion.

Also, MMO Champion has released some screenshots of the up and coming Tier 8 sets. Unlike the trend Blizzard was on with Season 4 gear and Tier 7, this time, people are not complaining and I might even say, impressed.

On an editorial note, come 3.1, I will be more content with Blizzard than not for the first time in months. They seem to be using a “buff every class to restablish balance” trend as well as putting more effort into the small things like spell aesthetics, armor, weapons, etc.
Anyway, enough of that noise. Look at these.

Not all of the Tier 8 sets are available for viewing, but a good number are.  Have a look at www.mmo-champion.com, and while you’re there, take note of the patch notes for 3.0.9, which is the one that hit today, and some notes on 3.1′s little nuggets of joy like dual spec (actually explained!), Ulduar the new instance (plus screenshots!), and the weapons of 3.1 (parenthetic statement!).