Monthly Archive for November, 2009

Oldschool Night

Last Friday I went to see Ulduar 10 for the second time with the guild. We didn’t proceed quite as fast as the last time. This time it really was an all guild run, so that counts for something and we still downed quite a few bosses – just too bad that Ignis downed us when he had only 20k life left. We gave up on him after half a dozen wipes.

Saturday I logged on planning on doing some achievements, maybe finish the remaining BC heroics. Instead I saw someone asking in our guild-friends channel wether we wanted to come and do Blackwing Lair … another achievement I was missing. So we joined a raid of about a dozen people and proceeded to pwn Nefarian. We even ported our – fresh 80 after 4.5 years of leveling – warlock who didn’t complete the BWL prequest :)

After Nefarian was down someone wanted to down Kael so we went to Outland and jumped into Tempest Keep. By now we were about 10 people left in the raid. Luckily the raid leader knew all the bosses and patiently explained to all us non-raiders what we had to do as he had done in BWL and would do the rest of the evening.

Kael was quickly downed another achievement done!

“So what do we do now?”
“I still have Magtheridon and Gruul open.”
“Oh those are fast, let’s go!”

Two raid instances later …. “How about Lady Vashj?”

We actually wiped once on her … it was still an interesting fight to do and with Level 80s far from trivial. I am glad we did all these raids and it was a very nice evening with friendly people from all over the server.

We made about 350 or 400 gold each and I got 5 raid achievements I was missing!

What I appreciated most was the patience of the raid leader and the explanations given without any hint of arrogance for those of us who wanted to see the old school raids now because we never had the chance to do so before!

Playing the AH on a tiny server

These days I log on to my 3 auctioneers most days and to my professionals with lucrative cooldowns. The results are in and it is looking good. Just a week ago my Shaman hit level 70 and I went and bought her epic flying and cold weather flying. Before that I was at 15k and now I am already back at 13k plus I did invest more, finished leveling Jewelcrafting and have managed to stockpile more epic gems for the day that I get my first recipe ;)

My glyph business is not doing so good I thought but then I collected about 300gold this morning from one of my glyph characters which on our tiny server. I think there are about 500 active acounts left on alliance side, just heard yesterday that one major guild and another well-known minor raiding guild left the server in the last month or so. When I scan the AH there are never more than 6k auctions in there – now imagine that about 25-30% of that are glyphs … There are still 3 other major players in the glyph market right now so it is not easy earning money that way. I am thinking of reducing my time spent on that part and hoping that Blizzard will provide a solution for servers like ours in the future.

We cannot just transfer. Not as a guild. Too many people have too many high level alts and since we’re a small guild we need those alts for crafting, raiding and generally that is what we do: leveling alts. We also have lots of friends outside the guild on which we rely a lot to get our 10-mans going. We have good relations to several guilds still here and to what remains of the server community. I think the guild would just die out if we transfered somewhere. We need some other solution … like a free transfer to a bigger server.