They Cost Not Lots

After noticing that there are a plethora of wow blogs, but next to none for the shaman class, I thought I'd try to rectify the situation and get one off of the ground. As a result you wont see too much written in this, my personal blog, about my travels in WoW anymore... you find all that sort of stuff over there. the Blog is called Ride the Lightning, and it focuses on Resto spec for a casual playstyle, and Elemental spec in 25 man progression raiding. If that is your gig then go and check it out. Heck.. just go and check it out anyways! :)

In a previous entry, I reported how I was pretty much over WoW at this point in time. After years of playing it, it just no longer seemed to have any appeal. At the time of writing that I was pretty much sure that the whole genre of MMO was stale and that there was very little that could be done to make it as appealing as it once was to me. I was wrong. Enter Age of Conan.

Well, after a number of years of playing World of Warcraft, at least one of which was spent as a totally hopeless addict, the luster seems to finally be wearing off. You see, over the past month or so, I've logged onto my account less than half a dozen times. To give some contrast consider this: I am currently on leave from work and have spent about 2 hours in total playing the game during a 2 week period. Last time that I was on leave from work, I spent close to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week PVPing. My how things have changed!

I've been a bit slack with reporting guild news as of late.. been rather busy you see, but that doesn't mean there has been no news to report. Quite the opposite in fact. Over the past couple of weeks a staggering number of bosses have fallen to the SW progression juggernaught. Jan’Alai, Leotheras the Blind, Fathom Lord Karathress and Rage Winterchill all met speedy deaths. This now puts us at 5/6 SSC, 3/4TK and 1/5 MH, and has us taking our first steps into Tier 6 content!

It's been another good week on the progression front for Southern Wardens with three more 1st kills under our belt. Solarian in Tempest Keep, Doomwalker, and Tidewalker Morogrim from SSC; All of which were done on our first night encountering them. Solarian went down after half a dozen attempts, and Morogrim went down on the second attempt. That makes nine new boss kills in 6 weeks which is pretty fantabulous to say the least and puts us at 3/4 TK and 3/6 SSC.

Another new boss down to Southern Wardens. This time it was the flaming chicken of Tempest Keep, Al'ar. It was a a mammoth 17 minute ordeal, and he was killed the second he enraged. So.. far from perfect, but a good kill nevertheless. Gratz Wardens. 6 new bosses down in less than 6 weeks!!

We've all heard the rumor that Magtheridon's lair is being changed in 2.4, so as to "lessen its complexity". Until recently we could only speculate on what these changes might be, but Geoff Goodman, one of the game designers, has let the cat out of the bag. In a recent interview he gave the low down on the changes that will be happening in each of the encounters three phases.

Last night, Southern Wardens took a little trip out to Hellfire Peninsular to politely ask Doom Lord Kazzak to shut his hole. It turns out however that the big ugly commander of the Legion is not one for reasonable conversation. We were left with no other option than to smack him down... so that is exactly what we did!

Gratz Wardens. That's five new bosses heads in 5 weeks.

One of our Mages, Vortron, frapsed some of the encounter and this can be viewed below.

Southern Wardens is an Alliance guild on the Proudmoore server. It is an old guild, spanning a number of different games during it's existence. It's current game of focus is World of Warcraft. I am both a raiding member and an officer of that guild. Southern Wardens began raiding late 2005. We rapidly cleared Molten Core, and by the end of 2006 had cleared BWL, poked our heads into Naxx (we weren't quite ready for that), and also had the lesser 25 man raids (ZG and AQ20) solidly on farm. We finished 2006 by defeating The Prophet Skerum. Then...