Some hate saying goodbye...

... i hate saying hello.

I've read too many blogs where it seems a writer feel the need to declare their latest jump into the world of blogging. They have such great hopes for their blog! They're going to have a large number of readers! They have something to say, and they think its going to be exciting, and inspire conversation, and make a difference! And with their first blog post, they want to convey that inspiration!

And then you find out that they posted that 6 months ago, had 2 crappy followup posts, and then nothing at all after that. They probably went back to hanging around Facebook.

Regardless, here's my hello...

I'm Issac. This is my Gaming/Opinion blog. You're welcome to read this, and comment if you want. I'm not an expert in anything. I punctuate and spellcheck if i feel like it, and since this is my blog, you can't tell me what i can and can't do on it. Subscribe and follow if this appeals to you.

That being said:



I'm playing a lot of WoW lately. I'm the guild leader for a casual raiding guild named UNFORGIVING (misha-h). And its been a ride. History story some other day. Today we talk about Sindragosa.

The guild I'm in doesn't consist of hardcore raiders. Kids that feel the need to raid everyday for obscene hours usually wind up leaving for greener pastures 2 weeks into seeing what kind of guild we are. We currently have 2 10-man raids in ICC, both stuck at Sindragosa. We're still looking for our 1st guild lich king kill, and its 7 weeks away from Cataclysm dropping.

i took a good team in for the last 3 nights, and all 3 nights sindragosa has stopped us. finally, last night the 3rd to the last pull we had her over at 13%.

Its damned disappointing to not succeed after 3 nights of attempts. Its almost enough to get disheartened, but i remember that the guild I'm in is not a hardcore raiding guild, and as such, nights like this will continue to happen. I'm not sure if the rest of the team knows that. This is the difference between hardcores and casuals. A hardcore doesn't need to be told to flask. A hardcore doesn't need to be told to pop the spellpower pots, or the speed pots, or the attack power pots. A hardcore has seen the tankspot video, and 5 to 10 other videos about it. A hardcore knows the fight mechanics, what each spell does, and what the job they need to do is. A hardcore knows the shortcuts, zerg mechanics, where to stand, where to go, and when to execute.

A casual knows maybe half of all this, at best.

Hardcore raiders will scoff at this, saying "Sindragosas easy! We cleared that 4 months ago and are doing heroic!". Those kids also have a shitload more freetime than most of the peeps in the guild I'm in, and are surrounded by like-minded people as well.

My concerns: not everyone brought flasks. not everyone took their flasks. i highly doubt half the raid had supplementary pots. people took too long to come back after a wipe. aggro was an issue. instructions were given out, and were not heard/ignored. attention wasn't paid and raiders were in bad positions, which iced too many people. mechanics weren't known.

I'll take some blame in this. i didn't know the BEST way to down the dragon. I thought we could zerg it. we can't. its obvious now. i thought we could use the suggested spike method. we can't. we have to do the fight as originally intended. left leg/right leg. tank switch. buffet dropping. I also didn't run into position once after i was queued for iceblock after a blistering cold, but really by that time we had 3 dead anyways. Also this one time someone wasn't in the right position by the hind leg, and wound up freezing me as well. I accepted some fault in that, as I could have moved away, but the offending person didn't say shit.

we'll get this dragon on monday. i think once the team gets a better visual of where the LoS stems from, they'll know where to go to get rid of that debuff. between that, and proper positioning by the hind leg of the dragon should finally get us over that wall.