D/G and WoW - two of my favorite topics!
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The authors for the D/G ficathon have been revealed, so I can finally link you guys to my story (for those of you who weren't following along the ficathon): After All These Years, written for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anja_foley, rated NC-17.
I want to thankapplecede and inkpuddle for putting the ficathon together; it's always a massive undertaking to manage something like this, so major props to them. :-) You can check out all the stories here. Seriously, there were some great fics written.
I'm too lazy to make a separate post on this, so I'm just going to cut it for disinterested parties. It's been awhile since my last WoW update (or it feels like it anyway), and something HUGE has happened in the last couple of days. Well, huge to me, at least!
Me, Tabithe (akscully), and Tracey (jade_okelani) have joined a raiding guild! Eeeee! It's called Emerge, and the name is a pretty good one-word description for the guild. It's not one of those hardcore established raiding guilds (Temporary Insanity, Black Templars, Titans of Kilrogg), it's just kind of starting out, and it's far more casual, but it's up and coming. They raid ZG on weekdays and MC on weekends.
What happened was, my brother left Angry Fishermen a week or so ago because he had found Emerge's recruiting post and made an application. According to him, the whole process was extremely anticlimactic. He posted on the application forums, and they were like, "I think we can get you in." He didn't hear from them, and then he pinged one of the officers in game and was like, "...So should I raid with you guys?" And Kills (who I think is the guildmaster) was all, "Welcome to the guild!" LOL.
Then at some point my brother asked me whether I PvPed for gear or for fun, to which my response was, "Both." He said that PvP gear was a good alternative to Tier 0 gear, but that putting in the same amount of time raiding will get you even better gear. Which is undoubtedly true, except a) I do have fun PvPing; and b) I've been wibbling for awhile about raid guilds and how they all seemed hardcore and all their raids start at times that are too early for me to attend, etc. There's also the fact that I play the game for fun, and it's WAY MORE FUN to play with friends. So I'd want it to be a guild that could take me, Tabithe, and Tracey.
I asked my brother a few things about Emerge, and was pleasantly surprised by what I heard, that they were new to the big raids, kind of casual, started at a reasonable time, etc. Their recruitment post said that they needed 3 hunters, 3 mages, and 1 priest (among others), so he asked on the recruiting boards how they felt about the three of us joining as a bloc. There was a fairly enthusiastic response (which he was kind of bitter about, considering his own lukewarm reception haha), mostly because we're girls, and also because Tracey and I PvP with a few people from the guild. So, we're now in!
The weird thing is that if you read Emerge's recruitment post, they're looking for raiders, and their casual spots are filled. There's a small group that consists of the Raiding Team, and the rest of us are the Casual Team, who might occasionally get spots in raids. It'll be like that until these instances are on farming status. However, in reply to my brother's post, an officer said, and I paraphrase, "I'm good with this as long as they're nice people and understand that they won't necessarily be raiding all the time." Not sure about Tabithe, but that is *perfect* for me and Tracey. We don't want to raid all the time. It's just weird that they're supposedly recruiting raiders, and yet the reason we got in was on the grounds that we wouldn't be raiding. O.o I don't get it at all. But like I said, I don't mind. I'm still trying to get my goal rank (am 82% into rank 9, so it's sooooo close!). And by the time the instances are on farming status, their experience can make up for my n00bness, and I will probably have a better chance at the drops because everyone else will be outfitted already.
It's such a trippy and cool thing to be in a guild that a) has their own Vent; b) has an organized site in which raids are scheduled, and you sign up for them. (Each raid gets broken down into classes and how many of each they want.) So far I have signed up and gotten into: UBRS (this Sat.), Molten Core (this Sat. after UBRS), and Strat (this Sun.). I can't do the ZG runs on the weekdays because I don't get home in time.
Tabithe and I got attuned to Molten Core for the first time ever, the other night. We have NO CLUE what we're doing. I don't know what quests I need, or anything. I've never been to UBRS. So any and all advice would be welcome.
It's also such a catch-22: We have barely any fire resist gear. Tab has none, while I have my priest trinket from DM, and these bracers that dropped the other night during the attunement run. According to Byron priests don't need that much, but that's not the general consensus. Anyway, the catch is that doesn't a lot of FR gear drop in MC itself? Yet how can I survive it and kill stuff without wiping if I don't have any FR gear? Troubling. Very troubling. And it's like, don't I lose a bunch of other stats with FR gear? So which should I opt for, FR or intel/stam/whatever???
Meetingcorianderstem tonight at Rikki Rikki for her second try at sushi. Yum!
anja_foley, rated NC-17.I want to thank
applecede and inkpuddle for putting the ficathon together; it's always a massive undertaking to manage something like this, so major props to them. :-) You can check out all the stories here. Seriously, there were some great fics written.I'm too lazy to make a separate post on this, so I'm just going to cut it for disinterested parties. It's been awhile since my last WoW update (or it feels like it anyway), and something HUGE has happened in the last couple of days. Well, huge to me, at least!
Me, Tabithe (
akscully), and Tracey (jade_okelani) have joined a raiding guild! Eeeee! It's called Emerge, and the name is a pretty good one-word description for the guild. It's not one of those hardcore established raiding guilds (Temporary Insanity, Black Templars, Titans of Kilrogg), it's just kind of starting out, and it's far more casual, but it's up and coming. They raid ZG on weekdays and MC on weekends.What happened was, my brother left Angry Fishermen a week or so ago because he had found Emerge's recruiting post and made an application. According to him, the whole process was extremely anticlimactic. He posted on the application forums, and they were like, "I think we can get you in." He didn't hear from them, and then he pinged one of the officers in game and was like, "...So should I raid with you guys?" And Kills (who I think is the guildmaster) was all, "Welcome to the guild!" LOL.
Then at some point my brother asked me whether I PvPed for gear or for fun, to which my response was, "Both." He said that PvP gear was a good alternative to Tier 0 gear, but that putting in the same amount of time raiding will get you even better gear. Which is undoubtedly true, except a) I do have fun PvPing; and b) I've been wibbling for awhile about raid guilds and how they all seemed hardcore and all their raids start at times that are too early for me to attend, etc. There's also the fact that I play the game for fun, and it's WAY MORE FUN to play with friends. So I'd want it to be a guild that could take me, Tabithe, and Tracey.
I asked my brother a few things about Emerge, and was pleasantly surprised by what I heard, that they were new to the big raids, kind of casual, started at a reasonable time, etc. Their recruitment post said that they needed 3 hunters, 3 mages, and 1 priest (among others), so he asked on the recruiting boards how they felt about the three of us joining as a bloc. There was a fairly enthusiastic response (which he was kind of bitter about, considering his own lukewarm reception haha), mostly because we're girls, and also because Tracey and I PvP with a few people from the guild. So, we're now in!
The weird thing is that if you read Emerge's recruitment post, they're looking for raiders, and their casual spots are filled. There's a small group that consists of the Raiding Team, and the rest of us are the Casual Team, who might occasionally get spots in raids. It'll be like that until these instances are on farming status. However, in reply to my brother's post, an officer said, and I paraphrase, "I'm good with this as long as they're nice people and understand that they won't necessarily be raiding all the time." Not sure about Tabithe, but that is *perfect* for me and Tracey. We don't want to raid all the time. It's just weird that they're supposedly recruiting raiders, and yet the reason we got in was on the grounds that we wouldn't be raiding. O.o I don't get it at all. But like I said, I don't mind. I'm still trying to get my goal rank (am 82% into rank 9, so it's sooooo close!). And by the time the instances are on farming status, their experience can make up for my n00bness, and I will probably have a better chance at the drops because everyone else will be outfitted already.
It's such a trippy and cool thing to be in a guild that a) has their own Vent; b) has an organized site in which raids are scheduled, and you sign up for them. (Each raid gets broken down into classes and how many of each they want.) So far I have signed up and gotten into: UBRS (this Sat.), Molten Core (this Sat. after UBRS), and Strat (this Sun.). I can't do the ZG runs on the weekdays because I don't get home in time.
Tabithe and I got attuned to Molten Core for the first time ever, the other night. We have NO CLUE what we're doing. I don't know what quests I need, or anything. I've never been to UBRS. So any and all advice would be welcome.
It's also such a catch-22: We have barely any fire resist gear. Tab has none, while I have my priest trinket from DM, and these bracers that dropped the other night during the attunement run. According to Byron priests don't need that much, but that's not the general consensus. Anyway, the catch is that doesn't a lot of FR gear drop in MC itself? Yet how can I survive it and kill stuff without wiping if I don't have any FR gear? Troubling. Very troubling. And it's like, don't I lose a bunch of other stats with FR gear? So which should I opt for, FR or intel/stam/whatever???
Meeting
corianderstem tonight at Rikki Rikki for her second try at sushi. Yum!
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Date: 2006-02-17 12:34 am (UTC)Hallo!
Just wanted to say that you and Jade are my favorite fanfic authors! Everything you’ve written is well done and…yeah…awesome. =)
Anyway, posting because WoW is also a favorite pastime of mine, and had some advice re: FR gear.
Essentially, if you’re not melee/ a tank, FR is not as important. Most of the “hardcore” raiding guilds I know of recommend their non-tanking guildies to wear around 150 FR unbuffed. The group I raid with suggested that all of their casters and non-tanks get up to 100 FR unbuffed. Of course, all of this is only *really* important when you fight a couple of specific mobs and bosses, and honestly, you’ll be able to get by with less FR about 80% of the time in MC. FR is really only important for three bosses (Ghennas(?), Onyxia, and Ragnaros) and lava packs. I carry around two sets of gear: FR for those specific fights, and my regular PvE gear.
In terms of good FR gear, you’ll be grabbing some from UBRS (Dragonrider boots, Starfire Tiara *if you’re lucky*), BRD has a good blue cloak that drops pretty frequently, and there are some good FR rewards available from questing. I don’t know if you get to do the Battle of Darrowshire on horde side, but one of the rewards for the end of that questline is a +10 FR off-hand. Finally, there’s a questline with the Hydraxian Waterlords that you’ll eventually need for MC anyway that gives a ring with pretty nice stats AND +15 FR. =)
Finally, if Emerge is a guild that plans ahead, they will start collecting cores and other materials to make their guildies FR items (Dark Iron pieces for melee and Flarecore for casters) that have both awesome FR and decent stats.
Just my 2 copper. I know it’s a long comment, especially from someone that you wouldn’t know from a hole in the wall, but like you, I <3 WoW too! ^.~
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Date: 2006-02-17 12:41 am (UTC)What realms do you play on? Sounds like you have quite a bit of experience with this raiding thing, whereas I am a total n00b. What are your chars?
Thanks for specifically naming all the items I should look for, and in which instances. That will help me a LOT.
Emerge does seem to be a planning-ahead type of guild, but since I'm not on the Raiding Team per se (am on the casual population), I'm not sure that it will be much of a priority to get me outfitted. But once I've achieved my goal rank (10), I can stop PvPing so much and focus on farming for gear.
Eee, it's so exciting to hear from another like-minded individual!
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Date: 2006-02-17 02:04 am (UTC)Don't encourage the WoW talkage...I may never stop! ^^
Oh, and I totally forgot, getting yourself keyed for Ony will also give you a neckpiece that gives +15 FR. =)
I'm just a nooblet that got lucky enough to find a good group of folks to raid with -- actually, lucky enough to have guildies that found a good alliance of guilds. I've been raiding since last August/September and finished up my Arcanist set about 2 weeks ago. O.O/b
I play on Tichcondrious (PvP), Alliance (yes, they *are* that immature), and my main is a mage (Morgaine). I have priest, druid, and pali alts that I love, and a poor unloved undead 'lock somewhere crying in a mug of ale.
Hee hee, it is definitely great to hear from like-minded individuals...I was very much squeeish when I saw that you played WoW as much as I did AND like writing/reading fanfiction AND food.
Glad I could be of help! I hope you enjoy your trip through MC as much as I did/do. It helps if you have a great group of people/friends to play with, which it sounds like you do.
/waves bye
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Date: 2006-02-17 09:11 pm (UTC)Squeee, Arcanist set. You are so l33t!