Awake...

Light, awake, sort of, strange feeling, there is something wrong.

He sat upright in his bunk, and looked around. There was something strange around. He looked at his feet, they seemed to be closer, his belly seemed bigger. But weren't they always this... but a strange feeling crept up his spine. Where was he? The room was large, or better said, high. The lay-out looked a little sloppy, but also familair.

'Ah, look, he finally is awake', a low voice sad. 'I thought he would never snap out of it.'

He looked to the voice, a face familair, yet unfamilair appeared. 'So, how was your trip through the Nether, old friend.' the voice said. Who was he? The face seemed of, distant memories floated in, a horned creature shifting into... a bear? But this one was not a bear... he was a dwarf, no horns on him. But the face was unmistakenly the same... 'Kemwer?, Is that you?'

'Ha, he remembers stuff Gunho', and other voice said. A third voice also joined, 'Hehe, he still sees a druid in you, Gunho,this will take some time to explain'. The two others also seemed familair, a dwarf and a creature from hell? Oh, a Draenai.

A Draenai? Wait that face, and that dwarf... 'Rasout? Jorky?'

'Ha', the dwarf laughed, 'One name he did get right'.
'Well, Jorky, you are the only one who actually kept your old name, unlike me and Tjaoten', the dwarf named Gunho said. 'The question is, what name he thinks he has?'

Three faces looked at him, a question was asked, and they where waiting on an answer. 'My name?' he asked. What a strange question, where they challenging him, but weren't they his friends?

'I am Gowron, slayer of demons, undead and dragons, what is happening here?'

Jorky answered 'Well, he kept his name allright, and what has happened here? We finally got you summoned here, to help us.'

'I am retired' he said, why did he said that, well he was certain he was. 'I gave up helping people a long time ago. I did my job for Silver.... wait... this is not Silvermoon, this is Ironforge, why am I thinking about the Blood Elf capital as home.. as well as Ironforge?. Oh no, you bastards!.'

A general laughter roared up. 'Now he remembers everything.' Tjaoten said laughing. 'Yes Gowron, we where succesfull, we changed worlds, and on this world we are Alliance, because here the Horde are the bad guys.'

Memories flooded his mind. He did retire, but after a few months his old friends showed up with a crazy idea. They heard that there was a way to switch worlds. A possibility to start over again on another world, not burdened by the things you did. No one begging to help you, what happened to often.

First he laughed at it. But they argued, and said his old friend Kemwer had done it. Kemwer, who he hadn't seen in a year... would it make sense. He was still sceptical. Three weeks later he went to visit Jorky, but he was gone. Only a note with some instructions where left.He had to drink something which Rasout would give to him.

But Rasout was also missing. In his home was a little bottle with a fluid in it, with a note. 'Drink it, and see you on the other side, Rasout.' He waited, he didn't trust it, and he was called into action by his former teammates.

He entered the house of the guild he used to be in, some people where familiar, but most where strangers.

He just couldn't be bothered anymore, his closest friends had left, an this new bunch of people were not known to him. So there he was sitting on night, with the bottle on his table....

And now he was here, in his old, and new home. Like it has always been it seemed.

'So,this is the one you told me about?', a female said. 'He seems a little fat and rusty'. A dark-haired human female appeared in the corner. She wore a robe, and with the absence of a demon, she looked like a mage. 'Are you sure he can do the job?'.

'Well, his gear needs some polishing, but he should be able to get into the flow quick enough.' was the reply by Gunho. 'Oh, and Gowron, meet Carnessa, a friend of ours.'

He walked towards his closet, and wondered what they wanted. He looked around, and saw a wolf and a bear sleeping in the corner, near some futuristic looking things, glowing in the dark. He opened his closet, and his eyes wandered his old armor and weapons. There was a mace which still carried the essence of life within, a big two-handed axe was hanging to the left. But he already figured out what he needed.

He took a drape-covered object, and removed the cloth. The shield had a skull on it, and what looked like a mouth, but there was something missing, maybe something that woman could do. He placed it on his left arm, and looked at her.

The woman named Carnessa, recognized the shield, and she started chanting. A firey ball was appearing, and 5 seconds later she exclaimed; 'Stand Clear'.

The Ball of Fire hurled toward him, and he put his shield up. The impact was violent, but the shield seemed to absorp the fire, like it was hungry. And when it was done, the shield was on fire. Like it should be.

'So', he said, 'That's done, now I think we need some more comrades.'

The five looked at each other, the pets awakened, and they left the room. Adventure lie ahead, hard fights, lots of laughter, hard descisions. But Gowron knew he felt alive again.

When Elekks Fly

Starting a raiding guild is a lot of work,

Website
DSP-systems
calendars
recruitment
rules

and, oh, it seemed the majority of the current members where not that happy with the name Shutout.


So, it is renamed to:

WHEN ELEKKS FLY

now to find more members, and slowly start raiding I suppose.

Oh, and the inevatible has happened again,

for the third time....

New Guild

Gowron,Mardah,Luaran,Lamars and Whiteheart joined a new guild last night.

My friend Gunho, co-founded a new guild called Shutout. The focus lies towards 10-mans, so there's a real possibility I will start raiding again. I hope with Gowron, but I also have a geared healer and dps, actually, Luaran has the best gear of the three.

So, for future reference, here is the Gowron-Guild-List (months are open for discussion)

feb2007:Gowron created, Blood Elf Paladin on Ghostlands-EU
mar2007:Joined Wanderers
Jun2007:Co-founded Retribution
Jan2008:Joined XII
Feb2009:Joined Blood and Tears
Mar2009:Left Blood and Tears
Apr2009:Joined XII
Jun2009:Left XII, joined The Largo Embargo, Gowron on Vacation
Jan2010:Server Transfer, Dwarf Paladin on Argent Dawn-EU, joined Dark Cloud
Jan2010:Joined Shutout

I had no problem leaving Dark Cloud, it was a very social guild, and the member who where mostly online are now in Shutout, and I do like the idea of starting guild, was there twice before, and it is always an exciting time.

Shutout


edit: oh my, that means Gowron is almost 3 years old, and this blog is running for 2 years :p

Army of the stupids.

Really, why did Blizzard make this spell? To annoy all other tanks?

I got Tailswiped in VH??? What? Really, good idea to have the drake go circling, melee (incl. DK)+tank where flying everywhere.

Since the introduction of Death Knights, I only saw it used once when needed. That was 2 days ago in Pit of Saron, on Tyrannus. Somehow the healer died, and the DPS-DK (I was the tank) made the best descision at that point, cast Army of the Dead. That is the way to use it, as a oh-shit button when tank or healer bites the dust. It basically gives everyone the ability to step back for a moment, see what is happening and if needed to take another role (ele-shammy goes healing e.g.).

But all the other times, I see it used as a dps-gain. I have one question though, is the ghoul-taunt allways on, or can it be turned off like on hunter-pets? If yes, then I can blame the DK for not taking it off, if no, I can blame the DK for using it, well.. I just blame the DK.

I dont really see any use for this spell only to annoy other tanks....

Forge of Souls

Forge of Souls

I ran that heroic around 20 times last weeks to get the best trinket for MM-hunters, needle-encrusted scorpion.

And now it seems, I am destined to tank it, until a Friend of mine gets it, he is at 28 tries sofar...

One thing about running with friends is that you know things will happen. There are some pulls with a lot of casters there, and I can count on it that one out of consecration-range will be frost-trapped :), and the other one will be tanked by the enhancement-shammie-friend, who, just like on his mage (see Dwarf2Noam) has the ability to always target the mob I have the least threat on :p

L2R Omen

I was making a post about dps,threat and other things... but I already read 7 of those today...

So here's the TL;DR version:

A DPS should never over-aggro the tank.


Now, this doesn't really counts for raids anymore I guess (no experience there) as it used to be in TBC, but it does count towards heroics. You may end up with a just-dinged-80... don't leave group, the run may take 5 minutes longer, just manage your threat.


There are also a lot of posts about CC today. Anyone remember that? It means Continuous Consecration... :p, just kidding, crowd control. It has no place anymore, except for a few pulls with casters in FoS and the waves in HoR. There are a lot of people who find that a shame, me included. But everything is an AoE-fest these days... why do we even have those spells??

Is there a secret to the LFD?

I know it is normally not 'nice' to show names of characters you don't know, but when it comes to names, well...

The partial screenshot is from a trinket-FoS-run I was in, and it let me to believe that the LFD-function of Blizzards has some secret parameters.