What was the AQ opening like? Most of the quotes I had from that day were fairly negative, so let's just steer clear of that after a single sample of what it felt like to fight one of the colossus bugs on Mal'Ganis.



I did, too. Not only that, I was back in time to accept the res, then we pulled, crashed, and I had time to eat dinner while waiting for the character select screen to load. It wasn't all bad, though.

Some of it was quite enjoyable.

I caught wicked air off the Lt. General ramp, but I pulled a header on the Colossus bug and it was hospital time. (Wait to res time, that is.)



AQ20 is a shining success of a zone, so far as I am concerned. The encounters are all interesting and well spaced. There's not so much trash that you get sick of it while trying to get from point A to point B. Good show, overall. Perfect...less one minor oversight.

How does this keep happening? Am I close, here?

"So...in the new zone...how should we do loot?"

"Well...we've heard people complain they don't feel they have enough crap to put in their banks and bags..."

"Excellent! I have just the thing!"

"Also...let's make them need another set of entirely BoP resist gear...just to be sure."

"Sweet!"

Ahem. I digress. AQ20 is mostly an awesome zone. I further demand an enormous slime boss...something along the size of a dragon. It should drop an elite version of my skull as an offhand, because I will surely throw myself into acidic slime if the next instance to come along rapes my bag and bankspace as thoroughly as the last three have. Thank you.

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How many of you were guilty of doing the following to your parties your first time through AQ20...?



So the gate opening event left people with a bit of tension. It's okay. We jerks deal well with tension.






Did you hear Blood Elves are going to be on the horde side in the expansion? I did. It's a sore subject for me, of course. You can't trust elves, I tell you.



Some people welcome them, but I figure they've all got the same reason as Gonk, deep down, and are just less willing to admit it.



We're getting a lot of new people on our server of late. They're not too hard to pick out. This guy asked how you turn invisible. I was going to explain to him that the invisible fellow he saw to my left was a rogue. Should have known he meant my shadowe preest, instead.



Here we are openly making fun of the fact that every WoW video released in the last 4 months has either "Bodies" or "Down With the Sickness" as the soundtrack. Also, apparently Raylen.



Moz has been busy teaching his daughter not to consort with charming fellows such as myself.



Here's an old quote from when some new graphics went in on a patch. I'd be willing to bet rogues know which shoulders these would be. ;)



Speaking of loot, someone linked the ZG bow in Org one day.



Allow me to introduce you all to Denzel Snipes. One look at this chain of quotes should be enough to show people how very hard it can often be to follow guildchat. The overall theme prevails, but there's always plenty of random.



My company is undergoing some internal policy changes, at the moment. This is short for, "My management makes Dilbert's boss look brilliant." These decisions are generally made by people who have never been to my office. There are two theories on their reasoning for never visiting the office. One is that they are worried they would actually be required to manage something if they actually knew what went on there. The other is simply that they are deathly afraid of me.

Either way, I have to wear pants now. Like real pants. I also can't flirt with women openly, because I might offend some frightful prude in the office who couldn't get a date if they were rich and pretty. Lose about 200 pounds and maybe I'd be after you instead, chunkypants. You ever think of that?

I blame the Southen Baptists and McDonald's for all of this.



In the meeting to discuss policy, it went like this:

"Also...no more swearing..."

"This is bullshit."

...

...

"Sorry."



Here's Mhedic trying to relive days past. It's okay, Mhedic. You'll always be a shadow priest in my heart. :wub:



Warlocks 4 lyfe. :911: Cheers, Greyboner. Good times.



Time for more sleep. Later, all.

The Tao of Greybone.

We have been blessed with great wisdom.

Oh sweet twice

Greybone's last ride :(


I remember the first time I did molten core sober. It was this september.

Haha, the denzel snipes quote is class :D "Always Bet on Black" will forever be a classic line of modern cinema.

As for the AQ Gate opening, we opened on Friday. After reading the pretty scathing reports from both you guys and other US servers, I was frankly bracing myself for a extended suckfest of lag, death, and tears.

It actually turned out pretty damn well. Enough people pushed down to the gates that we crashed the server, and the scepter carrier immediately started the event as soon as the server went back up. Nothing quite as momentous as seeing "$n rings the Gong". We decided to farm the crystals around Sillithus, and astonishingly, virtually all the other raid guilds immediately vanished inside in search of the ever-important server firsts. I'm extremely glad they did - everyone in our raid core is now Friendly with BoN, we netted 300+ healing/mana pots, 8 epics, and more enchanting supplies than I could shake a bloody big stick at.

Not to mention that the lag in the northern half of sillithus was virtually nonexistant, so there may still be hope for the servers that are looking at openings in the next couple weeks get as smooth and as enjoyable an event as we did.

That pirate is the only human model in wow to actually have chest hair :o

Female scarlet crusade scout ladies in Hearthglen have chest hair and its pretty gross.

BWAAAAAARGAHGHAGHBARRRRRABHAGHA RAYLEN SMASH

Wubwub always struck me as the "I listen to happy rainbow music". Oh how I was mistaken.

I forgot to thank you for this thread slug, they're always enjoyable :)

I'm villager and I approve of this post.

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If that was intentional, you can blame it on me not having had my first cup of coffee this morning.