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01/06/06, 8:13 AM
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Mike Tyson
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It's 7am where I am, and I got home from work 11 hours ago to begin the final phases of farming Silithus for faction as part of the Ahn'Qiraj opening line. Thanks to the tireless efforts of my guildmates, and the generous assistance of other guilds, including Nocturn, Aeternus, Quarantine, Goon Squad, Giant <s>Communist</s>Censored Robots, Clan VXIX, and many others, in just over two days I amassed 42,000 Silithid Carapace Fragments and I achieved Neutral reputation with the Brood of Nozdormu. Shortly after midnight, I hit the magic 42000, and got to see the first of some of the coolest quest content WoW has ever seen, or any MMO for that matter. Everyone else is going to get to see this stuff in a few weeks when you get reputation in A'Q yourselves, but suffice it to say it truly feels epic, and evokes the very essence of what is appealing about the MMO genre -- a group of adventurers and friends banding together to change the world, and actually doing it.
I'll add pictures later, but you can find a ton of screenshots and clips of the same stuff we've seen at www.fohguild.org -- you can read about the quest (in detail, with some spoilers) and follow our progress here, rather than fill our entire front page with paragraphs of text.
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01/06/06, 8:33 AM
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#2
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Motherfrakkin' Tigh
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If Gurg wasn't such a nancy boy, we'd have the next stuff done by noon server. With the servers going down for restarts I'll excuse it this once though.
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i warned you about toasters bro
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01/06/06, 8:43 AM
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#3
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stop kissing Gurgs ass 24/7
Raylen
Undead Priest
No WoW Account
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Originally Posted by Praetorian,January 6th, 2006 @ 6:13AM
and got to see the first of some of the coolest quest content WoW has ever seen, or any MMO for that matter.
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this is your second mmo rite B)
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01/06/06, 9:12 AM
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#4
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Sledgehammer Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Lyta
I've been trying to concentrate on studying for my Proof Methods test tomorrow, and all I can think of is your hotness, radiating out from the pixels on my monitor, seared straight into my neurons.
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01/06/06, 11:05 AM
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#5
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Piston Honda
Blood Elf Paladin
Mal'Ganis
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Pretty awesome Gurgthock, congrats.
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01/06/06, 11:25 AM
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#6
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King Hippo
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pretty awesome. Our server is now coming close to finishing our rep grind. Cant wait.
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01/06/06, 1:10 PM
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#7
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Piston Honda
Draenei Warrior
Mal'Ganis
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I was so pissed off this morning. One of my guildmates was in Silithus when you guys were heading out there. I knew what you were up to and wanted to be there to see it. My hearth was up and I was in SM. A warlock in my guild was heading there. By the time they got a third person to summon me the "fight" ended.
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Don't drink downstream from the horde. Moo!
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01/06/06, 1:36 PM
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#8
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Bald Bull
Blood Elf Priest
Mal'Ganis
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It was frapsed.... at like one frame a second but it's the thought that counts.
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01/06/06, 2:52 PM
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#9
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Oh man this is so awesome!!!
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Originally Posted by Raylen,January 6th, 2006 @ 6:43AM
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Originally Posted by Praetorian,January 6th, 2006 @ 6:13AM
and got to see the first of some of the coolest quest content WoW has ever seen, or any MMO for that matter.
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this is your second mmo rite B)
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It's far from my second and I agree with him. You're just pissed because you weren't there. :V
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01/06/06, 3:26 PM
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Bald Bull
Blood Elf Paladin
Mal'Ganis
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Oh damnit, this game sucks when you aren't able to play it 6 hours a day :(
Congrats guild. congrats.
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You know, I'm one of those people who play one of the more lame and easy-to-kill-with PvP classes.
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01/06/06, 4:54 PM
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Bald Bull
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I've got most of it frapsed, (at a bit higher than 1 frame per second), but I don't know anything about video compression, which makes me wonder why I even bothered. :moore: It's about this level of quality.
http://img416.imageshack.us/img416/2402/da...otofguys5ta.gif
The only thing was that since I wasn't in a group of any kind, I had zero fucking clue as to what was going on, except for the occasional question Wodin would respond to.
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<08-07-09 02:09>[Velth] This is the behavior of a benefactor of the EJ forums?
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01/06/06, 5:19 PM
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#12
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Piston Honda
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I can honestly say that after about 12 hours hard work last night, I don't feel in any way jipped or shorted. Never once did I feel like we were just working on some mundane grind to open the gate. Every new quest we partook in felt epic and interesting. My hats off to Blizzard for their work on this one and to everyone that helped out last night.
I'll say that last night will go down as a great memory in gaming for me, with almost a hundred or so people working together for a common goal. I just wish that there was more for me to do now that the quests are shifting into instances!
Anyways thanks again to all those participated and thanks for letting me be part of the Gate Welcoming Crew.
:D
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01/06/06, 5:23 PM
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#13
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ffffff
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I love all this quest dialogue and chase. It reminds me of Harry Potter, Dragon Quest, and Zelda. :)
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01/06/06, 5:35 PM
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#14
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But it says heaven
Orc Death Knight
Mal'Ganis
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Originally Posted by Praetorian,January 6th, 2006 @ 7:13AM
I have screenshots and the rest, but those will come after I sleep.
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>_<
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<+kenlyric> people who say they want less complex games are just trying to cover up the fact that they are bad at games
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#EJ IRC, Come by and we will talk about DOTA 2!
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01/06/06, 6:12 PM
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Bald Bull
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Originally Posted by Bad Luck,January 6th, 2006 @ 3:23PM
I love all this quest dialogue and chase. It reminds me of Harry Potter, Dragon Quest, and Zelda. :)
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Someone needs to post a screen of Beef's quote in guild chat last night
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01/06/06, 6:27 PM
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#16
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Soda Popinski
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01/06/06, 8:45 PM
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#17
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Don Flamenco
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Originally Posted by Zellyn,January 6th, 2006 @ 3:54PM
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im that gnome in the back with a red tag.
P.S. I hope someone like hellsoap fraps that, because the last gurgthock video i watched wasn't all that good(quality), cough.
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all your base, are belong to us!
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01/06/06, 8:55 PM
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Mike Tyson
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Originally Posted by newladin,January 6th, 2006 @ 7:45PM
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Originally Posted by Zellyn,January 6th, 2006 @ 3:54PM
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im that gnome in the back with a red tag.
P.S. I hope someone like hellsoap fraps that, because the last gurgthock video i watched wasn't all that good(quality), cough.
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The quality of the Onyxia video was intentionally repeatedly reduced until all the chat was unreadable (and the filesize was under 300meg). :P
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01/07/06, 12:36 AM
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Piston Honda
Draenei Warrior
Mal'Ganis
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I have a request, when it comes time for you guys to open the gate (and it will be you guys), could you post something on the realm forums, here, and/or hop on an alliance alt and tell me! I want to see that happen.
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Don't drink downstream from the horde. Moo!
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01/07/06, 3:18 AM
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Oh man this is so awesome!!!
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Thank you for not cropping me out of that picture Bad. <3 :] I really do appreciate it.
Wait why the fuck am I a sergeant? God damnit. I can't stay a scout for anything. Seriously. Just world PvP, no BGs or shit, gets me full grunt or sergeant in a single week. Even with 2k Dishonorable.
That shit about DKs counting long term is horse shit.
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01/07/06, 3:39 AM
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#22
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Piston Honda
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01/07/06, 6:23 AM
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#23
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stop kissing Gurgs ass 24/7
Raylen
Undead Priest
No WoW Account
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We have our own hosting. Fucking use it. They're not exceeded on bandwidth yet but jesus.
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01/07/06, 11:53 PM
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Sledgehammer Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Lyta
I've been trying to concentrate on studying for my Proof Methods test tomorrow, and all I can think of is your hotness, radiating out from the pixels on my monitor, seared straight into my neurons.
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01/07/06, 11:56 PM
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#25
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Mike Tyson
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