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Old 01/06/06, 7:13 AM   #1
♦ Praetorian
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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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Old 01/06/06, 7:33 AM   #2
• Relwin
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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.


i warned you about stairs bro

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Old 01/06/06, 7:43 AM   #3
Raylen
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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.
this is your second mmo rite B)

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Old 01/06/06, 8:12 AM   #4
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Old 01/06/06, 10:05 AM   #5
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Pretty awesome Gurgthock, congrats.


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Old 01/06/06, 10:25 AM   #6
hamlet_the_lesser
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pretty awesome. Our server is now coming close to finishing our rep grind. Cant wait.


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Old 01/06/06, 12:10 PM   #7
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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.

Don't drink downstream from the horde. Moo!

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Old 01/06/06, 12:36 PM   #8
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It was frapsed.... at like one frame a second but it's the thought that counts.

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Old 01/06/06, 1:52 PM   #9
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Oh man this is so awesome!!!
 
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Originally Posted by Raylen,January 6th, 2006 @ 6:43AM
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.
this is your second mmo rite B)
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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Old 01/06/06, 2:26 PM   #10
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Oh damnit, this game sucks when you aren't able to play it 6 hours a day :(

Congrats guild. congrats.

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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Old 01/06/06, 3:54 PM   #11
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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.

<08-07-09 02:09>[Velth] This is the behavior of a benefactor of the EJ forums?

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Old 01/06/06, 4:19 PM   #12
Ironlung
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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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Old 01/06/06, 4:23 PM   #13
• Bad Luck
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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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Old 01/06/06, 4:35 PM   #14
• Double-Neg
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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.
>_<

<Blackpatch> Double-Neg: is this where we believe with sure faith but zero proof in the existence of a boethius who administrates the forums
#EJ IRC, Come by and we will talk about religion!

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Old 01/06/06, 5:12 PM   #15
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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. :)
Someone needs to post a screen of Beef's quote in guild chat last night

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