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Hey hey hey!! So we have reached another milestone in the Glomp story. I haven't been around for anywhere near as long as many of the stalwarts of the guild but I felt that it would have been a shame for the anniversary to pass us by without so much as a word being said.
My journey with the Glompies started almost a year ago now, when the vague raiding I was engaged in with my previous guild evaporated and I was in need of a brand new team. It was with Nayruna and Nyarl that I came across to join a team that was making solid progress through Tier 11. What struck me about the Glomp was that there was a tremendous sense of togetherness and camaraderie within the guild and it did not any time at all for me to feel completely settled in. It was pretty much immediately that I could jump on Vent and not long after that Mosc would start insulting me as soon as I did.
There have been countless numbers of times while being on Vent that have made me either cry with laughter or get bloody close. These include:
Singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to secure another guild's Vent.
Hearing Q's exploits as a real life healer.
Securing the services of a sausage packer to help us raid.
Regular Friday nights spent chilling/listening to Mosc leave for a smoke/beer/spew.
Hearing Ben's descent into debauchery, largely brought upon by the influence of Mosc + Bars. I still wish he'd be on more often so he could teach me where I've been going wrong with women all these years and so I can learn the technical differences between a foursome and an orgy.
These make up such a small percentage of the good memories I have of the Glomp and, while MoP will undoubtedly see lots of changes occurring, I am absolutely certain that the next 12 months will give me and everyone else more exceptionally entertaining moments!
Here's to the next year being one of our best ever!!
Sorry it's late, and the screenshot isn't really a screenshot but enjoy the video!!
A week after rejoining the race to 8/8 HC, Team Wiggles made it two HC kills in two weeks. Yorshaj was the next boss to fall, although it probably took rather longer than I think any of us had imagined.
Yorshaj was the HC boss that we had decided to take on second after Morchok. However, absent members and real life meant that when we did get back together, the nerfs to DS meant that Ultraxion seemed a better target. However, the basis for a Yorshaj kill was there and, when we did restart, there was little doubt in my mind at least that, if we could get a whole team together, a kill would occur.
And that was indeed how it proved! Despite having several close wipes that really shouldn't have occurred, we managed to get him down on the 1st night of us really trying.
The month started with high spirits. But it ended in a desperate scramble to get Blackhorn down before the next nerf hit the servers. It would be easy to blame an incomplete roster or a buggy encounter design but I’m pretty sure most guilds have faced the same obstacles and overcome them, and yet for us it became a huge stumbling block. Early attempts just didn’t go well but we put this down to part of learning a new fight but after a couple of weeks of wiping in p1 it became obvious that things just weren’t right. We had hamstrung ourselves to a certain degree by bringing 2 melee dps to a fight which undoubtedly favours ranged, and the aforementioned bugs I think in the end there was a general lack of co-ordination perhaps caused by HC burnout. Having said that the week started positively. Although Shell had decided to take a break we had a reserve in the shape of Ire which gave us an extra rdps which we hoped would make things easier and indeed we did see some improvements, particularly in dealing with the drakes. Brownie and Fern also made some adjustments to tactics, which again improved our performance, and we started to make it through p1 albeit in a very discombobulated way. On this positive note we called it for the night determined to come back and Down Blackhorn on Monday.
Then disaster struck - Brownie announced that he was quitting wow. He’s been one of the mainstays of the team this expansion. Always forthcoming with advice and with an ability to handle all the complex tasks that we mere mortals shudder at the thought of. I don’t think his departure was entirely unexpected as I know there have been a number of things playing on his mind regarding the game but it was (and is) a huge blow to the team who have come to rely on his presence in so many ways.
Nevertheless we pulled Shell away from her sabbatical and regrouped for our last offical night of raiding before the nerf. And it went badly. We seemed to have taken a huge step back and for nearly 2 ½ hrs we wiped in p1 over and over again. Then at about 10:30 we got in to p2. The following attempt we did the same only this time we actually got Blackhorn down to about 8% before the tanks got 1 shot. It was then that another curios thing started to happen – Deck Fire continued to spread during p2 until we were inevitably left with no space to manoeuvre. It was incredibly frustrating particularly as we seemed to be getting close. We pushed back our finish time by 30 mins and had one more good attempt albeit we hit the enrage timer due to dead dps but that was it. It seemed we would be forced to settle for a 20% nerf kill but Fern asked if ppl would be available Tuesday and I’m delighted to say that everyone complied.
My worries that we would once again fall back to wiping on p1, and the inevitable loss of morale that would follow were completely unfounded. When the kill did come it wasn’t entirely clean but by the same token it seemed relatively controlled compared to previous attemps. P1 went swimmingly well and there was ample room for manouvre during p2. Ire died although this was no fault of his own. I was a bit to cautious in healing him up with the Consuming Shadows debuff and he died to Disrupting Roar. He was quickly rezed and we plunged on into p3. I’m not entirely sure what happened next but Ashei took a huge hit whilst the boss was still relatively high on healt and with our brez gone I expected Fern to call a wipe, but instead she urged us to keep going. The stacks on Babz grew but he was able to clear them once after which they started to build once more. He announced he still had cooldowns but it was just a matter of time until the damage became un-healable so I focused on keeping the raid topped and waited for the inevitable….and waited….and waited. I saw an excellent lay on hands perfectly timed in the fraction of a second between Devastate and Disrupting Roar but I knew it could only be a matter of time. Yet Babz refused to die. When the kill came I’m sure many felt a huge sense of relief but for myself I was extremely proud. We overcame a whole bunch of adversities from raid composition to roster absences to annoying glitches yet when the call was made to raid an extra day not one person refused. I can honestly say I think we’ve become stronger as a team over the past few weeks than we have been for some time and I’m really looking forward ro Spine and our next kill so to all of you /salute
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