That is a BIG guy!

Well, we finally have started to get through The Molten Core fast enough to get a run at the big boss. Home Boy is HUGE! This screenie doesn't cover it, he's gotta be 10-15 stories tall, at scale, no joke. And he hits for a ton, 6000 pts in one hit (no I didn't live, and yes my fire resistance sucks). But the fun! After 6 attempts (yes you read that right) we managed t0 get him to 55% before he despawned for the night. Which considering how new most of us were to this fight (myself especially) was actually really good. Well we'll make another run at him next week for sure. Tomorrow we're gonna whip Ony's rear again to make ourselves feel better. Ya almost feel sorry for her..... NOT!

And down goes Onyxia

Well after a two week game vacation to handle some real life junk, Wolfy managed to get in on the HGA's first downing of Onyxia! For as many times as we had failed attempting the big black dragon of Dustwallow Marsh I would have thought our first success would have been much "closer". But quite frankly, we handled her! It was a blast, with not even 40 people (35 I think) and the highest the "dead" counter reached was 2 I believe! It was unreal, and seemed altogether to easy. And the loot! OMG! Wolfy took a shot and came away with the Dragonstalker helm! Tier 2 WOOT! Not to mention it looks WAY cool! Having completed Ony in a relatively short time frame, we took that momentum and rolled through the first 5 bosses in MC before respawns and Shazz finally culled our reign of terror. At one point the TS even erupted in laughter over a innuendo loaded sentence, and the more that they tried to correct the statement the funnier it got! We had a blast, if only every run could go this smoothly and be this much fun! What a blast! Allyn got his Lawbringer shoulders, Scorpiomoon received her Flarecore Mantle, and I think there was another HoS loot... But alas I can't remember.

I can't speak for anyone else but that was the funnest HGA raid I've ever been on, and I hope they continue this way! Gratz to Neafrina, Laila, and Articfox on a well run and very fun raid.

Gehennes, you've been PUNKED!

So many snakey dudes, so little time... Wolfy, Laila, Balt, Allyn, Scorpio, and Blog hooked up with thier buddies in the HGA for alittle Molten Core. After witnessing the HGA's first ever felling of Magmadar on Sunday, we returned to the Core on Monday for this snake and his two gaurds. We flat pwned this dude! Blog even landed the kill shot! I'm telling ya, good fight, good loot, and more progress for the HGA! Our strongest showing yet!

Professions - Engineering

Whenever anyone asks me why I decided to become an engineer, I just point out that any profession that allows you to create a chicken that is bigger than you, is a truly sarcastic profession.

Laila's Crazy UI

I know everyone likes to have their own UI. For me, I like to have access to lots of different types of information that I can dissect (either on th efly or later). I also have lots of spells, talents, trinkets, potions, etc. that I use and like to keep handy. But, despite wanting to have all of these things available, I also like to have the center of my screen relatively clear, so that I have a good view of what's going on.

My solution has been a combination of (1) lots of buttons/mods, (2) high screen resolution, (3) UI scale reducation, (4) eliminating unnecessary graphic elements (such as borders around character frames) and (5) pushing everything to the side. This UI is a work-in-progress (for instance, that cluster of buttons on the right side of the screen below the min-map will disappear as soon as I can figure out how to get Discord to bring them back with a keystroke), but it gives you an idea of what an information-heavy UI looks like.



This is my UI in a 40-man raid. Not many changes, but you can see what information I display from CTRA on the left-hand side and how I really compact everything.



Now compare these to 2 screenshots of Timmer's UI (non-raid and raid versions). Notice how he has a lot less information on the screen (and a LOT fewer buttons), but chooses to display everything much larger and allows it to intrude much further into the middle of the screen.





Anyway, that is one of the great things about WoW - our ability to set up our screens in whatever manner is best for us. These probably represent 2 extremes on a couple of different sliding scales, and neither may work for you, but maybe they will give you some ideas about how to make your own UI more useable for you.

By the way, if you have any questions about any of the mods or information displays that you see on my UI, just drop me a message and I can tell you what they are, what they do, and where you can get them.

Some More History

I was cleaning out the office, and I came across some old notes on WoW. Kind of like Wolfie's old tabard dancing pictures. In the same vein, here are some of the proposed, but discarded, names for our guild:

• Buff My Monkey (okay, not technically discarded - BANNED!!!)
• 8" Diablo & The Merry Men
• Buff My Panda (a theme?)
• Insert Guild Name Here
• Is That A Dagger In Your Pocket ...
• and, as we may remember, Acathla's favorite: Buffed Up Party Boys (which I think was some how left over from the "Girls of Melrose" days

There were 2 dozen others, but those are all I have on the list I found today.

Epic!

Well, Wolfy finally made it to the Molten Core. Incorrigible Guild has put together a high-end raid alliance that focuses on fairness in loot and the fun of the game. So with that foundation laid Wolfy, Balt, Laila, and Allyn all went to the MC over the weekend. This is a screen of Wolfy in pre-run trim.



First epic to drop was the tier 2 hunter specific Giantstalker Belt. Wolfy had a 100 DKP to spend, and went all in. Another hunter went all in at 100 as well, and with Wolfy being the same rank it turned into a roll off. We tied on the roll... tie breaking roll went to Wolf! YES!



...as it turned out, this would be the only epic to drop on this run as we wiped 3 times at Luci...

A couple things of note though: It was a blast, it was fair, and I will definately do it again (the run that is). Also my old belt was not to shabby for a blue, a quick look at comparable stats from photo to photo shows how decent the blue actually is...

Happy adventuring!

Yearbook- When we were young and carefree....

There was a time (believe it or not) when Laila, Balt, Acathla, Wolfbrother and our dearly departed Krakken were not level 60. So while looking through a few screenshots I came across these from the HoS' first-ever Naked Tabard Dance in the streets of Stormwind. Our young mid-twenties selves were dancing to commemorate our freshly acquired guild tabards. To think back then we needed to "pitch-in" for the 10g to design a tabard seems laughable now, what with Laila and Balt controlling large chunks of the consumables market on the AH,and Krakken having dumped one profession and trained another to 300 before his demise. Even Wolfy has learned a little money management and routinely spends half our firsts tabards cost on repairs from a nights adventuring. Ah, Azeroth was wide open back then, lag was a problem for level 60's to worry about, and everything was new and exciting. How times have changed. Though small, HoS is quietly becoming a force to be reckoned with. Members have begun to gain some reputation outside the guild, and as such are starting to lead bigger things. So in a years time we have advanced tremendously, and I'm certain more is to come.

And congratulations to Blog, Our newest level 60 (dwarf hunter).

Wiping at the exit to Strat

Well, in the interest of fun, after a great run to (and then thru) the Baron in Strat we had repops on our way out. Rather than work our way thru the room, in true HoS fashion we elected to do a gnomish sacrifice (thats where we throw our gnome tank to the wolves while we run like hell). It was ALMOST successful and the following screenshot represents how close our tactic came to success.



It really was to funny for the picture to fully cover it. A heartfelt apology for our priest on this run, Chuani, who got caught up in our foolishness.... twice! I hope she laughed as hard we did. Stay tuned, more to come, I'm sure!

Morraine finally made 40!

Well just a line to let everyone know that our much needed, and highly anticipated priest has finally made level 40! Shown here sporting her new pony, she's finally high speed and ready for 60!



And one last Hallow's Eve costume photo. This is Morraine proving once and for all what a little devil she can be.....