Team Moist

Intro

What is this TM thing you keep hearing about you ask?  It is affectionately known as Team Moist.  I blogged about its intent and inception in The Experiment, so I won’t rehash those details, but discuss the players that made up TM.  The guts, the meat and potatoes, the innards, the gel, the proverbial juice, I think you get the point.  I wish I had noted every raider from my early days to now.  That would be an awesome blog entry and a great piece of history and memorabilia from all the folks I have met in game, good and bad.  Maybe one day I will talk to Blood and come up with a sort of Hall of Fame of DGF/broken raiders/guild-mates that we will never forget like Waldo.

Why Moist?

This is easily my favorite word in the English language.  After many, many, many failed attempts to get a guild name to be named ‘Moist’, I decided if I was going to run my own team that I would name it Team Moist (to the dismay of many).  I have 2 stories about why this word has become both funny and a fear of mine in my real life.  Maybe I will post those up for comedic relief one day, but be warned, they are graphic in nature and will not be part of this blog entry at this time as they are long and may need editing for public viewing.

The Original 10

In T13 I had met a number of people in Masochistic Tendencies (MT) that I led through H DS.  Once the GL and I decided I would come on board in MT for MoP and build a progression raid team in her guild, I created an application and process to pick the 10 for TM in the MoP expansion.  Below are the original 10.

Mavros – Healer.  The greatest healer to ever grace the World of Warcraft and Azeroth.  Oh, wait, that is a different blog entry…  I am totally kidding and if you don’t think so, read my blog entry about my decaying skill called, naturally, The Decay.

Bloodrooted – Hunter.  My buddy, my pal, now having met him in real life we are closer than ever.  I would have his babies if I could.  We definitely played footsies when I met him in Boston.  He became the guild leader in TBC after I joined the guild Dead Gnomes Float (DGF).  We later ran the renamed DGF called Broken as GL and assistant GL all the way up to T13.

Hypno – Shadow Priest.  Ex-hardcore player that raided with a top 50 US guild named Intent on Kelthuzad (I think).  Interview went great, a great guy overall.

Teufelshunde – Warrior.  The ‘OTHER tank’.  I called her this once by accident in raid and it has stuck.  Dr. Dino to some, Truf to the rest of us, she is married to Freggos and has been a rock for TM at tank.  She has been getting too lippy lately and has criticized my blog grammar and proof-reading, but I don’t take crap from anyone nicknamed ‘OTHER’, so I ignore it.

Freggos – DK.  The only man to play the hero class as if it isn’t a hero class.  He was always at the top in H DS and now does a lot of our dirty work (nice way of saying his DPS is poo now).  Interrupts, kiting, off-tanking, etc.  Seriously though, I have grown very fond of Truf and Freggos and envy them in many ways.

Lustan/Nos – Paladin.  He was a DK tank named Nos in H DS, then chose to go back to his protection pally and chose the name Lustan.  I used to call him by the name Lustan over vent, but then someone would cast BLOODLUST in confusion.  So, he is now Nos again and should consider renaming his pally IMO.  He also has a blog titled ‘The Passionate Paladin’ which needs more posts.  ;)

Crixius – mage.  The grumpy mage that I think sleeps 3 hours, raids for 2.5 hours, then eats, has sex, then sleeps again for 3 hours, then goes to work for 14 hours.  The backup raid leader in MT for TM when I would be out or needed help, but since then, his schedule and my control freak nature has made him just a raider.  An exceptional player that turns whatever he touches to gold, but if he is last on the meters, watch out!  Married to Reluu.

Reluu – Druid.  We only hope that the sex part of Crixius’s description above is with her.  We are all fairly confident it is as they are newlyweds!  A resto druid in TM, but also has successfully played a tank and tanked for other groups I raid lead.  She is always around to fillin and always dependable.  The youngest of the group and brings down the average age in TM to 34 years old in its current membership state.

Symoon – Rogue.  The baby of the group initially and a talker and the original brony (though this brony thing scares the hell out of me as I really do not get it)!  After raid I sometimes would be up for 2 more hours chatting with Symoon.  A great kid though and exceptional ex-hardcore raider than went back to a hardcore guild when he left TM.  He loved to tell us about his rogue abilities and the jokes about that still get repeated in raids today such as “what is the CD on that?”  Raided with us at the tail end of H DS and then into T14 until he wanted to try something else in a more hardcore setting and to raid lead again.  He gave TM a 2 week period to find a replacement, a class act IMO, and for his age showed a lot of maturity.  

Kykki – Druid.  The GL of Masochistic Tendencies and a healer for TM in the original 10.  We worked together to get her to escalate her game to a progression level and it worked to an extent, I do feel she is now a better raider than in Cata (I think she would agree too).  At one point, when things were…a little rough…TM and Team Yakk (TY) swapped Kykki for Ishin (an old time friend of Mav and Blood’s from DGF/Broken) to alleviate some of the progression raiding pressure on Kykki and to get Ishin back with Blood and I and to progression raiding. 

The Replacements

I will try and remember first out and go chronologically, but it is hard to remember and it really hasn’t even been that long!  I am getting old…

Hypno OUT – Hypno decided to go to a HC guild.  I do not remember many of the reasons, but he was a good guy and was missed.  Has since disappeared off the radar.

Feelings In – Priest.  Insert one shadow priest for another!  Good deal, right?  Feelings was one of the hardest working raiders that didn’t actually raid in MT.  He grinded dailies and had the highest ilevel you could have for someone not really raiding.  He was an MT raider back in T11 and then quit for one reason or another and had come back to game sometime in Cata or MoP.  His raid team in MT struggled to get off the ground and when a spot was opened up in TM he quickly applied.  A good interview and a great guy that also shares in one of my favorite raid past-times, CRAFT BEER!  If he starts eating goldfish while we raid too, I would give him a handie.  A really good fit to the team.

Kykki Out – See above

Ishin In – Priest.  Reinsert the grumpiest WOW player of all time, Ish the DISH or Bitchin’ ishin.  Ishin is one of the most skilled raiders I have ever met, but also temperamental.  We haven’t always seen eye to eye, but we always end up reconnecting and have a mutual respect for one another.  I love raiding with him despite any differences in opinion.  The group had an instant shot in the arm as soon as he joined TM.  I trust him in raid more than I trust my own wife…oh wait…  ;)

Crix OUT – work schedule

Fuzzytoast In – Mage.  Fuzzy was in a different group in MT before joining TM that also struggled to raid consistently and saw limited success.  He wasn’t in the group long as his schedule changed, but he is remembered for something he did not while in TM, rather when he became a raid leader for Team Fuzzy in MT, which is awarding the ‘Fish of the Week’ to one of his raiders.  TM now uses this as ‘reward’ as well, but I wouldn’t call it much of a reward!

Fuzzy Out - work schedule

Crix BACK IN

Ishin Out – Ishin had some RL issues and a 5^th child on the way!  We were sad to lose him.

Hulegan In – Monk.  Hulegan filled in for TM once on the big giant bug in HOF Garalon.  We did get a TM first kill that night with him as fill-in, but all we remember is that Hulegan did also kill us on an attempt before the kill (our best attempt to that point) by Monk rolling under him and wiping the raid.  ;)  Yes, we will never forget, but he did fess up and that showed courage.  I saw skill in him that night and kept him in mind if we ever lost anyone from TM again.  Not too long after, Ishin left as he was our hybrid dps/healer and Hulegan applied and agreed to the hybrid role.  He was a slight risk as he hadn’t raided at a progressive level before, but did he ever meet the call.  A risk that paid off. 

 
Symoon Out – See above

Kep In – Rogue.  One of the best app and interviews I have ever had in WOW in my decade in WOW.  Kep fit in pretty fast and was doing ok as far as learning fights and integrating into the group.  Then one day, hours before raid, he gquits and days later sends me reasons why.  Mostly it was a message filled with silly reasons, but to each his own, he wanted to move on, so be it, but at least give me a heads up and some time to fill your spot.  For a guy in mid to late-30s, it didn’t show much class, but I have forgiven him and hope he found/finds what he is looking for. 

Kep Out – see above

Bukklao In – Bukklao didn’t have the greatest of apps and to be honest, I didn’t know what to expect from him.  He proved me wrong as he did pretty well with TM in normal mode.  The difficulty came when we started heroics and he had a knack for dying a bit too much.  He would implore the line “this boss is my nemesis” and that moniker has also become a catchphrase in TM over time.  I feel like he wanted to be accepted and was chasing the meters and sometimes would fore-go mechanics to try and be higher, competitive dps with the rest of the team.  I had to remove him from the group and go a different direction as TM progression had stalled out.  It was a mature parting, but I think he was more upset by it then he led on.  I do think he stole someone’s crafted weapon though before he left.  ;)

Bukklao Out – See above

Sins In – Ret Paladin.  I interviewed Sins for Team Yakk (TY) when TM was full and I ran raid operations for MT and vetted new applicants.  A great interview, though he doesn’t remember it (wonder why!).  An ex-hc raider and RL, Sins is a machine.  Defying all logic on the meters as a ret paladin.  An amazing asset to any group and TM is happy to have him in its ranks. 

Synergy

Team synergy is a major component to having fun in raid and working together and succeeding and meeting goals.  There are 9 others in a group and trust is paramount among its members.  Blood and I have worked long and hard to achieve this balance of fun vs. progression in a short amount of time per week.  We feel that synergy has been found in TM and TM has exceeded all its goals thus far and surpassed them in T16.  For Blood and I, this is the furthest non-nerfed progression we have ever seen in our WOW careers.  It took a lot of work though to get here and a lot by me.  Read my The Game Outside the Game blog entry to see the time that has been put in to make some of this happen.

Thick Skin

I take a verbal beating in raid and get razed every time I die.  Why such disrespect for the raid leader, right???  It is all good and I take none of it personally.  The Decay outlines why I am not as good as I once was, but am better in other ways, such as communication and raid leading.  I enjoy myself immensely in raid and am proud of Team Moist and Broken and what I/we built. 

Conclusion

So, there it is, the history of Team Moist and obviously, to be continued, as things change over time in MoP and into WOD.  I hope the Moist locomotive can continue chugging full steam ahead, but the challenges from tier to tier to keep every raider happy and on the same page and buying into the raid leader’s and guild’s model is always a an uphill road.  I thank all past and present members of TM and without all of you we would not be where we are today.  I hope we continue in our raid successes and keep Team Moist….well…..Moist.

The Game Outside the Game

Intro

If anyone thinks that being in game a few nights a week is enough to run a successful raid (in the current format and format for the last decade), you are sorely mistaken.  The amount of time outside of game is a huge time commitment and I feel a necessity to establish a framework and provide the building blocks for a successful guild and raid team.  Let me take some folks down the path I have chosen as a RL and co-GL.  This is what I do and is by no means a template of success, but is the way I do it and I do it....MY WAYYYYYYYY....little Frankie S for the older folks...

Raid Leading Initiation

As promised, I will dedicate an entire blog post to raid leading one day, this isn't it yet, so if you waiting for it, stop reading now and Google Goatsee and wait for that dedicated RL blog entry. (FWIW, I have never watched the Goatsee stuff, I am still too scared)

I have a tough time recalling when I took over as the raid leader for DGF/Broken.  I had always been involved as a heal lead, but not as a raid leader. I'd have to say I became the "voice" sometime in WOTLK so let's use that as a ballpark time frame.  I had no idea what I was doing except that I made sure heals were covered across the raid, knew the general strat (they weren't as easy to come by.  No IV or Youtube or dungeon/raid journal, OMG THE HORROR!), and assign a person to do something special if necessary, like on BQ in ICC, who to bite next, etc.  CDs were not as pivotal as now, maybe possibly they were, but I was not in the know at the time.  Back then tank healing was HUGE.  Most of the damage was tank damage and keeping tanks alive oftentimes meant the difference between a kill and no kill, I will be blogging on the history of healing soon as well, so stay tuned, I know you all cannot wait!  Tank and raid healing assignments were of such importance they were specifically assigned and I even assigned Paladins on who to beacon of light as the heals were 100% transferred (yeah, it was OP, but pallys were number 1 and essential tank healers in WOTLK). Additionally,  we were raiding 25 and 10s.  So, how much time did I dedicate outside of game in WOTLK?  Comparatively nothing as compared to Cata and MoP, but it also showed in progression as we did well and had fun, but not heroic clears and no regulation end boss kills. 

The Change

Broken rebuilt yet again after WOTLK and into Cata.  We opted for a more serious approach to raiding and the introduction of EPGP.  At that point there were 4 of us running the guild.  Blood as GL, me as Assistant GL, Horn, and Wornight as officers.  Titles be gone, we all had a voice and near equal share in all guild decisions.  We would email each other daily.  At least 5 emails sent a person especially after a raid night.  I would always send out an email the morning after a raid and call it 'Last Night Debrief'.  We would discuss issues or success and steps forward for the guild.  We achieved our first ever full clear in T11 with a Nef kill and the time out of game and my experience and time as the raid leader was finally paying some dividends.  I would say I spent about 10 hours a week outside of game in Cata.

MoP

I blogged already about the guild move and my "different" role in a new guild, but the major point is my time went up from 10 hours in Cata to I would venture to say 15-20 outside of game.


SO WHERE DOES ALL THE TIME GO YOU ASK?!?!?

Guild Leadership Communication

Outside of game being in constant communication with your other officers on guild matters is important.  All being on the same page and showing the same face to the guild is important.

Recruiting

The worst part of the game IMO.  Recruiting is a huge time sink and the hardest part and most challenging part in WOW.  I also hate it more than anything else.  I feel dirty and angry when I have to recruit.

Team Communication

I established this in MoP, but I have most of my raiders emails or phone numbers so I can communicate with them.  Forums are becoming sort of old Internet, so using text or emails is becoming my method of choice to get a fast message to the team. No, I do not send them "weiner" pics either.

Raid Team Continuity

Week to week, balancing real life schedules and needing backups is a huge time sink.  This is where having raiders personal info allows me to reach out to them and see if I can fill open raid spots.  Planning out a team's raid schedule a month in advance is not easy and takes time.  I oftentimes print the next month out and start marking it up and preparing a plan and backup raid nights.


Forum Moderating

As a RL or GL you have to read EVERY message on the forum.  Yes, everyone.  This allows a leader to have a pulse of what is going on out there and to put out any fires if necessary.

Guild Documents

Authoring guild documents such as guiding principles or loot policy or whatever it may be.  Yeah, more time, those documents do not write themselves.

Diffusion

Keeping raiders happy and addressing their needs via vent or email and diffusing any ugly situations happens many times offline.

Raid Logs

Analysis of raid logs is a big part of every RL's job

Boss Strats

Normal and Heroic raid strats from more than 1 source

WOW Forums

To find tips and tricks on bosses

In Game

Being on twice a week is not enough.  As a raid and guild leader you need to be on more.  I am on everyday almost, but then again, I have issues.  There is a happy medium here, but I haven't found it yet.

Blogging
;)

You Ready to Guild and Raid Lead Yet?

Can it be a second job? YYEEESS!!  Does it have to be?  Not necessarily, but I have seen a direct correlation of success with time leaders spend in and out of game in relation to a guild's and a raid teams success.  I would like to think that if I did have a second job that actually paid how much more money I would have rather than spend $15 a month to spend 10-20 hours outside of game each week.  The thought keeps me up at night sometimes, but then I realize I love this sh*t.

Conclusion

I am not looking for any poor Mav type crap here, but rather this is a brief glimpse of the time I try and put in.  This is a game, yeah, I get that, but it also feels like so much more to me.   I re-read this blog post and feel like it needs more validation and more words and descriptions and stories, but haven't I already just added MORE time to my outside of game time to write this blog?  The irony is sort of silly.  See you all in game or outside of game, whichever you prefer, I'll be in either place.  ;)

A day in the life of a Broken raid ORIGINAL (old post)

A original 'Day in the Life of a Broken raid' post from a loooong time ago, ICC days and 2010 to be exact.  MANY MANY jokes that you just had to be there for. 

POD:  Ok, boys and girls it’s time to raid.  For the love of all things, why are there only 20 people logged in and 48 signed up 5 minutes before raid?

Moonglum:  whispers Mavre, so, what’s the agenda tonight??

Mav to Moonglum:  DUDE, it’s on the calendar and you signed up 15 minutes ago for tonight’s raid!

Moonglum:  Um, how do I get to ICC again?  Is that in Deadwind Pass (unfortunately ironic)

Mav:  It’s in Icecrown in Northrend.

Moonglum:  Northrend?  What is that?  Is that a new area for Cata that leaked into this expansion? 

Mav:  /faceplam

Moonglum: Can you summon me?

Mav: /fistface

2 minutes to raid time.  Group still forming….. 

Wornight:  In a garbled voice due to gummy worms, announces ICC 25 group is still forming and last few spots are being worked out. 

GCHAT:  so, what’s the plan for tonight??????

Officer chat:  wtf?!?!

Barbaros logs on. 

Barb:  guys, do you need me tonight?

Officers:  yes we do.

Barb:  Ok, I need 5 minutes to chain smoke 3 cigarettes and eat a bowl of cereal while waiting for my Chinese food

Raid finally begins 15 minutes late.  Trash goes down like butter as gchat is riddled with can I get a cookie?   

Did we drop a table yet?  Who has an extra flask?  Dude, who gquit?  Why did they gquit?  That person was a tool anyway….

Trash down.  First boss is in front of raid.

Mav starts explaining the fight.

Uzgroog /rages in dps channel

After 5 minutes, we ready check

Someone asks in vent the strat for this boss

/faceplam

Abridged explanation by Mav

Ready check

Handful not ready…

Random tank asks for a flask…

Random rogue realizes the new dagger they got was not enchanted and asks if they can port back to Dalaran to get mats now….

Random hunter in a pvp spec and must switch

Yanni straps on his mp5 set

2^nd Ready Check – ALL GOOD

RIGHT before pull, someone realizes no feast.  POD calls for a feast.

4 people drop a feast

/faceplam

Ready Check, all are ready except G

POD bellows out over vent, G, are you there??

Crickets…

POD yells out over vent again, G, are you there??

G:  sorry, I was alt tabbed surfing this German porn flick from the 60s

First boss fight commences.  The boss has been done ad nauseum by 90% of the raid, so a side bar begins about the various uses of butter in the bedroom

Moonglum:  You guys have never used butter?  It slides right in…….the butt……no mess….and it smells good too….

Awkward silence, some lol, some horrified, some ponder a gquit

Loss of focus due to butter conversation as T dreams of ways Joe can use butter on her and misses a heal on Barbaros and then Barbaros goes down….

GAMO TOU HRISTO SOU!!! is screamed over vent by Barb at volume 1000

T laughs and Joe goes ninja afk to the refrigerator praying that he sees Parkay or Country Crock

A druid brezes Barbaros

He accepts it, and screams HHHEAAAAALLLLSS!!

Barbaros receives no heals and DIES again from a boss cleave…

GAMO TOU HRISTO SOU!!! is screamed over vent…again……

Yanni announces that his fps is 1 and that he may need to switch into his haste gear

DRINK....and….DRINK!

Wornight goes down and announces, DK down, wipe it up!  (old joke from naxx days, some will get it, some won’t, priceless though.)

25% boss health left, raid chat starts talking about the possible boss loot

POD:  FOCUS!!!  We just lost 5 people on a farm boss and he’s got 25% health

Moonglum:  Dude, we could do this on heroic with 8 people at this point, don’t worry, relax

Moonglum diaf

Boss goes down.  Dead are rezzed.  Rogues last, always….

Officer chat:  that was sloppy…..

Officer chat:  I’ll show you something sloppy…..

Wornight starts loot.

Main spec, Plate dps boots.  Roll please.

Weamz rolls to vendor them on AH so that he can get his gold total high enough to buy Activision….

Gummy bears in mouth Wornight slurs, this is MAIN SPEC Weamz and no AH rolling…

Mav:  guys afk, I just had an accident

Raid:  Mav not privy to conversation while away assumes the very worst

Raid:  Dude, Mav should see a doctor or get depends

LOLs across the raid

Mav returns with no drawers and announces he is sorry, but he did not make it

Raid member asks if Mav has seen doctor

He responds yes and goes into the story of his GI and have Mav has never quite been the same since and how a man can go into that line of medicine is bizarre.

Wornight:  makes a joke….

Raid chat:  was that for real?

Raid chat:  easily one of the worst jokes I have heard in 2010….

Raid chat:  …or ever

Raid chat:  /slitwrist

Raid gets to the 2^nd boss of the night.

¾ of the raid is at least ½ drunk.

Mav starts in with the boss fight explanation

Wornight:  Can we do my next quest in the chain for Frostmourne?

Raid:  Dude, you are still going for that?  You know Cata is like a week or 2 away right?

Wornight:  It will be good for guild to have a legendary item.

Officer chat (Wornight): I just really want it and it looks cool, F the guild.

Officer:  Just DE it already, its less stress.

Wornight:  So, for this boss fight in order to complete the next part of this quest, I need to take one in the face and then from the behind…

Raid:  awkward silence…

Raid:  Chris, we think you already did this quest in RL….

Yanni:  Guys, I may need to bail out, one of my tenants just clogged their toilet.  If I take the Cross Boston expressway I could be back in 17 minutes, but if there is traffic…

DRINK!!!!!

Joe:  So, Moonie, would margarine work?

Chris:  How about if you use ‘I Can’t believe It’s Not Butter’?

Raid:  Wow, we can’t believe you said that…

Fray:  I swear guys, I am NOT gay.  I just drink Mike’s Hard Lemonade , spiked Ecto-Cooler, and 

Boone’e Farm at frat parties with sweaty dudes.

Officer:  Fray, please stop talking before we demote you back to member. 

Ishin logs on!  Woot!

GCHAT: ISHIN!!

Ishin immediately logs off!!  Unwoot! 

New ready check.  If you think Skabz is a keylogger then hit YES, if hes not then click NO.  24-1 for YES.

…This is where the first one ended…I added more at some point I guess

3^rd boss of the night approaches the raid

A little perturbed from Wornight’s bad jokes, the raid wipes on a farm boss

Barbaros:  Guys, I have a new strat for this boss.  Let’s go 4 tanks, 1 healer, and have dps ping pong the boss around the room. 

Officer:  Why after 1 wipe does the peanut gallery chime in with crazy off the wall strats?

Jimmy:  Why don’t we do it heroic? 

Raid:  Jimmy,  this is one of the hardest bosses to do on heroic mode.

Jimmy:  No way guys, I did it in a pug….

Raid:  Jimmy, we looked up your achievements history and you’ve never downed this boss on heroic…

Jimmy:  Achievement history?  What is that?  How do I get that?  Is it an addon?

Raid:  You have to walk, not run to Silvermoon and seek out the achievement vendor.  You’ll need exalted 

Argent Dawn rep though to speak to him.  Once you do, you'll need to cut a tree down with a herring…and…..nevermind….

Porkofdoom:  I have an idea.  Why don’t we use the strat the way we have been doing it for 4 months….

Raid:  Hmm, that may just work boss man!

Boss goes down easily on 2^nd try.

Fray brings up Dragons and the upcoming Cataclysm expansion

Mav:  I hate fing dragons.

Fray:  Better get used to them, that’s all the Cata bosses.

Barbaros chimes in that he can’t WAIT for Cataclysm. (of course he will be hot and heavy then disappear after 2 weeks) 

(Everyone also always says they cant wait until the expansions come out, then when they actually come out and the content is shit and game bugged.)

Raid:  Duuude, WOTLK sucked compared to BC content.

Mav:  Isn’t it amazing how in vanilla BRD took 3-4 hours and now, a 15 minute 5 man is too long?

This starts the reminiscent part of the raid night.

Skabz:  Remember 40 man raids??

Raid:  Where were you when OJ was pronounced not guilty…I mean when the doors to AQ opened?

Raid:  Duuude, AQ was a piece of shit.

Raid:  ZG was a piece of shit.

Raid:  Your mother is a piece of shit….

Mav:  AQ.  That’s when I quit, when boss models went to crabs, I had enough.

Raid:  MC ruled.

Raid: MC ruled if you had no life and wanted to spend 8 hours in one place and assload of trash and accumulate tons of DKP, and your guild goes into a downward spiral due to the MT of your former guild poaching GB mats to make thunderfury, and culminating with a guild split into 2 smaller guilds wherein you lost all your DKP and were stuck with a piece of T2 loot.  (gloves to be specific)

POD:  Ok, Ok, let’s focus guys.  We got like 3 bosses down and we want to get to LK either tonight or tomorrow.  I like the banter and chatter.

Jimmy:  Can we do LK on heroic?  It’s the same as normal mode right?  He has a BiS dagger for me….

Mav:  Mis and Lib just logged on.

Raid:  Mage down….

LOL through the raid.

Raid:  Darkie just logged on, didn’t you say we need a lock?

Raid:  Yes, a good one that doesn’t sit there dead waiting to be rezzed on EVERY death and EVERY wipe.   Hence, the term, we got another Darkie…

Mav:  Taki, what ever happened to the hunter recruit that stacked spellpower?

Taki:  Still looking for guild.

Mav:  I say we get him in.  I wonder if he’d gquit after being sat ONCE.

GROANS and oooooooooooo’s swarm through the raid.

Mav:  Are Rak jokes too premature?  I heard “What you talking about Willis” jokes like a day or 2 after he died….

Taki:  Can we get a rogue to disarm some traps please???

Raid:  Can we get filthy #1, #2, or #3 to do something except surf through Atlas loot….

Approach 4^th boss.

Mav starts explaining the fight

Mav:  Ok, don’t diaf, move out of any debuff you aren’t used to seeing and since no one watches videos anymore and wants easy shiny loot we don’t know the name of the debuff, heal people, tank things that hit hard, dps all shit that moves, and /dance when the boss goes down.  Joke rolls on loot will only speed up the raid and are encouraged!

Uz gquits during explanation after QQing in dps channel. 

Jimmy:  Anyone have a jeeves?  I forgot to repair the last 16 times we wiped.

Weamz wrote an app called iGold

Mav and Wornight receive 15 whispers about taking a 5 minute break to smoke.

The deprived nicotine members are fiending and ready to lose their composure as POD smokes away at his computer and smiles and refuses to break

Ready check for boss

4 people DC

FFS!

Jimmy:  Let’s just do it 3 short.  In a pug I was in we…..

/RAIDHEALS Why the F are DPS and tanks in here???  We do not interrupt their channel…..