DarkDude

Guthix seems very likely. Ignoring that we're left with aloflmewetra Which you can get "A Farewell to" out of, but left with an M and unless that means it's a members quest but that's pushing it. Doubt it's anything, but that G is curious

There's nothing wrong with GS, it's just that some people that use it don't understand that. The other day we were doing an alt ICC10 run so we had low requirements for people and asked for 5k gs minimum. One shaman who had NO gems or enchants and some PvP gear, we kicked him and replaced him only for a healer to throw a fit for us kicking him saying we didn't ask for people to be gemmed. It should be a guideline only and there's no harm in refusing people from joining certain raids based on their GS. It's exactly the same as people getting you to link your "Epic" achievement before GS came about, there's no difference at all yet people didn't complain so much about that. It's an easy way to check roughly what someone's gear is like without having to inspect them.

First raid of our new guild today. Was a slow raid of ICC10, had only 8 people at the start and this was starting about 30-40 minutes late too. One shot Marrowgar with 8, mage came online and we one shot deathwhisper, gunship, saurfang, fester, rotface with 9 before our 10th guy got on (he was stuck on traffic). Then we one shot Dreamwalker, three shot Putricide (We had two people who had never done it before), one shot princes, one shot blood queen. To be honest, it was an awesome job, two people hadn't done anything past the first 4 and for us to one shot festergut, rot face, princes, blood queen and dreamwalker with two people who hadn't done those fights before is awesome. Although we did have like 2 seconds left until Blood Queen Beserk due to someone missing the bite. 10 Bosses in one night is a new record for us. Hoping on Friday to be able to do that in a bit less time and possibly get Sindragosa down too if we have time. Then hopefully have all of Monday on the Lich King :D Got about 5750 GS on my pala in prot gear now, only 3 upgrades left from ICC10 now, amulet off Marrowgar, Ring off Gunship and Bracers off Saurfang. Got the shoulders tonight and a DPS cloak so it was an awesome night.

*feels left out*

Took 5,000 steps or so today while I was out (First time I've taken my Pokéwalker out with me) which was a nice surprise as I didn't expect it to be anywhere close to that =P. Caught myself a Magby which I intend to use as soon as possible. Remembered I need to head back into the forest and pick up Headbutt there so I can get a Heracross (Favourite Gen 2 Pokémon :D). Then need to do the Goldenrod gym. Addicted to Voltorb Flip, fun game, think the highest I've gotten to is level 8 or so :D

Bloody hell, aren't they meant to be one of the rarest items in the game too? Bought myself 264 tanking boots using Frost EMblems from my mage, awesome. Still need to upgrade my amulet (only 232 thing left, ugh) but other than that my gear is looking awesome.

This had been brewing up for a couple of weeks and just consists of the Guild Leader being unreasonable and just doing whatever it takes to get her own way. She obviously had problems with us doing well in our own group (which wasn't an enclosed group like she says it is, everyone had an equal chance to join and it was originally just a bunch of us messing around on a Friday night in places like OS). We even had to decent 10 man guild run this week (they got Rotface down, although I did help and raid lead everything up to Rotface on Sunday). So her argument about it ruining the guild was terrible. We will have to see what happens tomorrow when the servers are back up and see the fallout form the rest of it, wouldn't surprise me if the old guild either disbands completely or gets set a long way back because of this. (Those of us that left were basically the ones that turned up to every raid, out geared everyone else and ended up boosting a lot of people). The people in the guild were awesome and still are, however the guild itself just didn't work which is a shame. Oh well, hopefully our new guild will work well. We're hoping to do ICC10 in two days (Friday/Monday) then have the Tuesday evening to either set up our own ICC25 pug, or do ToGC10 or mess around with Ulduar HMs or something. Or maybe even an alt ICC run, we'll have to see what we feel like each week.

Bought this today, and played one game (first time in 3 months I'd played). Did awesome, went 5-1-6 or something similar with Slither who so far is my favourite character, either that or Puppet Master (I've only played like 6 games though :P). Not going to get into this game to the point where I know who counters who etc. I'm just going to be playing it on a casual level where I play to have fun, not to learn everything about the game and its mechanics.

Guild drama tonight which made the guild basically split in two. The guild leader wasn't impressed with our 10 man groups (the one that lots of us from the guild have been running for a month now, she even joined for a couple) due to stupid reasons. She was just being too unreasonable. The most active officer left, as did about 8 other people. Wouldn't surprise me if more people will have left by tomorrow at some point (ones that weren't on tonight). Shouldn't stop our 10 man progress at all (we made awesome Sindragosa progress tonight, should easily have her down next week, especially with the 10% buff). as all but maybe two guild members from that group have left that guild and joined our new breakaway one (the other weren't on). Will be interesting to see what happens.

Having no trouble with that.

Yep, I gathered that from your post. Just a warning to others not to post that :). Shame my practical skills are non-existant otherwise I'd love to modify my 360 or something. Oh well :P

Just a note, discussion of how to "mod" a console to play "backup" games is not allowed before anyone mentions that. However case modding etc. is perfectly fine and there are some awesome case mods out there that I've seen. Will look forward to seeing what you do and you'll have to post pictures when you're done.

Led a Guild 10 man ICC run today on my mage. Was fairly awesome, a lot of people there hadn't gone past Deathwhisper in 10 man and a couple of people hadn't done 10 man at all (but had done 25). One shot the first three bosses, two shot Saurfang (first time we tried doing it with only 2 ranged dps... yeah :P). One shot Festergut, which I think was everyone but about 3 of us first kill there which is awesome! Then we tried dreamwalker, didn't manage to do it, had one Pala healer healing the boss and a Disc + Resto Druid healing the raid, our best attempt was 11.3M health before we called it. Going to continue on Tuesday. Was awesome fun leading it and explaining tactics to people, all this while still continuing to do "progress" on my Pala.

Messing around this afternoon and did some Ulduar. We're going to try and get a Saturday group setup to try and get the 10 man drake. Should take a couple of weeks as a lot of us haven't done Freya or anything past that and I don't think anyone in the group has done Yogg yet. Today we've done FL with 2 towers up (only did two towers as we had 8 people in the raid at that time). Tried the Razorscale achievement but someone in the raid didn't know (they joined seconds before and AOEd all the adds down :mrgreen:. Did Ignis under 4 minutes easily. Then we tried XT hard modes, first tried 2 man healing it with me on my pala + a shaman and bloody hell, when hard mode is activated the tantrums are bloody impossible to heal through. We then got another shaman DPS to switch to healing and went down to 1 tank to make up that extra DPS and downed him on the first try after that (Despite losing one of our best DPS early on). Having only one pala makes that fight hard without the extra Divine Sacrifice, which made healing there managable, but only got to use that every other tantrum which made the others insane. We then one shot Kologarn disarmed and Crazy Cat Lady and called it for now as a few people had to go and we should be picking it back up again in a few hours. Had a lot of fun doing this to be honest, Ulduar is such a well made instance, all the encounters are fun and it says a bit that they're fairly challenging even though we largely outgear this. Huge huge props to people who did these hard modes in 219/226 gear.

That's a silly comparison. You'd be better off comparing it to the Xbox and PS2 markets. There's still a few PS2 games for sale in some places, although that's due to the huge huge marketshare the console had. Over here the Wii section is often the largest in shops, then PS3 and 360 are pretty even, although I notice PS3 is normally slightly bigger. (This is in shops such as Asda etc. (Walmart or whatever).

What's wrong with Wobbuffet? And Garchomp too? I can understand the others, all being legendary.

Never really got into Competitive battling in this so don't know, but some of those rules seem silly to me. What's wrong with boosting evasion? Seems like a valid tactic to me, as well as putting multiple Pokémon to sleep etc. Also you said no ties, but what about things such as Take Down which do recoil damage? Surely those sort of moves mean it can end in a draw. As I've said, never done competitive battling or really looked at it at all so I'm sure there's perfectly good reasons for the above, would be nice if someone could explain them though. Thanks.

No Deathwhisper in 10 man? Seems like a fairly easy encounter from what I've heard (one add spawns in Phase 2, that's it). Pugged ICC25 this week (my guild randomly decided to switch to 10 mans, causing a lot of drama because of the apparently "elitist" group I'm part of that's actually done progress) and got the first 4 bosses down Only for the Raid Leader to ninja the two Paladin marks + Deathbringer's Will... *sigh*. Was a good run up until that point although the trash pulls went bad due to people not knowing what on earth to do (ninja pulling etc.) one shot all bosses other than Saurfang though (Why on earth would you combat res the person who got killed by a mark... twice?), we did that in two bosses with only 4 healers so that was good :D No loot, but emblems are nice and means I should be getting my Tier 10 Helm at the start of the raid tomorrow giving me 3 pieces (Got Tier 10 264 gloves + 251 legs from VoA :D). Which should be a decent upgrade. We're hoping for 11/12 this week in ICC10 (Not going as an "official" guild run but everyone in the raid is either a guild member or was a guild member and still has some alts in the guild).

Yes, well worth getting. :D

Waiting for the post today and hoping my game comes :D

Nintendo 3DS is not the release name is just the name they're giving to it currently (like how the Gamecube was the Dolphin and the Wii was the Revolution). Not too fond of the 3D stuff tbh, this sounds like it could got the way of the virtual boy but we'll have to wait for E3 when we actually some details rather than mindless speculation.

Awesome ICC10 progress this week, now up to 10/12 with just Lich King + Sindragosa left. Going to be doing a long raid on Friday evening and hoping we can get everything we've already downed down again (we have pretty much all the encounters on farm now, Putricide will be our only thing we're not likely to one shot, and maybe blood queen too (our problem today was the biting going from 4->8, the first time we got that down perfectly we finished with 20 seconds on enrage). Hoping for Sindragosa down next week, had a few attempts this evening just to get an idea of the encounter and it seemed to go well so I imagine she'll be down next week which will leave us with just the LK left to kill! Woo!

Weren't infinity robes an option in that recent poll and it didn't win? Looks like that poll was meaningless then...

The game isn't out in Europe until Friday.

Just pre-ordered my copy of Heart Gold (crappy name, boo). Should hopefully get it Wednesday/Thursday. Would be nice :D