Team Pirate : Yogg Saron

Ladies, Gentlemen and Gnomes.

This is our target, take a good look and then go drink something strong.

Yogg Saron, The old god of death, or as we will be referring to him from this point on “Yoggie“.

Firstly a video

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFyaloBG7SI]

Now, some tactic guides, I’m going to be following these pretty much out of the box, with some juggling of who goes where in P2.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Yogg-Saron_%28tactics%29

http://aotp.dkpsystem.com/guide.php?t=Yogg-Saron,

Portal positions for Phase 2, I can’t find a decent image online yet which shows the 10-man positions, just the 25-man.  Once we’re getting to that part of P2 regularly we’ll sort out exactly where they are and how it’s going to actually work in reality.

The key to the portals is for those designated to go down to be at the portal positions for when they spawn (no running to them after the spawn, watch your timers) and be nuking as hard as possible in the illusion and brain room and get out before the timer ticks.

The outline plan is

  • Plenty of wiping on Yoggie so we can learn the fight, three phases and an enrage of 15 minutes if  I recall correctly.
  • Raid breaks – So we can get a kill in to break the wiping pain
    • Ignis
    • Razorscale
    • Iron Council
    • Onyxia
    • Obsidian Sanctum

The demise of portal hubs

Amid much wailing and enashing of teeth of the beta forums the plugs have been pulled from the portals in Dalaran and Shatrath and some nice new trainers installed for those levelling out there, I’m expecting this to tie in with cold weather trainers out in the starting Wrath zones to allow simple access to Dalaran.

This is simply a change to prevent Dalaran from remaining the default travel hub for all traffic in WoW, in much the same way as everyone moved from Azeroth to Outlands, and then from Outlands to Northrend, we’re now being told “pack your bags, back to Azeroth”.  No one should be surprised in the least by this change, I’m certainly not I was wondering how Blizz were going to solve the problem of the bulk of the community remaining in Northrend.

We now know, problem solved.

“I have to travel places!”
“It takes too long!”

and so on… well suck it up people, there’s a quick route to the dark portal from all the major cities, with flying it’s even easier to get there, and let’s be honest without the portal hub being there who is going to want to be lurking around Dalaran anyway?

Team Pirate : Ulduar 10 pt3

Amazing progress this week.

Mimiron – two shotted, though it was damm close at the end with tank, healer and one ranged dps left standing.  I think the final part went down a second before the self-repair happened.

Freya – Two shotted, and a damm clean kill at that.

Vezax – Two shotted, it felt a little tight at the end due to some mana issues (as ever only two of the raid had ever seen him in any depth), but a dead boss is dead.

Yoggie – We died, multiple times.

So initial plan for next week.

Yogg-Saron, plenty of wiping and learning on his many and varied abilities.

Homework will be put up here soon, including links to the guides, videos and random commentry.

Loin-girding – Build up those funds, make sure enchants and gems are polished and let’s put an old god’s head on a spike!

Beta: Never let a goblin loose near a volcano

I look forward to the introduction of CHG’s to the game, but like their cousins they really shouldn’t be left anywhere with explosives, a spanner and torque wrench, as these shots show that even after being shipwrecked somewhere safe they can trash the environment within hours of arrival.

Our best hope for the future is a enclave forming in Orgimar and some experimentation resulting in a short sharp elimination of our foes.

(CHG : Cute Horde Gnomes)

Beta: Flying gnomes

Gnomes don’t need mounts or special skills when they have super gnomish technology at their backs, here you see a prime example of gnomish excellence, happily flying through the air over the recently remodelled Dwarvish homelands (Gnomes could have done a better job if they had been asked, quite why anyone got Deathwing in as the contractor is a mystery).

Beta: Into Deepholm

It’s nice to see that Thrall has found a new job since being kicked out of Orgimar, though I’m sure an Orc of his skills could have found something more challenging.


Pilots, truely a special breed, and I mean that in the nicest possible way… nutters.

Pretty new loading screen.

Further proof that pilots shouldn’t be allowed anything sharp and should be locked up in a room where they can do no harm, see where this one parked.  Bet he gets a ticket soon.

I’ve got a theory it could be bunnies!……. wrong multiverse?  Ok… I have a theory, the shorter the female, the more “concentrated” the violence.  Here is a classic example.  Take one pissed off dwarf, one ogre and a large device designed for chopping and slicing…


I’m sure there’s a reason to go to Stormwind but I’m not sure what it is, can’t I have one back to Ironforge?


Every base in the whole world needs a shopping center, pity this one is more of a corner shop.

Yet another feature?

As covered on wow insider a change is coming to the mobile app and the armoury.

Image Quote from: Wrocas

We’re pleased to announce a new feature being added to the Mobile Armory: Guild Chat!

Coming soon in an update to the Mobile Armory app available in the iTunes App Store (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=321057000&mt=8) and Android Market, this new feature will allow all World of Warcraft Remote subscribers the ability to chat with their guildies right from their mobile device. Access to the guild chat feature is included for no extra charge in the €2.99 World of Warcraft Remote Auction House (http://eu.wowarmory.com/wow-remote.xml) premium monthly subscription. In addition, soon after the launch of the mobile version we’re planning on adding the ability for premium subscribers to use Guild Chat through any browser on the Armory website.

Guild Chat will allow you to chat with your guildmates via Guild Chat, Officer Chat, and Whispers. Now you can stay connected with your guild or update them from anywhere if you’re going to be late to a raid! Stay tuned for additional information about this service and the upcoming Mobile Armory Guild Chat beta test.

Source

In short once this is live for the same extra fee which gives access to the Auction House from outside the game you can also now use guild chat from the mobile app and the Armoury.

What does this mean, seriously?

To be honest I’m not sure, ok so you can check in with guild chat during the day, which is great for small guilds which don’t have their own websites to co-ordinate their plans but I’m really not sure about this gradual mixing of Azeroth and the round world we have to live in.  Part of the attraction of WoW and all other MMOs is the immersion into a world which is not this one, an escape from the mundane drudgery of normal life into something where we can be whatever we want to be.

Adding this external feature is pushing further in the direction of “WoW as a social networking site / game” which to be frank I don’t give a hoot about, I have a social networking account, I barely use the damm thing.  I was a regular user of LJ but I’ve since moved most of my content here.  If I want social networking I’ll take it to one of the many sites which do the job well enough to suit my needs and desires, not take some half arsed attempt by a large gaming company which is looking for ways to make more money from it’s 11 million or so users (just think about 5% of those users spending another three euro a month, it adds up…)

Hopefully it’ll die a death and Blizz will bugger off out of the social networking space and back to what they do well.

I’m not going to hold my breath though.