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By Lyssa, June 10, 2009 11:24 am

I’ve been playing WoW non-stop since December 24th, 2004.  That’s a long time, 4 and a half years actually.  Our logins have been slowing down recently and I haven’t really felt like raiding so I decided to take a few weeks off.

I did log in last Saturday morning, but I was only on long enough to do the Tournament daileys, a normal Saturday would have me on most of the day if I didn’t have errands to run or stuff to do around the house.  On Sundays I normally play all day and into the night but this past Sunday I only did 1 Tournament daily, so I could finish up the badges for Darnassus and move onto the last city- Exodar.  No one else in the guild was on at either time so I haven’t really talked to anyone in a week.

Last night I logged in with the intent to buy my Hateful Gladiator’s Plate Chestpiece and maybe see if my 2s buddy was on to get our weekly 10 games in.  As it turns out the guild was running a pug 25-man Naxx so I figured since I didn’t really have anything else to do so I thought I’d que up for a few BGs with my new chest piece.  Just as we were about to win a very fast Strand of the Ancients Keld asked if I wanted to come do some DPS.  An Emblem of Valor or 3 wouldn’t hurt and I didn’t really have anything else to do so I tagged along.  Also, I don’t have any of the heroic Naxx achievements so that was also a bonus.

We killed a few bosses then I brought in Ipaq because we needed some decursing.  We got to Gothik and after a failed “aoe everything” attempt it was 11:45 and I had to get to bed.  I think they’re finishing up the run tonight.

So I cheated a little bit on my break, but I probably won’t log in again for a few days and it’ll just be so I can get my 2s games in.

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By Lyssa, May 20, 2009 8:56 am

We spent last night in Naxx on alts instead of clearing bosses in Ulduar…

Our guild isn’t large, we rarely have more than 12 people logged in on any given night and if the moon is aligned properly we might have 16 but it’s super rare. Out of those 12 regulars we have 10, maybe 11 “raiders”. Raiders are the folks that we expect there to be logged in and raiding on most, if not all, of our three raid nights. One benefit if having those solid 10 regulars is that we have a lean, mean boss-killing machine. But, if one or two people don’t log in it can seriously put a wrench in the works. Last night was a prime example- one of our DPS/off tank DKs is out of town. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem, but we start raiding at 8PM so if we don’t have enough people on by 7:50 or so we have to start figuring out what we’re going to do instead and one of our main healers wasn’t logged in.

So, we got on alts and went to Naxx. By the time we got in the missing healer logged in which was a relief because I was main healing on Ipaq and I’m just not geared enough to main heal quite yet. That being said I did a pretty bang-up job last night if I do say so myself and I did get a number of good upgrades, two of which replaced some questing greens that I still had. Shameful, I know.

Overall a good night for our alts, but it’s frustrating that we lost a whole night of progression raiding for this week. But then again, we probably won’t have enough on for our Sunday raid due to Memorial Day Weekend that is coming up in a few days. I know I’ll be out of town and may not be on.