friday’s warcraft hunters union event was frustrating, funny, super fun, server-stressing, obnoxious, awe-inspiring, and flippin’ incredible and rolled into one. as a proud new <whu> guildy, i (as flintlok) had an amazing time and took a ton of screens which i’ve narrowed down to my 20 personal favorites. view them now (click to enlargenate):
the secret event itself wasn’t scheduled to start until 6pm server time (7pm my time), but frostheim told us to show up a little early, if we could, for some photo ops. this shot was taken @ 5:20 server, and we’re trying to spell out “whu” with our pets. turns out to be more difficult and time-consuming when you don’t listen to directions… who knew!?
the next thing frostheim wanted us to do was to line up along both sides of the road to kharanos and /salute him as he walked by. it took several takes, due mainly to people who couldn’t follow simple instructions like, “no pets,” “yes, that includes vanity pets,” “stop dancing,” and “YES, PLEASE PUT AWAY ALL OF YOUR PETS!” however, frostheim and his lovely assistant
minibella were amazingly gracious during this whole processes, and i think it will provide some great footage for the next hunter video.
for the next and final photo op in kharanos, they wanted a giant group shot of just the pets set up outside the thunderbrew distillery. so the rest of us were told to go inside and wait. with the beer. i shouldn’t need to tell you that hundreds of drunken dwarfs in an inn can lead to… find out after the break!
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and the final pet quest was a success! sherman the turtle will be joining the <whu> raid tonight!
this is gonna be insane — and inspiring…
frostheim and the warcraft hunters union have organized an all level 10 dwarven hunter raid to be carried out friday, 09 apr 10, by <whu> on icecrown. the actual mission is secret, but this friday at 7pm CDT my trusty new dwarf flintlok (pictured, pet may vary) and i are going to be spending at least ~1.5 hours with ~700+ other screaming, maniacal, armed (and possibly drunk) dwarfs.
i’ve not done much in the way of guild-based stuff before (i’m a shy one) but the other hunting runts in <whu> have been so cool and so motivated that i’m just about prepared to jump server for good!
[UPDATE: oh, and i forgot to mention, there's a corresponding deathknight alt-guild on icecrown called <dead hunters society> that we're all using to farm for our hunters (especially those of us who just started on this server). my dk, flintrot, has -- as of this writing -- yet to clear the starting area and join the guild, but hopefully that will be done soon!]
so. it’s been ~10 months…
there’s been a lot of world of warcraft in there.
i’m thinking about starting a 100% casual guild with my cousin justin (and perhaps our other cousin lex, if she’s not too busy to come out and play). i think it could be a cool experiment — i’ve been playing wow for over 2 years now, but there are several things in the game i’ve never done, or at best scratched the surface.
pvp is one of the main things i’ve avoided, but after reading wow.com for a few months, i’m really starting to get curious. but curious will never equal serious for me, which is why i’m talking about a “100% casual” guild; for leveling, dueling, arena-ing, battleground-ing, pug-ing, and whatever other groovy stuff i’ve been missing out on.
what to call it, though?
my daughter and i have been talking about creating an all gnome guild called <tiny but mighty>, and we still might (especially now that gnome priests will be possible in cataclysm). i love the horde though… i was thinking of calling this 100% casual venture <ride the worg>, with a url like http://ridethew.org/, but i’m not sure about that… seems like it would be a pain to tell people about, like delicious used to be when it was at http://del.icio.us/ instead of http://delicious.com/. (I still think that’s one of the best urls ever.)
anyway, it’s late and i’m rambling. but it’s the first thing i’ve posted in 10 months, so i figure it can suck as long as it’s something, right?
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the secret event itself wasn’t scheduled to start until 6pm server time (7pm my time), but frostheim told us to show up a little early, if we could, for some photo ops. this shot was taken @ 5:20 server, and we’re trying to spell out “whu” with our pets. turns out to be more difficult and time-consuming when you don’t listen to directions… who knew!?
the next thing frostheim wanted us to do was to line up along both sides of the road to kharanos and /salute him as he walked by. it took several takes, due mainly to people who couldn’t follow simple instructions like, “no pets,” “yes, that includes vanity pets,” “stop dancing,” and “YES, PLEASE PUT AWAY ALL OF YOUR PETS!” however, frostheim and his lovely assistant minibella were amazingly gracious during this whole processes, and i think it will provide some great footage for the next hunter video.
for the next and final photo op in kharanos, they wanted a giant group shot of just the pets set up outside the thunderbrew distillery. so the rest of us were told to go inside and wait. with the beer. i shouldn’t need to tell you that hundreds of drunken dwarfs in an inn can lead to… find out after the break!
