As I mentioned in my
last post I've been thinking about a realm transfer and it's now official. I'm planning on migrating my Priest to
Magtheridon. This decision was not one that was made lightly, over the last two years I've developed a strong attachment to my current server
Bladefist. I made a lot of good friends here but unfortunately they have now mostly all gone, migrating away to different servers over the last 3-4 months. My decision to move to to Magtheridon was quite an easy one to make, not only is it one of the best pve realms in Europe (mostly thanks to
Nihilum) but also due to one of best WOW mates Krakemake has just started his own raiding guild there. They had there first raids this week, the first instance they went to was
Mount Hyjal, completely skipping SSC and TK! This seems crazy to me as that kind of thing could never be done on Bladefist!
This post is really gonna be about me saying goodbye to Bladefist I've grown very attached to the place and it's actually surprisingly difficult for me to leave, even though now it's an awful realm to play on. I first arrived on Bladefist when my guild British Beef transferred from
Agamaggan in early 2006. We merged with two guilds to form United Legions soon after the move and started progressing through ZG and eventually started raiding 40 MC and BWL. By the time TBC was released we had renamed the guild again to Final Formation cleared
ZG,
AQ20,
MC and were 7/8
BWL. Many of the core members of the guild leveled to 70 when the expansion hit faster than others causing problems with early
TBC progression, after struggling to get
Karazhan on farm the guild disbanded a few months after the release of TBC. After spending a few months in other guilds I went back to leading British Beef and we got Karazhan on farm but struggled with 25 man progression despite having several guilds join with us. We merged with a guild around Christmas 2007 to from
Mental Warfare. In this guild we saw fast progression through 25 man tier 5 instances getting 6/6 in SSC and 3/4 in TK in about after about 4 months of raiding. The guild however was victim of several corrupt officers who stole everything in the guild bank and migrated away, this combined with my 2 month break from WOW to focus on University resulted in the death of the guild.
The rest of my WOW history on Bladefist (the last month) has been told in previous posts on this blog which brings me back full circle. I'm now back in British Beef and preparing to transfer selling as much as possible before the jump. I'll certainly miss this place but I'm hoping that I'll come to enjoy playing on Magtheridon as much as I enjoyed playing on Bladefist. I want to take some time to say thanks to all the people that made my time on Bladefist such fun and share some screenshots from my time here.
In no particular order:
Mattmpg, Pearshaped, Mortiis, Rembo, Deadrood, Demonfly, Czakky/Ticktick, Garaina, Toots/Toofly, Grimpy, Nilmos, Krakemake, Sunstorm, Althulurs, Oomootwo, Eb, Skaythn, Undeadmage/Starcraft, Boogyman, Darkstorn, Flos, Brumdar, Heidegger, Psyaxe, Miquel, Elderpowah, Gael, Amagaad, Azu, Banamano, Blagdor/Hubie, Cryss, Didz, Hexor, Padington, Schism, Smoken, Marn, Icyone, Ironlung, Sharpeye, Thetroll, Narshe, Smeg, Skemtar, Rozal, Mooncalf, Arem, Aten, Dion, Thugcoolio, Rimos, Mogard, Morogh, Nekronis, Nadir, Spiritto, Bloodash, Galvatron, Corann, Yourepwned, Bloodyfist, Zeloth, Ukar, Vandrake, Sizer, Orit, Jerpa, Walish, Shadowknife, Solfk, Tseng, Hanzi, Darel, Darknessorc, Vitriol, Pog, Doggydogg, Comunero, Urthaz, Fashia, Purepwnage, Loobooja, Exu and my apologies to anyone I missed!
Thanks to all the members who were ever in any of my guilds British Beef, United Beef, United Legions, Final Formation and Mental Warfare.
Thanks to Bad News for leading those
Naxx raids because of you I can say I've cleared 13/15 in old school Naxx and Cleared
AQ40, good luck to you guys. Also thanks to everyone in
Khaos Dragons,
Megiddo for the raids this past month.
ZG Cleared 16/8/06
Onyxia Down 30/9/06
AQ20 Cleared 1/10/06
MC Cleared (20/10/06)
Good luck to everyone that I'm leaving behind and to all those that have moved to different servers, it's been emotional, so long and thanks for all the fish!
Mattous (level 375 fishing, among other things)
Illidari Council Down 12/08/08
Illidan slain 19/08/08
Reliquary of Souls defeated 10/08/08
It's been almost 2 months since my last blog post I've just not been able to find time for it! I've got loads of news though on what I've been up to since I move to Magtheridon. Moving server was by far the best decision I've made in my WoW career, Magtheridon is such an awesome server. You can guarantee pug Kara's will be running any time you need, day or night! They don't fail, out of the 5 or so I did none had any problems with doing a full clear in about 4 hours. Pug Guurl's are just as frequent as Kara again with no problems clearing the whole instance, Maggy raids also run fairly regular and SSC/TK pugs do happen but the ones I went with didn't do so well! Pug 70 content aside one of my favorite things about the server is the weekly level 60 content pugs. Were not talking MC runs here (though they do happen) were talking full Naxx clears, AQ40 clears and BWL, there are a group of people that clear all the 40 man level 60 content every week. I have my Teir 3 ring of Kel'Thuzard to prove it thats something, when the expansion hits, will not be obtainable ever again! So I'll be holding onto that! Naxx is by far the best looking instance in the game, check out the screenies!
I spent my first few weeks trying out several guilds none of which I liked, I applied everywhere I could and eventually found somewhere I liked. The guilds name is Antihero, when I joined they were 4/5 MH and 3/9 BT. Since joining we have killed Archimonde 4 times now (and I got my T6 head - my first part!), we killed Teron Gorefiend without too much bother with constructs in the raid and have killed Gutrogg Bloodboil 2 times and had some decent attempts on RoS (best being about 30% on phase 3). So now we are 5/5 MH and 5/9 BT, MH clears now only take us about 3 and a half hours and that's usually with about an hour of wipes on Archimonde because we still seem to have some problems there and will continue to for a while I expect. This week they decided to make me an officer also which is cool all I really do is assign healing targets but it's nice to be more involved.
So all in all I'm very happy with the move I'm getting to see and beat content that previously I'd only seen in Videos and if we can clear BT before the expansion is released I'll be one happy priest! There are still people back on Bladefist that I miss but actually a lot of people I knew from there were already here, came with us or have moved recently to join us. It's a great server and anyone looking to find a new place to call home I highly recommend checking it out!
What happened next?
As I mentioned in my last post I've been thinking about a realm transfer and it's now official. I'm planning on migrating my Priest to Magtheridon. This decision was not one that was made lightly, over the last two years I've developed a strong attachment to my current server Bladefist. I made a lot of good friends here but unfortunately they have now mostly all gone, migrating away to different servers over the last 3-4 months. My decision to move to to Magtheridon was quite an easy one to make, not only is it one of the best pve realms in Europe (mostly thanks to Nihilum) but also due to one of best WOW mates Krakemake has just started his own raiding guild there. They had there first raids this week, the first instance they went to was Mount Hyjal, completely skipping SSC and TK! This seems crazy to me as that kind of thing could never be done on Bladefist!
This post is really gonna be about me saying goodbye to Bladefist I've grown very attached to the place and it's actually surprisingly difficult for me to leave, even though now it's an awful realm to play on. I first arrived on Bladefist when my guild British Beef transferred from Agamaggan in early 2006. We merged with two guilds to form United Legions soon after the move and started progressing through ZG and eventually started raiding 40 MC and BWL. By the time TBC was released we had renamed the guild again to Final Formation cleared ZG, AQ20, MC and were 7/8 BWL. Many of the core members of the guild leveled to 70 when the expansion hit faster than others causing problems with early TBC progression, after struggling to get Karazhan on farm the guild disbanded a few months after the release of TBC. After spending a few months in other guilds I went back to leading British Beef and we got Karazhan on farm but struggled with 25 man progression despite having several guilds join with us. We merged with a guild around Christmas 2007 to from Mental Warfare. In this guild we saw fast progression through 25 man tier 5 instances getting 6/6 in SSC and 3/4 in TK in about after about 4 months of raiding. The guild however was victim of several corrupt officers who stole everything in the guild bank and migrated away, this combined with my 2 month break from WOW to focus on University resulted in the death of the guild.
Mattmpg, Pearshaped, Mortiis, Rembo, Deadrood, Demonfly, Czakky/Ticktick, Garaina, Toots/Toofly, Grimpy, Nilmos, Krakemake, Sunstorm, Althulurs, Oomootwo, Eb, Skaythn, Undeadmage/Starcraft, Boogyman, Darkstorn, Flos, Brumdar, Heidegger, Psyaxe, Miquel, Elderpowah, Gael, Amagaad, Azu, Banamano, Blagdor/Hubie, Cryss, Didz, Hexor, Padington, Schism, Smoken, Marn, Icyone, Ironlung, Sharpeye, Thetroll, Narshe, Smeg, Skemtar, Rozal, Mooncalf, Arem, Aten, Dion, Thugcoolio, Rimos, Mogard, Morogh, Nekronis, Nadir, Spiritto, Bloodash, Galvatron, Corann, Yourepwned, Bloodyfist, Zeloth, Ukar, Vandrake, Sizer, Orit, Jerpa, Walish, Shadowknife, Solfk, Tseng, Hanzi, Darel, Darknessorc, Vitriol, Pog, Doggydogg, Comunero, Urthaz, Fashia, Purepwnage, Loobooja, Exu and my apologies to anyone I missed!
Loot:
Exploration:
Screenshots in order of appearance:
My return to WOW first takes me to an old enemy
