MTC Monday: Niennae

Meet The Crew Monday's are all about introducing you to the wonderful tauren of Harms Way. Even though Niennae insists she's a blood elf, I won't be fooled! Never! She's a tauren in disguise just like all the others and- hang on, some men in white coats just arrived at my place. I'll be right back...


Niennae

Blood Elf Mage
Arcane/Frost

Location:
Brisbane, QLD

Age:
Elves do age well, don't they? Perhaps she resorts to some sort of trickery to keep herself looking so young, possibly some sort of dark magic or hair dye. In any case, Niennae won't give away her exact age, but she reassures me that she's "really very, very old".

Likes:
Tradeskills, achievements, questing and raiding.

Dislikes:
Arrogant jerks, PvP.


Following the destruction of Silvermoon and the Sunwell, Niennae stayed behind to help defend the broken city from further scourge attacks. Her friends had begged her to join them on their pilgrimage into Outland, but she politely refused. She knew that the people of Silvermoon needed her more than her friends did.


As time passed, the Sin'dorei began to suffer from withdrawal and the rebuilding of Silvermoon slowed to a crawl. Niennae began to wonder if what was left of the city was even worth saving. After seeing her own son killed and dragged away by the Scourge, Niennae made up her mind and went to join her friends in Outland.


Upon arriving in Shattrath city, Niennae discovered that her friends had either been lost in battle or retired because of it. The battles were being fought elsewhere, and there was little Niennae could do for them - so she settled in Shattrath, working as a tailor.

When the Horde expedition to Northrend was announced, Niennae was one of the first in line.  Niennae pledged herself to the Argent Crusade, hoping to get close enough to the one who caused her son's death.


Niennae quickly found a band of heroes willing to challenge the Lich King face-to-face. She worked with the group fervently, trying to get a chance to slay her son's killer. The leader of their group eventually cracked under the strain and ran screaming, crying and naked into the comforting arms of one of the Lich Kings most horrid creatures - Festergut - and was promptly killed for his efforts.


Within days the group had scattered and Niennae found herself working as a tailor again, this time in Dalaran. She was about to give up entirely when she found a group who had their eyes set on the Lich King as well. This new group had intrigued her - they were offering to train inexperienced Horde members for battle. They didn't want achievements, and they were only taking patient people.


Impressed with their attitude, Niennae immediately offered her services to Harms Way. It wasn't long before she realised that she'd finally found the place where she belonged. She was home.


That's it for this week! Remember, if you want to see your purdy picture up here too, make sure you let Ahzae know. For now, I apparently have to go with these nice gentlemen behind me. They say there will be pie and punch waiting for me...


-Ahz

Sadistic Sunday Details

I'm going to have to start posting these as an evil alter-ego villain version of myself, I just can't think of a name. The best I can come up is Ahzae, Lord of the Trifling Gnome and my brain refuses to think of anything else. Anywho, the schedule awaits!


12pm: Ruby Sanctum
2pm: Charity Auction Run
4pm: Stormwind Pub Crawl

Ruby Sanctum:
Apparently Malygos wasn't sadistic enough for you people. Throughout last Sunday (and even most of Monday) you mocked me: "LOL Ahz, we thought you were gonna make us tear our hair out"


So now we've got a new dragon to make friends with: Halion.


As an added bonus (and because I'm thoroughly convinced that you over-confident jerks won't get very far) I'm putting a 5000g bounty on Halion's head. First guild group to drop him wins the loot!




Charity Auction Run:
Running multiple instances for a shot at rare loot. Highest bidder wins the loot and all proceeds go into the gbank. Here are the details:

• At 2pm, silent bidding for a place in the run will commence. Whisper Ahzae with your bid for a spot.
• The 4 highest bidders will get an invite to the run. Ahzae will also match the highest bid.

This is the loot we'll be shooting for:

• Reins of the Raven Lord + Lower City rep (loads)
• Ethereum Prison Key x 6 to 12 + Consortium rep (loads)
• Time-Lost Figurine + Sha'tari Skyguard rep (500)
• Phoenix Hatchling + Swift White Hawkstrider + Shattered Sun Offensive rep (loads)
• Fiery Warhorse's Reins + Violet Eye rep (some)
• Swift Zulian Tiger + Swift Razzashi Raptor + Zandalar Trive rep (some)
• (Optional) Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake

Everything else that drops will be vendored and added to the pot. If anything not on this list drops and you want it, make a bid! :D

Stormwind Pub Crawl:

Step 1: Buy loads of alcoholic beverages (virtual alcohol *glares at Ruck*).

Step 2: Pick a pub in Stormwind and take it over for one hour.

Step 3: Fight off the alliance scum who try to stop us and cheer at any alliance scum who join us.

Please note that I do not wish to get people to drink alcohol AT ALL outside of the game. Should anyone do so, it is their choice and any risk or liability is, naturally, their own.

If you have any ideas or any feedback for any of these events then give me a shout. I'm always looking for more evil (yet entertaining) ways to torture our guild members.

BONUS GAME:  Doodle God (+500g)

Last week's game was won by Kerreck, who is now the proud owner of 500g and an aneurysm. This week is Doodle God - this one will test your mind and really test your patience.

Once you've discovered the final element you'll be taken to the congrats screen. The first guild member to leave a comment on this post detailing what Doodle God will himself perhaps do wins the 500g.

*cackles evilly whilst stroking a cat*

-Ahzae, Lord of the Trifling Gnome

The 4am Coffee-Spit

http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/60854/loot-a-rang-nyi/

Engineers are gonna have some great new toys once the cataclysm hits!

Also, don't ask me why I was drinking coffee at 4 in the morning.

-Ahz

Naxx Raid Guide Available!

Yup, it's done. There should be a new link over on the right side. Feel free to use the guide for any situation, and let me know if you have any suggestions.

Of course, if the guide is popular I'll knock up more guides as well - even continuing on into Cataclysm. Make sure you let me know what you think!
I should probably go to bed now, enjoy! :D

-Ahz

Core Teams Dissolving

Yup, it's over. The "core team" idea appears destined to fail and I'm a big enough man to know when I've been beaten and to sound a retreat.

Sadly, it seems we can't really get a proper "core team" off the ground without it becoming the srs bznz raids I'm desperately trying to avoid. As of today, CT ranks 1 and 2 are being removed (former CT members will be made veterans instead).

This is actually good news for the rest of the guild, as there will be no restrictions or priorities on who gets what - we'll also go back to the old system of scheduling four hundred raids through out the week and continue making your calendar give you a headache whenever you look at it :P


In the meantime, try to ignore the guild promotion/demotion spam as I move everything back around.


TL;DR: Everyone gets to raid, all the time! *starts looking for a piñata*


-Ahz

WotLK Raid Guide in Development

I'm currently working on an extra page for this blog - a full guide for all of the first raid encounters in LK (Naxx, EoE and OS).

It's going to take a little longer than I expected it would, and I've gotten to thinking: Will anyone actually use it?

It'll be a full guide if it goes ahead, with all strategies sorted by role. For example:


***
Tanks: 
Main tank does this thing. Offtank laughs at the healers during emote spam.

DPS: 
During phase 1, faceroll. Phase 2, rage.

Healers:
Quietly cry about how under-appreciated you are throughout the encounter.
***

I need to know whether or not we'll get any use out of it; if we won't use it then there's no sense making it :P


Feel free to mail me your thoughts in-game or leave a comment here (captcha disabled for now, may come back if we get spammed with... spam).


-Ahz

Update: Calendar Change

In order to put a little more focus on our two raid teams, I'm changing the way I'll be scheduling things on the calendar.

"Lesser" raids (Naxx, Ulduar and even ToC10, for example) will no longer be scheduled. I looked at the last two weeks on the calendar and it was a mess, so I'm tidying things up a bit.

From now on, only the T1 and T2 raids will appear scheduled, along with any other pre-organised guild events such as Sadistic Sunday and Premade BG's/PvP events. Everything else will be a spur of the moment thing.

Of course, if you do want to set up your own raid/event, let one of the officers know and we'll fix it up for you.

By the way, we're still looking for members for T1 and T2. We're heavy on melee dps (all DK positions filled) but we're looking for more in every other role. T1 is evening raids (pst Ahzae), T2 is midday (pst Raggingruck). Don't worry if you don't get a spot, there'll be plenty of raids to go around, and you never know when we'll need someone to fill in too.


In the meantime, there's this glimmer of randomness:

-Ahz *briefly wonders if "Owls" would make a good team name... decides it would not*