Achievement Whoring: The end of a Cataclysm


With a little more then two weeks until the next new expansion comes to change everything that we know and love about the world of Warcraft. Everyone has to sit back and ask themselves; “what do you want to do with your last couple days in the current content?” Everyone has little things that they would like to do to say ‘Yes, I did that before it was stupid easy.” But – some things are possible and some things are just out of our reach.

When I returned to Warcraft roughly three weeks ago I learned that our main raid group had just fallen apart. The handful of discouraged players that remained told me that they had been working at heroic Spine for months. Literally that’s all they wanted to accomplish before the expansion and With the what they’ve invested into it one can understand why. Myself, I don’t nearly have that much time invested in the current content. So for me it’s just about being in a guild group enjoying what we do best!

Tonight the plan was to continue work at Heroic Spine for the group. Last Thursday the raid bugged out (as far as we knew) and we were unable to begin the encounter. The issue continued tonight so we planned to go work on our achievements in Bastion of twilight. At 9:00pm We were down two key raid members so we decided to tackle some old content and just beat the snot out of it. Initially the plan was to do Heroic Ruby sanctum to give a bit more time for our stragglers to log in – this didn’t work because it to was a bugged to hell. Out of sheer frustration, and in true Zergadins form, we moved to the instance portal down and made a straight bee-line for Sartharion; the main raid boss for the Obsidian Sanctum. If I had to pretend that this boss was just some dude, at home, with maybe a beer in his hand and watching some TV: it would be like an angry SWAT team kicking down his door and using their fully automatic assault rifles to turn him to Jelly on his couch. Within seconds the poor dragon had been torn apart (so fast in fact it didn’t even get a chance to use its abilities!) and the entire instance came crashing down on us. It almost looked like a pile of gummy bears being poured onto a house hold fan! Needless to say – we won and we stole his car. Congratulations go out to Shammypants for taking the mount as a trophy! With out spirits high we once again jumped into good ole’ ICC, since it was so close, and proceeded to down the Lich king on heroic mode. An achievement that we never got a chance to do.

Not the ideal night we had planned, but we had fun and at the end of the day that’s what we’re here to do.

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